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The Eagles have a lot of injuries, but it does seem like we got Barkley good to roll back into the mix. I think he's still tagged Q tag, but all expectations are that he's going to go here. So let's talk about this game as a whole first, and then we'll get into the captains. We'll talk about roster composition, construction, different tournaments you're playing in, position by position, and then we'll round it out with some FanDuel. But give us your thoughts here first.

Just the initial thoughts, just like thinking through it, like Dallas, just what a pathetic team really just in, in general, it's like, you're in a division with like all dead quarterbacks, like, and no, no, no, not joking around about the Jalen Hurst thing. Cause that is very serious, but they're all essentially injured. You know, Giants lose dart. The Eagles obviously lose Jalen Hurts and Jayden Daniels, basically his arm fell off, but now he's back to playing. And like, they just can't pull away with it.

You lose at home to Tampa. Now you have the Eagles without their quarterback, without their wide receiver one, trading one of their offensive linemen retiring, trading away the other guy, four and a half point favorites. Like it just shows you how...

Pathetic really the the Cowboys are um and Saquon Barkley dinged up too I didn't add that in there only four and a half point favorites and the one thing you know for sure like just the initial thoughts I mean it's going to be Dallas heavy in the captain like very heavy in the captain like there's just no doubt about that's tough to make a case for the Eagles captains tonight but I do think the interesting dynamic of this slateSlateA slate in DFS is the set of games, races, fights or tournament rounds covered by a contest. It determines which events your player selections can come from and which performances count toward your score.Before building, open the contest details and check the included events, scoring period and lock rules. Do not assume two sites offer identical slates just because both call them the main slate.Read the full definition of Slate is just how bad the Cowboys defense is bad it's how how bad it's been ranks statistically like the worst in the NFL.

I mean, the Lions were up there. They've kind of turned around the last couple of games. Dallas has to be way, way up there.

So like, if they can get anything going,

Like they will probably have success offensively, but you know, all the ownershipOwnershipOwnership is the percentage of lineups in a contest that include a given player. Projected ownership is an estimate made before lock; actual ownership is posted once the contest locks.Ownership isn't something to avoid; it's something to build around. The goal is understanding how the field is likely to build, then finding your edge relative to that.Read the full definition of Ownership is going to be going to the Cowboys up top, all their main, their main four guys are the four highest zone captains on the slate, CD, Dak, Pickens and giovante Williams and I think the reason is a lot of people are just having a hard time figuring out okay if I do play a Philadelphia guy up top who is it you know they have cheap wide receivers out there they have saquon who's injured and they have a quarterback who's just not very good so that's the main initial takeaway for me at least is uh you know, it's only a four and a half point spread, but everyone just wants to load up on Dallas here.

So, you know, curious to talk through this with you guys and, and, you know, see what we can find. Yeah. I got to ask you title here. That's a, you know, the usual from Hoopster. We get a great breakdown, but I want to talk quickly just about, let me just make sure on something here. One second. We got you. Yeah. I hate. Sorry. You're good. All right, apologies, guys. We'll get it all solved here for you here quickly. Just give me a second.

What is the... Might not work, yeah. You're good? Yeah, I'm good. Okay, so I was kicking it to you. My bad. I'll repeat it just so we're good. But the thing I got to ask you, Hoop just broke it all down. We're not getting a better breakdown than that. But I think just in general from the DFS side of things here, we know it's going to be Dallas heavy, especially at the captain.

But the price of these Eagles, like you're talking about wide receiver one is $3,800 in the flexFlex and UTILA standard NFL FLEX accepts a running back, wide receiver or tight end. In DraftKings NFL Showdown, FLEX instead means a regular-scoring slot alongside Captain, with broader eligibility that includes quarterbacks.Before lock, identify affordable replacements for your latest starter. An open FLEX or UTIL slot helps only if suitable unlocked players remain within your budget.Read the full definition of Flex and UTIL. And again, we're going to talk about captains and all that in a second. Just in general, though, is what are you seeing from that perspective? Roster constructionRoster ConstructionRoster construction is how you organize a DFS lineup within its salary cap and roster rules. It includes where you spend or save, which positions you prioritize, and how your players fit together.Build two versions around your biggest spending decision, then compare every player who changes. Revisit the comparison when injury news changes the available value.Read the full definition of Roster Construction, composition? What sort of setup are you expecting to see here tonight?

Yeah, I think it's one of the more unique slatesSlateA slate in DFS is the set of games, races, fights or tournament rounds covered by a contest. It determines which events your player selections can come from and which performances count toward your score.Before building, open the contest details and check the included events, scoring period and lock rules. Do not assume two sites offer identical slates just because both call them the main slate.Read the full definition of Slate in the sense of you see Dallas as four-and-a-half-point favorites in the big names, and you would expect it to be Dallas-heavy. But I actually don't – at the captain, it for sure will. But because of all the value is really on the Eagles side with so many injuries, I actually think you might see – three-three is going to be popular, but four-two Eagles might be more popular than four-two Dallas.

And again, it's going to be plenty of two-fours, and people are going to play the Cowboys stuff up top. But yeah, when your wide receiver one's $3,800 and no one's priced above $10,000, then you go to the Dallas side. CeeDee Lamb, Pickens, Javonte, Dak. They're all just so highly priced and it's so concentrated to their side where you're going to see the spend upsSpending UpSpending up means choosing a higher-priced player over a cheaper alternative, using more of your lineup's salary budget at that spot. You may also hear it called paying up.Build a version with your preferred expensive player and another without. Before choosing, check whether either version relies on a cheap player whose expected role still depends on unresolved injury news.Read the full definition of Spending Up probably on average two of them on the Dallas side.

And then you're going to get more middling stuff and everyone's going to go to the Eagles for value. So two, four is going to be as popular as ever. Three, three and even four, two Eagles for. But again, a lot of those teams will have a Seedy, a Pickens, Javonte, Dak at captain. So I think it's a pretty unique slate.

If you play four, two Cowboys, five, one Cowboys, that's actually going to be relatively different, especially five, one Cowboys, which again, you don't see as much when you're talking about favorites and four and a half point favorites.

Yeah hoop I'll kick it over to you I agree with a lot of that stuff too and so I'll let you start with the captain's hoop I just want to um you know preface it like obviously it's going to be heavy Dallas so people can get ready for it but you can take it away first and see what you're seeing and then give us your thoughts yeah I mean that's it's difficult to make the case for any of these Eagles guys I mean and like the Dallas guys are obvious CD lamb, Dak Pickens, Javonte Williams.

And if you're playing one fifty, you're probably getting exposure to all those guys in some way, shape or form or weight. Yes. In some form, you're going to have some exposure to all those Dallas guys.

Most Likely, you know, who else can you make a case for uh on the Dallas side I guess you know if you want you know maybe Jake Ferguson or something but I don't really like that all that much so I'm sticking with those four Dallas guys and then after that um it's like okay again back to

That same point who can we envision because you're probably gonna need the high I'm viewing today's slateSlateA slate in DFS is the set of games, races, fights or tournament rounds covered by a contest. It determines which events your player selections can come from and which performances count toward your score.Before building, open the contest details and check the included events, scoring period and lock rules. Do not assume two sites offer identical slates just because both call them the main slate.Read the full definition of Slate is you're probably gonna need the highest scoring guy up top so who on the eagle side could be the highest scoring guy could it be saquon maybe but he is coming with ownershipOwnershipOwnership is the percentage of lineups in a contest that include a given player. Projected ownership is an estimate made before lock; actual ownership is posted once the contest locks.Ownership isn't something to avoid; it's something to build around. The goal is understanding how the field is likely to build, then finding your edge relative to that.Read the full definition of Ownership like he's the the one guy that if someone's playing in Eagles captain he's the one that people are going to we're showing ten percent which probably is the case I don't think it's because people love Saquon I think it's because they're like you know we need something on the Eagles side to kind of balance this out a little bit and it's a good matchup because Dallas defense is is so bad but man

The Eagles really struggled to move the ball uh last week they got some a little bit going at the end so I don't know. Goedert, I'm struggling with it, to be honest with you guys. I'm good with those Dallas guys, but when I start to look for Eagles guys I want to play, it's tough to make the case.

