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The Rant with Jeff Ratcliffe

Week 1 Waiver Wire

The Rant with Jeff Ratcliffe

Jeff Ratcliffe

Sports, Football, Fantasy Sports

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 6 September 2022

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Jeff Ratcliffe breaks down some potential adds off the waiver wire in advance of Week 1 of the NFL season. Jeff kicks things off with how to effectively manage your quarterbacks depending on who you drafted and how many bench spots you have. He then gives some tips on what type of running backs you should have on your bench and gives some recommendations. Jeff then breaks down all of the upside at wide receiver that might still be available in your leagues. He wraps things up with some desperation tight ends to pick up.

Transcript

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0:00.0

What is up? It's the rant. My name is Jeff Rackliffe and it is Tuesday, September,

0:20.3

6th. Week 1 is officially on, baby. Week 1 is here. I'm not talking fantasy draft anymore

0:27.4

until we get to February. And yes, well, maybe, maybe December, I guess, because I'll release,

0:32.9

I'm going to release initial rankings in December. So I guess we'll talk about it then.

0:37.5

But no, it's on in season fantasy football. And today you can see from the title, I'm going

0:43.5

to do some waivers. It's a weird week for waiver wire because we haven't had any games.

0:50.8

So we'll talk a little bit about the strategy for this week and moves that you could make

0:56.2

if you need to make a move. But you know, there's going to be more that we'll flesh out

0:59.6

there. I'm not going to talk about quarterbacks because chances are either in one quarterback

1:03.9

leagues, there's a bunch of quarterbacks on waivers or in two quarterbacks, super flex

1:07.6

leagues, there's pretty much nobody on waivers. And I'll give you a few defenses to stream.

1:13.4

If you happen to have just simply drafted off of rankings and drafted the bills, because

1:17.8

I don't think you want to play them this week. Just saying they're facing the Rams. So

1:22.5

just saying. And before we get started, just a reminder, ftn fantasy.com now's the time

1:28.5

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1:36.2

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1:41.4

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1:47.9

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1:52.2

nice savings on that one 20% off with that promo code. Alright, so just a few general thoughts

1:57.5

before I actually get into the specifics of the players who are widely available and maybe

2:03.6

shouldn't be first and foremost, if you don't have a drop, you don't have a drop. Like

2:09.5

if there's nobody on your roster who you can drop, you can't make a move. It's simple.

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