The Bill Simmons Podcast
An Official Celtics Funk, Plus Todd McShay and Million-Dollar Picks
Fri, 24 Jan 2025
The Ringer's Bill Simmons asks, "What's wrong with the Celtics?" after being in-house for Celtics-Clippers and Celtics-Lakers (2:07). Next, Bill talks with Todd McShay about Jayden Daniels's historic rookie season, Washington's momentum heading into the NFC championship game against the Eagles, whether this is Josh Allen's year, and the keys to this weekend's Bills-Chiefs matchup (23:53). They also talk about Drake Maye's second season in New England, the upcoming NFL draft, and more (51:39). Finally, Bill is joined by Joe House to preview the NFL conference championship games, and make some Million-Dollar Picks (1:14:14). Host: Bill Simmons Guests: Todd McShay and Joe House 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
What's wrong with the Celtics?
There was some Pittsburgh turnovers and it was just chip on their shoulder. The only people that believe in us are in this locker room. And Washington definitely has some of that. I think the difference is Daniels is just way ahead of where Brady was. Brady game manager, really smart. Didn't turn the ball over.
but wasn't, he wasn't really Brady until I think 2005, six range when they really started leaning on him. Yep. This Daniels thing to, to lean on a rookie where he's basically the offense is hinging on him. It's pretty unusual. I will say though, Eckhart being back, uh, and them having two running backs now. Huge difference. It just feels like they can run the ball a little bit.
And Eckler looked like he had juice, right?
Yeah, no question.
Like a couple years ago, when he was in his, I don't want to say prime, but when he was at his peak, a couple of his runs, I was like, oh, shit, Eckler's back.
Right. Well, we were talking last week on the show and we were trying to figure out could Washington win this game. They had a really weird season where they looked really good the first few weeks. Then they had Daniels got hurt, had a couple injuries, the Hail Mary game was lucky. And they kind of like, they weren't stumbling through the middle of the season, but they looked...
Like they were like a rabbit team, the team that looks good for the first two, two and a half months. But then like the last month of the season, they kind of went back to where they were in September and then it just kept going and going and going.
So you could think that you could also think they easily could have lost the Tampa of Tampa just converts a second and one and makes three more plays and is up four with two minutes left. But I'm with you. Like sometimes with football, You get this momentum that's going. I guess the question for me in the other conferences, does Buffalo have that too?
Where Buffalo has had, like the turnover stats with them are nuts. Where they've never had a game where they've had more turnovers than the other team the whole season. Everyone else has done that as well in the Super Bowl. The game last week, they just have a habit of the other team just shoots themselves in the foot as they're playing them.
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