Nix Tape: Previewing the AFC West

The Mina Kimes Show featuring Lenny

ESPN

Football, Sports

4.8 • 6.8K Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2025

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

Steven Ruiz joins me to break down the AFC West from top to bottom. We dive deep into the offensive and defensive outlooks for the Chiefs, Raiders, Broncos and Chargers. Can Vegas overcome a suspect defense and compete? Will KC be better along the offensive line? How explosive can the Chargers offense be? Does Denver have the potential to win multiple playoff games? Plus, we give our predictions on how the division will finish by season’s end. Vote for the Mina Kimes Show featuring Lenny to win a People’s Choice podcast Award for Best Female Hosted Podcast! (0:00) Intro (1:28) Chiefs offensive outlook (15:28) Chiefs defensive outlook (23:29) Raiders offensive outlook (33:56) Raiders defensive outlook (40:43) Broncos defensive outlook (48:59) Broncos offensive outlook (56:38) Chargers offensive outlook (1:06:44) Chargers defensive outlook (1:15:04) Ranking the AFC West (1:17:03) 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 Mini Kimes show featuring Lenny, the only NFL podcast.
0:08.4	One of the hosts asked me if Drew Tranquil was sedated by a vet.
0:12.0	That's Lenny.
0:13.0	I'm Minikimes.
0:14.0	That was a good one.
0:15.0	Eight at a ten.
0:16.0	Eight at ten.
0:17.0	Eight at ten.
0:18.0	I've been trying to align the intros with players who are actually in the divisions
0:22.2	that we are discussing. A little bit of a deep cut, unless you're a chief's fan. Is Drew Trankel
0:28.2	a national name? I don't know. Should it be? No. Stephen, did you have to, that's the voice
0:35.0	you heard is Stephen Ruiz, one of the hosts of the ringer NFL
0:38.8	podcast, someone who's not been on the show in a little bit of time. Did you have to shake up
0:45.2	all of your preparation when the Jacorian Bennett trade happened?
0:48.4	You know, I had like, I had like 10 notes on Jacorian Bennett, but no, it didn't move me too much.
0:54.9	I'm excited about another young Raiders cornerback.
0:58.0	I'm not.
0:58.2	Ooh.
0:59.2	I think I've seen you talk about him too, so you might be excited about him.
1:02.4	We're going to talk about the Raiders today.
1:03.8	We are going to talk about the AFC West, of course, which it is to me one of the more, keep saying every division is interesting so I should just
1:13.8	stop trying to sell every division to you however you know we have I think multiple playoff
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