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Fantasy Football Today Beyond the Box Score

What to Watch, Preseason Week 1: QB Battles, Anthony Richardson's Debut (08/11 Fantasy Football podcast)

Fantasy Football Today Beyond the Box Score

CBS Sports

Football, Sports

4.9721 Ratings

🗓️ 11 August 2023

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

We've got QB battles in three different spots, including Anthony Richardson's first chance to show us what he can do in the NFL. Chris Towers and Adam Aizer discuss that and more things to watch in the preseason opening weekend. 

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Let's do a little pre-season how to watch next on fantasy football today in five.

0:40.5

I'm Chris Towers. Welcome to FFT and 5 here with Adam Azer.

0:43.9

We're going to give you what to watch for the preseason week one.

0:47.4

Technically by the time you listen to this, we'll have seen a couple of preseason games,

0:50.9

but most of them are happening Friday, Saturday, and Sunday this week.

0:54.5

And Adam, I think the biggest thing is we got three big quarterback battles.

0:58.8

Well, we got one big quarterback battle and then two quarterback battles that are also happening

1:03.4

that we don't really care very much about for fantasy. Colts. Anthony Richardson will start

1:08.1

the Colts season or preseason opener does not necessarily mean that he is going to be the start in week one. But at this point, I don't know if it's, would you say it's fair to say it's his job to lose versus Gardner Minshu? I'm not sure if I would say that. I would say it's his job to win because they both do really well. They're going to want to go with Richardson. I'm not sure I'd say say it's his job to win because they both really well. They're going to want to go

1:29.1

with Richardson. I'm not sure I'd say if it's his job to lose, but this definitely matters. This is a

1:33.7

huge deal. And I think, you know, he might look really bad, but I remember talking about how bad

1:39.5

Justin Fields looked last preseason. So it doesn't take much for these extremely mobile quarterbacks to be good for fantasy. Keep that in mind. But I do think he needs to go out there and least do a representative job, a respectable job, to claim that starting spot week one. And if you're interested in Michael Pittman, this is a big deal. You should be working against Anthony Richardson right now to be. Yeah, it's not just Pittman. I mean, this whole offense, the, the way this offense looks is likely to be

2:03.7

dramatically different depending on whether it's Richardson versus Gardner

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