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The Mina Kimes Show featuring Lenny

King of the Bills? A Week 15 Preview

The Mina Kimes Show featuring Lenny

ESPN

Football, Sports

4.86.8K Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2025

⏱️ 96 minutes

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Summary

In this Week 15 episode, Mina Kimes is joined by Ben Solak to run through the full slate of games, from Thursday night through Monday. Together, they break down the biggest storylines of the week, identify the key factors that could decide each matchup, and share their picks and predictions — including where they see potential upsets. Listeners are invited to follow along and think through their own Week 15 calls as the duo sets the stage for another loaded NFL weekend. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome back to the Minicheim show featuring Lenny, only NFL podcast. One of the hosts is older than Philip Rivers and a dog.

0:13.1

A lot of podcasts hosted by people who are older than Philip Rivers. Lenny is, I think, in dog years, 80s, in his 80s.

0:20.0

Oh, wow.

0:21.6

Money's getting up there.

0:22.9

He's a senior pub.

0:40.7

I am younger than Philip Rivers. I would like to put that on the record. I'm close, but yeah, still younger. Close. Have you heard 44 years old more than this week? Because I have heard it so many times in the last 24 hours. No, but Theo Ash did a funny thing where he started just listing other NFL players that are 44 years old to like give some perspective.

0:57.8

Like Troy Pal Mollalu is 44 years old. Albert Haynesworth. Imagine some of these dudes came back because like it's only four years since we saw rivers, but he's quarterback. So it's like adjust to scale. Paul Lomalu is the same age. That's bananas. All right. We're going to talk about that game, not at length.

0:59.0

We're going to talk about every game this week. As always, Ben,

1:02.0

Ben Solek and I are going to pick all of the games. Some we will discuss in more detail than others.

1:09.0

Thursday night football is not one of those games.

1:12.5

I'm going to handle this one.

1:14.7

It's the Falcons bucks.

1:15.9

A game that back in like week four probably would have had a lot of intrigue,

1:21.3

but the Falcons are kind of limping towards the finish line,

1:24.6

as are the bucks.

1:26.1

Woof.

1:27.7

So I am going to do the key for this one.

1:31.9

And I'm going to focus on Tampa.

1:35.0

And I am going to say that the key for Tampa is running football.

1:41.4

I think their gap runs will be effective against an Atlanta defense that's much

1:45.7

better versus the pass than the run. Their 29th success rate generally versus the run. But when

1:52.1

you FTN breaks down, and I tend to, I like their run play classifications, but they will break down

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