reacting to some of the early news and playing time information that has come out of camp this week.

That's what we're going to talk about on today's episode of Stealing Bananas.

I'm Ben Gretsch. You can find my of stealing bananas. I'm Ben Gretch.

You can find my stealing signals newsletter at ben gretch.substack.com. With me as always,

is Sean Siegel. You can find all of his great work over at Rodeviz. Sean, I will give a quick

pitch for the Stealing Signals newsletter. I just wrote up a full unpaidwalled breakdown of what to expect from here

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for anyone who is thought about subscribing in the past, go ahead and read that post, get an

idea of all the content and subscription plans and everything that will content that's coming and the

subscription plans and how it all works. But yeah, we want to talk today about the first week

of camp. One of the fun things that happens right away when all these teams report, we get

these first practices and we get a bunch of information about who's running with the ones,

who's running what the second team, the third team, surprising sort of usage stuff.

And, you know, we are often talking, Sean, about fantasy football on the terms of basically,

you'd almost be forgiven for thinking that we might think that none of that matters, because

things can evolve in a million

different ways. We think that once, you know, between now and week one, a lot can change from week

one to week 17, a lot can change. Once we get the pads on and we start playing the actual games,

but, you know, sometimes the cream is going to rise. Some of the later picks are going to bubble up and actually get

playing time because the guys in front of them are just not good enough. It's not just about

projecting who's starting week one, which is what a lot of the conversation does happen to be

about right now. And yet, having said that, there is a lot of interesting news. And so it begs the question of,

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