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Malik Willis's Future, John Harbaugh's Workouts, and Stories That Have Our Attention!
20 Feb 2026
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Chapter 1: What offseason NFL stories are currently capturing attention?
Welcome to the Ringer NFL show. I'm your host, Sheil Kapadia. Today, we're going over stories that caught our attention this week.
Chapter 2: Would signing Malik Willis be a beneficial move for NFL teams?
We got Malik Willis. We got Anthony Richardson. We got some very interesting things going on with John Harbaugh and the New York Giants as well. And then Matt Jones is another one. A lot of quarterback movement this off season. What's going to happen with a bunch of these guys? That's what we're going to talk about. My guest today is our friend, the Ringer's Billy Gill. Let's take a break.
We'll come back with Billy and talk about stories that have our attention.
Chapter 3: What challenges does Anthony Richardson face with the Colts?
All right, we are back here on the Ringer NFL show with Billy Gill. We have identified some stories and some headlines, Billy, that have our attention because we're not quite at the combine. We're not yet at the start of free agency, but things are going to be happening pretty soon here.
So hopefully you enjoyed your three-day break from football or whatever it is, and now you're just ready to talk about the offseason.
I was going to ask you, Shield, by the way, I miss you. And it's only been a week since we've done this show together. Maybe a little bit more than a week, but it hasn't been very long, but it feels like the Super Bowl was a month ago already, right? Or do you not feel that way?
No, I feel that way for sure. And it's just like, you know, you're seeing this stuff come across the timeline with people tweeting out clips of like this Cincinnati wide receiver, really like him in the fourth round. And I'm just like, I'm not ready for that. Like, I'm ready to talk Malik Willis.
Chapter 4: How has John Harbaugh's first month as Giants HC been characterized?
I'm ready to talk about some of these other things. I'm not ready to hear about your day three sleeper. So that's what I'm at.
Are you a combine guy? You're not like knee deep in the combine situation?
Not knee deep in the combine. Free agency. Free agency always gets the, what's it called? The short stick? Is that what people say?
Whatever it is.
Yeah. You know, it's like, these are going to be big moves. Trades, free agent signings. These are important. We got to focus on that for the next month or so. And then I'll have time for your draft needs.
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Chapter 5: What are the implications of the 49ers playing international games next season?
Can I ask, why is there like a league-approved period where it's okay to like, hey, we're having these conversations, but it's not like unofficially, like it's, what's the word I'm looking for? It's league-approved
Uh, not tampering. They don't like it.
Chapter 6: Could the 49ers potentially trade Mac Jones to the Vikings?
It's probably the word you're looking for.
It's league approved tampering period starts like March 9th or something like that. It's like, why even call it league approved tampering? Like that is such a weird way of putting it. Just say like, there's an open window.
Chapter 7: What insights can we draw from the latest NFL coaching strategies?
Now you can talk to people.
Well, the way it works is that next week at the Combine, basically there will be agents and GMs and they'll have dinners and they'll have drinks and they'll have off the record conversations where you really know where you stand with each other after next week. But that's all off the record. See nothing, say nothing. And then after that, you're right.
They had that two-day window, which is now just the start of free agency because all the deals start to get reported. So that's what we're looking at next month with the start of free agency here, Billy. And it's a great segue to the first story that has my attention here.
Okay.
Because, you know, I'm looking around. I like to read the local beat coverage. And then I check the national sites. They are, what are they talking about? And you know, the name that comes up all over the place is Malik Willis. Malik Willis could cash in. That's from Pro Football Talk. And then you go to any of these other sites with the local coverage, they need a quarterback.
They're saying, should we sign Malik Willis? Is this a good... Basically, the whole conversation about Malik Willis is, is this a good idea? Because this is one of the most intriguing free agents we've had in recent memory, where he's only started six games in his career, but he's also only 27 years old.
And when he did play for the Green Bay Packers, it was like, huh, it kind of looks pretty good here. Should this be someone we pay a lot of money to? And the other thing, Billy, that I think has my attention is let's call it the Sam Darnold Daniel Jones effect.
These NFL teams, they have a recency bias where they're going to look around and they're going to say, hey, anyone could have signed Sam Darnold last offseason and they won the Super Bowl. Anyone could have signed Daniel Jones last offseason and they had a great offense until he got injured. Hey, our team, we have a good roster. We've got good offensive coaches.
Let's go find a talented quarterback who maybe hasn't succeeded elsewhere and maybe that guy is Malik Willis. So where are you at this? You have a team in the Miami Dolphins that might need a quarterback.
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