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@stevenruiz.bsky.social

NFL writer for the ringer/QB ranker/sometimes college basketball

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Week 13 QB Notebook: Aaron Rodgers Is Playing Some God-Awful Football Welcome to the QB Notebook, a column covering the most interesting passers, plays, and story lines from the week in NFL quarterbacking. In this edition: Joe Burrow is so back, Rodgers is so done, and ...

New QB notebook is live. This week…

🏈 The sad state of Aaron Rodgers
🏈 How Daniel Jones is comprised
🏈 The return of Joe Burrow
🏈 Dak v. Spags

and more!

www.theringer.com/2025/12/02/n...

02.12.2025 16:49 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Mahomes had not been ahead of Allen all season. Allen has been the no. 1 for most of the season in fact.

19.11.2025 14:58 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Week 11 QB Notebook: Should the Vikings Bench J.J. McCarthy? Welcome to the QB Notebook, a column covering the most interesting passers, plays, and story lines from the week in NFL quarterbacking. In this edition: J.J. McCarthy’s continued issues, Drake Maye’s ...

The Week 11 QB notebook is live. This week, I’m looking at…

🏈 The root cause of JJ McCarthy’s problems
🏈 The play that has me fading any Kirk Cousins optimism
🏈 Drake Maye’s sack rate
🏈 The worst INT I’ve ever seen
🏈 More!

www.theringer.com/2025/11/18/n...

18.11.2025 16:20 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

oh dang, thanks for the heads up

17.11.2025 17:30 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

ok cmon now

16.11.2025 19:57 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

alright let's see what Brosmer's got

16.11.2025 19:23 β€” πŸ‘ 35    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1
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inside JJ McCarthy's brain

16.11.2025 19:22 β€” πŸ‘ 882    πŸ” 54    πŸ’¬ 33    πŸ“Œ 8

JJ McCarthy may need a coach like Kevin O'Connell to rescue his career

16.11.2025 19:12 β€” πŸ‘ 41    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

ill take it

16.11.2025 18:47 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

the bills offense has reached "high leverage gabe davis targets" levels of desperation

16.11.2025 18:24 β€” πŸ‘ 18    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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I got those numbers from TruMedia

13.11.2025 02:31 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Yes

13.11.2025 02:28 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Inspired by @stevenruiz.bsky.social talking about Caleb Williams's time to throw, I looked at what we can call Creation Time, which is the difference between time to pressure and time to throw when pressured, then plotted it against pressure to sack rate, per FTN.

Caleb in a world on his own.

12.11.2025 15:43 β€” πŸ‘ 90    πŸ” 19    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 7
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Matthew Stafford’s MVP Case and Caleb Williams’s Time to Throw: The Week 10 QB Notebook Welcome to the QB Notebook, a column covering most interesting passers, plays, and story lines from the week in NFL quarterbacking. In this edition: Bryce Young’s woes, Jordan Love’s bozo fumble, and ...

New weekly feature for the @the-ringer.bsky.social: The QB Notebook! I'll be hitting on several QB-related topics every Tuesday.

In this week's notebook:

🏈Caleb's time to throw
🏈Stafford is MVP
🏈Josh Allen has the zoomies
🏈Best/worst throws of the week
🏈More!

www.theringer.com/2025/11/11/n...

11.11.2025 15:54 β€” πŸ‘ 58    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 3
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Matthew Stafford’s MVP Case and Caleb Williams’s Time to Throw: The Week 10 QB Notebook Welcome to the QB Notebook, a column covering most interesting passers, plays, and story lines from the week in NFL quarterbacking. In this edition: Bryce Young’s woes, Jordan Love’s bozo fumble, and ...

New weekly feature for the @the-ringer.bsky.social: The QB Notebook! I'll be hitting on several QB-related topics every Tuesday.

In this week's notebook:

🏈Caleb's time to throw
🏈Stafford is MVP
🏈Josh Allen has the zoomies
🏈Best/worst throws of the week
🏈More!

www.theringer.com/2025/11/11/n...

11.11.2025 15:54 β€” πŸ‘ 58    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 3

Trevor Lawrence after the Jaguars went up 29-10

6 dropbacks
100% pressure rate
3 sacks
2 scrambles for 24 yards
1 pass attempt that was batted at the line of scrimmage

10.11.2025 00:14 β€” πŸ‘ 40    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 2
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choose your fighter

09.11.2025 20:45 β€” πŸ‘ 21    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1

You can hear the Giants fans booing Russ from New York

09.11.2025 20:26 β€” πŸ‘ 29    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

i just want to see Allen throw a big post again

09.11.2025 20:14 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I don't even know if they need a real star at WR to fix the downfield passing problem. They just need a Ted Ginn Jr type. Someone who can (not trying to meme) win over the top against quarters

09.11.2025 19:58 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

if you’ve created an offense around josh allen in which he cannot under any circumstances throw the ball downfield you have failed in a profound way. it doesn’t matter how good the run game design is. you’ve failed!

09.11.2025 19:44 β€” πŸ‘ 162    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 1

games in miami don't count

09.11.2025 19:24 β€” πŸ‘ 65    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Looks like Caleb expected Zaccheaus to settle in between the zone defenders, but he drifted inside and the throw ended up wide

09.11.2025 18:39 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Bears receivers won't let Caleb be great

09.11.2025 18:23 β€” πŸ‘ 22    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

add the giants to the long list of teams that should just make their throwback uniforms their primary set

09.11.2025 18:15 β€” πŸ‘ 22    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

clete blakeman is talking like elvis in walk hard

09.11.2025 17:39 β€” πŸ‘ 23    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

we should be able to vote on whether a game gets to go into overtime

09.11.2025 17:35 β€” πŸ‘ 293    πŸ” 33    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 5

In the red zone...

Colts: 0.10 EPA/dropback w/ 36% success rate
League: 0.10 EPA/dropback w/ 43% success rate

it's really the only split where they've struggled

09.11.2025 17:13 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

the colts offense is going to consistently move the ball in the open field but they need those explosives in the run game to avoid the red zone. the pass game has been mediocre when the spacing's been tight

09.11.2025 17:10 β€” πŸ‘ 25    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

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