All right, hello and special welcome to those few folks who are listening to this show on the Friday after Thanksgiving.

It's the DFS collaboration podcast. I'm Matt Harmon from Yahoo here. That's T.J. Hernandez from 4-4.

TJ, I'd love to ask you how your Thanksgiving

went, but I'm assuming tomorrow, because we're recording this on Wednesday, spoiler alert,

I'm assuming it went incredibly well. Yeah, it was great. We wanted a bunch of money playing

DFS. The Lions had a great game, and it went exactly as planned.

Oh, beautiful.

And we're all about five to ten pounds heavier.

So great work by everybody out there. But as awesome as the Thursday slate definitely was with the Lions and the Saints

preseason roster treating us very well.

We got some more important things to talk about.

We got a whole not as big slate as we're used to coming up here this weekend, but still a lot of players to talk about. Any grandview thoughts to get off your chest on, you know, I do think it's interesting. We're just like dealing with a lesser pool because we still have bye weeks too. In addition to obviously a bunch of teams got taken off

the board because of the Thursday games. These are actually my my favorite slate. So just from a

macro point of view on weeks like this, I think in one, we're going to see probably relatively

flat roster rates with the Thanksgiving slate. I haven't completely ran through those yet,

but we don't have any team with an implied point total of at least 28. We don't have any team

favored by seven or more points. So we have a lot of games that really could go either way. We also

have a lot of road favorites. So I think we're going to see on this short

slate probably a little bit more variance than we're used to, at least from the perspective

of maybe the biggest favorites not being the biggest winners and maybe the teams with the highest

implied point totals not actually being the highest scoring teams. What that means is we can just be a little

more contrarian go with our reads and it makes it really good week to not lean into the chalk.

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