Where EVERY NFL Wild Card Game Will Be Decided + 1st Team All-Pro Predictions π
Pushing the Pile: A CBS Sports NFL Podcast
CBS Sports, Football, NFL
4.2 β’ 2.1K Ratings
ποΈ 8 January 2026
β±οΈ 74 minutes
ποΈ Recording | iTunes | RSS
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Summary
Mike Renner and JP Acosta preview every NFL Wild Card game. They will discuss where they think each matchup will be decided and give their picks. They also give their 1st Team NFL All-Pro predictions for offense and defense!
(00:00) Intro
(1:18) Rams at Panthers Preview
(6:25) Packers at Bears Preview
(12:26) 49ers at Eagles Preview
(18:22) Bills at Jaguars Preview
(25:40) Chargers at Patriots Preview
(31:09) Texans at Steelers Preview
(36:43) All-Pro Offense Predictions
(53:58) All-Pro Defense Predictions
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome into today's episode of pushing the pile, |
| 0:17.9 | brought to you by Fandall Sportsbook, |
| 0:19.3 | Make Every Moment More. |
| 0:21.7 | Today on the show, we're going through the wildcard round, six games. |
| 0:26.8 | We were a previewed a little bit, but today we're just going to say the matchup we think |
| 0:30.4 | decides the game. |
| 0:31.6 | Where is the game going to ultimately be swung one way or the other? |
| 0:37.0 | And at the end of the show, we're going to do our all pro teams. They're all the rage this week. Everyone's dropping there. So we figured we drop ours as well. JP, how are you doing today, though? I'm doing good. It's the best time of the year. We got playoff football. We got, we got a college ball playoff football. We got the final four. it feels like everything is sort of culminating at the top. And now we're, we're getting the best of the best. |
| 0:58.0 | Yeah, We got college football. We got the final four. It feels like everything is sort of culminating at the top. |
| 0:55.7 | And now we're getting the best of the best. |
| 0:58.0 | Yeah, I forget every year how awesome the first two weeks of the playoffs are. |
| 1:05.5 | Like every year, I'm like, okay, NFL season's great. |
| 1:08.4 | But as you get towards week 17, 18, as we saw, you know, |
| 1:12.6 | a lot of the games start to decline in quality or they're just not as meaningful. |
| 1:17.2 | And so you kind of have this like high from early on the season and it's kind of falling off, |
| 1:21.7 | falling off. |
| 1:22.6 | And then once you get to the playoffs, it's just like wild card and divisional round weekends are just always a different animal. |
| 1:29.3 | So very much like a point. |
| 1:33.1 | Let's get into it. |
| 1:34.6 | Rams at Panthers, the very first one here. |
| 1:38.0 | Obviously, the line still Rams, 10.5 point favorites, 46 and a half points is the over under. |
| 1:43.2 | I believe the thing that's going to decide this game is going to be the Panthers |
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