I WANT YOUR FLEX - Cowboys Acquire Brandin Cooks, Updated Top-5s

It's Fox Sports Radio's Official Fantasy Football Podcast! Dan Beyer and Mike Harmon give an update on the offseason as they examine shifts in the top 5 QBs, RBs, and WRs. The guys give their reactions to the Cowboys acquiring Brandin Cooks.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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with Dan Bayer and Mike Harman. Mike and Dan break
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(00:22):
two starts and sits. The guys help you make those
hard decisions. And now let's get your Flex on. Here's
Dan Bayer and Mike Harman. Hey, everybody, it's Dan Bayer.
I Want Your Flex podcast. And while the NFL offseason
is in full swing, the podcast version of I Want

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Your Flex has taken hiatus in the off season until now.
Mike Harmon and myself teamed up on Fox Sports Radio
doing some shows over the last couple of days, and
we talked some fantasy football, and we thought what better
way to get that information out to you than Noel
put it in the I Want Your Flex pie cast.
So here it is a little bit of this, a
little bit of that. When it comes to the twenty

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twenty three fantasy football season, as Mike and I discussed
earlier on Fox Sports Radio, do a couple of either
ores for the fantasy purposes. Patrick Mahomes is going to
be in your number one quarterback off the board, right,
so let's go in the next Would you take Alan
or Hurts? I would take Josh Allen. How about Alan

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or Burrow? I would take Josh Allen. So Alan entrenched
at number two? Fantasy wise, yes, fantasy purposes, yes, who
becomes number three? Id or Burrow? Or do you have
another one? I would know I would take I would
take Hurts three, just solely on our rushing ability, and

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then I would do many it was I was. I
was not going to say Trevor Lawrence, but I will Yeah,
I'll go I'll go at Joe Burrow four running back position,
Christian McCaffrey, or the field. Give me the field just
because of pure health. I know the opportunities are going

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to be there, but just on pure health. And if
Trey Lance is the starter, I'm not saying they're gonna
take away opportunities, but maybe there could be red zone
situations where it's not. I don't know. I would just
I would take the field no matter what, just based
on Christian mcaffrey's health. What would you do? I think
I would take him as it stands. Josh Jacobs to

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me is interesting potentially to unseat him. But then you
got a lot of uncertainty because I'll give you the
either or of two guys that might be in new uniforms,
Derrick Henry or Austin Eckler. Eckler, Yes take the receptions
and yes, yes, but it also gets interesting thereafter. Right,
you got Jacobs, McCaffrey, Henry, Eckler, Nick Chubb, who you

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and I talked about a lot at the end of
the season on the closing up shop. Yes, I even
look at you know, with the franchise tech, like if
you're the Giants, use him as much as you can
run him into the ground, so long as he's healthy.
And it's not mean, it's not disrespectful. It's like, all right,

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you want touches, here's twenty five a game. This is
the best way we can win. Yes, grind it out.
Daniel Jones in theory, you go find him another receiver,
and he needs to know that if they offer him
a deal, that's you know, like before the season to
realize I thought that when Derrick Henry got his deal
from the Titans that it was bad business. They proved

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me wrong. Derrick Henry very worthy of it all, and
I think that the you know, it would behoove se
Quon Barkley to take whatever deal the Giants offer him,
because otherwise, yeah, it's gonna be touch City. It's rough
market out there all right, wide receiver position real quick.
Justin Jefferson, DeVante Adams, justin Jefferson, especially with Jimmy g

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in Las Vegas and Chase Garber's currently backup. Uh they're
in Las Vegas. Who would be your third MM because
I think those guys are at the top of the
board now, Uh, yes, yes they are. Cooper Cup off
the knee injury, still opportunities. Yeah, he nice to see

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what that offense. Yes, Like Sean McVay says, he's now recommitted.
He's like he did his own darkness retreat. I'm ready
to recommit. I'm here go while now good Good for him,
he needed to stay. I'm glad he did. Yeah, otherwise
that's a bad look going out. You know, Hey, you
had some adversity. I quit. He's Dan Bayer. I'm Fox

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Listen Live, got a little bit of a breaking news
in it. It really does inform what we're about to
do on the I Want Reflex kind of run of
things here, Dan a little fantasy football implications of these

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offseason moves. Let's turn it over to Isaac Loencron for
that info, Fellas. Multiple outlets have just reported that the
Dallas Cowboys are close to acquiring receiver Brandon Cooks in
a trade with the Houston Texans. Back to you, thanks, Ilo,
do we have to put the tag well traveled veteran
receiver on him at this point? Well traveled but worth it?

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Like there's there's the difference that there's some guys who
are just traded a lot of places because they're add ons,
but there are other guys who are dealt because of
their value. The Cook situation weird for how it all
played out in Houston, you know this past season, but
I loved Brandon Cooks in Houston in twenty twenty two
at the start of the year. It is He's the

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common theme for the I Want Your Flex podcast of
guys that we would double up or triple up in leagues.
I thought, I know this sounds awful. But I thought
that Davis Mills Brandon Cook's connection was going to be
a value. Now I didn't. I didn't overreach for it, Mike.
That was the point of I would sit back and wait,
and then I would take Brandon Cooks later, thinking that
I got to steal, and in the end, I was

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robbed of any fantasy productivity. I think if you were
going to get that maybe back end one, high end
two value on a guy you drafted as your three
year years four finished with fifty seven reception six hundred
ninety yards, three touchdowns. Look, it was an unmitigated disaster
in the planet Houston. Damian Pierce gave you some weeks.

