Fantasy Football Podcast 2015 - The Footies: 2015 Awards Show, Playoff Challenge, DFS w/Chris Meaney

Summary

Fantasy Footballers Podcast - Episode: The Footies: 2015 Awards Show, Playoff Challenge, DFS w/Chris Meaney
Release Date: January 7, 2016

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Introduction

In this action-packed episode of the Fantasy Footballers - Fantasy Football Podcast, hosts Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, and Mike "The Fantasy Hitman" Wright celebrate the culmination of the 2015 fantasy football season with The Footies: 2015 Awards Show. This special episode not only honors standout performances but also delves into the Playoff Challenge and features expert Daily Fantasy Sports (DFS) insights from Chris Meaney of the Fantasy Sports Network.

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The Footies Awards Show

The highlight of the episode is The Footies: 2015 Awards Show, where the trio presents and discusses various categories based on listener votes. Below are the key categories, nominees, winners, and notable discussions:

1. Performance of the Year

   • Nominees:
     • Antonio Brown (Week 15 vs. Denver): "16 receptions for 189 yards and two touchdowns." [16:21]
     • David Johnson (Week 15): "29 carries for 187 yards and three touchdowns." [16:21]
     • Drew Brees (Week 8): "Seven touchdowns and 500 yards." [15:46]
     • Thomas Rawls (Week 11): "30 carries for 209 yards and a touchdown." [16:21]
     • Cam Newton (Week 15 Playoffs): "340 yards, five touchdowns passing, and 100 yards rushing." [16:21]
   • Winner: David Johnson with his stellar Week 15 performance.
     • Andy Holloway: “The winner is David Johnson.” [17:14]
     • Mike Wright: “David Johnson from the running back position to give you that performance in your semifinals.” [17:32]

2. Fantasy Reapers Man of the Year

   • Nominees:
     • Arian Foster
     • Le'Veon Bell
     • Jamal Charles
     • Marshawn Lynch
     • Andrew Luck
     • DEZ Bryant
   • Winner: Le'Veon Bell for his significant injuries that hampered fantasy owners.
     • Andy Holloway: “Le'Veon Bell takes it he hurt fantasy owners in a big way.” [18:53]
     • Jason Moore: “Le'Veon Bell runs away with this isn’t because of how devastating his injury was, but because of how good he was when he was not injured.” [19:16]

3. Garbage Man of the Year

   • Nominees:
     • Blake Bortles
     • Brandon Cooks
     • Philip Rivers
     • Danny Woodhead
     • Jordan Matthews
   • Winner: Jordan Matthews for consistently underperforming during crucial moments.
     • Jason Moore: “Jordan Matthews, I think the reason he was such a good garbage time player was he helped get his team to garbage time… easier to catch for him.” [20:11]
     • Andy Holloway: “Jordan Matthews does work when it mattered.” [20:25]

4. Poopiest Pants Award

   • Nominees:
     • Randall Cobb
     • Eddie Lacy
     • C.J. Anderson
     • DeMarco Murray
     • Jeremy Hill
   • Winner: Eddie Lacy for failing to meet high expectations.
     • Jason Moore: “Eddie Lacy, you pooped in your big boy pants and you crapped all over fantasy teams for everyone.” [22:18]
     • Andy Holloway: “Eddie Lacy won by more than twice the margin.” [22:46]

5. Waiver Wire Wonder

   • Nominees:
     • D'Angelo Williams
     • Thomas Rawls
     • Tim Hightower
     • Jordan Reed
     • David Johnson
     • Chuck Hendrick West
     • Chris Johnson
     • Blake Bortles
   • Winner: D'Angelo Williams for his unexpected and impactful performances.
     • Andy Holloway: “D'Angelo Williams takes the footy for waiver wire wonder.” [25:29]
     • Mike Wright: “He was a monster. Fit right into the offense.” [25:46]

6. Nickname of the Year

   • Nominees:
     • Betty Crockett Gilmore
     • Marty McBride (Martavis Bryant)
     • Rule 86 (Jordan Reed)
     • Maximum Barnage
     • Guns Mahoney
     • Peach Cobbler (Pete Carroll)
     • Kubes
   • Winner: Rule 86 (Jordan Reed) for his consistent and clutch performances.
     • Andy Holloway: “Rule 86 takes the footy for nickname of the year.” [40:36]
     • Mike Wright: “Rule 86 shows a player that was on teams that won games, a difference making type of player.” [40:45]

7. Breakout Player of the Year

   • Nominees:
     • DeAndre Hopkins
     • Devontae Freeman
     • Alan Robinson
     • Tyler Ifert
     • Blake Bortles
     • Jordan Reed
     • Latavius Murray
     • Doug Baldwin
   • Winner: Allen Robinson for his outstanding and consistent season.
     • Andy Holloway: “Allen Robinson took the footy for breakout player of the year.” [41:30]
     • Jason Moore: “Allen Robinson ran away with this.” [41:46]

8. Rookie of the Year

   • Nominees:
     • David Johnson
     • TJ Yeldon
     • Todd Gurley
     • Amari Cooper
     • Thomas Rawls
     • Buck Allen
   • Winner: Todd Gurley for his explosive rookie season.
     • Mike Wright: “Todd Gurley, a monster year for Gurley. 229 carries, over 1100 yards and 10 touchdowns.” [43:56]
     • Andy Holloway: “Todd Gurley, very well deserved.” [43:59]

9. Comeback Player of the Year

   • Nominees:
     • Andy Dalton
     • Brandon Marshall
     • Ryan Fitzpatrick
     • Doug Martin
     • Jonathan Stewart
     • Larry Fitzgerald
   • Winner: Brandon Marshall for revitalizing his fantasy value after a down period.
     • Jason Moore: “Brandon Marshall, he arrived back strong.” [45:57]
     • Andy Holloway: “Brandon Marshall deserved a footy for comeback player of the year.” [46:09]

10. Steal of the Draft

    • Nominees:
      • Doug Martin (ADP: 74)
      • Alan Robinson (ADP: 83)
      • Brandon Marshall (ADP: 59)
      • Larry Fitzgerald (ADP: 92)
      • Chris Ivory (ADP: 67)
      • Darren McFadden (ADP: 108)
      • Cam Newton (ADP: 84)
      • Eric Decker (ADP: 101)
    • Winner: Alan Robinson for exceeding his draft expectations.
      • Andy Holloway: “Alan Robinson got the ADP.” [47:55]
      • Mike Wright: “He will not have cold feet.” [48:03]

11. Letdown Player of the Year

    • Nominees:
      • Amir Abdullah
      • Joseph Randall
      • Travis Kelsey
      • Melvin Gordon
      • Jordan Matthews
      • Andre Johnson
      • Jeremy Hill
      • Ryan Tannehill
      • Devonte Adams
    • Winner: Jeremy Hill for failing to meet high fantasy expectations consistently.
      • Mike Wright: “Jeremy Hill had a letdown of the year.” [49:29]
      • Jason Moore: “Jeremy Hill frustrated you like crazy.” [50:09]

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Playoff Challenge

The hosts introduce the Playoff Challenge, a fantasy football game hosted on NFL.com, where participants compete during the NFL playoffs. The Fantasy Footballers group is among the top contenders, with Jason Moore highlighting their competitive standing:

• Jason Moore: “On NFL.com… we're like the fifth largest behind the NFL's Rich Eisen show and ESPN.” [02:31]

Notable Quote:
"If you end up winning the group, we'll send you some fun stuff, a trophy, some Fantasy Footballers gear." – Andy Holloway [05:17]

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Fantasy Football News

The hosts provide updates on key players and team dynamics affecting the fantasy landscape:

• Andy Dalton:

  • Jason Moore: “Andy Dalton has a cast removed. AJ McCarrin will play instead.” [06:42]

• Tavis Bryant:

  • Andy Holloway: “Martavis Bryant has been a little bit shaky, only 17 snaps played.” [07:26]

• Tyrod Taylor & Rex Ryan:

  • Mike Wright: “Tyrod Taylor has proven he can be a good quarterback in the league.” [08:20]

• Calvin Johnson:

  • Mike Wright: “Calvin Johnson contemplates retirement due to his high cap number.” [12:15]

• Sean Payton & Coaching Extensions:

  • Andy Holloway: “Sean Payton remains with the Saints, Chuck Pagano gets a four-year extension.” [08:58]
  • Jason Moore: “Keeping Pagano was a decent move, though his GM decisions have been questionable.” [09:10]

• Marshawn Lynch & Others:

  • Jason Moore: "Marshawn Lynch plays, he's in my playoff challenge." [11:17]
  • Andy Holloway: “Jeremy Maclin returned to practice, should be good to go.” [11:22]

Notable Quote:
"Calvin Johnson is saying go ahead, ask me to take a pay cut, because you already have my answer." – Mike Wright [12:42]

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Daily Fantasy Sports (DFS) with Chris Meaney

The episode features a segment with Chris Meaney discussing DFS strategies for the playoffs:

• Quarterback Strategy:

  • Chris Meaney: “Fade Big Ben this week… I like Kirk Cousins and Russell Wilson.” [54:32]

• Running Back Insights:

  • Chris Meaney: “Marshawn Lynch has issues with uncertainty… focus on pass catchers this week.” [56:20]

• Wide Receiver and Defense Picks:

  • Chris Meaney: “Antonio Brown is a solid play, Jordan Reed at tight end is essential.” [58:50]

• Super Bowl Predictions:

  • Chris Meaney: “Going with the Steelers and Seattle Seahawks for the Super Bowl.” [60:50]

Notable Quote:
"The biggest thing is there's only four games in the playoffs, so you have to play who you think is going to be good." – Chris Meaney [53:09]

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Conclusion

The episode wraps up with the hosts encouraging listeners to engage with their community through the website, social media, and upcoming shows. They highlight the importance of staying connected during the offseason and tease future content aimed at enhancing fantasy football strategies.

