2019 Footie Winners! + Beat The Ballers & Super Bowl Picks - Fantasy Football Podcast

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Welcome in. Happy New Year. It's going to be the best year ever. Going to be the best year of my life. Thursday, January 2nd. And it's footy award time on today's episode. My body is ready. Smells like victory. Approximately 40 million of you voted out there. Give or take 40 million.

We've got the winners on today's episode. I'm excited. Judge Giamatti himself, with a little help, I think, from Jason, has chosen to put all of the winners in very flashy envelopes. Signs or shield delivered? What did this cost me, Brooks? You don't want to know. Oh, my gosh. $20 an envelope. So we have the official winners, the 2019 footie awards. That's on today's show.

What else is going on? We've got a new playoff contest we're going to talk about momentarily. Yeah, everybody wants to know. What are we doing this year? It's playoff time. Fantasy football is still alive. We have a super exciting new game we're playing. We'll see if you can't beat us. Oh, they can't. It's impossible. And I guess we're going to go over our Super Bowl picks today as well. That's right. Should we do that right now? Is that what we're up to? By the way, you can find us on Twitter at the FF ballers, the community.

A bonus episode every week. Bonus. At join the foot.com as well as Foot Clan League. So if you're starting new, you want to get into a dynasty, a keeper league, a new league with people that don't suck. You know what I mean? Yeah. Some people suck. Yeah. Big time. But some don't. I put a tweet out a couple days ago I was talking about, you know, our dynasty friends are our friends out there who are already in it. I mean, these people are.

ridiculous when they're their scouting starts because we start scouting the new incoming rookies in the next couple weeks or so but i put a post how the dynasty community they're super excited for 2020 so now i'm real excited to dive in and look at these guys and the dynasty thirst

that started dripping into my timeline was unbelievable. Well, and let's be honest, Mike. You're just a little bit more interested than us at this exact moment in time because you have 47 dynasty picks. I did add that part. Yeah. And here's the thing, too, is like we have, we've got a friend, Nick, who has a very good dynasty team, but he is retiring from fantasy football. Yes, so long, Nick. And so, you know, you might be in a league where one or two people either chose to retire.

Or you forced them to retire because you're a smart commissioner. You put them down. You put them down. Took them out back. Yeah. And so you're looking for another, you know, qualified, committed owner for a team. And you can find those. You've got foot clan leagues.com. If you're a member of the join the foot community. Super Bowl pick-wise, we've got the bills playing the Texans this week. The Titans are at New England.

The Vikings are playing the Saints and the Seahawks are in Philadelphia. Now, we each filled out a bracket, and we do this every year. I guess it's just to say words into the microphone and then brag about it if you win. If you don't fill out a bracket, man, you're not living. This is playoff time. Let me ask this. Brooks, Al, did you guys fill out brackets? No, sir.

Oh, my goodness. Brooks doesn't like fun. Al Borland? I did not fill out a formal bracket, but I do have my picks. Sure you do. I'm guessing. I told them to you yesterday. Green Bay. It's the Packers against the Packers. I just figured it was whoever wins each week was in his mental head bracket. I'll put them on paper as soon as we're done here. So we'll walk through this a little bit. Do we just want to go round by round? Is that what we're doing? Let's do it. So we all have.

Buffalo winning against Houston. Is that correct? That is correct. Okay. Sorry Houston fans. We all have Buffalo winning that game. I have New England over Tennessee. Do either of you have Tennessee winning that game? I have Tennessee winning that game. And I am also taking the blindfold approach and saying Tennessee will win that match up. It felt bad. I mean, you know, look, the beginning of the end for the Patriots results in a Super Bowl because that's what they do. And knowing that...

that somehow they'll be in the Super Bowl. It was very hard to pick Tennessee. But when I look at this game, it's very hard for me to see New England losing in New England, even though they've struggled. That's the part that I have a hard time with. I just don't know how they're going to score at this point. That's the hard part. The hard part is looking at that, but then Jason and I also talking about how does New England possibly win this game? Well, I don't know if Tennessee will be able to score. That'll be the interesting part of it. Can they put it together against the defense? Maybe.

You know, Ryan Fitzpatrick did. All right, are we going to stay in the AFC? Do you want to march through the AFC here? Yeah, we'll complete it. So then based on my finishes, I have Buffalo traveling to Baltimore, Baltimore winning that game. And we have the Titans going to Baltimore and Baltimore winning that game. I have Baltimore winning that game. That means for my other side, it's Kansas City versus New England. That game's at home an Arrowhead for Kansas City. And I'm taking the Chiefs to get through New England finally.

And so that puts Baltimore, Kansas City in the AFC time. I have Kansas City against Baltimore as well. So that means we've got different ways of getting to the same end result, which is Baltimore, Kansas City, AFC championship game. It's the matchup we all deserve. And NFL, don't let us down. I can't wait. That game's going to be outstanding. And I ended up taking Kansas City. That's a tough pick, but I got Kansas City as the AFC representative, Jason. As do I. And I have Baltimore. All right. Well, that.

