The MOST Critical Fantasy X-Factors to Keep Your Eye on in Week 1

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Well, good friends, welcome in to Fantasy Focus Football alongside Field Yates and Mike Clay. My name is Daniel Dopp, and we had some football last night. We're going to dive into that. It's going to be a lot of fun to recap Wednesday night football. That part's not going to be fun. The fun part is going to be the week one preview, the storylines we're going to dive into today. It's going to be a blast getting into everything. But really quickly, before we do all that, a couple of logistics really quickly.

Our buddy Eric Moody hanging out in chat all the time. Want to get to him. We love that guy. Follow him on social media at Eric and Moody, and make sure while you're watching Fantasy Focus Countdown on ESPN2, you also have on Fantasy Focus Sunday Kickoff, presented by Lowe's, on your second screen experience, live on the NFL on ESPN YouTube every Sunday, 1130 a.m. to 1 p.m. Get your lineup questions answered by the man himself, Eric Moody.

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Field Yates (1:57)

Sweet. That didn't belong in like a league in like Colorado or Texas. By the way, you said second screen experience for Eric Moody. I actually watched a second screen experience of my own last night.

SPEAKER_4 (2:06)

You did?

Field Yates (2:07)

I watched Grey's Anatomy during the game because every player kept getting hurt that I felt like it was only appropriate.

SPEAKER_4 (2:11)

Was that a crossover?

Field Yates (2:12)

That was good.

SPEAKER_4 (2:13)

Players were showing up at the hospital.

Field Yates (2:14)

I was trying to learn something about what's going on.

SPEAKER_4 (2:16)

Congratulations, Field.

Field Yates (2:18)

Isn't Grey's Anatomy based in Seattle?

SPEAKER_4 (2:20)

Yes.

Field Yates (2:21)

Yeah, so Grey's Anatomy, hospital in Seattle. So Christina, our producer, confirms that is.

Daniel Dopp (2:27)

I watched like the first like 11 seasons of Grey's Anatomy, but now that they're on the- It's McDreamy, right? Yes.

SPEAKER_4 (2:31)

Yeah.

Daniel Dopp (2:32)

McSteamy and McDreamy, they have-

Field Yates (2:33)

People don't know that before you worked here at ESPN, you were just McDreamy.

Daniel Dopp (2:37)

That's what I did in life, yes.

SPEAKER_4 (2:39)

I wore many hats.

Mike Clay (2:40)

No comment.

Daniel Dopp (2:41)

Let's talk about Wednesday Night Football, to be honest.

Field Yates (2:43)

And we will hit the Brock Bowers news right after Wednesday Night.

Daniel Dopp (2:46)

Yes, agreed with that.

Field Yates (2:47)

It's a big kick in the-

Daniel Dopp (2:49)

I love watching football, but you can probably miss me with Wednesday Night Football from here on out, guys.

Wasn't really great. A lot of injuries, unfortunately, that really derailed this game. Let's start right off the top, because right off the rip, unfortunately, Sam Darnold goes down. And that we thought was going to have a major impact on what happened. Turned out JSN is still pretty legit football, even without him. How you feel about what Sam Darnold's missing time is going to do to this offense field?

Field Yates (3:13)

So we're talking at 10:02 a.m. on Thursday morning. We'll see whether we get more information. I'm assuming we'll get more information today. The good news is that Mike McDonald, the coach of the Seahawks, after the game last night said we got some great news on Sam, which I- reading between the lines there, I think there was an initial fear that this might be serious, it's a hip injury, could this be the kind of thing that derails Sam's season before it really gets going?