Drake Definitely Beats Buffalo, Baker for MVP, a Bad QB Draft, Guess the Lines, and Parent Corner With Cousin Sal

The Bill Simmons Podcast

The Ringer

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4.5 • 29.4K Ratings

🗓️ 6 October 2025

⏱️ 103 minutes

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The Ringer’s Bill Simmons is joined by Cousin Sal to react to the Patriots taking down the Bills, and other Week 5 highlights (2:33). Then, they have a bad QB fantasy draft before guessing the lines for Week 6 and ending with Parent Corner (50:33). Host: Bill Simmons Guest: Cousin Sal Producers: Chia Hao Tat and Eduardo Ocampo Fill your fridge with Michelob ULTRA - the official beer partner of the NBA. https://www.doordash.com/p/play-for-an-ultra ENJOY RESPONSIBLY© 2025 ANHEUSER-BUSCH, MICHELOB ULTRA® LIGHT BEER, ST. LOUIS, MO. 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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0:00.0	The Bill Simmons podcast is presented by Fanduil Sportsbook.
0:03.9	We are also brought to you by the Ringer podcast network, where I have a new rewatchables
0:09.4	coming on Monday.
0:10.4	It is Robert Redford Month.
0:11.6	We did Jeremiah Johnson, one of Redford's all-timers.
0:17.3	This was with Chris Ryan and my dad.
0:19.2	Only the second time that he's ever been on a rewatchable's. Probably the last time. Shawshank and Jeremiah Johnson are his two favorite movies. So it's the three of us. That has come on Monday. If you like to show Task, we've been covering that on the Prestige TV podcast as well. We have a lot of NBA stuff coming because suddenly the NBA season is starting a week from now.
0:39.5	So you can check out the Ringer NBA show.
0:41.8	You can check out Zach Lowe's podcast.
0:43.3	But we have a lot of good basketball content.
0:46.2	And there will be a bunch of stuff on this podcast coming next week.
0:50.7	So stay tuned for that.
0:52.4	You can watch the videos on my YouTube channel as well.
0:56.4	You can watch the rewatchables videos on the Ring of Movies YouTube channel. And coming up on this
1:00.2	podcast, I'm taping the intro after what happened in the Patriots Bill's game. It was a very
1:06.1	happy night for me. I tried to contain myself, but cousin Sal came Sal came on, and a lot of stuff happened on this podcast.
1:13.0	But it was, I'm not sweaty. I'm just glistening. I'm glistening with joy after an unbelievable
1:19.6	Patriots win. It's all coming up next. We're going to take a break. Bring in Pearl Jam and then Cousin Sal.
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