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Fantasy Football Podcast 2017 - The 2016 "Footies" Winners! + Pump the Brakes, Playoff Picks
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Fantasy Football Podcast for January 5, 2017. You voted and the winners are in! The 2016 Footies Awards are given out on today's show. We cover a ton of fantasy football categories and distribute the prestigious hardware, including the Nickname of the Y
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Andy Holloway
Foreign.
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Jason Moore
Footballers Podcast coming to you from the fantasyjocks.com studios with your hosts, Andy Holloway, Jason Moore and Mike Wright.
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Mike Wright
Oh, I am so excited.
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Jason Moore
Why is that, Andy?
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Mike Wright
Well, it's the footies. The footies are here. I've heard there's.
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Andy Holloway
There's some other awards around the town.
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Mike Wright
It is.
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Andy Holloway
There's some Oscars, Golden Globes, some Emmys, some ESPYs.
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Mike Wright
You know, the hardest part, the hardest part of this whole footies thing was turning Jimmy Fallon down. He offered to host.
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Andy Holloway
He did.
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Mike Wright
And we said, I'm sorry, it was more of a.
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Jason Moore
We have a host.
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Andy Holloway
It was a. It was a begging.
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Mike Wright
It was a more bag. Yeah, yeah. But sorry.
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Jason Moore
We still love you, Jimmy.
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Mike Wright
We're the hosts.
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Andy Holloway
Maybe next year.
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Mike Wright
Maybe next year we have the 2016 second annual Footy Awards, Fantasy Football Awards. You guys voted. Guys and gals out there, you voted for the winner. There's some close ones of a number of incredible categories, including nickname of the year, the most prestigious who. And we have the results from those votes today on the show. Handing out the official 2016 footies. Very, very excited about that. I want to remind everybody, you want to know what's going on in the off season, the, the prolonged bye week, as we call it. We're still recording. Come and follow us on twitter @the ff ballers. Find out everything we're doing. We're also recording show after the shows now on YouTube. So if you want to check out a little extra content for free, we call that pro bono, which is, I guess all our shows are pro bono.
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Jason Moore
That's. That's right.
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Mike Wright
You can check that out on YouTube and yeah, it's pretty cool. We did one on Tuesday, so check out the website, the fantasy footballers.com if you want to get involved with our community, which is together and chatting and building leagues together off season and listening.
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Jason Moore
To an extra episode every single week, which we will be recording today. Go to jointhefoot.com that is correct.
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Mike Wright
You will get access to that. So occasionally from, from time to time, we, we appreciate obviously your reviews and so we like to read them from time to time on the show. And by we, I mean Jason. So without further ado.
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Jason Moore
Review a source. Rex, this one comes in from dd. Top verified. Excellent. Five stars. I discovered this podcast while hiking the Pacific Crest Trail. August was approaching and I wanted to get a head start on preparing for the fantasy football season. When I had service, I regularly downloaded a slew of fantasy football podcasts. Since I generally hiked for 10, 12 hours a day. What Crazy. Listen, I'm not Jeff Fisher. When there's a clear talent, I stick with them. After weeks of listening to as many fantasy football podcasts as I could get my hands on, I settled on this one. It is far and away the most informative, intelligent and entertaining podcast of any category, let alone fantasy football. But that's not all. These are likable guys.
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Mike Wright
Oh, that's so sweet.
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Jason Moore
You feel like you're part of the group. Anyway, the point is it's a locked and loaded podcast. One with high upside. Put this one in your lineup. Well, thank you. DD Top well, thank you for the review.
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Mike Wright
And I selected this review because we have vowed to, to, you know, be in better shape in 2017.
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Andy Holloway
We have the year of health, the.
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Mike Wright
Year of health, and what better way than 10 to 12 hours of hiking a day?
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Andy Holloway
I have a couple, couple critiques for this, couple critiques for this review here. Number one, really, really appreciate it. DD Top thank you so much. But if you're trying to get a head start for your fantasy football knowledge, you don't start in August, my friend. You do not start when preseason is already rolling through.
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Mike Wright
And even if you got 10 to 12 hours a day to get to it.
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Andy Holloway
Yeah. And then referring to us as intelligence, you're 2/3.
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Jason Moore
2/3. But you can't count me in that.
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Andy Holloway
Appreciate it. Thank you.
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Mike Wright
All right. Thank you for that. We appreciate the itunes reviews and support of the listeners out there. We also want to remind you we have the playoff challenge going on right now@NFL.com the NFL.com playoff challenge. You can check our Twitter. We've been tweeting out the link to our group. We want to have a big group participating over there. I think I checked it. We announced it on Tuesday. I checked it yesterday and we were around the fifth largest group. Do you want to do an audit and see where we're at now?
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Jason Moore
I'm on it. We are. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 5.
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Mike Wright
Still.
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Jason Moore
Yes.
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Mike Wright
How many are in there?
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Jason Moore
1466.
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Mike Wright
Okay, well, come get in on the action. Just find the fantasy footballers group. Join us. It's free, it's fun. The way it works is you basically pick individual players at every position. If they happen to remain in the playoffs, you get a multiplier the next week and you stick with that same player. So, for example, if you were to select Aaron Rodgers in week one and they win, you get him at a two time multiplier. In week two, they win again. Three time multiplier. You go to the super bowl, you're Making money.
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Jason Moore
You could pull a mic. Right. And you could pick the guys on by.
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Mike Wright
Mike took all. Bye weekend.
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Jason Moore
You don't get any points week one, but you guarantee that every single one of your players is playing week two on a multiplier. That's a. That's an honor.
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Andy Holloway
Yeah, we'll see. We'll see.
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Jason Moore
I think if you can pick those wild card teams that go to the super bowl, that's the key.
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Andy Holloway
Yeah. And that's. And speaking of that, I have no wild card teams going to the Super Bowl. If you've been listening, you know that we are doing a bracket challenge, the three of us, and filling. We filled out our playoff brackets yesterday.
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Mike Wright
That is correct.
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Andy Holloway
The winner of the. Our playoff bracket challenge will be picking lunches for the losers for an entire week. Do we want to give out?
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Mike Wright
I think we do. I think. I think it would be good to just give out the picks. The games are approaching, and so let's go ahead and break down each of the matchups. Let's start in the afc, the Miami, Pittsburgh matchup. Who do you guys have winning this game?
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Jason Moore
What's incredible about the afc, we did these at the same time, but completely separate. We didn't announce who we were picking in any game until we were done with our entire bracket. Then we go. Okay, let's go through this. Our entire AFC is identical.
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Mike Wright
Yeah. So I guess I'll just give our picks for the afc. We have Pittsburgh beating Miami, and we all went with Houston topping Oakland, which is.
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Jason Moore
I was surprised all three of us went that way.
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Mike Wright
Sure, sure. And then we have Kansas City over Houston.
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Andy Holloway
Yes.
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Mike Wright
And we have the Patriots over. Actually, it wouldn't. It wouldn't be Kansas City over Houston, right?
