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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Bloomberg Business of Sports Podcast. We'll here

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Speaker 1: only is it Prince Spaghetti Day, it is also Fantasy

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Speaker 1: Sports Day. I know, I know you're saying, hey, Mike,

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Speaker 1: wait a minute, week eighteen, how many leagues are going

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Speaker 1: in week eighteen? Well? True, but you might be in

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Speaker 1: one of those leagues where you have the weekly lineup

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Speaker 1: and you've got sixty dollars and you gotta put your

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Speaker 1: lineup together. Or if you are brave enough to be

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Speaker 1: in the league where we're going all the way, maybe

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Speaker 1: in the Dynasty League, maybe we can help you out.

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Speaker 1: And of course the super geniuses they know everything about

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Speaker 1: the sport. Rich Truman, Damien sass Hour before we continue on.

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Speaker 1: All right, this is the applause for Rich Stroman. He

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Speaker 1: wanted all he is I have, and I've got to

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Speaker 1: give it to you. Rich. I know people are like,

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Speaker 1: you know, when will you league? Well this was the

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Speaker 1: move of the move. He had Antonio Brown, and I thought, well,

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Speaker 1: he's gonna play Antonio Brown. He's projected to get about

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Speaker 1: twenty something odd points. I gets the Jets, you decided

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Speaker 1: not to play him, and I gotta hear your logic. Y, yeah,

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Speaker 1: what's the logic there? Please? Here's the logic. And obviously

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Speaker 1: had nothing to do with end up happening in the game.

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Speaker 1: But I read that he missed a couple of practices

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Speaker 1: and he was possibly going to be a scratch, But

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Speaker 1: then over the weekend they said he was good enough

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Speaker 1: to go. I figured with the setup, looked like they

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Speaker 1: would beat the Jets handley, which they didn't. Plus, I

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Speaker 1: don't like playing a guy he gets one role the

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Speaker 1: thought he's a little banged up. They might have a

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Speaker 1: big lead, they might rest him, so let me sit them.

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Speaker 1: So who am I playing as my flex? Instead? I said,

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Speaker 1: let me play a J. Dillon And you might want

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Speaker 1: to ask why a J. Dillon where Kirk Cousins got

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Speaker 1: scratched with COVID Green Bay ended up being a two

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Speaker 1: Dutch Don favorite. It was five degree weather. I figured

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Speaker 1: they would jump out to a big lead in the

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Speaker 1: second half. A J. Dillon would get a lot of

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Speaker 1: carriers to milk the clock, and a J. Dillon happened

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Speaker 1: to be my highest score of the week. And if

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Speaker 1: I didn't make that move, along with playing Trey Lance

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Speaker 1: over um Taysom Hill, I would have lost. But you know,

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Speaker 1: I've been doing fantasy football for thirty years, started when

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Speaker 1: think I've ever made in the thirty years that I've

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Speaker 1: done fantasy football. I mean, you made a bunch of

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Speaker 1: this year. You had Renfro, you had Patterson. I mean

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Speaker 1: we were just talking about it offline before you got

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Speaker 1: in here. Rich. I mean, you made some great moves.

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Speaker 1: That's a well deserved championship. And look, you know, I

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Speaker 1: mean I forget a week eighteen, you know, I mean

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Speaker 1: it was I mean, if I mean Jamar Chase, I

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Speaker 1: mean you had some real performances last week that you

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Speaker 1: had to overcome. I mean, if you were facing Jamar

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Speaker 1: Chase and most leagues, you've done your toast and so

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Speaker 1: you know, I mean, look, you know, kudos to you.

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Speaker 1: A well deserved fantasy championship. Well, you know, the one

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Speaker 1: thing I'm gonna say is the league is not one

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Speaker 1: in the first or second round, and and most likely

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Speaker 1: in my case, wasn't even one on Draft Day because

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Speaker 1: out of the eighteen rounds that we have, I only

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Speaker 1: had five players remaining from the guys that I drafted.

