Drafting Non-Playoff Teams to Make Playoffs Next Year

The Bill Barnwell Show

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4.4 • 660 Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2026

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Bill and ESPN's Marcel Louis-Jacques draft non-playoff teams to make the playoffs next season. 0:00 Welcome 1:46 how John Harbaugh's availability affects the Dolphins' GM search 9:34 Mike McDaniel is caught in a strange limbo 17:15 Draft of 2025 non-playoff teams to make the playoffs in 2026 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:29.9	Hey guys, welcome to the Bill Barnwell show.
0:32.9	I am Bill Barnwell.
0:34.7	We have a little bit of a situation here. So Wednesday afternoon, I brought
0:40.7	along my friend Marcel Louis Jacques to talk about the NFL teams who missed the playoffs this
0:46.4	year, and we drafted them in terms of their chances of making it back to the playoffs in 2026.
0:52.0	Hopefully you will enjoy that conversation in a minute.
0:56.2	We also discussed the possibility that Mike McDaniel would be fired in Miami to open up a job for John Harbaugh.
1:05.3	At the time we recorded the show, Mike McDaniel had not been fired. And if you're listening to this, well, you know
1:12.4	Mike McDaniel has now been fired by the Miami Dolphins. So it is a little bit out of time,
1:21.1	some might say, but I do think the conversation matters, because we're discussing the
1:26.2	possibility of Harbaugh going there,
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