This is the Athletic Football Show.

Hello everybody and welcome in to the Athletic football podcast and the athletic football show for Friday, October 23rd, end of the week, week seven underway after Eagles and Giants got us going on Thursday night.

We are looking forward to what is shaping up to be a very fun, very playoff

implication heavy week seven weekend. I am Michael Beller. I am joined for the first part of the

show where we talk DFS with Derek Van Riper. DVR. How you feeling heading into the weekend?

Feeling great. I love this slate as much as I hated the way week six came together,

I love week seven that much. So I'm really excited. It's kind of week where you deposit more money

if you need to and you play a lot more lineups than you normally do.

Yeah, it's just a fun week, right? This looks like a really good set of slate of games

from both fantasy and real life perspectives. And that's where I'm going to start off our DFS discussion here.

We're going to get back to talking about some of these games just because there are a handful

that stand out. And I'm thinking about, you know, when you start to build your lineups and you

think about getting exposure to certain games, do you feel like you need exposure to the big three as they are this week, Seattle, Arizona, which now if you haven't heard, I'm sure you have, been flex to Sunday night, Green Bay Houston, Detroit, Atlanta. Do you feel like you have to get investment in, I mean, it might be hard to get investment in all three because obviously you're looking at a lot of high-priced players, but are you trying to find a way to get tied into at least two of these three?

Yeah, I think so. I mean, even if it's one-off plays or even just mini stacks where you've got maybe receivers going on both sides or running back on one side and a receiver on the team that you think is going to be playing catch up. I mean, I think you do, you see a pretty clear gap between those three games and then the second tier games, which I think you can build primarily around the games that are in that

low 50s range and then take a few carefully play shots in those higher scoring games.

And maybe that's the path to unlocking a tournament-winning

sort of lineup for this week.

I think one really cool thing that I noticed looking at the early roster rate projections

over at Roto Grinders is that it's a flat week for the most part.

There is not a ton of heavy chalk, which kind of opens up a lot of interesting possibilities,

different combinations of players that won't be overwhelmingly rostered. That just makes playing DFS a lot more

fun for a lot of people. So I think that's part of what makes the slate so exciting.

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