If you don't follow Bill Barnwell on Twitter, you should. Especially on Sundays. Not that you'd follow somebody for one day of the week. Anyway.
↵He provides the perfect contrast to standard fan-think, which could probably more fairly be termed announcer-think. A test for you: was the Saints' win against the 49ers a product of their just-know-how-to-winness, or did they happen upon a pair of fumbles, a muffed punt, a botched snap, and a tipped-in field goal? Barnwell has spent a lot of free time pointing out the latter events are examples of nothing more than balls that could've just as easily bounced the other way.
↵Barnwell is one of my favorite NFL writers, rare in his fearlessness when dealing with assumptions that shouldn't be assumptions. A locally relevant sample from today:
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↵Think you're going to see a lot of people suddenly realize that the Falcons are the team to beat in the NFC after this week.
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↵OT road loss to Steelers and dominant win over Cards more impressive to me than narrow victories over Vikings and 49ers. Think ATL beats NO.Bill Barnwell
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↵Think I might take Ryan over Rodgers RT @ChillBill88 GB stronger on both sides of the ball and most importantly QB.Bill Barnwell
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