The BEST Starts for Week 1 | Fantasy Focus 🏈

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🗓️ 4 September 2025

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Welcome back to Fantasy Focus! Daniel Dopp, Field Yates, and Mike Clay break down the biggest story lines ahead of Week 1. Who are the best starts to kick off the season? Which WR/CB matchups can you exploit in your lineup? Plus, who should be in your lineup for TNF? All this and more on Fantasy Focus! Time Codes: 0:00 Countdown Clock 1:28 Welcome to Fantasy Focus! 5:50 Biggest storylines for Week 1 36:30 Mike Clay's shadow report 48:10 TNF Preview 58:49 Mailbag 1:05:00 Thanks for watching! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:44.5	What's good everybody?
0:48.5	Welcome into fantasy focus football alongside Mike Clay and field jates.
0:49.9	My name is Daniel Dopp.
0:52.5	And guess how many days we have until football, my friends?
0:54.0	Zero days. Zero days. That's right. I get it. I wore my Jamir Gibbs jersey today. It has a big zero on it. And I wore my Philadelphia Eagles raining super ball. No one cares. No one cares, Mike. And I just feel you have a short seat button down. Thank you. Two things here. I finally drafted Jamir Gibbs last night. Yes. Yes. to last draft, no, third to last draft that I was in. I had another one later that evening, but I finally got Jamir Gibbs at pick four. And I'm not going to lie. Like, it's going to take me a moment. Well, it's going to be easy to identify Jamir Gibbs when they play the backers on Sunday because he's the fastest player on the field.
1:27.7	Yes.
1:45.3	But I have, like, I kind of thought 26 is a cool running back number. I agree with you. I agree with you. I mean, Sequin Barclay and Jemir Gibbs are probably the two coolest running backs in the league. So making that shift to zero, I like it. But I also was totally cool with Jemir Gibbs rocking 2.6 for the rest of his career. Do you think zero is one of those numbers that looks faster or is it not?
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