Beyond the Box Score: Bengals Outlook, Rookie RBs, Buy Low WRs (09/15 Fantasy Football Podcast)

Fantasy Football Today

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Sports, Football

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🗓️ 15 September 2025

⏱️ 71 minutes

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We kick it off with a recap of Falcons-Vikings (3:00). How concerned are we about Justin Jefferson and J.J. McCarthy? We also talk about Kyle Pitts' role and everything else that stood out in this game. Also, did you notice how good Bhayshul Tuten was in Week 2 (13:15)? ... News and notes (20:10) plus interesting stats and snap counts (23:00) on the Seahawks wide receivers, Patrick Mahomes, the Bears backfield and more ... Four Big Topics: How much trouble are the Bengals in rest of season (31:35)? When will the rookie running backs start producing (42:00)? Who are some buy low wide receivers (54:30)? Can we trust the Eagles passing game (1:00:45)? ... Email us at fantasyfootball@cbsi.com

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0:00.0	This is fantasy football today from CBS Sports.
0:03.6	What a play!
0:04.8	Can you believe this?
0:06.3	It's a no idea.
0:08.0	It's time to dominate your fantasy league.
0:10.6	Off to the races and he stays on his feet.
0:13.4	It's just going to go the distance.
0:15.2	Now here's some combination of Adam, Dave, Jamie, and Heath.
0:38.0	What's going on, everybody? Welcome to Beyond the Box Score, advanced stats from simple people. This is fantasy football today, presented by BedMGM. The sports book Born in Vegas, it's Adam, Dan, and Jacob on Monday afternoon. And we are going to be talking about the Bengals offenses. Joe Burrow might be out for the season. He's out at least three months. We're going to be talking about by low wide receivers. We're going to be talking
0:41.8	about the Eagles passing game. Yuck. And we're going to be talking about, speaking of a yuck,
0:46.7	those crappy rookie running backs that are doing absolutely nothing for your fantasy team.
0:52.4	All right, guys, Dan, I am starving. What do you recommend today for me?
0:59.7	You got a good, good, good, that sand that's Sandy told me about the other day that you had on
1:05.4	the show like two weeks ago with the chicken cutlet. That's the one to go to go out, get it.
1:10.4	Don't worry about your health. You only
1:11.7	weigh 136 pounds. You can afford it. And we know you're just going to eat like steam broccoli and
1:16.4	chicken for dinner anyway. So have yourself a nice meal. All right, Jacob, let's talk about Atlanta
1:21.6	22 and Minnesota 6. That was the motivation I needed to have a good lunch. Thank you very much.
1:26.7	Yeah, so a tough night for JJ McCarthy. McCarthy and Pennix, they both scored about
1:31.3	26 fantasy points in week one, and they did not do anything close to that in week two.
1:38.4	Pennix scored 5.3 fantasy points in 6 points per passing touchdown leagues, neither of them
1:43.4	threw a touchdown.
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