Week 3 DFS plays and picks against the spread
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🗓️ 25 September 2020
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
There are a few monster totals on the board in Week 3 (55.5 in Lions-Cardinals and Cowboys-Seahawks), and that always makes for interesting DFS and gambling weeks. Michael Beller and Derek VanRiper break down the DFS slate, then Beller welcomes on Vic Tafur to discuss their favorite picks against the spread, on this hybrid episode of The Athletic Fantasy Football Podcast and The Athletic Football Show.
Rundown
1:33 Games to target for DFS in Week 3
4:00 Quarterback targets in Week 3
8:08 No shortage of ways to attack the running back position
15:30 Stars and scrubs at wide receiver
24:27 Finding bargains at tight end
26:27 No obvious options at defense
30:39 Week 3 picks against the spread
31:10 Week 2 audit
32:49 Patriots (-6.5) vs. Raiders
34:15 Bills (-2.5) vs. Rams
35:22 Steelers (-4) vs. Texans
37:33 49ers (-4) at Giants
39:43 Titans (-2.5) at Vikings
41:18 Browns (-7) vs. Washington
43:06 Eagles (-4.5) vs. Bengals
45:16 Falcons (-3) vs. Bears
47:02 Colts (-11.5) vs. Jets
48:10 Chargers (-6.5) vs. Panthers
49:55 Cardinals (-5.5) vs. Lions
52:00 Buccaneers (-6) at Broncos
53:54 Seahawks (-5) vs. Cowboys
55:29 Saints (-3) vs. Packers
56:30 Ravens (-3.5) vs. Chiefs
57:50 Recapping our Week 3 picks
58:53 Week 3 survivor picks
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| 1:00.5 | Hello everyone and welcome in to the athletic fantasy football podcast and the athletic football show. |
| 1:01.6 | You know the deal here. |
| 1:10.6 | It is our hybrid Friday show where we bring fantasy and gambling not only to our fantasy football podcast, but to our athletic football show. |
| 1:13.1 | I am Michael Beller. I am joined this Friday to kick things off as I am every single Friday by Derek Van Riper. Dvr, one game in the books, |
| 1:18.7 | 15 games to go here in week three. How you doing? Doing really well. And I'm excited because I think |
| 1:25.1 | despite all of the injuries that we've been dealing with in these first couple of weeks, there are actually a lot of nice value plays on the DFS front for week three. |
| 1:33.4 | It definitely feels like there is. |
| 1:35.2 | And let's jump right into that. |
| 1:36.7 | First, let's start with our favorite games to target in week three. |
| 1:41.9 | Again, this is really just the games that we expect to be the highest scoring. So we've got a couple of games with 55 and a half over under his at last check. That is the Lions and Cardinals and Cowboys and Seahawks. A couple of games that are off the main slate, both with overrunners north of 50. Chiefs Ravens at 54, that's the Monday night game. So probably not going to be factoring that too much into your Sunday plans. And then Packers and Saints Sunday night, 52 and a half. A few games on the regular |
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