Fantasy Footballers - Fantasy Football Podcast - Footie Award Nominees + Week 18 Recap, Super Bowl Picks - Fantasy Football Podcast for 1/7

Episode Date: January 7, 2025

The NFL Playoffs are set! On today’s fantasy football podcast, find out the nominees for The Footie Awards! Your chance to vote for last year’s Steal of the Draft, Rookie of the Year, Best Show Moment, and many more fantasy football awards! Plus, Week 18 reactions and Super Bowl picks from Andy, Mike, and Jason! Manage your redraft, keeper, and dynasty fantasy football teams with the #1 fantasy football podcast. -- Fantasy Football Podcast for January 7th, 2025. (00:00) - Intro  (08:50) - NFL News (20:45) - Week 18 Studs (37:00) - Footie Award Nominations (38:20) - Performance of the Year (39:20) - Fantasy Reaper's Man of the Year  (40:20) - Poopiest Pants Award  (41:05) - Waiver Wire Wonder  (43:00) - Fantasy QB of the Year  (43:40) - Fantasy RB of the Year  (44:30) - Fantasy WR of the Year  (45:55) - Fantasy TE of the Year  (46:35) - Breakout Player of the Year  (47:05) - Rookie of the Year  (47:55) - Comeback Player of the Year  (48:55) - Steal of the Draft  (49:30) - The Playoff King  (50:30) - Nickname of the Year  (52:05) - Show Moment of the Year Connect with the show: Subscribe on YouTube Visit us on the Web Support the Show Follow on X Follow on Instagram Join our Discord Check out today's sponsors: News & Notes presented by USAA. Visit https://USAA.com/Insurance Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Get groceries delivered across the GTA from real Canadian Superstore with PC Express. Shop online for super prices and super savings. Try it today and get up to $75 in PC Optimum Points. Visit superstore.ca to get started. Welcome to the Fantasy Footballers Podcast with your hosts, Andy Holloway, Jason Moore and Mike Wright. Oh, welcome in. It's baseball time.

Oh, redo it. Redo it. Redo the show! Start over! It's not baseball time? No it's never baseball time! Look at your compadre over here, your best friends wearing a... It's hoodie time, I'll grant you that! You're wearing a twins hoodie! Yeah. I thought that's what he was trying to say! People wear Yankees gear all the time just for fashion. They're not baseball fans. I mean, like, you know, what? You just see Kirby Puckett fan over here. The pitchers and catchers is, like, tomorrow, right? Probably.

Is it really? I don't know. It's got to be soon. It's got to be February. I mean, I just assumed. That's the MLB. That's when they're like, you know what, football? It's February.

We're going to take over. Pitchers and catchers. Why doesn't anybody else show up? Why is it just them? You ever think that I literally I literally have no idea Maybe you could hit a little better if the hitters showed up. Is there a part of baseball where only pictures? Yes, it's always it's the spring training spring training starts and pitchers and catchers show up first. I don't know why I Don't know why I mean, I guess you got OTAs and football where it's just the offense It's like why is the defense there? It's cuz like well the office is more important. So wait OTAs is only offense

No, that's not true. No weirdo. It's Not that's how you think of it because it's your players are paying attention to rookie rookie camp. Okay, that's better. All right Pitchers and catchers first. I don't know. I don't know why. Yeah. They need more practice. Welcome to the baseball hour. Wow, because I mean, like, if you're playing outfield, I mean, how many plays a game do you actually do anything? You come in one day before the season starts.

You still know how to catch? Yeah. Okay. It's good enough. Man. Well, this is all because Mike's wearing a twins Hoodie yeah, and I'm looking good Favorite twins Blair is Kirby Puckett all time. We got like some Tori Hunter in my favorite Johan Santana is my favorite welcome to twins talk Jason. What are your thoughts? I think I'm gonna circle tune in the wrong channel nasty Joe Maurer our yeah all right we we're actually gonna still talk football that's what we do year-round and congrats to

everybody that just brought home a title in week 18 the 10% hopefully that's a full 10% of champions and I thought thought week 18 was, I watched Red Zone pretty much the entirety of the day. I wasn't in the office doing the bajillion screens melt your brain, but I Red Zoned the whole day. I thought it was a fun day of football. The morning started really slow and wonky, but towards the end of the morning games,

especially when there was the back and forth between the Falcons' outcome versus the Buccaneers' outcome, there was a lot of exciting stuff. Unfortunately, the incredible, much-anticipated game that we were waiting for between the Vikings and the Lions did not come to fruition. Offensively, it did not. And I know it goes against everything I say,

because I want high-powered offensive games. But when it's like the one is on the line, I'm OK with a lower scoring game, because the stakes are so incredibly high. And I have no fantasy implications. We would have gotten a more exciting game if, much like you watching Red Zone, the Vikings could handle their business in the red zone. Yeah the Vikings Sam Darnold was not good. Justin Jefferson was missing. He was

missing players high very often. Justin Jefferson was not an elite wide receiver that he needed to be multiple times during that game. So it was, I'm sure that opinions on the Vikings making a move in the playoffs has shifted dramatically for people. Well, they're the five seed now, right? So we're- Correct. Well, I'm saying, but just look, like, how can you, I'm sure, I'm just saying people, how can you have faith in this team and Sam Darnold? When the lights were the brightest for Sam Darnold, he- You were the brightest for Sam Darnold, he even, I'm not saying they were, I'm just saying the general public.

No, I get what you're saying. I'm still in on Minnesota. I think they're a great team. I still feel like it's just a play or two. You know what I mean? It really was. Like those red zone conversions, we didn't get the high scoring game.

