Week 12 NFL Power Ranking Tiers For Playoff Hopefuls + NEW 2026 Mock Draft For EVERY Top-10 Pick
Pushing the Pile: A CBS Sports NFL Podcast
CBS Sports, Football, NFL
4.2 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 18 November 2025
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
In today’s episode, Mike Renner and JP Acosta recap the Monday Night Football matchup between the Cowboys and Raiders. They also reveal their NFL Tiers List for playoff hopefuls, break down film from Week 11 and go through Mike’s latest Mock Draft!
(00:00) Intro
(1:45) MNF Recap
(13:30) NFL Tiers List
(31:46) Playoff Predictions (34:17) Film Breakdown
(40:48) NFL Mock Draft
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| 0:00.0 | What's up everybody? Welcome into today's episode of Pushing the Pile, brought to you by Fandall Sports. |
| 0:19.6 | What can make every moment more. |
| 0:21.9 | Mike Renner, J.P. Costa, as always. JP, I don't know if you can see in the shot. I guess you |
| 0:26.8 | can't see in the shot anymore, but I'm in this game room of this Airbnb where there is a Papa |
| 0:31.2 | shot. There you go. You can see the pop a shot behind me. I played so much Papa shot over |
| 0:37.0 | the course of this weekend that the tendon in my forearm, |
| 0:40.7 | there's a tendon like right at the top of my forearm. |
| 0:43.0 | It hurts like an absolute bitch. |
| 0:46.0 | I can't, like I can't grab things right now. |
| 0:49.7 | I'm pretty embarrassed. |
| 0:51.0 | I'll be honest. |
| 0:52.1 | No, I get it. |
| 0:52.9 | I get it. |
| 0:53.4 | For my girlfriend's birthday, I got her one of the old wees, and we play Wii sports all the time. So we'll be playing like Wii tennis. And then like, we'll play for like a super long time. And my arm just hurts after. And I'm like, dang, it has been a minute since I've done this are we cooked jp is |
| 1:13.2 | it over for us are our days behind us oh no we might be entering uh washed mode uh but I I am trying to |
| 1:20.9 | convince my wife to get a pop shot for our place now it I'm fully addicted I could pop a shot for |
| 1:26.1 | hours on hours the day that is if my body holds up. |
| 1:29.3 | All right. We got a jam pack show for you guys. We're going to be doing a little Monday night football recap here off the top. In our tiers list, we're actually going to be doing playoff hopefuls. We're going to be tiering the playoff hopefuls as well as making some predictions of how the playoff order will shake out |
| 1:45.7 | when it's all said done. |
| 1:46.6 | We got J.P's playbook. |
| 1:47.7 | And then we're going to go through my mock draft that dropped on CBSSports.com on Monday. |
| 1:54.0 | We're going to go through the top 10 of that because we know that those teams, well, |
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