Bill Barnwell, it is 1147 p.m. Eastern time, but more importantly, man, it's been a couple

weeks. And I got to say, doing this show at this time of night, didn't feel normal without

you. Well, it's nice to be back, Pablo. I mean, I don't have stories about getting burnt for long touchdowns and getting fake congratulated for it in the locker room.

I don't have stories about what it's like to actually be covering an NFL game from a stadium, but I can tell you what I saw from my couch on Sunday.

Bill Barnwell is the host of the Bill Barnwell Show podcast and also our late-night

NFL spirit guide.

From your vantage point, from your couch, how would you even describe a week like this,

this Sunday that comes after, I think, the strangest Thanksgiving that any of us probably have ever had.

Yeah, I think it actually reminded me a lot of Thanksgiving in that even though things were incredibly different,

there was still some semblance of at least forced normalcy. I mean, this has been an absolutely disastrous week for the NFL in terms of teams being ravaged by the disease.

We're seeing the NFL close their team facilities for Monday and Tuesday of the upcoming week.

And yet, on Sunday, once the ball was in the air, things were normal.

The jets lost. The chargers made inexplicable decisions, and the Packers blew out the Bears.

This Sunday brought all the givens of NFL action, but the league played against a backdrop of

more coronavirus drama, more than it's seen in any week to date. Bill Barnwell returns to the show to break down what we saw this Sunday,

from great expectations to the increasingly bizarre.

I'm Pablo Torre. It's Monday, November 30th.

This is ESPN Daily.

So, Bill, we just finished watching Bears and Packers, and Aaron Rogers, to the surprise

of, I think, literally nobody, just decimated the Bears and Mitch Chubesky, 41 to 25.

So I want to turn this conversation to the horse race, the MVP conversation, because

there really hasn't been a wire-to-wire frontrunner this whole time.

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