Christmas Eve Extravaganza! + Week 16 Matchups, Fantasy Grinches - Fantasy Football Podcast for 12/24

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Welcome in one and all. Happy holidays. Merry Christmas. Thursday, December 24th, that is Christmas Eve 2020. Happy holidays, everybody. Very, very exciting. And we have a mega show today. Mike called it the Santa Lodon. Santa Lodon. This morning. Jason opened with a jolly ho, ho.

And we have so much on today's championship episode of the podcast. How many matchups are we going to cover? 70. All right. Let's go. We have taking it up to 100, a ton of news to talk about all 16 games this week. We even have a little something special. We have some Grinch. Some Grinch sightings today. Be on the lookout.

Be on the lookout for that mean one. That seasick crocodile. He really is a heel. Starts with the week. Boom, boom kicker. Prop it like it's hot. And by the end of this episode, you'll have won your championship. That's what I'm telling you. Yeah, because it's going to take you probably through Monday to finish. You'll be accumulating points throughout the show. And by the end, you'll be victorious.

Now, Mike, back in the studio. That is correct. Nice to see you. I wish I could say the same. And you can see Mike, YouTube.com slash the fantasy footballers, mostly Mike. And how are you doing on the tilt meter for this week? Because you have a lot. Oh, brother. You're in a League of Record Championship game. Look, I was doing actually surprisingly well. I was holding up. But then.

The more news that comes out, the more difficult my flex decisions have become. It is preposterous that I thought my lineup was set on a Tuesday morning. I woke up. I'm fresh and feeling good. It's locked in. I know who I'm going to play. And then the news just keeps shaking things up on an hour by hour basis. And a lot of that has to do with, what, Antonio?

I got Tony Pollard. We got Antonio Gibson. We got what's going on with Keenan Allen. Antonio Banderas. A lot of Antonio Banderas tilt this week. I haven't heard that name in a little while. Like, do I watch Assassins again? I don't know. Probably. It is the Christmas season. Yeah, I mean, a lot of your conundrums are ones that our listeners are facing as well. And they're all afternoon games. So that's great.

All right, it's starting to show through a little bit. I, for one, am not tilting. I'm playing Tom Brady over Josh Allen. I heard. I just want that to be known. He's locked in. He's locked in. Nothing has changed. Nothing is convinced me otherwise. We'll break the game down today. It will have no impact upon me, and I will stay staunch with my right decision, Jason. We always say, stay solid. That's one of the things from the show. All right, let's take it to 100. Taking it up to 100.

Presented by Head and Shoulders, available at Walmart. All right, I'm very excited. I, yes. I have tied it up. Yeah, I could have locked it to at least a tie heading into the final week. And then I was Pooh-Poo Smith-Schustered. Yeah, I had Chris Godwin, Jason had Jeff Wilson, and you had Juju, so now we're tied. Now there are two weeks left, championship week, and then that extra week.

We call it's Week 17. Are we playing through Week 17? We are. Yeah. Oh, okay. So the trophy's on the line, Mike. I thought this was it. So we have, are taking it up to 100 players. There is, there is some banging. I don't know if it's bleeding through the microphone. There's some banging that we're hearing outside the studio somewhere. And I get, we get a message from Brooks that Santa's on the roof. Tell him to keep it down. Well, I know Santa, Santa would be pleased with the three of us. I mean, we got that.

Christmas hats on. Brooks, of course, has his holiday cap on. And then there's one Grinch. That's right. And it's Al. Al's wearing, you know, a regular baseball cap. To be fair, you guys are wearing my Santa hats. Yeah, we can't afford another Santa hat. You have the company card. Yeah, that's on me. All right. Taking it up to 100 players for week 16. I'm going with Antonio. Bandaris. Brown.

against Bandaris always has it at 100. It never goes below 100 for him. No, Signo. It's too sexy. Been impossible to trust Antonio Brown. One good game in one week, one big play last week. But I think in championship week, he's going to take it to 100. In perfect 2020 irony, A.B. will win you a title. He will take it to 100 with Tom Brady against an atrocious Detroit defense.

I like AB this week. Yeah, no, I like playing around with the Tampa Bay wide receivers. It's hard to be confident in exactly who it's going to be, Evans or Brown, but the matchup is great. And for taking it to 100, I like calling your shot there. I'm going with another great matchup. The New York Jets are who I want to throw the ball against. I love Baker this week. And so his pieces should be good.

They should be good. And you like Rashad, Richard Higgins. I do. And I don't like him as much as, say, Jarvis Landry. I would love to start Landry. He could be a start of the week. But I think Richard Higgins is someone that you could pick up and have a big game from two of the last three games. Yeah. Can I just talk about, I'm dying here. What is happening over here? Infozema, Christmas emphysema. Do I need to jump in? Oh, my goodness. My throat said, not today.

But two of the last three weeks has been a top 15 wide receiver. The matchup is great. And if you're, you know, struggling and you've lost guys, I think Rashad Higgins could have a big week. You know, this is not perfect analysis, but I did play a game of Madden against my son yesterday. And Landry came down with two Hail Marys. So he could have a big week as well. I mean, I feel like.

