Fantasy Footballers - Fantasy Football Podcast - Footie Award Winners + Hot Takes for 2025! - Fantasy Football Podcast for 1/14

Episode Date: January 14, 2025

The winners are in! Wild Card Weekend recap and Footie Award Winners on today’s fantasy football podcast! Find out who won the most illustrious awards in fantasy football. Breakout of the Year, Waiver Wire Wonder, Poopiest Pants Award, and many more. Plus, early hot takes for the 2025 fantasy football season! Manage your redraft, keeper, and dynasty fantasy football teams with the #1 fantasy football podcast. -- Fantasy Football Podcast for January 14th, 2025. (00:00) - Intro (02:45) - 2025 Hot Takes (08:40) - NFL News (25:30) - Footie Awards (26:31) - Performance of the Year (27:45) - Fantasy Reaper's Man of the Year (29:21) - Poopiest Pants Award (31:37) - Waiver Wire Wonder (33:00) - Fantasy QB of the Year (34:55) - Fantasy RB of the Year (35:45) - Fantasy WR of the Year (36:45) - Fantasy TE of the Year (38:05) - Breakout Player of the Year (39:05) - Rookie of the Year (40:10) - Comeback Player of the Year (41:00) - Steal of the Draft (42:40) - The Playoff King (44:33) - Nickname of the Year (46:14) - 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

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Jason Moore I'm Andy Holloway and we have the footy award winners on today's show very excited thousands of you voted for the awards this year and I am proud to say I don't know a single winner. I do not either a lot of times I'm gonna be honest I have cheated and looked I have logged in and I know who wins and by how much and I I don't have a clue. That is it makes me very excited. Do any of the Deucers know? No. No? I mean who packed it? I put the envelopes together but I did not look at any of the names.

Impressive. Oh man I hope that everything is wrong inside. You know what I mean? Let me open this up. Brooks does know. He sent me the list to print. I printed it and cut them up without looking at it. Okay so this is all on Brooks if it comes crashing down. He's the only one that's gone through. I think if it goes crashing down it would be on Jeremy.

Performance of the year Brooks. Yeah, so we've got that. We've got a quick question. We've got some news. All of the games from the weekend, we'll talk about those briefly. We're recording this episode just before the Monday Night Football game between the Rams and the Vikings, so we'll be able to share our feedback on that game our Reactions to that game out here in Arizona. Yeah, we finally get a home playoff game boys. Oh gosh Congrats to us just took you know Devastated and just destruction and chaos and terribleness it is insane Yeah, it will be a Rams home game out here in Phoenix, Glendale

actually. It will be interesting to see what the crowd is because Arizona is, there is a lot of Midwest transplants down here. Like there's a lot of Minnesota people who are here and I'm interested to see what it looks like. Yes, not the way we would have wanted to get a home playoff game certainly with everything going on in Los Angeles which thoughts and prayers out to everybody out there. Quick question of the day from Brinton, if you had to make a hot take right now for next season what would it be what why do we like hot takes so much because they're fun I mean just you just like I don't know I knew this charges are gonna win the Super Bowl I was bringing it up okay sorry I know

this idiot who picked the chargers to make it to the Super Bowl but you beat me off at the pass yeah I definitely beat you to it. Yes. Yeah, people like hot takes people like it because they're fun because when they actually Happen. All right. Here's the hot take Brian Thomas jr. Is thought of Alongside chasing yeah, I'm sin alongside chasing Jefferson after next season So Brian Thomas juniors in the upper stratosphere for next season. So Brian Thomas Jr. is in the upper stratosphere for next season, that's my hot take.

He looks like he's gonna be there. Just hopefully Trevor Lawrence and whoever, whatever this team looks like management-wise next year can make sure that we force feed Brian Thomas the ball, but he looks the part. Brian Thomas had- Easy to force feed when you're that open. Yeah, I mean, the thing is, is going back, one of the big knocks on Brian Thomas now appears

to be almost a feather in his cap, which was he only had like the one breakout year of production. Because he was later, I think he played basketball, and so it was like, you just didn't see enough in college to know for certain that he is going to translate. He had neighbors with him. Right. Like, I mean, it's the- Did that open it up for him?

Right. Is that what made it easy? But then once you have rookie season in the bag where he dominated the way he did with Mac Jones, you're like, this is the guy. So I love that hot take, just having him really be one of the elites of the elite. And I guess Chase and Jefferson and Brian Thomas, LSU crew could lead the NFL for years to come. Yeah wow they're all LSU. Dude LSU's. And the neighbors is gonna be right there too. Well speaking of LSU Mike why don't you hit them up with the next one? It's yours.

Sure so I'm going I'm calling T Hins, stays in Cincinnati, Joe Burrow will be the QB1, and both Jamar Chase and T Higgins will be top 12 guys by the end of the year. Well, I don't- Hot takes! Don't consider me surprised that you would take a T Higgins take here, but- I can't stop, guys! No, you can't. He has destroyed me so many times! But he's so good They were one game out of the playoffs, right? Yeah, and do you remember this team lost to New England in week one?

Yep, they lost to New England in week one. Yeah, both teams wishes they could swap that. Oh my gosh Yeah, that's true. The Broncos would be are the Bengals would be in the playoffs and the Patriots have the number one pick. Yeah But they won. Instead, the Broncos made the playoffs. And my hot take is that the Broncos next year win the division over the Chiefs on the back of a superstar rookie running back. This team is really good.