Notable Closing Remarks:

• Andy Holloway: “We keep bringing him back.” [63:02]
• Mike Wright: “Heath Miller could be the next Gary Barnage.” [63:07]

Listeners are reminded to participate in The Footies and join the Fantasy Footballers community for ongoing fantasy insights and support.

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Key Takeaways:

• David Johnson and Allen Robinson were standout winners in their respective categories.
• Le'Veon Bell and Eddie Lacy were recognized for their significant impacts, both positive and negative.
• The Playoff Challenge remains highly competitive with the Fantasy Footballers group excelling.
• DFS strategies focus on consistency and leveraging emerging players like Kirk Cousins and Jordan Reed.
• Player news, especially regarding injuries and coaching changes, heavily influences fantasy football decisions.

This comprehensive summary encapsulates all the crucial discussions, insights, and outcomes from the episode, providing valuable information for both regular listeners and newcomers to the Fantasy Footballers podcast.

Transcript

[Andy Holloway]

Foreign.

[Jason Moore]

To the Fantasy Footballers podcast with your hosts, Andy Holloway, Jason Moore and Mike Wright.

[Andy Holloway]

Hey, footballers. What's going on?

[Jason Moore]

Hi.

[Andy Holloway]

How you doing?

[Mike Wright]

Pretty good, Pretty good. Was that hello to us?

[Jason Moore]

Yeah, it sounded like he was saying hello to us, so I greeted him back with my customary hi.

[Andy Holloway]

That's your customary?

[Jason Moore]

Yeah. When I see people that, I mean.

[Mike Wright]

People we know, you say, oh, there's Jason. He says.

[Andy Holloway]

He's the guy who says hi.

[Jason Moore]

Hi.

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah. As opposed to hello or greetings, citations, how are you today?

[Mike Wright]

Or sup?

[Jason Moore]

Sup, dude?

[Andy Holloway]

Point break. Is that point.

[Mike Wright]

Hey, bruh.

[Andy Holloway]

Hey, brah. Well, hello, everybody. It is Thursday, January 7, 2016, and we are the Fantasy Footballers. We're back again with another action packed episode. Really? This episode is all about the footies.

[Jason Moore]

Oh, it's a special episode. Very special.

[Andy Holloway]

No, these are not little things you put on your feet to stay warm. These are the 2015 Fantasy Football Awards that we are giving out that you decided the outcome. We did not.

[Mike Wright]

I immediately regret not wearing a tuxedo.

[Jason Moore]

Oh, man.

[Mike Wright]

Immediately.

[Andy Holloway]

That is a horrible oversight. We have 15, is that correct? 15 categories that were on the ballot, including performance of the year. We have the fantasy reapers. Man of the year. We have our garbage. Man of the year. We have performances at every position.

[Jason Moore]

We got the best nickname of the year.

[Mike Wright]

Very excited. Very excited.

[Jason Moore]

That was a close race.

[Andy Holloway]

I was gonna say some of these were very close. Some of them not so much, which, you know, just shows that there were certain players that were a cut above. And so we will be doing that shortly. I just want to make sure we get into a little bit of news and we let you know what else is going on here at Foot Clan headquarters. And let's lead off with that. We have the playoff challenge.

[Mike Wright]

Yeah, yeah.

[Andy Holloway]

And this was kind of neat because on NFL.com if you've not played the playoff challenge, I'll let Jason explain. Kind of the ins and outs, but there are groups of people that play together and I believe we were really close to the top.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah, we're like the fifth largest behind.

[Andy Holloway]

Like the NFL's and Rich.

[Jason Moore]

ESPN.

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah, the Rich Eisen show and ESPN.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah. And then there's. And then there's our league that you are, are a part of. So we will be tweeting out that link again. You can, you can just go to the NFL Network.com go to the playoff challenge. It's a fun. Basically, here's what the game is. It's fantasy football for the playoffs. I'm guessing that you will enjoy it. Because you love fantasy football, as we do.

[Andy Holloway]

Just under a thousand people.

[Jason Moore]

Just under a thousand.

[Andy Holloway]

We tweeted it twice. And I'll just say this real quick. You can go to the NFL Playoff challenge, just look for the group, the fantasy footballers. Or you can go to bitly.com football foot challenge.

[Jason Moore]

There you go.

[Andy Holloway]

So, Jason, go ahead and explain what it is.

[Jason Moore]

So here's how the game works for the playoffs. You set your lineup. There's a quarterback, two running backs, two wide receivers, tight end, defense, kicker. And you get points just like in fantasy football. Now here's the real catch and the strategy changer is that through the playoffs you will get a multiplier of your points for players who play the following week. So essentially the.

[Andy Holloway]

If you give an example, if you.

[Mike Wright]

Don'T change your roster, right?

[Jason Moore]

If you played him the last week. So let's say you pick Kirk Cousins for your quarterback and he does great in week one and he scores you a lot of points, but he loses that game. You get those points and that's great. But next week you're going to need to change that quarterback and you're going.

[Andy Holloway]

To be at the beginning and you're.

[Jason Moore]

Going to be at that. And so the next week, when you pick Aaron Rodgers because he was so great that last week he goes out, you're going to get one, you know, point for point one. He's doing one X. But if Kirk Cousins won that game and you start him the next week, then you get two times the points for everything. So there's a lot of strategy there.

[Andy Holloway]

And I think, hold on, he's carrying this one on for a while.

[Jason Moore]

All right, so here's one of the strategies. Oh, my goodness. Here's one of the strategic facets is bye week players, right? Clearly, if you pick a guy that's going to Palmer to the super bowl, you're going to get a lot of multipliers up to four times. You can pick the guys that are on by in week one and they will start that next week giving you a times two multiplier. So I picked Carson Palmer in my personal league and that means that when he plays whoever he plays the following week, I will get two times his points, but I get nothing this week from any position. So.

[Andy Holloway]

So, and if it's not, if that's not clear enough, it's very obvious on the site they explain it to you. I will say this. If you end up winning the group, we'll send you some fun stuff, we'll send you a trophy, we'll Send you some footballers gear.

[Jason Moore]

Love it.

[Andy Holloway]

So that'll be the reward for the victor, obviously. We'll probably win.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah.

[Andy Holloway]

And we'll send it to ourselves. I actually go to the mailbox and mail it, though, because I like getting packages, so. All right. So, hey, if you want to check us out on Twitter, we're at the FFballers. Check us out on the web, the fantasy footballers dot com. Some quick housekeeping things. With that, we're going to continue to upgrade the website all through the offseason, getting ready for next year, including optimizing the way our rankings display so you can get them on mobile. We've heard that feedback a lot this year about people not being able to read them on mobile as well as they can online. And so we'll take care of that this offseason and we'll be upgrading, adding new things, new stuff for Foot Clan members and it's gonna be great. It's gonna be great.

[Jason Moore]

It's gonna be the best.

[Andy Holloway]

It's gonna be the best. All right, let's. Let's talk about some news.

[Jason Moore]

News and notes from around the league.

[Mike Wright]

That's very quiet.

[Andy Holloway]

It is quiet. The volume is 100% up.

[Jason Moore]

Well, you know, it's.

[Andy Holloway]

How does that work?

[Jason Moore]

Maybe.

[Andy Holloway]

Is it that. Did a channel over here get knocked down for the sound effect channel?

[Mike Wright]

Maybe we'll have to push on.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah.

[Andy Holloway]

Isn't this a whole year? We don't have any issues with drops. Now I'm forgetting drops. It's this after lunch thing.

[Mike Wright]

Dude, it's Y216.

[Andy Holloway]

I don't think so.

[Mike Wright]

Y2K16.

[Andy Holloway]

No, it has to make sense for it to be. To be that. All right, so let's go.

[Jason Moore]

Andy Dalton, he is. Number him to play.

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah, he's not. He's not playing.

[Jason Moore]

Got his cast removed. But he is not playing this week. So it will be the AJ McCarran.

[Andy Holloway]

Show, better or worse for the Cincinnati Bengals.

[Jason Moore]

That's such a stupid question.

[Mike Wright]

What?

[Jason Moore]

No, I actually think it's better. I genuinely do, and I think that's silly. But the narrative. Crazy person. No, I'm. I. Nobody would doubt you on that. We all know I'm a crazy person. But the narrative is no longer will Andy Dalton implode? Will. You know, now it's like that narrative. I haven't heard that this week.

[Andy Holloway]

They're going to have distraction.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah. From a distraction standpoint, from a nervous standpoint. Now it's just. Let's control the clock. We're at home. There's no D. Will Probably. There's no levy on Bell and I.

[Andy Holloway]

Think Martavis Bryant's been a little bit shaky.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah. So to say the least. Well, he was only on the field like 17 snaps.

[Andy Holloway]

That qualifies as shaky for me. I mean, benched the week before he was benched. Sometime there were issues.

[Mike Wright]

He was wink, wink.

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah. He was as ill as Tom Coffin's resignation.

[Jason Moore]

Oh, all right.

[Andy Holloway]

Hey, Mark. Tavis, you got a cold? What are you talking about?

[Mike Wright]

I feel great, coach.

[Andy Holloway]

So Tyrod Taylor seems like he'll be the quarterback next year. Seems like a prove it year for Rex Ryan, Buffalo Bills GM and then Tyler Tyrod Taylor. So Taylor is going to be given the opportunity. So dynasty implications is why we mentioned that.

[Mike Wright]

Yeah, I also just, I think it's worth mentioning because it's ridiculous. Why did. I don't think Tyrod Taylor needs a chance to prove it. I think Tyrod Taylor has proven that he can be a good quarterback in the league.

[Andy Holloway]

That's what a lot of people's opinion is.

[Mike Wright]

So I just.

[Andy Holloway]

That he's proven it.

