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The Mina Kimes Show featuring Lenny

An NFC West Side Story: Previewing Week 16

The Mina Kimes Show featuring Lenny

ESPN

Football, Sports

4.8 โ€ข 6.8K Ratings

๐Ÿ—“๏ธ 18 December 2025

โฑ๏ธ 94 minutes

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Summary

Itโ€™s NFL Week 16! ๐Ÿˆ Mina is joined by Aaron Schatz to break down every matchup โ€” from Thursday Night Football all the way through Monday Night Football. They discuss the biggest storylines shaping Week 16 The key factors that will decide each game Our picks and predictions for every matchup Drop your Week 16 thoughts in the comments and let me know who you think wins each game! Timecodes: 0:00 Welcome To The Mina Kimes Show Featuring Lenny! 0:55 Week 16 Preview And Picks 1:15 Rams @ Seahawks Preview 14:33 Eagles @ Commanders Preview 18:15 Packers @ Bears Preview 25:30 Bills @ Browns Preview 28:45 Chargers @ Cowboys Preview 33:00 Chiefs @ Titans Preview 34:55 Bengals @ Dolphins Preview 40:20 Jets @ Saints Preview 45:25 Bucs @ Panthers Preview 53:15 Vikings @ Giants Preview 58:05 Jags @ Broncos Preview 1:04:15 Falcons @ Cardinals Preview 1:07:20 Steelers @ Lions Preview 1:10:48 Raiders @ Texans Preview 1:14:10 Patriots @ Ravens Preview 1:23:20 49ers @ Colts Preview 1:31:10 See you next time! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome back to the Meenikheim show featuring Lenny, the only Edifold podcast.

0:08.9

One of the hosts wants to rip the laces out of Chris Shula.

0:12.1

That's Lenny.

0:13.0

I'm meaning times.

0:13.7

We're talking about Chris Shula today because we got a massive Thursday night game.

0:18.3

Going to break down all of the games.

0:19.7

We're going to preview and pick them. We being myself. And I'm joined today by Aaron Schatz of FTN Fantasy. Aaron, thanks for coming back. Thank you for having me on the show. It's great to be here. It's a big week. 16 games to prepare for. I'm not used to preparing notes on 16 games, but I've got them all. And some big games this week. Yeah. There's, I actually, so for those who don't we, we talk about every game. Some of them we talk about at more length than others. Some of them just one of us picks the key. I actually had a lot of trouble narrowing it down to a few. There's a couple that only one of us is doing that I feel like are pretty significant. But we are both going to talk

0:55.7

about Thursday night football. It is massive. I don't feel like it's overhyping it to say this

1:00.6

is kind of like the game of the season. It's appropriate to have me here because for folks who

1:05.5

don't know, I'm the DVOA guy. That's my stat. And this is the DVOA bowl. This is number one versus number two.

1:13.2

They're basically tied on top, and they're both at historic levels.

1:17.3

They're like really good teams.

1:19.7

CX offense, I imagine, has been bringing them back down to Earth.

1:23.0

Yeah, the defense has been super hot the last few weeks, although part of that is I'm adjusting for the Colts, but I'm not adjusting for Phillip Rivers, etc. But their offense has been slightly below average since week 10. So yeah, their offense is down, even though their defense is up. All right. Well, this is, of course, a rematch. I'm sure that's going to factor into this discussion. I take the home team. My guest takes the away team.

1:46.0

Aaron, that means you get to pick a key for the Los Angeles Rams, who won when these teams played,

1:52.0

but it was safe to say their worst offensive outing.

1:55.0

They really struggled.

1:57.0

They were gifted excellent field position by several Sam Darnold turnovers So what's your key for L.A. in this game?

2:04.3

Can the Rams get guys open against excellent Seahawks coverage? Because I went back and rewatched it, and the thing that stood out to me was that the coverage was really tight.

2:14.8

The Seahawks only had five pressures on Stafford with no sacks, but the excellent

2:20.6

coverage kept the Rams from scoring for the most part, except when they had really short fields.

2:26.4

Yeah. No Devante Adams in this game. Probably no Devante Adams. Yeah, I would be shocked if he plays,

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