I don't know the rules here. I always try to go deep on the taking it to 100 because Jarvis Landry will. No, Jarvis. He does not apply here. No, you would have been vetoed. Right. I would have let it slide because he's so far out of the championship race here. Yeah, I went deep. All right. Well, I like the pick. Speaking of that, I also did not want to go with a primary option of, like Amari Cooper from the Dallas Cowboys. But I believe that C.D. Lamb.

Against the Philadelphia Eagles will take it up to 100 this week. We have Michael Gallup who's a little bit banged up. Let's track what's happening there. But the last four games, Philadelphia has given up top 12 production to the wide receiver position. The Cowboys have the second highest implied total for an underdog. They're going to score points against Philadelphia. And I think that C.D. Lamb here burning it out of the slot, I think he can get it done. Take it up.

To 100. All right. Take your hair up to 100 with head and shoulders available at Walmart. Pick yours up today and check out next Tuesday when I take the lead. I hope not. We'll see what happens. I do like that we all have kind of the secondary or third option on each of these teams. It should make for an interesting way. I thought this was it. So I wasn't going to take a putt in. I'm not laying up. Right. No. Taking seedy lamb. Yeah, I like it. It's good. Let's talk news.

News and notes from around the league. All right, this is big news. The dolphins activated Carol Baskin off the reserve COVID-19 list. Carol Basked. That's huge news. Because this shifts two players, right? Miles Gaskin is someone you should start. And Savon Ahmed is someone you should have started. Sure. While Gaskin was out. Derek Carr practiced fully on Wednesday. Ooh, my groin.

Wow. Yeah, so anybody, I think we had a question from someone this week wondering if they could start Marcus Marietta. The answer now looks probably like a no. This is wild, man. I did not know that until just now. I just moved on from Derek Carr figuring he was going to miss a week. You're keeping the Derek Carr news coming, Brooks. We did not know that he was practicing in full. That's interesting.

I don't want to play him against Miami. No, no. Matt Ruhl said Christian McCaffrey is doubtful to play against Washington. Womp. Not practicing in full, not going to play. But what if I want him to be healthy in play? He will be for next season. It's tough. I thought maybe he could completely redeem himself for the 3% of us that made it through without him. Ezekiel Elliott on track to play in week 16 against the Eagles.

uh mike your tony pollard uh look man zeke parade just take a vacation man rest up be be healthy for that awesome week 17 matchup isn't it weird that if zeke plays against the eagles were not excited for zeke correct if tony pollard plays against the eagles without zeke we're excited for tony pollard also correct probably why zeke wants to play

so that he doesn't have two weeks of Tony Pollard dominance. Yeah. The problem, I mean, when you're looking at that just for fantasy is you know that Zeke is banged up. And the Dallas Cowboys know that Tony Pollard is good. So it turns into a bit of a time share. For sure. Instead of just Tony Pollard being awesome. Yeah. And it makes, it could give you some clarity on your start sit situation. You don't have Pollard in the consideration if Zeke is healthy.

Yeah. Congrats. The problem is Zeke is going to get hit with a game time decision and he's an afternoon game. We all know this is what's happening. I can't wait to watch Mike the rest of this week. It's till. I mean, Christmas is nice and exciting in the kids and all that, but I'm really, I'm excited for Mike Tilt week. My favorite part is randomly through the day. He hasn't been in the studio just out of the blue. He just posts in Slack just some message about like.

Oh, no, this guy's, do I start this? This means it's on his mind at all times throughout all days. I'm in it. Just out of the blue last night at 7 p.m. Gibson Pollard Keenan all afternoon games. Hilton is the morning. All my super high-risk guys are in the afternoon. Face palm graphic. This was not in response to conversation. Just an overflow from Mike's brain. I am nips deep in this swamp. Let's hope we can pull you out. Oh, man.

I don't volunteer for that job. Tyreek Hill didn't practice on Wednesday. He's been dealing with some hamstring stuff. It's Wednesday. I'm sure he's fine. Hunter Henry missed Wednesday's practice with an illness. It's Wednesday. I'm sure he's fine. All right. This one's a little more interesting. Kiki QT was limited on Wednesday's practice with a foot injury. It's interesting to me because, you know, Chad Hanson, Kiki QT are both out on the, oh, Mike's tilting again because he has Chad Hanson. I have Chad Hanson on my team. What is, what is happening?

Why is the world doing this to me? Just give me my championship. I've never seen him like this. No. No, this is so off brand. I've been telling you, you, yeah, this is off brand for Mike, the stoic Mike. This is my brand. Are you small talking now? Is that where you've gotten to? If you're in an elevator, are you overflowing with your fantasy team? You've got to pump the brakes over there. Okay. With that. If Kiki QT is limited, it could.

change the decision for Chad Hanson's upside this week. Oh, is he an afternoon game? Mike, you can just, you can take the rest of the show of and worry about your roster. Good morning good. Antonio Gibson gets in a limited practice on Wednesday. That's surprising. Yeah. That will have an impact on maybe some confidence levels of J.D. McKissick. If that's a start sit decision you're making between him and other players. The Washington football team find Dwayne Haskins.