The Bill Simmons Podcast
Philly Ruins the Chiefs and Mahomes Craps the Bed With Cousin Sal
Mon, 10 Feb 2025
The Ringer's Bill Simmons is joined by Cousin Sal to discuss the Eagles trouncing the Chiefs 40-22 in Super Bowl LIX, the Fox broadcast, gambling blunders, legacy watch, stories from New Orleans, NFL futures, Parent Corner, and more! Host: Bill Simmons Guest: Cousin Sal Producer: Kyle Crichton The Ringer is committed to responsible gaming. Please visit www.rg-help.com to learn more about the resources and helplines available. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Chapter 1: What happened in Super Bowl LIX?
This was another one of those teams that just got better over the four rounds. Had this defense was just felt like they peaked at the perfect time. Unlike the Chiefs. Yeah. And we did the opposite of peaking.
Because all those games you mentioned, the Eagles won the turnover battle, right? And the Chiefs pretty much won the turnover battle except against Buffalo. But you always thought, like, all right, it's not going to be the case that the Chiefs are going to get crushed in turnovers, right? Right. And it was 3-1 is a crushing. And, you know, 37-23 for time of possession is even worse.
I mean, you know, Mahomes ends up with decent numbers. But you can't say enough about how bad this was.
We're saving that for the next segment. All right. A couple of things with the Eagles that we should just remember from a playoff manifesto standpoint. Casey was negotiating for that three-peat That story came out during the week that they were negotiating with Pat Riley about the three-peat and how to pay. That's going in the manifesto. I'm putting it in next year in the playoff manifesto.
If one team is negotiating for what's going to happen after they win the title, that's immediately a fuck you. I can't believe I didn't factor that into anything.
Oh, come on.
You put that red on the chalkboard. This team's already negotiating after they think they're going to win. I don't know. That seemed like not nothing. You don't think?
Did Pat Riley bet the Eagles? I mean, that would have been a nice hedge because he lost a lot of money on T-shirts and everything else now for this three-point putt.
Pat Riley had $5 million under Carly and Jimmy Butler's first game with the Warriors.
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Chapter 2: Why did Mahomes struggle in the game?
Chapter 3: What were the major betting blunders?
Chapter 4: How did the Eagles perform throughout the season?
Cowboys had a guy named Charlie Waters who did well.
Oh, Charlie Waters.
Yeah, I think that's it, though.
I think that really is. Don't worry about comparing Mahomes to their bad performances ever. We need the white defensive back rankings.
In Black History Month, it's very sad. Did Jason Sehor never do this? No. He was in that good team, right? That got blown out by the Ravens.
Yeah, that was it. Yeah, so at one point in this game, Mahomes was, this was with four 49 left in the second quarter and it's 17, nothing. And the chiefs go to terrible runs, but home sack. And now they're giving the ball back to the Eagles. Again, my homes was five for 10 for 24 yards, a pick six and three sacks. And this is 25 minutes into the game. It was just shocking. Yeah.
Because we were looking, how many over the years, how many times when the Chiefs are losing, do we text each other the Chiefs live line, right? We needed them to get a first down in the end of the second quarter. Like we all got to see some life out of them before we even consider it. Thank God they didn't give us that opportunity.
Well, so five for 10 for 24 yards. And then we get to halftime and it's not much better. He misses Hopkins on that third and 11. Sal, he ended 21 for 32 for 257 with three touchdowns. Yeah. He hit every over and I'm sitting there. So this is my bad beat gambling story. So a million dollar picks. My biggest bet was Chiefs minus one and a half. That was for 500 fake K. And then the second bet.
Oh, it's fake. Yeah. Well, it's fake. I don't even know. Okay. Second bet was this 250 K parlay. Eagles to eight and a half. Mahomes 200 plus passing yards. And there's a third leg that I'll get to. So the 200 plus passing yards seem inconceivable. And then they start having these garbage time drives. And when they scored the second touchdown and he had like 187, 193.
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