Lamar Jackson is Back, Son! Previewing Every Week 8 Game

The Mina Kimes Show featuring Lenny

ESPN

Football, Sports

4.8 • 6.8K Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2025

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Summary

Mina Kimes is joined by Dan Pizzuta to preview and pick every NFL Week 8 game. They start with Thursday Night Football, move through all of Sunday’s matchups, and wrap up with Monday Night Football. Along the way, they discuss the key factors that could decide each game, the storylines to watch, and their predictions for the week ahead. 0:00 Welcome To The Mina Kimes Show Featuring Lenny! 1:53 Vikings @ Chargers Preview 10:47 Dolphins @ Falcons Preview 14:10 Bears @ Ravens Preview 20:35 Bills @ Panthers Preview 24:40 Jets @ Bengals Preview 28:45 49ers @ Texans Preview 36:40 Browns @ Patriots Preview 42:48 Giants @ Eagles Preview 53:45 Buccaneers @ Saints Preview 57:20 Cowboys @ Broncos Preview 1:05:35 Titans @ Colts Preview 1:11:45 Packers @ Steelers Preview 1:20:35 Commanders @ Chiefs Preview 1:30:00 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 Meantime show featuring Lenny the only NFL podcast.
0:08.7	One of the hosts absolutely loves Drew Petzing.
0:12.1	He's got pets in his name.
0:13.4	I don't know if Cardinals fans feel the same way right now.
0:15.1	That's Lenny.
0:15.9	I'm Minickems.
0:17.2	And I am so thrilled to be joined ahead of week eight.
0:20.6	We're there.
0:21.0	We made it. Well, now it's like the halfway. It's all messed up because then he's got whatever. Anyways, the point is we're about halfway through. And I'm so delighted to be joined by my friend, Dan Pizzuda. Dan, welcome back to the show. Yeah, thanks for having me. Yeah, it's week eight already, whether it's halfway or not, like just knowing
0:37.9	it's week eight is crazy. For those who don't know, Dan has an excellent substack now. Can you
0:44.4	tell folks just about where they can find your work before we preview this week's slate of games?
0:48.9	Yeah, it is snaps and stats.ghost.io. There used to be hyphens in there until I said it out loud and
0:57.0	that I like a couple of times on other podcasts and then change the URL. So you can find it there
1:03.0	to find it or my socials. It's linked everywhere. So it's probably easier to do it that way.
1:08.1	I use substack as like a metonym or whatever for a newsletter.
1:13.6	It's a newsletter.
1:14.6	It's great.
1:15.6	He's doing great work.
1:16.6	He's putting out good breakdowns.
1:17.6	Everybody should check it out.
1:18.6	He covers the whole league like we do here because as always, it is Thursday.
1:22.6	We will be previewing every game this week.
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