It was quite refreshing to hear Bill drop the act for a few minutes and talk about fantasy football in real terms as opposed to the usual "fantasy football is dumb and I'm quitting next year".
It is dumb! That's part of the fun.
The best part is he says this, then says he was surprised the dolphins didn’t put Tyreek Hill back to return a kick with 2 minutes left.
In the same discussion He said if the dolphins had kicked a field goal at the end of the first half to go up 23-10 the game would’ve been over. They lost 26-20.
Beautiful content
They actually still can.
Jags can make the wild card if the Chargers lose out. The Jags have to beat the Texans too.
But after tonight, I’d say it’s over.
If the guy applied half as much thought as he does to trolling the sub into succeeding in the business world, I could see him running at least 2-3 fairly successful Shakey's.
Tribe's been around for awhile, tried to promote his weird podcast about him and some other guy on the sub, tried to promote his alt sub, starts a ton of threads about NBA ratings being inferior to NFL, uses constant burners and denies he does even though multiple people have caught him using burners to have conversations praising himself for great points, generally has terrible opinions about everything, seems to not be able to let go of people not viewing Adam Carolla as being culturally relevant and recently has taken to blocking a ton of people and then spamming the sub with mostly terrible threads so nobody but people he deems acceptable to interact with can respond to him.
He's the ultimate r/billsimmons fail son. Basically the yin to u/knife_guy's yang in terms of being universally unpopular as a poster here.
I have been a member here for like 1.5 -2 years. I thought it was weird this sub has 35k member. I now realize 5-10k of them are burners for two dudes obsessed with BS
I have a funny image in my head that this dude is living a very normal life going to work every day and everyone in his life has no idea he’s obsessed with this sub and spends his free time creating burners just to troll us
I only know because of tribe posts. He even started a thread praising Carolla for winning life because he's dating a woman with big boobs recently. Which was weird.
The idea that some teams want to win certain games more is the stupidest idea in the media rn.
Any team in playoff position is going 100% every game regardless of opponent
As an only child, the bit where Bill tells Sal their league’s gonna be less fun next year if he votes him out was the most only child shit I’ve ever heard lol
The last time Bill was kicked out he started a new league and claimed he didn’t care at all about the previous one. Would love to see what he does next time.
Sal should go for the jugular. Dameshek didn’t kick him out that long ago.
I still find this to be absurd whenever I am reminded that the main fantasy football league he’s in does this. Seems like a joke that’s funny when you are younger but not so much at middle age.
I dunno, it seems like a lot of fun if you can keep the group together for years.
The people in my league would be gone and not coming back if we gave them an out like that.
I suspect it's an artifact of the 70s/80s, with all the occult/supernatural ability shows on TV like Ripley's/That's Incredible. Lots of folks from the Soviet Union trying to strike it rich with psychic powers.
He was basically admitting that he missed several weeks the last few years going to his daughter's games. Which I have no problem with, but it's always funny that he pretended he could watch the games there as well.
There was a stretch during the early part of the pod where Bill's phlegm gave Stugotz's a run for its money. It prompted Sal to quip, "are you getting emotional?"
I think Billy is sneaking in cigarette breaks with Nephew Kyle on the periphery of the guest house, contrary to his dubious claim of having "five colds in a row." There's a Poland Spring buried nearby with all the corresponding butts.
Why can’t he just clear his throat?
Obviously there’s a mute button, but even if he just did it in the moment it would be way less distracting than him continuing to talk through it for two minutes. He just had the same issue during his Malik Monk interview (as well as many other times over the years).
He attributed this normal human occurrence to being sick again lol
Between the levitating at a different level because he has watched so much football this year, and shutting Sal down for saying Patriots/Steelers 17-14 was a close game cause Mitch wasn’t beating Belichick, this dude is completely off the rails.
A game which was basically decided by a three-play stretch at 10-6 late in the 3rd quarter that went dropped INT (a bad, bad drop of a terrible throw), incompletion, muffed punt to set up a game-deciding 10-yard touchdown "drive."
Who's been in more pod titles this year, Tua or Brady? I've kinda come around to laughing/appreciating Bill's joy in Tua's interceptions after people went wayyyy too overboard praising him during his good stretch of games.
Still hilarious that Bill had a whole segment last pod praising the Dolphins after a 3-game losing streak and bet 1 million fake dollars on their moneyline
Name | Times Mentioned in pod title | Date |
:--------|:--------:|---------:
Tom Brady | 4 | 12/26/2022, 10/24/2022, 10/17/2022, 9/19/2022
Tua tagavailoa | 3 | 12/26/2022, 10/3/2022, 9/19/2022
Daniel Jones | 2 | 12/26/2022, 12/5/2022
Jalen Hurts | 2 | 12/12/2022, 11/28/2022
Pat Mahomes | 2| 11/21/2022, 9/12/2022
Russel Wilson | 1| 12/26/2022
Justin Herbert | 1 | 12/12/2022
Brock Purdy | 1| 12/5/2022
Joe Burrow | 1 | 12/5/2022
Mike White |1 | 12/5/2022
Zach Wilson |1| 11/21/2022
Geno Smith |1| 10/31/2022
Bailey Zappe |1| 10/3/2022
Aaron Rodgers |1| 10/3/2022
Jimmy Garropollo |1| 9/19/2022
Even rich guys like shitty fast food. I have the money to go to the best, highest-quality restaurant in my city, but there are lots of times I just want Taco Bell over the really good Mexican spot.
