Speaker 1: Hello, Welcome to the Bloomberg Business of Sports podcast, or
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Speaker 1: Ower and I'm Rich Truman. And you know what those
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Speaker 1: get so excited when we talk about this, you know what,
Speaker 1: it's the first before we go on. I'm even more
Speaker 1: excited to talk about the lineup because we're gonna push this.
Speaker 1: Every time we talked about this, I made some money
Speaker 1: last week. Tell me about the lineup? Well, you know
Speaker 1: it's uh, it drops every Friday night at seven o'clock,
Speaker 1: then again on Saturday mornings at seven and eleven a.
Speaker 1: I'm into college football and we talk about everything in
Speaker 1: the sports world with a focus on sports gambling and
Speaker 1: so you know. This week's guest Lee Steinberg, former Superpower
Speaker 1: agent agent to Patrick Mahomes, agent too uh, formerly to
Speaker 1: Steve Young and Troy Aikman and Warren Moon. So we've
Speaker 1: got a lot of questions to ask him, specifically about
Speaker 1: the NFL, specifically about the rise of the wide receiver.
Speaker 1: Know where I made my coin? The Cowboys played the
Speaker 1: Giants and I put my money on the Cowboys. Little
Speaker 1: stutter step moved by Parsons Jones fires in the past,
Speaker 1: is intercepted by Digs. He goes down to the Cowboys
Speaker 1: that rock to do. But you know what, in speaking
Speaker 1: of that game, that brings us to wide out problems
Speaker 1: because there was a significant injury at that game. It
Speaker 1: was Sterling Shepherd, non contact leg injury. Wow, and was
Speaker 1: that so much painting to hop onto that cart? Both
Speaker 1: Cowboys and Giants came over to pat him on the
Speaker 1: shoulder pads. And it's too bad because, uh, you know,
Speaker 1: Sterling Shepherd. I really liked the guy and he's beloved
Speaker 1: in the locker room. But he's out for the season.
Speaker 1: But let's be honest, we feel bad for Sterling Shepherd.
Speaker 1: But he's not a big fantasy player. He's a He's
Speaker 1: a good player for the Giants, a possession receiver and
Speaker 1: might get your four catches a game. But as far
Speaker 1: as nus he goes, I don't see any impact whatsoever.
Speaker 1: I don't see Kenny Golladays stepping up either, because and
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, he's an alumni of the Lions. But you
Speaker 1: know what, he had a chance to prove it because
Speaker 1: he got benched in week two, so he steps up
Speaker 1: week three. Here's a key pass drops the ball. Michael,
Speaker 1: you're wasting your time on players that nobody is gonna
Speaker 1: play each week in fantasy. Give me your knowledge, sir,
Speaker 1: Tell me who should I be looking at you? But
Speaker 1: I'm just looking at some stats. After the first three weeks.
Speaker 1: James Robinson drafted very low and every draft a touchdown
Speaker 1: every game, and he's the third highest running back scorer
Speaker 1: this year. He gave us to James Robinson's He's got
Speaker 1: it in more party thirty five thirty twenty five touchdown
Speaker 1: on fourth down. James Robinson broke loose for the school.
Speaker 1: I think he's good to go for the rest of
Speaker 1: the year. One guy who I think is a person
Speaker 1: to fade, and right now he's the fourth highest scoring
Speaker 1: running back in the league is Hilaire of the Chiefs.
Speaker 1: He did have a touch on last week, but he
Speaker 1: also had I think zero yards on seven carriers, so
Speaker 1: I could see fading him. But I think Robinson's gonna
Speaker 1: be a good player for the rest of the year. Well,
Speaker 1: let's stick on that wide receiver trend for just a
Speaker 1: minute here, because you know there's an interesting stat that's
Speaker 1: been called to my attention. I mean, if you look
Speaker 1: at the first three weeks of this season, right, the
Speaker 1: wide receiver position, and we all know you need guys
Speaker 1: who can put up big points on any given read
Speaker 1: twenty plus point weeks, right, thirty eight wide receivers have
Speaker 1: put up twenty or more points this season alone. By comparison,
Speaker 1: the running back and quarterback positions have only at twenty,
Speaker 1: and the tight end position obviously it was only at four.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's been a really weak year for the
Speaker 1: tight end. But the point is what's interesting about is
Speaker 1: if you look at the wide receivers who have gotten
Speaker 1: twenty plus points, Yeah, you've got you know, a handful
Speaker 1: with two like Digs and Cup, but it's been spread.
