Week 17 Matchups + Wheel of Shame, Win or Go Home - Fantasy Football Podcast for 12/31

Really, really bad options, and Kareem Hunt is active. Asking for a friend. I'm not playing him. Yeah, I really bad. I'd play Kishan Vaughan over him, even if he was active. Okay, well, that's the option. Thank you. Oh, is it really? Yes. Well, Jared Patterson now. Asking for a friend, right? Yeah. You too. If I, the amount that you've tilted on your draft kings lineup today.

I can't even imagine how you're going to tilt on this championship game lineup. Oh, it's destiny bound. Yeah, of course it is. I'm not concerned. I'm not in that league. You're going to win for sure. The rankings and the start sit tool, B fantasy footballers.com. Elijah Moore out. Mike Evans activated from the COVID list, but still dealing with the hamstring. And Mike, you were going to say something. Kareem Hunt is expected to practice today on a limited basis. Such a good matchup. Yeah, good luck, guys, on your decision. Thank you.

Are you going to go Kishon Vaughn or Jared Patterson or Kareem Hunt? Because I would go Jared Patterson. I'm not sure yet. But whatever it is, it will be the right call. Well, is this the time to just shut the show down? Is that right? No. Certainly not. The segment that everybody's been waiting for. Really? Yep. Fantasy face off, presented by Draft Kings. So breaking news here, this is the final.

fantasy face-off segment of the year. And it has been strikingly competitive. Mike has secured himself. We've been keeping track of the points. You know, you get, what, three for first, two for second, one for third. Mike has a two-point lead. So he secured a tie. Which means he is going to finish at least in tie for first. Andy and I are tied, right? Is that how it is? So we can't all finish tied. There's no possibility of that. Correct. So then it's just me or you?

This week to see who finishes last in is the biggest loser. That is correct. And gets their light changed out for like a full yellow light for a week. You guys should have had the Joe Burrow T. Higgins stack last week. Yes, we should have. Did that work out? It was sweet. Here's how mine went. Wheel of shame. I'm so excited. Who did this for me? Mike won. Yeah, I don't worry about it. Just spin the wheel and find out, brother. We got a farmer.

Spin it. We got an oopalupa. It says no shame. Park Ranger. Oh, don't do that. Cone head. Don't do that. Oh, the cone head. That's a throwback. Oh, my gosh. This is going to be a screenshot. I'm going to want to undo. Oh, man. This looks partially like a cone head and partially like that thing on there.

Uh, the Goonies, um, sloth. Oh, these are ears that I got to pull down, huh? Oh, yeah, bud. Yes. It's, it's, it's, it's his own little dunce cap. The ears make it great. Can you give me the, get, put the main camera on here. Yeah, the cone head goes. Oh, man. That is really good. That's pretty, uh, the skin tight. I'll tell you that. Oh. I can still hear pretty well. That's good. And you can talk for the first time in a couple weeks on the shame.

uh here you actually have a a face that can see and speak which is i can i can speak from experience i mean this is nice i feel a little it's warm oh yeah that's good i mean are the earbuds in there um thank you guys this is quite the treat so one more one more wheel of shame to spin next week though right because we still got to spin the wheel we'll have to figure that out yeah that should just be ooh just to like close out we could put something big on the line

Like what? I mean, like maybe you got to wear it the whole episode on Friday next week. Mike, Mike's look in his face was like, no. Yeah, no, I'll take my first place. But maybe like the, we'll figure it out next week. Okay, all right, we'll think about it. Let's get into the lineups. I guess I'll kick it off. My quarterback through just an unconscionable amount of tilting. Russell Wilson.

Russell? Oh, $6,200. Okay. I meandered between Russell Wilson, Matthew Stafford, and then taking the cheapy Tray Lance that you both did, probably. I assumed this whole week that you would be Matthew Stafford, which is... That's who he was before the show began. Yeah, that is... Oh, no, you tinkered out of Stafford? I was into Wilson, then I was into Stafford, and then I was into Stafford, and I'm going Wilson. I started the week with looking at Matthew Stafford. I just couldn't do it because, as you said, Trey Lance, he's not...

like a good price. He's 4,800. He is below the... He's cheaper than Sam Darnold, Ian Book, Jacoby Berset, Cooper Rush, Chad Hennie. Mitch Trubisky. Yeah, I mean, the backups cost more. I don't know why. So, Trey Lance is going to open other things up for us. I assume my... Yes, of course. He's in for me. Yeah, I just didn't want to do it. Okay. Okay. Jonathan Taylor, Ronald Jones, my starting two running backs. Jonathan Taylor, Ronald Jones, my starting running backs.

