The Simon & Friends Podcast

It's time. Ben Parker is back to officially kick off our coverage and prep for the 2025 NFL Draft. Over Ben's next several appearances on the show, we will be introducing you to several names expected to be part of the 2025 draft process. This month we begin talking about the quarterbacks. In these shows we'll give you a quick background on each player, and our early thoughts on them a...

Peyton Davila of Two P's On A Pod is back to talk all things fantasy football. For this month's "Awards Show" we have 10 fantasy football-themed awards we'll each give to a recipient. All to get you ready for your fantasy drafts. Be sure to check out Peyton's podcast covering the NFL every week, and keep coming back to Simon & Friends as we get you ready for the upcom...

It's Wild Card Week on The Simon & Friends Podcast and we are taking a brief break from the NFL to talk all things MCU. This past weekend was the San Diego Comic-Con and the debut of the latest MCU movie Deadpool & Wolverine. To help me dive into these topics is of course Muhammad Mehdi and we break down: Robert Downey Jr. as Doctor Doom What's next in the MCU Everything from Deadp...

It's power ranking week! And this time we are doing things a bit differently. For the first time, we are having a one-off ranking of the 32 *projected* starting quarterbacks in the NFL. Josh and I are adding a twist by also giving a projection for these rankings. Who are the best QBs if you look at the next three NFL seasons? How much does future development/financial cost factor into our rank...

In our last offseason-themed episode, Ben and I give our grades for the 2019 NFL Draft. It's always fun to do draft grades the moment a draft is complete, but how about adding the context of five seasons of time? We look back on the picks, the trades, and who everyone would become in the NFL in this look back of the 2019 draft. Make sure you are checking out all of Ben's other content belo...

Peyton Davila of Two P's On A Pod is back for our monthly award show! This month we dive deep into six training camp battles we are most looking forward to. Is there a QB competition in the NFL this year? How do some of the best defensive minds deploy their secondaries? Which offensive lines will mush the most people? All those questions and answers are here! Be sure to follow Peyton on Twitte...

A fun offseason exercise this week. I am joined by James Schmeits and John Boyd to go through an NFL Position Group Draft. All 32 teams and we select a QB, a "skill" group, an offensive line, a defensive front seven, and a defensive backfield. We bounce around a majority of the league looking ahead to the 2024-25 season. Make sure you're following James ( @schmeits06 ) and John ( @Jo...

So...who won the offseason? In our third and final installment of the NFL Offseason Power Rankings, Josh Limesand and I take #VIBES into account. Which teams are feeling good both internally and from an outsider's perspective? Our own and the public? Josh and I dig into the vibes of every team to create our final ranking for "Who won the offseason". Make sure you follow Josh on Twitt...

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to rank all seven Mission Impossible movies. And that's exactly what Muhammad and I did this week on the podcast! The summer is for ranking things as we say here and we have chosen to do another movie ranking episode for our 'Wild Card' week here on the podcast. This time around we tackle the Mission Impossible series and talk about the...

Peyton Davila is back for our Monthly NFL Award Show! This month we dedicate our awards to the NFL Summer Storylines we are monitoring this offseason. Rule changes, contract talks, players on new teams, and more. Make sure you are following Peyton on Twitter @pdavila28, and listening to him and Parker on their podcast, 'Two P's On A Pod', wherever you get your podcasts.

Ben Parker is back early to celebrate/remember the 2014 NFL Draft! It's been 10 years now since the draft that brought us Aaron Donald, who announced his retirement this offseason. In celebration of that Ben is back to give all 32 (well - 30) teams a redo for the first round. Make sure you are following Ben on Twitter @BenPark79 and following his content! Watch him on YouTube Listen to his Pod...

We are back with another Power Rankings episode! Josh Limesand returns to do our second installment of our Offseason Power Rankings Series. This week we hop in a time machine and focus on the free agency and coaching carousel portion of the offseason. Be sure to follow Josh on Twitter (@JLime8) and check out his podcast ' Mic On The Vikes! '. Enjoy!

