Playoff We go! Ranking All 14 contenders

The Mina Kimes Show featuring Lenny

ESPN

Football, Sports

4.8 • 6.8K Ratings

🗓️ 6 January 2026

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Mina is joined by Domonique Foxworth to rank EVERY team in the playoff field: Seahawks, Rams, Jaguars, Bills, Eagles, Chargers, Steelers, Texans, Packers, Bears, Broncos, Patriots, Panthers and 49ers. Plus, a special appearance from Marcus Spears to grade our rankings! Breaking down who we trust most, who has real Super Bowl upside, and who feels like a first-round exit waiting to happen. We look at how each contender is actually playing right now, not just their record, and what the matchups tell us as the postseason approaches. Do you agree with our rankings? Timecodes: 0:00 Welcome to the Mina Kimes Show featuring Lenny 0:25 Power Ranking EVERY Playoff Team 2:23 #1: Jacksonville Jaguars 7:45 #2: Los Angeles Rams 11:05 #3: Seattle Seahawks | #4: Houston Texans 16:50 #5: Denver Broncos 21:00 #6: Buffalo Bills 24:20 #7: Philadelphia Eagles 28:05 #8: New England Patriots 29:30 #9: Green Bay Packers 32:55 #10: San Francisco 49ers 34:15 #11: Chicago Bears 35:15 #12: Los Angeles Chargers 38:00 #13: Carolina Panthers | #14: Pittsburgh Steelers 40:45 Marcus Spears grades our Power Rankings 45:20 See you next time! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:33.8	Welcome back to the Minicaym Show, featuring Lenny, Dominique. The playoff field is set.
0:43.0	Later this week, of course, I will be previewing the wildcard games with Ben Solac.
0:47.6	But today, I have put together an exercise that I described to you as easy, but is actually
0:52.2	very difficult. We are going to rank
0:55.0	the playoff field. I do, I'm going to do it the same way I do my power rankings and my drafts, mock drafts, which is, actually, no, sorry, we're not going to do it the same way. We're going to go back and forth. That was a lot. Sorry. Yeah, I'm not going to give you two choices and make you pick one that's how i forgot that's how i do that we're just going to go back and forth uh i
1:12.3	i i said it was easy because it's like whatever just put together you two choices and make you pick one. That's how I forgot. That's how I do that. We're just going to go back and forth.
1:26.2	I said it was easy because it's like whatever, just put together a list. Yeah. Can I ask the clarifying question? Yeah, it has to be a clarified question. I just want to say I think this is the hardest playoff field to rank since I started doing this at ESPN. I think it's pretty clear. So it's just ranking them.
1:29.9	We don't have to, like, go by who you think is, yeah. Parts don't matter.
1:30.8	Path to the playoffs. ESPN. I think it's pretty clear. So it's just ranking them. We don't have to like go by who you think is.
1:29.3	Yeah.
1:30.3	Path to the playoffs doesn't matter because obviously like the Rams, you know, benefit from
1:35.3	that.
1:36.3	The buy teams you would put on the top.
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