2019 Footie Nominations + Quivering Mustaches!

Titans? No, not good. All three of those players made fantasy impacts this year, right? Yep. Hunter Renfro. He's really interesting, too. He's been great. That's back-to-back hundred-yard games for him, right? Since having the punctured lung, it's all he needed. And before the punctured lung, he was coming on. He had too much air. Too much. Yeah, I mean, even before he missed those games, six receptions, four, five.

finishes the year with 7 and 6 and over 100, like you said, a touchdown in each game. He's just a pretty good player, pretty good player and showing what he did in college. Robert Woods, Devante Adams, D.D. Westbrook. Keenan Allen came through with a big week. Thanks, Keenan. Jerk. Do you see the, Jason, did you have any compassion on old Phil? Did you get to see his?

Press conference? Philip Rivers? I did. Oh, you know, I did see some of his. Tear-filled. Yeah. Uh, leadership. Um, yeah, I, look, as a human, I'm sure he's great. But no, I had no, no love loss. No, he did not win me over. No empathy given. Okay. All right. Just, just, just seeing where you were. No. He says he's got, he's got nine kids. He's got to play next year.

Oh, man. If I had nine kids, I would never retire. Are they, honey, are they raised yet? Yeah. No, I'm going back to work. Um, tight end. Oh my goodness. Tyler Higby. What do you do with Tyler Higby? He's a top 10 tight end next year. 100%. He's got the contract to back up the stat line. You draft him to be what he has been the second half of this year. I mean, he, he is a weapon. They have figured out how to use. And I don't.

think that's just going to disappear. They're not going to be like, you know, that really worked, but... Well, to be fair, they had a weapon that they figured out how to use, and he disappeared. No, he was usurped. I'm talking about Brandon Cooks. No, I thought you're talking about Gerald Everett. That's what I thought he was talking about. No, I'm talking about Brandon Cooks. They're both examples. They should be both... They should both be examples of what can happen when their team needs to adjust. Because Higby could go.

that same direction as those two players. But, you know, if you want to be really stupid, you can give the 16-game pace from week 13 on. That's 138 receptions. Oh, my. 1670 yards, six touchdowns. But he was given a multi-year deal. He's had, what, five consecutive games of great fantasy value will be very interesting? The question that Brooks put in here is, will he be drafted as the top five tight-in? No.

No, I don't think so. There's too many bigger names above him. You've got the top three. You know, I would take Jared Cook, based on the offense and, you know, his history. I don't think he gets top five. Hunter Henry and Austin Hooper. There's going to be. Yeah, Evan Ingram will be talked about again, those players. But Dan Arnold, the postman. Yeah. Four for 76 and a touchdown. Always delivers. He will be back next year in Arizona. And Kyla Murray likes him.

And I just want to remember that, you know, his name is being mentioned on December 30th of 2019. You're darn right. It is. Because Dan Arnold is a big man. And they used him to perfection over the last few weeks. This time of year, there is so much mail being delivered that they had to bring in the postman. I can't believe he had time. Like, he had all those packages he had delivered. Well, you know, mail doesn't come on Sundays, Mike. Oh, very nice. He's like a superhero. Yeah.

Goes right back to the postman job Monday through Friday. Based on whatever his waiver contract was, he needs that postman job. I think the Clark Kent in this situation is the NFL player. He's like, no, I'm just a regular NFL player. Don't mind me. He's a super postman? Yeah. Oh, that's an interesting take. Stinkers of the week, presented by odor eaters. All right.

You don't have to wait much longer. We've got the footy nominees very, very soon. But some stinkers for week 17, Patrick Mahomes, nothing impressive in that game at all. You know, you just can't get in the way of Damien Williams. You've got to let him do his thing. Chargers helped as well. Jimmy G. It's weird for Jimmy G. to be here.

had a freaking great game. He played very well. 18 for 22 is great. 285 yards, that's fine. No interceptions, great. But then when you don't throw touchdowns and you don't run the ball for fantasy purposes, you worthless. Yeah, it was, it was very unfortunate because it was just, it was gimmies. Gimmies for mustard. Josh Allen, huge stinker. Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah, on the bench. Nothing from the bench. Think he had five pasts. Deshawn Watson, nothing.

Oh, man. What a backup he was. Yeah. Running back, stinkers, Nick Chubb, ending the year on a sour note over the last two weeks. It's hard to care about stat lines in Cleveland with their, you know, the demise of Freddie Kitchens, the injury to Odell. It was a good week for Baker. So Chubb, we'll see what happens next year. He carried a lot of fantasy owners for the majority of the year. Cream Hunt didn't do anything either. Philip Lindsay, that was a huge.

Stank. What's insane? On my record. Well, he became the first undrafted running back to rush for a thousand yards of back to back seasons. Like, the dude in a thousand yards season. On that team. And it feels like he helped your fantasy team twice. Yeah. And it's not good. You just kept playing him. And he was a thousand yard rusher. You know how like we always say pay attention to the film. You know what I mean? Make sure that the stat lines match up with the.

What you see on the field? Is this a talented player? Is this an A.J. Brown? You could see he was just outlandishly good. Well, he is. But Philip Lindsay, Philip Lindsay is like the opposite. Philip Lindsay is like, please, when you make your decision, cover your eyes, because he always seen, he's just got that jitterbug, legs always moving, tries as hard as he can on every play.

But for fantasy purposes, believing in that has not helped you. Last year, he was, I believe, the running back 12. He was, you know, the last one to make it in as an RB1. He had 1,00037 rushing guards and nine touchdowns. This year he had 1,011 and 7. I mean, it was, it was not that different, but the way they came did not help fantasy owners. Fun. All right. Wide receivers. Michael Thomas, Julian Edelman, DJ, Chark, Tyler Boyd, Chark just couldn't get it done.

