Mike Francesa’s Week 17 NFL Picks, Kuzmania, The Rise of OKC, Chris Borland on the Dangers of Football, and Pacific Ocean Hoops (Ep. 307)

The Bill Simmons Podcast

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4.5 • 29.4K Ratings

🗓️ 29 December 2017

⏱️ 55 minutes

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HBO and The Ringer’s Bill Simmons is joined again by New York radio legend Mike Francesa to recap last week’s NFL picks (2:23) and offer up picks for Week 17 (19:06). Then, The Ringer's Kevin O’Connor joins to discuss precocious NBA rookies (28:17) and the Oklahoma City Thunder trending upwards (31:28); former NFL linebacker Chris Borland and The Ringer’s Kevin Clark come on to debate the factors that hinder player safety in football (35:33); and The Ringer’s Mark Titus and Tate Frazier sit down to consider a hypothetical college basketball rivalry (43:39). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Today's episode of the Bill Simmons podcast, the final one of 2017 on the ringer podcast
0:07.4	network brought to you by SeekEek, our presenting sponsor for this entire year for 20 hours off
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0:30.3	agent. You get a teammate that gets what matters. Most of you go to stayfarm.com to get an agent that
0:36.1	gets you and be sure to check out the ringer's first NBA Relationships goals video on the ringer.com
0:42.4	the ringer's YouTube channel, the ringer's Facebook or Twitter. Remember, like teammates on the court,
0:47.6	a relationship with a State Farm agent that sets you up for success off the court. We're also
0:52.6	brought to you by a couple of podcasts that I'm on this week. For some reason, even though we have no
0:56.4	idea if the audience is bigger or smaller for podcasts during holiday week, you could tell me
1:01.6	either, and I'd believe it, but I'm on the ringer NFL show, a podcast that I taped with Kevin
1:06.7	Clark and Chris Borland, the retired linebacker of the 40 diners who retired early because he was
1:12.1	afraid of concussions in his health. Fastening conversation on the future in the NFL, that's on the
1:18.1	ringer NFL show this week. I did a two-part podcast with Mark Titus and Tate Frazier on their
1:24.2	podcast, the one shining podcast about 12 schools that should have better college basketball programs
1:32.0	and don't. We made 12 suggestions and it's a good one. We're going to run a little bit of it
1:36.9	at the end of this podcast. The other one we did was on ringer and B.I. Show, me and Kevin O'Connor
1:42.4	broke down all 30 teams. We had one take on each team, each two parts. That's on the ringer
1:48.7	and B.I. Show will be playing something from that a little bit later. As well, coming up,
1:53.0	Mike Francesa is going to do some NFL picks with me. We did badly last week. We're going to do
1:58.5	better this week and then we're going to run a bunch of stuff from the three podcasts I just mentioned.
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