OTAs and Crucial Questions + Draft Pick Trading, Super Heart! - Fantasy Football Podcast for 5/24

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I would not personally do this. I think that the positional value and the difference that Jonathan Taylor and Christian McCaffrey can give you, I would still take either one of them over Cooper Cup. But I've been looking at the 103 and thinking that that's where I am comfortable personally saying I want Cooper Cup over the next highest tiered running back. I'm fine with that. Assuming it's a PPR league, if you're in a half PPR

or standard, obviously, his value goes down there. Sorry, Mike. I said last year, Cooper Cup was a top 24 wide receiver, 94% of his games, where Debo, who was, you know, the wide receiver 2, 75%. Cooper Cup was a wide receiver won 82% of his games. That dropped down to 56% for Debo, Samuel. He was such a positional advantage. And it's fair to say, okay, well, coming off of that,

historic type of a season or like a true dominant player can he actually repeat that and i mean you know the the variables are or minimum that it's going to be stafford back you don't have robert woods there so that'll be interesting for for a cooper cup which woods i guess missed half the season but yeah but i'm saying so there is there are some changing pieces it's not a complete re-roll

for Cooper Cup. It's as close as you get these days. We would not expect him to have the otherworldly season he had last year. And you can't just, you can't just say, well, he did it last year. We'll get it this year. But just to give you an idea of like, had you drafted Cooper Cup the 101 last year, that would have been the best pick. I mean, you could have gotten later so dumb. But you know what I'm saying? He scored.

more in a PPR league. He scored more points than Josh Allen, the quarterback won. He's, you know, 40 more points. He scored 70 more points on the season that Jonathan Taylor, the running back one. So yeah, Cooper Cup should be in the conversation in a PPR league for, you know, where, how high are you going to take them? Yeah, I've got no problem with it, especially if you're in love with later running backs. I mean, there are a lot of running backs that are going to, Rashad Penny, for example. Maybe you're in love with.

leaning on Rashad Penny for your RB2 or something like that. Because you hate yourself. Yeah, I mean, I don't know. We fall in love with players. Cam Acres is another one. People might like. J.K. Dobbins. There are a bunch of running backs that, like, does any of us, would we be shocked if Cam Acres was the top 10 running back, even though we don't have them ranked there? Opportunities there. And Cooper Cup, just historically wide receiver is less likely to.

get hurt and miss games than a running back who's getting 300 plus carries. If he's entering the Antonio Brown era of his career where he's got three years where, yeah, he's not the number one, but he's the two, three, somewhere in that, probably shouldn't be overlooked as an option for your team. However, we've been down this road with Michael Thomas and that Michael Thomas question, and so you see all the different outcomes that can happen. Antonio Brown became Antonio Brown basically in year four. That's where it started.

And when did he stop? Stop. Well, I mean, this past year, he stopped. But we had seven years or six years of true dominance. So five after the breakup. Instagram question from Adroko. How much faith do you have in James Winston this year? Zero. Zero faith in James Winston. That word does not come near James Winston for me.

But that does not mean he is not a sleeper quarterback. Yeah. Because of the weapons, Olave, Michael Thomas, who just released a, I believe he released a video to hype people up about his recovery. But it made some in the medical community question his recovery. Whoops. But you have, what, Jarvis Landry now. Yeah. So there are weapons. I don't know how often he'll throw this year. Yeah, I have, I was surprised that James Winston

fell to quarterback 23 in my stats because I do see a path where he could be, you know, a top 15 quarterback. He has the weapons, he has the armed talent, the history of a lot of stat production. I don't think the team, I mean, this question of how much faith do you have in James Winston really shouldn't be asked to us, should be asked to the New Orleans Saints. And I think their answer is not a ton.

So we're going to kind of rein him in. Enough to make him the starter. Yes. They don't have enough faith to just say, go out there, call the plays at the line of scrimmage, go win the game, do whatever you've got to do. They're going to put him in their system. And I think that will kind of nerve him a bit fantasy-wise. Yes, in the system, but he's the guy. Like where last year you had the quarterback battle of, is it going to be Tayson Hill? Is it going to be James Winston?

It's James. He's the quarterback moving forward for this team for the next couple of years. This is year eight for James Winston in his career. So we've seen a lot. Yep. And he'll be equipped to succeed. And if he can be efficient like last year, which means not throwing interceptions, throwing touchdowns when it matters, having a pass rating that was way higher than his entire career last year because of those factors.

he could be interesting on a streaming basis. And you know that James can get it done. So that proof of concept is there. He can absolutely get it done for fantasy football. But faith is not very high. Yeah. We had expired after seven years. Dynasty trade question from the website, Allison and Nashville. Michael Pittman versus T. Higgins.

Oh, man. They were back to back in the 2020 NFL draft. They're very similar in age. Pity City is a little bit older. This one is very difficult. Yeah. I've seen people trade a lot for Michael Pittman in Dynasty Leagues recently. T. Higgins is also very popular right now in Dynasty Leagues. I prefer Higgins. I believe that the future in Indianapolis is going to involve other.

bodies than Michael Pittman. I think he'll be good, not great for the remainder of his career. And I just like the attachment to Joe Burrow for T. Higgins. That's why it's T. Higgins for me. You know I'm a Michael Pittman truther. And I think, I believe Matt Ryan is a massive upgrade at the quarterback position over Carson Wentz. I think Michael Pittman can be even better this year than he was the past year. But we know that Joe Burrow.

is great. And we know that while T. Higgins and Jamar Chase aren't likely to, you know, like have their big explosion games on the same exact week, it can't happen. But frequently throughout the season, you're not going to see both of them be dominant. But because Joe Burrow is the quarterback, I'll go with Higgins. Yeah. Well, I mean, I echo everything you guys say. I love disagreeing with you, but I don't hear. It's weird to prefer.

the wide receiver two for a team. But is he actually? Well, yeah, sure. Maybe he's the wide receiver one, but he's at least seen as the wide receiver one beat, or at least in fantasy, the wide receiver two on the team for sure. Always drafted that way versus a guy who's just all alone with great target market share, who we like and Michael Pittman. I like both these players, but yeah, Joe Burrow, greater sign, future quarterbacks of Pittman. Would you look at it like?

Larry Fitzgerald and Anquam Bolden. That's exactly the comp that I always go to. Because you never really thought of Anquon Bolden is like a complete Robin to the Batman. Right. But you knew that Fitz was better. So Batman is Superman. Is that what it is? That's how I look at it. So Chase is Superman. Yes. I believe. Higgins is Batman. Yeah. And what's Tyler Boyd? Robin? Is he? Aquaman. Um.

But yeah, yeah, okay, I think we all agree there. Back in the day, I think Larry Fitzgerald finished as the wide receiver one, and in that same year it was wide receiver seven for Anquam Bolton. And that's very similar to how I have. I've got T. Higgins at eight and Jamar Chase at three. Yeah, I mean, it makes sense. And you had confidence in Kurt Warner back then in Arizona, and you have confidence in Joe Burrow now. So Instagram question, if Lamar Jackson is available in the fifth round this year,