Good teams in distress and some other pretty average football in week 12.

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

I'm Ben Gretch.

You can find the stealing signals newsletter at banggretsch.

com with me as always is Sean Siegel. You can find all of his great work over at Rodevis, including this past week in his banana stand article. He ranked the bottom half of the league's teams from number 32 to number 17 and explained why they're bad. I just asked him if he's going to do 1 to 16 this week.

He said either this week, maybe next week.

It's coming up soon.

I'm going to be curious where some of these good teams that struggled in

week 12 land on that list because it's a changing landscape at the top.

I mean, if you think back to the 2025, January of 2025, the end of the

2024 season, the postseason this past winter, you had, you know, the Lions is the one seed

in the NFC. They get upset by the commanders. They've, they've struggled and I want to talk about

them having a rough day today. You had the commanders who beat them go to the conference championship.

They're obviously in complete disarray.

They didn't play today.

You have the Eagles who go on to win the Super Bowl who lose today blowing a 21-0 lead.

Now, they're still 8 and 3, and the Eagles fans are quick to tell you that they still win games but they're the the best looking of the bunch because

over on the aFC side the teams going into obviously the last several post seasons that everyone

talks about are the chiefs the the Bills, the Ravens,

all of those teams have had their struggles this year.

The Chiefs come back and win in overtime.

And this was the game where I was like, I mean, I found myself rooting against the Chiefs.

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