Fraud Watch: Harsh Truths About the Bears, Steelers, and Jaguars!

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🗓️ 29 October 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Sheil and The Ringer’s own Austin Gayle take a hard look at this season's statistics for a few NFL teams whose recent successes may be distracting fans from crucial deficiencies within their rosters. (00:00) Fraud watch!(1:47) Chicago Bears(10:14) Pittsburgh Steelers(20:06) Jacksonville Jaguars(27:27) The Hurry Up: The return of Lamar Jackson This episode is sponsored by State Farm®️. Don’t settle for just any insurance when there’s State Farm. https://www.statefarm.com/lp/trainer The Ringer is committed to responsible gaming. Please visit ⁠www.rg-help.com⁠ to learn more about the resources and helplines available. Host: Sheil KapadiaGuest: Austin GayleProducer: Chris SuttonSocial: Kiera Givens and Brian WatersProduction Supervision: Conor Nevins and Arjuna Ramgopowell Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Ringer NFL show. I'm your host, Shio Capadia. Today we are putting teams on
0:06.4	fraud watch. The exercise is simple. Among the teams that have winning records, who should you
0:12.8	probably be a little skeptical of? Because let's be honest, that old Bill Parcell saying you are
0:18.0	what your record says you are, Completely wrong. Terrible quote.
0:21.4	Terrible saying.
0:22.3	Records can be misleading.
0:24.3	And we're going to try to find the teams here whose records are misleading.
0:28.3	Teams that we look at and say, you know what?
0:30.5	I don't think this rest of the season is maybe going to go the way the first part of the season has gone.
0:35.9	So I picked out three teams that I think are on
0:38.3	fraud watch. My guest is Austin Gale from the Ringer. Does he agree or does he agree on
0:45.5	one or two? He disagreed on another. So we'll talk it all through. Let's take a break. We come
0:51.2	right back with Austin Gale. This is the Ringer NFL show presented by Fanduel. And if you're betting on the NFL,
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