We're gonna talk through NFL news. We'll talk through the studs of the week. And we've got the footy nominations on today's show. Oh baby. Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr studs of the week and we've got the footy nominations on today's show. Oh, not yet. Not yet. No singing yet. That's just a, it's baseball time. It's baseball time. That's enough. Um, he's like really upset. Uh, so we've got, we got that going on. A couple of headlines at the top here. I want to let people know. We did this last year. We're doing it again. Our DFS pass, which is the single greatest value in the entire universe, is free making it,

is it a value if something's free? Yeah, it's an extreme value. So we make it free during the playoffs so that those of you that didn't get to use it during the year get to get in there and use the DFS tools and read the articles and see all of the amazing content put out by our DFS team, our DFS embedding team, dfspast.com. You can use the optimizer. It's all free right now. Just go to dfspast.com. You get it free for the playoffs and you can try it out and see if it's something you want to use next year so check that out and then I'm gonna throw a shout out to a couple guys here at the studio because they put this together last year they did it again everyone wants to make a playoff bracket we've all made them here mm-hmm I think I made some people freak

out because my Super Bowl pick. But. It's a pick. They built a tool. They're not even in the playoffs. That's how crazy it is. That's right, it was the Bears. No, myplayoffpicks.com completely free.

It's a tool that lets you make a playoff bracket. It just pops up with the matchup and you choose the winners and it gives you a bracket and you can compare with your friends. And it's really nice because you can't just do the classic like March Madness bracket because the NFL recedes. So depending on who you pick, it doesn't just always go like your classic piece of paper bracket where well then that team goes and plays this team from that side of the bracket. So it makes it really, really nice for you. very easy. Brooksie and Schneider did a great job putting that together. And so that's just a cool tool. I will ask you right here right now, having used that tool, who are your finalists and who is your

Super Bowl champion? Because I will save my controversial pick till the end. I have, after going through the bracket, I have it being Baltimore v. Philadelphia. And who wins it? I have Baltimore winning. OK. I have it Philadelphia v. Kansas City. Boo.

Hey, I know, and I've got Kansas. Big Raph over here. I've got Big Red winning another over here. I've got big red winning. Another one. Kansas City. Basic. I just did what I think's gonna happen. You know, Jason. Oh, I know.

Lad minus 310. All right, I am taking the Detroit Lions, who were my preseason pick to get there. That one makes sense, yeah. And I actually, I have the- He doesn't even wanna say it. I don't, I have the Chargers in the Super Bowl via upsetting the Chiefs in the divisional round

and then upsetting the Bills in the conference championship. For whatever stupid reason, I'm not just trying to be hot takey, I just feel like the Chargers are kind of built to win in the playoffs and we will see what happens that is not I the odds of that are plus 2800 or something ridiculous right now so not high odds and how long did it take hardball to get there the first time two years was it too I mean it was really fast. I have Detroit, though, winning against the Chargers in the Super Bowl. So if you're still with us, we'll move on.

Yeah, it was year two. They were 13 and three when you took over for San Francisco. And then second year, they got to the Super Bowl. So Chiefs, Mike, you have the Ravens? I got the Ravens, yeah. That'd be fun to see. And I'm going Lions, winning it all. All right, let's talk some news. News and notes from around the league presented by

USAA Insurance. I see we fixed our graphics today. Oh, okay. That was going to be pretty fundamental to your employment. Um, no, congrats on the trophy that's sitting there and will sit there apparently for the rest of the entire calendar year. Why would it not? Good point. All right. The Patriots have fired Gerard Mayo. Yeah, it didn't go well. They could have. It didn't go well, but then it didn't go well. They could have, it didn't go well,

but then it didn't go poorly enough either because they should have had the number one pick. Now they have the fourth pick and no head coach. He, coach said we're going out, we're playing to win. You know, draft pick be darned, I don't care. And that was not the reason he got fired. He got fired not because he, you know, wasted away that first pick,

but because he was not a wasted away that first pick but because He was not a good enough head coach. I mean that was just the truth Yeah, was not ready for this job even you know craft came out and talked about how When the interviews when he was coming up drawed Mayo was coming up for other interviews He got scared that he was gonna lose him and that he was the heir apparent It was kind of that hand-picked guy so he put him in and I mean the truth was he just wasn't, he wasn't that guy and if you know it, you know it. The, I mean you know what, if you weren't paying attention Sunday, it was the Patriots versus the Buffalo Bills.

So division rival laid down and the Patriots lost their number one pick I mean that and you tell your seat doesn't change for the Buffalo Bills like that is That's that's winning. Yeah, that's that's some good. That's long good ball by the bills Yeah, it's funny though to think I mean we've been doing this long enough to know when the roles were perfectly reversed I mean they were it was the New England on top of everything doing everything right and Buffalo was I mean they were it was the New England on top of everything doing everything right and Buffalo was Laughing stock. Mm-hmm, but they also I mean it's easier to win when you put in your star rookie quarterback And that's what happened for the first time all season For the Patriots, mr. Joe no Milton bazooka Joe. He didn't make a couple

Joe's great. I hope he's now the starter for that. That one's not mine. I saw that one on Twitter Well, he does have a bazooka. Yes, nobody can throw he's now the starter for that. That one's not mine. I saw that one on Twitter. Well, he does have a bazooka. Yes. Nobody can throw the football. It was very Josh Allen-esque. He had a couple throws. One was called back, touched down to Mario Douglas.

That was incredible. Doug Peterson fired, goodbye. Oh man. They have the fifth pick. Oh, Doug Peterson. Yeah. You hired Doug Peterson. What is it? Is it two years?

