Trevor, Have I Ever: Last Call for NFL Predictions

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Mina Kimes (0:34)

Welcome back to The Mina Kimes Show featuring Lenny. The NFL season is so close. It is tomorrow, which is so weird. It's on a Wednesday that it starts. Don't know how I feel about that. That's neither here nor there. Actually, that is important because a bit of housekeeping. My first season preview, week preview, week one preview, of course, is going to come out tomorrow morning, Wednesday because of the NFL schedule. Dominique Foxworth is going to be joining me. And as part of that, there's been a little bit of reshuffling.

Dominique is now going to be joining me every other week for game previews. And Ben Solak is going to be joining me on Tuesdays to recap. So for The Mina Kimes Show, long time listeners, a little bit of a little bit of reshuffling. But that's not Ben Solak here today.

That's Nate Tice, who's probably never been confused with Ben Solak in his life.

Nate Tice (1:29)

Hey, welcome back to the show, buddy.

Nate Tice (1:33)

Thanks. Thanks for having me.

Mina Kimes (1:34)

Yeah.

Nate Tice (1:34)

You're just talking to all my friends. You're like, Ben is on this. So now I know where my friends are. I see on our show.

I'm just like, no, we're staying Tuesday and Thursday. I'll recap that Wednesday game on the Thursday show. No, no, you ain't changing this. Sorry, you're going to Australia, but you ain't changing my schedule. I'm not doing that to me. No, great to be here. Good to see you.

Mina Kimes (1:53)

The days are like extremely confusing to me, and I've already screwed it up like 20 times, but we will be previewing Patriots Seahawks.

Nate Tice (2:00)

As someone that's understanding of Thursday football and Monday football and Friday football, and I'm totally fine with that, Wednesday is a bridge too far. That's like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. You're not screwing up my middle week. Like that is Tuesdays and Wednesdays. You just can't touch. You're not matching.

Mina Kimes (2:17)

The podcast, by the way, that Nate alluded to is Football 301, which you guys should definitely check out. Excellent show that, as he said, comes out twice a week. Today, we are not here to recap, obviously, because football has not begun. We are here to do an exercise I'm calling Last Call.

Final predictions for the NFL season. Now, this is not like which team is going to win the AFC championship, which team is going to win the Super Bowl or whatnot. And the division winners, you guys all know from listening to my preview pods. These are categories, some of which I arbitrarily have come up with, some of which were submitted to me on Blue Sky. I really enjoy doing this. I feel like some of these have been really fun to puzzle through, Nate.

And I'm excited to hear what you have to say.

Nate Tice (3:01)

I am too. I like this. Yeah, I have predicted awards, win totals, everything, like a superlative show kind of like this, or a fill in the blanks, as you put it.

I this was much more entertaining for my brain right now, until we get games to react to. But for now, this was a nice little segment idea. So I appreciate you sending this to me.

Mina Kimes (3:21)

So the first one is sort of a proxy for who might be in the Super Bowl. But I actually am thinking about it from a match up perspective.

So it's fill in the blanks. I sent you a bunch of categories with a blank. You get to fill in the blanks. The one I sent you that I want to start with was the blank, are the AFC team best position to take down the LA Rams? Now I said AFC team because I assume we agree the AFC team is the Seahawks and that's right.

Nate Tice (3:57)

And maybe I have one other team that I'm playing footsie with. Yeah, the Cowboys. But I can't go on every friggin show like Joe DiMaggio for 56 straight shows and talk about the Cowboys, so I will talk about it.

Mina Kimes (4:07)

I think it's the Seahawks just because I think this TLDR, the CXD defense is the CXD defense. I think the Seahawks offense is actually one of the few offenses uniquely equipped to potentially attack LA. So Seattle is my answer. So Seahawks fans, don't get mad at the wording of this question. The reason I wanted to make it about the AFC is because the AFC is like a logjam. Like the NFC is super top heavy and the AFC has like five or six teams that are kind of all clumped together for me. So we didn't discuss beforehand what our answers are. I wanna just, I'll just start first on this one. So first I narrowed it down to a few teams. I considered the Bills, the Ravens, the Patriots, the Broncos, the Texans. Those were the teams. Well, thinking about, and then, so those- Same for me. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. So then I narrowed it down further. And my thought process was this, process was this, Nate. I was thinking about whether the Rams have any weaknesses. And actually I thought, is this team, is the team that I wanna pick going to be one that is most likely to win in a shootout? Buffalo, maybe. Or would it be a team where I actually think the defense might be positioned to take advantage of Rams weaknesses? And I actually felt myself leaning that way because crazily enough, when I think about this Rams team and what it might take for them to lose or fall apart or whatever, I think the defense is actually deeper and the offense is the side of the ball where I think the right team might be better equipped to stop them. We'll get into why. So then I narrowed it down further to the Broncos and the Texans. This is my process. I'm walking you through my process.