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The Mina Kimes Show featuring Lenny

The Safety Dance

The Mina Kimes Show featuring Lenny

ESPN

Football, Sports

4.86.8K Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2020

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

Mina and Kevin Clark of The Ringer weigh in on Budda Baker's extension and Earl Thomas' release before digging through a mega-mailbag. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey guys, it's Mina, the Mina Kindle Show featuring Lenny is presented by Core's Light, the beer made to chill.

0:05.6

Celebrate responsibly, Core's brewing company Golden Colorado.

0:09.2

Don't forget to check out the Dan Leopardtart show with Stugots from 10 to noon Eastern on ESPN Radio.

0:15.6

Plus, now you can listen to original content before and after the radio show, wherever you find your podcasts.

0:30.0

Welcome back to the Mina Kindle Show featuring Lenny, the only NFL podcast.

0:38.6

We're one of the hosts, thinks of safety, is what his mom puts on the gate to keep him out.

0:45.3

Not my best work, but I wanted to make a safety joke because a lot of safety note news these days, Kevin Clark,

0:51.3

I swear I speak English in host's show. How are you?

0:54.8

I'm okay, I'm so excited to talk safeties.

0:57.7

So much safety news and actually kind of interesting conflicting, confusing safety news.

1:04.4

Because on one hand, you've got a very young safety in bootabaker who is resetting the market,

1:09.4

became the highest paid safety in NFL history, four years, 59 million dollars of course being the highest paid NFL,

1:16.0

anything doesn't really mean anything.

1:17.6

And the other hand, you have Earl Thomas, who is arguably better than bootabaker and I want to talk to you about that,

1:24.1

does not currently have a home.

1:26.2

What do you make of those two stories in conjunction with each other?

1:30.4

Well, bootabaker is very good and we understand his versatility.

1:33.9

PFF had him, he played 460 linebacker snaps last year, 882, excuse me, his career,

1:39.6

8882 in the slot as a cornerback and then 708 free safety and then he's played 186 edge snaps.

1:47.0

And I'm a huge fan, even if it's just for trivia, I want my safeties playing on the edge.

1:53.3

That's funny to me and it just shows a level of physicality that again, he's not exactly going to become J.J.

2:00.4

Watt here, but it's just funny that he's so physical, he's able to do it.

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