The NFL's Most Trustworthy Defenses, With Mina Kimes!

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🗓️ 20 November 2025

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Sheil and Mina Kimes from ESPN get together to share, debate, and analyze who they think are the top defensive squads around the NFL. (00:00) The NFL’s most trustworthy defenses(1:35) Seattle Seahawks(9:42) Philadelphia Eagles(14:33) Houston Texans(17:58) Denver Broncos(26:12) The Hurry Up: Texans vs. Bills The Ringer is committed to responsible gaming. Please visit www.rg-help.com to learn more about the resources and helplines available. Host: Sheil KapadiaGuest: Mina KimesProducer: Chris SuttonSocial: Kiera Givens and Brian WatersProduction Supervision: Conor Nevins and Arjuna Ramgopowell Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Ringer NFL show. I'm Shield Capadia. Today we are talking about the most trustworthy defenses in the NFL. If you had to win a playoff game right now against a good quarterback, against a good play caller, which defense would you want and why? We each chose three. And by each, I mean me and our guest. ESPN's, Mina Kimes,
0:24.2	the perfect person to have this discussion with. Did we pick the same teams? Did we pick different
0:29.3	teams? Which teams did we have the hardest time leaving off? We talked about all of it. Let's take a
0:34.3	break. We'll come right back and talk about the most trustworthy defenses with
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2:18.0	18 plus opt in and bet on any football marketing at odds of evens or greater no cash out seven day expiry terms and conditions apply at gamblerware.org. All right, we are back here with Mina Kimes talking most trustworthy defenses. We each pick three. We kept it a secret. We didn't tell each other beforehand. So let's go through them.
2:19.0	Mina, you're the guest.
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2:35.2	Number one, the most trustworthy defense. Oh, man. Okay, I have to go one. Okay, we didn't talk about whether we're, okay, that's fine. I can do this. I also want to say, I want to preface this, you killed me with three. because my feeling was I had a clear top six and then four was I felt very good
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