And I think roster constructionRoster ConstructionRoster construction is how you organize a DFS lineup within its salary cap and roster rules. It includes where you spend or save, which positions you prioritize, and how your players fit together.Build two versions around your biggest spending decision, then compare every player who changes. Revisit the comparison when injury news changes the available value.Read the full definition of Roster Construction does end up, like Title kind of alluded to, being pretty common where you're going to see Dallas guys – Up top, probably one more expensive Dallas guy in the flexFlex and UTILA standard NFL FLEX accepts a running back, wide receiver or tight end. In DraftKings NFL Showdown, FLEX instead means a regular-scoring slot alongside Captain, with broader eligibility that includes quarterbacks.Before lock, identify affordable replacements for your latest starter. An open FLEX or UTIL slot helps only if suitable unlocked players remain within your budget.Read the full definition of Flex and UTIL and then just a bunch of Philadelphia guys in the flex to go along with that sort of lineup. So.

You know, I'd probably rank them CD Williams, Pickens, Dak maybe, but I guess the one thing for sure, we're showing Dak and CD to have way more ownership, almost double the ownership that Pickens and Javonte Williams will have. So maybe you kind of flip that. That's something you can do, but I don't know. I kind of struggle with these Philly guys. Barkley's the most...

Obvious one but there is some ownership coming along with it Goedert is getting some ownership uh as well no one really wants to play the cheap guys lemon or cooper so um I don't know it could be a a slate where I just play those Dallas guys and try to do something different in the flux yeah so now I'm putting some stuff together here and then just taking in both your guys stuff to give some thoughts and I'll kick it over to title for his but man, it's like, I'm half tempted just to put all these Dallas captains and just five, one, everything, because it's like every, the way that you build, I was just messing around with the Stone 2.0 point.

Oh, it's Ship It Nation just to look quickly at like some of these five, one builds. It's like, it almost always has to land you. For the people that want to be very comfortable, it almost has to land you on a four, two or a three, three. Like it's like, you, oh, I don't know. No one's here for me to land on. I don't want to drop all the way down to Makai Lemon.

So I'll just play two of these guys instead from this side or whatever it might be. So that's going to be interesting tonight because if you are playing a popular captain, You could still get overweight on them. I mean, even if CD and Dak end up at the eighteen percent, you can play twenty five of each if you wanted. You could do whatever you want and still get different in other places if you skip on the other side.

But if you do mostly five ones, you are going to get a lot of lineups that just leave a lot of money. And that's what it's going to look like. So I don't know, title. I think that's kind of interesting before I hear your thoughts on captain. I'll think about other things. But that is a first starting point for me is it looks like. Most of the lineups are going to be four, two Dallas two, but three threes and whatnot.

Let me hop in real quick, just cause I, you know, brought us back to old for old time's sake, got us with the dry run, just projectionsProjectionsDFS projections estimate a player's fantasy points for an upcoming slate using expected opportunities, performance and the contest's scoring rules. They describe an expected result, not a guaranteed score.Check the projection's update time and assumed role before using it. If news is already included, adjusting again for that same news can double-count its effect.Read the full definition of Projections, just ran it just, just to see like what came out and it was forty seven percent three, three.

So basically half the lineups were three, three and then thirty percent were four, two in favor of the Eagles and and then another twenty percent were Dallas four in favor of Dallas four two and not many five ones on either side so three threes about fifty percent uh four two in favor of the Eagles about thirty percent and then four two in favor of the Cowboys uh about twenty percent and if if you look at your four two Eagles I I bet you ninety five percent plus have two of the Dallas spends Pickens and above right It is basically – Like there's no Flornay.

There's no Ferguson. It's going to be two of Seedy, Pickens, Dak. It's the really common build. Again, when your wide receiver wants $3,800 on the other side, that's where your value is going to go. But it is worth noting like Turpin isn't going to play today. So there is some value. It's just not as secure. But there is some value on the Dallas side too. That these guys back up tight ends, the span forward, schoonmakers. I think defenses are interesting.

But, yeah, it's really clear that the spends are going to come from the Cowboys side. Yeah, the Cowboys side. Yeah. It's hard for me to make a case – Yeah, the Turpin news.

It's hard for me to make a case for the Eagles captains to just talk about it myself like I think there's enough ways you can get different in the flexFlex and UTILA standard NFL FLEX accepts a running back, wide receiver or tight end. In DraftKings NFL Showdown, FLEX instead means a regular-scoring slot alongside Captain, with broader eligibility that includes quarterbacks.Before lock, identify affordable replacements for your latest starter. An open FLEX or UTIL slot helps only if suitable unlocked players remain within your budget.Read the full definition of Flex and UTIL and I do think five one Cowboys is very interesting on this slateSlateA slate in DFS is the set of games, races, fights or tournament rounds covered by a contest. It determines which events your player selections can come from and which performances count toward your score.Before building, open the contest details and check the included events, scoring period and lock rules. Do not assume two sites offer identical slates just because both call them the main slate.Read the full definition of Slate and a lot of my five one Cowboys I have a lot of interest in Cowboys defense in those builds kind of what we saw yesterday to when it fully gets there the defense is usually playing a big part.

But yeah, how I'd rank captains, Seedy's by far number one for me. Yes, he'll probably be the highest zone, but anyone that can get like twenty targets. Not too long ago, we saw in the Texans game, but it's clear. It feels like Seedy separated more from Pickens than I initially thought this year. Still like Pickens, but I think he would be below Javonte for me. Javonte is the only one that's favored to score a touchdown in this game at minus one sixty five.

Saquon second at plus one hundred. And if you do think the Eagles win this game, And I wouldn't be surprised, I guess, if Saquon came a little back at captain because people are going to want to play Cowboys. So he's the only Eagles I'm expecting to play at captain, and I probably will end up overweight. He is also cheaper than Dax, then Javonte, then Seedy. And you can just play him at captain instead of one of them and leave the money pretty easily that way.

So I don't have any hot takes at captain. I'm curious to hear if you do, Tambo. I'm going to bring some more stuff up too. Yeah, this is, I mean, that's what I was doing, Andrews, while Hoop was doing it essentially just to get an idea of like some examples. I was using the Stone 2.0 point. It wasn't a dry run for this. I was doing something just in the meantime, but I usually do start with that.

Like what Hoop looked at is what I want to find out. What is everybody doing? And people say, well, it's different for everyone. Like, of course, we're just trying to get a general idea. And that's why we focus more on the process, how to actually play the game and outthink the field. We're all working with the same pieces, just like a chess board, whatever.

But the best chess player going up against me, I suck and have no clue about it, is going to win a hundred times because I have no clue how to win. So it's not that good for the odds for us in this game. But I will say it's like you do want to be thinking like that. So I'm starting there.

