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The Ringer NFL Show

NFL Hipster Takes I Can Get Behind With Ben Solak

The Ringer NFL Show

The Ringer

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4.14.4K Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Sheil is joined by Ringer alum Ben Solak from ESPN to analyze and debate some of the team and player takes that are being propagated by the most educated football literati as we head toward the season kickoff, including: There’s still hope for Justin FieldsThe Ravens will get over the humpJustin Herbert is a top-five QBThe official hipster team of The Ringer NFL ShowCaleb Williams is taking the leap with Ben Johnson this yearTrevor Lawrence is good at football Sheil ends the pod by sharing his take on the Micah Parsons drama coming out of Dallas Cowboys camp. 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: Ben SolakProducer: 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, Shield Capadia. We have an old friend back today,

0:07.6

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

0:14.9

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

0:23.3

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

0:28.8

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

0:34.4

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

0:54.6

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

0:59.8

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

1:04.3

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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