The TRUTH About Fantasy TEs in 2018 + Super Bowl Reaction

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Beginning! Yes! 2019! We're here! Welcome in, Tuesday, February 5th. Can I... Can I just interject real quick? I think you shall. I think 2019 is going to be the beginning of the end for the Patriots. Oh, my gosh. No, I don't... I don't really, but I... How'd that go? That went well. I mean, look, when we had our bold predictions show, which we always do that in... Did you just say that went well? Oh, it went so great.

For about three weeks in the middle of the season. It was like, no, yes, I just need to call a spade of spade, come out here, jump on the sword. Before we get you. Yes, exactly. You knew I had that on my mind. Jump on it. Yeah, yes. Because that's how they jump on it. I would say the opposite of the beginning of the end is a sword in the butt. A Super Bowl championship. Yeah, I would say so. I would say that bold prediction.

did not go so well. Maybe next year. I don't know that it was our worst bold prediction on the fire hop predictions, but you know, you win some, you lose some. How'd Sam Bradford do? Number one, I think. Number one. Welcome in. We have the truth about the fantasy tight-in position on the show today. I know we're going to spend a little bit of time in the quick question talking about Todd Gurley. That's what I think the fantasy storyline is. Agreed. And so we'll talk about that.

You can find us, as always, on YouTube.com slash the fantasy footballers on Twitter at the FFBallers. We appreciate your subscriptions on Apple Podcasts wherever you're listening and the reviews. And, uh, ad free on Stitcher Premium as well. And this was big news. I mean, every Super Bowl Sunday, this is the tradition now, but on Super Bowl Sunday, not only could you get ready for that slug fest, that high scoring affair that you got to witness, nonstop action, Johnny Hecker. But.

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And look, if you're in the Phoenix area, you also win the chance to come by for a studio tour and a sit-in on a recording of the podcast. Also, Brooks, you're not eligible. No. Dang it. Yes. He was talking to me about that listener league spot. Oh, see, I thought you meant the tour because we keep him back here in the studio. He's never seen the front side of this. He's chained up. He has not yet seen the sun or outside. No. The stars in the sky. See, you say chained up. But if it's a long enough chain, he can free roam.

For the most part. You're a kinder man than I, Andy. I think no matter how long the chain, if you are connected to something, it's no longer free. Technicality says you're chained to something. Yeah, we shouldn't be mentioning this on the podcast. We've been indicted. Yeah, so check it out, Ultimate DraftKit.com. This year, it's back. It's better than ever. We'll have an app. We'll have custom scoring.

We're going to give you no reason not to get this. No, our bold, super crazy, outlandish predictions are not in the ultimate draft. Yeah, they're never in there. We actually take the ultimate draft kit very serious, have high quality rankings, and keep our nonsense for late August. Yeah, or all of the show. Either part. All right, right. Here's the quick question of the day before we get into some other thoughts on the Super Bowl, and then we'll get into a little bit of news and the tight-in truth. But here's the quick question.

On a scale of 1 to 10, how concerned are you about Todd Gurley's end of the season? You know, I believe on our previous running back truth episode, that was right when the beginning of the C.J. Anderson stuff was coming through, and, you know, none of us were worried. Still the number one pick. My meter is worried now. I would say I'm a six. I'm above because it's not just.

Gurley, and it's not just CJ Anderson, it's both of those mixed with the possibility of their star left tackle, Andrew Whitworth retiring, and I realize he is up there in age. I think he's 37 years old, but he was still great. Eighth best run blocking in the league. And so if he goes away and they sign CJ Anderson, they dealt with injuries this year when Todd Gurley was the workhorse.

I think you're going to see him involved. And he would not be my number one pick at that point. I would not take him ahead of Ezeko Elliott or Sequin Barclay. Those two guys are, they're already in his tier to me. I have very big thoughts about this. So I want to let you two weigh in first. All right. How concerned. Scala 1 to 10. That's the question. I'm going to go with a 4. So back when we did the truth, Jeff, truth episode, Jeff. I said.

You have to at least consider the fact that this is not the normal that C.J. Anderson is going to out snap and out touch Todd Gurley, but the possibility that they go into more of a platoon situation where they take turns with drives. Gurley gets two drives, Anderson gets one, where Gurley would still be fantastic because the Rams are going to be one of the best scoring offenses in the league yet again. But it definitely takes a hit. And then the other guys who are close to him in tier like Sequin and Zeke.

