Footie Award Nominees! + Week 18 Recap, Chopping Block - Fantasy Football Podcast for 1/11

He had 14 total touchdowns on the year. He threw for one in the game. And he had 1,400 receiving yards on the year after filling in all these different roles. Like, you can build a game plan around Devo and win every single week. You can. And, I mean, we're dunking on Jason for his ridiculous Brandon Ayuk takes. Thank you. But Brandon Ayuk.

did have over 100 yards yesterday. So it's not like he was a terrible play in his own right. Brandon Ayukes should be considered in the category of, I won't say post-type sleeper or like off-season potential dynasty buy just because of draft capital, the fact we've seen him be elite. And, you know, they're going to move forward with Tray Lance. I mean, that's going to be their future. And so that's possibly going to be their future. I mean, it's like I will.

As the Trey Lance fantasy truther, it's not 0% that Trey Lance is still on the bench next year. Well, I tell you what, if they win, because they got to go to Dallas this week. And if they win that game and they make a little playoff run, you're right. There's going to be fear in the streets of everybody that drafted Trey Lans and Dynasty. Tyler Higby, much like he did the Ryan Tannenhill of the tight-in position, showed up when you needed him least.

Two touchdowns in week 18. Grancowski, seven for 137. And then the doctor, Dalton Schultz. Yeah, baby. Was two touchdowns for the doctor. Mark Andrews always gets it done. Zach Ertz was solid yet again. Jason's start of the week. Travis Kelsey, Hunter Henry. Not too bad. Nope, not too bad. You know who was bad, though? Poopped in his big boy pants.

Well, I wouldn't, you know, I don't know if they're big boy pants in week 18, but for some people they were. And Kyler, not a great fantasy finish. Nope. Carson Wince, we talked about it. I don't know what that team does moving forward. I think, I think Wince is locked in at least for one more year. Yeah, and you did have disruption at the end with the COVID list and who knows. That team.

They could use some more offensive weapons outside of Jonathan Taylor if he asked me. But Najee Harris, woof, 11 for 28 to finish the year, but he's going to be a staple on that offense. The big question, I think, is just going to be, you know, the pie is going to get made. What's the recipe? Is it going to be inefficiency and volume for Najee Harris for the next few years as they find a quarterback? Or are they going to get some things fixed on the offensive line and turn him into...

Because I think that's the gap between Najee Harris, the RB10, and Najee Harris, the perennial top five. Sure. And then the nice thing is, is we've seen kind of the floor. The floor is unbelievably great. If they stink, if they don't have a quarterback solution and their offensive line is bad, okay, well, because on the course of the season, he was actually the running back for this year. So you see the talent. And if they actually fix a thing or two.

Man crushes all around for Najee. Cordero Patterson was four for 11. Do you ever see a relevant Corderole Patterson game again? No. Free agent, is this the end for Dynasty Patterson players? It was an unbelievable final year for Cordero at this age. He'll still play in the NFL next year. He'll get a contract with someone. He's a valuable weapon. But he isn't going to find a situation where he.

gets the opportunities he got this year as an integral part of an offense. So I think we just simply have to celebrate what he did for 75% of this year and move on. You can't stay a supernova forever. No, eventually it turns into a black hole. Unless you're Debo, Samuel. Well, he could be in his supernova right now. I'm just saying it doesn't last forever for anybody. Cordero did say he wants to stay in Atlanta. And.

The only thing I question is, I feel like Patterson's struggles at the end of the year were because they didn't let him do anything. It was like, why didn't you, you're not throwing him the ball anymore, you're not handing him the ball anymore, so you can't do anything anymore. Yes. The volume just disappearing was very strange, but that's also, I mean. Russell Gage, injury? Is that, you have to blame that? No Ridley?

No, Russell Gage. Yeah, it's weird. Kyle, Kyle from Atlanta, I don't know if you're still identifying as an Atlanta fan and if so, I'm sorry. But, Kyle, do you have any insight for us? It's just painful to watch. Painful. Painful. Like, you start the drive, like we've been here with Josh Rosen before. You start the drive, but you know the end of the drive? I just know it's not going anywhere at all. It's just a waste of time. Yeah, it's just a waste of everybody's time. I mean, it's.

The refs. Can we just wrap this thing up? I mean, can we start on fourth down? I got a brunch. I mean, what a mess. And then, unfortunately, you know, week 18, you didn't know how much AJ Dillon you were going to see. So I guess you could say it's kind of disappointing, but you can't really say that. And then, you know, Giovante Williams versus Melvin Gordon. It didn't even out on the last week of the year. Melvin Gordon was unbelievable. He was something like nine points, something of carry. He wrote himself a nice big check for next year.

He certainly did. Wide receivers, do you have any lasting, like, are we going to forget the burns of Tyree Kill at the end of this year and just move forward happily? I think we will because of the history of how good he's been for so long, but you can't really understate or you can't overstate how bad he was after the bye week. And it, it's a long stretch of games. I mean, you're talking about.

the last six games where he pretty much only had one great game. Yeah. Over a six game sample, which is, you know, a third of the whole season, his 17-game pace would be 869 yards. That is not nice. Not at all. You're talking about a 17-game pace of two touchdowns. He was just not...

extremely involved. So I'm not worried going forward because I'm going to bank on talent, history, quarterback, head coach, but it certainly sucked. And if you had Tyreek, if you got to the playoffs with Tyreek, you certainly felt it. C.D. Lamb's season was a insert word here. Oh, man. I guess by the, what the hype got to by draft season, you have to say it was a disappointment.

