Tampa, Too: Ranking the Top Ten Defenses of 2026

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Mina Kimes· Host0:15

[upbeat music] Welcome back to The Mina Kimes Show featuring Lenny, the only NFL podcast. One of the hosts pronounces it Kamari Lassiter. That's Lenny [laughs] and Mina Kimes. We're gonna talk about Kamari Lassiter today because I am joined by JP Acosta to do the top 10 defenses of 2026. Uh, JP, it's been a while since you've been on the show. For the folks who don't know, JP is the co-host of the Pushing the Pile! podcast over at CBS Sports. Uh, I can't remember the last time you were on. It's been a minute, so I'm excited to have you back.

JP Acosta· Guest0:52

When you asked me to be on for this show, I was super excited because this is exactly what I like to talk about. We're not talking about, like, any of the offense. We're not talking about all the f- all the super crazy offense scheme stuff. We're getting h- we're getting our hands in the dirt here.

Mina Kimes· Host1:06

Mm-hmm.

JP Acosta· Guest1:06

We're talking about defenses.

Mina Kimes· Host1:07

Uh, so this was hard. Offenses- It was ... I, very different experiences from top 10 offenses, which if you're listening to this and you missed it, I did top 10 offenses last week with Nate Tice, and we had some, a few differences. Probably, I didn't count, but I think about seven of the 10 or maybe eight of the 10 were the same. But offenses, my experience was I had, like, 14 or 15, and