Friday Rollin’ Wild-Card Weekend With Mike Lombardi, Mallory Rubin, and Joe House

Friday Rollin’ Wild-Card Weekend With Mike Lombardi, Mallory Rubin, and Joe House

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HBO and The Ringer’s Bill Simmons is joined by FS1’s Mike Lombardi to discuss Brock Osweiler vs. Connor Cook (5:00), Atlanta’s occasionally great offense (14:00), Eli Manning’s mistakes (18:00), cold-weather cough-ups (21:00), Dolphins-Steelers (25:00), and Matt Moore’s starting QB potential (30:00). Then, The Ringer’s Mallory Rubin joins to offer up her thoughts on why announcers call Roethlisberger by his first name (37:00), Terrell Davis in the Hall of Fame (43:00), QB cluster theories in the draft (49:00), and Alabama vs. Clemson (53:00). Finally, House hops on the line to explain why Washington sports teams continue to suffer (1:01:00) and to discuss Kyle Korver to the Cavs (1:04:00), Eric Gordon’s All-Star-caliber play with Houston (1:08:00), the increased talent level in the NBA (1:10:00), and ending the NFL stink streak of 2016 (1:15:00).