Week 5 DFS plays and picks against the spread
The Athletic Football Show: A show about the NFL
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🗓️ 9 October 2020
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
On this episode of The Athletic Football Show, Michael Beller and Derek VanRiper break down the Week 5 DFS slate. They discuss a lack of high-priced options at running back and receiver, and what that means for the slate as a whole.
Later, Beller and Vic Tafur run through every remaining Week 5 game, highlighting their favorite picks against the spread (begins at 29:19). Can the Browns pull a mini-upset on the Colts? Can the Falcons finally get their first win of the season? Are the Chiefs going to run away and hide from the Colts? And can the Vikings keep pace with the Seahawks? We have answers to those questions, and plenty more.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Athletic Football Show. |
| 0:06.0 | Hello everybody. Friday is here. The weekend is here, and so is the athletic fennist football podcast and the athletic football show. |
| 0:27.5 | Our little Friday marriage here of these two podcasts. I am Michael Beller. We've got a two-prong pod coming at you right now. |
| 0:35.9 | We've got DFS talk to kick things off with derrick van |
| 0:38.9 | reiper gambling talk with vick tafer a little later on so let's bring on dvr how's it going man |
| 0:44.4 | it's going okay i started looking at this board a lot in the last 24 hours and it is a strange week |
| 0:51.4 | i mean we'll get into some of the details but but you have by weeks. We've had a lot of |
| 0:55.7 | injuries this season. And on top of that, we have some more COVID concerns about games maybe |
| 1:01.0 | getting postponed. And on top of all of that, I think some of these matchups are just kind |
| 1:06.7 | of lopsided too. So it feels like the player pool is about as small as it ever is for a main |
| 1:12.2 | slate on a Sunday. Yeah, this really is a weird week. You mentioned the buys. We have our first |
| 1:17.1 | scheduled by week of the season. Packers and Lions taking a seat so you think of all the DFS players |
| 1:22.5 | just on those two teams that we regularly talk about. We've had a slew of injuries over the last few weeks. |
| 1:28.4 | We have the Buccaneers off the board with the fact that they played on Thursday. And Chris Godwin |
| 1:33.5 | would have been injured anyway and unavailable to us. We've got the Vikings and Seahawks on Sunday night, |
| 1:38.9 | the Chargers and Saints on Monday night, a lot of fantasy players on those teams. We've got |
| 1:43.6 | Bills and Titans potentially not playing. |
| 1:45.8 | Still some concerns for Patriots and Broncos, although that game looks a little bit more |
| 1:51.0 | clear than Tennessee and Buffalo. |
| 1:52.7 | Just a very weird slate because of all the differing factors that are going into this |
| 1:57.5 | week. |
| 1:57.9 | Let's look at the high total games, Vikings and Seahawks the highest on the |
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