What I love title is just going back to it is like when even when you do the five one, a lot of them do kind of land on Goedert. And it's when you look at projection, median, we've got them, twelve-ish. Well, no one knows. Like, Makai Lemon, nine point eight. You got Darius Cooper, eight point six. Like, these are all medians. Those can all change or whatever. But look at the gap in price.

Goedert, $6,400 and a little bit of money left over. Or you just have to drop him down to Makai Lemon and leave $4,000 bucks. That's only, I mean, less than three of us. Like most of the Goedert lineups already have money left over to spend. You're not maxing $50,000 and landing on Goedert. So when people are like, well, feels comfortable, they're probably going to be down. They're going to throw the ball to Goedert. Maybe, probably.

And it's unfortunate, you know, in the way things happen sometimes, but it's like if you have a guy there like Kelley last night and, you know, he's the one that gets the catch at the end and causes this massive split when it could have been instead of Kelley, somebody else there that's cheaper and ends up being for all the money. That's the point, right? You're, you're looking for how much, you know, how much you win when you are right.

Or when you do make these moves, I think this is a good slate for that. Just the way I'm seeing it be built out. You can do it on non five ones, by the way, I'm just noting it that that's something that I'm seeing. I'm trying to think outside the box on some of these other spots. Like I guess Flournoy and Ferguson don't love it. Just saying, obviously being that they're kind of in that six to seven, six, six, seven, five hundred range.

They're almost half the price.

At captain of the cd lambs and the other guys up top there so that's interesting while staying on the same side and then the other side I guess if you're doing like Goedert or the receivers you're doing it I'm probably doing it more in like a two four and I know everybody calls it differently because it's still but it's the underdog versus the favorite I always use it in my own way I don't care if it's right or wrong it's how I'm doing it but if I had like Makai Lemon up top instead of Ferguson on the other side for a little bit more money.

I can drop down to Makai Lemon. I can still use McKee if I want in the flex. And then I could use four guys from the Dallas side and just two guys from the Eagles, one being the captain, four guys in the flex from Philly. But I guess the bigger question is, now that I'm looking at all this, is do either of you have much interest in, or any interest, I should say, after all we've talked about in McKee up top?

Not really for me. I think they're going to try and control it on the ground more. He just doesn't like just game log. Watching is a little tough, but how are they? Why do they have a twenty point team totalTeam TotalIn NFL DFS, a team total estimates one team's points, usually from the game total and point spread. It includes scoring by the whole team, not just offensive touchdowns or fantasy production.Recheck team totals after major news, then ask which players actually benefit. If your projections already reflect the change, avoid adding another automatic boost.Read the full definition of Team Total? Because Dallas is fucking ass. Dallas is buns. We got to go back to buns. Dallas is – their defense specifically is buns and their team is buns.

Someone said on Twitter, like, I don't know, it was like last week, like, I got to stop falling – like, eliminate all the names from Dallas and just look at, like, their recent history. I mean, the reason everybody – it's, you know, Dak Prescott, it's CeeDee Lamb, it's George Pickens, like – that's great and everything that they have those names, but the team never lives up to the hype. Never. So that's why they're projected to score three touchdowns like in this spot and their defense is horrible.

Like it is, it's an, it's a weird dynamic. I mean, yeah, you look at it. I mean, there's a four, four and a half point difference in between what they're projected to score. Right. So like if they do get, if they do hit that twenty one, How do they get there? Hypothetically thinking somebody should be able to compete with the Dallas offensive players to be the highest scoring guy on the slateSlateA slate in DFS is the set of games, races, fights or tournament rounds covered by a contest. It determines which events your player selections can come from and which performances count toward your score.Before building, open the contest details and check the included events, scoring period and lock rules. Do not assume two sites offer identical slates just because both call them the main slate.Read the full definition of Slate, right?

Like if you look at it like that, there's only a four and a half point difference. But like, where is it? Well, that's the thing. It's like, I do think they put up points. I'm not arguing that they're not going to put up twenty. It's not that as much as when you're building your lineups to think about it. I guess the thing about me for McKee is like just looking at the stone. Does have some leverageLeverageLeverage is the edge you gain by rostering a play the field is underweight on, compared with how often it ends up in winning lineups. When that play outscores the popular option most lineups chose instead, you gain ground on those lineups, though the rest of your roster still decides where you finish.Look for leverage on players connected to the chalk, like the other side of a popular game or a teammate who can steal the popular player's touches.Read the full definition of Leverage there.

I know you don't often see a quarterback from the underdog up top, but when you do, that's what it's really all about. And I guess that's my thing is if most of you are going to an Eagles captain, it's Barkley. If most people are going to a Dallas captain, it's Lamb and Prescott. And then after that, you do get Javonte and Pickens right there. I get it. But McKee sort of splits the difference on all of it. And who knows?

Like you could stack them with the guys you like the most. You could over stack them. You could do a bunch of different things. But it's just if the other side spreads out enough and he actually does something, it's just really hard to imagine. But the good news is he's only going to be like five or six up top in the captain.

So I guess all I'm saying is if you're building out and you're seeing that you get like ten percent of him, I'd be fine with that because I think it's like I do see. When it happens, what that path would look like. And man, I will say this. I always say it and people hate me for it. This is what I pick up. Usually people like me. Most don't when I say this, but I have to say it.

There's no two worst fan bases than the Eagles and the Cowboys. And man, Discord is, we always say our Discord is active and vibrant and fun. And it is, we're not lying. It's like the least toxicity of all, but the one night the toxicity shows up every year is when these guys, well, it's two, but whenever they're playing the Eagles and the Cowboys, This is when it shows up.

These fan bases just can't ever take an L of any kind or say that they're bad or admit it. Like I'm all time, like the Ravens suck at this. Like I have no fan base or fandom to that stuff. These guys just go on end about their shit. Like good for you being a fan of your team. I love it and support it. But man, just let it be. If your team is buns right now, they're buns right now.

If your team's banged up, if the freaking Eagles beat the Cowboys tonight, may as well just ban yourself from Discord for two days it will be unbearable there'll be a flag or an excuse or just something if this injured team beats their ass so we'll see how it shakes out title what do you think but it's one thing to add on to a point that you made before because someone did bring it up earlier it's like you know we had Dallas Tampa Bay uh just a couple weeks ago and you know there's no way Tampa Bay can can be the the winning captain like uh yeah yeah exactly right there yeah it's like There's no way and it's hard.

It was hard to vary. It was more difficult to make the case for the Tampa guys at that time as you know, plays on the slate or captains on the slate. So it can happen. And if you get it right tonight, you're going to be competing with a lot less people for the winning lineup because it's going to be super Dallas heavy. So, yeah, it can definitely happen. The Cardinals beat the Rams yesterday. People talking about Miami beat the Jets.

I mean, Miami, the Jets, they're both pretty bad. Texans. Texans were minus five hundred yesterday. Yeah. Well, I mean, the upsets happen all the time. I think that's the thing here. When you've got, you know, a total and a spread this close still, like between the two, you can definitely still see it happening. It's just build accordingly. That's all I'm saying. But the one thing when I brought up McKee was just that he does sort of split the difference on everything.

He's the mid range. Look at Barkley more popular than him. And he's $14,400. The captains on the other side that would be the quarterback against him in Prescott, who's popular, is $15,600. Javonte, $15,900. Lamb, $16,500. After that, you got to go down to. $7,500 Flournoy. $5,700 Lemon. $9,600 Goedert. All those guys. Well, right there in the middle is $12,900 McKee. He would leverage the Barkley for if people are on that side.

