Fantasy Footballers - Fantasy Football Podcast - Footie Award Winners + Wild Card Reactions - Fantasy Football Podcast for 1/16

Episode Date: January 16, 2024

The winners are in! On today’s fantasy football podcast, reactions to Wild Card Weekend and the Footie Award Winners! Find out who won the most illustrious awards in fantasy football! Breakout of the Year, Waiver Wire Wonder, Poopiest Pants Award, and many more! Manage your redraft, keeper, and dynasty fantasy football teams with the #1 fantasy football podcast. -- Fantasy Football Podcast for January 16th, 2024. Get the DFS Pass for Free during the NFL Playoffs! DFSPass.com Connect with the show: Subscribe on YouTube Visit us on the Web Support the Show Follow on Twitter Follow on Instagram Join our Discord Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Welcome in. No. No, Jason. It's footy time, time mike this is a pretty big deal yeah as is that phrase it's reserved for football time and when i have players who are playing on island games welcome into the show no mike has to protect it yeah he has to protect it. Yeah. He has to protect it. People may want that, but it's like that old Disney vault where they put all the VHS tapes. Yeah. You don't let it Aladdin out every week. It's too special.

Even though the sales would have been better. I completely agree. I think where we disagree is I find the footies extraordinarily valuable. Mike thinks they're stupid. Well, Mike and I have been busy lately. I mean, I got my shirt on. Oh, you dressed up for the show? Yeah, I got my championship shirt on.

Oh, what did you do? I dressed up for the show, too. Mike has the other championship shirt on. Looking good, champ. Yeah, nice job, champ. Jay, take off your shirt. What do you got under there? This is a family-friendly show what do you got as a family friendly

show so i will not speak my mind well we do have the footy awards today thousands and thousands of you have voted look at my shirt yeah it was it looks pretty nice oh man um yeah looking good looking good yeah thousands of you have voted we have the footy awards that we'll announce here Oh, man. Yeah. Looking good. Looking good. Yeah. Thousands of you have voted. We have the footy awards that we'll announce here shortly. We'll react a little bit to the weekend's madness. I mean, football.

Football is just crazy, man. It's very fun. Have you seen the playoffs? Jason, you got something to add? welcome back by the way thanks for having me we welcomed you back with these our outfits it's uh it's a great way to be welcomed by two champions yeah we had the uh the most votes ever in the footy awards this this year as well um but no have you seen like uh i don't know if it was a real or a video on youtube but i i was watching it and they were basically saying like the they were making the point that the only thing people I don't know if it was a reel or a video on YouTube, but I was watching it,

and they were basically saying they were making the point that the only thing people actually watch on TV anymore is football. Oh, live television. Yeah, in terms of live television. Out of the 50 largest watched events of the entire year, it's like 48 football games, and then I think there was one political. Like a debate or something? Probably like the State of the Union or something. Oh, okay. And then there was the Oscars.

The Oscars. Yeah. And then the other 48 were football and almost all. NFL. I believe so. Yeah, I think so. So like the other sports didn't sneak in? I thought there was some college football in there but maybe it's just literally just the NFL. Like the NBA championships done in there? No, not in the highest watched events, no.

So like TV is now just watching football. And so we watched the playoffs and it did not disappoint. I mean, such a good playoff. We get so far, still got a couple of games to go tonight, but goodness gracious. Well, last night. That's right. That's right. We don't know though.

We're recording before the games have happened, but what good games they were. Yeah. All that snow. The way the Steelers performed was good to bad. Yeah, I mean, we spent the weekend doing our annual or monthly debate on domes versus not domes and retractable roofs and weather and old school football and overcoming adversity. And that was a good time. Lots of opinions. It was a fun debate. There's so many opinions. was a good time. Lots of opinions. It was a fun debate.

There's so many opinions. I really am, too. Half of them are right. I am. Well, I was going to say, yeah, like I don't know how flexible you are, but I really am team retractable. That's fine. Because I want 95% of football played outdoors.

Yeah, me too. I think that's where it should be played. It's where you play it in grade school and high school and college like it's beautiful the weather is delightful it's an outdoor sport however i do i'm willing to draw the line at can't throw the ball hurricane level forces um happen to hire half your city just to clear the snow out, things like that. But, yeah, okay, so it was the top 100 most watched U.S. TV broadcasts of 2023. And there were, yeah, it was 100% football minus two events, and three of the games were college, and the rest were the NFL.

So why did they put in the key Oh, this is perfect. This is one of those find the turkey. The Thanksgiving parade made it and I could not find it, but it's in there. It is? Where's Waldo? It's in there somewhere. So wait, the Thanksgiving

parade was one of them? Yeah. I was wondering why it was in the key and not in the actual parade. We turn that on every Thanksgiving. We do. Does everybody here turn the parade on? No. It might make it on. We do. I don't know. Yeah, when I was 12. Oh my gosh. You have children though, right?

