Fantasy Football Podcast 2017 - The TRUTH About Fantasy WR's in 2016, Part 2

89 receptions just over 1,000 yards and 8 touchdowns. Certainly started faster than he finished. But when you break it down, he had nine top 25 performances. He had one in the top five. So you don't, you know, when you look at Cooper, he had a couple of them. You don't really get that from Crabtree, you know, top five numbers. But talk about a great wide receiver two to have on your fantasy team. Yeah, I mean, when you have nine top 25 finishes, that is.

That is being consistent. That's very Eric Decker-like. It's more than Michael Thomas, by the way. It's more than Brandon Cook's, Doug Baldwin, same amount as Hilton and Julio. So, yeah. As your wide receiver, too, you hope that you've got a wide receiver one that's on your roster that's putting up those gigantic games. Michael Crabt should only had one top five performance. But when you've got that kind of...

solid production coming in. Those are keys to organizing a fantasy football roster in a way where you win every week. Well, and ADP of 87 helps. Oh, yeah. I mean, where are you drafted? Here's the nice thing about Crabtree is we say this about certain people, but every single year, the people that are underrated, the Jordy Nelson's and Michael Crabtrees that come into a year and they're,

You know, they're not getting the respect they deserve. I'll throw Devont to Freeman into that. Frank Gore historically. Frank Gore, for sure. Before that, you had the depth chart assassin, Fred Jackson. Every single year, you have some of these guys who they've got a knock on them. Maybe they're not the, they don't have that top in speed or they don't have something that the, that the stars have, and they every single year.

Their ADP is going to be great. And there's no way he gets drafted ahead of Murray Cooper next year. No, no way on the planet Earth. The way I visualize it is if everybody is in a race running for the top of the draft board, these guys all have a weight around their neck. And they just can't shake it year to year. For some reason, they just can't get up to where people have confidence in him. And, you know, it's kind of sad because I finally was doing that with Eric Decker. I was like, I'm on board with Eric Decker. And then he got hurt? Then he got hurt.

And so part of Michael Crabtree, he did perform a lot better against bottom half passing defenses, 81 yards compared to 48. You'll see those numbers very similar with Amari Cooper. That's with Derek Carr. He's just not, I like Derek Car. He hasn't done it against. Yeah, he's not there yet to where it's, you know that, oh, well, it's a great passing defense. He has to play Denver twice every year.

And you know that those are games that you're probably going to avoid, at least for now. Maybe Derek Carr evolves for next year and things change. But where it sits right now, that's one of the knocks on Crabtree and Cooper as well. All right. Let's move on to Larry Fitzgerald. Number 12. ADP of 62 this year, played all 16 games, led the league in receptions, 102, six touchdowns over 1,000 yards. However, you know, despite being number 12,

in the rankings, he was number 29 in terms of consistency in standard. Yes. But in PPR leagues, he was number eight. He was even better. So he is a player that you see a big disparity, much like an Edelman type, where PPR leagues, you can lock and load him in as a two and get top performance. I mean, you get one numbers in a PPR league. He'll be...

underdrafted most likely next year. Certainly. This is the second year in a row. You've seen him start hot and fizzle out towards the end of the year. And because he's older nearing retirement, you're going to get a lot of the narratives that are saying he dropped off and he lost it. We don't even know if he's back. That's true. He might actually just straight retire. I do think right now that he will be back for another year and that Carson will be back as well. But I do, coming into the draft season,

He might be a guy that starts off hot again and gets cold, but that's going to be fine to draft him. And just to give you an example, you look at his consistency wasn't that great. The first half of the year through week nine, he was the wide receiver 10 in half point formats. You guys want to take a guess the second half of the year where he was ranked? From week 10 on, he was the 34 wide receiver. So it was really the second half. Same thing happened in the previous year.

You draft them and trade him. You draft him and trade him for Doug Baldwin. Yes, the perfect combo. The perfect wider. You have, that is Larry in the beginning, Doug in the end. Yes. By the way, in the news, we should have talked about it. I don't know why we didn't. But those of you out there looking for an update on Jordy Nelson, it's very, very likely he's going to miss this week's game against Dallas. If they were to win, I would expect him back on the field the following week.

Aaron Rogers. Two broken ribs. Yeah, but, you know, Aaron Rogers basically said, if he can't play this week, we're going to win a game and get him back next week. If he goes through the walkthrough, there's still a chance he could play. But it's like, I would put it at a 1% chance of playing. So, Jordy Nelson, if you're in playoff challenge leagues, other things, I had to pull them out. I would have my two times bonus, but I had to move on. I had to move on. So just a heads up for those of you following the Jordy Nelson news. All right, Larry Fitzgerald.

