The TRUTH About Fantasy TEs + Reaper Returns - Fantasy Football Podcast for 2/8

The targets were pretty much the same from after week one, the rest of the season. He was on a great target count. You look at weeks two through 12, the rest of his games outside of the week one. He was on pace for 122 targets. Yeah. I mean, we just talked about that's the number. Zach Gertz was the number two targeted tight-in in the league. Yeah, I would have put him at number two. Yeah, and I mean, that's great. That's what you hope for. And yet he was disappointing through the majority of those games. They weren't all bad. This is going to be a real.

Weird pick next year. I wonder if he's losing a step at all because he's such an athletic. You know, he has just been a dominator out there. Yes, he has. That was how he was kind of found that diamond in the rough because his athletic profile was awesome. He's going to be 30 this coming season. And while that's not a death knell for tight ends, tight ends can dominate at 30. It is, you know, if you're relying on athleticism and you're losing speed.

Then all of a sudden, you know, in the NFL, if you lose a step, it feels like 12. I don't know if I'd go that far yet with him. Yeah. From what I, but I mean, he caught 29% of his passes over the last two weeks. That's not good. Oh, man. That's not supposed to happen. Nine? Yeah. He caught two of nine targets in the final week of the year and two of five in the week before that or the last time he played before that. So, you know, I think this is just going to be a really like.

Difficult player. He was number three, number two, at the position. The injury is going to ward people off. The 29 years old, whatever, going to be 30. And then Derek Carr and the change of, hey, they got a new head coach too, which is McDaniels. Did we talk about him on the show? Did that get announced? Who knows? We've announced it, but I don't think we've, I mean, we're waiting for our coaching changes episode in early March. He's known as an offensive mind, which is something that, you know,

You probably would feel more confident having his mind come in there and run the offense than Bassachi is staying there. At this point, for redraft, I'm willing to forgive this season. I think I am too. But where does that mean? Does that mean you're taking them over? Would you take them over Pitts? Oh, man. This is an ADP question. ADP out the window. You just, you know, they're the last two guys on the board. Who would you rather have next year? I'm going to go Pitts. I would go Pitts there, yeah.

For the hope. Likewise. What about Kittle? I would go Kittle. I'd take Kittle. Okay. For all those 90-yard bombs that Traylans is about to throw. And what about Gronk? With Kyle Trass, Jason's favorite player. Gronkronk. Are we going to talk about Tyler Conklin? Is that who we? What? I just want to say Conc. Oh, okay. We're not. We're going to stop talking completely right now. Oh, gosh. That hasn't been an owl. It was.

I fired you like seven, eight times today. You did. That's true story. At least five of them totally deserves, too. Yeah. You got any of those cookies? Somebody sent us cookies. Do we got any of them left? We do. All right. We should wrap this up. I think we're going to close things down. All right. That is it for the truth. We'll be back with another episode this week. This week's. Thanks for tuning in. Oh, man. Really sticking the landing. Yeah. Close it. It's strong. Thank you for listening, everybody. We'll see you in a couple days. Goodbye.

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