Is that the run? Bring him in. Like a year or two. Give him a couple years. And let him go out on top. Yeah. Tell him to retire. Like, well, I'm not going to fire you, but just retire,

because you're doing awesome. It's like he comes in and he cleans the locker room up real nice and sparkly clean. But then never. Yeah, it doesn't maintain. Doesn't maintain doesn't maintain ah the Giants they're gonna retain Brian Dable and their general manager I definitely think retaining Brian Dable is the right route here he he appears to me still to

be a good coach he's been working with not a lot so I don't know about the GM situation but Dave all is the type of guy that I think if they let him go he he's been working with not a lot. So I don't know about the GM situation, but Dayball is the type of guy that I think if they let him go, he would be interviewed immediately for at least that coaching jobs or go get another OC job. You imagine they're going to bring in their new quarterback of the future, and it's hard to want somebody, you know,

get somebody as good as Dayball to potentially help that quarterback alone. They have a weird navigating though. They are pick three. Tennessee is the first overall pick. I can't imagine they don't take a quarterback. Yep. And then the Cleveland Browns are number two. Quarterback. Maybe. Maybe. Yeah, maybe. They should. They definitely should. And then they could be a trading team, too. That's more what I mean. Is it better for the Browns to just trade down,

acquire a bunch of assets because they're not ready to get on the rookie quarterback contract? The Colts will retain Shane Steichen and Chris Ballard. That one was surprising. I don't think the vibes there were good all year. Chris Ballard is pretty proven, Shane Steichen. I don't know if he knew what he was doing this year. He felt very similar to Gerard Mayo to me.

It's from press conferences and decision-making. It's like two years, though, of collapse. Right at the end. Yeah. Down the stretch, I mean, you had one of the worst games of the season, of the whole season, one of the most surprising outcomes in week 17 to let the Colts just get annihilated by a team

they were super favored over where they had to win. When that game ended, I thought Stiken would not be back, but this is also a team that has not been that bad. They were in the playoff hunt last year and this year. It didn't happen, but this isn't a team that... I think continuity also matters, so probably a good move. Yeah, if you're talking about keeping somebody there, you talk about, hey, he had to deal with injuries at the quarterback position that rotated guys through

and didn't get stability ever. It's a questionable hire though. I don't know if he's gonna work out. Mike McDaniel is staying with the Dolphins. So it seems like if your quarterback missed a bunch of games, Daniel Jones, Anthony Richardson, Tua, you got like the free pass this year.

Is that the Mike McCarthy prognostication there? We'll find out. Cause he's a winner, Jason. He is a winner. He wins Super Bowl a long time ago. Man, he got so fired up and that clip is just a chef's kiss. It's so good.

Ken Dorsey fired as the offensive coordinator of the Browns, Ryan Grubb out after one year in Seattle. And Lou Anarumo, who has been at one point a head coaching candidate after the dominant Bengals defensive years ago when they went to the Super Bowl, fired bad defenses here in Cincinnati. And kind of, I mean, if you just, the Cincinnati years, one of the more disappointing ones,

because you got an MVP season from Burrow. To me, if they win that division, they win all those close games, He's the MVP of football. Oh, for sure. Did you see the... Burrow's the passing leader. Jamar Chase is a triple crown winner. And then they have the lead... most sacks. With Hendrickson. Yeah. All on the same exact team. And this team barely finished over 500 and did not make the playoffs. Doesn't that reflect on the head coach too? Oh, I definitely think.

Not if you ask him. Right? As loose, you go talk to Lou about that. This is heads got a role with the coordinator first. Zach Taylor drives me crazy. I don't know that he is a bad coach. Like I'm not saying he is just bad, you should fire him. But he definitely makes very bad decisions frequently.

You do get your feathers. In game, he drives me nuts. So I don't know, whatever. He's got Joe Burrow, so he wins a lot of games, hard to fire him, but I think they could do a lot better than Zach Taylor and just imagine just imagine like oh there's all these coaching openings right and it's like the coaches right Ben Johnson is the belle of the ball this year he's gonna get to pick where he wants to go now just imagine one of these spots has Joe burrow yeah it could have a lot to do

who burrow wants right now. Yeah, I mean. Borrow my T Higgins is the answer to that question. No, he does. Yeah, yeah. Zay Flowers left the Browns game knee-spraying, not considered long-term, but could miss the wild card game against the Steelers. Can I change my pick?

I don't think they need Zay Flowers to beat the Steelers. Oh yeah, they don't need Zay Flowers. I think they're the biggest favorites. They are. Last I saw was nine and a half point favorites over the Steelers. They need Ze Flowers, assuming that it's gonna be the Bills.

They would need them there. Blake Corum out for the playoffs. That's a bummer. Broken forearm in the Sunday game. Christian Watson. Broken forearm in the Sunday game. Christian Watson, I don't want to be trite with injuries. It's tempting with Watson's history to look at, look, they can't figure out how to help him run properly.

He tore his ACL, suffered additional damage. It had always been soft tissue issues and banged up all year and now towards ACL and could miss well into 2025. So much promise, so much talent. And the playoffs obviously. And it really sucks man. The Packers are legitimately so much better when Christian Watson plays. Even if he's not the one making the big plays, the offense is just objectively better. So this is, the Packers are limping into the playoffs yeah they are and Jordan love he had exited with a right elbow contusion

could have returned you that numb hand yeah just super cold I said yeah like I knew what that meant oh no no I mean you he couldn't feel his hand. Yeah. Yeah. No I know what a numb hand is. Okay so what were you saying you were acting like you did? He said he's got that numb hand like that's a thing. Well it just happened to Josh Allen. Oh did it? Yeah. Oh okay. So it's that numb hand? Yeah. Alright. Come on. It's the numb hand. Jalen Hurts still in concussion protocol. No new information. I have new information that he will not be in the concussion protocol for this weekend. Yeah, it's funny how those things... And he might still be in it, but he will be playing this weekend. Four and a half point home favorites against Green Bay.

Yeah, they're guessing that Jalen Hurts is gonna play. It's so not fair, because I mean, I would be impressed if somehow they kept him out of this game, because if in the situation where he would need to not play, that they would actually not play him, but the whole world knows. Did either of you pick the Rams to win their wild card game? That was very, very close to me, but I did not.

They are the, that's the closest game. One of the closest line? Minnesota minus one and a half. The second closest game, Chargers are favored on the road against Houston. Two and a half point favorites. Oh, Houston. Then Tampa's favored by three.

