Wild Card Weekend Picks and Dolphins Fire Mike McDaniel with Cynthia Frelund
NFL Daily with Gregg Rosenthal
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🗓️ 9 January 2026
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Gregg Rosenthal and NFL Network’s Cynthia Frelund share their picks for Wild Card Weekend! They also discuss the news that the Miami Dolphins have fired head coach Mike McDaniel and how the move could impact other NFL teams. They talk Los Angeles Chargers vs. New England Patriots (01:40), Green Bay Packers vs. Chicago Bears (03:39), Buffalo Bills vs. Jacksonville Jaguars (06:28), Los Angeles Rams vs. Carolina Panthers (12:16), Houston Texans vs. Pittsburgh Steelers (15:21), and Miami Dolphins fire Mike McDaniel (18:04).
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:06.9 | Welcome to NFL Daily, where we haven't lost a game in a couple of weeks. |
| 0:12.7 | Trying to keep that streak going. |
| 0:14.0 | I'm Greg Rosenthal. |
| 0:15.6 | Here on stage five, if you're watching us on YouTube, |
| 0:18.8 | Cynthia Freeland and I making our weekly picks against the spread. |
| 0:23.0 | But on the set of Game Day View, where she's picked a lot of games correct over the last few years. |
| 0:30.1 | But yes, she is 6'0 picking games against the spread over the last two weeks. |
| 0:35.2 | Are you going to bring that hot streak into the playoffs? |
| 0:37.2 | I mean, yeah, absolutely. |
| 0:38.5 | Who would want to lose their heater? |
| 0:39.7 | No one ever. |
| 0:41.5 | We are also going to talk about the firing of Mike McDaniel |
| 0:44.7 | because get you a podcast that can do both. |
| 0:46.6 | We appreciate everyone checking in every week to go with our picks, |
| 0:50.6 | but let's do a little bit of news at the end of the show, too. But yes, after that |
| 0:56.0 | six and O streak for the last couple of weeks, Cynthia Freeland's numbers are getting better |
| 1:02.2 | over the course of the season. I also went three and O last week. So I bounced back after my first |
| 1:09.1 | losing week in a while, 35 and 19. So if you're following us, |
| 1:15.1 | you are doing well. And this is where I have gone sideways in the last few years because |
| 1:20.8 | there's just less games to pick from. So there's less odds that you have one that you really feel |
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