Levitan's Solo Pod: Should D/ST Be Part of DFS, Adam Has His Worst Week Ever, Your Listener Questions (Episode 942)
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4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 1 December 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Adam Levitan breaks down Week 13 in NFL DFS, as well as discussing whether it's time to move on from rostering D/ST in DFS, before tackling a bunch of hard-hitting listener questions.
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0:00 - Introduction
0:26 - Is It Good For DFS If Defense Breaks The Slate?
5:14 - Adam’s Cash Game Review
10:37 - Listener Questions
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 942 of the official Establish the Run.com podcast. |
| 0:22.8 | My name is Adam Levittan. I am one of the co-founders here at ETR. |
| 0:25.9 | We're coming off of a defense broke the slate kind of week. |
| 0:30.8 | Yes, that's right. The Seahawks defense went off for 30, a 30 ball yesterday. |
| 0:37.2 | Second most points on the main slate. Only Bijon Robinson's |
| 0:41.4 | 33.3 points were more than what Seahawks DST scored yesterday. And any time this happens, |
| 0:47.4 | it sparks the debate, the conversation, should we have DST in DFS? |
| 0:55.0 | Jeff L submitted a question. |
| 0:57.4 | He said, will draft Kings ever get rid of defense for NFL? |
| 1:00.9 | Seems like a major role of the dice rather than skill. |
| 1:03.7 | I would love if they'd copy their college football contest |
| 1:06.8 | and use a super flex spot instead. |
| 1:10.4 | And so, yes, I get what you're saying, Jeff. |
| 1:14.0 | I do. |
| 1:15.5 | Defense scoring is extremely volatile. |
| 1:18.1 | It definitely sucks when you spend all week working on teams |
| 1:21.2 | and then some random DST scores two touchdowns |
| 1:24.2 | and you're just dead. |
| 1:25.5 | But I'd say two things. |
| 1:30.2 | First, I do think there is some element of skill in DST strategy, understanding the volatility, embracing it, letting other people |
| 1:37.4 | spend up in mediocre spots, finding spots where an offense might score a lot of points, |
| 1:42.5 | but their quarterback will drop back a ton and have |
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