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Andy Holloway
No. Yeah, you are correct.
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Jason Moore
It would be.
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Mike Wright
It would be Kansas City over Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh. Yeah. And so we took Kansas City over Pittsburgh, and then we took New England over Houston, and then we all took New England over Kansas City in the AFC title game. Going to the Super Bowl. On the other side, we all took Seattle over Detroit. Mike and I both took Green Bay.
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Jason Moore
Over New York, but I. I took New York over Green Bay. And that's going to be the big differentiation if New York loses, which is very, very realistic. I mean, I said before. I said on last week's show, I think it's going to be very difficult for them to go to Lambeau and actually win. I think that's their worst matchup. But if they beat the Packers, I think they're a team that nobody's going to want to play. In the nfc.
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Mike Wright
Yeah, could be. So then that's when it kind of breaks down a little differently. So the. That would be the Dallas Green Bay matchup.
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Andy Holloway
Correct.
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Mike Wright
The Dallas Green Bay matchup. In Mike and I scenario, I. We both took. Well, who did you take?
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Andy Holloway
I took Dallas.
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Mike Wright
Yeah. As did I.
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Andy Holloway
And Jason in that matchup, took New York.
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Jason Moore
Took New York.
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Mike Wright
Yeah.
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Jason Moore
He took New York over Dallas.
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Mike Wright
So you put New York in the title game in the nfc. Mike and I put Dallas in the title game in the nfc. And then in the other matchup, we took Atlanta. Mike and I took Atlanta.
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Jason Moore
We all took Atlanta over Seattle. As of now, we've got. We've got a day or two left that. This is the one that I feel like could change for me, Mr. Hedgy over here.
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Mike Wright
So Dallas, Atlanta for both of us. New York, Atlanta for Jason. And then I took Atlanta. Mike took Atlanta going to the super bowl, and Jason took the New York football Giants.
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Jason Moore
I got them Giants. I've got them Giants.
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Mike Wright
You got the Giants against the Patriots for the third time.
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Jason Moore
I've got them beating the Patriots for the third time.
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Mike Wright
There you go.
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Jason Moore
Crazy.
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Mike Wright
And then Mike and I actually have our first differentiation. We filled this out separately, had the exact same bracket, but Mike took Atlanta to win the super bowl over the New England Patriots. I took the Patriots over Atlanta. And so we will see how it plays out and whether or not which two of us will be eating very bad food choices. I owe Jason a meal today for Zeke and Dak Prescott bets.
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Jason Moore
Yeah.
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Mike Wright
And I'm gonna make it big because I don't think we're eating out tomorrow together. You skipped one yesterday. We're probably going to crack a barrel.
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Jason Moore
Oh, no.
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Mike Wright
Because there's a wide variety of options.
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Jason Moore
Oh, no, that's no good.
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Mike Wright
All right, in lieu of a quick question of the day right before we get into the footies, the footies are moments away, so I know you're on pins and needle. That was you. Yeah, I know. I know. I can see you. In lieu of a quick question, we're gonna jump into the.
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Jason Moore
Oh, oh. O'Reilly. O'Reilly Auto Parts.
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Mike Wright
Pump the brakes with O'Reilly.
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Andy Holloway
That coordinated beginning was excellent, fellas.
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Mike Wright
Yeah, that's always the hard part. We do want to thank O'Reilly Auto Parts for sponsoring that segment. This is the last of this season, the pump the brakes. And so I'm excited to talk about our three pump the brakes choices. I'll start mine. I'll start with mine. All right, I am going to pump the brakes and these are all with a view of this is not playoff oriented. This is a view towards next year. I'm pumping the brakes on Legarett Blunt now. Caveat. I don't yet know where the ADP of Legarre Blunt is going to be, but with 18 touchdowns, my guess is too high. And 11 of those 18 were from the one yard line. If you look at his statistics, he obviously had more work this year than he's ever had before. The yards per carry were down. That's okay. A lot of those yards were short yardage backs or short yardage type of situations. But it's impossible not to predict a regression for LeGarrett Blunt after an 18 touchdown season when the previous high in his career was seven, which was five years ago, mind you, last year he had six touchdowns. Then it was like three and two the year before. I just think that's one of those situations where, look, a few years ago Shane McCoy had 20 touchdowns. You know, he dropped down precipitously. It's just going to happen. You don't repeat those type of numbers. In my humble opinion, I'm pumping the brake on Legare bland.
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Andy Holloway
Yeah, it's. I can get on board with this. And to be, to be fair to Legarre Blunt, he did had. He had seven last year, but only six rushing. He had seven total. Yeah, but only six rush touchdowns.
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Jason Moore
When we were, when we were coming up with our pump the brakes, Andy and I were still in the studio. Mike had gone and this was early. Okay. Nobody had made their selections and I found my guy, found my guy that I really, really wanted. Andy found his and Legarette Blunt and I was so excited to go in and I was blown away to see that Mike, you got your pump the break in super duper early and this was the guy I wanted. Oh, well, then we agree. Yeah, well, so you.
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Andy Holloway
I'm setting you up, then I will jump in. Here I am pumping the brakes. I like this guy. I like him moving forward next year. But it looks like things are getting out of control already. I love it. I love things in and out of control. But January, let's pump the brakes a little bit. Jay Ajayi, fantasy pros recently released a, you know that way too early top 10, like looking forward. Who's in there? Some movers and shakers, some usual suspects. And you get to number eight overall, the fourth running back. The fourth running back, Jay Ajayi. Look, this guy, he should be a locked and loaded running back too. But the fourth running back off the board to me is out of control.
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Mike Wright
Would you say it's B Nana's?
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Andy Holloway
It is B Nanas. 49% of his yards, almost 50% of his yards came in three games. Three monster games that won you the week. Yes, absolutely. But the other eight games where he was the starting running back, he was on pace for a thousand 62 yards. That's fine. Like I said, I like him. Those are good numbers. Those are good solid running back. Two numbers. But not the fourth overall running back, let alone a top 10 first round pick. That's, that's, that's flying off the handle to me.
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Jason Moore
Yeah, yeah. And that was exactly why I was going to pump the brakes.
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Mike Wright
Sure it was Jason. That's his pump the brakes.
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Jason Moore
But I'm going to pump the brakes on a guy who had a monster season, who is young, who was drafted to half monster seasons, who's a wide receiver with a hall of fame quarterback. And you go the wide receiver seven, Brandon Cooks. Okay, that was Brandon with an I. Brandon.
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Mike Wright
Say he spells his name incorrectly, right?
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Andy Holloway
Or correctly.
