NFL Fantasy Football Podcast: Week 15 Waiver Wire - Is it time to bench Patrick Mahomes?
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🗓️ 12 December 2023
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Marcas Grant & Michael F. Florio deliver a new episode of the podcast. First the hosts answer listener questions, like, “Can I trust Patrick Mahomes?” Then Matt Okada stops by to talk about his top waiver wire targets heading into the fantasy playoffs. Tune in to find out what Matt thinks of Jake Browning, Jerrick McKinnon, and Demarcus Robinson.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:03.4 | Hey, everybody. |
| 0:15.9 | It's Tuesday, December 12th, 2020. |
| 0:18.8 | Welcome to the NFL fantasy football show. |
| 0:21.3 | It's me, your man, M.G. Marcus Grant, |
| 0:22.8 | joined by Michael F. Florio. |
| 0:24.8 | Got a fun episode for you today, folks. |
| 0:26.9 | Matt Okada is going to drop by with his top waiver-wire targets for the week. |
| 0:30.4 | But first, we're answering your questions with the fantasy playoffs upon us. |
| 0:38.6 | Time now for some of your questions that you sent to us on Twitter.com at NFL |
| 0:44.4 | Fantasy, the first one coming from Olivier, who asks, can I trust Pat Mahomes in the playoffs? |
| 0:50.9 | Which seemed like a weird thing to have asked if you said this back in August, |
| 0:54.4 | but here we are in December, and this is a legitimate question. |
| 0:58.4 | Yes, yes, you can. |
| 0:59.5 | I have been leading the, like, Mahomes is a bust train or whatever you want to call it, |
| 1:05.2 | but that being said, I'm never not starting Patrick Mahomes, especially he is going to |
| 1:09.9 | break out of this slump at some point, |
| 1:11.5 | and he'll probably do it with like 400 yards and four touchdowns or something like that. And look at the matchup. Patriots, they're not scary. The Raiders, I mean, Mahomes owns them. And then the Bengals have allowed the most passing yards since week 10. Yeah, you're still starting Patrick Mahomes. You're starting |
| 1:27.9 | Patrick Mahomes. And I get it. But here's the thing. I appreciate that we've gotten to the point where we're having the conversation as opposed to it's just like, yeah, you're starting Patrick Mahomes. We're at least thinking about it now because that's sort of what the offense is. I tweeted yesterday, the weirdest thing about the season is the feeling that Patrick Mahomes is no longer inevitable because that's kind of where we are right now. |
| 1:46.5 | Next one from Rudy. And this is definitely first world problems here. Do I stick with Hawkinson or go with McBride? I'm just letting you know right now, Rudy, the people in your league hate you. They don't like you. You have like two top top notch tight ends and you probably have a lot of other people that are poverty at the position so people don't like you you have you have like two top top two top notch tight ends and you probably have a lot |
| 2:00.9 | of other people that are poverty at the position so people don't like you right now uh i would go |
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