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Fantasy Football Happy Hour with Matthew Berry

NBC Sports, Matthew Berry

Fantasy Sports, Sports, Football

4.3 • 710 Ratings

🗓️ 31 December 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

December 31: Matthew (@MatthewBerryTMR), Jay (@croucherJD), and Connor (@ConnorJRogers) close out 2025 by looking ahead to Matthew’s rankings for next season, highlighting Bijan Robinson, Jaxon Smith-Njigba, James Cook, Trey McBride, Justin Jefferson, Omarion Hampton, and Josh Allen. For a full list of Matthew’s Top 50 players for 2026, read here. Along the way, the trio share their New Years Resolutions and reveal their favorite futures bets heading into the last weekend of the regular season.

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0:00.0	I picked him up off the wave wire of my Australian league, where I'm in the final and dominating my friend Jackson.
0:06.0	I was very excited to see Bijan Robinson give Jackson 195 McNuggies last night to say a further twist of the knife with Bijan being the captain of my team.
0:15.0	The last thing I just want to say here about Jay's Australian League, he called points McNuggies. Connor, did you see, do you hear that?
0:24.1	Did anyone else catch that? Yeah, I didn't understand. And also like this Australian league,
0:29.8	why do I feel like, like Jay's the only one drafting American football players and he's somehow
0:34.4	convinced everyone else has got like a bunch of Collinwood magpies on their team and it's like why am i losing a hundred and nothing
0:40.2	jay got javier gibbs in round seven yeah exactly yeah i've got jonathan taylor fives of that
0:45.2	yeah jackson's got scott pendlebury calling reform captain
0:49.4	phoenixy football happy hour with Matthew Barry.
0:59.4	Welcome to the fantasy football happy hour.
1:02.2	Here we are.
1:03.2	Matthew's still out in the bunker.
1:05.2	Jay and I peacefully from home on this New Year's Eve.
1:08.5	Matthew, how was the golf game yesterday?
1:10.7	You know, it's pretty good.
1:12.2	I struggle desperately with sand traps.
1:17.5	Yeah, they're not fun to be in.
1:19.1	That's my big bugaboo.
1:20.7	Well, it's interesting.
1:21.7	I have a good buddy who's a great golfer.
1:24.9	He's like a five handicapped.
1:26.7	And his argument is that the sand trap is actually the easiest shot in golf
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