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Jason Moore
I'm pumping the brakes on Brandon Cooks because he is going to be overvalued for some of those things that I just brought up when bringing in two things into the equation. He is seen right now by most certainly the, the tail has switched for the more astute but he's seen as the number one wide receiver for the Saints and you want that number one wide receiver for Drew Brees. But it is not Brandon Cooks. It's. It is Michael Thomas going forward. Michael Thomas is the guy that you are going to want there. And the second reason I'm going to bring it up and this is the differentiator is for consistency. Brandon Cooks. I mean he has a monster game, six for 143 and two touchdowns. But you can go through the box score and think oh he was injured this game. He didn't play. No, no, no. He played the whole game. He just didn't do anything. You get those type of weeks out of Brandon Cooks. He is a boom bust guy. That's going to be so expensive draft capital wise. I would much rather have a Michael Thomas and I and I don't want both of those on the same team. So I'm pumping the brakes early. Look into next year on the hot and cold Brandon Cooks sometime.
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Mike Wright
Sometimes he cooks the old icy hot Jia Legarre blunt. Brandon Cooks. That was pump the brakes with O'Reilly Auto Parts. Better parts, better prices every day. Before we jump into the footies, I do want to thank Today's sponsor for helping keep the lights on here at Foot Clan headquarters. And that is Blue Apron.
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Andy Holloway
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Mike Wright
I was subscribed to Blue Apron for a really long time. Our whole family ate. It took a couple months off. I couldn't take it. I had to sign back up because it was so great. I talked to the wife yesterday. I'm like, we got to do this again. We got to get back on the Blue Apron train. Because cooking together, it's just fun for the family. It's fun for my wife and I. They send out perfectly portioned meals and it's really cool. I went into the system yesterday and you can now make some adjustments and choose exactly what meals you want shipped out each and every week. It's all delicious. I mean, it is absolutely great. And just for an example, here are some of the meals available in January. Seared pork chops with farro and cranberry chutney. Spaghetti squash and marinara with mushrooms and garlic knots. Oh, I love garlic knots. Spicy shrimp and Korean rice cakes with cabbage and furikake. I don't even know how to pronounce that. But it's delicious.
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Jason Moore
I'm sure it's great.
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Mike Wright
Delicious.
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Jason Moore
I would say this some of the more unique meals. Those have been my favorite meals I've ever had.
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Mike Wright
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Jason Moore
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Mike Wright
Yep.
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Jason Moore
And it's like, look at me, I've.
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Mike Wright
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Jason Moore
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Mike Wright
All right. It's time. Do I have any eager volunteers that want to do the intro?
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Andy Holloway
Sure. I'll handle this. I'll handle this. Welcome, ladies and gentlemen. Children of all ages. Gather around your radio sets. Grab a beverage of choice. Have a seat.
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Jason Moore
Seat.
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Andy Holloway
And prepare to have your mind entertained. Have your mind enlightened by the 2016 Footy Awards.
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Mike Wright
Oh, it's time. Time to keep listening to this beautiful tune. Back again for a second straight year, the 2016 Footie Award winners. The voting is over. The voting has been cast.
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Andy Holloway
You know what's not over? This song.
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Mike Wright
This song is not over.
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Jason Moore
Never ends.
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Mike Wright
This song won the footy for best song, which.
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Jason Moore
It's 22 minutes.
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Mike Wright
Just 13 more seconds.
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Andy Holloway
Wait, hold on. I think we're gonna wrap it up.
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Mike Wright
We're almost there. Oh, I'm excited. Hey, welcome to the footies. That was delightful.
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Andy Holloway
I thought it was gonna keep.
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Jason Moore
Just keep going.
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Mike Wright
No, we've got a lot of fun stuff. This is a great show. This is a fun show. It is a exclamation point on a wonderful season and we, we've enjoyed sharing that season with everybody out there and so we wanted to get you involved, get you participating in these votes and let us know who impacted your season the very most and which nickname impacted your season the very most. So we've got all of that in store. Let's start out performance of the year. The nominees were Le'Veon Bell in week 14. Well, you saw them online. I don't want to go through every single one. But he was 236 and three that week. Ezekiel Elliott's week 10, Aaron Rodgers week 16, the big Julio Jones 300 yard game. You got a week format, Ryan, that famous ty Montgomery Week 15 performance. Oh, that was sweet. For, for fantasy playoffs. Marvin Jones's week three back when he was a superstar. And Jay Ajayi's week six.
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Jason Moore
My.
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Mike Wright
You excited?
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Jason Moore
Yeah, I'll just let everybody know. My pick. My pick came in second. Ooh.
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Mike Wright
Well, the winner is Le'Veon Bell.
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Andy Holloway
Hey, Le'Veon Bell, your footy is in the mail.
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Mike Wright
Your footy is in the mail. Le'Veon Bell's week 14 performance against Buffalo. 236 yards and three touchdowns on the ground. Another four for 62 through the air. And he won with 65% of the vote.
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Jason Moore
Yeah, this one was going away. People who had him loved that week. You know, a lot of championships won on the back of that week, which is probably what didn't get it done for Julio Jones 300 yard game because that was week four.
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Andy Holloway
Yeah, it's. It's a little bit further back in the memory. And Julio Jones, you know, I bet he would have had a better showing in this category had he really shown up towards the end of the season. People would have said, yeah, well, and remember when he did this for me too. But that levy on Bell performance was unbelievable. They could not stop him at all.
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Mike Wright
Yeah, he did win going away. Julio's. Julio was second with 16% of the vote. So, Le'Veon Bell, congratulations on your footy.
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Andy Holloway
I voted for Le'Veon Bell.
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Mike Wright
I did as well. Although Julio deserves credit for hitting 300 yards on the dot.
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Jason Moore
Yeah, exactly. There was 302. It's all right. It's been done before. 300.
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Mike Wright
Nice. Nice. Fantasy Reapers man of the year. The nominees were plentiful. Arian Foster, you found your way in again.
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Andy Holloway
He'll be on next year, too.
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Mike Wright
Oh, I hope so. Doug Martin sprained his ankle during a. Oh, he just.
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Andy Holloway
He's always up for nomination during an interview.
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Mike Wright
Arian Foster, Doug Martin, Adrian Peterson, Rob.
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Jason Moore
Gronkowski, Jamal AJ Green with that late season hurt you with his. Hit you with your hamstring.
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Mike Wright
Not bad. Not bad.
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Andy Holloway
It was all right. C.J.
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Mike Wright
Anderson was all right. Thomas Rawls and Sammy Watkins. So many options, and I will say this one was close. But the 2016 Fantasy Reaper man of the Year, Adrian Peterson.
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Andy Holloway
Congratulations, AP. All day, your footy is in the mail.
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Mike Wright
Not so all day this year. More like one day, 22% of the vote. Adrian Peterson takes home the Fantasy Reapers man of the year for the player whose injury most impacted fantasy owners.
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Jason Moore
He was a first round pick and he was seen as the safer first round pick. And I think that's where this really affected people because when people were looking, do I take that shot at the David Johnson who had that Great. End of last year, do I take the shot at the Ezekiel who's a rookie we've never seen? You know, I'm going to make sure my first pick is a hit. I'm going with Adrian Peterson.
