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The Bill Barnwell Show

Secret Superstars

The Bill Barnwell Show

ESPN

Sports

4.4647 Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2022

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Bill sits down with his friend Ben Gretch to talk about players who are either secret superstars or secretly on the decline after the 2021 season. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey guys, welcome back to another episode of the Bill Barnwell Show.

0:09.0

I'm Bill Barnwell.

0:10.0

Today, Ben Gretch of the Stealing Signals newsletter joins us to break down which players

0:16.3

might have secretly broken out or secretly started to go on the down swing of their careers based

0:22.6

on what they did in 2021. So I hope you guys enjoy that conversation. But first, I wanted to

0:28.4

quickly tell you about the first draft podcast with ESPN experts, Mill Kiper Jr., Todd McShay

0:34.0

and Field Yates. These guys are keeping tabs on the latest in the NFL draft,

0:38.6

and you can now catch them twice a week every Monday and Thursdays. So check out Monday's show

0:43.0

on YouTube as well. Download and subscribe for the first draft podcast wherever you get podcasts.

0:49.4

Now here's Ben Gretchen. All right, joining me now here on the Bill Barnwell show.

0:56.1

Someone I've wanted Evan had him on at the beginning of the season last year to break down

1:00.2

sort of what was meaningful, what was not meaningful coming out of week one.

1:03.8

And so we have him back on here.

1:05.9

Talk about what was meaningful and maybe not quite as meaningful for some skill position

1:10.7

players from the 2021 season.

1:13.6

He's a podcaster in multiple places. He also publishes the excellent stealing signals newsletter.

1:19.6

This is Ben Gritch. Ben, how are you?

1:21.6

Doing great. I'm glad to be back on with you.

1:24.6

Enjoy so much your stuff. Have so much respect for your work. So it'll be fun to chat today.

1:29.8

I'm excited. Yeah. I feel like this was inspired by me reading the newsletter I just mentioned stealing signals, which is excellent.

1:36.0

I enjoy it every week during the football season. There's like a certain subset of the work I had to do each and every week that I found as the year went on,

1:44.2

I was just like, oh, I can just read Ben instead of actually going through this piece by piece.

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