They don't care at all. What are the big popular balloons these days? I don't know. Snoopy's still out there. Snoopy! Exactly. They didn't upgrade them. They didn't change them. It's just Snoopy. still out there Snoopy exactly they didn't upgrade them they didn't change them it's just Snoopy but yeah football was fun what else do we got going on we got the DFS

pass right now it's free during the NFL playoffs so you can go and pick that up dfspass.com throughout the rest of the playoffs so check that out we have a quick question today from Instagram here's the question car stimkey writes in and says when is a good time to turn the season over for a dynasty league

is it post super bowl post your super bowl which has already happened yep um personally in every dynasty league that i'm in i think that the right answer is as soon as the championship game is over and you know who your champion is it goes to next season so you reactivate your next year's league if you're on a platform that requires you to reactivate you refill the fab budget for off season acquisitions in a dynasty league and you open up trading because now you've now you're ready to ready to rock yeah that's what we just did. You know, Mike took it home in our Dynasty League. Sure did.

And we refreshed to the next year, which cleared out many, many GIFs that he had already posted, but then he has resumed. Like, we are kind of keeping each other accountable at this point. Yeah, we are, definitely. When he posts something, it reminds me to post something. That's a good reminder that I should go post. I'm going to keep restarting these leaks.

Before we get into the footy award winners, again, thanks to everybody who voted, we should talk about these games. Let's start with the 45-14 drubbing. Houston dominated. Flacco pumpkined. Yeahacco pumpkined.

Yeah, he did. And in the second half, the Browns, the game was really tight at halftime, right? Am I remembering that correct? You are not. I don't believe so. I don't think it was super tight. It was closer before Flacco. What was the score?

The score was 24 to 14. Okay, so they had gotten a touchdown right before Flacco. What was the score? The score was 24-14. Okay, so they had gotten a touchdown right before the half. Yeah. But it was close, and the Browns were playing well, and it felt like the... It was all back and forth at that point. The one throw where I don't

know if we ever got the answer. Was Joe Flacco throwing it away, or was he actually trying to make the throw to the receiver? Because it ended up in between both of those options, it became a pick and then it was just it was done cj stroud is the youngest quarterback ever to win a postseason game he's 22 years old he played out of his mind yet again yeah he did uh they don't have tank dale they lost Noah Brown. Didn't matter. Nico Collins, Dalton Schultz, Brevin Jordan. If you have C.J. Stroud in a dynasty league, I want you to hold some sort of party and event for people to come

and celebrate you because I can't imagine wanting a quarterback much more than him. Oh, well, we talked about Stroud a lot on the – Where did he slot in on the Dynasty show? It was not just where he slots in. It became a conversation of who do you want more now?

CJ Stroud or Anthony Richardson? Stroud. Easy. I don't think it's easy at all. I do. That way you should check out the episode. I'm not think that's easy. I don't think it's easy at all. I do. Okay. Well, you should check out the episode. Yeah. No, I mean, I'm not saying there's no debate there,

but look, Anthony Richardson, we saw crumbs from Anthony Richardson to no fault of his own, just little bits of what he brings to the table. But one of the discussion points had to have been the fact that this is a player that is going to be exposed to injury on a regular basis. Yeah, that was talked about. That is going to be exposed to injury on a regular basis. Yeah, that was talked about. That's going to be part of the equation. His path to fantasy glory is very clear when you run the football like that, so I don't blame you.

I just think C.J. Stroud is – C.J. Stroud is guaranteed. He's got a 15-year window now of being a Mahomes Herbert-esque type of talent, I'm just so impressed with that kid. Yeah, he is great. Both quarterbacks in this game threw three touchdowns. Five of the six were just to the Texans. All right.

Poor Flacco. Yeah. The only other thing I think you could say positively from the Browns is just David Njoku continues to look like a star. And he's going to be so interesting where he's drafted next year because... They came out and confirmed Watson's going to be the guy. And that is... Oh, yeah.

That is the problem to me is that he was great with Flacco. And we had a couple games of him playing with Deshaun Watson. He was good with Watson, yeah. He was mediocre with Watson. He was average with Watson. He was average with Watson. He was not special. And so that's the question. It's like... Yeah, they were scoring more with Flacco. I mean, really, that's

the crux of it. Yeah. That will be a huge debate. I will not have the level of confidence in Najoku going into next year with Watson that I do right now with Flacco, for sure. But they have talked about keeping Flacco around. So we'll see. We'll see what he wants.

Kansas City just manhandled Miami 26-7. It was basically one good play by Miami in the entire game. Yep. And it was the fourth coldest game in NFL history. Nice. And it was all on Peacock. And people were not happy. Yeah, I mean, people aren't going to be happy when they have to.

They watched. People can grumble and get all mad online all they want. And then they said, what was it, 23 million people watched it? When my dad texted me and said, is this game only on Peacock? I began to wonder how much tech support I was about to provide. Yeah, it's across the nation. The youth has been helping the elderly learn what Peacock is and what streaming services are, but it was successful.

