Bill Barnwell: The Stakes of NFL Week 17

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🗓️ 4 January 2021

⏱️ 32 minutes

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That’s a wrap on the NFL’s regular (and yet highly irregular) season! The final playoff berths in each conference have been claimed, with the Washington Football Team taking the hotly contested NFC East crown. In the AFC, Cleveland secured its first trip to the playoffs since 2002, and the Miami Dolphins missed the window in a blowout loss to the Bills. Bill Barnwell looks at who had the most to gain or lose in Week 17, and gives his playoff picture. Then, Pablo pays tribute to the late Gerry Marsden, former anthem singer for Liverpool FC. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Sudfeld takes the snap, steps up, throws over the middle of the field, and that is a short game that goes nowhere.
0:07.2	The clock has hit zero, and in one of the strangest years in NFL history, Washington changed its culture, changed its name, and went from picking second in the draft to finishing first in their division.
0:21.3	The Washington football team has won the NFC East.
0:26.8	At 7 and 9, the Washington football team is your playoff-bound NFC East champion.
0:35.2	And how they got there beating the Eagles in the final game of the NFL's regular season was as outrageous as anything we've seen this year.
0:45.3	And with the wild card matchups now locked in for next weekend, it feels like pretty much anything can happen in the NFL.
0:53.3	I'm Pablo Torre. It's Monday, January 1st. much anything can happen in the NFL.
1:02.0	I'm Pablo Torre. It's Monday, January 4th. This is ESPN Daily.
1:28.4	Cool. Three, two, one. Bill Barnwell, it is 1224 a.m. on January 4th, 2021. And we just watched the Washington football team defeat the Eagles. And I feel like scare quotes should be around the verb in that sentence.
1:30.4	20 to 14.
1:36.0	And I just want to begin our conversation here by reading you this tweet from Giants receiver, Darius Sladen.
1:39.1	This is sickening.
1:44.9	I mean, Pablo, I understand it's been two weeks since I was on ESPN daily, but I don't think we need to have that reaction.
1:50.8	Bill Barnwell is the host of the Bill Barnwell Show podcast, and his NFL column is on ESPN Plus.
1:54.6	I mean, okay, let me contextualize Darius Sladen's quote here.
2:02.6	This is the wide receiver on a 6 and 10 football team, furiously mad that his team's arch-rivals weren't doing enough to help Darius Slayton's New York Giants
2:06.2	win a division title.
2:08.3	And even worse, he might have been right
2:10.7	because it wasn't even about strictly the Eagle side of things.
2:14.7	Even after Nate Sudfeld, who was about to become a all-time person in Eagles' lore,
2:23.8	even after Nate Sudfeld came into this game, Washington attempted to protect their
2:28.1	six-point lead by throwing an interception, muffing a pun, and fumbling an attempted
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