Fantasy Football Podcast 2017 - The 2016 "Footies" Winners! + Pump the Brakes, Playoff Picks

And I was so excited to go in. And I was blown away to see that Mike, you got your pump the break in super duper early. And this was the guy I wanted. Oh, well, then we agree. Yeah. Well, so you, I'm setting you up. Then I will jump in here. I am pumping the brakes. I like this guy. I like him moving forward next year. But it looks like things are getting out of control already. I love it. I love things getting out of control. But January, let's pump the brakes a little bit.

Jay Ajai. Fantasy pros recently released a, you know, that way too early top 10, like looking forward, who's in there, some movers and shakers, some usual suspects. And you get to number eight overall, the fourth running back. The fourth running back. Jay Ajai. Look, this guy, he should be a locked and loaded running back too, but the fourth running back off the board to me.

is out of control. Would you say it's B-Nanas? It is B-Nanas. 49% of his yards. Almost 50% of his yards came in three games. Three monster games that won you the week. Yes, absolutely. But the other eight games where he was the starting running back, he was on pace for 1062 yards. That's fine. Like I said, I like him. Those are good numbers. Those are good solid running back two numbers. But not the fourth overall running back.

let alone a top 10 first round pick. That's flying off the handle to me. Yeah. Yeah. And that was exactly why I was going to pump the brakes on. Sure it was, Jason. That's his pump the brakes. But I'm going to pump the brakes on a guy who had a monster season, who is young, who was drafted to half monster seasons, who's a wide receiver with a Hall of Fame quarterback. And you go, what?

The wide receiver seven. What? Brandon Cooks. Okay. That was Brandon with an eye. Brandon. I didn't say he spells his name incorrectly. Right. Or correctly. I'm pumping the brakes on Brandon Cooks because he is going to be overvalued for some of those things that I just brought up when bringing in two things into the equation. He is seen right now.

by most. Certainly the tail has switched for the more astute, but he's seen as the number one wide receiver for the Saints. And you want that number one wide receiver for Drew Brees, but it is not Brandon Cooks. It's, it is Michael Thomas. Going forward. Michael Thomas. Michael Thomas is the guy that you are going to want there. And the second reason I'm going to bring it up, and this is the differentiator, is for consistency.

Brandon Cooks, I mean, he has a monster game, six for 143 and two touchdowns, but you can go through the box score and think, oh, he was injured this game and he didn't play. No, no, no, he played the whole game. He just didn't do anything. You get those type of weeks out of Brandon Cooks. He is a boom-bust guy that's going to be so expensive draft capital-wise. I would much rather have a Michael Thomas, and I don't want both of those on the same team. So I'm pumping the brakes early looking the next year on the hot and...

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Grab a beverage of choice. Have a seat and prepare to have your mind entertained. Have your mind enlightened. By the 2016 Footie Awards. Oh, it's time. It's time to keep listening to this beautiful tune. Back again for a second straight year. The 2016 Footie Award winners, the voting is over.

The voting has been cast. You know what's not over? This song is not over. It never ends. This song won the footie for Best Song. Which... It's 22 minutes. Just 13 more seconds. Wait, hold on. I think we're going to wrap it out. We're almost there. Oh, I'm excited. Hey! Welcome to the footies. That was delightful. I thought it was going to keep going. Oh, no. We've got a lot of fun stuff. This is a great show. This is a fun show. It is a...

Exclamation point on a wonderful season. And we've enjoyed sharing that season with everybody out there. And so we wanted to get you involved, get you participating in these votes, and let us know who impacted your season the very most and which nickname impacted your season in the very most. So we've got all of that in store. Let's start out. Performance of the year. The nominees were Levion Bell in Week 14. Well, you saw them online. I don't want to go through every single one, but...

He was 236 and 3 that week. Ezekiel Elliott's week 10, Aaron Rogers, week 16, the Big Hulu Jones 300-yard game. You got a week format, Ryan, that famous Thai Montgomery Week 15 performance. Oh, that was sweet for fantasy playoffs. Marvin Jones is week three, back when he was a superstar. And Jay Ajai's week six. You excited? Yeah, I'll just let everybody know. My pick. My pick came in second.

