Shocking Stats + Super Bowl Reactions, Cooper Kupp-It!- Fantasy Football Podcast for 2/15

Like with the growth of Smith on the outside, that number could certainly go up. Physically, like is he getting bigger? Oh, yeah, I hope so. He needs to put on some LBs. No, there's upside. And there's downside. Don't, let's not get it wrong. There's downside because he could be, you know, benched. I would pay a lot of money if the trade destination for Carson Wins was the Philadelphia Eagles. Some men just want to watch the world burn. All right. Here is number four here. Shocking stats. Where have all the Cowboys gone?

Thank you for that. Yep, Kyle. Despite leading the NFL in total points, 30.4 points per game, all of the Dallas Cowboys starters in fantasy drafts failed to return their draft cost in 2021, which means... That is a shocking stat. For fantasy purposes, they were worse than where you drafted him. All of them. Dak was drafted as the quarterback six. He finished at seven. Zee, running back four, finished at six. I think maybe the biggest letdown was C.D. Lamb drafted as the wide receiver 11 inside that...

wide receiver one range, ends wide receiver 18, Amari Cooper, wide receiver 15 to 27, Gallup 55 to 78, Blake Jarwin, 24 to 60. The only two guys that did well were guys that weren't really drafted, Pollard and Dr. Schultz. Dr. Schultz was really good on this season. You're really committed to that. I mean, it's just when it's great, it's great. But I still don't get it. What he's doing? What do you mean?

you don't get it. He can't, how is he jelling? It's Dr. Scholes. Yeah. Well, I mean, he is. There's two doctors. What do you? Oh, come on. You can't see the leap from Dr. Scholes to Dr. Schultz? For all the things that we have done on this show, that's about as a close of correlations you get. I want to see his jaw hands back there who's in support of Dr. Schultz. Yeah. Do we have three? We got two.

We got three hands. That was a very slow hand, Brooks, and that was peer pressure. And everyone at home is raising their hand. No, I know. But this is, I think the takeaway here, and something we need to factor in going forward is like the consolidation of assets is so important. You know, last year when the chiefs were just crushing it for people, it was Tyree Kill and Travis Kelsey. It's like you know where they're going. All the fantasy points go to a few options.

That's what's been so great about the Vikings, right? It's like you've got Talvin Cook and you got Justin Jefferson. And here it was just there's, it was almost like there were too many, too many assets. The offense was great. And really part of this stat that's misleading is they led the NFL in total point scored 30.4, but they had a lot of defensive score. I was going to say, did. Defense changing this year, which, you know.

Yeah, Parsons, settle down over there. We need some offensive points, man. Yeah, we've seen this before. I mean, it really across the board affects everybody. So, yeah, you're right. Consolidation of assets, defensive performance makes a big difference. We'll be interesting. We have Gallup, Cedric Wilson, and the doctor are currently free agents. So maybe he leaves to study more medicine. I don't know. Right. Yeah, I mean, shoot. Uh, grandpa's last hurrah, bears.

Second year tight-in Cole Commit is the first tied-in in NFL history to see 90-plus targets and not score a single receiving touchdown. Jimmy Grandpa, three receiving touchdowns. I made $300 off of Jason. Thank you. You're welcome. Major increase in usage for Cole Commit. So we're flagging this because we're looking to 2022. The volume was there, but the touchdowns just weren't.

You have a new head coach. You got a quarterback that's going to be, he seems to like targeting Colquimette. It's just not in the paint. Well, because that was Jimmy Graham's own. Yeah, but what does that say that they thought Jimmy Graham? Was it simply Jimmy Graham's on the roster and so this is the only place we can use them? Let's get him in. That'd be great. Or is it possible that they thought Jimmy Graham, this version of Jimmy Graham is just actually better than Colcomette.

inside the red zone. Which he is. Yeah, I mean, that's, I mean, Jimmy Graham is bad. Jimmy Graham is, no, he's, he's elite. Jimmy Graham is an elite red zone target. He's very large. I mean, he was elite at one time, but he was. Yes, he used to be an athletic middle of the field, him and seem, let him run. Now he is an elite in zone target. He really is. Oh, man, I don't know. He wins. He wins. Cole come out. He had three touchdowns on the season. Let's not get carried away.

You know, I know you fell all of them with $100 bills, but I don't know. Did you watch their offense? They might have had three on the year. Yeah, I mean, he's big. I'm sure Aaron Rogers could have him use more. I don't know that he was what Jimmy. Didn't he have 10 touchdowns last year or something? Eight. You mean two years ago? No. Last year he had eight touchdowns in the red zone. So this is what he does. So I don't, in other words, to answer your question, I don't indict Colcomette at all.

But Cole Commet is not going to go get jump balls in the corner of the end zone. That's just not what they've done. I do reject your verbiage, though. That is now two years ago. Oh, you're making me move that. Yeah. So you want to be. Well, no, because I'm right. It was two years ago when he had eight touchdowns. He had three touchdowns this last year. They're like the same size. But they're both six six, six. They're within a couple pounds of each other. I think that the arrow was way up on Cole Commet. Like I think that the.

