Benjamin Solak
@benjaminsolak.bsky.social
Write about football. Talk about football. Not a child.
WEEK 12 BABY
🔹What Sanders did in Start 1 to earn Start 2
🔹The Colts’ serious danger of losing the AFC south
🔹George Pickens’ unprecedented free agency
🔹(The Bengals and Cowboys defenses look better)
🔹Cam Ward, JSN, Kirk Cousins, and more!
READ: www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/...
🔹What Sanders did in Start 1 to earn Start 2
🔹The Colts’ serious danger of losing the AFC south
🔹George Pickens’ unprecedented free agency
🔹(The Bengals and Cowboys defenses look better)
🔹Cam Ward, JSN, Kirk Cousins, and more!
READ: www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/...
Solak spins Week 12 forward: Should the Browns stick with Sanders? Could the Colts lose the AFC South?
Ben Solak sizes up Shedeur Sanders' first start, the sudden three-team race in the AFC South, George Pickens' next contract and Week 12 trends to watch.
www.espn.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:01 PM
WEEK 12 BABY
🔹What Sanders did in Start 1 to earn Start 2
🔹The Colts’ serious danger of losing the AFC south
🔹George Pickens’ unprecedented free agency
🔹(The Bengals and Cowboys defenses look better)
🔹Cam Ward, JSN, Kirk Cousins, and more!
READ: www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/...
🔹What Sanders did in Start 1 to earn Start 2
🔹The Colts’ serious danger of losing the AFC south
🔹George Pickens’ unprecedented free agency
🔹(The Bengals and Cowboys defenses look better)
🔹Cam Ward, JSN, Kirk Cousins, and more!
READ: www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/...
might hop on sportscenter in a few minutes and talk about shedeur and why the colts are chalked and GAWG PICKENS go go go go go gog og o
November 25, 2025 at 12:16 AM
might hop on sportscenter in a few minutes and talk about shedeur and why the colts are chalked and GAWG PICKENS go go go go go gog og o
GOOOOOOD MORNING
📬📬WEEK 12 MAILBAG TIME📬📬
Please ask me your NFL questions here or at [email protected].
Please do not ask me to be the offensive coordinator of the Raiders. I do not have the correct last name for that job.
📬📬WEEK 12 MAILBAG TIME📬📬
Please ask me your NFL questions here or at [email protected].
Please do not ask me to be the offensive coordinator of the Raiders. I do not have the correct last name for that job.
November 24, 2025 at 3:46 PM
GOOOOOOD MORNING
📬📬WEEK 12 MAILBAG TIME📬📬
Please ask me your NFL questions here or at [email protected].
Please do not ask me to be the offensive coordinator of the Raiders. I do not have the correct last name for that job.
📬📬WEEK 12 MAILBAG TIME📬📬
Please ask me your NFL questions here or at [email protected].
Please do not ask me to be the offensive coordinator of the Raiders. I do not have the correct last name for that job.
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Always committ OPI!! @benjaminsolak.bsky.social
JSN with that subtle push off...chef's kiss.
November 23, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Always committ OPI!! @benjaminsolak.bsky.social
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Josh Allen vs the Texans D when pressured
2025: 2/7 for 27 yds
2024: 1/14 for 24 yds
😮💨😮💨😮💨
2025: 2/7 for 27 yds
2024: 1/14 for 24 yds
😮💨😮💨😮💨
November 21, 2025 at 4:33 AM
Josh Allen vs the Texans D when pressured
2025: 2/7 for 27 yds
2024: 1/14 for 24 yds
😮💨😮💨😮💨
2025: 2/7 for 27 yds
2024: 1/14 for 24 yds
😮💨😮💨😮💨
we have a new ump
November 21, 2025 at 3:32 AM
we have a new ump
I spent some time this summer with Derek Stingley Jr., who had absolutely no interest in talking about the best plays of his career…but had plenty to say about the almost-mades that haunt him.
READ: www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/...
READ: www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/...
Meet the REAL Derek Stingley Jr., the Texans' QB-baiting shutdown corner
Stingley has 14 interceptions since 2022, but he doesn't want to talk about them. He is much more interested in the plays he almost made.
www.espn.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:47 PM
I spent some time this summer with Derek Stingley Jr., who had absolutely no interest in talking about the best plays of his career…but had plenty to say about the almost-mades that haunt him.
READ: www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/...
READ: www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/...
might hop on sportscenter in three minutes go go go go gog og og og og og ogo
November 18, 2025 at 10:22 PM
might hop on sportscenter in three minutes go go go go gog og og og og og ogo
🚨🚨WEEK 11 COLUMN🚨🚨
🔸What Johnson, Vrabel, and Coen are doing right in Year 1
🔸Why I’m still buying the Seahawks as an NFC contender
🔸Next Ben Stats on Eagles, Chiefs, Shedeur
🔸Mailbag on Lamar, Chargers OL, and parity
…and more!
READ: www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/...
🔸What Johnson, Vrabel, and Coen are doing right in Year 1
🔸Why I’m still buying the Seahawks as an NFC contender
🔸Next Ben Stats on Eagles, Chiefs, Shedeur
🔸Mailbag on Lamar, Chargers OL, and parity
…and more!
