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Fantasy Football Today Beyond the Box Score

Everyone is a Bust (Part One)! (08/02 Fantasy Football Podcast)

Fantasy Football Today Beyond the Box Score

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🗓️ 2 August 2021

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

Who among the Top 8 players could be a bust this season? Is Jonathan Taylor the best bet now that Carson Wentz is injured?

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0:00.0

Who among the fantasy elite will be a bust this year?

0:07.0

Dave Richard will weigh in right now on Fantasy Football Today in 5.

0:10.7

And we welcome to me, everybody.

0:11.8

It is Monday.

0:12.4

I'm Adam Azer with Dave Richard, and here we are talking about busts, of course.

0:15.6

What a great way to start the week.

0:17.2

Well, Jonathan Taylor is going to be a top eight pick in most drafts.

0:20.6

But this Carson Wentz news, he could be out a while with this foot injury. Does that scare you off Jonathan Taylor? I want to talk about the Wens News before we get into the bus stuff. I'm not ready to say it scares me off because I don't know if Wence is going to miss the entire season. I don't think the Colts know that yet. I'd like to know what there are options, what they could do. I think if Wentz is out for the season, they'll make a move at quarterback and not go with Jacob Eason or Brett Hunley. And we saw him play well last year with Philip Rivers as his quarterback, and it wasn't the Philip Rivers of old. It was old Philip Rivers. I would imagine that Jonathan Taylor will still

0:55.3

be a very good fantasy running back. Would I still take him as a top five pick if Brett

1:00.0

Hunley was the quarterback after all? Probably not. I'd probably step back a little bit from

1:06.3

Jonathan Taylor. And we'll talk about it more tomorrow, but there was a correlation. I shouldn't say there was a correlation. Maybe it was coincidental. But as Jonathan Taylor got going late in the year, Philip Rivers also started playing better. Philip Rivers didn't play very well for the first nine games, and really neither did Jonathan Taylor. And you wonder, did Rivers open things up for Taylor? Did Taylor open things up for Rivers? Was it just a coincidence? Was it just a matter of time? But we will discuss that at length on the full length version.

1:31.0

Now, looking at some of the top players, who do you think has the most bust potential?

1:36.4

Well, I kind of go back to Alvin Camara just because Drew Brees isn't there. And there's a nice

1:43.2

story that came out this week about how

1:45.1

Sean Payton tried to drill it into James Winston. That every time you check it down to a running back, somebody's going to write a nice story about you and that James is is repeating the media. I know I need to check it down, check it down. And that helps him get better one-on-one coverage downfield when they do want to take a deep shot.

2:02.6

But is it going to be 80 catches? Is it going to be more like 60 or 50?

2:06.2

What's his efficiency going to be because Drew Brees isn't there?

2:09.3

And what if it's not even James Winston?

2:11.2

What if it's Taysam Hill?

2:12.3

Does that cost Alvin Camara some touchdowns?

2:14.8

So I think that there's a pretty decent bust case to be made for Alvin Camara that has

2:21.0

nothing to do with Devante Freeman signing there, but does have everything to do with that

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