Super Bowl Picks + Gronk Smash, #FootClan Q’s

He's basically one day old. We were making Nickelodeon references. He didn't even understand what we were talking about. He never knew that TVs were square-shaped. There are a lot of things that we need to introduce him to. I feel a little bad making fun of a one-day-old. I don't. I'm still going to do it. I was just saying it doesn't feel the same. Because he grunted and made a sound from the producer's booth. Man. So, yeah, just letting the people know, baby Josh, you're on blast for, I don't know, six months.

News and Notes from Around the League. He's trying not to laugh right now so that we have to escort him out. You better not make a sound. It could be over. And people should be happy to know that we had him build chairs as his first task. He just built chairs. You earned your keep. They're very oppressive for a one day old. The Patriots and Rob Gronkowski have agreed to terms on a revised contract.

I like these kind of contracts where he can make more money by doing more things statistically on the field. He can make an extra, what, $4.3 million in incentives. So he's up to like a $13.3 million max. That's good. Yes. Yes. Yes. Mike's excited because he traded for gronk yesterday. I've told the foot client exactly what I'm doing. And that is I'm getting grunk everywhere that I possibly can where it makes sense.

At least he doesn't have a robust injury history that could leave you in a collapsed, sad state. Across all platforms. Yeah, no matter where you are. We have him in Scott Fish. Cool. In the League of Records? Cowards? Who's that, what's that Disney, the Pixar movie with the inflated, like, that's not Pixar, but Bay Max, Bigger 6? Yeah.

Yeah, we put some tape on him and Gronk will be good to go. Okay. No, I was picturing you deflating in your soul if he went down. The Bucks have released. Oh, that would not be good. No. Bucks have released running back Charles Sims with an injury settlement. Yeah. We expected this to happen after the injured reserve placement. Yep. And Jets wide receivers remain cursed will miss week one after surgery on his abdomen.

Fair enough. Now, just real quick back to the Buccaneer situation. He was already gone. Charles Sims was already on the IR, but does this change things at all for how you view Peyton Barber? Is Peyton Barber a three-down running back now? I don't think so. I don't either. I think he will be. Who's coming in? I think to Quiz Rogers, when you watch pre-season, that's the guy that they've been bringing in on third downs. I think he'll have that role.

And for all the shade that I throw on Ronald Jones, it's another running back out of the way for him to get opportunities. It's sad, obviously, for Charles Sims. And like you said, we already knew he was injured and going to be out for the season. But it is good news for both Ronald Jones and Peyton Barber to have...

Fewer competition touches. We'll call it that. We'll call it incorrect. Wow. Yeah, we got there. Fewer competition touches. By the way, the Bears, I know they've dealt with problems at the tight-in position depth-wise. Dion Sims, he's been sidelined two weeks now with a concussion. Adam Shaheen, we know he's hurt. So it's all, all signs point to Trey Bubu taking control of that job and the snaps to start the season.

All right. We're going to get into the mailbag. We're going to answer some questions heading into week one. Next week we've got week one content. We'll get you ready to go. Let's remind them what segments we got coming. We got all the starts of the week. We got streamers. We won't have waivers. No. In week one, but we'll get you ready for. We'll have my upset. I'll bust that out next week. You're ready. No, I'm not ready at all. My ups and Jason's boom boom kicker will be part of next week, too.

I don't know if he's ready for that or not. I'm always ready. My preparation on kickers is so deep. You have to write a rhyme of some kind. That's true. So I'm mostly prepared. All right. You ready, Mike? Yeah. Mailbag. All right. If you have a question for the Fantasy Footballers podcast, go to the website. Fantasy Footballers.com. Click the submit a question button or dial a voicemail hotline 302464 TFFB.

The website is also where you can find the Ultimate Draft Kit if you're drafting tonight, tomorrow, this weekend, before next Thursday when the NFL season kicks off. You can get over there, Ultimate DraftKit.com. Not too late to get right for your draft. There's still a lot of people drafting this weekend. Yes, absolutely. I know this because I see how many people are in the Ultimate Draft Kit on a minute-by-minute basis. I know this because my Money League is drafting this weekend.

I'm interested to hear your report on how that turns out. I bet you have Gronk at the end of it. It's just a solid bet. Possibly. I don't know if he's being kept or not. I assume he's being kept by someone else, and at the end of this draft, he will be on your roster. I'm working on it. All right. Emmanuel 13 has a question for us. He says, what are your thoughts on commissioners intervening with trade? So they have a final say on all the trades or let them go because the two parties have agreed to them.

