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The Ringer NFL Show

Breakout Candidates and Overhyped Sleepers | The Dantasy Football Podcast

The Ringer NFL Show

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4.04.6K Ratings

🗓️ 16 August 2019

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Danny Kelly, Danny Heifetz, and Craig Horlbeck give their favorite under-the-radar breakout candidates, debating which backups are too talented to stand on the sideline, which grizzled veterans are ready for one last ride into the sunset, and which sleepers are getting too much hype. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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1:02.0

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1:23.0

Welcome to John Grootens Nightmare and welcome to the Dynasty Football Podcast.

1:29.0

Brought to you by the Ringer Podcast Network. My name is Danny Heifetz and I am joined by my co-host, my co-danny. The hero we need, the sleeper expert we deserve.

1:38.0

The Dark Knight Danny Kelly. DK, what is on your mind? Dark Knight goes really well with John Grootens Nightmare. So, it does.

1:46.0

I started watching hard knocks last night and I'm excited about the Raiders and Danny, you were not happy about that.

1:53.0

I just couldn't believe that your takeaway from hard knocks was that you're excited for the season and my takeaway from hard knocks is hard knocks is better than anything the Raiders will do this season.

2:01.0

John Grootens like a golden age TV anti hero. He's like Tony soprano or Walter White and I just can't take my eyes off him.

2:08.0

I love I can't stop looking at his eyes. He has the craziest eyes the way he looks at people.

2:14.0

We're continuing our fantasy preview we've devoted an entire episode on the ringer NFL show feed one position we have a whole episode for fantasy quarterbacks this year.

2:23.0

For running backs receivers tight ends we did our top 50 breakdown.

2:27.0

We are now going to be devoting a whole episode just to sleepers DK sleepers is the most like overused word it's lost all meaning it's used so much that it just has no meaning anymore.

2:39.0

It's like dynamic or like eyes a nice guy it doesn't even mean anything so like what is a sleeper in 2019 the sleeper has changed I think definitions over the years early in the you know in the old days of fantasy football

2:51.0

was kind of like a guy that I think all your legmates hadn't even ever heard of.

2:56.0

At least that's how it was for me in the nowadays it's more it's much more related to just like value everybody knows basically every player out there for the most part.

3:05.0

I mean there's just so much information available there's ADP list you know rankings everything it's so easy to find.

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