The nice thing about both of those teams getting to the AFC title game, if it happens, I'm really rooting for both of those teams. I would love to see Andy Reid and Harbaugh get to the Super Bowl, so I'm happy there. On the other side, the NFC, I have Philadelphia at home beating Seattle. Obviously, Philadelphia will win the Super Bowl. Right. That's what I was told. I said it in the offseason. But my bracket may.

provide an alternate reality for you when we get to that point. But I got Philly. Jason, you have Seattle? I do have Seattle going on the road and coming out victorious against the very injured Eagles. Yeah, I've took Seattle as well, and this is, I mean, this is gross. I've taken three roads. You're reflecting on your bracket now. Yeah, my bracket is bad.

So then in the New Orleans Minnesota game, I did take New Orleans to win that one, which would put them up against Green Bay in the next. As did I. Yes, that one's unanimous. So that means we all have Green Bay, New Orleans. Can we just pause for a second and talk about like, okay, the Baltimore Ravens Kansas City game. That's going to be unbelievable. Right. But that might not happen. The New Orleans Minnesota game is happening this weekend. And that is a rematch of the Minneapolis miracle.

last year. It's in Minnesota. I want the game to be... No, this one is in New Orleans. Oh, I'm sorry. It's in New Orleans. But I want this game to come down to like just a Hail Mary situation from the 50. So Green Bay, New Orleans. I'm going to take New Orleans in that one. New Orleans. New Orleans across the board. I've been warming, warming to Green Bay in recent days. Yeah, I have... It's hard to beat Green Bay, you know, in Green Bay.

It's difficult to look at that team and you say, well, they're not flashy. They don't do anything special. How are they 13 and 3? Yeah, the problem is. But you still are in the playoffs with Aaron Rogers. Like the Aaron Rogers sit philosophy for fantasy is great because you're looking at total fantasy points. But if Aaron Rogers makes five Aaron Rogers plays, that is very, very valuable in the playoff. The identity of the Green Bay Packers, it's not the team that fantasy wants them to be. It's the Darius Smith. I mean, Aaron Jones has been sensational.

but Aaron Rogers has not been the fantasy quarterback that you had hoped for. So it feels like from the fantasy side of things that skews how we believe in the Packers, but they won 13 games. They managed to do that. It's funny. You talk about you look at your bracket and you hate it already for some reason. This game is one where I didn't think about it for long at all because I think the Saints are, I mean,

You know, they were my preseason Super Bowl champion pick, and they've been outstanding. I'm changing on the fly. But I don't blame you here because the fact that this game is in Lambo, you know, Drew Breeze is not the outdoor cold weather. He's not an outdoorsy type. You know, he's, he. Drew Breeze better start growing a beard right now. It's good. Yeah. It's going to be. Oh, man, I can't picture that. Oh, man. That'd be weird. Yeah. I don't know why.

I feel like maybe he's never. I don't know. I don't think you can grow a beard. No. No, that's going to be a problem. All right. So I am switching. I'm taking Green Bay over New Orleans. Well, all right. And then so that puts, and you guys are both taking New Orleans to beat Green Bay. And then I have Philadelphia versus San Francisco in round two at the top of this bracket. I'm going to take San Francisco over Philadelphia in my alternate universe where Philly somehow doesn't win the Super Bowl. I got San Francisco beating Seattle.

And I have Seattle beating San Francisco on the road in a rematch of last week's game. Can I ask you a question, Jason? You sure can. Was it difficult for you not to be able to select an Eli Manning-led team in this bracket? Like you don't have the option to choose the Giants. Is that, was that troubling? It was tough. It was troubling, but Seattle came through for me. Okay. That means, uh,

My NFC title game is San Francisco Green Bay. I've got San Francisco in the Super Bowl. I have Seattle against New Orleans, New Orleans victorious at home going to the Super Bowl. I got 49ers Saints, and I got the Saints moving on. All right. That means my Super Bowl is Kansas City, San Francisco, and I'm going with the 49ers winning the Super Bowl. Ho-hum, efficient, great defense, and that seed.

That number one seed at home with that defense. I think they're just going to meander their way there. And we'll have to stare at Jimmy G's handsome mug all off season. I have Kansas City and the New Orleans Saints in what should be a shootout awesome Super Bowl. I have the Saints. Three to nothing. I have the Saints victorious as Super Bowl champs. I'm sticking with my preseason picks here. I got Baltimore versus New Orleans in the big game. And I have Baltimore and Lamar Jackson taking it home.

I, now that I'm thinking we're, we're talking through all the things that could happen. Yeah. The Patriots versus San Francisco would also be pretty sweet. Oh, if we had, Jimmy G. If we had the, the, the, the, the, the, the master. Let's find the narrative that that's most exciting. Yeah. That one would be pretty, pretty special. And we all know what would happen. Tom Brady would use blood magic to win. Yeah.