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

big a margin that this won by. Well, we'll discuss it, but the winner is Todd Gurley. Yeah, you stink. 38% of the vote to Todd Gurley. Brandon Marshall was second with 23% of the vote. This is an interesting one to debate because I could make a case for several of these players. I also feel like Alan Robinson deserves greater consideration because

Robinson's, he may have ended the year at what? What was he? At the end? 25. Yeah. But that was backloaded. That was after he ruined your season. That didn't matter. So from a perspective of, like, giving you that wide receiver 40, 50 type numbers, he was doing what Brandon Marshall did, except for Alan Robinson was drafted higher than Brandon Marshall. Yeah, slightly. Let's see. Alan Robinson was a second round pick. And Hopkins.

Yeah. And Hopkins was another pooper. The thing about Todd Gurley, and we were discussing this, was it has to be the draft position. I mean, when you took him, you took him as the number one overall running back. You took him as your top half first round pick. Meanwhile, if you had played him every single week, you were going, what the heck, man? I'm expecting big numbers. You're looking at.

what the other top running backs are doing shady DJ. Like, give me one of those weeks, Todd Gurley. And then you get those juicy matchups and you go, oh, the Niners. Oh, man. Yeah, that was an epic failure. And then you stink against them. Here's a stat. This stat is credit to Joe Dolan. Miami allowed 130 yards from scrimmage or more. So at least 130 in eight to the running back position in eight of its final nine games. You want to know which team?

Did not get there. The ninth one? The only team to fail to get there was L.A. and Todd Gurley with 80 yards. But the thing about Gurley was he ended up as the running back 17. He still gave you a, it was not very high, but he still gave you points every single week. Meanwhile, Brandon Marshall is just destroying your lineup. And Brandon Marshall, I don't know if you saw the quote came out, he was on inside the NFL.

He says the best way I can describe it is having a diaper on and never changing it, just sitting in that diaper the whole year. Brandon Marshall knew the poopiest pants award was coming for his way. You know what? When that gets returned in the mail, we'll just send it on to Brandon Marshall. He will accept it. He sees it for what it is. He knows. 38% of the vote to Gurley Marshall had 23% of the vote. He had my vote. He also missed the game. So that did.

That wasn't good. Not a good season for Brandon Marshall. Very curious about him. I'm very, very afraid of him in any type of keeper dynasty format. Well, he's a bounce back redraft guy. And on the show, I mean, there was those, the blurbs going out says, oh, Brandon Marshall willing to take pay cut to stay with the New York Jet. Well, on the same show where he talked about conceding his poopie, his pants, he said, no, no, no, no, no, no. And then he had a whole clarification.

for those comments. He was just saying, I know what I'm worth. Yeah, my bills are paid. I love this game so much. It's like I would play for free, but I'm not going to play for free. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Hold your horses. But so just it's, he will be very interesting. Does he end up back in New York? Does a contender actually take a shot on him? All right. We're moving on to the waiver wire wonder. Who are the nominees, Jason? Well, some of the most important nominees, you got the rookie sensation deck.

Prescott and the late season Rob Kelly. You have Jay Ajay, who was great off of the waivers, Terrell Pryor. Tyreek the Freak, Cameron Brake. Jordan Howard was excellent off the waivers. You got the woke one, Kristen Michael. A lot of great waiver wire pickups. Kevin Coleman. Yeah, Tevin Coleman, Devante Adams. A lot of guys in this list who.

You found on the waivers, and they really impacted your fantasy season. But only one can win. And the winner is. Jordan Howard. Congratulations. Your footie is in the mail. Well, I mean, none of these guys bothered to show up. It's embarrassing. Well, because, you know, Fallon put in a bad word about us. Jordan Howard, 53% of the vote run away, literally and figuratively with this one. As he should.

I mean, the Foot Clan just nailed this one. They got it right because they realized Jordan Howard was elite. I mean, completely elite. He was, wasn't he like third in the league running back yards? 13, 13. Yeah, he was. It's interesting, though, because he won going away, 53% of the vote compared to 15% of the vote for Jay Ajai, who was second place.

They had very similar numbers, 1,13 yards for six touchdowns for Howard. Ajai had 1,272 yards with eight touchdowns. Jason, you were very wrong. He was not third. Because he was second. In the league and rushing yards. I mean, second in the league and rushing yards. Behind Zik, two rookies leading the way. On a poor team, you know, that's got a bad game script who didn't start the first three games. So my question moving forward, because one of my...

things that I feel like I've learned this last year and it's do we push it a little bit more in the off season is great running backs on bad teams. We saw Todd Gurley, his rookie year, sensational, bad team came out, just won a Poopias Pants Award. Do we have any fear of Jordan Howard moving into the future? Yes, we do because we've seen this before also on a Cincinnati team with Jeremy Hill. We saw a rookie explosion.

And the fact is you have to have a work. You have to have a built-in risk with somebody like that because otherwise you do. You draft Todd Gurley at the very, very top of the draft after what you've seen. And you can be burned. I expect Howard to be like a back of the second round pick. I will say this. Let's ask this question. Will he meet or exceed the numbers from this year? No, he will not meet them. No, he will not meet the numbers from this year. It'll be tough. The touchdown number should be there. Well, yeah, he only had six.

Although, maybe Brian Hoyer would be back. Yeah? Yeah. All right. We're moving on. Congratulations, Jordan Howard. We're moving on to the wide receiver of the year. This was a close one. Very, very close. You had consideration for Antonio Brown, Jordy Nelson, Mike Evans, Odell Beckham Jr., T.Y. Hilton, and Michael Crabtree.