We talked about him. Let's talk about the other Rader wide receiver now coming in at 13. Amari Cooper ended the year, you know, drafted much higher than Michael Crabtree. You know, you're talking about the 28th in PPR League's 21st off the board, in Standard League's 28th off the board. Outpaced Crabtree in terms of yardage, 1149, had three left touchdowns in them with five and had 82 receptions.

I can still write the story in my head where Marty Cooper breaks out year three next year is the elite better option than Crabtree. Because you have guys on different spectrums of their career, right? I mean, one's going up the escalator, presumably. One's going down it. Next year could be the year where it doesn't happen yet, though, and then the illusion is it gets you. So I don't know where you guys sit. He was much better against bottom 16.

Defenses, his consistency was number 19, and he had five weeks where he completely pooped the bed. So what do you guys think about to Murray Cooper? For the escalator, and Crabtree's 29. He'll be, he'll turn 30 coming into next season. So, yeah, that's a little bit older, but that's not. He may just be at the top of the escalator for a couple of years. He's not about to just completely disappear. And you have that.

that red zone goal line trust that Derek Carr does not trust Amari Cooper. At least that's what the targets would say. They throw the ball to Holmes and they throw the ball. Roberts and Crabtree. Yeah, it's just a little different what they do in the red zone. Yeah, I mean, obviously over the next few years, you will see the time where Amari Cooper is clearly the better option than Crabtree. It's just.

You know, time wins. But right now, I don't think it's there. And I'm going to draft whoever's ADP is lower, which means I'm going to draft Crabtree. All right. Before we move on to Jarvis Landry, I do want to take a minute and thank the sponsor of today's show Blue Apron yesterday. I came home from the studio. And sitting upon my counter was a fresh blue apron package. Delicious. Delicious dishes straight to your house.

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amazingly his consistency rating was identical between standard and ppr um which is strange to me i was expecting him to be worse and he actually came in at number 11 so he was a higher higher on the consistency rankings than the actual rankings 94 catches 1136 yards and four touchdowns i'm going to be honest with you sometimes during the fantasy football year certain players get pushed to the periphery the performance of that offense in the beginning of the year i didn't own jarvis landry in any leagues

So I wasn't paying as close of attention to him. When I see that, I'm shocked. Yeah. I had no idea. He had 94 receptions in 1100 plus yards. I know about that. It's the ranking of his consistency is, I mean, it is what it is because it felt like he was very up and down. It did. I mean, he came out just absolutely on fire. In his first four games, he had two over 100, a couple touchdowns. The targets seemed to be that.

Oh, this, we know what we're going to get. Tannenhill loves throwing it to Jarvis Landry. Then there was this lull in the middle of the season. And then you had the switch to Matt Moore, which you think, well, Matt Moore is the, the gun slingers, the deep ball. You saw Kenny Stills really start getting involved. But Jarvis was still great. I mean, in those, those last three games, he was over 100 twice. He had a touchdown. So I think one of the things that you need to realize about Jarvis Landry when we're going forward is he's.

He's an exceptionally good wide receiver. His hands are great. He can make moves on his own to break a tackle. Great after the catch. He's great after the catch. And so, you know, you go, okay, I'm not sure how I feel about the offense or Ryan Tannahill or Matt Moore or whatever. Jarvis Landry himself is not going anywhere because he is an elite talent on the field. And what you don't see is 11 catches in the wildcard game.

So he was 11 for 14 targets in the wildcard game for over 100 yards as well. I just looked at his stateline 11 of 16 games. He was over nine points. Yeah. So nine of those double digits, had some big performances. What you know, what you know? Oh, voice of public opinion. But I thought Devante Parker was going to really be the guy there. You know, I like Devante Parker. Still? I'm asking for me. I sure do. I really like Devonty Parker, too, but.

Look, what I was going to say is with Jarvis, you know what you're going to get touchdown-wise. And it was four this year. So you're not getting five or six from Lansing. You can get five or six from Lansing. Can you? Has he ever done that? I think last year. I bet he had seven. I'm going to predict. You look at it. Oh, I bet he had seven. I'm going under. Okay. I'm going under for sure. But Parker had four. And Parker was actually pretty good towards the back half of the year. Here's, here's the.