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WR Brandin Cooks, NO (2 Viewers)
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The Frankman
Footballguy
In addition to that he is listed as "questionable- non injury related" on rtsports. Ever seen that designation before? I have not..... seems like he is either in the coachs doghouse......OR.... about to get traded. As a cooks owner I cant see how he could be in a worse situation on another team.We need an official trade rumor thread.
As for Cooks he did not practice today. It's Wednesday so highly normal for a veteran rest day and that's likely what it is but they are coming off a bye week and Lovie did not call it a rest day, he labled it as a "coaching decision". Not for nothing but getting deeper in the weeds I believe Cooks was tight with Easterby and I know often publicly defended him.
Truebluey
Footballguy
bout to get traded. As a cooks owner I cant see how he could be in a worse situation on another team.We need an official trade rumor thread.
As for Cooks he did not practice today. It's Wednesday so highly normal for a veteran rest day and that's likely what it is but they are coming off a bye week and Lovie did not call it a rest day, he labled it as a "coaching decision". Not for nothing but getting deeper in the weeds I believe Cooks was tight with Easterby and I know often publicly defended him.
Traded to Carolina better?
Not getting good vibes from this at all. QB here stinks, OC and his offense stink, they are in rebuilding mode with a retread as HC who is a stop gap for a year or two until
they bring in the real HC when they turn the corner.
Not sure why they are keeping him and not trading him when he is not in the plan for the team's future?
He should be traded to a contender for some draft capital. At least that is what a good GM/franchise would do.
This team has been an abject failure since coming into the league with awful management and ownership.
They usually make the wrong decision on what to do and how to run the team
they bring in the real HC when they turn the corner.
Not sure why they are keeping him and not trading him when he is not in the plan for the team's future?
He should be traded to a contender for some draft capital. At least that is what a good GM/franchise would do.
This team has been an abject failure since coming into the league with awful management and ownership.
They usually make the wrong decision on what to do and how to run the team
I certainly could be wrong, but not buying the Texans intend to trade him. Gave him a big extension earlier this year, Metchie may never see the field, Collins is now injured, they’ll be drafting Stroud or Young next year and he’ll need someone to throw to. They do have picks to draft a new WR but you need more than one these days in most offenses and they have lots of other holes they still need to address.
Carolina is trading players away not trading for them. But yes going to Carolina would be marginally worse.bout to get traded. As a cooks owner I cant see how he could be in a worse situation on another team.We need an official trade rumor thread.
As for Cooks he did not practice today. It's Wednesday so highly normal for a veteran rest day and that's likely what it is but they are coming off a bye week and Lovie did not call it a rest day, he labled it as a "coaching decision". Not for nothing but getting deeper in the weeds I believe Cooks was tight with Easterby and I know often publicly defended him.
Traded to Carolina better?
let this happen
Oh good Lord, please no. The Ravens a great landing spot? It’s not even a “good” one, let alone great. Crazy to think that would be considered good. He’s a WR4 if he goes to the Ravens.
BladeRunner
Footballguy
With Bateman not stepping up to seize the opportunity given him to be the de-facto #1, makes sense that the Ravens should bring someone in who will.
It can be spread out. Someone told me here a few days before CMC got traded to the 49'ers they were out as a trade partner because of his salary and as we know they were big on him.
What any team obtaining him will likely do is spread out the cap hit with a bonus and adding some voidable years to his contract. But however they handle it' he's pretty expensive for the next two years as he's due $34m plus per game bonus. Which again for cap purposes can be spread out but that's what he's going to actually get paid.
The tradeoff is this should drive his cost down. Due to his age and were the Texans are at I think they'd view shedding him and getting draft comp back as a win/win.
zamboni
Footballguy
Giants make a ton of sense for an ascending team that has very few weapons and is so reliant on Saquon. I actually think his value would be higher there than getting table scraps in Minnesota after Jefferson (and to a smaller extent, Thielen) eat.
Cooks wouldnt be wr 4 anywhere.....ESPECIALLY Baltimore. He would instantly be wr 2 there over duvernay. Heck I cant tell you who Baltimores wr 3 and 4 are they have been so insignifficant.
I'm fairly certain he meant a fantasy WR4
BladeRunner
Footballguy
I can't even tell you who the wide receiver one and wide receiver two are either. There's literally nobody stepping up in Baltimore.
Anarchy99
Footballguy
Options:
- Texans pay some of the contract.
- Cooks signs extension with new team and rearranges pay schedule.
- Cooks eats some of the contract, leaving money behind to get out of HOU.
There are workarounds.
Young 8
Footballguy
Brandin Cooks
@brandincooks
Don’t take a man’s kindness for granted. Covered for the lies for too long those days are done. Crossed the line with playing with my career
@brandincooks
Don’t take a man’s kindness for granted. Covered for the lies for too long those days are done. Crossed the line with playing with my career
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zamboni
Footballguy
I figured the wrist injury was from the excitement of potentially being traded to a contender.
