The Biggest Fantasy Football Busts at Every Position | Fantasy Focus

**SPEAKER_1** (0:00)
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**Field Yates** (0:40)
Happy Friday, welcome to Fantasy Focus Football. I feel weird right now, because I'm Field Yates and not Daniel Dopp.
A little bit of a travel situation has impacted his commute to work here, Mike. You and I are going to be holding down the fort. Can you really tolerate me all by myself for an hour straight?

**Mike Clay** (1:00)
I'm going to try. We're also sitting closer to each other. Usually, I feel like I'm far away when I'm in that seat, but right here, we're just like right here.

**SPEAKER_1** (1:06)
And I can reach you.

**Field Yates** (1:08)
Yeah, stay away, will you? The last thing is that at least for that shot that opened up the show, for those that are watching right now, Mike and I are staring into cameras, despite the fact that if I put my left hand out, you can see him. So I don't quite know the do with my hands. I don't know which way to work. I'm just going to let the camera find me, and we're going to roll here. We have a huge show today, Mike. One of the biggest words in Fantasy Football, especially during the preseason, is bust, right? We are covering bust today in Fantasy Football.

**Mike Clay** (1:35)
This is a tough exercise.

**Field Yates** (1:37)
Say again?

**Mike Clay** (1:37)
This is a tough exercise.

**Field Yates** (1:38)
Yes, yes it is. And we talked yesterday about our guardrails, which were top 10 quarterbacks. You said, hey, like top 10 quarterbacks or good judgment, top 20 running backs slash good judgment, top 20 wide receivers.

**Mike Clay** (1:52)
I stuck in your guardrails.

**Field Yates** (1:53)
There we have it.
And then also top 10 tight ends. So we'll get into that. A reminder that if you are looking for something to do while you are in the chat, Eric Moody is there. The great Eric Moody, he is answering all of your questions and engaging with you about Mike's costume for the show yesterday. That really got the people going.

**Mike Clay** (2:11)
It did. People really enjoyed that. And I'm glad because that was my, we actually had a, what was it, a Christmas party last year, a holiday party at my house. And it was a pajama party. So everyone wore their PJs. That was mine, so I've now worn that two times. It was great. I'm getting a good run out of it twice a year.

**Field Yates** (2:28)
It was hilarious. It was great. One of my memories from that holiday party was there were a lot of pregnant moms there at that time. Remember that? It was just like a weird confluence where a lot of us who were invited to this party all had expecting wives, and now all those babies are born.

**Mike Clay** (2:42)
I made like 100 margaritas and they just sat there. I had 84 of them.

**Field Yates** (2:46)
I digress. That's how I came up with my bus picks for today. But again, Daniel Dopp coming at some point, we hope during the show. What we're gonna do is Mike and I are gonna go through our bust picks. And if Daniel shows up, we will let him empty out the clip. If he does not show up because of travel stuff, you and I will go through his picks and decide whether they were good or bad selections.

**Mike Clay** (3:05)
I do like that they just cut to the empty chair.

**Field Yates** (3:07)
Yes. It's like he's here. He's here. There he is. There he is. There is Daniel Dopp. In spirit, Daniel Dopp is here.

**Mike Clay** (3:13)
By the way, this is a tough exercise. It's tough to go because oftentimes we think, and even me, I would even put me in this category despite, it's going to sound like it's not true, but generally we're positive about players, right? Especially guys ranked this high. These aren't the guys we'd like. These are the guys we want to draft. So when you go, you talk so positively about the same guys over and over, it's tough to be like, okay, I have to adjust my notes and my thought to, what's the downside here? And that's, I think I do that a lot with a lot of players. It's important not just to see the ceiling, but see what could go wrong, because stuff goes wrong and you're like, how on earth did Dave Davis fail in Buffalo? Everything seemed positive. How did Brian Thomas go from wide receiver four as a rookie with a backup quarterback for a chunk of the season and drop off that much in year two? It doesn't make sense. And the offense was successful.