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FantasyPros - Fantasy Football Podcast

Start/Sit: Week 5 (Ep. 768)

FantasyPros - Fantasy Football Podcast

iHeartPodcasts

Sports, Fantasy Sports

4.710.8K Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2021

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Joey P., Yates, and Andrew Erickson break down the start/sit options for Week 5 of the fantasy football season!

Transcript

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0:00.0

Start them, sit them week five. Let's talk to the pros.

0:21.2

Welcome in everybody to Fantasy Pros. This is the Fantasy Football podcast.

0:25.1

This is me Joey V. Joe Pisa here. That is Kyle Yates and Andrew Erickson and of course it is you and it's time to start them and sit them.

0:32.8

That's right. Who are the players who are in the lineups? Who are the players not making the cut that are going to ride the pine?

0:38.3

We're going to tell you all of that plus some breaking news that we got to discuss that's going to have

0:42.9

perhaps an impact on a lot of fantasy shares of a lot of players the rest of the season.

0:47.0

But before we do, I want to remind everybody once again make sure you're following us on YouTube, subscribe

0:52.6

to the YouTube channel at Fantasy Pros and of course hit that little notifications button when you do.

0:57.9

Gentlemen big news Yates I got to start with you with this news because Justin Fields looks like he is going to be the quarterback

1:03.5

the rest of the season for the Chicago Bears and we had both circle the Detroit Lions game is that first game

1:09.9

he was going to start that was not the case he had to start a week before. I bet he wishes he hadn't but

1:15.7

here we go rest of season it's about time and this was the foregone conclusion the question is Yates.

1:21.1

What does that impact now in terms of fantasy for the rest of the Chicago Bears?

1:26.4

Yeah so obviously with Justin Fields the concern now has been that he's only thrown the ball 37 times over

1:31.8

the past two games so it's not leading to a ton a ton of fantasy production for the other receiving

1:37.2

options here but you had that crazy flute game against Cleveland where they literally just could not

1:42.3

move the ball in offense whatsoever due to the play calling and then last week they were up big

1:46.8

against Detroit so you just lean into the run game. So I think moving forward we're going to see

1:50.1

those pass attempts tick up here and now when you have Justin Fields who is willing to push the ball

1:54.7

deep down field he had a 22% big time throw rate according to PFF this past week the next

1:59.6

highest was 15% across the NFL so he is willing to push the ball deep down field I think Darnell

2:05.0

Mooney is going to thrive because of it but then I do think that I talked about this on the rest of

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