The Bill Simmons Podcast
The Patriots Are Pathetic, Detroit Crushes Minnesota, Plus Wild-Card Guess the Lines With Cousin Sal
Mon, 06 Jan 2025
The Ringer's Bill Simmons is joined by Cousin Sal to discuss the Lions' 31-9 win over the Vikings to end the NFL regular season, the solidified playoff picture, the Rams giving up the 3-seed by losing to the Seahawks, Steelers-Bengals, the Bucs taking the NFC South (01:08), the Patriots surrendering the no. 1 draft pick by beating the Bills, the Dolphins and Bengals missing the playoffs, and some end-of-season observations (23:27), before guessing the lines for Wild-Card Weekend (53:00), and closing the show with Parent Corner (01:12:30). Host: Bill Simmons Guest: Cousin Sal Producers: Kyle Crichton and Chia Hao Tat 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 Week 18 of the NFL?
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All right, well, it's a bad sign, Sal, that we're starting a podcast before a Sunday night game ends. I had so high hopes for Lions-Vikings. I know.
Mike, I don't know what happened. I don't know what happened, Mike.
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Chapter 3: How did the Lions perform against the Vikings?
And every year I'm like, I'm never betting on this again. And then I bet on it. I had Buffalo. I also had Houston because I loved Houston. You lost your wise wager.
Yeah, I sat my starters. I bet Tennessee. I was like, they're 2-14 against the spread. And that's why I got to warm up for the playoffs. So I'm not starting anyone good. But I felt like today was like a little bit of an outer body experience. We're used to the 1 p.m. slate being kind of shit, right? But we saw so many backups today. It reminded me like of a high school reunion.
Where you're like in the corner of the room, like you're sipping cheap wine and staring at name tags.
You're like, oh, there's Marcus Mariota and Trey Lance. Oh, wow, Jimmy G. What's he up to? Jimmy G. I'm going to go over and talk to him. Yeah, Jimmy. Jimmy G, you still living in Los Angeles?
Yeah. What's up with the divorce? And then like Davis Mills corners you and spends like 20 minutes showing you pictures of his vintage Chevy. And you're like, all right, I'm good. I'm good. Let's get to the playoffs already. This sucks. Who is that? Billy Zappy?
Zappy and DTR. This is great. Schefter's reported there's a trade. The Pats have traded down from the first to the fourth pick and they've dropped three spots and every round after that in return for jack shit. Got nothing.
Got zero to do that. I haven't seen the specs on Jack shit. I'll have to see a linebacker from.
He's a quarterback. Undersized. All right. Kyle, should I get you a Jack shit Jersey? Cause that's what we traded the first pick for.
Oh, man. One thing I was thinking, I mean, at least they realized that they don't have the coach and they got rid of poor Mayo who, you know, was put in an impossible spot. He didn't know how to be a head coach. But I was looking at the coaches who made the playoffs. Andy Reid,
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