Footie Award Nominees + Week 18 Recap, Super Bowl Picks! - Fantasy Football Podcast for 1/6

Summary

Fantasy Footballers Podcast Summary

Episode Title: Footie Award Nominees + Week 18 Recap, Super Bowl Picks!
Date: January 6, 2026
Hosts: Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, Mike "The Fantasy Hitman" Wright

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Episode Overview

The first “offseason” episode of 2026, the Fantasy Footballers dive into Week 18 NFL and fantasy football storylines, share their Super Bowl picks, and, most notably, announce this year’s Footie Award nominees across a variety of fun and insightful categories. The crew brings their trademark humor and in-depth fantasy analysis while debating wild playoff scenarios, recapping key Week 18 performances, and discussing the coach carousel hitting the NFL.

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Main Discussion Points and Insights

1. Goodbye to the Fantasy Season & Week 18 Recap

• Week 18 Championships: The hosts joke about those die-hard (and possibly masochistic) fantasy leagues that run through Week 18.
  • Mike: “You shouldn’t play Week 18 championships...don’t do it!” [02:18]
  • Jason: "The product actually isn’t very good. Most of those games were bad." [02:58]
• Standout Game: Steelers vs Ravens “for the ages".
  • Andy: “Lamar Jackson. What a loser. Am I right, guys?” [03:12, jokingly]
• AFC Playoff Picture: Absence of Mahomes, Burrow, and Lamar in the AFC playoffs this year:
  • Jason: “If you can’t do it now, Josh, you’re going to look back with regrets.” [04:09]
• Playoff Brackets: Hosts discuss using myplayoffpix.com and reveal their picks.
  • Jason has Bills > Rams for the Super Bowl.
  • Andy & Mike: Both pick Seahawks over Jacksonville in a surprising consensus.
  • “Which is insane that two people can be on this show, will get every single pick...right?” – Andy [05:13]
• Playoff Upsets & Bracket Busters: Carolina’s backdoor playoff berth is highlighted for its low point differential and the Rams upset.

2. NFL Coaching Carousel

• Coaching firings include Stefanski (Browns), Pete Carroll (Raiders), and Raheem Morris (Falcons), plus Cardinals move on from Jonathan Gannon.
• The crew has fun at Jonathan Gannon’s expense:
  • Andy: “Get out here, you don’t come back here." [07:33]
  • Mike: “John Cannon gone. John Gannon.” [07:49]
• Debate around the Browns firing Stefanski, with Jason questioning the move after previous Coach of the Year awards. [09:47]
• The Giants’ front office turmoil, moving on from Dable but not the GM, with speculation about potential directions for multiple franchises. [10:24]

3. Week 18 Stud Performances & Early Offseason Fantasy Takeaways

• QB Standouts: Trubisky led “stud muffins,” but he didn’t even start the game. [22:12]
  • Discussion on starters taking symbolic snaps for streaks (e.g., Josh Allen).
• Trevor Lawrence: Big topic as a breakout, particularly second-half performance (38-TD pace from Week 10 onward).
  • Mike: “Quarterbacks with 4,000 passing yards, 29 passing touchdowns and nine or more rushing touchdowns in the same season…2023 Josh Allen and 2025 Trevor Lawrence.” [25:23]
  • Andy: "If that's the guy you get, that's a top-three quarterback." [26:11]
• Rookie QBs: Tyler Shough's stats as a late-season rookie stand out [24:01].
• RB Notes:
  • Ramondre Stevenson, Travion and Ray Davis led big RB weeks.
  • Zach Charbonnet’s “touchdown-only” value versus Kenneth Walker’s inefficiency is debated.
    • Andy: “The one thing that keeps killing Kenneth Walker is his losing yards.” [29:22]
  • Kenneth Walker to become a free agent; speculation about best landing spots. [31:29]
• WRs/Tight Ends:
  • Zay Flowers, Alec Pierce, Puka Nakua, Michael Wilson, and Amon-Ra St. Brown highlighted.
  • Michael Wilson compared to Jerry Rice: “might actually be Jerry Rice.” – Jason [33:11]
  • Tight ends: Colston Loveland's 10-91-1 line capped a historic rookie campaign. Debate over his draft rank moving forward.
    • Mike: “His last 10 games played... on pace for 1,014 yards and 10 touchdowns.” [36:18]
• Dynasty Outlooks: Intrigue about future role battles, breakout candidates, and dynasty stashes, especially around rookie WRs and RBs.

4. Playoff Matchups & Staff Bets

• Quick previews and predictions for each first-round playoff game.
  • San Francisco vs Philadelphia, New England vs Chargers, Buffalo vs Jacksonville, Pittsburgh vs Texans.
  • Fun side bets among the crew and studio staff “pinky toe bet” for Packers vs Bears. [14:43]

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The Footie Awards: Categories & Major Nominees

(All timestamps refer to the awards section: 41:00–57:00)

Performance of the Year [41:28]

• Nominees: Jameer Gibbs (Week 12), Derrick Henry (Week 17), Jonathan Taylor (Week 10), Trevor Lawrence (Week 15), Puka Nakua (Week 16), Kyle Pitts (historic TE game)

Fantasy Reapers (Man of the Year—Most Impactful Fantasy Injury) [42:57]

• Malik Nabers, Jaden Daniels, James Conner, Sam LaPorta, Garrett Wilson, Mike Evans.

Poopiest Pants Award (Biggest Letdown) [46:23]

• Justin Jefferson, Lamar Jackson, Brian Thomas Jr., Ladd McConkey, Marvin Harrison, Chuba Hubbard.

Waiver Wire Wonder [47:09]

• Standouts include: Trevor Lawrence, Jacoby Brissett, Rico Dowdle, Woody Marks, Quentin Johnston, Michael Wilson, Alec Pierce, Harold Fannin Jr.

Fantasy QB of the Year [47:41]

• Josh Allen, Drake Maye, Trevor Lawrence, Dak Prescott, Patrick Mahomes, Matthew Stafford.

Fantasy RB of the Year [48:14]

• Christian McCaffrey, Jonathan Taylor, Jameer Gibbs, Devon Achane, Bijan Robinson, James Cook, Derrick Henry.

Fantasy WR of the Year [48:47]

• Jaxon Smith-Njigba, Puka Nakua, Amon-Ra St. Brown, George Pickens, Jamar Chase.

Fantasy TE of the Year [49:09]

• Trey McBride (runaway leader), Kyle Pitts, George Kittle, Dallas Goedert, Tyler Warren, Harold Fannin Jr.
  • “Trey McBride at 253 points and Kyle Pitts is the tight end 2 at 169 points.” – Andy [50:00]

Rookie of the Year [50:32]

• Nominees include Jackson Dart, Cam Skatteboo (honorary), Ashton Jeanty, Travion Henderson, Omarion Hampton, Quishon Judkins, RJ Harvey, Tetairoa McMillan, Emeka Egbuka, Harold Fannin Jr., Tyler Warren.

Breakout Player of the Year [52:16]

• Drake Maye, Javonte Williams, Jaylen Warren, George Pickens, Chris Olave, Michael Wilson.
• Jason questions Warren’s inclusion, thinking Kenny Gainwell may be more deserving. [53:19]

Steal of the Draft [54:00]

• Brian Thomas Jr., James Cook, Trey McBride, Jaxon Smith-Njigba, Davante Adams, George Pickens, DeAndre Swift, Chris Olave, Javonte Williams, Travis Etienne.

Comeback Player [56:18]

• Matthew Stafford, Trevor Lawrence, Javonte Williams, Chris Olave, Kyle Pitts, Dallas Goedert.
• Noted that last year’s comeback winner (JK Dobbins) got hurt—a Footie “curse”.

Playoff King (Top Playoff Weeks Contributor) [57:00]

• Trevor Lawrence, Brock Purdy, Derrick Henry, Christian McCaffrey, Bijan, Olave, Nakua, McBride, Pitts.

New Categories:

• Bummer of the Year: Emeka Egbuka, Brian Thomas Jr., Caleb Johnson, Bucky Irving, Travis Hunter. [57:46]
• Meow Man of the Year: Mason Taylor (“Meowson Taylor”). [58:31]
• Nickname of the Year: George “T” Higgins, DK “Mikecalf”, Colston “Catston Dogland” Loveland, and others. [59:29]
• Show Moment of the Year: Bill Krauski jokes, Falcon mailbag drop, Henderson hate, Meat Higgins, Nard attack, etc. [61:42]

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Notable Quotes & Humorous Moments

• On Week 18:
  Mike: “You weirdos...don’t do it (Week 18 championships)" [02:18]
  Jason: “The product actually isn’t very good.” [02:58]
• On the coaching wheel:
  Andy: "You get out here, you don’t come back here.” [07:33]
• On nominees and the importance of the awards:
  Jason: “No award more valuable. Imagine thinking any other award was better than this.” [41:10]
• On Trey McBride’s TE dominance:
  Mike: “That one was when you dumb-sway the vote here – he lapped the field by a lot. It was the craziest gap.” [49:31]
• On multiple Footie “curse” winners:
  Andy: “You gotta poop your pants to become a steal." [56:01]
• On show traditions and ridiculous bets:
  Andy: “Old-fashioned pinky toe bet.” [14:43]
• On the fantasy season's poetic symmetry:
  Mike: “Every single winner of a footy last year had so much power, they just did the opposite this year. And if you got a bad award last year, you're awesome this year.” [59:49]

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• [01:38] – Show start, seasonal transition
• [03:08] – Ravens-Steelers and playoff picture
• [05:13] – Super Bowl picks reveal and bracket discussion
• [06:30] – NFL coaching carousel updates
• [11:19] – Week 18 game recaps and fun NFL stats
• [22:07] – “Stud Muffins” segment: Week 18 top fantasy performances
• [25:03] – Trevor Lawrence’s breakout and implications for 2026
• [29:34] – RB situation with Charbonnet, Walker, Bigsby
• [31:29] – Kenneth Walker’s pending free agency and team fits
• [33:10] – WR and TE highlights; Michael Wilson discussion
• [36:42] – Colson Loveland’s tight end breakout
• [41:00] – Footie Award nominees announced and discussed (main block)
• [54:00] – “Steal of the Draft” and late-round gems
• [56:18] – Comeback and playoff king awards
• [57:46] – New award categories: Bummer and Meow Man of the year
• [59:29] – Nickname of the Year, Show Moment of the Year segments

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Takeaways and Tone

• Tone: Signature Fantasy Footballers blend of irreverence, sharp analysis, friendly banter and creative, community-rich awards.
• Utility: The episode serves as a comprehensive fantasy season send-off for 2025, a bridge to playoff football, and a crowd-driven celebration of memorable players, moments, and inside jokes.
• Main Takeaways:
  • Week 18 was entertaining but a poor setting for championships.
  • Season awards (the “Footies”) highlight both statistical dominance and community-driven fun.
  • The NFL’s coaching carousel and free agency will shape the fantasy landscape in 2026—names like Kenneth Walker and Colson Loveland are on watchlists.
  • Longstanding inside jokes and show moments are celebrated alongside player performances, keeping the community spirit alive.

