Week 15 Betting Preview: COVID uncertainty as fantasy playoffs begin

Yahoo Fantasy Forecast

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🗓️ 15 December 2021

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Scott Pianowski and Frank Schwab give you their picks against the spread for each NFL game this week in an attempt to hopefully help win you some money. They also talk about who will win the AFC North, who the dark horse candidate is for Coach of the Year, who will win Offensive Player of the Year between Cooper Kupp and Jonathan Taylor, and a bunch more.Stay up to date with the latest fantasy football news and coverage from Yahoo Sports on Twitter @YahooFantasyFollow Andy @AndyBehrensFollow Dalton @DaltonDelDonFollow Liz @LizLoza_FFFollow Matt @MattHarmon_BYBFollow Scott @Scott_PianowskiCheck out the rest of the Yahoo Sports podcast family at https://apple.co/3zEuTQj or at yahoosports.com/podcasts See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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0:00.0	Welcome, everyone, welcome to the Yahoo fantasy football forecast. It's a handicapping Tuesday
0:10.7	coming to your airwaves on Wednesday, and I'm Scott Pianowski, your co-host. We will get to
0:15.8	my buddy, Frank Schwab, handicapper to the stars in a minute. You know him over at Yahoo Sportswork Daily and covering all
0:21.7	things to NFL. What a man he is. Before we get to that, let me sure you know what's going on at
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1:03.0	them earlier, Mr. Frank Schwab. Aloha. Hey, what's going on, Scott? It's nice to talk football,
1:08.9	although Ketlai, a little earlier this week, a little bit of a black cloud hanging over the games with all these COVID tests.
1:14.6	Yeah, I mean, you know, we thought we were through with the buys and get on to the fantasy playoffs,
1:18.8	but it looks like a monster COVID week.
1:21.8	There's already been a bunch of disclosures with COVID.
1:24.4	More are coming.
1:26.3	According to Adam Schefter, the league received over 60 positive tests for players on Monday and Tuesday.
1:30.9	So this is going to be when you combine that with the fact that we have Monday, we have Thursday, Saturday, Sunday, and Monday games this week.
1:38.9	So this is going to be a week where you need to be engaged as much as you can to get the latest news. And it's,
1:45.3	you know, it is what it is. It's going to be, we always talk about survive in advance. I mean,
1:49.1	survive is really the key word. You're going to survive to your fantasy championship this year,
1:53.6	and you're going to have to be ready to make quick moves. And you may be playing some very
1:58.8	unusual guys that you're not used to.
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