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The Rant with Jeff Ratcliffe

Matthew Stafford Injury + Draft Day Psychology

The Rant with Jeff Ratcliffe

Jeff Ratcliffe

Sports, Fantasy Sports, Football

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 3 August 2021

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Jeff Ratcliffe breaks down the latest on Matthew Stafford's thumb injury and discusses how long he thinks Stafford will be out. Jeff then dives into draft day psychology and how you can take advantage of your opponents at your drafts. He discusses why you shouldn't be transparent, how to guard your information on draft day, why you should monitor the emotions of your opponents, and why you shouldn't panic when runs happen.

Transcript

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0:00.0

What is up, it's the red my name is Jeff Rackledon it is Tuesday August 3rd fantasy football draft month man

0:25.3

It's all on baby. It's all on and of course the worst part about football

0:30.2

Continues to happen here injuries injuries injuries, so we'll talk a little bit about what we know about Matthew Stafford not as big of a deal

0:38.7

It doesn't seem like Carson Wentz, but we'll talk about that and also want to talk about the psychology of fantasy football drafts

0:46.4

And no, we're not going to get all fancy on you here

0:49.5

I'm really talking about the the game within the game that we often forget a lot of times when people learn fantasy football drafts

0:56.3

They are doing one thing and really one thing only and that is paying attention to their teams

1:02.9

They're not paying attention what their opponents are doing

1:05.3

We can't forget that we do have opponents in fantasy football drafts

1:09.8

So we'll talk a little bit about some of the things I've done in the past some of the things I do in the present and how I mix those things up and

1:16.1

Use them to my advantage during a fantasy football draft, but let's talk about Stafford

1:21.0

So here's the deal

1:23.1

He was in practice. He did bang his throwing hand thumb into a helmet of one of his

1:31.4

teammates and Sean McVeigh talking after he said, hey, it's a freak thing, but it's something that consistently occurs

1:39.3

He did say essentially though that he also has thought about

1:45.4

putting some sort of

1:47.4

Padding on the helmets to prevent or at least soften this sort of thing because he is right

1:51.9

This thing this type of thing happens all the time with quarterbacks unfortunately

1:56.6

But he also went on to say I don't know anything yet. I think he'll be okay

2:02.2

well

2:03.4

If you don't know anything then you can't really say if he's gonna be okay or not

2:08.5

Unfortunately, so we really don't know where Stafford stands as of right now

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