And then he puts in parentheses, not counting obvious collusion. Here is my official stance. I've said it once. I'll say it again. And then I'll say it again. Do you need, uh, no, I don't. From the mountaintops, Mike. Vitos are verdwebos. It's ridiculous. I wish I could take the horn back after that rhyme. No, it's a great rhyme. It's a great rhyme. It's a great rhyme. How dare you disparage it? But vetoes are the absolute worst. Let people.

play you don't know you do not know if a trade is actually completely lopsided i've seen so many trades where they come through i whatever's in my hands i throw it in the air i start smashing plates and i go how could this possibly have happened why is this why is this team owner such an idiot and then three weeks later the egg is all over my face because the team was lopsided for the other person

So you don't know what's going to happen. Let people run their teams how they want to run their teams. You do not need to be involved. If you are mad that a trade went through, that's on you for not being active and going and trying to make a trade with that team. Yeah, 100%. We've said this many, many times before. In fact, I'll take it to another piece of advice and say remove the...

trade timer. You know, most leagues, it takes 24 or 48 hours for a trade to go through. We removed that as one of the best decisions we ever made in the league of record. It is so nice to be able to say, hey, there's, you know, Thursday night football is kicking off in three hours. I really want to, you know, make a trade for tonight and set myself up, you know, and be able to pull that off.

and have the transaction matter, especially when it comes to, you know, waivers take a while to clear. And then Thursday's creeping up. It's so hard to get trades done when you have these ridiculous 24, 48-hour timers. Yeah, absolutely. Hey, speaking of the NFL before we get into a little bit more, the mailbag, Fookland, got to tell you about the NFL game pass. People ask us frequently, hey, footballers, how are you guys seeing all these games? How are you going back? How are you watching the film?

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All right, Joe Bro 3333 has the question. I haven't heard much about baby hands Jack Doyle. What's your opinion on him? I have him and I'm not too confident. Let me know your guys' thoughts. Love the show. I have said it all offseason. I believe Eric Ebron is going to be the predominant pass catcher in that offense. We saw in their kind of dry run for the...

regular season, Eric Abram was involved. So I still feel that way. I don't have a lot of confidence in Jack Doyle. I have Jack Doyle still as a low-end tight-end one. I think he will be necessary for this offense. He's a good football player. He's going to be on the field. That's how you get opportunities. I know that the Colts are likely to run a lot of two tight-end sets. But I still like Doyle to finish the season around that.

10 to 12 range for titles. Yeah, it's hard to tell at this point because, you know, a week two, it looked like, oh, Doyle was far more involved. All the snaps were running the routes. Week three. Obviously, Eric Ebron had the big game. And I think it's indicative of the fact that this is not going to be a one. Doyle is not going to win. Right. And Ebron is not going to win. It's going to be different guys, different weeks. It's going to make a, for a difficult situation.

Unless you're playing DFS and you have an insight and a scoop onto which guy is probably going to be the guy that week. I personally am avoiding both of these guys. I don't want them in redraft. Fair. And Eric Ebron is really hoping that defenders just don't cover him like they did on his touchdown reception. I do agree with Andy, though. Eric Ebron is a much more talented player. Yeah, he has the upside. Jack Doyle is, he's baby hands. I mean, he's just, eh.

Yeah, he's, he can, if he gets the opportunity, he'll be good for fantasy. But Eric Ebron is the far more dynamic football, or a pass catcher. Yes. All right, let's go to a voicemail question. Are you guys doing fantasy footballers? Uh, name is Muhammad Ali from Cleveland, Ohio. Hmm. Uh, we just finished our draft, uh, 12-man league PPR. And we had one guy pick up, uh, Travis Kelsey and Rob.

Ron Couty. How do you feel about that? He plans on starting one in the tight end and one in the flex. Just want to know what you guys think. Thank you. Love you guys. I feel like he probably ruined his team. Yeah, that's fine. I mean, look, when both players are this good, they're going to be fine in your flex. That's not the issue. The issue isn't how many points they're going to be able to put up playing both players. The issue is what they've lost at the running back or wide receiver position, assuming you need at least two two.

and that flex, you might be fine on starters week one if you take that strategy, but your depth for injuries, for buy weeks, for things like that, where you have to play four total players at least between running back and wide receiver, you're going to be hurting. And here's the deal. The position is called the flex, because it is a flexible position.

You have other options. When you have wide receivers and running backs, you can play matchups. You can look at, okay, my wide receiver three, my running back three has got a much better matchup. I'm going to put them in the flex. When you draft two tight ends like this, you're playing Travis Kelsey every single week. And last year, by the end of season, Travis Kelsey was the tight end two and a half point PPR with 192 points.