Speaker 1: Hello, Welcome to the Bloomberg Business of Sports podcast Weeks
Speaker 1: Floor some of the big money issues in the world
Speaker 1: of sports. I'm Michael Barn I'm damienas Hour, and I'm
Speaker 1: Rich Truman. Yeah. When you hear the Truman voice in that,
Speaker 1: you know what it's It's time Fantasy Wednesday. Yes, my goodness, gracious.
Speaker 1: And of course they have both had some very good recommendations. Rich,
Speaker 1: you were on the money with your recommendations. Well, I
Speaker 1: I do the sleep around. Damien did the chalk, which
Speaker 1: the chalk paid off? He did. T J. Hockenson, everyone
Speaker 1: new gonna have the week he had right right up,
Speaker 1: a great week. I recommended Tom Brady against the Chiefs
Speaker 1: three eight five or three tds. Jamal Williams of the
Speaker 1: Lions hundred eight yards, two touchdowns rushing and lock. It
Speaker 1: was kind of a push on one of his expectations
Speaker 1: are six catches ninety one yards. Now, what helped you
Speaker 1: with that? And I had said that the Lions Seattle
Speaker 1: game was going to be the highest scoring game of
Speaker 1: the week. Say that, hot diggity dog. And if you
Speaker 1: can get Jared Golf, get Jared Golf in your lineup,
Speaker 1: And that's what happened. Now, what happened with the Lions
Speaker 1: is that one you didn't have Swift. Uh you also
Speaker 1: didn't have Sunrah, which that scared me. Oh man, this
Speaker 1: is gonna be bad. And then I didn't see that
Speaker 1: they scratch chalked? Did they chalk? And like, oh, this
Speaker 1: is not good. But boy, they just lit it up
Speaker 1: all over the place. Yeah. Well, I mean Jared Golf
Speaker 1: and Gino Smith the two top quarterbacks and it's the
Speaker 1: respect of this week and they want to talk about
Speaker 1: Gina Smith. We Jet fans, we love Jamio Smith. But
Speaker 1: I here's the thing. This weekend's matchup Jets versus Dolphins.
Speaker 1: This is the New York Jets Super Bowl, right, I'm
Speaker 1: not kidding you. Takes the shotguns snout jet sweep. It's
Speaker 1: a reverse. It'll be a throw from Barrios to Sack
Speaker 1: Wilson for the touchdown, razzle dazzle from the Jets horror
Speaker 1: verse option pass Barios to Wilson, touch Jet touchdown. I mean, look,
Speaker 1: they two is out. Obviously, I'm gonna some protocols, so
Speaker 1: you know, they're a little bit vulnerable. If the Jets
Speaker 1: can pull out a win here and get to three
Speaker 1: and two. Who would have thank that? Yeah, Jets playing Miami. Rich, Well,
Speaker 1: before I go to that, I just want to go
Speaker 1: back to the Lions. The reason the game blew up.
Speaker 1: The Lions have the highest scoring offense in the league
Speaker 1: and they're giving the most points up on defense. So
Speaker 1: I mean that's perfect for fantasy football picking those Lion players.
Speaker 1: So golf might be a viable start of the rest
Speaker 1: of the year. That's why I picked him. I'll tell
Speaker 1: you one quarterback you probably want to sky away from
Speaker 1: here coming in this week is Kyler Murray. Look, I
Speaker 1: mean he's the sixth best fantasy scorer among quarterbacks. But
Speaker 1: you know, I mean they played Philadelphia and the Philly
Speaker 1: defense has just laid a whopping. I mean they I
Speaker 1: think they actually played Golf at one point this year
Speaker 1: and heard him pretty bad. But like, they just beat
Speaker 1: up Lawrence, they beat up Cousins earlier in the year,
Speaker 1: and I just don't think Murray's gonna have a great
Speaker 1: game in Week five. You're sleepers this week, rich Sir. Okay, Um, well,
Speaker 1: I'll go to that game. I'm gonna take Zach Ertz
Speaker 1: because I think Philadelphia is going to be a big
Speaker 1: time I think Art's with Hopkins not off the suspended list,
Speaker 1: is uh Colin Murray's favorite receiver, So I expect a
Speaker 1: lot of playing from behind, a lot of dumping off
Speaker 1: to the tight end. So I do like Zach Ertz
Speaker 1: and let's not forget it's a revenge game for him.