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Footie Awards Voting:
Listener participation is encouraged at footieawards.com before the following Monday, with winners announced on next week’s show.

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“No award more valuable... Imagine thinking any other award was better than this.” – Jason Moore [41:10]

End of Summary

Transcript

[Andy Holloway]

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[Jason Moore]

Welcome in. Tuesday, January 6, 2026 welcome into the Fantasy Footballers Podcast.

[Mike Wright]

Mike Wright Season Edition.

[Jason Moore]

Jason Moore. Yeah, this is our first technically off season episode and we're back. We've got NFL playoffs on the horizon, but your fantasy season is done. It's over. Even you week 18ers out there, you weirdos. But that was a good time.

[Mike Wright]

Weirdos.

[Jason Moore]

That was a blast, wasn't it?

[Mike Wright]

No, it was. It was. You know, it was funny because going into the week it felt like Riley Leonard. Early on it was like, you know what? This, this year doesn't have too many bad hiccups. And then it was just like everyone right down to the stretchers. Yeah, we're not going to play him. Yeah, he's going to play a little bit of the game. It's just so dumb. You shouldn't play Week 18 championships. I know we joke about it and we're like, ah, you weirdos. And what? But like, don't do it.

[Jason Moore]

But we mean it.

[Mike Wright]

Don't do it. Don't do. Takes away from something so majestic, so much work and energy and effort and brain power and fun and.

[Jason Moore]

Well, the product actually isn't very good.

[Mike Wright]

No, not at all.

[Jason Moore]

Like for NFL fans, independent of fantasy, most of those games were bad. I mean, you did have an incredible, amazing.

[Andy Holloway]

Oh man.

[Jason Moore]

Steelers Ravens game for the ages.

[Andy Holloway]

Lamar Jackson. What a loser. Am I right, guys?

[Jason Moore]

Can't win the big.

[Andy Holloway]

What a loser.

[Jason Moore]

I mean it's, it's wild though. No Mahomes, no Burrow, no Lamar for the AFC this year.

[Mike Wright]

This is why you're saying, Josh Allen, it's your time.

[Jason Moore]

It has to be. And now they have to go beat Jacksonville.

[Andy Holloway]

But consider me worried, do not beat Jacksonville.

[Jason Moore]

I mean, I think they are favored the Bills.

[Mike Wright]

Yeah, yeah, I think the Bills are favored.

[Jason Moore]

We, you got to remember these playoffs, you guys both have Seattle going to your Super Bowl. We got our predictions and stuff like that. Let's just say the playoffs are too kicking as that situation was to Tyler Loop pressure packed. And I don't, I don't, you know, big, big players. The reason Mahomes has been so successful doesn't matter what the regular season looks like. He gets here and he does it and I. If you can't do it now, Josh, you're going to look back with regrets.

[Andy Holloway]

Yes.

[Jason Moore]

Because you're not going to have an off season or a playoffs like this again.

[Andy Holloway]

But I don't know what was the. What's our website or not our website, Brooks's website.

[Mike Wright]

My playoff picks.com. so if you are, you know, just listening, you didn't see the tweet where we tweeted out myplayoffpix.com it is a super duper, duper easy way to make a playoff bracket. Not for money or anything, just to like make your picks. See how you think the playoffs are.

[Andy Holloway]

Going to go seeds for you so you don't make that mistake.

[Mike Wright]

I know years ago we used to do it on paper and then be like, wait, this team can't play that.

[Jason Moore]

And what's funny, just a bracket maker. So we all made our bracket.

[Mike Wright]

We do it around the office. Everyone makes theirs. Put it in a little thread. And I made mine and I felt like, I felt like some wild stuff. I was like, this is crazy. And I felt like I was doing some wild stuff. And then afterwards Mike scoots over and looks and he had done his bracket earlier. 100% identical picks in every round.

[Andy Holloway]

Which is insane that two people can be on this show. Will get every single pick. Right?

[Mike Wright]

I know, right?

[Jason Moore]

Yeah. 2 Do you guys have just to summarize, I have the Bills over the Rams in the Super Bowl. You two both had the Seahawks over the Jacksonville in the Super Bowl Wild. So there you go. It's going to be, it's going to be fun. I mean, the truth of the matter is when you're looking at these matchups, other than the Rams, Carolina game, which, again, that could bust some brackets. I don't want to take away any hope from Carolina fans, but it's going to be tough. It's going to be tough.

[Andy Holloway]

And she did backdoor your way into the playoffs.

[Jason Moore]

500 your way into the playoffs.

[Mike Wright]

You did have a negative 69 point differential, which is worse than the Giants.

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah. I mean, they beat them. Carolina beat the Rams.

[Jason Moore]

They did. They did a month ago. But other than that one, you can kind of make an argument in almost every other game of how it can go either direction. Right. I mean, you can see San Francisco winning. I can see Philadelphia winning all the matchups in the first round. To me, feel like I want Buffalo to win. I could see them losing to Jacksonville in round one. It's. It's going to be crazy. Fortunately, we're in a much better mood thanks to some news that has come out.

[Andy Holloway]

Oh.

[Mike Wright]

News and notes from around the league.

[Jason Moore]

The coaching carousel shall begin. We had the Browns firing Stefanski and the Raiders firing Pete Carroll and the Falcons letting go of Raheem Morris. And we felt left out.

[Andy Holloway]

They were saying the media is like, no, no, Jonathan Gannon is safe. Gannon was going on radio. He's like, what? No, of course I'm not gonna get fired. And then all the media people are like, well, Jonathan Gannon said he's not gonna get fired, so I guess he's. He should keep the job.

[Mike Wright]

Gannon showed up at 5am to the facilities, just ready for a normal day, waving to the cameras and just historically.

[Andy Holloway]

One of the worst.

[Jason Moore]

Were the doors locked, Jason, Because Jonathan Gannon was fired.

[Mike Wright]

Yeah, I can wear this hat.

[Jason Moore]

Get on out. Get on out.

[Mike Wright]

I was so close, Was so close to truly abandoning fan hood. I get out because the number three pick got no blobfish.

[Andy Holloway]

You get out here, you don't come back here. You get. It's always a weird thing because you are. You're celebrating. This is a human. This is a man.

[Jason Moore]

Did it seem like we're celebrating?

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah, because we are. I'm just saying, like, I get it.

[Mike Wright]

It's It.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah.

[Mike Wright]

John Cannon gone. John Gannon.

[Andy Holloway]

Cannon, get on out is.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah, move on.

[Andy Holloway]

It's a man. He's a human being. And he gets fired for, like, that's. Yeah, that's a bummer. He is paid so, so much cash and.

[Mike Wright]

Well, not anymore, right? Not like next year and the next year.

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah. No, no.

[Mike Wright]

Oh, no, he does. He'll still get paid millions.

[Andy Holloway]

And how many, like, how many careers got ruined by Jonathan Gannon? I'm dead serious.

[Jason Moore]

Do you mean other coaches or players?

[Andy Holloway]

I mean all of it. Like anyone in that coaching staff now has. This is on. This is their resume. Is this that Cardinal season? Those players are trying to go out and put stuff on tape and they're getting put in bad positions because the coach is so. And they don't know what they're doing. Just saying it.

[Jason Moore]

Well, I get it. I think Josh Sweat's a Pro Bowler. If it wasn't for Jonathan Gannon going 3 and 14.

[Andy Holloway]

It can feel anti. Just caring humanity to celebrate a person being removed from their job. But he had to go. He had to go, man. And they were telling us it wasn't going to happen.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah. I mean, this is. Get on out of here. All right. That's it.

[Andy Holloway]

Do you think results based job?

[Mike Wright]

Yes. The Raiders fans, they got to be happy that Pete Carroll's out. That one was on the wall. I wonder if the Falcons fans are happy. Raheem Morris. Yes, they are. Yeah. You think so?

[Jason Moore]

I think that is unfortunately a move.

[Mike Wright]

You had to make and the one that I am the most confused about from a fandom perspective. Obviously a terrible season for the Browns, but they let Kevin Stefanski go, who is. I think it's like two of the last four years the coach of the year. He's clearly not a bad coach.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah. I mean, again, it shows how quick things can change. The last two years, they're basement dwellers in the division and that was enough. So now you have Giants, Titans, Raiders, Browns, Falcons, Cardinals so far looking for new head coaches. Bengals are bringing back Zach Taylor. Colts are going to keep Shane Steichen despite the fact that they went from 8 and 2 to 8 and 9.

