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Preseason Week 1 Fantasy Takeaways: Zigging on Travis Etienne While Everyone Zags

Sometimes, you have to zig when everyone zags. That’s my big takeaway from Week 1 of the NFL preseason.

The problem is you can just never know when you should zig when everybody else zags. That’s the tricky part. In Malcolm Gladwell’s Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking, the theme is how do some people seem to make the right decisions, specifically when they’re given limited time and limited information. How we process information in our lives, without thinking, helps some to be decisive, gifted decision makers—while some are consistently incompetent.

Is that what makes some people good fantasy players, year in and year out?