I think Bo Nix is legit, and they have no running game whatsoever. They have- They really need an Alvin Kamara. Yes, exactly. For Sean Payton. Sean Payton has always had a group of really strong running backs, pass catchers, whether it was Ingram,

or Pure Strong, or Deuce McAllister. Like, he's always had a good running game, and that is so abhorrently absent from the Broncos. I think they fix it this year. It's wild what we've seen happen. You know, the Eagles will get into the news momentarily, but like, Saquon Barkley's team, clearly. I mean, Jalen Hurts, I think, completed 11 passes

or something. Yeah. And then you see what Baltimore did. Derrick Henry almost 200 yards rushing again. Like, it is not an exaggeration to say that all 32 teams should have been in on Derrick Henry and all 32 teams should have been in on Saquon Barkley. And yet both of them, like the Saquon sweepstakes more high profile, but the prediction of the demise of Derrick Henry

or the lack of courage by Dallas, by any of these teams, I mean, how about the Chargers? You tell me the Chargers with Derrick Henry aren't a different football team. Sure. Denver, with Derrick Henry, like every single team should have been in on those guys. Yeah, yeah, I mean, at the very least,

every single competing team, every team that had aspirations to make a playoff run, you know, should have been in. And it'll be interesting for fantasy purposes because I think we'll hit year five next year of saying, well, Derrick Henry's probably too old. I mean, this has been most of our entire career. Exactly, so at what point, I mean, I think we really did transition a

handful of years ago to just saying he's different I'm not betting against him but it still hasn't been a strong enough bet for him I think the last two years our advice has been just go down with the ship because it's not worth trying to get out early because the ship is real nice such a nice ship yeah the there was someone had released numbers for Derrick Henry. It's like his speed when he hits the line of scrimmage and then his top speed. And it's the same.

He has literally not slowed down yet. Now, I mean, I'll bet on him again next year for sure. But Derrick Henry, it feels like when it goes, it's going to be immediate. But I'm not gonna bet on it happening, but when we get to the end, you'll go, yep, that was, what a great run, Derrick Henry. But you're toast now.

Yeah, age will come for us all. But Frank Gore, Fred Jackson, I mean he's Emmett Smith, you're entering that category of running back at this point. Let's talk some more news. News and notes from around the league presented by USAA Insurance. So apparently the Chargers lost. In pretty large fashion, 32 to 12. It wasn't that egregious through the beginning of the game. Who thought that they could get through a divisional game where they were favored? Yeah, I was going to say who thought the Chargers were going to win?

Vegas. The majority of people who are making a prediction on this game. Career high, four interceptions for Herbert. And the Texans took that very personally. Will Dizzley didn't do anything to help. I'm just throwing that out there. No, we did not. The Steelers got thromped.

That's a new word by the Ravens. I do like thromped. They got thromped, like throttled and whomped. Nice. Yeah, I mean, we all know exactly what you mean, because a lot of us watch that game. That was a thromping. That was a pure thromping. Oh, please don be a bad word. Oh gosh yeah this is um I don't

even bother looking it up. I'm looking. Just plead ignorance. It's bad? No no no. Okay. Oh Kyle's I got from the AI overlords they have said it's an informal verb that means to trample or move heavily and clumsily. They were clumsy. Yes, Kyle, everything on Urban Dictionary is bad. Every word on that website is bad. You could say any word and go there,

and you'll find something. But 28 to 14, Raven's man handled them. It was not close. Mike Tomlin has not won a playoff game in eight years. Mike Tomlin, that's a stretch that surpasses all of their previous coaches, Chuck Noll, Bill Cower, all of those guys. You know, Jason, you're the Tomlin truth-er for life.

Hasn't figured out how to win a playoff game in eight years. I also lost six consecutive games to end the season, which I think is more the story I think that might resonate with fans is they looked, they didn't get better. They got worse. I would say one of my bold predictions was almost going to be that next year will be Mike Tomlin's final year as the Steelers head coach

because it looked bad down the stretch. I think that that city is getting sick of not winning. I don't believe it will get better when Tomlin leaves. No. I don't think Tomlin has had the personnel over the last eight years, post-Ben Roethlisberger, to really make a run in the playoffs. He hasn't really had the quarterbacks there.

Yeah, and I guess you can point fingers wherever you want. I mean, Tomlin has a lot of power in the organization. He's the one that's going to be fine going ahead with the Najee Harris, fine going ahead with retreads at quarterback. There are choices that were made. Well, but the quarterback. I mean, they tried Kenny Pickett.

The quarterback situation is one of those where it really, to a large degree, it's kind of like, where are you drafting in a fantasy football first round draft? Yes. I don't get Jamar Chase. Are they stuck? Yes, they are.

Yeah, because they are stuck. They're stuck because Tomlin's good. Exactly. Exactly. Which is why you need to... Yeah, you might need to clean the house. You might need to be bad to be good. Yep.

He is not willing to tank. And he could take a team of hodgepodge guys and get the most out of them. I think if you asked him to tank, he'd punch you square in the Oh, I think he would look at you so hard. You would punch your hands. You'd punch yourself in the face He would give you a look and you say, I'm sorry Mr. Tumlin. That's on me But they are they're in purgatory because they will always be a Competitive team and you have to be in retread land then you have to be in the or you have to hit on competitive team. And it's like- You have to be in retread land then.

You have to be in the- Or you have to hit on Kirk Cousins. Or Kenny Pickett had to hit, right? Right. Like you have to have the late round pick. The Bills scored 31 unanswered after the Broncos and Troy Franklin came out and got the first score, which look, when I saw that I wasn't-

Oh. When I saw the Broncos got on the board first, I hadn't been watching yet. I was following it on my phone. That throw was insane. I was like, oh, maybe they can do it. And then I checked back. Yeah, that's definitely.

