The Ringer NFL Show

You all keep talking about Lamar Jackson having to dig himself out of a hole - he made the hole with two terrible first half turnovers! He’s an awesome player who came up short in a big game (again). Please leave the sugarcoating to a lesser talented podcast.

The Josh Allen episode was probably my favorite episode of any podcast in 2025 — and I listen to a lot of podcasts. I converted a couple of friends to Buffalo fandom with it, and I’m not even a Bills fan.

It’s obvious that everyone puts effort into this show, but limit your dosing because it dampens the joy of the game. Kapadia and Princiotti seem to genuinely love the variability and narratives of an NFL season, but it’s unclear why the Wet Blanket Brothers (Ruiz and Lee) bother watching games. If a season-long outcome fails to match their priors, they struggle to to adjust and are surprisingly dogmatic when drawing inference from film and football statistics (which are notoriously poor in their predictive value). As a gambler, proceed with caution. As a fan, you’ll probably find more joy in a winning season by listening elsewhere.

I tried to stick with it after Solak left for ESPN. Perhaps I would have been able to were it not for Ruiz. He’s a wet blanket. Love Sheil and Nora is generally fine. But yeah, Steven is just the worst.