Welcome into the fantasy focus DFS podcast you can find us on video every Thursday and ESPN NFL's YouTube feed

and the podcast is also presented by Geico you can download fantasy focus wherever you listen to podcasts. I am Daniel Dopp to my left is Mike Clay coming to us from Los Angeles as Al Zidenfeld. I'm going to start with Al this week because I always start with Mike. Hey, how are you doing this week, buddy? I'm doing great. How are you, Doc? I'm doing pretty well. I'm doing pretty well. I got a lot of you guys showed me with a lot of love over social media and texts and whatnot yesterday for my birthday. So I want to say thank you for that. Yeah, I was I was

going to give you a nice birthday message, but then you showed us who your favorite is and went to Al for so never mind. Wow, wow. First, I mean, look, honestly, he's been showing you for a year. I don't see a sticker of yours on that laptop. It is.

Mine is Mike's sticker on here. Mike's got a sticker on here too. I played it. I tried. Yeah, that was so close. I bought it too. And he's looking directly at it. So I can't. Yeah, I knew it was there, but let's talk. I'm just kidding. Of course, we love you man. Happy birthday. Hope you had a great one and he was good. I'm glad you're you're on a show. We get to do this every week. So it's good to see you again. It's a good time.

Real quick question. Why are you wearing a button down shirt? And why is it tucked into your pants for your birthday? I wanted to dress up look nice for you. That is so sweet. You always dress so professional. Michael. One of us had to dress up today. I'm glad that you knew that it was your role to do it because I wasn't going to do this is all for you, man. I wanted to look nice. I was like, I'm going to do this for Daniel. I love it. I'll be I'll be a little uncomfortable just for that fellow. Let's talk about week 10 real quick speaking of being uncomfortable.

I did not do well in week 10. Mike did a little bit better than I did. I did. Yeah, let's be straight here. Like I Sunday night. I texted you and I was just like reanting about how annoyed I am with with the FS right now. It's true. I am on the coldest streak of my life by far. These last few weeks. I know there's been a lot of chaos in the league and maybe it's just bad luck. I don't know. I'm not doing anything different from when we were just totally crushing it the last. You know, a couple of years. So we'll see. It's I think the title turn.

If it doesn't soon, then I might have to retire from the CSSTF as podcasts. I don't know what's going on. Like I can't I can't put together like I was in the upper, you know, you still you still cash with this lineup. This might my lineup last week, but it's just not where we're we're at usually, you know, we want to be in the 145 151 60 range and cash and we have not been there the past few weeks.

All on it. It's been a down couple weeks, but you know, I'm still confident with the process. I think we'll get back on track. That's that's what it's all about process. Trust the process.

It's not just like a silly slogan for I should have wore that. I have that sweatshirt. I should have wore that today. You should have worn that. That takes us just so you know on the season, Mike and I are now tied five to five. I have scored 25 about 25 more points total aggregate over the season.

Then Mike. So we are like neck and neck right there with each other. It's close. It's close to enter free league over at draft kings free to enter $200 in prizes. Follow at Mike Clay NFL or me at Daniel Dopp on Twitter. We'll tweet out a link to the league.

Let's get into it this week. Let's do it. All right. A quarterback when it starts, you know, before we start with the quarterbacks we have here. I want to start with came noon. If you don't mind. Okay. Sure. So before we get in. We have a note set up with all the players we want to talk about. But came Newton this week.

Yeah. $5,100 on draft kings, which is basically nothing. Okay. So an Alcan jump in on this too on the tournament side of it. I think there's certainly a place for it there. And cash. I don't want to take that risk. I mean, I mean, then there's let's just say the guy I'm going to talk about.

Surely is similarly priced. I think he's the better play based on what we've seen from them this year. New and is making his first arts and last season and there's there's obviously some inherent risk with that. So I don't feel great about it as a safe playing cash by any means.

I know you could save a lot of money and spend elsewhere and if you take that chance fine. But and again, I'll leave without stacking opportunity. Certainly if you want to get creative in tournament settings.

I mean, here's the deal. So like cash games, you're looking at a median projection, like a raw projection. This is the most likely outcome of where this player is going to fit in the meat of their bell curve.

I don't think that there's any quarterback on the list that has a greater difference between their realistic median their 50th percentile lineup and their tournament winning lineup.

Right. So like Cam Newton could throw for two touchdowns and run for two touchdowns on the same day. And there's not that many other guys that have that.

But he could also have and we saw it last season a really low floor and a really low median when he was throwing the ball for New England.

Now he does have much better weapons on this Carolina offense. That might that could easily boost his floor. I do think if I'm going to use him in tournaments to double stack with I will be including CMC and that because he's essentially a wide receiver and a running back in the same package.

So his market share of the targets does denote that you should use him in cam stacks or cam double stacks, but they can fight against one another on rushing touchdowns.

Okay. Yeah. That makes sense. And again, you mentioned, you know, median most likely outcomes sort of thing for cash. That's totally fair. But you also think about floor, right. And maybe Cam comes out and he's rusty and he doesn't throw well.

And it's a disaster and you take a six and cash at quarterback. Like I did for most of last week, Tom Brady of all people, like we've been talking about.

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