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Early RB Rankings Countdown: 20-11, Old & (NOT) Busted - Fantasy Football Podcast for 4/16

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Early RB Rankings Countdown: 20-11, Old & (NOT) Busted | Fantasy Football 2024 - Ep. 1568

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Episode notes & curated moments 7 records
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Tax Day changes the Arizona sun into the heat of Satan

Jason says Arizona's sun changes on Tax Day. Rolling down his drive-through window at 7 a.m. exposes half his face to the 'heat of Satan,' creating a sunscreen plan, a possible McDonald's tan, and a burn like the IRS.

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Mike sends a $72 FAAB debt into monthly collections

Mike says Emari Demercado owes him $72 in FAAB and that he sends a monthly invoice. The desk preserves its no-harassment rule but allows a formal invoice with no emotional commentary and a return address.

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Roster death becomes life-and-depth analysis

A request for roster depth sounds like a request for death. The desk recommends depth, calls the show a source of 'life and depth' fantasy analysis, and concludes that depth comes for everyone.

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Derek Carr is respectfully frightened by his own mirror

The desk says—strictly out of respect—that Derek Carr has no courage, calls him a coward, and argues that cowards check down. Carr is then imagined switching on a bathroom light, startling himself in the mirror, and thereby remaining useful to Alvin Kamara.

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The touchdown doer satisfies the old-running-back law

Derrick Henry's Baltimore job is reduced to doing the touchdown thing, making him the 'touchdown doer.' The veteran-heavy rankings then produce a mock law requiring every fantasy manager to select one old man at running back.

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Fat Thor seeks the Love and Thunder body

Josh Jacobs' poor prior season is labeled Fat Thor. The desk hopes Green Bay changes him into the more shredded 'Love and Thunder' body, while imagining that a failed stint ending in a benching would send him back as 'Fatterthor.'

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Episode notes

Complete review of the published video, all fifteen five-second storyboard sheets, and targeted one-second frames shows only Mike, Jason, and Andy live at the main desk: Mike is left in a green T-shirt and gray-tan cap, Jason is center in a black shirt, black cap, and glasses, and Andy is right in a bright red T-shirt. A large black-green Fantasy Faceoff helmet sits in the foreground. The video opens on Jason, moves through the standard montage, and reaches the desk at about 00:29. The montage's brown-black bear at roughly 00:14-00:15 is generic footage, not Jay Griz; its WITH THE DUCERS card depicts and labels Brooks/Judge Giamatti, Jeremy/Owl Borland, and Kyle/The Borgogon as produced branding rather than live appearances. At 10:36 an unidentified off-camera person answers the desk's Deucers Alley question with 'No, sir,' but the video does not cut away or identify the speaker, so no crew appearance is inferred. The only specialty segment visual is a published RUNNING BACK RANKINGS bumper around 11:16-11:20 with arcade cabinets and produced Andy/Jason cutouts. The personality material otherwise plays entirely as ordinary desk conversation. Jason describes Arizona's Tax Day sun blasting his 7 a.m. drive-through window with the 'heat of Satan,' requiring sunscreen on half his face and threatening a McDonald's tan. Mike says Emari Demercado owes him $72 in FAAB and that he sends a monthly invoice; the desk turns that grudge into listener etiquette allowing formal, emotionless FAAB invoices while still forbidding tags, letters, and abuse. A pronunciation slip makes roster depth become death, then 'life and depth,' because depth comes for everyone. Derek Carr is respectfully declared a coward whose checkdowns help Alvin Kamara, complete with an imagined bathroom-mirror fright. Derrick Henry becomes the 'touchdown doer' before the desk says every fantasy manager will be legally required to select one old running back. Josh Jacobs' established Fat Thor label then evolves toward a hoped-for shredded 'Love and Thunder' body, with a bad benching threatening 'Fatterthor.' No invoice, mail, collections desk, death/depth graphic, bathroom, mirror, legal permit, player card, thunder-god costume, or player image appears during those riffs.

Inside the episode

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talk about this team and about this running back group, they are all in on Rashad White. The fact that they brought Baker Mayfield back, we can be confident in the checkdowns continuing. So if this depth chart stays the same, I think you have to assume similar volume so long as he can continue to stay healthy. He played 17 games, and that's oftentimes the hardest stats to repeat for running backs. But yeah, I mean, there's there's not much you cannot like about the situation. And obviously he's, you know, several years younger than Camara. So maybe he is the better bet. Well, his yards per completion were much better than Alvin Camara. It comes down to, like I'm not necessarily projecting that the Bucks are going to take a running back in day two or anything like that. But the fear for Rashad White is if anything changes volume-wise, things could.

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quickly turn into a disaster. I mean, you have an offensive coordinator change that will change. I mean, there's an immediate change for Tampa Bay. But last year, only seven runs over 15 or more yards on 299 rushing attempts. I mean, that is, that truly is something special. I'm sorry, on 272 attempts. And then his fantasy points per opportunity. it's below league average, basically saying if he's not going to get all those touches, like I said, things could turn quickly that he doesn't pay off the ADP. Right now, with the situation as it is, okay, you can talk me into Rashad White, but he's more, as of right now, I'd be more scared investing in best ball without the information from the draft.

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All right, we are looking forward to counting down the top 10 early running back rankings on Thursday's episode. But that'll do it for today. A reminder, head to ultimate draft kit.com. Pick that up, get that pre-order pricing, get into the Dynasty Pass. We'll catch you on Thursday. Thank you for joining us. Goodbye. Thank you for listening to another episode of the Fantasy Footballers podcast. Join our fantasy football community on Jointhefoot.com. and follow us on Twitter at the FF Ballers.