Believe in Darnold, Burrow’s Playoff Shadow, Week 18 Madness and Guess the Lines With Cousin Sal

The Bill Simmons Podcast

The Ringer

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4.5 • 29.4K Ratings

🗓️ 30 December 2024

⏱️ 88 minutes

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The Ringer's Bill Simmons is joined by Cousin Sal to discuss Jayden Daniels and the Commanders' overtime win against the Falcons on 'SNF,' an updated playoff picture, and Packers-Vikings (01:14). Then, they talk about whether the Bengals have a real shot at making the playoffs, another sad Jets loss, a very tight MVP race, the Giants beating the Colts and drastically changing their projected draft pick, and more (28:01). Finally they Guess the Lines for NFL Week 18 (53:14), before closing the show with Parent Corner (01:17:09). Host: Bill Simmons Guest: Cousin Sal Producers: Kyle Crichton and Chia Hao Tat 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	It's the Bill Simmons podcast. We're going live on a Sunday night with Cousin Sal. Week 17 was a little
0:05.1	crazy, not too crazy. Week 18 is going to be crazy and it's all coming up next.
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0:27.0	network where I put up a brand new episode of The Rewatchables. Every Monday night, including
0:31.4	tomorrow night, we're doing Friday night lights, the movie. I tweeted about this from the
0:36.9	rewatchables account because it's on Netflix
0:38.8	actually for the next couple days, but 20 year anniversary of this movie in 2024.
0:45.3	And it's in the running for one of the best football movies ever. Some people think it might
0:49.7	be first. We're going to talk about that and a lot more on the podcast that's going up Monday night.
0:54.6	You can watch that on the Ringer Movies YouTube channel as well.
0:56.9	You can watch all the clips and videos from this podcast on the Bill Simmons YouTube channel.
1:01.9	Coming up, Cousin Sal and I live Sunday night.
1:05.9	We're doing it.
1:07.0	Let's bring in Pearl Jam.
1:37.1	Thank you. Let's bring in Pearl Jam. We just watched Washington, Atlanta, and you lost your wise wager, which was... You were 13 and 2 for the season.
1:38.8	You had Washington 24 and a half under.
1:43.7	Yeah.
1:44.5	Which seemed like when Atlanta was about to score in the last minute, you were going to win it.
1:49.7	And then Raheem Morris is like, how many timeouts can I take into overtime?
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