Hello and welcome to this week in Ringer Sports. I'm Liz Kelly bringing you the highlights

from the Ringer Podcast Network. This is actually our last roundup of 2017 but we'll still

have some new podcasts going up next week like the Bill Simmons podcast and the Ringer

NFL show. On the site we are almost done with our year in review package but this week

we've added our favorite sports moments of the year, broken into two parts, one for each

half of the year and the best things about the 2017 NFL season so far. And tons more

on the Ringer.com. Okay, first up is football. The Jimmy Garoppolo era in San Francisco has

been as good as advertised with the QB going 3 and O as a starter. On the Bill Simmons podcast,

Bill is joined by the legendary New York Sports Radio House Mike Francesca and here they

discuss the QB's early success. The moment he got the job, I picked them every week and I'm with

you. I couldn't understand. This is a league that all we hear every single year since forever is

you can't win unless you have a quarterback and there's never more than 8 to 10 quarterbacks. And

here was one that was available and for whatever reason either nobody believed or the Patriots didn't

want to trade them within the AFC or they were holding on to them because they just didn't believe

that 40 year old Brady would be able to play. And once they saw he could play, what do you do at that

point? Because you can't franchise Garoppolo and pay two quarterbacks, 30 million dollars. And he's

sitting there. I think he hit all of it, Bill. I think he hit on all of it. I think they waited to see if Tom

was still Tom and he is. He's probably going to win the F.D. Pate. Yeah. So he's still Tom. They couldn't

pay two. The kids going to get paid. They waited as long as they could and then they sent them to a

place where they could still get value. They got the picks they love which are the 30 most 30s

are the Bells X favorite because he thinks he's getting a one in paying for two. So he loves both.

So that's the perfect pick. So they'll turn it into something good but they gave up a special

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