Uh, towards the end of the year, you wonder how healthy he was or, you know, if this was just some regression from the first half. But the last two games of the year, he did not look himself. No big plays. Just four for 34. And, uh, not good. Not good. And then Tyler Boyd coming down off of last week's number one overall performance. Juju. Oof. Juju finished the year as the wide receiver 65. I watched that game.

For the purposes of watching Juju Smith-Juster try to get off the ball, try to find some separation, I don't know how much of it is duck or whatever the case may be. He didn't seem to have a lot of separation in this game. He's the most, like the far and away to me, the number one most. The biggest question. Yeah, biggest question going forward because it's a what do you believe? Do you think that it was because of the injuries to both him?

and to Big Ben? Do you think that, you know, the offense is going to drastically change? Or do you think Juju is what, you know, he looked to be a wide receiver one with Big Ben as the wide receiver two, young up-and-coming superstar? I think that next year there won't be a lot of in-between. People will be either in or out, and, you know, his average draft position is going to be really dumb because it's going to, whatever round it is,

You know, it's like, let's say Big Ben is back. Do you think you're going to be, you're going to be staring down like Juju or Odell Beckham on what do you believe about either player next year? Yeah, right. Multiple years of kind of disappointment with OBJ, but all that talent. You saw another great catch this weekend. And then Jujuju, you've got the proof in the pudding that first year, but you also had Antonio Brown on the other side, stealing coverage away, letting him eat up the inside of the field. So what the truth is, I don't know. I don't know what that is with Juju. Who would you draft right now? Beckham.

I would draft juju. Yeah, I would take back on no doubt. Are you pretty definitive on your juju? I don't think it's as definitive as, you know, my coming into this year love for juju was, but I still am a believer in the talent. Yeah, I mean, it's funny. O'Dell obviously had a very frustrating season for fantasy owners. He still ended up over 1,000 yards, over 70 receptions on this down year. But we'll see.

He's going to have surgery, too, I imagine. Kelsey Hooper, Fant. Yay. Hooper, I mean, seven receptions on nine targets. Yeah, PPR. Getting back to that. That's fine. That's fine. Stinkers of the week, presented by odor eaters, odor eaters, the best in foot odor defense. No more stinkers to talk about. Well, maybe sort of, but you guys ready for these nominations? Yes. Let's do it. It's time. The 2019 Fuddy Awards.

illustrious amazing incredible best theme song ever i never want to stop it i know the fade out is too hard don't know don't you dare fade this out it is a 23 minute song how many categories do we have judge giamati 15 15 categories

See, I know. I looked at whether I could Jerry rig this to just run behind for the whole show, Mike, but that's really on you. That's your department, and you've been in a fevered. Am I here? Dystopian life. Stopping good. Now, we understand, you now understand and interpret all of Sammy Watkins's revelations. Oh, yes. Or at least during that three days of fever? Yes, my third eye and his, like, fifth eye, we met.

Somewhere between Jupiter and Saturn. They all make sense now. I got it, man. Do you understand what he's doing on the field now? Oh, totally. The long play? Yes. Speaking of Sammy. It will reveal itself. All right. Performance of the year is the first category. Footy Awards.com. Head to footy awards.com. Vote for your winners. They will be announced on Thursday. By the way, no show tomorrow. No show Wednesday on New Year's Day.

But the Footie Award show on Thursday, make sure you tune in. Performance of the year, nominees. Last year, the winner was Derek Henry. Oh, my goodness. He had that week 14 week against Jacksonville, that 17 for 238 and 4 that we all just couldn't believe. And then that translated into, what's he going to do next year? And the answer was continue. All right, the nominees, Drew Brees.

Week 14 against San Francisco, 349 and 5 plus a rushing touchdown, 40 fantasy points. James Winston in week 14. Oh, he was so helpful for our fantasy. Yes, he was. 456 and 4 with a rushing touchdown as well, 34 fantasy points. He helped us beat Lamar Jackson, the impossible. And Lamar, that week 15 performance.

212 passing yards, five touchdowns and 86 rushing yards. I love that one of the performances of the year is on the back of 15 completions. Yeah. It's all you need. Saquan Barkley, week 16 at Washington, 22 for 189 and 1. Don't vote for the, don't vote for that. Four for 90 and one on four targets, 40 fantasy points. Yeah, people are going to be really strong. If you were in a championship game with or against Saquan,

You have opinions on that one. I am very against that. Yes, as am I. Sakewon is my number two for next year. I saw that. Yeah. Kenyon Drake, week 15 against Cleveland, this is a one that will live forever, 137 and 4. He won people championships on the basis of this game because not only did he get you to the championship with that game, but because of how dominating it was, you played him in the championship where he showed up, had a good game.

And in the most Sammy Walkins fashion ever, Sammy Watkins. My brother. He went nine for 198 and three in week one. He was started in just 35% of leagues that week. And he never showed up again for 15 more weeks. You know who started him? This guy. And it was awesome. Oh, man. That is so Sammy. Talk about a performance of the year. Look what I can do. The only one.

It was his only performance of the year. Yeah. Like Christian McCaffrey is missing on this list because his performance of the year was every week. It was like pick one. It's very easy to pick a performance of the year for Sammy Watkins. Let's go with that one. That's right. So those are the nominations, footie awards.com. Vote for that. We've got 14 more categories. That was almost 30% of his yards. Nice. Yeah. The statistics, they just keep adding up for him.