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Week 8 Wrap-Up: Are the Raiders actually better without Amari Cooper?

Yahoo Fantasy Forecast

Yahoo Sports

Football, Fantasy Football, Fantasy Sports, Sports, Nfl

4.3790 Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2018

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Week 8's Sunday action has come to a close, and (a bit unexpectedly) the Oakland Raiders showed life. After scoring 13 total points in crushing, back-to-back losses, Derek Carr and the offense scored 28 points. The defense couldn't stop Marlon Mack and the suddenly-juggernaut Colts though, but still, it begs the question: could the Raiders be a more viable fantasy resource sans Amari Cooper?Our experts analyze that and much more on this week's podcast. They also break down the Panthers demolition of the best defense in the league, along with Todd Gurley's continued MVP-season and the stunning nature of Adrian Peterson's fight against Father Time.Our experts then hear your thoughts on players you are no longer going to bench after Week 8 (welcome back, Larry Fitzgerald). (20:40)They also offer up a couple of pickup options for Week 9 when Arizona, Cincinnati, Indianapolis, Jacksonville, New York Giants, and Philadelphia will be on bye. (32:20)Please remember to rate, review and subscribe on your podcast provider of choice and send us your questions for future episodes on Twitter @YahooFantasy.Follow Scott @scott_pianowskiFollow Matt @MattHarmon_BYB See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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0:00.0

Hello, everyone, and welcome to the week eight recap edition of the Yahoo Sports Fantasy

0:09.1

Podcast.

0:10.0

I am Matt Harmon in the hosting chair this week.

0:12.6

Of course, Liz Loza is off being mad famous doing The Rush, the Fantasy Rush, all of these

0:18.8

on-camera shows for the Yahoo sports brand, while Scott

0:23.3

Pianowski and I are left here to slub around on the audio podcast. Scott, how are you doing,

0:28.8

my friend? I'm doing great. Because I don't have a ton of Todd Gurley investment, and I may or may not

0:34.8

have had a Green Bay investment, the day ended on an upswing for me,

0:38.4

not for everybody, perhaps. I think we're going to talk about that a little bit.

0:42.0

Yeah, let's talk about that right off the top. Actually, of course, if you're following along

0:46.5

with the games, Todd Gurley, I mean, he pulls one of these things that we see every now and again

0:52.3

where the guys looks like he's going to be

0:54.6

running right into the end zone and just takes that knee, which of course is a smart football

0:58.9

play. But Scott, like you said, it's a real kick in the teeth, not only for fantasy football players

1:05.0

who of course lose out on a walk-in girly touchdown, but, you know, sports betting being what it

1:10.6

is now, taking over

1:11.7

more of our national attention. Obviously, not only did that take away the potential for the

1:17.2

game to go over the projected total, it also kept the L.A. Rams from covering the spread. I mean,

1:22.6

can we really be mad about this? Or how should we react? Because obviously, people are upset

1:27.2

on the on the

1:27.8

twitter sphere shocking yeah the way i always look at it is if somebody made a move that put his team

1:34.3

in the best position to win you can never feel that bad about it and because the girly decision

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