Week 8 DFS plays, and picks against the spread
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🗓️ 30 October 2020
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
On this episode of The Athletic Football Show, Michael Beller and Derek VanRiper break down the Week 8 DFS slate. They discuss Alvin Kamara chalk, the appeal of Titans-Bengals, the enduring bargain on Keenan Allen, and more.
Later, Beller and Vic Tafur run through every Week 8 game, highlighting their favorite picks against the spread (begins at 29:39). Can the Dolphins spring the upset on the Rams in Tua's first start—or at least stay within 3.5 points? Can the Seahawks bounce back against the 49ers? Can the Bills officially take the AFC East torch from the Patriots? The guys answer those questions, and a whole lot more. Plus, a difference of opinion on this week's marquee game between the Steelers and Ravens.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Athletic Football Show. |
| 0:05.9 | Hello, everybody. |
| 0:18.9 | The weekend is here, and we are ready to celebrate with you on the Athletic Fantasy Football Podcast and the Athletic Football Show Friday, October 30th Halloween, right around the corner. Get ready for what we hope is not a spooky weekend, at least in terms of DFS, gambling, anything like that. That's what we're going to be talking about |
| 0:37.5 | here on this episode of the Athletic Fantasy Football Podcast and Athletic Football Show. |
| 0:42.3 | I am Michael Beller, joined by Derek Van Riper. Dvr. Weekend is here. How you doing? |
| 0:48.3 | Doing really well and excited to get another great weekend games in. It's just, it's one of those weeks that it's not quite |
| 0:56.4 | as loaded as last week in terms of there being kind of chalk everywhere as you're building |
| 1:01.0 | lineups, but there's still a lot of interesting ways to put great lineups together. |
| 1:05.7 | Yeah, I am totally with you there, and you're going to start right at the running back position. |
| 1:09.4 | I'm just going to jump right in because you say there aren't a lot of chalk options. To me, that makes it even harder to fade the |
| 1:16.0 | Alvin Camara chalk at $8,200. Saints are in Chicago to take on the Bears. We have beat this theme |
| 1:21.7 | over the head, really all season long, that you can run on this Bears team. And for anyone who hasn't |
| 1:26.9 | seen the Bears play, but |
| 1:27.9 | finally did see them on Monday night football last week against the Rams, you saw with what Malcolm |
| 1:32.4 | Brown and Darrell Henderson did against the Bears that you can indeed run on this team. It's another |
| 1:37.6 | week where perhaps the Saints are going to be playing without Michael Thomas. We know what |
| 1:41.6 | Alvin Camara's role has been in a Michael Thomasless |
| 1:44.6 | offense at $8,200 for Alvin Camara. This is the sort of chalk I want in on. And I feel like until he is being treated as 2019 Christian McCaffrey, it's going to be hard for me to keep Alvin Camara out of any of my lineups. I think that's fair. I think one of the challenges people are going to find as they try and build a lineup with Alvin Camara in it, |
| 1:43.9 | is that you are going to find |
| 2:01.2 | as they try and build a lineup with Alvin Camara in it is that you're going to be missing |
| 2:04.9 | out on something else that you like. But there's enough min salary or near min salary players, |
| 2:11.3 | especially at wide receiver this week, that I think you can find the extra few hundred bucks |
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