The game was really, really, really close to the entire first half. They went into the half. It should have been tied 10 to 10. They missed the walk-off field goal at the end of the half. This was whatever second half adjustments were made. The Bills were much, much better. And then they, you know, that was a second half adjustments were made. The Bills were much, much better and then they, you know, that was a second half thromping. The whole game wasn't. I was

like, I was kind of proud of the Bills, of the Broncos. I was kind of proud of them. Like, you put up a real nice fight in that first half. No one saw you win in this game. First half. Right. No, just the first half. They're still, they're a ways away. They're a ways away. It feels like the Broncos and the Chargers are a few missing pieces away.

Well coached, quarterback situations figured out, need some more elite talent, and just like time together. Right? Yeah, for sure. That's what the Bills have. The Packers lost to the Eagles 22 to 10 I believe the Packers lost three wide receivers in this game or two of them and then they were already missing yeah, they were down Watson and then what or dogs got a hospital ball and And they lost a lot more players and just just those wide receivers

It was not a fun game for Packers fans who feel like they were jobbed. We know that from Al Borland. How are you feeling about your Packers? Everything would have been different if one of the plays went your way? If it had gone, we don't need to get into it. We've talked about it enough. I didn't set them up.

The refs made the wrong call. Okay. First drive. Other than that, the Packers played like garbage. The Eagles are the better team. Their defense is outstanding. Well, they just had a major injury. Yeah, my comparison agrees with you, Al. They were just, as long as those big plays by the Eagles didn't happen, the Packers were right in there. It does feel like we are on a collision course

for Eagles-Lyons. Yeah. That's the way it feels. But was it N'Kobe Dean? Was Torres patellet tendon? That's so sad. The Eagles offense needs to let's get cooking here. Find their inner excellence.

The commanders, 23 Buccaneers, 20. Great game. Great game. Fun game, very much so. Wish I could watch those two quarterbacks play some more in the playoffs, but Baker's gone. Going home, the doink off of the inside of the upright. After Zane Gonzalez finally figured out how to put his helmet on.

That was so weird. That's one of those things that you watch it and you see it and you kind of laugh to yourself, but then you don't know that it got everybody else. At first I thought, is this a guy who's trying to get FaceTime? And he thought the camera wasn't on him yet, so I'm gonna try to do it again.

He does have OCD. Does he really? Okay, that explains it. I'm not, see, I was just. Well, now I feel bad. Yeah, good, you should. It was just an interesting, like you're watching it and you're going,

oh, that's that's odd I'm guessing he needed it to be even because he missed the kick. So That's how that works. Well, you know nice doink It was I always say it was one of the hardest doinks I can remember. Okay Alrighty, we've got footy Awards momentarily. We got Vikings Rams tonight, so we'll react to that on the Thursday show We also got news Mike Vrabel the new head coach of the Patriots her I mean, it's where he should have been all along Mike McCarthy will not be

Remaining as head coach to the Cowboys dude Cowboys Jerry Jones has announced he is indeed the head coach. Oh, that makes a lot of sense. The Cowboys. That part's a lie. Thankfully for Mike McCarthy, the man, the Bears were trying to interview him the other week. And Jerry Jones is like, no. No.

And then you just hold onto this, and then you're not the coach of the Cowboys. So the Bears haven't figured it out yet. So I'm sure Mike McCarthy will get a shot there. I can tell you- I think McCarthy will go straight to another head coaching job. I don't know, maybe.

The reason I don't think it'll happen has nothing to do with what I think happened here. I think what happened here is that Jerry Jones actually wanted Mike McCarthy back. That's why this dragged out. I think what happened is we've seen Mike McCarthy in the press conference. We know what Mark McCarthy believes about himself.

What does he believe? Oh, he's a winner. He's a winner. He's a winner. He has won a championship. And I think it came down to dollars and cents in those negotiations. Maybe. And I think that's my, maybe why he won't get a job

right away is because he has a value that he has imparted and he's convinced Jerry Jones to give him that at one point in time, won it again. There was, the reports out of New Orleans, at least, are. McCarthy? Yeah, they're like, no, they're going to be very interested. All right. A lot of times when you want the money, going somewhere new,

people will shell out more for you than just renewing your contract. That used to be the place that the Cardinals always spent their lives. They'll pay big for Buddy Ryan before he was paying four coaches at a time. Paying Dennis Green, right? The retread back to Arizona to fail. I saw a cut-up of it was Magic Johnson and

whoever the other owner. Oh for Washington? Yeah. Then they were like they're being asked like how did you guys I mean they're celebrating the win how'd you turn it around? They're like, whoa, whoa, we don't get a ton of credit here. Like we just, we identify, we got the right people and the culture and then we got out of the way and we're letting them do their, yeah, Josh Harris, thank you Kyle, of we got out of the way and we're letting these people who are good at their jobs

do their thing and then it goes to a cut of Jerry Jones. Oh gosh. And they're asking him about would maybe maybe you don't want to be the GM anymore. He's like get out of here. Essentially like no I'm the GM forever. Well that's what I was gonna ask you like if you we can make fun of Jerry. Oh I can and I will. Because he has put himself into a position where he is eligible for it. Yeah and he won't know. Jerry Jones is a winner. But here's what I will bring up.

Remember the 90s? He said he did not buy a team, he bought an occupation. That was his quote. Correct. Because he chose to buy the Cowboys and he wanted to do it for the rest of his life. Which is his right. Yeah.

