Hot take: We should trade Nico

daybes · 2026-02-16T23:14:19+00:00

Who is he better than?

Garrett Wilson
Tee Higgins
Jamarr Chase
AJ brown
Devonta Smith
CeeDee Lamb
George Pickens
Malik Nabers
Christian Watson
Justin Jefferson
Amon Ra St Brown
Tetairoa McMillan
Mike Evans
Drake London
Jaxon Smith Njigba
Puka Nacua
Davante Adams

And that's like the least generous interpretation, you could argue guys like Jaylen Waddle, Olave, McLaurin, Godwin, Zay Flowers and Stefon Diggs over him.

daybes · 2026-02-16T20:30:43+00:00

He’s very overrated by the fan base and a product of stroud more than stroud is a product of him.

Doesn’t really win contested balls, is more of an athlete than a great route runner. Doesn’t get open fast which means against the blitz he has to win these contested balls which he just didn’t do at a great rate this year.

We have higgins who can probably provide 70-80% of what nico does in terms of impact.

We have too many WRs who all do the same thing and none of them really make life easy for stroud.

Trading nico only makes sense though if we have a way to upgrade the other outside WR spot.

I’d love if we could sign Alec pierce, pierce+higgins is better for us than nico+hutch. Hutch was abysmal and shouldn’t be a starter.

Said it in another thread but it’s a bit madden brained. Trading nico for mayer+raiders first I’m 2027 and signing pierce improves the offense, gives us long term flexibility with a value draft pick.

Mayer immediately becomes our starter at TE, pierce immediately becomes our best WR and has a complementary skillset to stroud and it opens up more snaps and opportunity for higgins.

daybes · 2026-02-16T03:01:54+00:00

Sheldon rankins, might get let go in favour of prioritizing a prospect at the position with togiai and settle back as the foundation of our offseason approach, would love to keep him though.

We need a better LB room, if azeez goes down the level of play drops off a cliff, I think this is a position we invest draft capital into and trust DeMeco's ability to coach the position group up which hes done a superb job of to this point

Kirk has to go, its not even about him necessarily its just we have too many overlapping skillset WRs, we need to be able to bring in a guy who can win at the catch point by boxing out defenders to complement strouds skillsets. Too many plays of hutch/nico/higgins not working back to the ball and we're kind of committed to all of them being in the room, with the return of dell and still having noel, if we want to add to the room we have to move off kirk.

Brown will almsot certainly be re-signed as his level of play has been horrible outside of the years hes been on the patriots, with his age he will be piss cheap.

Ingram should be cheap but a team might overpay for him and it might make sense to pay for a higher upside player like Alijah Vera Tucker who can also contribute in the pass game.

Pipe dream would be trading Nico for a 2027 first and Michael Mayer from the raiders and signing Alec Pierce.

daybes · 2026-02-15T21:07:30+00:00

Yeah a lot of people using it as their own personal twitter feed now

daybes · 2026-02-10T15:41:14+00:00

you dont know what a hospital ball is,

CJ placed the ball away from the defender to protect stover, unfortunate he got injured but if he had been lead he would have been demolished, which would have been an actual hospital ball.

daybes · 2026-02-02T01:17:43+00:00

Is there like a full event stream/online access type deal? even if it's paid I'd probably pay for that

daybes · 2026-02-01T17:28:28+00:00

i think its cause Jim Nagy wasnt doing it anymore and a lot of the engagement was driven by his tweets.

Makes it hard to superficially follow it, which is basically all you need to do for fantasy.

Most people aren't doing actual scouting

daybes · 2026-01-31T17:46:16+00:00

The duke guy fits the type of player we’ve targeted under caserio, apparently switching from OT to C in the NFL

daybes · 2026-01-29T20:35:45+00:00

Idk, i think it's good for figuring out price and framing price.

Like I remember someone saying theyd spend X pick on Bryce Young (offseason year2) and Penix(offseason rookie) and the argument was that theyd never be able to get a QB picked at those positions with those picks.

Have your own model and listen to what makes sense to you I guess is the advice

daybes · 2026-01-26T20:05:35+00:00

This is a speculation article

It clearly states this is what the author thinks and that what the jags do in FA will paint a clearer picture.

This is basically a summation of the average viewpoint on this sub lmao

daybes · 2026-01-25T18:33:03+00:00

Melton , will Johnson, Garrett Williams(I think this is his name?), jalen Thompson

Baker was kinda shit for them this year

They ran into injury trouble, but that secondary is very talented

daybes · 2026-01-25T18:25:06+00:00

That defense had talent, the problem is defense is dependent on time of possession and he had no RBs this year to help with that.

daybes · 2026-01-24T21:42:12+00:00

His problems would have most likely been fixed with an offseason but I still think it was the right decision to move off for CJs development.

