The Fantasy Court + Rankings Debates - Fantasy Football Podcast for 9/3

Does he love Sidi or does he love Amari? Cats can't be dogs, broccoli can't be ice cream and both these guys ain't finishing inside the top 12. Look, Cooper's a great player. I'll admit it. But quite simply doesn't finish at this level on the season, mostly because he has frequently had a touchdown problem. He's the DJ Moore or Robert Woods of Dallas. He will not get credit for touchdowns just because he shimmy shakes himself for an eight-yard first down. And in his career, Your Honor.

Volatility is a problem. In six years, he's had back-to-back weeks inside the top 24 six times over 93 career games. That's not a small sample size, and that is a volatile man. Remember that word volatile when you think about him because it haunts fantasy teams. And true, he is beloved by Dak, but Dak will find his heart fluttering.

for C.D. Lamb during a breakout campaign, Michael Gallup still trotting down the sidelines. I'm not going to pretend I don't think Amari Cooper is a great player. I do. He's amazing, but he's not the level of amazing. The defendant's ranking seems to convey, I rest my case. Oh, yes. Your Honor. What an argument. Your Honor, I respect the opinions of my cohorts. Objection!

But I would like to outlay some facts. Fact number one is that every single year, without question, without skipping, there are multiple teams with multiple wide receiver ones for fantasy. And there is no team more destined for having two wide receivers in the top 12 than the Dallas Cowboys. They clearly would have done it or could have done it last year, but Dak went down.

DAC was injured. So when we talk about the fantasy finish of Amari Cooper and how he didn't finish as a wide receiver one, I would like to counter that with evidence A here. He finished as the exhibit A. I want to help you. Thank you. Thank you. I appreciate it. It's because I respect you as a person. Exhibit A is that he finished as the wide receiver 16 last year.

Without Dak Prescott. With Andy Dalton and a hodgepodge of fourth and fifth.

13th stringers playing quarterback. Here's the reality. With DAC, he has 29 games. He's averaged 8.5 receptions and 80 yards a game. That would be 145 targets, 1,360 yards. He is only 27 years old. He is a few months older than Calvin Ridley. He has the fifth most receiving yards ever for a wide receiver before turning 27 ahead of Julio Jones. He has the same exact yards per target as Calvin.

Johnson. And here's the thing. You can have him for the lowest average draft of his career outside of his rookie year. He has never been as low as wide receiver 16. That's where you're drafting him now. And he will outperform it with DAC in tow. All right, Judge. It's time for you to make your official ruling. All right. The court rules in favor of the plaintiff. Oh, my goodness. Oh, man.

Can I just say something real quick? Owl. You know the clapping track that we have, the cheers? I would like to add booze, like a crowd booing, terrible decisions. Get that on my soundboard immediately because the crowd is upset and mad at this dummy, dummy judge. Please restrain yourself, sir. The court will hold you in concern. I will do no such thing. And the judge, from what I understand, comes from Dallas. So, uh... Yeah. He did you...

He's at least the Dallas fan. He ain't no homer. All right, let's move on. Plaintiffs, Andy Holloway, and Jason Moore are accusing Mike Wright of disrespecting the elderly in the form of arson by burning the resume of perennial top 15 wide receiver Brandon Cooks. Oh, it's time. It is time. All right. We'll see how it goes here. Defend, you know, look.

Sometimes you have to. What word was that? Jason's the plane. Jason is representing myself as well. That's right. Are you sure you want to do that? I'm not sure. We'll see. I'm second chair and I'm scared. It's, it's hard sometimes to defend someone that the position looks dicey, but it is by law something that has to happen. And I will happily make the case for Brandon Cooks. First of all.

Brandon Cook's a really, really good wide receiver. Like in real life, he is actually a good wide receiver. He was a first round draft pick in the NFL, and all he's done for his entire career has been really good. He has five, 1,000-yard receiving seasons and only seven years in the NFL. The only two years he hasn't was his rookie year, which is natural, and two years ago, when he missed multiple games due to injury.

Speaking of the injuries of 2019, one of the best abilities in the NFL, especially for fantasy finishes, is availability. And Cooks has actually played in 93 of 96 potential games over the last six seasons. He's on the field, which is why his fantasy finishes are wide receiver 14, wide receiver 9, wide receiver 12, wide receiver 13, then wide receiver 62, the aforementioned year he missed multiple games.

and then wide receiver 15, which was last year. I know, I know, I know. His team sucks. His quarterback sucks now. But here's the thing. Every single year, there are good fantasy wide receivers who play on bad teams or with bad quarterbacks who finish well because they're the only wide receiver on their team.

