Episode 75: 2-on-1 with ESPN's Bill Barnwell
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🗓️ 3 July 2020
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Bill Barnwell is one of the most accomplished veterans of the football analytics and analysis industry. He sits down with Adam Levitan and Evan Silva to talk about his work, Cam Newton signing with the Patriots, chances for a Baker Mayfield bounceback and lots more. The trio also takes Listener Questions.
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| 0:00.0 | So, Hello and welcome to episode 75 of the official Establish the run |
| 0:20.9 | dot-com podcast my name is Adam Levitan and one of the co-founder |
| 0:24.4 | ETR as always I'm joined by fellow co-founder Evan Silva and today we are joined by a |
| 0:30.3 | very very special guest this is a young man who's been analyzing football deeply for more than a decade. |
| 0:36.7 | Came to fame among us nerds, I think originally at football outsiders. |
| 0:40.5 | Move to ESPN and Grantland, our IP Grantland, currently writing about NFL for ESPN. |
| 0:46.0 | It is of course Bill Barnwell. |
| 0:48.5 | Bill, how's it going? |
| 0:49.5 | Great, also, by the way, quietly, for a short period of time, former Roto World |
| 0:55.5 | writers so they built on last week's conversation. |
| 0:57.5 | And seriously, I saw somebody noticed that. How did I not know that? When were you at Roto World and |
| 1:02.0 | how did I not know this? It just feels like it was |
| 1:04.3 | sometime in the distant past. I don't remember what I was there for, don't remember what I wrote about, |
| 1:09.2 | but I was there very briefly. You guys were obviously doing your thing. It was one of my |
| 1:14.7 | favorite sites. So I'll start I use of course to this day, but you know it was just |
| 1:19.0 | it's just like having an on my resume somewhere in the distant past. Yeah. |
| 1:23.0 | I think that I remember it. |
| 1:24.8 | And it was brief, but you wrote like a sort of like a matchup column. |
| 1:30.9 | Okay, I could see that. Yeah, well because I remember this, I think it was a week |
| 1:36.5 | one and it was this big debate of Carson Palmer versus Alex Smith, who should we start? |
| 1:41.5 | Oh boy. |
| 1:42.9 | Do you recall that at all, Bill? |
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