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Hey guys, welcome to the Bill Barnwell Show.

I am Bill Barnwell today.

We are continuing our look at the teams who finish with five wins or less last year

and their chances of posting a winning record in 2025, hit the AFC last week with Ben Solac, joining me today, somewhat a couple years

older than Ben Solac, someone who probably with me was doing this when Ben Solek was in

great school, but someone I love talking football with in half or many years.

It's my friend from the NFL network, Greg Rosenthal. Greg, how are you, sir? I'm great, and that reminds me of that tweet. Everyone was quoting of like, what were you doing when Joe Flacco started in the NFL? I was like, I was writing about Joe Flacco starting in the NFL. That's what I was doing. And you're a sick man, for this topic, just like rolling through the dregs of the NFL. That's so Barnwell. It's very Bill Barnwell. But if when we did it last year with Ben Solac, we landed on, or we didn't land on it ourselves, but theoretically we would have landed on two successful teams, the commanders and the chargers who I had the charges as a playoff team. I did not have the commanders as a

playoff team. I don't think anybody had the commanders as a playoff team. And yet they made that leap not only to a winning record, but all the way to the NFC championship game. We could be talking about the team everyone should have been talking about before the season right now and just don't know it.

I love that and I think this is the right time of year for it.

I'm not just saying this, like before week one, every team is fascinating to me.

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