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Fantasy Football Today Beyond the Box Score

Bust Alert: Why Davante Adams, Aaron Jones, and Travis Etienne Could Lead You Astray (08/04 Fantasy Football podcast)

Fantasy Football Today Beyond the Box Score

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Sports, Football

4.9721 Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2023

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

In a perfect world, every player you draft would be a start. That might not be possible, but you can at least avoid some obvious land mines. Dan Schneier and Chris Towers give you some of the players they're avoiding this season. 

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Let's talk about buss on fantasy football today in five.

0:09.3

Welcome to FFT in five.

0:10.7

I'm Chris Towers.

0:11.3

I'm here with Dan Schneier.

0:12.4

And we're going to be negative today.

0:14.0

We got another round of bus picks for you.

0:16.3

And I'm going to apologize to Adam Azer in advance because my bus pick is going to be someone he mentioned

0:22.2

as a breakout on yesterday's show. It's nothing personal, Adam. I've just noticed a lot of hype

0:27.2

starting to build for James Cook of the Buffalo Bills. And I can see the case for it in a certain

0:32.8

sense. There there's talk about using him more in the passing game. There have been video highlights of the bills throwing down the field to James Cook.

0:40.6

The problem is it's a very narrow path for James Cook to emerge as a must-start fantasy running back.

0:46.5

In the Buffalo Bill's offense in the Josh Allen era, we've only seen a couple of stretches where a running back has really been a must-start guy.

0:53.1

There was like an early James

0:54.8

Cook run where he was getting a lot of touchdowns, but really wasn't doing anything else.

0:58.4

And then there have been a couple of stretches where Devin Singletary was playing like 65 to 80%

1:03.0

of the snaps consistently and was like a 14 to 15 ppr point per game guy. The problem with this

1:09.4

bill's offense is it routinely ranks among the lowest point scores for running backs and PPR point per game guy. The problem with this bill's offense is it routinely ranks among the lowest point

1:13.0

scores for running backs and PPR last season 6th or 27th, excuse me, 316.8.6th lowest in the NFL.

1:22.1

And look, if James Cook gets 65% of the snaps or they make him a big part of the passing

1:26.9

game, I think he could be like a low end RB2. I think that's probably. could get 65% of the snaps or they make him a big part of the passing game.

1:30.1

I think he could be like a low end RB2.

1:32.2

I think that's probably the ceiling.

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