Speaker 1: Fires left for a touchdown Zack Arts. Let's not forget
Speaker 1: rich as like Kyle Pitts for the last three weeks
Speaker 1: in a row. Also, no, I'm not talking about it's
Speaker 1: not actually in my other league. I'm actually debating not
Speaker 1: playing him. But of course the week I don't play
Speaker 1: him will be the week. What do you guys think,
Speaker 1: I mean with some of these injuries, what do you
Speaker 1: think about nine Mines this week? I like him. I
Speaker 1: think he can you know, you know, look at there's
Speaker 1: one thing Matt Ryan can do. It's checked down to
Speaker 1: his running backs. So with Taylor out, I definitely think
Speaker 1: he can play a role in that offense. I mean,
Speaker 1: I like Trevor Lawrence man. I expect him to have
Speaker 1: a top ten week among fantasy quarterbacks this week. I
Speaker 1: mean they I think they're playing Houston, you know, Houston.
Speaker 1: Someonat vulnerable there. I mean, I know it's kind of
Speaker 1: a you know, a throwaway. But I like Lawrence. Well,
Speaker 1: they're hosting Houston and that's one of my other sleeper picks.
Speaker 1: I like James Robinson to give us to James Robinson.
Speaker 1: He's got it in more party thirty five thirty twenty five,
Speaker 1: twenty tipt t five touchdown on four them jave Robinson
Speaker 1: broke loose for the school. Like last week. I mean,
Speaker 1: Jacksonville did jump out to a leading as Philadelphia, but
Speaker 1: then they had play play from behind most of the game.
Speaker 1: So I think Jacksonville should be ahead of Houston. I
Speaker 1: think James Robins social a lot of carries. You only
Speaker 1: had eight carries last week because they were playing from
Speaker 1: behind most of the second half. Looking at the early
Speaker 1: line for that for the Jacksonville game, Uh, they are
Speaker 1: giving up seven points to Houston. But I don't think
Speaker 1: Houston is that bad of a team. Rich They do
Speaker 1: just enough to lose every week. Yeah, I have a
Speaker 1: statistic here for you. You you what do you call
Speaker 1: that a suicide pool? You said, I mean, this is
Speaker 1: what Michael Barr lives for, and unfortunately it has been
Speaker 1: an absolute mess for you guys out there this year.
Speaker 1: NFL games decided by three points or fewer. Through Week four.
Speaker 1: There are twenty three of them, by far since the
Speaker 1: nineteen seventy merger, by far, the tightest margin of games
Speaker 1: you've seen in an NFL season. Twenty three games decided
Speaker 1: by three points a few or three Week four. Let
Speaker 1: me tell you how close it came. Now I'm still
Speaker 1: I still have one team surviving. It started out with
Speaker 1: like two hundred sixty teams were down to like thirty seven,
Speaker 1: and that could have been down to sevent team because
Speaker 1: a lot of people were on Green Bay and that
Speaker 1: went into overtime and is just like a loss, and
Speaker 1: it would have been down to seventeen people. This has
Speaker 1: been a wacky time for suicide pools. Yeah, and the
Speaker 1: under has really come in, huh. I mean it's been
Speaker 1: a crazy year. I mean it's just I mean, it's
Speaker 1: these low scoring games in the year quite frankly, where
Speaker 1: you thought they were going to let up on secondaries
Speaker 1: and let the receivers just go off. You know, you're
Speaker 1: just not really seeing that. You know, it's low scoring games,
Speaker 1: you know, decided by a few points here and there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it makes it tough. I want to talk about Detroit.