And then he's the pivotPivotA pivot in DFS is an alternative player or lineup combination you choose instead of another option. Tournament pivots usually seek comparable scoring upside at lower ownership, meaning fewer competing lineups use them.Before swapping, check what the replacement changes around it: your remaining salary, teammates, opposing players and available later-starting options.Read the full definition of Pivot off of the other side. And for those, if you're not playing the college football streets at Shippenation, you should be. But for anybody playing those with Superflex. What do we know is that when one quarterback is going off, the other side is, you know, that's what can force it the most. But it's only during super flex formats that you can get the full benefit of both quarterbacks and play them both at the same time.

So if you think Dak can go off and that the game could stay closer and that this spread is more accurate and the total is more accurate, that's where I think the McKee stuff gets a little bit more interesting. Who do you stack them with? Whoever you want. But it's like there's Barkley, Lemon, Cooper, Goedert. That's where I'm cutting it off and then figure out how you're mixing it up.

But I do think there's something to that just to see how it shakes out here tonight. So, uh, title, do you have anything else to add on the captains or the fan bases? Yeah, no, nothing to, I mean, fan bases for, for sure. Philly's by far the worst. I mean, you can't even go in there and feel safe. No, I mean, just like how people react, like the, they think it's their whole life mission or whatever. Like it's the Eagles. Are you like the fights and flipping off?

I mean, these guys are crazy. And I say that. And it's like, probably like. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. Yeah. Um, but yeah, there is this, I think I've seen this before, like the wife trolling or debt, like because they're fans, like the super, it is what it is. Like I said, I love the fandom.

It's good for you. If that's you out there, I appreciate it. I support you on that, but I'm just saying it's tough when there's like a battle in the Discord because these fans are like really ruthless with each other. And it's these two fan bases that it's, it's always the same way. So we'll see how it goes tonight. Yeah, the McKee stuff, though, like, no, he doesn't have any rushing ability. His props, I think, six yards on the ground. And I did look at this.

So his last three starts, like, McKee did throw the ball forty-five times last week. Today his passing attempt props about thirty-three. But even when he did forty-five, completed twenty-six, only two fifteen through the air. Like, he threw as most as he'll ever throw and only scored twelve yards. DraftKings points. For him to throw two touchdowns or more is plus one fifty.

So when I'm looking at all that stuff, I'm almost then telling myself, OK, well, because of Lemon price and Goedert's price or Darius Cooper, like if he's throwing it to them and they even have sixty yards, five for sixty, like I almost think they're more Likely to be optimal and at their price and ability to leave money than McKee at $8,600. So. Definitely could be wrong. We're wrong all the time. It is just very difficult for me at captain.

But the flex is a better question. I mean, we're showing thirty four percent any time a quarterback is that it kind of reminds me, I guess, Case Keenum the last time and he went out and absolutely bald. I think he was captain optimal on that slate. But any time you get a starting quarterback around the thirty percent in the flexFlex and UTILA standard NFL FLEX accepts a running back, wide receiver or tight end. In DraftKings NFL Showdown, FLEX instead means a regular-scoring slot alongside Captain, with broader eligibility that includes quarterbacks.Before lock, identify affordable replacements for your latest starter. An open FLEX or UTIL slot helps only if suitable unlocked players remain within your budget.Read the full definition of Flex and UTIL mark, it's I almost always am at least with the field on that. What what did you just remind me of?

I was going to say there was something you said before that, though, about the. Damn, I forget what it was, but McKee. Oh, when you said the plus one fifty, I know it's like only plus one hundred. But man, that I had to, by the way, the London bet hit yesterday and then I tagged the Discord and said I'm adding the Pollard London parlay and posted the real slip. So we had I don't have very often, but when I do.

But man, that just makes me like the Barkley plus one hundred. Yeah, I like Barkley too. We got a little betting money in the account there now tonight. So maybe I'll throw that one out there because it's like if you don't – it is harder to see the McKee plus one-fifty, two-touch, whatever, like throwing for that. But if Barkley actually is going and that's good to roll, like I don't care if they're an underdog or not.

If he was fully healthy, you'd think about it would be like minus one-fifty. Like it's Barkley on the ground. You could easily see that. What's his other props, by the way, now that you've got them there? Seven – Seventy on the ground. Let's see what his receiving yards prop is. Not great. Only like sixteen for his receiving yards prop. And Michael's talking, could they limit it and all that? I mean, this is a must-win game if the Eagles are trying to compete, which they should.

Both teams are two and four in the division. Giants are four and two, but you need to win this game if you want to stay, which they probably do. Oh, yeah, Gary, man, bringing all the points. No more tush-push. Got to get Barkley jammed. But look at this stat. This is over there looking at the news today, talking about if he'd play. And obviously it already said he's trending toward playing. We knew that.

But Philadelphia just twenty eight and a half rushing yards per game without Barkley. And then one Oh nine when he has played, what did you say his rushing prop was again? Seventy. Seventy. Man, I'm doing it. I'm saying it live. We're wrong. We're dead. Who cares? I'm going at the over seventy and the touchdown parlay because this is already a good matchup to rush. Like, I don't care if they're an underdog. Why would they try anything else? Just run the ball.

And it takes like one run to pick up forty or fifty. Like obviously there's injury stuff. Yes. But it's baked into the line. I like that. And then if they're if they're going to put up twenty points, maybe they don't. Nothing says they will. But if they're going to put up points, I actually have from title just not even meaning to say it that way. I have way higher confidence in Barkley scoring one.

Then the, you know, McKee throwing for multiples or whatever it might be. And then Gary comes in with the no more tush push. So Hoops over there betting it already. He's looking it up on his phone just to double check the parlay. Appreciate the support on the bets. Last time there was a bet made, it was Mr. Hoopster with Chig. He said optimal. Bang. He was optimal. He said that. I know. He said he liked the receiving yards over. That was free.

So. I appreciate you buttering me up after the Pollard call yesterday, bringing some sunshine back. I just want Ham in here. It wasn't necessarily you. Ham literally made me raise my min exposure. I was already double the field. And then I was like, yeah, Ham. Now I got to get to twenty percent because in his defense. So that's his like home team, though. So it's like you got to be a little bit. You have to be harsh on your home team.

And it's been tough to be a Tennessee fan. So I'm assuming there's a little bias baked in there. But the chick thing that was like, yeah, first drive. Bang, bang. We're good. That was fun. We'll find one. Hopefully we'll find one of those tonight. We're going to talk about this in a second too. Like, yeah, this is a conversation.

Also price is funny too, because it was priced as if, well, maybe it wasn't, but it looks like it was priced as if there could be no Barkley. He's at $7,600 on DraftKings in the flexFlex and UTILA standard NFL FLEX accepts a running back, wide receiver or tight end. In DraftKings NFL Showdown, FLEX instead means a regular-scoring slot alongside Captain, with broader eligibility that includes quarterbacks.Before lock, identify affordable replacements for your latest starter. An open FLEX or UTIL slot helps only if suitable unlocked players remain within your budget.Read the full definition of Flex and UTIL. He's at $8,800. We'll get there in a second. We will run through quarterback. Any more on the captains from you guys, either of you? Speak now or forever hold your peace. All right, good. We got quarterbacks in the flex. You were already leading us their title.

