The Big Wilson Trade, Ridley’s Suspension, Westbrook’s Struggles, and Coach K’s Farewell Tour With Kevin Clark, Van Lathan, and Tate Frazier

The Bill Simmons Podcast

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4.5 • 29.4K Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2022

⏱️ 96 minutes

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The Ringer’s Bill Simmons is joined by Kevin Clark to discuss the blockbuster trade that sent longtime Seahawks QB Russell Wilson to the Broncos, Aaron Rodgers’s new Packers extension, and other thoughts from the NFL franchise tag deadline (3:00). Then Bill is joined by Van Lathan for a game of Do You Have a Take?, where they cover Calvin Ridley’s suspension, Russell Westbrook, “Why isn’t Superman cool?,” Chet Holmgren, and more (35:45). Finally, Bill talks with Tate Frazier about coach Mike Krzyzewski’s farewell tour, the new book ‘Coach K: The Rise and Reign of Mike Krzyzewski’ by Ian O’Connor, NCAA tournament odds, and more (1:08:38). Host: Bill Simmons Guests: Kevin Clark, Van Lathan, and Tate Frazier Producer: Kyle Crichton Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Coming up a huge NFL trade lots of takes and the return of the first ever employee of the
0:08.0	ringer. It is all next. We're also brought to you by the ringer podcast network where we put up
0:13.1	a new rewatchables on Monday night. We did Batman the 1989 movie which basically changed everything.
0:20.2	We laid out why we tried to figure out if it held up me Chris Ranch on fantasy. So you can find
0:26.0	that one coming up on this podcast. We were talking about the Russell Wilson trade with Kevin Clark.
0:33.8	We're going to be doing a bunch of different takes about sports and pop culture with Ben
0:38.0	Latham and playing a new game with him. And then the return of tape, Frazier first producer of
0:41.9	this podcast had to bring them back because of the coach K farewell tour. We'll explain why I get
0:49.7	so much enjoyed with that of Tates feelings about coach K when he comes on. So this is a good podcast.
0:56.0	You know, I forgot to mention in the segment we did with Kevin about Russell Wilson.
1:01.1	Remember a year and a half ago he was looking like an MVP candidate. Things were going great.
1:07.3	He came on this podcast. We had a really good podcast. It was fun. He was good.
1:11.9	Right afterwards the team went in on the tailspin. Then he gets hurt the following year. He
1:19.6	hurts his finger. And he wasn't very good last year either. And now he's traded. And you think
1:25.4	like I felt like we did that podcast like I don't know six six months ago, three months ago.
1:30.2	I was way longer than that obviously. But it was from the moment we did that podcast,
1:37.2	everything kind of changed for Russell Wilson. So I don't know is there. I really hope there's
1:41.3	not a BS podcast. I'm keeping my fingers crossed. I don't want that on me. I hope this is an
1:47.2	isolated incident. But I hope Russell Wilson. I hope things turn around for him in Denver. I have
1:52.8	my buddy Gus who's been on this podcast before. We've been for instance, I was in the eighth grade.
1:57.6	And we would always call each other whenever anything major happened.
2:02.2	Try to break the news to each other about how's the selling subway area for you after there's
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