READ: www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/...
Ranking the best NFL coaching hires: How Ben Johnson has delivered on expectations in Chicago
Ben Solak sizes up the offseason coaching hires of Mike Vrabel, Liam Coen and Ben Johnson -- plus the Seahawks' loss to the Rams and Week 11 trends to watch.
www.espn.com
November 18, 2025 at 1:22 PM
🚨🚨WEEK 11 COLUMN🚨🚨
🔸What Johnson, Vrabel, and Coen are doing right in Year 1
🔸Why I’m still buying the Seahawks as an NFC contender
🔸Next Ben Stats on Eagles, Chiefs, Shedeur
🔸Mailbag on Lamar, Chargers OL, and parity
…and more!
READ: www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/...
🔸What Johnson, Vrabel, and Coen are doing right in Year 1
🔸Why I’m still buying the Seahawks as an NFC contender
🔸Next Ben Stats on Eagles, Chiefs, Shedeur
🔸Mailbag on Lamar, Chargers OL, and parity
…and more!
READ: www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/...
might hop BACK ON SPORTSCENTER and talk eagles and broncos gogo go go go go go go g og og
might hop on sportscenter in 5 minutes and talk seahawks and bears idk idk go go go go go go go go gog o
November 17, 2025 at 11:37 PM
might hop BACK ON SPORTSCENTER and talk eagles and broncos gogo go go go go go go g og og
might hop on sportscenter in 5 minutes and talk seahawks and bears idk idk go go go go go go go go gog o
November 17, 2025 at 11:12 PM
might hop on sportscenter in 5 minutes and talk seahawks and bears idk idk go go go go go go go go gog o
GOOOOOOD MORNING
📬📬WEEK 11 MAILBAG TIME📬📬
Please ask me your NFL questions here or at [email protected].
Please do not ask me if the Chiefs are dead. What is dead may never die.
📬📬WEEK 11 MAILBAG TIME📬📬
Please ask me your NFL questions here or at [email protected].
Please do not ask me if the Chiefs are dead. What is dead may never die.
November 17, 2025 at 4:00 PM
GOOOOOOD MORNING
📬📬WEEK 11 MAILBAG TIME📬📬
Please ask me your NFL questions here or at [email protected].
Please do not ask me if the Chiefs are dead. What is dead may never die.
📬📬WEEK 11 MAILBAG TIME📬📬
Please ask me your NFL questions here or at [email protected].
Please do not ask me if the Chiefs are dead. What is dead may never die.
The Cardinals have 15 accepted penalties against them against the 49ers, which is the most penalties a team has committed in a game this season.
(There are 5 minutes left in the third quarter)
(There are 5 minutes left in the third quarter)
November 16, 2025 at 11:15 PM
The Cardinals have 15 accepted penalties against them against the 49ers, which is the most penalties a team has committed in a game this season.
(There are 5 minutes left in the third quarter)
(There are 5 minutes left in the third quarter)
With 1 minute left in the first quarter, Rams RB Kyren Williams already has more rushing yards (76) than any other running back has had against the Seahawks in a game this season
November 16, 2025 at 9:41 PM
With 1 minute left in the first quarter, Rams RB Kyren Williams already has more rushing yards (76) than any other running back has had against the Seahawks in a game this season
(The Panthers are a half-game back of the Bucs in the NFC South)
November 16, 2025 at 9:34 PM
(The Panthers are a half-game back of the Bucs in the NFC South)
Falcons with back-to-back overtime games and a trip back home from Germany in the middle. That's just brutal on the body.
November 16, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Falcons with back-to-back overtime games and a trip back home from Germany in the middle. That's just brutal on the body.
STOCK UP
November 14, 2025 at 8:08 PM
STOCK UP
might hop on espn bet in 5 minutes and talk a little Week 11 idk idk idk go go go go go go go go
November 14, 2025 at 7:55 PM
might hop on espn bet in 5 minutes and talk a little Week 11 idk idk idk go go go go go go go go
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"I do not think it's an exaggeration to say this is the best offensive coach in football vs the best defensive coach in football."
On the pod, @benjaminsolak.bsky.social and I discussed the schematic chess match btwn Sean McVay and Mike Macdonald.
🎧: apple.co/4jS2Nri
📺: youtu.be/ltUAQBfdEfY?...
On the pod, @benjaminsolak.bsky.social and I discussed the schematic chess match btwn Sean McVay and Mike Macdonald.
🎧: apple.co/4jS2Nri
📺: youtu.be/ltUAQBfdEfY?...
November 14, 2025 at 4:29 PM
"I do not think it's an exaggeration to say this is the best offensive coach in football vs the best defensive coach in football."
On the pod, @benjaminsolak.bsky.social and I discussed the schematic chess match btwn Sean McVay and Mike Macdonald.
🎧: apple.co/4jS2Nri
📺: youtu.be/ltUAQBfdEfY?...
On the pod, @benjaminsolak.bsky.social and I discussed the schematic chess match btwn Sean McVay and Mike Macdonald.
🎧: apple.co/4jS2Nri
📺: youtu.be/ltUAQBfdEfY?...