So I'll stay with you because you were talking like McKee in the flexFlex and UTILA standard NFL FLEX accepts a running back, wide receiver or tight end. In DraftKings NFL Showdown, FLEX instead means a regular-scoring slot alongside Captain, with broader eligibility that includes quarterbacks.Before lock, identify affordable replacements for your latest starter. An open FLEX or UTIL slot helps only if suitable unlocked players remain within your budget.Read the full definition of Flex and UTIL is the bigger question. I already like how you broke that one down with the ownershipOwnershipOwnership is the percentage of lineups in a contest that include a given player. Projected ownership is an estimate made before lock; actual ownership is posted once the contest locks.Ownership isn't something to avoid; it's something to build around. The goal is understanding how the field is likely to build, then finding your edge relative to that.Read the full definition of Ownership basics and everything there. But what else with Dak here? Dak is almost sixty percent in the flex and he's almost twenty percent up top. I mean, he's going to be like eighty percent tonight regardless. So any thoughts on Dak and how he handles this spot? He doesn't run either, by the way, for people.

Yeah. No, he doesn't, but man, he dropped back. Fifty-four times, forty-two, forty-five, and forty in his last four games as favorites. Yeah, the way it, I guess, doesn't work out is if Javonte... I think you need at least two and maybe all three of Javonte, Seedy, Pickens, Saquon to outscore him in a vacuum. So, if you see that happening or can, sure. We play a lot of lineups, so I'm not going to have a hundred percent, but...

Probably going to have at least eighty percent it's it's just a very safe play like while we talked about McKee uh plus one fifty to score two touchdowns uh let's see a Dak was um it was two seventy is his passing prop but his passing touchdowns minus one forty four to score two plus touchdowns if he's scoring two touchdowns or more more than Likely he's probably in the least flex optimal Yeah, Tyler's giving us some more bets in the chat here.

Hoop, if you want to get fired up for tonight, how about McKee, two fifty through the air and a Saquon. Td plus Eagles money line okay okay get it all in there he's got the Eagles man nothing would surprise me with Dallas I mean man it's like they got they have the I mean at all like look at some of these divisions look at the uh titles and and uh the Lions and Packers uh yeah the north like that is tough.

Someone's going to get completely screwed because they're going to have to, you know, play each other twice. And then you go to all four of them. I get it. They might both get the wild cards. Yeah. Yeah. And then you go to the NFC East and the Cowboys have literally the easiest, easiest path. And they just can't, they just suck. They're two and four. So nothing would surprise me, man. Like nothing would surprise me if the Cowboys at all, man, this is too good to be true.

So, um, Did you get any of these invites, Hoop, from our boy Dan, Dan the Man? Mm-mm. Man, Gary's going to the DK Cabana suite. These guys are just loving the life. I was going to bring this back, though, before we get into any other thoughts at quarterback from Hoop, but Ace Boogie says, Monday Night Football tonight, Cowboys, fifty to nine. But we didn't do the game for a little while of who scores the most points and what the winning thing is.

But following Ace Boogie's footsteps here, you got the paid in full up. That is Ace Boogie, straight out of the dry cleaners. If you guys haven't seen that movie, oldie but goodie. But fifty to nine, what do you guys got for the score tonight? Start throwing your scores in the chat. The benefit of doing these shows live, we like to keep it interactive, so... Let us know in there, Hoop, what do you got to add at the quarterback position? Anything else you got there?

If not, you can then take us into running back after. No, I mean, the quarterback, same conversation that we kind of always have. Anytime you see a quarterback with low flex ownership, I think it's definitely appealing regardless of how bad they may be. I mean, they get to touch the football first basically every single play. They have the opportunity to do some stuff. And even if they're playing from behind, they just get free points. So, yeah. Definitely interested there. Running back's very simple as well.

I mean, it's just for me, Javonte Williams, Saquon Barkley. I just don't think you can, I don't think you can even play the other guys. Definitely can't play Pierce at $7,600, just unplayable unless obviously Saquon's ruled out. And the problem with anyone else, Goodson, Luepke, their price where they're going to have to beat all the value on the Eagles side. And when we get to wide receiver, you're going to see how many value wide receivers there are.

And even on the Dallas side with Flournoy and whatnot, they're going to have to straight up beat all those guys. And I don't think they can. So Javonte, Saquon, nothing else. Yeah, the comments are coming in already, man. We're getting some close games here, sticking around the total. Gary's got it close, but big boy over. Man, you better get the bet on the over if you think it's sitting around that one. Everyone loses tonight, even with the game, quote-unquote, win. No need for a score.

The entertainment might really just be the Discord, actually. I might do opposite, and I might just stay in there and moderate as well as enjoy the back and forth to see, but... Yeah, we're throwing it back today, Andrews said. We got the dry run and put your score in chat day. Yeah, I like that. It's a good run. Our other guy, Andrews Black, man, the used car salesman. Andrew Black is back on the attack. Look at that tie, man. Buddy's ready.

Thoughts on Fergie just sucking. We'll get to tight end in a bit, but I will say, span forward. I know he was a little involved last game because my best lineup in the lottery had Spanford. I just need a little bit more out of him. I think it was a unique or it was three-way chop or something like that. So you can use guys like that.

Like Hoop said, though, title on these running backs, obviously Barkley, if somehow he does, he trending, if somebody doesn't go, then obviously, you know, Pierce gets much more interesting at $7,600. If you had Barkley lineups, you could already swap them to him and just say that's the same game scriptGame ScriptGame script is how a game's score and time remaining influence its pace, play choices and player opportunities. In football, teams protecting a lead often run more, while teams chasing a deficit often pass more.Before locking a lineup, ask who keeps playing if your expected script reverses. Check passing-down roles and backup rotations instead of assuming a team's leading rusher handles every situation.Read the full definition of Game Script, but it's going to be him now instead, whatever you want to do.

But Goodson at $2,000 much less than $10,600 in the flexFlex and UTILA standard NFL FLEX accepts a running back, wide receiver or tight end. In DraftKings NFL Showdown, FLEX instead means a regular-scoring slot alongside Captain, with broader eligibility that includes quarterbacks.Before lock, identify affordable replacements for your latest starter. An open FLEX or UTIL slot helps only if suitable unlocked players remain within your budget.Read the full definition of Flex and UTIL for giovante Williams yes but when it's like $3,200 Darius Cooper $3,800 lemon uh the backup tight ends that we've talked about are cheap and you know floor noise only $5,000 is a little bit more sure but you can find the money we've explained it exists so what is your thoughts on these backups here and then anything you want to add on the the main guys Yeah, no, I mean, I wanted like Goodson.

I made a case for him going into the Falcons game because he played sixteen or twenty one percent of snaps and looked like it was he was going to be out there a bit. And then he played three snaps and then eleven snaps. And it's like, man, I just he has no role unless there's an injury. And again, I said must win for the Eagles can even argue more of a must win for the Cowboys since Jerry Jones and I'm still actually.

I mean, they have a healthy quarterback. Hurt's probably not going to play all year. So like they really need to win on a two game slump. If I had to play any backup running back and he's positioned at running back, even though he's more of a fullback, it probably is just Hunter Luepke and going all the way down to four hundred. He had three targets last week. Anyone that has three targets for four hundred bucks, he's a good blocker. So he's out there more than good sin.

Again, more than Likely, he's probably not going to be optimal or what you need with so much value. But he's four hundred dollars. So I do prefer him to good sin. As far as the running backs, I prefer Javonte to Saquon in the flex. I think Saquon's more of a cap. I mean, I'm going to play him in flex, too, but.

I either want him to all the way get there at captain and then the game script's different than it's not a Cowboys at captain because it's going to be so popular. So I do think I prefer Saquon at captain if choosing. But, yeah, it's really bad after the main guys at backup running back. I haven't fully looked into it, but I will say on the last thing, usually that's the case for me too. Like, if it's a Barkley game, it's all the way there.