Speaker 1: Because they're playing New England and New England is giving
Speaker 1: up three points. That's interesting because I still think that
Speaker 1: Detroit can put a number on them. They might lose,
Speaker 1: but I think that they could put up a great
Speaker 1: heaping number of fantasy points. Remember, remember this is a
Speaker 1: Lions fan here. Well, a couple of things. It's at
Speaker 1: New England, I believe. So they're playing on the road,
Speaker 1: so it might not be perfect weather conditions like it
Speaker 1: is in Detroit. And knowing those defense look pretty good
Speaker 1: against Aaron Rodgers, so they're gonna be playing a lot
Speaker 1: tougher competition than the Seattle defense, so it might not
Speaker 1: be as rosy as you think. Yeah, I mean, I'm
Speaker 1: still supportive of Michael, but I agree with everything you
Speaker 1: got you got. I mean, look, and that's the right bet.
Speaker 1: But I hate Billbilichick. I mean he's so angry. I mean,
Speaker 1: you just got you gotta root again. I mean I
Speaker 1: love to hate him, that's the thing. I just love
Speaker 1: to hate him. I mean it's so hard. But yeah, no,
Speaker 1: I mean New England, Look, they did, their defense did
Speaker 1: look great though, Rich to your point, I got one
Speaker 1: more sleeper duo this week. Kansas City is hosting the Raiders. Yes,
Speaker 1: and that's the high high over under the last two
Speaker 1: times the Chiefs of play the Raiders. I believe they've
Speaker 1: scored forty nine and forty one against against the Raiders.
Speaker 1: So I think Derek Carr could be a good value
Speaker 1: pick if you do the daily fantasy leagues. I think
Speaker 1: he's gonna be throwing a lot. And I think this
Speaker 1: is a game that Waller breaks out. Not that he's
Speaker 1: a sleeper pick, but he had haven't really done anything
Speaker 1: this year. He had a good Week one, but after
Speaker 1: that he's been silent. So I like the Car to
Speaker 1: Waller duo. The big surprise for me this year, quite frankly,
Speaker 1: has been Josh Jacobs. I mean he has had a
Speaker 1: great year. I mean, if you saw last week alone,
Speaker 1: it was cars under center, hands it off to Jacobs
Speaker 1: first through the middle, touch back at the five, Terry's
Speaker 1: the defender, touchdown writers Jacobs tosses it into the stands three.
Speaker 1: That's up four running backs and fantasy where Jacob, Sanders
Speaker 1: and Penny. I mean, who would have thought that? So
Speaker 1: you know it's interesting. Well, by the way, if you
Speaker 1: have first, let's talk about really quick. Those people that
Speaker 1: just frustrate, lived in hell out of you when you're
Speaker 1: playing Russell Wilson was a total frustration until this past
Speaker 1: weekend because he was playing Vegas and I was going
Speaker 1: to put in Jared Golf, but I didn't have played
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson. It still worked out, but I was worried
Speaker 1: about that. And from this point forward though, it's gonna
Speaker 1: be Jared Golf all the way. But who has been
Speaker 1: a disappoint Well, myiggest, my biggest disappointment, and it's my
Speaker 1: other leg is definitely by far been Kyle Pitts. I mean,
Speaker 1: I had a chance I could have drafted Mark Andrews,
Speaker 1: which obviously was a foolish move. I me and I
Speaker 1: thought Pitch was gonna be a top two tight end
Speaker 1: this year, and he has been awful. They run the
Speaker 1: ball a ton, I mean Mount Marcus Mariota. I think
Speaker 1: last week had like seven completions total. I mean, I'm
Speaker 1: actually I might give it one more week with him,
Speaker 1: and then I think I'm gonna go there. Married it
Speaker 1: through just nineteen times and Pits just ran roots on
Speaker 1: thirteen of twenty past plays last week. That's ridiculous. It's terrible. Well,
Speaker 1: you got to look at it like this too. The
Speaker 1: tying in position has been very dry because unless you
Speaker 1: have well, Hockinson went off obviously, but if you spoken
Speaker 1: hocks and he's scratching his chin like you know, you
Speaker 1: knowing that dude monopoly man. Really he's so Hockinson went off.
