Yahoo Sports fantasy analyst Matt Harmon and NFL analyst Nate Tice preview Friday night’s battle in Brazil and the individual performances they’re eyeing the most. Hear the full conversation on the “Yahoo Fantasy Forecast” podcast – and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you listen.
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So I ended up taking a lot of Jordan love.
He’s one of like my guys at quarterback this year.
So, um I think he’s gonna get off to a good start in week one.
In fact, he’s the one of my player props here.
I’m gonna take over Jordan love 257.5 passing yards in this one.
because a lot of the matchup advantages that you mentioned it just again, I think this off is going to get off to a good start.
There are so many different ways that they can attack you because of all of these players.
It’s hard to pick a player that I like to do the scoring, but I do think Jordan love is gonna get going here in week one.
You just mentioned all these guys, we don’t know who is going to catch the passes, which of the receivers gonna step up, which of the Titans is gonna step up for the Packers.
How about the running back Josh Jacobs over 16.5 receiving yards?
He gets the receiving prop for me because of this fio defense that is softer that wants to play zone and make you work for it.
A lot of play action in this Packers offense.
We’ve mentioned those check down to Josh Jacobs.
He’s a valid receiving check down auxiliary option.
They’re gonna run a lot of play action.
Like I think they will, they’re gonna push the ball.
There’s gonna be some opportunities for him to catch the ball underneath and especially against this type of defense, especially with linebackers.
They’re a little iffy, uh, with him one on one against them.
And if you’re looking to really hate your life and bet and under here, I do think, uh, say Barkley under 15.5 receiving yards is interesting, um, every week and yeah, and it might be safer to do the under 2.5 catches.
You also get better odds because if you bust a big one, like again, you’re just gonna hate yourself and I’m all, I’m all about betting on sports and not hating yourself.
Um, so that’s, that’s kind of my general philosophy and, and I just against this defense that we expect and we don’t know what Jeff Haley’s gonna do yet, but we expect it to be more of a cover one like some more man coverage here and stuff like single high that’s gonna be AJ Brown time, you know what, whatever they want to do from emotion and all this new Kelly Moore stuff, the bread and butter is still gonna be Y AJ Brown’s over there.
Uh, single high.
I’m, I’m Jalen Hurtz, I’m throwing that go ball to him.
Uh So that’s gonna be a lot of what the offense looks like as they try to integrate this new stuff and it’s still ok. Am I getting to the Taquan Barkley and the reader, am I taking off and scrambling?
So maybe the under 2.5 catches is actually the way to go.
I like that a lot.