A Championship Weekend Mega-Preview, Plus a Boston Sports Check-in | With Peter Schrager, Benjamin Solak, and Bill's Dad

The Bill Simmons Podcast

The Ringer

Sports

4.5 • 29.4K Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2023

⏱️ 113 minutes

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The Ringer's Bill Simmons is joined by Peter Schrager of NFL Network and Fox Sports to discuss Bengals-Chiefs, Patrick Mahomes's injury, the Bengals' postseason attitude adjustment, 49ers-Eagles, Aaron Rodgers rumors, and more (1:32). Then, Bill talks with Benjamin Solak about the key personnel matchups in each conference title game, why these games are so difficult to bet, player props, and more (52:38), before Bill gives out the Million-Dollar Picks (1:16:55). Finally, Bill and his dad discuss the Boston Herald article detailing the Patriots' dysfunction during the 2022-23 season, a bleak outlook for the Red Sox, the surging Bruins, the Celtics' title hopes, and more (1:20:14). Host: Bill Simmons Guests: Peter Schrager, Benjamin Solak, and Bill's Dad Producer: Kyle Crichton Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, if you liked the last of us, check out the Prestige TV podcast where we're recapping
0:04.1	it on Sunday nights with VanLathen and Charles Holmes and then doing deep dive podcast
0:07.8	during the week with Malloruban and Joanne Robinson.
0:10.6	The last of us find it on the Prestige TV podcast.
0:13.2	We're also brought to you by the Ringer podcast network.
0:16.4	I put up a new rewatch.
0:17.4	Well, as a Monday, we did big VanLathen Malloruban, really, really fun, completely went off
0:22.5	the rails about halfway through.
0:24.0	So if you missed that one, check it out over the weekend, check out all of our football
0:28.2	coverage on theringer.com.
0:29.6	Some really good pieces that we had.
0:32.0	I thought this week about the games and football in general.
0:35.6	Katie Bakes even wrote about Daniel Jones, theringer.com as well as the Ringer and Felt Show, Ryan
0:41.7	Marcillo show, the Ringer gambling show.
0:46.0	And then for this podcast, when we talk about football, as always, with Peter Shrigger, Benjamin
0:49.9	Solack trying to figure out what to do with a million dollar picks in the two games.
0:53.8	And then my dad came on to talk about the state of the Boston sports scene, the crazy
0:58.9	Patriots article in the Boston Herald this week, and how everyone's turned on the Red
1:04.4	Sox.
1:05.4	But then we have these two winter teams that are kicking ass.
1:07.2	So that is at the tail end of the podcast.
1:09.5	That's all next first, our friends from ProJab.
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