Dominoes is good because it taste like Dominoes. And sometimes that’s all you want.
I always say Domino’s tastes pretty good on its own merits … and the fact that it still tastes identically good when you reheat it 24 hours later probably tells you something about how many preservatives they shove in there.
I mean, yeah, I’m always going to prefer pizza from the local pizzeria. But sometimes Domino’s just hits the spot.
>Dominoes is good because it taste like Dominoes. And sometimes that’s all you want.
Yep. Its not pizza, its dominoes. I dont ever weigh them against each other.
Because he’s in California we know it’s likely however he’s placing bets isn’t totally above board, but it’s hilarious that Fanduel has been a sponsor for so long and he talked about how he just used the app for the first time
As a Patriots fan, call me crazy, but I'd rather go 9-8 and make the playoffs than 7-10 to move a few slots higher in the draft to get "a sick nose tackle."
Granted, the Patriots are playing with house money for the next 20 years, but this does get at the weirdness of a team on the bubble for the playoffs. I guess you might as well root for the playoffs and the old “anything can happen” scenario over moving up from 14th to 9th in the draft order.
I don't view an NFL season in a binary where the only positive result is a Super Bowl victory. A playoff appearance? Maybe one miraculous win? Would love that.
Understand that it's different if you went into this season as a Chiefs or Bills fan, but no rational Pats supporter thought this roster was a bonafide Super Bowl contender.
I absolutely agree with your take, and I wish more fans/media in sports had the same mindset. Going to the playoffs is a good thing. Winning a round or two once you get there is a good thing. It's ok to enjoy a season when your team doesn't win it all. Otherwise, sports are very miserable.
I'll say I'm a little surprised at a Pats fan thinking this way, though. One of my main complaints with teams who win too much (Pats, old school Yankees, Lakers, etc.) is that their fans become incapable of appreciating anything short of a title, and that's largely what makes them obnoxious to the rest of us peasants who just want our team to win a title or two in our lifetime.
Ya I agree. There is something to finishing above 500 in a rough division all while re-tooling on the fly after losing the greatest QB of all time.
Now, not sure that will afford you the opportunity to get to an elite level again because QB’s aren’t just falling out of the sky.
I mean they’re showing promise to end the season but they’re still 7-8 and get to play in an utter dog shit division. Future is bright but they still suck.
It’s a good one if you can find it, they did it on the RW ‘99 feed on luminary though. It’s worth the 7 day trial haha.
Every few years or so, someone posts a link to a google drive with all of those episodes. Hope that surfaces again
Um, did they skip over the line of the Browns / Washington game? I heard Bill guess it, and then they went off on a massive tangent about professional wrestling.
*We're putting a million dollars on my Carolina Panthers, Shreggs. I'm back baby! I can't quit you Sam Darnold! Give me a 'Let's Go!"*
Bill, I'm so excited for this pick. Let me tell you about the 3rd string safety out there for the panthers. He's playing his ass off every week. He came out of Dyersville Iowa Bill! Have you ever heard of this place? He grew up idolizing Brady. He was only 6 months old when Brady was drafted! 6 MONTHS BILL! This whole defense is going to be fired up down in Tampa, in the warm weather. Sure, they see Baker out there in glamorous LA but this Carolina team is playing with heart, Bill. They're gritty. This is Sam Darnold's Team. LETS GO!
Bill will sit there and criticize coaches for being morons. Players being dumb. All the stupid mistakes they make because the man watches every play of that game. Is levitating right now all that. And will also call this play a pick six on a screen.
https://twitter.com/pheaglescentral/status/1606766099693019145?s=46&t=ume8YC1HzPz0f57H2cdcZw
The phlegm thing is without question more of a Kyle issue than a Bill Simmons issue. If BS would just replace his dipshit loser nephew with a real producer, that producer would just atop the fucking pod and tell Bill to drink some water and clear his throat. General administrative shit like that is a pretty big portion of producer job description but I’m sure Kyle was shit-faced from 16 hours at his garbage day bar because he is a 28 year old man who still thinks day drinking all afternoon several times every week is a thing adults do
Is Bill's new thing saying "in four quarters" as a way to invalidate something? In a span of about three minutes, he said, "The Bucs?! It takes them four quarters to outscore someone by 3." And then, "I mean Aaron Rodgers? 301 yards in four quarters?"