To do, like if I bought a team, I might wanna be GM. Yeah. I might not be good at it, but I probably would think next year I'll be good at it. I would, but how long are you bad at it before you're like, I'd like my team to win. But maybe you're okay being bad at it, but being it. Andy, literally as we were talking,

a statement came out from Jerry Jones. Oh boy. Am I defending him, by the way? You were so super wrong. Big rapid Jerry. You're not defending. You're just explaining his position. There's a lot of words in this statement of just we did this, we looked at everything, the staff and we whatever. But I think the most important part, the climax of this is prior to reaching the point of contract negotiations though, it became mutually clear that it would be better for each of us to head in a different direction.

This is Jerry Jones saying, this wasn't money. This was not money. We decided before that, before talking about money, everybody. And everyone believes you, Jerry. Well Deshaun Watson ruptured his Achilles again. Oh man. He's now uncertain to play at all next year. Probably won't take another snap with the Browns

if you're looking at the situation. We've seen all the. I've seen the videos. All the chatter. He was seen on Instagram on a recent date without a boot on, which could make him eligible to have those years voided. If he did not follow protocol that the team put out there

for his Achilles recovery, it would have been under three months from surgery. They would get off the hook. Yeah, we don't know if that's in their protocol or not, and they also have an insurance against the cap for injury. I don't pretend to be an expert on this, but what I saw was that some of that cap money the following season would come back.

So yeah, maybe they do get off the hook a little bit here thanks to the second re-rupture of the Achilles. What else? Tyree Kale says now he's committed to the Dolphins after positive meetings with the team. And that might sound like, why is this news? If you hadn't heard or seen him posting things all over about basically wanting out of playing for the Dolphins,

including putting his face on the Antonio Brown photograph where he left mid-game, peace out, peace sign. Not a good look. Not a good look. Very funny. It was a delightful tweet. I very much enjoyed it, but I was, you know, you saw that and you went, ooh.

And that's why he has to come out and say that, no, things are good now. That was today's News and Notes presented as always by USAA Insurance. Learn more at usaa.com slash insurance. We'll take a break and we'll get into the footy awards. I'll tell you, before we get into the footy Awards I'll tell you before we get into the footy Awards. I feel like there should have been an extra category this year, which is

It's like the best show moment But it's the best off air show moment of the year because we've had a couple things around the office going crazy Mm-hmm. Are you sharing this? Yes. Yes, including cricket gate cricket gate Just happened. I don't know that we have time to explain our entire crew programmers deuces y'all almost got fired today because There was someone put and I don't know if you know this exists and if you didn't congratulations because you can you can

really hurt someone with this information there are little chirping cricket bugs that chirp anywhere but you're talking about it's a tiny little speaker it's an electronic device yes and it it chirps it ran in between five and 45 minutes and you can't find this thing and after a couple days you definitely can't find it when it comes from different areas Yeah, and so we were like we Friday. We were threatened what you know we just knew it was Papa Josh of course It's like yeah, okay, Josh. Yes It's a good goof get it. I'm sick of hearing this cricket And then it just kept escalating, getting worse and worse.

And so this morning, after the weekend, it was like. I'm sitting in the office by myself, I hear it again, and I'm like, this is it. The company's over. Like I can't work in this environment. I told Andy, we move offices, and we clean house, hire a whole new staff. Yeah, this is like Raiders style stuff.

You start all over. So we go out to the producers, and I clean house, hire a whole new staff. Yeah, this is like Raiders style stuff. You start all over. So we go out to the producers and I tell Falcon he's fired in one hour. So it doesn't matter whose fault it is, one hour from now he's fired. Just completely like I put a timer on my watch and I don't care if it was Josh that did it. We own this company. We ain't living with that cricket gate. Josh, you're going to have to have that on your conscience. And then we tell everybody, because we pay for lunch every day here at

the student and we tell everybody we're not paying for lunches anymore. Not while the crickets happen. No, no, no. This is serious business. This is serious. And apparently that not firing pigry, but threatening taking lunches away allowed Jeremy to come clean. He gets his championship. He thinks he could do absolutely everything. It was and not want me to explain the full situation. There's a lot more to it than that. Apparently we had a fan of the show. This is the true story. This is what happened. We had a fan of the show who offered who makes 3D printed trophies to send us a few trophies. He wanted to send one to Al, congratulations,

and to Brian Katcher and his co-manager, the biggest loser, a biggest loser trophy, and then he actually sent a trophy to the Falcon that has a toilet on it because, come on. Yeah. And apparently, without telling me, he embedded in the middle of the 3D print a cricket device.

And these guys had made up in their minds that I had secretly done this as a way to get back for you, ruining my life on the show where my family came on here and congratulated you. Anyways, they had made up this whole story. And so that was getting back at us. He took the device out, they hid it in the rafters. He ordered more devices.

He took it out and then was like, that one's not enough, I'm getting more. And then he put it in the rafters ordered he ordered more devices. He took it out and there was like that one's not enough I'm getting more and then he put it in the drop ceiling. We're looking under desks We're looking everywhere Mike knew instantly that something was wrong too. He's like that ain't a real cricket. Yeah, so Anyways, congratulations to owl and thank you to our fans who have Almost destroyed the company. Yeah, we almost burnt it down. These things are devious. I mean, it's really small. That battery is going to last for decades, for infinity. And it's going to be a cricket going off that you can't find.

To the footies. Welcome to the annual footy award show featuring performance of the year the waiver wire wonder The poopiest pants award and many more. It's the annual footy award show Well, I don't know if it was as loud for everybody out there, but that was real. The horns were hitting. All right. We've got the winners.

