The TRUTH: WRs Part 2 + Where’s Jason? - Fantasy Football Podcast for 2/4

You were in the middle of saying he would not sign one. And he had just signed. That was a, yeah, I mean, that bodes well for his bank account. Good callback, Mike. Three more names I want to talk about. Number 20 was Tyreek. Number 23 is Puka Nakua and number 26 is Nico Collins. Let me skip Tyreek for a second and circle back. Puka came in at 23 because he missed a bunch of time, but his consistency rank was three. So the story of easy. Yeah, and Puka. Came in at 26, missed a bunch of time, consistency rate of six. Let me just ask you, which of those two guys would you rather have? Puga. In a redraft. What was that? It was me immediately wanting to say, I wanted to say Puka right off the bat, but I'm also remembering, like, I had a hard time with these two guys in Dynasty. I think Puka is the better player. I think he will be better for fantasy as well, but long term when one of them is tied to C.J. Stroud and one of them's tied to a player that could retire any minute.

so yeah look 73% good games for for puka 64% for nico both had 18% bust rates both had 18% great games both were outstanding i mean neko was first five weeks the best wide receiver there was and fantasy and puka during the 10 games he played after getting injured in week one Coming back, he was 16.1 fantasy points per game. So that would have been the wide receiver 2 ahead of Justin Jefferson. And right now in best ball, it is going the Puka direction. It's wide receiver 3 for Pooka, wide receiver 5 for Nico Collins. I don't think that there is as much confidence with the way the offensive system ran in Houston and now having to make a change as there is with Sean McVeigh and the consistency of getting Pooka the ball every possible way in Los Angeles. In a redraft league, I don't.

I don't have any hesitation to take Puka over Niko. It's just in a Dynasty League that's a question mark. Nico was unbelievably great in the beginning of the year. However, he had a handful of disappearing games down the stretch once he came back from injury. And, you know, whether that was Stroud, whether that was Niko, whether it was just, you know, the losses of Diggs and Tank Dell forcing, you know, defensive coverage on Niko. Whatever it was, it happened. And it happened. more than we would have liked. Like you said, the second half consistency for Nico, he was the 27th most consistent one. Here's a wonderful crossover for you, too. The Texans literally just hired Nick Kelly from the Rams to be their offensive coordinator. He's got that toilet day McVeigh. He was the passing game coordinator and tight ends coach. And you know what? I'm in. Oh, I'm in. I'm in for sure. Yeah, I mean, it's good.

Less Slowick, more, not slow it, is also good. Tyree Kil came in at 20. He was drafted as the wide receiver won. Oh, man. I tried. But he missed a bunch of games. Nope. Oh, he missed no games. He played the entire season and did not get 1,000 yards. Is he the biggest bust in fantasy? Probably not the biggest bus. Not injury-based. But he's... He's a bigger bust than ETN is. I think he is the biggest disappointment because Tyree Kill... When you were, I mean, Tyree kill in some leagues was the 101. I mean, a lot of times it was, are you afraid of Christian McCaffrey? Well, then play it safe. Play it safe. Get Tyree killed. Oh, man, both sucked. 13% great, 31% good, 38% bust. Holy molly. Yeah, and the reason I wouldn't say he's the biggest bust in fantasy football last year is like that whole first half week one was great. He was the QB4. They lose Tua for a huge stretch of games.

You blamed it all on that. You didn't think it would be that bad as it was where, I mean, he's like in the 50s. He did nothing without Tua. And then Tua comes back and you got something. Like it wasn't, Tyreek Hill wasn't unplayable. Like Travis ETN was, if you put him in the lineup, you were just, you knew you were going to get punched in the face. But Tyreek, he's at least giving you games. He's just not giving you anything close to the wide receiver won. Is the wrist injury, do you buy it? I do not buy it because he played 17 games. However, let's take a closer look at weeks 8 through 16. That's when Tua came back and that was 100% of the time playing with Tua. During that stretch of games, he was averaging 12.1 fantasy points. Yes, it's not. He would have had a season long 1,020 yards, 9.4 touchdowns. It's not terrible.

It's certainly not worthy of the first or second pick in a draft. Almost half his yardage from last year. Yeah. And so you don't, I mean, you don't look at this situation and think, well, it should get better. You know, now he's going into year 31. Has he become the Cooper Cup of the draft season? Remember where Cooper Cup was, you know. lower than people, you know, the tantalizing value, getting older, but maybe you can get another Cups. You know how people trade it? I'm very curious where Tyreek Hill is drafted. With what he's done. Early under, or I'm sorry, best ball, wide receiver 17. Oh, wow. I thought, I think in redraft leagues, he might go higher than that simply because of the name. Yeah. What home leagues do you mean? I think it's going to be brutal for people to pass on.

Tyreek Hill to take Jackson Smith and Jigma. Exactly. Or Garrett Wilson or Terry McLaurin. Exactly. Yeah. And I'll do it. You'll take them over it? I think I think I will pass Tyreek. Oh, pass on Tyree. Yeah. Well, there's a fragility with the quarterback. I mean, that you now know, you knew that was there, but you thought you had kind of gotten past it. And then last year you thought maybe he lost his quarterback for the whole year. I mean, they've had to have too many starts from too many guys not named two a tongue of a lot. They, everyone needs a good backup quarterback, but they really need to.

They need Joe Flacco. Like, yeah, you need someone like that where you can feel confident that if two of them misses a couple games, we're not just buried in the bottom of the ocean. Give me James or give me death? Well, James, we like James for fantasy. I don't know if people want James to win football games. Yeah, that's all I care about. I want James. DTR got starts over James for no good reason. I was to lose. It was a great reason for them. I feel like the Mabst trade. James should. be the NFL backup. You made it through the whole show. I did. How are you doing? I'm empty. Doing real well hollowed out inside. How you doing? You got a trophy? I do. It's pretty sweet. I don't think it's big enough for you. No, no. Um, that would overflow. That was, uh, what, how many episodes of this show have we done now? How many, what is the show 17?

So 1,718, first time we've pulled that off. Yeah. All right. I still blame Mike for coming in late. Oh, man. Of course, I would have been mid show. Yeah. Thank you, Mike. You're welcome. Tighten truth episode, fantasy face off, Super Bowl lineups. We have a Super Bowl coming up. Sure do. So Thursday's episode should be fun. and we'll react to the Super Bowl next Tuesday. We also have an extra episode every week. If you want to support the show, you can go to join the foot.com. As Jason said, the ultimate draft get the pre-order starts on Super Bowl Sunday, which means you can get access to the Dynasty Pass immediately. Our team has already been testing the app that's about to release. It's going to be awesome. So shout out to the deucers for being ready to roll on time today. Amazing work. Talk to you next time. Goodbye.

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