Hey folks, it's Justin Boone filling in for Matt Harmon on today's Yahoo Fantasy

forecast, but fear not, we have Scott Pianowski joining me on today's show.

We provide injury updates on some key fantasy players.

We fire up the fantasy playoff trust meter on important offenses in the AFC and NFC and

NFC and running backs that we're counting on.

I also provide the top waiver wire ads for week 16,

all coming up right now.

What is going on, everybody? Welcome to Yahoo Fantasy Forecast.

I'm Justin Boone, filling in for Matt Harmon today.

And joining me today is the one and only Scott Pianowski.

Scott, how are you doing, man?

It's been a while since we chatted like this.

Yeah, it's been a while.

I want to congratulate you on a great first season, Yahoo. You're kicking. Appreciate it. But with the rankings as you usually do, and the show has been excellent with you and Matt, and it's just nice to have you in the family. And I knew that you wouldn't do a program with me until your Buffalo Bills came to New England and ripped my heart out, which they did on Sunday. Spotting New England a 21 point lead, no big deal. Josh Allen is still alive in the MVP race. And so, yeah, you know, Bies are over, fancy playoffs are here. There's a lot to break down. And I'm looking forward to a great show with you. well as much as i don to do this as a Bill's fan, I feel like I need to give you some props because when we were in Vegas this summer, we did some bold predictions. You said the Patriots were going to win 10 games and they were going to be a playoff team. And I think the rest of us, as you should with bold predictions, we all kind of scoffed and went, really, you sure about that? Turns out you were sure about that. Those are one of the best bold predictions I heard this summer. I appreciate that. It takes some of the sting out of our Tucker Kraft pain, right? I mean, we basically endorsed him for like 15 straight weeks all summer. He looked fantastic. He looked like a right answer at Tide End. Of course, other right answers. Tighten are emerged. Since then, we'll talk about one of them today. But I appreciate that. It's look to anybody. We'll get to the fantasy in a second. But all you want with your bills, all Colin wants with his cowboys, I don't know what team Matt's rooting for this week. But, you know, all I want with my patrons is to be relevant, to be interesting. I have a text thread with people I grew up with, and when the team stinks, it's no fun to be on that thread. And people don't even watch the game sometimes. And now we're all engaged. We're all experiencing it in real time. And that's just one of the great things about the NFL and fantasy is a sense of community of the experience that we share.

So it's just been fun.

The team is really good.

Again, they got the coach right.

They got the quarterback right.

And they're set up to be competitive for the next window of seasons, whatever that turns into.

A lot of times NFL windows don't stay open as long as we expect.

But as a Patriots fan, and nobody's going to feel sorry for Patriots fans because they had everything go their way, all the green lights. And of course, we just saw another franchise, you know, that was kind of took over for the Patriots who were in a weird situation today. We'll talk about that too. But all we want is relevancy. All we want is the team to be good. And they're good again. Coach Wright, quarterback, right. So I'm looking forward to that. I don't have any delusions that this is a super team. The defense was exposed on Sunday. I don't think it's been a great defense all season anyway. Obviously, the schedule has helped out. But it's been a really fun season. And I'm just, I'm really looking forward to seeing what happens with May and with Vrable, you know, the next three to five years. Yeah. Well, lots more good Bill's Patriots matchups to come in the next few years, I'm sure. And maybe even again in the playoffs. We'll see, Scott. It might happen, right? It might be through New England for the bills to get to the Super Bowl this year. I'd like to see it. It's great, great matchup anytime those two play. But we got a lot of stuff. We got to go over here.

We got to start off. Just a reminder to everyone, the structure of the show. It's the same as always,

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