We do not know the winners yet. Thank you to the thousands upon thousands of Foot Clan listeners that voted for this year's Footie Awards. I'm going to kick this thing off. I'm so excited. I know. Right here, right now. Now, do these, just so I know,

since I haven't opened these yet, do I read the nominees then open them? Correct. The nominees are not on here, okay. We'll hit the drum roll and you open it. Wait, why can no one say drum roll now? I don't know, that's the second time today I've watched it. Hit the drum roll.

All right, so the first award is the performance of the year, which single week performance was the most impressive on the year Our nominees was Josh Allen's week 14 with 51 point nine points Saquon Barkley's week 12 had 44 points Alvin Kimmerer had the butt jump week Probably I don't know probably yeah Alvin Kimmerer 43 points in week two Jonathan Taylor's week 16 Alvin Kamara, 43 points in week two. Jonathan Taylor's week 16, important playoff game. Jamar Chase in week 10 with 49.9 points

and Brock Bowers with 25.2 in week 13. And the winner, are you gonna be the drum roll guy? What do you want? I think I want you to be the drum roll guy. I'll be the drum roll guy. All right. Rail him. The winner is...

Josh Allen. Oh! Week 14, Josh Allen. Oh! Week 14, Josh Allen, 342 and 3, with 3 on the ground, 51.9 points, 44% of the vote. Wow. The runner up. Pretty much a landslide then with that many people, right? The runner up was not far off.

Jamar Chase's win. That was my vote. That was my vote too. That was mine. And when you started with Josh, or the sound, I was like, Jamar Chase. That was my vote. That was my vote too. That was mine and when you started with Josh, or the sound, I was like, Jamash Allen. Jamash Allen. Jamash Allen. Jamar Chase was the runner up with 35%,

but Josh Allen takes home this year's Performance of the Year. All right, Andy, well I will read this one for you, even though it is your award. Please do. This is the Fantasy Reapers, Man of the Year witch players, injury hurt fantasy managers the most. You had a four pack here, Christian McCaffrey, Isaiah

Pacheco, Chris Olave, and Chris Godwin. I'll be honest, I don't- Oh yeah, the Christians. They all get hurt. Oh, that's right. And then the only one who wasn't named Christian is Isaiah. I mean come on. You're not too far off there All right, so drumroll please and the winner with 88% I think we know no surprise the first pick in your draft a lot of times Christian McAfee Who I don't did you guys? Did you guys see the the recent McCaffrey? He's totally fine and could play in the playoffs?

If they made the playoffs, he was good to go. That is going to help him stay near the 101 this next year, and you know it's true. He won't be the 101, but he will still be in top of first round. Six pick? He'll be a first round pick. It's gonna be who's the first one

that wants to live dangerously. Right, so like eight. Yes, because there are big names that I can't imagine passing on to go to Christian McCaffrey. That's fair, that's fair. He won't be at the 101, but he'll be in the first round. You'll get to a point where everyone's willing to take the risk of, because you've had this before.

You've had Christian McCaffrey disappear for years. And he did it two years in a row. Right. It's it. Well, look, time though. Yeah. Injuries. All right, Mike, it's up to you.

We are at the poopiest. Your specialty. The poopiest pants award. Well, it's Jason's specialty. That is true. I have pooped in my pants. Despite high expectations as player, let down fantasy managers over and over and over

again. This year's nominees, Travis Etienne, who was drafted as the running back seven, Marvin Harrison Jr. drafted as the wide receiver eight, Patrick Mahomes was the QB3, and Jalen Waddle drafted as the wide receiver 18. Rail them drums the winner of the poopiest pants award is Travis ETN with 52% of the vote Marv and his woolly pants he was second 31% you know uh the crazy thing about Travis ETN is that it did not like like the pants were poopy, right?

Yeah. For all year long. Oh yeah. But nobody else did anything. What do you mean? I mean, like it wasn't, if you wanted to tell me Rashad Wyatt's pants were poopy, I'd be like, all right, but Bucky Irving took over.

Right. Oh, I see what you're saying. Travis ETN's pants were poopy, and so were Tank Bigsby's pants. Tank Bigsby got, I think Tank Bigsby did hurt Travis ETN's pants were poopy and so were Tank Bigsby's pants. Tank Bigsby got him. I think Tank Bigsby did hurt Travis ETN this year. But what is insane is that it feels like- Tank Bigsby was awful.

It feels like- What? No, he wasn't. He was awful. Like you couldn't start him for fantasy. But I'm saying like, but his production, like Tank Bigsby ran for 4.6 a carry over the course of the season.

ETN Wishes, his 3.7, he played 15 games. Like it feels like he missed half the season, he didn't. He only missed three games. Yeah. And he had 632, I'm sorry, 558 yards. Rushing yards across 15 weeks. Yes. Yeah, it was. Wait, he had 558? Yeah. So yeah, Bigsby had 766 rushing yards. Rushing yards across 15 weeks. Yes. Yeah, it was.

Wait, he had 558? Yeah. So Bigsby had 766 rushing yards. Yeah. On how many attempts did ETN have? Bigsby had 168. ETN 150. OK.

So that kind of took over. It's just you didn't have somebody that like, like for him to be that bad with that draft capital and still not have somebody fantasy relevant in the backfield. I just thought that was interesting Waiver wire wonder which undrafted waiver wire stud was the best signing This year's nominees baker mayfield was awesome sam darnold jawan jennings Darnell mooney, he had a good run john u smith

Darnell Mooney, he had a good run. John Ouse Smith, Bucky Irving. Oh man. I know who I voted for and this year's winner is. I don't know who I voted for. I know who I voted for. The winner is Bucky Irving. That's who I voted for. 47%, the runner up was actually Baker Mayfield at 27%.

