Week 15 Game Previews + Playoff Start-O-Meter

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🗓️ 18 December 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Marcas Grant, Michael F. Florio, and LaQuan Jones start the show with the latest fantasy headlines, including the Commanders decision to sit Jayden Daniels for the rest of the season and the Dolphins benching Tua Tagovailoa for Quinn Ewers.

Then they preview the week fifteen games and put Marcus Mariota, Quinshon Judkins, and Brock Bowers to the test in the Start-O-Meter. Time stamps below:

Rams at Seahawks Preview: 9:43
Eagles at Commanders Preview: 13:11
Start-O-Meter: Marcus Mariota: 15:28
Packers at Bears Preview: 20:36
Buccaneers at Panthers Preview: 22:16
Jaguars at Broncos Preview: 23:13
Steelers at Lions Preview: 24:15
Chargers at Cowboys Preview: 25:20
Bengals at Dolphins Preview: 26:57
Bills at Browns Preview: 27:56
Start-O-Meter: Quinshon Judkins: 29:06
Jets at Saints Preview: 33:36
Vikings at Giants Preview: 34:53
Chiefs at Titans Preview: 35:51
Falcons at Cardinals Preview: 36:43
Raiders at Texans Preview: 37:50
Start-O-Meter: Brock Bowers: 38:43
Week 15 Sleepers: 41:40

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0:00.0	This is an I-Heart podcast.
0:02.6	Guaranteed Human.
0:15.1	What's up, everybody?
0:16.1	Welcome to another edition of the NFL fantasy football show.
0:19.4	It's me, your man, M.G. Marcus Grand, joined by Michael F.
0:21.9	Florio and Lequan Jones. It's our second to last Bergfest. Birdfest. Birdfest. Birdfight. Birdfight. Yeah. So we've been saying Bergfest because apparently it's German for Wednesday, which this is what we were told via the internet. None of us are... I just trusted Lequan blindly. Yeah, I know. We have not. This could be anything.
0:38.5	But our producer, Hifam Kalani, asked us why we keep saying bird fight. So now we should just say bird fight, which, you know, the Falcons and Cardinals play this week. So that is a bird fight potentially. Well, actually, talk about that. We'll preview that on the show. A whole lot of things.
0:54.7	We actually break down what is a huge Thursday night football matchup, plus the rest of the Saturday.
1:00.0	That's right.
1:00.5	Saturday and Sunday slate for this week.
1:03.1	We also put Brock Bowers in the startometer, and we will hit you with our week 16 sleepers.
1:08.7	So, as always, let's get started with some fantasy headlines. And we will
1:13.7	start with a couple of quarterback situations here. The commanders have said they are going to
1:19.3	sit Jaden Daniels for the final three games of the 2025 season. He injured his elbow earlier in the
1:25.2	year, came back, aggravated the injury later on in the year.
1:30.2	So he's done for the season.
1:31.9	The commander is obviously out of the playoff hunt.
1:33.9	It'll be Marcus Mariotta the rest of the way.
1:35.7	But spinning this forward, Florio, because you were the biggest of the Jaden Daniels supporters on this show.
1:42.1	We kind of talked about it earlier.
1:43.2	But at this point, would you draft him as a top five quarterback next year? Probably. I think it's going to be, there's going to be a debate, right? Because I do think that Josh and Lamar probably going to be the top two once again. And then I think Jadent's in that second tier. Mahomes was in there.
2:01.2	Now he's probably coming out because even if he's ready week one,
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