Beat the Waiver Wire for Week 16 (12/16 Fantasy Football podcast)
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🗓️ 16 December 2023
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
The Chargers fired Brandon Staley after Thursday's disaster. Chris Towers talks about what that means and then looks ahead to Week 16 for some players to consider adding this weekend who could help you win a championship.
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| 1:03.7 | Let's beat the waiver wire next on fantasy football today in 5. |
| 1:09.8 | Welcome to FFT in 5. |
| 1:11.3 | I'm Chris Towers here flying solo on a Friday afternoon. |
| 1:15.3 | You're listening to this on the podcast Saturday morning. |
| 1:18.3 | And we are here to talk about some beat the waiver wire targets to get ahead of week 16. |
| 1:24.0 | Look, you just have to look at what Zemir White did on Thursday night. It wasn't an |
| 1:29.3 | outstanding game by any means, but it was a very good fantasy game. He's probably going to end up |
| 1:34.0 | as a fringe RB1 in a bad situation. For a back, who I don't think is particularly talented, |
| 1:42.0 | but he got the opportunity and at running back |
| 1:44.7 | especially. We focused on the running backs a lot for the beat the waiver wire segment. And you can see why. You just got to turn around and hand the ball off to them for them to get opportunities. As long as they're on the field, that's what we saw with Zemir White. It was what we expected. You know, I think he is better than expected maybe in terms of production, but the role was what we thought it would be. |
| 2:04.2 | Before we get to those other RB stashes and other positions, including some DSTs to look at for week 16, let's just quickly talk about the Chargers firing Brandon Staley. And look, when you give up 63 points to Aiden O'Connell, you're probably going to get fired. That, you know, that's probably the way that works. I don't know if there was a clause in his contract that says that specifically, but we knew Brandon Staley was going to be fired as the Chargers coach at some point. Was it going to be today? Was it going to be after week 18, he was not going to be the coach there for |
| 2:34.6 | 2024. Now the question becomes, what do the chargers do to replace Brandon Staley? Do they go, |
| 2:40.3 | you know, move Kellyn Moore up from offensive coordinator? Is he's going to be the interim? You know, |
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