2020 Footie Award Nominations + Super Bowl Picks - Fantasy Football Podcast for 1/5

That Dallas offense when Dak was there was dominant. Yeah, absolutely. Zach Taylor coming back for Cincinnati. And that seems to make sense to me. It's surprising to me. I thought he would be the one. I thought he would go to. I mean, they've been playing better and they lost their starting quarterbacks. Yeah, I was going to say they started looking, I don't know, promising. And then when Burrow, your number one pick goes down, your main running back Joe Mixon.

goes down. It's like, what can you do eventually? You try to win with Ryan Finley. Mike, give it a shot. No problem. All right. Every year we do the NFL playoff challenge, which you can participate with us at footclanchallengellage.com. Footclanchallenge.com, it's completely free. It is essentially you just pick a roster of players. And it's actually...

been simplified now that there's only one by league or a by week for each of the conferences but essentially you pick a roster of players that you think will make at the farthest in the playoffs and it's it's always been fun to compete with the footland

Yeah, you get a multiplier if you've got the same player. So, like, if you pick Aaron Rogers as your quarterback, you don't get anything week one because he's on by. But in week two, because he was in your lineup both weeks, you get a two times multiplier and then three times, four times. So you want to pick guys that you think are going to last deep into the playoffs. And speaking of the playoffs. Playoffs? Thank you.

Uh, let's go ahead and go with our final Super Bowl predictions here. We filled out the brackets. Are we going to get into that, Brooks? Is that cool with you? Oh, yeah. Do you have a pick? Do you have a Super Bowl pick? Nope. Well, okay. Sweet. Way to play along. Thanks, Brooks. I wasn't ready for that. Why, you know who's in the playoffs, Brooks.

You could have gone chalk there. I'll pick the Chiefs. All right. There you go. That's the way to do it. All right. I'm going to stick with the start of the season prediction. I was looking at the brackets and the reseeding and who I think is going to win. I ended up with the hottest team in football that managed to beat the tar out of a fighting for their playoff lives Miami Dolphins team this past weekend with almost nothing on the line. I'm going to take the Buffalo Bills, who I had before the...

the season. I'm going to take them over the bucks. Tampa Bay and Tom Brady, who I had before the season as well. So Buffalo, congratulations on your impending title. I am mostly sticking to my preseason pick as well. I had Baltimore winning over the New Orleans Saints preseason. But now that everything's going through Lambo, I do have the Saints and the Saints and the Packers playing in the NFC title game, but.

Drew Brees is a home dome guy. Go play in the Arctic tundra against Aaron Rogers. And I give Aaron Rogers the edge. So I have Lamar Jackson and the all of a sudden hot offense of the Baltimore Ravens beating the Green Bay Packers. And I filled out the bracket. And I had originally had the Kansas City Chiefs versus Green Bay in there and very chalky, but then realizing.

No, my preseason prediction is still alive, so I'm just going to stick with that because that's the hero call. So I have the Steelers dragging their carcasses through the playoffs, managing to squeak through, taking on the Saints in the Super Bowl, and Big Ben gets a Super Bowl. Honestly, that'll be, it'll be very interesting because if you have the Steelers versus New Orleans, that would be, it's certainly, well, it's almost certainly the last game for Drew Brees.

If Big Ben wins a title this year, what are the chances of him calling it quits as well? I don't know, but that would be a fun old man bowl. Yeah. All three of those would be pretty fun Super Bowls. Josh Allen against Tom Brady, Lamar Jackson against Breeze or Breeze versus Big Ben. So, all right. And don't forget Brooks's pick. He went Chiefs. That's it. Yes. They're not playing anybody. And of course, you know, Al Borland is going to go Packers over.

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That might be the last time you get to hit it. Yep. That might be the final time we get to push that button. He said, all right, maybe not, maybe not. I'll bet we hit it when he retires. Okay, that's fair. Yeah. I think this might be the last time we push it in celebration of Cam Newton producing. Yes, and he did produce 21 for 30, three touchdowns, had 79 years rushing, had a passing, receiving touchdown. He caught a touchdown. Now, what's funny about this is,

I mean, it was the Jets. It was to end the year. It wasn't helping your fantasy team. And when asked about whether he would accept a backup job, he said it's too soon to tell. So we'll see what the offers are going to be because it doesn't seem like he's a starter in the National Football League anymore. If Bill Belichick can't get more out of him than that. I agree. Kirk Cousins, Ryan Tannahill. Some starts the week? Yeah, Kirk Cousins had 4.05 and 3 and a rushing touchdown. Four.