How I feel about his future as a fantasy tight end does not match where the market is on him right now. We can agree on that. Look, every tight end is that size. Not every tight end goes up and has ball skills and has jumping ability and all of that. Evan Ingram wishes he was 6'6. All right. So Colquamette, arrow pointing up, we all agree on that. It could be a bylaw in Dynasty leagues. Could be a late round tight end next year that you look at. I'm sure there will be some offseason hype.

about Colquemette if Jimmy Grandpa has indeed had his last ride into the sunset. All right. On a rascal going five miles an hour. So he's sped up. He takes the rascal to the goal line. He gets out and then he leaps straight up. I have to believe Colquette can out leap Jimmy Graham at this point in time. You would think so. No. No.

I would think so. I want to see it. Jimmy Graham perfected getting fined for the... Yes, the dunk over the goalpost. I think we just like making fun of a man much younger than you. Throw if the Raven more. The Ravens, offense transformed from being dead last and total pass attempts to ninth with 610 attempts this year. It's the biggest year-to-year pass jump over the last 20 years. Lamar had nine games of 30 plus passing attempts.

How do we project all of this going forward? We did discuss this a little bit on the show recently. This is a math equation. You remove a great defense. You remove great running backs. And then at times you remove Lamar Jackson, which is going to lead to less rushing attempts with the backup running backs as well. I think we find improvements on the defense and the running game next year. But I don't think we revert to being dead last.

So I would put them as a middle of the pack passing offense in terms of volume next year. What do you guys think? I tend to agree with that. Can the defense return? Is everything just blamed on injuries? And then next year, the Ravens are back to being that very scary defense that you don't want your players matched up against. I don't know if that's the case. So I would just, I would try and be measured and say that they have definitely said with their actions of the front office they want.

to have an increase of past attempts, but I think that the pendulum went too far for what they want this year. Yeah, I mean, if you look, we talked about their actions, you know, drafting the first round rookie, all of that. This is part of why I think Mark Andrews has leveled up to the elite status from great to elite is because of the passing a tip. The issue we always had with...

you know, Hollywood Brown and Mark Andrews is just the passing pie was too small. Now, the 610, a lot of that was when the backup came in. He threw for a ton. But if you just look at the games where Lamar Jackson played, you know, the majority of the snaps wasn't injured with 14% of snaps, he would have been on pace this year. The way that they played with him was on pace for 584 passing attempts. If you compare that to his pace, his 17-game pace from the year prior.

He was on pace for 426. So when we talked two years ago about the small passing pie, that was 426 passing attempts. That's itty bitty. 584 passing attempts means Mark Andrews can be a fantasy stud. It means Hollywood or, depending on, you know, whatever you believe. Bateman, they can have more fantasy relevance because I do think they're going to continue passing the ball. Again, this wasn't like they, you know, they were ninth.

You know, a middle of the pack team. And I will take a middle of the pack pie versus bottom of the league. Yeah, I mean, it's going to be philosophical for this offense. He's on 18, 19 interception pace. Lamar Jackson was as well. So I think we're, I think we're in agreement of where the offense is heading. They don't have a guaranteed contract for Lamar yet, right? Correct. So that's not an extension. Breaking news. All right. You might have known this even when we.

Talked about it earlier in the show, but it does look like a torn ACL. Yeah, for O'Dell. For O'Dell Beckham Jr. The second torn ACL against the Bengals in two years. Oh, seriously? Yes. Mm-hmm. Come on. Yes, two catches for 52 yards, one touchdown, one moonwalk before the injury. Ian Rappaport reporting. That moonwalk was, that was a good one. I missed the moonwalk. Oh, he knocked the hat up. I'm just saying, like, for.

The moonwalk was good, but the hat. I love the hat. But I mean, you're in cleats. That's just, that's impressive stuff. He moonwalked in cleats? Yes. I got to watch this. Now, that is not where he tore the acil. No. Couldn't have been healthy for those knees. That is, I mean, but that's a lot to come back from in two consecutive years. And it's going to throw some shade on dynasty value. There was finally some optimism around Beckham. Yeah. If Beckham had left the season healthy, re-signs with the Rams, you'd be.

Pretty excited for him moving next year into next year. Now, in ACL recovery, you're talking probably on the pup to start the beginning of the year, miss at least six weeks. Can't have the injury any later in the season. It's a bummer. Well, it could have been in the fourth quarter. Okay, you could have it a few minutes later in the season. Yeah, you're talking about last season, right?

Correct. Okay. I'm just trying to make sure I understand. Thank you. That is correct. What's going on around here. Good job. Now we understand the vernacular. That's good. That's good. All right. That is going to do it for today's show. One more reminder for you, Ultimate draft kit.com. The pre-order is up. It's available. The dynasty pass is awesome. My favorite part is the team opportunity sheets. They've been upgraded this year.

You can filter by best opportunity per position. It is amazing to research for your upcoming dynasty startup drafts for rookie drafts. All of that is available in the UDK Plus. You can get that at Ultimate draft kit.com. That is going to do it. That is it. Last season in the books. We did it, everybody. We did it. We did. Thank you for listening, everybody. Make sure go to ultimate draft kit.com and we'll see you next time. Goodbye.

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