RUSSELL WILSON INJURY! Plus Week 5 Start/Sit (10/08 Fantasy Football podcast)
Fantasy Football Today Beyond the Box Score
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🗓️ 8 October 2021
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Russell Wilson left Thursday's game with a finger injury. What does it mean for the Seahawks offense? Plus three Week 5 Start/Sit questions, answered.
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| 0:00.0 | Russell Wilson left Thursday night's game with a finger injury. |
| 0:06.9 | We'll talk about that and some start-sick questions right now on Fantasy Football Today in 5. |
| 0:13.6 | Hello, welcome to Fantasy Football Today in 5, the podcast to keep you caught up on all that you need to know for fantasy football in just five minutes. |
| 0:20.1 | I'm Chris Towers here with Dan Schneier. |
| 0:22.2 | We're going to start off today with a recap of the Rams 26-17 win over the Seahawks Thursday |
| 0:26.9 | night with three big questions coming out of the game. |
| 0:29.6 | And I think the biggest one we were just talking about before the show, we saw Adam Schaefter |
| 0:33.5 | sent out a tweet saying Russell Wilson has a badly sprained ligament in a finger on his |
| 0:40.2 | throwing hand, I believe the middle finger. And he's never missed a start in his career, |
| 0:44.5 | but I believe the quote was, this looks like it could be the one or something like that. |
| 0:50.5 | Pete Carroll after the game said he didn't know if it would require surgery. But, you know, Russell Wilson, someone who's never missed the game, like I said, knew he had to come out of the game. |
| 1:00.7 | He didn't try to fight to stay in. So that's how you know it was pretty serious. |
| 1:04.4 | If he does have to miss time, how much would you be downgrading Tyler Lockett and D.K. McCath if Russell Wilson has to miss time and Gino Smith starts? I'm not going to downgrade Metcalf all that much because it seems like Gino was leaning on Metcalf. It seems like Metcalf will be the easier target to go to. Lockett and Russ had a really good connection, especially on the deep ball. I think that will go away from this offense. The deep ball efficiency will go away. But this defense, the Seattle defense is simply not good enough for Seattle to get in some kind of run first game script here where they can just hand the ball off all game. I mean, they gave up 450 yards or more in the past, I believe, four games. That's really ugly. I think they're dead last in the NFL. |
| 1:44.4 | So I'm not gonna, not gonna downgrade Meck half much, |
| 1:46.9 | but I will downgrade Locket. |
| 1:49.7 | Yeah, that makes sense. |
| 1:50.8 | You know, they do have 10 days off between the next game. |
| 1:54.8 | So it's possible that he could be ready for week six against the Steelers, |
| 1:58.6 | but the schedule not super forgiving at Pittsburgh and then |
| 2:03.1 | versus the Saints in week seven. They do get the Jaguars in week eight before they're by, |
| 2:07.1 | but you know, not exactly the softest landing for Gino Smith there. Let's move on to Robert Woods, |
| 2:13.8 | who had his best game of the season, squeaky wheel, you know, he wasn't complaining, |
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