[Mike Wright]

I mean, I don't blame them on that one. The fact that they were 8 and 2 and number one in the NFL when they had their quarterback shows that he had the team doing good stuff. And then obviously dealt with losing your quarterback and lost games.

[Jason Moore]

And the Giants maintaining their general manager despite the fact Dable got fired midseason. And there's going to be some names out there.

[Mike Wright]

Despite the fact that Day Ball is the reason they drafted the quarterback and not the gm. It was like Day Ball's guy and then he was right.

[Andy Holloway]

And then it's like that one is wild.

[Jason Moore]

We had some injuries in week 18. Cam Ward left with a grade three right shoulder AC joint injury. Brock Purdy suffered a stinger late in the game. He's going to be okay. And then devonte Adams were supposed to get him back when you look at what happened with the Rams and thank God goodness, the Cardinals lost to the Rams. Cardinals have the number three pick in the draft now. Thank you Browns in a big way for that. That victory was huge. But. But you got to remember Matthew Stafford, the push for mvp. It didn't have. He didn't have devonte Adams in the last handful of weeks. Probably going to be the difference. I think Saturday we have the Rams, Panthers, Packers, Bears.

[Mike Wright]

Oh boy, that Packers Bears game is going to be unbelievable. The last victory for the packers was the Chicago Bears and the last. No, no, no. The last team that the packers beat was the Bears and the last team that the Bears beat was the Packers.

[Jason Moore]

Really?

[Mike Wright]

Yes.

[Andy Holloway]

Wait, what?

[Mike Wright]

I know it feels impossible because the.

[Jason Moore]

Bears have lost two straight. Right?

[Andy Holloway]

Someone needs to vet this.

[Mike Wright]

I know vetting.

[Jason Moore]

I think you made it all week.

[Mike Wright]

14 makes no sense.

[Andy Holloway]

Week 14 the packers beat Chicago and it was four straight losses.

[Jason Moore]

Oh, then this is right then Caleb Williams.

[Andy Holloway]

Let's see.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah, they. They had come back.

[Andy Holloway]

They beat the packers and then they lost two games.

[Mike Wright]

So there you go.

[Andy Holloway]

And NFL rules. The NFL. It just gives us so much of this.

[Jason Moore]

So much of this. I mean the Steelers Ravens game was so exciting from every moment. I mean man really stinks that it was going to come down to either Boswell being, you know, ridiculed or loop being ridiculed. The game is so much more than those moments. I think, I think Harbaugh not running the football and gaining as many yards as you can to make that kick.

[Mike Wright]

More manageable was ridiculous, absolute nonsense to not do that. But I did rewatch the kick and he could have been at the goal line. It was so bad he missed it.

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah, but maybe his approach is different if you're confident.

[Jason Moore]

If you're 39 yard field goal, maybe that feels better in your head.

[Andy Holloway]

If you're three yards forward. You kick a lot.

[Mike Wright]

I mean, I completely agree that it was to not only. I mean you took like a two yard loss on, on Lamar's kneel down there.

[Jason Moore]

Shout out to Aaron Rodgers played amazingly at the end of that game. Also had a look on his face like he knew he was going to lose.

[Mike Wright]

Oh yeah.

[Jason Moore]

And the relief his face through the.

[Andy Holloway]

Entirety of the end. Like the celebration was the of a man who is like, oh, I can't believe we won that game.

[Mike Wright]

All the faces did you see.

[Jason Moore]

Peter, I don't want your reaction to your incorrect prediction about Aaron Rodgers. That's the most thing I saw on Twitter.

[Mike Wright]

Now, now I'm. Now I'M just rooting for them to win the super bowl because I just want chaos.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah, because you had. I mean, it looked like we were one kick from them finally missing the playoffs.

[Andy Holloway]

And he's rolling. What's. What's the crew out there? It's Austin.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah. Calvin Austin, Adam Thielen, mvs.

[Andy Holloway]

And mvs.

[Jason Moore]

Hey, they'll get Metcalf back.

[Andy Holloway]

Oh, yeah, they will.

[Jason Moore]

That was Mike Caf. That's as close as you can get to really screwing your team without screwing your team with the.

[Andy Holloway]

Those three wide receivers.

[Jason Moore]

That's true. And he made some big throws. Shout out to Rogers, getting it closed out. And then no Lamar for the playoffs. It's crazy. But I brought that up again because the Packers, Bears, it feels the same. I mean, that's that kind of rivalry. And we'll either we have two people in this office, the studio, they're going.

[Mike Wright]

To come up with some kind of a bet.

[Jason Moore]

So, I mean, Al Borland is the biggest packers fan I know. And Jake, Baby Jake, the biggest Bears fan I know. I don't know if these guys can. I mean, Saturday game, maybe you can come to work on Monday after the game.

[Mike Wright]

Those two get in a ring, but one of them gets a sword. And it's based on whoever wins.

[Andy Holloway]

I was just going to go.

[Jason Moore]

The winner gets a sword.

[Mike Wright]

No, the winner would get the sword.

[Andy Holloway]

He's going a good old fashioned pinky toe bet.

[Mike Wright]

A pinky toe?

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Mike Wright]

Oh, just remove the loser loses the pinky toe.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah, that seems fine.

[Andy Holloway]

I mean.

[Mike Wright]

Okay, that's cleaner. I'm in.

[Jason Moore]

Okay. That just leaves baby Jake, who now do you both.

[Andy Holloway]

You have both your pinky toes.

[Mike Wright]

Do you genuinely lost one in a previous Packer bet? That's why I'm in. So, Owl, you're the only one here. Do you genuinely believe your packers will win? Like. Yes, I do. You do? Okay. That's not fandom. You think you're going to win? You can look at my bracket. I took the packers in this one, but not win the Super Bowl. Oh, okay. All right.

[Jason Moore]

You took them. You tried to win the. You actually tried to do the bracket, right? I tried to, yeah. Oh, my gosh. If I had my. If the Cardinals.

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah, I know.

[Jason Moore]

I would always be.

[Mike Wright]

Yeah, exactly.

[Jason Moore]

Sunday games. Buffalo, Jacksonville. Buffalo. One and a half point road favorites. That'll be a wild game. Jacksonville playing so well. What was it? Trevor Lawrence at 38 touchdowns. That's the record for the Jacksonville Jaguars.

[Andy Holloway]

The turnaround in the offense halfway through the year.

[Jason Moore]

You know who it doesn't involve at all Brian Thomas Jr. Brian Thomas Jr. He was irrelevant in this game that they dominated. Parker Washington.

[Andy Holloway]

Parker Washington, monster.

[Jason Moore]

It actually gives me a little bit of this is what I just think Brian Thomas is going to go somewhere else. I just. If your plan, if you really have a plan to have him third or fourth in the depth chart, if it's going to be Jacoby on the contract and Parker Washington and then obviously Travis Hunter is going to be a big part because you invested everything to get him with this regime and Britain. Strange you it's not congruent.

[Mike Wright]

Why does he probably get more for your team than the value out of trading him to someone else and getting a draft pick?

[Jason Moore]

And I don't know all the. I know he's on a rookie contract and I know that that's advantageous. But again, rookie contract or not, if there's going to be a problem in the locker room, which. Look, if I'm Brian Thomas, I got a problem. That's the truth. I've got a problem being the fifth target in an offense.

[Mike Wright]

I don't know.

[Jason Moore]

I would have a major problem and I'd want to go somewhere else. Which is why it was rumored at the deadline.

[Mike Wright]

Yeah. It's just really tough to have a major problem while your team is dominating, winning every game. And I mean they could go on both Mike and I shockingly have the Jaguars in the Super Bowl. I don't think you have a problem like if you're the wide receiver for.

[Jason Moore]

You ever seen AJ Have a problem with winning?

[Mike Wright]

Yeah, yeah.

[Jason Moore]

It happens all the time.

[Mike Wright]

Yeah. I just. I don't think that that's a given for all people to be upset not getting enough. While like if you're losing games and not getting enough, bro.

[Jason Moore]

He's got one chance to earn a contract. If he's getting one catch a game, two catches a game, you're going to hear from btj. I just. I think it's already happened a little bit in that locker room. San Francisco, Philadelphia. Oh my. You know things get real when the playoffs hit. Yeah, it's like all this, all these games, all this lead up and then all of a sudden one of these teams is just going home.

[Mike Wright]

That's a real pick them style game. Right now the Eagles are favored four and a half because they're at home.

[Jason Moore]

But it's the, it's the 49ers defense or lack thereof, I think that is the worry.

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Jason Moore]

I mean who did you guys take in that game? I took Philly.

[Andy Holloway]

I took The Eagles. Yeah. I mean it was the, you know, we had the San Francisco Seattle game where it was like the off the elite offense because that's what San Francisco is versus a team that has a good offense and an elite defense. And that one went to Seattle. Yeah, you were dead on like round one that game.

[Jason Moore]

The Chargers at New England. New England, three and a half point home favorites. I did take New England in that one.

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah, I got New England too.

[Jason Moore]

And then Monday night, Pittsburgh, I believe they have not lost a Monday night Football game at home since 1991. 23 straight games.

[Andy Holloway]

They are on a what a wild card for in a row loss.

[Mike Wright]

And they are the underdogs because the Texans are favored by three on the road.

[Jason Moore]

Well, look, it's. It's hard. Mike, you just mentioned the offensive weapons for Pittsburgh. You're. You're leading the way with Kenny Gainwell.

[Andy Holloway]

No disrespect, but not Gainwell's good.

[Jason Moore]

Gainwell and Metcalf.

[Andy Holloway]

But against Houston, I know there was.

[Jason Moore]

No pass rush from Buffalo or. Sorry, from Baltimore.

[Andy Holloway]

Right.

[Jason Moore]

There will be a major problem with a pass rush from Houston.

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah, but I took Pittsburgh.

[Jason Moore]

I don't know why.