I actually took Washington in that game. Did either of you take Washington? I think I did. I did not. The Bucs, they're a weird team, man. They're, like to me, they're one of the lower seeds that can actually, like I think they can make a run. Sure.

I think that the Bucs are good enough, but they're, sometimes they show up. Sometimes they don't. I mean, they haducks are good enough but they're they're sometimes they show up sometimes they don't I mean they they had barely showed up they had to pull off a comeback win against the Saints and Spencer Rattler. They had two scores right? Yes it was it was like it was dire for a little bit and on the second half I finally turned it on so it they're such a strange team. With Mr. McMillan. Getting it done. Touchdowns that's all he does. That was today's news and notes presented by USA insurance learn more at USA.com slash insurance we'll take a break we'll hit the studs.

All right, let's talk studs. This week's fantasy stud muffins. This is a fun group of quarterbacks to talk about. By the way, no duds today. It's all studs today. And then we'll get into the footy nominations, the fantasy football awards. The greatest awards in the known universe. Yes. Yes. Bryce Young. Yeah, baby. This is so good for football.

Week 18 36.4 against Atlanta. I knew Atlanta would Atlanta. They did. They did Atlanta. They lost. They did lose. They were in overtime before they knew Tampa. Yes. I think they were like they got the note like paging Atlanta the Bucks have won as you're going out for the coin toss So yeah, you're still 38 points of mistakes before that, but I'm saying in overtime. You gotta be Crest forward. Your hearts are broken, but Bryce Young Not only like this wasn't just a he was good for fantasy. It was Bryce Young balled out. Like he was awesome, including a full Steph Curry, no look after he threw the ball.

He's like, this is a touchdown. I'm turning around, it's gonna be a cool celebration. And I think it was to Sanders who double caught the ball if you actually watch what happened. But this is, it's so exciting. If Bryce Young. You have been Mr. Bryce Young. Because I want every single,

I want all 32 quarterbacks to be awesome. When a quarterback comes out and they're drafted and then they suck, it hurts me. It hurts my heart, because I want that kid to be good and I want an entertaining product. And it all starts with the quarterbacks, and two games into this year, he got benched,

and it was, this is the end. This is the end of Bryce Young, and he came back with an absolute fury, and it wasn't just this week. I mean, it's been basically since he got unbenched that he's been playing extremely well. It's weird. The transformation from what he was in week one and two

to this guy is, you can't even recognize him. I don't want to take any credit away from his mental change and transformation because he had to go through what he went through, but Dave Canales. Oh, sure. It's all part of it. Dave Canales is, it's cool to see that come to fruition. Putting your players in a position to win.

I love that he got benched when he wasn't playing well enough and got brought back because really it's a confidence thing. That's when you watch Bryce Young play the last month and a half, two months. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. He looks so much more confident.

Free. Yeah, he's like having fun on the field. And he looks like, no, I can make that throw. He looks like when in his head he's doing the Brett Favre, I can complete any throw on this field. Bo Nix was number two. Holy moly. Which this was a just whooping,

including a hilarious catch. I mean that. Yeah, the veilei. If you watch that double deflection catch by veilei, it seems improbable that they could have stayed in bounds, but they did. Bo Nix, the first month of the season, had one total passing touchdown. And now he has the second most for a rookie quarterback. Let me ask you this the last eight games so the second half of the season

bonix how many passing touchdowns do you think that pace would be the whole the entire second half of the season so what how many games eight or eight or the last eight games 17-game pace I'm gonna guess 35 that would would be so many. 44.6 with 4,300 passing yards. Let's go. I mean the offense has been... So Mike's talking about he wants them youngsters. We need it. We need it. We've had so many crops of quarterbacks that were these guys can't miss. I'm guessing. And then they're whiffing. Jason I'm guessing with a 44 touchdown pace that's got gotta put Troy Franklin on pace for. Dozens of targets.

Marvin Mims, two more touchdowns. Dude, he's coming alive. I loved him coming out of college. It's nice to see them actually use him. He's gonna be so impossible next year. He played on 31% of the snaps. He is making the most of his opportunities. Justin Herbert, 346, got the dub, good efficiency. Kyler Murray, when it doesn't matter. Yeah,

thanks for nothing Kyler. Put up four, one to McBride, one to Harrison, a couple to Dortch. Thanks buddy. The Foody Awards has a players that let you down category, right, based on their draft position and where you took them and who hurt you the most. I mean, prequel or a preview of that, you know, Travis Etienne's in there, right? Mm-hmm. Kyler's not on that list

because there's a lot of names that are more worthy. Yeah. Kyler is in the ring of honor of that list. Kyler. He's been the most frustrating for the most people that I've seen. For the, I mean, because the first half, yeah, there's a lot of, there's a lot of bad games in there, but there's actual really good ones before the bye week. And then he did, then it all just, it felt a part for fantasy. You just talked about Bo Nix's pace what was the touchdown total that 44 point something so Kyler's last seven games played 21 touchdown pace with four 19 interceptions that includes this past week where he threw

no picks it's been a bummer so I mean that is if you if you take out this week 14 touchdown pace with 22 picks. Yeah. That's not good. That's out of the league numbers. Geno Smith against the Rams second group. Got his millions of dollars. Yeah, 223 and four. And the win.

Michael Pennex Jr., 312 and two. What'd you think of Pennex Jr. this week? Mike, you're the... I thought it was, I mean, he's 21 of 38. It was... I think I've seen enough from Pennex to be confident moving forward that he can become a franchise quarterback. I mean, there are already the rumors of how they're going to try and trade Kirk Cousins or they're fine with him being the backup. Which Cousins will not be fine with.

