Fantasy Football - Footie Award Nominees + Week 18 Recap, Super Bowl Picks! - Podcast for 1/6

Oh, yeah. Where we had Matt Forte, and you're like, the greatness of Matt Forte. And they're like, get him out of there. We've got to get Bush in on the end zone. That's not a bad comp because Bush was very successful at it. Yes. Just like Charbonnet, you know, was the season. He had 27-yard run in this game. He had a 29-yard run last game. Yeah. He does break him off here and there. Tank Biggsby got it done. We talked about him in week 18, Chase Brown. Nice finish of the season. Dude. Ken Walker is going to be a free agent. The Chase Brown stuff is very exciting in terms of next year. I mean, week three, week four, he was going to get replaced for sure. And then it all came back and Chase Brown was excellent. And someone will get worked there if it's P. Rhine or whatever, but at least right now, it feels pretty good if Chase Brown's on your dynasty squad. Kenneth Walker. He doesn't.

He doesn't have a contract, right? Correct. So they need to refine. He's still under contract, but. Kenneth Walker ends the year with 1,027 rushing yards, five rushing touchdowns. We'll head to free agency after the playoffs. Imagine if that was 10 rushing touchdowns. I wonder if it's going to be better for both guys to leave. What, Charbs? Well, Charms is under contract. For Walker leaving, I mean. Oh, oh, yes. If Walker leaves, it's like. I could see Charts being the one in a committee. There'll be a committee there, but he could be the one. And then Ken Walker could go be the one in a committee someplace else. I don't think either guy is going to get all the work for their team. But I do think it could be more predictable for those guys. Because this year it was like, you know, basically paper rock scissors. It's, I don't know who's, I don't know if anyone's going to open up the bank for Walker. And his landing spot is going to mean.

so, so much. Like he, I can see. Kansas City. I can see why. Oh, that would be perfect. That would be a great spot. What he needs more than anyone is an offensive line. Like if he goes to a place with a good offensive line that can open up holes and just let him use his speed and just, you know, kind of like what we've seen. Oh, what was that Jonathan Gannon? Because you just gave me some PTSD brother. I don't, I just, I don't know if Walker's, I don't know if it's going to be great or. The end. Chris Artega is making his pitch. Crodd trying to get his opportunities next year. Wide receivers, Zayflowers, the amazing Alec Pierce, Pooka, Jemak Chase, and Alman Ross St. Brown. Bad boy of football, Alec Pierce. Getting thrown out. Getting thrown out for his egregious. Barely touching the. I was turning my body and I kind of ran into the ref. That was soft. So, I mean, I grow up. I understand.

The, like, the rules are that. But I mean, it's not like we don't see players running into refs and bump refs because all the time. Accidents happen. And there's like, incidental contact. Yeah, there's 22, you know, probably 30 plus people on the field at all times. Like, that happens. And he, you know, it's like, you eject him. It was so weak. Another amazing week for Alec. 1412 and 2. He's a free agent. And Michael Wilson, aka Jerry Rice. Might actually be Jerry Rice. Another five for 99 and one. He had a 50-something yard catch called back that would have been on top of this that was in a Calvin Johnson-esque jump ball. What? I mean, he is going to finish as the wide receiver 10 in full PPR. No. Yes. What? If you include week with week 18. I mean, which they do, right? I mean, that's part of what the final finish is, right?

It just depends on which resource you're looking at. We don't include it? I honestly don't remember if our rest of season stuff goes through weekends. It shouldn't. Yeah, we do. We do. Yeah, and we should. It should. It should. Well, I mean, the stat lines are the stat lines. You can't take a game out of the stat line. So, I mean. We'll clarify all of how players got there when it mattered and everything on the truth series that we start, what, next week? Yep, 119. For 1646 was the pace from week 11 on. Basically the best wide receiver in football. So he's nominated for some footie awards we're going to talk about. And then Parker Washington, three straight top 10 finishes. Jefferson got his 100 yards and 1,000 yards on the season. Tight ends. Colston Loveland. So do you know who is tied for the second most receiving touchdowns? This year? Yeah. There's three guys with 11. I do not. T.

