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The Rant with Jeff Ratcliffe

Week 1 Level Set

The Rant with Jeff Ratcliffe

Jeff Ratcliffe

Sports, Fantasy Sports, Football

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2025

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

The season is here and it’s time to set the table for Week 1. I break down the opener and why we shouldn't overreact to what we saw, dive into why wide receiver versus cornerback matchups can lead fantasy players astray, and lay out the right way to handle start/sit calls. Plus, I’ll walk you through how to actually use practice reports without driving yourself crazy.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Rap back where you at?

0:13.9

Yo, what's up?

0:16.6

It's Friday, September 5th.

0:18.5

Yes, it is.

0:19.6

I'm Jeff.

0:20.0

This is the rant.

0:20.6

We had a football game last night, huh?

0:23.3

We had a football game. Oh, boy, did we have a football game? It was crazy. There was lightning.

0:29.4

There were guys spitting on each other, or at least one. The other one missed, apparently. I don't know.

0:35.1

But there was also a lot of running. There was a little bit of passing and some drops out of C.D. Lamb. And of course, just like always, after one game of the season, we know everything we need to know, right? We know how 2025 is going to be. Obviously, J. Vanté Williams is going to score 34 touchdowns this season. C.D. Lamb's going to see about a thousand targets.

0:56.7

A.J. Brown's going to see four on the whole season, right? We know how this is going to go.

1:00.6

We shouldn't even play out the year. You get what I'm getting at here. As we're headed into

1:06.3

this first weekend of fantasy football, I wanted to do a week one level set on the podcast

1:10.5

today and talk a little bit about the freaking out the, you know, first weekend of fantasy football. I wanted to do a week one level set on the podcast today

1:11.0

and talk a little bit about the freaking out. I say it all the time. The seasons of forest

1:18.1

when we're in fantasy draft season, but now all we see is trees right in front of us.

1:23.2

So we'll level set a little bit about that. A few things that I've seen coming up as sort of

1:27.1

common,

1:28.3

I guess, issues for fantasy managers, although that makes it probably sound more important than what

1:32.5

it is. But I still wanted to get into those. Before I do, though, first and foremost, you know,

1:38.7

I know a lot of people want my take on particular players if you have those players on your roster. I totally get that.

1:46.3

So what I'm trying to do with the report, and the report is my article over at FtnFantasy.com

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