It was the most streamed television anything in the U.S. of all time. Yeah. Probably for a live event, for a live stream. I imagine because it was all dedicated streaming, you're saying, so people were not, okay, wow. It's unbelievably Bush League. I don't think it's Bush League. I think it is.

NBC pays a lot of money, right, for that game? You're going to have to force the issue someday, and this is the day. They didn't force the issue in the morning. Yeah, but how could people complain about this when when their thursday night football games are on prime all year it's prime as a pay service yeah playoff game feels different okay so you feel like because it was a yeah it was something people expected to be able to watch it's always like this though when when monday night football moved to like espn yeah oh's Bushley. It's always going to be like that.

This is progression. Let it happen. You're happy with. I'm absolutely happy. Let's get everything on streaming. It's whatever. It's still Bushley. Once everything is streaming.

My parents didn't pay. They didn't want to watch. Once 100% of all programming is streaming, I can stop being spoiled by people online who are watching more like on satellite and they know what happens 30 seconds ahead of me stop it let's all get on slow internet together oh my gosh sometimes we've had these games foot clan where like the three of us are watching the game on three different providers mike will be on like direct tv i'll be like on youtube tv and jason's like maybe he's on youtube tv but he's also driving or something and then it's like Mike will be way out ahead.

He'll be like, I can't comment on the play. But sometimes it'll be vague. It'll just be like, OMG. And then we're watching close. Or there it is. And then we're like, what? There's what? Yeah.

And then it started at that. And then it had to be, I have to type in what I want to say. And then I wait 20 seconds. And then I send it. Well, look, let's get back to the game. Miami, huge wet fart of a performance. I'm super disappointed in them. They didn't show up.

I don't care what anybody wants to say about the weather. Both teams had to play about the weather. It's not like the roof came on when Kansas City had the ball, and it's not like every player in Miami has ever played in cold weather in your life. That's a ridiculous assessment. They've all come from different colleges all over the ball. And it's not like every player in Miami has ever played in cold weather in your life. That's a ridiculous assessment. They've all come from different colleges all over the world. Not this. Okay, but listen, you've got to

be prepared to play a football game. I've looked at the numbers, by the way. The actual numbers of bad weather games versus these dome games. It's like a four-point difference. This game was not 33 points in this game. Miami didn't show up. They had every ability to win home field advantage for the last five games

of the season that they farted away. And then they go and they get their comeuppance by having to go into Arrowhead. So, look, they suck. Tua sucks. McDaniels didn't have a good game plan. If we're talking about all the sucky things, I think Kansas City Chiefs wide receivers. Chiefers. The wide receivers not named Rasheed Rice.

They all suck. They're terrible. But Rasheed Rice looked great. He looked great. Yeah, the cold didn't ruin Rasheed Rice. How many playoff Arrowhead games does Rasheed Rice have? How much experience in that cold Arrowhead weather? One. Oh, okay. So maybe

John Iwata could have made a play. He does live in cold weather now. Oh, wow. If you live around, look, if you open your fridge long enough, you can get acclimated for that football game coming up. They should have stood in front of their fridge. I mean, it's ridiculous. Win home field, and then you cannot complain.

All they had to do was win the last week of the year. I don't disagree with that part. Green Bay blew the... Padooty. I don't even know what to say. The barn door's off. The respect, the pride, the honor. I mean, every nice, good feeling that a Cowboy fan has or has ever had,

whatever is honorable, whatever is good, they were embarrassed. I mean, flat out shameful. I'm embarrassed to have picked them to go to the Super Bowl. I'm embarrassed to have been associated with a team that couldn't show up at home where they've dominated

all year long and humongous credit to Green Bay. Yeah. 48-32, credit to Green Bay. Yeah. 48-32. That's not the real score. It was 48-16. And then the backups came in. Green Bay just undressed this vaunted defense.

Play after play. Dallas would spend the whole drive going down the field over six minutes to get a field goal. And then Green Bay would score in like four seconds. And then they'd do it again. I'm glad that's the conversation. the Dak didn't play well he did not play well but the defense was it wouldn't matter the defense was equally bad like you would there were a couple pivotal moments where it was okay if Dallas can do this it really does feel like they can get back in the game and And they got the second half.

They got the field goal. Really should have had the touchdown. A few moments later. It was okay. Let's see. One big defensive. Oh, nope. No, they can't stop anybody.

Jordan Love is destroying them. Luke Musgrave running wild like he's invisible. And I think Reed had zero yards. Jordan Love had a perfect passer rating. Aaron Jones was doing whatever he wanted. People forget how much time Aaron Jones missed this year that really could have hidden how good this Green Bay team was capable of being.

When you have a play-action game like that, they dominated Dallas. Dallas is an embarrassment. It's been 29 years since they got out of the divisional round, and this is coming from somebody that was actively rooting for Dak, wanted to see Dak and CeeDee carry on. What they brought me and Mike in fantasy, but they were spent. No, I mean, fantasy-wise, they kept it alive.

