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🗓️ 19 December 2025

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Welcome to Fantasy Focus! Where Field Yates, Daniel Dopp, and Mike Clay guide you through a packed episode of Fantasy Focus presented by Wingstop, breaking down the Rams–Seahawks TNF matchup, debating volatile start/sit decisions, and navigating a messy Week 16 injury landscape. The crew recaps Seattle’s “High Decibel Zone” uniforms and a sluggish first half before diving into DJ Moore’s roller‑coaster game logs, Odunze and Burden being ruled out, and why starting Moore feels like a true “hold on to your butts” moment. They tackle Wan’Dale Robinson’s massive volume versus a brutal Vikings matchup, run through key injury updates on Rashee Rice, Tee Higgins, Josh Jacobs, Woody Marks, and Dalton Kincaid, and reveal their Starts of the Week, including JJ McCarthy, Kenneth Gainwell, DJ Moore, and a re‑energized Travis Kelce before wrapping with mailbag questions and a thank‑you to the Fantasy Focus community. 00:00-Countdown to Fantasy Focus! 01:01-Welcome to Fantasy Focus! 02:00-Thursday Night Recap, Rams vs Seahawks! 12:07-Week 16 Preview Part 2 41:17-Week 16 Injury Report 49:03-Starts of the Week 55:09-Mailbag 1:00:27-Thanks For Watching Fantasy Focus! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Think about cheese.
0:02.0	Make your thoughts cheesier.
0:04.2	Now add 100% chicken breast fillet,
0:06.3	Chipotle sauce and Amadea cheese melt.
0:08.3	And it's giving the new cheesy chicken stack at McDonald's.
0:12.0	Did we mention it's cheesy?
0:13.9	Cheese.
0:15.8	Available until the 4th of Jan, 2026 from 11am.
0:18.1	Plus and participation may vary.
0:19.2	Subjects availability.
0:34.7	What's good friends?
0:39.4	Welcome into Fantasy Focus football presented by Wingst alongside Mike Clay and Field Jaits.
0:44.7	My name is Daniel Dobb here to bring you another awesome Friday show, hopefully an awesome Friday show.
0:49.2	We got a lot to be able to talk about, not only a Thursday night football game that we have to recap,
1:28.0	but diving into the rest of our Week 16 preview part two, making sure you're all set to set your lineups here for the semifinals of your playoff matchups. Before I turn things over to Mike and Field, quick shout out to our friends over at trophy smack. Head on over to trophy smack.com. Use the promo code Focus 10 for 10% off your order over there. And shout out to our buddy Eric Moody. Hang out in chat right now. Follow him on social media at Eric N. Moody. And make sure you ask him all the questions in chat. He loves being able to answer questions from our community. So make sure you do that. And without further ado, listen, we got a bunch of stuff to get into. I'm actually not going to go slow into this. We got a lot of football to talk about. People want to be here. Let's dive into Thursday night football. A week ago. Rams and Seahawks.
1:30.7	If you watch the first half, you might have said to yourself, you know what?
1:33.4	I might have had more fun putting together a children's dollhouse.
1:37.1	But the second half was a lot more fun, my friends.
1:39.0	Ironically, that's exactly what I did.
1:43.4	If you guys wondered how long it takes to build a dollhouse and nobody tell my kids.
1:49.0	It takes exactly as long as a game that goes basically until the end of the fifth quarter takes.
1:51.6	I started a kickoff.
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