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Andy Holloway
There is no such thing as safe. That's true fantasy football. I was, I'm a little bit shocked at not only the winner, but the second place, the runner up in this category, AJ Green. AJ Green got 18% of the vote.
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Jason Moore
People were pissed. I mean it's, I mean, look, A.J. green got you to the playoffs and then he just said, oh, I'm retiring from your roster.
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Andy Holloway
Yeah, I guess it's just more of a timing recency because for me, Keenan Allen.
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Mike Wright
Interesting.
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Andy Holloway
Keenan Allen. I expected a monster season from Keenan Allen and then the ACL tear and what was that, week two?
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Mike Wright
Well, Keenan wasn't drafted as though he would have the. What you thought he was drafted?
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Andy Holloway
You know that I think in the.
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Jason Moore
Third, fourth round by you.
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Mike Wright
No, I mean Peterson was obviously a top pick.
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Andy Holloway
Yes.
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Mike Wright
I think Peterson snoring next year is going to be one of the more interesting off season narratives because I, you know, he's going to be back not in Minnesota.
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Jason Moore
You don't think so?
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Mike Wright
No, I think he's going to be playing football next year. Yeah.
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Andy Holloway
Okay, that's, that's fine. But I can almost and I'm, I feel very confident saying he will not be in Minnesota next year.
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Mike Wright
Well, that'll make it exciting because of all the people to change the expectation. You know, you have the Steven Jacksons and that forte's of the world that leave a team and go somewhere else. Peterson could be a workhorse somewhere else. I just still, I still believe in the lore of Adrian Peterson and that's why he's the fantasy reaper. Man of the no Fantasy Reaper man of the year goes to Adrian Peterson. 22% of the vote over AJ Green. And now one of the more prestigious awards, it has been rejected in the mail by the recipient. Return to sender because they don't like you mailing diapers. Did you realize this?
- [25:38]
Jason Moore
Yeah, no, I did.
- [25:39]
Andy Holloway
Especially used diapers.
- [25:41]
Mike Wright
The poopiest pants award, we're just returning it. Going to the most disappointing player who put on their big boy pants was drafted to your fantasy team. And then he filled them. He filled those pants up. Todd Gurley, DeAndre Hopkins, Alan Robinson, Cam Newton, Kelvin Benjamin, Randall Cobb and Brandon Marshall were your nominees.
- [26:04]
Jason Moore
I was shocked to see how for me there were two guys that I thought were poopier than the winner. But I was shocked to see how big a margin that this won by.
- [26:20]
Mike Wright
Well, we'll discuss it. But the winner is Tod Gurley.
- [26:28]
Jason Moore
Yeah, you stink.
- [26:30]
Mike Wright
38% of the vote to Todd Gurley. Brandon Marshall was second with 23% of the vote. This is an interesting one to debate because I could make a case for several of these players. I also feel like Alan Robinson deserves greater consideration because Robinson's, he may have ended the year at what, what was he at? The 25. But that was backloaded. That was after he ruined your season. That didn't matter. So from a perspective of like giving you that wide receiver 40, 50 type numbers, he was doing what Brandon Marshall did. Except for Alan Robinson was drafted higher than Brandon Marshall.
- [27:12]
Andy Holloway
Yeah, slightly. Let's see. Alan Robinson was a second round pick and Hopkins.
- [27:18]
Mike Wright
Yeah, and Hopkins was another pooper.
- [27:20]
Andy Holloway
The thing about Todd Gurley and we were were discussing this was it has to be the draft position. I mean when you took him, you took him as the number one overall running back. You took him as your top half first round pick. Meanwhile, if you had played him every single week, you were going what? What the heck man, I'm expecting big numbers. You're looking at what the other top running backs are doing. Shady DJ like give me one of.
- [27:46]
Jason Moore
Those weeks and then you get those juicy matchups and you go, oh, the Niners.
- [27:51]
Andy Holloway
Oh man, yeah, that was an epic failure.
- [27:53]
Jason Moore
And then you stink. Here's a stat. This stat is credit to Joe Dolan. Miami allowed 130 yards from scrimmage or more. So at least 130 in eight to the running back position in eight of its final nine games. You want to know which team did not get there? The ninth one. The only team to fail to get there was LA and Todd Gurley with 80 yards.
- [28:20]
Andy Holloway
But the thing about Gurley was he ended up as the running back 17. He still gave you a, it was not very high, but he still gave you points every single week. Meanwhile, Brandon Marshall is just destroying your lineup. And Brandon Marshall, I don't know if you saw the quote came out. He was on inside the NFL. He says the best way I can describe it is having a diaper on and never changing it. Just sitting in that diaper the whole year. Brandon Marshall knew the poopiest pants award was coming his way.
- [28:50]
Jason Moore
You know what, when, when that, when that gets rid returned in the mail, we'll just send it on to Brandon Marshall. He will accept it. He sees it for what it is.
- [28:58]
Mike Wright
He knows 38% of the vote to Gurley Marshall had 23% of the vote.
- [29:03]
Jason Moore
He had my vote.
- [29:05]
Mike Wright
He also missed the game. So that wasn't good. Not a good season for Brandon Marshall. Very curious about him. Very, very afraid of him in any type of keeper dynasty format. He's a bounce back redraft guy.
- [29:19]
Andy Holloway
And on the show, I mean there was those, the blurbs going out says, oh, Brandon Marshall willing to take pay cut to stay with the New York Jets. Well, on the same show where he talked about conceding his poopy his pants, he said no, no, no, no, no, no, no. And then he had whole clarification for those comments. He was just saying, I know what I'm worth. Yeah, my bills are paid. I love this game so much. It's like I would play for free.
- [29:43]
Mike Wright
But I'm not gonna play for free. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Hold your horses.
- [29:48]
Andy Holloway
But so just it's. He, he will be very interesting. Does he end up back in New York? Does a contender actually take a shot on him?
- [29:55]
Mike Wright
All right, we're moving on to the waiver wire Wonder who are the nominees, Jason?
- [30:00]
Jason Moore
Well, some of the most important nominees, you got the rookie sensation Dak Prescott and the late season Rob Kelly. You, you have Jay Ajayi who was great off of the waivers. Terrell Pryor, Tyreek, the freak Cameron break. Jordan Howard was, was excellent off the waivers. You got the woke one, Kristen Michael. Lot of great waiver wire pickups.
- [30:25]
Mike Wright
Tevin Coleman.
- [30:26]
Jason Moore
Yeah, Tevin Coleman, Devonte Adams. A lot of guys in this list who you found on the waivers and they really impacted your fantasy season. But only one can win and the.
- [30:36]
Mike Wright
Winner is.
- [30:41]
Jason Moore
Jordan Howard.
- [30:43]
Andy Holloway
Congratulations, your footie is in the mail. Well, I mean none of these guys bothered to show up.
- [30:50]
Mike Wright
It's embarrassing. Well, cuz, you know Fallon put in a bad word about us. Jordan Howard, 53% of the vote run away literally and figuratively with this one, as he should.
