Week 18 Love/Hate: Jaxson Dart, Chase Brown, George Pickens + Week 18 Player Incentives

Fantasy Football Happy Hour with Matthew Berry

NBC Sports, Matthew Berry

Fantasy Sports, Sports, Football

4.3 • 710 Ratings

🗓️ 2 January 2026

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

January 2: Matthew (@MatthewBerryTMR), Jay (@croucherJD), and Connor (@ConnorJRogers) analyze Lamar Jackson expected back at the Steelers Sunday, then jump into their Love/Hate list for the final weekend of the regular season. Trevor Lawrence, RJ Harvey, Omarion Hampton, George Pickens, and Coleston Loveland are among the players discussed. The trio also highlight statistical milestones Ashton Jeanty, Justin Jefferson, and Trey McBride can reach in Week 18 and answer questions from the Regulars before Jay and Connor pitch Matthew on bets to make Sunday.

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0:00.0	Massive amount of money, my friend lost.
0:02.6	He's a smart guy, but just to give you an idea of how good that offense was looking,
0:07.0	because this guy put, honestly, his kids' future education in on these bets.
0:12.5	And so it just gives you an idea of just how good that offense was early on.
0:16.9	Yeah, I've heard that guy doubled down on the Niners needing to win this Saturday night. So if they go down, I'll see you guys in hell, basically. I like the reveal at the end there. I'll see you guys. We never said to who it was, Jay, just to be fair. Speaking to those Niners, Kirsman McAfree. But to be fair, I will already, I'll definitely have in hell, so I will see you there, Jay, yes.
0:38.2	Of course.
0:38.8	You guys have fun.
0:44.2	Fantasy football happy hour with Matthew Berry.
0:48.5	Welcome to the fantasy football happy hour.
0:50.9	It is a love, hate Friday.
0:53.6	Connor Rogers, Jay Croucher, Matthew Berry out there in the bunker.
0:58.7	A pretty unique love hate Friday, Jay. We don't get to do this a lot. Yeah, no, looking forward to. It's a big, big weekend. There's a lot of steak.
1:06.3	A lot of weird matchups. Yeah, a lot of strange matches. Because of the uncertainty. Yeah, actually, I love Week 18. Me too. I love the randomness.
1:11.4	I love Chiefs, Raiders. Grisola Docken against the team trying to lose to get the number one pick. Also just like random, like Cleveland, Cincinnati. It's just like, it's kind of has a preseasony feel a little bit, but they're also massive games with stakes. I'm looking forward to...
1:26.2	And player stakes, because there's Week 18 incentives that will sprinkle in as well and can really guide how you're going to maybe bet, how you're going to set daily lineups, whatever it may be. Matthew, how are you, man? We almost forgot about you all the way out there. No, it's easy to forget. No worries about that. I'm just mind of myself. By the way, keep going.
1:45.3	I'm enjoying this.
1:46.1	I could just, you know, take the show off.
1:48.4	I will say yes.
1:49.2	There's also, there's a bitch, which I know, I know Jay, you always love.
1:54.7	There's a bunch of randomness and variance to Week 18, where you have teams at wild ends of the spectrum.
2:03.3	Some teams actively trying to lose.
2:05.1	Some teams actively just trying not to get hurt and trying to just get through the day,
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