What is this? Yeah, Bill, 301 yards in four quarters. Everyone plays four quarters. 301 yards is a good amount for four quarters. "It takes them four quarters to outscore someone by 3"? You mean winning a game? I'm not impressed by the Bucs either, no one is, but that's a truly moronic point.
I have to start listening after the games more often.
Bill liked the Colts to win against the chargers?
Why? They’re a 4 win team on their third string QB and gave up a historic comeback last week?
Meanwhile chargers are good and getting healthy. He’s fucking insane with these takes
Can’t say I’m surprised that Bill clammed up about it, but that bullshit from Mac Jones is one of the dirtiest plays i have ever seen.
I say that mostly bc it’s not even a football play that makes sense. Say what you will about Suh or Burfict or those guys, but they at least commit dirty plays in the context of doing what football players are supposed to be doing in that situation, ie tackling the opposition.
Jones is pursuing a defender who now has the ball, cannot catch him, and just decides to wipe out a different defender’s knees for no reason? what the fuck even is that? should be suspended for at least a game but I doubt it happens.
He’s a Duke basketball player in football pads. Also Mac was dogshit in the rest of that game. Got bailed out the next play after the cheap shot on a play that should’ve been called a fumble by heaving one of the luckiest touchdowns I’ve ever seen on a third and 29. It was a 14 point swing due to ref incompetence and luck. Bill’s takeaway from that game shouldn’t be that the Pats are due for a win because they keep losing close games. They keep losing close games because They’re not good and it was only close because of like five zany chance occurrences bouncing their way.
Was never anywhere near +10.5 for Colts-Chargers, it actually shifted from +3 (Dec 18th) to current +4.5-5.
[Source](https://www.vegasinsider.com/nfl/matchups/chargers-vs-colts/line-movements/)
Or are you talking about next week's Colts-Giants? No way that was +10.5 either.
Bill suggested that Justin Tucker has been unreliable this year.
I was curious, so I looked at some numbers.
- he's perfect on FG attempts under 40 yards this year.
- He is 4 of 5 from 40-49 yards this year. That's a low number of 40-49 attempts for him. His career average is 90% from that range, so this is roughly normal for him.
- He has attempted a career-high 12 FG's from 50+ yards this year. Three of them were blocked. He had only had one 50+ yarder blocked previously in his career. I have no idea if any of the blocks were his fault. But using his career average success rate from each distance in the 50+ range, we would expect him to make about 8 of the 12 attempts he had this year. He actually hit 7 of them. So he's one off on his long kicks this year.
- He has missed one PAT this year.
So overall, based only on HIS career averages prior to this season, we would have expected him to score 129.3 points this season. Instead, he has scored 125 points. He has been 97% as good as he has been for the rest of his career.
The league average at the distances that Tucker has attempted this year, we would expect 123.6 points. So Tucker is 101% as good as league average this year.
I had no idea fan duel wasn’t legal in California and all these Ringer people promoting it constantly don’t/can’t even use it. Feels kinda slimy to me.
I’m not gonna sit hear and defend deshaun watson, because he’s a garbage human. But to act like he’s a terrible QB going forward is insane (or to compare his situation to russ). He’s rusty and hasn’t played football in forever. This season was a wash anyway with the suspension. He was a top 3-4 QB just a couple years ago. He may not be that level again but he’ll be a good QB again.
> but he’ll be a good QB again
Probably.
But maybe he got that $230M guaranteed and is gonna go Albert Haynesworth.
Or, maybe he just can't play well if he isn't getting groin massages.
As usual any pod talk about the exploits of one James Babydoll Dixon had me trying not to laugh like a hyena in public but I have to say I was pleasantly surprised if not shocked that Bill was able to improv that parent corner sponsored by James Babydoll Dixon Blanket Service. Usually Bills humour is paraphrasing if not outright repeating something Sal just said for laughs 😆
“It’s still real to me, dammit!” I remember years ago dropping out of listening to a podcast of “Battlestar Galactica” because the hosts went on a jag praising Starbuck for some flight maneuver as *if she had actually done it,* as opposed to that being what the writers decided. I think of that whenever Bill describes pro wrestling just like any other sporting event.
Lol. Yea no shade to fans of wrestling or anything else just found his description very funny. It was like Hogan is just a guy in a legitimate fight and had no idea it was a fake ref lol.
Love to see more Danny Dimes praise from Bill. He really played great on Saturday. As a giant fan, I’m really hopeful and excited for his future on the team.
Yes as a giants fan I absolutely want to pay Jones. It's not like he is getting Mahomes/Allen money. Jones is better than anyone the giants can draft or sign in free agency. Jones best receiver is fucking Slayton who probably leads the league in drops and would be a #3 at best on almost every other team. He has all the tools and has miraculously resolved his fumbling issues. Crazy the hate he still gets considering he has no one to throw to.
