{"podcast":{"title":"Fantasy Football with Ian Hartitz","slug":"fantasy-football-with-ian-hartitz-7968280","podcast_index_feed_id":7968280,"rss_url":"https://feeds.simplecast.com/Fmn2_88T","website_url":"https://fantasy-football-with-ian-hartitz.simplecast.com","image_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/d0db390c-c639-4676-abf9-b9f84ce3561c/493a9066-3bef-45b4-a516-6b728c1c4cd4/3000x3000/ian-square-3000.jpg?aid=rss_feed","author":"RotoWire","episode_count":60,"summary":"Welcome to Fantasy Football with Ian Hartitz — your home for winning fantasy football advice, powered by RotoWire. Ian breaks down everything you need to dominate your leagues: draft rankings and tiers, sleepers and breakouts, busts to avoid, waiver-wire pickups, start/sit calls, and the stats that actually matter — all season long, from training camp through your championship week. No fluff, no hedging. Just sharp, research-driven fantasy football analysis with the occasional hot take that ages beautifully (or doesn't — we keep the receipts). 🏈 New shows multiple times a week, all season long 📊 Rankings, tiers, sleepers, waiver wire, start/sit, DFS and betting angles Get 20% off any RotoWire subscription with code IAN20 → https://www.rotowire.com/?ref=owmwyje Subscribe and let's win your league.","last_synced_at":"2026-09-25T00:17:19.316386+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/fantasy-football-with-ian-hartitz-7968280"},"episode":{"title":"6 BIG Preseason Trends: Mike McDaniel's Chargers are ready to COOK","slug":"6-big-preseason-trends-mike-mcdaniel-s-chargers-are-ready-to-cook","published_at":"2026-09-01T01:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/fantasy-football-with-ian-hartitz-7968280/6-big-preseason-trends-mike-mcdaniel-s-chargers-are-ready-to-cook","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/fantasy-football-with-ian-hartitz-7968280","url":"https://fantasy-football-with-ian-hartitz.simplecast.com/episodes/6-big-preseason-trends-mike-mcdaniels-chargers-are-ready-to-cook-rV5gueaV","audio_url":"https://bluewire.simplecastaudio.com/8e09361e-ff6e-415d-89f7-350235e2350a/episodes/93fc716d-c784-4a89-8865-9c9f79f9670e/audio/128/default.mp3?aid=rss_feed&awCollectionId=8e09361e-ff6e-415d-89f7-350235e2350a&awEpisodeId=93fc716d-c784-4a89-8865-9c9f79f9670e&feed=Fmn2_88T","summary":"Preseason snaps are fake until they are not. Six things showed up on tape this August that I think carry into Week 1, and a few of them should change how you draft. The Chargers are the headline. Mike McDaniel has flipped this offense in a single preseason: outside zone from 17.6% and 29th in the league to 56.1% and first, pre-snap motion from 18th to first, play action from 17th to second, multi tight end from 31st to fourth. Motion and play action are the cheat codes of modern NFL offense and Los Angeles just went from bottom third to top of the league in both.","meta_description":"Preseason snaps are fake until they are not. Six things showed up on tape this August that I think carry into Week 1, and a few of them should change how…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1364,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/fantasy-football-with-ian-hartitz-7968280/episodes/6-big-preseason-trends-mike-mcdaniel-s-chargers-are-ready-to-cook/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/fantasy-football-with-ian-hartitz-7968280/6-big-preseason-trends-mike-mcdaniel-s-chargers-are-ready-to-cook.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}