The Mina Kimes Show featuring Lenny
Aug 12, 2026 · 1 hr 21 min · 20 segments
Mina Kimes is joined by Carmen Vitali to break down the NFC North ahead of the 2026 NFL season, starting with the breaking news that Kyler Murray has been named the Vikings’ QB1. Mina and Carmen…
Mina KimesHost
Carmen VitaliGuest
It, it, it's been, I've been following the Vikings beat reporter's accounts of practice scrimmages so closely.
Um, and to put, I guess, my understand- read on it after talking to some of them is that kind of over the course of the last few weeks it looked like Kyler clearly had the lead.
So, then there was a question maybe this will drag out a little bit and maybe it'll go into the preseason.
So, let's just start there before we get into what this means for the offense, for the team.
Obviously, when they, uh, traded for Kyler, or not traded for him, uh, just signed him, uh, for nothing, I was a big fan of the move because it was so low cost, low risk-
... and because, you know, he, he has been, at minimum, an average quarterback, which is obviously a vast improvement.
I, I thought that, like, the decision should come sooner rather than later, and actually, I was on the Irish NFL show last week talking about how I think they would benefit from just making this decision early and, and making sure that Kyler knows he's the guy going forward and the team knows that he's the guy going forward.
Because even coming out of camp, like, all the players were insisting that this was still a competition and that they didn't know which way it was going and this, that, the other.
And you want as much continuity and, and as many reps as possible with the guy that you're gonna carry into the season as the starter.
So, I think that, uh, there's really nothing to be gained from, I guess, the outside noise of, like, "Is this happening?" I think maybe there was stuff to be gained from J.J.
McCarthy's camp in that, like, if he, like, really took this down to the wire that maybe that there was something salvageable there.
But at the end of the day, him losing this quarterback battle to Kyler Murray, uh, doesn't really bode well for kind of his tradability, and I don't know-
It, it, it's been, I've been following the Vikings beat reporter's accounts of practice scrimmages so closely.
Um, and to put, I guess, my understand- read on it after talking to some of them is that kind of over the course of the last few weeks it looked like Kyler clearly had the lead.
So, then there was a question maybe this will drag out a little bit and maybe it'll go into the preseason.
So, let's just start there before we get into what this means for the offense, for the team.
Obviously, when they, uh, traded for Kyler, or not traded for him, uh, just signed him, uh, for nothing, I was a big fan of the move because it was so low cost, low risk-
... and because, you know, he, he has been, at minimum, an average quarterback, which is obviously a vast improvement.
I, I thought that, like, the decision should come sooner rather than later, and actually, I was on the Irish NFL show last week talking about how I think they would benefit from just making this decision early and, and making sure that Kyler knows he's the guy going forward and the team knows that he's the guy going forward.
Because even coming out of camp, like, all the players were insisting that this was still a competition and that they didn't know which way it was going and this, that, the other.
And you want as much continuity and, and as many reps as possible with the guy that you're gonna carry into the season as the starter.
So, I think that, uh, there's really nothing to be gained from, I guess, the outside noise of, like, "Is this happening?" I think maybe there was stuff to be gained from J.J.
McCarthy's camp in that, like, if he, like, really took this down to the wire that maybe that there was something salvageable there.
But at the end of the day, him losing this quarterback battle to Kyler Murray, uh, doesn't really bode well for kind of his tradability, and I don't know-
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