Bucky was my vote as well. When you get running back value late in the draft, it is a glorious thing. It is juicy. I wish it happened earlier in the season. We've talked about, and we've got the data to back this up. This has been a tip in the past that did not come true this season, which was that the waiver wire is usually so much more valuable in weeks one and two. Those guys hit and stick oftentimes. And that is true over the last decade. It wasn't really true this year. Some of the

biggest waiver wire pickups early on in this season, they just turned out to kind of be flops like Isaiah likely was, you know, he was the big spend, the big spend and it turned into not much. Bucky Irving was later in the year off of waivers several weeks in and Totally worth it. All right, Jason. You are I'm up with the fantasy quarterback of the year remember this takes into Account the draft position the big game performances impact to fantasy teams everywhere Last year was Dak Prescott with the winning award,

and this year the nominees are... Do I, oh, that drum roll comes after? Yeah, that's... Yeah, we don't read the drum roll for the nominees. We're on number five right now, dude. We've done this four times already. Also 10 years of it. I just woke up right this second.

Did you black out? He just took, Where's the rail? All right. The nominees are Lamar Jackson, who was the quarterback one. Josh Allen also awesome as the quarterback two. Burrow, fantastic. Jaden Daniels, rookie sensation. And the aforementioned waiver wire wonder Baker Mayfield. And the winner winner is can I get the drum roll please the winner is wow Jaden Daniels 39% of the vote I thought for sure this would be Lamar Jackson I thought it'd be Lamar that's who I voted for I actually did vote for Jaden Daniels but I did be 14 all the way up to 40 yeah that's

awesome what's the percentage The percentage was 39% And who was runner-up runner-up was actually Baker made for the 21 so people were taking into account Drafting them late, you know because you know Josh Allen Lamar Jackson They were awesome, but you're spinning a second a third round pick for them Yeah If you had Jayden Daniels You might have just won your championship because you got him so late owl you had Jayden Daniels, you might have just won your championship because you got him so late owl You had Jane Daniels you won your championship against Lamar Jackson. So I guess footies. Hey

Jade. Oh, yeah, your footy is in the mail. Yeah, you're a rookie in the NFL You may not know that you don't you don't know we send them out by freight Mm-hmm almost impossible to lift where They got to get craned in sometimes. All right. Fantasy running back of the year. Aw, Christian McCaffrey won this last year. Yeah, that's cute. He could have won again, but he didn't play football this year.

This year's nominees, we got Saquon Barkley, drafted as the running back six. Derrick Henry, drafted as the running back nine. Jameer Gibbs, drafted as the running back six, Derrick Henry drafted as the running back nine, Jameer Gibbs drafted as the RB four, Chase Brown all the way down to running back 40, Chuba Hubbard at running back 43, and Joe Mixon sneaking in here, was drafted as the running back 15,

had some big games. All right, running back of the year. This one's not really a surprise. It is Saquon Barkley with 54% of the vote. Jameer Gibbs runner-up 13%. Wow, so that was a grubbin. An absolute thrumping. All right, the fantasy wide receiver of the year. All of those factors considered, big game performances, ADP, impact to fantasy teams. Last year was CD Lamb, this year's nominees, four names.

Jamar Chase drafted as the wide receiver, or as the, yeah, wide receiver four. Is that true? Yeah. Okay, Brian Thomas Jr., a ninth round pick, Terry McLoran in the late sixth, and Malik Neighbors in the fourth round. Let me make sure I got the right envelope.

The winner is, unsurprisingly, but actually narrowly, Jamar Chase. Listen to this, 49% of the vote, but Brian Thomas Jr. coming in at 42%. Whoa! Ain't no one like Terry McClore to leak neighbors. No, it's the Jamar Chase takes it home.

Your footy is in the mail. That is fantastic. Well deserved. He was awesome this year. Fantasy tight end of the year. Last year, Sam Laporta, a rookie this year, might be another rookie. Brock Bowers, who was drafted as the Titan 9,

finished as the Titan 2. Trey McBride drafted at 3, finished at 3. John U. Smith, undrafted, finished at 4. And the always forgotten, never loved. Seriously. Titan 1 on the season. George Kittle, who was drafted as the Titan 6. And the winner is...

Brock Bowers was 66% of the vote. Whoa, 66%? 66%. It was absolutely a landslide and the runner up, George Kittle, only 14%, so it was kind of split between the other three, you know, I think part of that was how Obviously, there's a pretty big three round gap between Bowers and McBride But McBride's performances were just steady for a while and Bowers touchdowns. Yeah, Bowers were more impressive in terms of Value and Bowers because you are a rookie you need to know

impressive in terms of value. And Bowers, because you are a rookie you need to know your footy is in the mail. All right we'll take a break and come back with the final footy awards right after this. All right we're on to the- Congrats Brock Bowers. The breakout player of the year. It's a big one. Well it's so for a player who wants to get out and he has to break his way there. Jaden Daniels, drafted as the QB 14. Brian Thomas Jr., drafted as the wide receiver 47. Malik Nabors, got a lot of rookies here, wide receiver 22. Chase Brown, running back 40.

Chuba Hubbard, running back 43. And Brock Bowers, at the tight end nine. Interesting. Breakout player of the year. Who did you guys vote for on this one? I think I voted for Brian Thomas. I think I voted for Brian Thomas as well. Let's see who the winner is.