Higgins. Makes sense? That one-handed catch was awesome. He has 11? Yes. So, Devante Adams, even without playing the final few weeks, he has 14, then Ammon Rae, T. Higgins, and McBride of 11. I'm pointing out, like, T. Higgins, it was a very good year. And she should be excited. It was also, yeah. there's also a terrible year you know what i mean like if you had him it was terrible that's what that's all i mean like you you couldn't play him very often and expect much and then he got hurt and then he came back and then he got hurt again and there was the the way that the season started with

to kind of bad games and then Joe Burrow gets injured and it was a rough start. That's all I meant. Once Burrow got back obviously much, much better. Just more ammo to him dropping in drafts is all I mean. And it's also. And I'll draft him. I know. I know you will as well, but it is the same thing every year. It's like, oh, he's great when he's healthy and when Joe Burrow is healthy. Those things are pretty universally true. It's just those things aren't always true. They don't line up very often. Yeah, they don't line up as often as you'd like. Certainly not 17 times in a year.

No. Colston Loveland led the way at tight-in. That's Mr. Loveland. Mr. Loveland. He is 21 years old, 13 targets, 10 for 91-1 this year. Sixth most fancy points ever for a rookie tight-in in the final eight games of a season, which he had missed some of the beginning of the year. But just a really dominant season for Colston Loveland at this point, finishing the year as a primary target. We were talking about the room for Chicago, and we'll see what the playoffs holds. But, you know, it could be a little easier. to predict what goes on there. If it's going to be a Doonesay-Burton-Lauvelin future, I feel like that's a good situation. Yeah, I mean, his last 10 games played, and this is totally fine for a rookie tight end to take time to not be, you know, the best. Tyler Warren was very impressive right off the bat to start season. That's not the norm. The last 10 games for Colson Loveland, he's on pace for...

a thousand and fourteen yards and ten touchdowns. That is what you dream of at the tight end position for fantasy. I think it will be difficult in draft season. Like as we are trying to make our, you know. Where do you think I'll go? Loveland? Yeah. Oh, Leaven will be. Give me the rank, the tight end rank. All right, let's see. So I mean, McBride above him for sure. Brock Bowers above him for sure. Mm-hmm. Yeah, yeah, Brock Bowers will go ahead of him. I think if Daniel Jones is back, I think Tyler Warren will be in the discussion. I think anywhere from three to five. But I'm saying... Is that how it seems to you, Jay? Yeah, yeah, it does. I'm saying like when you're making your bets on who in the Bears is going to be the guy. Like, will it be a Dune's a burden or Loveland? The difficult... The difficult part of Loveland's the best bet there. The difficult part of Loveland's breakout here, these last 10 games were...

a lot of his production came without Rome. Right. And so if Rome is the true number one for this team, that's going to make a massive hit on what Loveland can do. And Rome hopefully is back for the playoffs. If the Bears end up making a run, maybe we will have a little bit more data to see how this version of the Bears does when all of their pieces are healthy. Because I do have fears next year of just... You know, DJ Moore's not going anywhere. I think he's mostly irrelevant, but still going to be involved. Luther Burden looks like he's breaking out. Loveland is great. And I think Rome could be the best wide receiver on the team, like should be the one. So in the games that Rome played with him in that sample that you gave, which was six games. His pace is basically the same, 927 and 8. So. Yeah, my chips will be on. Maybe the total targets wouldn't be the same. But at least the fact that he looks like a touchdown threat for this team every week is encouraging to me.