GreenNGold
Footballguy
Does anyone know what is going on here? Is he refusing to play?
Chaka
Footballguy
Probably trying to OBJ his way out of Houston.
This Cooks situation is seemingly getting ugly. Not sure if he is disgruntled, pouting, and not wanting to play or
the team does not want a malcontent playing.
Either way, fantasy wise, does not really matter as the offense, QB play is so bad Cooks was not doing much anyway
the team does not want a malcontent playing.
Either way, fantasy wise, does not really matter as the offense, QB play is so bad Cooks was not doing much anyway
Still need him this week.
Maybe he can channel that anger into his best game . Just will need to figure out how to throw it to himself.
He was always portrayed as being more professional then he's acting. I'm sure an option was presented to him to redo his $18M guarantee to facilitate a trade and he said no. What's he going to get from this now? He's not getting released with that guarantee. Sounds like a classic case of Mr. Cooks wanting to eat his cake and have it to.
What's crazy is I don't think he'd be acting this way if Jack Easterby was still around, Cooks has some strong love for that guy.
What's crazy is I don't think he'd be acting this way if Jack Easterby was still around, Cooks has some strong love for that guy.
I've only been carrying 3 WR this year, one of which is Mike Williams.
Already need to cover the Dallas DEF bye...Cooks sitting would make things even more complicated this week.
Hold my beer.
I got a Cooks team that before last night had 6 WR's. 3 of those other 5 are Mike Williams, Bateman and Aiyuk so I basically am relegated to Thielen and Julio Jones as must starts if Cooks is out.
But that's tip of the iceberg. This is an FFPC league so 2RB/2WR/1TE/2 flex. At RB I got Chubb on bye and Taylor likely out so down to Pacheco and Rachaad White. This team long ago lost Javonte but he was on bye anyway this week.
At TE I got both Njoku and Freirmuth on bye, and of course Njoku hurt anyway. I had Irv Smith prepared to cover, had to pick up James Mitchell.
So I got Pachecho and White at RB, James Mitchell at TE, Thielen and Julio at WR and still needed to find two flex spots on a team tied for first entering this week.
Cut Dotson last night for Terrace Marshall. At this point if Taylor is out I'm down to Kyren Williams as my last flex spot or I'll just take a zero.
And oh, my D is also Dallas and I just cut my backup QB (Russ) so I would not have to cut Dallas.
I don't even mind so much the guaranteed loss but total points make up half the playoff seeding and is the tiebreaker for record so a week like this might just wipe me out.
Been playing fantasy a long time and never struggled to put a valid lineup like this together. I got another team in this format with 7 WR's on the team and only one that might play this week is Kupp but I had valid options on that team for RB, flex and TE. This team I'm putting out is pure caca.
The game? the Cooks situation ? or both?
Well I was referring to the Cooks situation, but yeah, both. lol. Would love to see him released and sign with GB. Don't feel like Dallas would feed him the ball enough.
BroncoFreak_2K3
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Cooked
joey
Footballguy
Youch! And FFPC’s archaic “waivers only run on Wednesday night and Sunday morning” waiver system, instead of rolling waivers like all the other leagues I’m in, really makes this kind of roster problem even worse. You have to take a stab/guess mid-week to cover yourself, but still hedge your bets to not drop folks you’d rather keep in case one of your questionable player ends up actually playing. And then Sunday morning is a desperation pick-through-the-scrap-heap move to find a player with a pulse to start at the last second. I like FFPC’s format and leagues in general, but some of their website setup is just archaic (another example is they have no concept of a Watch List for players you’d like to keep tabs on in the free agent market. join us in the 21st century, FFPCHold my beer.
I got a Cooks team that before last night had 6 WR's. 3 of those other 5 are Mike Williams, Bateman and Aiyuk so I basically am relegated to Thielen and Julio Jones as must starts if Cooks is out.
But that's tip of the iceberg. This is an FFPC league so 2RB/2WR/1TE/2 flex. At RB I got Chubb on bye and Taylor likely out so down to Pacheco and Rachaad White. This team long ago lost Javonte but he was on bye anyway this week.
At TE I got both Njoku and Freirmuth on bye, and of course Njoku hurt anyway. I had Irv Smith prepared to cover, had to pick up James Mitchell.
So I got Pachecho and White at RB, James Mitchell at TE, Thielen and Julio at WR and still needed to find two flex spots on a team tied for first entering this week.
Cut Dotson last night for Terrace Marshall. At this point if Taylor is out I'm down to Kyren Williams as my last flex spot or I'll just take a zero.
And oh, my D is also Dallas and I just cut my backup QB (Russ) so I would not have to cut Dallas.
I don't even mind so much the guaranteed loss but total points make up half the playoff seeding and is the tiebreaker for record so a week like this might just wipe me out.
