Vikings Shake-Up, Coaching Carousel Complete, and the Start of Super Bowl Week!

The Ringer NFL Show

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🗓️ 3 February 2026

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Sheil and The Ringer’s own Billy Gil get together on the first day of radio row at Super Bowl LX to analyze and discuss some of the biggest NFL news that happened over the weekend.(00:00) Vikings fire their GM, coaching carousel news, and Super Bowl LX radio row first day(5:51) Vikings fire GM Kwesi Adofo-Mensah(16:29) Cardinals hire head coach Mike LaFleur(22:14) Raiders hire head coach Klint KubiakThe Ringer is committed to responsible gaming. Please visit www.rg-help.com to learn more about the resources and helplines available.Host: Sheil KapadiaGuest: Billy GilProducer: Chris SuttonVideo editor: Stefano SanchezSocial: Benjamin CruzProduction 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.
0:08.3	I'm your host, Shield Capadio.
0:09.5	We are live here in San Francisco for the Super Bowl, but there's so much happening around
0:15.0	the NFL, a shake-up in the Vikings front office, new coaches for the Vegas Raiders and the Arizona Cardinals.
0:22.0	We're going to talk about all of it with my friend Billy Gill, who is on the scene here with me.
0:27.4	Let's take a break.
0:28.2	We'll come back with Billy.
0:44.6	Music All right, we are back here on the Ringer NFL show.
0:46.6	Shield Kavadi with Billy Gill in person.
0:47.5	Look, I'm touching you.
0:48.5	I mean, unbelievable.
0:50.0	You can watch that on Netflix.
0:52.7	Yeah, we are here in San Francisco.
1:11.0	And Billy, there's a lot of Super Bowl talk, obviously, but there's a lot of stuff going around the NFL. So we're going to get to all of it. The Vikings, the Raiders making a new hire, the Cardinals making a new hire. Did anyone notice? We'll talk about that. But first of all, how's your little Super Bowl taste going so far? Can I tell you something?
1:11.4	Yeah.
1:13.4	This is my favorite week of the year.
1:14.2	Really?
1:14.7	Yeah.
1:18.2	I'm wondering if it's the same for you because I think there's two trains of thought with the Super Bowl and like Super Bowl week, media week and all that.
1:22.1	Is this like an exciting celebration of football or is this like a sad march to the death of the season
1:29.6	where it's kind of depressing because after Sunday there's no more games for months.
1:34.1	It's not sad for me. I love the offseason because I can't put myself in like Drake May's shoes,
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