Championship Studs & Stinkers + #FootClanTitles! (+ Week 17 Waivers)

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Who I have heard from on Twitter and Instagram and everywhere you are. You are shouting it from the rooftops. As you should be. And congratulations if you have won a hashtag Footland title. Maybe it's the first time. Maybe it's one of many. Maybe your trophy case is filling up. It still feels just as sweet. It does. It doesn't. There's no like, there's no downgrading a championship. It's not like, well, this is my first.

Or it's like, this is my 12th, so I don't care. No, it's awesome. And we do have a big game tonight with some big time players in it. I mean, the majority of the matchups that I was in this week has, you know, they have Aaron Jones or Mike Boone or Adam Thielen or Kirk Cousin, somebody from Monday night. So maybe it's, you're still waiting with anticipation. You're staring down the little projections number that means so much and so little.

So much for your psyche and so little in actuality because if something goes sideways, you know. But it's fun. It's been a very fun weekend for many of you. Now, some of you. Oh, yes. I want to tell two tales, all right? Tale number one, barring some sort of just like earth-shattering miracle, we are the official Sleeper Bowl champions. Oh, take that juju. Take that ninja. Take that Ephron.

Which is awesome. That's incredible. Yes. And so that's big time. But on the other side, there is the other side of the coin. And many of you out there are experiencing it because of a simple fact. You might have played Saquan Barclay yesterday. It's not good if you played against him. And in our League One championship game, things were going just fine. And then Saquan knocked on the front door. And before we could open it for him, he broke it down.

and took our heart and soul. At least he got overtime to continue stabbing us in the heart. I mean, it was, look, we scored the second most in the league as far as just rosters. Doesn't matter. Doesn't matter when you go up against the best. So hats off to Candace Patton. We lost in the league one. But if we were going to lose.

I would want to lose like that to an absolute buzzsaw. Kenyon Drake, Sequin, Sequin, Barclay, Mark Andrews. Barkley was the number one running back. Currently the number one running back on the week. I'm going to be so bold to say he will remain the number one on the week. Yes. The number one on the week. No, Mike Boone four touchdown nights ahead. The other running back that we were up against was Kenyon Drake, who's the number two on the week. What? Come on. Fair? No. Redue.

Also, Mark Andrews had no points going into halftime. Oh, with one minute and 18 seconds left before the half. Also, the number one tied in on the week. So yes. So yes. So we lost to a noble and worthy. We're the adversary. Yes. Yes. So lots going on. If you want to celebrate with a Footclan title shirt, the new 2019 footclan title shirts are up on the website. Shopballers.com. I encourage you to purchase one. Gloat.

And then repeat that process for the next 365 days. We can all get one now. That's true. I've been thinking that I have to wait to see how my dynasty league plays out for that back-to-back ship. Yes. But no, we're all champs. We won together. Yes. Yeah. And I believe I will hold on to win the CBS title. Now you need Mike Boone to not score 28 points. That is correct. And then you win. Correct. And I need...

I need Aaron Rogers and Adam Thielen to not outscored Avanti Adams by 37 points. So looking good. Looking good. Jason finally nodding in. Jason's, we're going to renovate you a little bit in the off season. Watching games with you has been very interesting. We need a box to put me in. It's out of the way. You need a box and then another box. Well, I brought this up and this shows.

We're going to be reflecting on the studs and stinkers of the week. We're going to talk a little bit about Week 17 waivers if you're sitting here waiting to pick somebody up for a championship game next week. We know there's some of you doing that. We'll mention that throughout the show. It's a lot of reflection today. So it's a reflection on Jason. And there was a point yesterday in the studio where I looked at Mike and I looked at Jason. And I just said, like, what could be happening to where you would enjoy this day? Like, what?

possible outcome could happen on the field because at this point in time Tyler Lockett and Zechertz who you were facing had zero points each and at two separate points you promised they were going to have the biggest second half of their life spoiler alert they didn't but I'm just trying to we need to get you back to where you can enjoy a Sunday because your current state like you'll you've got two years left in life that's it and then you're gone you're gone you'll just expire on the couch melt into it see I enjoy probably winning a title I enjoy a year

I win the title because of my pessimism. I'm convinced. This is not the outcome I wanted to come from this show, Mike. Thank you, Andy. What are your thoughts on this matter? On Jason watching the games? Yes. It's ridiculous. He was up against Ertz and Tyler Lockett, who threw halftime and scored zero points. And he was complaining about it. He was. I was tilting.

