Good quality free content... The Ringer website

[Sierra Foothills]

Love him or hate him, Bostonian Bill Simmons produces good content and his website, The Ringer, is free.

 

You can't ask for much more. Today he has separate pieces ranking every NFL Offense for 2025 and every NFL Defense for 2025...

 

https://www.theringer.com/2025/08/19/nfl/ranking-every-nfl-offense-2025-buffalo-bills-baltimore-ravens-49ers

 

https://www.theringer.com/2025/08/21/nfl/ranking-nfl-defenses-2025-seattle-seahawks-houston-texans-philadelphia-eagles

 

Both are written by Sheil Kapadia. Because they list every team, the pieces are abbreviated but it's good fodder for discussion.

 

More importantly, The Ringer is free and is an above average site for sports and pop culture articles... so bookmark it.

 

And God knows you guys need something else to chew on... I can just hear the gnashing of teeth while reading through the same old stupid topics here...

 

Please enjoy.

 

[Thrivefourfive]

Not exactly free. I spent a few minutes on those elementary generic takes on the Bills offense and defense! But sure, I agree. Not as good as the old Simmons site, but yuppie enough to look sophisticated and nuanced. 

[Sierra Foothills]

28 minutes ago, Thrivefourfive said:

Not exactly free. I spent a few minutes on those elementary generic takes on the Bills offense and defense! But sure, I agree. Not as good as the old Simmons site, but yuppie enough to look sophisticated and nuanced. 

 

I'm curious by what you mean when you say "not exactly free?"

 

 

 

As for the quality, I prefaced by saying essentially that no ranking of 32 teams is going to be solid writing... it's too abbreviated. It's a Cliff Notes.

 

If you want to evaluate the quality of the writing, look at one of the profiles:

 

https://www.theringer.com/2025/08/20/nfl/cj-stroud-houston-texans-new-offense