- [31:02]
Jason Moore
I mean the Foot Clan just nailed this one. They got it right because they realize Jordan Howard was, was elite. I mean completely elite. He was, Wasn't he like third in the league from running back yards?
- [31:19]
Mike Wright
13 13. Yeah, he was. It's interesting though because he won going away 53% of the vote compared to 15% of the vote for Jay Ajayi who was second place. They had very similar numbers. 1313 yards for six touchdowns. For Howard, Ajay had 1272 yards with eight touchdowns.
- [31:36]
Andy Holloway
Jason, you were, you were very wrong. He was not third because he was second in the league in rushing.
- [31:42]
Jason Moore
I mean second in the league in.
- [31:43]
Mike Wright
Rushing yard Heinzi, two rookies leading the.
- [31:46]
Jason Moore
Way on a poor team, you know, that's, that's got a bad game script. Who didn't start the first three games.
- [31:53]
Andy Holloway
So my question moving forward because one of my things that I feel like I've learned this last year and it's do we push it a little bit more in the off season is great running backs on bad teams. We saw Todd Gurley his rookie year, sensational bad team came out, just won a poopiest pants award. Do we have any fear of Jordan Howard moving into the future?
- [32:19]
Mike Wright
Yes, we do because we've seen this before. Also on a Cincinnati team with Jeremy Hill we saw a rookie explosion and the fact is you have to have a worry. You have to have a built in risk with somebody like that because otherwise you do. You draft Todd Gurley at the very, very top of the draft after what you've seen T Rich and you can be burned.
- [32:36]
Andy Holloway
Yeah, I expect Howard to be like a back of the second round pick.
- [32:41]
Mike Wright
I don't. I will say this, let's ask this question. Will he meet or exceed the numbers from this year? And I think he will not meet them.
- [32:50]
Jason Moore
No, he will not meet the numbers from this year.
- [32:51]
Mike Wright
He could.
- [32:52]
Andy Holloway
It'll be tough.
- [32:52]
Mike Wright
The touchdown number should be there the six times six.
- [32:56]
Andy Holloway
So although maybe, maybe Brian Hoyer will be back. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- [33:02]
Mike Wright
All right, we're moving on. Congratulations Jordan Howard. We're moving on to the wide receiver of the year. This was a close one. Very, very close. You had consideration for Antonio Brown, Jordy Nelson, Mike Evans, Odell Beckham Jr. Ty Hilton and Michael Crabtree. Very interesting. I voted myself for the consistency that is Antonio Brown, but he was not one of the top two finishers.
- [33:28]
Jason Moore
I voted for the number two finisher.
- [33:31]
Andy Holloway
Because you factor in draft position also matters when you're spending that. The first wide receiver off the board, Antonio Brown, you darn better have consistency.
- [33:40]
Mike Wright
Darn better. The winner of the wide receiver of the year goes to.
- [33:47]
Andy Holloway
Oh my BFF Mike Evans was the winner.
- [33:53]
Jason Moore
Your footy is in the mail.
- [33:55]
Andy Holloway
No, his footy is. I'm holding on that one. He needs to personally pick this up so I may shake his hand and.
- [34:00]
Mike Wright
Say just deliver it.
- [34:01]
Andy Holloway
I love you, Mike Evans.
- [34:02]
Mike Wright
Deliver it. Well, yeah, I mean you have to reach up high.
- [34:05]
Jason Moore
Get on your scooter.
- [34:06]
Andy Holloway
He's very large.
- [34:07]
Jason Moore
Go to Tampa.
- [34:08]
Mike Wright
So Mike Evans 35% of the vote on my razor. Second place with Jordy Nelson.
- [34:13]
Andy Holloway
Tricks.
- [34:14]
Mike Wright
That's 31% of the vote.
- [34:15]
Jason Moore
He had my Vote. But I mean, you really, you know, I voted for Jordy Nelson and I think. I think the Footland got this right. I got it wrong. Because while Jordy was great, Mike Evans finished as the number one wide receiver overall.
- [34:28]
Mike Wright
You got to love it.
- [34:29]
Jason Moore
He was, he was. I know, in our ultimate draft kit, he was the first, the top breakout candidate for this year. So happy we got that one right. But he made a huge difference. He was good in the playoffs. He was good through the season. Very consistent. Big, big props to you, Mike.
- [34:44]
Mike Wright
I'm gonna put you on the spot here. You have Antonio Brown, Jordy Nelson, Mike Evans, Odell Beckham Jr. Ty Hilton and Michael Crabtree. Rank them for next year. Real quick.
- [34:53]
Jason Moore
Antonio Brown.
- [34:54]
Andy Holloway
Brown is still number one.
- [34:56]
Jason Moore
I would go Brown, Beckham, Evans, Jordy Hilton, Crabtree.
- [35:01]
Mike Wright
I have the same.
- [35:02]
Andy Holloway
Yeah, I think I would go right around there.
- [35:04]
Mike Wright
All right, we're moving on. Mike, why don't you handle his next category?
- [35:07]
Andy Holloway
All right. If you're talking about the wide receiver of the year, of course you must discuss the running back of the year. These are the fellas, the fine fellas who were up for nomination this year. You had David Johnson, Le'Veon Bell, LaShawn McCoy, Ezekiel Elliott, and DeMarco Murray. The. The surging DeMarco Murray.
- [35:28]
Mike Wright
Wonderful season for all of those guys.
- [35:30]
Jason Moore
Yeah.
- [35:31]
Mike Wright
So let's get to it. The winner of the running back of the year.
- [35:46]
Jason Moore
Oh, there should be no surprises here.
- [35:49]
Andy Holloway
There are no surprises when it comes to the running back of the year. This man was sensational.
- [35:55]
Mike Wright
As good as it gets then.
- [35:56]
Andy Holloway
Sensational. Almost 16 games, 100 plus yards from scrimmage. An absolute dominant force. 20 touchdowns, 20 touchdowns. This man carried you, David Johnson, 61% of the vote.
- [36:14]
Mike Wright
61%. 1,239 yards, 16 touchdowns, 80 receptions, 879 receiving yards. And yeah, he ran away with this one. One of the Highest voting differentials. 61% Lev Bell, more power to, you know, 12, 12 games. You were great. 13% of the vote.
- [36:49]
Jason Moore
When you get second place with 13% of the vote. Yeah, you take it back.
- [36:53]
Andy Holloway
It's tough. So next year, who's your first running back off the board?
- [36:57]
Jason Moore
I could tell you mine. It's the number two pick. It's Le'Veon Bell.
- [37:01]
Andy Holloway
Yeah, it's still Le'Veon Bell for me as well. Love David Johnson. It's splitting hairs. Honestly, when you're. That argument over the off season will be a argument of ridiculousness.
- [37:12]
Mike Wright
I know this could sound excessive, but, like, is there a Little bit. With. With David Johnson getting injured on the last game of the year after a huge workload, is there any hesitation that he comes back and gets the same workload?
