Week 6 DFS plays and picks against the spread
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🗓️ 16 October 2020
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
On this episode of The Athletic Fantasy Football Podcast, Michael Beller and Derek VanRiper break down the Week 6 DFS slate. They discuss ideal running back pairs, a desire to pay up at receiver, and attractive mid-priced quarterbacks.
Later, Beller and Vic Tafur run through every Week 6 game, highlighting their favorite picks against the spread (begins at 29:23). Can the Buccaneers possibly slow down the Packers' offense? Can the 49ers get on track against the Rams? Should the Cowboys really be home dogs in Andy Dalton's first start with the team? 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, everyone. Welcome in to the Athletic Fantasy Football Podcast broadcast on on our Athletic Fantasy Football Podcasts, and Athletic Football Show Feed. |
| 0:26.4 | It is Friday. That means we're bringing in these two shows. |
| 0:28.9 | Together do talk DFS and gambling for week six of the NFL season. |
| 0:34.8 | I am Michael Bellar. |
| 0:35.9 | First part of the show focuses on the DFS world. And to do that, |
| 0:39.8 | Derek Van Riper joins me as he does every single Friday on this episode. Derek, how you doing? |
| 0:46.1 | Doing well. I like this slate so much more than I like the week five slate. There's more games |
| 0:50.9 | to choose from. I think a little more balance in terms of different stacks you can use. |
| 0:55.7 | So I'm much happier today than I was this time last week. |
| 0:59.4 | Yeah, it really is not a bad slate at all. |
| 1:04.0 | A couple of interesting games. |
| 1:05.4 | I think we talked about this on one of our shows together. |
| 1:07.9 | Last week was just one of those weeks where all 17 weeks can be loaded with great exciting games. That's just the reality of it. And last week was one of those weeks that even outside of fantasy and DFS and everything, it just didn't feel like it was the most exciting slate. Things change a little bit here in week six. And we are definitely happy about that. Derek, let's just jump right in and we're |
| 1:28.0 | going to change things up a little bit here instead of spending time talking about overunders and |
| 1:32.6 | games with high totals and starting at the quarterback position. We're going to start where we think |
| 1:36.6 | most people start certainly where we start and probably where you start when you are building |
| 1:40.0 | your lineups and that is at the running back position. I want to put this to you, Derek, |
| 1:44.6 | because I felt almost crazy saying this and thinking this to myself and it gets us into the Falcons |
| 1:49.6 | and Vikings right off the top, which we should. Derek and I are recording this on Thursday afternoon. |
| 1:54.4 | So the Falcons Vikings game is a little bit up in the air as we all woke up to on Thursday morning, |
| 1:59.4 | more positive tests for the Falcons for COVID-19. |
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