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FFT Express: Preseason Week 1 Risers, Injuries & Must-Watch Players! (08/08 Fantasy Football Podcast)
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Adam Azer
21/Dnc supply your eight minute guide to preseason week one right now on FFT Express. What's up and welcome to Adam and Jamie here. So we're going to talk about Thursday's preseason action and look ahead to Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Fair game Monday. Got a game Monday? We don't. Why not? Jamie, let's get a game on Monday.
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Jamie Eisenberg
You can play fly football.
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Adam Azer
Okay. All right, so let's talk about Anthony Richardson, who looks like he dodged a bullet with a dislocated finger but didn't really look great. So thoughts on the Colts?
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Jamie Eisenberg
I mean, obviously it was bad across the board. You know, defensively, offensively, they just looked awful. But special teams, but it's preseason so no reason to panic. I, I think in the case of Richardson, like you said, day to day, according to reports on Friday, we'll see how it, you know, once they get back on the practice field and how much they'll actually get him out there. But it's a, it's a benefit to Daniel Jones to maybe try and steal the job. At this point, I think it's really the only cult you should be targeting is Jonathan Taylor. And then if Tyler Warren falls to the right spot, you take a shot on him. You know he's in the top 10 mix. But Josh Downs and Michael Pittman could really be for in for a struggling season because I don't think Daniel Jones coming in offers the same upside as Gardner Minshew 2 years ago or even Joe Flacco last year. Like this could just be a very, very bad passing attack.
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Adam Azer
I like it better at this point. I feel like it, you know, I feel like it's going to Be Jones. It's just a guess, but the reason I feel that way is because it's. If you can't get the simple protection right and you get lit up like that and just before that he almost threw an interception. I just feel like Richardson is not doing, did not do the basic things right yesterday. But whoever it is, I like Jones better for Jonathan Taylor because two reasons. One, he'll throw to Taylor more and two, he won't be nearly as much of an, of a goal line threat as Anthony Richardson. I think Taylor had 40% of the goal line carries, which I just, you know, just Personally I use 1 to 3 yard line for that 40 of the goal line carries when Anthony Richardson was, was healthy. Okay, Ashton Genti, I mean, we were doing a show last night and there were people in the chat like, not panicking but concerned about Genti on three carries. Come on, what do you think?
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Jamie Eisenberg
I mean, drive down the price. You might get him in the middle of round two, you know, so I'm still buying. You know, I don't want to judge anything based on less than a quarter of football. One of those drives was without Geno Smith. So if you're going to judge stuff like that, then you're drafting Keaton Mitchell over Derrick Henry and you're drafting Will Shipley over Saquon Barkley. Like, I mean, come on, like it's, it's no reason to get concerned. Now. If the reports in camp were bad and we were worried about a lot of things for Genti to begin with, you know, you want to nitpick him compared to McCaffrey and HN and Henry and those guys at the top of the running back list based on last night. Okay. I think there were already questions about comparing those guys to begin with, but if you're judging it based on one, you know, quarter of preseason action and two drives, like, no, that'd be a mistake.
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Adam Azer
Don't. Do not change your opinion at all on Genty based on three carries, whether they're regular season, preseason, whatever. Even if they were great carries. Yeah, don't, don't do that.
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Jamie Eisenberg
Well, I, I think that would have gone the other way though. I think if he would have, you know, three for, you know, 75 and a touchdown, like, you know, oh my God, I'm taking him fifth overall. You know, like that might have happened.
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Adam Azer
I mean, Amari and Hampton didn't have amazing numbers, but he looked very good on his carries. He was, he was eluding tacklers. He was breaking tackles. But even that don't don't change your opinion based on three carries in a preseason game. Okay, so Keaton Mitchell, you did mention I definitely think he's, he's worth talking about. Is there anything else that stood out to you from Thursday night's games?
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Jamie Eisenberg
I think just in the case of Mitchell, don't necessarily assume he's the number two running back for Baltimore. Justice Hill did not play, so they kind of put those two guys on the on the bench in terms of Derrick Henry and Justice Hill. But I do think Keaton Mitchell offers much more upside than Justice Hill. So should something happen to Henry, we're probably seeing both those guys play. I would be much more interested in Keaton Mitchell, but I don't think you should just all of a sudden say, okay, should I now be drafting? If I'm looking at a handcuff, is it automatically Keaton Mitchell? That might not be the case, but if you're drafting them, I would still draft Mitchell overhead.
