Start 'Em & Sit 'Em Calls for Week 1: How to handle Cooper Kupp's absence (09/07 Fantasy Football podcast)
Fantasy Football Today Beyond the Box Score
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🗓️ 7 September 2023
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Cooper Kupp has been ruled out for Week 1. Chris Towers and Dave Richard talk about what they expect from the Rams offense, plus how to handle the Colts and Michael Thomas this week.
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| 0:33.6 | It's our first round of start-sick questions for 2020. |
| 0:36.8 | Next on Fantasy Football today and five. |
| 0:41.5 | Welcome to FFTN5. |
| 0:43.0 | I'm Chris Towers. |
| 0:43.7 | I'm here with Dave Richard. |
| 0:44.7 | And right before we started recording this podcast, we found out the Cooper Cup will not be playing in week one. |
| 0:51.8 | I'm starting to think this is going to be an IR situation. Sean McVeigh did not |
| 0:57.7 | rule out that Cooper Cup would go on IR, but it sounds like that's probably the safest option here |
| 1:04.7 | at this point. What do you think is going to happen with Cooper Cup, Dave? And then what do you think |
| 1:10.4 | the fallout for the Rams offense is going to be in week one against the Seahawks? First of all, what the hell is going on, Chris? There are so many injuries. And we haven't even played a game of regular season football yet. The funny thing is running backs. Not that many injuries are running backs. The running backs are all healthy. Everybody's fine, but the receivers forget about it, which is why we always say, |
| 1:32.4 | spend each of your first five picks on running backs. Yes, that is the winning fantasy strategy |
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