Been playing fantasy a long time and never struggled to put a valid lineup like this together. I got another team in this format with 7 WR's on the team and only one that might play this week is Kupp but I had valid options on that team for RB, flex and TE. This team I'm putting out is pure caca.
)At least Houston plays tonight so you know for Cooks early.
You can't really have rolling waivers in high stakes contests.Youch! And FFPC’s archaic “waivers only run on Wednesday night and Sunday morning” waiver system, instead of rolling waivers like all the other leagues I’m in, really makes this kind of roster problem even worse. You have to take a stab/guess mid-week to cover yourself, but still hedge your bets to not drop folks you’d rather keep in case one of your questionable player ends up actually playing. And then Sunday morning is a desperation pick-through-the-scrap-heap move to find a player with a pulse to start at the last second. I like FFPC’s format and leagues in general, but some of their website setup is just archaic (another example is they have no concept of a Watch List for players you’d like to keep tabs on in the free agent market. join us in the 21st century, FFPCHold my beer.
I got a Cooks team that before last night had 6 WR's. 3 of those other 5 are Mike Williams, Bateman and Aiyuk so I basically am relegated to Thielen and Julio Jones as must starts if Cooks is out.
But that's tip of the iceberg. This is an FFPC league so 2RB/2WR/1TE/2 flex. At RB I got Chubb on bye and Taylor likely out so down to Pacheco and Rachaad White. This team long ago lost Javonte but he was on bye anyway this week.
At TE I got both Njoku and Freirmuth on bye, and of course Njoku hurt anyway. I had Irv Smith prepared to cover, had to pick up James Mitchell.
So I got Pachecho and White at RB, James Mitchell at TE, Thielen and Julio at WR and still needed to find two flex spots on a team tied for first entering this week.
Cut Dotson last night for Terrace Marshall. At this point if Taylor is out I'm down to Kyren Williams as my last flex spot or I'll just take a zero.
And oh, my D is also Dallas and I just cut my backup QB (Russ) so I would not have to cut Dallas.
I don't even mind so much the guaranteed loss but total points make up half the playoff seeding and is the tiebreaker for record so a week like this might just wipe me out.
Been playing fantasy a long time and never struggled to put a valid lineup like this together. I got another team in this format with 7 WR's on the team and only one that might play this week is Kupp but I had valid options on that team for RB, flex and TE. This team I'm putting out is pure caca.
Base salary is low due to the restructuring, I could see them not playing or suspending him all season as you said. They certainly already set a bad precedent just paying Watson last year to stay home. Come March I could see them then trading him then but probably for less than they would have gotten earlier this week. Seems unlikely they would just cut him, way too much guaranteed salary in 2023 to just cut him and let him play wherever he wants
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joey
Footballguy
FFPC isn’t just for high stakes contests. This is a “normal” dynasty league with $250 buyin, and their leagues start at $77You can't really have rolling waivers in high stakes contests.Youch! And FFPC’s archaic “waivers only run on Wednesday night and Sunday morning” waiver system, instead of rolling waivers like all the other leagues I’m in, really makes this kind of roster problem even worse. You have to take a stab/guess mid-week to cover yourself, but still hedge your bets to not drop folks you’d rather keep in case one of your questionable player ends up actually playing. And then Sunday morning is a desperation pick-through-the-scrap-heap move to find a player with a pulse to start at the last second. I like FFPC’s format and leagues in general, but some of their website setup is just archaic (another example is they have no concept of a Watch List for players you’d like to keep tabs on in the free agent market. join us in the 21st century, FFPCHold my beer.
I got a Cooks team that before last night had 6 WR's. 3 of those other 5 are Mike Williams, Bateman and Aiyuk so I basically am relegated to Thielen and Julio Jones as must starts if Cooks is out.
But that's tip of the iceberg. This is an FFPC league so 2RB/2WR/1TE/2 flex. At RB I got Chubb on bye and Taylor likely out so down to Pacheco and Rachaad White. This team long ago lost Javonte but he was on bye anyway this week.
At TE I got both Njoku and Freirmuth on bye, and of course Njoku hurt anyway. I had Irv Smith prepared to cover, had to pick up James Mitchell.
So I got Pachecho and White at RB, James Mitchell at TE, Thielen and Julio at WR and still needed to find two flex spots on a team tied for first entering this week.
Cut Dotson last night for Terrace Marshall. At this point if Taylor is out I'm down to Kyren Williams as my last flex spot or I'll just take a zero.
And oh, my D is also Dallas and I just cut my backup QB (Russ) so I would not have to cut Dallas.
I don't even mind so much the guaranteed loss but total points make up half the playoff seeding and is the tiebreaker for record so a week like this might just wipe me out.
Been playing fantasy a long time and never struggled to put a valid lineup like this together. I got another team in this format with 7 WR's on the team and only one that might play this week is Kupp but I had valid options on that team for RB, flex and TE. This team I'm putting out is pure caca.
Sorry for the tangent
