The Fantasy Court + Gibson Hype! - Fantasy Football Podcast for 9/4

The plaintiff. Yeah, baby. However, on the countersuit, I have a ruling as well. Oh, uh-oh. I apologize for... I also rule in favor of the plaintiff of the counter suit. Oh, no! So that's me. We're all guilty. We're all guilty. We all have to move Derek Carr to 20 on the dot. That's what that lawsuit means. All right. Oh, my goodness. Okay. We're going to our next case. Yes. Plaintiffs, Andy and Jason.

are accusing Mike the fantasy hitman Wright of ranking misrepresentation, pandering counterfeit goods as a genuine item. All right, all right. I am the plaintiff in this situation. Mike is the defendant? Yes. Jason and I both have, we both have Mike Evans ranked well below where the defendant has him. Mike Wright has Mike Evans at eight. We have him at 15 and 20.

Your Honor, wise, noble, Judge Diomati, I might add. I am accusing my friend Mike the Fantasy Hitman Wright, my friend, that I am accusing of gross rankings manipulation, misrepresentation. Look, he's pandering some counterfeit goods here with the number eight ranking of Mike Evans. Now,

I'm going to get ahead of this. He's going to spend his time defending Mike Evans, likely giving you tales of all that Mike Evans has accomplished in his young career, how young he was when he accomplished it, and how he stands in the pantheon of all time receiving greats. And, Your Honor, I ask you to pay no mind to this at this attempt at misdirection. What is happening? At misdirection. Fantasy football players, they get no bonuses this season for their career benchmarks.

but instead only their performance each and every week. So may I enter into evidence today? Last season, Mike Evans ended the years, the wide receiver 12. Amazing considering he missed three games. Bravo. Truly amazing. Good, sir. Or maybe not. He was the number two wide receiver and fantasy points per game from week eight on. That is impressive. Very. Except it's not.

He was the number two in points per game, but let me read you his fantasy finishes to end the year over the back five of his seven weeks. 27th, 31st, 41st, 52nd, 27th. Still finished at number two in that span because he had a monstrous two weeks, weeks eight and nine. And that changed that fantasy points per game for the entire back half of the year to where Mike Evans appears as...

a mirage as the number two receiver over that span. We call this the Cooper argument against Mike. I point you to the Cooper argument. Don't fantasy owners deserve some level of consistency from a top eight wide receiver, some level of normalcy for their own sanity's sake, Judge. Five out of 16 weeks, you were happy with Mike Evans. That is not the life I want, Your Honor.

No more counterfeit goods. I rest my case. Well, let me start up by saying, by calling for the 16 weeks, that is simply unfair because when he was not on the field, we were not starting Mike Evans in our... No, we weren't. On our fantasy team. Your Honor, I'm going to start my case with the Holloway defense as was just used in our previous court case here.

My colleagues have ranked Mike Evans 15 and 20. In his six years playing in the NFL, he has finished outside of the top 20 one time, one time. Oh, he has finished there. Oh, I didn't realize he had. I didn't either. I thought he was going to say it's never happened. That's helped us. Okay. Continue. Sorry. Thank you for the information. His second year in the league, he was the wide receiver 24. Your Honor, Mike Evans has never.

finished a season below 1,000 yards. He has the seventh most yards for a wide receiver in his first six years. He is a big play guy. Over the last two years, wide receivers with 100 or more receptions. Here are the guys with the highest yards per reception. Mike Williams, Kenny Galladay, and Mike Evans. That's right, Your Honor. Mike Evans has a higher yard per reception than deep threats like Deshaun Jackson, Tyree Kill.

and Marvin Jones. Now I move the committee to see Tom Brady. Tom Brady, the plant man, aka the goat, aka the best quarterback of all time, is now in Tampa Bay. And you might say, well, he's lost it. But here's the thing. Tom Brady last year, even with his rag tag crew at the wide receiver position, he was still in the top half of the league in deep shots. He was league average.

in adjusted completion percentage. He had seven deep touchdowns compared to James Winston's nine. So he was just trailing James Winston, even with not going deep on every single play. Your Honor, Mike Evans is an elite stud at the wide receiver position, and I think it is egregious, heinous, terrible what my colleagues are doing to his ranking. I rest my case. All right, Judge, we need a ruling.

Otherwise, we'll just argue with each other further. The fantasy court rules in favor of the defendant. I can't. A beautiful man. I don't like this judge at all. Is it possible to also sue the judge? It is not possible to do that. I'm pretty confident you can't do that. All right. All right. We're moving on. Plaintiffs Mike Wright and Andy Holloway are accusing.

Jason, the awesome one of a egregious misrepresentation and felonist fading of Alan Robinson. Your Honor, you've got to finish reading that crime. Also known as the Target Monster. Thank you. Thank you. Your Honor, please note that the announcer was trying to leave out crucial evidence to my case. Alan Robinson last year finished as a top.

