The Ringer NFL Show

Listing prop bets for 30 minutes is not the greatest way to preview a weekend of football. Analysis can be a bit surface level/vibes based especially the Nora segments on Wednesdays. The YouTube film breakdowns were the best thing they had going so hopefully someone picks that back up. Otherwise hosts are enjoyable enough.

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.

Steven Ruiz is impressively bad at this. I’d rather not let the “one” bring down the “many”, but that’s just how bad he is to even make that a possibility.

Very chill show. I really like Diante, Nora and Sheil, they are just kinda relaxed and rational and even if I disagree with them, I think they make their point understood. Nora has done great work covering Rodgers and my behated Jets, and I thank her for that. Hoping to hear her thoughts on their new start post Douglas era. Ruiz’s energy is great, very insightful, and in my book he should be allowed to do him and have a different energy. I do sometimes think he can sound too smug for football prognostication. Anytime someone is even a little smug about something as objectively dumb as football it comes off worse than it really is. Small tweaks nothing big, keep it up!