Speaker 1: Of course, you know you always gott Kelsey and uh
Speaker 1: but Mark Andrews didn't do as much as we and Kittle.
Speaker 1: I mean you can't. You'd be struggled to find where
Speaker 1: Kittle is on a tight end ranking. I mean he's
Speaker 1: non existent. You know, he's probably down there with pets.
Speaker 1: Everett on the charges is pretty good this year. Uh. Injuries, Uh,
Speaker 1: that is somebody. We got a lot. There's a lot
Speaker 1: to talk about rich Well. The DEVA running back Williams
Speaker 1: is out for the year, so if you have Melvin
Speaker 1: Gordon that should be an instant boost. And a lot
Speaker 1: of people are recommending Mike Boone on waivers this week,
Speaker 1: which I'm sure he's readily available. Yeah, he tours a
Speaker 1: c L and that's it. And we know what happened
Speaker 1: with two us. So I mean, look Teddy Bredgwater at
Speaker 1: the Jets. You know he might be somewhat fantasy relevant
Speaker 1: this year this week rather, I mean, you know, he's
Speaker 1: got Waddle and Tyree Kildapest and Cordel Patterson on the
Speaker 1: Falcons is on injured reserve, so Algier is a possible
Speaker 1: pick up for running back, by the way, and we
Speaker 1: got a good London We have another London game, but
Speaker 1: we had a great London game with And that's the
Speaker 1: first time I started yelling at the TV set between
Speaker 1: Minnesota and the Saints and that, my poor man, it
Speaker 1: hit the upright. This is this is for the wind.
Speaker 1: Now it hits the for the tie. Rather, it hits
Speaker 1: the upright and then it hits the crossbar and then
Speaker 1: let's has this look on his face like, oh no,
Speaker 1: and then it fell over the wrong way? What plenty
Speaker 1: of like again out steven score the Minnesota teams twenty eight,
Speaker 1: the New Orleans States five. But I was yelling. Now
Speaker 1: this week we've got Green Bay and the Giants playing
Speaker 1: in London, so really good games. Hunt. Well, we don't
Speaker 1: know what the Giant quarterback situation is going to be.
Speaker 1: Bartley maybe the quarterback again. He played most of the
Speaker 1: fourth you know, they played a wildcat most of the
Speaker 1: end of that game, right, So I mean c Poon
Speaker 1: Bartley has just had a huge year. I mean, imagine
Speaker 1: now you running a wildcat. How about those Penn State
Speaker 1: running backs last week? Sanders of Philadelphia and sa Kuan
Speaker 1: Barkley of the Giants. Both we are Penn State. I
Speaker 1: have said it before, and I got to say it again.
Speaker 1: I was dead wrong about Sae Kuon Barkley. I thought,
Speaker 1: oh man, it's gonna be another injury, this or that whatever.
Speaker 1: He has turned out to be the elite of elite
Speaker 1: running backs. And and by the way, I got, uh,
Speaker 1: Christian McCaffrey, what's up with that? Well, he actually had
Speaker 1: a good game receiving. I think I had like nine
Speaker 1: catches and a touchdown. They can't run the ball at all,
Speaker 1: so I mean his value is through the air, and
Speaker 1: he finally had a lot of receptions last week. Well, guys,
Speaker 1: I'm two into you are one, and you are three
Speaker 1: and one. Okay, so it's not gonna be long for me. Guys,
Speaker 1: I think I've been made. This is time for me
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