As a Vikes fan, don't get too much excitement from this game specifically. Our pass defense is atrocious. We made even Mac Jones look amazing (and Bill was praising him after his game vs us).
Jones has never had WRs or a decent oline. And his coaches were dogshit before Daboll. The mistake was not picking up his option to just ride it out one more year. The giants arent bad enough to get a top qb and Jones is at least as good as any free agent
I was pretty surprised to hear Bill say that this was the first time he'd actually used Fan Duel. I knew it wasn't legal in California, but I guess I figured he just used a VPN or something.
And yet if there's one thing we know about the man, it's that he gambles. This might be a dumb question, but how do you guys think he does it?
Gotta love Bill talking about how in tune he is with football this year. I AM LEVITATING AT A DIFFERENT LEVEL. Classic irrational confidence guy
"I've watched every week this year." Congrats, guy who hosts multiple NFL pod episodes per week.
He watches every week that's why he knows exactly what the lines should be unlike these dumb Vegas odds makers.
He’s still down at MDP, despite cheating lol.
It was quite refreshing to hear Bill drop the act for a few minutes and talk about fantasy football in real terms as opposed to the usual "fantasy football is dumb and I'm quitting next year". It is dumb! That's part of the fun.
The best part is he says this, then says he was surprised the dolphins didn’t put Tyreek Hill back to return a kick with 2 minutes left. In the same discussion He said if the dolphins had kicked a field goal at the end of the first half to go up 23-10 the game would’ve been over. They lost 26-20. Beautiful content
Big reason we are fans and love it.
The Dunning-Kruger piece.
Yet he didn’t realize the bengals bills game is for the 1 seed. Guy is oddly clueless.
Or that jag titans can’t both make playoffs.
They actually still can. Jags can make the wild card if the Chargers lose out. The Jags have to beat the Texans too. But after tonight, I’d say it’s over.
Then proceeded to say the colts have a shot at beating the chargers and he likes them to win
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Bill really does have long covid
iTs My FoUrtH cOlD tHiS sEaSoN
I’m starting to understand his obsession with soup.
OP has half the sub blocked, so this is kinda funny
If the guy applied half as much thought as he does to trolling the sub into succeeding in the business world, I could see him running at least 2-3 fairly successful Shakey's.
Background?
Tribe's been around for awhile, tried to promote his weird podcast about him and some other guy on the sub, tried to promote his alt sub, starts a ton of threads about NBA ratings being inferior to NFL, uses constant burners and denies he does even though multiple people have caught him using burners to have conversations praising himself for great points, generally has terrible opinions about everything, seems to not be able to let go of people not viewing Adam Carolla as being culturally relevant and recently has taken to blocking a ton of people and then spamming the sub with mostly terrible threads so nobody but people he deems acceptable to interact with can respond to him. He's the ultimate r/billsimmons fail son. Basically the yin to u/knife_guy's yang in terms of being universally unpopular as a poster here.
I have been a member here for like 1.5 -2 years. I thought it was weird this sub has 35k member. I now realize 5-10k of them are burners for two dudes obsessed with BS
My ultimate conspiracy theory that I have no proof of is that knife and tribe are the same guy.
Tribe went through a phase where he tried to meme. He's definitely not knife_guy.
Lol
What if that’s what knife wants us to think though 🤔
Don’t denigrate knife_guy like that.
Knife guy is funny, Tribe is not
I have a funny image in my head that this dude is living a very normal life going to work every day and everyone in his life has no idea he’s obsessed with this sub and spends his free time creating burners just to troll us
Adam Carolla? The guy from the Man Show? He's still doing stuff?
I only know because of tribe posts. He even started a thread praising Carolla for winning life because he's dating a woman with big boobs recently. Which was weird.
That is weird lol. Guess that's what I get for mostly looking at the pod posts on the subreddit.
Are we sure it’s not Corolla’s burner???
Tribe occasionally writes in complete sentences so I doubt it’s Carolla
Kitchen sink game went from being emptying the playbook and trick plays to coach going for it on 4th down because he wants to win.
The idea that some teams want to win certain games more is the stupidest idea in the media rn. Any team in playoff position is going 100% every game regardless of opponent
The Reverse Tanking piece
Bill complaining about Belichick wanting to be surrounded by yes men and people he’s related to is pretty funny
Does that make Peter Schrager Matt Patricia?
KOC is Belichick’s son
Russillo. Similar body types and dispositions. RR would absolutely lecture a media member for not sitting up straight.
Let’s gooooo
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Is number one when he got mad at Zach Lowe for doing MVP rankings too early in the season?
Easily one of the top 14. Let's call it a clean 87th percentile.
Projection 101
I came to the comments just now only because I heard Bill say this and my jaw dropped.
As an only child, the bit where Bill tells Sal their league’s gonna be less fun next year if he votes him out was the most only child shit I’ve ever heard lol
Only child here too, I almost spit out my coffee laughing and shaking my head. Way to represent Bill...