100 yards. Yeah. Passing touchdowns, man. Good for you, Kirk. You know, sometimes you think you see what's going to happen without Delvin Cook. And you're like, okay, he's going to have to bear the load and you just don't know if it'll turn out that way, especially with a stubborn head coach who likes to run the football. But, yeah, it turned out that way. Detroit was very giving. It turned out that way. And also it turned out that Alexander Madison, it was eating hamburgers all over the field as well. But Tanna Hill had a big game, Justin Herbert, Tom Brady.

Aaron Rogers efficient as ever, I think, securing that he's the MVP of football. He is the MVP. You can't with that week 17, the last couple weeks where Pat Mahomes didn't really do much special and Aaron Rogers absolutely won in the last two weeks. Aaron Rogers has how many touchdowns? I know it's a career high. I think it was 45. Oh, is it more than that? I don't know. Oh, yeah, he had 44 going into that week. Yeah, I think he's up to 48.

with five picks, if I'm remembering right? Yes, 48. 48 touchdowns, five interceptions. You're going to win games when you could do that. I mean, and a completion percentage of 71%, which is a career high on 526 passes. It was like a Michael Jordan season for him where he's like, oh, you're going to talk about somebody else, huh? Watch this.

Yeah, pretty impressive. It would be very interesting to see what people believe about him for fantasy next year. Yeah, that's going to be very interesting because if he's drafted as a top option again, I probably won't be in. But then if he drops, you know, and he's like the quarterback five or six, he's spent most of his career being a, you know, number one or number two quarterback. So.

Yeah, yeah. So we'll talk about him in the footy nominations coming up as well. He's nominated for a couple of awards this season. Deshaun Watson got that almost upset going this week. Yes, he did. It was almost like the first game, too, where it seemed like Tennessee was going to blow him out and all of a sudden there they are again. Deshaun Watson is such a competitor. He is such a good player. I love watching him play. I mean, I don't know what.

quarterback in the league I would prefer to watch play. Obviously, Mahomes is great, but there's something about Watson where he, he always has the team on his back because everything's going wrong around him at all times, but he just is still fighting forward. It's the Bill O'Brien plan. Lamar Jackson didn't do a whole lot through the air, 113 passing yards. There's that small pie, but he did throw out three touchdowns and run for 97 yards. So.

Lamar doing Lamar things. Yeah, he's really got his groove back the last couple of weeks. Speaking of getting your groove back and maybe better than ever, Jonathan Taylor. Oh, man. 30 for 253 and 2. We knew it would be good against Jacksonville. I don't think we knew it would be this good. No. Ended the years the RB6 after being underutilized for the first half of the season.

His final five games of the season. So he missed week 12. Then those final five games, he was a top 15 option each time, and he was top seven and four out of five.

I mean, he was unbelievable to finish. If you give a guy with those physical traits the ball a ton, he will produce, especially late in the season. I mean, it's very similar to Derek Henry. You've got a humongous human who can run fast and knock you over late in the year. It's cold and people are tired. I mean, there's two running backs that went for 250 this week. They're both big, big strong super athletes.

Yeah, it's a pretty incredible assent for him. And he really, he just played a lot better. He figured this offense out. Yes. I mean, they definitely gave him opportunities in the first half of the year. And he was sitting at, you know, whatever, 3.8 a carry during that span. And he spent 6.2 over the back half of the year and figured the offense out and they've trusted him more, which like Jason said with Derek Henry, you've got to give that guy the ball a lot. And, you know, this is going to be a first round pick. This is somebody who I traded at.

the deadline in a bigger trade in our league of record thinking, well, there's no way I'm going to really want to keep Jonathan Taylor next year, not knowing who the quarterback is. At this point in time, I regret that. That makes sense because of what he's been doing, which is dominating. Derek Henry, 34 carries, 250 yards, two touchdowns. Hit 2,000 yards.