Mina Kimes breaks down NFC playoff teams, Aaron Reiss talks Bill O’Brien’s dismissal, a Detroit Lions Team Visit with Chris Burke, and more
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🗓️ 7 October 2020
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
To start, Robert welcomes ESPN NFL analyst Mina Kimes to the show to discuss the NFC teams currently holding a better than 50% chance of making the playoffs, break down their biggest weaknesses, and determine which one will be the scariest to play against by December.
Next up, Houston Texans beat writer for The Athletic, Aaron Reiss, calls in to break down the shocking firing of Texans GM and head coach Bill O’Brien, Jack Easterby as the highest ranking member of the football staff in the organization right now, the potential for a JJ Watt trade, who could become the next head coach, and more.
To close things out, in this week’s team visit, The Athletic’s Detroit Lions writer Chris Burke joins the show to discuss the mounting issues for the 2020 squad, Matt Patricia seemingly heading towards a rough end as head coach, the overall lack of homegrown defensive talent within the organization, and more.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the athletic football show. |
| 0:14.6 | Welcome to the athletic football show. |
| 0:16.5 | We have a fun show for you guys today. |
| 0:18.3 | We're deviating a little bit from the typical Wednesday schedule. |
| 0:20.7 | We're actually going to have Texans writer from the athletic Aaron Reese on to talk about the Bill of Brian News. I felt like we could not just let that go. Ted is going to be back with us next week. We're also going to be talking to Chris Burke, who's the Lions writer for the athletic to do our team visit for the week. but before we do any of that, I am now thrilled to welcome my friend |
| 0:21.7 | ESPN NFL analyst do our team visit for the week. But before we do any of that, I am now thrilled to welcome my friend |
| 0:39.7 | ESPN NFL analyst, Mina Kimes. Mina, how are you? Hi, I'm doing good. How are you? I'm doing |
| 0:46.2 | great. We're recording this on Monday, just a heads out for people, because you're on television |
| 0:50.4 | 16 hours a day. So we need to work around your schedule. |
| 0:54.7 | Recording it right before Patriots chiefs kicks off. We're going to be talking about the |
| 0:59.0 | NFC teams today. I was texting you about this when we were trying to figure out what we |
| 1:02.4 | wanted to talk about on the show. And we both kind of decided that the NFC is absolutely wild. |
| 1:07.9 | It's wide open. There are a ton of teams that are flawed but exciting. And we're going |
| 1:12.9 | to break down those teams. We are not going to talk about the Packers because the Packers are about |
| 1:16.6 | to play tonight and we don't want this to be outdated. But we are going to hit all of the other |
| 1:20.9 | teams that have at least a 50% chance to make the playoffs according to football outsiders. And there's |
| 1:26.3 | plenty of them to get to |
| 1:27.5 | i and i'm really excited to watch the pack i know this is like we're not going to talk about them |
| 1:32.0 | but i'm going to talk about them immediately um just because i thus far and of course this could be |
| 1:38.1 | immediately outdated through three weeks they i think are also one of those many unbalanced flod |
| 1:44.0 | teams i'm actually no devante Adams, no Al-Azard tonight, but I'm actually more interested in watching the Packers defense against what is actually, you know, a fairly decent Atlanta offense because that, that has been the issue for them. So we'll see. I think that's the true for a lot of these teams, right? And we're going to go through all of them. But there's a lot of teams, you know, Nate has said it on our show on Sundays. |
| 2:04.7 | The NFC feels like the Big 12 at this point. You have all these teams just throwing up tons of crazy points and nobody can stop anyone. So that's going to be a consistent theme. And why don't we get to one of those teams right now. Let's start with your Seattle Seahawks. So if you were just kind of |
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