Week 5 Fantasy Preview: Be kind to your commissioners

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🗓️ 9 October 2020

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Liz Loza and Andy Behrens are here to get you ready for Week 5 on the latest episode of the Yahoo Fantasy Football Forecast!Liz and Andy dedicate this episode to running down one BIG thing to be aware of for every Week 5 game, starting with Sunday morning's kick-off all the way through to Monday night’s matchup between newly named rest-of-season starting quarterback Justin Herbert and the Los Angeles Chargers and Drew Brees and the New Orleans Saints.Will Kenyan Drake FINALLY deliver in a plus matchup? How will Joe Burrow do against the vaunted Baltimore Ravens defense? How many points will be scored when Seattle and Minnesota meet?Plus, what should you do when not one, but TWO games were postponed out of Sunday into either Monday or Tuesday?Liz & Andy try to answer these questions and more to get you prepped for Week 5!And for those of you who prefer your fantasy analysis to be a little bold, our experts finish off the show by taking a look into their crystal balls and give us one truly nutty prediction for this weekend's games!Remember to stay tuned to the Yahoo Fantasy Football Forecast, which will now have FIVE new episodes per week!Follow Liz: @LizLoza_FFFollow Andy: @andybehrensCheck out the rest of the Yahoo Sports Podcast family at https://apple.co/2Abi8jk or at yahoosports.com/podcasts See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Liz Loza and welcome to the Yahu fantasy football forecast presented by planters,
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0:10.5	What satisfied me today?
0:12.5	Well, I have to be honest, it has been an interesting.
0:16.9	Obviously, Andy, you can chime in here.
0:20.0	A couple of days and the COVID continues to dominate the NFL-related headlines.
0:25.3	But I have to say, I am extremely satisfied with the way that our product team has handled the situation in terms of our game management.
0:35.1	Shouts to BMarsh and dips for doing what they're doing
0:38.1	and really striving to find what they believe to be a fair and equitable answer.
0:44.0	I wanted to, you know, obviously we're going to talk about, we're going to preview all the
0:47.3	show, all the matchups, and we're going to start with Buffalo at Tennessee, and there are a lot
0:51.4	of question marks there. But Andy, I have also want to say appreciate how you have reminded people to be
0:58.3	gentle and kind to their commissioners.
1:02.4	I commission league is a 14 team league, which means there are two more voices in the cacophony.
1:09.4	So how have you found this experience?
1:12.5	Are you the commissioner of any leagues right now?
1:15.6	Yeah, longstanding leagues that are full of understanding people.
1:19.4	So it, you know, and we had some notion of how we were going to handle potential situations,
1:24.4	certain situations coming into the season, you know, we'd expanded benches and IR spots and all that.
1:29.6	It is just one of those situations where like every, every new development leads to a series of pretty bad choices.
1:38.3	Like there's no clean, perfect way.
1:41.2	Yeah, there's just no, there's just no clean way to manage a fantasy league, a fantasy platform in a situation
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