An Official Celtics Funk, Plus Todd McShay and Million-Dollar Picks

The Bill Simmons Podcast

The Ringer

Sports

4.5 • 29.4K Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2025

⏱️ 127 minutes

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Summary

The Ringer's Bill Simmons asks, "What's wrong with the Celtics?" after being in-house for Celtics-Clippers and Celtics-Lakers (2:07). Next, Bill talks with Todd McShay about Jayden Daniels's historic rookie season, Washington's momentum heading into the NFC championship game against the Eagles, whether this is Josh Allen's year, and the keys to this weekend's Bills-Chiefs matchup (23:53). They also talk about Drake Maye's second season in New England, the upcoming NFL draft, and more (51:39). Finally, Bill is joined by Joe House to preview the NFL conference championship games, and make some Million-Dollar Picks (1:14:14). Host: Bill Simmons Guests: Todd McShay and Joe House Producer: Kyle Crichton The Ringer is committed to responsible gaming. Please visit www.rg-help.com to learn more about the resources and helplines available. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Coming up, the State of the Celtics, Todd McShay, million-dollar picks all next.
0:06.4	So, Connie, there I was, on the planet far, far away.
0:09.6	Really, Trevor?
0:10.5	Ground was so soft, so squishy.
0:12.5	Must have been zero gravity.
0:13.7	Maybe you were just on a memory foam mattress.
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0:26.5	We're also brought to you by the Ringer podcast Network. I put up a new rewatchables mailbag on Monday.
0:31.7	We have another episode coming, this coming Monday.
0:36.0	If you love the Oscars, go check out the big picture of Sean
0:38.5	Fantasy and Amanda Dobbins reacted to all the Oscar nominations today. You can watch that
0:42.6	on the Ringer Movies YouTube channel as well, where you can watch the rewatchables. You can watch
0:46.8	all the clips and videos from this podcast on the Bill Simmons YouTube channel where Cousin Sal and
0:51.7	I are going to be live right after Chiefs
0:55.4	Bills on Sunday night doing this podcast. So if you haven't watched us do the pod live,
1:01.9	guess what? It's just like us doing the podcast because that's what it is. Fandual, I'm doing
1:08.0	those 30 on 30 picks every Friday where we try to guess who's going to score
1:12.9	30 plus points on the Friday NBA slate.
1:16.8	They do a little profit boost action for you.
1:18.9	So check out on my Twitter account.
1:21.9	I will be tweeting out who I think is going to get that on Friday.
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