It's like he's already, he's not doing that. I would imagine teams would want Kirk Cousins. He may not have a choice because he signed the contract and has all that guaranteed money, but I'm excited for PENIX, but it's not completely there yet. Yeah, I agree. He still looks like a rookie, but he showed enough to where your glass half full going forward Jameer Gibbs B John Robinson Derek Henry miles Sanders yeah, man and Jonathan Taylor the final five are the top five running backs

I'm gonna be completely honest when the game came around and Sunday morning started You know we were talking about Blackshear, and all of a sudden Miles Sanders was in the game. I was like, Miles Sanders? I didn't know he was active. That he was active or gonna play football this week, and not only did he play football, but he got 17 carries, 50 receiving yards,

two touchdowns. Okay. Yep. John the Taylor finished the year on fire. Yeah, that's that's very 18 and 3125 and 2177 and one. We need that for next year. That will there's no question the end of this season has moved his ADP way up. Yeah. Uh Damian Pierce had a 92 yard touchdown. Yeah, he did. That was fun. I saw the replay of that, and I thought at first

it was a kick return. Then I realized all the offensive players were there, because the 92 yards is a long way, the longest of any player this season. Devon Achand, 11 for one, 21 and one. And all on the ground on the ground he had Literally not a single target in that game, which feels stupid Bucky Irving he's so good. He is going to be really interesting in draft season next year and

Michael Carter scored wide receivers Drake London. How dare you Rico Dowdell scored Rico Dowdell scored. Yeah, he did Are you are you good now Breeze Hall scored? He did Rico he didn't make it to my top 20 bold prediction But he's about points per game though, I'm not sure where he is points per game No, Kyle says no, but it's like it's he's RB he is points per game. I'm willing to give you no Kyle says no, but it's like it's He's RB 24 and points per game. It's go look at his numbers and look at Najee's they are like Identical except Najee has a couple more rushing touchdowns man to those are two running backs Yeah, that I don't want they're both. 1,000 yard rushers. I know they are.

But they are actually very similar in how they feel on your football team. Yeah, that's fine. They're not Gibbs and HN. They're going to get theirs, and they can handle volume. Top five wide receivers, Drake London, Quentin Johnston, Jacobi Myers, Kaishan Bhutai. Dude, the huge. 14 targets yeah caught 13 of them for 186 yards this was that mean

this was he dropped one I don't I don't know if he dropped it or not but I'm saying that future Super Bowl maybe wide receiver he will be fun to like if this can somehow carry through the playoffs and you like oh no the Quinton Johnson was a first-round early wide receiver. We need to figure this out What is the message on huge after we had a lot of talk in the offseason they lose? Mike Williams they lose Keenan Allen they lose Austin Eckler We talked a lot about Quinton Johnson going into the year. What is like the summation of the season? Compared to what we thought going in?

I think he's a talented ancillary piece of a wide receiver core. Yeah, I can agree with that. That equates to wide receiver two? Would he be a good two? Yeah, two-ish. Because you look at, I mean, McConkie's not a traditional one.

Right, are you speaking NFL landscape or famous? Yeah, NFL landscape. I still think probably a three. Jamar Chase at number five this week. Corland Sutton, five for 98 and one, hit his bonus. Got that shmoney. Got the shmoney, got into the playoffs.

Did you mention Drake London's 18 targets? We did not. I mean, in the games with Michael Pinnix. This is the game, these last three games with Michael Pinnix. Go ahead and give me the numbers. Yeah, he's targeted on 41% of his routes, which is number one in the NFL. So that's going to mess up people for next year. I don't know how high he'll go, but it will be higher than he would have a couple of weeks ago.

Mooney was out of this game Keep that in mind It was Carolina, but like are you going to be all in on Drake London next year? I'm pretty in on Drake London Yeah, I think Pinnix can get the job done. I mean he was he's the wide receiver six this year Yeah, so it's you know in the end. You think he's a wide receiver six by ADP? I think next year he'll probably be more like wide receiver eight or nine, but he'll be a wide receiver one by ADP for sure.

Okay, Jaylen McMillan, seven receiving touchdowns in the final five games. He'll be interesting in draft season as well because Godwin will be gone. Mike Evans will be a year older. Godwin could be gone. He's a free a year older. Godwin could be gone. He's a free agent. We don't know if they're gonna bring him back.

You don't think the Bucs have any interest in bringing him back? I think it's very unlikely that he'll be back, yeah. I think you've seen what you needed to see from Jalen McMillan, and there's other places to invest on that roster, that I would be shocked for them to bring him back. Godwin was so good this year.

He was, but I get it, he's older, coming off of an injury. McMillan's breakout, you're going to have a lot of conversation down the road of, you know, is this Jehan Dotson scored more touchdowns than he should have or is this Amon Ross St. Brown the end of year breakout where he just couldn't be stopped? Well, and that'll be connected with Baker and throwing over 40 touchdowns and whether he'll do that every year. And McLaurin, with two seconds left, scoring McLaurin with the backups.

I don't know if you saw Cliff Kingsbury high-fiving up and down the sideline. But that, combined with the Green Bay loss, secured Washington's seeding in the playoffs. Top tight end scorers, the Muth was Luth, number one on the week, Trey McBride, number two, Jordan Aikens, Noah Fant, and Johnny Smith. Wasn't Brock Bowers.

But Brock Bowers finished with 112. Yeah. And McBride with 111. It was insane. McBride had seven for 65 for a long time. They just stopped throwing to him. Yeah. I think he had six catches in the first half, if I'm remembering it right.

Because I peaked you guys. And you said you thought they were going for the record. And I tweeted it out. It was like, because the target disparity between Trey McBride and everybody else was like, this is fishy. It seemed like they were going after it, but if they were, they aborted that plan in the second half. Trey McBride led the entire NFL in receptions

since week 12. That's more than Jamar Chase, Puka. Trey McBride is very good. Yeah. Who would you rather have next year between McBride and Bowers? Whoever's drafted later. Yeah, probably. I mean, to me it is a 1A, 1B thing.