He's 21. This man can barely buy a beer. I could see Harold Fanon above him. And of course, cowpits. We've got to get to these footy nominations, but a nice end of the year for Trey McBride. It finishes with 1226 for 12, 39, and 11. It was a really nice beginning of the year and the middle of the year and the end of the year for Trey McBride. Yeah, all of it was pretty good. We'll take a break. We'll talk footie noms. All right, it's that time of year. It's time to get into the footy nominations. It is footy time, everybody, the most special time of the year. No award, more valuable. Imagine. Imagine thinking any other award was better than. And always in the mail. Well, on its way to your doorstep. Don't get me started on the post office. I think some of the original footies are still on the way. Keep checking your mailbox. Yeah.

Yeah, Alan Robinson, just keep checking. We have signature tracking on it. Have not seen that. Yeah, no one's coming in anything. It's weird. Footy Awards.com. We'd love you to go and vote before Monday. The winners will be announced on next Tuesday show. So we'll give you a week to lock in your votes. But we're going to get into the nominations here. We're starting with the performance of the year, looking at the best single week performance, the most impressive performance. Last year, Josh Allen won this with a cool 51.9 fantasy points in week 14. Goodness. This year's nominees, Jemir Gibbs in week 12. You remember this game. It was the last great game he had in the year. 49.9 fantasy points, 12 targets. He got a lot of people to the playoffs and then ended there. Helped them leave the playoffs. Yeah. Derek Henry in week 17. Championship week. That's a valuable performance. Jonathan Taylor in week 10.

Three touchdowns, 48 fantasy points. Trevor Lawrence in week 15 with the five touchdown passes, 44 fantasy points. Pooka Nakua going crazy in week 16. Just happened. 40.5 fantasy points. And then Kyle Pitts, why not? 12 targets, 11 for 166 and 3. Best performance by a tight end since ever. Ever. Ever. Ever. Ever o'clock. Era. It's wild to think that you started the playoffs with the all-time greatest tight-in performance. Unbelievable. And it was Kyle Pitts. Yeah. We have the Fantasy Reaper's Man of the Year. So which players injury hurt fantasy managers the most? There's always a sad list. Christian McCaffrey won it last year. But look, Christian McCaffrey came back so maybe these players can come back next year. Malik Neighbors. Oh, man. I know. Jaden's Daniels. Didn't talk about that, by the way, but neighbors still using a cane. Which, not great. Is it like jeweled on the top at least? Yeah, I mean, unless he was like pimping.

Yeah. Which I'm told not easy. Our injury guy, Matthew Betts, told us that that is concerning at this point. It could take a while. For him to be this far off or recovering from his surgery to still need a cane is not great. Well, then neighbors said he. had a lot wrong with his knee. So there's a big difference between those easy ACLs that are clean and multi-ligament problems. That one was early and that sucked. Yeah. So you got neighbors, Jane Daniels. Oh, that sucked too. It feels like he didn't play in football this year. It really does. As is James Connor. James Connor was the starting running back for the Cardinals this year at some point. Poof. Sam Laporta. Yeah.

That one I think was just good for James Williams. Everyone's like, yeah. Garrett Wilson. Oh, that's the Jets leading receiver, Jason. That's a Jets leading receiver. Garrett Wilson. Don't believe he's caught a pass since week 12? No. Yeah. Still leading the team and receiving yards. Does not have 400 receiving yards, but leading the team and Mike Evans who went. Imagine telling Jets fans before the year. Listen, your leading receiver will be under 400 yards and you're not going to pick off one pass this year. That's impossible. Glenn still has a job? Yeah, yeah. But they said that that's because they asked around and no one would take the job if they were to fire him. So they're like, well, you got to be able to hire someone and we can't. There was. He's the defensive guy, right? Right. I was watching a clip. I don't want to miscredit it. It's a, but a higher profile. And they were talking about the, you know, like we're, we're about to get into dyns this season, into prospecting, talking about these rookies. Because we're.

