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The Bill Barnwell Show

Bill Belichick’s Future in New England

The Bill Barnwell Show

ESPN

Sports

4.4647 Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2024

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

On today’s episode of the Bill Barnwell Show, writer JP Acosta joins to break down the firings of Arthur Smith and Ron Rivera and discuss which head coaching job is more desirable between the Atlanta Falcons and the Washington Commanders. Then, they discuss Bill Belichick’s future in New England and if he will be the next coach let go in the latest firings. Later, they discuss whether the firing of the Jaguars’ defensive staff was overdue, the lack of depth and organizational failure in Jacksonville, and the missed opportunities for the Jaguars’ offense. Plus, they give a realistic shopping list for the Jaguars in the offseason.  1:30 Arthur Smith firing 9:18 Ron Rivera firing  10:48 Which head coaching job is more desirable: Falcons or Commanders? 14:55 Bill Belichick’s future in New England  23:19 What went wrong with the Jaguars  39:20 Shopping list for the Jaguars in the offseason Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Bill Barnwell show.

0:08.4

I am the Barnwell.

0:11.4

I think the season is over.

0:13.0

I can't believe it.

0:14.5

It feels like we're in week seven of the year, but the season is over.

0:18.8

We are getting ready for the postseason.

0:20.7

Today we're going to wrap up a bit of the news we saw over the weekend, some coach firings on Monday, and we're going to talk about one of the collapses of the second half of the season with someone who's been watching them very closely. Joining me to talk about Jacksonville Jaguars, unfortunately for him as a Jaguars fan,

0:40.3

as someone who watches the Jags closely,

0:41.6

but also talk about these coach firings and some of the big decisions we saw or didn't see on Monday.

0:48.7

It's someone I've been meaning to have on the show for a while.

0:52.2

Great football writer for SB Nation and other places. Great follow on

0:55.2

Twitter as well. It is football writer J.P. Acosta. JP. How are you, sir? I'm doing great. Thank

1:01.6

for having me on. I feel like this is the perfect spot to talk about football, but also get in as

1:07.1

many wrestling references as possible. Yes. I see i want i want you to try and

1:14.6

sneak something in that only myself and nate tice will will be aware oh this is going to be so much fun

1:21.0

yes i'm looking forward to that that is that is that has not occurred to me but that's 100% correct

1:27.8

we have a lot to get to.

1:29.1

It's been a really interesting couple days.

1:31.1

Like I said, we'll get to the JAG stuff in a minute.

1:33.3

But let's start with some of the news we saw over the last 24 hours.

1:38.4

And that starts with 1201 a.m. Eastern where the Falcons did not want to go to bed sad, didn't want to go to bed mad,

1:46.4

they went to bed knowing they had fired Arthur Smith. So eventful day for Arthur Smith,

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