Bill Barnwell Predicts NFL Playoff Picture

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🗓️ 5 September 2024

⏱️ 32 minutes

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The NFL season starts tonight when the defending champion Kansas City Chiefs take on the rival Baltimore Ravens. So for those anxious fans out there, rest easy, because that means there’s football every week from now until February. And most of you want to know if your squad is going to make the playoffs at year’s end. So today - instead of a crystal ball - we bring in Bill Barnwell, to tell us who is going to climb out of the cellar, and into the playoffs this winter. And which teams that made it last season, are in for a rude awakening this year. You can get more of Bill Barnwell on The Bill Barnwell Show. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Bill Barnwell, I ask all of our NFL media people this question before the season.
0:07.0	What is your pre-season slash build-up to week one process like?
0:11.9	Are you combing through all 22s are you out and about at
0:15.8	training camps what is your process or is it a whole lot of both locked in the
0:20.3	dungeon with the films honestly just prayer that I'm going to get through another season
0:25.1	of staying up to like 5 a.m.
0:26.8	on Sunday nights.
0:28.6	I find that pre-season you have to be very selective about what you're looking at.
0:37.0	I think it's really exciting to see real football being played in front of you and there's this desire to like be super knowledgeable of course and so you
0:46.9	know there are people who watch the third stringers play the third stringers and the reality
0:50.4	is you're just not going to find very much NFL tape from that stuff.
0:54.4	So I'm watching individual players, you know, I'm sitting here watching Caleb Boyer snaps.
0:59.4	I'm watching Drake May snaps.
1:01.8	If I'm going to talk about, you know, a team on the radio, I'm going to talk about a team on the radio,
1:04.6	I'm going to watch a bunch of snaps of that team play
1:07.4	and their first teamers.
1:08.3	But the reality is, and this is my pet peeve.
1:10.4	I don't know about you, but I hate it when during the preseason you hear about oh that was
1:15.4	Caleb Williams's first NFL touchdown and it's like no no one is gonna think that
1:20.3	they're not gonna save that football Caleb Williams' first NFL touchdown is coming in September.
1:25.0	It's not happening the second week in August.
1:27.0	So to me, I want to learn about some of these guys,
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