The Sleeper Broncos, Marquise Brown Regret, COVID-19 Adjustments, and Week 9 Bold Predictions

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🗓️ 6 November 2020

⏱️ 56 minutes

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We discuss some potential preventative measures to take in light of the overwhelming number of COVID-19-affected games this week before we look back on our Week 8 predictions and offer up our gut calls and bold predictions for Week 9. Then we build our million-dollar daily fantasy lineup, and finish the show with a beer pong–themed edition of Fantasy Court. COVID-19 Update (00:34) Jerry Jeudy, Broncos (19:10) Noah Fant, Broncos (22:10) JuJu-Smith Schuster, Steelers (24:15) Marquise Brown, Ravens (25:30) Jonathan Taylor, Colts (28:10) Jordan Howard, Dolphins (29:30) Will Fuller, Texans (32:50) Jamison Crowder, Jets (35:00) Mike Gesicki, Dolphins (36:35) Matthew Stafford, Lions (40:30) Million-Dollar Lineup (45:30) Fantasy Court (00:00) Hosts: Danny Heifetz, Danny Kelly, and Craig Horlbeck Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	On today's episode of the Rear Fantasy Football Show, we discuss what to do with a third of NFL teams
0:06.2	dealing with coronavirus because even your fantasy escapism hobby just leads you back to reality.
0:11.5	We also talk about Jerry Judy's impending blow-up game. We try to kick our marquee's brown habit
0:16.5	and we give a ruling on proper beer pong etiquette. Stick around.
0:30.0	Welcome to the Rear Fantasy Football Show. I am Danny Heifetz here with Danny Kelly and Craig
0:39.0	Horolbeck. What a week. All right. There's a lot going on but we actually have to jump right into
0:46.8	the NFL because there's actually a lot going on in the NFL too because while you've been paying
0:51.1	attention to other things, a third of the NFL is dealing with coronavirus or coronavirus-related issues.
0:58.3	Unbelievable. Maybe more than that. Isn't it like nine of 14 games could be potentially
1:03.6	altered? Yeah, whether it's a team has a staff member or half of a starting team in either
1:10.9	with positive tests or in quarantine, this is easily like the biggest week for positive tests
1:17.8	that the NFL's had going into a weekend. And I mean, that's, look, that's part of the country.
1:21.3	That's part of the reality right now. Like on Wednesday, the country hit 100,000 new cases.
1:26.0	That was the, that's the highest total so far. So I mean, daily cases are peaking and the NFL is
1:30.8	part of America. So it's not necessarily an anomaly. And it's also might, I mean, the first half
1:36.3	of the season went kind of smooth and this might just be reality going forward. We have no idea.
1:39.9	But this weekend is absolutely nuts. And we'll go through all the games that are being affected
1:43.6	and stuff. But you guys want me to like summarize it because it's actually nuts how much is actually
1:47.6	going on right now. Yeah. I kind of think you should just blow through like basically the information
1:52.7	and then we can kind of talk about what that means for people's fantasy teams and what you can
1:56.4	try to do to like salvage your weekend. Yeah. All right. Let's, let's run through this. So we're
2:00.8	recording this in Thursday afternoon. That is before the, I mean, what, who knows what also happened
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