But if I am going to go a lot of these five-one Cowboys lineups, I think once you go, like, Lamb, Dak... You can obviously still fit anything. I mean, you can get Barkley. I just think more people will get down to like, they'll want to get more of the Javonte's the pickings, the Ferguson and all that stuff. So it's like, if I go Barkley, that could set me up and then I can still leave the money on the other side.

And like you said, if I got to play a left gear, a span or something else, if I need to get that different, that's fine too. There's lots of ways to handle it there. So I agree on that. I think the rest is all solid hoop. I'll kick it back to you. Is there anything else more to add there? If not take us into wide receiver. Yeah, wide receiver is definitely the most important part of the slateSlateA slate in DFS is the set of games, races, fights or tournament rounds covered by a contest. It determines which events your player selections can come from and which performances count toward your score.Before building, open the contest details and check the included events, scoring period and lock rules. Do not assume two sites offer identical slates just because both call them the main slate.Read the full definition of Slate with DeVonta Smith being ruled out.

Now we just have a plethora of potential cheap options. We know the Dallas side. It's CeeDee Lamb. It's Pickens. Flournoy, they're all... Solid plays in their own regard. You know, Florida definitely though stands out because like he's kind of priced in a weird spot, like the $5,000 range where you're going to have a bunch of these cheaper Philly guys. I don't think he's going to go overlooked, but I wouldn't be surprised if he comes in, you know, lower owned than what we're thinking.

So I really like him. I really like him in Dak captains teams. Cause you know, for Dak captain to get there, you need more guys to be involved. So I think he's a really good play for the Dak captain teams.

And then, said you know it's definitely cd lamb one in Dallas and then George Pickens too so there is a pricing difference so it's $2,000 cheaper so like both but if you have the money and you if you have the money and deciding between the two would definitely be CD over Pickens for me. And then the Philadelphia situation is what just really opens up this slateSlateA slate in DFS is the set of games, races, fights or tournament rounds covered by a contest. It determines which events your player selections can come from and which performances count toward your score.Before building, open the contest details and check the included events, scoring period and lock rules. Do not assume two sites offer identical slates just because both call them the main slate.Read the full definition of Slate from a roster constructionRoster ConstructionRoster construction is how you organize a DFS lineup within its salary cap and roster rules. It includes where you spend or save, which positions you prioritize, and how your players fit together.Build two versions around your biggest spending decision, then compare every player who changes. Revisit the comparison when injury news changes the available value.Read the full definition of Roster Construction standpoint.

That's why we are seeing a lot of those four, two Philly teams, four players from Philly, two from, from Dallas because of all these cheap options and, you know, making it easy to spend the studs spend upSpending UpSpending up means choosing a higher-priced player over a cheaper alternative, using more of your lineup's salary budget at that spot. You may also hear it called paying up.Build a version with your preferred expensive player and another without. Before choosing, check whether either version relies on a cheap player whose expected role still depends on unresolved injury news.Read the full definition of Spending Up for the studs on the slate, the Dax, the CDs. So, you know, we'll give lemon Cooper, Elijah Moore is going to be involved at eight hundred dollars. Hollywood Brown. Did you guys know Hollywood Brown was on this roster?

I had no idea until I opened up the slate. Most probably didn't know he was still in the NFL. Yeah, he's still here. So he's $2,800. So I guess the one thing when playing these guys is. Be careful, I guess, how you do it. I mean, I think this is the slate where I'm actively looking to leave a lot of salary on the table. I would adjust my maximum spend on this slate because I want to leave big chunks.

Like, these Philly guys... Lemon could outscore Pickens. Cooper could outscore Pickens. So if you have a team and it's just one more spot and it doesn't really matter all that much for correlationCorrelationCorrelation describes how two players' fantasy scores move together. Positively correlated players tend to have big games at the same time, usually because one player's success directly adds points for the other.When you build a tournament lineup, ask which of your players need the same thing to happen. The more of them that do, the higher your lineup's ceiling.Read the full definition of Correlation, drop down from Pickens to Lemon. Drop down from Pickens to Cooper, something like that, and just leave big, big chunks on the table. That's what I'll be looking to do today.

Um but all these guys you know lemon cooper Elijah Moore and I guess even some Hollywood Brown I'm open to play but I would like I said if you're playing like the the lemons and the coopers they're going to come with good ownershipOwnershipOwnership is the percentage of lineups in a contest that include a given player. Projected ownership is an estimate made before lock; actual ownership is posted once the contest locks.Ownership isn't something to avoid; it's something to build around. The goal is understanding how the field is likely to build, then finding your edge relative to that.Read the full definition of Ownership solid amount of ownership so make sure you're doing something a little bit different in those teams like it's just going to be so easy for people to build these let's just punch it and see what it looks like if you play a cd dac team you got $5,700 left and then you plug in uh let's see we'll plug in lemon and

Then you plug in this cooper guy then you're back up to like $8,000 You're going to be able to get Barkley and then you're going to be able to get Goedert or something like that. So I think a lot of these teams that include these cheap Philadelphia guys, specifically Lemon and Cooper, could end up looking very similar. So I think especially for hand building, sometimes it's hard with optimizersOptimizerAn optimizer is software that builds DFS lineups within a site's salary cap and roster rules. It uses projected fantasy points, your settings and, in some tools, simulations to select combinations for a chosen goal.Build a small test batch first. Check which players and combinations repeat, and investigate why before increasing the lineup count or changing settings.Read the full definition of Optimizer.

If you're hand building, make sure you're doing something a little bit different in those lineups because I think they end up looking pretty similar.

Yeah what was this we gotta ask too hoop our man title he's out at you know at this place he's got his ceiling fan up there now dust it off but not only is the ceiling fan dusted off he's dusted off look at this fresh I did notice that right out of the gate like when he first signed on I didn't say anything but it does look like you might have something going on we got the collar like this isn't a show where people wear collars if they wear collars yeah you have to kind of address why you're explaining something I'm surprised it took so long.

Yeah, I was expecting right away. I had family pictures this morning. I never dress up or wear anything like this. I was surprised it took this long. But thank you, Go Collect. It's hard to tell if it's like a full dress-up thing or if it's, you know. I mean, when am I going to wear a collar thing that's not. But it was too. I know he's got the flow, so always can rock it.

But still, with no hat and a collar, one of those two things. Something was going on. Yeah. Some fall pictures going on. Yeah, we do. Not yet, buddy. Not yet. He's got years to go. He's got to realize all the stages and I'm still not like, it's the craziest thing about having kids. I know we hit on it before and we joke about us all being dads now, but it's like when a kid is brand new, there's this whole world you're living in.

And then your kids get like certain ages, like five and mine are six and nine now. So you're like, oh man, there's lots of shit about to go on and things that are starting to get into sports and the kids and doing different things. But like now hoops in a whole nother world, because his are a little older than mine. So it's like, there's always something going on, but It is crazy, though, like how it all it all changes as you go on and like the different stages.

Now my kids are a little bit older, like middle school and high school. So for like parent teacher conferences, it's like when they're younger, you have like fifteen minutes, you sit down with the teacher, blah, blah, blah. Well, now that they get older, it's like, all right, you can stop in for three minute windows to discuss with your kids and don't come unless I email you and tell you there's something like they push you away like so much. It's wild. Yeah, it's crazy.

It's fun though. That's why we love being parents and doing those things. So shout out to all the parents out there, but title, I'll kick it back over to you. Give us your thoughts here at the wide receiver position. There's a lot going on. You mentioned Turpin being out earlier and then there's, I don't know. I'm seeing like Elijah Moore pop up on the other side for eight hundred bucks. But this is also very true. I was struggling.

