Footie Award Nominees + Week 18 Recap, Super Bowl Picks - Fantasy Football Podcast for 1/7

Most. Prestigious awards. It is. Are you handing it to me? I am. Passing it around. Of all the trophies. That could be. Weaponized. It's the best. This is the one that you would want. It was made by a blacksmith. Yeah. Go ahead Mike. It's fine. The. This is. You know what. Trying to go in the middle. If you. If you had pulled off. A first down in the NFL. And you held this thing up. Oh. You would get penalized. 15 yards. For a violent gesture. Yeah. But you might be ejected. For having a weapon on the field. Yeah. Like. It's very sharp.

And made of. What is that? Steel? I don't know. It's. Of course it's steel. I know a thing or two about metal. Okay. That is. That is pure steel. All right. We're going to share our nominations. I think we have 15 categories this year. You can go to footy awards dot com. And we will announce the winners on next Tuesday's show. So you have until Monday to vote. I voted. I did as well. So why don't you read the first category for us. All right. I'll kick us off with the performance of the year. Which single week performance was the most impressive?

You had Josh Allen's week 14 where he put up 51 fantasy points. You had Saquon Barkley's crazy 44 point. We had actually this year a lot of these massive 43 point performances. Like Alvin Kamara in week two. Jonathan Taylor's week 16 explosion makeup for his. Dropping the touchdown. Jamar Chase put up a 50 burger in week 10 versus Baltimore. And Brock Bowers as a rookie had a 25 point performance. In week 13. By the way the 2023 winner of this award was Amari Cooper. Who had 11 for 265 and 2 in week 16. Yeah that was awesome. I found maybe more than years past.

More categories were more difficult for me to pick a winner. That's good. It was hard to decide between a lot of them for me. Who did you decide on this one? Oh no no no. Oh you don't want to sway the vote? No no no no. Okay. I'll ask you after. We don't do that Jason. The fantasy reapers man of the year. Which is which players injury hurt fantasy managers the most. In 2023 it was Nick Chubb with his catastrophic injury. This year's nominees. Christian McCaffrey. I hear he was drafted fairly high. Isaiah Pacheco. Jason's my guy. Which turned sour.

Chris Olave. Who did not return in week 18. And Chris Godwin who was on fire. I found that. If your name was Chris. Yeah. Or Christian. Watch out man. Yeah I mean Chris Olave's name is Christian. It is. So. Christian Watson. Oh no. Oh we have. We have. We just found something. Kyle get on it. Oh man. Get on it. We have. Are there other Chris's that have gone down this year? Has anyone done a full correlation causation report on fellers named Chris or Christian? Kyle's on it. Yeah. Good. Oh thank goodness. All right. We got the poopiest pants award.

Just despite high expectations. This player let fantasy managers down over and over and over again. You had Mr. Travis ETN drafted in the second as the RB7. Marvin Harrison securing my pants to be on forever at wide receiver eight. Patrick Mahomes drafted in the back of the third at QB three. And then Jalen Waddle wide receiver 18. Yeah. Last year the winner was Austin Eckler who was the poopiest pants award who was drafted as the RB2 and who Jason wouldn't trade me for two first in Saquon Barkley. Yeah. Unlike the big performance of the year which I feel like we had five of them that were bigger

than the biggest last year. This year we had the waiver wire wonder which undrafted waiver wire stud was the best pickup of the season. Last year Kyron Williams was great. Yeah. I didn't feel like this year was as strong. You had Baker Mayfield, Sam Donald good at the quarterback position. Jawan Jennings, Darnell Mooney, and then Jonu Smith at tight end and Bucky Irving a later season pickup. This one was tough. Yeah. That one was a tough one for me to pick too because I feel like it's going to be a little bit subjective with who you grabbed in your league which is the point of the award.

Who did it for you? Finding quarterbacks on the waiver wire that you can always start. Like we always talk about streaming the quarterback position but not because we want to. Right. We'd like to find your Baker Mayfield. Oh man. Christian Kirk. Christian McAffrey. Kirk. Watson. Godwin. Olave. Are there any. Okay. So let's focus on the Christian. Come on man. Are there any other fantasy football relevant humans named Christian? Or are they all down? Or did we go four for four? I don't know. Did we take them all out? Christian Gonzalez just got hurt for the New England Patriots. Doesn't count.

