Are the Chargers for Real? Plus: the Tommy Boy Titans, a New York Swoon, Throwback Pats PTSD, and Guess the Lines With Cousin Sal.

The Bill Simmons Podcast

The Ringer

Sports

4.5 • 29.4K Ratings

🗓️ 22 September 2025

⏱️ 103 minutes

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The Ringer’s Bill Simmons is joined by Cousin Sal to react to Week 3 of the NFL season (3:26). Then, they guess the lines for Week 4 before closing with Parent Corner (01:01:04). Host: Bill Simmons Guest: Cousin Sal Producers: Chia Hao Tat and Eduardo Ocampo Get Gameday Deals all season long only on Uber Eats. Order Now. 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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0:30.3	The Bill Simmons podcast presented by Fandual Sportsbook.
0:33.3	We're also brought to you by the Ringer podcast network where we put up a new episode of the Prestige TV podcast tonight, actually.
0:40.8	It is episode three of Task, which we recapped.
0:43.8	We broke down me and Joanna Robinson and Rob Mahoney.
0:46.5	We really love this show.
0:48.0	Today's episode trying to figure out who the mole was.
0:50.1	So if you haven't caught up yet, this is a good one.
0:52.7	But you can check every Sunday night right after the episode ends on HBO.
0:56.3	We are recapping it on Prestige.
0:58.4	I also have a new episode of The Rewatchable's coming for you on Monday.
1:03.4	We did Airplane in the running for funniest movie of all time.
1:08.6	Maybe one of the most influential comedies, if not, that's in the top three. But anyway, broke it down with a very, very, very special guest. And that is coming on Monday night. And then after that, starting, I think it's September 29. So it's not technically October yet. But we're going to do Redford Month. We have to five Redford movies. There's a bunch left that we haven't done. So we're going to do Redford month. We have to do five Redford movies. There's a bunch
1:27.7	left that we haven't done. So we're going to start banging out Redford movies on September 29th. Stay tuned for that. I also went on Wesley Morris's podcast, Cannonball. It's not out yet, but keep an eye on it. We talked about Redford for two hours. It was really fun. I have no idea how they're going to edit it down, but it was great to spend time with my friend, Wesley.
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