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Fantasy Football Today Beyond the Box Score

AFC North Preview: Can Lamar Jackson and the Ravens Challenge the Bengals? (07/12 Fantasy Football podcast)

Fantasy Football Today Beyond the Box Score

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🗓️ 12 July 2023

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

The Ravens rebuilt their passing game, and it's got Lamar Jackson primed for his best season since his MVP campaign. Can he actually get there? Plus, sleepers, breakouts, and busts for the division.

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0:00.0

Sean has had some good ideas over the years,

0:05.0

but using Canva was a really good one.

0:08.0

Sean designed some social posts to promote his friend's car boot sale.

0:13.0

They looked good, really, really good.

0:17.0

Next thing he knows, someone came and bought the lot, including the car.

0:24.5

Now Sean doesn't know how he's going to get home.

0:28.0

Thanks, Canva.

0:33.6

We're previewing the AFC North next on Fantasy Football Today in 5. Welcome to Fantasy Football Today in 5. I'm Chris Towers. I'm here with Heath Cummings, and we're here to preview the AFC North, as we've been doing for the last week and a half. We're going to have a division winner, talk about the biggest question, and then a sleeper, breakout, and bust. And we'll start with the division winner.

0:54.8

And I think most people are going to pick the Bengals, but Heath, you want to be a little

0:58.5

different, which is pretty normal for you.

1:00.9

Yep.

1:01.7

I will, I'm going to pick the Lamar Jackson and the Baltimore Ravens.

1:05.2

I believe they were tied for first or they were eight and four when Jackson was the

1:10.2

starter last year.

1:11.4

So definitely in the battle before Jackson got hurt.

1:14.9

I think they'll do a little better job protecting him.

1:17.8

And I don't know that he's necessarily injury prone yet.

1:20.9

Assuming he plays 17 games, they got the new offense, they got the new weapons.

1:24.3

I'll take the Ravens.

1:25.0

I mean, it is interesting to look back at the start of last season. The Bengals were the team that took the big step forward in 2021. And they started off four and four. I had forgotten. They went eight straight games to close out the regular season, one their first two playoff games. So really kicked it into the high gear once they figured out, you know, the offense. there were some weird stuff early on in the season, Joe Burrow taking a lot of sacks. But once they figured that out, they really took off. I think the biggest question for the AFC North is very relevant for your division winner is just, does Lamar Jackson have a bounce back season? This is a guy, obviously, we've seen play. We've seen win in MVP, a unanimous MVP,

2:01.4

one of the rare times that's happened in NFL history. And last season to start seemed like

2:07.5

the MVP frontrunner through the first month of the season or so when he had Rashad Bateman

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