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theScore Fantasy Football Podcast with Justin Boone

Top Handcuff RBs & Latest Injury Updates

theScore Fantasy Football Podcast with Justin Boone

Score Media and Gaming

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4.9520 Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2020

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Boone is joined by Matthew Betz of BallBlastFootball.com to discuss the latest injury updates and their favorite handcuff running backs.

  • How much of a disadvantage are rookies facing this season? (3:15)
  • When can we expect Deebo Samuel to take the field? (5:20)
  • Should we be worried about the health of Cam Newton, Ben Roethlisberger, or Matthew Stafford? (9:25)
  • Can Alex Smith become an NFL starter again? (13:10)
  • Is Derrius Guice worth the risk in re-draft leagues? (14:30)
  • Will Jarvis Landry be ready to go in Week 1? (17:35)
  • Does Alshon Jeffery make an impact in 2020? (20:20)
  • Who are the top handcuff/backup RBs to target in drafts? (22:25)

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome, everyone to the score fantasy football podcast.

0:16.4

I'm your host, Justin Boone, the lead fantasy analyst at the score on today's show.

0:22.1

We're going over some of the key injury situations because training camps are getting underway here and we're bringing

0:26.9

an expert in for this one. Matthew Betts, who is a board certified orthopedic clinical specialist

0:31.9

in physical therapy. He's also one of the rising injury analysts in the fantasy industry.

0:36.8

So we'll get his take on Debo Samuel and Cam Newton and a bunch of other players working their way back.

0:43.0

We're also going to talk to him about some of the top handcuffs or backup running backs, however you want to look at it.

0:48.5

Guys, you need to stash though, because it's going to be even more important this season with COVID-19 lurking out there,

0:55.1

potentially causing more starters to miss time during the year, having your bench stacked

0:59.5

with these high upside backup running backs.

1:02.1

It might be the difference.

1:03.2

It could be the difference between winning a title and maybe not even making the playoffs.

1:06.9

Before we bring him on, though, if you like what you're hearing, click the subscribe

1:10.5

button on whatever podcast platform you're using and give us a rating, give us a review.

1:14.9

And also, make sure you're checking out some of the other great shows in the score podcast network like pound the rock and expand the zone, puck pursuit, sweeper keeper.

1:23.6

There's a bunch and you'll be happy you did.

1:26.0

All right, let's bring on our guest.

2:00.9

In addition to that long, prestigious title that I mentioned earlier, he's also the host of the Red Shirts Fantasy Football Podcast. He's a co-owner at BallblastFootball.com. We had Michelle Magic on during the offseason a month or two ago. Love what they're doing over there. You may have seen Matthews work on the fantasy footballer's site. He's got a new show there, the Fantasy Footballers DFS podcast. He's also pretty active on Twitter, too, at the Fantasy PT. Just a very, very busy man we're talking about here. So we're glad he's joining us today. Matthew Betts. Welcome to the show,

2:06.7

man. Thanks for being here. Justin, what an intro that was. I don't even know what to say,

2:12.1

but I think the end summarizes it very well, man. Very busy, but absolutely love it, man.

2:17.2

Being able to kind of give back to the fantasy community and provide injury analysis has been awesome.

2:18.0

And as a PT working full time and doing this kind of on the side, it's been great to kind

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