Wild Card Weekend Preview: DFS plays + Who is on upset alert?

Rotoworld Football Show – Fantasy Football

NBC Sports, Pat Daugherty, Kyle Dvorchak, Denny Carter

Sports, Football, Fantasy Sports

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2026

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Patrick Daugherty (@RotoPat) and Denny Carter preview the entire Wild Card Round, but first they break down the latest stunning developments on the coaching carousel, the firings of John Harbaugh and Mike McDaniel. Will McDaniel get another head-coaching gig or have to settle for coordinating work? For the games, they assess the Panthers’ (and others’) upset odds, debate if the winner of Bills/Jags will be the AFC favorite, and look at the muddled injury landscape. They also highlight their favorite DFS plays and touch on every fantasy-relevant player.

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0:00.0	Hello, everybody. Welcome to the Road to Roll Football Show Thursday, January 8th,
0:20.2	2026. I'm Patrick Dardy.
0:22.2	That is Denny Carter. If you're watching and see another human, if you're listening, it's Danny Carter. Yes. Probably expecting that too. Might be expecting Kyle DeVorchick as well. He's not here. We'll get to that in just one second. Coaching news to get to off the jump. Mike McDaniel joins John Harbaugh on the unemployment line.
0:38.6	Like John Harbaugh, it might not be for long.
0:40.7	Eight of the league's 32 head coaching jobs are open. Quarter of the league, 25 percent. Going to be a crazy coaching cycle. We'll talk about McDaniel. We'll talk about Harbaugh. Then we'll talk about the entire wildcard round. Rams of Panthers, Packers at Bears,
0:54.3	part three of their trilogy, Bills at Jaguars, one of the most fascinating games the weekend, probably the most fascinating 49ers. Eagles, Texans, Steelers, and the Steelers game here. Oh, and the NBC game, Chargers Patriots, six games, Super Wildcard Weekend. I think they dropped the super branding.
1:11.4	Yeah,
1:11.7	they did.
1:12.6	It dropped the super wildcar weekend.
1:14.0	We're going to break it.
1:14.5	The whole thing. Patriots six games super wildcard weekend I think they dropped the super branding yeah they did
1:12.2	they dropped the super wild car weekend we're going to break it the whole thing down we will break
1:16.2	down Kyle now being here so Kyle he's good at gaming Denny gaming in the betting sense he's good
1:22.7	at DFS he's good at fancy football he had a plan this year, the Fiesta Bowl, Thursday evening, January 8th, in Phoenix, Arizona.
1:32.0	Kyle, you know, he got out the college football playoff bracket.
1:35.7	Kyle, he sees his buck guys.
1:37.8	Kyle, a very unruly, Ohio State fan.
1:40.2	He doesn't even start watching the games until the Michigan game.
1:42.5	He knows none of the matter, even before that. He decided to be so good at DFS that he got sent there by a DFS company, Draft Kings. You may have heard. To watch the festival, you may have heard of Draft Kings. Solely, he targeted this contest because he knew, this is my theory at least. He was sent out there to see his buck guys. Guess what happened? Buck Guy's not good. Not good. They lose to the U. The U is back, everybody.
2:07.2	Kyle's in shambles. Kyle cannot stop crying. Have you noticed he's been pretty moody on the group
2:11.3	text, actually. Well, you know, he had some travel issues, so I do understand the moodiness.
2:17.1	But let's just say,
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