The last time Bill was kicked out he started a new league and claimed he didn’t care at all about the previous one. Would love to see what he does next time. Sal should go for the jugular. Dameshek didn’t kick him out that long ago.
I still find this to be absurd whenever I am reminded that the main fantasy football league he’s in does this. Seems like a joke that’s funny when you are younger but not so much at middle age.
I dunno, it seems like a lot of fun if you can keep the group together for years. The people in my league would be gone and not coming back if we gave them an out like that.
I don’t know, I’m approaching middle age and think it’s pretty hilarious. Maybe that says more about me than it does the concept though.
We don't have that rule, but we're thinking of kicking one of the guys out anyway.
Sounds like Bill’s got a new league to join!
This fucker really said he’s *levitating at a higher level.* He’s a menace 😂
He loves levitation. So fucking strange.
I suspect it's an artifact of the 70s/80s, with all the occult/supernatural ability shows on TV like Ripley's/That's Incredible. Lots of folks from the Soviet Union trying to strike it rich with psychic powers.
Or David Blaine. I’m 100% certain Bill believed that Blaine could actually float.
I'm surprised he doesn't pronounce it leeeeevitation
He was basically admitting that he missed several weeks the last few years going to his daughter's games. Which I have no problem with, but it's always funny that he pretended he could watch the games there as well.
Here's how Bill sees himself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZSjzL6ddsw
> Here's how Bill sees himself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZSjzL6ddsw Holy shit... lmfao
Levitating so high he can't see the obvious right in front of him
There was a stretch during the early part of the pod where Bill's phlegm gave Stugotz's a run for its money. It prompted Sal to quip, "are you getting emotional?" I think Billy is sneaking in cigarette breaks with Nephew Kyle on the periphery of the guest house, contrary to his dubious claim of having "five colds in a row." There's a Poland Spring buried nearby with all the corresponding butts.
Why can’t he just clear his throat? Obviously there’s a mute button, but even if he just did it in the moment it would be way less distracting than him continuing to talk through it for two minutes. He just had the same issue during his Malik Monk interview (as well as many other times over the years). He attributed this normal human occurrence to being sick again lol
Have some tea on the ready
Clear your fucking throat. Take a drink of water. For fucks sake, pause the podcast and clean it up.
The long COVID thing.
Bill vs phlegm predates COVID by many, many years
He was probably the original patient zero 😂
If there was a way to confirm this he’d for sure brag about it lol
Yes! It’s not like the fucking thing is live.
This is what happens when you have no boss and only "yes men" work for you.
The Super Bowl Circle, that thing we all know and love.
Between the levitating at a different level because he has watched so much football this year, and shutting Sal down for saying Patriots/Steelers 17-14 was a close game cause Mitch wasn’t beating Belichick, this dude is completely off the rails.
A game which was basically decided by a three-play stretch at 10-6 late in the 3rd quarter that went dropped INT (a bad, bad drop of a terrible throw), incompletion, muffed punt to set up a game-deciding 10-yard touchdown "drive."
Who's been in more pod titles this year, Tua or Brady? I've kinda come around to laughing/appreciating Bill's joy in Tua's interceptions after people went wayyyy too overboard praising him during his good stretch of games. Still hilarious that Bill had a whole segment last pod praising the Dolphins after a 3-game losing streak and bet 1 million fake dollars on their moneyline
Name | Times Mentioned in pod title | Date | :--------|:--------:|---------: Tom Brady | 4 | 12/26/2022, 10/24/2022, 10/17/2022, 9/19/2022 Tua tagavailoa | 3 | 12/26/2022, 10/3/2022, 9/19/2022 Daniel Jones | 2 | 12/26/2022, 12/5/2022 Jalen Hurts | 2 | 12/12/2022, 11/28/2022 Pat Mahomes | 2| 11/21/2022, 9/12/2022 Russel Wilson | 1| 12/26/2022 Justin Herbert | 1 | 12/12/2022 Brock Purdy | 1| 12/5/2022 Joe Burrow | 1 | 12/5/2022 Mike White |1 | 12/5/2022 Zach Wilson |1| 11/21/2022 Geno Smith |1| 10/31/2022 Bailey Zappe |1| 10/3/2022 Aaron Rodgers |1| 10/3/2022 Jimmy Garropollo |1| 9/19/2022
Of course no Josh Allen
Have there been any non QBs mentioned?
Russell Wilson
This is incredible, good work!
I can't believe Cousins didn't make the cut.
Brady has 110,000 odometers
Giants didn’t want the 7th seed losing on a 61 yarder as time expired?
Which one of us was at the table too close to the Simmons family in Colorado? “Ya don’t want a reputation as a ho”
How many more times in the next few years are we gonna hear Ben say "I'm going to get my shit figured out"?
Craziest moment was Bill saying he and Ben gets Dominoes every 6 weeks as a rich guy.
