2018 Footie Nominations + Studs & Duds

Yeah, and then the Sutton-Hamilton-Patrick competition there in Denver with Kenan Keenham. Didn't really work out for any of them. They all stunk. Ertz, Gromk, Cook, Rudolph, Brate, Everett. Oh, great, Everett. Thank you for gusing when I finally spoke your name on this show. But anybody there. Gronk, two for 24 in his week 17 game. That's a pretty big game nowadays. For Gromk? I mean, you've got to adjust everything.

that you think about him right now. Unless we find out in the offseason, you need surgery, and there's something going on, and we don't know about it. Yeah, but would that be a good thing? I think it might be a good thing, yeah. Here's the problem. Tom Brady threw four touchdowns this past week, and Grunk finished the game two for 24. He has three on the year. I mean, this is a- He caught both targets.

I mean, it's... He's a strong contender for a category coming up on the nominations. You guys ready to get into this? I am so ready. Foot clan, the putty nominations for 2018. Head to footy awards.com to vote. We'll have the winners. Pizzikato. I get to vote too, right? I can vote. Of course you do. Heck yeah. Let's get into it.

The nominees for Performance of the Year, which is the abrupt. I'm sorry. Did you want it to keep going? Maybe a fade-out. We're back. It is wonderful, though. It gets you in the mood. If you've got a frown on your face right now, you're a bad person. Yeah, you don't like joy or puppies. Or fun. All right, well, let's take turns. Let's go round robin with these categories, okay? All righty.

Is it getting louder? Second first, same as the first. Now you just do the fade down. Can I do the fade out? Yeah. It's a pretty hard fate. It is. We've got to adjust that fate. All right. Performance of the year. This is the single week performance that was the most impressive on the year. The 2017 winner was Todd Gurley in Week 15, Big Playoff Week, when he had 152 and 3. This year's nominees. Derek Henry in Week 14, 17 for 238 and 4. The Quatro.

Christian McCaffrey in week 12, 17 for 1, 25, and 1, another 11 for 1, 12, and 1 through the air. He got two games in one. Yeah. Amari Cooper, week 14, 10 for 2, 17, and 3. That's a nice, impressive performance. Ah, the Mitch Trubisky game. I remember when this was. 19 for 26 for 354 and 6 touchdowns in week 4 against Tampa. And 53 rushing us.

And then... Oh, man. Yeah, you had a combination. Matt Ryan and Drew Brees facing off against one another. Matt Ryan 26 for 35 for 3, 74, and 5. And Breeze 39 for 49, 396, and 3. With two rushing touches. We had to pack. Did we put them together? Is that one? Because they were playing each other. Okay. I mean, this game was fantastic. All right. So those are the nominees for the performance of the year. Footie Awards.com. Go vote. I know my vote. Ooh.

Are we saying our votes? No. We don't want to taint the, all right. All right. I'm not going to say it. All right. The Fantasy Reaper, man of the year, which player's injury hurt fantasy owners the most? Oh, man. Last year, it was DJ. Yeah, David Johnson going down in week one halfway through the game. That was a big one. But this year's nominees are Devanta Freeman, who missed.

Did he missed 14 games? Oh, yes, he did, Mike. Wow. My league of record team knows all about it. My memory is around 10. So 14. Goodness. Odell Beckham missing when you need him. A.J. Green. Leonard for Nets. Marshaun Lynch put on the ire after week six. And Quinsuocha Rex Burkhead. And this one hurt me. This one hurt my heart. Darius Geis.

on the IR in the preseason, what could have possibly been this year for Darius guys having that backfield to himself. All right. It's only appropriate I bring this award up. The poopiest pants award, which is despite high expectations, this player let you down in fantasy over and over again. You have. Shout out to Trump prior from last year. Dumpster fire.