- [37:23]
Jason Moore
I don't think so. I don't think that's an issue for me.
- [37:27]
Andy Holloway
And the difference. Why levy on Bell over David Johnson? There's 20 touchdowns. I mean, those are incredible. But you look at the yardage. Lev outrushed him was. He was farther behind when it comes to receiving totals, but he was suspended for three games and he sat out an entire game.
- [37:47]
Jason Moore
He's just.
- [37:48]
Mike Wright
He also had. I mean, he only had seven touchdowns. His season was great without the kind of. I mean, I just made the argument about like a blunt.
- [37:54]
Jason Moore
You have to be fair. He's not getting 20 touchdowns next.
- [37:57]
Mike Wright
No, he's getting 25. 30. Hey, remember man. Ladanian Thomas?
- [38:03]
Andy Holloway
Yeah.
- [38:03]
Mike Wright
30 touchdowns.
- [38:04]
Andy Holloway
Yeah.
- [38:05]
Mike Wright
That's a lot. All right. Moving on to the tight end of the year. It was an interesting year at the tight end position. Nominees were Travis Kelsey, Greg Olson, Delaney Walker, Jimmy Graham, Cameron Brait, and Kyle Rudolph. I'm gonna. I'm gonna spill the beans here. Cameron Brait was second on this list.
- [38:23]
Andy Holloway
That's excellent.
- [38:24]
Mike Wright
With finally 15% of the vote. But the winner of the tight end of the year footy goes to brown bag Travis kelsey. He went 85 for 1125 yards and 54 touchdowns. Ended up the tight end one. Didn't get what you expected out of Gronkowski and Reed this season or Greg Olson?
- [38:51]
Jason Moore
You did for half a season.
- [38:52]
Mike Wright
Greg Olson's first half was incredibly good.
- [38:54]
Andy Holloway
I was going to say I expected Jordan Reed and Gronk to get hurt, just not that hurt.
- [38:59]
Mike Wright
I think you, in your mind, you expected it publicly, you only expected it for Gronk, right?
- [39:04]
Andy Holloway
Yes.
- [39:05]
Mike Wright
You didn't want to believe that.
- [39:06]
Andy Holloway
I said Jordan Reed is absolutely a risk.
- [39:10]
Jason Moore
Yeah. The tight ends were barfy this year, and so that's why you get a brown bag. And Kelsey, congratulations for winning the best of the worst.
- [39:18]
Mike Wright
I believe we said this was the lowest tight end scoring year since 2006.
- [39:21]
Jason Moore
Yeah.
- [39:21]
Mike Wright
So keep that in mind for next season.
- [39:23]
Andy Holloway
The thing is though, for Travis, water level lowered. Travis Kelsey moving forward. What. What. What happens with him? I mean, because it. Two years ago, I loved Travis Kelsey because the ability, the player, I mean, he's. He's an athletic beast. We call him Zeus. I believe was. Evan Silva coined the term. I believe so if I've credited him incorrectly, I apologize. But you. He's called that because he is such a Monster of a man. But that offensive scheme, Alex Smith never forced the ball to him. You have that Jeremy Macklin injury and all of a sudden he just unleashes four straight 100 yard games. I mean, I plays touchdowns.
- [40:07]
Mike Wright
I had him ranked as my number three tight end behind Reed and Gronkowski before the season. And the reason I love Travis Kelsey is because he is not Tyler Ivert. Okay? His season wasn't dependent on a 13 touchdown year to become the number one tight end. His season he actually had less tight end touchdowns. Sorry, less touchdowns this year than his previous two years. Five. Five. This year he had four. But he was the number one tight end because he had 1,125 yards on 85 catches the past three years. 16 games. 16 games. 16 games. 67 receptions, then 72, then 85. He's ascendant, okay? He's 27 years old. He's in his peak. They, they know how to use him. And yeah, you don't get, you don't get. Martell's been his three touchdown game every eight games.
- [40:52]
Andy Holloway
And it's not.
- [40:53]
Mike Wright
You get consistency.
- [40:54]
Andy Holloway
You do, but it's not every single game. I mean, you had coming off those hundreds, you had A stretch of 24 yards, 32 yards, 23 yards.
- [41:01]
Mike Wright
Tight end. That's tight end.
- [41:03]
Andy Holloway
Yeah, but I'm saying, can Travis Kelsey compete with Gronk and Reed? A healthy, healthy read.
- [41:10]
Mike Wright
I don't think so because I think of what you said. The Alex Smith in the offense. I don't know if he can compete with those guys, but he certainly took it home this year.
- [41:17]
Jason Moore
Basically he was third place this year except Reed and Gronk got injured. All right, next up is the most important position in real football, the kicker.
- [41:28]
Mike Wright
Boom boom kicker of the year. Why did we not have a boom.
- [41:32]
Jason Moore
Boom kicker of the year?
- [41:33]
Mike Wright
That was a failure.
- [41:34]
Andy Holloway
The Foot Clan was. Was quite disappointed. I heard about it on Twitter.
- [41:38]
Jason Moore
Oh, man, I apologize. You know who's not going to be nominated for that?
- [41:41]
Mike Wright
Chandler.
- [41:41]
Jason Moore
Chandler. Catanzaro. Anyways, the quarterbacks. Quarterbacks of the year. We had some great ones. My man. My favorite guy to draft before the season was Drew Brees. He's been great. Andrew Luck. Andy's favorite guy to draft next year, Kirk Cousins. You had Matt Ryan and Aaron Rodgers, the two, the one and two in fantasy football. But this year there can be only one. And running away with it is Matthew Ryan, a guy who also was tops in our, in our sleeper list on our, on our ultimate draft kit. Matt Ryan finished as the quarterback two with 66% of the vote. He was amazing this year. And for where you drafted him, I mean, you had to draft. Look, Aaron Rodgers finished as quarterback one. I would have in my drafts taken him as the first quarterback off the board. That's going to cost me a lot. I would much rather, instead of having Aaron Rodgers in some garbage running back, let me draft Melvin Gordon where Aaron Rodgers was going, and then grab Matt Ryan, the number two quarterback. He won a lot of people championships this year and he finally got it going with Kyle Shanahan, with Julio. Great season. Over 5,000. Oh, he didn't get.
- [42:58]
Andy Holloway
No, he almost got to 5K. A really interesting thing here, Mitchell Renz on Twitter here. This thing is. It's kind of picking up some steam, going viral. He put out a test for people, he put up a poll and he said, who had the better, better season, they deserve the mvp. Aaron Rodgers or Matt Ryan. Right. Aaron Rodgers comes in with 52% of the vote. Very close, very close. But Aaron Rodgers wins. Then he does a blind test who had the better season and he quarterback avers quarterback B. Gives the team record and gives the stats 81% for Matt Ryan. So it's funny how we are blinded by these names that we know and we love.
