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Week 9 Recap: MONSTER Performances & SURPRISING Duds | Fantasy Focus 🏈

Fantasy Focus Football

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🗓️ 3 November 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Welcome back to Fantasy Focus! Daniel Dopp, Field Yates, and Stephania Bell are here to recap a thrilling week 9 in the NFL. Has Caleb Williams emerged as a must-start QB for the remainder of the season? Should you be concerned about the Colts’ offensive production going forward? Plus, all the latest and must know injuries from around the league, as well as studs and duds from week 9. The crew also previews tonight’s MNF matchup between the Cardinals and the Cowboys. Time Codes: 00:00 Welcome to Fantasy Focus 1:00 The Real Deal 2:20 Monday Morning Blitz: Winners + Losers 18:50 Main Takeaways 45:47 Must Talk Injuries 50:05 Studs and Duds 54:50 MNF Preview 58:57 Thanks for Watching Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Focus.

0:02.2

Fantasy.

0:04.5

Fantasy Focus.

0:07.4

Hello and welcome into fantasy focus football presented by Little Caesars.

0:11.5

My name is Daniel Doppel alongside Field Jates and Stefania Bell.

0:14.7

We are here on a Monday getting ready to recap everything that was week nine of the football season.

0:20.5

Pumped to have you guys here.

0:21.5

How are you both doing today? I'm pretty good. Yeah? Yeah. You said that with a rise in your voice and clutch. I think that means you're lying. I know. I have mixed feeling. It was a day of mixed emotion. Okay. I will say, Niners to care business. That's right. So feeling good about that. One of the great stories in the NFL, six and three in doing so with just two full starts for Brock Purdy. Shout out Mac Jones, who's been so, so good for them. Very happy for him. Big win for them yesterday. And we got another huge game tonight, which I feel like tonight, even if both teams have losing records going into it, potential for a lot of fantasy on the lines. Or we'll finish up the show by giving a quick preview of Monday Night Football, the Cowboys playing host to the Arizona Cardinals. You know what? While you're watching that football game, just in case you decided to wait and you're like, I'm already hungry. I'm a little bit hungry. You know what you could do? You could hit up Little Caesars because Sam Darnold and I teamed up to bring America 15% off Little Caesars today. Use the promo code game time. What's the promo code field? Game time. Who? Thank you. Just game time. Yeah, there's no who at the end. Yeah, it's just game time.

1:28.2

But go check that out. Sam Darnold crushed this last week. 330 passing yards, four touchdowns, 27.2 fantasy points. It's almost like it's a good decision to play quarterbacks against the commanders. It certainly works in your favor. It may not be quite as good as playing against the Bengals, but it definitely works in your favor.

1:44.0

Sam was brilliant.

1:45.2

I was thinking about this on the way in.

1:47.3

Single players, be quite as good as playing against the Bengals, but it definitely works in your favor. Sam was brilliant.

1:45.2

I was thinking about this on the way in.

1:47.3

Single player transaction from this offseason.

1:50.0

So not like the aggregate of all the guys that maybe one team brought in, but just one player, one move of this offseason.

1:57.2

I think the best move is either Sam Garnold or Daniel Jones going to their respective

2:02.0

teams. Now, seven and two in the case of Indiana Jones and six and two in the case of

2:07.4

Sam Darnock. But just a masterful performance from Sam did not have a single incompletion in the

2:12.2

first half. That was nuts. Nuts. He had three in the second half. So he really slacked off.

2:17.3

I know. He was 16 for 16 in the first half. Yeah, he was so great. He was amazing. Yep. All right, we'll dive into the rest of the Seahawks in a minute. But let's first get ready with our Monday morning blitz. Right. Stefania, I am going to start with you and this one. What's your first big takeaway? Your winner of the week.

2:34.3

Listen, I'm very happy about this because yesterday on fantasy football now, I believe I said,

2:39.4

I thought this guy was going to have a big day because I thought the team really waited until

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