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The Rant with Jeff Ratcliffe

Preseason Week 1 Takeaways

The Rant with Jeff Ratcliffe

Jeff Ratcliffe

Sports, Football, Fantasy Sports

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 11 August 2025

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Week 1 of the preseason is done, and Jeff is breaking down every game to pull out the biggest fantasy football takeaways you need to know. From rookies making a statement to surprise depth chart moves, he gives you the biggest takeaways from each game that could shape your draft board.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Rap back where you at?

0:14.5

Yo, what's up?

0:16.5

It's Monday, August 11th.

0:18.2

I'm Jeff.

0:18.5

This is the rant.

0:19.6

And let's talk some football.

0:23.4

If you want strategy stuff, go back to the earlier podcast, but today I want to unpack

0:27.9

what we saw in the first week of the preseason.

0:30.5

I'm going to give you one big takeaway from each of the games so that we're set up as

0:34.9

we're headed towards a big fantasy draft weekend.

0:38.7

Not the biggest. That's still two weeks from now but this upcoming saturday there are going to be a lot of fantasy football

0:43.1

drafts of course we have you set up over at ftn fantasy dot com i just updated the cheat sheets there's

0:49.4

fresh rankings and projections fantasy football galore over there. If you want to dominate this

0:55.0

year, I suggest getting in. And if you're going to get in, you might as well get the sale price.

1:00.1

Get yourself a 10% discount if you use the promo code rat pack. Let's get into it, though. I don't

1:06.1

want to beat around the bush today. Game by game, biggest takeaways. So Indianapolis and Baltimore, in this game,

1:14.2

Tyler Warren looked fantastic. He barely played and caught all three of his targets for 40 yards.

1:20.0

He's going to be heavily involved. The other thing I would say is pump the brakes on Keaton

1:23.7

Mitchell. Yes, he looked great, 68 yards in a score. However, he's already hurt,

1:30.0

and he has two guys ahead of him in the pecking order, Derek Henry and Justice Hill. So I wouldn't

1:35.4

get too crazy there. Drafting a third running back on a roster usually is not good practice.

1:42.6

Almost all the time, if you do that, you're going to end up

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