Is Ben Simmons Any Closer to Leaving Philly? Plus Aqib Talib on His Career and Calling Games.

The Ryen Russillo Podcast

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4.8 • 13.9K Ratings

🗓️ 22 September 2021

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Summary

Russillo shares his thoughts on the latest developments in the Ben Simmons saga (0:34) before kicking around some ideas with Ceruti and scouting some wild takes for the upcoming Take Stock game (14:48). Then Ryen talks with Super Bowl champion and Fox NFL broadcaster Aqib Talib about calling NFL games, the Vikings-Cardinals nail-biter, his time in college and the NFL, the evolution of playing defense in the NFL, trash-talking, and more (29:28). Finally Ryen answers some listener-submitted Life Advice questions (56:05). Host: Ryen Russillo Guest: Aqib Talib Producer: Kyle Crichton and Steve Ceruti Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	On today's episode, we have a key to league, Fox Sports, and a couple of different pod
0:15.7	tasks we're going to talk, not only Kyla Murray and the Vikings, game we did this
0:20.0	past weekend, but also his time to Kansas, a little recruiting story stuff in there and
0:23.3	his battles.
0:24.3	During his playing time, I have a Ben Simmons open, and then Suridhai are going to kick
0:28.8	around a couple of things that we observed from the week and life advice.
0:32.8	Enjoy.
0:33.8	We're going to do some football with the key to league here in a moment as we sit in
0:37.5	the intro, but I want to start with a big story with the NBA, and that is the Ben
0:40.1	Simmons saga.
0:41.1	As we now have official word from Wage, who reported yesterday and in the piece that Ben
0:46.6	Simmons is not showing up to camp.
0:49.2	He's going to hold out, and it was even some strong language in there, where he's never
0:52.1	going to wear that NBA uniform again, meaning the six or so.
0:54.5	All right, where are we at?
0:55.9	Now we had mentioned this as a possibility on the pod.
0:59.2	I remember first hearing about it earlier last month, and then Bill and I did kind of
1:04.2	a Ben Simmons thing together on this podcast.
1:06.1	We're like, all right, is this really going to happen?
1:08.9	After the Hawks series, it was bad.
1:11.3	I know that this is an exactly breaking news to anybody here for the longest time, even
1:15.7	though the six or good team, and who knows what would happen with that team that lost
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