A Round 2 Roller-Coaster Ride, Denver’s QB Plight, and Josh’s Lost Weekend With Cousin Sal

The Bill Simmons Podcast

The Ringer

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4.4 • 30.2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2026

⏱️ 93 minutes

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The Ringer’s Bill Simmons is joined by Cousin Sal right after the Rams-Bears OT nail-biter to recap the divisional round of the NFL playoffs (1:15). Then they guess the lines for the conference championship games before ending with Parent Corner (01:03:59). Host: Bill Simmons Guest: Cousin Sal Producers: Chia Hao Tat, Eduardo Ocampo, and Nick Kosut Post your job today at https://www.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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1:07.6	We're also presented by the Ringer Podcast Network,
1:10.1	revenue rewatchables coming up on Monday night. So we did just one of the guys.
1:15.7	Oh, that's a great one. Yeah, I love it. I love it. Yeah. It's one for us week because we go to
1:20.9	we go to Netflix next week and we wanted to bang out a couple. I'm turning off my hide self-view.
1:27.1	There we go. Yeah, we wanted to bang out a couple before we started. You should flash everyone at the end. I mean, that was the big scene, right? That's what I said. I should have pulled my shirt off at the tail end. There's still time. Coming up, Sal and I are going to talk about an unbelievable weekend of football right after this. Cousin Sal is here. Best Super Bowl draft. Here are the Super Bowl nominees, Sal. Wait a minute. May versus Stafford. May versus Darnold. Stidham versus Stafford or Stidham versus Darnold. What are you the most excited about? I like Stidham, Darnold.
2:01.4	I mean, I've been rooting for that all year.
2:03.3	You know me. I'm not a front runner. That's the one I had targeted all year, Stidham and Darnold. And it really looks like it's going to happen. It's unbelievable. Stidtem has one career win? Oh, man. How do you do it? How do you do it?
2:16.1	Don't even start.
2:17.2	Can we talk about Rams, bears first?
2:18.7	I'm hoping we could talk about Rams Bears to a point where you forget about your team. Maybe we can go the whole hour and a half if you want. How dare you. Rams Bears. Would it have been the Colt Commet game or the Caleb Tecmo Bowl game for you? Because that was the original Tecmo Bowl offense of just running backwards,
2:36.1	25 yards, and heaving it toward the end zone,
2:38.2	and then the guy catches it.
2:39.3	But how would you remember that if it actually went?
2:42.3	Yeah, yeah.
2:44.4	Everything's the Caleb Williams game at this point.
2:46.9	It really is.
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