Philly’s Disgrace, Buffalo’s Ceiling, and Round 1 Playoff Lines With Cousin Sal

The Bill Simmons Podcast

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🗓️ 4 January 2021

⏱️ 91 minutes

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The Ringer’s Bill Simmons is joined by Cousin Sal to discuss the Eagles’ puzzling loss to the Washington Football Team, the Dolphins’ loss to the Bills, the Browns finally making the playoffs after beating the Steelers, Packers-Bears, the Titans’ field-goal win over the Texans, and more (2:00) before guessing the NFL lines for the wild-card round of the playoffs (44:00). They close the show with Parent Corner (1:15:00). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	It's the 14th year of guest-aligned playoff edition, but it's the first year that we have six round
0:07.0	one playoff games to talk about. Somebody hose me down. We're also brought to you by the
0:11.3	ringer.com and the ringer podcast network, norprincioddy and Kevin Clark. They did a Sunday reaction
0:16.4	pod live. Yeah. Live. They did it on on the Twitter as the kids call it. So you can check out
0:24.8	that podcast. Check out the ringer NFL show all week. Warren Sharp is going to be on there twice.
0:31.4	Breaking down the games is also coming on this podcast on Tuesday as well. And if you love the
0:36.0	rewatchables, the 2020 slate is upon us putting the first one up Monday night. It's going to be
0:42.4	parridesmaids. A really good movie. 10 year anniversary of it this year. So get ready for that one.
0:49.4	Coming up the cousin. I six playoff games. Six. Good got almighty. First project.
0:57.0	All right. Tape in this Sunday night. It is 8 30 Pacific time. We just witnessed a true
1:20.9	abomination on Sunday night football. NBC deserves it. The NFL deserves it. They gave us a terrible
1:26.9	game and it was even more terrible than we ever could have imagined. We saw football team tank
1:32.0	on national TV. So with with I would say the poor giants fans hanging on a thread, but I hate
1:38.8	the giants. I did. They suffered. It was wonderful. Why am I so irrationally upset right now about
1:45.5	that game that I just saw like yeah, who cares? The giants are out. And let me tell you something.
1:50.2	If I needed the Cowboys, I need the Eagles as a Cowboys fan. If the Cowboys had one earlier,
1:55.6	I would not be here doing this podcast. I would tag one of my kids in none of the walls would be
2:00.2	standing in my house. I'd say Archie through this podcast. Read the parent corner. It's about you.
2:05.2	No offense. Whatever here. Just read these numbers. And that'll be that. But God, what you're right.
2:10.9	We never see tanking, but that was as close as it gets. Kids. It hurts out there. As you know, I'm an
2:16.8	NBA A hole. I'm an NBA hole. All right. Steph Curry. I'm used to tanking. Yeah. I'm used to
2:23.4	seeing it. I'm used to all the machinations of it. When teams tank in the NBA, it never really
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