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- He is the host of the Bill Barnwell Show podcast, with episodes released weekly.
- Barnwell joined ESPN in 2011 as a staff writer at Grantland. Follow on XEmailPrintOpen Extended ReactionsFive NFL teams saw their dreams of hoisting the Lombardi Trophy end over the weekend.
- The Panthers, Packers, Jaguars, Chargers and defending Super Bowl champion Eagles all fell in the wild-card round of the NFL playoffs, each in a game in which it seemed a play or two could have swung the outcome their way.
- In a postseason that promised to be wide open, we had three games decided by late touchdowns, a fourth come down to a red zone stop and the fifth stay within one score for most of the night before one team (the Patriots) pulled away late. Subscribe: 'The Bill Barnwell Show'Five organizations are moving on to the offseason, and we're here to help.
- I'm going to break down what went wrong for each of those franchises in the wild-card round, how that might have been foreseeable and what they can do to avoid that same fate next season.
