A 2025 NFL QB Pyramid, and Half-Baked Ideas (Summer Edition) With Sheil Kapadia and Kevin Wildes

The Bill Simmons Podcast

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🗓️ 11 August 2025

⏱️ 126 minutes

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Bill is joined by Sheil Kapadia to catch up on the Eagles, and to discuss Bill’s NFL Quarterback Pyramid ahead of the 2025 season (3:50). Then, Kevin Wildes joins to talk about male friendships and the Patriots, before discussing more half-baked ideas! (01:03:44). Host: Bill Simmons Guests: Sheil Kapadia and Kevin Wildes Producers: Chia Hao Tat and Eduardo Ocampo Post your job today at linkedin.com/simmons 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	The Bill Simmons podcast is brought to you by the Ringer podcast network where you can find the rewatchables.
0:07.1	It will be our 397th movie on Monday night.
0:13.2	And it's a movie that I have been talking about and circling around really for the last couple years.
0:19.2	Brian Cappellman also loves it. He joined me. It's the 50th anniversary
0:23.7	of Roller Ball, which is an absolutely amazing, amazing movie with James Conn. And we finally had to do it.
0:31.4	Couldn't have had a better time. So that's going up Monday night. You can watch it on the Ringer
0:35.3	movies YouTube channel as well. We are getting dangerously close to 400 movies. Can't believe it. And there's a bunch of
0:43.2	I still have a pretty big list. I didn't think we'd make it to 400. Now I feel like we have
0:47.5	an outside chance of getting to 500, unless I die of natural causes before then. So that's it, Rollerball, and then doing a more modern movie the week after.
0:59.1	We're going to do all bangers.
1:00.1	I'm going to try to do a mailbag at some point, too, during the month of August,
1:05.7	before we hit the whole football thing.
1:08.3	For football, the Ringer Fantasy Football show, which is really heating up.
1:13.5	August is everyone, all the kids are saying it's the biggest month for that show.
1:18.3	But people are starting to get fantasy opinions.
1:21.0	There's some training camp slash preseason stuff, skewing some of the rankings.
1:25.9	So those guys are covering all of it.
1:28.1	And we're going to do more and more football as we get closer to the season, which
1:31.8	feels early this year.
1:33.4	It's like basically Labor Day.
1:34.9	And then all of a sudden on September 4th, we're starting with football.
1:38.4	I've been really bored by the sports.
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