NBA Panic Teams, Best QBs Ever, and Sorry Seattle With Rob Mahoney, Chris Russo, and Danny Kelly

The Bill Simmons Podcast

The Ringer

Sports

4.4 • 30.2K Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2026

⏱️ 139 minutes

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The Ringer’s Bill Simmons is joined by Rob Mahoney to react to the Jimmy Butler injury before talking about the panic teams around the NBA (4:18). Then, Chris “Mad Dog” Russo joins to discuss the all-time great NFL QBs, the Josh Allen situation in Buffalo, and more (01:10:41). Finally, Danny Kelly hops on to talk about the Seahawks and their conference championship matchup against the Rams (01:51:45). Host: Bill Simmons Guests: Rob Mahoney, Chris Russo, and Danny Kelly Producers: Chia Hao Tat and Eduardo Ocampo The Ringer is committed to responsible gaming. Please visit⁠⁠⁠ www.rg-help.com⁠⁠⁠ to learn more about the resources and helplines available. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:40.1	We're also brought to by the Ringer Podcast Network where I have two rewatchables this week.
0:44.7	We put one up already on Monday night.
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0:56.4	I had a lot of fun. It's been on the list for years. We are moving rewatchables from video from YouTube to Netflix next week.
1:03.7	You will still be able to watch it on Spotify as well and get it as a podcast, wherever you get
1:07.8	your podcast, but the video will be on Spotify and then starting
1:11.0	on Monday with Netflix. So we are doing one more before we do that on Wednesday night. It is
1:17.0	going to be another 48 hours, the Eddie Murphy, Nick Nolte sequel, controversial sequel. I have a lot
1:22.2	of thoughts, but it's me, Van Lathen, and Chris Ryan. So that's coming Wednesday night. And then
1:26.4	coming next Monday on Netflix,
1:28.7	because we're going to try to, at least for the first few weeks, do movies that are also on Netflix. We're going to be doing Zodiac, which is a movie we did. I think the first year of the feed, we didn't have all the categories. The pod was under an hour. I wasn't on it. So Zodiac will be on Monday night on the rewatchables feed and also the
1:47.7	video will be on Netflix. So you can watch the movie on Netflix anytime over the next five
1:52.7	days. Speaking of rewatchables, so I mentioned how there's a Bill Simmons podcast live in Los Angeles
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