Ep. 39: Week 15 NFL w/ Cousin Sal

The Bill Simmons Podcast

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Sports

4.5 • 29.4K Ratings

🗓️ 14 December 2015

⏱️ 66 minutes

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HBO's Bill Simmons goes over the NFL playoff picture and Week 15 lines with Cousin Sal. Topics include: Pats-Texans recap, AFC playoffs(4:00 mark), NFC playoffs (9:00), Panthers' credibility (11:00), Mike Tomlin's Blackjack coaching style (17:00), unwatchable games (22:00), semi-unwatchable games (26:00), Jets-Cowboys (30:00), Teddy Bridgewater's matchup w/ Bears (37:00), Alex Smith's resurgence(45:00), Eagles' craziness (50:00), watchable games (53:00), Steelers-Broncos (1:00:00) and Peyton Manning's suspicious sideline behavior (1:02:00). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:07.0	Very cold in Southern California these days. So yeah, very cold. I don't like it. Why are you doing
1:12.9	that with the microphone? What do you mean? What's going on? I'm contorted. Oh, you got you got
1:17.5	a computer. I get what you're doing. Can I tell you? I'm actually trying to block my view of you
1:21.5	because I don't know if I can stare at this mustache for an hour. I know I had a beard for six weeks.
1:26.7	I had a shaving accident with the beard and I just kept the mustache so I could look like a
1:31.9	Chicago cop for a couple days. I thought you would enjoy it. I'm going to shave it probably
1:36.0	in about two hours. You may have to shave it between our analysis of the early and late games.
1:41.5	So yeah, maybe maybe maybe as the spots are agreed. So we bet on Denver and the Pats
1:49.8	Moneyline Parley and the Raiders started taking it to Denver and I immediately just rooted
1:54.8	against my bet and rid of the Raiders. Yeah, the Pats are the one seed right now. Yeah, I know.
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