The Enjoyable Sort Of Bad Vs. The Boring Sort Of Good, With Mina Kimes

We don’t do emergency podcasts at The Distraction, though we do joke round about it quite a bit. The phrase itself seems like a joke, summoning because it does photographs of two individuals roughly my age sliding down a fireman’s pole right into a brightly lit room with a Shure SM7 microphone in it after which saying “Wow” a bunch of instances whereas watching a film trailer. We won’t ever do that. But given the truth that information of the Micah Parsons commerce broke shortly after we completed recording final week’s NFC-centric NFL Good/Bad episode with Kalyn Kahler, we have been throwing the phrase “emergency podcast” round—in jest, in jest—much more than regular. But guidelines are guidelines, and this week’s episode would deal with the AFC. Right? We would not instantly begin haranguing actually Mina Kimes, from ESPN and The Mina Kimes Show Featuring Lenny, about it proper firstly of the present, no less than. Surely.

And it did not occur proper away. Drew did speak about unintentionally setting his grill on fireplace and having to place it out with a hearth extinguisher. But a narrative this deeply silly, and the broader spectacle of the manifestly duffed and extremely public negotiation between Jerry Jones and his former star go rusher can not and mustn’t go totally with out point out. It did not, and Drew fought laborious towards getting actual upset concerning the Packers once more—that is foreshadowing—and all of us had giggle parsing the Cowboys Cope and getting mad at Jerry Jones getting offended that Parsons tried to barter by an agent, as if it have been a typical “business deal.”

But the entire of the AFC was there to be mentioned, and so we pretty rapidly turned to that. We talked extra concerning the attention-grabbing groups than the much less attention-grabbing ones, which isn’t the identical factor as speaking solely concerning the good ones. The Baltimore Ravens are each extraordinarily good and attention-grabbing of their in any other case inexplicable thwartedness; the Cincinnati Bengals aren’t good however attention-grabbing sufficient that Mina debuted the time period “goo-bad” to explain them; the Pittsburgh Steelers would possibly truly be sort of dangerous, however Aaron Rodgers’ Mystery Wife and his knack for locating probably the most annoying option to be annoying about something received them a while, too. And whereas we scanned by numerous different groups within the AFC North and South, some good questions have been raised concerning whether or not the common NFL fan might identify 4 Titans, whether or not my plan for Trevor Lawrence’s native shrimphouse chain was doomed from the beginning, and why we have now by no means been in a position to guess the Colts accurately in all our years of doing this. (There is significantly information on the final bit.)

The similar development continued after the break. We mentioned Patriots assistant and former Giants head coach Ben McAdoo’s ever-evolving aesthetic, his NASCAR Dad period, and the temporary interval the place he seemed like Mark Ruffalo’s character in Collateral; the Jets turning into regular earlier than they change into good, and probably the most pleasurable time to be a fan of a crew; and the bummer of the Kansas City Chiefs as they shamble by their circa-now Walking Dead seasons part. A dialog concerning the Chargers and Justin Herbert gave us event to revisit Mina’s tweet on the Chargers as a haunted house, think about Herbert’s place within the NFL’s quarterback hierarchy, and … oh no. We have been so near being by a pleasant and informative hour of soccer speak when Drew slipped in some gratuitous disrespect directed at Jordan Love. Mina issued a decently forceful corrective, Drew defined how and why he will get so upset concerning the Packers quarterback, and would you take a look at that, we’re out of time. All this earlier than we acquired to the Las Vegas Raiders. Anyway, certainly issues will get extra cheap as soon as the video games begin.

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