[Mike Wright]

I think it's a silly thing. Silly.

[Andy Holloway]

Okay. D'Angelo Williams, we mentioned it. Outside chance, small one to play in the game. I don't think he'll play.

[Jason Moore]

He's still in a boot today. He's not going to play.

[Andy Holloway]

So playoff challenge wise, probably not a good.

[Jason Moore]

I had him in. I took him out.

[Andy Holloway]

There you go. In the shocker. I mean, is there some sort of button I can push to show you how shocked I was?

[Jason Moore]

Oh, you talking about Chuck Pagano?

[Andy Holloway]

I mean, Chuck Pagano, four year extension. Ryan Grigson, three year extension. He had one year left. I essentially they are now tied together for four more years of entertainment.

[Mike Wright]

Four more years.

[Andy Holloway]

Four more years. They are also going to be featured in a sitcom for these next, for the next few years. The Odd Couple. Yeah, the Odd Couple.

[Jason Moore]

I think keeping Pagano was actually a decent move on their part. He's had a good record, but keeping their GM is a joke. He's made one good pick in the last several years and that was Andrew.

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah, but what about that T Rich trade?

[Jason Moore]

Oh, that's, that's true. He did get T. Rich for a one.

[Andy Holloway]

It's just kind of. It was a surprise. I will say I believed that Sean Payton would stay where he stand and that was the news that broke today. He's staying in New Orleans and it looks like, you know, Chuck Pagano, he has the opportunity to have a big bounce back. Very similar situation to Jason Garrett in Dallas where next Next year, I expect. I predict both teams to win their divisions next year. I'm not, I don't have any issues saying that. I think both teams will win their division when they get the quarterbacks back in place. Hopefully Gregson will focus on the defense a little bit and they'll be.

[Mike Wright]

Or the offensive line.

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah, correct. Weaknesses. Focus on weaknesses. Man, not another wide receiver.

[Mike Wright]

If they draft a wide receiver in.

[Jason Moore]

The first round, hey, he's got a three year contract locked up.

[Mike Wright]

That would be just, just the best in.

[Andy Holloway]

Very exciting news for me as a, you know, as a Philip Rivers fan and that offense. If there are rumors that Ken Wizen Hunt will end up back in San Diego as the offensive coordinator, he's already worked very well there with Philip Rivers and him and Mike McCoy being there, I think that just means really good things. You talk about on the last show, Jason, you said change. Sometimes we overestimate or underestimate situations. If this change happens, at least we have a little bit of a track record with Wizen Hunt as an offensive coordinator. He seems much more equipped to be play calling and focusing on the quarterback in the offense than he does to be a head coach.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah, this, it's not a question of what's it going to be. It's just look back, you already knew what it was going to be. Kind of like when D'Angelo Williams came in relief of Le'Veon Bell. It wasn't how's he going to perform? We already knew. We had already seen it once.

[Andy Holloway]

Exactly. So a few more bits of news before we get to the footies. We've got Marshawn Lynch. Do you guys think he plays?

[Mike Wright]

I think he does.

[Jason Moore]

He plays and he's in my playoff challenge.

[Andy Holloway]

He is in your playoff challenge.

[Jason Moore]

He is my guy.

[Andy Holloway]

Jeremy Macklin returned to practice on Wednesday. He should be good to go. What else do we have? We have Sean Payton remaining there, which is great for. I think that means Breeze is going to be there and they're going to be, you know, they flashed this year. If they can just fix the defense a little bit.

[Mike Wright]

That's a big if, my friend.

[Andy Holloway]

I know, I know. But there were game. I mean, they had a decent back half of the year.

[Jason Moore]

Well, they made a strong fix in getting rid of their defensive coordinator halfway through the year. That that helped and then kind of.

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah, big news.

[Mike Wright]

Yeah. This is the last, last piece of big news.

[Andy Holloway]

Calvin Johnson, rumors that he may retire. Confirmed by him that he's contemplating retirement. We talked about it a little bit right before we went on the air here, Mike thought might be, maybe it's a little bit of a leverage ploy, which I don't, I think you could be right because the, the what's his situation?

[Mike Wright]

So his, his cap number is humongous. It's over $20 million. It's, it's something that the team cannot absorb. I mean you, you have to make moves to improve the team and investing that kind of a salary hit for Calvin Johnson is just not a wise thing for your team as a whole. But to me this is Calvin Johnson saying go, go ahead, ask me to take a pay cut. Because you already have my answer and the answer is no.

[Andy Holloway]

The answer is farewell.

[Mike Wright]

Yeah.

[Andy Holloway]

And if you cut me, essentially if.

[Jason Moore]

You ask for a pay cut.

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah.

[Mike Wright]

So if you want me to take less money, either I'm saying I'm not going to play because he will do it or it's just, it becomes a really bad look for your organization. You have a superstar elite wide receiver who still has some time left who's got to be loved. I mean I'm not up in Detroit, so I don't know the Calvin Johnson love. I imagine it's very similar to Larry Fitzgerald here. And the public scrutiny of your organization. If feeling like you forced Calvin Johnson into retirement would not be a good look for, for your fan base.

[Andy Holloway]

I just asked you last show about Matthew Stafford next year and one of the things you said was if Calvin's back. I like his situation with Jim Bob Kutter. Six and two back half of the year, really good touchdown to interception ratio. Calvin now is up in the air.

[Mike Wright]

Yeah.

[Andy Holloway]

And a lot of if he really is considering retirement. A lot of these guys, I'm surprised they do it right at the end of the year. We know he's just been through another beat up injury plagued year. Three in a row where he's kind of been, you know, he's worn down. He is worn down. He's 31, I believe or will be.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah.

[Andy Holloway]

So I mean he's not, he's not ancient. He can come out and be, be great. We've seen that in certain games this year. But it's no longer the Calvin Johnson. It gives you 16 consecutive, 15 consecutive huge performances. It's okay. A couple big games and oh no, is he going to be a decoy for a couple games.

[Mike Wright]

Kevin Johnson is 30, but he will turn 31 in September.

[Andy Holloway]

Alright, so are we ready? Do we want to hit it?

[Mike Wright]

Yeah, I'm ready.

[Andy Holloway]

Well, let's just cue the theme music.

[Jason Moore]

Welcome everybody to the footies for 2015.

[Andy Holloway]

We'Re your hosts, Andy Holloway, Jason Moore.

[Mike Wright]

I'm Mike the Fantasy Hitman Wright.

[Andy Holloway]

And we are bringing you the best.

[Jason Moore]

Performances of the year as voted by you, the people.

[Andy Holloway]

Can we just listen to the music?

[Jason Moore]

Yeah, now. Now it's just a time to listen to the music.

[Andy Holloway]

I'm gonna keep that going in the background a little bit. All right, we have 15 categories. We put it online. We said, go vote. Tell us who the very best players were this season, and we've got the results. That's all there is to it.

[Mike Wright]

The results are in now.

[Andy Holloway]

Do we have. We don't have. Okay, okay. We're gonna go through the nominations as well.

[Mike Wright]

Brass is coming in.

[D]

Oh.

[Andy Holloway]

Isn'T this just perfect?

[Mike Wright]

Oh, man.

[Andy Holloway]

It's over. Oh, I started it again. All right, so first category that I want to bring to your attention. You guys can read the nominees. Who are the nominees for performance of the year? This is the single week performance that was the very most impressive one of the season. And again, we told everybody out there to consider all things impact to your fantasy team when they happened, that type.

[Jason Moore]

Of thing, all of those things. For performance of the year, the nominees were Antonio Brown in Week 15, who put up a stat line of 16, 189 yards and two touchdowns against Denver. That's pretty good. David Johnson in Week 15 with 29 carries for 187 and three touchdowns. You had Drew Brees's monster gargantuan best quarterback week of the year in week eight with seven touchdowns and 500 yards. Oh, yeah, I missed. I forgot about.

[Mike Wright]

How dare you.

[Andy Holloway]

Those are Kellen Moore numbers.

[Jason Moore]

Thomas Rawls was a big performer in Week 11 with 30 carries, 209 yards, as well as a touchdown through the air. And finally, you have Cam Newton in Week 15 playoff week where he put up 340 yards and five touchdowns. Oh, and he also added 100 yards on the ground.

[Mike Wright]

Those are some big performances.

[Andy Holloway]

Couple observations. One, three of the five nominated performances were from week 15 when it kind of mattered.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah, people won championships because of those three guys. All right, let's see who the winner is.

[Andy Holloway]

Let's open up the.

[Mike Wright]

I don't know if you can hear this, but this is a drum roll.

[Andy Holloway]

The winner was.

[Jason Moore]

And the winner is.

[Andy Holloway]

David Johnson.

[Jason Moore]

Excuse me, I'm sorry.

[Andy Holloway]

The winner is.

[Jason Moore]

David Johnson.

[Andy Holloway]

He was running that category 29 for 187, three touchdowns. Second place was the Drew Brees seven touchdown game. And coming in third was Cam Newton's big Week 15 performance. Do you guys agree with the vote?

[Mike Wright]

Yeah, I got to agree with the voters on this one. David Johnson from the running back position to give you that performance in your semifinals.

[Andy Holloway]

Clutch.

[Mike Wright]

Yeah, it doesn't get much better than that.

[Andy Holloway]

One of the things about the Rawls performance, it was great, but not many people would have thought to play him that week. It was a very late call and a late choice there. So David Johnson takes the very first one.

[Jason Moore]

Our first.

[Andy Holloway]

Our footy goes to David Johnson. All right, guys, let's get you.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah, this. This one's all about you, Andy.

[Andy Holloway]

All right, the nominees for the Fantasy Reapers man of the year, which in case you wonder what that is, it's the play which players painful injury hurt fantasy owners the most this season. The nominees are.

