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The Athletic Football Show: A show about the NFL

Week 12 DFS plays, and picks against the spread

The Athletic Football Show: A show about the NFL

The Athletic

Football, Nfl Draft, Football,, Robert Mays, Sports, Nfl

4.63.3K Ratings

🗓️ 27 November 2020

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of The Athletic Football Show, Michael Beller and Derek VanRiper break down the Week 12 DFS slate. They discuss Dalvin Cook chalk, a willingness to pass on high-priced receivers, the desire to get invested in Chargers-Bills and Chiefs-Buccaneers, and more.

Later, Beller and Vic Tafur run through the slate from a gambling standpoint, highlighting their favorite picks against the spread (begins at 30:35). Will Beller finally back off the Cardinals? Can the Browns cruise against the Jaguars? Can Taysom Hill and the Saints keep it rolling in Denver? Are the Giants worthy of laying nearly a touchdown against the shorthanded Bengals? Will the Chiefs hand the Buccaneers another loss and, more importantly, do so by more than 3.5 points? The guys answer those questions, and a whole lot more.

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0:00.0

This is the Athletic Football Show.

0:06.0

Hello, everybody. Welcome in to the Athletic Fantasy Football Podcast and the Athletic Football Show for Friday, November 27th.

0:26.3

I'm going to wish you all a happy Thanksgiving and a happy Thanksgiving weekend.

0:29.5

I'm also going to pull back the curtain and let you know that myself, Michael Beller, and my co-host, Derek Van Riper,

0:35.2

we're actually because of the holiday week. We're taping this on Tuesday. So as we sit here and record this, Thanksgiving has not happened, but we have to move some things around. So we're doing it in advance. Happy Thanksgiving to everyone. Hope you all of us safe. Happy holiday week, holiday weekend, enjoying the football that you already watched yesterday, even though it hasn't happened as we've recorded this and are going to watch this weekend. Derek, do we cover it all? Do we have everything

0:58.0

in order here? Yeah, I mean, I think if you've done DFS prep earlier in the week, you know that

1:04.5

you're writing your plans on a dry erase board or in pencil because value will open up inevitably between now and Sunday.

1:13.6

There will be injuries that have been underreported to this point that we don't know about right

1:17.5

now that will create some pretty obvious paths to plays that are less obvious or impossible

1:23.8

to figure out right now. But it's still always good to get ahead of the curve,

1:27.6

do some of that homework, dig in and have a lot of plans ready to go in case it happens to be

1:32.4

a light week for injuries. That's always possible. Yeah, it's always possible. Even in 2020,

1:36.7

that's something that we could see happen. Things could shake out in our favor. So we're

1:40.9

getting ready here for, so again, as we are recording this, it is Tuesday afternoon.

1:45.6

So things are going to change between what Derek and I say here today

1:49.3

and what you are listening to when today is now today for you.

1:53.4

Whatever that is, that is going to be changed, right?

1:56.1

So we are just going to try to project things out a few days in advance for the DFS slate.

2:00.8

I think there are some things that we know, Derek. There are a handful of games that are very interesting on this week's slate. We've got the Chiefs going to Tampa to take on the Buccaneers, the Chargers going to Buffalo to take on the bills. Those are two very interesting games. Two games I would love to get invested in. And I think that almost no matter what,

2:18.9

right, I mean, Mahomes and Justin Herbert, Josh Allen, and Clyde Edwards, Halear, and Keenan Allen,

2:24.7

and Stefan Diggs and all the Bucks receivers, there are ways to get invested. I think I want to find

2:29.6

a way, no matter who it is, to get invested in both of those games. Yeah, absolutely. They stand out in terms of the over-under totals and the offensive firepower

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