Maye Anything: Previewing Week One

Mina Kimes (0:04)

Welcome back to The Mina Kimes Show featuring Lenny, only NFL podcast. One of the hosts thinks that Aussie is a type of dog that likes to herd cattle. That's Lenny.

Domonique, now that you're on Thursdays, Wednesdays I know, you get to hear my jokes. I don't do them on Tuesdays, lucky you.

Domonique Foxworth (0:22)

It hasn't been so long, I missed them. I like that one, that's good.

Mina Kimes (0:27)

Thursday, Wednesday, very confusing right now for all involved.

Domonique Foxworth (0:31)

You saw the Kyle Shanahan clip, right? Yeah, that was well done.

Mina Kimes (0:35)

Who do you think is going to have the better sleep plan, the Niners or the Rams? This has been one of the funniest.

Domonique Foxworth (0:41)

I think the way this has been explained to me is that the Niners will be better for this game, but the Rams will be better for the following games. And so I'm going to stick with it, it seems to make some bit of sense. It's like they might deal with a little, the Rams might deal with a little bit of challenge from just getting there and playing, but they'll get back and get right on the schedule, 49ers out there time travel.

Mina Kimes (1:03)

The Niners have the Rams and then the Dolphins and the Cardinals. So maybe this was strategic. They're like, let's get this game right. And then if we're, no disrespect to the Dolphins and the Cardinals. Okay, so Domonique is here to preview week one. We're going to talk about every game as always. As I mentioned on Tuesday's podcast, make sure my days rights, Ben will be joining me on Tuesday to react. Domonique will be joining me every other week, but every other week, I will be over at Domonique's show. So check out the Domonique Foxworth show. Also review your pods if you like to listen to both of us talk football. If not, why are you here? That would be weird. Okay. So as always, we go through every week one match up. Some of them, we will both present keys, the bigger games. Some of them, only one of us will present a key. You know, there's a few, there's a few. There's a few good week one though, honestly. Like there were a couple that could have made the big game, you know, like Ravens Colts is really interesting. Packers Vikings is really interesting.

But obviously, we're going to both talk about the opener, which is tonight because this is Wednesday. You're listening to this on Wednesday. The game tonight is Patriots-Seahawks Super Bowl rematch.

I will go first. I got Patriots offense versus Seahawks defense.

And my question is who's in this secondary? Oh my God, they've run out of safeties. So the key is, can you protect Drake May long enough to punish this incredibly injured Seahawks secondary? I feel like this snuck up on people outside of Seattle, but Seattle is heavily undermanned coming into this game. Tai Okada, who was the second safety with Kobe Bryant gone next to Julian Love, out Bud Clark, who was the rookie that they drafted this year, the second round, lost for the season. Nicky Manwari looks like won't play in this game, or if he does, it would be in some very limited capacity. So they are very injured.

Devon Witherspoon, Josh Jovier, starting corners. But I'm looking at this Patriots revamped group of pass catchers and I think there's a litany of ways they can attack. The question, Dominique, and this is obviously a referendum a little bit on the Super Bowl where Drake May was under siege. Can Seattle come up with ways or pressure Drake May enough to the point where they can mitigate that to some degree? I think that's what's going to decide this game on that side of the ball.

Domonique Foxworth (3:26)

Yeah. I guess the way that you phrase it doesn't really matter, but I phrase it differently because of the Super Bowl. It's not can Seattle get there?

It's can the Patriots protect them? It was an onslaught in the Super Bowl.

It felt like we had a referendum on arm length for tackles and on their whole offense. That was such an enormous story immediately after the Super Bowl and throughout the Super Bowl. I was sitting there watching it in LA, ironically, where next year's Super Bowl will be with Rex Ryan and some of the other people there. They were just going to some of the other football people we have in our company. We were just going nuts and I kept looking up wondering if it was, because we didn't have the sound on. We're talking about each other and it just felt like every other snap. We're getting through those edges and just steamrolling Will Campbell in the backfield and Drake May's lap. That to me, obviously, there's an advantage. It seems like there's an advantage for the Patriots receivers against the secondary, but are they going to be able to attack it?