The Broken Chargers, Mahomes 3.0, Zombie Deshaun, the Masked Backup, First Coach Fired, and Guess the Lines With Cousin Sal

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The Bill Simmons Podcast, live on Netflix. I have a new rewatchable coming tomorrow, Law-Abiding Citizen, with Jamie Foxx and Gerard Butler. Will be coming tomorrow, so stay tuned for that. Sal and I are up here. It is almost midnight on the East Coast. Chief's Colts went forever. And the irony of this, because Sal was listed as questionable on the injury report all weekend.

Kidney stone. Kidney stones or kidney stone? Is it one stone or multiple stones?

Sal Iacono (2:29)

Under the microscope, they found that it's one 10-centimeter stone, which is impossible to pass through your penis, which I don't know why it has to go through that anyway, but I am flying high right now.

Bill Simmons (2:44)

So you have medication. Chief's Colts is going into overtime. It just keeps going. It keeps going. We have a long review. It almost becomes the Laquan Treadwell game, but then it doesn't.

The Colts kind of blow it, and then once the Chiefs get the ball back, it's going to happen next.

Sal Iacono (3:01)

I knew it was going to happen anyway. It's either 30-27 final or 33-30. You know Daniel Jones' record in primetime games now?

Bill Simmons (3:09)

It's 1-16.

Sal Iacono (3:11)

1-16.

Yeah. So we didn't have to watch that last 20 minutes. It's fine. We know how it goes.

Bill Simmons (3:16)

So they get the overturn. They have all the momentum and then just do the most predictable two run plays in a row possible. Set up like a third and 13 Jones scrambles for five, gets hit right as he's going out of bounds, which that's like the demarcation of how famous of a quarterback you are. He didn't get the call. I think there's like Josh Allen's getting that, Mahomes is getting that, the best quarterbacks leader, LeBarr is getting it.

Then fourth and eight, call timeout.

Then it seemed like they were going to go for it. Did you want them to go for it there? Because I was like, you might as well. The Chiefs are going to score anyway. Then you think like, well, your quarterback is Daniel Jones, you can't do this. I didn't know how I felt.

Sal Iacono (3:59)

He felt that way too. He's like, I'm Daniel Jones, I can't do this. I don't know what I'm sent out here for. By the way, it was the worst trying to draw someone off sides attempt I've ever seen. He was seven yards in the shotgun looking around, he had his hands on his hips. It was no weird cadence or anything. But if you kick off in overtime, isn't that the point? You don't want to give the Chiefs the third possession. You don't want to give the other team the third possession. And by kickoff field goal, you're doing exactly that with three minutes left, which is way too much.

Bill Simmons (4:26)

I mean, the bigger point is you're on the 17, you're in four down territory at that point, and you've got to get a little more creative. They had the game, the Colts are now and 2 Chiefs are 2 and And Mahomes, who had the ACL surgery nine months ago, did not look good, I didn't think, on Monday night.