The 4th & Inches Show with Jana and The Sherpa

With Week 13 of the NFL season upon us, most fantasy football leagues have at most a week or two left in their regular season.  Whether you're trying to lock up a top seed and first-round playoff bye, or you're on the bubble in need of another win or two to get in, or you're playing the role of spoiler, there are always injuries (Christian McCaffrey, Dalvin Cook) and role changes (Alexander Mattis...

Ready for some Thanksgiving Eve fantasy football advice?  Tune in tonight at 8pm Eastern (or download after the fact and listen with your favorite podcast app) for the 4th and Inches Show with Jana & The Sherpa!  Now in our 12th season together, let us guide you to victory!

Fantasy football week-to-week results are fickle by nature - just ask the person in your league who started D.K. Metcalf or Aaron Jones last week.  Even if you're 8-2 or better at this point and your biggest concern presently is whether you'll snag a first-round bye in your league's playoffs, there's always room for improvement, and always a need to have viable backup options for all your key star...

So we're at the halfway point of the NFL season and roughly 2/3 of the way through the fantasy football regular season - how are your teams doing?  Last Sunday was a strange one, not so much from an injury standpoint, but more from the standpoint of usually reliable performers having down weeks.  Couple that with a number of fantasy stalwarts having bye weeks, and fantasy matchup results were even...

So, how did Week 8 of the NFL season go for you and your fantasy football teams?  With only 2 teams having their bye week, it seemed like most fantasy teams should be at or near full strength.  However, after injuries to Derrick Henry, DeAndre Hopkins, Jameis Winston, and a stupid off-field decision by Henry Ruggs III, many fantasy teams suddenly have holes (short-term and long-term) that didn't e...

So, how did your fantasy football teams survive Bye-mageddon?  More importantly, where are you in the standings at the halfway point of the fantasy regular season?  Whether you're firmly ensconced in first place, on the bubble, or already wondering about next year's draft, there's still a lot to play for, and a lot of time left to make up ground in the standings.  The waiver wire is a constant sou...

With the NFL's move to a 17-week regular season this year, most fantasy football leagues will hit the halfway mark of their regular season after this week's games.  Coincidentally, we're also heading into "Bye-a-geddon", as 6 teams will have the weekend off.  Combine that with the injuries most fantasy team owners are already dealing with, and it's easy to see why this is the most challenging part...

NFL Week 5 brought fantasy football team owners lots of high-scoring games, a handful of significant injuries, and a bushel of players who are probably on your league's waiver wire outperforming expectations.  Between injuries to Clyde Edwards-Helaire, George Kittle, Saquon Barkley, Logan Thomas, etc., and the start of the always-popular bye weeks, most owners likely have some holes to fill and ro...

You know we're starting to get into the middle portion of the NFL season when we starting having early Sunday morning games from London, and we have to start checking whether any of the players on our fantasy football teams have a bye this week (fear not - bye weeks won't be with us until next week!) How do you ensure that your roster has enough depth to withstand the inevitable player absences du...

NFL Week 3 featured a handful of zany endings and several blowouts - along with the never-ending slew of injuries that are a constant in fantasy football, we've now reached the point in the season where we've started to collect some meaningful data on both teams and individual players.  If you're like most fantasy owners, you're tempted to bench your struggling team members in place of either some...

Congratulations if your fantasy football team managed to avoid the injury bug in Week 2.  Players at all positions, but especially Quarterback (Carson Wentz, Tua Tagovailoa, Tyrod Taylor, and, yes, Andy Dalton).  Other injured players of note from a fantasy perspective included Jarvis Landry, Diontae Johnson, Darrell Henderson, Trey Sermon, Elijah Mitchell, and possibly Dalvin Cook. The point is,...

So, how did Week 1 of your fantasy football season go?  Did you trounce your opponent and/or achieve the high score in your league for the week?  Did you win/lose a nail-biter whose outcome wasn't determined until the end of a wild Monday Night Football game?  Did you get trounced by your opponent and/or achieve the low score in your league for the week? In any event, it's just one week!  You almo...

