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Welcome back to The Mina Kimes Show featuring Lenny, the only NFL podcast where one of the hosts pronounces it George Kibble. That's Lenny. I mean, Kimes here to join me for a first time in a minute.

Sheil Kapadia, the host, one of the hosts of the Ringer NFL show. Welcome back.

Sheil Kapadia (0:52)

Thanks for having me. I feel like last time I was here, we were ranking some coaches and I already might have some regrets about where I had Jim Harbaugh, but we don't need to talk about that. We got week four here coming up.

Mina Kimes (1:02)

Now I want to revisit those rankings. I feel like Reid might be one where he was still high, but we demoted him a little bit. He might be climbing back up into the ranking. I think we were both very high in Ben Johnson, and that certainly has aged well.

Sheil Kapadia (1:17)

Yes, I feel good about that one.

Mina Kimes (1:20)

So as always, we're here to preview the games.

Week four, the quarter point is the, yes, almost, it sort of is quarter point, whatever. It's quick math. Of the NFL season, starting to get a little bit more of a feel for these teams. Some good games, honestly. My process is I do all the schedule and then I send whoever I'm with the games where I think both of us should cover a side. And I had like seven and I had to, I always try to get it down to five, but it was hard. There were some hard cuts, Sheil.

Sheil Kapadia (1:51)

There was one that we'll get to later that I think if you were doing this like before the season, there's no chance you would have thought that, you know, I'll just say it now. Yeah, I don't know that Raiders Chiefs we would have thought would have been a prolific match up in week four, but that's what's fun about it.

Mina Kimes (2:05)

There you go. Raiders Chiefs.

Ben asked me the line on that and I missed, I thought it would be closer than it was. He had me guess it and the Chiefs were favored on Tuesday by four and a half in Vegas, which actually I was like, wow, okay, a lot of Chiefs respect. Fair enough. All right, so I did not give us both Thursday Night Football. I just gave it to myself. Two teams coming off of Winslow and AFC North.

I think last week when they advertised this game, I believe they put up Aaron Rodgers and Denzel Ward.

You can always tell a Thursday night game maybe doesn't have the star power if it's not two quarterbacks and they're just like, Oh, should we do? But I will say this game does have more intrigue, particularly after the Wins, the Browns we talked about at Tuesday at Lanks. This one's just me. I've got the match up or I've got the key. And I'll just throw it to you, Sheil. Is week three Rogers for real is what I want to put out there. So I know you're going to have thoughts on that. But last week, Aaron Rodgers threw for almost 100 yards under pressure. That is the most he has thrown under pressure since September 2024 2024, pardon me. It is the third most in the last four years since he has started playing, or since he was on the Jets and the Sealers. And I will say again, he did a lot of things last week against Cincinnati that I just haven't seen him do in a while. He threw under pressure, he threw a little bit on the move, he was throwing downfield.

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So here we go.

Mina Kimes (3:40)

They shredded man coverage against Cincinnati. Cleveland plays the fourth most man coverage in the NFL. Can you do it again, Aaron? What do you think?

Sheil Kapadia (3:50)

He was fantastic last week. Yeah, I was watching it because sometime I think I caught up with that game the next day and I saw the numbers. I'm like, all right, is this, you know, the couple screens here and there? And I was like, no, he actually, like you said, pushing the ball downfield, looked mobile, looked athletic.