Bill Barnwell on NFL Week 18, Playoff Picture, and a Bizarre NFL Season

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🗓️ 7 January 2022

⏱️ 38 minutes

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The NFL finishes its first 17-game regular season this weekend, and stakes around the league are high. With numerous records across the sport on the verge of breaking this Sunday, Bill Barnwell reflects on what a weird football season it’s been, and answers our most burning questions headed into the playoffs, like: could the Saints sneak into the NFC race with Taysom Hill under center, or even unknown QB Ian Book? Are the Titans the worst #1 seed the AFC has ever seen? And should the Raiders and Chargers declare a temporary truce so they both can make the playoffs? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	ESPN Daily is presented by supercuts, the smarter, easier way to get a haircut.
0:06.2	It's not just any haircut.
0:08.1	It's supercuts.
0:12.8	We're in a very unique season.
0:14.9	We're in the longest football season ever played.
0:17.4	We're in a new age of football here where we're playing 17 games a year.
0:21.6	A lot of the stuff that had happened before that, I think those records hold a different weight.
0:26.6	This particular NFL season has been unprecedented in its confusion.
0:31.6	That is what Cooper Cup, the Rams star receiver, is basically saying there,
0:35.6	that it's hard to know what this year's statistics
0:38.1	really mean and how good any of these teams really are as we head into week 18.
0:45.0	So today, we turn to our most numerous football friend Bill Barnwell to set the record straight
0:50.9	about the weirdest football season we have ever seen.
0:58.1	I'm Pablo Torre. It's Friday, January 7th.
1:00.3	This is ESPN Daily.
1:08.9	Bill, it is an honor to spend the first week 18 in NFL history with you.
1:09.7	Oh, no. Pablo.
1:10.3	Wait.
1:14.7	It is not actually the first week 18 in NFL history with you. Oh, no. Pablo. It is not actually the first week 18 in NFL history. There was one year, 1993, that the NFL actually had a week 18. Wait, what?
1:22.9	What? Okay. So I was, I was nine years old. So I was not covering the NFL at the time.
1:41.7	But the NFL had an 18-week season in 1993 because it had two by weeks. And I'm assuming it only lasted one year because the NFL realized they were actually doing something for player safety and decided that was a bad idea and didn't want to move forward with it.
1:48.8	See, Bill, that is why we have you. You're here to make us look smart by making me look stupid before even ask a question.
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