NFL Schedule Reaction! Best and Worst Early Schedules and More (05/12 Fantasy Football Podcast)
Fantasy Football Today
CBS Sports
4.6 • 8.1K Ratings
🗓️ 13 May 2021
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
We react to the release of the NFL schedule by highlighting the players and teams with the best and worst matchups, mostly early in the season. Should you be concerned about Cam Akers and Josh Jacobs? Should you be excited for Jalen Hurts? Any playoff matchups worth spotlighting? We also read your emails (24:42)!
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| 0:56.9 | It's the bears. Don't play any consecutive home games or road games this year. It's home |
| 1:04.3 | away. Home away. That's we should spend the whole time talking about that. That's so |
| 1:08.4 | weird. We have others. Oh, and also the Raiders are on Monday night football on week one for |
| 1:13.5 | the third time and for seasons. This is what I'm looking at when I look at the schedule, |
| 1:17.3 | but also plenty of fantasy analysis. Like last year, I talked about the players with the |
| 1:21.5 | hardest cornerback matchups, like DK Metcalf and Stefan Diggs. So that stuff's really |
| 1:26.5 | important right now. Adam A. Zerjamy, Isaac Berger and Dave Richard on 9.45 pm on Wednesday |
| 1:34.5 | night, late night podcast in here. Dave, how important is the schedule release for you |
| 1:39.0 | in terms of fantasy? This is what can provide some tie-breakers for you during the draft, |
| 1:45.1 | where you might be comparing player A and player B and you go and you look at the schedule |
| 1:49.3 | and player A's got a great schedule and player B, not so much. Well, that might lean |
| 1:53.4 | you toward taking player A. Jamie, what do you think? |
| 1:58.0 | I think that Broncos DST's got a great three games stretch to start the season. I think |
| 2:02.6 | that the 49ers have a great opener and a great championship matchup if you're looking at |
| 2:07.4 | it from offense and defense. They get the Lions in week one and the Texans in week 17. So |
| 2:13.1 | that could be really good if you're looking at some 49ers. Those were two things that stood |
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