Happy Friday everyone and welcome to Fantasy Football today.

It's week 17.

It's me and Mike McClure.

That must mean it's Friday at 11 o'clock.

Mike, how you doing today? Let me start with this. that must mean it's Friday at 11 o'clock.

Mike, how you doing today?

Let me start with this because you and I were just talking

with Zach Brooke, our producer of this show today,

about why there's so many, on this 13 games, why there's so many one o'clock games and only three four o'clock games

Clue us in on that

Yeah, I mean it's a couple reasons TV money for sure is always going to be a factor having essentially we know the NFL lives to create standalone games those are the most popular in terms of betting handle and just viewership in general but a lot of it is also for competitive advantage reasons.

They typically want divisional teams playing at the same time so you're not able to

tank and make other decisions based on results there. That's why if you look at, say week 18 next week,

you don't see game times listed yet. That's why you see things like that.

Okay, and one other thing, we've got a 13 game slate obviously. When you go into a slate like this, do you attack it any differently than, you know, sometimes listen, a few weeks ago we had, you know, a nine game slate or maybe a 10 game slate.

There's a lot more to choose from is there a sort of a different mindset you have going

into something like this. A lot more to choose from and there is a bit of a different

mindset see us so I'm not afraid to eat the

chalk in certain spots where we know and have a significant sample size that it's good

chalk. So the most immediate example of that's going to be Christian McCaffrey.

We'll talk about it throughout the show.

I don't need to tell you that Christian McCaffrey is good of football.

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