Week 16 Waiver Wire: J.J. McCarthy, Michael Carter, Colby Parkinson headline top targets

Fantasy Football Happy Hour with Matthew Berry

NBC Sports, Matthew Berry

Fantasy Sports, Sports, Football

4.3 • 710 Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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December 16: Matthew (@MatthewBerryTMR) and Connor (@ConnorJRogers) hear about Jay’s (@croucherJD) latest venture observing Keanu Reaves’ work, then the trio jump into Waiver Wire targets for Week 16. C.J. Stroud, J.J. McCarthy, Blake Corum, Michael Carter, Jacory Croskey-Merritt, Jayden Reed, Luther Burden III, and Dalton Schultz are among the names discussed. The guys also reflect on the showings of Jaylen Warren, Kenneth Gainwell, and Jaylen Waddle on Monday Night Football before wrapping the show explaining why they have circled Saints-Jets and Vikings-Giants on their betting card.

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0:00.0	Jake holds his beer pretty well, I will say.
0:02.9	I don't think I've ever seen you drunk.
0:04.6	I've been out drinking with you a handful of nights. I don't know that I've ever. He just, he holds it really well. I was like, where you don't go, Jay's drunk. He's been drinking the same as the rest of us. He says, fine. Yeah, he pulls it together pretty well. The one end in the combine where you somehow managed to scratch out little bottles of wine.
0:22.9	I was a good. That was a tough saying. Yeah, that was a good. Next day, you've had better moments. Oh, it struggled. Yeah. You power through, or do you credit? Yeah, I power through. Yeah, I always show up. Like, you know, Keanu raised in Hotball. Most important, is Shona. Oh, sure. Welcome to the fantasy football happy hour with Matthew Berry.
0:48.5	Welcome to the fantasy football happy hour.
0:50.8	Connor Rogers, Matthew Berry, and Jay Croucher from Hardball.
0:54.2	That's an ridiculous graphic.
0:56.5	Yeah.
0:57.0	Also, I saw Keanu Reeves in the flesh on Broadway, the Hudson Theater on Saturday afternoon
1:02.7	and Waiting for Godot, which Waiting for Godot was one of the most famous plays of the 20th century, Samuel Beckett.
1:08.7	Waiting for Doe kind of sucks.
1:10.1	It's not that fun. It's not that fun.
1:11.1	It's not that interesting.
1:12.6	I'm sorry.
1:13.3	Good review.
1:14.1	Does Godot ever show up? He doesn't show up, Godot. No, he never shows up. There we go. We've ruined a play for you as well. Yeah, exactly. Covering all our bases. Keep way. You don't have to go see it. Even Broadway is not safe.
1:24.3	He never shows up. Who did you see it with?
1:26.6	My wife.
1:27.3	Okay.
1:27.6	My wife, Sophia.
1:28.6	Yeah, we saw.
1:29.3	Keanu, uh, he was fascinated. He never shows up. He never shows up. Who'd you see it with? My wife. Okay.
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