This is a fantasy show. But that's a good point. Did he? Yes. Oh no. Goodness gracious. Golly man. What in the world? Look out. Oh. All right. There's none left. Kyle get on it. Let's see if there's any left. And then we can get some. Only four guys were named Christian offensively in the NFL. Oh my gosh. And all four of them are down. Christian Watson. Christian McCaffrey. Christian Kirk. And Christian Olave. You can change your name at any time. Wow. Ocho Cinco did it. Oh man. You might need to protect your body. We discover important facts. Rob Anderson did it every two weeks.

Chosen whatever. Whatever his name is today. I don't know. Changed the spelling. Rearranged which name went where. Mad Libs Anderson. Fantasy quarterback of the year. We're looking at the draft position of the player. The big game performances. Their impact to fantasy teams. Last year's winner was Dak. If you remember picking him up back after the year. Oh goodness gracious. He brought a lot of people to the championship. This year's winner. Not Dak. Nominees. Lamar Jackson. A third round pick. Drafted as the QB4. Finished at one. Josh Allen. Second round pick. Finished as the quarterback two. Joe Burrow. Sixth round pick.

Finished as the quarterback three. Jaden Daniels. Tenth round pick. Finished at QB4. And Baker. Undrafted to the QB5. Fantasy. Running back of the year. Last year. Christian McCaffrey was able to win. Because that was one of the years he played football. This year's nominees. Saquon Barkley. Oh yeah. Drafted as the RB6. Finished. Well. Are we. Where are we getting these finishes from Kyle? Is this week 17? Because I thought Jameer Gibbs took over. I thought Gibbs shot up to the running back one. Whatever. Saquon Barkley. Running back one. Right around there. Derrick Henry. Drafted as the RB9. Running back two.

Finished. Jameer Gibbs. Drafted as the RB4. Finished as the RB3. Chase Brown. Was drafted as the RB40. Took over and became the RB11. Chuba Hubbard. Running back 43. Finished as the running back 12. And then Joe Mixon. Drafted as the 15th running back. Finished as the running back 13. But did have big impact when he was not hurt. Yeah. He was better at the start of the year. The wide receiver of the year. Last year was CeeDee Lamb. Stacking with Dak. This year. That was a good year. Yeah. For you. Jamar Chase. Who finished as the wide receiver 1. Drafted as the wide receiver 4.

Was obviously outstanding. Terry McLaurin. Drafted as the wide receiver 32. Finished as the wide receiver 6. Finally got himself a quarterback. And then. You got a couple of breakout rookies. Brian Thomas Jr. Who finished as the wide receiver 4. In his rookie season. As the wide receiver 47. Drafted. And Malik Neighbors. Wide receiver 7. Finished. Drafted as the wide receiver 22. Yeah. Jamar Chase was. He was separated from everybody. But it's interesting to note of this category. The only one who was drafted with any sort of early capital was Jamar Chase. I would like to take this moment briefly in the middle of the footies to announce that I will be franchising and keeping Jamar Chase on my.

Dang it. On my roster. That's probably a good move. In case you were curious. I'm really hoping you let him go. That's the way I'm going to go. Would you rather have him or Amari Cooper? Oh man. Can't believe the. Oh man. Meat of that trade. Whoopsie doozles. All right. Where are we? Tight end? Yep. Is it. It's to me. The fantasy tight end of the year. Last year. Sam Laporta. A rookie. This year. You got a rookie in the nominees. Brock Bowers. Seventh round pick. Finishes the tight end two. George Kittle. Deserves some respect here. 49ers went six and eleven.

But the George Kittle fans out there got the tight end one in the fifth round. Trey McBride. A fourth round pick. Late fourth. Finished at tight end three. And Johnny Smith. Undrafted. Finishing tight end four. By the way. Apology. Public apology to Arthur Smith. You were. You were playing a better tight end than Johnny Smith. Yep. We were. We were all wrong. As was your general manager. In drafting Kyle Pitts. Number two. Yeah. Who decided that we're going to take Kyle Pitts over some players who are doing really, really well. Tamar Chase. Pena Sewell. Yeah. The breakout player of the year last year.