- [43:42]
Jason Moore
No, my. I'm just throwing this out there because I said this on Twitter about a week ago. My MVP this year, it's hard not to give it to Matt Ryan, but it is Aaron Rodgers.
- [43:49]
Andy Holloway
Oh, no way.
- [43:50]
Jason Moore
It is 100% Aaron Rodgers. Here's why. Because what you don't have in all of that is you don't have Devonta Freeman and Tevin Coleman. You don't have a defense that's good. You don't have the sack leader in the NFL. You have a defense that collapsed. You have running backs that just died one after the other after the other. And you had a team that halfway through the year was dead, dead to rights, and one man put them on their back and ran the table. You take Aaron Rodgers away from him, you take Aaron Rodgers away from the pack and they're competing for that number one pick. You take Matt Ryan away and they're.
- [44:28]
Andy Holloway
Doing the same thing to me. I mean, the Falcons.
- [44:31]
Jason Moore
Swap them. Swap them.
- [44:33]
Andy Holloway
Yeah.
- [44:34]
Jason Moore
Put Matt Ryan on the Green Bay Packers. They're not a playoff team. Not even close. Aaron Rodgers on the Falcons.
- [44:42]
Mike Wright
Those things are too hard to compare because they are where they are. They got to do what they. They can do with the cast around them. I voted for.
- [44:51]
Andy Holloway
I voted for Ryan. Ryan Yeah.
- [44:53]
Mike Wright
All right. Breakout player of the year. We have that. We have the rookie of the year, the comeback player of the year, the steal the draft, and the nickname award still to come.
- [45:00]
Andy Holloway
Oh, man.
- [45:01]
Mike Wright
Breakout player of the year. This goes to the player who. Well, they broke out. They put. They put a subpar year, a mediocre year up yet last year, and they broke out into fantasy glory this season. For consideration for nominations were we had Mariota, we had Derek Carr, Jay Ajayi, who finds himself on many of these voting lists, Tevin Coleman, Devonte Adams, Travis Kelsey, Melvin Gordon and Cameron Brait. And the winner for the breakout player of the year with 997 rushing yards, it's Melvin Gordon, aka Mr.
- [45:40]
Andy Holloway
Perfect Situation.
- [45:42]
Mike Wright
Ten touchdowns, two receiving touchdowns. Did it through the air, did it on the ground. Despite some injury, Jay Ajayi came in second with 14% of the vote. Congrats to Melvin Gordon.
- [45:55]
Jason Moore
This has not been a great show for Jai.
- [45:58]
Mike Wright
Has he lost? Second on all of them.
- [46:00]
Jason Moore
Double pumped the brakes.
- [46:02]
Andy Holloway
Oh, man.
- [46:03]
Jason Moore
And then he's coming in number two.
- [46:05]
Mike Wright
Second on waiver wire wonder.
- [46:07]
Jason Moore
Yeah. And second. Here we are.
- [46:09]
Andy Holloway
We're going full Adam Gase on JJ right now.
- [46:11]
Mike Wright
Well, take the challenge, my friend.
- [46:13]
Andy Holloway
Trying. Trying to bury him. Melvin Gordon. My footy is. Your footy is in the mail. Absolutely. Be careful putting that one on your foot. But Melvin Gordon did change my opinion of him throughout the season. I don't know if he will if he's guaranteed. The workload that he was given Danny Woodhead at to start the year was absolutely. It was a 1A, 1B. Danny Woodhead was getting all the receiving down work. Danny Woodhead was getting goal line work. So did Melvin Gordon show, whoever the new coaching staff is, did he show enough that they're going to put their trust back in Melvin Gordon because he's going to be drafted? Like this is. This is what people are expecting.
- [46:56]
Jason Moore
That's what stinks is that there's a new coaching staff coming in and possibly they've said they want to keep Kitten, Wizen Hunt and the offensive side intact. So maybe there won't be a massive change there. But let me just ask this.
- [47:08]
Mike Wright
I do not have a fear about Gordon at all.
- [47:10]
Jason Moore
Let me ask this just for the.
- [47:11]
Mike Wright
Record, because he's high draft capital, great performance this year. I do not have a word next year.
- [47:16]
Jason Moore
Do you draft Melvin Gordon or Todd Gurley?
- [47:20]
Andy Holloway
Ooh.
- [47:21]
Mike Wright
That will be determined by the coaching staffs on both teams. They both don't have them now, so I'll let that Differentiate them as of right now. Right now it's Gordon.
- [47:28]
Andy Holloway
Gordon me as well.
- [47:30]
Mike Wright
Rookie of the year. This one barely needs to be discussed. Ezekiel Elliott, Jordan Howard, Michael Thomas, Tyreek the Freak and Dak Prescott were the nominees. The winner by the biggest margin of any category, you know his name, 77% of the vote. Ezekiel Elliott.
- [47:46]
Andy Holloway
Easy.
- [47:47]
Mike Wright
Jordan Howard was second place with 8% of the vote.
- [47:50]
Jason Moore
Nice try.
- [47:51]
Mike Wright
I think it's can be a solid argument about what Howard did with what he had, but you can't argue with 15 touchdowns.
- [47:58]
Jason Moore
16 really, but 15 on the ground. 1631 yards added another 361 yards through the air. Ezekiel Elliott was everything you hoped for when you drafted him and more Edge.
- [48:10]
Andy Holloway
3 quick because I was going to talk about this for the the, the waiver wire. Talk about Dak Prescott a little bit. I finished up the quarterbacks, you know, looking at consistency. Who finished as a quarterback one who finished top three, those kinds of things. Who was a guy that really helped you out, didn't just explode for your team, blow up his point total. There were five guys who had double digit performances in the top 12 normal names. Rogers, Luck, Ryan, Drew Brees, Dak Prescott. 10 times was a quarterback one. He never gave you a top three performance but he always gave you consistent numbers. He never, I won't say never but for the majority he didn't crap your team. And Dak Prescott is a guy who I really like as a target moving into next season because I think did.
- [49:04]
Mike Wright
Not have Des with him most of the year.
- [49:06]
Andy Holloway
And I think that the public perception of Dak is still one of game managers. He's okay. He'll be okay for fantasy football. So you can get him, you know, super late ninth round. Hopefully. Hopefully.
- [49:18]
Jason Moore
All right. Comeback player of the year. We had some great nominees. Jimmy Graham, DeMarco Murray, Melvin Gordon, Andrew Luck and Matt Ryan. But the winner, rightly so in an incredible comeback. There's no dead legs here. It's DeMarco Murray. I mean that's what we thought when he was in Philly. He looked like he, his legs were just gone. But he came back with a vengeance for the Titans. He was a fantasy football difference maker. Had 1287 yards, nine touchdowns on the ground, three touchdowns receiving. He was great. I got to give a shout out here to the runner up.
- [49:56]
Andy Holloway
Yes.
- [49:56]
Jason Moore
A man that I voted for solely because I think when the way we worded the question was who surprised you the most? And I gave, I mean I buried Jimmy Graham. I didn't think Jimmy Graham had any chance in the world of coming back this season off of his specific injury and being relevant, I'm just so proud of him.