We're removed. We're focused on pros, and now we're going to catch up on the college kids. And it's like, okay, so Mendoza, seemed like probably a lock to be the first pick in the draft. It seems that way. And what's the kid out of Oregon? Dante Moore. So in the show, they were saying, if I'm Dante Moore, I am doing whatever back channeling I can. I'm having my agent get a hold of the Raiders and say, is there a chance I go number one? And if the answer is not you have a good chance of that, don't leave school. Like don't. Do not go get drafted by the Jets. Alternatively, Mike. And Jets fans, you can help us out with this. Please make it common knowledge that you are not one quarterback away as a Jets fan. And you should not take a quarterback with that number two big. No, no, no, no. I disagree. They're one quarterback away. And we got him. He's available.

oh kiler murray i mean imagine kiler in the green he'll look so sharp he'll look bigger than ever the jolly green giant there you go uh oh i'm up poopiest pants wait did we get through all of the we did you mentioned mike evans i did okay sorry the poopiest pants award despite high expectations this player let down fantasy managers over and over again Last year's winner was Travis ETN, whose pants are not poopy this year. No, they are clean and pristine. But this year, Justin Jefferson, who was the wide receiver two, Lamar Jackson. Pretty poopy. Not a stranger to poopy pants, the quarterback too. Brian Thomas Jr. Oh my gosh, Brian Thomas Jr. in the second round is the wide receiver 10. Ladd McConkey, Marv in, yeah, Marvin Harrison. And then Chuba, who was the running back 18.

Yeah, those are some poopy pants. The Waver Wire Wonder, our fourth award, which undrafted stud was the best pickup in the season. It's a long list. Last year's winner was Bucky Irving. This list is fun. It is. Trevor Lawrence, Jacoby Brissette was on fire. Rico Dowdell had that run. Woody Marks in there. Kyle Munungai at times. Christian Watson once he came back, Wondale Robinson. Huge. Quentin Johnston, Michael Wilson, Alec Pierce, and Harold Fanon Jr. Lots of good names in there. Yeah, Harold Fanon is a great player, period. He is. He is a great player. The fantasy quarterback of the year, Jane Daniels took this one home last year. I mean, it's the obvious big choices. Josh Allen, Drake May, and then just like everyone saw, Trevor Lawrence. Right.

You got Dak Prescott, Patrick Mahomes, and Matthew Stafford. There are your nominations. I forgot Mahomes started really, really hot. He was on fire and then. And then not and then hurt. Yeah. The fantasy running back of the year, it's a lot like the quarterback one, except it's about the running backs. Thank you. Christian McCaffrey, must I continue. But Jonathan Taylor, not everyone's going to vote for him, but Chris McCaffrey, Johnny Taylor. What a start. Jamir Gibbs, Devon A. Chan. Bijon Robinson, James Cook and Derek Henry. I'm not gonna sway the votes by naming them, but I feel like there's only two people you can even really. See, I was about to say like, Devine A Chan deserves a tremendous amount of respect in this category. He does, but there's two champs on this list. Fantasy wide receiver of the year.

And by the way, we're looking at kind of draft position, big game performances, the impact of fantasy teams. That's what you're voting on. Last year's winner was Jamar Chase. This year's nominees, Jassin and Pooka Nakuwa, Ammonra, St. Brown, George Pickens, and Jamar Chase once again. Jason, you can introduce our fantasy tight end. Yeah, the fancy tight end of the year. It's a lot like the fantasy wide receiver of the year, but with tight ends. Brock Bowers was last year's winner. This year, I mean, okay, you got George Kittle and Kyle Pitts and Dallas Goddard and Tyler Warren and Harold Fanon Jr. and Trey McBride. I'm sorry to Harold Fanon. I'm sorry to everyone else. That's your. I mean, that one was, you can't sway the boat here that he lapped the field by a lot. It was just, it was the craziest gap between him and second place. Holy Toledo. Yeah. It's.

