The Round 1 Mega-Playoff Preview (and UFC/WWE talk) With Ariel Helwani, Benjamin Solak, Raheem Palmer and Danny Heifetz

The Bill Simmons Podcast

The Ringer

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4.5 • 29.4K Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2023

⏱️ 132 minutes

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The Ringer’s Bill Simmons is joined by Ariel Helwani to discuss another hopeful Buffalo Bills team in January, UFC president Dana White’s press conference following his domestic violence incident, and Vince McMahon’s chaotic return to WWE (1:58). Then Bill talks with Benjamin Solak about some NFL wild-card games including Bills-Dolphins, 49ers-Seahawks, Chargers-Jaguars, and Ravens-Bengals (51:52). Then Bill is joined by Danny Heifetz and Raheem Palmer to discuss the other two playoff games: Giants-Vikings and Cowboys-Buccaneers (1:31:30). Finally Bill makes his Million-Dollar Picks for the NFL wild-card round (2:01:03). Host: Bill Simmons Guests: Ariel Helwani, Benjamin Solak, Raheem Palmer and Danny Heifetz Producer: Kyle Crichton Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The prestige TV podcast covered 1923 this week with Malloruban and Ben Limberg and on Sunday,
0:05.4	after the last of us airs on HBO, VanLath and Charles Holmes are going to have an instant reaction
0:10.8	to that show, which is supposed to be fantastic. It's all happened on the prestige TV podcast.
0:16.4	You should follow it. You should subscribe to it. Listen.
0:19.8	We're also brought to you by the Ringer podcast network. Put up a new rewatchables on Monday night.
0:25.5	We did sideways. I also went on off the pike with Brian Barrett with my friend Kevin Hensh and
0:30.8	we complained about the red socks and the patriots for 55 solid minutes and it was really fun
0:36.8	and laughed a few times. So good times all around. Coming up on this podcast, no Peter Shrigger this
0:42.5	week, but we do have Arra, Hawani, who talked to us about the Buffalo Bills and everything that's
0:47.8	happened to them in the last year and the last month. And we talked obviously, WWE and UFC as well.
0:53.3	Big stories happening in both of those places. After that Benjamin Solac came on to talk about
0:59.4	four games that I don't love except for Chargers, Jags and then the other three. What the hell do we
1:04.0	do with them? In the big matchups on that. And then last but not least, the two games that I do love,
1:09.9	Vikes Giants, Bucks, Cowboys, Danny Hyfits and Raheem Palmer joined me and we broke all of it down
1:16.5	with our NFC East expertise and their GAMLY expertise. And then last but not least,
1:20.7	Million Dollar Picks. Round one, the quest to go 11 and 0. In this case, it's 13 in
1:26.1	a no since they added two extra games. The quest continues. Some day, some day I'll go undefeated
1:33.3	with the playoff picks. Probably not this year. Round one's really hard. Where do you get to
1:36.8	next first, our friends from, Progym? All right, Tate and this early Thursday afternoon,
2:00.7	I had pointed out to have this guy out for a while because the bills are involved to his favorite team.
2:05.6	We had basically the Aril Hawane 4-Tex happened over the last two weeks with major,
2:11.7	major stories about the bills UFC and the WWE. Like three separate things that you could have come
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