Etienne; Most Polarizing Players; Drafting in Deep and Shallow Leagues (08/25 Fantasy Football Podcast)
Fantasy Football Today
CBS Sports
4.6 • 8.1K Ratings
🗓️ 25 August 2021
⏱️ 60 minutes
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With Travis Etienne out for the season, James Robinson moves up in the rankings but how far? Would you rather have Alvin Kamara or Robinson and Nick Chubb? We also review more from Monday Night Football including the Saints depth chart ... News and notes (14:30) including why D'Andre Swift is moving down in the rankings. And then we get into the most polarizing players! Saquon Barkley (18:30), Joe Mixon (23:00), Antonio Gibson (28:00), CEH (32:30), CeeDee Lamb (37:15), Kyle Pitts (41:00) and Lamar Jackson (43:50) ... We talk about strategies in shallow leagues (48:00) and deep leagues (54:30). When should you make QB a priority? Is an elite TE more or less valuable in deep leagues? ... Email us at fantasyfootball@cbsi.com
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| 0:34.7 | This is Fantasy Football Today from CBS Sports. |
| 0:42.5 | It's time to dominate your fantasy league. |
| 0:44.8 | What a play! Polarizing players, |
| 0:57.2 | Saquon Barkley, Lamar Jackson and Tony O'Gibson. I can't believe I almost forgot to |
| 1:02.3 | include Joe Mixon. He's not polarizing. Everybody heats Joe Mixon, except for us. |
| 1:07.9 | We're going to talk about it on today's show. I asked you who are some of the most polarizing |
| 1:11.1 | players. We used your responses, came up with the ones that really showed up the most in the |
| 1:15.2 | responses, and also what we're seeing in terms of rankings and average draft position and things |
| 1:19.8 | like that. Adam Azer, Heath Cummings, Jamie Eisenberg, welcoming you to the show. We just finished |
| 1:24.8 | our IDP League, which has 10 IDP, 9 IDP spots. We'll talk about that a little bit more on the |
| 1:31.9 | mailbag show on Saturday. On today's show, it's the polarizing players, plus how to drafts in |
| 1:37.7 | 10 team leagues, 14 team leagues, 16 team leagues, and of course our reaction right now to James |
| 1:42.8 | Robinson stepping up into this lead role with Travis ETN out for the season. Man, this dinks. |
| 1:50.9 | Oh, man. So Heath, we had a bonus pod with Jamie and Dave on Tuesday. Now is your turn to |
| 1:58.9 | speak about this situation. Where are you putting James Robinson in your rankings? |
| 2:02.9 | I've got a lot more information than they did. So yeah, I'm probably going to still remain low |
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