[Mike Wright]

I was very. It was. It was a very tough one. Them being at home made it difficult. I believe. I went.

[Andy Holloway]

I agree. Texans. Yeah, we took the Texans because it's the correct pick for our perfect bracket. But that one was the. Like I could see Pittsburgh just in a nasty, disgusting game.

[Mike Wright]

To me, the toughest one was the Patriots. Chargers. That, that one. The Patriots haven't really beat some of the great teams. The week off for the Chargers, I think was a real smart move. That's going to be tough.

[Jason Moore]

We are going to take a break in a moment. This show is about the footies. The footy award nominees are coming up after we briefly talk through some of these week 18 stud performances, maybe framing a little bit of how we view these players for 2026 and the upcoming season. It's easy to tune out a little bit in week 18, but this puts an end to the season for a lot of these guys. And then we'll come back and give you the entire footie nominees. We need you [e-mail] we'll announce the nominees momentarily. This episode is supported by prize picks. Whether you're starting a new routine or making picks for the first time trying something new, well, that can be difficult. But in life and on prize picks, it always feels good to be right. I'm talking to Papa Josh here. It always feels good to be more right than Papa Josh. Look, Prize picks now has early payouts. I just found out about this. If your player gets off to a hot start, you've got the option now to cash out on those winnings before the game even finishes. And they have a social feeds feature. You can share your prize picks with your friends. You can copy lineups from winners with one click. My only rule is you don't follow or accept friend requests from Papa Josh himself. Look, how simple is it to get started? We come from the app development world. We love the Prizepix app. It's super easy to use. It's just smart and clean and easy. It's not like anything else out there. It's made the sport watching experience super fun. It just adds some value to the sport watching experience and we absolutely love it. So you can download the Prizepix app today. Use the code footballers to get $50 in lineups after you play your first $5 lineup. That is the code footballers to get $50 in lineUps after you play your first $5 Lineup. Prize picks. It's good to be right. For years everyone thought Verizon had the.

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[Mike Wright]

This week's fantasy stud muffins.

[Jason Moore]

Well, Nothing says Week 18 like Mitch Trubisky leading the way at quarterback. So Trubisky Stafford.

[Mike Wright]

But wait, Trubisky didn't start. No, Josh Allen started that game.

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah, you had that one right. J of Josh Allen's going to come out here and what was Ripkin it?

[Jason Moore]

Yeah, one snap just.

[Andy Holloway]

I started.

[Jason Moore]

I mean that just kind of sucks.

[Andy Holloway]

Yes.

[Jason Moore]

I don't feel like that makes it like no one will remember it because they'll look at the years later, they'll just be like, he started this many.

[Mike Wright]

Games in a row and I think that's fine. Like to me he wasn't injured.

[Jason Moore]

Right. It wasn't. Yeah, it wasn't like they put him out there limping and then came off the field.

[Mike Wright]

Yeah. He just. They didn't want to break that streak. I know in the past Eli Manning had a chance to do that and he chose not to you know, he's like.

[Andy Holloway]

Well, he was forcibly.

[Mike Wright]

Yeah.

[Andy Holloway]

Sat down. Remember they broke his streak and then they like went right back to him.

[Jason Moore]

Mitch Matthew Stafford, Trevor Lawrence, Tyler Schuck.

[Andy Holloway]

You'll be remembering now. Yeah, they hosed.

[Mike Wright]

I think before that they. Yeah. But yes, they did. And then. And then they went back to him. Yes. It's like, all right, you can start again.

[Jason Moore]

Streaks over Stafford, Lawrence, Shock Burrow.

[Andy Holloway]

The. The Trevor Lawrence stuff is so exciting. Have to mean you imagine it will continue next year, but perhaps this was just like the magic season. That'll be something to watch. And Tyler Schuck, man, he had. He's what the QB4 on the week he had a. Another passing touchdown called back on. I thought it was a pretty weak opi. I thought the player was fine.

[Jason Moore]

For who?

[Andy Holloway]

For Shock. Shock had a. And then they had to settle for a field goal on that.

[Jason Moore]

I know Olave hurt him this week.

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah. But it's like, dude, Tyler Schuck is going to be fascinating next year.

[Mike Wright]

His nine starts he's on pace for 4,200 passing yards as a rookie. Throwing for what was 69% completion percentage as a rookie.

[Jason Moore]

That's.

[Mike Wright]

That's very, very nice. And then you're. He still adds some on the ground.

[Andy Holloway]

And I don't think that people will be like man, I got like Shuck won't be the QB 7 or 8. I don't think maybe crafted wise.

[Mike Wright]

Yeah, he'll be more like kind of.

[Andy Holloway]

What probably a later.

[Mike Wright]

This year's Drake May was right where he was one of those targetable double digit, close to it round type of players.

[Andy Holloway]

And we'll be on watch for the Saints because if they add a weapon, I mean that would. I don't know. I'm very, very intrigued moving forward for Shuck.

[Jason Moore]

I'm looking at this Trevor Lawrence season to try to. You know, I expected to go looking at fantasy finishes before the buy. Right. And it was not good. 23, 13, 28, 28, 7, 13, 14. I'm like, oh, okay. Well what's his pace there? 3,922. Pretty normal Trevor Lawrence type of year.

[Mike Wright]

Really?

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah. That will not get it done.

[Jason Moore]

So then I'm like expecting the split to be wildly different in the second half after the bye week because he had a bunch of great fantasy finishes. They're not that different. I mean 4,000. It's just touchdowns. Yeah, it's just touchdowns. The touchdowns he went. He started going crazy basically from week 10 on he was basically on 38 touchdown pace plus rushing touchdowns.

[Mike Wright]

Yeah, because he, he had. So here's a neat stat. Quarterbacks with 4,000 passing yards, 29 passing touchdowns and nine or more rushing touchdowns in the same season. It's 2023 Josh Allen and 2025 Trevor Lawrence.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah. And to be clear, that 38 touchdowns is total. Right. So he broke the record for the team at quarterback because of the nine.

[Andy Holloway]

Plus he broke Blake Bortles.

[Jason Moore]

That's a good one to break. You don't want to be a franchise. Records are all set by.

[Andy Holloway]

So like I mean same team and everything. That's the like going into next year being willing to put your chips all in on Trevor Lawrence. Because what we second half of this year, if that's what the guy you get, I mean that's, that's a top.

[Mike Wright]

Three quarterback 101 and.

[Andy Holloway]

But Bortles did it and then when.

[Jason Moore]

It'S the volatility of the pocket passer and if he brings nine rushing touchdowns, it changes the equation, that's for sure. But yeah, it's going to be a bet on something that we haven't seen over sustained amount of years. And I bet part of the momentum is going to be what this playoffs looks like. Are they one and done? Might be. They're favored to be. I mean they're, they're underdogs. Right. So could be one and done. Or they could be like your two brackets and be in the. You know, if he's a Super bowl quarterback all of a sudden he's drafted very high.

[Mike Wright]

It is really funny looking at my bracket. It's like I took Jacksonville over the Bills and Jacksonville making all the way to the Super Bowl. But that Jacksonville Bills game is the real test for them. And if the Bills win, I think I would take the Bills all the way to the Super Bowl. So that game will be incredibly important. Another funny performance from this week. Riley Leonard.

[Jason Moore]

Oh yeah.

[Andy Holloway]

Dude. Dude, I was loving it.

[Mike Wright]

I was loving it when he had that bomb. Like which one? Well, the first wide open bomb down the sideline. Little rainbow ball that Philip Rivers couldn't dream of throwing in today's day and.

[Andy Holloway]

Age that ball was and it was.

[Mike Wright]

Just like, oh man, maybe they should have given Riley Leonard a chance.

[Jason Moore]

That might have been the right move. 270 and 2. Lamar Jackson. @ one point in this game it was like 5 for 60 or something in the third quarter ends up with the three touchdowns, two bombs to Zay Flowers Jackson Dart. They managed to defeat Dallas which removed them from the number one pick. Yeah, because the Raiders won, which means they would have had the number one pick had they.

[Andy Holloway]

Lost. Say, I know it's hard to convince a team to lose, but they. They rope a doped like the Dallas. Things got better for Dallas with Jackson Dart not having a top. Whatever top two.

[Jason Moore]

Pick. Ramon Dre Stevenson led the way for the running.

[Andy Holloway]

Backs. He was.

[Jason Moore]

Unstoppable. Seven carries and three touchdowns total. Seven carries for 131 and two.

[Mike Wright]

And still two touchdowns for Travion and. And Ramondre had a receiving.

[Jason Moore]

Touchdown. That's five touchdowns between the.

[Mike Wright]

Two. Yeah, it was wild. I mean they just. It was very easy for the.

[Jason Moore]

Patriots. Unbelievable. Ray Davis, Tyrone Tracy, Jameer Gibbs and Ty Johnson. So.

[Andy Holloway]

Two. Two.

[Jason Moore]

Bills. Two Bills backup running backs getting it done. Kenny Gainwell got into the end zone again, caught nine or. Sorry, nine targets for eight catches and 64 yards. I thought both running backs at times looked really good in the San Francisco game, but Zach Charbonnet I thought looked better. 17 for 74 and a touchdown. You know, everything about those two guys, it's just funny. It's like Zach Charbonnet is a good running back and he does some things really, really well. The one thing that keeps killing Kenneth Walker is his losing yards. I mean, yeah, he is just ridiculous when it comes to getting. Trying to get to the edge and then losing three or four yards at a time. At least Charbonnet is kind of more north south. It's wild. 12 rushing touchdowns for Zach Charbonnet.

[Andy Holloway]

And yet the fewest amount of PPR points for a running back with that amount of touchdowns since.

[Mike Wright]

2010. Yeah, I mean, that's pretty much the only thing that he did. If you started him in fantasy, it was just like, oh, good, I got a touchdown. I got two.

