Week 2 DFS Plays and Picks Against the Spread
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🗓️ 18 September 2020
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Falcons-Cowboys dominates the Week 2 DFS slate, but there is plenty of goodness to be found outside that game. Michael Beller and Brandon Funston help you find it...while also talking plenty about that likely scoring bonanza. Then, Beller and Vic Tafur highlight their five favorite picks against the spread among the 15 remaining Week 2 games.
Rundown
2:06 Games to Target in DFS Contests
3:53 Dak Prescott Tops the QB List
5:31 A Case for Kyler Murray
7:14 Going Cheap at QB with Mitch Trubisky and Kirk Cousins
8:59 Jonathan Taylor a DFS Free Space
10:41 The RBs to Back if You Spend Big at the Position
12:41 The Ronald Jones Argument
14:13 Believing in Miles Sanders Right from the Jump
17:07 Playing all the Falcons' and Cowboys' Receivers
19:33 Emmanuel Sanders Climbs the Ranks
21:18 Tampa Bay's Receivers with Chris Godwin (Concussion) Likely Out
22:48 A Bounceback for Tyler Higbee
24:38 Brandon Beats the Drum for Jared Cook
25:53 Defense/Special Teams Plays
30:24 Week 2 Picks Against the Spread
32:35 Rams-Eagles
33:47 Panthers-Buccaneers
34:57 Broncos-Steelers
36:42 Falcons-Cowboys
38:27 49ers-Jets
40:01 Bills-Dolphins
41:45 Vikings-Colts
43:08 Lions-Packers
44:21 Giants-Bears
46:17 Jaguars-Titans
48:14 Washington-Cardinals
50:23 Ravens-Texans
51:30 Chiefs-Chargers
53:38 Patriots-Seahawks
55:13 Saints-Raiders
57:55 Recapping our Picks, Plus a Look at Survivor
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| 1:01.0 | This is the Athletic Fantasy Football Podcast |
| 1:18.4 | and the Athletic Football Show here for Friday, September 18th. |
| 1:23.4 | You know this if you've been listening on these Friday episodes, |
| 1:26.1 | the Athletic Fantasy Football Podcast and the Athletic Football Show joined forces. |
| 1:30.7 | And we talk about a little bit of DFS and a little bit of gambling for the games ahead |
| 1:35.3 | on Sunday. |
| 1:36.7 | And Monday, I am Michael Beller for the fantasy portion of today's episode. |
| 1:41.5 | I am joined by Brandon Funston. |
| 1:43.9 | Funston, you're made in Voyage. You ready for this? |
| 1:46.5 | Oh, I'm absolutely ready for it. Let's go ahead and tackle this baby. |
| 1:50.5 | All right, let's do it. And hey, we're talking offensive players on the DFS side. So hopefully this is all the tackling that we end up talking about because we want to find the end zone with a bunch of these players. |
| 2:00.1 | We are talking |
| 2:00.9 | draft kings prices, of course, here on the Athletic Fantasy Football podcast and Athletic |
| 2:05.7 | Football Show. We are going to start, however, with some of the juicy games to target. |
| 2:10.6 | Of course, this is as simple as finding those high over-unders and hoping that they can come close |
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