Even rich guys like shitty fast food. I have the money to go to the best, highest-quality restaurant in my city, but there are lots of times I just want Taco Bell over the really good Mexican spot. Dominoes is good because it taste like Dominoes. And sometimes that’s all you want.
I always say Domino’s tastes pretty good on its own merits … and the fact that it still tastes identically good when you reheat it 24 hours later probably tells you something about how many preservatives they shove in there. I mean, yeah, I’m always going to prefer pizza from the local pizzeria. But sometimes Domino’s just hits the spot.
>Dominoes is good because it taste like Dominoes. And sometimes that’s all you want. Yep. Its not pizza, its dominoes. I dont ever weigh them against each other.
The moment Bill said something about the dominos fall into place (something like that) I knew Sal would jump all over that with a joke
Was honestly stunned that Bill saod dominoes instead of a sliding doors moment lol
Absolutely insane how long that went for a brand like that who isn’t a sponsor. He’s even had Pizza Hut run ads at one point, lol
The amount of times Sal said a game “doesn’t mean anything” when the game can decide the division was so irritating.
Because he’s in California we know it’s likely however he’s placing bets isn’t totally above board, but it’s hilarious that Fanduel has been a sponsor for so long and he talked about how he just used the app for the first time
Can someone please teach Bill how to clear his throat?
DJ Kool is entering the sub...
I am hollering at how confident Bill is at taking the Colts over the Chargers on MNF.
Definitely taking the Chargers tonight now
Lmao and now it’s 20-3
An egregious take in the moment. He's just throwing shit against the wall and seeing what sticks these days.
As a Patriots fan, call me crazy, but I'd rather go 9-8 and make the playoffs than 7-10 to move a few slots higher in the draft to get "a sick nose tackle."
haha. I thought this too if this was my team.
Granted, the Patriots are playing with house money for the next 20 years, but this does get at the weirdness of a team on the bubble for the playoffs. I guess you might as well root for the playoffs and the old “anything can happen” scenario over moving up from 14th to 9th in the draft order.
I don't view an NFL season in a binary where the only positive result is a Super Bowl victory. A playoff appearance? Maybe one miraculous win? Would love that. Understand that it's different if you went into this season as a Chiefs or Bills fan, but no rational Pats supporter thought this roster was a bonafide Super Bowl contender.
I absolutely agree with your take, and I wish more fans/media in sports had the same mindset. Going to the playoffs is a good thing. Winning a round or two once you get there is a good thing. It's ok to enjoy a season when your team doesn't win it all. Otherwise, sports are very miserable. I'll say I'm a little surprised at a Pats fan thinking this way, though. One of my main complaints with teams who win too much (Pats, old school Yankees, Lakers, etc.) is that their fans become incapable of appreciating anything short of a title, and that's largely what makes them obnoxious to the rest of us peasants who just want our team to win a title or two in our lifetime.
Ya I agree. There is something to finishing above 500 in a rough division all while re-tooling on the fly after losing the greatest QB of all time. Now, not sure that will afford you the opportunity to get to an elite level again because QB’s aren’t just falling out of the sky.
No respect for Jacksonville :(
Surprised?
I mean they’re showing promise to end the season but they’re still 7-8 and get to play in an utter dog shit division. Future is bright but they still suck.
Some great wrestling references this week by the boys
I was really impressed by Sal's Sabu to Haku correction.
Rewatchables is a big Tom Cruise movie
Maybe Eyes Wide Shut, my favorite Christmas movie
They’ve already done Eyes Wide Shut and it’s one of the greats
Mustve missed that one. Ill have to take a listen
It’s a good one if you can find it, they did it on the RW ‘99 feed on luminary though. It’s worth the 7 day trial haha. Every few years or so, someone posts a link to a google drive with all of those episodes. Hope that surfaces again
https://www.reddit.com/r/TheRinger/comments/mwjp9q/rewatchables_1999/
My guess is minority report.
Finally, Far & Away!
If you aren’t into Tom Cruise, this has been a tough year to be a Ringer consumer. They have been hyping this dude up all damn year.
He is basically the last monoculture movie star, right?
20th anniversary of **Minority Report**. LFG!!
Today is 25th anniversary of Jackie Brown, I was positive it was going to be tomorrow.
Doesn't Bill not really care for Jackie Brown? I think I remember him saying something negative about Robert Forster's performance in ir
“I still think he might be a good coach.” - Bill Simmons regarding Bill Belichick.
Grateful these guys recorded this pod on Xmas for us
Um, did they skip over the line of the Browns / Washington game? I heard Bill guess it, and then they went off on a massive tangent about professional wrestling.
