Fantasy Football 2018 - The TRUTH About Fantasy WRs in 2017, Part 2

I didn't say that. But you would have been telling the truth. That's fine. Just be careful with Aguilores, what I'm saying. Yeah, I agree. What's the truth about Des Bryant, number 24 on the rankings. Who knows? Consistency ranking of 32. Overall, hugely disappointed, disappointing season from Des Bryant. As bad as it gets. 44% of the time, he busted. Now, you might think, okay.

Once Dak Prescott had, you know, kind of falling apart at the very end of the season and, you know, okay, that's when Des was unreliable, that's not accurate because, again, Dak Prescott on the year was a top 10 quarterback and he spent the first three quarters of the year pretty darn good. But still, Des Bryant, almost half of your games, a bust. That's not to say like he scored eight points.

He was under seven. He absolutely trashed your team. Great fantasy wide receivers, great NFL wide receivers do not have that level of inconsistency. And so it's fair for me to say that he is not a great NFL wide receiver anymore. It's possible. I think he doesn't mean he can't be a good one. But we've talked about this on shows prior. They need to bring him, they need to put him in a position to succeed with the skill set he has now at his age.

do what teams did with guys like Heinz Ward and Larry Fitzgerald and Reggie Wayne versus what they're trying to do because right now it's not working. 44% bust rate. That's a low-impact player, six touchdowns. Couldn't even use them in the red zone to the degree that you should be able to. Well, that's going to be. And no week-winning weeks. Going to get coached up from Kellyn Moore. What? Kellyn Moore, new quarterback coach for.

The Dallas Cowboys. Oh, get it coached up. Yes. I got you. That'll fix it. Maybe. So are you, Mike, you've been the highest on Des of the three of us. Although I was pretty high on Des as well coming in. Are you off? Because I'm, I don't know that I'm going to, where Des will go because of his name. That's the, I won't draft it. It's, I don't even know that his name will carry him in drafts. I think Des Bryant's.

will fall the way similar to what T.Y. Hilton experienced this season. Now it was for a different reason because his quarterback was injured. But T.Y. Hilton, I mean, he was, what, a fifth or a six-round pick? I would not be shocked to see Des Bryant in that range. And Des Bryant in the fifth, depending on how I have drafted before him, I am likely to take the chance on him returning to touchdown scoring form.

How do you hire Kellan Moore to be your quarterback's coach? You say, hey, Kellan Moore, you want to be the quarterback coach? But he was just a backup at 28 years old. I guess that's a lot older than Dak Prescott. Just because someone doesn't physically have the skill set to play quarterback in the league, Kellan Moore is one of the most winningest coach or quarterbacks in college history. No, no, no. I'm not saying he's not qualified. It just seems like a strange thing to have the backup on the team all of a sudden become the coach.

for the guy that's ahead of you in the depth chart. That just seems like a strange fit. What it sounds like to me is they knew he just... For instance. He couldn't play. It basically feels like they're not hiring a quarterback coach. Well, I mean... I think it's just... Because he was already there. He's already wearing the hat. But they're saving... Maybe they're saving money now. I don't know what he's being paid to be the quarterback coach. Did you hear Charkandrick West is the new running backs coach in Kansas City? Yeah. I mean, that's what it felt like to me. Yeah. All right.

What I want to do is let us point out a few other players that kind of finished an interesting spots on the consistency ranking. Now, a reminder, consistency ranking that we're giving you is based on how players performed when they played. And so there are players that didn't finish anywhere near the top of the wide receiver rankings that still had very high consistency rankings because they performed exceptionally well while they played, when they played. Josh Gordon. First example I want to bring up.

He only played five games. Fourteenth most consistent wide receiver at the position. How does that lend itself to next year and where Josh Gordon belongs in the draft? Yeah, what that shows you is that he was, you know, reliable during the time he had. And coming into next year, you might be able to trust Gordon. I mean, you know, you've got to factor in the possible suspension going forward because any mess, any mess up. And you've lost him.

completely as if he, you know, tore his ACL. But he was good enough to be the 14th most consistent wide receiver because these are all percentage-based. So when he was playing, he can give you that great boom game and he's targeted enough to not bust. Now, we've got to find out what's going to go on with, you know, the offense of, yeah, who's the quarterback.

who's the offensive coordinator, those things. So you've got a reserve judgment, but it's worth noting that the season Josh Gordon put up in a limited sample was a reliable, he was a reliable fantasy player. As much as you can count five games towards reliability. Yeah, I mean. As a sample size. You might say that there's a worst sample size with who finished number three in consistency, but it's probably right there too. O'Dell Beckham was the third most consistent wide receiver.

this past year. This is almost the don't forget about him category. Yes, this is the don't forget about me category. You know, Robert Woods only played 12 games, but was the 21st most consistent wide receiver. You mentioned Oda Beckham Jr. in his four games, the number three. You also had a player like Chris Hogan, who through the nine games that he played was the 19th most consistent wide receiver. Anybody else that you kind of want to throw in there, mention? I mean, that's a higher consistency ranking from Hogan than Brandon Cook's, just for the record. So if you're looking for consistency at that position,

You didn't get it from Cooks the way you got it from Hogan. Yeah, when they both played, Hogan was the more reliable player. I would, only other guy I would throw out would be Sterling Shepard. Sterling Shepard was, you know, very consistent. Now, granted, he did play without O'Dell Beckham. So I think that he, you can't really bank on this year's numbers other than to say this. So played with Gino Smith. Yeah, that's true. He's a good wide receiver. I mean, he was.

Coming into that draft class, he was my favorite. I know a lot of us around here. We really believe in him as a talent. Have to see who the quarterback is if it's Eli. But he's a quality wide receiver. Mike, anything to add? Nope. Okay. Hopefully you enjoyed those episodes. We have the truth about fantasy running backs and tight ends and quarterbacks coming up on future episodes. Be sure to check out Jointhefoot.com to grab an extra episode, a mailbag episode with the foot clank.

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