It was Puka Nakua. This year on the docket. You can vote for Jaden Daniels. Uh-huh. Brian Thomas Jr. Mm-hmm. Malik Neighbors. Oh, yeah. Chase Brown. That's right. Chuba Hubbard. Broke out. And Brock Bowers. I like that guy. Brocked out. All right. We also have rookie of the year who was also Puka Nakua last year. Puka was dominant. I'm surprised Puka wasn't the waiver wire wonder. I mean, Kyron was great, too. Last year. But, yeah, last year he could have done the clean sweep there. The rookie of the year this year, the names are obvious. A lot of the names that we just talked about as a breakout.

Jaden Daniels, Brian Thomas Jr., Malik Neighbors, and Brock Bowers. Four studs. You know what? Yeah. I guess, shouldn't Bucky Irving be in there? Uh, yeah. Shouldn't Bucky Irving be in there? Let's get him in. Bucky Irving. Okay. That's fine. Yeah. We haven't voted yet. Yeah, that's fine. We're just talking. Well, I voted. I voted. Well, I guess two votes, honestly. Yeah, but mine's worth like 50. Oh, is that how you have them programmed it? Yeah. Comeback player of the year? Which fantasy player amazed you the most in their return to relevance? Last year was Raheem Mostert and his 20 touchdowns.

Yeah. What? What happened there? Raheem Mostert? Turns out, father time. Yeah, he was hurt all year long. Wins in the end. J.K. Dobbins, the nominee this year. Kareem Hunt had the mid-season special moment with the Chiefs. Johnnie Smith and Adam Thielen. A chance for an award. I can't believe it. That's right. No one can. He also won't remember that he was nominated. Right, so maybe don't vote for him because he won't know. Well, I mean, it would be a special thing. Like, if he had the trophy that he could remember each and every morning. Oh, because he could see it.

Yeah. Isn't there something neat about that? That's my name. When did I get this? Bryce Young. Yesterday. Throwing to the oldest. Yeah. You know what I mean? A little young old. I like it. The steal of the draft. Which player was the absolute best value in the draft compared to their ADP? Raheem Mostert also won this award last year. Yeah, 11th round pick, man. Before he just threw the smoke bomb down and said, I'm out. This year, the nominees are, we got Jaden Daniels in the 10th round, as was Chase Brown. Chuba Hubbard in the 11th. Brian Thomas Jr. was drafted in the 9th.

George Kittle was drafted at the back of the 5th. And Brock Bowers was at the back of the 7th. Good luck with this one, everybody. Yeah, that's tough. We have the Playoff King Award, who drove fantasy managers to a championship during the most important weeks. 15, 16, and 17. Last year, it was Kyron Williams, who was the running back 5, 11, and 1 through those weeks. This year, at quarterback, we had Jared Goff, Jaden Daniels, Baker Mayfield, all hitting top 10 performances in all three weeks. You had Jonathan Taylor, who was running back 17. That was the first week of the playoffs where he dropped the ball, had a minus 8 point play.

But then he was the running back 1 and the running back 1. So if you were in the playoffs, you knew it. Jameer Gibbs, running back 3, 7, and 2. Brian Thomas Jr., 4, 3, and 14 wide receiver finishes. T. Higgins. Yeah! He was the wide receiver 14, 16, but championship week he was the number one wide receiver. Or Sam Laporta, who you kind of forgot about early on, but top six wide receiver each of the three playoff weeks, including a wide receiver or tight end 1 finish. And, oh my gosh, I forgot last year's winner. Oh, yeah, baby! The most important two categories.

Yeah, here we are. The nickname of the year award. I cannot believe this one last year. It was the best one. The winner was Brett Rippin, nicknamed Rippin' Farts. Oh, Brett Rippin' Farts, baby! That's all he was doing out there. Is that really that one last year? It is, and it says a lot about the state of things. Yeah, well, you know what? And our show. Can't beat them, join them. Here's the nominees for the nicknames. Now, with this on, go to footy awards dot com and vote. You vote for your favorite three nicknames. And that's the way we accumulate totals and give you our winner.

