Players We’re Ashamed to Love, #FootClan Advice

But does your opinion or anything, how do you feel about Gronk because of the four games with no Edelman? Look, whenever this conversation begins with, boy, Jordan Matthews is going to have a chance to make his mark. Like, that should tell you something about the opportunity Gronk's going to have during the first four games. Should it not?

Well, yeah, but I don't think Gronk's role is going to change much. But don't you have to lean on him even more in those four games? Yes, the third down option becomes all the more Gronk and less Edelman. But it's not like Gronk changes position is my point. Gronk is the number one tight in. Gronk's value, you know, in that second round. That doesn't, he doesn't actually change. The guy that changes.

For me the most, well, I guess the most would be. He also had no Edelman all of last year. The most might be someone like Jordan Matthews who goes from nothing to something. But I have really been changing on Chris Hogan. This is a guy, if we had a quick question today that who have you been rising the most on? It's Hogan. I've gone back. We need to do that one, Brooks. We need to do like our biggest ranking adjustment. Quick question here in the next few weeks. Yeah. I went back after this confirmation of the suspension.

looked at the Patriots, looked in depth at last year's stats, it kind of some splits. And I realized that I was too low on Hogan. I think Hogan has the ability and potential to be up near a wide receiver one. That's not what I'm projecting by any means. But, I mean, he's now Tom Brady's primary wide receiver weapon. That's what I believe. And that's a great role to play. Well, yeah.

I agree with that. And you had made some adjustments, I believe, yesterday, right? To the Patriots? Yeah, mostly to Chris Hogan. Okay. I was doing a little browsing on the, on fantasy pros. Oh, trying to see if a really good article is out of you. Yeah, to see. You might want to keep your eyes open for that. Yeah. Do we hold on to that news? Yeah, we'll hold on to that at least till Mike's back because it involves him too. But, you know.

Future shout out to... Yourself? I guess. I was just going to say to the accuracy rankings. There's good news coming. All right. We're going to jump into our Foot Clan mailbag. There are a ton of great off-season questions that we're going to answer on the show today. And we like to choose the ones that we think will be really relevant to a lot of you out there. So it's going to be a great time. Before we do that, I do want to thank today's sponsor. You've heard me talk about them before.

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Didn't we say that, didn't we promise the people that you were doing this Saturday? I'm just going to go for it. All right. Now, I'm going to give you a little warning here. I know you're warming up there. You're doing the rocky thing. I think you just grabbed your voice box and stretched it a little bit. Me, me, me, me, me, me. Don't lose confidence. Just go for it. I'm going for it. All right, here we go. I'm going. Mailbag. Mailbag.

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You might as well just said, Brooks. Foot Clan, I apologize for you having to listen to that. Let's get some good fantasy football. They're happy. They're happy with it. All right. If you have a question, you can go to the website. The Fantasy Footballers.com, click to submit a question button. 302464 TFFB is the voicemail hotline. If you didn't hear it, hit the 15 second back, or I can just repeat it. 302464 TFFB. Voice mail question to kick it off. Hey, guys. This is Tyler McPherson out of San Antonio, Texas. Love this show.

This had a quick question about six points per passing touchdown leagues. I'm just having trouble valuing quarterbacks correctly, if you will, and those type of leagues. I'm going to PPR league. Love the show, guys. Thanks. Great question, Tyler. Appreciate it. And it's one we'll get pretty often. Over and over. Yeah, we'll get it often because I think what happens is you have kind of like the defaults that are out there.

in ESPN and Yahoo where people are used to seeing four points per passing touchdown. And then they join a league. And then they see the settings and they say, oh, what's different about this league? And they see six points per touchdown for quarterback. And then they say, what do I do? Yeah. And they hear us talk about late round quarterback. They hear us talk about don't draft the quarterback early. And then they go, but I'm in a six point per quarterback league. And it.

Not only does it change virtually nothing in that strategy, there is great research done by JJ Zacharyson. Great follow on Twitter. Check him out at the late round QB. Where he showed the – we talk about streaming, right, where you play quarterbacks off of the waiver wire. Every week you're picking up a different quarterback, playing a different quarterback because you only need one, and there's plenty on the waivers. In six-point leagues, there are actually –

more options from the waiver wires, more quarterbacks that finish as a quarterback won than in four point leagues. So it actually is almost more beneficial for the late round strategy because you can have waiver wire guys perform better because you're predicting the touchdown opportunity matchups and then you get more points for them. So yeah, the two things to remember is one, it's a rising water level for all quarterbacks. If they score.