I guess in the end. The end box score is Dak was like 403. CeeDee Lamb was like 9 for 110. And then Detroit, 24-23. What a game. Hanging on, knocking off Matthew Stafford and the Rams. I mean, that was a great, great fun-to-watch game. So much scoring back and forth.

Then the defenses start stepping up in the second half. It looked like after the first quarter that this was going to be a game that hits like 100 point over under. The defenses step up. The run game is stopped. People have to come through. Puka just was amazing. And really what this game came down to for me was the Rams moved the ball no problemo, but when they got near the end zone, the Lions defense stepped up, and they just couldn't punch it in because you can't run on them there, and that's how the Rams score so many of their touchdowns. They just kept throwing to Cooper Cup, and Cooper Cup unfortunately did not.

Congrats. Did not get it done. Congrats to the Lions fans out there. Yeah. Who now, thanks to the Cowboys losing, are going to host another playoff game. Yeah, that's right. Yeah.

So they will play the winner of the Philadelphia-Tampa Bay game in Detroit. And I can't wait. That will be fun. First playoff win in 32 years. Oh, man. So will be fun. First playoff win in 32 years. Oh, man. So that's crazy. Yes.

So as of this recording, we don't know the outcome of the Steelers-Bills-Eagles-Buccaneers games. Do we? Well, we know the Steelers-Bills outcome. Okay. Oh, great, dude. If that goes sideways for you, you're going to be your Twitter? At Jason FFL? At Jason FFL.

I love Tomlin. I love the Steelers as an organization. They got no chance without Watt to beat the Bills in Buffalo. No chance. It's over. Keep saying it. It's already done. I'm not worried.

And the Eagles-Buccaneers game? No A.J. Brown? That one looks a little scarier. You know, you want to say the Eagles. They should be able to do it, right? They should. They absolutely should. I think they will.

This is such a humorous thing to be talking about when it's over. Did you guys see the – it was probably pro football talk that was put, but they were talking about that Mike Tomlin will be deciding at the end of the season what he will be doing. Wow I didn't see that. There's at least some grumblings that no matter what happens that Mike Tomlin

will be. Just his choice? He walks away? I guess. I don't know. We hadn't talked about Bill Belichick leaving right? I mean and Jared Mayo taking over as the coach. We have not talked about that yet. And then Tyler Higby tore his ACL and MCL. Yeah. I don't know if you could say he tore it

someone else tore it for him that was a brutal hit. It was so bad. So Bill Belichick is out there. You got any predictions right now? Yeah he's going to sign with someone and lose with them. That's my prediction. Do you want to pick a team?

The Washington Manders. I hope he retires. Where do you think he goes? I do too. I hope he retires. Go live your life, man. He's too great of an all-time coach. I think Atlanta. I think that's the odds-on favorite right now is the Falcons.

So yeah, Gerard Mayo took over in New England. They didn't even have to go through a hiring process. Yeah, they had all the contracts kind of set up for it. I loved all the NFL insiders reporting as soon as Mike Vrabel is let go. Whoa, Vrabel will be on the be, to being the Patriots head coach. If they choose to move on from Bill Belichick and then they moments later, Bill Belichick, they are moving on and Oh, Mike Vrabel. And they're like, Oh no, actually we turns out new England had this contractually figured out the whole time that Mayo was going to be

the replacement. Bill knew Mayo knew like everyone knew where was the whole time that Mayo was going to be the replacement. Bill knew. Mayo knew. Everyone knew. Where was the reporting on that, NFL insiders? How do you not know? No, and so Mayo takes over. Yep. All right.

Quick break and back with incredible footy awards. Let's do it. Welcome to the annual Footy Awards show featuring the best and worst in fantasy football, including Performance of the Year, the Wafer Wire Wonder, the Poopiest Pants Award, and many more. It's the annual footy award show. Let's go. Oh, boy. Oh, boy. I love that music. The results are in.

The music with the very professional voice announcing, good work, Jason. Thank you. And just talk about regular thinking. And, of course the poopiest pants award. Very popular award. Yeah. You would think people don't like it but they love getting that.

They actually do. Well it's a footy. A footy's a footy. The people are going to be excited to get it. Yeah. You're not mad. You're like oh I only got the special effects Oscar. No we didn't even make up any names to get them these footies. These are all the real people. All right.

Let's get to it. We've got all the votes, the most votes we've ever had for a footy award. Here we go. Performance of the year. Which single-week performance was the most impressive? And we had Dax week 10, Lamar Jackson's week 17, five-touchdown performance. Devon Achan with the 203.