You gotta hope that these last two weeks were... Probably McBride. ...were figuring out that we can get McBride touchdowns, because that will be everything. Probably McBride for quarterback situation. I don't know. Yeah we don't know who the quarterback of the Raiders is. Is it going to change the landscape of the Raiders if they bring in a high profile wide receiver which they desperately need. I mean this season went like Brock Bowers is a unique talent maybe he puts up these exact numbers anyways but the fact that this season goes the way it did where they literally get rid of Devonte Adams in the middle of the year, had injuries to Jacoby Myers early in the year. I thought Myers missed some time, didn't he?

Yeah, Myers missed a couple games. I thought he missed some time. So, you know, it went pretty well for Brock Bowers. Yeah, Jacoby missed two weeks. All right, and shout out to Mike's start of the week in week 18. Yeah, baby. Hey, we got that, Tutty. That's all that matters. That's all we need for the drop, baby. Will Disney. Yee-haw.

He's going to the Super Bowl, too. Well, he'll probably get tickets. Yeah, he's an NFL player. I think a lot of them will be there. You got an inside track. Oh. Hey, Rog. Yeah, yeah.

You guys want to get into these funny numbers? Is it time? No. I'm just going to just hold on. It's just a quick throwaway tidbit. But we are in, look, it's dynasty season. And you're looking for nasty boys who could be on the waiver wire.

And Jawan Johnson, tight end of the Saints, he is an unrestricted free agent, and he was six for 80 this past week. He to me is a guy that could land on a team where he becomes a true part of the offense. It's not, this is a long shot. He mobs week 17, 18 every year. Yeah, the second half, he's been able to show up,

but just saying, this is a player who I think has the, he has the skills and ability, should he find an offense that features a tight end, that he could sneak in and be a quality guy. It just, he might be on some waiver wires out there in dynasty, because he just dynasty because he's a second half guy. All right, we'll take a break and we'll hit the footy nominations. All right, the time has come. We're going to present you with our footy nominations for 2024

you with our footy nominations for 2024 and you'll get the opportunity to go and vote the footy awards most prestigious awards it is are you handing it to me I am passing it around of all the trophies that could be weaponized it's the best this is the one that you would want. It was made by a blacksmith. Yeah, go ahead, Mike. It's fine. This is, if you had pulled off a first down in the NFL and you held this thing up, you would get penalized

15 yards for a violent gesture. Yeah, but you might be ejected for having a weapon on the field very sharp and made of What is that steel? I don't know is of course it's steel. I know a thing or two about metal Okay, that is that is pure steel. All right, we're gonna share our Nominations, I think we have 15 categories this year. You can go to footyawards.com and we will announce the winners on next Tuesday's show. So you have until Monday to vote. I voted. I did as well. So why don't you read the first category for us Jason? All right. I'll kick

us off with the performance of the year. Which single week performance was the most impressive. You had Josh Allen's week 14, where he put up 51 fantasy points. You had Saquon Barkley's crazy 44 points. We had actually this year a lot of these massive 43 point performances, like Alvin Kamara in week two, Jonathan Taylor's week 16 explosion makeup for his uh, dropping the touchdown. Jamar Chase put up a 50 burger in week 10 versus Baltimore and Brock Bowers as a rookie had a 25 point performance in week 13. By the way, the 2023 winner of this award was Amari Cooper who had 11 for 265 and 2 in week 16. Yeah, that was awesome.

I found maybe more than years past, more categories were more difficult for me to pick a winner. That's good. It was hard to decide between a lot of them for me. Who'd you decide on this one? Oh, no, no, no. Oh, you don't wanna sway the vote? No, no, no, no, no. Okay.

I'll ask you after. We don't do that, Jason. The Fantasy to sway the vote? Okay, that's we don't we don't do that Jason The fantasy reapers man of the year, which is which players injury hurt fantasy managers the most In 2023 it was Nick Chubb with his catastrophic injury this year's nominees Christian McCaffrey. I Hear he was drafted fairly high Isaiah Pacheco Jason's my guy Which turned sour Chris Olave, who did not return in week 18. And Chris Godwin, who was on fire.

I found that. If your name was Chris. Yeah. Or Christian, watch out, man. Yeah, I mean, Chris Olave's name is Christian. It is. So Christian Watson. Oh no. Oh no.

Oh no. Oh, we have stumbled upon something. We just found something. Kyle, get on it. Oh man. Get on it. Are there other Chris's that have gone down this year? Has anyone done a full correlation causation report

on fellers named Chris or Christian? Kyle's on it. Yeah, good. Oh, thank goodness. All right, we got the Poopiest Pants Award, which is despite high expectations, this player let fantasy managers down over and over and over again.

You had MrTravisETN drafted in the second as the RB7. Marvin Harrison securing my pants to be on forever at wide receiver eight. Patrick Mahomes drafted in the back of the third at QB3 and then Jalen Waddle, wide receiver 18. Yeah, last year the winner was Austin Ackler, who was the poopiest pants award, who was drafted as the RB2 and who Jason wouldn't trade me

for two firsts in St. Juan Barkley. Yeah, unlike the big performance of the year, which I feel like we had five of them that were bigger than the biggest last year, this year we had the Waverwire Wonder, which, undrafted Waverwire stud, was the best pick up of the season. Last year, Kyron Williams was great.

I didn't feel like this year was as strong. You had Baker Mayfield, Sam Donald, good at the quarterback position, Jawan Jennings, Darnell Mooney, and then John New Smith at tight end, and Bucky Irving, a later season pick up who... This one was tough. Yeah, that one was a tough one for me to pick too, because I feel like it's going to be a little bit subjective with who you grabbed in your league, which is the point of the award, but...

Who did it for you? with who you grabbed in your league, which is the point of the award, but. You know, finding. Who did it for you? Finding quarterbacks on the waiver wire that you can always start. Like we always talk about streaming the quarterback position, but not because we want to. Right. We'd like to find your Baker Mayfield.

You wanna find Baker. Oh man. Christian Kirk! Christian Kirk! Christian Kirk. Christian McCaffrey Kirk Watson, Godwin, Olave. Are there any? Okay, so let's focus on! Christian Kirk. Christian McCaffrey Kirk Watson Godwin Olave. Are there any, okay, so let's focus on the Christian here. Come on, man.

