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The Rant with Jeff Ratcliffe

Week 5 Start/Sit

The Rant with Jeff Ratcliffe

Jeff Ratcliffe

Sports, Football, Fantasy Sports

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2025

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

It’s that time of the week. The start/sit questions are flying in, and Jeff breaks down the players everyone seems torn on. From the Arizona and Tampa RBs to what you should do if you have Chuba Hubbard. Disappointing starts to the season for AJ Brown, Ja'Marr Chase, and Ladd McConkey. RBs to stash but not start. Even what to do with the Giants WRs following Malik Nabers' season-ending injury. If you’re stressing over lineup decisions for Week 4, this episode has you covered.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Rap back where you at?

0:14.3

Yo, what's up?

0:17.3

It's Friday, October 3rd.

0:18.6

I'm Jeff.

0:19.0

This is the rant.

0:20.1

Gotta love the NFL, huh?

0:22.2

Who cares? Eight point favorites, eight and a half point favorites. It doesn't matter. Mac Jones is out there at quarter of hack. What a game, man. That was fun. Of course, I hope it isn't the sign of things to come for this week. We do get, you know, I usually say about a quarter of the season

0:39.3

is crazy. Like we get those really just insane weeks where crazy stuff happens that we didn't see

0:45.1

coming. That's kind of the beauty to the NFL. But have we truly had one yet? I think we're due for one.

0:51.4

I'm not going to adjust anything based on that, though, because like you, I don't know the future. But what I do know is there are a number of players

0:58.8

who are causing some start-s-it dilemmas or maybe expectation dilemmas. So like we do on

1:05.9

Friday's wanted to dive into these common players who I'm getting a lot of questions about.

1:09.3

And we're going to start. I really only have one quarterback on the list. It's Dylan Gabriel. Should you or shouldn't you use

1:15.6

them in Superflex? That's really the only, that's the extent of things. And, you know, I'm going to

1:20.5

approach any unknown situation in a very similar way. You know, last night, for example, a lot of

1:25.2

people were asking me about whether or not to use Kendrick Boren.

1:29.1

And, I mean, I ranked him as a flex because that's about as good as I could go.

1:32.8

I really didn't know what we were going to see out of the 49ers offense.

1:36.8

They were extremely banged up.

1:39.3

I mean, when you think about it, top two wide receivers, well, plus IUC, so really top three wide receivers out starting quarterback out

1:46.2

starting future hall of fame tight end out all you had was christian mcalfrey so it's like what can we

1:52.3

really do here and who sees that coming right so i ranked him accordingly and hey he exceeded expectation

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