2018 Footie Nominations + Studs & Duds

That I agree with completely. And that's what matters here. Dak with a huge week. Winston turned out he played and played a lot and played well. And he will be back. 3.45 and 4. That's what the whispers from the boches are. Matt Ryan, Lamar Jackson, Tom Brady, big weeks. Lamar snuck into the playoffs. And Lamar, I feel like Lamar had like five touchdowns. They kept getting called off the board. Yeah, he had the goal line leap.

That he fumbled. Yes. Then he had another one. He had a 30-yarder that ended up getting called back on a holding, I believe. Huge week 17 running back weeks from Jordan Howard, C.G. Anderson, Sequin. All my semifinal players dominated in week 17. Dominated. And that includes George Kittle. If you remember, he. Oh, man. Sequin, Tyreek, and Mahomes on my semi-final team that lost.

And had I gotten half of what they got this week, I would have won. Zinner, Morris, Marlon Mack, anybody want to talk about there? I mean, this is some throwaway games from Zinner and Morris. Certainly. But Marlon Mack has... He's proven himself this year. That's a credit to Jason. He is a good player. I mean, plain and simple. And there hasn't been a down I've watched him this entire season that reminded me of last year, to be honest. Yeah, that's all I was going to bring up. The only guy I want to bring up is Jordan Howard.

He had such a- Nice finish, Jordan. He had such a bad middle stretch of the year that you just wrote him off. The team did not. I mean, if you look at his last six games, he was on a 282 carry pace, 1,27-yard pace, and 13 touchdowns. So they figured out how to use them and use them a lot. And so I think, you know, he redeemed himself. Who else do you want to talk about at that position? Anybody else?

No, Godwin Hill. Well, CJ Anderson. C.J. Anderson? Anybody? We can move on now. Okay. That was important, though. That was necessary. Yes, it was. Chris Godwin and Mike Evans both had a pair of touchdowns from James Winston. Godwin is obviously a huge name to watch for next season. So is Evans. He's a good player. Evans as well. Yeah, no doubt. Evans will be very interesting to see where does this give him the bump back up into the...

the higher tiered wide receivers. I will say this. The head coaching change in Tampa is going to matter a ton. Yes. Because if part of the new coach's philosophy there is containing the mistakes of James Winston, turning this team on a defense, you know, Cutter isn't let it fly a guy. So I'm curious to see if we can have the same expectations for these guys next year.

with Winston. But right now, Godwin, 6 for 114. Evan, 6 for 10. Mike Evans finished with over 1,500 receiving yards. For those who have not paid attention to how massive his season has been. All right. Jay Jones, 6.93. There you go. Yeah. Jarvis 540 102. Josh Reynolds had a couple touchdowns. Brandon Cooks had a couple touchdowns. Twisting the knife and Mike's semifinal team. Oh, yeah. Yeah, certainly. The bigger one was just the Josh Reynolds, how.

Two weeks ago, it had been his snaps massively reduced. They went with Tyler Higbee and Gerald Everett. And they said, ah, that was fun for a game. And they went back to their ways of the three wives. I want to talk about one specific tight end. Oh, goodness. I mean, this is it, it better be the one that I want to talk about. It's just too funny, Mike, because look, in week 16 and Mike staring the camera down, there's a note here, insert Mike tilt.

In week 16, Mike made the not so popular deep pick. He saw something. He saw something coming. Yes, I did. He saw something in Blake Jarwin, tied in for the Dallas Cowboys. What an idiot. And Blake Jarwin put up 1.8 fantasy points last week. I had to break the news to Mike that I saw somebody on. I actually had a conversation with this person. Did you see this? So on Twitter, there was a guy who lost by a yard.

And he had Blake Jarwin in his tight end. And somebody's response was who the blank is Blake Jarwin. And then somebody goes, you know who he is now. They go, I started him because Mike told me to. And he lost. And Blake Jarwin this week put up seven for 119 and three touchdowns on eight targets. Mike, proceed. I claim this as a victory. I mean, I get it. It was one week too late.

It doesn't matter if you played in week 16 and you lost because of Blake Jarwin. If you did, I really, I am so sorry. But this is at least somewhat redemption for the process. It does. It does point to next year, though. I mean, you've got Dak who's used his tight end. And this whole season has just been a mismash of different tight ends on the field. You don't know who it is. They're kind of splitting it up three ways. And now towards the end of the year, you see, okay.

