Mastering Matchups — Week 1 Fantasy Football start/sit and NFL DFS advice
Fantasy Football Today Beyond the Box Score
CBS Sports
4.9 • 722 Ratings
🗓️ 4 September 2025
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
#FantasyFootball #NFL #FantasyFootballAdvice #Podcast
0:00 Intro
6:55 Coverage Matrix - Defense (who plays what defense most often)
9:00 What Do Coordinators Run?
9:37 Which Injuries Impact Week 1
11:00 What to Expect From Fringe RBs
13:00 Tyrone Tracy, JR.
17:00 Alvin Kamara
19:31 Bucs/Falcons Game Environment Expectation
26:00 Lions/Packers Game Environment Expectation
35:30 Jags/Panthers Game Environment Expectation
42:30 Individual Matchups to Watch
43:00 Brian Thomas Jr.
45:00 David Njoku
48:00 Jerry Jeudy
49:30 Ricky Pearsall
54:00 Malik Nabers
58:00 Josh Downs
1:03:00 Rashid Shaheed
1:06:00 Romeo Doubs
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back Beyond the Box Court. |
| 0:12.1 | We got a new intro because we are shifting into regular season content here. |
| 0:17.4 | Very exciting. |
| 0:19.5 | No Deng Shinar today. |
| 0:20.4 | I'm going to do my best impression here for the plug God. |
| 0:23.2 | I already miss them. |
| 0:25.0 | But we've got a very exciting show here. |
| 0:27.6 | Shout out Austin Lim, too, for the fan-made intro. |
| 0:30.1 | Just like so much fun to have the peak nerdiness there. |
| 0:34.1 | I kind of do miss the TV and the 8-bit soundtrack, |
| 0:36.8 | but definitely like changing |
| 0:38.5 | it up here to usher in the new season. Okay, so what we've got here today, I'm very, very excited |
| 0:44.7 | for this is mastering matchups. It's going to be the name of it here. Ryan and I have talked about |
| 0:54.1 | that. I try to find the right name for it.. Ryan and I have talked about that. Try to find the right |
| 0:55.1 | the right name for it. Our guy, Scott Barrett, CEO over at Fantasy Point status suggested |
| 1:01.0 | masters in matchups, to which I replied, we are on the path to mastery. We're inviting anyone |
| 1:07.5 | to join us on that path. We don't presume to be masters yet. |
| 1:12.6 | And that really leads me to our guest today, J.M. to win. |
| 1:16.6 | If you guys like my work, you're going to love J.M.'s work and everything that his team is doing over at one week season.com. |
| 1:25.6 | No cap, this is 100% the person that I emulated the most when I was learning to do this work 10-ish |
| 1:32.2 | years ago trying to figure out how to do the research the right way, just the tremendous |
| 1:37.4 | amount of respect for the work that he does and honored to have him as our guest today. |
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