[Mike Wright]

Arian Foster with an Achilles twice and a groin.

[Andy Holloway]

Yes.

[Mike Wright]

Le'Veon Bell with a torn MCL. Jamal Charles with a torn ACL.

[Andy Holloway]

Marshawn Lynch, I believe he had a sports hernia.

[Mike Wright]

Is that what happened?

[Andy Holloway]

That is correct.

[Mike Wright]

Andrew Luck, a lacerated kidney and overall sucking. And DEZ Bryant with a Jones fracture to his foot.

[Andy Holloway]

And the winner of the Fantasy Reapers man of the year was. Le'Veon Bell.

[Mike Wright]

Oh, Le'Veon Bell.

[Andy Holloway]

Le'Veon Bell takes it he hurt fantasy owners in a big way. He missed the beginning of the year, right?

[Mike Wright]

Yeah.

[Andy Holloway]

He had the two games suspension. This one was not very close.

[Mike Wright]

All right.

[Andy Holloway]

Le'Veon Bell won by more than twice the margin. Coming in very close. Actually, right now they're about tied. Jamal Charles and Arian Foster are tied for second place.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah. The reason Le'Veon Bell runs away with this isn't because of how devastating his injury was, but because of how good he was when he was not injured. The clear cut, best running back in the league. If you're in a ppr, get out of it. He was going to win a bunch of people league and then he left. But hopefully you had his handcuffed. D'Angelo Williams has been very good in replacement.

[Mike Wright]

And so the next category for the 2015 Footies, Garbage man of the year. I'm gonna need the drop. This award goes to the fantasy player who did the most damage when it mattered the least. And the nominees, Blake Bortles, Brandon Cooks. Philip Rivers. Danny Woodhead. And Jordan Matthews. The winner of the 2015 with 43% of the vote, Garbage man of the year. We all know it's Jordan Matthews, the ultimate garbage man. The sanitation engineer himself.

[Andy Holloway]

Jordan Matthews did work when it mattered.

[Mike Wright]

The game, after the game. Jordan Matthews, although there was it was a little bit close with Blake Bortles in second place.

[Andy Holloway]

There was some recency bias. Jordan Matthews did a lot of garbage work at the end of the year.

[Jason Moore]

Blake Bortles did a consistent amount throughout the entire year. Blake Bortles was great at taking out.

[Andy Holloway]

That trash, but Danny Woodhead was third.

[Jason Moore]

Yes, that was just from, I think, one amazing performance all in the fourth quarter especially. But Jordan Matthews, I think the reason he was such a good garbage time player was he helped get his team to garbage time when, when the plays mattered, he couldn't catch the ball. But later in the game when it's like, oh, the game's out of reach, it doesn't matter if I catch this ball. It was easier to catch for him.

[Mike Wright]

So he not only removed the garbage, he was the creator.

[Andy Holloway]

He was so he deserves this, the true garbage man. He deserves this footy. Now listen, Jordan Matthews, Danny Woodhead, Phillip Rivers, Brandon Cooks, Blake Bortles, what do they got in common? If you want to be considered for the garbage man of the year, what do you need?

[Jason Moore]

You need a bad team.

[Andy Holloway]

You need a bad team. You need to be on a losing team because all of those guys late in the game.

[Jason Moore]

Well, speaking of bad, we might want to shift to our next stinky award.

[Andy Holloway]

The next footy.

[Jason Moore]

It is the poopiest pants award. Despite high expectations, this player let fantasy pooped in his big boy pants. These are the guys that let you down despite high expectations. And the nominees are. Randall COBB, Eddie Lacy, C.J. anderson, DeMarco Murray, and Jeremy Hill.

[Andy Holloway]

There's a lot of poop in those pants.

[Jason Moore]

A lot of poop in those pants. But one of those pants is larger than than all the other pants, and it was able to fill up with so much poop that he ran away with the award. It wasn't close. Eddie Lacey. Eddie Lacey, you pooped in your big boy pants and you crapped all over fantasy teams for everyone, 50% of the vote.

[Mike Wright]

Yeah, it was. I don't blame the voters on this one at all. Eddie Lacy. We all had the highest of hopes. A consensus top five pick. He was number one. No, number two. He was number two on my big board and he definitely went number two.

[Jason Moore]

Give me Le'Veon Bell. I would so much rather have a guy that gets injured and now I got to replace him. You did this over and over, right? Arian Foster goes down. Dion Lewis goes down.

[Andy Holloway]

Thomas roll.

[Jason Moore]

And so you fought. You go, I've got to make a move. I've got to replace him. But Eddie Lacy did the worst thing he could, which is every now and.

[Andy Holloway]

Then he tantalizes you with his pass.

[Jason Moore]

Oh, I had a great game on your bench. Let me in.

[Andy Holloway]

I was just about to ask you, because Arian Foster was my number one on my big board before the year. Lady Lacy was near the top of yours. Which situation would you rather have been in?

[Jason Moore]

If you were an owner that drafted Arian Foster, you finished better than if you drafted.

[Mike Wright]

Or it had to be Foster. I mean, where I could. I drafted Foster in like the fifth or sixth round. I actually did not have any Eddie Lacy on my team, seems because I didn't have a top five pick anywhere.

[Andy Holloway]

Number two was DeMarco Murray, which I completely understand. I'm surprised it's not even closer because DeMarco's expectations were asinine, humongous.

[D]

Yeah.

[Andy Holloway]

And then third was CJ Anderson, and he's actually a playoff challenge guy for me because I think C.J. anderson starting to come into form, he has bounced back.

[Mike Wright]

It. The more you watch of Anderson and the opportunity, the more it looks like it really was the ankle injury and the. The offense with. With Manning, the way it was being run, it just. It didn't fit with his run style.

[Andy Holloway]

I might be looking into this too much, but it kind of seems like a lot of these guys are guys that are bigger.

[Mike Wright]

Yeah, Randall Cobb.

[Andy Holloway]

No, but I did make some comments about Cobb earlier in the year.

[Jason Moore]

They looked bigger this year. C.J. anderson came into training camp overweight.

[Andy Holloway]

Even Jeremy Hill's a bigger back. Just interesting that they're all power guys. They're all power guys when you eat.

[Jason Moore]

A diet heavy in fat and fiber.

[Andy Holloway]

All right, the next footy is the Waiver Wire Wonder award, which undrafted waiver wire stud was the best signing of the 2015 season. We had a number of nominees in this category. I'll go through them quickly.

[Mike Wright]

Tough. Yeah, there's a lot.

[Andy Holloway]

There are D'Angelo Williams, Thomas Rawls, Tim Hightower, Jordan Reed, David Johnson, Chuck Hendrick West, Chris Johnson, and Blake Bortles. And so the votes are in. And the winner of the Waiver Wire Wonder footie is. D'Angelo Williams.

[Mike Wright]

Congratulations, D'Angelo Williams. Any words from D'Angelo was a monster. Just a complete monster. It was and I dare say very large surprise, especially the first two weeks when I don't think he was the.

[Andy Holloway]

Number one running back. After the first two weeks, there was.

[Mike Wright]

Probably a few people out there who recommended, yeah, you know, grab D'Angelo Williams and play him. But it's. It seemed Like a fool's errand. If you were going to replace Le'Veon Bell, if you took him in the first, you know, I need a guy. For the first couple weeks, there was no way I was playing D'Angelo Williams that first week and not even the second week. But he was a monster. He fit right into the offense. And then when Bell went down, he came in 200 carries, 907 yards, 11 touchdowns, 40 catches, 40 catches for 367 yards. Monster.

[Jason Moore]

He was the number four back on the entirety of the year.

[Andy Holloway]

He had 38% of the vote. Coming in second with 22% was David Johnson. Third was Jordan Reed with 16% of the vote. And fourth was Blake Bortles with 10%.

[Jason Moore]

That's such an important category. The waiver wire.

[Mike Wright]

Wonder how you win.

[Jason Moore]

Is generally a guy that wins a lot of championships. Last year. Last year was Justin for set that gold off the waiver wire. Every year we want to know who gets this award. So D will, congratulations.

[Andy Holloway]

Congratulations.

[Mike Wright]

I mean, Hightower really should have gotten a little bit more love, I think just because of the clutchness. It's a. He didn't have a full body of work, which I completely understand. But I saw a nugget, a factoid. Tim Hightower, the most common player among championship teams.

[Andy Holloway]

Wow. Wow. Last year, that was Odell Beckham Jr.

[Mike Wright]

Right.

[Andy Holloway]

So Tim Hightower this year, a guy who hadn't taken a carry since 2011, comes in and makes that kind of a fantasy impact. It made me just laugh a little bit to look at the top running backs and see D'Angelo Williams and Tim Hightower and these names of guys that you just never. You couldn't have in a million years. You could have thrown darts at a wall all day and you never would land on those guys, especially Tim Hightower. So.

[Mike Wright]

So we're going to take the footies into the positional categories.

[Andy Holloway]

Yes, we are.

[Mike Wright]

So we'll start with the fantasy wide receiver of the year. And we asked the voters factor in draft position, big game performances and impact to your fantasy football team. And the nominees for fantasy wide receiver of the year were Antonio Brown, Julio Jones, Odell Beckham Jr. Doug Baldwin, Allen Robinson, DeAndre Hopkins, and rounding out the category, Brandon Marshall.

[Andy Holloway]

And I'm going to have to take this over from you.

[Mike Wright]

Did we have a lit?

[Andy Holloway]

Because late vote has changed the outcome of it.

[Mike Wright]

What we have the.

[Andy Holloway]

I'm looking at the live vote.

[Mike Wright]

This is unprecedented. This is un.

[Jason Moore]

This is like. Wait, is the winner Columbia.

[Mike Wright]

This. This is Steve Harvey. We are In Steve Harvey territory right here.

