I love The Ringer, but this show leaves a little to desire. I use to enjoy it more with Ben Solak, but these 3 guys are just sort of boring. I don’t hate their takes. I don’t find them ridiculous like John Middlekauf. Just a weird personality fit for The Ringer vibe wise. They need a Wos or Rob Mahoney type voice. These 3 guys are just mid 🤷🏻‍♂️

These guys aren’t the worst football analysts out there but the Ringer can do a whole lot better. Lazy, dated, and unsubstantiated takes stridently defended to an increasingly disinterested audience. If you enjoy being a step ahead of every segment and groaning your way through episodes while tempted fast forward the hosts more than the gambling ads this show is for you.. Go elsewhere until the hosts and format are recycled.

You know that part of Anchorman 2 where Champ Kind just says “Whammy!” over and over as a caricature of modern sports reporting? Diante, I’m gonna need you to dial down a little of the “1000 percent.” Go birds.

I understand the use of the term 1000% … to emphasize something … or to highlight a uniquely specific topic that all people would agree with… but when someone uses it every 3rd or 4th sentence for a podcast show like this … it makes the listener literally say aloud. 100% is the max. Can’t have more than 100% of something… count how many times it’s said in the Tristan words episode… oh man….

Big fan, loyal listener. I miss Nora P., and when you all say “quote, unquote,” you should say who it is you’re quoting

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 (they haven’t in a year since Solak left now). The offseason pods are not much better. Ruiz in particular is limited in backing up his takes with evidence. The pod tries to be more entertaining than insightful and fails at both as a result.

I used to love this show, but every host with any knowledge, intelligence or insight has moved on to better things. Shiel, Steven and Diante recycle bad takes with no signs of improvement or learning.

I love Sheil, Ruiz is insufferable and condescending. I wish he wasn’t on the pod

You’re hosts have leaned too far into their bit. Ruiz is basically a first take character who’s opinions are predetermined by analytics. Who cares what happens during the season or even who wins a game, analytics say this, so actually you’re all wrong and I’m right.

Tried an episode and it was two grown men basically crying and agreeing with each other on everything. No wonder women give it five stars.

I have watched football my entire life and sometimes I am dismayed at choices of my teams and players I like to watch that seem dismissive of girls and women. This podcast acknowledges with sensitivity how women can feel when the League makes the game exclusively more important than the character of its players. I appreciate having men I can listen to, talking about one of my favorite sports, without having to compartmentalize how I feel when complicated issues arise.

Thanks for taking the time to discuss the Mike Green pick. I listen to a lot of NFL pods and this is the only one so far that has had such a thoughtful conversation on it. Appreciate that as a female NFL fan

That’s a tough look. Ben Solack carried this show.

LOL…. Isn’t Jaxson Dart basically Daniel Jones?!

I’m glad you guys had fun, but that trade you start the show with would never happen. So now just throws off the rest of your draft.

I’ve been a long-time Ringer listener and used to love The Ringer NFL Show, but it’s become clear that if your team isn’t from a major market, you’re just not going to get fair or thoughtful analysis. This week’s GM rankings episode was the final straw — the groupthink was off the charts, especially in how they tore into Jason Licht and the Bucs, a team with the longest playoff streak in the NFC. No dissenting voice, no counterpoints, just a pile-on. If you’re a fan of the Cowboys, Eagles, or 49ers, you’ll probably love it. But if you root for a smaller-market team? Don’t waste your time. Bring in a Bucs voice — Pewter Report, a fan, someone — or at least try to make the coverage more balanced. Until then, I’m out.

Generally entertaining show but was hard not to roll the eyes repeatedly at your most recent Chiefs takes. Oh no they brought in Kristian Fulton to replace… Nazeeh Johnson? They’re putting Hicks in for Reid, and he had as many INTs his rookie year playing <50% of the snaps as Reid did in three whole seasons. And the best part of his game is tackling! Come on guys. If you’re going to be national level, know the players.

A show that believes the point of football is optimizing your advanced metrics profile. It’s almost like the results of the games don’t even matter. And if you’ve listened long enough, you can pretty much predict the takes before you listen based on the title. Used to be a favorite show. Bummer.

I love this show! Great analysis!

