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The Rant with Jeff Ratcliffe

Emergency pod

The Rant with Jeff Ratcliffe

Jeff Ratcliffe

Sports, Fantasy Sports, Football

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2024

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Jeff gives you some quick thoughts on Anthony Richardson getting benched, Stefon Diggs' season-ending injury, and Diontae Johnson getting traded to the Ravens

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, what's up? As you can see, this is an emergency podcast. I've said many times before I would do this in case like something crazy happened and usually nothing crazy happens, but this afternoon I got on the treadmill.

0:14.3

I was on the treadmill for 40 minutes.

0:16.1

When I got off the treadmill, three major stories broke in the NFL.

0:20.6

So I didn't want to leave you hanging with that.

0:22.2

Obviously, there are waiver wire

0:23.8

implications here. So let's go through them one by one and I guess we can go through

0:28.6

them in the order they happen. So Anthony Richardson was in fact bench for Joe Flacko.

0:34.0

I think that's a big surprise just given the implications here.

0:37.6

Like basically this could be the team throwing in the towel

0:40.9

on last year's fourth overall selection.

0:43.9

That's another story for another time,

0:45.6

but how does this impact things for waivers purposes?

0:48.7

Well, first and foremost, don't even think about

0:51.0

dropping Michael Pittman.

0:52.8

Obviously he's going to be a big beneficiary here.

0:55.0

Pittman is a receiver who does require some accuracy,

0:59.8

does require a quarterback who can get the ball into his hands, Gardner Minch you could do that last year.

1:04.8

Gardner Minchrew is not great, but he could at least do that. Anthony Richardson couldn't.

1:08.4

Well, Joe Flacko Ken. So obviously he's a big beneficiary, the overall state of the offense, big beneficiary.

1:13.8

But as far as Josh Down, so I had mentioned in the previous

1:17.1

podcast that he is five to ten percent.

1:20.8

I did move him up.

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