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The Mina Kimes Show featuring Lenny

Drake Believe: Maye’s MVP Case, and Every AFC Contender’s Flaws Presented by Grainger

The Mina Kimes Show featuring Lenny

ESPN

Football, Sports

4.86.8K Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

In a special episode presented by Grainger, Mina and Domonique Foxworth break down Monday Night Football after the Patriots’ 33–15 win over the Giants. They make the case for Drake Maye to win MVP, then take a deep dive into the major weaknesses facing every AFC playoff contender. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

The Minicam Show featuring Lenny is presented by Granger.

0:02.5

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0:06.0

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0:09.0

Welcome back to the Minicam Show featuring Lenny,

0:16.0

Monday Night Football Recap Edition, here with Dominic Foxworth to talk about the Patriots,

0:20.0

the Giants moving forward.

0:22.7

We're also going to do an exercise that I hit you with Dominique last week.

0:29.3

And as the playoff fields narrow, they're still pretty large.

0:34.1

I wanted to go through all of the contenders and identify what their weaknesses are because it does feel like more than any year in recent memory, every team is flawed.

0:46.3

And so this week we're going to do the AFC teams. It's a lot. So we're going to get through those. And the next week we're going to do the NFC teams. It's actually like 10 teams, I think, in the AFC are in playoff contention right now. I mean, even the Brown, we're not going to do the Browns, but technically the Browns are, I saw them on an in the hunt graphic. Yeah, they are. Yeah, maybe. I mean, if the Bengals are in the hunt, everybody's in the hunt, I guess.

1:13.0

All right.

1:14.6

Well, let's start with Monday Night Football because I do want to talk about the page. I want to talk about both these teams. We can talk about this kind of an opportunity to talk about the Giants and spin it forward a little bit as their season is obviously over. But the Patriots are not only in the hunt, they are like maybe the best team in the

1:28.5

AFC, the best team that hasn't played anyway.

1:31.8

It's kind of, there are some reasonable questions and criticisms that you can apply to this

1:38.2

team, given the competition.

1:40.3

But my overall takeaway here and my overarching kind of thought is just that Drake May is so clearly separated from those concerns, if that makes sense.

1:51.3

Like I do not watch him and think, wow, he's feasting on easy competition or wow, he's benefiting from why.

1:58.5

Like to me, maybe more so than any of the quarterback this is why i believe

2:02.6

he is correctly the MVP favorite at this point he dominique is so obviously the engine of this

2:09.0

offense in this team yeah i think it would look a lot different if we feel good about what stephan

2:14.6

digs is contributing right now but i think it would look a lot different if there was a different quarterback there.

2:19.8

They obviously, they're, which I don't want to spoil anything because the Patriots are in our conversation later.

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