He just doesn't seem to live up to the hype. Maybe I'm just salty because he screwed me last year, and I swore I wouldn't draft him this year but we had wifi dropout and I ended up auto drafting him. This morning I had to drop him or Doug Baldwin so I could replace an injured Delanie Walker, and I think I made a terrible choice...
So what say you, should we still be on Dez Nutz? Or is it time to let the sun set on his legacy?
Posted Sep 26, 2016, 4:18 AM UTC
You have to decide between dropping Dez or Baldwin. Is this a 4 man league or something?
12 man, but only 3 seat bench because we run OP and DP.
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Drop Doug Baldwin? Who is on your bench? Pls don't tell me you kept Reddit hype trains over doug
This league only has a 3 seat bench. I didn't want to drop Delanie, and I also had Ryan Mathews on the bench.
You kept Matthews over Dougie B?
Yeah, I'm already stacked in WR and Mathews is my only spare RB.
Doug B is a top 10 WR in many cases man.
Ahh got it, that makes it tough
Yeah man. I must have gone back and forth 10 times!
Yeah I would have done the same thing (Bryant over Baldwin)
I mean ask this question when he has more than 2 games in a row with romo...
so never then
Lol
Lolz
Other Top-Tier WR's have this same question posted about them when their QB's go down. It's a fair question and considering Romo is out until what? Week 8? it's pretty important.
Dak is playing super well, I think it's just a matter of time before those targets start to funnel to Dez. Great buy low option right now imo.
He had 6 targets to Beasley's 7 but Beasley caught all 7. As a matter of fact, everyone else outside of two irrelevant players, caught every ball that was thrown to them.
Had he not caught that garbage time TD over the worst team in the NFL, which I really think they wanted to give to him so he didn't start crying about it to the team, his stat line would've been 2 for 23 yards on 5 targets.
If you expect the Cowboys to win like this often then maybe he has value as a garbage time producing WR, but when the game is on the line, it's obvious Dak's favorite target is definitely not him.
I guess I can see where you're coming from, but I always have to laugh when people say "if you take away this big play the player made he would've had a bad day." Yeah. But he did make the big play. That's why I drafted him instead of Cole Beasley.
I think we're saying the same thing? I realize Dez isn't his favorite target, but they'd be silly over the course of the season to not try to adjust that. They're going to be a more dynamic team if he builds chemistry with Dez than they will with Beasley. I think it'll come given a few more weeks, but I mean sure, of course there's risk there. Dez is also getting/got an MRI, so clearly he wasn't 100%, and how bad the injury is will dictate value too of course.
So never?
What kind of league has three bench spots? Never heard of that.
No. Don't drop Dez. If you do I hope you're in my league. A rookie QB is just getting comfortable with his offense and hasn't been throwing downfield yet. He will. He has all day in that pocket to throw.
Hope his knee is good from that weird hit. I can't lose Moncrief and Dez.
No he's not. I said this after Week 1 and it's not just an overreaction. The Cowboys do not scheme to get Dez the ball. This statement is echoed if you visit the Cowboys sub or just watch the games. The team is perfectly fine plodding along for 10 minute drives, they don't feel the need to throw outside to Dez.
I traded him for DThom immediately after Week 1 because Denver has a better offense even if they also don't force throws to their WR1.
No one will see this probably, but even though I was 4th on the WW, I was able to pick Doug Baldwin back up, and drop Dez. Now with all the garbage that has come out about him and his inactive status, I couldn't feel better. I hope all you Dez lovers have fun with him!
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Dez Bryant, the athlete, is a WR1 for all of time, to say anything less is disrespectful to the man's top-notch talent.
However, Dez Bryant, the current #1 WR for the Cowboys with rookie QB Dak Prescott running the team, is pretty solidly a WR2.
I think he's too reliant on his QB to be considered a top-notch talent although Fantasy-wise, yes, he is a WR1 when he's good.
Actually speaking in terms of fantasy, talent matters less. Opportunity is king in fantasy.
I think you have this backwards. He is a top-notch talent regardless. Fantasy-wise he is too reliant on his QB (currently) to be a surefire weekly WR1 right now, but the upside is always there.