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The Bill Simmons Podcast

Green Bay is Done, the Brady Zone, Philly’s Big Month, '72 Dolphins Fatigue, and Week 8 Lines With Cousin Sal

The Bill Simmons Podcast

The Ringer

Sports

4.529.4K Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2022

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Summary

The Ringer's Bill Simmons is joined by Cousin Sal to discuss yet another loss for Packers, the Buccaneers’ loss to the Panthers, Jaguars-Giants, Seahawks-Chargers, the impossible-to-predict AFC South, Tom Brady’s ugly season, Lamar Jackson’s contract outlook, 49ers-Chiefs, Steelers-Dolphins, and more (1:59). Then, they guess the NFL lines for Week 8 (51:33) before closing the show with Parent Corner (1:17:22). Host: Bill Simmons Guest: Cousin Sal Producer: Kyle Crichton Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:19.0

We're also brought to you by the ringer podcast network. I hope you're checking out all of our local podcasts especially we got the Chicago and the Boston ones full go and off the bike going tomorrow night after pads bears.

0:34.0

The ringer's Philly special holy macro what a tumultuous time for Philly so glad we launched this podcast tumultuous in a good way mostly.

0:42.0

Philly's made the world series Eagles undefeated six or season falling apart. Go check out that podcast don't forget about New York New York with John just Trump ski as he licks his Yankee wounds and moves toward the jets and the giants and the next so there you go.

1:00.0

New rewatchables coming Monday night. I was not on the last three weeks of the rewatchables I am back this week.

1:06.0

It is a 90s action movie and that's all I'm telling you it's me and van lathe and those are your hands me van lathe and 90s action movie.

1:17.0

And then next month we're going off the rails next month. I'm just telling you know coming up on this podcast cousin Sal and I are going to talk about week seven NFL a little baseball.

1:28.0

Very rock is parent corner and just a lot to discuss the 72 dolphins Joe Buck. Oh yeah, this is a good one. It's all next first our friends from project.

1:59.0

All right, cousin Sal is here a little bit after 8 30 on Sunday night. So how's your marriage? There was a lot of sports this weekend. I was worried about you and there's college football, a full basketball slate baseball playoffs and football and then you were working on a Saturday. I just said how's the how's the family.

2:18.0

It's not great. I mean and sports has nothing to do with it. Oh, is this a phone call or would you this actual pocket up?

2:25.0

It really is hard. It is hard to stay on top everything and UFC during the day yesterday. I don't know how much you give it on Saturday. So you don't have to worry about college football or anything like that. So you at least give it the puncher's chance on Saturday for having a full-fled marriage.

2:41.0

Yeah, I always pick like one college football game to watch, but it didn't seem like it's some of the LSU one was the best one yesterday, but that was like whatever. I ended up watching a lot of NBA and then football today. I something magical happened. It's now this is really never happened that I remember in October.

2:59.0

I put basketball in one of the TVs. The four TVs, the Lakers, I'm so enchanted by this Lakers, would a disaster this season has been for them. Then I couldn't resist. I had to watch like the last quarter and a half of to see if they go on three. And of course it couldn't have gone worse. Westbrook, they're up one. He tries to get a two for one pulls up the crowds going. No, it was like watching a little kid walk toward a pool.

3:26.0

Brick that Portland comes down they end up winning it and the Lakers are now on three that I that took the Texans Raiders TV.

3:36.0

Out of my four TV's I was like, good luck. I know it Josh Jacobs. I'll never know what happened. I'm more interested in this. Wow. That is. Yeah, I mean, even more interest if you bet them to not make the playoffs, I think it's down to like minus one 10 now, but do it now because they can be like two and six before this is all.

3:52.0

Wow, we're really talking MBA. Now we're talking. We're talking football. I made you a list of least believable things through seven weeks. Here's that list for the listener.

4:05.0

The two New York teams are combined 11 and three. Tom Brady's I guess farewell season is just inflames.

4:16.0

Aaron Rogers and Green Bay are just no longer good. I think it might actually be over. I don't think that's an overreaction.

4:24.0

The Russell Wilson trade is starting to look like the Hershel Walker trade.

4:29.0

And then and then Seattle is a piece of that too. So those five the fact that Seattle who right now is plus five 50 on Fandall or when the NFC West, even though they are leading the NFC West.

4:40.0

But the fact that they're a contender. So out of those five story lines, what is the least believable to you?

4:47.0

Remember we made a joke after Seattle is in first place before they had even played on Monday night against Denver.

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