2026 Team Draft with Mike Golic Jr.

**Mina Kimes** (0:04)
Welcome back to The Mina Kimes Show featuring Lenny, only NFL podcast. One of the hosts pulled up the fantasy ranking, saw cooked lamb, and thought, delicious, that's Lenny, I mean, it guys. I'm looking at them right now because I'm in the middle of my fantasy prep, which has briefly interrupted my team draft prep. Yes, folks, it's here.
The annual Mina Kimes Show featuring Lenny, team's draft with Mike Golic Jr. Is this year seven? We've been doing this for a very long time, Mike.

**Mike Golic Jr.** (0:34)
It's crazy to think about that it has been going on this long. So excited to be back. This is one of my favorite yearly rituals, a good chance to take stock of the league, and in this case, come in basking in the glow of championship glory yet again. All right.

**Mina Kimes** (0:49)
So let's just start here.

**Mike Golic Jr.** (0:50)
Okay.

**Mina Kimes** (0:51)
So for those who have not listened, we do this every year. We've been doing it forever.
Very long time.
We draft teams. We take turns drafting teams. It's back and forth based on the number of wins we get, but also whether we think they're going to make the playoffs, whether they think they're going to make the Super Bowl, etc. There's a point system which I will get to in a second. Sam Hoppin, friend of the show, always tabulates the results for us, which is very nice because I just were too lazy to do it. And there's no easy way for me to say this. Mike whooped me last year and went back to back. As Sam put it, is a dynasty building.

**Mike Golic Jr.** (1:35)
Many are wondering and asking the Kansas City Chiefs of The Mina Kimes Show featuring Lenny have rolled into town, baby.

**Mina Kimes** (1:43)
So just to revisit the results, you killed me so badly that by the time we get to the Super Bowl, it was already over before. In part because you, no, almost entirely, because you had not only both teams that were in the Super Bowl, you drafted both, I have the picks in front of me, the Patriots and the Seahawks, which were incredible picks, by the way, because neither of them went in the top 10 of our draft last year.

**Mike Golic Jr.** (2:09)
Wild.

**Mina Kimes** (2:11)
But you also had the Broncos. And so the way the system worked, worked, is you got a huge bump for making it to the Conference Championship and the Super Bowl. So much so that you were ahead by like 40 something points by the time the Super Bowl went around.
So look.

**Mike Golic Jr.** (2:32)
Oh, boy.

**Mina Kimes** (2:33)
I upon revisiting these results and thinking through some past ones in the spirit of trying to create more competitive parity, I do feel that there's a little too many points for it's a little bit too backloaded because I feel like I just want to ensure and this is just pure unbiased neutral commissioner of the fantasy draft speaking or the teams draft rather.
I want the regular season to matter. Okay. I want it to matter that you're picking teams that get wins. You get one point for each win the regular season. So my suggestion here is that instead of going, we went 10-10 for the championship, 10 for the Super Bowl.
It's one point for every win still and then five points for playoffs, five points for making the division round, five points for the championship, five points for the Super Bowl, five points for winning the Super Bowl. Just to make it a little more exciting up to the very end, to create some stakes. How do you feel about this?

**Mike Golic Jr.** (3:31)
Buddy, listen, whatever you need to stay in the fight, I'm willing to support. I understand. It's my fault. We were too good over here at Team Golic.

**Mina Kimes** (3:40)
Oh, brother.

**Mike Golic Jr.** (3:41)
For too long. And you know what, quite honestly, I'm used to this. People that have been around, to your point, for the duration, the long time that we've been doing this, are very familiar with the minute things go good for my team, Mina coming in with a rule change or a points tweak the next season.

**Mina Kimes** (3:58)
We're starting with a blank slate this year. This could backfire for me. I could pick the teams in the Super Bowl and then I'll have egg on my face at the end. I just want to point that out. There is no inherent advantage that this gives to either of us. I'm just trying to make it more equitable. With that and said, I did have pick one last year.