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Speaker 1: From the ten starters that we have to play every week,

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Speaker 1: I only had three guys that I drafted originally with Rogers, Kamara,

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Speaker 1: I also during the I remember in the draft, I

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Speaker 1: so I just grabbed both tight ends because I knew

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Speaker 1: tight ends were a premium. So I end up trading

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Speaker 1: Andrews for in a deal for Tyreek Hill. And Andrews,

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Speaker 1: man Michael Barr. That netted me Nick Chubb, who did

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Speaker 1: well for me two weeks ago, but now for last week.

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Speaker 1: So my point is, if you're disappointed in your draft,

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Speaker 1: if you're really high in the draft, it's not over.

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Speaker 1: You gotta hit that waiver wire. As you guys mentioned,

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Speaker 1: these are the guys I wear in a fab leak,

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Speaker 1: So it's an auction waiver. And these are the fine

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Speaker 1: guys I picked up for free during the year, Cardel Patterson, Hunter, Renfro,

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Speaker 1: Dalton Schultz, Antonio Brown, Taysom Hill. Last week I picked

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Speaker 1: up Trey Lance and Braxon Burials to block Bobby and

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Speaker 1: I didn't play either one of them, but they were

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Speaker 1: good pickups. So if you scan that waiver wire, that's

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Speaker 1: a key way to trying to help win the championship.

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Speaker 1: But thank you for your applause. And that was. That was,

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Speaker 1: And I don't care about week. So you guys, look,

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Speaker 1: you can't. I agree with you that you can't. You up,

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Speaker 1: you may not be able to win it in the draft,

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Speaker 1: but certainly you can lose it, right, So you have

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Speaker 1: to have a solid draft, right And so look, if

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Speaker 1: you look back at you know two, and you look

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Speaker 1: at you know, the biggest disappointments, I mean McCaffrey, I mean,

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Speaker 1: do you think McCaffrey is going to be a top

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Speaker 1: you know, basically se Quon Barkley, U c h. You know,

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Speaker 1: most are never even played Hopkins barely played this year.

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Speaker 1: You know, he was really barely played this year. I mean,

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Speaker 1: think about all these players, these top two, uh the

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Speaker 1: So you're absolutely right. You gotta be you gotta be

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Speaker 1: active on the waiver wire, you gotta be active in

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Speaker 1: the trade in the trading department. And you know, kudos

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Speaker 1: to you again and moreover, like the best player in

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Speaker 1: fantasy football for running back by far was Jonathan Taylor,

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Speaker 1: that gentleman or the league didn't even make the playoffs,

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Speaker 1: so you do need to support and cast. I think

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Speaker 1: Tell is the number one going into next year. What

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Speaker 1: the next point because again, if you are in an

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Speaker 1: they're playing the Jaguars, you know, and you know our

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Speaker 1: know it's anyone's guess. My question for you, Michael Barr,

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Speaker 1: who's the top quarterback in two Who do you who

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Speaker 1: I can say this over again, and I know it's

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Speaker 1: George Kittle, I mean, go on, you know what's amazing

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Speaker 1: about George Kittle. I was looking at this. Kittle is

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Speaker 1: a top four or five tight end. This year, he

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Speaker 1: barely played, barely played on it. I was second. I

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Speaker 1: and for Net got hurt. I mean, those are two huge.

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Speaker 1: Those two guys are great this year. Kudos to aspiring

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Speaker 1: fantasy football guru analyst Jack sass Hour for telling me

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Speaker 1: to pick him up. Elijah Mitchell, that's your call, son,

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Speaker 1: Well done. Did I tell you that I put a

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Speaker 1: j don in the championship game? Well? Speaking of playing

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Speaker 1: this week and Green Bay, they're a team they really

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Speaker 1: don't have anything to play for because you've got they've

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Speaker 1: got the number one seed. You can't play Vision, but

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Speaker 1: why I brought them up. Uh, which brings me to

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Speaker 1: completely crushed me last week. I mean that was was

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Speaker 1: him and Jamaar Chase, those two players. If you had

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