Welcome to another season of the 4th & Inches Show with Jana and The Sherpa.  We are now in our Tom Brady, Aaron Rodgers, Terry Bradshaw, Joe Namath, Bob Griese, Jim Kelly, Roger Staubach...okay you get it, our 12th season!  Jana and The Sherpa breakdown everything you need to know to win your fantasy football matchups.  We take a look at injuries, waiver wire picks, news, notes, position rank...

You like to live life on the edge.  You drive cars that are barely street legal.  You date people who make your friends concerned for your safety.  And you play in a fantasy football league that holds its championship matchup in Week 17. The 4th and Inches Show with Jana & The Sherpa can't help you with the first two items, but we can certainly do our best to optimize your lineup for your Week...

Christmastime is here!  And so is Championship Week for most fantasy football leagues!  If you're still with us at this point in the season, chances are you're playing for your league's title this week - congratulations!!!  But there's still one more matchup to win, and presumably your opponent is looking for every possible edge they can get, just like you are!  Which surprise Week 15 stars will t...

Congratulations to all of you who won your opening round fantasy football playoff matchups last week (or had a first-round bye)!  One challenge overcome; two to go!  Of course, this is no time for resting on your laurels - one bad week at this point in the season can undo a whole season's worth of good decisions.  Which of your players have the best matchups for NFL Week 15?  Which players on the...

Playoff time is here! For the vast majority of fantasy football leagues Week 14 of the NFL regular season corresponds to week 1 of your league's playoffs. Congrats to those who have managed to guide their teams into the playoffs through all the uncertainty of the 2020 season! Now, the real fun begins. Which players have the best matchups this week, and which players (and teams) have matchups that...

This is it!  The final week of the fantasy football regular season for most fantasy leagues.  Of course, this being the crazy year of 2020, it figures that NFL Week 13 would still feature teams on a bye, a seemingly never-ending flood of players being sidelined due to COVID, and the return of the every-popular Tuesday night football game!  At least this week figures not to include any Wednesday af...

It's Thanksgiving week!  In addition to meaning that we have 3 NFL games on Thursday (and thus 2 fewer on Sunday), it also means that we're down to the final 2 weeks in most fantasy football leagues' regular seasons.  Whether you're already a lock for the playoffs and trying to secure as high a seed as possible (and ideally a first round bye), you're fighting tooth and nail for one of the final pl...

Week 10 of the 2020 NFL season was a tough one injury-wise for quarterbacks, and by extension the fantasy football teams that rely on them.  Drew Brees, Teddy Bridgewater, Matthew Stafford, and Nick Foles all suffered injuries of various severities, which will force their fantasy team owners to scour the waiver wire.  On the plus side, several key running backs appear to be nearing a return.  And...

Now that Week 9 of the 2020 NFL season is complete, all teams have now played at least half their schedule, and things are starting to come into focus.  Teams like the Steelers, Chiefs, and Ravens were expected to be good, and they are.  Teams like the Jets, Giants, Jaguars, and Bengals were expected to be bad, and they are.  But some teams that were expected to be bad have turned out to be pretty...

We're now straddling the halfway line of the 2020 NFL season, and we're roughly 2/3 of the way through the fantasy football regular season.  Not only is today Election Day, it's also the NFL's trade deadline.  Which players' situations will improve as the result of being traded, and which players situations will improve as a result of those ahead of them on the depth chart being traded? Tune in to...

With Halloween right around the corner it seemed that NFL Week 7 was full of more tricks than treats for fantasy football team owners.  Andy Dalton was knocked out of the Cowboys' humiliation at the hands of a football team called the Football Team, tanking the value of Dallas' Ezekiel Elliott and the talented wide receiver corps even further.  Odell Beckham Jr was knocked out for the season, Chri...

Entering Week 7 of the 2020 NFL season we're now at the point where the combined impact of Covid-19, injuries, and four teams a week on bye are testing even the deepest of fantasy football team rosters.  For those of you fortunate enough to still have your key players both healthy and performing at their expected levels - congratulations!  For the rest of us, the weekly ritual of scouring the waiv...

NFL Week 5 was crazy between the uncertainty whether games would be played, Dak Prescott's injury, and unexpected star turns for Chase Claypool and Travis Fulgham (in the same game no less).  Tuesday Night Football, anyone?  With four good teams having their byes this week (Chargers, Raiders, Saints, Seahawks) many fantasy football team owners will be missing at least one starter from their lineup...