NBA Blowout Theories, NFL Wild-Card Picks With Sheil Kapadia and the Belichick-Mayo Succession With Tom Curran

The Ryen Russillo Podcast

The Ringer

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4.8 • 13.9K Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2024

⏱️ 100 minutes

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Russillo starts the show by digging into why the NBA has so many blowouts right now (0:37). Then, he’s joined by The Ringer’s Sheil Kapadia to break down all six wild-card matchups (20:46) before welcoming in NBC Sports Boston’s Tom Curran to discuss the Patriots' decision to move on from Bill Belichick, hiring Jerod Mayo, and what happens next in New England (46:19). Plus, Life Advice! Is it OK to only want to date younger women (63:13)? The Ringer is committed to responsible gaming. Please check out theringer.com/RG to find out more or listen to the end of the episode for additional details. Host: Ryen Russillo Guests: Sheil Kapadia and Tom Curran Producers: Steve Ceruti, Kyle Crichton, and Mike Wargon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Packed podcast for you today. We start with the NBA blowouts. What's going on? Is this more? Do we have theories?
0:16.8	NBA sources have reached out. I will share those quotes with you. We pick every
0:20.4	wild card game, a stat and a storyline with Sheila Capatia and the final
0:24.8	days of Bill Bellicheck is the head coach of the New England Patriots and what's
0:28.2	next for him and who is Drad Mayo as a head coach Tom Curran my guy back in
0:32.3	Boston has all of the details and life
0:34.8	advice enjoy your Friday. Can I interest you in an NBA blowout because I have
0:41.4	a lot of choices from the menu. So, you know, I'm going into last night's games. There is some stuff where I'm like, okay, you know, they may learn some stuff here. This would be interesting. And then the bucks are up 7538 in the Celtics
0:54.4	of the half.
0:55.0	Apparently, and this was T&T's number,
0:57.6	that deficit for Boston was their worst
1:00.3	first half deficit since 1967.
1:05.2	So I know that I resist a lot of the back to back stuff
1:09.8	because I just get so sick and hearing about
1:11.3	like a team loses and you go, oh well it was back to back to back to
1:14.9	you know you're like okay as if no team has ever lost or ever won it back to back right?
1:19.7	So I think that there's a really good Milwaukee part of it where you go, okay, how many teams could have done that to Boston in the NBA?
1:24.4	Even with the back-to-back stuff in Minnesota and overtime the night before.
1:27.2	Like, it's a really short list and for Milwaukee who, despite the really good record in the seed, they are in that group of a team that we have
1:36.0	expectations to be like can this when can this team win a title but then we look at the
1:40.1	rotations we look at the defense and there's stuff with Milwaukee you're like man I don't like that
1:44.3	number or that's a little weird or what's going on there although I would say Middleton who on the
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