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The Bill Simmons Podcast

The Jason Witten Error, Bryce's Big Deal and the Trump Zone With Bryan Curtis and Bill's Buddy JackO | The Bill Simmons Podcast

The Bill Simmons Podcast

The Ringer

Sports

4.529.4K Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2019

⏱️ 81 minutes

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HBO and The Ringer's Bill Simmons is joined by Bryan Curtis to discuss Jason Witten's return to the NFL from the ESPN 'Monday Night Football' booth (6:20). Then Bill calls up his buddy JackO to talk Bryce Harper's mega-millions deal with the Phillies, Manny Machado to the Padres, the 2020 presidential race, Robert Kraft, and more (39:35). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Today's episode of the Bill Simmons podcast live from Boston on the Rigger podcast network

0:09.5

is brought to you as always by Zippercruder. No one knows the importance of talent more

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than Zippercruder. The best teams they start with great talent. Well, unless they're the 2019

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Celtics, then you have great talent, but you don't have a great theme. I will wrap my head on this

0:26.4

for the rest of my life and not understand what's happening this season. Normally, though,

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Meanwhile, being a Boston sports fan, well, it ruins you as a sports fan. 12 titles in

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county in this century. Oh, yeah, you start to expect the title every year. That's why I'm so

1:02.2

mad at the Celtics right now. I haven't went a title in like a month. That's the funny thing about

1:07.0

better. Once you've experienced it, you can't go back, which is the gist of that Hulu commercial.

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apply. We're also brought to you by the ringer.com where we have some incredible stuff this week,

1:36.0

including John Gonzalez went to Greece and did a whole long, awesome feature about Rick Patina,

1:41.6

who's kind of an exile over there, but not 100%. He's he's coaching one of the best teams over

1:47.2

there, but it is a crazy story to the great job of it. Check that out. Check out our basketball and

1:52.1

all of our NFL combine stuff. We have NFL draft stuff with NBA draft stuff. We have a whole lot of

1:58.7

TV stuff, a whole lot of movie stuff, some good tech stuff. Kate Nibb's wrote a really good piece

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