Texans Defense DOMINATES Steelers + Offseason Plans For EVERY Wild Card Loser
Pushing the Pile: A CBS Sports NFL Podcast
CBS Sports, Football, NFL
4.2 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 13 January 2026
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Mike Renner and JP Acosta recap the Monday Wild Card game between the Texans and Steelers! The guys also break down film from Wild Card weekend and discuss an offseason plan for every team that lost.
(00:00) Intro
(00:34) Wild Card Recap: Texans 30, Steelers 6
(7:15) Texans at Steelers Preview
(11:19) Wild Card Film Breakdown
(22:23) Steelers Offseason Plan
(28:10) Jaguars Offseason Plan
(34:10) Chargers Offseason Plan
(39:15) Packers Offseason Plan
(44:55) Eagles Offseason Plan
(50:44) Panthers Offseason Plan
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| 0:00.0 | What's up everybody? Welcome into this Tuesday edition of Pushing the Pile, brought to you by Fandil Sportsbook, Make Every Moment |
| 0:21.0 | More. |
| 0:22.5 | Today's show will be recapping Monday night football. |
| 0:25.0 | We'll be doing a little divisional round preview from the one game we didn't get |
| 0:28.1 | to because it wasn't set yet. |
| 0:29.8 | It turns out it's going to be Texans at Patriots. |
| 0:32.3 | We're going to be going through J.P.'s playbook. |
| 0:33.7 | And then we're going to do a little off-season plan for every loser in the |
| 0:38.4 | wild card round. How do they make sure that next year at this time, they're not losing |
| 0:43.9 | in the wild card round and advancing further? Well, we'll tell you a little later on the show, |
| 0:48.6 | but we've got to start with that wild card game. The final one, Monday night football. |
| 0:54.5 | And JP, we were on a collision course all season one. |
| 0:59.8 | Everyone, every single NFL fan knew this game was coming all season long. |
| 1:05.5 | You would be lying to yourself if you didn't. |
| 1:07.7 | The Steelers were going to play the ugliest wild card game of all time. |
| 1:12.0 | It was just written in the stars. This is just how it goes. |
| 1:15.7 | And I think this one even exceeded my expectations. |
| 1:19.7 | At some point in this game, the score, the score was 7-6 at halftime. The score was 7-6 going |
| 1:26.5 | into the fourth quarter. |
| 1:28.6 | Like this was a, this was one of the most lopsided like seven, six games through four |
| 1:35.3 | three quarters I think I've ever seen. |
| 1:37.0 | Like this is what you expect from the Texans defense. |
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