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Welcome to another edition of the NFL fantasy football podcast.

It's being your man, M.G. Marcus Grant, alongside the Fantasy Hall of Famer Michael Fabiano and the Fantasy Viper Graham Barfield. While we are, we're pairing down now. I mean, this is it, right? I know. This is the final leg of the race here. Pretty much. We're going down on the final stretch. Mm-hmm. Because week 17 doesn't count.

Don't play week 17 people.

Yeah.

Don't do that.

Friends don't let friends play on week 16.

Seriously, don't do that.

Yeah.

Imagine if you have Lamar Jackson and he gets you all the way to week 17 and then he's not going to play. Right. It's like, uh. Right. Yeah, you can only...

Way back when, Week 16 used to be a problem with that.

I remember there were times when, like, the cults would clinch everything and then, you know, they'd bring in their backup and Peyton Manning would sit. Yeah. And it was a week 16 issue now because of the way that the NFL is scheduled games. There's so many like big games in Week 16 because a lot of them are divisional rivalry games, you know,

like Cowboys Eagles that you have to sort of play your guys.

Right. This is why you should never play season long and up until week 17 just because,

I mean, there are going to be potentially six to eight teams in week 17. They're just going

be resting everybody. Right. And then maybe another few more that will be resting starters for various reasons,

either because they're dead in the playoffs or they're, you know,

yeah, trying to find a wild card spot. I think teams have stopped. Because I do remember when, you know, teams, especially if you had a big lead, if you had everything locked up, you would sit guys in week 16 and 17. And I think what happened is you'd have, you know, teams, players would sit week 16, week 17,

then you'd have a buy.

So it'd be like three weeks.

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