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This stream is brought to you by The Farmer's Dog, the official pet food of the NFL, The Bill Simmons Podcast, live on Netflix. It is almost midnight here on the East Coast. Cousin Sal and I, he's in New York. I'm in Boston. The only thing we were hoping for was no overtime game or no long Rams-Broncos game. And we got it. We got a nice long one. I'm Groggy.

Both of our teams had horrible days. Should mention, new rewatchable is coming tomorrow. 13 going on 30 And you're going to be on Ringer, Ringer-Wise Guys all week.

Cousin Sal (2:29)

So there you go.

Bill Simmons (2:31)

All right. Before we get to our pathetic teams and a day of mostly a bloodbath from a gambling standpoint, Rams-Broncos. What a fun game.

Cousin Sal (2:41)

That was good.

Bill Simmons (2:42)

Good times. Broncos scored 30 points in the second half. We had a Hefanga pick six.

We had a Stafford TD bomb. And then we had the sketchiest call of the season, a Rams PI that kept a Broncos drive alive that did not seem like a PI when it happened. And then on the replay, it definitely wasn't a PI. It was such a bad call that Terry McCalla, they go to him in the booth. He's like, yeah, I don't think that was PI, which never happened.

Cousin Sal (3:11)

He quit. He turned in his resignation. What's that word? I can't even speak.

Bill Simmons (3:16)

Resignation.

Cousin Sal (3:17)

Yeah. It looked like it was that call was like in the second row. I'm like, he's not getting that. But what is that nonsense? But yeah, Bill, you're not going to see Matthew Stafford make too many mistakes.

Thanks, Chris. I know he was MVP last year.

Bill Simmons (3:33)

I love, Collins was like, oh, Matthew Stafford. He throws a pick six and then Tariko gives us the Matthew Stafford, our career leader in pick six is at 33

Cousin Sal (3:44)

Did they stop the game? They should have stopped the game.

Bill Simmons (3:46)

Anytime they stopped the game and then they gave the trophy to somebody else running the other way. How does Jameis Winston not own that? Maybe he can get it this year.

Cousin Sal (3:52)

Yeah, right.

Bill Simmons (3:53)

That should be one of his goals. So look, the Rams are now one and two.

I'm not that worried about them. And we've seen that Denver playbook before where a team takes the lead in the first half and then the Altitude and Bo Nix does the Jekyll and Hyde thing. I feel like I've watched that game 12 times in the last two years. He's got to lead the league in the last two years in almost picks that get dropped. And Denver wins. Denver is two and one. I'm not worried about the Rams yet.

Cousin Sal (4:23)

Are you?

No, not really. I thought they played well. I took them first half only because of the... Really, I don't know. I don't think there's a script in the NFL, but I did feel like, well, this is a Bo Nicks comeback. I don't know why it takes them to the third quarter to wake up.

Bill Simmons (4:38)

Why didn't you do the South Special? Did you look at it?