[Andy Holloway]

Touchdowns. Was the guy in the Bears Michael.

[Mike Wright]

Bush? Oh.

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah. Where we had Matt Forte and you're like the greatness of Matt Forte and they're like, get him out of there. We got to get bullshit on the.

[Mike Wright]

Insole. That's not, that's not a bad comp because Bush was very successful at.

[Andy Holloway]

It.

[Mike Wright]

Yes. Just like Charbonnet, you know, was this.

[Jason Moore]

Season. He had 27 yard run in this game. He had a 29 yard run last game. Yeah, he does break them off here and there. Tank Bigsby got it done. We talked about him in week 18. Chase Brown. Nice finish to the season, dude. And Walker is going to be a free.

[Andy Holloway]

Agent. The Chase Brown stuff is very exciting in terms of next year. I mean, week three, week four, he was going to get replaced for sure. And then it all came back and Chase Brown was excellent. And hey, samajp, someone will get worked there if it's P. Ryan or whatever. But at least right now it feels pretty good. If Chase Brown's on your Dynasty squad, Kenneth Walker.

[Mike Wright]

Doesn'T. He doesn't have a contract.

[Andy Holloway]

Right?

[Mike Wright]

Correct. So they need to.

[Andy Holloway]

Reset. He's still under contract, but Kenneth.

[Jason Moore]

Walker ends here with 1027 rushing yards, five rushing touchdowns, will head to free agency after the.

[Andy Holloway]

Playoffs. Imagine if that was 10 rushing.

[Jason Moore]

Touchdowns. I wonder. I wonder if it's going to be better for both guys to.

[Mike Wright]

Leave.

[Andy Holloway]

What?

[Jason Moore]

Charms? Well, Charms is under Walker leaving. I mean. Oh, yes. Walker leaves. It's like I could see Charms being the one in a committee. He'll be. There'll be a committee there, but he could be the one. And then Ken Walker could go be the one in a committee someplace else. Yeah, I don't think either guy's going to get all the work for their team, but I do think it could be more predictable for those guys because this year it was like, you know, basically, paper, rock.

[Andy Holloway]

Scissors. It's. I don't know. I don't know who's. I don't know if anyone's going to open up the bank for Walker and his landing spot is going to mean so, so much. Like he. I can see.

[Jason Moore]

Why. Kansas.

[Andy Holloway]

City. I can see.

[Mike Wright]

Why. Oh, that would be perfect. What he needs more than anyone is an offensive line. Like, if he goes to a place with a good offensive line that can open up holes and just let him use his speed and just, you know, kind of like what we've.

[Jason Moore]

Seen. Was that Jonathan Gannon. Because you just gave me some ptsd.

[Andy Holloway]

Brother. I don't. I just. I don't know if Walker's. I don't know if it's going to be great or the.

[Jason Moore]

End. Chris Rodriguez making his pitch. Crud. Trying to get his opportunities next year. Wide receiver Zay Flowers, the amazing Alec Pierce. Puka Nakua Jamari chasing Amon Ross.

[Andy Holloway]

St. Brown, bad boy of.

[Jason Moore]

Football. Alec Pierce getting thrown.

[Andy Holloway]

Out. Getting thrown out for his egregious Barely touching. Was turning my body and I kind of ran into the ref that was.

[Mike Wright]

Soft. So, I mean, I grow up. I understand that, like the rules are that. But I. I mean, it's not like we don't see players running into refs and bump refs because all the time.

[Andy Holloway]

Happens. Incidental.

[Mike Wright]

Contact. Yeah. There's 22, you know, probably 30 plus people on the field at all times. Like that happens. And he, you know, it's like you eject him. It was so.

[Jason Moore]

Weak. Another amazing week for Alec Pierce though. Four for 132 and two. He's a free agent and Michael Wilson, aka Jerry Rice might actually be Jerry Rice. Another five for 99 and one. He had a 50 something yard catch called back. That would have been on top of this. That was in a Calvin Johnson esque jump ball. What I mean he, he is going to finish as the wide receiver. 10 in full.

[Mike Wright]

PPR.

[Jason Moore]

No.

[Mike Wright]

Yes. What if you include that if you're.

[Andy Holloway]

18.

[Mike Wright]

Yeah. With week.

[Jason Moore]

18. I mean which they do. Right? I mean that's part of what the final finish is.

[Mike Wright]

Right. It just depends on which resource you're looking.

[Jason Moore]

At. We don't include.

[Mike Wright]

It. I honestly think we do include it. Honestly don't remember if our rest of season stuff.

[Jason Moore]

Goes. I'm pretty sure we include. Yeah, we do. We do. Yeah. And it should. It should. Well, I mean the stat lines are the stat lines. You can't take a game out of the stat.

[Mike Wright]

Line. So I mean we'll clarify all of how players got there when it mattered and everything on the truth series that we start what next.

[Jason Moore]

Week? Yep. 119 for 1646 was the pace from week 11 on. Basically the best wide receiver in football. So he's nominated for some footy awards we're going to talk about. And then Parker Washington, three straight top 10 finishes. Jefferson got his hundred yards and 1,000 yards on the season. Tight ends Colson.

[Andy Holloway]

Loveland. So do you know who is tied for the second most receiving touchdowns this year? Yeah, there's three guys with.

[Mike Wright]

11. I do.

[Andy Holloway]

Not. T.

[Mike Wright]

Higgins. Makes sense. That one handed catch was.

[Jason Moore]

Awesome. He has.

[Andy Holloway]

11. Yes. So Devonte Adams, even without playing the final few weeks, He's. He has 14. Then Amon, Raw, T. Higgins and McBride have 11. I just, I'm pointing out like T. Higgins, it was a. It was a very good year and you should be.

[Jason Moore]

Excited. It was also. Yeah, it was also a terrible year. You know what I mean? Like if you had him, it was.

[Andy Holloway]

Terrible. That's.

[Jason Moore]

What. That's all. I mean like you, you couldn't play him very often and expect much and then he got hurt and then he came back and then he got.

[Mike Wright]

Hurt again and there was the, the way that the season started with two kind of bad games and then Joe Burrow gets injured and it was a rough.

[Jason Moore]

Start. That's all I.

[Mike Wright]

Meant. Once Burrow got back, obviously much, much.

[Jason Moore]

Better. Just more ammo to him dropping in drafts Is.

[Mike Wright]

All. I mean, and it's.

[Andy Holloway]

Also. And I'll draft.

[Mike Wright]

Him. I know I probably will as well. But it is the same thing every year. It's like, oh, he's great when he's healthy and when Joe Burrow is healthy. Those things are pretty universally true. It's just those things aren't always.

[Jason Moore]

True. They don't line up very.

[Mike Wright]

Often. Yeah, they don't line up as often as you'd like. Certainly not 17 times in a.

[Jason Moore]

Year. No. Colston Loveland led the way at tight.

[Mike Wright]

End. That's Mr. Loveland.

[Jason Moore]

Loveland. He is 21 years old, 13 targets 10 for 91 and 1 this year. Sixth most fantasy points ever for a rookie tight end in the final eight games of a season which he had missed some of the beginning of the year, but just a really dominant season for Colston Loveland at this point, finishing the year as a primary target. We were talking about the room for Chicago and we'll see what the playoffs holds, but you know, it could be a little easier to predict what goes on there if it's going to be a dunes a burden Loveland future. I feel like that's a good.

[Mike Wright]

Situation. Yeah, I mean his last 10 games played and this is totally fine for a rookie tight end to take time to not be, you know, the best. Tyler Warren was very impressive right off the bat to start the season. That's not the norm the last 10 games for Colson Loveland. He's on pace for 10, 14 yards and 10 touchdowns. That is what you dream of at the tight end position for.

[Andy Holloway]

Fantasy. I think it will be difficult pretty in draft season like as we are trying to make our, you know.

[Jason Moore]

Where do you think I'll.

[Andy Holloway]

Go?

[Jason Moore]

Loveland.

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah. Oh, Loveland will.

[Jason Moore]

Be. Give me the rank, the tight end.

[Andy Holloway]

Rank. Let's see. So I mean McBride above him for.

[Jason Moore]

Sure. Brock Bowers above him for.

[Mike Wright]

Sure. Yeah.

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah. Brock Bowers will go ahead of him. So I mean, I think if.

[Jason Moore]

Daniel Jones is back, I think Tyler Warren will be in the.

[Andy Holloway]

Discussion. I think anywhere from three to five. But I'm.

[Jason Moore]

Saying. Is that how it seems to you.

[Mike Wright]

Jay? Yeah, yeah, it.

[Andy Holloway]

Does. I'm saying like when you're making your bets on who, who in the Bears is going to be the guy? Like will it be a dunes, a burden or Loveland is the best bet.

[Mike Wright]

There. The difficult part of Loveland's breakout here, these last 10 games were a lot of his production came without.

[Andy Holloway]

Rome.

[Mike Wright]

Right. And so if Rome is the true number one for this team that that's going to make a massive hit on what Loveland can do. And Rome hopefully is back for the playoffs. If the Bears end up making a run, maybe we will have a little bit more data to see how this version of the Bears does when all of their pieces are healthy. Because I do have fears next year of just, you know, DJ Moore is not going anywhere. I think he's mostly irrelevant, but still going to be involved. Luther Burden looks like he's breaking out. Loveland is great. And I think Rome could be the best wide receiver on the team, like should be the.

[Jason Moore]

One. So in the games that Rome played with him, in that sample that you gave, which was six games, his pace is basically the same.927 and.

[Andy Holloway]

Eight. So, yeah, my chips will.

[Jason Moore]

Be. Maybe the total targets wouldn't be the same, but at least the fact that he looks like a touchdown threat for this team every week is encouraging to.

[Andy Holloway]

Me. He's 21. This man could barely buy a.

[Mike Wright]

Beer. I could see Harold Fanning above him. And of course, Kyle.

