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Welcome into the Fantasy Pros Football Podcast.

I'm Ryan Wormley, joined by Andrew Erickson and Pat Fitzmores.

Interesting trio.

This was the three of us who did this starts and sits show last year.

This year, of course, Erickson was not on the show, but we are bringing him back for our holiday championship episode, week 17, starts and six. Erickson, how are you doing, buddy? I've done other shows with you, of course, but not this one this year. Doing great. Celebrating this glorious boxing day, the day after Christmas with you guys, couldn't think of anything better. So I'm ready to rock. Totally agree. Fitz, how are you doing? You were telling us a little bit about your Christmas here before we started recording. Sounded like some football, some wine. What more could you ask for? Exactly. Food, family, dogs, kids. It was great. It was a really good time. Hopefully everyone out there had a

great Christmas, too.

Erickson and I have watched all of Stranger Things. We will not spoil it for you or the listeners

here. Fitz as we move ahead. And Ericson strategically takes us from that mug.

We can go ahead and dive into the show. Guys, this is the fantasy championship here, of course. Just quickly, because I didn't talk to you guys earlier in the week, how many leagues are you alive and how many titles are you fighting for here, Fitz? Seven, actually. Seven and O semi-final week. It was glorious. I'm worried that's going to boomerang back on me, and it's going to be a terrible finals week. But so far, really not much blood after the three-game Christmas slates.

Yeah, that is impressive. I had eight teams in the semifinals just two survived to the championship.

Now, I would call them my second and third most important teams. So if I had to pick two,

it's a pretty good two to pick.

It's funny going into this week in one of the leagues I have Puka and in one of the leagues I'm facing Puka. And so I feel like, well, I'll probably go one in one here because he's going to go a long way towards determining this thing. Erickson, how about you? Just one. And it's the one that I care about the most. That's the one that I won last year, the biggest money league that I'm in.

So hoping to repeat, not off to like the best start because I had James and Williams. They did the Lions defense. So that was solid. And I did face Bow Nix. So again, the way that the slate is set up this Christmas week is such a slow burn, right?

Because you have a couple games on Thursdays and then a couple games on Saturday and then Sunday night.

Like the Sunday night games, the Monday night games, Falcons, Rams, 49ers and Bears, like a lot of really impactful fantasy players.

So it's going to come down to the wire.

I think that final Monday night game between, I mean, the Rams and Falcons, Bejohn-Robinson, Drake London,

the Rams piece is just going to be a great finish for a lot of fantasy leagues.

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