MNF Recap: Caleb Williams REGRESSION, Sam Darnold’s Future, and Kirk Cousins Concern Levels

The Bill Barnwell Show

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4.4 • 647 Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2024

⏱️ 57 minutes

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On today's episode of The Bill Barnwell Show, ESPN's Ben Baby joins to break down the Monday Night Football doubleheader. They discuss how Caleb Williams has regressed, how the Bears can build around Williams, and what changes need to occur to bring Chicago to the next level. Next, they tackle how Sam Darnold has evolved throughout his career, whether J.J. McCarthy or Sam Darnold will be the starter for the Vikings next year, and if Minnesota can go on a deep playoff run with Darnold. Later, they discuss if Kirk Cousins should remain the starter or if Michael Penix Jr. should take the reins, concerns surrounding Cousins, and if the Atlanta Falcons can make it to the postseason. Plus, will Antonio Pierce return next year as head coach for the Las Vegas Raiders? All that and more! 2:20 Bears vs. Vikings Recap 3:24 Caleb Williams regression 13:25 Sam Darnold's evolution 32:05 Falcons vs. Raiders Recap 33:00 Kirk Cousins concerns 48:12 Will Antonio Pierce be back next year? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:35.9	Hey guys, welcome to the Bill Barnwell Show.
0:38.4	I am Bill Barnwell.
0:39.7	Today we are going to be discussing last night's Monday night football double header.
0:47.0	We have the Vikings beating the Bears and then to finish up after a bit of late drama,
0:53.9	the Falcons pulled out a victory over the Las Vegas Raiders, joining me to talk about those games.
1:00.0	It's a friend of mine does excellent work covering the Bengals for us at ESPN, Indian cricket a historian of Texas hip-hop, a man whose knowledge goes in so many fun directions.
1:15.7	We're going to talk about all that with ESPN's Ben Baby. Ben, how are you, sir?
1:20.3	I am doing great, Bill. What a fantastic intro, by the way. And, you know, I just got done watching
1:26.2	Bengals Titans on Sunday. So not exactly
1:29.0	cleanest football. So I feel like I was well prepared for what we saw on Monday night.
1:34.2	Bengals Titans was fun, though. A lot of stuff happened in that game. It wasn't like the best
1:38.8	played game I've ever seen. But every time I would like see it pop up on red zone or I would have it, I had it in the quad box because the one o'clock games were abysmal.
1:47.0	So I was watching it on the quad box and there was stuff happening every time I looked up.
1:50.4	That was a fun bad game.
1:52.5	I don't know that we had a lot of fun in our two bad games tonight.
1:56.4	Yeah, I think that's the rule, right? If you're not going to be a playoff team, at least be entertaining and at least
2:01.6	make it worth our time. And I think it's as crazy as it sounds, Bengals Titans is why you tune in
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