The Christian McCaffrey week 15 against Arizona, three touchdowns. Jamar Chase, 15 for 192-3 back in week 5. And then Amari Cooper and CeeDee Lamb week 16 and 17. Cooper, 11 for 265- 2 cd lamb was 13 for 227 and 1 those were your nominees now i am curious who did you vote for i voted for devon h and my man i loved him and mike did you vote for cd of course i voted for cd. I got this shirt because of Seedy Lamb. The winner is... Wow. Wow. Amari Cooper week 16 with

31.36% of the vote. That was such a huge performance. I mean, you, Andy, you know. Yes. It was also not super expected. Like, Seedy Lamb against the Detroit secondary. We knew good things should happen, but Amari Cooper with Joe Flacco,

we didn't really need him. How close was that? Listen how close this was. The winner was 31.36% Amari Cooper. The runner-up with 31.05%. Whoa, they both had 31%. A 32-vote difference. Devon A. Chan in week three. So it would have only been a 33-vote difference without youon A-chan. In week three. So it would have only been, you know, a 33 vote difference

without you, Jay. Wow. So congratulations, Omari Cooper. And of course, your footy is in the mail. Sorry, CD, I tried. That was close. I'm sorry, A-chan. You missed out on 33 people. It could have changed the date of your life.

CD Lam was third, but it was down at 12%. Okay. All right. For number two, we've got the Fantasy Reapers Man of the Year, which unfortunately is the player's injury that hurt fantasy managers the most. Last year, Cooper Cup took this home. This year, the nominees were Nick Chubb, J.K. Dobbins, Aaron Rodgers, Joe Burrow, Justin Jefferson, and Mark Andrews.

And the winner is... I don't know. The first round running back, Nick Chubb. At 41%. That's a pretty good vote. Runner-up was only 24%, so this is a pretty big landslide victory for Nick Chubb. What week was that? Justin Jefferson.

That was week two. Oh, man. Yeah, I mean, he lost the whole season. That sucked. It was not good. But if there's any consolation to a devastating, horrible, gruesome-looking injury, I got to think Chubb's feeling pretty good about it now because you've got a footie. It's in the mail.

Congratulations. The last year, all the rehab, totally worth it. I would imagine that is two words. If we had a microphone in his house right now, you'd say, Worth it? Worth it. Yeah. I tried to tuck Nick Chubb on my roster for the final week of the year just in case he was a keeper valuable player.

But he played on Thursday and he couldn't do it. We'll see when he comes back next year. Yeah, please come back, Mr. Nicholas Chubb. Let's see, we got the poopiest pants on the board. Oh, the right man in charge of this one. Yeah, despite high expectations, this player let fantasy managers down over and over again.

Last year was Kyle Pitts. This year, the nominees. Austin Eckler, the running back 2. Travis Kelsey, the tight end 1. We are unforgiving for the end of the season. Patrick Mahomes, the quarterback 1. Tony Pollard, RB8. Damian Pierce, remember that guy?

RB18. And Miles Sanders has the running back 20. There's only one guy that can win this. There's only one guy? Yeah. There is only one man. 50%. Yeah, I knew it would be a landslide.

Sorry, Austin. But hey, worth it, right? Worth it. So Austin Eckler won it. Austin Eckler at 50%. The runner-up was appropriately named TP. Oh, Tony Pollard. Tony Pollard at just 17%.

Yeah, man, you're the running back two drafted and the fourth pick overall. I mean, it's similar to Kelsey where they both got off to kind of strong starts the problem is eckler got injured then he came back and struggled a little bit looked like he was back and then yeah yeah it was almost the pump fake of you thought he was back like that was even more pain i'm old enough to remember week one guys remember when jason turned that trade down oh wait the uh i got i think i've run like sakeon in a couple second-round. Two twos and Saquon. Okay, yeah.

And you said no to that? I did. Yeah. And you wonder why some teams drafted Bryce Young before C.J. Stroud. We all make mistakes. All right. The Waver Wire Wonder Award, which undrafted Waver Wire stud was the best signing of the year some good contenders this year last year justin fields won it this year's nominees were kyron williams puka nikua

nico collins jayden reed brock purdy all great pickups but the winner was which one of the two which ram yeah which ram who got it kyronron Williams. Oh, okay. Okay. That's a pretty big deal. 48% of the vote for Kyron Williams. Really? The runner-up was Puka Nakua with 47% of the vote. Wow. So it was only a 111-vote difference.

Almost everybody voted for one of those two Rams. They had like 88% of the vote. And Kyron Williams, your foot footy is in the mail congratulations congratulations man and the Rams know how to draft he missed four weeks the Rams you know what the Rams know how to do fifth rounders yeah trade all their picks four fifths just on the fifth round both Kyron and Pook are fifth round picks wow neat to see Kyron work out because uh we liked him but he's one of those low odds players once the draft happened. You're like, well, I like what I –

It's devastating. He's not going to get a chance. It's funny because coming into the season, I feel like I was decently excited about Cam Akers, like the role and the opportunity. And I don't know if that is a good thing in hindsight or a terrible thing in hindsight because Cam Akers wasn't the dude. He was worthless.

It was a bad analysis. But also, like, the Rams running back role was super valuable. So I don't know how to feel about that one. All right. Next up. You should feel bad. I feel bad. I feel pretty terrible.

Cam Akers. I mean, Cam Akers. Remember that guy? Cameron? All right. Cameron. Yeah, Cameron. Cameron could win an award. He mean, Cam Akers. Remember that guy? Cameron? All right, Cameron. Yeah, Cameron. Cameron could win an award. He could win an award today.