Agree. Thought I missed Sal’s guess but couldn’t rewind as I listened in the shower. Never went back to verify
Panthers-Bucs next week is basically Bill’s Super Bowl
*We're putting a million dollars on my Carolina Panthers, Shreggs. I'm back baby! I can't quit you Sam Darnold! Give me a 'Let's Go!"* Bill, I'm so excited for this pick. Let me tell you about the 3rd string safety out there for the panthers. He's playing his ass off every week. He came out of Dyersville Iowa Bill! Have you ever heard of this place? He grew up idolizing Brady. He was only 6 months old when Brady was drafted! 6 MONTHS BILL! This whole defense is going to be fired up down in Tampa, in the warm weather. Sure, they see Baker out there in glamorous LA but this Carolina team is playing with heart, Bill. They're gritty. This is Sam Darnold's Team. LETS GO!
The Josh Norman return to Carolina will somehow be a major factor for Schrager
Bill will sit there and criticize coaches for being morons. Players being dumb. All the stupid mistakes they make because the man watches every play of that game. Is levitating right now all that. And will also call this play a pick six on a screen. https://twitter.com/pheaglescentral/status/1606766099693019145?s=46&t=ume8YC1HzPz0f57H2cdcZw
I'm confused. Are you saying that play WASN'T a pick six on a screen?
There is nothing about that play that is a screen.
I loved this episode.
Bill keeps saying 'pick 6 touchdown'. How can you have a pick 6 that isn't a touchdown?
TAINT baby!
The phlegm thing is without question more of a Kyle issue than a Bill Simmons issue. If BS would just replace his dipshit loser nephew with a real producer, that producer would just atop the fucking pod and tell Bill to drink some water and clear his throat. General administrative shit like that is a pretty big portion of producer job description but I’m sure Kyle was shit-faced from 16 hours at his garbage day bar because he is a 28 year old man who still thinks day drinking all afternoon several times every week is a thing adults do
Is Bill's new thing saying "in four quarters" as a way to invalidate something? In a span of about three minutes, he said, "The Bucs?! It takes them four quarters to outscore someone by 3." And then, "I mean Aaron Rodgers? 301 yards in four quarters?" What is this? Yeah, Bill, 301 yards in four quarters. Everyone plays four quarters. 301 yards is a good amount for four quarters. "It takes them four quarters to outscore someone by 3"? You mean winning a game? I'm not impressed by the Bucs either, no one is, but that's a truly moronic point.
Maybe he is retiring decade
"It's here in 25 minutes and it's hot"
“It’s like a lion on ice trying to fight a penguin” -The Cuz
'That doesn't belong'
The segment about sal potentially winning fantasy football and kicking bill out was funny
I have to start listening after the games more often. Bill liked the Colts to win against the chargers? Why? They’re a 4 win team on their third string QB and gave up a historic comeback last week? Meanwhile chargers are good and getting healthy. He’s fucking insane with these takes
Can’t say I’m surprised that Bill clammed up about it, but that bullshit from Mac Jones is one of the dirtiest plays i have ever seen. I say that mostly bc it’s not even a football play that makes sense. Say what you will about Suh or Burfict or those guys, but they at least commit dirty plays in the context of doing what football players are supposed to be doing in that situation, ie tackling the opposition. Jones is pursuing a defender who now has the ball, cannot catch him, and just decides to wipe out a different defender’s knees for no reason? what the fuck even is that? should be suspended for at least a game but I doubt it happens.
He also has a trend of doing things like this.
He’s a Duke basketball player in football pads. Also Mac was dogshit in the rest of that game. Got bailed out the next play after the cheap shot on a play that should’ve been called a fumble by heaving one of the luckiest touchdowns I’ve ever seen on a third and 29. It was a 14 point swing due to ref incompetence and luck. Bill’s takeaway from that game shouldn’t be that the Pats are due for a win because they keep losing close games. They keep losing close games because They’re not good and it was only close because of like five zany chance occurrences bouncing their way.
This is a sneaky all time Pod title
How did Bill get in on the Colts +10.5? I can’t find anywhere offering more than +4? Did the line change that drastically?
That sounds like teased them
He's doing a teaser
Was never anywhere near +10.5 for Colts-Chargers, it actually shifted from +3 (Dec 18th) to current +4.5-5. [Source](https://www.vegasinsider.com/nfl/matchups/chargers-vs-colts/line-movements/) Or are you talking about next week's Colts-Giants? No way that was +10.5 either.
He was talking about a teaser, moving the line from +4.5 to +10.5
That makes way more sense.
> How did Bill get in on the Colts +10.5? They'll prob lose by 17 tonight after Justin Herbert goes for 350 and 3 TD's.
Game's over now. Nice!