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Adam Azer
So, Jamie, what are we looking forward to seeing or at least crossing our fingers to see in preseason Week one? We'll talk about it after this break on Fantasy Football Today Express. Hey everyone.
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Adam Azer
Welcome back, anyone that you have your eyes on this weekend, I do want.
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Jamie Eisenberg
To see what the Browns look like. You know, a lot of hype. Clearly with Trudor Sanders starting, you know you're going to See him with the backup. So I don't know how much that will make anybody feel better or worse about him individually. But we know what the narrative is with the Browns. What happens when they bench Joe Flacco, who comes in, who's going to be the number two quarterback at some point during the season if that happens. And so if Sanders looks competent right now with Kenny Pickett and Dylan Gabriel dealing with injuries, you might feel better about Jerry Judy, you might feel better about David and Joke, and better about Cedric Tillman. I want to see what Dylan Sampson looks like, you know, because he's going to have potentially a prominent role with the quitch on Judkins in off field. Situation still uncertain. And I want to see what the Chiefs look like. I know we don't get a lot out of preseason action when it's sometimes first team against second team or third team guys, but, man, you cannot watch the Bengals and be like, I don't want to get a piece of that. You know, I want, I want to get a piece of that offense. Right? You know, you get excited when you see what Jamar Chase look like again. You know, a lot of people are saying, okay, I'm sold. He's one Overall, if there was any questions, Joe Burrow looked great again, backups. But I'd like to see the Chiefs come out and throw the ball all over the place and, and look like maybe Mahomes and. And that receiving core is going to be actually absolutely legit.
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Adam Azer
And based on what we saw from the Bengals last night, you should probably expect fewer snaps for Chase Brown than what we saw after the Zach Moss injury. Who's on the field Almost every snap, 85% of the stats, whatever it was, they're going to use, they use P. Ryan on third down, but it doesn't matter. I mean, Brown was so involved. He's going to catch the ball on first and second down. It matters a little bit. Matters a little bit, but it I could see, I don't know if he's going to play again rest of the preseason, but that was the kind of performance where people go, okay, you know what? Like, he's their guy. It's obvious I'm gonna take him in round two. Right now he's around three pick. We gotta pay attention to Travis Hunter. It's the most compelling storyline to me in this preseason. The Jaguars, they play the Steelers on Saturday at 7 o'. Clock. How, how close you're gonna be? Are you gonna be watching that one very closely?
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Jamie Eisenberg
You know, I mean, what's the snapshot going to be. It's not going to be a fair indictment of what his season is going to look like because he's not playing the whole game. But can he get some opportunities? Can he get enough opportunities offensively that you're like, oh, okay, if I'm Liam Cohen, I'm throwing every target in his direction just to make people think like, this is why we moved up in the draft and then let him go line up on defense and see if he could shut somebody down, like put I put him on DK Mecca.
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Adam Azer
That would be awesome. And I wonder, I don't know who's gonna play, but rookies pretty much always play, right? So I wonder if Brian Thomas Jr. And Trevor Lawrence and Travis Hunter are out there for two drives and Thomas has one target and Hunter has three or four, what that would do to Brian Thomas Jr's adp. It would be interesting.
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Jamie Eisenberg
I hope nothing. Or actually I hope a lot because I draft Brian Thomas. Right?
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Adam Azer
We'd want to take advantage of that.
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Jamie Eisenberg
You mentioned this when we were discussing what should we talk about for the show? The Brown, the Broncos backfield, you know, will they stick to their depth chart and not use RJ Harvey until both Julian McLaughlin and Blake Watson come off and has to make them off the field because we know Dobbins will start. So will they, will they go to Harvey with the starters, whoever plays for them, or will they sort of just lean on the back? I don't even know if they're playing Dobbins, so I shouldn't say it. But will they, will they lean on Harvey in garbage time, which I hope not.
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Adam Azer
And what's this? The Harvey was fifth on the 10th chart.
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Jamie Eisenberg
Yep.
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Adam Azer
Don't worry about it. Don't let that bother you, Jamie, thank you very much. Enjoy preseason football, the rookies, if you're interested. I mean, I'm obviously interested to see Jackson dart because I do think think his time is likely to come at some point this year. And we'll catch up on everything you need to know from preseason week one. If you just want to enjoy your weekend and not watch backups play football, I'd understand that, too. So Monday's show will tell you everything you miss and everything you need to know. For Jamie Eisenberg, I'm Adam Azer. Have a great weekend. See you Monday on FFT Express.
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