What is up? It's the rant. My name is Jeff Rackle, but it is Tuesday, December 27th.

Officially Fantasy Football Championship week. And that means it's the final waiver run

of the year. I'm not doing anything next week. I'm sorry if you still have leagues going on,

but it's such a small percentage out there. Most of us have our fantasy championships this week.

So this is it, baby. This is it. Before I dive into the waiver wire rankings for the week,

I did want to preface this week. I talked about this a little bit last week on this show as well.

But the reasons why we make moves this week, they're very different than most of the season.

Like in week five, if you said, hey, Jeff, should I go out and pick up blah, blah to block my

opponent? I'd be like, no, in week five, no, what we want to do in week five is we want to make

sure we continue to stockpile our bench, really looking towards the future for their guys that we

aren't going to be playing this week. We want to be proactive. We want to turn that bench.

You know, it's a very different style of playing in the early phase of the game, even in the middle

phase of the game, but we're in endgame phase now. And so now there's no next week. There's no

picking up for the rest of the season. The rest of the season is now. There's no looking forward

whatsoever. We are picking up players this week for two reasons and two reasons only.

First reason we're picking up guys who could potentially start for us. There are some guys

who are out there who could possibly be in our starting lineups. The other reason if we're not

picking them up to start for us, we're picking them up to put on our bench so our opponent doesn't

start them against us. It's plain and simple. That's it. Plan it simple. Put up the blocker on your

opponent if you're not going to use those guys. Now likewise, this relates to players who we would

drop. You know, this season, let's say you drafted Dalvin Cook and Alexander Madison and you've

held Alexander Madison this entire season. You got to use him briefly there, but for the most part,

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