He is on this show. All right, number five, the fantasy quarterback of the year. Come on in. So this is factoring in draft position, big game performances, impact to fantasy managers. Who was the best quarterback to draft this year the nominees are josh allen last year's winner jalen hertz lamar jackson and dak prescott the winner of quarterback of the year wow this one shocks me it is dak Dak Prescott. Oh, impact, baby.

I mean. Impact. Impact. And he got. 55. Well, he ran away with it. That's what was shocking. It's not that Dak won.

I thought it was going to be Josh Allen as one of the best draft picks. Came through with the draft capital. Obviously, it cost you a lot more than Dak. But Dak was. I think Dak was primarily a waiver wire guy this year well he was he was drafted but then whoever got the explosion weeks yeah you probably picked him up I mean Josh Allen only 22% of the vote in second place so Dak this is an impressive feat and I know you're sad at your playoff loss the fact that your season is completely over.

You're going home just a giant loser. But now you don't have to be sad because your footy is in the mail. Big winner. Congratulations. Worth it. Yeah. The fantasy running back of the year, who last year was Josh Jacobs. Yeah, I was.

Remember that guy? Yeah. Wow. Are you talking about the lowest yards per carry in the NFL this year? Oh, gosh. But anyways, this year the nominees are Christian McCaffrey, Raheem Mostert, Kyron Williams. Wait, Jason, did you signal to end the list?

I signaled to end it after CMC. Okay. Well, Kyron Williams, Rash rashad white and the rookie sensation jameer gibbs the winner the fantasy running back of the year jason called it christian mccaffrey oh man you're so smart 50 50 of the vote and who was second raheemem Mostert. That makes sense. At 22%. Mostert was a free number two running back on the year. That's wild. So when you factor that

in and the amount of dominating performances he had. It's a real shame though. I think Mostert could have been a consideration if he played in the fantasy playoffs. Yeah. Like the fact that he got people there but he was absent for those final two weeks and that just crushed people. So it's hard to have him be the running back of the year.

All right, let's go to the fantasy wide receiver of the year when looking at all of those factors. Last year, Justin Jefferson brought it home. From what I understand, it is probably on one of his mantles in his home. It's there or circulating the globe in the mail system. Still in the mail? I don't know. We don't know.

We don't do the receipt office. Yeah, the sign. You know how expensive a signature delivery is? On one of these? It's like $7. This is freight. Yeah. All right, the nominees.

CeeDee Lamb, Tyreek Hill, Amon Ross St. Brown, who's been on a tear. Yeah. Mike Evans. Okay. And the rookie incredibly Puka Nakua, a nominee here, the winner of the fantasy wide receiver of the year.

My sweetie CD lamb. Really? 39% of the vote runner up Tyreek Hill with 22%. CeeDee Lamb running away with it. He beat out Tyreek, huh? So a big consolation to him, just like Dak. Who'd you vote for? You had to vote for CeeDee.

I have the shirt on, Jason. But it's saying, like, I had CeeDee the whole year in the Dynasty League. The beginning of the year was bumpy. It's quite clear who won their championships this year. Yeah. When Dak and Seedy are bringing it home. Here's how Seedy started. Wide receiver, 32.

Wide receiver, 10. 43, 20, 45. Now read the parts where I got him. And then after the bye week, 1, 3-2, 19-17-5-9. He was a reception leader in the NFL. I'm saying it was a bumpy ride. 1-35 for 17-49-12. In all the greatness, remember that it wasn't perfection.

Dak and CD won people championships. That's what matters. If they have a new coach, if they have a new offensive play caller next year, that will cast a little doubt into what they just did. Not a lot, maybe. But there will be some.

He evolved. They'll have to pay Dak. The fantasy tight end of the year with all those other factors considered. Last year's winner was Travis Kelsey, of course, dominated last year. This year, got a couple new names on the list like Sam Laporta and Evan Ingram and David Njoku, alongside TJ Hawkinson and George Kittle the stalwarts. The winner of the 2023 fantasy tight end of the year wow talk about running away with it 75

percent of the vote sam laporta yeah okay okay well deserved right runner up david nojoku at only 14 of the vote that uh i think it's well deserved but mercy 75 that's the highest we've seen so far that's incredible also that trey mcbride wasn't on that list right no okay no no just check all those single digit interview performances i'm just checking there was it's an egregious mistake here uh i pulled this out to a breakout player of the year last year year's winner, Justin Fields. This year, we had Rashad White, Kyron Williams, Isaiah Pacheco with his angry feet,

Nico Collins, Sam Laporta, and Puka Nakua. The winner is Jason's crossing his fingers. I hope he's crossing them for Puka Nakua! Yeah! I was, Nakua he's the breakout player of the year Kyron Williams was second

so apparently Puka good enough for the breakout player of the year not good enough for the waiver wire pickup of the year he broke out early this wasn't the rookie year for Kyron I'm just so happy because this is if you're listening the first time you don't realize how big a deal this is to these people.

