Our biggest takeaways from wild card weekend.

That's what we're going to talk about today on stealing bananas.

I'm Ben Gretsch.

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With me as always is Sean Siegel. You can find all of his great work at RotoViz.

Sean, it was a very fun wildcard weekend. It was a little bit shocking, I would say, in the sense that we got all the favorites winning.

And then the really popular underdog the closest line and

the team that i think a lot of people were picking with san francisco to win in advance um i would say

it from the the different conversations i had that it seemed like that was the one that most

people were comfortable most comfortable picking san francisco also winning so you had sort of the chalky upset and then all the chalky favorites,

which is just to say that, you know, when I say chalky, the favorite team,

the teams that the market liked to advance.

They all advanced.

Not a lot of particularly entertaining games, you know, quite a few blowouts.

But it does set up for some really fun matchups in the divisional round.

I think we do have a pretty good final eight in terms of some of the best teams of this year.

And it should be really fun to see sort of how the rest of the playoffs play out as well.

It should be. You mentioned the blowouts, and the blowouts weren't particularly fun,

but they do set up a final eight, as you just mentioned, that looks extremely powerful.

And I think that we could see the champion really coming from any of these eight teams.

I would probably say the Rams are an interesting team with Matthew Stafford having the high highs and the low lows and a playmaking defense.

So we could get anything from them.

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