The 4th & Inches Show with Jana and The Sherpa

Most teams (with the notable exception of the Titans and the Steelers) are now a quarter of the way through their 2020 NFL regular seasons.  Assuming that your league doesn't play in Week 17, we're now at the quarter pole of the fantasy football season, and you probably have a pretty good idea of where things stand with your team.  Are you a contender for a championship, looking for that waiver wi...

While NFL Week 3 wasn't the injury-fest that Week 2 was, fantasy football team owners still had to deal with a number of upsets and disappointing performances this past week.  Now with the reports of several Tennessee Titans players testing positive for COVID-19, at least two games this coming weekend are threatened (Min @ Hou; Pit @ Ten).  Thankfully, the bye weeks start later this season than in...

Week 2 of the 2020 NFL season featured some compelling games and some devastating injuries.  With so many players, including the top two picks in most fantasy football drafts this year, Christian McCaffrey (out 4-6 weeks with a high ankle sprain) and Saquon Barkley (out for the season with a torn ACL), getting knocked out, chances are your fantasy football team is in need of some reinforcements, i...

Whether your team started off the fantasy football season with a convincing Week 1 victory, or your squad performed even worse than the Jets, there's a lot of season left, and plenty of time to improve your roster.  Which Week 1 surprise stars will prove to be fantasy gold, and which will turn out to be fool's gold? Tune in tonight at 8:30pm Eastern (or download after the fact and listen with your...

2020 has certainly been a challenging year on many fronts for many people.  It almost seems trivial to focus on fantasy football at a time like this.  Yet we all still need to engage in activities that make us happy and give us something to look forward to other than a vaccine at some indefinite point in the future. The 4th and Inches Show with Jana & The Sherpa is here to help! Tune in tonigh...

People whose fantasy football leagues extend into Week 17 generally fall into one of two categories:  procrastinators (as in "our league didn't get its act together in time for Week 1 of the NFL season") or sadists (as in "I like when the championship of a league I've put a lot of time into this season is decided by random things like teams resting stars for the playoffs, injured players being shu...

It's Championship week for a lot of leagues and Jana is here to help you dominate and win those leagues!  We have injuries, waiver wire picks, game predictions, and more.  Sherpa in on a bye this week, but we have his picks, don't fear.  We will help you navigate the minefield of injuries and potential matchup issues that are keeping you up at night. Tune in this evening at 9:00 pm Eastern (or dow...

So, you survived the minefield of your fantasy football league's wild card weekend, but the next challenge awaits.  If you played (and won) last week, then you're probably taking on one of the top two seeds this week.  You may be at a disadvantage on paper based on your players' year-to-date performance, but just like real football games, fantasy football matchups aren't won on paper.  Which savvy...

Christmas time . . . is here . . . and so are the fantasy football playoffs!  You've drafted well, worked the waiver wire adroitly, perhaps even made a trade or two that help you punch your ticket for the fantasy post-season - now the fun begins (if your definition of "fun" involves compulsively checking to see how your team is doing from Thursday night to Monday night!).  Which matchups should yo...

NFL Week 13 offers a double-dose of excitement this year.  In addition to a Thanksgiving Day tripleheader featuring some good teams (as well as some not-so-good ones), it's also the final week of the 2019 regular season for most fantasy football leagues.  No matter whether you're fighting for a top seed, on the bubble, or just looking to play spoiler, there's still something to play for as we head...

NFL Week 12 is a cause for celebration - it's the last of the bye weeks!  The "Final Four" teams have their byes this week, so you can look forward to your fantasy football squads being back at full strength next week - just in time for Thanksgiving.  However, mid-season intrigue abounds, even without the byes.  Are either Jonathan Williams or Bo Scarbrough worth a waiver wire claim?  Can Jared Go...

One of the best things about the NFL is that it's always full of surprises - "on any given Sunday . . ." as the adage goes.  Who would have thought going into last week that Brian Hill would be the leading rusher for the Falcons as they upset the Saints on the road?  Or that Cleveland would beat Buffalo, and Kareem Hunt would be a viable fantasy football option his first game back from a half-seas...

