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The Rant with Jeff Ratcliffe

Preseason Week 3 Takeaways

The Rant with Jeff Ratcliffe

Jeff Ratcliffe

Sports, Fantasy Sports, Football

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 31 August 2021

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Jeff Ratcliffe breaks down his biggest fantasy football takeaways from Week 3 of the NFL preseason. Topics include: how to rank Gus Edwards following JK Dobbins' season-ending injury, what to do about Irv Smith and TY Hilton, what to make of the 49ers QB rotation, how to value Justin Fields heading out of the preseason, Laviska Shenault and Trevor Lawrence trending up, and much more.

Transcript

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0:00.0

What is up, it's the rant. My name is Chef Rackle, but it is Monday, August 30th. The

0:21.6

preseason is done. Thank, Lord. It's done. That was quick. But we do have some takeaways

0:28.8

here from every game this weekend. Of course, we didn't have the New Orleans game because

0:33.4

of the hurricane, but regardless, we'll go through the remaining games. And yes, we will talk

0:37.6

about JK Dobbins when I get to the Baltimore Ravens contest. But we're going to start with

0:43.6

what we saw last night, Cleveland and Atlanta. And I tell you what, my takeaway, I know it was

0:49.3

only one catch. I know it was a short reception, but the speed that Kyle pits displayed on that

0:57.4

catch. I did throw that out there on Twitter. I said he's different. Of course, a lot of people

1:01.9

have wonderful things to say on Twitter, as you could imagine. So I just muted the darn tweet.

1:08.0

So I don't even know what people said to it. After the first three ding thongs were jerks,

1:12.9

but regardless, the point was simple. He does not look like a tight end. He doesn't look like a

1:17.8

tight end. Tight ends don't move that way. And we are hearing that they're going to use them all

1:22.4

over the place all across that formation. I know the reluctancy and rightfully so from a lot of

1:29.2

people to draft a rookie tight end. I get it. I usually drive that train. But I do have some

1:36.5

shares of Kyle pits in my in my actual season long leagues. So I'm fine with that. And the dude is

1:44.6

going to be a lot of fun. It was one catch, whatever. He barely played in the game, but it was all

1:50.5

I really even needed to see. Also just wanted to know Chris Collins worth on the broadcast my former

1:55.8

boss. Of course pointed out that the scrimmages. They're going to be obviously more commonplace. And

2:03.3

in some instances for some of these teams, they can be more beneficial. Now not every team views it

2:08.4

that way, but they can be more beneficial than the preseason games. There's going to be a lot of

2:12.4

instances where we don't see the starters playing in a preseason in the future. Patriots and the

2:19.2

Evan Ingram was banged up in this one. We don't know the extent of the injury as of right now when

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