Are there any other fantasy football relevant humans named Christian? Or are they all down? Or did we go four for four? Did we take them all out? Christian Gonzalez just got hurt for the New England Patriots! Doesn't count, this was a fantasy show. but that's a good point. Did he? Yes

Look at oh, all right. There's none left. I'll get on it Let's see if there's any left and then we can get some only four guys were named Christian offensively Oh my god all four of them are down Christian Watson Christian McCaffrey, Christian Kirk and Christian Olave. You can change your name at any time. Wow. Ocho Senko did it. Oh man. You might need to protect your body. We discover important facts. Rob Anderson did it every two weeks. Chosen whatever. Whatever his name is today. I don't know. Changed the spelling, rearranged which name went where.

Mad Libs Anderson. Fantasy quarterback of the year, we're looking at the draft position of the player, the big game performances, their impact to fantasy teams. Last year's winner was Dak, if you remember, picking him up back half of the year. Oh, goodness gracious. He brought a lot of people to the championship. This year's winner, not Dak. Nominees, Lamar Jackson, a third round pick.

Drafted as the QB4, finished at one. Josh Allen, second round pick, finished as the quarterback two. Joe Burrow, sixth round pick, finished as the quarterback three. Jaden Daniels, 10th round pick, finished at QB4. And Baker, undrafted to the QB5. The fantasy, running back of the year last year, Christian McCaffrey was able to win because that was one of the years he played football.

This year's nominees, Saquon Barkley, drafted as the RB6 finish. Well, where are we getting these finishes from, Kyle? Is this week 17? Because I thought Jameer Gibbs took over. I thought Gibbs shot up to the running back one. Well, whatever. Saquon Bark to the running back one. Well, whatever. Sikom Barkley running back one right around there.

Derrick Henry drafted as the RB9, running back two finished. Jameer Gibbs drafted as the RB4, finished as the RB3. Chase Brown was drafted as the RB40, took over and became the RB11. Chuba Hubbard running back 43, finished as the running back 12. And then Joe Mixon, drafted as the 15th running back, finished as the running back 13, but did have big impact when he was not hurt. Yeah, he was better at the start of the year. The wide receiver of the year, last year was CD Lam stacking with Dak. This year.

That was a good year. Yeah, for you. Jamar Chase, who finished as the wide receiver one, drafted as the wide receiver four, was obviously outstanding. Taryon McLorin, drafted as the wide receiver 32, finishes the wide receiver six, finally got himself a quarterback.

And then you got a couple of breakout rookies, Brian Thomas Jr., who finished as the wide receiver four in his rookie season as the wide receiver 47 drafted, and Malik Nabors, wide receiver seven finished, drafted as the wide receiver 22. Yeah. Jamar Chase was, he was separated from everybody. But it's interesting to note of this category the only one who was drafted with any sort of early capital was Jamar Chase I would like to

take this moment briefly in the middle of the footies to announce that I will be franchising and keeping Jamar Chase on my dang it on my roster it's probably a good move case you really open you're yes That's the way I'm gonna go. Would you rather have him or a Mari Cooper? Oh? Man can't believe that Man me to that trade whoopsie doozles alright. Where are we tight end? Yep, is it it's to me the fantasy tight end of the year last year Sam Laporta a rookie this year You got a rookie in the nominees Brock Bowers seventh round pick finishes the tight end of the year last year Sam Laporta a rookie this year You got a rookie in the nominees Brock Bauer's seventh round pick finishes the tight end to George Kittle deserves some respect here 49ers went six and eleven but the George Kittle fans out there got the tight end one in the fifth round

Trey McBride a fourth round pick late fourth finished at tight end three and Johnny Smith undrafted, finishing tight end four. By the way, apology, public apology to Arthur Smith. You were playing the better tight end than Johnny Smith. We were all wrong, as was your general manager. In drafting Kyle Pitts. Yeah, who decided that we're gonna take Kyle Pitts over some players who are doing really, really well. From our Chase, Penne Sewell. Yeah, yeah.

The breakout player of the year, last year it was Puka Nakua. This year on the docket you can vote for, Jaden Daniels. Brian Thomas Jr. Malik Neighbors. Oh yeah. Chase Brown.

That's right. Chuba Hubbard. Broke out. And Brock Bowers. I like that guy Brocked out All right. We also have rookie there who was also puka nakuka last year Who go is dominant? I'm surprised puka wasn't the waiver wire wonder I mean Kyron was great too last year, but yeah last year He could have done the clean sweep there. The rookie

of the year this year, the names are obvious. A lot of the names that we just talked about as a breakout. Jaden Daniels, Brian Thomas Jr, Malik Neighbors, and Brock Bowers. Four studs. You know what? I guess shouldn't Bucky Irving be in there? Shouldn't Bucky Irving be in there? Let's get him in. Bucky Irving. Okay. Okay Let's get him in. Bucky Irving. Okay. Okay, that's fine. Yeah, we haven't voted yet. Yeah, that's fine. We're just talking. Well, I voted. Well, I've just two votes, honestly. Yeah, but mine's worth like 50. Oh, is that how you have them programmed? Yeah. Comeback player of the year, which fantasy player amazed you the most in their return to relevance? Last year was

Raheem Mostert and his 20 touchdowns. Yeah, what? What last year was Raheem Mostert in his 20 touchdowns yeah what what happened there Raheem Mostert turns out father time yeah he was hurt all year long when I was in the end JK Dobbins the nominee this year Kareem Hunt had the midseason special moment with the Chiefs. John Ouse Smith and Adam Thielen. A chance for an award. I can't believe it. That's right. No one can. No one can.

