coaches are getting younger this cycle is scheme more important than ever having multiple ways to win

all of that and more is what we're talking about today on stealing bananas i'm'm Ben Gretchenc. You can find the stealing signals newsletter at bengretsch.com. I've written about a lot of these topics. With me, as always, is Sean Siegel. You can find out of his great work at Rodeviz, where it's overtime, all of the normal, fantastic places. is we're going to hit on, I think, a lot of different

topics, Sean. We often talk on the show about how we had a pre-show discussion, this or that.

Sometimes we talk about the things that we're going to talk about on the show a little bit too

in depth before the show, probably never before like today, where,

you know, sometimes when we talk for a couple hours before the show, we're talking about

a whole bunch of different stuff.

We started talking today about your beloved Kansas college basketball we were talking a little

bit about.

We got into these topics and I multiple times was thinking, I wish we had just sort of hit

record and then maybe try to chop it up or something and figure out how to take some of these segments and insert them into the show. As you put it, as we were kind of winding down, all these interrelated topics. There's about six hours of content here. We're going to have to just hit record and see what we get to and what stuff we actually hit on and what stuff we don't. We'll do our best to cover all of it.

As I said, I've written about a lot of this since the end of the season,

some look back stuff, some of what I think are the bigger themes for the season,

including a post that is called scheme is more important than ever.

Another one about different ways that the 2025 season was transformative in the NFL.

A few other posts as well that talked about things that you and I have talked about as well

in our last show, including the degree of parity that we have in the future's odds and

Super Bowl odds going forward.

And the fact that the 2025 was decided by two teams who had extremely long Super Bowl odds coming into the year.

And both of the runners up in both conferences, the final four teams, none of them were, I believe it's like top 10 in futures odds this time last year.

All the teams that were the favorites, the Chiefs

and the Eagles and the Lions, they all missed the playoffs.

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