Week 18 Reaction & Playoff Predictions: Seahawks, 49ers, Broncos, Bears, Packers | Colin Cowherd NFL

Colin Cowherd and ‘3 & Out’ host John Middlekauff react to Week 18 in the NFL. They start off discussing the weak slate and how does NFL handle tanking and making Week 18 more interesting. They give their playoff predictions for Wild Card Weekend. They give their picks for Chargers-Patriots, Bills-Jaguars and Texans against the AFC North winner Steelers or Ravens. They move to the NFC to disucss Rams-Panthers, 49ers-Eagles & Packers-Bears. The Raiders locked up the #1 pick in the 2026 NFL Draft, will they draft Fernando Mendoza and who will be the coach of the Raiders if Pete Carroll is let go. They give their predictions for the semifinals of the College Football Playoff. Who wins: Miami or Ole Miss? Indiana or Oregon? Lastly they discuss Sam Darnold & Seattle Seahawks win over the 49ers and locking up the #1 seed in the NFC. Will they win the Super Bowl?

TIMELINE
0:00:00 INTRO
0:00:26 NFL Week 18
0:06:56 Chargers-Patriots
0:09:17 Bills-Jaguars
0:12:29 Texans vs Steelers/Ravens
0:17:55 Rams-Panthers
0:24:48 49ers-Eagles
0:32:02 Packers-Bears
0:38:56 Raiders
0:49:44 Miami-Ole Miss
0:54:21 Oregon-Indiana
1:03:15 Sam Darnold & Seahawks

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47 comments

  2. Guys we have to get to a place where we aren’t commenting about the weather EVERY SINGLE TIME. Now we are complaining about it getting chilly in North Carolina really????? If it’s not under 10 degrees don’t mention the temperature affecting anything pls for the love of god. Gonna just stop listening. It’s literally been cold places every winter before humans evolved from monkeys… get over it ffs.

  4. Red nose + red cheecks = signs of alcoholism , though Cowherd seems more sober tonight. There have been some rough podcasts with these two where Cowherd was sloppy drunk

  13. Another week? Need another bye and larger roster. I’d recommend having mandatory one neutral location game per season with automatic bye after instead of placing a team in Europe. This would free up NFL for games in Germany, Japan, Brazil, Moscow etc.

    Go HAWKS

  14. The Seahawks broke the Rams. The Rams leadership (McVey scapegoated their Special Teams coach) is weak… so the players aren’t following through as a team. They shouldn’t have trade away Cooper Kupp … a locker room leader who was apparently expendable. The Rams are not a cohesive team.

  20. Oh boy, once again these guys dont do their homework.

    The Patriots offensive line will be fully healthy for the Chargers game, for the first time in 2 months.

    The chargers beat the broncos and eagles this season, but they were not on the road. On the road they did not win a game against a team over .500 or even close to it.

    And how this Herbert battle tested? He was horrendous in the playoffs last year.

    The patriots will also get back their top tackler and their top pass rusher for this game.

  21. Seattle Seahawks super power (force multiplier …. whatever you want to call it) is their HC Macdonald who has led the team in an Affirmative / Empowering manner. So they are a highly connected MOBS TEAM (players &:coaches supporting each other). Coach Mac = COTY.

  26. Shanny gotta install more hot routes and quick passes, way too many 10+ over the middle.

    Mentioning some of those losses, no healthy Purdy during those. The Niners did beat the browns, hawks, panthers, all with good defenses:

    9ere defense gives up a lot of yards not a lot of points.

    9ers win if the offense can control time of possession.

  27. Did Colin say the Patriots have a bad o-line, like the Chargers? The Patriots are gonna have all of their players for the playoffs and their o-line when healthy is pretty freaking good. Also, all of their defensive players are back. Did you see what an immediate difference Milton Williams made last night? Seems like they’re overlooking New England.

  35. Eagles is the worst matchup for SF, cold weather, QB with smaller hands, avg WRs vs a badass defense at home. This game is really simply, Phi will lose only if they blow the game on turnovers & silly penalties if they play clean even with an inconsistent QB & OC they should win comfortably

  40. The Bears need to run the ball. Yea Caleb is starting to pick it up and you can trust him more now but running the ball isn't for him and the offense to open things up… running the ball is to control the time of possession and keep the atrocious Bears defense off the field. Somehow the Bears defense got a lot of takeaways this year but they've shown down and put awful tape out there showing how easy it is to burn their corners or exploit any matchup the Bears put a LB in man coverage on a RB. This is the first off-season in some time the Bears could legitimately let half the defense walk or trade. Johnson, Brisker, Edmunds, Billings, and even Wright who might be a good story for all the turnovers he's caused but when he doesn't get a turnover he shows why he was a practice squad corner last year

  44. Colin claims to have watched every snap of the Rams, yet he fails to mention the Rams have been without DaVante Adams for 4 weeks, Kevin Dotson for 3 weeks, Q Lake for 5 weeks. The Rams were punishing teams when they were healthy. They weren’t starting off slow. Keep drinking your Green River Whiskey.

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