[Andy Holloway]

Unfortunately, I, I'm looking at the actual up to date live stats and then I, I look back to our doc and it is a different name.

[Jason Moore]

Wow.

[Andy Holloway]

And so I'm gonna need at number one.

[Mike Wright]

Oh my goodness.

[Andy Holloway]

And the winner of the footy.

[Jason Moore]

I don't even know. I'm excited.

[Andy Holloway]

Wide receiver of the year with 26% of the vote. Very close. Second place was 24% of the vote. Antonio Brown.

[Mike Wright]

Antonio Brown.

[Andy Holloway]

Antonio Brown came back late. Number two, the very close second is. Alan Robinson.

[Mike Wright]

I am in good. Are you in utter shock right now?

[Jason Moore]

Alan Robinson was running away with this in the beginning. I was the first 500 votes that came in. It was like, okay, well that one's clearly going to Allen.

[Mike Wright]

The word Allen was right at the front of my mouth before I got flagged down.

[Andy Holloway]

I had to grab.

[Jason Moore]

Incredible. Well, I will tell you this.

[Andy Holloway]

A 30 vote lead and he won.

[Jason Moore]

Antonio Brown deserves it. And he is, you know, look, he might not have been as value based a pick as Allen Robinson, but Antonio Brown has shown that he is the best wide receiver in the league.

[Andy Holloway]

Maybe the best fantasy player in the league.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah. And we've talked about probably too early and too much about the fact that he would be a worthy number one pick next year. But Antonio Brown, he is an absolute monster. Congratulations. And Antonio Brown.

[Andy Holloway]

And third place was. Brandon Marshall was 16% of the vote, DeAndre Hopkins. And then Julio Jones. So yes, big surprise there.

[Mike Wright]

Apparently the second best wide receiver year of all time. And Julio Jones was only best. That's only good enough for fifth.

[Andy Holloway]

Maybe because some people who owned him had a similar opinion as I did, which is the most ridiculous opinion of all. But he didn't help me.

[Jason Moore]

He didn't score enough touchdowns. I mean he, he had the yards, but he didn't get the touchdown.

[Andy Holloway]

Antonio Brown won weeks and he won him consistently. Julio Jones from weeks four through the second to last week of the year had like two touchdowns. So he came out and he gave you 10 to 20 points, which you loved. It's fine. He didn't win your week. Antonio Brown came out and some of the performances that he put up against.

[Jason Moore]

Denver, I mean that was. We didn't speak on this, but the individual performance of the year, I actually voted for that. Antonio Brown in Week 15 against Denver.

[Andy Holloway]

Look, if Julio had won people more leagues, he would have won that category.

[Jason Moore]

There you go. Well, let's find out who won people leagues at the running back position. The fantasy running back of the year, factoring in all those things. The nominees were Devonta Freeman, Adrian Peterson, old man strength. Doug Martin, bounce back, D'Angelo Williams, waiver wire Goldman strength. And Todd Gurley, rookie sensation. And the winner when factoring in where they drafted impact total performances is Devonte Freeman. Mr. Besmirched name himself was the fantasy running back of the year.

[Andy Holloway]

Just hearing it roll off your lips.

[Jason Moore]

He was not that involved in weeks one and two and finished the year as the number one running back. Who you could probably find on waivers, might have been drafted but was not expected to do.

[Mike Wright]

I think he was. He was drafted in a good amount of leagues. What was he held on to?

[Andy Holloway]

A lot of people dropped him after week one and two.

[Mike Wright]

Here's the first two weeks of Devonta Freeman running the ball 10 for 18, 12 for 25.

[Jason Moore]

And I'm just.

[Andy Holloway]

Mike was cackling in the corner of the studio.

[Jason Moore]

I am happy that you are bringing these back up. Just further besmirching his name so that. So that people can be confident to keep him for next year.

[Andy Holloway]

He ran away with this one 44% of the vote, very close second place. D'Angelo Williams actually took second place just above Adrian Peterson. Both had 18% of the vote. And then Gurley and Doug Martin, all guys that had great years helped you in different ways. Freeman certainly took teams from mediocre to dominant for a big portion of the of the year. So. All right, let's move on to the fantasy tight end of the year, the fantasy tight end of the year footy award. The nominees were Tyler Ifert, Rob Gronkowski, Jordan Reed, Maximum Barnage himself, Gary Barnage and Greg Olson. All guys with incredible years. And the winner of the footy for fantasy tight end of the year, Jordan Reed.

[Jason Moore]

Rule 86.

[Andy Holloway]

Hey, Rule 86. Running away with it. 42% of the vote. Gronkowski came in second. Ifert and then Barnage. Heck of a year for Jordan Reed, a guy who when you followed the rule, which is if Jordan Reed is healthy, you play him. He was another guy that took teams from good to great, from great to championship and carried teams especially clutch in the playoffs.

[Jason Moore]

For Rob Gronkowski to not win the award for the best fantasy tight end, it takes a performance like a guy who goes undrafted finishing right behind Rob Gronkowski. And Jordan Reed was the number two tight end in many formats off of waivers and was consistent and did it every time he played. I mean, Jordan Reed, you, Mike, I believe might even be keeping Jordan Reed in our league of record. He has shown that the.

[Mike Wright]

That was My point that I was going to talk about where Jordan Reed has. When he came into the league, it was. This guy is very interesting. Let's see what he can do. A couple flashes here and there, but mostly hurt. Same thing last year. We were, we thought, okay, well Reed, this is gonna be the year hurt this year. Training camp gets hurt and we don't know how long he's gonna be out. And then his. So we actually liked his replacement, Niles Paul. Niles Paul out for the year. And then Jordan Reed happened to be ready to play for opening day and has just turned into a guy that is going to be worth the risk. You have, you have to have this guy on your team. He's. It's no longer. Oh, he gets hurt all the time. I don't want, I don't care that he gets hurt all the time because if the chance that he plays every game. I have an elite, elite level tight end. 20 point in our league of record, 23 points behind Rob Gronkowski. And that was so Gronk also missed a game.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah, I was going to say, you know who else has been somewhat injury prone?

[Mike Wright]

Gronkowski.

[Jason Moore]

But it doesn't matter because he's so good that you take that risk.

[Andy Holloway]

And yeah, Jordan Reed could, he still has to prove it for more time than he has, but he could be taking that leap into that upper echelon category. And the thing is, is this winner, Jordan Reed winning by more than double the votes of Rob Gronkowski shows again a player that was on teams that won games, you know, a difference making type of player like Tim Hightower, like you mentioned before. So all right, that does it for the tight end.

[Mike Wright]

So the fantasy quarterback of the year. When factoring everything we've asked the voters to think about the nominees Fantasy quarterback of the year. Tom Brady. Cam Newton. Carson Palmer. Blake Bortles. Russell Wilson.

[Andy Holloway]

Who is that?

[Mike Wright]

Russell Wilson And Andy Dalton. Andy Dalton, he still made his way onto the ballot because he was that good.

[Jason Moore]

He deserved, he deserved to be on the ball.

[Mike Wright]

Absolutely. He deserved to be nominated. And the winner for fantasy quarterback of the year. No shockers here. Cam Newton.

[Andy Holloway]

Absolutely.

[Mike Wright]

Oh, and we are dabbing in the studio. There is by no Cam Newton fantasy player or the highest fantasy score of the year. So there is absolutely no question ran.

[Andy Holloway]

Away with this one. Yeah, more than double. The second place guy who was Carson Palmer had a great year. Blake Bortles finished third. Andy Dalton even got a few votes down at the bottom. But cam Newton with 53% of the.

[Mike Wright]

Vote and what's amazing about this list, who would be the highest drafted guy of the. Of last year? Who was. Was it Russell Wilson?

[Jason Moore]

Yeah, Russell Wilson would have been the highest drafted of this.

[Andy Holloway]

Followed by probably Carson Palmer.

[Jason Moore]

No, no, Camp Newton would have been.

[Mike Wright]

People still drafted Newton in about the 8th. Yeah, they did.

[Jason Moore]

But. But when you look at the list, I think the point you're making is your top. Your top quarterbacks that you came into this year drafting aren't even a part of this list. And this was a pretty wide list. Well, now let's get to the list. I like this one that everyone cares the most about. It was, I believe, the most diverse group of voting. There was no runaway winner here. There were close seconds, close thirds, and everyone got a vote. It is four, the nickname of the year.

[Mike Wright]

Very excited.

[Jason Moore]

Which nickname does the Foot Clan enjoy the best? Here are your nominees. These wonderful nicknames. You have Betty Crockett Gilmore. You've got Marty McBride for Martavis Bryant. And of course, the Big Salad, one of Mike's personal favorites, Rule 86, the aforementioned Jordan Reed. You've got Maximum Barnage. Also at the tight end position. Maybe my favorite, Guns Mahoney. Guns Mahoney.

[Mike Wright]

Who's Guns Mahoney? Jason.

[Jason Moore]

Guns Mahoney is Guns Mahoney. That's Dan Campbell.

[Mike Wright]

Okay.

[Jason Moore]

Peach Cobbler. You got. You got Peach Cobbler out there for. Man, we had a lot of nicknames.

[Andy Holloway]

Carroll, Pete Carroll.

[Jason Moore]

For Pete Carroll.

[Andy Holloway]

Two coaches have nicknames.

[Jason Moore]

That's good. Well, we also had Kubes.

[Andy Holloway]

That's true.

[Jason Moore]

So, you know, he just didn't make that.

[Andy Holloway]

Wasn't a big stretch.

[Jason Moore]

No.

[Andy Holloway]

Kubes. Let's do Kubes.

[Mike Wright]

Yeah.

[Jason Moore]

You know, we didn't put David Johnson here because it's not a nickname. He's just singing it. Same with Russell. Russell. That's true. Also nominees, the Depth Chart Assassin, Fred Jackson himself, Friend of the show, and Dirty Cake. Also Sammy Biscuits. We.

