Bill Barnwell on NFC East + Impact of COVID-19

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🗓️ 5 October 2020

⏱️ 29 minutes

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A crisis over coronavirus spread across the NFL in recent days. Following a rash of positive tests on the Tennessee Titans, Patriots QB Cam Newton also tested positive, as did the Chiefs practice QB Jordan Ta'amu. The Titans-Steelers game, scheduled for Sunday, has been postponed to later in the season, and the Patriots-Chiefs game, also scheduled for Sunday, is now tonight, in a Monday doubleheader. Bill Barnwell breaks down the impact of COVID-19 on NFL teams’ schedules and rosters, and assesses the NFC East, currently the worst division through four Sundays of action. Then, a remembrance of St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Bob Gibson. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Bethard is letting it go deep and it is battered around and incomplete.
0:06.2	And the game is over.
0:07.6	It will be.
0:08.7	Let's see seven seconds to go.
0:10.8	But the Eagles take over on downs.
0:13.5	The Eagles take over on downs.
0:15.3	Game is over.
0:16.0	They went for George Kettle.
0:20.6	That was the final play of Sunday night's Niners Eagles game,
0:25.2	in which the Philadelphia Eagles batted away a Hail Mary to secure their first victory of 2020,
0:32.3	and also first place in the NFC East.
0:36.5	Bill Barnwell shares his insights on why the Eagles, Giants, Cowboys,
0:41.1	and Washington now comprise the very worst division in football. And then I ask Bill to examine
0:49.2	how the weekend's new positive COVID tests will be felt by the League at large.
1:01.3	I'm Pablo Torre. It's Monday, October 5th. This is ESPN Daily.
1:16.5	All righty. Three, two, one. Bill Barnwell, there is service journalism, and then there is what we are doing here tonight,
1:27.3	staying up past midnight to dissect a division that mostly reminds me of a catchphrase I once saw on the movie poster for Alien versus Predator.
1:31.7	Whoever wins, we lose.
1:41.4	You know, blessedly, the Eagles were able to overcome two, not just one, but two 49ers backup quarterbacks and upset the defending NFC champions in San Francisco.
1:47.8	In doing so, the Eagles ensured that we are not going to be talking about the worst division of the last 50 years.
1:57.1	With Philadelphia's victory, taking the NFC east of 312 and 1 after four weeks, we are only
2:02.8	dealing with the second worst division of the last 50 years after four weeks, the worst,
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