It is, with 39% of the vote, Brian Thomas Jr. Congratulations. James Daniels is the backup. Nice. Not vote, Brian Thomas Jr. Oh, congratulations. Jayden Daniels is the backup. Nice. Not backup, this second place. Well, look, here's another award that maybe Jayden Daniels could take home. I think Brian Thomas was the breakout because it

was far more surprising. Yes. Mobile quarterback, you could see Jayden Daniels coming. Brian Thomas was the most surprising breakout. I agree. All rookie of the year Pukka Nakua took it home in 2023 Jaden Daniels, Brian Thomas, Malik neighbors, Brock Bowers and Bucky Irving undrafted Bucky Irving. The winner of the rookie of the year is... All right Dave flip-flop. Jaden Daniels! Oh! What?

That makes complete sense. 40% and then Brian Thomas Jr. 27%. I think it makes complete sense to me. That makes sense? Yeah, because... That makes no sense. Well, it makes sense because Jaden Daniels was like, he was the best. He was the rookie of the year.

But he didn't break out as much as Brian Thomas did because Jaden Daniels was already drafted as the second pick in the NFL, supposed to be great. These are very subtle differentials, Mike. Yeah. I mean, it's just like- Just small, nuanced tweaks. It's how in the NFL, the MVP is not the offensive player of the year type of voting. So that's just how I see it.

All right, where are we? We are two, the comeback player of the year. Which fantasy player amazed you the most in their return to relevance? You had J.K. Dobbins come back from the Achilles. When he had the two legs. Kareem Hunt come back from not playing from the ball. From the couch. John U. Smith.

Coming back from Arthur Smith. And Adam Thielen. From the grips of death. From the nap. He woke up just in time to hear this. And the winner is... With 48% of the vote, a clear winner, J.K. Dobbins. Okay. He did make an impact. He made an impact.

He was shot out of a cannon for the first few weeks there And he really you know he was coming back from something people don't come back from so that's that's an especially special treat All right into the good stuff. We go It's the steal of the draft which player was the absolute best value in the draft compared to their ADP last year It was Raheem most hurt from the running back 45 up to what the running back to if I'm not mistaken on the end of season. All right your nominees for the Steel of the Draft. Jaden Daniels, Chase Brown, it's just it's all the same list Chuba Hubbard, Brian Thomas Jr, George Kittle and Brock Bowers. Before you

announce it I will say nobody got less publicity for playing great than George Kittle this year. I don't know if it was just like our eyes were not on San Francisco as much with the record and the performances. You know this is the all-pro tight end. This is who he dominated. Trey McBride did not make the all-pro team because of George Kittle's performances this year. So there you go. I don't think he's gonna win, but let's find out. Brian Thomas Jr.

Goodness. They just go back and forth. Brian Thomas is. The deal. I hope that you have place or a room for like an expansion of your home. Yes, these are very heavy, dangerous, and heavy. If you have not like an extra thousand square feet in your place, you're going to need to find it. Jane Daniels was the runner up.

Yeah, and you're also going to want probably 18-foot ceilings. Yes. If you haven't seen the footy, I mean, this is your first time. It's in the mail. It looks smaller on the camera, but it's actually just one of those mirror things. If you don't have 18 foot ceilings, you will. At least wherever the footage goes.

It'll make its way in. That thing's going right up through. All right, we have three awards left. I'm gonna give you the winner of the Playoff King. So this is the one player that drove fantasy managers to a championship game. Weeks 15 through 17, the best performances. Last year, Kyron Williams took this home.

Lot of good nominations this year. Jared Goff, Jaden Daniels, Baker Mayfield, Jonathan Taylor with those back to back RB1 performances. Jameer Gibbs stole the show down the stretch. Brian Thomas Jr., T Higgins. Yay! Getting a pity nomination. And then Sam Laporta.

Sam Laporta, the winner of the Playoff King, the 2024 footy. I don't know who's going to be. Jameer Gibbs. Yeah. That's who I thought it would be. I actually voted for Jonathan Taylor. Jonathan Taylor was the runner up, but the gap was not close. 48% of the vote went to Gibbs, 17% to Jonathan Taylor.

Gibbs is RB3, 7-2 performances. I think the data came out. He is the most commonly rostered player in fantasy on championship teams. Yeah, that makes salt in my wounds as a Gibbs manager. Yeah, the Jonathan Taylor thing is interesting because it was his running back 17 finish in the first round of the playoffs

was the fumble through the end zone. And if that one play was just, he was so destructive. And he was so good on the field through the fantasy playoffs. That one play where it was really a breakaway touchdown, it wasn't a bad play, turned into a negative 8 point loss for you. That, you know, he would have been probably a top 5 running back, then the running back 1, then the running back 1. But as someone who exited round 1 with John and Taylor, maybe I shouldn't have voted for him.

Alright, we are to the biggest awards, the big of the big. This is the good stuff. This is why you're here, it's the nickname of the year in the show moment of the year. Let me hear that special music. Yes. That's right. It is time for the nickname of the year. Last year's winner, Brett Rippon, Rippon Farts.

But this year, we have the Senator Ben Sennett, Sam Darnold as the prodigal son or the sacrificial baby, Vidal Sassoon from Kimani Vidal, Estime Lauder from Audrechestime, Kin Bone, Kenneth Walker, the Dominator in Jared Goff, Jen Nags for Joanne Jennings, the Badae, Tyler Badae,

Laser Mayfield Richard dick Rashad white and of course Mike sticky gussicky but the winner is Both laser Mayfield Really with 77% of the vote. Now, you voted for three.

