Coaching Carousel: Ron Rivera and Arthur Smith Fired! (01/08 Fantasy Football Podcast)
Fantasy Football Today Beyond the Box Score
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4.9 • 721 Ratings
🗓️ 8 January 2024
⏱️ 5 minutes
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Summary
Our thoughts on the early coaching carousel, including Ron Rivera and Arthur Smith, and how it will impact fantasy stars like Bijan Robinson, Kyle Pitts, and others.
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| 0:00.0 | Looking at the latest coaching news on fantasy football today in five. |
| 0:07.9 | And welcome everybody. |
| 0:09.1 | Adam Azer here with Dave Richard. |
| 0:10.7 | And it's FFT in five, but we're recording this at about 11.15 a.m. Eastern. |
| 0:14.7 | So it's on Monday. |
| 0:15.9 | A lot may happen between now and the time you listen. |
| 0:18.9 | But what we know now, Dave, is that Arthur Smith has been fired. |
| 0:22.2 | That's the biggest coaching headline, Ron Rivera, as well. |
| 0:25.2 | But Arthur Smith was not necessarily a certainty, and he's out. |
| 0:29.1 | So what do you think is this? |
| 0:30.8 | I know you're going to think it's great news, but I will just say he was very, very, very run heavy. |
| 0:35.7 | So, you know, is this really great news for Bejan? He was very run heavy, very, very run heavy. So, you know, is this really great news for Bijan? |
| 0:39.1 | He was very run heavy, but he used multiple running backs to be run heavy. |
| 0:43.5 | We talked a lot about this on our fantasy football today episode on Monday. |
| 0:47.7 | Highly encourage everybody to go back and listen to it. |
| 0:50.7 | Do I think it's good for Bijan? |
| 0:51.8 | Sure, because we're talking about a player who did |
| 0:54.4 | demonstrate some awesome ability in his rookie season. He didn't hit the ceilings that we had hoped |
| 0:59.5 | for as a rookie, but he's going to get the opportunity to do it again next year. Hopefully, |
| 1:04.4 | the Falcons have a smarter offensive play caller, not necessarily a head coach, but the play caller, |
| 1:11.7 | who's going to put his best players in position. And Arthur Smith did a lot of expensive shopping. He went to the |
| 1:17.0 | high end stores to get a tied end and a running back and a wide receiver. And the quarterback |
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