Well, the winner is Levyon Bell. Hey, Levy on Bell. Your footie is in the mail. Your footie is in the mail. Levy on Bell's week 14 performance against Buffalo, 236 yards and three touchdowns on the ground. Another four for 62 through the air. And he won with 65% of the vote. Yeah, this one was going away. People who had him loved that week. A lot of championships won on the back of that week, which is probably what didn't get it done for Julio Jones.

a 300 yard game because that was week four. Yeah, it's a little bit further back in the memory. And Julio Jones, you know, I bet he would have had a better showing in this category had he really shown up towards the end of the season. People would have said, yeah, well, oh, and remember when he did this for me too. But that Levi-on-Bell performance was unbelievable. They could not stop him at all. Yeah, he did win going away. Julio's, Julio was second with 16% of the vote.

So Levion Bell, congratulations on your footy. I voted for Levon Bell. I did as well, although Julio deserves credit for hitting 300 yards on the dot. Yeah, exactly. That was 302. It's all right. It's been done before. 300? That's nice. Nice. Fantasy reapers, man of the year. The nominees were plentiful. Aryan Foster, you found your way in again. He'll be on next year, too. Oh, I hope so. Doug, he sprained his ankle during a.

Well, he just, he's always up for nomination. During an interview, uh, Arian Foster, Doug Martin, Adrian Peterson, Rob Gronkowski, Jamal and Allen. AJ Green with that late season hurt you with his hit you with your hamstring. It was not bad. Not bad. It was all right. C.J. Anderson was all right. Thomas Rawls. And Sammy Wack and so many options. And I will say this one was close.

But the 2016 Fantasy Reaper Man of the Year, Adrian Peterson. Congratulations, AP. All day, your footie is in the mail. Not so all day this year. More like one day. 22% of the vote, Adrian Peterson takes home the Fantasy Reaper's Man of the Year for the player whose injury most impacted fantasy owners. He was a first round pick and he was seen as the safer.

first round pick and i think that's where this really affected people because when people were looking do i take that shot at the david johnson who had that great end of last year do i take the shot at the ezekiel who's a rookie we've never seen you know i'm going to make sure my first pick is a hit i'm going with adrian peterson there is no such thing as safe that's true fantasy football i was i was a little bit shocked at not only the winner but the second place

The runner up in this category, AJ Green, AJ Green got 18% of the vote. People were passed. I mean, look, AJ Green got you to the playoffs. And then he just said, oh, I'm retiring from your roster. Yeah, I guess it's just more of a timing. Recency. Because for me, Keenan Allen. Interesting. Keenan Allen, I expected a monster season.

from Keenan Allen and then the ACL tear and what was that week week two well Keenan wasn't drafted as though he would have the what you thought he was drafted you know that i think in the third fourth round by you by you no by the late i mean peterson was obviously a top pick yeah i think peterson's story next year is going to be one of the more interesting offseason narratives because i you know he's going to be back not in minnesota you don't think so no

I think he's going to be playing football next year. Yeah, okay. That's fine, but I can almost, and I feel very confident saying he will not be in Minnesota next year. Well, that'll make it exciting because of all the people to change the expectation, you know, you have the Stephen Jackson's and Matt Fort days of the world that leave a team and go somewhere else. Peterson could be a workhorse somewhere else. I just still, I still believe in the lore of Adrian Peterson.

And that's why he's the fantasy reber man of the, no, fantasy reber man of the year goes to Adrian Peterson, 22% of the vote over AJ Green. And now, one of the more prestigious awards, it has been rejected in the mail by the recipient. Return to sender. Because they don't like you mailing diapers. Did you realize this? Yeah, no, I did realize it. Especially used diapers. The poopiest pants award. We're just returning it.

going to the most disappointing player who put on their big boy pants, was drafted to your fantasy team, and then he filled them. He filled those pants up. Todd Gurley, DeAndre Hopkins, Alan Robinson, Cam Newton, Kelvin Benjamin, Randall Cobb, and Brandon Marshall were your nominee. I was shocked to see how, for me, there were two guys that I thought were poopier than the winner, but I was shocked to see how.