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Yahoo Fantasy Forecast

Stat Nerd Thursday: Belichick vs. Brady, Chiefs sign Josh Gordon, OBJ is back and TNF preview

Yahoo Fantasy Forecast

Yahoo Sports

Football, Fantasy Football, Fantasy Sports, Sports, Nfl

4.3790 Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2021

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Matt Harmon and Dalton Del Don, appreciators of stats, get together to go over some breaking news and talk about some of their favorite stats of the first three weeks of the NFL season, showing which RBs that get the most yards after contact and which WRs are getting targets without a lot of fantasy points.The guys also give their predictions for the Patriots/Buccaneers game that has Tom Brady returning to New England to take on Bill Belichick, and offer a full fantasy and DFS preview of the Thursday night game between the Bengals and Jaguars.Stay up to date with the latest fantasy football news and coverage from Yahoo Sports on Twitter @YahooFantasyFollow Andy @AndyBehrensFollow Dalton @DaltonDelDonFollow Liz @LizLoza_FFFollow Matt @MattHarmon_BYBFollow Scott @Scott_PianowskiCheck out the rest of the Yahoo Sports podcast family at https://apple.co/3zEuTQj or at yahoosports.com/podcasts See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome back to the Yahoo Fantasy Football Forecast podcast where it is

0:09.3

Stat Nerd Thursday. That means I, Matt Harmon, today, am joined by my fellow stat nerd Dalton Del Don.

0:16.5

Before we get into that, first we got to run through some pre-show business.

0:21.5

Look, there's a lot going on in the NFL this year, and fantasy's hard to figure out.

0:24.7

That's why you need to sign up for Yahoo Fantasy Plus.

0:28.6

The trade hub can help you find a trade partner in your league and get your roster back on track.

0:33.3

The research assistant will help you optimize your lineup, and Andy Barron's weekly newsletter will provide you with the insight you need to get back in the W column.

0:42.7

You can do all this with a free trial at Yahoo Fantasyfootball.com slash plus.

0:48.5

Dalton, we love the trade hub.

0:50.4

We don't love the news that we're going to start off with today before we get into all of our stats.

0:54.8

I actually do have a stat that goes along with this particular piece of news.

0:59.0

But there was a just kind of came through the wire before we started recording that James White is actually going to be out for the season.

1:05.8

It was not a good looking injury that happened in week three.

1:09.6

It's a hip situation.

1:12.6

So he's off the board now. And I think this is kind of a huge loss for the patriots like from a fantasy angle we know he's just

1:17.7

kind of a ppr floor play every single year and and he actually looked like he was getting back up to

1:22.1

that standard uh prior to this injury whereas 2020 wasn't a great year but yeah yeah, so far, James White, what is your reaction to this?

1:29.8

I think last week was the first and only time I recommended James White.

1:32.9

Even in DFS, I like to set up with the Saints.

1:35.2

You can't run against him, and all Mac Jones does is dump it off.

1:37.9

So naturally, he suffers a season-ending catastrophic hip injury.

1:41.7

But so it goes.

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