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Both @benjaminsolak.bsky.social and I expect Kelvin Sheppard--one of the smartest young defensive minds in the NFL--to change up the Lions' tendencies vs Philly on SNF.
Discussed the matchup on the pod!
🎧: apple.co/4jS2Nri
📺: youtu.be/ltUAQBfdEfY?...
Discussed the matchup on the pod!
🎧: apple.co/4jS2Nri
📺: youtu.be/ltUAQBfdEfY?...
November 14, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Both @benjaminsolak.bsky.social and I expect Kelvin Sheppard--one of the smartest young defensive minds in the NFL--to change up the Lions' tendencies vs Philly on SNF.
Discussed the matchup on the pod!
🎧: apple.co/4jS2Nri
📺: youtu.be/ltUAQBfdEfY?...
Discussed the matchup on the pod!
🎧: apple.co/4jS2Nri
📺: youtu.be/ltUAQBfdEfY?...
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The most explosive team in football right now is....the Chicago Bears?!
On the pod @benjaminsolak.bsky.social and I talked about how well Caleb played last week, and whether he can throw bombs on MIN.
🎧: apple.co/4jS2Nri
📺: youtu.be/ltUAQBfdEfY?...
On the pod @benjaminsolak.bsky.social and I talked about how well Caleb played last week, and whether he can throw bombs on MIN.
🎧: apple.co/4jS2Nri
📺: youtu.be/ltUAQBfdEfY?...
November 13, 2025 at 9:53 PM
The most explosive team in football right now is....the Chicago Bears?!
On the pod @benjaminsolak.bsky.social and I talked about how well Caleb played last week, and whether he can throw bombs on MIN.
🎧: apple.co/4jS2Nri
📺: youtu.be/ltUAQBfdEfY?...
On the pod @benjaminsolak.bsky.social and I talked about how well Caleb played last week, and whether he can throw bombs on MIN.
🎧: apple.co/4jS2Nri
📺: youtu.be/ltUAQBfdEfY?...
Today’s screenshot brought to you by: my excitement that Bucky Irving is back
New pod! previewing and picking every week 11 game w @benjaminsolak.bsky.social
Guess what he’s reacting to here 👇
🎧: apple.co/4jS2Nri
📺: youtu.be/ltUAQBfdEfY?...
Guess what he’s reacting to here 👇
🎧: apple.co/4jS2Nri
📺: youtu.be/ltUAQBfdEfY?...
November 13, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Today’s screenshot brought to you by: my excitement that Bucky Irving is back
🚨🚨WEEK 10 LESSONS🚨🚨
🔸An understandable but incomplete end in New York
🔸The 2024 QB class is what we thought it was
🔸Actual real alarm bells in Green Bay
🔸Kubiak, Panthers, Shough, opening scripts, Chris Banjo, Breece Hall, and more!
READ:
www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/...
🔸An understandable but incomplete end in New York
🔸The 2024 QB class is what we thought it was
🔸Actual real alarm bells in Green Bay
🔸Kubiak, Panthers, Shough, opening scripts, Chris Banjo, Breece Hall, and more!
READ:
www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/...
Solak's Week 10 lessons: What now for Brian Daboll, plus the splitting of the 2024 quarterback class
Ben Solak sizes up Daboll's legacy and post-Giants prospects, the 2024 first-round QBs, trades that weren't made and Week 10 trends to watch.
www.espn.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:00 PM
🚨🚨WEEK 10 LESSONS🚨🚨
🔸An understandable but incomplete end in New York
🔸The 2024 QB class is what we thought it was
🔸Actual real alarm bells in Green Bay
🔸Kubiak, Panthers, Shough, opening scripts, Chris Banjo, Breece Hall, and more!
READ:
www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/...
🔸An understandable but incomplete end in New York
🔸The 2024 QB class is what we thought it was
🔸Actual real alarm bells in Green Bay
🔸Kubiak, Panthers, Shough, opening scripts, Chris Banjo, Breece Hall, and more!
READ:
www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/...
might hop on sportscenter at PRECISELY 6:18 ETA and talk daboll and dan campbell and caleb williams and michael penix jr go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go
November 10, 2025 at 11:09 PM
might hop on sportscenter at PRECISELY 6:18 ETA and talk daboll and dan campbell and caleb williams and michael penix jr go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go
GOOOOOOD MORNING
📬📬WEEK 10 MAILBAG TIME📬📬
Please ask me your NFL questions here or at [email protected].
Please do not ask me who the MVP is. I do not know and will not know for months.
📬📬WEEK 10 MAILBAG TIME📬📬
Please ask me your NFL questions here or at [email protected].
Please do not ask me who the MVP is. I do not know and will not know for months.
November 10, 2025 at 4:03 PM
GOOOOOOD MORNING
📬📬WEEK 10 MAILBAG TIME📬📬
Please ask me your NFL questions here or at [email protected].
Please do not ask me who the MVP is. I do not know and will not know for months.
📬📬WEEK 10 MAILBAG TIME📬📬
Please ask me your NFL questions here or at [email protected].
Please do not ask me who the MVP is. I do not know and will not know for months.