He also won't remember that he was nominated. Maybe don't vote for him because he won't know. Well, I mean, it'd be a special thing. Like if he had the trophy that he could remember every, each and every morning. Oh, because he could see it. Yeah, isn't there something neat about Bryce young yesterday throwing to the oldest yeah, I don't I mean little young old I like it I like it the steal of the draft which player was the absolute best value in the draft compared to their ADP

Raheem most heard also won this award love around pick before he just Threw the smoke bomb down and set him out This year the nominees are we got Jayden Daniels in the 10th round as was chase Brown Chuba Hubbard in the 11th Brian Thomas jr. Was drafted in the ninth Chuba Hubbard in the 11th, Brian Thomas Jr. was drafted in the 9th, George Kittle was drafted in the back of the 5th, and Brock Bowers was at the back of the 7th. Good luck with this one everybody. Yeah, that's tough. We have the Playoff King Award who drove fantasy managers to a championship during the most

important weeks, 15, 16, and 17. Last year was Kyron Williams who was the the running back 5'11 and 1 through those weeks. This year at quarterback we had Jared Goff, Jayden Daniels, Baker Mayfield, all hitting top 10 performances in all three weeks. You had Jonathan Taylor, who was running back 17. That was the first week of the playoffs where he dropped the ball, had a minus 8 point play. Right. But then he was the running back one, and the running back one, so if you were in the playoffs, you knew it. Jameer Gibbs, running back three, seven, and two.

Brian Thomas Jr., four, three, and 14 wide receiver finishes. T Higgins, he was the wide receiver 14-16, but championship week he was the number one wide receiver. Or Sam Laporta, who you kind of forgot about early on but top six wide receiver each of the Three playoff weeks including a wide receiver or tight end one finish and oh my gosh. I forgot last year's winner Oh, yeah, baby. The most important two categories. Yeah, here we are The nickname of the year award I cannot

believe this one last year. So the winner was Brett Rippon nicknamed Rippon Farts. Oh Brett Rippon Farts baby! That's all he was doing out there. Is that really that one last year? It is and it says a lot about the state of things. Yeah well you know what? And our show. Can't beat them, join them. Here's the nominees for the nicknames now with this on Go to footy awards comm and vote you vote for your favorite three nicknames And that's the way we accumulate totals and give you our winner the senator

Soon for been Senate Sam Darnold was the prodigal son in the sacrificial, baby Boy, that's funny. The sacrificial baby goes 14 and 2 or 14 and 3. Vidal Sassoon for Kamani Vidal. Estimé Lotter for Audrick Estimé. These guys are a package deal baby. Ken Bone Walker. Yeah. For Kenneth Walker. The Dominator, Jared Goff. Jennings, for Joann Jennings. The Bidet, it was brief, but wonderful. Tyler Bidet was the Bidet. Laser, Mayfield, thank you.

Laser. Richard White, also known as dick white and then It was one time on the show The butter man in here and then you know a fantasy relevant guy Mike Sticky guess sticky also a nominee so vote for your favorite three Nicknames and we got one more category. How do I supposed to announce these? Do you want me to do it? Go ahead, because I'm not sure what the protocol is here. The final one here is the show moment of the year.

And so you can vote for your favorite three moments from the Fantasy Footballers podcast over the past year. All the YouTube links to the moments, if you want to re-watch them, wanna rewatch them, relive them. And you do. They're on footyawards.com. When you get to the question, there's a button. You just click it.

You can watch all the 10 video clips. Here are the moments. Mike, when he inducted himself into the Ring of Honor, if you remember, it was Arthur Blank of the Falcons who nominated himself for the Ring of Honor. And Mike came in here and surprised us by nominating, just who nominated himself for the Ring of Honor and Mike came in here and surprised us by nominating, just inducting himself into the Ring of Honor. Number one, it was an amazing moment

and it truly is an honor being the only person in the Fantasy Footballers' Ring of Honor. Amazing job. There was the Golden Ticket Surprise where at the Megalith Show Jason finally used his Golden Ticket to make me agree. I got a Golden T golden ticket to make me agree He made me agree with any take of his yeah, and it was pits right I don't remember I don't remember But it's yeah, you made me like Kyle

Bad take Another moment was the my guy where I was trying to talk Jaden Daniels, and you guys put Tank Bigsby in there as my my guy, which was fun because he had like. It worked out. He was OK. In the beginning at least. And then the debut of the J Gris theme song.

Go ahead. I know it's coming. We're not going on until you go on. He's not doodling back there. The J Gris theme song debut. Tell me who. Too busy with his trophies. I'm J. Grizz.

I'm J. Grizz. Apparently, Andy's looth tooth. So I did go through losing a freaking tooth during the entire season. Yeah, you did. Hey, I believe that's all rectified. Yeah, I got a tooth now. It's great.

I can talk and everything. Hashtag Spatchcock. The Megalodon. The Megalodon Spatchcock. The Falcon slash deucers poop jokes throughout the year. Falcon, current reigning show pooper champion right now. They are. What's that trophy doing off the side, man?

Yeah, I'm gonna give it to Jeremy for a second. No, he's there. You know, he didn't I just went to blow my nose Then Jason if you remember Jason versus Dennis Allen at the beginning of the year was Being laughed at by Dennis Allen through two weeks and then Dennis Allen was the first coach fired and I still shaved my head That's yeah, but that was a good take. You got him. The Halloween costume fake out. Oh yeah. When we pretended like we forgot to put costumes on and we had the blue medical tent and we all got dressed up. That was fun. The YouTube comments of people being so mad that we didn't dress up and all they had to do was wait 10 seconds before firing off a comment.

Yeah the next comment would be oh wait my bad good job you got me. And the final nominee for the show moment of the year none other than the ruthless meticulous that was that was savage thorough trolling by our League of Record champion Al Borland who got my entire family to record voicemails praising him for his championship as it was as my repeat opportunity was destroyed. This will be an interesting race. And there you go. I want to watch the top ten video clips. So if you want to watch the top ten video clip as well go to footy awards.com The link will be in that so it's a good time voting on these make your voice heard

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