Nick vs. Clint
All Time Records
Clint: 98–71 (.580), 10 Playoff Appearances, 2 Championships
Nick: 72–84 (.462), 8 Playoff Appearances, 1 Championship
Two original league members come in with differing levels of success. Clint has won one championship for every time he’s missed the playoffs (twice) in 13 years. He had a run of horrible luck in 2019, scoring the second most points but coming in as the #6 seed — finally losing to Jon in the semi-finals on some late Julio Jones heroics.
Nick had made the playoffs three times in a row before last year when he missed out at a 6–7 record, finishing 152 points behind the playoff pace.
Overview
If you know one thing about Disney Nick, it’s that he loves to overpay for stuff. Anything on sale is a no-no, he needs to pay 150% of that price to be interested. That is why he is currently spending the college funds of both of his kids just to eat a couple peanuts and ride a couple rides in Disney World, all the while Luci’s brain isn’t even developed enough to store long-term memories.
Speaking of dead horses, behind the eating meat on Fridays thing, this is my probably my second most common attack on Nick — how he likes Disney World. I can’t believe he would like doing something I don’t, how disgusting.
The point is, he did not overpay in this draft. He seemed to just take what we gave him — a real FLUB Paul strat. Josh Jacobs was a fine first round running back pick, then he rolled off some nice value picks in Adams, Juju, LeVeon, Waller, and McLaurin through the next five rounds. Great stuff honestly.
His quarterback situation is very strong despite him waiting until round seven to grab Rodgers, because he followed that up very wisely with the Wentz pick in round nine. Between those two, he should be just fine in QB points — that is the exact strategy I wanted to take myself but I failed because I was too busy counting all the money I haven’t spent on lavish vacations.
Anyways, good shit Nick. Have a Mickey lollipop for me.
Clint was very kind to me in this draft, taking Derrick Henry ahead of me and letting me get my guy Helaire. The PPR addition and the inflated draft price on Henry makes him not super appealing, but it was probably a wise pick. Henry is as safe a bet as you can make after the top three or so, and all you have to do in this league is be in the top half to make the playoffs — so I get it. It’s just boring.
After that he made a couple really great picks in Julio and Conner, who I thought fell way too deep into the draft. Very strong top three.
After that, Clint took more receivers than a phone warehouse, going with Robinson-Boyd-Edelman-Ruggs-Jefferson with five of his next eight picks. He added a tier two QB in Dak, which isn’t depressing (too soon?).
ESPN has this one very close, giving Clint a 131.5–129.9 win. For some reason I can’t justify, I like Nick’s line a little better this week, so I’m going in that direction.
This post was like an episode of Saturday Night Live — not funny at all, so I apologize.
Nick makes his pregnant wife sit in the hot sun, breathing expensive air with a mask on while watching a toddler and having baby in her stomach while he waits 3 hours in line to ride space mountain all the while checking his fantasy score to watch himself beat Clint 119–118.