Baker-Mayfield trade to the Carolina Panthers fallout for the Panthers, for the Seahawks,

some other teams. That's what we're going to be talking about today on Stealing Bananas.

I'm Ben Gretchen. You can find my newsletter, Bengris.com.

With me, as always is Sean Siegel.

You can find off his great work at Rodeviz.

Sean, my vacations are finally over.

I'm back.

It's early July, but I have nothing else on the schedule except fantasy football until December.

And I'm very excited about it.

You're all refreshed, all recharged and ready to roll through these next six months.

Yes, I absolutely am. I am rearing to get going. Like I'm feeling like I just want to be so deep.

I mean, I'm already into my projections. I'm already doing a lot of stuff. But I'm very much feeling the edge. I'm seeing the tweets. I'm seeing other people that, you know, I get a little competitive. You know, I see other people that are maybe a little further in their offseason work than I, where I want to be for myself. And so then I'm like, I got to step this up. I got to hurry up. Well,

that just gets me excited. We're going to. You've been crushing. Well, that's nice to you to say. We, we try and put out lots of great content over there at Rodeviz, Michael Dudenrich Connor, O'Driscoll, doing a fantastic job. Blair's going to have some new great stuff out. but yeah we're're excited. I mean, this is, this is the time. And I'm excited because it sounds like stealing signals is about

to really catch fire. Then we had some developments while you were gone, which is that the

Carolina Panthers, having seen Sam Darnold and Matt Carole again here for a little bit,

have decided to go in a different direction.

Yeah, and it's funny, like we like to talk about the team perspective stuff.

You know, the big thing for people who were watching me try to formulate my thoughts on the Seahawks,

my big overarching point on why it was so dumb that they didn't take a rookie quarterback

in a class where the quarterbacks really got pushed down and you could have used a pretty

limited amount of draft capital to get this opportunity was 2020 looks like a lost season for

you anyway. So why not try to find out if you can hit on something, right? Hit on Sam Howell or hit on whoever. Give it a year, then just go to 2023 and go to a new quarterback if you have to. But don't just waste this year not seeing if there's something at quarterback. I think for the Panthers, it's pretty clearly the same thing where, yeah, maybe they've already decided Matt Carrell's not the guy I don't

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