What? Yeah. Okay. What I'm seeing? Well, because number two is what, Kyle Pitts? Yeah, so in a half point. Wait, what? Yeah, Kyle Pitts is your number two tight in. No. Yeah, yeah, yeah. 40 points in a week will help you. So in a half point scoring format, what I'm seeing is Trey McBride at 253 points. And Kyle Pitts is the tight end two at 169 points. Oh my God. I mean, this is, this. Now it's over. It's Vince Carter. Also, every year, we got tight ends. No, we don't. No, we don't. 252 points is more than Jamar Chase scored as the wide receiver four at the tight end position. That's a good pick. All right, rookie of the year. Last year's winner. Wait, is a lot like the tight ends, but with.

with guys who have never played and they could be at any position. Jane Daniels was the winner last year. I like this bit a lot. We got Jackson Dart, Cam Scataboo. Honorary vote. Yeah, in loving memory. Ashton Gentie, Trayvionn Henderson, Omarian Hampton, Quinn Sean Judkins, R.J. Harvey, Teterowa McMillan McMillan. It's just every rookie who played football. A mecca. Ameca Ibuka. Yeah. It was awesome. Harold Fanon Jr. and Tyler Warren. Who left Abuka in here? What do you mean? Abuka is as worthy of being on here as Trayvion is. They flipped their seasons. Yeah, they did. Yeah. That's the problem. When you're reading these names for Rookie of Year, I don't know the right vote. It is tough. There's a bunch of broken seasons here. Scataboo barely played. Hampton barely played. Judkins got hurt. Didn't get going until he came back from the suspension. Holy crap. Abuka. You guys know where he finished? Yeah, I do. Wide receiver 20.

He managed to finish that 20? Trayvion Henderson running back 19. Yeah. They did the same thing in reverse. Why they both belong here. It's not how you, it's hard because the vote here is like, it's just the man had eight straight weeks of. Do you have any inkling on how that vote's going to go? I'm not going to make you say who you think is going to win. Let me look at it again. I genuinely don't know the right answer. I want to vote for Cam Scataboo. Right. The heart wants what the heart wants. I think I know who is going to win. I can tell you, I can tell you who the top three finishers are going to be. I'm not going to do it right now. Don't think we'll have a different name. Yeah, I think I know who's going to. Yeah, we'll talk about it. I want, I want your votes. We don't want to sway anything. Breakout player of the year. Rookies are not allowed here, right? Just breakout players that we've already seen that leveled up last year was Brian Thomas Jr. who is this year's breakdown player. I'll tell you what, when we're reading these last year names.

Right? Like rookie of the year last year was Jane Daniels. Bad this year. Last year's bad players of injured. I know where you're going. I don't like injured Christian. And then he was great. Poohy pants. It was E.T.N. Then he was great. It's like it's just the opposites. He's award. Everybody, I thought you were going to say we are cursing people. What about the Jamar Chase part? Yeah. He's still great. That was pretty good. Sequin, yeah, a little bit. He could be back-to-back winner. Breakout player of the year nominees, Drake May, Giovante Williams, Jalen Warren, George Pickens, Chris Olave, and Michael Wilson. All worthy nominees. Did you feel like Jalen Warren was a breakout player? He was for a while. He was the only one in that category that doesn't feel right to me. When he got injured late and Kenny Gainwell was just awesome. It was like Gainwell should be in there. Yeah. Warren had what, over 1,200 yards?

I love that Brooks is going to hear us debating the inclusion of people and be like, you had, you had three days to change any names you wanted. Yeah, but that was yesterday. I know, I'm just thinking like, I feel like Kenny Gainwell broke out more than Jaylon Warren. That's all I'm saying. He definitely, I think, the nominees are the nominees. I know why you're saying that, but it also is probably a little bit of recency bias because it happened later in the year. And yeah, I mean, he's their leading receiver on the year. Yeah, not their leading runner. He's a running back. Yeah, he just surpassed a thousand where Warren had almost 1,000 rushing yards, plus 330 receiving yards. The steal of the draft. This is actually always the. Brian Thomas Jr. steal of the draft. Ninth round pick. These are the guys that really genuinely like these win leagues for you. Yeah, James Cook drafted as the running back 13. Yep. Trey McBride, even though he was drafted as the running back two.

