NFC Madness: What We Learned About Contenders in Week 3, With Ted Nguyen

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🗓️ 22 September 2025

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Sheil is joined by Ted Nguyen from The Athletic to analyze how some of the hot-button teams in the NFC fared in Sunday’s action and talk about whether any of them revealed fatal flaws that may cause concern for their fan bases going forward. (00:00) Intro/cold open(2:15) Sean McVay is too conservative(9:40) The Eagles offense is too conservative(15:29) Concerns about the Green Bay Packers offense(21:04) Do you feel better about the Bucs or 49ers?(26:56) The Hurry Up: The Bears' vision comes together 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: Ted NguyenProducer: Chris SuttonSocial: Kiera Givens and Brian WatersProduction: 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.
0:02.7	I'm your host, Shield Capadia, a wild week three in the NFL upsets,
0:08.3	comebacks, blocked kicks, you name it.
0:10.7	We had it all, but my big takeaway is that the NFC is just going to be a roller coaster this season
0:16.8	with no obvious favor, a bunch of good but flawed teams. Eagles looked inept for a half.
0:23.1	Rams blew a 19 point lead. Packers got upset by the Browns. Forty-niners might have suffered
0:28.5	another big injury. So I need someone to help me make sense of all of it. And that is my friend
0:33.5	from the athletic, Ted Wynn. Ted, how we feeling? Feeling good. Been a wild week, but, you know, this is what we live for, right? It's a wild game, so I'm excited to get going. That's right. That's what we live for. And then we'll make some predictions and then we'll look back a couple months from now and be like, what were we thinking during that pod we did back in week three? So we're going to get to all of it.
0:55.3	Let's take a break.
0:56.1	We come back.
0:56.9	We talk about what we saw in the NFC today.
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