With the NFL regular season now at least half over for all 32 teams, your fantasy football team's strengths and weaknesses should be abundantly clear to you at this point.  Injuries?  Bye weeks?  Every fantasy team owner deals with those.  What separates the most successful fantasy football owners from the rest of the pack?  A lot of it has to do with being flexible - that is, willing to admit tha...

Hard to believe we're already at the median of the 2019 NFL season - seems like just a few weeks ago we were drafting our fantasy football teams and wondering if anyone could beat the Patriots this year.  Well, we're still asking ourselves the latter question, but chances are your fantasy roster looks quite different than it did just a few weeks ago, thanks to bye weeks, injuries, and waiver wire...

As we look forward to Week 8 of the 2019 NFL season, both Halloween and the NFL trade deadline are rapidly approaching.  Sam Darnold may be "seeing ghosts", but his team (duh Jets) seems to be staying out of the spirited NFL trade market.  Wide receivers Mohamed Sanu and Emmanuel Sanders have already been traded - what impact will these deals have on both their new and former teams?  Who else is l...

No matter how strong your fantasy football team looks six weeks into the season, it's imperative to have depth on your bench to withstand the inevitable disruptions caused by the bye weeks.  With Carolina, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, and Tampa Bay on bye this week, it's more than likely that you're missing at least one player from your starting lineup.  Which waiver wire options hold the most appeal, a...

By this point in the season you should have a pretty good idea of your fantasy football team's prospects for the remainder of the season.  If you're not at least 2-3 at this point, or on the receiving end of a run of bad luck, you'll probably need to make some changes in order to give your team a chance to make your league's playoffs.  Which waiver wire denizens can help?  What upgrades are possib...

So, three weeks of the 2019 NFL season in the books, and the bye weeks are already upon us (sorry, Jets and 49er fans!).  How is your team doing so far?  Lost Saquon Barkley last week and wondering how you're ever going to make up those points? Trying to decide whether you should put Melvin Gordon back in your lineup right away?  Looking to swing a trade to breathe life into your team? No matter h...

NFL Week 2 was a rough one for some veteran (and not-so-veteran) quarterbacks.  Ben Roethlisberger is lost for the season.  Drew Brees is probably out for 6 weeks or longer.  Sam Darnold came down with mono, and fellow Meadowlands denizen Eli Manning came down with scapegoatitis.  Cam Newton continues to suffer new injuries seemingly every week.  How well will Mason Rudolph, Teddy Bridgewater, Luk...

Finally!  A week of real, live regular season football games to digest and (over)react to!  Week 1 saw the requisite number of real-life injuries with significant fantasy football impact, especially among Wide Receivers and Tight Ends.  We also saw the requisite number of disappointing performance from early-round draft picks (JuJu Smith-Schuster, anyone?), as well as an equal but opposite number...

It's the most wonderful time of the year - regular season NFL football is back!  However, it's also one of the most confusing times of the year, as there's no current data to evaluate players and teams as you make decisions for your fantasy football league lineups.  Which current stars will take it to the next level this season?  Which ones are likely to regress?  Which rookies will shine?  And wh...

The start of the 2019 NFL season is less than a week away, and fantasy football drafts are in full swing!  Who will the top performers be at each position for 2019?  Which players are primed for breakout seasons?  Which rookies will have the greatest impact on your teams?  Which players are most likely to disappoint you? Tune in this afternoon at 5 pm Eastern (or download later on your favorite po...

You are really hard-core.  Not content with the standard fantasy football league season, your league's championship is played during Week 17 of the NFL season - a week when fantasy teams run the risk of missing key players due to nagging injuries and, perhaps more importantly, their presence on playoff-bound NFL teams with nothing to gain and everything to lose by playing those key players in a "m...

It's finals week!!!  College students just had their fall semester finals; now, it's time for finals for the vast majority of fantasy football leagues!  If you've been fortunate to navigate the shoals of a fantasy football season and are still alive - you're almost there!  One more victory, and the championship (and the trophy and the bragging rights that go with it) will be yours!   Which players...

Congratulations on making it to the semifinals of your fantasy football league’s playoffs!  Whether you had an opening round bye or pulled off a first round upset, you’ve earned your spot in the Final Four!  Of course, anything can happen on any given Sunday, so even the best regular season can go by the wayside with some ill-times playoff week performances from your key players. Which players amo...