The senator! I am the senator! Soon! For Ben Sennett. Soon! Sam Darnold was the prodigal son in the sacrificial baby. Boy, that's funny. The sacrificial baby goes 14-2. Or 14-3. Vidal Sassoon for Kamani Vidal. Estame Lauder for Audrick Estame. These guys are a package deal, baby. Ken Bone Walker. Yeah, yeah, yeah. For Kenneth Walker. The dominator, Jared Goff. Jennings. For Jawan Jennings. The bidet. It was brief, but wonderful. But clean. Tyler Bidet was the bidet. Laser Mayfield. Thank you. Laser. Richard White, also known as Dick White. And then-

How is it? That's it. It was one time on the show. I know, and we don't even have the butter man in here. And then, you know, a fantasy relevant guy. Mike Sticky Gesicki, also a nominee. So vote for your favorite three nicknames. And we got one more category. How am I supposed to announce these? Do you want me to do it? Go ahead, because I'm not sure what the protocol is here. The final one here is the show moment of the year. And so you can vote for your favorite three moments from the Fantasy Footballers Podcast over the past year.

All the YouTube links to the moments, if you want to re-watch them, relive them. And you do. They're on footyawards.com. When you get to the question, there's a button. You just click it. You can watch all the 10 video clips. Here are the moments. Mike, when he inducted himself into the ring of all-star, if you remember, it was Arthur Blank of the Falcons who nominated himself for the ring of honor. And Mike came in here and surprised us by just inducting himself into the ring of honor. Number one, it was an amazing moment. And it truly is an honor being the only person in the Fantasy Footballers ring of honor.

amazing job. There was the golden ticket surprise where at the Megalith show, Jason finally used his golden ticket to make me agree. Oh, I've got a golden ticket. Wasn't it Kyle Pitts? He made me agree with any take of his. Yeah. And it was Pitts, right? I don't remember. But it was Kyle Pitts. It was. Yeah, it was Kyle. You made me like Kyle Pitts. Oh, man. What an idiot. Why would you do that? Such a bad take. Another moment was the My Guy where I was trying to talk Jaden Daniels and you guys put Tank Bigsby in there as my My Guy, which was fun because he had like.

It worked out. Yeah. He was okay. In the beginning, at least. And then the debut of the Jay Grizz theme song. Go ahead. I know it's coming. We're not going on until you go on. He's not deuced back there. The Jay Grizz theme song debut. Tell me. Too busy with his trophy. I'm Jay Grizz. Ooh. I'm Jay Grizz. Apparently, Andy's loose tooth. So I did go through losing a freaking tooth during the entire season. Yeah, you did. Hey, I believe that's all rectified. Yeah. I got a tooth now. It's great. I can talk and everything. Hashtag spatchcock. The old. The megalodon.

The megalodon spatchcock. The Falcon slash deuces poop jokes throughout the year. The Falcon current reigning show pooper champion right now. They are. Yeah. What's that trophy doing off the side, man? I thought I was going to give it to Jeremy for a second. No, he's there. No, he didn't. I just went to blow my nose. Then Jason. If you remember Jason versus Dennis Allen at the beginning of the year was being laughed at by Dennis Allen through two weeks and then Dennis Allen was the first coach fired. And I still shaved my head. Yeah, but that was a good take.

You got him. The Halloween costume fake out. Oh, yeah. When we pretended like we forgot to put costumes on and we had the blue medical tent and we all got dressed up. The YouTube. That was fun. The YouTube comments of all that was so fun. Being so mad that we didn't dress up and all they had to do was wait. It was awesome. Before firing off a comment. It would be two comments in a row. Yeah. The next comment would be. Oh, wait. My bad. Good job. You got me. And the final nominee for the show moment of the year.

None other than the ruthless. Meticulous. That was so savage. Thorough trolling by our League of Records champion Al Borland, who got my entire family to record voicemails praising him for his championship as it was as my repeat opportunity was destroyed. This is this will be there. You go. I want to watch the top 10 video clip. So if you want to watch the top 10 video clip as well, go to footy awards dot com. The link will be in that. So it's a good time voting on these. Make your voice heard. You know, you see all the commercials, you know, last November, but get out to vote.