Butler Saves Miami, Fantasy F.B. In Flux, The NFC Least & Quarter-Season MVP’s with The Cousin Sal

The Bill Simmons Podcast

The Ringer

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4.5 • 29.4K Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2020

⏱️ 89 minutes

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The Ringer’s Bill Simmons is joined by Cousin Sal to discuss Jimmy Butler willing the Heat to a win over the Lakers in Game 3 of the NBA Finals. They also recap NFL Week 4, including the Cowboys' 49-38 loss to the Browns, Panthers-Cardinals, Joe Burrow vs. “the spread,” Bills-Raiders, Giants-Rams, Tom Brady throwing five TDs in a win over the Chargers, Bears-Colts, and more before guessing the NFL lines for Week 5. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Wow, it's, it's just too bad. Nothing happened this weekend. Good God.
0:04.1	Cause the towel is joined me to talk about the NBA finals, the NFL and a whole lot more.
0:10.4	We're also brought to you by the ringer.com and the ringer podcast network.
0:14.1	Ringer podcast network is cranking after every finals game. You listen to the ringer NBA show
0:18.3	and we're going to have live reactions for all of them. We're also going to be here on Tuesday night
0:23.6	being in Racillo. We're moving a weekly pod. My podcast Tuesday night right after game four of the NBA
0:32.7	finals. Stay tuned for that. New rewatchables coming up on Monday, the 25th anniversary of one of my
0:39.7	10 favorite movies ever kicking and screaming. Yeah. You might not have heard of it. And if you haven't
0:46.0	shame on you because it's fantastic. So that's coming up and also coming up.
0:50.8	Cousin's out right after our friends from Pearl Jam.
1:12.8	All right, Cousin's out here. Action pack weekend. It started out with the president coming
1:17.5	down with COVID. What? Yeah, late Thursday night. Yeah, I'm sorry to break the news to you.
1:22.5	Had that going all weekend plus a bunch of people in his administration.
1:28.5	Some other Republicans. So that's going on. The finals, the Lakers take a Commanding 20 lead and it
1:34.8	just seems done in the heater nine and a half point underdogs in an elimination game.
1:39.4	Then we have all this football stuff and it's like, wow, past chiefs is going to be great.
1:42.8	Cam gets COVID. So now it's like, oh man, well, what happens to that game? Then somebody in the
1:49.4	Saints supposedly gets COVID. Now we think that game's going to be canceled. We're on text
1:54.0	threads trying to figure out what to do with our fantasy leagues. It feels like the world's ending.
1:59.7	Somehow we made it to Sunday night and a lot of stuff happen. But South, tumultuous weekend.
2:04.7	You starting a fantasy league this year. It's extra extra ass kicking to getting kicked out.
2:10.3	Just you're on top of it. I have to hand it to you. And I'm stealing ideas from you.
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