Which Offensive Lines Are a Problem For Fantasy? Rankings with Brandon Thorn -- (Episode 410)
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4.7 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 10 August 2022
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Brandon Thorn is one of the football world's preeminent offensive line evaluators. He joins Adam and Evan to discuss how this year's units will affect fantasy, who has gotten far better, and who has gotten worse.
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Show Notes
In this episode, we discuss:
- How much Giants OL has improved
- Is Cowboys OL still elite?
- The mess in PIT
- Joe Burrow can get better?
- Tons more
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, no, and welcome to episode 410 of the official established the run dot com podcast. |
| 0:22.2 | My name is Adam Levittan as always joined by Evan Silva and today we have a very, very |
| 0:27.8 | very special guest. I think as football analysis has gotten more advanced and more efficient. |
| 0:34.0 | There aren't many quote unquote hidden things that matter anymore, but I really do think that |
| 0:39.8 | line play and offensive line play is under analyzed relative to how much it impacts |
| 0:44.8 | box score results. And that's why we absolutely love having Brandon Thorn as part of our team |
| 0:50.5 | also the owner of the trench warfare newsletter. Brandon, good to see you buddy. How are you? |
| 0:57.1 | Doing good guys excited to do this again and just excited for ETR, man. I'm just just happy |
| 1:02.6 | to be a part of it, man. It's awesome. Awesome. Evan, good afternoon. How's it going, buddy? |
| 1:07.3 | Good afternoon. It's going really well. I'm looking at Brandon's background here and obviously |
| 1:11.9 | Quentin Nelson on our left, his right. I'm trying to figure out who number 72, he's got a |
| 1:17.9 | personalized message there from Quentin Nelson. That's pretty badass. But who is number 72? I can't |
| 1:24.1 | figure it out. Tyron Armstead. Tyron Armstead. Okay. Okay. And he was a mover this all season. |
| 1:31.4 | He's going to definitely come up in this conversation. Yeah, he will. He will. |
| 1:35.6 | Yeah, exactly. On today's show, as Evan alluded to, we're going to talk about all things offensive |
| 1:41.0 | line play and how it intersects with fantasy outlooks before we get into it. Note that this podcast |
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| 1:59.8 | contest and drafting. Now is great practice for your home league. Also, as you know, it is officially |
| 2:07.2 | draft season. You're going to see a lot of people out there pushing their rankings. Everyone's |
| 2:11.0 | got rankings. I can promise you, no one takes them as seriously as us. We have a team of full blown |
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