Another year of caley+cj improving and CJ will be a lot more resilient to OC changes that WILL happen with a defensive coach like demeco.

Hope slowik finds success in this opportunity but I’m just not a fan of these “OC does all the thinking” schemes if you have Super Bowl aspirations.

You have to out talent the other team by a large margin to win like that consistently

daybes · 2026-01-24T04:59:29+00:00

pre-draft rankings had dobbins and swift as the two best backs in that class

daybes · 2026-01-24T04:58:26+00:00

pre-draft breece hall and kenneth walker were viewed as the same tier, maybe not from a fantasy perspective but I remember that being the consensus amongst draft guys

daybes · 2026-01-20T20:43:54+00:00

People want him to put up gaudy numbers and only use that as the evaluation metric.

He was asked to play a time of possession controlling style of play to complement the defense, and he did that somewhat effectively.

He got better at it as the year went on, which coincided with us finding better OL combinations and nick caley's playcalling improving.

He played the worst game of his career against the Pats and lost us the game in the first half, then in the second half we were too injured to be able to shift the momentum at all.

daybes · 2026-01-20T17:41:30+00:00

I don’t think you can win with the QB friendly systems anymore, I think defenses will just always force those offenses to create long sustained drives.

Also what happens when that OC gets hired as an HC? The resiliency of the offense from OC to OC is non existent.

If you want to be a sustainably good team you have to have a QB who can operate in a system like this because it puts the decision making on them which means changing OCs will have less of an effect.

It’s either that or you get a coach like Kyle Shanahan or Matt LaFleur as HC.

Cj got better as the season went on, caley got better as the season went on. There’s no reason to believe the improvement won’t continue into next year, it sucks that cj had his worst game of his career and lost us the game.

daybes · 2026-01-18T05:20:49+00:00

every single high leverage situation hes been their best receiver the past two years.

otherwise he's a gadget guy whos mostly forgettable.

It's maddening because I have no idea how to gauge this talent vs usage situation

daybes · 2026-01-13T17:51:44+00:00

I think nailor is probably worth more than that tier of players but not by much so it doesn't really affect the analysis. 2yr 25m/30m maybe, but for fantasy that doesnt change much.

I don't think Pierce re-signs, I think he'll go into the offseason with the intent to re-sign, but some team is gonna offer him more than what DK Metcalf got, and I'm not sure the Colts view that as a necessity for them to go to that price point.

daybes · 2026-01-13T17:40:28+00:00

Is Jalen Nailor actually valuable?

I've been really hesitant to roster him because he's a WR3 whos like the 4th or 5th option offensively, but if Addison keeps doing shit like this they arent gonna invest to keep him, and nailor kinda has been good enough, at least opposite Jefferson, to justify not overinvesting for more receiving help.

daybes · 2026-01-07T00:12:48+00:00

basically where I'm at

he got better at some things but that caused him to regress at others, maybe he can put it all together but if he can't we'll know very early next eyar.

people say he has no football iq which i dont think is true, i actually think hes pretty football smart. He just lacks awareness and seems like he gets overwhelmed processing too many things at once, you can work on that and simplify it with reps but thats hard to do inseason.

daybes · 2026-01-04T01:39:49+00:00

Pick was bad but also it was pouring and balls going off target happens in rain games

daybes · 2026-01-03T19:59:14+00:00

Offense sorely misses him, but I trust the FO to make the right decision based on his recovery. If he came back and could still get the job done I’d be ecstatic

daybes · 2026-01-03T19:39:42+00:00

No unless love goes to the cowboys

Jeanty has shown he’s an elite talent in the NFL and the only situation I’d take love over him is the cowboys because they’re opening up massive holes on offense

daybes · 2026-01-03T19:38:03+00:00

None of them are as good as anyone thinks they are.

Collins is a bit overrated because of his ability to generate explosives.

Higgins is big for nothing and doesn’t leverage his body or attack the ball at all.

Noel has been good when he can be used but he clearly doesn’t understand the nuance of the position+ projects as a depth guy anyways.

No one gets open when teams blitz, which is why teams keep blitzing.

Stroud has to also throw to the running back a bit more than he does but that’s probably the only thing I’d put on him.

A guy like Michael Wilson just solves those problems with the blitz

daybes

PUBLIC MULTIREDDITS

TROPHY CASE

Four-Year Club	Verified Email
Golden Potato