So actually, the runner up, Jenang's, was at 52%. Oh, that's right. And Kinbone at 33%. But Lazer was. So Lazer, Jenang's, Kinbone. Yes, sir. Stupid walker to get her at the end. I think if Jenang's was earlier in the season,

because Lazer, we got that the whole season long. We had the drop. I feel like. Jenang's actually let people down. He did, yeah. At the end of the season, so it was fun to say the name, but you wanted the points attached to it. Yeah.

And. One more. One more. The biggest award of the year to us. It is the show moment of the year to us it is the show moment of the year your nominees Mike aka me inducting myself into the ring of honor The golden ticket surprise at the Megalos show when Andy loved Kyle Pitts

Andy Picking tank Bigsby as his my guy was crazy. Jay Grizz busting out his new theme song. Andy's Luth Tooth. Ha ha ha ha ha ha. The Megalodon hashtag spatch cock. Falcon and Deucers doing their boop jokes. Weren't jokes. Yeah, they were not jokes.

Jason versus Dennis Allen. Andy wearing the blue medical tent. And guess who is in this last one is Andy again getting trolled by Jeremy for the championship loss a Lot of those were real dumb You're all pretty you padded you padded the moments this you man. This was this was your time to shine I did last year the winner the trade betrayal. Yeah, I was getting the worst of that too. Oh, yeah I work title it worked out rail them drums the

2024 show moment of the year. I'm so curious 67% Recency by the Championship trolling- this is really an award for owl yeah good work dude the championship trolling- now what was the runner up there? so the runner up was tank bigsby as the surprise my guy and then in third jay grizz theme song debut no see that's bad news that that got popularity.

I mean, there's just no excuse for that garbage, stupid, silly, goofy song. Hit it! Hit it! How did you not know this was going to come up? Hit the button! Hit that! Just push your finger on the button.

Hit the button! Hit it! Quick! Hit that! The switch on the wall hit the button hit it quit that the switch on the wall Quick Okay ready hit it and hit that button. Oh my gosh He can't hit about 40 button. I got it. I got it. I got it ready three two one Wow, all right. Well before this is the guy that won the belt moment of the year This guy won the show moment of the year, but now it's his time to shine Hit it hitting the J Gris song right now

Time to shine, hit it! Hitting the J-Griz song right now. Oh, god. I'm J-Griz. First try. How sweaty is he right now? Oh, man. I am crying. Yeah.

After winning the show moment of the year, Jeremy, you. Your biggest accomplishment. I guess it's not producer. He just retired. He got down. He's like, I'm done. I don't know how to do my job anymore. That's not producer of the year. You know what I mean? That's true. I would have gone somewhere else tell your family that

Yeah, I say that really Two years in a row show moment Revolving around me in a title game. I can live with that if we get another one next year because I'm in a title game I'm fine with that But we do it. Thank you so much for being along on the ride with us in this stupid show. We love you and we appreciate your votes and our nonsense. If you didn't vote and you wanted to catch those moments,

I believe they were all tweeted out over on X. So good. And all the moments are on YouTube.com slash The Fantasy Footballers, which we rewatched this morning and the Tank Bigsby one did hit me fresh like it was like you guys got me so good I was ready to say Jaden Daniels and the announcer the incredible nature of it which I think we said it but in case you had missed it we had we duped Andy like we swapped his my guy to being Tank Bigsby someone who despite having a good season Andy's still over here

calling Tank Bigsby crap even though like a lot of running backs the NFL would be very happy with that stat line and then Andy found out. Yeah. Andy spoiled the surprise. Andy spoiled the surprise, knew about the surprise knew about it somehow totally forgot And he went forward with it and it still tricked him Well, like Jason said, thank you so much for voting for listening. We've got the truth series episodes coming up I'm deep in them docks and I let me tell you Kyler Murray's things. Oh, dude. Kyler Murray's messing things up on the Truth series. Yeah.

Because he ain't the truth? Is that what we're learning? His truth is confusing. His truth is confusing. Truth is a lie? His truth is a lie. Really, when we get to the Truth series, we'll talk about the splits, first half, second half,

and that's really the truth for him. I think, and look. Call of Duty. We need. I think, and look. Call of Duty. We need. I mean, it's every year. When the game comes out, he gets worse. We need, do we need like a new award category for next year that's called? Sure. Here's my suggestion, you can noodle on this. Okay. Bummer of the year.

Bummer of the year. Okay, I'm noodling Because because there's just somebody that it's it's like to let down, but it's just you had high hopes and oh I get what you're saying. Football would be better. Like Kyler is a bummer of the year. Yeah, he wasn't he wasn't the biggest boss Not a total boss. He was just sort of good. Just the bummer of the year, man Okay There's a handful of those guys where you like, you kept believing every week,

and you kept throwing them out there. I mean Jordan Love would be a bummer of the year. Yeah. Right? Jaden Reed. Oh, yes. Bummer of the year. Bummer of the year. There's some players like that, but. Okay.

I'm open to it. You got about a year to think about it, Mike. Let me know. The Truth series, top 10 quarterbacks Fantasy face-off coming up very soon. Well done before you call. He wasn't ever gonna close Jeremy hit it hit it Hit it. Okay. There we go redemption I wish the cameras on you cuz you about jumped out your chair. Oh man, oh man.

He needs bigger buttons. He needs bigger buttons. All right, that'll do it for today's episode of the show. Thanks for listening. Click that follow button. We're here all off-season long. We're going to have a blast throughout the NFL playoffs and beyond. I mean, Free Aid and the Seal will be here soon, right?

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