Finishing our conversation of all the things we thought mattered in week 12 and heading into week 13 and beyond.

That's what we're talking about today on stealing bananas.

I'm Ben Gretsch. You can find the stealing signals newsletter. Ben Gretsch.substack.com with me, as always, is Sean Siegel. You can find all of his great work over at RotoViz. As we said at the top of part one this week, we recorded these back-to-back Wednesday morning. Obviously, it's a holiday week. There's some possibility that we were talking through

some things. I know we were talking through some things here in part two that were going to be

affected by the Thursday games. And so you may be hearing this after those players have then

played another game. Hopefully we don't sound too stupid. Let's jump back into the discussion as we

wrap up all the things we

heard saw think are important from week 12. Sean, another spot we got to get to is the Tampa Bay

Buccaneers. They had a really fascinating week 12. They beat the Giants, 30 to 7, blowout win. Giants have a tough game. They have 48 yards of offense in the first half. They come out in the second half and they start throwing the ball in the league neighbors every single play. He has catches in the first three plays of the second half, seven targets across the first two drives of the second half, winds up with a decent line line i took hard in that and then you you get

his comments after the game and they're like we got to give him the ball when they've done this multiple times this year where they didn't get him the ball in the first half and they've come out in the second half and thrown it to him like every play i think they're going to do that on thanksgiving this is being probably released after thanksgiving you guys will know more about it than I do. But I took some heart in the fact that they tried really hard to get him the ball.

But they had a tough to get them the ball.

But they had a tough offensive game was the point of what I was saying.

The Bucks had the ball a ton, a lot of opportunity for their backs.

The usage was fascinating.

The first half, I mean, I joked in stealing signals that every week I could write like a whole odyssey about the buck's running back

usage and that was true like never more so than this game in the first half we get a bunch of bucky irving

we get rashad white starting and then playing in a two minute drill but basically not touching the ball other than

that he wants up with five touches in the first half total we get sean t up with five touches in the first half total.

We get Sean Tucker with five touches in the first half. He has a whole new role, Sean. He is the short yardage star. He gets a third down toss play on a third and two.

The defenders are out there, but he turns the corner, kind of fights through an almost horse collar, gains a yard, doesn't quite get the first. It's fourth and one. They give it right back to him up the middle and he converts it. They get down into the red zone. First and goal, give it to Sean Tucker. Touchdown. Wow, okay, three short yards. Carrey scores a touchdown. This is awesome. Don't talk about what happened next. Don't know.

What happened next, Sean?

And it just, when you're watching these games and you're trying not to look at the bottom line,

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