NFL Wild Card Round Preview with Mina Kimes

ESPN Daily

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🗓️ 10 January 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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The NFL playoffs are set to begin tomorrow. 14 teams still have a chance at lifting the Lombardi Trophy in a few weeks, some with better odds than others. But it all starts with the Wild Card round. Six games over three days to determine who will move on. So before the action kicks off our old friend Mina Kimes breaks down each matchup with host Michele Steele to make sure that you know everything you need ahead of all of the games. And don’t forget the playlist, featuring our favorite stories of 2024. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The great thing about ESPN Daily not being a video podcast yet, Mina, is that there are no cameras that you need to be aware of for this recording.
0:10.1	I'm just letting you know now.
0:13.0	For those who don't know what Michelle is talking about, it's going to stay that way because I'm not going to tell you what happened to me on camera.
0:23.6	Okay, so I know that we're here to talk Wild Card Weekend, but I am in Chicago and the new year
0:28.8	also welcomes in, Mina, the 40th anniversary of the Bears Super Bowl win in 1985.
0:34.6	Yes, that was the last time the Bears won it all.
0:37.2	The championship that everybody in
0:39.3	Chicago just sort of desperately holds on to, the Super Bowl shuffle, Jim McMahon, Walter
0:44.6	Peyton, everything about it. But given what you know about this division, the NFC North in
0:50.9	particular, do you think that the Bears will win another Super Bowl before
0:55.0	the 50th anniversary of the 85 Bears?
0:58.6	Michelle, look, teams can turn around their fortunes very quickly.
1:03.4	You're seeing that this wildcard weekend, the Chargers, the Broncos, right?
1:09.0	There are countless examples across the NFL.
1:12.6	That said,
1:14.6	it's a tall order for the Bears,
1:17.6	especially in the next few years,
1:19.6	given that alluding to this,
1:21.6	three of the teams in their own division are in the playoffs.
1:25.6	One isn't even playing this weekend. They're so good in Detroit.
1:28.9	So it's going to be an uphill battle.
1:31.9	I think they got to nail this coaching hire,
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