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The Bill Simmons Podcast

Ep. 5: Week 5 NFL w/ Cousin Sal

The Bill Simmons Podcast

The Ringer

Sports

4.430.2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2015

⏱️ 61 minutes

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HBO's Bill Simmons discusses shaky kickers, Pats-Cowboys, Todd Gurley's emergence, Kaepernick's swoon, Peyton Manning's gluten-free arm, NHL sleepers and "Guess the Lines" for Week 5 with Cousin Sal. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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And with that, we are off on the BS report. I still do not have entrance music. I'm working

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on it. I have a really good one in store. Hopefully that will work out. And also, I should

0:57.0

mention I sound like crap because I'm on a hotel phone in San Francisco and doing this

1:01.5

vanity fair conference thingy today. And this is the only time for the rest of the year

1:08.2

that cousin Sal and I will not be doing the podcast on a Monday or a Tuesday. We'll

1:12.0

be trying to be in the same room the whole time. Sal, how are you?

1:15.0

Good, Bill. What's happening with you, man?

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Let's see. You had a bad loss, a bad Sunday night loss. People were upset that we didn't

1:23.5

have a podcast the next day because it's become kind of a tradition for us. Yeah, I know.

1:27.5

I know. They don't get my vitriol, my instant vitriol after the game. But yeah, it's better

1:33.8

for me. Better for my psyche. Can you feel like you had the rug pulled out from

1:39.0

under you and got screwed over in a game when your quarterback is Brandon Weedin? Like,

1:43.2

what is that experience like?

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