A Bizarre NFL MVP Race and NBA Trade Ideas With Cousin Sal and Kevin O’Connor

The Bill Simmons Podcast

The Ringer

Sports

4.5 • 29.4K Ratings

🗓️ 29 November 2021

⏱️ 101 minutes

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The Ringer’s Bill Simmons is joined by Cousin Sal to discuss the puzzling MVP conversation, the Patriots’ win over the Titans, Colts-Buccaneers, Vikings-49ers, current playoff standings, Eagles-Giants, the Bengals steamrolling the Steelers, Panthers-Dolphins, the Cowboys’ Thanksgiving loss to the Raiders, Browns-Ravens, and much more (1:15). Then they guess the lines for NFL Week 13 (20:00), followed by Parent Corner (1:07:30). Finally Bill talks with The Ringer’s Kevin O’Connor about some interesting NBA trades as the season progresses (1:18:18). Host: Bill Simmons Guests: Cousin Sal and Kevin O’Connor Producer: Kyle Crichton Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, if you haven't been following the music box series on HBO, you miss DMX.
0:04.0	Don't try to understand on Thanksgiving night.
0:06.5	You miss jagged, which is about a land of some more set and you miss Woodstock 99 coming up this week listening to Kenny G.
0:13.2	Directed by Penny Lane.
0:14.7	Very proud of this one.
0:15.8	It's Thursday night, APM HBO or you can get it on HBO Max on Thursday night.
0:21.9	We're also brought to you by Fandall sports book as well as the Ringer podcast network.
0:26.3	Hope you're checking out plain English with Derek Thompson. We just launched that podcast two weeks ago.
0:30.9	Hope you're checking out the prestige TV podcast as well covered yellow stone and succession and a bunch of other shows this week as well.
0:37.4	Coming up, cousin Sal and I are going to break down.
0:41.2	Another wacky weekend in football that left us with more questions and answers.
0:46.2	And then at the tail end, Kevin O'Connor is going to come on. We're going to exchange one NBA trade
0:51.0	that we like with one another and see what the reaction will be. That's all next first. Our friends from ProJM.
0:56.6	All right, we're taking this almost 845 Pacific time on Sunday night. Just watched one of the worst football games I've ever seen in my life.
1:24.8	I didn't want to start the podcast with that America deserves better. Let's start with this.
1:28.9	So are we going to have a season without an MVP should we roll it over like skins? What do you think?
1:34.2	Road over next year's word to your buddy Gus now my buddy, but you're gutty your buddy first runs this pool for many many years, probably 30 year.
1:44.4	I don't know how long and if you tie, you do picks head to head and if you tie, you roll it over in the winter.
1:51.2	Yeah, sometimes it rolls over. So yeah, I think that's not bad. By the way, Gus on the seat of his pants right now waiting, refreshing to see if Max turns signs of the mess.
2:00.2	I know what a mix weekend the meds actually started splurging. Unexpected the match helped out my cowboys. But yeah, maybe that's it.
2:06.8	Maybe get two MVP's next year because it doesn't seem like any other year.
2:10.7	You got three guys. You are screaming for Rogers or Brady or somebody, but nobody wants it. Nobody wants this award.
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