The Last Nets Dance, Mac Mania, Elite QB Watch, and RIP Jimmy Caan With Kevin Wildes, Peter Schrager, and Brian Koppelman

The Bill Simmons Podcast

The Ringer

Sports

4.4 • 30.2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2022

⏱️ 99 minutes

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The Ringer's Bill Simmons is joined by Kevin Wildes of Fox Sports to talk about Mac Jones, Chet Holmgren's NBA Summer League debut, Kevin's pitch for Kyrie Irving and Kevin Durant's 'Last Dance', how Joey Chestnut ruined the Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest, fixes to the summer sports schedule, and more (1:44). Then, Bill talks with NFL Network's Peter Schrager about Baker Mayfield being traded to the Panthers while the Browns don't have a starting QB for Week 1, Bengals optimism, what the 49ers will do with Jimmy Garoppolo, the loaded Chargers and the electric AFC West, how many truly elite QBs are in the NFL, and more (42:15). Finally Bill and Brian Koppelman remember the late James Caan (1:16:56). Host: Bill Simmons Guests: Kevin Wildes, Peter Schrager, and Brian Koppelman Producer: Kyle Crichton Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, if you like listening to this podcast, you might like watching clips from a two go to youtube.com slash bill Simmons.
0:05.6	That is where we have the clips from all the way to step so six years of BS podcasts as well as some rewatchable stuff to youtube.com slash bill Simmons.
0:15.0	Go check it out.
0:16.9	We're also brought to you by the ringer podcast network coming up on this one.
0:20.6	It is action pack.
0:21.6	My friend Kevin Wilde came on to talk about neck Jones, the hot dog getting contest KD and Kyrie Aaron judge.
0:29.7	We had a lot of topics and then Peter Schrager our last football combo before probably late August.
0:36.1	So we had talked about Baker Mayfield and Jimmy G up to little Mac Jones to a lead QBs and and who we might like as an MVP sleeper.
0:45.3	So there's that and then last but not least our guy Jimmy Khan passed away age 82.
0:51.5	I couldn't believe it when I heard the news.
0:53.1	We just did misery for the rewatchables that he was one of the stars of that three days ago.
0:57.7	Brian Coppeman so I brought Brian back to talk about why Jimmy meant so much to us.
1:04.1	We call them Jimmy.
1:05.9	Say it's like if you love James Khan enough eventually you just started calling him Jimmy Khan.
1:10.5	He was in a bunch of rewatchables that we did over the last few years and just over and over again proved that he was a one of one.
1:17.5	There was nobody quite like him.
1:19.0	Brian and I are going to explain why it is all coming up next.
1:22.1	First our friends from protein.
1:44.2	Alright Kevin Wildes is here my old buddy from PSPN and Grantland and the Grantland basketball.
1:49.6	Peter Shrager is coming up later in this podcast and we do talk about Mac Jones for a second.
1:56.0	You guys are in a few which I didn't know.
1:58.0	We're not in a few.
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