I wasn't complaining that they had only scored zero points. No, but I was just still worried. You were complaining as in that was not good enough. They weren't rolled out. Ertz got back on the field. Not good enough. Scoring zero points. Two high-level fantasy players through the first half scored zero points. Against you in a championship game. That's when you dance. That's not when you melt into a couch. The first catch that Zachary's had, Jason was like,

Oh, he's outscored Noah Fant now. It's true. Just facts. When you went into the matchup, did you think Noah Fant was going to outscore Zaggertz? I had hopes. Yeah, I know. Your hope. Jason's dream, I figured it out. Your dream is to win 156 to nothing. That's right. That is my dream. You will be happy if you shut, you want the shutout. I want the first fantasy football shutout. I want that to be mine.

And I'm fine with if it comes via injury. I just want to shut out. Here's the schedule for this week, by the way. We got Christmas Eve tomorrow and Christmas. We will not be giving you shows for the next couple of days. We'll be back on Thursday and Friday. And then next week, Monday, the footy nominations. Oh, yes. The season long awards on Thursday of next week. We'll have the footy winner. So there'll be a couple days there for you to vote.

Contribute your thoughts, show moments, nicknames, fantasy MVP, least valuable player, all of that stuff. And then we'll have truth episodes. Talk about those for a second. Yeah, so the truth episodes, every year we get a lot of people very thankful that they listened because those give context to how players...

performed, not just what their final stat lines on the season are. You can look at rankings and say, okay, Amari Cooper finished as the wide receiver 11, but did he help people win championships? Well, we joked that like Russell Wilson and Amari Cooper next week, five touchdowns each because it won't matter. Right, because week 17. But then his ranking will be. Well, I mean, like Russell Wilson currently the quarterback five, uh, and has, uh, what do we get?

Six games as a top 12 quarterback? Six times. It's not, you're not winning titles with Russell Wilson. No, six times. Unless you got like CMC or something. And he'll finish us as a top 10 quarterback. The last seven. Proposterous. The last seven weeks. Seven weeks for Russell Wilson. He is the quarterback 23, having only one game inside the top 10.

And it wasn't even a big blowup game. It was the quarterback eight. He flat out sucked the second half of the year. I accept. The quarterback five on the season. If you've been following the show, that's the truth. That's the truth. That's the truth of, you know that Jason and I have been having a spirited debate about Russell Wilson. I began in the off season. I take my L, because the bet was he wouldn't be a quarterback one. Ha ha! Ha! I won! But, like,

It sucks to take that L when it's like this is what I was saying. This is what I was afraid could possibly happen. Yeah, his season, like to be fair, since I'm not, I wasn't part of the great hotel two-hour lobby debate over Russell Wilson. To be fair, part of the discussion about any quarterback is what options did you have outside of him and what other players could have given you, you know, big weeks. His.

the stat you just threw out there, he still was a top 20 quarterback for the majority of those weeks. Now, he's finally giving you those pure stinkers over the last three weeks. But, you know, James, far better for your fantasy team over the back half of the year. Josh Allen, far better. And somehow, Matt Ryan, far better. Somehow, James. Carson wins, far better. Far better this week after throwing more interceptions. Man.

Yeah, if you want to look to another, like you want to look to the negative part of, like we faced Sequin and we faced Andrews and Drake in the league one, we also started James. Yeah, that being, that felt really, really bad. That being said, it was on Saturday and you could sit there and bask in that turd. We started James. It was warm. It was so warm. It was hot. It was steamy. Developed. But the thing is, is we started James at both leagues.

So we won a championship of James. That's right, James. We did it. Thank you. It's all because of you. So like I said, big show today. We'll get into everything. A couple days off. Hope everybody out there enjoys the holiday, enjoys their Christmas Eve, their Christmas. I was in the, I got a couple more days of Christmas spirit left in me. You know? So on the way in, I was listening to Christmas carols. All of them by Kylo Ren. And by Kylo Ren, I mean, like,

Josh Groban, because the actor plays the same. It's the same person, right? Oh, yeah, totally. Josh Groban, is Kylo Ren. Yeah, it's just his moniker. Mm-hmm. That's why the big finale is, you raise me off. Spoiler. Spoiler. No spoilers. All right, Monday, Punday time. Oh. Yeah. Yeah. Sequin, Bark, we. Sequin, you a league.

Too late, Kwan Barkley? Oh, that's a bitter Saquan owner. I get it. Sequin Tardy. Oh. Same story. He was very late. Yeah, if you were in the playoffs with him, that was good. Higby baby one more time. Yes, that Higby baby one more time. That's top notch right there. Deshawn Watsuck? Oh, not nice. Come on. Where he is Slayton?