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Speaker 1: This is the Business of Sports from Bloomberg Radio. I

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Speaker 1: am Michael barn You're listening to the Business of Sports.

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Speaker 1: But you're here Mondays, Wednesdays and Thursdays to explore the

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Speaker 1: big money issues in the world of sports and talk

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Speaker 1: to some of the biggest players in the industry. And

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Speaker 1: today we're talking fantasy football, as we do every Wednesday.

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Speaker 1: I'm joined by a Bloomberg Radio producer, Rich Truman. Do

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Speaker 1: not forget to catch his weekly fantasy football column, which

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Speaker 1: is excellent that comes out every Thursday this season on

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Speaker 1: the terminal, and Bloomberg Intelligence is Damian Sassaur. There's a

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Speaker 1: lot to talk about, and I'm going to start with

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Speaker 1: the obvious, uh Dak Prescott. That was a gruesome injury

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Speaker 1: which now brought out the red rifle, uh Andy Dalton

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Speaker 1: as quarterback, and I just you know, that's gotta be

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Speaker 1: one of the hottest pickups of the week. Well, Madison

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Speaker 1: on the Vikings probably the hottest pickup because dal McCook

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Speaker 1: is I gonna play and they're playing the Vikings. But

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Speaker 1: talking long term, I think Andy Dalton's is is definitely

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Speaker 1: a valuable player for a couple of reasons, mainly Dallas's

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Speaker 1: defense stinks. They're going to be involved in shootouts the

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Speaker 1: entire season. Plus he still has the offensive weapons of

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Speaker 1: Amari Cooper Ceedee Lamb Gallop. Teams also might try to

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Speaker 1: stack the box against Zeke and try to make Dalton

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Speaker 1: beat him. So I think Dalton definitely has some value

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Speaker 1: going forward. And Damien, it's the thing about Dalton two

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Speaker 1: that I like is that at least you can count

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Speaker 1: on what his floor is going to be. Well, I

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Speaker 1: think you'd like to believe that. I mean, look, let's

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Speaker 1: let's let's take a step back. The two highest scoring

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Speaker 1: offense is in terms of points generated this year. One

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Speaker 1: is the Dallas Cowboys obviously, the others the Seattle Seahawks.

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Speaker 1: That's it. They're cut above the rest. And now with

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Speaker 1: Dak Prescott out, I agree that you know they're going

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Speaker 1: to stack the boxes again Zeek, but he will now

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Speaker 1: be the centrifugal force which makes that offense go. And

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Speaker 1: you know, I I think that Zeke is his position

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Speaker 1: to do really well. Here. Who has Zeke? And our

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Speaker 1: fantasy league, you're gonna remind us that I play you

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Speaker 1: this week. Somebody with the nostrils flaring sitting across from me. Uh,

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Speaker 1: that's you wouldn't it. We'll see that's the thing too.

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Speaker 1: And Zeke's gonna come into play big time with the Cowboys,

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Speaker 1: even though they're gonna try, like you said, put him

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Speaker 1: in the box, Rich, I mean, it's he's still gonna

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Speaker 1: be high volume. Yeah, and he's going to obviously be

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Speaker 1: one of the top rank running backs every week of

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Speaker 1: the season. Which brings us to what happened. We had

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Speaker 1: a very unique situation that happened this past Sunday. Uh,

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Speaker 1: and it came because there was another positive test on Tennessee.

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Speaker 1: And what it did was it put everything in the

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Speaker 1: doubt on Sunday morning if the Tennessee Bills game was

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Speaker 1: going to go Tuesday. So if you didn't have any

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Speaker 1: players that could substitute from that maybe on a Monday night,

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Speaker 1: you didn't know what to do. I mean, for me,

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Speaker 1: I didn't have I had to to put Josh Allen

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Speaker 1: but it's this is gonna be a very unique time, Rich,

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Speaker 1: for the COVID nineteen era, we have more things like this, absolutely,

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Speaker 1: and unlike you I'm more of a gambler. I actually

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Speaker 1: rolled the dice and played Ryan Tannehill and the Tuesday

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Speaker 1: night game, and he actually rewarded me very nicely and

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Speaker 1: got me a victory. Um, yeah, but it's gonna happen.

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Speaker 1: You know, some leagues are different. There. There are some

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Speaker 1: philosophies that you should be able to put in a

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Speaker 1: gets canceled and if you're out of control. So for example,

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Speaker 1: on Tuesday, you could have said, I am playing Josh Allen,

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Speaker 1: will be name a player. So that is one one

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Speaker 1: avenue which some leagues are taking well. And Damian, I

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Speaker 1: it brought up the interesting situation and like Rich was saying,

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Speaker 1: And at first I was like, guys, you know, you

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Speaker 1: people some times overthink it. If you have a guy

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Speaker 1: same page with Ryan Pannhill. I can understand the benching there,

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Speaker 1: this is again you want to talk about gamblers rich

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Speaker 1: this is the guy who traded you for downre Hopkins

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Speaker 1: I mean, forget about talking about Colin tip that. I mean,

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Speaker 1: Mr rich Truman and his value play can help you out.

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Speaker 1: that Keenan Allen. He had an injury. He didn't do anything,

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Speaker 1: should remind everybody about the bye weeks. The Chargers. They're

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Speaker 1: So if you have any players on your team from

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