The voting there, how close was that? I don't know. I threw it. 41 to 28. Okay. But, you know, for Puka to be nominated three times and not have taken home a footy, I would have been really, really sad for him. Oh, like one of those Oscar winners that just never – they always get nominated,

they never win it? He deserved an award. So Kyle is sharing news that Puka broke Randy Moss and Jamar Chase, the rookie fantasy records. Seven top 12 finishes, most ever for a rookie. Nine games of 15 plus points, most ever

for a rookie. Yeah, and those pale in comparison to getting a footy, but I understand those are big marks. Yes. I just want to share why he got the footy. Right. No, that makes sense. Rookie of the year. Last year, Kenneth Walker brought it home. This year's nominees, Jameer Gibbs, Bijan Robinson, Devani Chan, Puka Nakua, Sam Laporta.

The winner is... I don't know. I mean... Back to back? Puka Nakua! Yeah! All right. Hey! Yeah!

Puka. Puka. I love him so much. All right, 65%. Oh, he dominated. Runner-up was Sam Laporta. Congratulations, Puka. Your footy is in the freight.

It's a special moment for Puka here today. Yeah. I'm so happy for you. And your kind of abundance of joy would not come from him being on your league of record team it would just be just a neutral adoration of him not the fact that he's your keeper franchise guy i i simply think i enjoyed all of his awesomeness so much if you had puka you got to experience something special and it's's Puka Naku'a. All right, number 11, Comeback Player of the Year. Which fantasy player amazed you the most in their return to relevance?

It's a small group here. Last year, we had Saquon coming back. This year, there's only three. Joe Flacco, Baker Mayfield, and Raheem Mostert. And the winner of Comeback Player of the Year, in not a landslide here, Raheem Mostert with 49% of the vote, but a very close second place was Joe Flacco at 41%. It was fun.

Yeah, I was going to say, that's too close. For the actual output on the year, it's too close. It tells you the fantasy playoffs, how much they weigh in, because Mostert, like you said, wasn't available for him. Thank goodness Flacco didn't steal that from Mostert. Mostert was unbelievable this year. I mean, for him to not win this would have been a travesty. And he will be back in Miami next year.

He'll just be sharing time with H.A. It'll be interesting to see where those two guys go. They'll probably play another eight, nine years. Right, right. No. All right, Mike. You? I am back up.

You're back up. With the steal of the draft, which player was the absolute best value in the draft compared to their ADP? Last year's winner, Fat Thor. Josh Jacobs. Yes. Last year's winner. Fat Thor. Josh Jacobs. This year the nominees. Rashad White.

7th round. Mike Evans. 7th round. Tampa Bay lived in the 7th. David Montgomery. 7th round. Trade all your picks for the 7th. Devon Achan.

11th round. Sam Laporta. 13th round. And Raheem A. Chan. 11th round. Sam Laporta. 13th round. And Raheem Mostert. 11th round. The winner. Steal of the draft. The steal of the draft. He stole the draft. He stole your hearts. Raheem

Mostert with 50% of the vote. Back to back, baby. Sam Laporta, a weak pathetic 20%. Oh, really? So Raheem ran away with it. I thought it would be between Raheem and Rashad White. Fun fact on that one, when we announced the nominees last week,

Mostert was not announced. And then when I went to fill out my own bracket, I was like, where's Mostert in the Steelhead draft? So like 3,000 people voted without Mostert available, and he still ran away with it. So getting the top tier running back at the end of the draft, very valuable. It is very valuable. All right, the Playoff King Footy Award.

Which player drove fantasy managers to a championship during the playoff weeks 15 through 17? Last year, Jarek McKinnon, one of his most prized possessions, a footy from this show. Because he won it. He won people's championships. He could have repeated, and then he went on the IR. This year's nominees, Lamar Jackson, Joe Flacco, Kyron Williams, James Conner, CeeDee Lamb, Amon Ross St. Brown, and David Njoku.

I like how you said Amon Ross. What's so funny is CeeDelam, it's championship winning, but Amon Ra was probably better. Amon Ra was incredible. When you have that performance in championship winning. I know. And Njoku. Here we go. The winner is.

Maybe a surprise, Jason. Kyron Williams. Kyron Williams! Kyron Williams! RB5, 11, and 1. 27% of the vote. Next up, CeeDee Lamb with 16%. David Njoku with 15%. Kyron Williams, I think, surprised you, Jay.

It did. I thought for sure, easy CeeDee Lamb with that championship week performance. We have one vote a piece jay well the thing is is that whole deck cd experience this season you know your your your second half sleeper pick of dac andy's early adoption in himself and investing in them and talking them up i think a lot of the foot clan by the midway point in the season had acquired Seedy and Dak, and so I just expected him to run away with it, but good for you, Kyron. Well, two big

time awards left starting with, Jason's going to have the honor of announcing the nickname of the year. Oh, baby. You have Gabe the Babe for gabe davis jk2l for jk dobbins schoonman for luke schoonmaker cameron for cam acres banana rama for will levis brett ripping farts jake ferguson was Brett Rippin Farts. Jake Ferguson was Fergalicious. Quentin Johnston, huge with his huge drops.

