TNF Recap and Week 6 Start/Sit questions (10/15 Fantasy Football podcast)
Fantasy Football Today Beyond the Box Score
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🗓️ 15 October 2021
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
Jalen Hurts and Leonard Fournette were the starts of Thursday's game between the Buccaneers and Eagles. Do we fully trust them? Plus start/sit questions about Adam Thielen and more.
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| 0:00.0 | The Eagles made it a close one against the Buccaneers thanks to Jalen Hertz. |
| 0:07.2 | We'll talk about it next on Fantasy Football Today in Five. |
| 0:11.9 | Welcome to Fantasy Football Today in Five. |
| 0:13.8 | I'm Chris Towers here with Dan Schneier. |
| 0:15.9 | And we're going to answer some start sick questions on this Friday morning. |
| 0:18.7 | But first, three big questions from Thursday's |
| 0:21.5 | surprisingly close game between the Buccaneers and the Eagles. The Bucks won 28 to 22. |
| 0:26.3 | And the first question will start with the Buc side. Are you actually ready to trust Leonard |
| 0:30.1 | Fournett as a must-start fantasy RB? He had 127 total yards, six catches and two touchdowns in this |
| 0:36.2 | one. That's his third game in a row with 100 plus yards, the last two with both Ronald Jones and Giovanni Bernard active. What are you feeling about Leonard Fournett right now? I am ready to trust Leonard Fernett as an every week starter. He has the Red Zone role. He's more active than we thought in the passing game that we ever thought he'd be. And he's looking more spry than the old Lennar for net. |
| 0:55.9 | He's kind of looking a little bit more like the Jackson old days for net. So right now, in one of the best offenses in football, I'm willing to trust him every week. Yeah, Tom Brady does seem to, you know, really trust Fournette as that dump off option. I think on the occasions where the Buccaneers end up in like a two minute offense or are playing |
| 1:12.0 | from behind and are in obvious past situations. I think that's what we'll see Giovanni Bernard. |
| 1:15.8 | We saw that a little bit in week three, I believe, when he had nine catches. But that's really |
| 1:20.0 | the only game that Bernard's been involved with. Ronald Jones looks like a clear backup. So I think |
| 1:25.7 | it feels weird, trusting Leonard Fournett in a Bruce Ariens offense, |
| 1:30.2 | but I think we're at that point where you can move on to the next question. And, you know, |
| 1:34.7 | there was a lot of, you know, L.O.L. Jalen Hertz, garbage time, talk on Twitter. He had 10 and a |
| 1:41.0 | half fantasy points at halftime. I just want to point out, but that's fine. |
| 1:48.6 | He ended up with 25 in this one, but he did it while completing just 12 of 26 for 115 yards, through for a touchdown, but he also had an interception. |
| 1:53.2 | Any concern that Jalen Hertz's fantasy success might not be sustainable moving forward. |
| 1:58.7 | None for my end. |
| 1:59.8 | I think you could even make a case right now that he's not, maybe not the highest upside, but the most consistent rushing quarterback out there, as far as just rushing production goes. And once again, we see him saving his day with Western production, even the games where it looks like it's going to be bad. Like you said, he's on pace for 20 plus points at half. And so with that rushing, with that rushing floor, I'm just never going to be concerned. He's in every week got for me as well. Yeah, and in this one, I think the issue on the passing side, he missed some throws, obviously, but there were a couple of situations where, I mean, the interception, Kwez Watkins just jumped at the wrong time. Just, just hit the why button |
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