Finished at wide receiver 18 on the season 79 for 11006. Yeah, the six touchdowns is pretty disappointing. 1100 yards is like, that's not too shabby. We're going to have to adjust our mentality, though, with these yardage numbers, with the extra week. Sure, yeah. I mean, not like, not drastically, but if you are thinking, you know, an extra 60 to 100 yards, then yes, you do have to make an adjustment. That'll be a fun one to look at in the truth episodes. Kyle making that.

point, like looking at Amari Cooper, looking at C.D. Lamb, you did have weeks of no DAC. You had a lot of disruption, and, you know, this playoff run might have something to say about the roster they bring back as well. Devante Smith, three for 41, you know, it's been really, it's been tough because there's no volume there for him. So it's like you make a play, you got a good game, you don't make a play, you get four, you know, three for 41, four for 51, that type of thing. Man, and he just, he didn't play.

They arrested people. He was only in on 19% of the SNAS. Philadelphia was one of those scenes where he was very difficult to gauge just how much people are going to play. And the answer was they're not going to. Kyle Pitts ended up ending the year with basically one of the best rookie tight-in seasons and still didn't return draft capital with just one touchdown on the entire year. Yeah. Because of that painful, painful, painful offense to Kyle Spoka.

Do whatever you got to do to get him in the Dynasty League, though. He's going to be an unfair advantage for a long time. Shall we introduce our footy nomads? Yes. I just wanted a dance. Oh, welcome into the footy nominations. I have such excitement.

For today's footy noms. I respect the process. But the song doesn't ever stop, right? I mean, the song goes forever. I pulled it down. Okay. Footclanvote.com. Do you want me to start it again? I don't know. Well, we're back, baby. Shoulders only. Oh, shoulders only. That's a good dance. All right. We've got footy nominations. Footclanvote.com. Winners will be announced on Thursday show.

I'm excited about a lot of these. You know, there are some that I think are foregone conclusions, but why don't I read the categories and then we'll take turns reading some of the nominations. All right. The first category is going to be performance of the year, which is a single week performance that was the most impressive on the season. Last year, Alvin Camara took this home with that touchdown. Merry Christmas. Was it six of them? Oh, my God. Yeah. Should have been seven. Goodness gracious. Sean Peyton went turning to the Grinch.

I think we have some really good competitors in this one, though. Jason, you want to read our contenders? Yeah, you've got Jonathan Taylor in week 11 putting up 51 fantasy points on the back of four rushing touchdowns, one receiving touchdown. You have Jamar Chase championship week, week 17 with 50 points of his own on 12 targets, 11.

For 266 and 3, he won a lot of people championships. Yes, he did. I love that we've got a couple here that are in the championship week. Mike, you and I, we stayed alive and got a championship on the back of Travis Kelsey's week 15 performance. 36 fantasy points. He had 10 for 191 and two touchdowns in the playoffs. You have Justin Herbert's Monster Week 550 fantasy point.

performance where he had four passing touchdowns, one rushing touchdown, and over 400 total yards. And then, of course, Joe Burrow in week 16. Ooh, baby. He had 46.1 fantasy points, 525 yards, four passing touchdowns. Mike's start of the week that week. And, yeah, those Bengals certainly got people championships so long as they weren't playing in week 18 championship leagues. Joe Burrow or Justin Herbert, who do you like more in a dynasty?

Oh, man. That's a... I like them both. I like them both. I like them both. I like them both. I think I lean Herbert. Yeah. But I... It's crazy. They're great. All right. The second category here, and again, Footclanvote.com to contribute, Fantasy Reaper's Man of the Year, I'll go ahead and read these out. Which player's painful injury hurt fantasy players the most this year? And I do believe that it's going to be a tight one here. Last year's winner was Christian McCaffrey.

This year's nominees are Christian McCaffrey. Which I don't know if you saw him come out and talk about, you know, he's only 25, I think, 24, 25. And just the durability, the question marks. And, you know, he kind of dismissed all of that. But Christian McCaffrey's a nominee, Derek Henry, who was just incredible.

and was the devastating loss for fantasy players. And then Rahim Mostert in week one with all the hype and hope. The Moster one is like compounded by Elijah Mitchell's breakout. All those points, that would have been Mostert. And then D'Andre Hopkins as well, a nominee. Derek Henry only played basically.

like seven and a half games he's the running back 16 on the season yeah it's it's silly and then we may um we may get a a playoff run here where everyone feels really confident next year or or the opposite number three here i'll read the category mike you want to give us the nominees the poopiest pants award despite high expectation this player let down fantasy managers over and over again

Last year's winner was Ezekiel Elliott, who was drafted at the 103. This year's nominees, we have Miles Sanders was drafted as the running back 20. Alan Robinson drafted as the wide receiver 11. Terry McLaurin drafted as a wide receiver 10. Darren Waller drafted as the tight end three. And Saquan Barkley drafted as the running back eight.

Whose pants are the poopiest. Yeah, I mean, there's different sized pants here. I think Alan Robinson sucked the most this year. But, man, I, Sequin, first rounder. He did enough. Stop leading the judge. Look, we just share our opinions here. He hurt me a lot. Saquan did. Waver wire wonder.