Fantasy Football Podcast 2015 - The Footies: 2015 Awards Show, Playoff Challenge, DFS w/Chris Meaney

I'm saying I'm not going to play because he will do it. Or it's just, it becomes a really bad look for your organization. You have a superstar, elite wide receiver who still has some time left, who's got to be loved. I mean, I'm not up in Detroit, so I don't know the Calvin Johnson love. I imagine it's very similar to Larry Fitzgerald here. And the public scrutiny of your organization, if...

of feeling like you forced Calvin Johnson into retirement would not be a good look for your fan base. I just asked you last show about Matthew Stafford next year, and one of the things you said was, if Calvin's back, I like his situation with Jim Bogguder, six and two back half of the year, really good touchdown to interception ratio. Calvin now is up in the air. Yeah. And a lot of, if he really is considering retirement, a lot of these guys, I'm surprised they do it right at the end of the year. We know he's just been through another beat up.

injury plagued year, three in a row where he's kind of been, you know, he's worn down. He is worn down. He's 31, I believe, or will be. Yeah. So, I mean, he's not, he's not ancient. He can come out and be great. We've seen that in certain games this year, but it's no longer the Calvin Johnson gives you 16 consecutive, 15 consecutive huge performances. It's, okay, a couple big games, and oh, no, is he going to be a decoy for a couple games? Kevin Johnson is 30, but he will turn 31 in September. All right.

So are we ready? Do we want to hit it? Uh, yeah, I'm ready. Well, let's just cue the theme music. Welcome, everybody, to the footies. For 2015. We're your host, Andy Holloway. Jason Moore. I'm Mike, the fantasy hitman right. And we are bringing you the best performances of the year. As voted by you.

The people! Can we just listen to the music now? Now it's just a time to listen to the music. I'm going to keep that going in the background a little bit. All right, we have 15 categories. We put it online. We said, go, vote. Tell us who the very best players were this season. And we've got the results. That's all there is to it. The results are in. Now, do we have, we don't have, okay, okay, we're going to go through the nominations as well. The brass is coming in. Oh.

Oh, for a strong finish. Oh, man. It's over. Oh, I started it again. All right. So, first category that I want to bring to your attention, you guys can read the nominees. Who are the nominees for Performance of the Year? This is the single week performance that was the very most impressive one of the season.

And again, we told everybody out there to consider all things, impact your fantasy team when they happened, that type of thing. All of those things. For performance of the year, the nominees were Antonio Brown in week 15, who put up a stat line of 16, 189 yards, and two touchdowns against Denver. That's pretty good. David Johnson. In week 15, with 29 carries for 187 and three touchdowns.

You had Drew Breeze's monster gargantuan best quarterback week of the year in week eight with seven touchdowns. And 500 yards. Oh, yeah. I missed. I forgot about the 500. Those are Kellen Moore numbers. Thomas Rawls was a big performer in week 11 with 30 carries 209 yards as well as a touchdown through the air.

And finally, you have Cam Newton in week 15, playoff week, where he put up 340 yards and five touchdowns. Oh, and he also added 100 yards on the ground. Oof. Oof, those are some big performances. A couple observations, one, three of the five nominated performances were from week 15 when it kind of mattered. Yeah, people won championships because of those three guys.

All right, let's see who the winner is. Let's open up the envelope. I don't know if you can hear this, but this is a drum roll. The winner is. And the winner is David Johnson. Excuse me? I'm sorry, the winner is David Johnson. Week 15, he was running that category. 29 for 187, three touchdowns. Second place was the Drew Breeze seven touchdown game. And coming in third was Cam Newton's big week 15 performance. Do you guys agree with the vote? Yeah, I've got to, uh,

I got to agree with the voters on this one, David Johnson, from the running back position to give you that performance in your semi-finals. Clutch. Yeah, it doesn't get much better than that. One of the things about the Rawls performance, it was great, but not many people would have thought to play him that week. It was a very late call and a late choice there. So David Johnson takes the very first one. Our first...

Our first footy of the year. Our first footy goes to David Johnson. All right, guys, let's get to numbers. Andy has to run this one. Yeah, this one's all about you, Andy. All right. The nominees for the Fantasy Reaper's Man of the Year, which in case you wonder what that is, it's the play, which player's painful injury hurt fantasy owners the most this season. The nominees are Aryan Foster with an Achilles twice and a groin.

Yes. Levion Bell. The torn MCL. Jamal Charles. With a torn ACL. Marshaun Lynch. I believe he had a sports hernia. Is that what happened to him? That is correct. Andrew Luck. A lacerated kidney. And overall sucking. And Des Bryant. With a Jones fracture to his foot. And the winner of the Fantasy Reaper's Man of the Year was Levyon Bell. Oh, Levyon Bell. Levy on Bell.

Takes it. He hurt fantasy owners in a big way. He missed the beginning of the year, right? Yeah, he had the two games suspension. This one was not very close. All right, Levyon Bell won by more than twice the margin. Coming in very close. Actually, right now, they're about tied. Jamal Charles and Arian Foster are tied for second place. Yeah, the reason Levy on Bell runs away with this isn't because of how devastating his injury was, but because of how good he was.

when he was not injured. The clear-cut best running back in the league, if you're in a PPR, get out of it. He was going to win a bunch of people a league, and then he left. But hopefully you had his handcuff. DeAngelo Williams has been very good in replacement. And so the next category for the 2015 footies, Garbage Man of the Year. I'm going to need the drop.