[Jason Moore]

Pitts. We've got to get to these footy nominations, but a nice end of the year for Trey McBride finishes with 126 for 12, 39 and.

[Mike Wright]

11. It was a really nice beginning of the year and the middle of the year end of the year for Trey.

[Jason Moore]

McBride. Yeah, all of it was pretty good. We'll take a break. We'll talk footy noms. What's up? Foot clan traditions. They have the power to bring a whole city together to have his tailgate in the pouring rain or refuse to wash that lucky jersey. If things are good, you know they're going pretty good for your fantasy football team. And tradition, that's what we're all about. Even our main league. It's not for money. It's for tradition. It's for insulting one another. It's for the fun of the game. And tradition is what inspires Tostitos to make their masa the traditional way, starting with the whole corn kernels and made with no artificial flavors, colors or preservatives. And guess what? They're crafted for that perfect crunch. We're down here every week. The chips, the dip, the taste, the flavor. We love it as we watch the games. Tostitos is a big part of it. And whether you're at the tailgate or home watching with friends, choose Tostitos for your next game day. Tostitos tradition matters. The official chip and dip sponsor.

[Mike Wright]

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[Jason Moore]

K.com all right, it's that time of year. It's time to get into the footy nominations. It is footy time, everybody. The most special time of the year. No award more.

[Andy Holloway]

Valuable. Imagine, Imagine thinking any other award.

[Jason Moore]

Was better than and always in the mail. Well on its way to your.

[Andy Holloway]

Doorstep. Don't get me started on the post.

[Jason Moore]

Office. I think some of the original footies are still on the way. Keep checking your.

[Andy Holloway]

Mailbox. Yeah.

[Mike Wright]

Yeah. Alan Robinson. Just keep.

[Andy Holloway]

Checking. We have signature tracking on.

[Jason Moore]

It. Have not seen.

[Andy Holloway]

That. Yeah, nobody's coming. Anything? It's.

[Jason Moore]

Weird. Footy awards.com we'd love you to go and vote before Monday. The winners will be announced on next. So we'll give you a week to lock in your votes. But we're going to get into the nominations here. We're starting with the performance of the year. Looking at the best single week performance, the most impressive performance last year. Josh Allen won this with a cool 51.9 fantasy points in week.

[Andy Holloway]

14.

[Jason Moore]

Goodness. This year's nominees, Jameer Gibbs in week 12. You remember this game. It was the last great game he had in the year. 49.9 fantasy.

[Mike Wright]

Points. He got a lot of people to the playoffs and then ended their helped them leave the.

[Jason Moore]

Playoffs. Yeah. Derek Henry in week 17, championship week. That's a valuable performance. Jonathan Taylor in week 10, three touchdowns, 48 fantasy points. Trevor Lawrence in week 15 with the five touchdown passes, 44 fantasy points. Puka Nakua going crazy in week 16 just happened. 40.5 fantasy points. And then Kyle Pitts. Why not 12 targets 11 for 166 and three best performance by a tight end since ever.

[Mike Wright]

Ever. Yeah. I mean in the fantasy ever o' clock era, it's wild to think that you started the playoffs with the all time greatest tight end.

[Jason Moore]

Performance.

[Mike Wright]

Unbelievable. And it was Kyle.

[Jason Moore]

Pitts.

[Mike Wright]

Yeah. We have the fantasy Reapers man of the year. So which players injury hurt fantasy managers the most is always a sad list. Christian McCaffrey won it last year. But look, Christian McCaffrey came back. So maybe these players can come back next year. Malik Neighbors. Oh, man, I know. Jaden Daniels talk about.

[Jason Moore]

That. By the way, neighbors still using a cane. Which not.

[Mike Wright]

Great. Is it like jeweled on the top at.

[Andy Holloway]

Least. Yeah. I mean unless he's like.

[Mike Wright]

Pimping.

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah. Which I'm told not easy. Our injury guy, Matthew Betts told us that that is concerning at this point. To.

[Jason Moore]

Be. It could take a while for.

[Andy Holloway]

Him to be this far off or recovering from his surgery to still need a cane.

[Mike Wright]

Is. Well then neighbors said he had a lot wrong with his knee. So there's a big difference between those easy ACLs that are clean and multi ligament.

[Jason Moore]

Problems. That one was early and that.

[Mike Wright]

Sucked. Yeah. So you got neighbors. Jane.

[Jason Moore]

Daniels. Oh, that sucked too. It feels like he didn't play in football this.

[Mike Wright]

Year. It really.

[Andy Holloway]

Does. As does James Conner. James Conner was the starting running back for the Cardinals this year at some.

[Mike Wright]

Point. Poof. Sam Laporta. Yeah, that one I think was just good for Jameson Williams. Everyone's like, yeah, Garrett.

[Andy Holloway]

Wilson. Oh, that's the jets leading.

[Mike Wright]

Receiver. Jason jets leading receiver Garrett.

[Jason Moore]

Wilson. I believe he's caught a pass since week.

[Mike Wright]

12.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah. Still leading the team and receiving.

[Mike Wright]

Does not have 400 receiving yards but leading the team. And Mike Evans who went, imagine.

[Jason Moore]

Telling jets fans before the year, listen, your leading receiver will be under 400 yards and you're not going to pick off one pass this.

[Mike Wright]

Year. That's.

[Andy Holloway]

Impossible. Has Glenn still has a.

[Mike Wright]

Job. Yeah, yeah. But they said that that's because they just asked around and no one would take the job if they were to fire him. So they're like, well, you got to be able to hire someone and we.

[Andy Holloway]

Can'T. There.

[Jason Moore]

Was. He's the defensive.

[Mike Wright]

Guy. Right.

[Andy Holloway]

Right. I was watching a clip. I don't want to miscredit it, but yeah, higher profile. And they were talking about the, you know, like we're, we're about to get into dynasty season, into prospecting, talking about these rookies because we're, we're.

[Mike Wright]

Removed.

[Andy Holloway]

We're. We're focused on pros and now we're going to catch up on the college kids and it's like, okay, so Mendoza seemed like probably a lock to be the first pick in the draft. It seems that way. And what's the kid out of.

[Jason Moore]

Oregon? Dante.

[Andy Holloway]

Moore. So they, in the show, they were saying if I'm. If I'm Dante Moore, I am doing whatever back channeling I can. I'm having my agent get a hold of the Raiders and say, is there a chance I go number one? And if the answer is not, you have a good chance of doing it. Don't leave school. Like, don't. Do not go get drafted by.

[Mike Wright]

The. Alternatively. Mike and jets fans, you can help us out with this. Please make it common knowledge that you are not one quarterback away as a Jets fan and you should not take a quarterback with that number two pick. I.

[Andy Holloway]

Think. No, no, no, no. I disagree. They're one quarterback away and we got him. He's.

[Mike Wright]

Available. Oh, Kyler.

[Andy Holloway]

Murray. I mean, imagine Kyler in the green. He'll look so.

[Mike Wright]

Sharp. He'll look bigger than.

[Andy Holloway]

Ever. The Jolly Green.

[Jason Moore]

Giant. There you.

[Andy Holloway]

Go. Oh, I'm up. Poopiest.

[Jason Moore]

Pants. Wait, did we get through all of.

[Mike Wright]

The. We.

[Jason Moore]

Did. You mentioned Mike Evans. I did. Okay.

[Andy Holloway]

Sorry. The Poopiest Pants award. Despite high expectations, this player let down fantasy managers over and over again. Last year's winner was Travis etn. Whose pants are not poopy this.

[Mike Wright]

Year? No, they are clean and.

[Andy Holloway]

Pristine. But this year, Justin Jefferson, it was the wide receiver to Lamar.

[Jason Moore]

Jackson. Pretty.

[Andy Holloway]

Poopy. Not a stranger to poopy pants. The quarterback 2. Brian Thomas Jr. Oh, my gosh. Brian Thomas Jr. In the second round is wide receiver 10 lad McConkey, Marv In, Marvin Harrison and then Chuba, who was the running.

[Mike Wright]

Back.

[Jason Moore]

18. Yeah, those are some poopy pants. The waiver wire wonder, our fourth award. Which undrafted stud was the best pickup in the season? It's a long list. Last year's winner was Bucky.

[Andy Holloway]

Irving. This list is.

[Jason Moore]

Fun. It is. Trevor Lawrence. Jacoby Brissette was on fire. Rico Dowdle had that run. Woody Marks in there. Kyle Manangai at times, Christian Watson. Once he came back, Wanda.

[Mike Wright]

Robinson.

[Jason Moore]

Huge. Quentin Johnston, Michael Wilson, Alec Pierce and Harold Fannin Jr. Lots of good names in.

[Mike Wright]

There. Yeah, Harold Fannin is a great player.

[Andy Holloway]

Period. He.

[Mike Wright]

Is. He is a great player. The fantasy quarterback of the year, Jaden Daniels took this one home last year. I mean, it's the obvious big choices. Josh Allen, Drake, May. And then just like everyone Saw Trevor.

[Andy Holloway]

Lawrence.

[Mike Wright]

Right. You got Dak Prescott, Patrick Mahomes, and Matthew.

[Jason Moore]

Stafford. They're your.

[Andy Holloway]

Nominations. Yeah, I forgot. Mahomes started really, really.

[Mike Wright]

Hot. He was on fire. And.

[Andy Holloway]

Then. And then not. And then hurt. The fantasy running back of the year, It's a lot like the quarterback one, except it's about the running.

[Jason Moore]

Backs. Thank.

[Andy Holloway]

You. Christian McCaffrey. Must I continue? But Jonathan Taylor. Not everyone's going to vote for him, but Christian McCaffrey, Johnny Taylor, what a start. Jameer Gibbs, Devon Achan, Bijan Robinson, James Cook and Derek.

[Mike Wright]

Henry. I'm not going to sway the votes by naming them, but I feel like there's only two people you can even really.

