Busts! Plus Miles Sanders Reaction (08/20 Fantasy Football Podcast)

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🗓️ 19 August 2020

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Twelve of the Top 24 picks in 2019 were busts, so let's try to avoid those bad picks this year, OK? Let's start with the red flags you should look for when you're searching for a bust (1:00). And we react to the Miles Sanders injury (2:15) and determine if we're ready to downgrade him in drafts. Then we've got another round of busts for you with Lamar Jackson and Patrick Mahomes (12:45), Leonard Fournette (17:15) and Derrick Henry (20:10) ... News and notes from around the NFL (23:30): Updates on the NE and CHI QB situations, the LAC and WAS backfields and some more players getting preseason hype ... More busts! When should DeAndre Hopkins be drafted (31:35)? Let's have a big discussion about Round 3 and Round 4 RBs and which ones are most likely to be busts (35:51). Then Jamey talks about Amari Cooper and Keenan Allen (51:35) while Heath picks a Top 4 TE for his bust list (53:00). and Ben has another WR to avoid (54:25). Finally, we finish with the Bustometer (58:30) as the listeners submit their 2020 busts ... Email us at fantasyfootball@cbsi.com

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0:00.0	This is Fantasy Football today from CBS Sports.
0:03.6	I am his way to the end zone.
0:05.8	Now you wanna jump with the spectacular play.
0:08.0	It's time to dominate your fantasy league.
0:10.5	One play, post-election, touchdown, I always die again.
0:15.4	Now here's some combination of Adam Day, Jamie Heath and Ben.
0:21.0	Wednesday, August 19th, welcome to Fantasy Football today.
0:24.0	There were a lot of busts in the first two rounds last year.
0:27.0	I think you could say there were maybe, maybe half the picks were busts.
0:30.0	So we're gonna give you some of the biggest busts that we expect in 2020.
0:33.9	Adam Acer with Jamie Isabelle, Heath Cummings and Ben Gretch.
0:37.9	Oh man.
0:38.9	So we're gonna go through those first two rounds last year and see how many there were.
0:42.4	And what kind of lessons we can learn.
0:43.9	But yeah, we're gonna help people avoid those traps.
0:46.9	Heath, what's a red flag for you when you're looking at busts?
0:50.9	What's something that's like, oh, this is gonna be a problem.
0:54.9	Like if I have a hard time imagining how a player is going to be better than where they're drafted.
0:59.9	Like it's one thing if their mean expectation is lower than where they're being drafted.
1:05.9	If you don't have to be that creative to imagine them justifying ADP or being better than ADP, then you can overlook that.
1:12.9	But if their mean expectation is below where they're being drafted and it takes a lot of creativity to see them ever exceeding where they're being drafted, then I'm out.
1:21.9	Give me an example.
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