Brad and Andy return live this week to answer your questions and discuss their flames, lames and deep names for Week 16. Submit your questions for Wednesday night's "Fantasy Freak Show" via email (Please include name/city) at freakshow670@yahoo.com.You can also dial the studio line starting at 8 PM PT/10 PM CT/11 PM ET at 312-644-6767 or text us at 67011. You can also follow the show, and the Noise, via Twitter.

Each week the Noise highlights eight somewhat obscure, unobvious names who he believes are destined for flame madness or lame sadness. Being an accountability advocate, he will tally his hits and misses and post the results, whether genius or moronic, each week using the scoring system posted here.

More Noise: LJ's depatures births the JC of KC

FLAMES (Started in 60 percent or under of Y! Plus leagues)

Vince Young(notes), Ten, QB (Noise QB Rank: 11, Start: 10-plus team leagues, 18% started)

Matchup: vs. SD

Young is shining up his jingle bells for what will surely be a

A special holiday edition of the Yahoo! Fantasy Freak Show awaits. Just click the links below. All the Week 16 matchups are previewed; start/sit questions are answered.

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Brad and Andy return live this week to answer your questions and discuss their flames, lames and deep names for Week 16. Submit your questions for Wednesday night's "Fantasy Freak Show" via email (Please include name/city) at freakshow670@yahoo.com.You can also dial the studio line starting at 8 PM PT/10 PM CT/11 PM ET at 312-644-6767 or text us at 67011. You can also follow the show, and the Noise, via Twitter.

Just seven weeks ago Larry Johnson(notes) and his former employer parted ways in a divorce that would make Tiger Woods' expected marital dissolution seem amicable.

Back in late October, the long-time Chief, then just 75 yards shy of Priest Holmes'(notes) all-time team rushing record, wasn't a happy camper playing for a substandard team. Fueled, as he described, not by anger but rather overt competitiveness, he purposely rocked the boat by issuing non-Rupaul approved remarks toward KC supporters and other disparaging barbs thrown at front office officials and coaches on his

If you're still reading a fantasy sports blog this late in the NFL season, then at least one of the following things is true:

A) Your team is still alive in Championship Week;

B) Your team is no longer alive, but you're in denial about the fact that Ahmad [expletive] Bradshaw flattened you in the semis;

C) You've been searching for any comments section where you can ask start/sit questions, hoping to get a thoughtful response from a community of angry strangers; or…

D) You have a fetishist dating site to promote and no marketing budget with which to do it.

If A is true, congratulations. But there's still work to be done. It's time to get a ring. If B is true, then you have our sympathy. At least Bradshaw is legit. He continues to climb in the weekly ranks, despite playing on a half-broken foot and no healthy ankles. If C is true, then you've finally found the appropriate blog post. By all means, please discuss your start/sit dilemma in comments.

And if D is true…well, c'mon. Have you

The skill of fantasy football is making the playoffs. The luck of fantasy football is what happens to you once you're in the dance.

I spent plenty of time debating my Week 15 plays for the FF Semifinals. I'm not going to boast of any of the proper calls, today it's all about ruing the decisions gone wrong. Let's look at some of the red ink:

I had all week to ruminate about Maurice Morris(notes), Leonard Weaver(notes) and Kevin Faulk(notes) in the Friends & Family League. Called that wrong, it probably wasn't going to matter up against Scott Engel's juggernaut. That said, had I kept Chris Chambers(notes) in the lineup too, maybe we've got a game (I've still got Devin Thomas(notes), for whatever that means).

Had a gut feeling of Robert Meachem(notes) over Chad Ochocinco(notes), go where the points are (plus Carson Palmer(notes) had me worried off his stink bomb in Minnesota). Fortunately this miscue isn't going to cost me, that team has already advanced to the finals.

I've had a pretty

In the third quarter of Sunday night's game between Minnesota and Carolina, Brett Favre(notes) got into a "heated discussion" (Favre's words) with Vikings head coach Brad Childress. The subject of the discussion was Childress' attempt to bench his quarterback.

After briefly considering the recommendation, Favre denied the request. These were his postgame comments:

"There was a little heated discussion, I guess you would call it. We were up 7-6 at the time and it's no secret I was getting hit a little bit." … "I think everyone in the building was like, 'They're not moving the ball, they're not getting points.' And so Brad wanted to go in a different direction and I wanted to stay in the game. You know, we were up 7-6. Yeah, it's not 70-6, but we're up 7-6. I said, 'I'm staying in the game. I'm playing.'" … "We talked it out."

Minnesota eventually lost, 26-7. Favre's statements suggest that if he'd been benched, it would have been for performance issues, not for his own protection.

A look ahead to Week 9 of the fantasy basketball season.

Schedule Breakdown

Four-game teams: CLE, HOU, IND, LAC, PHO, SAS

Three-game teams: ATL, BOS, CHI, DAL, DEN, DET, GSW, LAL, MIA, MIL, MIN, NYK, OKC, ORL, POR, SAC, UTH, WAS

Two-game teams: CHA, MEM, NJN, NOR, PHI, TOR

Also see: Basketball Monster's ease rankings and Rotowire's value meter

Pickups/Plug-ins - players owned in less than 40% of Yahoo! leagues

• Omri Casspi - Casspi has averaged 18 points, 1.3 threes, 86-percent foul shooting, 3.7 boards, 1 block, and 1 steal in 34 minutes in three games since joining the Kings' starting lineup. The move should stick, giving Casspi some long-term potential - looking ahead, I'd anticipate Andres Nocioni hitting the bench once Kevin Martin makes his eventual return. Week 9: @CHI, CLE, LAL

• Marreese Speights - Speights has picked up right where he left off, and then some. In three games since returning from a partially torn MCL, he's averaged 19.7 points on 47-percent shooting and 7.7