New Year's Resolutions Around the NFL!

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1:37Welcome to the Ringer NFL Show. I'm your host, Shiel Kapadia. Today, we are giving you New Year's resolutions in the NFL. It's that time of year. Everyone's thinking about how to improve themselves in the year 2026. six, what's going to be different in their lives. We're doing that same exercise in the NFL, going all over the place. The NFL as a whole, certain teams, certain players. We got a bunch of ideas. My guest today is the Ringer's Billy Gill. Let's take a break. We come back with Billy and do some New Year's resolutions. This episode of the Ringer NFL show is presented by State Farm. Having insurance isn't the same as having State Farm.

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2:52All right, back on the Ringer NFL show with our friend, Billy Gill. We are doing New Year's resolutions around the NFL. But what about you, Billy? I don't want to be cold and just get into it. I mean, do you have a resolution? Do you have plans? Are you a New Year's guy or not? How are we feeling?

3:07Sheil Kapadia:What a question. So am I a New Year's guy? Not, I used to be a New Year's guy. I don't want to blame my kids for things, Sheila. I feel like that's not like a nice thing to do. But once you do have kids, like, as you know, things kind of change a little bit. So our New Year's last year, we did the thing that you see like on Instagram or TikTok or whatever, where you like tape a sheet to the roof and you have a bunch of balloons put underneath it. Right. And then you go on YouTube or whatever, and you can find like a bluey countdown or a countdown that just goes down from, you know, 20 to 10 or whatever it is.

3:40Sheil Kapadia:right and then at like eight o 'clock at night or something we fake the new years for my daughters who are still kind of young and don't exactly understand the concept of years overall much less new year's eve so we count down and then we have like a little dance party and then they go to bed and then if if my wife and myself uh stay up we'll we'll celebrate new year's but there's a chance that we don't make it till 12 o 'clock so okay not not a big not a big new year's guy in This era of my life. I'm with you. Yeah, it depends how old you are. That says New Year's a big deal. Is it not a big deal?

4:14I'm very much like you. You know, the Indians for the Indian New Year, you know what you do, Billy? You don't stay up. You wake up early the next day. And it's like a day long thing. At least it's what my parents have told me. You wake up early, then you're visiting different people's houses. You kind of get the whole day to see as many people as you can and celebrate the New Year that way. So that might be good if you have like little kids. That might actually be the way to do it, but I don't know that we're going to see that change this year. All right. Okay. NFL, Billy, New Year's resolutions.

4:45You want to start? You want me to start? How are you feeling? Why don't you start this week? I'll follow your lead on this one. Okay. I have a big picture one. So I have a New Year's resolution for the NFL. This is the lead. Something they should resolve to do in the year 2026, and that is fix the NFL draft. Now you might say, what are you talking about? it's not broken. Are you giving players more opportunity to pick their teams? That's not what this is about. This is, you know, Charles Barkley called the NFL greedy pigs. I don't know if you saw that. He said they're trying to steal Christmas from the NBA.

5:18I think he's probably right about that. You know, they are, they are kind of greedy pigs. And now there's talk about the 18th game. I don't want, I don't think you want, I don't think players should really want it, but I do think there's a way where they can be greedy pigs that I might be in favor of. So let Let me give you the idea here. Okay. I'm not the biggest draft guy. You're not the biggest draft guy. You're not a big guy either.

5:40Sheil Kapadia:You're vegetarian. I'm not a big guy. I'm not a draft guy. So what am I a guy up? Great question. I don't really know. We'll answer that at a later date, but I think part of the reason I don't love the NFL draft is because of the lead up. You know, it's too much. Some guys, a top five pick in January. Then we get to April. And it's like, Oh, this guy doesn't work hard. He can't play in a pro system. And all this stuff comes out. Bill Pauly and suggest Lamar Jackson should play wide receiver. We got 400 mock drafts. We got big boards. Of course, we love the ones we have of those at the Ringer, but you know, everywhere else is just way too much.

