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

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And Mike Ride. Oh, I am so excited. Why is that, Andy? Well, it's the footies. The footies are here. I've heard there's some other awards around the town. There's some Oscars, Golden Gloves, some Emmys, some SPs. You know the hardest part? The hardest part of this whole footies thing was turning Jimmy Fallon down. He offered to host it. He did.

And we said, I'm sorry. It was more of a... We have a host. It was a begging. It was a pleading. Yeah. Yeah. But... Sorry, Jimmy. We still love you, Jimmy. We're the hosts. Maybe next year. Maybe next year. We have the 2016 second annual. Footy Awards. Fantasy football awards. You guys voted. Guys and gals out there. You voted for the winner?

There's some close ones. Of a number of incredible categories, including nickname of the year, the most prestigious. Cool. And we have the results from those votes today on the show handing out the official 2016 footies. Very, very excited about that. I want to remind everybody, you want to know what's going on in the off season, the prolonged by week, as we call it. We're still recording.

Come and follow us on Twitter at the FF Ballers. Find out everything we're doing. We're also recording show after the shows now on YouTube. So if you want to check out a little extra content for free. We call that pro bono, which is I guess all our shows are pro bono. That's right. You can check that out on YouTube.

And, yeah, it's pretty cool. We did one on Tuesday. So check out the website, the fantasy footballers.com. If you want to get involved with our community, which is together and chatting and building leagues together off-season. And listening to an extra episode every single week, which we will be recording today. Go to join thefoot.com. That is correct. You will get access to that. So occasionally from time to time, we.

We appreciate, obviously, your reviews. And so we like to read them from time to time on the show. And by we, I mean, Jason. So without further ado. Review Osoras Rex. This one comes in from DD Top. Verified excellent five stars. I discovered this podcast while hiking the Pacific Crest Trail. Ooh.

August was approaching, and I wanted to get a head start on preparing for the fantasy football season. When I had service, I regularly downloaded a slew of fantasy football podcasts since I generally hiked for 10 to 12 hours a day. What? Crazy. Listen, I'm not Jeff Fisher. When there's a clear talent, I stick with them.

After weeks of listening to as many fantasy football podcasts as I could get my hands on, I settled on this one. It is far and away the most informative, intelligent and entertaining podcast of any category, let alone fantasy football. But that's not all. These are likable guys. Oh, that's so sweet. You feel like you're part of the group. Anyway, the point is, it's a locked and loaded podcast one with high upside. Put this one in your lineup. Well, thank you, D.D. Top.

Well, thank you for the review. And I selected this review because we have vowed to, you know, be in better shape in 2017. We have the year of health. The year of health. And what better way than 10 to 12 hours of hiking a day? I have a couple critiques for this. A couple critiques for this review here. Number one, really, really appreciate it, DD Top. Thank you so much. But if you're trying to get a head start for your fantasy football knowledge.

You don't start in August, my friend. You do not start when preseason is already rolling through. And even if he got 10 to 12 hours of data to commit to it. Yeah. And then referring to us as intelligence. Yeah. You're two thirds. Two thirds, but you can't count me in that. Appreciate it. Thank you. All right. Thank you for that. We appreciate the iTunes reviews and support of the listeners out there. We also want to remind you we have the playoff challenge going on right now.

At NFL.com, the NFL.com playoff challenge. You can check our Twitter. We've been tweeting out the link to our group. We want to have a big group participating over there. I think I checked it. We announced it on Tuesday. I checked it yesterday and we were around the fifth largest group. Oh, come on. I'm on it. Do you want to do an audit and see where we're at now? I'm on it. We are one, two, three, four, five. Five still? Yes. How many are in there? 1466. Okay. Well, come get in on the action.

just find the fantasy footballers group join us it's free it's fun uh the way it works is you basically pick individual players at every position if they happen to remain in the playoffs you get a multiplier the next week and you stick with that same player so for example if you were to select aaron rogers in week one and they win you get him at a two time multiplier in week two they win again three time multiplier you go to the super bowl you're making money you can pull a mic right and you can pick the guys on bye

Mike took all by weekend. You don't get any points week one, but you guarantee that every single one of your players is playing week two on a multiplier. That's a... Yeah, we'll see. We'll see. I think if you can pick those wild card teams that go to the Super Bowl, that's the key. Yeah, and that's... And speaking of that, I have no wild card teams going to the Super Bowl. If you've been listening, you know that we are doing a bracket challenge, the three of us.

And we filled out our playoff brackets yesterday. That is correct. The winner of the our playoff bracket challenge will be picking lunches for the losers for an entire week. Do we want to give out our picks? I think it would be good to just give out the picks. The games are approaching. And so let's go ahead and break down each of the matchups. Let's start in the AFC, the Miami-Pittsburg matchup.