In this week's episode, Ben is here to give our "10 NFL Draft Commandments". With Ben joining me each month to talk NFL Draft we thought it would be good to discuss our core beliefs when it comes to the draft process. So we came up with 10 total commandments we will fall back on as we discuss the draft now year-round. Make sure you follow Ben on Twitter @BenPark79 , listen to him on...

Welcome back, everyone! We are back with our NFL content this week and we are joined by Peyton Davila of Two P's On A Pod to hand out awards for the NFL offseason. Peyton will join our regular monthly guests to do an awards show each month from now through the NFL season. Be sure to follow Peyton on Twitter , and check out his podcast Two P's On A Pod every week. Enjoy!

It's Wild Card Week on The Simon & Friends Podcast! We are taking a small break from NFL talk to deliver on an old promise. Muhammad Mehdi is back and we are ranking the Justice League-centric DCEU movies. With the DCEU finished and the start of the DCU just around the corner, Muhammad and I rank the core eight films of the DCEU to close that chapter of history. We will be back to NFL cont...

The NFL Draft is over and it's time to bring back our Power Rankings episodes with Josh Limesand ! We kick off our offseason power rankings episodes with our rankings and grades for the 2024 NFL Draft. This episode is split into two parts. Part 1, this one, includes teams ranked 1-18. 19-32 are in Part 2, which is in the feed now! Make sure you follow Josh on Twitter @JLime8 , as well as Box S...

And here is part two of this week's episode! Thanks again! Make sure you follow Josh on Twitter  ⁠@JLime8⁠ , as well as Box Score Network  ⁠@bscorenetwork⁠  to stay up to date on all of our content. Enjoy!

Welcome to the newly re-branded Simon & Friends Podcast! (Mostly) Same show with a new look and feel. To kick things off with the new era we have our THIRD annual NFL Draft Positional Over/Under episode with Ben Parker. Ben and I go position-by-position and make our picks for how many players will go from each position in the first round of the 2024 NFL Draft. Giving our analysis on the draft...

With the draft one week away it's finally Mock Draft Season! Joining me is...everyone from Box Score Network! We complete a first-round mock complete with live and pre-planned trades, QB surprises, and big fallers. Check it out, and make sure you follow all of our contributors and shows which you can find below! Triicky Takes: Bill , Connor , Austin Odds On Favorite: Robertson , Ben Two P'...

We wrap up the NFL Draft War Room Series with the AFC East and NFC East! Joined by Ronan Summers and Peyton Davila we break down the needs or all eight teams in these divisions as well as some of the biggest discussions around the NFL Draft. Trades, QBs, tier breaks, positional values, etc. It's all right here on The Simon Shortt Podcast! A big welcome to Peyton and his brother Parker to Box S...

Welcome back to The Simon Shortt Podcast! A loaded episode this week continues our NFL Draft War Room Series. This week I am joined by Ben Parker and Josh Limesand and we cover the NFC North and NFC South. It's an even longer episode this week because we also talk about the Stefon Diggs trade at the top of the pod, and then break for a longer QB Prospect discussion in the middle. In that QB di...

We are back and continuing our NFL Draft War Room Series! This week we hit the AFC South and NFC West. To help me do that I bring on Ronan Summers, James Schmeits, and Kev Nivek! You know where to find Ronan but follow him on Twitter @ronan_summers . Check out James and Kev of Bite-Size Sports on Twitter as well! James: @schmeits06 Kev: @kevnivek_ And listen to them weekly on The Bounce and Han Sh...

Welcome back to The Simon Shortt Podcast! This week we begin our NFL Draft War Room Series with Ben Parker and John Boyd . In this episode we get inside the minds of the top decision-makers for the AFC North and AFC West teams as they prepare for next month's draft. Make sure you follow both Ben and John on Twitter and check out all of their work. Ben - @BenPark79 Odds On Favorite Sports and M...

Welcome BACK to The Simon Shortt Podcast! Coming back with a vengeance, Ronan Summers once again joins to discuss all things in the NFL. We go over the winners and losers from the first few days of free agency, talk QB landscape, and get into a Steelers discussion at the end as they continue to pivot as a franchise. This podcast feed is back active now every Thursday and we are excited to bring yo...