Waiver Wire Pickups: Week 16 (Ep. 309)
FantasyPros - Fantasy Football Podcast
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🗓️ 18 December 2018
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to Championship Week! Our dynamic duo spends today's show examining the top spot-starts for the fantasy football finals. We kick things off by breaking down the latest news on the injuries to Aaron Jones (3:30), Ito Smith (4:52), and Todd Gurley (6:49), then dive into the potential return of Hunter Henry (7:29). The guys debate whether John Kelly (12:05) should be this week's top pickup. DaeSean Hamilton's (30:21) high target volume when he starts makes him a viable WR option and Robby Anderson (36:36) can be relied upon as a desperation play because of his upside. The show concludes with a few interesting rounds of fact or fiction (49:31).
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone, welcome back to the Fancy Pro's football podcast on Bobby Sylvester joined |
| 0:20.7 | as always by Mike Tagliere and Warren Twitter at Bobby Fancy Pro and at Mike Tagliere and |
| 0:26.1 | FFL Tags How's it going man? It's good man. It's good. Obviously we recorded the podcast last |
| 0:30.6 | night, but I'm still pretty excited about the Bears going to the playoffs and I just found out today |
| 0:35.4 | that I am going to the Bears first playoff game, whether it be Wildcard Weekend or the |
| 0:39.3 | Division Hall game that I have tickets secured and I will be going to a football game, which |
| 0:44.5 | is as you know, it's just a rare thing for me to happen, but I said if the Bears made it to the playoffs |
| 0:49.0 | that I'd be going and I'm happy man, they clinched the NFC North in week 15. Tags, I know you're happy |
| 0:54.2 | about your Bears and everything, but I've got to poop on this parade because yesterday was a |
| 0:58.2 | disaster. It was the worst week of Fancy Football ever. It might have been and I think I saw a |
| 1:05.1 | stat on Twitter yesterday that that week 15 this this week that we just witnessed that it was the |
| 1:11.0 | lowest scoring week in the NFL over the last two years and that kind of makes sense because like |
| 1:15.6 | when you look at fantasy championship like teams that are going in, I saw some games that like the |
| 1:20.5 | winner had 70 points in their matchup and it's just nuts man like so many and like great teams to |
| 1:25.7 | like teams that went 13 and knowing the regular season. I'm just getting destroyed in the playoffs. |
| 1:30.0 | It was a troll week for sure. Yeah, it was it was nuts. It was definitely not Fantasy Football's best |
| 1:35.5 | day. That's for sure, but I guess it's like the survival of the fittest who had luck on their side |
| 1:39.8 | and this is you know, we never said that this is a 90% skill game. I still stand by the best teams |
| 1:45.9 | like more that more often than not. If you're a good fantasy player, you're going to make the playoffs |
| 1:49.4 | in your league. I think that's like 90% skill. I think 10% does come down to luck. But once you |
| 1:54.1 | get in the playoffs, like legitimately, you're talking about like maybe 60% skill 40% luck. It's |
| 1:59.6 | just you know, it's any given Sunday kind of like the NFL. But yeah, it's unfortunate that some of |
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