[Andy Holloway]

We left.

[Mike Wright]

We're giving him an honorable mention.

[Jason Moore]

All of these guys got great votes. I'm going to take you back from third place on.

[Mike Wright]

Oh, I like that.

[Jason Moore]

At third place, the third place winner was Guns Mahoney. People enjoyed.

[Andy Holloway]

I was surprised.

[Mike Wright]

This was a shocker. A complete shocker to me of as far as nicknames go, Guns Mahoney was a complete throwaway.

[Andy Holloway]

You're wrong, sir.

[Jason Moore]

I think it all came from when you went. From when you were correct, when you were like Dan Campbell. That's what we're talking about.

[Andy Holloway]

Three or four times in a row. You just referred to him very Casually as Guns. Yeah, guns. When Guns Mahoney is making his decision with Lamar Miller in the backfield and Guns Mahoney tells Ryan Tannehill to. And I'm like, that's. His name's Dan Campbell.

[Jason Moore]

I think if you look on his birth certificate, it's Guns Mahoney in second place. Second place is Mike's favorite, the big salad, Sean Drone.

[Andy Holloway]

Shout out to Seinfeld lovers out there.

[Jason Moore]

Great nickname. But the first place is the name. The name that won. The name. That was a rule. Rule 86, Jordan Reed, you are the nickname of the year.

[Andy Holloway]

Congratulations, Jordan.

[Mike Wright]

And I like this one. I'm sure that his performance of winning championship that. That factors in, that gives you a.

[Andy Holloway]

Is that good?

[Mike Wright]

Gives you some love, an attachment to a nickname and a player. So I liked it. I like this one. I'm with the voters. Ruling.

[Andy Holloway]

All right, Rule 86 takes the footy for nickname of the year. And now we move on to the breakout player of the year. Which player was fantasy football's breakout player of the season?

[Jason Moore]

Lot of great options.

[Andy Holloway]

A lot of good options. We put it to a vote. We let you guys go and vote on the breakout player of the year. The nominees were DeAndre Hopkins, Devontae Freeman, Alan Robinson, Tyler Ifert, Blake Bortles, Jordan Reed, Latavius Murray, and Doug Baldwin.

[Mike Wright]

Great options.

[Andy Holloway]

And the winner of the breakout player of the year.

[Jason Moore]

Are you sure? Have you double checked this one?

[Andy Holloway]

Got it right in front of me. Allen Robinson.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah.

[Andy Holloway]

Allen Robinson takes the footy for breakout player of the year. Well deserved an incredible season from Allen Robinson. He had 37% of the vote. Devontae Freeman, 23% of the vote and DeAndre Hopkins with 12%.

[Jason Moore]

So Allen Robinson ran away with this.

[Andy Holloway]

Allen Robinson did. He ran away with this one.

[Jason Moore]

Almost the wide receiver of the year. But I think, I think this is the better place for him is, you know, the second place wide receiver voting and the actual breakout player of the year because he came and saw.

[Mike Wright]

Yes, he scored Multiple touchdowns in 1400 yards. 1400 yards.

[Jason Moore]

14.

[Andy Holloway]

So if you are keeping a player you'd rather keep out keeping him for next year. Alan Robinson or Brandon Marshall.

[Jason Moore]

Allen Robinson. Ooh.

[Mike Wright]

Oh, man, that's really tough. If it's just a one off, right.

[Andy Holloway]

Say I'm playing for next year.

[Jason Moore]

Brandon Marshall had the better year this year than Alan Robinson. By his squeaker. Very close.

[Andy Holloway]

80 catches for Alan Robinson. 1400 yards, 14 touchdowns.

[Mike Wright]

Marshall was 109 catches, 1502 yards, 14 touchdowns. Oh, that's a pretty Good year.

[Andy Holloway]

That is a. That is a heck of a year. A little more consistent, too.

[Mike Wright]

And I need to know if. If Fitzpatrick is going to be throwing.

[Andy Holloway]

The ball all same situations that you have now.

[Mike Wright]

I got to make the decision today. I'm going to go with Alan Robinson because I know what's going to happen next year. I'm not sure with Ryan Fitzgerald.

[Andy Holloway]

It's very. I bring those two names up because of where they finish so close and the fact that they both have premium wide receiver twos on the other side with Eric Decker and Alan Hearns, that really showed. Yeah, exactly. So. But Allen Robinson, well deserved. Breakout player of the year.

[Mike Wright]

Our next category in the 2015 Footies, the Rookie of the year. And the nominees are David Johnson, TJ Yeldin, Todd Gurley, Amari Cooper, Thomas Rawls and Buck Allen. And the winner did Buck to spoil the loser.

[Jason Moore]

The buck.

[Andy Holloway]

Two votes for Buck. Yeah, two votes.

[Jason Moore]

Come on.

[Mike Wright]

The winner for rookie of the year, the running back sensation for the St. Louis Rams, Todd Gurley.

[Andy Holloway]

Hey, Todd Gurley. Well deserved. Very well deserved.

[Mike Wright]

It was a monster year for Gurley. 229 carries, over 1100 yards and 10 touchdowns.

[Andy Holloway]

Yes. Very impressive year. Number two was David Johnson.

[Mike Wright]

Yes. And Todd Gurley.

[Andy Holloway]

Those were the only ones that were even close, by the way. You could have Yelden, Cooper, Rawls, Allen didn't do much.

[Mike Wright]

Amari Cooper is very interesting because I would say at about halfway through the year, we thought this guy is really breaking out and instead he broke a stud, which absolutely can still be a. An elite fantasy wide receiver. But I just thought it was an interesting thing. If you would have taken a poll halfway through the year, people were in love with Amari Cooper.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah. Marcus Mariota could have been on that list, depending on marks. Marcus, you got it right.

[Andy Holloway]

You heard it wrong.

[Mike Wright]

Yeah, you heard it wrong, folks.

[Jason Moore]

I'm going to mark Mariota next year. I'm telling you this. I'm going to come back and have the best English imaginable.

[Andy Holloway]

Would you be the comeback host of the year?

[Jason Moore]

Yes, I would. Like this next category, the comeback player of the year. Which fantasy player amazed you the most with their return to relevance? You had several players who had done it before and kind of seemed like they were done and came back. Such as Andy Dalton, Brandon Marshall, Ryan Fitzpatrick, Doug Martin really came back strong. Jonathan Stewart and Larry Fitzgerald. Guys who had done it, gone away.

[Andy Holloway]

And fine, fine group of nominees.

[Jason Moore]

A fine, fine group of nominees. I really thought that this award was going to go to who got the Runner up in Doug Martin. Just because he is. I mean, he was hot and went. Disappeared and came back strong. But the winner of this year's award was the aforementioned Brandon Marshall.

[Andy Holloway]

I love it.

[Jason Moore]

I mean, he had such a good year. It's amazing. He came back.

[Andy Holloway]

You just heard it. 109, 15, 14.

[Jason Moore]

That's going to. You know what that gets you? That gets you a footy.

[Andy Holloway]

That gets you a footy.

[Mike Wright]

The comeback player of the year.

[Andy Holloway]

And Doug Martin was second. Third was Ryan Fitzpatrick.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah.

[Andy Holloway]

And then Larry Fitzgerald and Jonathan Stewart and Andy Dalton.

[Mike Wright]

Ryan Fitzpatrick. He had a couple good years there in Buffalo.

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah. So is it. Is it up to me?

[Jason Moore]

It is to the host.

[Andy Holloway]

All right, well, the. The next. Wait a minute.

[Jason Moore]

I said next year. My English.

[Andy Holloway]

I'm pretty sure that's gonna take more effort than to separate hostess from your vocabulary.

[Mike Wright]

Yeah. Especially with all the Twinkies and the Ding Dongs.

[Andy Holloway]

I know.

[Mike Wright]

And the Ho Ho.

[Jason Moore]

Do we have any of those around here?

[Andy Holloway]

You go look around. I'm going to give this footy out. The steal of the draft. Which player was the absolute best value in the 2015 draft compared to their ADP, their average draft position, a number of nominees. I'm going to give you the nominee and where they were drafted, their average draft position and we'll find out who wins this footy. The first nominee, Doug Martin with an average jab position of 74. Alan Robinson with an ADP of 83. Brandon Marshall, where I actually don't have his ADP up here. Do you have 59.

[Mike Wright]

Larry Fitzgerald, 92.

[Andy Holloway]

Chris Ivory was 67. Darren McFadden 108.

[Mike Wright]

Cam Newton, 84.

[Andy Holloway]

And Eric Decker 101.

[Mike Wright]

101.

[Andy Holloway]

101. And this was. This was a very close vote. The second and third place votes were basic are in actual tie. And that was Cam Newton and Eric Decker tied for the steel of the draft. Second and third place. But the winner. You've heard his name before, Allen Robinson got the ADP.

[Jason Moore]

And he needs two footies.

[Andy Holloway]

He's got two feet. He needs two footies. ADP of 83, Alan Robinson. What more can you say about the guy?

[Mike Wright]

We can say this. He will not have cold feet.

[Jason Moore]

No.

[Mike Wright]

He's wearing his plush golden footies. Congratulations.

[Jason Moore]

You know what? I think we need to hear a little bit of that preseason target monster.

[Mike Wright]

Oh.

[Jason Moore]

There he was. We went back and saw here. He was preseason. He was Mike's in our My Guy segment. Segment. Yes, he was. Mike's My guy before the year. All right.

[Andy Holloway]

So we got one more, only one more footy to give out.

[Mike Wright]

Oh, is this me? Yep, this is me.

[Andy Holloway]

One final footy. This, this one is a terrible one to end on.

[Mike Wright]

No, this is great because it's me reading it as a few of these guys may have been hyped by me. So the letdown player of the year.