Speaker 1: It's not concentrated any longer. It's not these Jefferson, these
Speaker 1: Tier one guys. It's guys like a Lave. It's guys
Speaker 1: like Smith on Philadelphia. You know, we're putting up big
Speaker 1: weeks and starting to come into her own, Garrett Wilson
Speaker 1: on the Jets. So you know, it's interesting though, the
Speaker 1: kind of the evolution of the wide receiver this season.
Speaker 1: In my mind, Oh lovey, whoa That's what I was
Speaker 1: gonna do that. Speaking of tight ends, there's a tight
Speaker 1: end that I have on one team that I sat
Speaker 1: and boy he went off because I have Kelsey and
Speaker 1: he's on your radar. Rich. Yeah, he's not the highly
Speaker 1: rank this week, but I think the Joeku of Cleveland
Speaker 1: is a good play this week. Back looking firing up
Speaker 1: in the air touchdown David Joko last week nine eight
Speaker 1: nine and one yards in one touchdown place the Falcons
Speaker 1: will give up a lot of points, so I actually
Speaker 1: think he's for real. So I would stick with the
Speaker 1: Joku quarterback. You know what, I'll tell you a quarterback
Speaker 1: I am looking for if you're looking for a long
Speaker 1: shot that you want. I'm loving Jared Golf with the Lions,
Speaker 1: y yeah, yeah. And I like t J Hockinson. He
Speaker 1: finally got off the Schneidi got himself a tight a
Speaker 1: TD last week. You know. But if we're going to
Speaker 1: talk quarterbacks, we just have to take one pause and
Speaker 1: pay homage to the healing highlight reel that is Lamar Jackson.
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson has had just to give you be a clear.
Speaker 1: He has has broken the record for the most points
Speaker 1: over two games spanned by a quarterback in the history
Speaker 1: of the NFL. Jackson keeps it, has the first down,
Speaker 1: has a touchdown, Lamar Jackson. I mean he is a
Speaker 1: rushing it this year and he I mean, look, I
Speaker 1: mean he's had He's just surpassed the most points I
Speaker 1: think by any fantasy player in the month of September ever,
Speaker 1: So that just shows what he's doing. He's putting up
Speaker 1: forty point weeks like it's nobody's business. So I'm gonna
Speaker 1: ask you about another quarterback toa do you think he's
Speaker 1: for real or not? Now, he had the six touchdown
Speaker 1: game against the Ravens, but besides that to seventy one
Speaker 1: score against New England and one score against Buffalo, So
Speaker 1: what do you think is a real to it? He's
Speaker 1: winning games. So long as he's winning games and managing,
Speaker 1: you know, he's going to kind of come into his own.
Speaker 1: And look, the fact is he's got Tyreek Kill, He's
Speaker 1: got Jalen Waddle, he's got Cassek, He's got a ton
Speaker 1: of you know of tools at his disposal. But I
Speaker 1: don't think last game is going to be a real
Speaker 1: sort of precursor for the way he plays, because that
Speaker 1: builds defense is really really good. Do you think he's
Speaker 1: a top eight quarterback the rest of the rest of
Speaker 1: the way, I mean, let me think about my probably not,
Speaker 1: probably not top eight, but yeah, no, I think he's
Speaker 1: a viable starter any week, depending upon the matchup, and
Speaker 1: certainly a streaming option. He's serviceable because I picked him
Speaker 1: up in my other league, is like, and I'm glad
Speaker 1: because you know, it's like, which brings me to Russell Wilson.
Speaker 1: What do you do if you have Russell Wilson to
Speaker 1: give you an idea of Folks, I've lost the Damien
Speaker 1: this past week because and he had two zeros too,
Speaker 1: blasted zeros, and two things happened. Russell Wilson gave me
Speaker 1: Diddley boo and then Justin Jefferson gave me four point
Speaker 1: squiggly squat. And you know you're gonna start Jefferson every week,
Speaker 1: and quite honestly, you probably need to, you know, start
Speaker 1: Russ Wilson a few times more until he really bottoms
Speaker 1: out for you, because look, I mean, he he's got
Speaker 1: a lot of tools. He's coming into his own. Look
Speaker 1: that teams in a bit of disarray here at the
Speaker 1: coaching spot. I mean, look, you know, Russ Wilson is
Speaker 1: still Russ Wilson. But but I take your point, man,
Speaker 1: you should not have lost to me last week Sleepers. No,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna I disagree. I would fade Russell Wilson. They're
Speaker 1: running their run first team. Their defense is really good
Speaker 1: this year, and I think that. I mean, I know
Speaker 1: it's three games, but I don't see that being a
Speaker 1: high scoring offense. I see that, I see him. I
Speaker 1: would fade him, easily, fade him. The problem is, who
Speaker 1: else are you going to start? The one guy who
Speaker 1: stands out to me, who's still available in a lot
Speaker 1: of in a lot of leagues, is um Trevor Lawrence?