Tight end two. It's still obvious worth it. JSN, third round pick, wide receiver 14 in the draft. Devante Adams, man, if he could have stayed healthy. He was unbelievable. Wide receiver 19 in the draft. How about George Pickens drafted as the wide receiver 28? Where did he finish? Look that up, Mike. I'm sorry. I'm seeing a note here from the Falcon who never makes a good point. No, never. But I wasn't paying attention. Colston, Mr. Loveland's not up for tight end of the year. And Warren is? Yeah. Who finished tire? Might have been Loveland. I mean, we count week 18? Yes, we can't week 18. No, Warren was better by four position points. Yeah, by four, seven and 11. What was his total points? Colston Loveland? No, no, no, Warren. Lovelin was 136. Warren was 150. Okay.

There you go. George Pickens did finish as the wide receiver 5. Drafted as the wide receiver 28. DeAndre Swift drafted as the running back 24. Chris Olave was drafted as the wide receiver 34. I think he's one of the most surprising of this year. Nobody really wanted to draft him. Nobody did. It was a reluctant click. You had Giovante Williams, another surprise. Running back 39 in the ninth round was very good. cooled off towards the end of the year. And then Travis E.T.N. Last year's poopiest pants, now on the steel of the draft category as a nominee. Got to poop your pants to become a steel. That's true. That's true. Unless you're a rookie, you've got to poop your pants to become a steel. You got to drop. You got to drop one. You got to drop one. Yeah. Got to drop one to go late in the draft. Normally you drop your pants to drop one. Yeah. But if you don't drop your pants and then you drop one.

It's called the poopie pants. Yeah, and then you comeback player of the year. Thank you. Which fantasy player amazed you the most in their return to relevance. What is this one like? This one is not like the rest. No, okay. We got Matthew Stafford, who had vanished for us as a fantasy quarterback. By the way, J.K. Dobbins won this last year. Oh, yes, yes. So we did it again. Yeah. I'm just like that. Yeah, and we're about to in the next one. So go on, keep going on. Maddie Stafford, Trevor Lawrence. Giovante Williams, Chris Olavay, Kyle Pitts and Dallas Goddard. Are you with? I just saw what the next one was. It's unbelievable. The playoff king, who drove fantasy managers to a championship during playoff weeks, 15 to 17. Last year's winner was Jemir Gibbs. Who drove people? He drove you home. He got you to the play. He's the exact opposite of this award. He's the exact opposite. This year, a lot of nominees, Trevor Lawrence, Brock Purdy, Derek Henry, Christian McCaffrey, Bijon, Olave, Nakua.

McBride and Pitts all dominated during the playoff weeks. Jamir Gibbs did not. No. We have a new... We got two new awards this year. Two new awards. By the way, footy awards.com. Footy Awards.com to vote. That's right. And that's T-I-E, footy. Just in case you want to put a Y in there. Do we not have the Y? I don't know. We should look into that. Just grab it. Yeah. So the first new award is the bummer of the year. it's not necessarily the biggest bust right but it's still a huge bummer for fantasy football managers and those people deserve oh he's not here that's the that's the bummer of every year that if you just win it every year um but the bummer of the year amechagbuka is in this list because this is like the the fill me up buttercup just to let me down brian thomas junior oh gosh we're gonna let him get

He won the bummer and the poopiest pants. Here's my bummer of the year, Caleb Johnson. Remember him? Nope. Yeah. Bucky Irving and Travis Hunter, which one just hurt your heart, I think, the most. And then Mike, we got one more new category? We do. We introducing the Miao Man of the Year. This year's nominations for the first ever Meow Man of the Year, Mason Taylor, aka Meowson Taylor. And that's it. All right. You can vote for whoever you want in this category at footy awards.com. F-O-O-T-I-E, Footeawards.com. It was confirmed that Mason Taylor is the only rookie tight end since 2010 to not force a single missed tackle.