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12/9/25 - Start Your Studs? Week 15 Fantasy Football Playoff Decisions | Sideline Banter

·1 hr 8 min·1 clip

Jalen Hurts had minus four fantasy points on one play.

Sam Holt opens with Josh Hudson sitting in for the night after Tate runs into technical difficulties. The show does not waste time. Monday Night Football is first up because the game was bad enough to matter for playoff decisions. The hosts work through the turnovers, the ugly Eagles offense, and the kind of one-play fantasy collapse that can wreck a week. Jalen Hurts comes up as part of that mess. From there, the episode shifts into playoff lineup advice. The tone stays loose. The hosts keep coming back to start-your-studs questions, but they do it with plenty of ranking debate and real-world caveats. Michael Wilson becomes a major talking point. Josh pushes Wilson as a strong play even if Marvin Harrison returns, and the discussion treats Wilson's recent output as hard to ignore. Jacoby Brissett comes up as well. The show frames him as a surprisingly safe fantasy quarterback and points to his steady production since Week 9. Justin Jefferson enters the conversation from the other side. Instead of leaning on the name, the hosts compare his recent numbers to other options and question whether reputation should override what the season has actually looked like. RJ Harvey and Trayvon Henderson also get pulled into the ranking debate. Their inclusion reinforces the episode's larger point that playoff lineups should be built from current production, not habit. The back-and-forth feels loose and immediate. There are jokes, self-corrections, and a few messy transitions, but the show keeps circling back to something useful. Toward the end, the hosts ask listeners to share their playoff runs and season results on Twitter. They also remind everyone that the show will keep covering dynasty and rookie talk in the months ahead.

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Loose playoff-week fantasy talk that turns Monday Night Football into useful lineup calls.

Sam Holt and Josh Hudson keep this playoff-week fantasy check-in on the messy parts of Monday Night Football, then work it into lineup advice that managers can actually use. The conversation moves casually, and that gives it an easy, lived-in feel.

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You need playoff-start calls after a rough Monday Night Football letdown.

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