Round 1 Winners (Da Bears!) and Losers (the Eagles!), Plus Guess the Lines With Cousin Sal

The Bill Simmons Podcast

The Ringer

Sports

4.5 • 29.4K Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2026

⏱️ 97 minutes

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The Ringer’s Bill Simmons is joined by Cousin Sal LIVE on Netflix after the Patriots' win over the Chargers to recap the wild-card round of the NFL playoffs (3:25). Then, they guess the lines for the divisional round before ending with Parent Corner (01:11:46). Host: Bill Simmons Guest: Cousin Sal Producers: Chia Hao Tat and Eduardo Ocampo This episode is brought to you by Apple Watch. Find out more at apple.com/apple-watch-series-11 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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0:00.0	The Bill Simmons podcast is presented by Fandual Sportsbook.
0:09.8	We're also brought to you by the Ringer podcast Network.
0:13.9	Normally I have a rewatchable is coming for you every Monday, but we pushed it to Tuesday
0:17.6	this week.
0:18.6	It is going to be What Lies Beneath with Michelle Pfeiffer and Harrison Ford. We pushed it to Tuesday this week. It is going to be what lies beneath with Michelle Pfeiffer and Harrison Ford.
0:23.4	We pushed it to Tuesday because I'm going to have another podcast on Monday night.
0:29.0	Sal's coming up in a second.
0:30.1	We're going to break down Wild Card weekend, some crazy games.
0:33.4	The Pat's pulling it off for My Sanity on Sunday night.
0:37.0	We're going to talk about all of that stuff,
0:38.5	but we have to come back tomorrow after Steelers Texans to break down that game
0:45.0	and then do the last guest align.
0:47.3	So you'll see what happens later in the podcast, who's winning.
0:50.8	So the schedule this week, Sunday night, Monday night, Wednesday, and then Thursday.
0:57.5	So four podcasts this week.
0:59.5	And it's a special week because this is the first week.
1:02.7	This is the first podcast actually where our video was actually on Netflix as well as on Spotify.
1:09.1	And you can get the podcast wherever you get it.
1:11.3	But video stays on Spotify, but we moved the video over to Netflix.
1:15.8	We went live on Netflix.
1:17.2	We were the first podcast that they launched with.
1:19.8	They're launching a whole set of podcasts this week, including a bunch of ringer podcasts,
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