Maybe you'd prefer to have those guys because they don't have a platoon situation. So I'm out of four. I'm at a four. This whole nonsense about Todd Gurley's not injured, that's the strangest part of this to me. Here's where I'm at. And I would put myself at the two level. And I'm not sure if I caught a hedge in Jason's argument when he said, if. Because I understand if.

Andrew Whitworth retires. And if they bring back C.J. Anderson, there would be more cause for concern. Because obviously you... I think both of those things happen. I think neither of those things happen. I think it's very, very unlikely in either case. If Whitworth retires, he's leaving $11 million on the table. I think it's very likely he comes back for the last year of his contract, collects $11 million. He's on a team that was, what, 10 points from a Super Bowl.

But $11 million is a lot of money to walk away from when you're playing at that level. So I don't think what goes anywhere. And then C.J. Anderson, I don't think they bring them back. I think it's a very low likelihood. Everything I'm reading thinks it's low likelihood because of the fact there'll be more demand for him. The team likes Malcolm Brown. The team likes what they have. And they lost Malcolm Brown this year. So I don't think, obviously I'm coming from the position that I tweeted this morning. I said, if you are in a Dynasty League and you can go get Todd Gurley.

At the price of this confusion, I say go do it. He's the highest paid running back in football, okay? He's the only running back to get MVP votes this past year, and he's just piled up touchdowns year over year. It was strange, it was odd. There's got to be something to this very end of the season beyond, you know, the guy who got you there, the guy who got you to this incredible record, Sean McVeigh's workhorse, the guy who was active in the screen game, that was the, you know,

18, what, 21 touchdowns last year, 18 this year or something like that? To me, there's more to the story. And he's playing the good soldier right now. That's why I'm saying that's the weirdest part of it, is them insisting that he has not heard. Like Alshan did last year. Right. I mean, and that's the thing is I just tend to say,

I don't know if your six is presuming those two things happen. I was going to say if you're right. You put the if the if is necessary. If C.J. Anderson is not there. They go with Malcolm Brown next year. Here's the thing. Edward is there. Todd Gurley would be my number one pick. Malcolm Brown is not under the contract next year. So let's say they sign a fourth, fifth round backup, a rookie or they get some. Well, they're not going to, I don't think they'll go with a fourth or fifth rounder because they have John Kelly there.

But they're going to get a veteran who... Doesn't it seem like they hate John Kelly? Yeah, it certainly does. But they're going to sign someone like Brown or Anderson who they feel confident can go in there in the event that Todd Gurley can't. And maybe you're right. Maybe they bring back CJ Anderson. Maybe nobody else wants him. They liked him in pass protection. In the Super Bowl, seven for 22 for Anderson, 10 for 35 for Gurley. Also, the rest of the Rams sucked as well.

I mean, this was just a bad game. Yeah, I mean, you cannot throw out all the context of two seasons, regardless of just Gurley, right? The Rams in general, when I see the overrated Sean McVeigh tweets, come on. Yeah, get out of here. It was Bill Belichick. He's done this to several coaches in his career, also six times in the Super Bowl. Yep. So let's have some, let's pull back a little bit.

realized that this was a bad game. You're smirking, Jason. You know, if we're transitioning to the Super Bowl conversation and how that game went, I mean, it was, it was really amazing what Belichick did. I don't know if it's just like, you know, they shut down the run, right? The Rams could not run against him, but it wasn't like scheme. I mean, they literally not one time in the whole game had seven men in the box.

It was light boxes the whole game and they shut down the run. How is that possible? It was possible because long ago, like a season ago, Bill Belichick and that team once again made the amazing decision to transition away from Malcolm Butler, to bring in Gilmore, and to put their secondary in a position where, I mean, this was just...

one move at a time. The amount of draft picks they have next year, look, you probably hate the Patriots if you're not a Patriots fan. Yeah, I think that's a rule. That's just, so I get it. So the majority of our audience we're talking to right now doesn't want to give any credit to New England. And it's fine. You don't need to. Stick your head in the sand. They got six rings. They feel fine about it. But the reality is it's one little move after one little move after one little move. They withstood Josh Gordon going away again into the year.

not really having Rob Gunkowski this season for all intensive purposes. Julian Edelman, you can't cover him, apparently. Not in the playoffs. It's ridiculous. And it just took one drive. It was one drive from Brady. He's never been the MVP. That's crazy. But it was one drive. That brings you down. So, you know, Mike, you said you weren't disappointed in the game. I think you stand alone because the majority of people, including myself, found it to be disappointing from an entertainment perspective. And the only reason.