Ronald Jones, Darrell Williams. Okay. Darrell Williams coming into 5,800 against Cincinnati. You get that Traff King's PPR action. Right and dirty, man. Yeah. No GTT. I am. I am. My wide receivers, Cooper Cup, 9500, D.K. Metcalf, 6,500. Braxton, Berrios, 3,700.

Okay, so you got the D.K. McCaff, Russell Wilson, stack, and you got Cooper Cup, who I wanted to have. I originally had. Wait, you guys know, no Cooper? I don't not have Cooper Cup. Oh, you're riding dirty. I'm riding soups dirty. Oh, man. It's getting a little tighter. I have. Feeling a little bit tighter than it felt a minute ago. It's vacuuming. Oh, it is. I have. This does not look good. No, it doesn't. Odell Beckham.

Oh, I'm just, I just kind of mesmerized here. Sorry, go, who are your three wide receivers? So I have O'Dell Beckham from the Rams for 5,700. You don't budget. Jalen Waddle at 6,700. And this one is where I saved some cash. I have Anton Wesley from the Arizona Cardinals at 3,600.

That's a good, that's a good bargain. I'm only riding half dirty because I have Cooper Cup at 9,500. I also have Jalen Wattle and my budget wide receiver of the week, Zay Jones. Oh, I had him in earlier. At 3,900. He's just, I don't expect her to do a lot, but in the last month, I mean, the guy's getting targets, getting a few catches here and there. Barry else was 200 cheaper and let me do some other awful things with my lineup.

Which, speaking of awful things, the bottom three, I mean, like, I'm so top-heavy. I can't. You've been listing off your cash. You have Jonathan Taylor and Cooper Cup. Right. Like, you're no Cooper. And you don't have Trey Lance. I could not make it afford. So I can't wait to hear this. You can wait. My tight end is Brevin Jordan. I almost went Brevin Jordan in one point. The Houston, Texas, by the way. He's only $2,800. He caught another four or five passes last week. Yeah. And I like Davis Mills. My flex position is the, is the wide receiver one for the.

just amazing New York football giants, which would be tied in Evan Ingram. Oh, okay. So I went Evan Ingram at 3,500. So this is how I afforded the big guys, was Brevin Jordan and Evan Ingram. And who's your defense? The Washington football team against Philadelphia at home. Okay, okay. Well, I feel a little bit better because I was feeling very, very bad. My eyelids are permanently pulled upwards. Yeah. Because it's so tight, so tight that it's pulling my eyes up.

You kind of, because on the closer up cam, you can't really usually see the full cone. I get like an elf vibe. Oh, okay, yeah. All right. So my tight end. Those years are real big. My tight end, I went with Mike's start of the week in Foster Moreau. Oh, nice. What was his price? 3,800 against Indianapolis Colts. He's a good, he's a good matchup. And then at Flex.

I spent up here for a guy coming back off injury. It's risky. But DeAndre Swift is in my lineup at 6,000 against Seattle. I don't think that's very risky with the PPR value. And then I did something I have not done once this year. I spent up at defense. I have the Patriots at home against the Jacksonville Jaguars.

Please get a touchdown or else I was foolish. That's not bad. My tight-in is Cole Komet at 3,400. My flex, I've got Rashad Penny in there against Detroit, although that makes me a little bit sad, realizing. I could have put Swift in there, I suppose, but I've got Rashop Penny in. And then I've got the Chicago Bears against Mike Glenn and Jake Fromm, whoever, from the New York Giants. Yeah, save this hat for me next week.

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which, I mean, I just feel like I already lost. I do. I can't believe I don't have Cooper Cup in my lineup. My bad. Well, the biggest problem is that if you two lose Trey Lance because he doesn't play is you're going to have to blow up your whole line. That's true. So you built in like a little escape hatch to do whatever you want to do later in the week. Which, you know, I wasn't going to take that round. That's stupid. That is it for today's show.

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