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The Rich Eisen Podcast

Start ‘Em, Sit ‘Em Week 16: Bryce Young, Rico Dowdle, Dallas Goedert, and more!

The Rich Eisen Podcast

NFL and Rich Eisen

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4.5672 Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Should you start Bryce Young, Rico Dowdle, Dallas Goedert this week? Marcas Grant, Michael F. Florio, and LaQuan Jones are here to break down the key start-sit decisions for sixteen matchups.

The guys also give you their previews of the Sunday night matchup between the Patriots and Ravens and the Monday night game between the 49ers and Colts. Then the discuss the impact of a delayed NFL stat correction, play “Either/Or” with some of the toughest start-sit decisions, and chat with NFL Network reporter Cam Wolfe.

Start 'Em, Sit 'Em QBs: 1:21
Start 'Em, Sit 'Em RBs: 4:25
Vikings at Steelers Preview: 9:22
Dolphins at Steelers Preview: 14:36
Start 'Em, Sit 'Em WRs: 18:40
Start 'Em, Sit 'Em TEs: 22:34
Caleb Williams Stat Correction: 25:46
Either/Or: 29:35
Hot Takes: 34:23
Cam Wolfe Joins the Pod: 38:02

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0:00.0

This is an I-Heart podcast.

0:02.6

Guaranteed Human.

0:15.3

What's up, everybody?

0:16.4

Welcome to another edition of the NFL fantasy football show.

0:19.8

It's me and your man, M.G. Marcus Grant, joined by Michael F. Florio and Lequan Jones. I've learned something in the last several minutes before we started the show today. We have been saying Bergfest for Wednesday. I've been told via our producer, Heitham Kalani, and now, mind you, he just Googled it, which is something we probably could have done months ago. He of bird fight. Right. That apparently the German word for Wednesday is like

0:41.8

mitwak, mitwak. And Bergfest just means mountain festival. So we've been led astray. Wow. All right. Thanks,

0:50.7

chat for saying that in the comments making me think that Wednesday is Burface. At least it wasn't something vulgar that we've been saying on air. Like, this mountain festival. I like to think in Germany, they're just like, why are these guys celebrating like the mountains so much? In the middle of a week, I don't really understand it. Anyway, we are going to be looking ahead to the weekend here on this show today.

1:10.9

We've got your starts and sits for your playoff semifinals.

1:13.7

We'll dive into the Sunday night and Monday night games, plus some bold predictions.

1:17.8

And we're going to ask Cam Wolf if he thinks the Raiders can crack the Houston Texans defense.

1:23.1

But first, as always, we've got our starts and sits.

1:26.5

You can read Michael Florio's column at nfloreo's column at nflot.com slash start sit. Getting down to the end, you only got, look, one more of them left after this, right? That's it. Dadly. Yeah, that's it. It's flown by. It's absolutely flown by. But let's look at the quarterbacks. Who is on your start list, who is on your sit list.

1:47.6

Marcus, in the article, I quote you.

1:50.9

And as Marcus likes to say, percent it and forget it.

1:54.7

He's must start against the Bengals next week, great matchup this week.

2:34.2

I really like Jared Goff, who just like Jameson Williams is excelling with Dan Campbell as a play caller. He's averaging 19 fantasy points per game since Campbell has taken over. Jordan Love, look, I like the matchup, the style of defense. The Bears run is one that is favorable for Jordan Love. And this worked two weeks ago, so let's run it back. And then Bryce Young, because as you said last week, Marcus, and we talked a lot about this week, like, play people against, play your quarterbacks against the bucks. And then the sits, Jackson Dart pains me, but the Vikings have been elite. They've allowed one passing touchdown since week 10. Trevor Lawrence, just because of the Broncos matchup. I know he was awesome last week. And then Caleb, like, I have Caleb in a league. I'm playing Brock Purdy over him. I just don't feel great about getting Caleb in this week and this match. I feel like Caleb is going to be, like, he won't be terrible, but it's just going to be kind of mid. Like, you're going to get 15, 16 points. Yeah. You're not going to feel great about it.

2:51.0

Yeah.

2:51.5

It's do or dies.

2:52.4

Let me final.

2:53.0

Like you need that oneie burger from game. You need something big, right? Like 16, getting 16 points from him in like week 12, you're like, okay, whatever, you know, you just move on. On to next week. But that's not the case. That's not the case this week.

3:04.9

No, just not.

3:06.3

McCoyne,

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