Ep. 44: Week 17 NFL w/ Cousin Sal

The Bill Simmons Podcast

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4.4 • 30.2K Ratings

🗓️ 29 December 2015

⏱️ 79 minutes

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HBO's Bill Simmons brings on Cousin Sal to discuss the NFL's final regular season week of the NFL regular season. Topics include: the latest Steelers/Tomlin meltdown, GB issues (8:00 mark), Bill's defense/explanation of NE's loss on Sunday (15:00), Coughlin's future (21:00), NFC and AFC homefield advantage scenarios (29:00), Bill's favorite new streaming series (40:50), the Peyton Manning saga (51:00), Packers-'Sota (1:00:00), Jets-Bills (1:09:00), Andy Reid's Andyreidness and possible Playoff Wonk Teams (1:12:00) and Bill's special holiday gift for Sal! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:22.6	That's Jim. Jim's here. Keeps helping us out today. Tates. I don't know where Tate is.
1:28.0	He's traveling the world. Tate, the panthers lost. Tate may not be seen again. That's it, right?
1:32.7	That's true. The panthers lost and Tates just gone. That's the cause. We love the week 17
1:39.2	podcast because there's all these different possibilities that we think we know, but then
1:44.8	as we'll somehow screw up and then people will... Oh, we need a creamie. Yeah, well, well,
1:49.5	there's especially a ton of things going on this time. There's like 11 playoff spots out of
1:54.4	the 12 or somehow in play. How are we not have more defined something at this point? This is
2:00.3	supposed to be the easiest week to gamble. And we're owed it after the worst week ever, maybe
2:06.7	gambling in the NFL last week. Well, we lost a holiday three teamer. How do you keep
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