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

I think that's the best way to look at it is if you interspersed these last few games, you dropped a few touchdowns in there earlier. You see a Lamar Jackson-sized passing pie that ends up with 769 passing yards. But, you know, we'll see what they do in the offseason as well. I mean, it does feel like something happened in week 12. There was a maybe they just, I don't know, if he's squeaky wheeled again at practice or whatever. But from week 12,

through the remainder of the season, he would have had 900 yards. And you give Hollywood Brown 900 yards, then that's a fine mid-round pick. Um.

Yeah, I mean, his yardage was actually kind of even there in the beginning of the year. I mean, even over the first six weeks that we were complaining, that's a thousand-yard pace in the first six games. So, you know, the touchdowns came his way over the back half, which is helpful. The reality is it's all about the pie. It's all it is. He can have stretches of brilliance because he's talented and Lamar is talented. But at the end of the day, when there's not that many yards, there's not going to be that many touchdowns.

you can't have fantasy dominance. Yeah, it makes it tough, makes it tough, almost like Deshawn Jackson and his light of sorts. Darren Waller is great every week. Nine for one, 17, and one. Chris Herndon. Oh, Chris Herndon. Week 17, Chris Herndon. Don't care. I feel like it's Chris Herndon since we laughed at him, Chris Herndon. Good, let's laugh at him again next year. Well, I want to believe maybe.

Maybe somewhere, someplace. Adam Gaze, you know, he heard it, and he wanted to get him involved. He's been, I mean, well, he scored in the last two weeks, but tight end eight, tight end two. And he has the curse of Mr. Bhole is now broken. New quarterback, new offense. We'll see what happens next year. Jared Cook scored, Austin Hooper scored, Logan Thomas scored. I like that Austin Hooper and Logan Thomas.

You know, they were the tight end five, tight end six, phenomenal. Neither one got to 40 yards. No, no, no. Welcome to tight end. This is why I'm going to franchise Travis Kelsey. All right, let's talk about some stinkers. Stinkers of the week, presented by odor eaters. And we're not going to talk about stinkers for very long because I want to get to the footy nominations, but if, let me ask it this way. Is there any performances that stuck out to you in week 17?

Let's start at the quarterback position. The only one that comes to mind to me would have been like Teddy Bridgewater's situation as the starting quarterback in Carolina because it was a big decline over the second half. That final week was, that was Teddy's chance to say, let's finish on a good note. I still am the quarterback for this team. And he imploded. Again, he got benched. And I don't know if he's starting.

Next year. I know the money situation will be tricky for Carolina, but at this point, I think it's doubtful that he will be starting. What about Cam Newton? What if they bring him into Carolina, huh? All right. Running back performances in week 17, anything that stuck out as maybe meaning something more than just a one week flop? James Conner's career as a starting running back maybe over.

Yeah, I don't believe he's under contract for next year. So we'll have him through the playoffs and then he will probably be irrelevant. I think the Gibson-McKissick situation. You saw McKissick really not utilized as a running back anymore. Gibson got almost 20 carries. McKissick got two carries. Still involved in the passing game. You know, outside of that, it was a bad week from Chris Carson. Kenyon Drake.

King and Drake probably won't be a bell cow anymore. Well, you know, in this week, Drake and Hopkins were both bad, but that's not really, you don't know what would have happened. Kyler missed the majority of this game. And the backup was, how you say, bad. The starting quarterback? Yes. Okay. Yeah, I just met in the future, Drake's a free agent as well. And if he doesn't come back to Arizona as the bell cow, I'm not sure he goes anywhere else as the main runner. It might be in a platoon situation.

Again. Wide receivers, Hopkins disappointed. It doesn't really matter. I mean, he had Chris Treveller throwing him the football. He did flip off a referee, so there was that. How do you feel about Hopkins season long? Because I know. Great, mostly. I mean, wide receiver five, I get it. But you have, what's, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven games. Seven games outside of the top 36.

Yeah. Yeah, I don't, I feel pretty good about the season. 115 receptions, 1400 yards, just six touchdowns. That number is almost sure to rise in future and dealt with some injuries and some problems on offense. So I don't feel too bad. I do imagine Andy Isabella will be there as the slot receiver next year. Fitzgerald probably doesn't come back is my guess. Yeah, I think Hopkins is fine. Going forward,

He should have, you know, more rapport with Kyler, and Kyler hopefully gets better in the passing game. What was the, what was the Tyler Lockett number? You said, how many games were you're like, I'm glad I played Tyler Lockett? Five. Okay. I thought he was seven. Yeah, I imagine Hopkins, despite, I mean, even in the games where he was, I know the games you're talking about. He was still seven, eight targets, 12, 10 targets in those games. And.

I'm just telling you how I feel about him. He's one of the few wide receivers that you just know is going to demand a certain amount of targets in the locker room, so I like that. But not a great end of the year for the Cardinals overall. No, another stinker, Calvin Ridley, thought he would have a great game with Rulio 11. Yeah. But, you know, he's got 52 yards. He did have 12 targets, eight for 52 and a fumble. It doesn't get it done.

The Jair Alexander effect is very real, and that should be something we pay close attention to in future because, I mean, Alan Robinson didn't do anything against Green Bay. AJ Brown struggled against them the week before you had issues. So with Robbie Anderson, I believe. But once again, I mean, Robinson had a bad week. We'll see where he is next year as well. Cowboys wide receivers did not deliver.