Why do these guys hate Sam Darnold so much? Why do I need all these random stats when I can watch a player play and see that he’s good? He played in one playoff game. Passer rating and QBR were too useless so we had to invent more stats we don’t need. 😂 😂 clowns

Lame

However bad you think this podcast is based on the low ratings, it will be a 10x worse. I rather listen to nails on a chalkboard than this negative and constant complaining show

Been a fan for years now but it’s Pretty ridiculous that a Sports podcast is doing special on an artist. Pretty sure there’s a channel for that. Not to mention ITS SUPER BOWL week. I don’t see the NBA show doing a random special on Future or Taylor Swift for the finals. We have the a team going for the 1st 3 peat in NFL history and we are talking about Kendrick Lamar come on man.

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.

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.

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.

Steven Ruiz’s qb20 just pitched a perfect game against the overall #1 seed to get to the NFC championship game, in his rookie year. Now why would i would i take anything this guy says seriously?

I *really* have not liked the standalone Nora pods from this season. They are ridiculously over-produced and over-scripted. Music is hugely distracting. The sexuality of Josh Allen? Really? Nora should either be on the pod full-time like past years or make a clean break and just do pop stuff full time for The Ringer if that’s what she wants to do. I get that The Ringer’s brand is the nexus of culture and sports, and that’s fine, Bill’s made a huge profit on it, but this feed usually focuses more on the sports side. Regular pod is fine. Which I guess means I’m in the minority of recent reviews? Hah. I’m nice, so, still five stars.

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.

Sheil, Ruiz, and Diante is the best combo the preview pod has ever had. Really enjoy it.

Would be a 3-4 star show but he brings the quality down soooo much. Thinks saying “watch the tape” Gives him cred. Bill Simmons must not Listen to this one cause this is by far the weakest of the ringer pods .

The ringer NFL coverage is some of the worst NFL coverage out there. The two clowns on this podcast clearly don’t watch football or have any knowledge of it whatsoever. There is plenty of better coverage and better NFL podcasts out there. Don’t waste your time with this one.

You guys really hate the black Quarterback, you talk so highly of Burrow, Herbert, etc, but talk down about Lamar, Jayden, etc. I don’t know if it’s on purpose or just natural for you. But between that and Nora being annoying I’m done.

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.

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

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.

What a trash job by Nora P. This is another example of left leaning sports journalists - Mina Kimes, Dan Graziano, Lebatard - doing a hatchet job on an athelete that doesn’t conform to their view of government or its unimpeachable handling of COVID. Rodgers is a magician on the football field. That’s what we want to hear pods like the Ringer address as we drive home from work. Instead we get this hatchet piece about Aaron Rodgers’ politics. This is justified by Nora P because Aaron Rodgers has a platform and politics and sports increasingly mix. Obviously. This mixing explains why a sports reporter is trying to do non-sports journalism. No sense of irony here. Of course Jimmy Kimmel and Steven Colbert mix entertainment and politics with their platforms but this is ok cause its satire. Give me a break. Am done with the Ringer.

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?

It’d be nice if they could keep a quality host for more than a season. Maye, Clark, and now solak all out the door. I can’t keep listening to sheil gasp for air on every show

I have been a fan for years. It’s like having a group of smart and funny friends who love talking football. Steven and Nora 👍

Want to like this show and consume the NFL content but Ruiz is so negative it’s borderline depressing. Just can’t do it, even though Sheil is great.

I know there’s Philly Special, but c’mon, Shiel! Not even a sentence on the Eagles-Packers game on this show?! I get it wasn’t on Sunday but you caught the Thursday night game on the last pod, so seems like maybe there should’ve been at least a mention of it here. It’s ok though, as a BWF of fan from ‘17, I still love ya!

Sheil is a gem, one of the best football hosts at the Ringer. But Ruiz and Diante are legit some of the worst talent at the company. The dannys always crush but they need to desperately throw some better production around Sheil with Solak gone.

Good stuff but sheil, you’re not supposed to pronounce the G in ringer like that

Bill wont buy you a microphone?

With Solak gone now, the hosts they have now simply don’t have chemistry with each other. I think they’re all fine analysts, but Solak and Sheil had the best chemistry and best show concept and he seems lost and uninterested in talking with any of the other hosts. There’s no banter or back and forth, they just talk. I’ve started listening to some ESPN pods for the first time ever, following Solak over there, and it’s been a lot better. The Ringer Fantasy Football guys is the chemistry everyone on this show should strive for.

They finally got a good lineup of people on this show. No annoying voices and screaming, just real football talk.

Steven Ruiz is horrible.

Most nfl podcasts are the same and just comes down to personalities. Since they added Diante, it’s much better because he does not have an annoying voice. I went to listen to the old guy on espn and man his voice is so annoying. No idea how he was hired elsewhere. Can’t wait to listen all year.