[Andy Holloway]

And the letdown host of the year.

[Jason Moore]

Just, just concentrate on that Alan Robinson pick.

[Mike Wright]

Yeah, you win some, you lose some. But this player just plain never delivered on the fantasy hype. And the nominees, Amir Abdullah, Joseph Randall, Travis Kelsey, Melvin Gordon, Jordan Matthews, Andre Johnson, Jeremy Hill, Ryan Tannehill and Devonte Adams. The winner of the let down player, the loser, it depends on your point.

[Jason Moore]

Of view, he's gonna win a footy.

[Mike Wright]

The winner, slash loser. The letdown player of the year, Jeremy Hill.

[Andy Holloway]

And it was close.

[Mike Wright]

This one was very close with Devonte.

[Andy Holloway]

He stinks. Adams and Melvin Gordon, very close.

[Mike Wright]

And this one's a little tough because it's. I, I agree though, because it's the letdown of the year. There was very, very high hopes for Jeremy Hill and he did not come through with those high hopes. He still was a running back to one of those really frustrating guys who can get you four points or can get you 20. So you what?

[Andy Holloway]

But the expectation was that he would be great. He would be great. And we looked at this when we were talking about this category and saw that Jeremy Hill, same amount of carries as last year. One different carry. Right. So 222 last year, 223 this year, I believe. 1100 plus yards last year and what, 700 and something this year.

[Mike Wright]

Yeah, it's about a 300 yard difference.

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah.

[Jason Moore]

And the real problem, the real problem for Jeremy Hill, because I wanted to contest this a little bit in the sense that Jeremy Hill finished the year as the 15th best running back, but 15 or 19.

[Andy Holloway]

Because I thought you said 19.

[Jason Moore]

15 now after, after week 17. So the 15th best running back. But the problem that you had with him is he would put up 20 points and then put up 1 point, 3 points, 24 points, 3 points, and he went back and forth. It was kind of like what we were talking about with Eddie Lacy. This is a guy that if you owned him, frustrated you like crazy because you would have had to have had a time machine to get the right picks on when he was going to have a good game and when he was going to stink.

[Mike Wright]

He was a best ball champion.

[Jason Moore]

Yes.

[Mike Wright]

If you had him in your best ball NFLs, then you are very happy.

[Andy Holloway]

With Jeremy, I was going to say he's probably not one of the guys that were on a lot of championship rosters. I can't say, because you couldn't lean on him at any time. You could roll him out there as a flyer, but that's what he became as opposed to the top round type of guy that we hoped and expected him to be.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah. You didn't get to the playoffs because he lost you weeks because you played him.

[Andy Holloway]

That's right. So that does it. Thank you, everybody.

[Mike Wright]

Thank you all to all the beautiful voters out there for doing your job and your duty and placing your votes for the footies of the year.

[Andy Holloway]

Do we need to run them back?

[Mike Wright]

No, I think we gotta go.

[Andy Holloway]

We'll post them on this episode so you can see the winners.

[Jason Moore]

There you go.

[Mike Wright]

No, you gotta listen to the episode. We'll post them later.

[Andy Holloway]

All right. Next week. All right. It's, you know, it's a real fine production we have here.

[Jason Moore]

Well, don't forget, we. Don't worry, listeners. We still have more.

[Andy Holloway]

This episode for you coming up very soon after this. Commercial break.

[Jason Moore]

Chris Meaney of the Fantasy Sports Network with our FanDuel DFS picks for the playoffs.

[Mike Wright]

You mistimed that horrifically.

[Andy Holloway]

All right, all right, it's over.

[Jason Moore]

Can we bring in Chris? Yep.

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah, we can bring in Chris.

[Jason Moore]

You talking to me?

[Mike Wright]

The fantasy footballers are joined once again by Chris Meaney of the Fantasy Sports Network. It's been a couple weeks. We had some scheduling conflicts, but we are, we, we are very pleased to bring back a man who drops more life lessons than Mr. Feeney. And that is Chris Meaney. What's going on, man? I don't know if you know that reference.

[D]

Yes, I do. What? Boy Meets World.

[Mike Wright]

That is a Boy Meets World reference.

[Jason Moore]

You got it. Yeah.

[D]

Boy, I know that the show still comes on TV now and then, and when I'm up late at night, I flick it on.

[Mike Wright]

That's 50% of my moral standing came from Boy Meets World, so hopefully they didn't leave me astray. So let's talk some dfs. We got the playoffs. So for those who have never done a playoff DFS matchup, is there anything that's vastly different from going into something like this week as compared to the regular season?

[D]

Well, the biggest thing, guys, is obviously there's only four games, right? There's only, you know, eight quarterbacks to choose from, you know, a handful of running backs. So it's hard when, you know, when you're in big, long contests. We know when you have the full slate of games. It's easy to be a little bit different. So here, I mean, you're probably going to be in contests where you have, you know, highly owned guys. If you're going in head to heads and 50, 50s and whatnot in tournament plays, I guess maybe you try to be a little bit contrary and you try to fade guys. But that's the really the only big difference is I think you just have to try to play who you think and you don't try to get too cute. You just go out there and you play the people that you think are just going to be good.

[Mike Wright]

All right, so who are you targeting from the quarterback arena, the quarterback position?

[D]

You know what, I'm going to fade Big Ben this week. You know, twice this year I thought that Pittsburgh and Cincinnati would be in shootouts. You know, the first time Pittsburgh played Cincy, Big Ben was coming off an injury. And I guess the second time it was Andy Dalton who got hurt. And it doesn't really was. Wasn't the shootout that we all thought. And really Big Ben has 21 FanDuel points and two starts against Cincy. So I'm kind of trying to stay away from him. I like Kirk Cousins. I like him a lot. It's funny to say, but I mean, you know, ever since they got Desean Jackson back, I believe they're 6 and 3 ever since that. You like that quote, they're 7 and 3. Kirk Cousins is much better quarterback at home and you know what is only two quarterbacks been better than him over the past four weeks and Russell Wilson is one of them who's also going. Another guy that I'm considering as well. So just those two guys I'm considering. I like Kirk Cousins because I just like the options. The offense is rolling right now. I mean, he's been great. Highest completion percentage in the NFL. He's got Jordan Reed, who I think is a must play at the tight end position this week. You just consider him like a wide receiver in my, in my opinion. So I like him and I like Jordan Reed and I'm also, like I said, I'm also willing to go Russell Wilson. This is kind of where it all started from him. When he played Minnesota, in Minnesota, he had 34 fandom points, followed up with 32, 26, 20 and then 21. He's just been light. So I like that connection with Doug Baldwin. But I think my play really is Kirk Cousins and a lot of talk around the office is that, oh well, you know, everyone's Leaning Cousins. I'm going to go Rodgers. Well, again, you don't need to go too cute. You don't need to try to be too contrarian. I mean Aaron Rodgers, I believe his yards per play is like 30th in the NFL per throw. Like he just, it hasn't been good for Aaron Rodgers. He's just not been great. Blaine Gabbard has been better than him over the past six, seven weeks. I know, but, but I mean it's.

[Andy Holloway]

Not all on Rogers.

[D]

Obviously. Rogers is a stud. The offensive line is not helping him out. He has no time to throw the ball. You know what, James Jones seems to be the only one catching the ball there. Devonte Adams is not the guy many people thought he was. And you know, Randall Cobb is not, not getting time open in space. It's just not working out. So I like the Washington play. I think it's gonna be high scoring game.

[Mike Wright]

I tend to agree with the, the philosophy of that'll be the highest scoring game of the week. So what are you doing with running backs?

[Jason Moore]

What do you.

[Mike Wright]

Do you have any thoughts on like, are you, are you taking the gamble on Marshawn? If he's back, is he a full play for you?

[D]

Yeah. You know what I think? I think in a head to head or a cash. I have issues starting lynch because of the uncertainty. But you know lynch, everyone knows this. This guy probably could have played the past couple weeks, but they didn't really need him to. And would anybody be shocked if he came into this football game and he had 15, 20 carries and he was just a beast? I wouldn't be shocked with that. But again, some uncertainty with him. And even throughout the all the running backs. This is the week where you want to pay up for the pass catchers. You want to get those wide receivers. Antonio Brown, I mentioned fading Ben, but it's still. They're probably going to throw the ball a lot if there's no D'Angelo Williams. So Antonio Brown, there is a nice play. $9,500 is going to really put a staple a dent into your cash. But for running backs, you can really not. You can spend down on these guys. Adrian Peterson, he hasn't had a game really since the Atlanta Falcons in November. You know, one time earlier when he played Seattle Chancellor just stacked the box like he had eight carries. He did nothing in that game. So I, I don't expect him to have a good game this time around either. It's gonna be tough for him. You go down the list I mentioned D'Angelo Williams probably not going to play as of Wednesday in a walking boot. Still, Marshawn lynch, you mentioned him. Hard to trust Jeremy Hill. Pittsburgh's D is actually been pretty good. I like Geo a little bit better than him. I think if I'm going to go back, I like Shark, Hendrick West, I like maybe hopefully he gets back to getting those 15 to 20 touches he got before he got hurt. I think they were just kind of easing it off a little bit. But again, Spencer Ware is going to be sprinkled into this game. I think Eddie Lacey might be an okay play. But again, another question mark. But of all the teams that are going, Washington is by far the worst against the run. I believe they're like 12th worst against the run. And everybody else is, you know, not too bad. I mean, if you're that bad against the run, you most likely don't make the playoffs. So Eddie Lacy could be an okay, okay play in that. So I'm going to go west and Lacy I'm just going to spend up on other positions. Wide receivers. Gio Bernard is actually not too bad either. You can catch some balls, get point five for reception, so that's okay.

[Mike Wright]

All right, how about this for a contrarian play? Let's say D'Angelo Williams sits as we. He's. As of the last I'd heard, he's still in a walking boot.

