Mina Kimes Deciphers NFL’s Conference Championships

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🗓️ 25 January 2023

⏱️ 33 minutes

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This time of year, as the field of NFL contenders whittles down, the hot takes start to ramp up…and with it comes the usual tropes. Talk of quarterback legacies and the Cowboys’ never-ending failure abounds. But with Championship Sunday mere days away, we asked Mina Kimes to help us break new ground and get our heads around these two highly anticipated matchups. Can the Bengals’ depleted offensive line support Joe Burrow and overperform for the second week in a row? How much does Patrick Mahomes’ bum ankle hinder Kansas City’s offense? What gives in the strength-on-strength matchup between the Eagles O-line and the Niners D-line? Mina explains what we should really be paying attention to, and what we’ll be talking about after it’s all over. To help ensure you didn't miss any of our best stories from the past year, we've collected our favorite episodes of 2022 into one playlist. We think you’ll love every episode on there, so check it out. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Meana Kimes, did you bring a Jersey, did you bring a quarterback Jersey perhaps to throw
0:06.3	into the trash?
0:07.3	Did you bring a, a, a, a, a, a, flat screen television to punch a hole into what props, what
0:13.3	props did you bring us as we are about to ask you to make a smarter about two enormously
0:19.2	important championship games.
0:21.6	First, I'd like to say I envy the maybe 20% of the audience that has no idea what you're
0:27.2	talking about, just living in blissful ignorance of the Cowboys media industrial complex.
0:34.8	How are we so dying about the Cowboys?
0:36.6	No, it is the Cowboys industrial complex.
0:39.5	And, uh, and well, there's a related one, right?
0:42.3	Like, for people who've been hibernating, what else would you say our industry has been
0:47.9	especially obsessed with ahead of this weekend?
0:53.8	Well, we are coming off of some really incredible games, some shocking performances, some amazing
1:01.7	individual plays by players at multiple positions.
1:06.1	We're heading into a weekend of I think the two best possible matchups.
1:10.9	So naturally, we are spending the week ranking quarterbacks.
1:15.2	Yes, we are.
1:19.2	Which, by the way, I want to say like, they're, they're, this is the playoffs.
1:23.0	So your performance in the playoffs certainly informs your legacy and how you're perceived.
1:27.0	I get that.
1:28.0	I get that.
1:29.0	But there's so much other stuff we can be talking about, right?
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