The Ringer NFL Show

Why is Ruiz so rude and snarky about everything? Love you, Sheil. Diante, you’re solid. But it’s hard to get through a full episode sometimes. Sheil and Diante duo pods can’t come soon enough

Started and stopped listening this season and this is why: Lee and Ruiz have to stop being such haters, essentially. Jayden Daniels played phenomenally against the Bengals and Cardinals, for instance, and if we excited fans listened to the show to find out why — or at minimum have them acknowledge the fact — all we got instead was them dismissing him and Kingsbury while trying to make their previous takes about them right. But if Caleb Williams throws for 157 yards, because he’s apparently their guy, he’s the next Mahomes. I started listening in hopes of becoming smarter about the NFL, and instead encountered two folks more concerned about convincing us how smart and right they are. And consistent exposure to their “Yeah, but…” take mentality toward seemingly anything positive has become too exhausting for me to continue listening. I don’t mean this to be overly critical and they all seem like great guys and wonderful professionals. That’s not the point. Feedback is important for everyone to improve and this is just my honest review of what I’ve heard since I started listening this season. Hopefully it will get through and best of luck to everyone in the future.

I listened to the most recent epi and was curious to hear the Derek Carr critique. I than went to the web site to see his QB rankings, saw that he had Trevor Lawrence ranked WAY ahead of Carr and Brock Purdy and then completely discounted everything he said. WTH?

I liked this show when Ben Solak was on but it’s insufferable smugness now. Chiefs fan here who just heard 10 minutes of hate and nonsense about the 2x defending SB Champions because the way they are winning isn’t the way you hoped for. Unfollowed! Also it’s not this particular incident, the show has sucked for a while, just the last straw.