They're the only wide receiver worth throwing the ball to, and here are some examples. So last year, you had Brandon Cooks as the wide receiver 15. You had Marvin Jones as the wide receiver 17 on a bad lions team. You had Nelson Agalore, who was really the only wide receiver worth throwing the ball to in Vegas as a top 30 wide receiver. In 2020, you had Devonte Parker, the only guy there who was the wide receiver 7. You had DJ Chark, the only wide receiver there with Mike Glennon.

and Gardner Minchu as the wide receiver 16, and John Brown was the wide receiver 20. Remember, that was with Josh Allen when he was inaccurate, 58% football proer. I remember that. I remember that. How about 2019? You remember T.Y. Hilton? You go, oh, he's good. Well, so is Brandon Cooks. But he had a last-minute quarterback replacement with Jacoby Brissette. He was the wide receiver 14. And Ryan Finley and Andy Dalton had Tyler Boyd as the wide receiver 17.

Because the next highest target on that team was Audentate. Like, when you're the only guy and you play a full season, you're going to be good. And so I ask you, who's it going to be this year? If not Brandon Cooks, then who? He's the only wide receiver worth throwing the ball to, and he will outperform his fantasy ADP faux shizzle, Your Honor. Okay, that kind of threw me up there. D&O's not expecting that. I rest my case.

All right, Your Honor. That was a compelling argument from my esteemed colleague over here. And he talked a lot about, you know, receivers catching passes. But here is the problem, Your Honor. Those passes have to be thrown. And Tyrod Taylor simply doesn't throw the ball. He's only been a starter, as long as he has been in the NFL.

He's actually only been a starter for three years, and those three years in Buffalo. Your Honor, Tyrod Taylor, in those three years, averaged 18 completions per game. In three years as a starter, he surpassed the 23 completion mark five times. There will be absolutely no passing volume for Brandon Cooks because Tyrod Taylor...

Just doesn't do that. He also pulls down the ball and he runs it. And on top of that, his favorite go-to is actually the tight end position. Your Honor, Charles Clay was frequently the top target for Tide Rod Taylor. Let's look at the wide receivers, though, that Taylor has supported. Yes, the Lizard King himself had a very strong fantasy finish with Tide Rod Taylor. Interesting. Yeah, you know, not bad. But then the next year.

Robert Woods. Your Honor, no, I'm sorry, I can't talk to the judge. Jury, that's the word I'm looking for. Jury out there. Would you consider Robert Woods to be a good wide receiver? Because when he was the number one guy for Tyrod Taylor, he finished as the wide receiver 68. Your Honor, Sammy Watkins is the only player of note that Tyrod Taylor has actually supported at the wide receiver position. And with that volume, I just do not see a way.

or a world that Brandon Cooks has any sort of fantasy value. On top of that, you have Nico Collins emerging as a third round rookie for this team. Jordan Aiken's. That was the point. No, I actually buy that. They cut, Darren Fells. All right, sorry, why I'm on your team? I object to this whole argument. That's why I'm Taylor's playing two games. Let me get to my final argument. The judge is letting everything go right now.

There's no holes in this courtroom. This whole court's out of order. Jordan Aiken's is very interesting. Charles Clay, I'm telling you, after Sammy Watkins left, Charles Clay was the leading target for Tyrod Taylor because Tyrod is just not that good of a quarterback, and maybe he leads this team to a couple victories. I highly doubt that. I highly doubt that Tyrod Taylor is the starting quarterback the entire time for the Houston Texans. And then what have we got?

What do we got here? We got a rookie not even drafted with any sort of good draft capital coming in. Your Honor, Brandon Cooks is on a train destined for disaster. Also, is that cool water? Is that brutes I'm smelling over here? You smell pleasant. I think you did that every year. What? Sir. How dare you? The last time you were in this courtroom, I think you tried to flatter me. He didn't even end his argument with for shizzle. Yeah, I mean, I didn't. Which is traditional. For Rizzle.

I think we have a ruling. The court rules in favor of the plaintiff, Jason Moore. All right. Eat it. Oh, fantastic. That's great. Before we get. So much for those compliments. Well, there weren't compliments. I believe he said he was wearing brute, which is like a $7 bottle of awful cologne that you get kids as a. Is that your car? I don't even know what people make anymore. Oh, man. Is that X body spray?

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