Week 17 Pickups: Championships hang in the balance

Yahoo Fantasy Forecast

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4.3 • 790 Ratings

🗓️ 28 December 2021

⏱️ 49 minutes

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With fantasy football championships on the line and COVID making the health of NFL players anything but certain, Andy Behrens and Scott Pianowski try to find some value on the waiver wires that can be stashed on benches of fantasy managers in case of need.Also, the guys take each other’s temperature on the AFC North-leading Bengals, the NFC East-winning Cowboys, the AFC-leading Chiefs, and still find time to praise Mark Andrews and the Chicago Bears.Stay up to date with the latest fantasy football news and coverage from Yahoo Sports on Twitter @YahooFantasyFollow Andy @AndyBehrensFollow Dalton @DaltonDelDonFollow Liz @LizLoza_FFFollow Matt @MattHarmon_BYBFollow Scott @Scott_PianowskiCheck out the rest of the Yahoo Sports podcast family at https://apple.co/3zEuTQj or at yahoosports.com/podcasts See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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0:00.0	Well, hello.
0:07.1	Welcome to the Yahoo Fantasy Football Forecast.
0:09.2	This, of course, the very special Monday Pickups Edition, not just any Pickups Edition, but
0:13.8	the Championship Week Pickups Pod.
0:18.0	Wow.
0:19.1	This, of course, also means that it's the last pickups pod for the NFL season.
0:24.4	It's rough out there on the waiver wire this week. I'm not going to lie to you. I'm not offering
0:28.6	any league winning guarantees necessarily for many of these names, but we're going to try to
0:32.5	help you a little bit. I am, of course, Indy Barron's coming to you right now from Sunny, Florida.
0:38.1	I am joined by the multi-sport fantasy legend, the Hall of Famer, Scott Pianowski.
0:42.7	Scott, how are you?
0:43.8	How's the playoff portfolio looking?
0:46.6	Pretty good.
0:48.5	Although a bunch of my teams did lose last week, but I had a good week 16.
0:53.0	I'm still trying to get the weeks down, this 18-week season.
0:56.2	How about it? I know. I wish they'd just go back to the way it was. They had a perfect setup,
1:00.7	but it was a good week. It'll be better if, as you're listening, as hopefully Tua won't do a lot
1:06.8	against New Orleans. Jalen Wattle will be scarcely involved. Those would be good things for me.
1:11.5	In fact, I even bet the Tua underpassing prop. So as you're reading about Tua, you know,
1:15.6	throwing for 570 yards or something, you can laugh that know that I was ripping a ticket
1:20.1	under 234 ticket on that. But I need a low scoring game Monday night. I think we're going to get it. And it was a good, it was a good weekend for me. How about you?
1:28.4	I am with you on the need for the low scoring game. The two things that can hurt me are Alvin Camara doing
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