[Jason Moore]

See. I was, I was about to say, like, Devon HN deserves a tremendous, tremendous amount of respect in this.

[Andy Holloway]

Category. He does. But there's two champs on this.

[Jason Moore]

List. Fantasy wide receiver of the year. And by the way, we're looking at kind of draft position. Yeah. It's big game performances, the impact of fantasy teams. That's what you're voting on. Last year's winner was Jamar Chase. This year's nominees, JSN and Puka Nakua, Almond Ross St. Brown, George Pickens and Jamar Chase. Once again, Jason, you can introduce our fancy tight.

[Mike Wright]

End. The fancy tight end of the year. It's a lot like the fantasy wide receiver of the year, but with tight ends. Brock Bowers was last year's winner. This year, I mean, okay, you got George Kittle and Kyle Pitts and Dallas Goddard and Tyler Warren and Harold Fannin Jr. And Trey.

[Andy Holloway]

McBride. I'm sorry to Harold.

[Mike Wright]

Fannin. I'm sorry to everyone.

[Jason Moore]

Else. That's.

[Mike Wright]

Your. I mean, that one was when you dumb sway the boat here that he lapped the field by a lot. It was just. It was the craziest gap between him and second.

[Andy Holloway]

Place. Holy.

[Mike Wright]

Toledo. Yeah, it's what?

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah. Okay. What I'm.

[Mike Wright]

Seeing. Well, because number two is what? Kyle.

[Andy Holloway]

Pitts. Yeah. So in a half.

[Jason Moore]

Point.

[Mike Wright]

What? Yeah, Kyle Pitts, your number two tight end. 40 points in a week will help.

[Andy Holloway]

You. So it a. In a half point scoring format, what I'm seeing is Trey McBride at 253 points and Kyle Pitts is the tight end to it. 169.

[Jason Moore]

Points. Oh, my.

[Mike Wright]

God. I mean, this is. This shouldn't be a.

[Jason Moore]

Problem. It's.

[Mike Wright]

Over.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah. It's Vince Carter.

[Andy Holloway]

Also. Every year we got tight ends. No, we don't. No, we.

[Mike Wright]

Don'T. 252 points is more than Jamar Chase scored as the Wide receiver for at the tight end.

[Andy Holloway]

Position. That's a good pick. All right. Rookie of the year, last year's winner.

[Mike Wright]

Wait. It's a lot like the tight.

[Andy Holloway]

Ends but with guys who have never played and they could be at any position. Jane Daniels was the winner last year. I like this bit a lot. We got Jackson, dart Cam Scatterboo. Honorary vote in loving memory. Ashton Genty, Travion Henderson, Omarion Hampton, Quinshawn Judkins, RJ Harvey, Tetteroa McMillan. It's just every rookie who played football. Yeah.

[Mike Wright]

Buka. Yeah, he was.

[Andy Holloway]

Awesome. Darrell Fannin Jr. And Tyler Warren, who left a book. What do you.

[Jason Moore]

Mean? Abuka is as worthy of being on here as Travion is. They flipped their seasons. Yeah, they.

[Mike Wright]

Did.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah. That's the problem when you're reading these names for rookie of the Year. I don't know the right.

[Mike Wright]

Vote. It is.

[Jason Moore]

Tough. There's a bunch of broken seasons here. Scatterboo barely played. Hampton barely played. Judkins got hurt, didn't get going until he came back from the season. Holy.

[Andy Holloway]

Crap. Abuka. You guys know where he.

[Mike Wright]

Finished? Yeah, I do. Wide receiver.

[Andy Holloway]

20. He managed to finish at.

[Mike Wright]

20. Trayvon Henderson, running back.

[Andy Holloway]

19.

[Mike Wright]

Yeah. They did the same thing in.

[Jason Moore]

Return. Why? They both belong here. It's not how you. It's. It's hard because the vote here is.

[Andy Holloway]

Like. It's just. The man had eight straight weeks.

[Jason Moore]

Of. Do you have any inkling on how that vote's going to go? I'm not going to make you.

[Andy Holloway]

Say who you think is going to win. Let me look at it.

[Jason Moore]

Again. I.

[Mike Wright]

Genuinely. I feel like I want to vote. I want to vote for Kim.

[Andy Holloway]

Scatter.

[Jason Moore]

Boo.

[Mike Wright]

Right? The heart wants what the heart.

[Andy Holloway]

Wants.

[Mike Wright]

Yeah. I think I know who is.

[Andy Holloway]

Going. I can tell you. I could tell you who finish are going to be. I'm not going to do it right.

[Mike Wright]

Now. Don't think we'll have a different name. Yeah, I think I know who's going to.

[Jason Moore]

Win. Yeah, we'll talk about it. I want your votes. We don't want to sway anything. Breakout player of the year rookies are not allowed here, right? Just breakout players that we've already seen that leveled up last year was Brian Thomas Jr. Who is this year's breakdown.

[Mike Wright]

Player. I'll tell you what, when we're reading these last year names, right, like rookie of the year last year was Jaden Daniels bad. This year, last year's bad. Players of.

[Andy Holloway]

Injured. I know where you're.

[Mike Wright]

Going. I don't like injured Christian McCaffrey and then he was great. Pooby pants. It was ETN. Then he was great. It's like it's just the opposites. He's award.

[Andy Holloway]

Everybody. I thought you were going to say we are cursing.

[Jason Moore]

People. What about the Jamar Chase.

[Andy Holloway]

Part? Yeah, he's still.

[Jason Moore]

Great. That was pretty good. Saquon. Yeah, a little.

[Andy Holloway]

Bit. He could be back to back.

[Jason Moore]

Winner, breakout player of the year nominees Drake, May, Javante Williams, Jalen Warren, George Pickens, Chris Olave and Michael Wilson, all worthy.

[Mike Wright]

Nominees. But who.

[Jason Moore]

Was. Did you feel like Jaylen Warren was a breakout.

[Mike Wright]

Player? He was for a.

[Jason Moore]

While. When he got injured. He's the only one in that category that doesn't feel.

[Mike Wright]

Right. When he got injured late and Kenny Gainwell was just.

[Jason Moore]

Awesome. Feels like Gainwell should be in.

[Andy Holloway]

There. Yeah. Warren had what, over 1200.

[Jason Moore]

Yards. I love that Brooks is going to hear us debating the inclusion of people and be like you had you had three days to change any names you.

[Andy Holloway]

Wanted. Yeah, but that was.

[Jason Moore]

Yesterday. I know. I'm just thinking like I feel like Kenny Gainwell broke out more than Jaylen Warren. That's all I'm.

[Mike Wright]

Saying. He.

[Jason Moore]

Definitely. The nominees are the nominees. Kenny Gainwell broke.

[Mike Wright]

Out. I know why you're saying that. But it also is probably a little bit of recency bias because it happened later in the year and yeah.

[Jason Moore]

I mean he's their lead. He's their leading receiver on the.

[Mike Wright]

Year. Yeah. Not their leading runner. He's a running.

[Andy Holloway]

Back. Yeah. He. He just surpassed a thousand where Warren had almost 1,000 rushing yards plus 330 receiving.

[Mike Wright]

Yards. The steel of the draft. This is always Brian Thomas Jr. Last year, Brian Thomas Jr. Steel of the draft, ninth round pick. These are the guys that really genuinely like these win leagues for you. You had James Cook drafted as the running back.

[Jason Moore]

13.

[Mike Wright]

Yep. Trey McBride, even though he was drafted as the running back to still obvious tight end 2. He's still obvious worth it. JSN third round pick, wide receiver 14 in the draft. Devonte Adams. Man, if he could have stayed healthy. He was unbelievable. Wide receiver 19 in the draft. How about George Pickens drafted as the wide receiver 2028. Where did he finish? Look that up.

[Andy Holloway]

Mike. I'm sorry, I'm seeing a note here from the Falcon who never makes a good.

[Mike Wright]

Point. No.

[Andy Holloway]

Never. But I wasn't paying attention. Close to Mr. Loveland's not in up for tight end of the year and Warren.

[Mike Wright]

Is.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah. Who finished higher might have been.

[Mike Wright]

Loveland. I mean we count week.

[Jason Moore]

18. Yes. We can't week 18. No. Warren was better by four position.

[Mike Wright]

Points.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah. By seven and.

[Andy Holloway]

11. What was his total.

[Jason Moore]

Points? Colson.

[Andy Holloway]

Loveland. No, no, no, no.

[Jason Moore]

Warren. Loveland was 136. Warren was.

[Mike Wright]

150. Okay. There you go. George Pickens did finish as the wide receiver. 5. Drafted as the wide receiver. 28. DeAndre Swift, drafted as the running back. 24. Chris Olave was drafted as the wide receiver. 34. I think he's one of the most surprising of this year. Nobody really wanted to draft.

[Andy Holloway]

Him. No, no, nobody did. It was a reluctant.

[Mike Wright]

Click. You had Javante Williams. Real. Another surprise. Running back, 39 in the ninth round was very good. Cooled off towards the end of the year. And then Travis etn, last year's poopiest pants. Now on the steal of the draft category. As a.

[Jason Moore]

Nominee. Gotta poop your pants to become a.

[Mike Wright]

Steal. That's true. That's.

[Jason Moore]

True. Unless you're a rookie, you got to poop your pants to become a.

[Mike Wright]

Steal. You got to.

[Jason Moore]

Drop. You got to drop.

[Mike Wright]

One. Yeah. Drop one to go late in the.

[Jason Moore]

Draft. Normally drop your pants to drop.

[Mike Wright]

One. Yeah. But if you don't drop your pants and then you drop one, it's called the poopy pants.

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah. And then you go comeback player of the.

[Mike Wright]

Year. Thank.

[Andy Holloway]

You. Which fantasy player amazed you the most in their return to.

