NFL Good/Bad with Mina Kimes (Part 2)

The Distraction: A Defector Podcast

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Sports, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 4 September 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Mina Kimes of ESPN joins Drew and Roth to complete this year’s NFL Good/Bad! This week, it’s the AFC, and there’s no equivocating allowed.

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Stuff We Talked About

The Jones family black hole
AFC Good/Bad
Mina’s very good boy, Lenny

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The Distraction is Defector's flagship podcast about sports (and movies, and art, and sandwiches, and certain coastal states) from longtime writers Drew Magary and David Roth. Every week, Drew and Roth tackle subjects, both serious and impossibly stupid, with a parade of guests from around the world of sports and media joining in the fun! Roth and Drew also field Funbag questions from Defector readers, answer listener voicemails, and get upset about the number of people who use speakerphone while in a public bathroom stall. This is a show where everything matters, because everyone could use a Distraction. Head to defector.com for more info.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	We're back. We're back. It's a distraction. I'm true. That's Rod. How you doing Roth?
0:07.7	I'm good. I'm good. I'm more or less ready for that line reading. Our guest, I'm just going by the reaction in the video square there was not fully ready for that line reading.
0:16.6	Oh, did I take Minakimes? Did I catch her off guard with my honking?
0:21.1	I don't think anyone expects the volume.
0:23.2	Our guest is Mina Kimes of ESPN to do.
0:26.0	The second half NFL good bad.
0:27.3	Hi, Mina. How are you?
0:28.8	Hi, it wasn't the volume that caught me off guard so much as it was you, like, approaching the camera, like a stalker at a ring doorbell threatening to invade my house.
0:39.4	But the audio audience can't see that.
0:42.0	No one can see that.
0:42.7	There's no video audience.
0:43.7	It's great.
0:44.0	You can feel him looming towards you at the start of every episode.
0:47.6	I think they can kind of sense it.
0:49.5	I mean, half our, you know, Apple podcast reviews are the guy seems kind of creepy.
0:53.7	We don't know if I like them. You know, that's, that's, that's what the most people say. Mena, uh, are you excited for the NFL season? Nah. No. I can't leave it. Oh, yeah. Nah, whatever. I'm so excited. I accidentally set my grill on fire last night. It was the first time in my life I have ever had to use a fire extinguisher.
1:12.3	And let me tell you something, it's pretty fucking tight. Like, it's cool. And I didn't even do the full,
1:18.3	like, you know, sitcom, like, everything's covered in flame retardant, like in the room.
1:23.9	Like, I just like, it was a little tiny thing. And I aimed at the flames and then then it went out, and I was like, wow, I'm here. Is it an inside or outside experience? It was outside. It was outside. But it was like, it was a grease fire. I have to get a new grill. But I'll tell you what else is on fire. Because you were, and this happened because you were thinking about the Vikings so hard? No, I was stoned and taking up.
1:45.4	Oh, all right, right.
1:46.3	That makes more sense.
1:47.5	Mina, we're going to do AFC good, bad, but we recorded last week's NFC preview with
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