Good Morning Football · Jan 6, 2026
The show's three hosts (identified on air only as "Mantai", "Mike G" and "Kyle") each ranked the six NFC wild-card-weekend teams, excluding Seattle; all three put the Rams first. Mike G also picked Chicago to win its wild-card game and named his MVP and Offensive Player of the Year votes.
“I got Carolina, San Francisco, Philly, Chicago, Green Bay, and number one. I got the La Rams”
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- Award PicksJan 6, 2026
“Pooka Nakua bring them on back because he's made say he was my offensive player of the year.”
Scored 0a naive guess scored 0+0 skillHow this was scored
- award:
- offensive_player_of_the_year
- naive:
- the naive pick was Saquon Barkley, who won it the year before
- skill:
- 0
- player:
- Puka Nacua
- season:
- 2025
- winner:
- Jaxon Smith-Njigba
- correct:
- false
- accuracy:
- 0
- baseline:
- 0
- difficulty:
- 1
- weeks in the season:
- 18
- weeks left when called:
- 0
- Award PicksJan 6, 2026
“Matthew Stafford was not my MVP vote. It was Drake May.”
Scored 0a naive guess scored 0+0 skillHow this was scored
- award:
- mvp
- naive:
- the naive pick was Josh Allen, who won it the year before
- skill:
- 0
- player:
- Drake Maye
- season:
- 2025
- winner:
- Matthew Stafford
- correct:
- false
- accuracy:
- 0
- baseline:
- 0
- difficulty:
- 1
- weeks in the season:
- 18
- weeks left when called:
- 0
- Power RankingsJan 6, 2026
“So Atlanta at six, I wrote, Carolina, Green Bay, Philly, Chicago, San Francisco, La Rams (spoken by "Kyle")”
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- Game Outcome PicksJan 6, 2026
“I've got Chicago winning the first game and then we'll see.”
Not settled yet. This is graded once the season it describes has finished.
- Power RankingsJan 6, 2026
“"Mike G": number six Carolina ... So I'm going Green Bay at number five ... the San Francisco forty nine ers [at four] ... I'm going to Chicago ... So I've got them there at number three ... I do have Philadelphia above Chicago ... which is why I've got to put the La Rams at number one.”
Not settled yet. This is graded once the season it describes has finished.
- Power RankingsJan 6, 2026
“So that's my one through six, Mike Gi I got Carolina, San Francisco, Philly, Chicago, Green Bay, and number one. I got the La Rams, excluding the Seattle Seahawks (spoken by "Mantai")”
Not settled yet. This is graded once the season it describes has finished.