[Mike Wright]

Relevance? What is this one.

[Andy Holloway]

Like? This one is not like the.

[Mike Wright]

Rest. No.

[Andy Holloway]

Okay. We got Matthew Stafford, who had vanished for us as a fantasy.

[Jason Moore]

Quarterback. By the way, JK Dobbins won this last.

[Andy Holloway]

Year. Oh, yes. Yes.

[Mike Wright]

Jk. So we did it.

[Jason Moore]

Again.

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah. Jakey Dobbins. Just like.

[Jason Moore]

That. Yeah. And we're about to in the next one, so go on. Keep.

[Andy Holloway]

Going. Maddie Stafford, Trevor Lawrence, Javante Williams, Chris Olave, Kyle Pitts, and Dallas.

[Jason Moore]

Goddard. Are you.

[Mike Wright]

With. I just saw what the next one was. It's.

[Jason Moore]

Unbelievable. The playoff king who drove fantasy managers to a championship during playoff weeks 15 to 17. Last year's winner was Jameer.

[Mike Wright]

Gibbs.

[Andy Holloway]

Drove. He drove you.

[Mike Wright]

Home. He got. He got you to the play. He's the exact opposite of this.

[Jason Moore]

Award. He's the exact opposite. This year, a lot of nominees. Trevor Lawrence, Brock Purdy, Derek Henry, Christian McCaffrey, Bijan Olave, Nakua McBride and Pitts all dominated during the playoff weeks. Jameer Gibbs did.

[Mike Wright]

Not. No. We have a.

[Andy Holloway]

New. We got two new awards this.

[Mike Wright]

Year. Two new awards, by the.

[Jason Moore]

Way. Footyawards.com Footyawards.com to.

[Mike Wright]

Vote. That's right. And that's tie footy just in case you want to put a Y in.

[Andy Holloway]

There. Do we not.

[Mike Wright]

Have. I don't know. We should look into.

[Jason Moore]

That.

[Andy Holloway]

Just. Just be. Just grab.

[Mike Wright]

It. Yeah. So the. The first new award is the bummer of the year. It's not necessarily the biggest.

[Andy Holloway]

Bust.

[Mike Wright]

Right. But it's still a huge bummer for fantasy football managers and those people Papa John.

[Jason Moore]

Deserve. Oh, he's.

[Mike Wright]

Not. Okay. That's the. That's the bummer of every year that if you just win it every year. But the bummer of the year Mechag Buka is in this list because this is like the build me up buttercup just to let me down. Brian Thomas Jr. Oh.

[Andy Holloway]

Gosh. We're going to let him.

[Mike Wright]

Get. I mean, he won the bummer and the poopiest pants. Here's my bummer of the year. Caleb Johnson. Remember.

[Andy Holloway]

Him?

[Mike Wright]

Nope. Yeah. Bucky Irving and Travis Hunter. Which one just hurt your heart? I think the.

[Jason Moore]

Most? And then, Mike, we got one more new.

[Andy Holloway]

Category. We do. We. Introducing the meow man of the year. This year's nominations for the first ever meow man of the year, Mason Taylor, AKA Meowson.

[Jason Moore]

Taylor. That's.

[Mike Wright]

It. All right. You can vote for whoever you want in this category at Footie.

[Jason Moore]

Awards. O T I e footy awards.com.

[Mike Wright]

It was confirmed that Mason Taylor is the only rookie tight end since 2010 to not force a single missed tackle in a season with 40 plus.

[Jason Moore]

Receptors. So he's also the only rookie tight end since 2010 to be nominated for the inaugural Meow man of the.

[Andy Holloway]

Year. Vote. Vote.

[Jason Moore]

With. Vote with your heart, but choose your.

[Andy Holloway]

Brain. Yeah. All the above. Next.

[Jason Moore]

Category. Did you introduce that one? Yeah. We have the nickname of the.

[Mike Wright]

Year. It went by quit the.

[Andy Holloway]

Nick. There's not a lot of.

[Jason Moore]

Nominees. The nickname of the year this year is. I was trying to find of last year. Well, no, we're introducing nominees for this year. Last year's winner was Laser Mayfield. What a flop. The end of the season.

[Mike Wright]

Was. Dude, that team everything. Every single winner of a footy last so much power. They just did the opposite this year. And it's not all a curse because if you got a bad award last year, you're awesome this.

[Jason Moore]

Year. Oh, my gosh. And the show moment of the year last year. It was me and Jeremy in the title game when we finished dead.

[Mike Wright]

Last. I mean, every was the.

[Andy Holloway]

Opposite. Oh, my.

[Jason Moore]

God.

[Andy Holloway]

Gosh. How good is Mason Taylor going to.

[Mike Wright]

Be? Oh, he's going to break every.

[Jason Moore]

Tackle record he always breaks. And.

[Mike Wright]

Tackles. Yeah. Also to be clear, only one.

[Jason Moore]

Of us finished dead.

[Mike Wright]

Last. Also, to be fair, we do not know. We don't know who has won any awards yet, Mike. So I don't want you to.

[Andy Holloway]

Presume. I apologize.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah. We don't know who's going to win the Meow man of the.

[Andy Holloway]

Year.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah. Nickname of the year nominees Last year, Baker Mayfield. This year, George Pickens.

[Mike Wright]

Nickname. George T.

[Jason Moore]

Higgins.

[Mike Wright]

Nickname. Meet.

[Jason Moore]

Higgins. Dylan Gabriel's.

[Mike Wright]

Nickname. You mean Gillen.

[Jason Moore]

Gabriel. Alec. IO Manor's.

[Mike Wright]

Nickname. Ooh. Epic IO.

[Jason Moore]

Manor. Mason Taylor's.

[Mike Wright]

Nickname. Meowson.

[Jason Moore]

Taylor. Jakori.

[Mike Wright]

Krasky. Merit is Bill Krauski. Jake Tonjas is Tonjas.

[Jason Moore]

McBasketball. DK Metcalf.

[Mike Wright]

Is. You mean DK Mike.

[Jason Moore]

Calf. And then for the first time, I think ever, two nicknames for one dude. Colson Loveland as Catston Dogland and colson Loveland as Mr. Loveland. Oh, Mr. Loveland. You know, I will say, from the moment that his nickname kind of leaned towards Mr. Loveland, he really was on.

[Mike Wright]

Fire. Yeah, I think we. We really did that. And then the final category, the most important category of the footies every year. Although really, nickname of the year might be the show moment of the year. And here is the best part. If you go to [e-mail] we will have a YouTube link to all 10 video clips. It is a fun watch to remember and remind yourself of all.

[Jason Moore]

These. Yeah. What a.

[Mike Wright]

Year. Bizarre, stupid, accidental problems that happened on the show. We have the Bill Crosky.

[Jason Moore]

Jokes. Okay, those are good.

[Mike Wright]

Time. We have the Falcon mailbag.

[Jason Moore]

Drop. That was a bad.

[Mike Wright]

Time. Fiasco made it in. It shouldn't have Mike's Henderson hate.

[Andy Holloway]

Blockers. That was a good.

[Mike Wright]

Day. You enjoyed that. We have Meat Higgins that. It's crazy that that's still from this year. It was a long time ago. We've got the NARD attack. You know, Juwan Jennings getting his nards.

[Jason Moore]

Attacked. Oh, my.

[Mike Wright]

Gosh. We had.

[Jason Moore]

Me. Why do we go with.

[Andy Holloway]

Nard? I think that's.

[Mike Wright]

Great. It's a family friendly.

[Andy Holloway]

Shuttle.

[Mike Wright]

Great. That's a good one. We have me hating fantasy football after week four. That was awful. We have me going missing. We have the Cardinals.

[Jason Moore]

Meltdown. Oh.

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah. That was after the Titans.

[Mike Wright]

Game. Yeah. And that's right. That was us. And then my cam Scatter Boo Halloween costume. That was a good time. And the falcon buying food on the company card. Four.

[Jason Moore]

Months. So for a really long time.

[Mike Wright]

You can ever pay all that.

[Andy Holloway]

Yeah. What's going on with that payment.

[Mike Wright]

Plan. Yeah, it's on the.

[Jason Moore]

Way.

[Andy Holloway]

Okay. It's in the.

[Jason Moore]

Mail. You pay me back with doordash gift.

[Andy Holloway]

Cards. For some reason, I don't know. Falcon's in here.

[Mike Wright]

Twice. Yeah, I don't like that at.

[Andy Holloway]

All. Yeah, one in.

[Jason Moore]

Loveland. He didn't put it together, though, so there you.

[Mike Wright]

Go. Probably getting all his friends to vote for.

[Jason Moore]

Him. Yeah, that's kind of what he does. All right. Footy awards.com vote before Monday. Winners will be announced next.

[Mike Wright]

Tuesday. Thankfully, he's got like.

[Jason Moore]

Four. Yeah. So, yeah, four.

[Mike Wright]

Friends.

[Jason Moore]

Yeah. Oh, that's a.

[Mike Wright]

Lot. Yeah. But not. Not when the voting.

[Jason Moore]

Matters.

[Mike Wright]

Okay. You know what I.

[Jason Moore]

Mean? We appreciate your votes. We appreciate you hanging out with us. We're going to say goodbye for today, but we'll be back on Thursday. A very special footballers AMA episode, Footy awards show coming up, truth series coming up, and the best week of football ever. Maybe these playoff matchups should be a blast. We'll see you.

[Andy Holloway]

Soon.

[Mike Wright]

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.

[Jason Moore]

FFballers. We've all been.

[Andy Holloway]

There. You hold on to a coupon, but forget about it and suddenly it's.

[Jason Moore]

Expired. Expired in 2012. Dang it. Fortunately, by switching to Geico, you could save about 900 on car insurance without ever touching a.

[Mike Wright]

Coupon. It feels good to save big. It feels good to.