A shorter preseason, the Ravens offense and a Big Ben bounceback?

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🗓️ 26 June 2020

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Welcome back to a new episode of the Yahoo Sports Fantasy Football Podcast! Liz Loza and Matt Harmon are back to talk all things football.[Create or join a 2020 Yahoo Fantasy Football League for free today] While training camps are expected to open on time, Yahoo's Charles Robinson reports that the NFL is discussing the viability of a full preseason slate, and we know the annual HOF game has been canceled. What will be the impact of a shortened ramp-up period on players? (0:33)Matt Harmon calls Ben Roethlisberger "one of the keys to fantasy football in 2020" since his health directly impacts the value of Juju Smith-Schuster, Diontae Johnson and James Conner. Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin, said, "He's comfortable and pleased where he is. Some people who had the opportunity to work with him are impressed and pleased where he is. The medical experts are comfortable where he is and his readiness for 2020." Liz Loza's chats with an orthopedist says the prolonged break for Ben is a little bit good news and a little bit bad news for his expected value and the Steelers offense. (13:10)And elsewhere in the AFC North, one of the Steelers’ biggest rivals, the Baltimore Ravens, loom as division favorites, but do we need to worry about Lamar Jackson regressing? If potential regression is to be staved off, Lamar will need weapons to throw to. Can anyone other than Hollywood Brown and Mark Andrews step up in Baltimore? Or are there just not enough touches left once Brown, Andrews, and the rushing game with Lamar get theirs? At least we'll always have some early Miles Boykin coach-hype. (22:45)Plus, we'll get a player debate in before we get out of here: Is the fantasy community too pessimistic on the Rivers-less Keenan Allen? (45:43)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 Liz: @LizLoza_FFFollow Matt: @MattHarmon_BYBCheck 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	Hello and welcome to the Yahoo Fantasy Football podcast. I'm Liz Loza. Matt Harmon is here. And we are diving right on in. Matt, you know what? I'm going to go off script from the top. Sorry, Ragu. We're going to do something different than we had planned. I want to talk news right away. Because as we were sitting down to record, I got an alert, a Yahoo Sports Alert on my
0:23.8	app and phone, alerting me, because that's what alerts do, that Charles Robinson had reported
0:31.4	that training camps for the NFL are expected to start on time, though there is some belief that the preseason,
0:40.4	whether partially or fully, could be canceled.
0:44.1	So let's dig in on this a little bit.
0:47.1	Well, first of all, like I said before we started recording, tough break for the preseason
0:52.3	DFS.
0:53.8	I know we just inked a deal with
0:56.1	establish the run for them to do some content with us this year big blow for our guy adam levitan
1:01.5	you know who's a preseason dfs uh truther he's all about finding guys in the in the preseason
1:06.9	that's that is going to be kind of tough i also will will miss the annual, like, wow, man, football's back.
1:14.1	Like, everybody juiced up about football, football is back.
1:17.3	It's here.
1:18.2	We're excited.
1:18.9	And then, like, 10 plays into the preseason, you're like, well, this is not football.
1:22.9	The Hall of Fame game, by the way, already canceled.
1:25.5	Yes, yes.
1:26.1	They're going to.
1:27.4	Off the map.
1:28.6	Twice as many in 2021.
1:30.6	That's the log line that the Hall of Fame is using because they'll induct two classes
1:35.5	next year, hopefully.
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