Week 12 Waiver Wire: Emanuel Wilson, Alec Pierce, Jacoby Brissett headline top adds

Fantasy Football Happy Hour with Matthew Berry

NBC Sports, Matthew Berry

Fantasy Sports, Sports, Football

4.3 • 710 Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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November 18: Matthew (@MatthewBerryTMR) and Connor (@ConnorJRogers) ponder Jay’s (@croucherJD) resemblance to a Star Trek character before diving into top targets on the Waiver Wire for Week 12. Emanuel Wilson, Kenneth Gainwell, Bhayshul Tuten, Alec Pierce, Michael Wilson, and Jacoby Brissett are among the players discussed. They also highlight the performances of George Pickens and Ashton Jeanty on Monday Night before wrapping up the show explaining why they’ve circled Browns-Raiders, Eagles-Cowboys, and Colts-Chiefs on their betting card.

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0:00.0	Segment 01 says, talk about off the rails. Can you imagine Kittle and Barry pounding wine coolers? What do you think of that? A thousand percent. I misread that after pounding. It's terrifying. Yeah, we'll keep pounding. Honestly, you know what? I will just say this right now, and maybe hopefully this gets to George Kittle. Proud Fantasy Life investor, George Kittle, by the way. Him too. Your army expands. He is. He was in our last round.
0:24.1	If George Kittle. Proud Fantasy Life investor, George Kittle, by the way. Him too. Your army expands. He is. He was in our last round. If George is listening or anyone that's in George's world, if George would like to do a podcast called Pounding with George and Matthew, I'm down. And the subject can be whatever you want. Your people should pitch that. I'm just saying. Tell me that's not great. We'll put it on peacock.
0:38.5	Come on.
0:39.4	Counding on peacock with George and Matthew.
0:41.7	It's not your worst idea.
0:46.8	Fantasy football happy hour with Matthew Barry.
0:51.4	Welcome to the fantasy football happy hour.
0:53.8	Matthew is still here with us.
0:55.1	Yeah, what if the show...
0:56.8	Pounding hasn't taken off?
0:58.0	What if keep pounding with George and Matthew is literally us just pounding beers?
1:02.8	I'm impervious to beer, as you know.
1:05.2	And that's what the whole show is.
1:06.3	Is it like we're just pounding beers the entire hour?
1:10.4	I think you go the other way and you call the show Stop Pounding or cease pounding. There's no more pounding. No, no, no, no, no, no. You have to keep pounding just like the Panthers are, just like Dave Canalesis. Dave loves to pound. He loves to watch people pound. They love to keep pounding. It's a whole thing in Carolina. They've got a red hot team. Six and five pounders. Six and five. With Bryce Young, we will talk about Bryce Young. Feels like the three and eight. We'll talk, yeah. Jay is blushing. That is from SEC. Man. No one. He doesn't blush. He has no emotion. Actually, he really doesn't. I'm impervious to blushing.
1:44.6	Doesn't really get mad at things?
1:46.0	Doesn't he get too happy?
1:47.1	No, no, no.
1:47.7	You remember how like, are you a Star Trek guy at all kind of?
1:50.7	No, sorry.
1:51.8	Neither am I.
1:53.8	So I'm not, I'm not a Star Trek guy.
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