NFL Super Wildcard Weekend Preview with Bill Barnwell

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🗓️ 12 January 2023

⏱️ 36 minutes

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America is a French goose of a nation on Super Wild Card Weekend—a kind football foie gras about to be force-fed a seemingly endless menu of expensive, high-stakes NFL playoff games, until we luxuriously burst. So today, we ask our friend Bill Barnwell—the sharpest and most empirically minded football analyst we know—to explain how he’s attacking these half-a-dozen dishes. Will numerous quarterback injuries spoil the meal? Is Tom Brady about to eat humble pie? Can Dak and the Cowboys sugarcoat over their recent struggles? Bill helps us manage our expectations, and our livers, in the process. -------- To help ensure you didn't miss any of our best stories from the past year, we've collected our favorite episodes of 2022 into one playlist. We think you’ll love every episode on there, so check it out. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	So Bill Barnwell, after a regular season that really did run the entire spectrum of human
0:07.2	emotion, which feels appropriate, by the way, for a sport that simply refuses to stop
0:12.1	micro-dosing Nathan Peter.
0:15.6	We have arrived.
0:16.6	We have arrived on the brink of a weekend that feels like what to you now, exactly.
0:20.5	Oh, boy.
0:22.5	It feels like uncertainty, which I think many people would associate, of course, with
0:27.4	the DeMar Hamlin incident a couple weeks ago.
0:30.7	Nathan Peter and played pretty well last week in the 18, which also raises uncertainty
0:36.2	question.
0:37.2	He started.
0:38.2	He started a game.
0:39.2	He started and he was fine.
0:41.4	Like he was, he was not the worst quarterback on his own team, which I think is kind of
0:48.2	remarkable.
0:49.2	And yet it raises this larger epistemological question of like, what can I actually believe
0:54.3	is real?
0:55.3	There's not a lot to hang your hat on in this wild card weekend if you want to rely
1:01.2	on something being real pop-up, because this is full of uncertainty.
1:06.2	Right.
1:07.2	There's multiple teams who are starting backup quarterbacks in the first round to
1:11.5	attend the Veloah.
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