More points per touchdown. They all score more points per touchdown. Right. The only thing it will do is it will change which quarterbacks might be more valuable slightly. Right. Or vice versa. Or Deshaun Watson. Sure. A running quarterback that gets rewarded six points per rushing touchdown. Right. He's my number three quarterback in four point leagues. Right. He drops to like five or six. Descott goes up in four point leagues.

Right. He always seems to run in five or six touchdowns per season. Exactly. But it doesn't change the position. And that's the thing to remember. All right. This question comes in off of Twitter from Sea Dog. Sea Dog. What are your thoughts on Calvin Ridley? I drafted him for two reasons. Number one, Julio Jones has been injury prone. And number two, if he is injured, Ridley will be the deep threat with Gabriel gone. I actually have an answer to this. You mind if I jump in? I hope you do. That's your job. Well, certainly. Yeah, we would have.

I just mean I've been thinking about this. Sure. I want to hear it. One of the quick questions Brooks had suggested for a show recently was if you could take a player out of their situation and put them in a better one for fantasy, who would you do? And I actually thought about Calvin Ridley because I love Calvin Ridley. I think he's a great player. I do too. I think he played phenomenally with subpar quarterback playing college. And I think he went to a good situation eventually.

But right now I actually don't like him that much. Julio Jones is the number one guy. Mohamed Sunu, while not flashy, is actually the player that would benefit the most if Julio went down. In my opinion. I agree. I think Julio, if he went down to injury, Sunu is the player that you want to grab and start. Now, Ridley will contribute. He'll have his games. But you're kind of looking at it like, I don't know, Sterling Shepard.

was a couple years ago where he's third in the pecking order and it's kind of, you know, not only that, it's even third in the pecking order with Devante Freeman and Tevin Coleman and Austin Hooper involved. Yeah, there are a lot of mouths to feed and I do agree. Calvin Ridley's a good player, but this isn't going to be the year that he's not breaking into the NFL with a huge fantasy year. I do think he'll help the team. He'll help the team. He'll be a great player. I mean, he's, I was so impressed.

buy that pick. He's just perfect for their scheme. He's going to destroy opponents' zones. I just want to stress this, too. If the Falcons could focus on drafting some sort of wide receiver whose last name is Hobbs, this could be really good for the next 10 to 12 years. No, don't, come on. I'm just saying. I'm sure you got some people out there that loved that.

I was never a Calvin and Hobbs. Neither was I. Really? You seem like a Calvin and Hobbs. I do? Oh, yeah. Why do I seem like a Calvin and Hobbs? Because weren't those in newspapers a long time ago? Yeah. Well, all comics were in newspapers. Well, I assume you like all the old-timey comics. You're not a comic. You didn't have the Sunday morning pull out the comic section and read them when you were a kid? Sure, I did, but then, you know, I'm, you know. And you grew up. Yeah, I know. We're all grown up now, Jason. You can still enjoy something. Yeah, I don't.

I don't live in the old time he days like you. Now, my son is sitting in on today's show. Oh, shout out to Caleb. He's waving over there. He's nine years old. And he is one of the biggest Calvin and Hobbs fans I know. He owns tons of Calvin and Hobbs books. My wife passed them down. You know, that's actually part of the reason why I thought you loved it. Because I've seen Calvin and Hobbs books. So it was actually a shout out to Caleb. Sure. All right. This question comes in from Sean off of Facebook.

Half point PPR league. He says, I can keep Tarek, I'm sorry. Turok. The dinosaur hunter Cohen for a seventh rounder or T. Rex Burkhead for a ninth. What's the better value, the hunter or the dino? Oh, man. Put those two in a room. There's going to be a fight.

So Turok the Dinosaur Hunter or T. Rex Burkhead. This is not close to me. Nice job, Brooks, selecting this question. This is important for a Saturday episode. This is not close to me. If they were the exact same value, I would rather have T. Rex Burkhead over to Rock the Dinosaur Hunter Cohen. I would too. From a consistency standpoint, I think Rex is going to be better. Right. From an offensive standpoint, you know, he's done it before.

Cohen has shown flashes, but he hasn't actually been a consistent fantasy relevant player. We're projecting good things, but I would like them. And the fact that you get him two rounds later, it's a home run for T-Rex. I agree with you. All right. This question comes in off of Instagram from Stony Duetto. By the way, Instagram.com slash fantasy footballers if you want to follow us there.