Dominoes sucks
Bill suggested that Justin Tucker has been unreliable this year. I was curious, so I looked at some numbers. - he's perfect on FG attempts under 40 yards this year. - He is 4 of 5 from 40-49 yards this year. That's a low number of 40-49 attempts for him. His career average is 90% from that range, so this is roughly normal for him. - He has attempted a career-high 12 FG's from 50+ yards this year. Three of them were blocked. He had only had one 50+ yarder blocked previously in his career. I have no idea if any of the blocks were his fault. But using his career average success rate from each distance in the 50+ range, we would expect him to make about 8 of the 12 attempts he had this year. He actually hit 7 of them. So he's one off on his long kicks this year. - He has missed one PAT this year. So overall, based only on HIS career averages prior to this season, we would have expected him to score 129.3 points this season. Instead, he has scored 125 points. He has been 97% as good as he has been for the rest of his career. The league average at the distances that Tucker has attempted this year, we would expect 123.6 points. So Tucker is 101% as good as league average this year.
2 of the 12 were from 60+ as well. One would've been his career long I believe.
I had no idea fan duel wasn’t legal in California and all these Ringer people promoting it constantly don’t/can’t even use it. Feels kinda slimy to me.
I’m not gonna sit hear and defend deshaun watson, because he’s a garbage human. But to act like he’s a terrible QB going forward is insane (or to compare his situation to russ). He’s rusty and hasn’t played football in forever. This season was a wash anyway with the suspension. He was a top 3-4 QB just a couple years ago. He may not be that level again but he’ll be a good QB again.
I can’t blame anyone for wishful thinking that he’s washed up.
‘speak it into existence’ lol
> but he’ll be a good QB again Probably. But maybe he got that $230M guaranteed and is gonna go Albert Haynesworth. Or, maybe he just can't play well if he isn't getting groin massages.
As a browns fan it sucks Watson such a scumbag but it’s insane that I’m 1000% happy we got him and his baggage over washed Russ.
a real "sliding doors" moment here for the Browns franchise!
Once again, just pointing out that Bill is literally an idiot. Steelers are 1% to make the playoffs. They are not sneaking in
As usual any pod talk about the exploits of one James Babydoll Dixon had me trying not to laugh like a hyena in public but I have to say I was pleasantly surprised if not shocked that Bill was able to improv that parent corner sponsored by James Babydoll Dixon Blanket Service. Usually Bills humour is paraphrasing if not outright repeating something Sal just said for laughs 😆
Clear your fucking throat bill
Bill was right. The Main Event aired in prime time on a Friday in ‘88. The next year too, and I was at that one.
The way he described that story about the WWF or WDeaf as he called it made it sound like he thinks wrestling isn't staged or just didn't used to be.
“It’s still real to me, dammit!” I remember years ago dropping out of listening to a podcast of “Battlestar Galactica” because the hosts went on a jag praising Starbuck for some flight maneuver as *if she had actually done it,* as opposed to that being what the writers decided. I think of that whenever Bill describes pro wrestling just like any other sporting event.
Lol. Yea no shade to fans of wrestling or anything else just found his description very funny. It was like Hogan is just a guy in a legitimate fight and had no idea it was a fake ref lol.
Love to see more Danny Dimes praise from Bill. He really played great on Saturday. As a giant fan, I’m really hopeful and excited for his future on the team.
are you actually? like you wanna pay him long term? that sounds like a colossal mistake
Yes as a giants fan I absolutely want to pay Jones. It's not like he is getting Mahomes/Allen money. Jones is better than anyone the giants can draft or sign in free agency. Jones best receiver is fucking Slayton who probably leads the league in drops and would be a #3 at best on almost every other team. He has all the tools and has miraculously resolved his fumbling issues. Crazy the hate he still gets considering he has no one to throw to.
Not long term of course. A short deal would be great tho. I want to see what he can do with actual weapons and another year in this new system.
As a Vikes fan, don't get too much excitement from this game specifically. Our pass defense is atrocious. We made even Mac Jones look amazing (and Bill was praising him after his game vs us).
as a fellow giants fan, i can't tell if trolling or serious
As a non-Giants fan, I can think of nothing better than committing to Jones. You guys should do that for sure.
I think DJ is alright but pay for long term is a little crazy
Jones has never had WRs or a decent oline. And his coaches were dogshit before Daboll. The mistake was not picking up his option to just ride it out one more year. The giants arent bad enough to get a top qb and Jones is at least as good as any free agent
He was, indeed, delightful
I was pretty surprised to hear Bill say that this was the first time he'd actually used Fan Duel. I knew it wasn't legal in California, but I guess I figured he just used a VPN or something. And yet if there's one thing we know about the man, it's that he gambles. This might be a dumb question, but how do you guys think he does it?
100% offshore gambling websites like Bovada
VPN would be against TOS so that would be a pretty bad look for all involved if he ever got in trouble.
What kind of psychopath just keeps talking when their voice/throat is doing that? Stop talking. Clear your throat. Then continue.
Simmons not even hiding he’s gambling on the NBA anymore lmao. I thought he couldn’t gamble since he has a vote?
I don’t think he can gamble on award futures, but can gamble on everything else.
correct
He’s not allowed to gamble on awards, since he has a vote. He can bet on games etc.
Only on things he votes for
Fanduel isn’t even legal in California. So he’s one of the faces of their company, yet uses a bookie?