Well, hello and welcome to the Yahoo Fantasy Football Forecast. This is a very special

conference championship edition. I am Andy Barron's company from Chicago. I am joined by the

multi-sport fantasy legend, Scott Pianowski. We're coming off another absolutely phenomenal weekend in the NFL.

The conference championships, they essentially matched the divisional round for quality,

for drama.

Fantastic weekend for the NFL overall.

The Super Bowl is set.

The Rams are an early four-point favorite. Perhaps we can talk about

that. I know Scott will have thoughts about that eventually. Absolutely no one would have predicted

this matchup a year ago. Excited to have it. Scott, you are joining us. I should have, I kind of

buried the lead here. You're joining us on your birthday. Happy birthday, sir. How are you? What are your thoughts about the weekend? Yeah, thanks, man. You know, I know Nolan Ryan and Justin

Timberlake and Unieski Betancourt want me to get on the January 31st text thread, but they'll have to wait.

Yeah, the NFL, the hits keep common, right? I mean, last week was generally accepted as the best

weekend of NFL

football, you know, playoff football collectively. And then we got two more dramatic games. I thought

there was sloppiness at times. There's a lot of sloppiness in the second half of that Cincinnati,

Kansas City game. And man, it was just weird to see Patrick Mahomes have like stretches of five,

six possessions where he doesn't score. I mean, that's happened so infrequently in his career. And of course, I think we all knew

the Jimmy Garoppolo experience was destined to have a messy end in San Francisco. To be fair,

our old friend Mike Silver wrote a piece about Garoppolo after the game and Gropold's been playing

through a thumb injury and maybe his shoulder's not right. I mean, I don't know who's healthy in the NFL at this juncture of the season, but, you know, who's to say how healthy Garoppolo

really was and maybe some of those throws aren't his fault. But it was exciting. All we really

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