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

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Speaker 1: I'm Michael bar and this is the Bloomberg Business of

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Speaker 1: Sports podcast where we explore the big money issues in

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Speaker 1: the world of sports, and today one of my favorite days,

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Speaker 1: talking fantasy football, as we do every Wednesday. I'm joined

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Speaker 1: by Bloomberg Radio producer Rich Druman. Do not forget to

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Speaker 1: catch his weekly fantasy football column that comes out every

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Speaker 1: Thursday this season on the Terminal and Bloomberg Intelligence is

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Speaker 1: Damien sass sour. All right, Damon, you're back. Let's let's

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Speaker 1: just get this monster out of the room right now.

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Speaker 1: Nice win that you had. You You beat me like

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Speaker 1: a great couple of weeks. You know, you know, I mean, Michael,

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Speaker 1: the reality you can't look backwards, you can only look ahead.

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Speaker 1: And fantasy football that was two weeks ago, you know.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I'm just coming off the lass here. I'm

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Speaker 1: trying to recover, you know, I gotta get my guys

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Speaker 1: healthy again. But you know, speaking of getting healthy, is

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Speaker 1: it true? Correct me if I'm wrong. But CMC Christian McCaffrey,

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Speaker 1: you might actually suit up and play this weekend. Is

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Speaker 1: anyone hearing the same I heard? He is going to play,

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Speaker 1: and I believe I do have him in our leak,

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Speaker 1: so I mean looking forward to that flair like this man,

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Speaker 1: it's great. Now. Another question I have is even when

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Speaker 1: he does come back, I mean, he's just not gonna

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Speaker 1: bench Mike Davis, right, I mean, the guy is still

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Speaker 1: going to be Fantasy relevant. Now. I disagree with you

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Speaker 1: to use McCaffrey in, but Davis is kind of slowed

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Speaker 1: down the last week or so, and when they want

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Speaker 1: to win, they're gonna have mccaffree in the game at

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Speaker 1: the time. In my opinion, how did you do this week? Bridge?

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Speaker 1: I lost, And let me tell you how I lost, Michael.

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Speaker 1: It's always great to see the explosive golden Tate scored

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Speaker 1: touched on with twenty three seconds left in the game

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Speaker 1: that resulted in my loss. Adding on that he threw

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Speaker 1: a pass for eighteen yards, which was basically the difference

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Speaker 1: I lost my lesson two points. So you know, as

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Speaker 1: every bit of that contract when the Giant signed him

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Speaker 1: away from Detroit a few years back at exactly, man

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Speaker 1: that sometimes that if the Lions want to win, because

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Speaker 1: he's a great wide out and we already had lost

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Speaker 1: Calvin Johnson. Wait, he's not a great white out. And

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Speaker 1: Dave Gentleman, who I'm not a big fan of, signed

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Speaker 1: him to a lucrative contract after he lost Odell Beckham,

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Speaker 1: or not after he lost after he traded Outdell Beckham.

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Speaker 1: Golden Tate is a consistent receiver, a possession receiver maybe,

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Speaker 1: but not a good to an elite receiver. That sounds

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Speaker 1: like a man who lost a golden tape. Well, I

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Speaker 1: just would be so upset, maybe three years ago in

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Speaker 1: the lines on him going. That's one thing. But now,

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Speaker 1: oh man, you know, speaking at which there's a lot

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Speaker 1: of positions that I wonder about. And we were talking

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Speaker 1: about this off the air. You were trying everybody was

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Speaker 1: trying to grab Ezekiel Elliott in the first round. And

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Speaker 1: now there's a question, well should we even play him now? Well,

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Speaker 1: I took him with a third pick, and I was

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Speaker 1: happy to take him with a third pick. As a

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Speaker 1: matter fact, I would have taken him with the second

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Speaker 1: offense a line more. They were together, more cohesive. The

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Speaker 1: would have taken Zeke second, but I was glad to

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Speaker 1: take them third. But now my article this week, my

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Speaker 1: headline is basically going to be to have to bench

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Speaker 1: Zekiel Elliott question mark. I have him in our league,

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Speaker 1: and I have to tell you I think I'm benching

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Speaker 1: him this week. I'm playing the aforementioned Christian McCaffrey, and

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Speaker 1: I have David Johnson against the Jaguars, and I believe

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Speaker 1: those two guys over Zeke, who's playing the Steelers this week,

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Speaker 1: and the Cowboys might be with their fourth drink quarterback, who,

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Speaker 1: You know something else that Rich has. He's also deep

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Speaker 1: And and you should see my quarterbacks, because I'm in deep,

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Speaker 1: deep trouble. Last week I lost because I had Jimmy

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Speaker 1: So my original draft was Stafford and Ryan Tannehill and

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Speaker 1: have four quarterbacks, so they are available. Michael Damian I

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Speaker 1: got to talk to Rich here and trying to do

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Speaker 1: you already mentioned, Rich, that are really going to win

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Speaker 1: want to give you. Before Dak got hurt, Zeke average

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Speaker 1: It looks like Jordan Reed is now officially in play, gentlemen,

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Speaker 1: and I expect him to be a pretty hot waiver

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Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins. That was he was just great. It was

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Speaker 1: knowledge of those special nuggets that you can find in

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Speaker 1: Rich's column about the value plays of the week. Who

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Speaker 1: But after Dalvin Cooke's explosive game, how our teams not

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Speaker 1: Cousins beat you Minnesota Detroit, I think it's gonna be

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Speaker 1: one of the higher scoring games this week. There are

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Speaker 1: the backfield from Minnesota putting a four touchdown last week?

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Speaker 1: to Felicia rashot Man. I was watching that when he

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