You did well, though, for being completely positive. Actually, I don't even know if we're going to classify it as a hangover. It might have been still drunk. I couldn't even say a participation. Yeah, I was – that nap was so great, right, when Lockett – I saw Pollard first touchdown. I went in the Discord, put my phone down. Yeah. Yeah, you couldn't say participation, but the P word you got right was Pollard, and that's all people care about here.

Yeah, and then I woke up and saw Buccaneers had twenty-eight points at defense and was hoping that DK makes the switch to Superflex one of these days. I saw the outrage on X today of how they need to get rid of defense still. Yeah, I mean, people talked about it, and I was overweight at that. It's just so random, but when it goes your way, it's nice. Before I talk receiver, though, I like Sean Sullivan.

He's always in the Discord, but man, how fast things change. To call J.J. McCarthy a baller, did not expect to see that in Hey, I'm happy for him. No doubt I'm happy for him. I don't know if I'd use the term baller yet. There's definitely a week-to-week league, as we've noticed. A lot of people jump on too far to both sides, good and the bad. I like this take, too, before you carry it on.

Someone said, like, if you're going that route, I like sticking to this conviction. Says Tanner has had a little more time with the team. Talking about McKee, of course. I wouldn't underestimate his ability. He has some really good-looking receivers. The thing is, like, there is no faith in Tanner McKee, really. I think our guy BG Little Neck will have some high faith in him tonight. So he'll be in the Discord talking about that.

But then you've got Makai Lemon and Darius Cooper and like no one's going to give them credit for much yet or anything, nor should they probably. But I get like their opportunity is here and it's now. So why not tonight? That is a way to if you're going to go that route, I think get after it. So I like that call. Twenty four. Twenty Philly would be considered the upset as the underdog at home, but still could happen. That seems realistic.

Yeah, and we mentioned Davante Adams Smith's ownership – or being out, and that's why we're talking about it. But Wicks is out as well, and he played last week. So they're down with their top two receivers. That's also another reason it's a little harder for McKeon. Another reason I like Saquon quite a bit is because, yeah, if they're going to control this game and win – It's hard not to see it be on the back of Saquon a good bit.

So, yeah, I'll start with Eagles side, Cooper, Lemon. One interesting note is we're showing Lemon for more ownership. Lemon's higher, and it's pretty close, but still. Six hundred more, more ownership, and the props are, like, identical. Both of them are sitting at about forty, so...

It's only six hundred dollars but any lemon team can definitely go cooper I have more cooper interest if I had to choose again savings less ownership another interesting note is the Elijah Moore Hollywood Brown stuff it's a $2,000 difference but DraftKings doesn't have any Elijah Moore prop but they do have hollywood which I thought was a little interesting Again, I don't really know what to make of that, I guess, but one guy is $2,000 cheaper.

So I just naturally, I like Elijah more a little bit, but he might be two, three times as own. So I do have interest in both of them for sure. For value outside of that. Yeah. That's, those are the four guys you're playing for the Eagles receiver room. And yeah, I mentioned also Turpin. He is going, he is out for Dallas today.

So Jonathan Mingo, he dropped a touchdown too against Green Bay last week, but he was on the field last, a little bit. And yeah, people, when they go down, they're going to want to go Cooper. They're going to want to go lemon, probably even Elijah Moore in Hollywood. So I do think Jonathan Mingo at $1,000 is a pretty interesting click to get difference.

And yeah, I, every time Cowboys are on showdownShowdown (Captain and MVP)NFL Showdown lets you select players from one football game, including eligible quarterbacks, running backs, receivers, tight ends, kickers and team defenses. Your Captain or MVP receives the contest's scoring multiplier.Compare complete lineups with different players in the multiplier slot. Leaving salary unused can reduce duplication, but do not sacrifice meaningful scoring potential just to make your lineup unusual.Read the full definition of Showdown, I feel like I always say it, but floor noise, probably my favorite play at ownership and price. He runs the same amount of routes as all of them. I keep waiting for the day that he finally hits. He did actually, I think he was on the winner for the Packers. He got there. I think he was in that last game for sure. He got there in garbage time.

Like before it was the last drive and he got that, but Hey, it counts as the same. So any Pickens lineup can easily go floor and a stuff like that. So, uh, yeah, that's the, it's a great wide receiver room. It's on both sides. And it's like what you said, there's a lot of like flips to do here.

Like on, you can't do much when there's an eleven K and a $9,000 guy over there, but between Florida, a $5,000 $3,800 lemon, $3,200 Cooper Hollywood at twenty eight, eight hundred, like in that range, eight to $5,000 that's just leave money range. Who cares? Who have already just talked about leaving a bunch of money. I'm always leaving a bunch of money. It's like, who gives a shit? And then you just talk about it again.

It's like the lemon versus Cooper thing. It's a medium projectionProjectionsDFS projections estimate a player's fantasy points for an upcoming slate using expected opportunities, performance and the contest's scoring rules. They describe an expected result, not a guaranteed score.Check the projection's update time and assumed role before using it. If news is already included, adjusting again for that same news can double-count its effect.Read the full definition of Projections on paper, but because people already have it, it almost goes in people's brains as like a wide receiver, one wide receiver too, because they use the price to dictate it. We, we see in games, uh, you know, I use the one all the time that the Eagles, it was, um, AJ Brown was the highest price and Dotson beat him. The first game to start the season the year after the one in the Super Bowl.

And it's like Dotson wrecked him. It's one game. Who is the wide receiver one in that game? AJ Brown. Who became the wide receiver one for what we care about tonight? DraftKings scoring is whoever became the result. So it's like people just are giving that crown to Lemon. It could definitely be Darius Cooper. And maybe Darius wants to outdo his guy, Omar Cooper Jr., who came through again yesterday. Did you see that? This guy's a baller himself. Talk about a baller back-to-back weeks.

That was crazy. Geno was up there, by the way, too. If you had Geno, Cooper, and Mason Taylor. Told you guys. Mason Taylor had like twenty-eight fantasy points or something crazy. I somehow had him on teams. I was like, wow, that's insane. But yeah, that stack, we talked about it. It was interesting. Yeah, if that's a showdown game, all of them outscored Garrett Wilson right there. Just yesterday's game, that's on the island today.

You just left three grand was the optimalOptimal LineupAn optimal lineup is a legal roster that maximizes fantasy points under the salary cap and roster rules. After games, it uses actual scores; before games, a projected optimal uses estimated scores and any lineup restrictions you set.When reviewing an optimal, replace its most surprising scorer with a realistic pregame alternative. Check whether the remaining construction still offered a credible path to winning your contest.Read the full definition of Optimal Lineup that you left in a solo shipper. So you can look at it like that. Big time. I love that analogy of just bringing it across, right? Or example of just saying, like, just think about games yesterday. We talk about it all the time. It's like, this is what we're doing it for. And again, if you have an optimizer, it can make your life a little bit easier.

But for those hand-building, you know, that's how you don't land on the lineup that turns three hundred thousand into $3,000. No shade. We have Plenty of people are part of our team. People win that tournament. I'm just saying to each their own. If you put that into your, some people put it in as a piece of their portfolio and win it. Some don't want to play for that type of win.

But for the people, a lot of people out there, my buddy sent me a text. Shout out to him. Congrats. He had like forty five bucks, three lineups.

