The Floundering Pats, Lamar’s Big Day, the Struggling Wilsons, and Guess the Lines With Cousin Sal

The Bill Simmons Podcast

The Ringer

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4.5 • 29.4K Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2023

⏱️ 103 minutes

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The Ringer's Bill Simmons is joined by Cousin Sal to discuss another uninspiring Patriots loss to the scary Dolphins, and where they rank among the 0-2 teams (1:39), before running through other Week 2 notes, including: Cowboys-Jets, and Micah Parsons’s DPOY candidacy, Lamar Jackson’s game-winning performance vs. the Bengals, Chargers-Titans, Lions-Seahawks, Jaguars-Chiefs, shaky 2-0 teams, and more (18:02). Finally, they guess the lines for NFL Week 3 (1:03:35) before closing the show with Parent Corner (1:26:37). Host: Bill Simmons Guest: Cousin Sal 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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1:10.2	on Monday night. It is one of my favorite movies of the last 30 years. I got three co-hosts to
1:14.4	join me. It might not be one of your favorite movies, but God dang it's one of mine. So Monday night
1:20.7	rewatchables get ready. Very excited for that. Not as excited to share the following news. Had
1:25.7	us screw up on my end with my recorder that unfortunately I did not realize until the tail under
1:31.3	the podcast. So you're getting my zoom audio from my end for this podcast with Sal. It's fitting.
1:39.6	The Pat's crap the bed. I crap the bed from a recording standpoint. It still sounds fine. It
1:45.2	just doesn't sound as good as it always does, but it was my mistake. This is what happens when you
1:49.6	tape remotely. It hasn't happened to me since the dark days of the pandemic like spring 2020. I
1:55.0	think was the last time I did this. This was a beauty though. I actually did record for my end.
1:59.6	I just didn't have my mic plugged into the recorder because I had been traveling and I forgot to
2:03.9	plug it in. This is what happens when you get older and your team craps the bed on Sunday nights.
2:10.1	We're going to talk about that with Sal one second. First our friends from Pearl Jam.
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