Yeah, I mean, it's an Andy Dalton problem there. The Giants played good defense as they really did the whole second half of the year. And if you heard Jerry Jones talking about, hey, I'd love to have Andy back, but Andy knows this is Dax team. And obviously Dax not under a contract, but that's their priority. It's Dax team. They're going to end up spending a lot of money to get Dac back, I think, and not worried about any of those guys going forward.

Andrews Gronkowski, Hawkinson, Irv Smith, Zacherts, Ingram, Fant, Gassicki, all disappointed. They all play tight end. Exactly. Stinkers of the Week presented by odor eaters, odor eaters, the best in foot odor defense. You guys ready for it? Yes. It's time for the footy nominations for the 2020 season here. Yeah, give me the music. There you go.

Footy Awards.com. Go to footyawards.com and vote before Thursday. You ain't smiling right now? Jason and Mike are dancing, bobbing, bouncing, really. Oh, it just never stops. Footy Awards.com.

Go again. Yeah, thank you for the fade there, Al. Let's go through the nominations for this year. This will be a lot of fun. Performance of the year is the first category, which single week performance was the most impressive on the year? Look, some of these awards, you know it's going to be a close contest, and anyone in the category can win.

But to be fair to the other players who had really good games, we also threw them in here. But Alvin Camara, week 16, happened where he had 22 carries, 155 yards, and six rushing touchdowns. Now, is that more than the Dalvin Cook Week eight three rushing touchdowns? That is. And Jason is correct. In championship weekend, your boy came through.

With six rushing touchdowns. Here's the problem with that, though. Is it your boy stunk the week prior and so many people who had Al-Kamara were watching their championship game going, all right. If he didn't stink last week, I would have had this, but it was irrelevant. Obviously, if you got to the championship with Alvin Kamara, you probably won. It was one of the best performances of the year, but you had plenty of other good ones. You know, Tyler Lockett. He had a performance that was so good this year.

It makes his season long look good. Yeah, 20 targets. 15 for 203. That was week 7. Week 12, Tyreek Hill, 15 targets. Oh, man, I forgot about this game. Oh, man, 13 for 269 and 3. Didn't he, he had the touchdowns. Weren't they all in the first quarter? Yeah, it was like a insane pace after that first quarter.

And then Darren Waller with the big boy tight end game of the week or of the season. Week 13 at the Jets, 17 targets, 13, 200 receiving yards and two touchdowns. Last year's winner was Lamar Jackson's week 15 game in which he had 212 passing yards, five touchdowns and 86 rushing yards. See, I wonder if we shouldn't have had for the first time ever a stack attack. If it shouldn't have been the Josh Allen Stefan digs stack in week 16. That got a lot of people championships.

Yeah, that was spectacular. All right, the second category. Take it up with the commission, Jason. Okay. Fantasy Reaper's Man of the Year, which players painful injury hurt fantasy managers the most? Last year it was James Connor. This year's nominees, Christian McCaffrey, Saquan Barkley, Michael Thomas. Kenny Galladay. Oh, man, we never got to play that smooth moves song this year. That's kind of screechy. And Joe Mixing.

Joe Mixon injury ran all the way through the end of the year. Goliday and Mixon did their best job of like making fantasy players think they were eventually coming back and never did. Yeah, Christian McCaffrey did that a little bit too. Yes, he did. So those are the nominees for the Fantasy Reaper's Man of the Year. Mike, why don't you take this next one? The next award, the next category is the poopiest pants award, despite high expectations. This player let fantasy managers down over and over again.

Ezekiel Elliott. Thank you. Ezekiel Elliott drafted at the 103. He was the running back three, granted the two guys ahead of him, got hurt and missed basically the entire year. But Zeke was there, just not giving you any points. Chris Godwin was drafted at the back of the second. Levy on Bell, remember when he was on the Jets and he was drafted at the back of the third round? He was a high draft pick. You almost don't remember that. Juju.

Juju Smith-Schuster, the back of the third round, the wider seat with 13. Mark Ingram, goodness gracious, was the running back 23. And then Zach Ertz, Mr. Clean, coming in at the tight-in four drafted in the fifth round. A real Mike Wright favorite. Oh, yeah. Yeah. I know who you're voting for. How much clout does my vote carry? Odell Beckham was last year's winner, by the way. Yeah, your vote carries one, but your opinion here probably carries more other.

people to vote with you. Number four. Vote for secrets, everybody. All right, the waiver wire wonder, which undrafted waiver wire stud was the best signing of the 2020 season? Was it James Robinson, who you got in week one, Miles Gaskin, Justin Jefferson, rookie sensation, who broke the rookie receiving yardage record this season, despite really not even being involved in those first couple of weeks. You have the other rookie wide receivers, T. Higgins, Chase Claypool.

And then, of course, Justin Herbert and Robert Tanya. This one's going to be interesting. Last year's winner was, sorry, go ahead. I think this is a runaway for Jefferson. No, no, so maybe it's not. I think it's a runaway for James Robinson. You got him in week one and you've got a top five running back the whole season. We're not supposed to sway the vote, Jason. Except for Zachert. I was listening to the Zacherts, you know, billing.

Devante Parker won it last year. Devante Parker was the big waiver wire wonder last year. That was awesome. Wide receiver of the year. So we ask you to factor in draft position, big game performances, impact your fantasy team. This year's nominees last year was Michael Thomas this year, Devante Adams, Tyree Kills, Stefan Diggs, Calvin Ridley, D.K. Metcalfe, DeAndre Hopkins, and Justin Jefferson. And I think that one is a little bit more competitive than...