- [50:15]
Andy Holloway
Yeah, it was the resurgence of Jimmy Graham was amazing. But DeMarco Murray, they, he got back to the system where he can excel. He wasn't in the, that Chip Kelly spread. Everything is lateral, everything is out of the shotgun. Let Murray, let him pound it up the middle. Next year you have the, what was a pretty solid rookie season for Derek Henry. Who Derek Henry. Look, looks like he could be a guy who could handle it himself. But Murray will be back next season. They're on the hook for, for a good bit of cash for Murray. Any concerns drafting him? Because he's going to go, you know, third round back of second round.
- [50:55]
Mike Wright
I think Murray and I think you see almost identical season as you do this past year. That's my, that's my prediction for next year. Barring injury, barring a change, I think you'll see the same thing. They got incredible production out of sharing those, that workload. They're in the power offense. They love running the football. So I, I like by the way, 43% of the vote for Murray compared to 18% for Jimmy Graham. So that was an Overwhelming victory for DeMarco. Congratulations on your footy. Yes, it's, it's, it's in the mail.
- [51:22]
Jason Moore
It's in the mail.
- [51:23]
Andy Holloway
And then we're moving on to the steal of the draft.
- [51:27]
Mike Wright
This is my favorite category for fantasy owners.
- [51:29]
Andy Holloway
This is my second favorite category. The big dog was coming up. That's my favorite.
- [51:33]
Jason Moore
That's why it's second to last here.
- [51:35]
Andy Holloway
But steal of the draft, this is how you win fantasy championships is if you hit on one of these guys late in your draft, you have a major, major advantage moving into the season.
- [51:47]
Mike Wright
And these were all steals.
- [51:48]
Andy Holloway
Yes, that's the.
- [51:49]
Mike Wright
Not all the nominees were steals. These were all headline names you might have won because of one of them even if your guy didn't win this category.
- [51:55]
Andy Holloway
Yes. So without further ado, the nominees for steal of the draft, LeGarrett Blunt, Matt Ryan, LaShawn McCoy, Melvin Gordon, Ty Hilton and DeMarco Murray. Some of these guys taken much later in the draft, like a Matt Ryan somewhere. I mean Ty Hilton, he was still a mid around pick, yet he performed like a first round pick. So I think they're very, very their, their place in this poll is worth, acceptable and worthy. Yes.
- [52:27]
Jason Moore
The winner is.
- [52:30]
Mike Wright
He's a big boy.
- [52:32]
Andy Holloway
He's a monster of a man.
- [52:34]
Mike Wright
Legarett Blunt, well deserving. Legarit the steel of the draft, drafted at 102 overall, wins this category, wins the footy with 35% of the vote. Melvin Gordon comes in second with 18% of the vote. Congratulations, legarett.
- [52:50]
Jason Moore
I believe two thirds of us actually have legarett blunt in our playoff challenge roster for fantasy football through the playoffs. Yes. He looks good to me. Looks good.
- [53:00]
Mike Wright
I took him out for that early pump for next year. The pump. No. All right. One category left. Oh, it's the most prestigious award given to mankind.
- [53:15]
Andy Holloway
The nobel peace prize is garbage compared.
- [53:18]
Mike Wright
To the nickname of the year. Footie award. Oh, so many options this year.
- [53:24]
Andy Holloway
There's some great ones.
- [53:25]
Mike Wright
The mad hatter.
- [53:26]
Andy Holloway
Who can forget.
- [53:27]
Jason Moore
Oh, C.J. fedora wits. Who can forget crazy mad hatter?
- [53:31]
Andy Holloway
The Rolls Royce Thomas rawls.
- [53:36]
Jason Moore
Tyreek the freak.
- [53:40]
Mike Wright
The woke one himself.
- [53:43]
Jason Moore
Oh, Kristen Michael.
- [53:45]
Andy Holloway
This is on. The competition in this category is unbelievable.
- [53:48]
Jason Moore
Slippery fish. Are you kidding me? Shady Lashawn McCoy. Or how about hooked?
- [53:57]
Andy Holloway
Oh, you good.
- [54:03]
Mike Wright
Oh, that one grabbed us. At the end of the year.
- [54:05]
Andy Holloway
The incurable beezels. The beasels. Cole Beasley.
- [54:11]
Jason Moore
Blah, blah, blah, blah. I will say this. I did not vote for Blau plough, but that's my favorite. It's just. I love that.
- [54:20]
Mike Wright
And then you also had crowd pronounced and pronounced and pronounced with an Humphreys.
- [54:25]
Andy Holloway
Adam Humphries pronounced with an.
- [54:27]
Mike Wright
This was as expected with the prestigious nature of this award, very high competition. Most of these guys were petitioning listeners on their behalf.
- [54:38]
Andy Holloway
It's very political trying to bring this award home.
- [54:41]
Mike Wright
Now, the winner, I'll tell you, the winner had 22% of the vote.
- [54:45]
Jason Moore
That's great. That's the lowest by. I mean, yeah.
- [54:48]
Mike Wright
And the second place was blah, blah, blah. He took it home with 14% of the vote. But 22% of the vote went to the winner and look well deserved. 22% of the vote.
- [55:09]
Jason Moore
He was a session of our year.
- [55:13]
Mike Wright
Somehow always in fantasy relevance. I felt it this year. Two teams felt it because he couldn't stay in one place. The winner is the woke one. The woke one. Kristen Michael. The enigma of fantasy football and NFL rosters takes it home. The nickname of the year. Congratulations, Kristen.
- [55:44]
Andy Holloway
Congratulations.
- [55:45]
Mike Wright
You may not be able to stay on a roster or get a consistent paycheck, but you sure as heck can take home the 2016 nickname of the year.
- [55:51]
Andy Holloway
He's in the playoffs, my friend.
- [55:53]
Mike Wright
Oh, gosh, I hope can they. I mean, I hope they play Seattle now. I hope somehow revenge game does something against Seattle. So we will post all the winners of the 2016 footies on the website. I'm sure we'll be tweeting them out on Twitter. That is it for the 2016 Footie Awards. Do you guys have any closing thoughts?
- [56:16]
Andy Holloway
Just Foot Clan, from the bottom of my heart, thank you so much for another sensational year with the podcast. Thank you for voting, thank you for all the support that you give us here. It's, it's tough to form into words how blessed we feel to be able to do this every single day, bringing you this information, this entertainment. So just thank you so, so very much.
- [56:45]
Jason Moore
And I would just say next week we've got some great shows lined up as we look towards the off season and the possible free agency we need to go back all sorts of huge. Don't forget, if you won that hashtag Foot Clan title, get your trophy@fantasyjocks.com goodbye. Thank you for listening to another episode of the Fantasy Footballers Podcast. Join our fantasy football community on jointhefoot.com and follow us on Twitter the FFballers.