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Pushing the Pile: A CBS Sports NFL Podcast

Week 2 Preseason Overreactions: Jaxson Dart Will Bench Russell Wilson, the Bears are "Back"

Pushing the Pile: A CBS Sports NFL Podcast

CBS Sports, Football, NFL

Football, Sports

4.22.1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Mike Renner and Kyle hit the two surprising player-for-player trades and discuss whether preseason week 2 HOT TAKES are overreactions or reality. Then they open up the mailbag to answer YOUR burning questions.

Intro (0:00)

Metchie-Bryant, Fortner-Saunders Trades (0:37)

Overreaction Vs. Reality (5:20) 

Preseason Mailbag (28:48)

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome into this beautiful Monday morning edition of pushing the aisle, brought to you by Fando

0:11.5

Sportsbook. Make every moment more. I'm Mike Renner. He's Cal Long. Today we're going through

0:15.6

preseason overreactions. Week two of the preseason, in the books. He who must not be named,

0:22.1

a quarterback Chicago Bears may be talked about on today's episode. Some questions from you guys,

0:27.7

our mailbag segment at the end. But first, first off the ball, a couple of trade news.

0:32.1

We got it. It's a big preseason for player for player trades here. Eagles back at it again.

0:37.1

They traded for John

0:38.2

Mechie, former second round pick of the Houston Texans, obviously battled leukemia early on in

0:42.6

his career, never quite caught on. Looks like he's behind their newly minted second and third

0:48.4

rounders, Jill and Noel, Jaden Higgins on the depth chart. So he gets moved to Philadelphia for

0:52.7

Harrison Bryant back up tight end there. And then the Jaguars traded their center, backup center.

0:58.6

Now, Luke Fortner, another sort of mid-round pick, third-rounder that never quite worked out,

1:03.4

to the Saints for Kalin Saunders defensive tackle.

1:07.5

So this, I'm reading up from the article on CBS sports that producer Harry, who's just so brilliant.

1:15.5

So this is an article by Zachary Perelis.

1:18.0

So he was like the swab came hours after the team tied their preseason game 17 to 17.

1:24.4

I just like, there's no weirder feeling than a tie. But imagine you, there's a tie. And then you get to the locker over and they're like, we're trading you for a guy on that team. No weirder feeling. But this is the old, you know, preseason type move. You know, we see this in baseball guys like switch pants with the guy on the other, you know, team. Yeah, we get, you know, you got to get rid of those red cleats, though.

1:46.2

We don't wear red cleats over here.

1:48.4

Pretty cool.

1:49.2

Colin Saunders, great dude.

1:52.1

A juice guy, somebody that's like a blue guy for sure in the, in the locker room.

1:57.1

And a little known fact about him, his brother is one of the featured dancers on

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