2020's Carnival Teams: Good Offenses and Bad Defenses

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🗓️ 3 August 2020

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Welcome to the Yahoo Sports Fantasy Football Forecast! Yahoo’s Scott Pianowski and PFF’s Ian Hartitz are here to talk about finding this year’s carnival teams, the teams you can expect to put up a ton of points on offense and give up a ton of points on defense like the Atlanta Falcons, Carolina Panthers and more![Create or join a 2020 Yahoo Fantasy Football League for free today] New name, new artwork, new release schedule, same crew! We will be coming at you five days a week, Monday through Friday, until the regular season ends.Here’s the plan for August, all the Yahoo hosts you know like Liz Loza, Matt Harmon, Andy Behrens, Dalton Del Don and Scott Pianowski will be joined by guests around the fantasy football industry as we get you prepped for an unorthodox NFL season in 2020. We can’t guarantee you’ll win your league, but we’ll make sure you’ll stay entertained while becoming a smarter, more informed fantasy manager.The big news over the weekend was Matthew Stafford and Gardner Minshew being placed on the COVID-19 reserve list. How should coronavirus impact rankings this year? (02:00)Every year, a team like the 2019 Tampa Bay Buccaneers comes along, putting up massive point totals on offense while being a turnstile on defense, forcing teams to throw the ball to a narrow group of players to keep pace and ensuring fantasy gold for all involved.Who will be those carnival teams this year? Here are Scott Pianowski’s picks:Detroit Lions: The ball will be going to Kenny Golladay and Marvin Jr. early and often. Did you know Matthew Stafford was QB4 last year in points per game? (06:25)Atlanta Falcons: The Matt Ryan/Julio Jones connection has been around for a decade, but are there enough passes to go around for Calvin Ridley and newcomer Hayden Hurst? (13:15)Carolina Panthers: Consensus RB1 Christian McCaffrey is still a star, and while Teddy Bridgewater might not be peak Cam Newton, the improvement over Kyle Allen is good news for DJ Moore and Curtis Samuel. (20:30)Seattle Seahawks: Pete Carroll and co. rarely let Russell Wilson show off his arm and make plays on the ground, but in a division with San Francisco and Arizona, relying on Wilson, Tyler Lockett and DK Metcalf might be the only way to keep up. (25:05)Jacksonville Jaguars: We know Gardner Minshew II’s DGAF play-style can lead to big games, but is there anyone other than DJ Chark that fantasy managers can depend on? (32:40)Miami Dolphins: Ryan Fitzpatrick will make way for Tua Tagovailoa at some point, but a massive second-half from DeVante Parker, a tight end primed for a breakout in Mike Gesicki and a returning Preston Williams who put up sneaky value last year could mean a lot of high scoring games. (37:25)Please remember to rate, review, and subscribe on your podcast provider of choice and send us your questions for future episodes on Twitter @YahooFantasy.Follow Scott: @Scott_PianowskiCheck out the rest of the Yahoo Sports Podcast family at https://apple.co/2Abi8jk or at yahoosports.com/podcasts See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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0:00.0	Welcome, everyone, welcome to the Yahoo Fantasy Football Forecast.
0:06.0	Yes, it's a new name. It's new artwork. It's a new release schedule, and I'm still Scott Pianowski.
0:12.0	We're going to be coming at you five days a week, Monday through Friday, until the regular season ends.
0:17.0	So we're going to give you all sorts of fantasy football wall-to-wall coverage.
0:21.1	Liz Matt, Andy Dalton, and myself. We're going to be getting guests from the industry in
0:25.5	August before we settle into our regular season routine. But the goal here is simple. Let's get you
0:30.8	as informed as possible for your drafts, get you ready for this very unusual 2020 season.
0:36.3	It's very easy to settle into group thinking fantasy. So if you listen
0:39.4	to the same analysts all the time. So we're going to get all of us in the rotation. Again,
0:43.0	we're going to get to some people that maybe you don't know, get just some new voices out here.
0:47.3	We think it's going to be the best way to get you ready to have a successful fantasy season.
0:50.9	And of course, Yakum fantasy football is open for business. Many voices as
0:55.2	possible, as many philosophies as possible. We can't guarantee you'll win your league, but you'll
0:59.0	have the best and most diverse voices giving you what you need to become a smarter, more informed
1:03.2	fantasy manager. And look, you want to get informed, man. Ian Hartchitz is somebody you should be
1:08.5	aware of. You're probably familiar with the fine work.
1:10.9	He's been doing at Roto World the last couple of years. He's now with PFF and just killing it on
1:16.0	Twitter. I, Hartitz, H-A-R-T-I-T-Z, is going to be with us tonight. Ian, how are you doing?
1:22.7	Doing good, man. Appreciate you having me on. Yeah, it's always a fun time in the Twitter streets,
1:31.7	especially in July, but, you know, tentatively hoping that we can actually get some real football talk about sooner rather than later, man. I have had enough about tackling these same
1:36.3	off-season storylines for the last seven or so months. Obviously, still got another month or so
1:40.3	do it, but excited to finally get some live action, hopefully coming up.
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