Bilbo Bagent was Tyson Vagent. T. McBee for Trey McBride. Josh Jacobs back again this year as Fat Thor. Brevin Almighty for Brevin Jordan. Danny DeVito for Tommy DeVito. And Arthur Sith and Arthur Sith. For Arthur Smith. And the winner.

Very nice. Is. Yes. Yes. No. Brett Rippin Farts, baby. Rippin Farts, Brett Rippian. You have never had more pride or reason to be prideful in your life. You have a footie that is in the mail.

I suggest putting that on the toilet because Rippin' Farts, that's how you played. How close was this vote? 43% for Brett Rippin' Farts. What? The runner-up. That's so many namesippin Farts. What? The runner up. That's so many names. So many names. That's a huge number.

Actually, it looks like the top three guys here counted for the majority. You've got 43% for Rippin Farts. You got 35% for Arthur Sith. Okay. And in third place, Fat Thor with 33%. Oh, this one is memorialized and immortalized. Wow. You were so excited.

You look like you got a little spittle in your beard. Well, better than ripping farts. So, Bilbo Bajan was fifth. Really? Where was Cameron? Sixth. All right. So, Brett ripping farts.

Yeah. Congratulations, man. Come on, man. This is worth it. I mean, if you had played well, you never would have got this nickname, and you never would have got your most prized possession. I can't. See, this will live on now because he won't play anymore, but next year when we're doing this show,

we will have to say last year's winner was Brett ripping farts. This is everyone out there's fault. Thank you. Also Jason's fault. All right. We have one more very special award. The show moment of the year. Wait, this song is way too long for my nominees.

Here we go. Last year, it was my voice crack. The nominees for the show moment of the year. Taylor Swift joined the NFL, and she also joined this show. Waiver. Rankings. Rankings. Old man feeling.

Mock draft anger with Jason getting sniped repeatedly. Show 1500 was special. It also had a special musical number. Jason turned into a creeper behind the bush. The game perv. The wheel of shame, Alvin. Geese talk. Jason gets a not thought.

And the trade betrayal between Andrew and Josh. Very well done. Very well done. Very well done. That's a lot of special moments from this past year. It's been a great year, everybody. Thank goodness we didn't put the moment Jason invented Brett Rippin farts. Otherwise, he would have won back to back. Here we go.

The winner of the show moment of the year. It's the trade betrayal at 47%. The runner up at 21%. Jason being perverted for I want this game. For games. And third, old man stealing, baby.

Go ahead. I won something. I didn't win. Thanks to Brooks, all the top 10 moments of the show are available right now on YouTube. YouTube.com slash TheFantasyFootballers if you want to go watch them all. I do. Well, you should. I haven't seen this clip.

Yes, he released it on Saturday, so it is available. You can watch through them and enjoy. And a huge thank you to everybody that took the time to go and vote. It's been a heck of a year for fantasy football. We've had a ton of fun, and we are still with you. This is a year-round show trying to get you primed and ready. The NFL is pretty much a year-round sport at this point. We just talked about how it dominates everything all the time.

And the NFL draft will be here and the waiver opportunities for teams to pick up free agents, all that stuff is coming very, very soon. We're getting into the truth episodes, taking a deep dive and looking at the top performers at every position. Did they really provide you value, or will they just have a nice fantasy finish that confuses you going into next year? We'll be reflecting on the season. I'm digging into all the data right now.

We'll have the actual truth. Yes, yes. Can we get the truth on how Brett Rippenfart's got the nickname of the year? Jason went door to door. Look, I spent my children's education fund. He emptied it out with robocalls. Server farms. Yeah, he has server farms.

I wasn't going to let that not happen. A vote for me is a vote for Rippenfartz. Well, look, Mike, this is our lives. This is what we do for a living. If this is what they wanted. This is our legacy. Yes. Yeah, people wanted ripping farts. I mean, it feels good, man.

To rip a fart? Yeah, it feels good to rip a fart, and when someone's playing that poorly, it feels good to just tell them they're ripping farts. What team is he on, Jay? He was on the Rams. Okay. He moved. He moved, didn't he?

Yeah, they got rid of him. They went and signed Carson Wentz off. They're like, okay, we got to do something. I think Rippon got signed somewhere else. He's ripping somewhere else. I thought he went to the Vikings. Well, first he went to Seattle for a couple weeks, and then he went to the Jets. Okay.

But yeah, he started out. A place where ripping is right at home. Ripping them in the city. Alright, I better shut this thing down. Goodness gracious. Thank you very much for joining us. Like I said, the truth begins on Thursday. We'll look at the quarterback position.

Enjoy the rest of the football or you already did, but we don't know what happened yet. There'll be more. So we'll talk about it on Thursday. Goodbye. It's dominated. Goodbye. It was dominated. Goodbye. Thank you for listening to another episode of the Fantasy Footballers Podcast.

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