Oh, the Garbage Man Can. This award goes to the fantasy player who did the most damage when it mattered the least. And the nominees, Blake Bordles, Brandon Cooks, Philip Rivers, Danny Woodhead, and Jordan Matthews, the winner of the 2015. With 43% of the vote, Garbage Man of the Year.

We all know it's Jordan Matthews, the ultimate garbage man, the sanitation engineer himself. Jordan Matthews did work when it mattered the least. The game after the game, Jordan Matthews.

Although it was a little bit close with Blake Bortles in second place. There was some recency bias. Jordan Matthews did a lot of garbage work at the end of the year. Blake Bortles did a consistent amount. Yeah, throughout the entire year, Blake Bortles was great at taking out that trash. Danny Woodhead was third. Yes, but that was just from, I think, one amazing performance all in the fourth quarter, especially. But Jordan Matthews, I think the reason he was such a good garbage time player was...

He helped get his team too garbage time. When the plays mattered, he couldn't catch the ball. But later in the game, when it's like, oh, the game's out of reach. It doesn't matter if I catch this ball. It was easier to catch for him. So he not only removed the garbage. He was the creator. He was. So he deserves this. The true garbage man. He deserves this footie. Now listen, Jordan Matthews, Danny Woodhead, Philip Rivers, Brandon Cooks, Blake Bortles. What are they got in common?

If you want to be considered for the garbage man of the year, what do you need? You need a bad team. You need a bad team. You need to be on a losing team because all of those guys late in the game. Well, speaking of bad, we might want to shift to our next stinky award. The next footie? It is the poopiest pants award. Despite high expectations, this player let fantasy pooped in his big boy pants.

These are the guys that let you down, despite high expectations, and the nominees are. Randall Cobb, Eddie Lacey, C.J. Anderson, DeMarco Murray, and Jeremy Hill. There's a lot of poop in those pants. A lot of poop in those pants. But one of those pants is larger.

than all the other pants. And it was able to fill up with so much poop that he ran away with the award. It wasn't close. Eddie Lacey. Eddie Lacey. You pooped in your big boy pants and you crapped all over fantasy teams for everyone. Eddie Lacey. 50% of the vote. Yeah, it was, I don't blame the voters on this one at all. Eddie Lacey, we all had.

The highest of hopes. A consensus top five pick. He was number one. No, number two. He was number two on my big board. And, uh...

He definitely went number two. Give me Levi-on-Belt. I would so much rather have a guy that gets injured and now I got to replace him. You did this over and over, right? Arian Foster goes down. Dion Lewis goes down. Thomas Rolls. And so you go, I've got to make a move. I've got to replace him. But Eddie Lacey did the worst thing he could, which is every now and then. He tantalizes you with his past. Oh, I had a great game on your bench.

Put me in. I was just about to ask you because Arian Foster was my number one on my big board before the year. Eddie Lacey was near the top of yours. Which situation would you rather have been in? If you were an owner that drafted Arian Foster, you finished better than if you drafted Eddie Lacey. In Foster, where I could, I drafted Foster in like the fifth or sixth round.

I actually did not have any Eddie Lacey on my team teams because I didn't have a top five pick anywhere. Number two was DeMarco Murray, which I completely understand. I'm surprised it's not even closer because DeMarco's expectations were asinine. Humongous. And then third was C.J. Anderson, and he's actually a playoff challenge guy for me. Because I think C.J. Anderson's starting to come into form. He has bounced back. The more you watch of Anderson and the opportunity, the more it looks like it really was the ankle injury.

And the offense with Manning, the way it was being run, it just didn't fit with his run style. I might be looking into this too much, but it kind of seems like a lot of these guys are guys that are bigger. Yeah. Yeah. C.J. Anderson. Not Randall Cobb. No, but I did make some comments about Cobb early in the year. C.J. Anderson came into training camp overweight. Even Jeremy Hills a bigger back. It's just interesting that they're all power guys. They're all power guys. When you eat.

a diet heavy and fat. And fiber. All right. All right. The next footie is the Waver Wire Wonder Award, which undrafted WaverWire Stud was the best signing of the 2015 season. We had a number of nominees in this category. I'll go through them quickly. It's tough. Yeah. There's a lot. There are. DeAngelo Williams, Thomas Rawls, Tim Hightower, Jordan Reed, David Johnson, Characandric West.

Chris Johnson, and Blake Bortles. And so the votes are in. And the winner of the WaverWire Wonder footy is DiAngelo Williams. Congratulations, DeAngelo Williams. Any words from Diazlo? He was a monster. Just a complete monster. It was, and I dare say, a very large surprise, especially the first two weeks when...

He was the number one running back after the first two weeks. There was probably a few people out there who recommended, yeah, you know, grab DeAngel Williams and play him. But it seemed like a fool's errand if you were going to replace Levi-on-Bell, if you took him in the first. You know, I need a guy for the first couple weeks. There was no way. I was playing DeAngel Williams that first week, and not even the second week. But he was a monster. He fit right into the offense. And then when Bell went down, he came in, 200 carries.