You have Rob Grancowski. Oh, yeah. Who you took a chance. You drafted high, and he stunk. Royce Freeman. Yep. He was going rather high at one point. He was because he was the starting running back for the Broncos until he wasn't. Yeah. David Johnson has disappointed. Finished okay, but definitely not what you were hoping for. Heard to in the beginning, really. How about Aaron Rogers? Yeah. Clear cut quarterback one, who is barely a quarterback one or Tom Brady.

Possibly the goat has not had a great season. Kenyon Drake or my fantasy MVP who definitely let me down, Doug Baldwin. Can we make the Drake Bhole combo? Is that really the... I think your vote for Drake is a vote for Bhole. Okay. Look, the good news is the butthole is closed. Oh my God. The word on the street, the word on the street is that he is going to be a hot commodity for a new hire.

So he might open back up. Bring the hot snakes somewhere else. Yes. Goodness. You're up. Well, I'm not up until he says Doug Baldwin. He did. He did. He did. I talked about my fantasy MVP. I'm sorry. I distracted you with my discussions of Adam Gates. Yes, thank you. With your disgusting discussions. Waverwire Wonder, which underrafted Waverwire stud was the best signing of the 2018 season? Last year, believe it or not, was Robbie Anderson. I believe it.

Oh, Robbie was great. He was, you know, probably close to a nomination again this year based on the fact that O'Dowell Beckham Jr. went down and people could fill in with him. This year's nominees, Philip Lindsay, Nick Chubb, Aaron Jones, Tyler Boyd, Eric Ebron, and George Kittle. A lot of strong names on this list. And I get it. Footland, some of you are out there saying, hey.

I picked this guy up off of the waivers. We had to make our best judiciary decisions. Yeah, we were looking at whether these guys were drafted in the majority of leagues. I don't know who to vote for. There's between two guys for me. I'm guessing I know them. Yes, yes. We'll talk more on next episode. That one's very, very tough for me because they all make sense. All right, Mike. What's next? Number five, the fantasy wide receiver of the year.

When factoring draft position, big game performances and impact to your fantasy team everywhere, which wide out deserves the footy for fantasy wide receiver of the year. This is a very, very, very, um, heralded footy award. Yes, very, very, very, it's very heralded. The most heralded of the wide receiver awards. Last year, of course, DeAndre Hopkins smashed everyone in the face when he, two years ago was a,

absolute dud and then just returned to be dominant. And that's part of what made him win last year is he fell in the draft. You got a great price on him. Yes, he did. And then he performed. Devante Adams, Antonio Brown, Tyree Kill, DeAndre Hopkins, Michael Thomas, Adam Thielen, and Julio Jones. No surprise who is eligible, but the surprise will be who wins. That's right. All right. Fantasy running back. Fantasy running back of the year.

This has been a painful episode for Jason. Yeah. I'm doing everything I can to get through it. Look, the ASMR people are freaking out right now. Oh, my gosh. All right. So fantasy running back of the year when factoring in all those things, the draft capital, how they perform big games when it mattered. Last year's winner, Todd Gurley. This year he's nominated again, Todd Gurley, Christian McCaffrey, Sequin Barkley, Alvin Camara, Ezekiel Elliott, and Melvin Gordon. It's basically...

The top picks of next year's draft. That's who's nominated this year. All right, fantasy tight end of the year. Last year's winner was Zach Ertz, nominated once again, Travis Kelsey, Zach Ertz, George Kittle, Eric Ebron and Jared Cook, again, factoring in the draft position, big game performances, and how the impacted fantasy teams. I'll be curious to see who takes it home. Quarterback of the year. This one is not as interesting. It's a one horse race.

Ben Rothlisberger, Andrew Luck, Patrick Mahomes, Matt Ryan, Phillip Rivers, Mitchell Trubisky, Drew Brees, and Deshawn Watson. Last year, Carson Wentz won it. Yes, he did. We probably could have tightened that one. We could have made that a nomination of one guy. We kept adding a name and then being like, okay, that name's on the same tier as this guy. Yeah. And it went down. All right, breakout player of the year, Jason. Here we go. Breakout player. These are fun. Who was fantasy football's?

