Week 4 DFS plays and picks against the spread
The Athletic Football Show: A show about the NFL
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🗓️ 2 October 2020
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
The weekend has arrived, bringing with it 14 more Week 4 games. On this episode of The Athletic Fantasy Football Podcast, Michael Beller and Derek VanRiper break down the Week 4 DFS slate. They discuss how a flat pricing week creates to a diversity of team-building options...but still find themselves targeting some expensive backs.
Later, Beller and Vic Tafur run through every game, highlighting their favorite picks against the spread (begins at 29:33). Are the Bears a good bet in Nick Foles' first start with the team? Can the Saints and Cardinals bounce back? Who finally gets their first win when the Texans and Vikings get together? We have opinions on that, and a whole lot more.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Athletic Football Show. |
| 0:19.1 | Hello, everyone, and welcome in to the Athletic Fantasy Football Podcast and the Athletic Football |
| 0:22.3 | Show, our Friday marriage between these two podcasts coming together for week four of the NFL season. |
| 0:29.2 | It's Friday, October 2nd. |
| 0:30.2 | Of course, I am Michael Beller. |
| 0:31.9 | Joined for the first portion of this show by Derek Van Riper. |
| 0:35.1 | We're going to get into some DFS talk for week four. Derek, how |
| 0:39.1 | you doing? Doing well. I'm glad we're cruising along here into this fourth week, and I love the |
| 0:47.1 | prices this week. It just seems like there's a ton of flexibility, and that's without getting the final |
| 0:52.7 | injury report of the week, which always |
| 0:54.3 | opens up a few more possibilities. |
| 0:56.7 | Yeah, I am right there with you. |
| 0:58.1 | A running back receiver. |
| 0:59.1 | It feels like you can do a lot of things there. |
| 1:01.2 | So let's just get right to it. |
| 1:02.5 | First, we'll start with the games to target. |
| 1:04.8 | And Derek, the odds makers, they have adjusted to the high scoring environment of the NFL |
| 1:09.9 | this season. |
| 1:10.7 | We have eight games, eight, with a total of 51.5 or higher out of 15, I guess 14, 9, although |
| 1:17.6 | the Jets and Broncos were not, the pregame total was nowhere near 51.5, so we can include them. |
| 1:23.1 | 15 games on the slate, including last night's game between the Jets and Broncos. |
| 1:26.7 | Eight of them have a total of 51.5 half or higher. Lions Saints, Browns, Cowboys, Cardinals Panthers, Vikings, Texans, Seahawks, Dolphins, Patriots Chiefs, Bill's Raiders, Falcons Packers, the Monday night game. Let me put it to you like this, Derek. Are any of those looking like ones to you that could fall short of scoring expectations? |
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