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Yahoo Fantasy Forecast

Championship preview & prop bets you NEED to know + 5 fantasy free agent best landing spots

Yahoo Fantasy Forecast

Yahoo Sports

Football, Fantasy Football, Fantasy Sports, Sports, Nfl

4.3790 Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2026

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Championship weekend is on the horizon and we have Matt Harmon and Joel Smyth here to get you ready. The two preview both championship games and provide their favorite matchups and prop bets along the way. Smyth caps off the show with his top-5 fantasy free agents and best landing spots that could maximize their potential.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Big show for you here today. It is the conference championship preview. Joel Smith joins me to

0:05.6

Breakdown to Patriots at Broncos and Rams at Seahawks. Two huge games. We've got a ton of matchups for

0:11.7

you guys to dig into. We've got some props. A bunch of notes. You're going to be as prepared as you

0:15.6

possibly could be for those two games. A lot of trench talk. A lot trench talk in this show. How can you not love that?

0:21.6

Then we finish it up with a little look ahead at Joel's top five free agents and their potential landing spots.

0:27.7

All that and more cut up on today's show. Let's get into it. What's going on, everybody?

0:45.9

Welcome to the Yahoo Fantasy Forecast.

0:48.5

And it is a hell of a day to talk ball.

0:51.8

It is the championship round.

0:53.6

I think I just tweeted the show out and I said the divisional round. I'm clearly living in the past. It is the championship round. I think I just tweeted the show out and I said

0:55.3

the divisional round. I'm clearly living in the past. It's the championship round conference

0:58.8

championship baby and joining me to preview those games and talk a little ball. It is our guy,

1:03.5

Joel Smith. Joel, what's going on, buddy? Hey, how you doing? Good over here. Excited for this

1:08.4

weekend of football. It's been a couple good ones now. So hopefully championship preview, same as the last two. No doubt. And we're going to do that here. That's what we're going to be. Most of the show we're going to be previewing the conference championship games. We're going to preview AFC title game. The NFC title game. We're also going to take a look at Joel's top five upcoming free agency candidates here, which is going to be really exciting to talk about because I'm just, listen, I love football. I love the real games. The real games are better than the offseason, but let's be honest, offseason content is very exciting as well. And we're kind of juggling both right now as the games sort of get here towards the end. So we're going to preview the games.

1:45.4

It's going to be a big show.

1:46.6

We're going to get to the free agents.

1:47.9

Before we get to that, though, we have to look back at our prop record from last week, Joel.

1:53.1

And once again, it was a little bit of a slower week for you.

1:56.7

You didn't go quite 9 and 1, but you did best me once again.

1:59.8

You were 5 and 4.

2:01.1

I was 3 and five. So you now sit on a 74% hit rate here. I'm at 47%. I'm sub 500. Not great.

2:10.3

I'm not going to quite tank here on the final episode, tank for the number one pick,

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