6:14Way too much. And so I think the NFL content machine feels pressured to have new takes and nobody benefits. So here's the solution. You make the first round of the draft a 32 day event.

6:27Sheil Kapadia:Okay. So instead of starting on April 23rd, we're going to start on March 21st. I don't know if the math works out perfectly there, but you get the point. Yeah. Around March 21st, one pick a day for 32 days. Every night in prime time, a team announces their pick. We analyze the pick. Was it a steal? Was it a reach? What trade offers did they get? What should the next team do? And then guess what? The next night we get the second pick and we go on and on until we get to 32. too. I think we would get more trades this way because teams have more time. Now they're not working the phones. Oh shoot.

7:06This team's only got, they got to decide on this in 90 seconds. Now you get 24 hours to figure out the trades you want to make. You weren't expecting a guy to be available. Now he's available. It's a month long event. You can sell each night to a streamer. Just continue to confuse us about where do we find stuff? That's part of the fan experience. Now each pick is a prime time event. It can be eight o 'clock, whatever, nine o 'clock every night. And then you can still do day two and day three of the draft in a city on Friday and Saturday, because I know the NFL likes that event aspect of it. So this is a way you get the event aspect of it.

7:40You get to lean into your identity as pigs in slop. And I think it's also a win for team content. All right. That's my New Year's resolution for the NFL.

7:49Sheil Kapadia:Okay, I have questions. So day two and day three of the draft, do those then become like day 33 and 34 or whatever of the draft? Like after the first round where you have one pick a day, then the remainder of the draft, do we just speed it up and the rest of the remaining rounds are all in two days? I think so. Now, that could be the start of it. It's sort of like how the NFL did the soft launch of like, hey, we're playing the game on Tuesday, and then they lean into it. So if this works well, you could split those other days up and extend it even further. But I think to start, day two and day three kind of remain exactly how they are right now.

8:25Sheil Kapadia:I like that. And can we do a situation where every day of the draft, because I do like the fact that if you have only one pick a day and you have your premise of we have too much going on before the draft, but let's extend the first round out 30 extra days. Yeah, start it sooner. It's a little, you know, unconventional, but I like it. I'm invested in this. Now, can we have it so that every day it's on a different network to confuse people even more? So it's not like every day it's on ESPN. It's like day one, don't forget, it's on ESPN. But day two is on Peacock and day three is on Prime. Day four is on Netflix and day five is on NBC.

9:02Sheil Kapadia:And then we really kind of, confuse everyone as to what's going on. I love this. And if you're a network, you have to decide. You can only get one. How about that? You only get one. So Netflix, you can't come in and say, we're going to bid on all of these. No. You only get... So if like is Animal Planet, is that still a channel? I think so. Yeah, they have the Puffy Bowl, right? They might be like, hey, we would love the 19th overall pick. I do like that. You know, all the big dogs already bid on the other ones. And so now they can only get one. So let's just lean into the confusion where no one knows where anything's on and get, I'm here for the little guy.

9:39If you're a little channel, no one knows about now you have a chance to get like the 24th pick. So I like that idea.

9:44Sheil Kapadia:Do I get the Hallmark channel? What channels? Oh, true TV. Where's true TV? Your dad's calling you. He's got no idea. You know? Yeah. It would be great. I like that. And dragging it out to your point, people get antsy. Like if you only have 10 minutes, you're not really, maybe you think about making a trade, maybe you don't. But with 24 hours, you can talk yourself into any situation. So there would be many more trades I would think in this scenario. I like this fix. I really like this fix. And we can talk about the trades. Because you're right. Because sometimes you hear like after the draft, oh the Eagles wanted to move up with the Chargers.

10:16They had a deal in place, but they couldn't call it in on time. And so the Chargers just made their pick. Those types of stories happen. So now we're getting actual trades. So there you go. That's my New Year's resolution. You let me know if you're listening. Do you like it? Do you not like it? All right, Billy, what do you got for a New Year's resolution?

