Ep. 45: NFL Wild Card Picks w/ Cousin Sal

The Bill Simmons Podcast

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Sports

4.4 • 30.2K Ratings

🗓️ 4 January 2016

⏱️ 66 minutes

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HBO's Bill Simmons wraps up a wacky Week 17 & makes picks for the NFL Wildcard weekend with Cousin Sal. Topics include: AFC playoff picture, Tom Brady injury (6:00 mark), Making of a (Manning) Murderer (10:00), Jets' collapse (15:00), Super Bowl odds (21:00), Cousins vs. Rodgers (25:00), "red hot" Seahawks (32:00), 'H8teful Eight' NFL QBs (36:00), NFL in LA (39:00), coaching vacancies (42:00), Wild Card line guesses (47:00), Pats/Belichick conspiracies (58:00) and Aaron Rodgers' relaxation level (1:00:00). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:14.0	Welcome to the round one. Megapod. Here we are. I love this.
1:19.0	There's probably my favorite part of the year. There's so much going on. There's a lot. I like it.
1:23.0	We have the round one. Lions. We have Super Bowl at odds. Yeah.
1:27.0	All that stuff. That's Cousin, Sal. Fresh off his 13 and 4 best bet record in sports center. That's good.
1:33.0	You hit with the chargers. That was scary, right? Everyone laughed at me. They had a chance to win that game.
1:39.0	I wasn't laughing. I actually think if we, like a couple guys got hurt for them in that game, including at least one offensive line.
1:46.0	They might have even lost a second one. But it just seemed like he had no time.
1:51.0	The interception was pre-ordained. It was going to happen. They kept batting around.
1:54.0	But I was going crazy because the Patriots for the second straight week decided to treat a regular season game like a pre-season game,
2:02.0	costing us some value with all our process. Yeah.
2:05.0	Lots of money. It's not like, yeah, we had them in teases and parliaments. They just didn't care.
2:12.0	Peter King wrote that they went into a four corners offense or somebody did. I thought that was a good way to put it.
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