Who do you guys have winning in this game? What's incredible about the AFC? We did these at the same time, but completely separate. We didn't announce who we were picking in any game until we were done with our entire bracket. Then we go, okay, let's go through this. Our entire AFC is identical. Yeah, so I guess I'll just give our picks for the AFC. We have Pittsburgh beating Miami, and we all went with Houston topping Oakland. I was surprised all three of us went that way. Sure, sure.

And then we have Kansas City over Houston. Yes. And we have the Patriots over. Actually, it wouldn't be Kansas City over Houston, right? No, yeah, you were correct. It would be Kansas City over Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh. Yeah. And so we took Kansas City over Pittsburgh and then we took New England over Houston. And then we all took New England over Kansas City in the AFC title game going to the Super Bowl. On the other side, we all took Seattle over Detroit. Mike and I both took.

Green Bay over New York? But I took New York over Green Bay, and that's going to be the big divider here if New York loses, which is very, very realistic. I mean, I said before, I said on last week's show, I think it's going to be very difficult for them to go to Lambo and actually win. I think it's their worst matchup, but if they beat the Packers, I think they're a team that nobody's going to want to play.

in the NFC yeah could be so then that's when it kind of breaks down a little differently so the uh that would be the Dallas Green Bay matchup correct the Dallas Green Bay matchup in Mike and I scenario I we both took

Well, who did you take? I took Dallas. Yeah, as did I. And Jason in that matchup took New York. Took New York to beat the mighty Dallas. So you put New York in the title game in the NFC. Mike and I put Dallas in the title game in the NFC. And then in the other matchup, we took Atlanta. Mike and I took Atlanta. We all took Atlanta over. As of now. We've got a day or two left. This is the one that I feel like could change for me. Mr. Hedgy over here. So Dallas, Atlanta.

for both of us, New York, Atlanta for Jason. And then I took Atlanta. Mike took Atlanta going to the Super Bowl. And Jason took the New York football Giants. I got them Giants. I've got them Giants. So you got the Giants against the Patriots for the third time. I've got them beating the Patriots for the third time. There you go. Crazy. And then Mike and I actually have our first differentiation. We filled this out separately. He had the exact same bracket. But Mike took Atlanta to win the Super Bowl over the New England Patriots. I took the Patriots over Atlanta.

And so we will see how it plays out and whether or not which two of us will be eating very bad food choices. I owe Jason a meal today for Zeke and Dak Prescott Betts. Yeah. And I'm going to make it big because I don't think we're eating out tomorrow together. You skipped one yesterday. Yeah. We're probably going to crack a barrel. Oh, no. Because there's a wide variety of options of crack a barrel. Oh, no. That's no good.

All right, in lieu of a quick question of the day, right before we get into the footies. The footies are moments away. So I know you're on pins and needles. That was you. Yeah, I know. I know. I can see you. In lieu of a quick question, we're going to jump into the O'O O'Reilly. O'Reilly. Auto parts. Pump the brakes with O'Reilly. That coordinated beginning was excellent, fellas. Yeah, that's always the hard part.

We do want to thank O'Reilly Auto Parts for sponsoring that segment. This is the last of this season, the pump the brakes. And so I'm excited to talk about our three pump the brakes choices. I'll start mine. I'll start with mine. All right. I'm going to pump the brakes. And these are all with a view of. This is not playoff-oriented. This is a view towards next year. I'm pumping the brakes on LaGarrett Blunt. Now, caveat.

I don't yet know where the ADP of Laguerre Blunt is going to be. But with 18 touchdowns, my guess is too high. And 11 of those 18 were from the one yard line. If you look at his statistics, you obviously had more work this year than he's ever had before. The yards per carry were down. That's okay. A lot of those yards were short yardage backs or short yardage type of situations. But...

It's impossible not to predict a regression for LaGarrett Blunt after an 18 touchdown season when the previous high in his career was seven, which was five years ago, mind you. Last year he had six touchdowns. Then it was like three and two the year before. I just think that's one of those situations where, look, a few years ago, Shady McCoy had 20 touchdowns. You know, he dropped down precipitously. It's just going to happen. You don't repeat those type of numbers. In my humble opinion, I'll pump on the break on LaGare Blunt.

Yeah, I can get on board with this. And to be fair to Laguerre Blunt, he did have, he had seven last year, but only six rushing. He had seven total. Yeah. But only six rushing touchdowns. When we were, when we were coming up with our pump the brakes, Andy and I were still in the studio. Mike had gone. And this was early. Okay, nobody had made their selections. And I found my guy. Found my guy that I really, really wanted. Andy found his and LaGarrett Blunt.