10:33Sheil Kapadia:All right, I have a New Year's resolution for the New York Jets. They need one. Many, maybe. They have a number of issues that can be addressed, but I think one of the more pressing ones is intercept the football. Sheil, as you know, the Jets have zero interceptions this season. As you also know, this is something that has not happened before. The previous record for few interceptions in a season is two. the fact that they would need three in this game when having zero this season to not be the worst i i i even by mistake i can't understand how you don't intercept a ball that's batted up into the air it seems impossible i went back and i looked at how they had last year and some of it makes a little bit of sense they traded away their top four interception interceptioners i would say a quarterback safety, people who committed or received the interceptions, they traded away the top four.

11:29Sheil Kapadia:So they traded away Ashton Davis. He's on the Dolphins. Last year he had two. This year he has one. They traded away Brandon Echols. He had two last year. This year he has two for the Steelers. They traded away Jalen Mills. He had one last year. This year he's bounced around from the Texas Lions. He has none. And they traded away Sauce Gardner, as we know. In one of the more surprising trades, I think, this season, especially because of the haul that they gave up for him. And Porsas Gardner, he has zero interceptions this year, only had one last year. But what a season for him. What a disappointing season for him in terms of results because he went from the 1-7 Jets to the Colts, who were primed to make a playoff run.

12:09Sheil Kapadia:At one point, we're the number one seed in the AFC. Since the trade to the Colts, they have gone 1-6. So he is 2-13 this season. He left a 1-7 team to go to a team who has been 1-6 since he's arrived. Now, things are looking up for the Jets in terms of what they got for him because they got a 2026 and 2027 first round pick. So this year, the Jets now have presently the number three pick and they're going to have the number 18 pick, which, you know, if it were up to Shield, you could see on Comedy Central or something. Yeah. You know, so. Good. I like this one. So this actually, I think, isn't getting enough attention.

12:45Like the Trey McBride thing should not have been ahead. You know, we've talked about it. What? We're like, all right. this actually feels like one of the greatest accomplishments in sports.

12:54Sheil Kapadia:It seems impossible. It seems impossible in terms of like likelihood or unlikelihood to not have like a hail Mary at the end of a game or the end of a half, or just a quarterback just chucks one up and you catch it to not have a batted pass at the line of scrimmage. Like you said, that gets popped up in the air and a linebacker comes down with it to go an entire season without having one of those. We watch games all the time and you see four interceptions in a game to not have won the entire season. I think this is greater than the Ripken streak, the DiMaggio streak, the McBride record, the Miles Garrett sack thing.

13:38This is something we, I think in terms of what we might never see again in our lifetime. Now I'm older than you, you know, you might live a healthier, so we don't need to get into that, how long we're going to live. But I think in my lifetime, I'll speak for myself, I don't know that I'll ever see this again.

13:52Sheil Kapadia:It seems wrong. The first time I heard it a couple weeks ago, I was like, this cannot possibly be right. This must be like for the month of December. Maybe this is dating back to Thanksgiving. Maybe this is like the last two months. But like, no, the entire season, they haven't been able to intercept the ball once. By fluke, you can intercept the ball. Like, I just don't understand it because it doesn't even come down to your ability to be good to intercept the ball. You just need the other quarterback to make a dumb mistake and just toss it right to you. And even that hasn't happened. It's insane that this is where we're at.

14:23Sheil Kapadia:But I think like you, while I'm saying this is a New Year's resolution, I'd like this to be a new football year resolution in terms of, I'd like them to intercept the ball next season and not this season. Like this last week of the season, I do not want them to intercept the ball. I don't want it to happen. I want the season to end with zero interceptions. I want this streak to live on. And then 2026 to your point, resolve to get one interception next year. I think that'll be a nice step up. All right, let's take a break. We come back. We got a couple more New Year's resolutions. Protein is now at Starbucks and it's never tasted so good.