Breakout this year. Last year was clearly Alvin Camara. He took down the footy. Oh, Super Camaro. Now, was the breakout George Kittle this year? He's nominated. Tyler Lockett, the big year's scoring. Kenny Galladay, clearly. Oh, just so smooth. He broke out. James Connor broke out. Nick Chub broke out. Philip Lindsay for undrafted to fantasy star. Joe Mixing did what we all hoped and thought he was going to do. Last year broke out this year.

Patrick Mahomes, broken. And, of course, the clear winner, the guy we've been waiting to break out forever. Eric Ebron, yeah, my boy. Royal Wee, right? Yes. The rookie of the year nominations, which fantasy player was the rookie of the year? Last year was Alvin Camara. This year, well, might seem obvious. Maybe not, though. Sequin Barclay, Sequin, Barclay, Nick Chubb, Philip Lindsay, baked.

Gurmey Field breaking the rookie record for touchdowns. Lamar Jackson and Calvin Ridley nominated for the rookie of the year. Congratulations to all the losers of that category. Yes. Comeback player of the year. Now this one far more interesting. Andrew Luck, Adrian Peterson, Lamar Miller, Amari Cooper, Emmanuel Sanders. That's right. Sanders still made the list despite the...

abrupt ending to the season. He was on a pace for a great comeback. This one I'm interested to see the results. I could see it going four different ways. The steal of the draft. This is pretty much one of the most important things that happens in fantasy football every year is which player outperformed their average draft position at the draft the most. You have Chris Carson as the 82nd player taken off the board right behind him, 83rd. Andrew Luck.

You have Robert Woods, super late Pat Mahomes down in the hundreds, James Connor, basically undrafted, Adam Thielen, and Matt Berita, all significantly outperforming where they were drafted. We'll have all their draft positions on the ballot at footy awards.com so you can vote. Are we really doing the guest host of the year again? Last year was a close race. Yeah. Super close. Jay Gris won last year. Yes.

Now, he was the only one nominated last year, and is the only one nominated again this here? Well? So, J. Grids. The cardboard bear extraordinaire deserves some recognition. Also, congratulations for your 20,000 Twitter followers. Is there a chance that we should have... 20,000? Yes. Should we have J. Gris and then not J. Gris? I mean... You want to upset the bear? On the last episode, he fell over a little bit.

Did he really? Yes. He was like, you were a last minute, you know. You were a healthy scratch. Yeah, you were a last minute, well, not a healthy scratch. Yeah. A last minute scratch. And then Brooks, you know, he normally takes three, four hours to put him up. He only had a couple minutes. That's just Jay Gris one more airtime. Yep. All right. I'm stealing this next one. All right. The nickname of the year award. This is the. These are where they get the fun. And we added a new one after this that Michael tell you about.

The nickname of the year, which nickname from the show, was your favorite from 2018? Now, last year... Oh, yeah. I got to find it. Do we still have it on here? This is the last time we'll ever be able to play it because he's going to be irrelevant. That is right. The last... Forever. The last year's winner of the nickname of the year was Devin S. Scrumptious. And, yeah, you're right. He's never going to... He's not even going back to Carolina. He's going. All right. Buffalo.

will be his latest. Oh, gosh, yes, before out of the league. Here are all the nominations, and there were many of them. Although I would like someone else to read them because I think I'm going to have to find drops for them. I'll take it since, Mike, you've got the next category. You have Hot Lockett for Tyler Lockett and, of course, Booty Scootin' Cam Newton. Oh, hey, guys, don't forget about me. It's Mark Walton. Mark Waldenberg.

Mark Waltenberg for Mark Walton. Oh, yeah. I like that you had to explain that one. Yeah. Mark Waltonberg, the nickname of Mark Walton. I don't always get things right, okay? So how do you mother for me? You have Mr. Lozange over there. Mr. Behole. Adam Gase himself. Now, look, if you weren't listening at the beginning of the year, this was a great one. But Will Disley. Oh, the big Montana. Woo-hoo.