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Yahoo Fantasy Forecast

Week 18 recap + First look at PLAYOFFS: What's next for Ravens, Bucs? Who can actually win it all?

Yahoo Fantasy Forecast

Yahoo Sports

Football, Fantasy Football, Fantasy Sports, Sports, Nfl

4.3790 Ratings

🗓️ 5 January 2026

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Matt Harmon and Scott Pianowski recap a wild Week 18 that saw an instant classic in the Ravens-Steelers SNF game. The two look ahead to the entire playoff field and ask what's next for teams like the Ravens and Buccaneers. The two also look at latest coaching news and react to all the firings that have already taken place on 'Black Monday'.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Big show for you here today. Scott Pinovsky joins me to break down everything that happened

0:03.6

in Week 18 that actually matters. We go through the NFL playoff field and which teams we

0:09.7

think actually have a shot to make a run, which teams have too many questions to bear. Then

0:15.5

we get into other performances from Week 18. Where do the Ravens and the Bucks go after a loss to miss the postseason?

0:22.5

And the latest coaching news.

0:24.6

All that and more coming up on today's show.

0:26.5

Let's get into it.

0:41.7

What's going on, everybody?

0:42.4

I'm Matt Harmon.

0:44.5

Welcome to the Yahoo Fantasy Forecast.

0:47.2

And it is a hell of a day to talk ball.

0:51.3

And joining me to do just that is my good friend, Scott Pinooski.

0:52.5

Scott, what's going on, buddy?

0:56.1

Not much, Matt. Feeling energized after a very exciting end to the NFL season and what looks like a very wide open

1:00.3

playoffs. We're going to talk all about that today and just putting a period on the fantasy season.

1:05.7

I do have some leagues that do use the final week, so I was engaged in a way that maybe

1:10.4

other people weren't.

1:11.3

But after the season to me, it goes by so quick for the first couple of months.

1:16.6

And then it starts to drag maybe in that third quarter.

1:19.6

And the way we got some just fun primetime games at crazy Baltimore, Pittsburgh game last night,

1:25.1

I feel like that put an extra bounce in my step.

1:27.3

And now the playoff schedule, every game except for the Rams and Panthers has a really low spread this week. It's like, you know, who could win? Anybody could win. It's going to be an exciting month of football ahead. I think you said that so perfectly. Number one, it's been way too long, way too long since we've done this together, Scott. So I'm very happy to... I'm jacked up that you're on the show here today. I'm also just jacked up exactly what you said about the NFL playoffs, man, because it's going to be such a fun ride. It's going to be an electric field that we're going to break down here in just a moment. I've been talking about this for months over on football 301, that it's a very tight field, just like there's not one team that you're like, ooh, yeah, that's the team. I think there are great teams here on the playoff field, but it is a very wide open sort of situation here. And week 18, I think, was a perfect, maybe not perfect, but it was a really delightful

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