Which QBs Will Break Out And Which Will Fail In 2023 (Episode 598 with JJ Zachariason and Adam Levitan)
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4.7 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 9 August 2023
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Adam Levitan is joined by JJ Zachariason of Late-Round Fantasy Football to discuss the fantasy QB landscape ahead of 2023.
In this episode, we discuss:
Drafting elite QBs in Round 2
Are pocket passers still viable?
Lamar Jackson's 2023 outlook
A plan for if you miss out on elite QBs early
Can Anthony Richardson prove the doubters wrong?
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Timestamps:
(1:57) - Should People Be Drafting QBs in Round 2?
(4:05) - Dual-Threat Quarterbacks
(6:13) - Can You Still Stream Pocket QBs?
(8:21) - How Last Year’s Quarterback Landscape Played Out
(10:46) - Jalen Hurts as No. 1 Overall QB
(12:30) - Is Lamar A Top-Tier Quarterback?
(13:24) - How Often Do You Take A QB In Tier 1?
(16:20) - Plan For Missing On Top-Tier Quarterbacks
(20:13) - What Is A Late-Round QB These Days?
(24:19) - Why Don’t People Like Anthony Richardson?
(26:59) - Who Are The Best True Late-Round Quarterbacks?
(30:22) - Is There Any Hope For Russell Wilson?
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 598 of the official established the run.com podcast. |
| 0:20.7 | My name is Adam Levitan and today we have a very, very special guest. |
| 0:25.9 | This is a young man, you know, from AirHorns, a young man, you know, from his |
| 0:29.9 | seminal work on late round quarterback strategy, which is now completely defunct or is it it's a young |
| 0:36.3 | man you knew from number fire. It is JJ Zacharyson currently of late round fantasy football. JJ has |
| 0:45.3 | gone today, buddy. What's going on man? Good to talk to you as always. On today's show, we're going |
| 0:50.4 | to talk all things quarterback for single quarterback leagues. Note that we do have a show coming up next |
| 0:55.8 | week on super flex and two quarterback leagues will be joined by JJ and Sean Siegel for that one |
| 1:02.2 | super excited. Stay tuned for that. But as I said today, we are talking about quarterback strategy |
| 1:06.9 | and micro takes for one quarterback leagues. Do we need to get one from the top tier as a late |
| 1:11.2 | round quarterback still viable, which mid round quarterbacks can compete with the big dogs a lot |
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| 1:52.6 | dynasty and DFS now is the time to get in there. All right, quarterbacks. JJ wrote literally wrote |
| 2:00.8 | the book on late round quarterbacks. I have also been employing a late round quarterback strategy |
| 2:05.6 | going all the way back to the year 2000 with Dante Culpepper. Did you ever envision a scenario JJ |
| 2:14.5 | in which quarterbacks will be going in round two and very smart people would be saying not only |
| 2:20.0 | is it okay, but it is right. And there are a lot of smart people out there right now saying |
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