Mike Macdonald Needs to Trust Sam Darnold More, With Jacson Bevens

The Ringer NFL Show

The Ringer

Sports

4.0 • 4.6K Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Jacson Bevens from Cigar Thoughts joins Sheil on the pod to break down and analyze the Seattle Seahawks’ thrilling victory over the Arizona Cardinals on ‘Thursday Night Football.’ (00:00) Intro/cold open(2:33) Mike Macdonald's trust in Sam Darnold(7:05) Sam Darnold is actually good!(13:42) Expectations for the Seahawks(17:17) Jaxon Smith-Njigba is dominating(19:04) Sick of the Cardinals The Ringer is committed to responsible gaming. Please visit⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.rg-help.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to learn more about the resources and helplines available. Host: Sheil Kapadia Guest: Jacson BevensProducer: Chris SuttonSocial: Kiera Givens and Brian WatersProduction Supervision: Conor Nevins and Arjuna Ramgopowell Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Welcome to the Ringer NFL show.
0:02.9	Shield Capadia here.
0:04.5	Seahawks Cardinals was not that entertaining for like three plus quarters, but man, what a finish.
0:11.3	Seahawks, hang on, 2320.
0:14.2	What did we learn?
0:15.4	What are our big takeaways?
0:17.3	What do we think about these teams going forward to talk about it all?
0:21.0	I'm thrilled to welcome in my friend Jackson Bevin's who hosts the Cigar Thoughts podcast.
0:27.2	I've joined him on that many a time.
0:29.4	Now he's returning the favor and joining me.
0:32.0	He's been talking Seahawks.
0:33.2	He's been talking NFL for a long, long time.
0:35.7	Jackson, how is the heart rate after that ending for the Seattle Seahawks?
0:40.3	Oh, there's never a doubt, baby.
0:42.9	Never a doubt.
0:44.0	No, of course, man.
0:45.0	The Seahawks are incapable of playing a normal game.
0:47.7	So, you know, once a week, my heart is used to it at this point.
0:51.9	But it's calming down now once that kick went through the uprights.
1:11.1	There you go. Calm and down now. Three and one if you're a Seahawks fan. You have to be excited. But I have a take that I want to lead off with that. I wonder if Jackson's going to tell me, you got to shut up with that. That can't be the first thing we talk about or if he's going to agree with me. So let's take a break.
1:10.9	We come back and we will get into what we learned from this football game.
1:16.7	This is the Ringer NFL show presented by Fandul and the NFL is officially backed. So if you're
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from The Ringer, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of The Ringer and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.