Are the Chargers for real? Will the Texans Fail C.J. Stroud? Monday Night Football Recap

The Bill Barnwell Show

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4.4 • 660 Ratings

🗓️ 16 September 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Bill Barnwell and Dan Pizzuta of Snaps & Stats breakdown week 2's Monday Night Football doubleheader. 01:42 - Chargers beat the Raiders 20-9 07:45 - Are the Raiders positioned to best utilize Ashton Jeanty? 12:35 - Was this Geno Smith's worst start since becoming a franchise QB? 15:25 - Grading Justin Herbert's performance 19:15 - Buccaneers win a thriller over the Texans 24:45 - Baker Mayfield leads the Bucs to victory late 27:14 - The Texans start off 0-2 30:48 - Are the Texans failing C.J. Stroud? 38:37 - Is the AFC South up for grabs? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:00.1	each and every week, as I am about to do right now with my friend from the snaps and stats
1:06.0	newsletter, breaking down these two Monday night games to, I say like maybe a B plus maybe a maybe a
1:14.7	C plus game in terms of what we saw on Monday night here in this first double header of the season
1:19.7	joining me to do that is the excellent Dan Pizzuta Dan how are you I'm I'm doing well I'm
1:25.1	properly caffeinated after a double Monday night double header.
1:30.8	Like you said, entertaining enough games, I think that that'll get us through.
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