12 wide receiver. That is a wide receiver one. That is a player you want on your fantasy roster. Your Honor, Alan Robinson finished third in targets. What we know about statistics for the wide receiver position, touchdowns are hard to predict. Yards, a little bit tougher to predict. Targets are sticky because targets are forever. Targets are forever. Targets are a skill.

statistic. Last year, we only had five wide receivers hit the 150 target mark. And Alan Robinson, as I said, he was a part of that. Who else will the unknown starting quarterback throw the ball to? Will it be Trubisky? Will it be Nick Foles? It does not matter because we are talking about the wide receiver who in 2015 put up 1,400 yards and 14 touchdowns with Blake the Snake Bortles.

Your Honor, Alan Robinson is a fantastic player. He will be the number one target for Chicago. I got a snake, man. He's going to be great for fantasy football. Your Honor, to be clear, Jason has Alan Robinson as his 22nd ranked wide receiver. I just want the court to understand. That's barely a wide receiver too. I want the court to understand why we're bringing this case. This is not some.

small decline in his fantasy 1100 yards and seven touchdowns your honor okay so is it is it my turn yes yes go ahead defense all right here's the thing about the target monster is that he's not always a target monster he's a target monster when he needs to be a target monster and that makes sense he's a great wide receiver he is this is not an anti alan robinson's talent take he he's fantastic it's not an anti alan robinson's athleticism

He's not even saying he's not the number one. He's the clear number one on the team. But what that means is different depending on who else is on the field. My case rests on the last six games of last season. You had a pace for Alan Robinson during that time of 181 targets. You want to know why? Because Taylor Gabriel was injured. Oh, wait.

No, Anthony Miller was injured. No, wait, Trey Burton was injured. No, their whole receiving court was gone. And he had 181 target pace for a reason. It was because you throw it to him or nobody. Torek Cohen was the number two target. He was a running back. Two years ago, when he was also the number one for this same team and those other guys were not injured, he had a 16-game pace of 116 targets.

That does not get it done. Now, I don't have him projected for that. I've got him with 140 target pace as the clear leader. But Anthony Miller's great. He's a really, really good wide receiver. You know, they brought in Jimmy Graham, who I know. It's a joke. He's the corpse. And it's sad because the beat reporters are talking about how good he's been in camp. It's like, that's not good.

Because if Jimmy Graham's your standout rut row. Well, we also have news. Matt Nagy refusing to name his starting tight end. I don't doubt it. What a clever man. But he's going to have 60 targets. There's no way that Jimmy Graham doesn't come in and get paid all that money and get 60 targets. There's no way Anthony Miller disappears. And uh-oh, if Nick Foles plays half the season, where does he love to throw the ball to the outside, right? Where your sweetie D was? No.

Maybe the judge can remind me. He likes going to the slot. Okay, that's fine. I mean, Anthony Miller will be good. My point is this. He is a good wide receiver.

He is the number one wide receiver. But he's not a top 12 locked and loaded guy for the bear's bad quarterback situation when there are other targets there to catch the ball. And if you look historically, I think you guys are having recency bias of the fact that he had a great fantasy season when he needed to because he doesn't always have a great fantasy season. He's had two great fantasy seasons in six years.

And I know he's been injured a couple times, but he's not locked and loaded as a wide receiver. One, he's a wide receiver two. I rest my case. The fantasy court rules in favor of the plaintiff. Ridiculous. I'm out of here. Spectacular. I will throw in, Jason. If you take out the final six games where you were saying that the target pace was just egregious, he was still on pace for 138 targets. I have him projected for 140.

That would be top 10 in targets. How was a guy top 10 in targets finishing at 22? How many touchdowns do you think the bears are throwing a ton? To Alan Robinson, at least seven. Well, we will see. Look, I mean, this is, I have, I have failed to win the heart of the judge, but I knew he's a big Alan Robinson fan. Yeah, I did too. It didn't matter what I said. I'm going to be honest, just, you know, I have no skin in the game. That's a lie. I think the judge went 0 for three today.

Like if I was, I thought I got a little bit convinced by Jason, but then I realized I have Alan Robinson at 12, and I'm just fine with that. Yeah, I mean, I've got him down for 140 targets, 1,100 yards, and six touchdowns. I'm sure the touchdown is the difference, right? If I, if I were to move him up to seven touchdowns, he probably jumps 10 spots in your rankings. Yeah, he jumps up quite a bit. It's just a matter of whether he gets that touchdown. I want to get these three.

cases on the socials and I want the folk clan to vote. I want to see if I'm right that the judge was 0 for 3 today. Also, Judge, just remember who called you 0 for 3. I thought you were 3 for 3. He nailed it today. He can't change his ruling. I know, but we go back to court at some point, fellas. He's scoring points. He's got a memory like an elephant. Oh my goodness. Bestball Breakdown, presented by Underdog Fantasy. Yee-ha!

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of how I choose to build my team. It's about roster construction. We talk, you know, we've given lots of tips of certain players to target late, high upside, looking at variance, the 8020 rule. But in general, the first step is knowing...