[D]

Yeah.

[Mike Wright]

Fitzgerald Toussaint, are you willing at all to throw him into the. Into your DFS lineup?

[D]

I am. We saw him get 12 carries against Cleveland, only at 24 yards, but the volume is there. So I think he could be a good play. Again, when I'm playing in cash within smaller contests, 50, 50s, I want to try to play somebody safe, somebody I feel like is going to get a lot of play and going to be okay. So I don't know if it's here, it will be that guy, but certainly in a big tournament play, I'm definitely willing to roll the dice on him. I mean, why not? And we saw against Cincinnati, the two good two games against Cincinnati, D'Angelo Williams had really, really good games. They were able to run the ball against them. So he could be a sneaky little play.

[Mike Wright]

All right, so the defense that you're going with this week, let me hear it.

[D]

It's Kansas City. I love Seattle, too. I do like Seattle, but I honestly think Seattle is going to be like heavily, heavily owned. So I want to try to be a little bit different there. I know Seattle, when they played Minnesota, they had 13 FanDuel points. And I believe Bridgewater may have had two, two fantasy points against him. So he really, really struggled. So I can understand why there. But I mean the Chiefs have just been so consistent. Like this list off the FanDuel points from 16, 8, 21, 14, 17 had the down week surprisingly against the bills only had five. But before that 20, 19, 14, 12. These guys have had double digit fantasy points in like seven of the last 10 games. So I like them a lot. And I just, I'm not buying into Houston. I'm just really not buying into that whole situation. I just. The Chiefs have been making plays so I'm willing to roll them out. But if you want to go a little bit cheaper, I'm in a contest right now where I have the Steelers D in there at $4,500. So I. It's just a little bit of a cheap play. I just really wanted to spend up on Brown, Baldwin and Macklin. I like those three wide receivers the most this week.

[Mike Wright]

All right, and the last question, Meanie, who are your super bowl teams and who is the super bowl winner?

[D]

Oh, wow. Yeah, it's tough, eh? I like it's tough. It really is tough. Honestly, I'm going to go. I'm going to go with the Steelers, man. I really think the Steelers are going to get it done. I like them a lot. The AFC is really a crapshoot to me. It honestly is.

[Andy Holloway]

Casey.

[D]

I'm not buying in Houston. I had all my money on New England around week six and ever since I did that, all guys are dropping like flies. The offensive line is not great, but it is a positive that New England will not play Pittsburgh if it works out that way. Pittsburgh travel to Denver. So I like the Steelers. I like that offense. I think they can make things happen. But everybody in the AFC is pretty flawed. And you know what? I'm rolling the Seahawks out there. I think a third straight year of them going back. I know Arizona wasn't really playing for anything last week, but I think it was a really, just from a confidence standpoint for Seattle to go into Arizona and lay the beat down on them. And they just been playing fantastic football, you know, ever since Jimmy Graham went down, which is a little bit of a surprise, but ever since he went down, they've been really good. But I mean, listen, Carolina, Arizona, Seattle, I think all those teams are better than anybody in the AFC right now. Certainly Carolina, it's hard to count them out. All they got to do is win two home games and they're right there. But I like I like Seattle. I think it's going to be the Seahawks that go again.

[Mike Wright]

All right. We really appreciate the time. Good. Good friend of the show, Chris Meaney from the Fantasy Sports Network, and we'll try and catch up with you again next week, Chris.

[D]

Yeah, guys, it's been. It's been awesome. Thanks so much. Maybe one little sneaky play at tight end, Heath Miller, if you don't want to spend on Jordan Reed. I just noticed that. I know the Bengals only give a one touchdown to tight ends this year, but in two games, Heath Miller has 20 catches against the Bengals this year. So just a sneaky little play at 10 in each game.

[Mike Wright]

That's a hot take, Chris.

[Jason Moore]

Very nice.

[Mike Wright]

That's hot.

[Andy Holloway]

It could work out.

[D]

Who knows? Good luck to everybody, and thanks so much, guys, for having me on.

[Mike Wright]

Yeah, thanks, Chris.

[D]

Cheers.

[Andy Holloway]

As always. Amazing great insight from our friend, our dearest friend, Chris Meaney, who drops DFS Nuggets of knowledge almost every week on the show. We love it. It's been great. All year long, we've heard nothing but amazing feedback. So we keep bringing him back.

[Jason Moore]

Maybe Heath Miller will be the Gary Barnage that he brought to our attention after week one.

[Mike Wright]

That's what I'm saying. You get. You get Gary Barnage right before the breakout. You get on this show.

[Andy Holloway]

It's a beautiful thing. It's a beautiful thing. Yeah. Nobody knew that name.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah.

[Andy Holloway]

And then they won.

[Jason Moore]

Some people.

[Mike Wright]

Some case like his mom forgot, right?

[Andy Holloway]

Like Larry. Larry Barnage.

[Jason Moore]

Get over here.

[Mike Wright]

Yeah, Gary.

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah, that's what it was. All right. Hey, let me ask you guys this. Before we get. Before we close the show out, I do want to mention a couple things. One, if you're a listener out there, you've enjoyed the show this year, there's some ways that you can help us out. You can go onto the website thefancyfootballers.com you can submit questions to us on there. You can also connect with us. Basically, you can contact us. You can check out the show page on iTunes, on SoundCloud, everywhere else that you can listen to us. Make sure you subscribe to those. We're going to be here all offseason. Check out jointhefoot.com, our fantasy football community that's going on all off season. We're going to be improving that for our listeners. We also have extra show.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah, I was going to say we have another mailbag show coming out today for our Foot Clan listeners over at Join the Foot. So more work to be done.

[Andy Holloway]

That is absolutely right. And make sure you leave us reviews on itunes. That helps as well. I do want to get your guys thoughts on the playoff matchups. Simply, I want. Who do you think is going to win these games? I want to know. I want it on record. I want it recorded.

[Jason Moore]

We're going against spread or just winners?

[Mike Wright]

We'll just pick winners. We'll just pick winners. I'm going to go with Washington taking the game over Green Bay. An interesting thing with the spreads of all four games. Washington, they opened as the favorite. It has switched. All four road teams are favored.

[Andy Holloway]

Wow.

[Mike Wright]

Which is ridiculous.

[Jason Moore]

Not all four teams on the road are going to win this week.

[Mike Wright]

And I've told these guys. Washington reminds me very much of the 2008 Cardinals stay team that you didn't find very special. They started heating up in the second half of the year. They were very bad on the road, but they were great at home. 2008 Cardinals.

[Andy Holloway]

I'm taking Washington as well.

[Mike Wright]

So I believe Washington's going to win.

[Jason Moore]

I have a water bet with you guys on this because I'm going to take the team with the better record against better opponents with a better quarterback. That would be the Green Bay Packers.

[Andy Holloway]

Fair enough. Fair enough. All right, let's go ahead and grab the other NFC game. Then the Seahawks head to Minnesota to take on the Vikings. Seahawks have marched on lynchback. The Vikings are fresh off a division title. They play well at home. Good defense. However, they are not favored in this game. Seattle's playing well. So who do you have in this one, Mike?

[Mike Wright]

I'm still going to go with Seattle as they are my. My super bowl pick we were talking about on Tuesday's show. But this, I think this is gonna be a tougher matchup for Seattle in as crazy and maybe as strange as this sounds, because if they lose, they're out of the playoffs. Yeah. But if Seattle wins this game, then I'm very confident that they will make it to the Super Bowl.

[Andy Holloway]

I'm going to take Seattle on this matchup. Very close game. I agree.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah. Very close. I picked Minnesota against the spread, but I do think Seattle. I do think Seattle squeaks out a close victory. And I will take them as well.

[Andy Holloway]

All right. AFC pick. Pittsburgh goes to Cincinnati and takes on the Bengals. I'm going to start this one off. I'm actually going to take Cincinnati.

[Jason Moore]

Whoa. I thought I was going to be the. I was. I was going to be on an island here. But I am absolutely taking Cincinnati. I think without D'Angelo Williams, without the home field advantage on the road. Big Ben hasn't been good on the road and the fact that Andy Dalton is gone is going to play into. It's going to play into a game flow that makes this an ugly defensive home field cold weather game.

[Andy Holloway]

That talked about Big Ben on the road.

[Jason Moore]

That's what I think is going to happen.

[Mike Wright]

And I'm going to go with the Steelers because I believe for the Bengals to win they will have to make zero mistakes. I think the Steelers, because of their offense, they can make a few, they can have a couple fumbles or interceptions and overcome that by scoring more points where the Bengals just can't do that.

[Andy Holloway]

All right, the last matchup, Kansas City goes to Houston to take on the Texans, Kansas City's favorite in this game. I'm taking Kansas City.

[Mike Wright]

I'm going to go with Kansas City as well. A couple quick notes. Alex Smith does have some playoff experience, which I believe in that. I believe that helps a player out. And Houston has lost their Pro bowl left tackle to the ir. I believe he had a quad injury. And the Chiefs are expecting Houston back into their lineup to help them destroy the Houston Texans. So I just think it'll be too much go with the Chiefs.

[Jason Moore]

I agree. This was one of those that I picked to cover their favorite line. I think the Chiefs win this one pretty easily.

[Andy Holloway]

All right, that does it for today's show. Hope you enjoyed the footies. All the news. We'll be back next Tuesday. We'll know the results of these games and we'll find out the matchups for next week. It's going to be fun.

[Mike Wright]

Yeah. Reminder Tuesday, Thursday.

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah. Check out the playoff challenge. We'll tweet it.

[Mike Wright]

Goodbye.

[Jason Moore]

Thank you for listening to another edition of the Fantasy Footballers Podcast. Don't forget to visit us on the web at www.thefantasyfootballers.com and follow us on TwitterFFballers.