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Davis Mills, I think is a better quarterback. He just
needs a situation. And that's one of the quiet things
that we knew what was going to happen with the
Texans and where they pick in the draft, obviously, but
just the Davis Mills era did have a little promise
at the start of twenty twenty two. And now it's
over in Houston. That is done, Brandon Cooks to Dallas.

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It informs a little bit of another story because at
the top of the hour, coming up about ten minutes.
We'll get into the Odell Beckham Junior pining the videos,
the his tweets about perceived value, real value, and people
speculating that the Cowboys were the ones that offered him
four million dollars come play. Well, maybe that's why, because

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they figured out we'll just end up, you know, getting
Brandon Cooks for a little bit more than that, right,
gamb I would, by the way, I would rather have
Brandon Cooks than O'Dell Beckham Junior. Do I want a
guy coming off of two ac le injuries, one who
hasn't played in the NFL in a year? Sorry, I
know we're gonna get in. No, no, no, no, but

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it's a big it's a big bet. No right, I
mean that's you have to make a big, big bet
to go in, and if you you crap out, that
means it's another year that Jerry doesn't get his title,
It's another year that the referendum on Dak Prescott remains.
All of those things, right, It's it's the domino effect
bringing in Brandon Cooks, not that it negates all of that,

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but it doesn't have the same gravitas as bringing in
a name like O'Dell Beckham direct, but we'll get deeper
into him as a player. Right. Your summary statement there
absolutely perfect jumping off point to a guy who's on
the upswing, a guy you loved watching and cheering for
and I've had to deal with as a member of

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the New York Football Jets. And that's one Garrett Wilson
on the imminent arrival, the intended arrival, whatever you want
a term it of Aaron Rodgers as a member of
the New York Football Jets. Garrett Wilson, a guy who
we made fun of the Jets as the season wore
on and what happened Mike White, Zach Wilson, all of

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those things. And for me being that I'm partnered up
with Jason Smith every night, it allowed great theater. But
from a national perspective, I don't think there's a lot
that recognized because you weren't watching the Jets how good
Garrett Wilson really is. Yeah, professional receiver and you get
him a quarterback that can actually throw the football and

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get it to him. We may, you know, you may
read into the Alan Lazard stuff all you want, but
Garrett Wilson still had over eleven hundred yards receiving this
past year with that trio of quarterbacks Mike White, Zach
Wilson and Joe Flacco and Edge. I think that the

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sky is the limit for not only his skills, but
now the opportunities that will come if the Packers and
Jets can make this deal. I know everybody loves Bruce Hall,
still a guy coming off of a knee injury. I'd
rather have Bruese all in twenty twenty four than maybe
twenty twenty three. Mic. So the Jet that I'm like
highest on with all of this is Garrett Wilson. Yeah,
Bruce Hall is a guy that'll get overdrafted because they'll

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have to split his reps, probably work him in slowly
as the season gets underway. But certainly what a difference
maker he was for that early part of the season,
and you see the upside potential there. But you could
pull the strings when when he's on the field you
add Wilson. But look at Lazard as a guy who
makes in theory, while Wilson's targets may not rise, he

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may take a little bit of a dip. Had one
hundred and forty seven last year. Well, they're gonna be
more quality chance. Yes, you're gonna have to pick your
poison because you know how much Rogers will go to
Lazard as a safety valve, and maybe it shades how
you have to play your safety. They threw fifteen touchdown
passes last year. He had four of them. Okay, so

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you see the four like that's not good. Then you
think about it, You're like, okay, well that's almost a
third of what they had. So there's feed. I think
he's going to be He's going to be a star.
I believe in twenty twenty three. Speaking of fifteen touchdown passes,
that's the magic number for Daniel Jones in New York

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and many lamenting the size of the contract. I don't care.
We're talking fantasy football now. Darren Waller gets traded there
a weird week for Las Vegas. We'll get into Jimmy
G's arrival everything soon, but Waller gives him the most
legit receiver he's got on the roster. No disrespect Richie James.
I know, I I almost wonder you know too. I

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always think of like Evan Ingram, like like what could
have been? If you know, if you be gonna getting
things seen his emergence with Jacksonville. I am not as
high on that. I think that Waller has peaked. I
the Daniel Jones aspect of it, different story. I think
that you're going to see more of maybe what you
saw against the Vikings than than otherwise. Um Waller, though

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I'm not entirely in love with Yeah, Jones was still
in the ninth highest scoring fantasy quarterback obviously a lot
with his legs. Barkley comes back, who was also tied
as the leading receiver with Richie James for those fifty
seven receptions. The Gala Day experiment is gone. Waller. It's
just to this point. How many games are you getting
out of him? Yep, Like we've reached that unfortunate part

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of his career. The upside and potential is immense, But
how often is he on the field? That's the question.
So there you have. I've had a little bit from
Mike and me. What was fun is I actually got
to be on the other side of the rankings, and
usually Mike's the information guy, and I got to give
my opinions about the quarterback position and so much more.
In fact, Mike and I'll be teaming up over the

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next couple of months as well, and we'll be providing
more of these hits with you, so just a little
bit of five minute ten minute snippets of our conversation,
hopefully that will scratch the itch of your fantasy football withdrawal.
In this NFL offseason. Of course, things will also be
picking up with the draft coming up in the very
near future, but we hope you enjoyed at least a
little bit of that. You can always reach us on

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