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Fantasy Football Today

Early Busts! Joe Burrow, Darren Waller and More (04/07 Fantasy Football Podcast)

Fantasy Football Today

CBS Sports

Sports, Football

4.68.1K Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2022

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

As we look at the biggest busts for 2022, Dave and Heath begin with the bust they're most confident will fail to meet expectations (1:25) ... News and notes (9:00) with Stefon Diggs signing an extension and the Jets offering for D.K. Metcalf. Is Diggs a top 5 WR this season? What's Metcalf's dynasty value? ... Running back busts (18:00) with Ezekiel Elliott and Dalvin Cook leading the way, and why you should avoid Cam Akers and Cordarrelle Patterson ... Wide receiver and tight end busts (34:00) as Deebo Samuel won't find the endzone as much, Robert Woods and Hunter Renfrow could struggle for targets and Darren Waller and Dawson Knox are in for down seasons.


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0:00.0

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0:56.9

I'm Jamie Eisenberg, that's Dave Ritzer, that's Steve Thumbings, our buddy Adam taking

1:00.1

a little vacation. So, he's going to be off for the next, I guess, four shows or so.

1:03.8

So, you're stuck listening to me. But hopefully we'll entertain you just the same. So, guys,

1:08.3

today we're talking about a subject that I don't really love. I don't think a lot of us

1:11.4

like talking about players, especially star players who are going to be failures. But

1:14.4

today's topic is about bus. So, the fantasy bus that we're looking at for the upcoming

1:19.0

season. And it's really hard to qualify in April. What a bus this because for me, I don't

1:24.5

know if you guys look at it this way. But for me, it's always about average opposition.

1:28.1

When these guys are being selected and clearly what the value is by comparison to how we

1:32.3

think they're going to perform. And in this case, we're going to think that they're going

1:34.9

to perform most likely poorly. So, before we get into the meat of the show, I just want

1:39.1

to get, you know, a quick take, Dave, you're most confident bus. And I think that's a really

1:43.4

weird way to qualify it. But the bus that you think is going to actually come to fruition.

1:48.7

The guy that you think is going to clearly fail based on the expectations of maybe having

1:52.7

some still success going into the upcoming season.

1:56.5

We were so excited about how a Munro St. Brown finished 2021. And I just, I can't see

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