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The Rant with Jeff Ratcliffe

Week 16 Start/Sit

The Rant with Jeff Ratcliffe

Jeff Ratcliffe

Sports, Football, Fantasy Sports

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2025

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

It’s that time of the week. The start/sit questions are flying in, and Jeff breaks down the most common players everyone seems torn on. If you’re stressing over lineup decisions for Week 16, this episode has you covered.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Right back where you at.

0:14.1

Hey, what's up?

0:16.4

It's Friday, December 19.

0:19.3

I'm Jeff.

0:20.1

This is the rant.

0:21.2

And what a start.

0:23.9

I mean, what a start.

0:25.7

That was crazy.

0:26.7

The two point conversion alone, the craziness there.

0:29.7

And anybody out there, by the way, who were saying that the whistle was blown, the play was dead, it was not.

0:36.7

Technically speaking by the NFL rulebook, even if a whistle is blown, if a turnover like

0:42.6

that occurs or a potential turnover, a fumble occurs before the whistle is blown,

0:48.4

then it's still a live ball even after the whistle was blown.

0:52.1

Like that was actually put in place, I think, in like 2009. Um, so there you go. What to start to the to the week. If you're down, you're certainly not out, even if you think you're out. Let's put some points on the board. And one of the things that I will always say, and we're going to talk about some of these unique situations here in just a minute,

1:11.4

but what I'll always say at this time of year, forget about what other people are telling you,

1:15.7

because you're going to hear from a lot of folks if you're down this idea that you need upside.

1:21.7

You don't need upside.

1:23.5

You need more points than your opponent.

1:25.2

And we don't get that from upside.

1:26.9

We get that from scoring points.

1:28.9

And so what I do in these instances is I just stick to my guns.

1:31.9

I start the best possible players on my roster,

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