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15:39All right, I'm up next. I have a New Year's resolution, Billy. This is both for the Raiders and Max Crosby. It's finally time for a trade. You know, this is one, I'll be honest. I've talked about this before. I've talked about it in previous years. And it's never happened. Every time Max Crosby says, I love being a Raider, the Raiders say, we're going to give you a new contract. But right now, this roster is horrendous. They're not close to competing. They're likely going to start over again. they tried for the quick fix with Gino Smith and Pete Carroll. They need good young players. And like their only way to get good young players is to acquire draft picks.

16:19And their only way to acquire draft picks is trading Max Crosby. You mentioned it. We saw the Sauce Gardner trade. We saw Micah Parsons trade. We saw Quinn and Williams trade. Like you can get at least two first round picks for Max Crosby. Maybe more than that. He'll be 29 next year. He's got a very tradable contract. I'm looking at teams. I just went through the standings. I don't know if you ever do this. Like who could be interested in Max Crosby? It was too many to name. I'm like Eagles, Bills, Patriots, Bengals, Commanders, Bears, Lions. Then I quit because I'm like, I don't want to just name every team in the NFL.

16:52But the point is there's going to be a huge market for Max Crosby. And if you're the Raiders, load up on picks the next two years. Try to build the roster the right way. And if you're Crosby, I respect the loyalty to the Raiders. But now for the first time, I don't know. Did you see the whole story about him being sent home? We haven't talked about that.

17:11Sheil Kapadia:There was a walkout and he came back. It was a whole thing. Yeah. Whole thing. Yeah. He's got this knee injury. They're playing the Giants. It seems like they're tanking, but they're saying, we're not tanking. We just finally looked at an x-ray and his knee was too injured. It would be irresponsible for us to put him out there. And he's like, I want to play through it. He leaves the facility. He comes back. But Jay Glazer is like, I talk to Max Frasby on the phone every day. And maybe his doubt, his future is in doubt with the Raiders, which we've never really heard before. So I want Max Crosby.

17:43Don't you want to be in big moments, in big games, know what it feels like to play with maybe just one other good player on defense, maybe compete for a Super Bowl? This is the time. No one's going to think any less of you. So I'm resolving for the Raiders to trade Max Crosby and for Max Crosby to tell them now's the time for a trade.

18:02Sheil Kapadia:I think this is one of those things where, to your point, this has been a good relationship for us, but we've grown apart. And let's end things amicably and leave. Did you see you mentioned Jay Glazer? Did you see Jay Glazer? So Jay Glazer somehow is everywhere at the same time. He knows everything that's going on with everyone that things are going on with. Even if they don't know what's going on, Jay Glazer will tell you, hey, this is going on in your life. Jay Glazer had the rare report during the Fox pregame show of things that were happening with a member of the CBS pregame show when he was when he was reporting that Matt Ryan was in talks with taking like a senior advisor role with the Falcons, which is a situation where it's like he's not a player.

18:44Sheil Kapadia:He's an analyst on the other channel that's on right now. And now we're talking to him because someone's telling Jay, hey, you know what I heard is going to happen? I think Matt Ryan may go to the Falcons. By the way, what is showing by the Falcons on Monday Night Football this week? What a game. What a performance. But no, I thought they were going a little overboard. It's like their season's over. It was, yeah. Yeah. But I want to get back to what you said because I know you. You like to look for the under-the-radar conflicts, you know, or just potential. We did the whole thing about who was it?

19:15You know, Phillip Rivers. Maybe he's got some kind of thing with Matthew Stafford and he's coming back. Do you think this is one of those where they say to Jay in the production, hey, CBS, the ratings are going up a little bit. We need to do something. And he says, I got this. I'm a team player. And now all of a sudden CBS thinks they're feeling good. And now one of their guys on their pregame show could be leaving to go. And you know what's interesting about this? They say it would be a high level position with the Falcons. Now, the Falcons have not technically fired their GM, Terry Fontenot, but I think they would be within reason.