Power Ranking the NFC Contenders After Week 7

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🗓️ 21 October 2025

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Sheil is joined by The Ringer’s own Steven Ruiz to analyze and debate the NFC teams that have positioned themselves for the most success going into the second half of the NFL season. (00:00) Power ranking the NFC contenders (2:48) Green Bay Packers (8:14) Los Angeles Rams (10:49) Detroit Lions (13:00) Philadelphia Eagles (18:47) Dallas Cowboys (21:49) Seattle Seahawks (23:57) Tampa Bay Bucaneers (25:24) San Francisco 49ers Great ideas start on Mac ⁠https://www.apple.com/mac/⁠ 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: Steven Ruiz Producers: Chris Sutton and Jon Jones Social: Kiera Givens and Brian Waters Production Supervision: Conor Nevins and Arjuna Ramgopowell Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.5	Welcome to the Ringer NFL show. I'm your host, Shield Capadia. We are power ranking the NFC contenders today.
0:07.8	We just watched the Lions, the Bucks, the Cahawks on Monday night, the doubleheader. Lions took care of business against Tampa.
0:16.2	Mike Evans suffered a potential season-ending injury, it sounds like. And the Seahawks with a very nice win over the Houston Texans.
0:24.0	So the question is, where do we stand with the contenders in the NFC?
0:28.7	To talk about it, we've got the ringers.
0:31.4	Stephen Ruiz, we each ranked our top five contenders in the NFC, didn't tell each other beforehand. Ruiz surprised me with
0:40.2	his number five team and I think I can get on board with the team he picked. So let's see if you
0:45.7	agree or not. All right, we'll take a break. We'll come back and talk it through contenders
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