I think it's Blake Jarwin's job. 119 and 3. So going into next year, he'll be one of those maybe late round, last round drafted tight ends who could pop. Never spent a better kiddle in all my life. George Kittle broke the record. I couldn't do this. So did he broke Kelsey's record. He broke the all-time record for receiving yards in a season. Because Kelsey broke it. This year. Yes. And then Kittle broke it after that? Um.

Travis Kelsey this season has 1,337 yards. Yeah, so Kelsey broke it during the Chiefs game. Yes. And then Kittle snatched it right out from underneath him. That sucks. How much does Travis Kelsey hate George Kittle right now? And are there, what's the record for all time, all time records for the shortest amount of time? Because Kelsey's got to be up there with that.

I held the record for 22 minutes. Nine for 149 and 1 on 14 targets. Where does he deserve to be drafted next year? And do we need to start, do we need to think about? Probably number three. George Kittle in a different light. Oh, yeah. He's elite. Let me give you an example. Okay. My league of record team or a friend of mine. Of course.

You know, you have, is he worthy of keeper consideration for the advantage he is at the position? Is he in the cat? Like, would you look at him like Kelsey and Ertz in the same breath? Pretty close. That's why I was saying. Number three, I would still take Kelsey over him and I would still take Ertz. But then it's, I mean, is anyone even close to Kittle? I don't think so. I think Gronk would probably be drafted that way if he's back. Yeah, Gronk will.

Yeah, wrongly drafted there. No, there's no one else. There's no one else in that tier. You could try to make the argument for Eric Ebron, but I wouldn't. And if you're in that category, no. I mean, Kittle is. And he did almost all of this with the third string quarterback. Well, is that worry you at all? No. Okay. Because he was good with Jimmy G. Yeah.

He's just a great player. I'm telling you, he's got hips, man. Oh, when you watch him. Hips don't lie. He is so fast. I'm calling him Shakira from Illinois. No, I'm not. Before we move on to all the poopers and then ultimately the footy nominations, the main event.

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20 for 33, 132 and 1 in the biggest game of his career. He's what he's been. It'll be the schedule because he beats the crap out of bad teams. Okay. So if he is, if you look at the schedule and it opens very favorably with three solid matchups, then he will be a great late round draft card. I saw, I forget who tweeted it out. I wish I could give credit, but I thought it was really funny. Someone said, Kirk Cousins is now O for infinity in important games.

That's how it feels, but he's $84 million richer. Nick Chubb, Delvin Cook, Jamal Williams, Christian McCaffrey, Adrian Peterson, Carlos Hyde, Mark Ingram, Sunday Michelle all stunk it up this week, pooped in their pants. Anybody that surprised you the most from that group? Surprise, not necessarily, but Christian McCaffrey is the name to bring up Week 17. You don't know. Do I start him? Do I not? They shouldn't play him, but he's active. Do I play him? And you have to do that stupid.

juggle of going, well, he got me there. Of course, I'm going to play him. And he gets four carries. When I saw he started the game, including that 22-yard reception, I went, oh, crap. I told so many people to bench Christian McCaffrey. But it was the right move. It was. And it looked like most of the guys we said to sit down on Friday's show ended up sitting down and then a few extras, including Antonio Brown. The sad one of this list for me was.

was Nick Chubb. Not that I was expecting a huge game on the road against Baltimore, but I expected more than nine carries. It did seem like they were forcing Baker, you know, they're trying to get Baker the rookie quarterback record. Yeah. Because they're down on the goal line and there were two consecutive plays that they had him throw, a fade to Njoku and then a slant to Callaway, where Chub could have had a touchdown. Carlos Hyde is his career wrapping up? Yeah. He'll be a backup. I believe it wrapped up.

earlier this year. He'll be a backup or the starting running back for the Jaguars. Yeah, oh my goodness. Oh, my goodness. Oh, my goodness. Oh, my goodness. Oh, no. Ty Hilton, two for 61. Robert Woods. Mari Cooper on 11 targets. Five for 31 and a fumble. Last three games for Cooper, four catches for 32 hours, four for 20, five for 31. Did you guys see the play where I'm sure you did? It was inside of two minutes. They're coming down to tie the game. And Amari Cooper is.

wide open and gets the target from deck. I mean, it's like you could underhand throw this grandma style and it's a touchdown. And Dak threw it like four yards away from him. It was like, oh my goodness. Yeah. Yeah. Doug Baldwin, Robbie Anderson, Michael Thomas, Keenan Allen, disappointing final weeks. Hopefully you were just holding your trophy and watching. Yes. There's a lot of people that weren't, though.