The Anthony Edwards Moment, the Lions Bandwagon, and NFL Playoff Picks With Rob Mahoney and Peter Schrager

The Bill Simmons Podcast

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🗓️ 6 September 2023

⏱️ 89 minutes

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The Ringer's Bill Simmons is joined by Rob Mahoney to discuss the FIBA World Cup, including Anthony Edwards becoming the cornerstone for Team USA, America's struggle with centers in international play, the exciting Team Canada, and more (1:53). Then, Bill talks with Peter Schrager of Fox Sports and NFL Network about Detroit Lions hype, Aaron Rodgers anticipation, and more sleeper teams (29:32), before running through their NFL playoff predictions (54:54). Host: Bill Simmons Guests: Rob Mahoney and Peter Schrager Producer: Kyle Crichton The Ringer is committed to responsible gaming, please checkout theringer.com/RG to find out more or listen to the end of the episode for additional details. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Coming up, more football and some basketball. Wow. Okay. That's next.
0:08.9	We're also brought to you by the Ringer podcast network where we have a slew of football
0:12.8	pods going up this week. We have Ringer fantasy football show, Ringer gambling show, Ryan
0:17.6	Mercillo, Ringer NFL show, this podcast. We're also covering the season. Big preview on the
0:23.6	ringer.com, Steven Ruiz, that is QB ranking. Shio Kapadia has his trade value for the 2023 season,
0:30.3	coming out later this week. I've already got no couple arguments about it with him. You haven't
0:33.7	even read it yet. We also have the Ringer fantasy football guide as well. If you have some last
0:38.0	minute drafts before Thursday, the big opening night, Travis Kelsey, we just found out he hyper
0:44.3	extended his knee. We talked about the chiefs lines game a little bit with Peter Shrigger coming
0:50.4	up later. We didn't even know about the Kelsey thing. Could this be the year from hell for the
0:54.0	chiefs? Bad sign. No Chris Jones. Kelsey's already kind of hurt. We'll see if it means anything.
1:01.3	Anyway, Peter Shrigger coming up later and then Rob Mahoney to lead off as we're going to talk
1:05.6	a little world championships. Team USA. Do people realize that USA might not win this tournament?
1:14.0	Because that might be where we're headed. We're going to talk about all the things we learned
1:18.0	from that team. Also, new rewatchables. We put up Monday night. We did Lost in Translation,
1:23.7	me and Amanda Dobbins, 28th anniversary of a really, really great movie. So that is what I got for
1:29.6	you. Let's bring in Mahoney. First, our friends from ProJet.
1:47.6	I brought Mahoney's here from theringer.com. He's now a pop culture guy. He's fairly a sports guy.
1:58.8	He's been on our prestige TV podcast, breaking down the return of Justified, which was really good.
2:05.6	You guys landed a nice spot with it, right? Very good. Enjoyed it a lot. But look,
2:09.6	am I not allowed to dabble a little bit? Are we not a sports and pop culture website?
2:14.6	We are. And there's nothing going on, which is why it's so exciting. The people World Cup
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