Welcome to the Ringer NFL show. I'm your host, Shield Capadia. We have an old friend back today,

my old podcast partner, Ben Solac now doing big things at ESPN. Solac is here because I have identified

the quintessential hipster takes for the 2025 season and there was only one person I could run those by to see if

he agrees or disagrees with them. So we're going to get to that on this show. Solek, great to see you,

my friend. I got to see you in person a few weeks ago. You were in town. You met the family. And we

quickly realized you have much more in common with my kids who are 12 and 9 than with me. I have a care package that I got to send your way because I talk books with one daughter. I talked plants with the other daughter. I heard about what they've got, what they don't got, and now we'll send a little season starting fun care package over from the Solax. I'm excited. This is true. We actually have a door here to the basement

where everyone measures their height, and we now have Ben Solax height on the door as well. So yeah,

I might have to tweet that out or put it on Instagram later. All right, Solek. We're going to take a

quick break. We're going to come back and we're going to get to the hipster takes of the 2025 season.

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Now, I'm curious because I think some of these are going to push back and say they're not hipster. So I'm just going to, you know, I got about a handful here. We'll see how many we get through. And you can tell me how you feel about them one. So are they takes that you believe or they take that you think the hipsters currently have. I think there takes that the hipsters currently have. Now, sometimes, listen, I can relate to all kinds of people. Right, that's what I'm asking you. Yeah. So I can relate. So some of them I might be like, yeah, I'm in on that and others I might just make fun of. So let's get to them. Hipster take number one. There is still hope for Justin Fields. And the take is this, Soak from the hipsters. He was in a horrible situation in Chicago. The Steelers screwed him by playing Russell Wilson.

He's still 6.3, 227, ran 446, great arm. And guess what we saw last year? Sam Darnold,

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