These guys know how to connect with you about Boston Sports. Say that more slowly because I'm stupid. Pelker and Maz on 985. The Sports Hub. Today you've got Gasper Murray, normally the official show of your Saturday morning trip to Target. We're filling in for the guys today alongside Christian Arcand. In my normal spot, he's chiming in handling the Sports Hub headlines. Again, the latest. Another Celtics injury, Marcus Smart, sounds like he's going to be out indefinitely after he doled for a ball, loose ball last night in the loss of the Pacers, and he re-injured that thumb, which he put through a glass picture, whatever it was in the hotel out in Los Angeles. Some glass. Yeah, some glass about a month, month and a half ago.

So the injury stacking up for the Celtics.

Talked a lot about the Pats. Tom versus Time, episode number six. So all your thoughts on these things that we've touched on on on a reentry Monday at 617-779-0-985. We'll go to Lisa in Canton. Go ahead, Lisa. Hi. I was just wondering, do you think that they're going to give Rob Grancowski those incentives like they give him last year?

Because I was curious how he was going to react if they signed Nate Solder at a higher salary than him.

And then he's got stuff on Gilmore's making more and Brandon Cooks.

So I was just wondering what you guys thought about, what they were going to do for Gronk.

Thanks for the call, Lisa.

I would think if I'm in Gronk's shoes, after playing on an incentivized contract,

which he basically hit everything that he needed to hit to get the money that he got,

look, I understand the concerns about his back and how many times he's been injured, and he's certainly not a lot to play all 16 games in this regular season. But as much as he brings to the table and as important he is to the offense, and if he's kind of wavering here, I think he has the advantage to tell them, look, you're going to pay me the hell with the incentives. Like, this is the deal that I want. It has to be close to some of the top wide receivers in the game because i'm that important to this offense and you know it yeah i mean i agree with you on that i think when you look at his deal now you know they put the incentive in last year and bumped it up the base salaries are high the last two years of this deal are relatively high but i think the issue with Gronk is that he doesn't want to

be on the tight end pay scale. He wants to be paid based on what he is, which is one of the most

dynamic offensive players in the game. So he wants to be paid on the pay scale of Antonio Brown,

Julio Jones, guys like that, not Jordan Reed, who's at the top of the tight end pay scale. So the deal he has, the next couple of years, like I said, the base salary is higher, but if you're him and you're going out there and risking your body, and it's a situation where I can go play this year for, I think it's $8 million, but they could just cut me after the year if I get hurt,

and then I'm done.

So do I want to pay, do I want to go out there and play for $8 million, or do I want to get some real big time guaranteed money in a second contract here and get all this stuff bumped up so I get these guarantees? If I'm him, that's what I want. I want some guarantees. if I'm going to put my body on the line

and I'm seriously thinking about maybe moving on

from the NFL, then I want to know that I have substantial money coming to me, even if I get hurt. You know, even if I suffer a major injury, like when T.J. Ward blew out my knee. I don't want to know that the team can just use me for a year and then discard me if I get hurt. And there's other deals that are already going down here with players that position. But, you know, Gron could say like, what, I'm, you mean to tell me I'm not worth more than Cameron Brate, who today signed a six-year, $41 million deal with the Tampa Bay Bucks that includes $18 million guaranteed. Yeah. 18 million guaranteed for Cameron Brate.

Cameron Bray, who couldn't even catch a touchdown pass against the Patriots in the end zone.

Remember that?

Right at the end of that game.

Yeah, you should have caught that ball.

Yeah.

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