Fantasy Superlatives: Why James Cook is "Most Likely to Succeed" (09/05 Fantasy Football podcast)
Fantasy Football Today Beyond the Box Score
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🗓️ 5 September 2023
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Chris Towers and Dan Schneier give their picks for "Most Likely to Succeed," "Best Couple," "Most Likely to Break a Record" and more for the 2023 Fantasy season.
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| 0:00.0 | Fantasy superlatives next on fantasy football today in five. |
| 0:10.4 | Welcome to FFT in five. |
| 0:11.9 | I'm Chris Towers. |
| 0:12.5 | I'm here with Dan Schneier and summer's basically over. |
| 0:16.5 | It's Labor Day. |
| 0:17.3 | I think that's the unofficial end of summer. |
| 0:19.3 | Growing up in South Florida, we don't really have seasons. so I don't really know when the seasons actually start or end, but I'm going to say it's the end of summer. We're going to do a little kind of reverse yearbook. I know you do the yearbook at the beginning of the summer. Hey, keep in touch. We'll talk at the end of the summer. Now, we're doing it at the end of summer this time fantasy super superlatives with the 2023 season a few days from kicking off. And Dan, we are going to get started with the most |
| 0:43.5 | obvious fantasy superlative, most likely to succeed. Where are you going with here? Yeah, best |
| 0:49.5 | mid-round breakout is who we're going with here. And I am going to go with James Cook. You can still get him in |
| 0:55.2 | round four, five range. He used to get him in round six, seven. And I look at that situation. And I think |
| 1:01.2 | that he is an unbelievable talent with great vision in a great offense. And yes, he may lose some red zone |
| 1:06.7 | touches and overall touches. But I'm not so sure that's going to matter given the situation |
| 1:10.9 | and the talent that he has. So Cook to me is the best mid round likely to break out. |
| 1:16.2 | Yeah, I, I've come around on James Cook because of the preseason usage, because all the |
| 1:21.8 | reports out of training camp, I do still worry about like how high the ceiling can be in this |
| 1:26.1 | offense because, you know, Josh Allen historically hasn't thrown to his running backs very often. He's taken a high share of their goal line work. But, you know, we've been talking about it for a few years saying, well, they probably need that to change at some point to extend his career. So, you know, this might be the situation where they really like James Cook and they decide to do it. So maybe Josh Allen runs a little less, leans on his running backs a little more. Let's move on to best couple. And this is the, the QB wide receiver stack that you want most in your drafts. Yeah, so just like the first one, I'm going to go with value based on where you can get these guys. Obviously, I could just say like Burrow to Jamar Chase. |
| 2:01.7 | And that would. |
| 2:01.9 | Yeah, that's Josh Allen, |
| 2:03.6 | Stefan Diggs. Yeah, those aren't fun. I'm going to go with based on value, Justin Herbert to Keenan Allen. I think both Herbert and Allen are great values. Everything I've seen out of camp so far is that Keenan Allen is being used in different ways a little bit more vertically down the field. |
| 2:16.1 | But more importantly, just look at the Kellynmore years in Dallas and how often |
| 2:19.9 | DAC Press got down the field. But more importantly, just look at the Kellynmore years in Dallas and how often |
| 2:19.8 | Dak Press got targeted the slot receiver, especially when it was CD Lamb and how much success |
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