Hello, it's once again the Saturday DFS special podcast.

That means I am Matt Harmon from Yahoo and I'm joined by T.J. Hernandez from 4-4.

TJ, I don't even really know where

to start this week.

Normally I ask you like a

I normally ask you for like a

grand view take. Yeah.

About the slate. I feel like there's really

nothing more grand view to say than this slate is going to get weird.

Yeah, the grand view is don't start making lineups until about 20 minutes before kickoff on Sunday.

Yeah, seriously. Take all, like whenever you listen to this, remember to bring your grains of salt for one.

And then you save all this information, write it in your little notebook, and then try to get to it, you know, like you said, Sunday morning.

I will say in all seriousness, even besides all of the COVID concerns and injuries that we have going into the week, it was already setting up for one of the lightest running back weeks we've seen all season.

And on Yahoo, where it is, half-PPR scoring, we typically see teams lean towards a three running back build.

This might be the first week all season.

And I don't have the exact numbers in front of me, but just intuitively, where we have an overwhelmingly high number of lineups that use a wide receiver in the flex.

So that does set up a unique situation.

Like, the flex is one of the easiest ways to be unique if you understand how the week is going to play out.

So I do think we'll see very few three running back lineup. So if you are playing large field tournaments like the baller, it might be of interest to try to find a way to play three running backs where that's probably not going to be very popular. I mean, yeah, we'll talk some more in-depth running back picks in a second. But you just look at the top of the running back like main slate. Joe Mixen is the highest ranked guy at 31 bucks. I mean, that's absurd. You know, we've seen some guys push 40 several times. Obviously, Jonathan Taylor's on the Saturday slate. Nick Chubb, maybe Nick Chubb is on the Saturday slate. You know, if that game goes, if he goes, it's a whole, it's a whole thing, man. Who knows what's going to happen? But anyways, the other guys behind Joe Mixing, James Connor, 29 bucks, he's questionable. Aaron Jones is in a timeshare. He's 27. Then you start to get the Cordarral Patterson, Eli Mitchell, Darrell Henderson, who's still in COVID as of right now, $26 bucks.

Like it is a very, very strange running back landscape.

And, you know, again, we'll get to it later.

There's no real like slam dunk as of right now, no like slam dunk value guys either.

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