Week 1 Recap: Strong Starts, Broken Offenses & a Bills/Ravens Instant Classic | Beyond the Box Score

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🗓️ 8 September 2025

⏱️ 66 minutes

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*Timecodes Below Adam Aizer is back with Jacob Gibbs and Dan Schneier for another season of Beyond the Box Score! Josh Allen and Lamar Jackson deliver a classic in Week 1, plus strong starts, broken offenses and a rookie check-in. (0:00) Intro + Beyond the Box Score back on Monday! (2:30) An all-timer between the Bills & Ravens (4:00) Zay Flowers & only 19 pass plays (7:30) Keon Coleman & other Bills offensive weapons (14:30) HIM of the Week (17:00) News and Notes (18:30) Snap counts across the league (27:20) Strong performances vs. false hopes (44:00) Is the Colts offense for real? (45:45) Offense Broken-o-meter: Dolphins, Texans, Panthers (53:00) The Lions offense (57:30) Rookies: over-hype vs. under-hype #FantasyFootball #NFL #FantasyFootballAdvice #Podcast 🎥 WATCH • Subscribe to this channel: https://www.youtube.com/FantasyFootballToday • Watch CBS Sports HQ: https://cbssports.com/live • Watch CBS Sports Network on your TV or the CBS Sports App with your cable provider ▶︎FFT Express: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyK1zeDYsKPiLNzzFk3jHa199--RN6nff 🎧 LISTEN • Stream and follow & leave a 5⭐️ rating on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2fEvGGxwXqSM8xuSNgxjFR • Download and follow & leave a 5⭐️ rating on Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/fantasy-football-today-podcast/id261735167 • Other CBS Sports podcasts: https://cbssports.com/podcast ▶︎Fantasy Football Today Express: https://open.spotify.com/show/6qyGWfETSBFaciPrtvoWCC?si=51b16cab6d6747ed ▶︎Fantasy Football Today Dynasty: https://open.spotify.com/show/2aHlmMJw1m8FareKybdNfG?si=1a4cd6f9fc464606 ▶︎Fantasy Football Today DFS: https://open.spotify.com/show/5zU7pBvGK3KPhfb69Q1hNr?si=f330cceb49b34780 📱FOLLOW • Twitter: https://www.instagram.com/fantasyfootballtoday • Instagram: https://www.tiktok.com/@fbtpod • TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@fftoday • ASK all of your Start/Sit questions in our Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/FantasyFootballToday/ 📖 READ • More fantasy football news: https://www.cbssports.com/fantasy/football/ 🛍️SUPPORT • Shop our merch: https://www.paramountshop.com/collections/fantasy-football-today • Shop our store: https://shop.cbssports.com/fantasy 💵BETTING • Visit the betting arena on CBS Sports.com: https://www.cbssports.com/betting/ • For all the latest in sportsbook reviews: https://www.cbssports.com/betting/sportsbooks/ • And sportsbook promos: https://www.cbssports.com/betting/promos/ 🎙ABOUT THE SHOW Want to dominate your league and get Fantasy Football bragging rights? Join host Adam Aizer, analysts Dave Richard, Jamey Eisenberg, Heath Cummings, and the rest of our crew throughout the year. Start or Sit, Waiver Wire, Buy or Sell, Grade the Trade and mailbag from your emails and #AskFFT tweets. This is the only podcast you'll need to win your league. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is fantasy football today from CBS Sports.
0:03.6	What a play!
0:04.9	And you believe this?
0:06.4	No, I can't.
0:08.1	It's time to dominate your fantasy league.
0:10.6	Off to the races, and he stays on his feet.
0:13.4	It's just going to go the distance.
0:15.2	Now here's some combination of Adam, Dave, Jamie, and Heath.
0:21.5	Welcome everybody to fantasy football today, presented by BedMGM, the sports book
0:25.9	Born in Vegas.
0:27.0	What's going on?
0:28.0	It is Monday, September 8th.
0:30.4	We're recapping Thursday, or sorry, Sunday night's insane game.
0:35.1	Buffalo 41, Baltimore 40, game of the year in week one. Also, what the heck
0:40.5	happened to the dolphins, the Texans, the Panthers, the lions? We'll talk about those
0:45.3	offenses. What about those disappointing rookies like Matthew Golden and Trayvion
0:50.3	Henderson and especially R.J. Harvey. We'll talk about them. What are we buying in week one? What are we selling? I'm Adam with Jacob and Dan. Do you feel like I'm intruding on your show right now? Not at all. I'm excited. This is the show. This is the original OG show. It all started with us three. And this is the one that I look forward to most,
1:11.1	Jacob and I talked about. It is weird, though, because it feels like a cram session. Like I feel like I'm back in college trying to watch as much as I can before noon on a Monday. So that's the only part I don't like about it. But it's fun because it really cranks you into gear. And I'm just so excited if football's back and to talk football with you boys. I love
1:28.3	football. I loved everything about yesterday. But football doesn't love me. As you can tell from my
1:33.7	updated refrigerator magnets back there. And by tell, I mean, you'd have to use an eyeglass to see what
1:39.7	I'm talking about. The Giants are now 0 and 1 and they looked as miserable as they've looked every
1:44.3	week one for the last three years my fantasy teams i did good it was a good day there but i just
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