Big Injury Updates, New Starting QBs, New Commanders RBs, New Strategies and More (08/19 Fantasy Football Podcast)
Fantasy Football Today
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🗓️ 19 August 2025
⏱️ 67 minutes
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We've got a jam-packed show today with injury updates (6:00) on Justin Jefferson, De'Von Achane and Matthew Stafford plus our thoughts on Joe Flacco (12:10) as Cleveland's starting quarterback. How great could this be for Jerry Jeudy and David Njoku? We also talk about the Commanders running backs (19:35). How excited are we about Jacory Croskey-Merritt? Is he the best option in the backfield? ... Injury expert Marty Jaramillo joins us (25:30) with his thoughts on Achane, Christian McCaffrey, Joe Mixon, Stafford, Chris Godwin, Rashee Rice, Malik Nabers and Tyreek Hill ... We react to breaking news that Daniel Jones will be the starting quarterback for the Colts (46:50). How good is this news for the rest of the Colts stars? And we finish with some thoughts from our FFT Open drafts (52:05). What have we learned about draft philosophy? Do we prefer Josh Jacobs or Chase Brown? ... Email us at fantasyfootball@cbsi.com
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| 0:00.0 | I'll now hand you over to my best man, Eddie. |
| 0:04.0 | Wow, wow, wow, second time's a charm, eh, Billy Boy? |
| 0:09.0 | Oh God. |
| 0:10.0 | Substitution, courtesy of Paddy Power, embarrassing Eddie, makes way for sensible Samuel. |
| 0:15.0 | Cool, that was close. |
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| 0:40.3 | This is going to go the distance. |
| 0:44.3 | Now here's some combination of Adam, Dave, Jamie, and Heath. |
| 0:48.3 | Oh, we got a lot to talk about today. |
| 0:52.3 | We got a big show for you on Tuesday, August 19th, fantasy football today. |
| 0:56.8 | Presented by Bette MGM, the sports book Born in Vegas. |
| 1:00.4 | I am Adam Azer with Jamie Eisenberg. |
| 1:02.7 | We, Jamie, how are you feeling today? |
| 1:04.0 | You feeling injured at all? |
| 1:06.2 | Injured? |
| 1:06.8 | Yeah. |
| 1:07.7 | I'll tell you what. |
| 1:08.7 | I had this revelation last night at 3 in the morning when I sent in a Joe Flacco slash Brown's column and wrote four stories on average draft position. |
| 1:24.9 | I said to myself, I love my job, but what am I doing? |
| 1:30.5 | You're mentally injured, I think. |
| 1:33.4 | At 3 a.m. |
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