Well, hello, and welcome to the Yahoo Fantasy Football forecast.

This, of course, the very special Monday Pickups Edition.

I am merely Andy Barron's, your usual host, and I am joined by Hallfamer, verifiable fantasy legend.

Scott Pianowski, Scott is somewhere near Detroit right now, which is home to the NFL's hottest team.

Scott, how are you?

Great.

Got a lot of snow coming down.

Got a dog with a lot of snow on him.

He'll probably bark at some point during this podcast.

But I'm doing fine.

Punched a few tickets this week for the playoffs, which is good.

It's good to get the asterisk by your team name.

Yeah, I'm used to the asterisk for other reasons, but in this case, an asterisk is something

you want, right?

Yeah.

Means that you can play, you know, especially if you have a buy or you don't, I may be still playing for

playoff seating in week 14, but, um, and we may have talked about this in previous podcast.

This is certainly the time of year when your pickups go, you know, a week or two ahead of time.

I was, yeah, last week I was picking up defenses that had good matchups down, down the stretch,

stuff like that. You, you have a different shape of objective now than you would have had in September or October.

Well, since you brought up defenses, I've actually been collecting the Green Bay defense,

which is curiously available in about 70% of Yahoo Leagues.

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