No more Stephen Ruiz

Sheil is extremely knowledgeable and entertaining. Regular guests all work well. Diante has the biggest vocabulary of any football podcaster.

Love this show Sheil is such a pro and Billy Gil is a great addition. Followed him from his last show!

Terrible product when Gil is on. Unlistenable. Sheil made his bones with analysis, based on observation and stats. No more Gil.

Love the podcast when it's Sheil or Sheil with any guest other than Billy Gil. He's barely informed and could care less about staying on topic. I guess he's supposed to be funny – we'll disagree

Loved this show when there was actual analysis. Still enjoy it when Billy Gill isn’t on. It’s like a bad open mic night at the comedy club. It’s not funny or informative.

Love how the Patriots are in your head.

I discovered this during the NFL season, and quickly found Sheil enjoyable. And the show has become my daily first listen. But the real secret weapon is Billy Gil’s addition!

I don’t ever leave negative reviews, but I am kinda heart broken by how far this show has fallen over the past few years. I finally unfollowed today. We just wrapped up the NFL regular season and the show is mainly focused on diminishing Myles Garrett’s accomplishment and gossiping about Tom Brady’s love life. This used to be a place where you could come for real NFL analysis and some fun. Now, I don’t even know what this is or what they are trying to do.

Sheil plus Billy Gil is the best thing on the Ringer.

If you have Billy Gil on more often, they will come!! I PROMISE!

Billy (national treasure) - no one on these shows seem to be enjoying themselves at all. Hopefully you’ll be able to inject some life into the proceedings.

Finally found one of the funniest podcasters around!

I know producers don’t read this but please book wild Billy on more Ringer shows. He’s hilarious!

I enjoy the short-form format of each episode. With thousands of in-depth NFL podcast options, this daily show easily fills in gaps in your listening schedule.

Sheil is a five star host. Stephen Ruiz tanks anything he is on. Fake it till you make shouldn’t apply for a national job. Replace him with anyone else. Easiest decision you can make today

Dookie bombs

This was my go-to pod for football but instead of game/player/team analysis it’s kind of turned into a “takes” show that offers far less insight on the games that’ve been played. It’s a 30 minute pod that starts 3 mins and has too many ad breaks for a, again, 30 minute pod.

As a longtime Philly Special listener, I know that the best thing that Sheil does is connect with his guests in a genuine way while talking actual down-to-down football. This format does not allow for any fun, nor does it allow for actual analysis. Worst of both worlds. Crazy that The Ringer, for all its podcasts, does not have any leaguewide X’s and O’s content. All gambling, vague predictions and chemistry shows. Stick to Athletic Football or Football 301 if you want to know what’s actually happening on the field.

Bring back the old format - 30 minutes with ads just isn’t enough time to talk about each topic and I liked the variety of voices. Before would’ve been 5 stars and is still more like 3 stars but just want it to change back.

I started listening to The Ringer NFL Show last year. I really enjoyed the longer shows last year and was hesitant about the new daily format. But after over half the season, I really like the daily shows! It is nice to get a daily talk show of what is happening in the NFL. And Sheil is such a great host!

Gosh, I hate to rip into Sheil because he is a nice guy, but he cannot hold this show anymore. He is not the one. Then, they hired this new guy and they’re talking about Mina Kimes for ten minutes. It really is sad with no Solak and they have not found an answer. Time to go back to the drawing board. Most shows now on a D2D basis are weird predictions about what’s going to happen. No insights. No tactical highlights. Just a weird show that I cannot listen to anymore. The only saving grace is when they have S. Ruiz and the girl that is not Lindsey Jones. She might be the very worst. “I live in Denver, ya know?”

Must listen for me. Not too long. 30 minutes is perfect. Fun to listen to the “nerds”. lol. Can someone tell me what 107 means?

I used to love the show before the new format. Every episode feels very surface level, and I miss the dynamic of Sheil, Steven, and Diante, as the show the analysis was much more in depth and interesting. And no matter how objectively terrible some of Steven’s takes are, he is such an entertaining part of the show and should be on more regularly. I love Sheil, but the Tuesday episodes are basically just a 25 minute long monologue with too many ads in between. Used to be a weekly listen for me, now I listen maybe once a week. Too bad considering how this was one of my favorite listens for the past few years.

Used to be a good listen with an established cast. Now it’s a mess, the football discussion has been dumbed down massively and the host cannot carry the show coherently.

Sheik does a good job like always but compared to the previous dynamic and set up of the show this is such a letdown. No going over the game previewing a select group only of things, it’s just such a disappointment went from my favorite weekly listen to just something I have no interest in. Truly miss the group dynamic of going over the games and what’s to come. Sad.