Very interesting. I voted myself for the consistency that is Antonio Brown, but he was not one of the top two finishers. I voted for the number two finisher. Because you factor in draft position also matters. When you're spending that, the first wide receiver off the board, Antonio Brown, you darn better have consistency. Darn better. The winner of the wide receiver of the year goes to. Oh.

My BFF Mike Evans was the winner. Your footie is in the mail. No, his footie is. I'm holding on that one. He needs to personally pick this up. So I may shake his hand and say, just deliver it. I love you, Mike Evans. Deliver it. Well, yeah. I mean, you have to reach up. Hi. Get on your scooter. He's very large. Go to Tampa. So Mike Evans, 35% of the vote. Up on my razor. Second place was Jordy Nelson. There's some tricks. That's 31% of the vote. He had my vote. But I mean, you really, you know.

I voted for Jordie Nelson, and I think the Fookland got this right. I got it wrong. Because while Jordie was great, Mike Evans finished as the number one wide receiver overall. You got to love it. He was, I know in our ultimate draft kit, he was the first, the top breakout candidate for this year. So happy we got that one right. But he made a huge difference. He was good in the playoffs. He was good through the season, very consistent. Big, big props to you, Mike. I'm going to put you on the spot here.

You have Antonio Brown, Jordy Nelson, Mike Evans, O'Dow Beckham Jr., T.I. Hilton and Michael Crabtree. Rank them for next year. Real quick. Antonio Brown. Brown is still number one. I would go Brown, Beckham, Evans, Jordy, Hilton, Crabtree. I have the same. Yeah, I think I would go right around there. All right. We're moving on. Mike, why don't you handle his next category? All right. If you're talking about the wide receiver of the year, of course.

You must discuss the running back of the year. These are the fellas, the fine fellas who were up for nomination this year. You had David Johnson, Levion Bell, LaShawn McCoy, Ezekiel Elliott, and DeMarco Murray, the surging DeMarco Murray. Wonderful season for all of those guys. Yeah. So let's get to it. The winner of the running back of the year. Oh.

There should be no surprises here. There are no surprises when it comes to the running back of the year. This man was sensational. It's good as a gift. Then sensational. Almost 16 games of 100 plus yards from scrimmage, an absolute dominant force. 20 touchdowns. 20 touchdowns. This man carried you. David Johnson. 61% of the vote. 61%. David Johnson.

1,239 yards 16 touchdowns 80 receptions 80 receptions 20 touchdowns 80 receptions 8709 receiving yards and yeah he ran away with this one one of the highest voting differentials 61% Lev Bell

More power to, you know, 12 games, you were great, 13% of the vote. When you get second place with 13% of the vote, you take it back. It's tough. So next year, who's your first running back off the board? I can tell you mine. It's the number two pick. It's Levy on Bell. Yeah, it's still Levy on Bell for me as well. Love David Johnson. It's splitting here, honestly, when you're just, that argument over the off season will be.

A argument of ridiculousness. I know this could sound excessive, but, like, is there a little bit with David Johnson getting injured on the last game of the year after a huge workload? Is there any hesitation that he comes back and gets the same workload? I don't think so. I don't think that's an issue. Not for me. And the difference, why Levy on Bell over David Johnson? There's 20 touchdowns. I mean, those are incredible. But you look at the yard is Lev out rushed him was a...

He was farther behind when it comes to receiving totals. But he was suspended for three games, and he sat out an entire game. He also had, I mean, he only had seven touchdowns. His season was great without the kind of, I mean, I just made the argument about, like, Eric Blunt. You have to be fair. Just going to say, David Johnson's not getting 20 touchdowns next year. He's getting 25, 30. Hey, remember, man, Ladani and Toml's 10 touchdowns. Yeah. That's a lot.

All right, moving on to the tight end of the year. It was an interesting year at the tight end position. Nominees were Travis, Kelsey, Greg Olson, Delaney Walker, Jimmy Graham, Cameron Brate, and Kyle Rudolph. I'm going to spill the beans here. Cameron Brate was second on this list. That's excellent. Finally. With 15% of the vote, but the winner of the tight end of the year. Footy goes to. Brown bag. Travis.

Kelsey. Zeus. Zeus. He went 85 for 1,125 yards and four touchdowns. Ended up the tight end one. Didn't get what you expected out of Grancowski and Reed this season or Greg Olson. Well, you did for half a season. Greg Olson's first half was incredibly good. I was going to say, I expected Jordan Reed and Grunk to get hurt. Just not that hurt. I think you, in your mind, you expected it publicly. You only expected it for Grunk.

Right. Yes. You didn't want to believe that. I said Jordan Reed is absolutely a risk. Yeah, the tight ends were barfie this year, and so that's why you get a brown bag. And Kelsey, congratulations for winning the best of the worst. I believe we said this was the lowest tight end scoring year since 2006. Yeah. So keep that in mind for next season. The thing is, though, for Travis. The water level lowered. Travis Kelsey moving forward, what happens with him? I mean, because.

Two years ago, I loved Travis Kelsey because the ability, the player, I mean, he's an athletic beast. We call him Zeus. I believe it was Evan Silva coined the term, I believe. So if I've credited him, incorrectly, I apologize. But he's called that because he is such a monster of a man. But that offensive scheme, Alex Smith never forced the ball to him. You have that Jeremy Macklin injury, and all of a sudden he just...

Unleashed four straight 100-yard games. I mean, big plays, touchdowns. I had him ranked as my number three tied-in behind Reed and Grancowski before this season. And the reason I love Travis Kelsey is because he is not Tyler Evert. Okay. His season wasn't dependent on a 13 touchdown year to become the number one tied in. His season, he actually had less touchdowns, sorry, less touchdowns this year than his previous two years. Five, five.