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The Mina Kimes Show featuring Lenny

And the Ward Goes to…An AFC South Preview

The Mina Kimes Show featuring Lenny

ESPN

Football, Sports

4.86.8K Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2025

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Mina is joined by Brentley Weissman to preview the AFC South in 2025. We cover the Texans, Colts, Jaguars, and Titans — from key offseason moves to breakout players and bold predictions on who wins the division. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome back to the Minikaiam show featuring Lenny the only NFL podcast.

0:08.7

One of the hosts pronounces it Kamari Lassiter.

0:12.0

That's Lenny.

0:12.9

I meanikimes, that wasn't great.

0:14.8

But Kamari Lasseter is one of the players, a very good player,

0:18.1

on one of the teams we are talking about today because we made it, Fox.

0:23.1

We were at the final division preview.

0:25.9

The AFC South saved best.

0:30.0

Best feels a little strong.

0:31.5

Saved a division for last purposefully because I wanted this Colts quarterback battle to play out.

0:38.9

Finally, just in time it did,

0:44.7

which is good. I am joined by my friend. He's been on the show before. He's a former NFL scout.

0:48.6

He's writing about the draft and other things for A to Z sports. Brutley Weissman,

0:54.0

welcome back to the show. Hey, Mina. Thanks for having me. Yeah, I certainly wouldn't use Bess describe this division, but perhaps most interesting. I think there's a lot of good storylines, a lot of kind of high variance teams that we're going to talk about today. So I appreciate you having me back on.

1:07.2

Yeah, it is interesting. I genuinely believe that. We got into the Colts quarterback battle at length earlier this week. It's been so like you and I will talk about that. But there's other things with the Colts that I find really interesting. The Jags, new coaching staff. That is fascinating. They have maybe the most interesting player in football and Travis Hunter. Titans have the number one overall pick

1:27.7

quarterback who's been honestly really fun to watch in the preseason. But I thought we would

1:32.1

start with the division winners, the big bads of the of the AFC South, Houston Texans.

1:40.4

I've been doing these like power rankings pot. I've done with them now. But I was surprised by how high people had the Texans, maybe a little surprised. Before we dive into it, like it does feel a little like national sentiment is once again really high, which is i think what happens when you win a playoff

2:01.2

game so everybody's last memory of the texans is cj stroud looking like rookie season cj

2:08.1

strout and less like the guy we saw through much of the year um i do believe they are the favorites

2:14.6

for a reason but i also have a lot of questions about this offense, Bradley.

2:19.4

Yeah, so do I. So do I. I mean, I thought they were really good last year.

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