Top 5 Backfield Battles! (06/29 Fantasy Football Podcast)
Fantasy Football Today
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4.6 • 8.1K Ratings
🗓️ 29 June 2021
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
We'll be keeping our eye on every backfield during training camp, but there are a few battles that are really worth monitoring. Before we get into the Top 5, our CBS colleague Chris Trapasso predicted Michael Carter will be the most productive rookie RB this season. What do we think about that (2:15)? ... Backfields to watch include Tampa Bay (6:15), San Francisco (13:00), Denver (16:00), Atlanta (26:00) and Arizona (31:00). With the Bucs and 49ers, do we have a tandem regardless of who wins the starting job? Should Javonte Williams be drafted ahead of Melvin Gordon? Does Mike Davis have any competition? And find out why James Conner might become a great value pick in drafts ... We run through a few more backfield battles (36:30) including Miami, New England and Buffalo ... Your emails at fantasyfootball@cbsi.com
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| 0:00.0 | This is Fantasy Football Today from CBS Sports. |
| 0:07.0 | On his way to the end zone. |
| 0:10.0 | Now you wanna jump with respect to your play. |
| 0:12.0 | It's time to dominate your fantasy league. |
| 0:15.0 | One play! |
| 0:16.0 | Congratulations! |
| 0:17.0 | Touchdown! |
| 0:18.0 | Now he's done again! |
| 0:19.0 | Now here's some combination of Adam, Dave, Jamie, Heath and Ben. |
| 0:24.0 | A Google search defines the word battle as a sustained fight between large organized armed forces. |
| 0:33.0 | And that's what we are talking about today on Fantasy Football Today. |
| 0:38.0 | The best backfield battles the top five to watch out for organized armed forces on the football field. |
| 0:47.0 | Trying to figure out who's going to be the top, the depth chart. |
| 0:50.0 | I'm Adam Azer with Dave Richard and Chris Towers. |
| 0:55.0 | Chris, we have some disagreements about the list here of what should have made the top five battles. |
| 1:01.0 | Well, yeah, I'll just throw it like, you have Miami on there. |
| 1:06.0 | Maybe I'm wrong, but I don't see any reason to think there's a battle there. |
| 1:11.0 | I could be completely wrong. |
| 1:13.0 | Maybe I'm totally underselling how much they like Malcolm Brown. |
| 1:16.0 | There was no uncertainty about Miles Gaskin's role when he was a boss. |
| 1:21.0 | Let's bump them out. |
| 1:23.0 | Let's bump them to the honorable mentions. |
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