Speaker 1: That guy? You know. I think Trevor Lawrence is basically
Speaker 1: starting to feel it here and he can definitely have
Speaker 1: a pretty big year if he continues to play the
Speaker 1: way he's playing. So he's one guy who might be available.
Speaker 1: He'd probably looked the target before we go to Sleepers.
Speaker 1: We traded together, you Rich and I we traded. I
Speaker 1: got Aaron Rodgers, and I'm wondering if I should start
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers now over Russell Wills. I think I would. Yeah, Okay,
Speaker 1: all right, well I'll do that and hopefully I'll get
Speaker 1: a win this time. By the way, you mentioned about
Speaker 1: the tight ends. We've been talking about that. Mark Andrews. Yeah,
Speaker 1: who's playing even better than Travis's the one trouble pass
Speaker 1: Mark answers in poor that touchdown. You gotta give him
Speaker 1: the high five. And I'll tell you another guy you
Speaker 1: got to give the high five to, uh, and that's
Speaker 1: Kwan Barkley. And I gotta admit I was throwing a
Speaker 1: little bit of shade. It's like, I know he's been
Speaker 1: injured at it up. He is uh the number one
Speaker 1: tight end ranked all on the league right now. You
Speaker 1: running back, Yeah, I mean, I'm sorry, he's talking about
Speaker 1: too many different things. He is the man, dude. He's
Speaker 1: on my fantasy team. He rode me to success last week.
Speaker 1: I think you know it's interesting, though, is you know
Speaker 1: at the running back it's really tough to pick him
Speaker 1: each week. Right Taylor had that first week and he's
Speaker 1: kind of faded since. I mean, ear hasn't done much.
Speaker 1: Derrick Kennry looked like a little bit like Derrick Kenley
Speaker 1: Henry last week though, So that's a step in the
Speaker 1: right there. Barkley is the only option on the Giants realistically, really,
Speaker 1: then they have no wide receivers. They have a rookie
Speaker 1: tight end who looks promising, but he's gonna catch two
Speaker 1: or three balls a game. Daniel Jones is not going
Speaker 1: to throw from more than two yards a game. Barkley
Speaker 1: seems really to be the only option, especially can catch
Speaker 1: passes out of the backfield. And you've got these injuries, right,
Speaker 1: you have mixed in, You've got Swift. I mean, you've
Speaker 1: got Cook. You know these guys might not play this week,
Speaker 1: so you know you better be scouring. Speaking of a
Speaker 1: good transition one of my sleepers, because you did mention Swift,
Speaker 1: I'll go with Jamal Williams again TTS. In weeks one
Speaker 1: and three, coach said he wants to maybe give Swift
Speaker 1: some time off to rest. So I like Jamal Williams
Speaker 1: in the same game they over under the Troit Seattle
Speaker 1: games fifty. I like Tyler Lockett. I think it's gonna
Speaker 1: be a high scoring game. He's had nine catches each
Speaker 1: to the last two weeks. Gino Smith could be a
Speaker 1: possible add if you really need them, but I like
Speaker 1: Tyler Lockett and Jamal Williams at that game, and I said,
Speaker 1: by low candidate last week, and I said, not the
Speaker 1: playing last week, Tom Brady. But I think this is
Speaker 1: the week he starts to come alive weather rating because
Speaker 1: obviously the weather is porn Florida. But I do like
Speaker 1: him against the Chiefs to uh and he gets Mike
Speaker 1: Evans back. So I like Tom Brady from now ongoing forward,
Speaker 1: well before we lock it out. That brings up the
Speaker 1: point because Ian is going to move along the coast
Speaker 1: up here on the East coast. So if you've got
Speaker 1: any games that you're betting on or looking for a
Speaker 1: survivor and if they're playing in that zone within, take
Speaker 1: a really good look because you might want to go
Speaker 1: with the under for a lot of these games if
Speaker 1: the game goes off at all Bucks Chiefs. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean that's a big one, right. I mean, look, I
Speaker 1: just while we're before we let it go, I mean
Speaker 1: the one guy who and he's it's kind of not
Speaker 1: a sleeper because he was a second round pick this year.
Speaker 1: But you know, Deebo Samuel has just owned the Rams
Speaker 1: over the past few seasons. I mean, you think he's
Speaker 1: one of just three players to get at least a
Speaker 1: hundred points of the last four games against any team
Speaker 1: in the NFL, he really has had the Rams number,
Speaker 1: and that's going to be I think that's a Monday
Speaker 1: night matchup if I'm not mistaken. So it's primetime Deebo
Speaker 1: Samuel time. So, by the way, you're three and oh magic? Yes?
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