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Is it Friday the 13th? Yep. Christmas edition. Cranpus returns. Welcome into the show. Andy Mike and Jason, the fantasy footballer's back with you. It's my son's birthday today. Birthday party. It's your son's birthday today. It's one of my son's birthdays. It's Taylor Swift's birthday today. Really? Yep. Why do you know that? What do you mean?

No, I saw it on Twitter. He's the president of the fan club. Yeah. Is that a Swifty? What do you call it? A T-Swifty. Yeah, we're T-Swifters. Good. Good to know. She turns 30 today. How embarrassing. Yeah. Yeah, okay. Wait what? Why do you know that? Where was she born, Jay? In my heart. No, I don't know. I don't know. Moving along. Strange. Welcome into the podcast. It's Friday.

Put Clan Friday. Now it's a Foot Clan Friday for Ryan Pencil. Pencil. Yeah. Because he wins a special little gift card to Shopballers.com for $55. And he's a supporter at Jointhefoot.com. Thank you, Ryan. Congratulations. Thank you, Mr. Pencil. It's pencil, yeah. But it's spelled. It's not spelled like any pencil I've used. Correct. But it's a special Friday. Pencilin. Yeah, it's kind of like that.

It's a special Friday because we are filming a little YouTube special right after this show today. We're feeling very generous, as is our studio sponsor, Pristine Auction. We've teamed up with them. We're going to be giving away. It's more than... Thousands of dollars worth of memorabilia. Yeah, we've got tons of autograph sports memorabilia. We don't know what's in all of these very nicely wrapped packages, but we will be opening them.

and giving them away. We're going to give a ton of them away to Foot Clan supporters from Jointhefoot.com. And then we're going to give a bunch of way to people that check out the video, comment, like it, subscribe, all that stuff. We were going to give it away. But the truck that had all the stuff when it stopped at my house, it was empty. Oh, no. So you stole. No, no, no. It showed up empty. Right. Hmm. Right. We'll have the police look into that. Yeah.

We should not do that. YouTube.com slash the fantasy footballers to check that out your chance to win. And a shout out to pristine auction for, you know, providing, it's going to be more than $2,500 worth of the sports memorabilia that were given away. And I'm excited because I don't even know what's inside any of these packages. And a bunch of them are mystery boxes and it's going to be awesome. So you can check that out on YouTube. We'll get that out on social media. Let's talk about the game last night. No. Lamar Jackson.

We know which side Jason was on. 212 yards passing, 5 touchdowns, 86 yards rushing, 5 touchdowns on 23 attempts. If you tell me the quarterback I'm going up against has 15 completions for 212 yards, I am thrilled. That's awesome. I win. Oh, 5 passing touchdowns? Oh, we don't stop there. 86 rushing yards.

He's such a cheat code. It's not fair, but it's awesome. And everybody, you know, we were high on Lamar Jackson coming into this year, but I don't, in the, in the, you know, the few major leagues I play in. I just didn't get him anywhere. Someone, someone took him before I did. And it stinks. It stinks not having, this is like the Lamar Jackson year. Yeah, it is. You know, no doubt. I mean, he went into the game, I think, with.

35 total touchdowns on the season already and added another five to the total. It seemed very, very, very easy for him to do what he did last night. 42, 21 was the final score. And for those of you out there that were, you know, facing Lamar Jackson, hoping that this quad was going to slow him down, I mean, you got run over by a Mack truck last night.

And now you have to try to survive it. And it, like, backed up to see if you're okay, but it accidentally ran over you again. And then it realized it ran over you twice. So it fled the scene. This is the truck running you over again. That had all the packages in it. Oh, what, what packages? But Mark Ingram was great. 13 for 76. This is what you get with Mark Ingram. You always get between.

How does he do this? 11 of, because the team is the best offense in football and they score on the highest percentage of their drives. And it's just what they do. So 13 for 76 and a touchdown. Mark Ingram also the world's ultimate height man. Oh, yes, he is. I don't know if you guys have been following what Mark, Mark Ingram has been doing when he introduces Lamar Jackson, but he did it again last night. Mark Ingram.

I don't want him to retire because he's, I love Mark Ingram. He's been a fantasy stud for years and years. But when the man retires, get him in a booth immediately. Because this dude is awesome. Would you like to describe what he did? Well, he just, he, so they give him the microphone. And he's a hype man. Before Lamar Jackson comes in talks, he just starts.

Just inflating the ego, like, here comes, Earl Jackson. He is the man. I've been telling you, he is the sickest, and he just goes on and on. The MVP. But he does it way cooler than I can possibly do it. He's amazing. This is like a wrestling introduction or something. Yes. Okay. That's pretty awesome. He also had an awesome game. Yes. He set you up. Caught a touchdown as well. Yeah. Yep. And then Lev Bell on the other side had his best rushing game of the season.

87 yards. 23 touches. 87 yards. No touchdowns. Jameson Crowder, six for 90 and two touchdowns. No to Marius Thomas last night. That stinks. I mean, that that stinks because nobody, nobody out there in the playoffs playing James and Crowder right now off the back of three poor games in a row. And to have him go out and dominate is just unfortunate for fantasy purposes. But he looked great. Mark Andrews.