I loved the previous group dynamic of this show. Each year the crew was a little different but the product was always enjoyable. I know Sheil is doing his best but he’s being setup to to fail compared to previous years.

Sheil’s a fine PG, but I miss the 3-on-3 games he used to run. I miss the deep dives and longer recap and preview pods badly.

I love The Ringer’s approach to sports, but this show has been fumbled for years. It took way too long for them to figure out that Sheil is a national treasure and needs to be the lead host. They stopped having Solak and Ruiz together last year and that was disappointing. Now they have marginalized the best and most entertaining analyst on the roster in Steven Ruiz. Ugh. Still a good show and Sheil is great, but this should be an easy 5 star review

Don’t understand the new format at all. The ads are an unfortunate necessity I suppose but missing Steven and diante and now only brushing the surface of topics instead of deep dives makes me wonder if the ads are worth suffering through anymore

I love Sheil and I actually do like hearing from an array of new (and old) voices this season. But I miss Steven and Diante… and I miss hearing deep dives into every single game. (Plus, the new advertisement format is just mean. 2 minutes of ads 1 minute into the pod? Do better.) Thanks to Sheil for holding it down.

I love sheil but the new format is bad. Too short, not broad enough. Would love to see a return to something similar to previous seasons.

Love the show, but I miss Sheil, Diante, and Ruiz all together!

Love the pod and love sheil, but echo most commenters below in saying that the format for this season is a major step down. I loved when this podcast was my 2-3x/week listen to recap the week for the full league and preview the next - I’m much less interested in these 30 min shows on specific topics…I find myself usually skipping over them in my feed. If they are an add-on to the standard ~2 longer pods a week then fine, but please don’t let this be the only offering. As sheil has said many times, a great pod is like having a group of friends you’re excited to hang out with on each episode…with the new format, the lack of a recurring 2-3 guests in addition to sheil makes it tough to build the chemistry the audience wants.

Mixed on the new format. I’m really missing the weekly deep diving substance with Sheil Steven and Diante long-format pod going game by game. They had great analysis and great chemistry. The daily topics are fun but now we lack depth. Suggest bringing that back on Sunday/Monday and can keep the brief daily show for rest of the week.

Gotta be honest this new format is terrible. Love the show and will listen to anything Sheil does, but basically just 20 mins on the week 2 games is a disgrace. Can we spend like 5-10 mins on the prime time game and move on to the other slate? The prime time games already get so much coverage. We don’t need 3 podcasts a week dedicated to going over them again.

This now format is way worse than last season. These 30 minute daily pods without Steven and Diante completely lack any substance. They open the pod, immediately “take a quick break” talk about the title topic, go to another break and that’s it. Maybe I’m just big fans of Steven and Diante but they should be on far more often

I really love the new format for ringer NFL show. It feels super accessible because the episodes aren’t too long and it feels current. I obviously like you and your style, but the different guests every day Keep it really fresh. Good job! Also, it doesn’t get better than Sheil as a host. He bridges the gap between analytics and scribble football talk. He makes me a smarter fan and it is always an easy listen.

I am a big fan of the show but why are there routinely commercials 90 seconds into the episode?

Only writing this review because I’ve enjoyed the show for a while. Not as into the shorter format, I’m more interested in detailed analysis. Also my favorite episodes were always the weekly Sunday games previews and recaps so bummed to see those go

The downfall of this show is incredible. From adding Nora years ago to then finding some balance of Shiel (great host) and Steven (ball knower) Donte (ball knower) to now a great host with shiel but rotating the likes of Lindsay jones? Who asked for this

Sheil is great on the show cool quick shows surrounding a particular topic is great. He lets his guests talk and keeps it fun. Happy the ringer added this show

Love this new format. I will support Sheil with whatever he does. More power to you brother.

love sheil. great show

I don’t need a daily 30min show. The longer more in-depth shows 2-3 days was more enjoyable. I also don’t like the format of just Sheil with only one other guest or Sheil solo. There isn’t enough dialogue or banter to make it interesting. I want more Steven and Diante in my podcast feed all the time. Where are in depth recaps on Monday? Where at the in depth previews? Extremely disappointed in the changes.

The new format isn’t good. It’s all small shows with nothing but commercials. New guests so no continuity on takes. First Monday morning after the opening of the season and no review pod available for download. It’s been prob 4 years for me listening to ringer nfl but I’m done.

I love Sheil. I like the new format better (much less Ruiz)

Loving the daily, digestible version of the show hosted by Sheil!

Sheil is the man 🐐

Even though I liked the old format, the new one is awesome too. More Sheil is always a good idea, he crushes it.