Four catches, 52 yards and a touchdown. Mm-hmm. He's just really good. You know, we were bailed out in the sense that we, you know, we were talking about all these other great options. Maybe you could pivot to Ian Thomas, but you don't know the health of Greg Olson. You would pivot, you know, to Higbee, but you don't know the health of Everett. So you're just going to have to take it and start Mark Andrews. Oh, shame.

And then, you know, it's like, oh, thank goodness. Because, you know, he's been playing injured all year. Was it, and he's been good on. There was a play where, uh, there was a tight end. I mean, he was streaking down the field wide open. Okay, that was Andrews. That was Andrews. Yeah. So he should have had another. So close to an 80 yard touchdown. Yes. All right. Let's get into the news. News and notes from around the league. Presented by Sleeper.

All right, injury news, very important. In or out on the show today. James Winston. He's throwing tennis balls, so we're okay. I think he plays. Faces Detroit. I think he plays as well. Bruce Ariens hopes he can play. I would hope that too. Josh Jacobs. I'll say in. I think he's going to play as well. James Connor. In. Juju Smith-Schuster. Not in. He has been ruled out. He re-aggravated his knee.

in Thursday's practice. So he is definitely not playing. I think, you know, Deonti Johnson. Has not been ruled out, but is not expected to play. Yep. And then Devante Parker and Jared Cook. Cook. They are both limited in practice coming off of the concussion. The fact that they're limited in practice, they're at least trending towards playing, but monitor the situation. Yeah, they're part of the game plan. If you're out there in practice, you've got to hope that they clear.

Jared Cook is a Monday night game. Jared Ku Kluk. That's good news and bad news for Kuk. Because the reality here is that that gives them an extra day to pass concussion protocol. The nice thing is if you can pick up Jack Doyle, who's also Monday night, that gives you that, you know, if Kuk can't go, then you've got the pivot. You can pivot to Josh Hill in an emergency. If you are, if you're 95% sure that Jared.

Kuk is going to play, then Josh Hill is a backup, emergency play there too. Yeah. And obviously, Jared Kuk's been great. And I would really like to play Kiyuk. He's the, you're done with it? I'm never going to be done with it. He's the number two tied in behind Zach Erds over the last four weeks. That being said, it has come on the back of touchdowns, which is obviously that's nice.

Well, it's nice when you get them, but the ball. It's tight end. I mean, the target volume hasn't been up there with the other guys in that, you know. Well, certainly last week, two targets, two touchdowns knocked out with a concussion. News and notes is always brought to you by the sleeper app. Don't miss the big updates on Sunday morning, one hour before kickoff. It sounds like Jason and I will both be on Sunday live. Oh, we're going to burn it down. Probably.

And then game day alerts at Jointhefoot.com. Let's get back into the forecast. Fantasy forecast. You guys like my sweater? I actually love your sweater. Because you're saying I'm a Cardinal fan, but Christmas is more important. I was going to say my sweater is 3.9 and 1. That's the record. It's very festive. It is. I love those. I'm giving away a lot of gifts today, so it seemed like I needed to.

May I think we got some Santa hats too? Look like a loser? I need to be three nine and one. The sweater is fantastic. Thank you. The team is just, they're bringing shame upon all of us. Well, we'll talk about their matchup shortly. Broncos, chiefs, buccaneers, lions, Texans, Titans, Dolphins, Giants, Seahawks, Panthers, Bears, Packers, Patriots, Bengals. If you heard me just say a team name, it was on yesterday's show. We did those matchups yesterday. You can listen to that episode if you want them.

If you want to hear them again because you heard them yesterday and you're like, that was so good, I want to hear them broken down again exactly the same way. You can re-listen to yesterday's episode. It might be a little different. You'll have to listen. You'll have to listen again. We changed one thing. Can you find it? Eagles at 6 and 7 battling for the division against the Washington Redskins at 3 and 10. Eagles are 4.5 point road favorites. It's a 39 point over under.

That's Mike's your visceral reaction to the game. What is this a Buffalo game? It's a Dwayne Haskins game. The problem is on one side of the ball, you have the Eagles with a serviceable to good quarterback in Wince who has no weapons to throw the ball to. And on the other side, you have a quarterback who can't throw the ball to anyone. So that's where you get a low over under.

You know, the Redskins defense lately has been surprisingly stout. Yeah, I'm a little worried about this game in general for the Eagles side because it's a divisional game and the Redskins. Like you said, over their last eight games, they've allowed the eighth fewest fantasy points to opposing quarterbacks. You saw it last week. I mean, they played Aaron Rogers. This is supposed to be a smash game. Rogers didn't do much. I'm playing the Eagles defense everywhere. Yes. They're my like semi-final matchup of choice.

So I've got them plugged in all over the place because Dwayne Hastings can't do anything. Remember when these teams were cool, week one, and it was 32 to 27, Wince had 303. Case Keenham had nearly 400 yards and three. I thought you were going way back. I thought you were saying like, no, RG3 and Michael Vitt. You don't even have to do that because week one, it was awesome. Well, that, that just means. Terry McLaren, Deshaun, Deshaun Jackson, these guys were cool. Yeah, yeah, not so cool anymore. No.