Played that one he's not trying to think about do I drop down this he'll take whatever he gets turned out to be $3,200 and he cashed another one so it's like you know $3,300 bucks on forty five that's very nice return on investment so just think about what you're playing and what you're doing but there also is other ways to attack it if you want to take on more risk and just have the guy that you know nobody else has in that spot with the money left over that will pay off a ton if it's correct so title.

I'll stay with you on tight end, man. We talked about Goedert Ferguson. Someone mentioned earlier, Brevin span Ford, there's backups, et cetera, et cetera. But what are you thinking here at these prices? Cause some of them are right around the same range as lemon and Cooper. Yeah, and they're all going to be lower owned relative.

Like Ferguson, we talk about him all the time, and I forget Avery or the car salesman, the fresh-looking dude, he mentioned that Spanford closed the gap, and he did ever since that ball hit Ferguson in the helmet against the Buccaneers. Man, that was painful.

Yeah painful they lost the game because of it um yeah I mean he spanford really closed the gap and he looks good spanford's been around the Cowboys for a little bit and it seems like he's gaining more and more trust enough so where the props is like yeah fourteen for spanford and like twenty for Ferguson so it most definitely has closed a lot in eighteen hundred so any cooper lemon team Hollywood Brown you can go to spanford I do have quite a bit of interest in him in single digits I also just think because I want to get different a little bit, plug in Goedert, go to Ferguson.

He's still going to be out there. He's still a red zone target. It wasn't too long ago when Rio took second because of Ferguson as well. I do like it. I think I like the Ferguson stuff a little more, like when you are playing a Saquon captain or if you're playing for Gary, a thirty one thirty game or when they do have to drop back and throw a little bit more. Other than that, I don't really like Schoonmaker much.

Spanford has definitely taken over the role. On the Eagles side, Goedert definitely can make the case for. After that, I think it's pretty difficult. Like Johnny Muntz, he's out there some, but he is just a strict blocker. And then I guess Zach Ertz, I don't... He didn't play last week before he had, what, seven snaps, thirteen snaps. I don't think you really got to get to these guys. He has a real price, too, so he actually has to do something.

I think that's just a little too – I mean, yeah, if you want a solo ship, sure, but it's not something I'm going to be looking to do on this slateSlateA slate in DFS is the set of games, races, fights or tournament rounds covered by a contest. It determines which events your player selections can come from and which performances count toward your score.Before building, open the contest details and check the included events, scoring period and lock rules. Do not assume two sites offer identical slates just because both call them the main slate.Read the full definition of Slate. So Spanford and Ferguson at ownershipOwnershipOwnership is the percentage of lineups in a contest that include a given player. Projected ownership is an estimate made before lock; actual ownership is posted once the contest locks.Ownership isn't something to avoid; it's something to build around. The goal is understanding how the field is likely to build, then finding your edge relative to that.Read the full definition of Ownership. I like the Cowboys tight ends. Yeah, and I like the – when you had the point earlier of just like, you know, the wide receiver one versus two and outscoring each other in that, I thought it was also a good one here.

Where did it go from – How do we get so many comments in here so fast? It's like there was one there. Do you see the one about Zay Flowers? I'll try and find it. There it is. Here, Michael. Thank you. So, you know, when people talk about like, oh, the Eagles are going to suck tonight. They're not going to put up any points. It's like, what if it's just Lemon that you need? Or just Cooper that you need?

It's like sometimes people forget, like, oh, this team sucks. They're not going to put up any points. Cleveland sucks. And a bunch of guys crushed it yesterday on Cleveland. Or... Tennessee sucks. There's no way they're going to put a point. Cam Ward's a piece of shit. Well, if you think that, but they still put up points. Couldn't they come through Pollard and his backup running back is out and there's a chance like you just don't know. But it's like it's not really about that.

Again, we care about fantasy points. So it's you're going to get whatever you get from these guys. But the point of what he's making is like even with thirteen points, Zay Flowers had thirty ish or something yesterday. It's just it's it's all fantasy points, point per reception, et cetera, et cetera. Shout out to my man, Max Asoda. Yeah, following in your footsteps with the fourth place. Milly Maker there. Let's try and get three spots better, my friend, for this week with the main event there.

That'd be nice. But all right. I don't have too much else there. What do you got at tight end for yourself? Anything you want to add? Well, the same mindset as a title here. The one thing I will add with Ferguson, I know it's been frustrating, but now he's priced where just a touchdown could be good enough. I mean, all the way down there at like $4,400.

So the price has come down enough where we don't need him to go out and catch five balls for sixty yards and a touchdown. Most Likely, most Likely we don't need that. So. Him, yeah, Spanford, Goedert, I like. Nothing really more to add. And then with the kickers and defenses, I'm in on the kickers and mostly out on the defenses. Yeah, this pricing tonight is just crazy the way we don't see a dynamic like this very often. So it does make it interesting.

Even at this, like you said, it's $2,000 more for Goedert than Ferguson. It's like people typically like Dallas, but because they're going to be heavy on Lamb and Pickens on the Eagles side, it's the opposite because like, hey, I'm going to be on Goedert.

Hard to pick between they're playing enough of these guys but it looks like right now if you can just go look at ownership it's not a secret that lamb and Pickens will be higher owned than Ferguson but on the other side it is it's only slightly more like people still have to fit these guys in where they do but they are more on Goedert and not on the receivers so there's like there's some flips to be had there as well I think all right anything on kickers and defenses hoop that you got Yeah, I just – I'm in on the kickers.

I'll play both the kickers and minimal exposure to the defenses is where I'm at tonight. And I'll let you look up FanDuel while I go to title here. Title, kickers and Ds for you. Yeah, opposite of hoop. I like the defenses more, mainly for the ownershipOwnershipOwnership is the percentage of lineups in a contest that include a given player. Projected ownership is an estimate made before lock; actual ownership is posted once the contest locks.Ownership isn't something to avoid; it's something to build around. The goal is understanding how the field is likely to build, then finding your edge relative to that.Read the full definition of Ownership. You're going to get like a one and a half, maybe even two X price or ownership difference between them.

And I would also like like Eagles D $3,400 lemons, $3,800 Cooper's $3,200. They're going to get squeezed very heavily if they can. Eagles D can outscore them. And also Dax made I mean, what he threw two red zone picks or something against the Packers last week and the Cowboys taking on a backup quarterback. Without DeVonta Smith and Wicks, I could see both defenses doing well. I like the one you had earlier with the Cowboys in the five ones too.

Again, way more common when you go into those, I get it, but I already explained multiple ways to get different with those five ones. So lots of ways that you can go there, but it just makes more sense in those. And then obviously if you have like Javonte Williams at the captain, I think putting the Eagles DN is a pretty good idea too, just because it's, you're setting yourself up to continue to put yourself in those positions. Our man, Sean Sully getting sharper.

He's dialed in right now. I know that.

So he came in here with this one, just like when you talked about it, bringing that up so um you know steven now is calling cooper two plus tds I think it'd be a pretty good what's his anytime on one for cooper oh let's check it out I know it's definitely uh it's definitely out there so it's gonna be plus two four yeah two was plus $2,200 one is plus we know that plus two forty is uh for him to score one the same as Ferguson well it only takes one I guess but man these odds on touchdowns are insane terrible horrible just horrible all right uh what did you find on FanDuel Hoopster what do we got there really not much of a difference uh george

Pickens look he's under $10,000 everyone else is all the main guys are over $10,000 he's $9,800 uh Goedert and Ferguson prices are very similar Goedert is $7,200 Ferguson is $7,000 so only a two hundred dollar difference between uh those two guys uh kickers d's you got lemon and cooper same basically same price fifty eight and fifty six so that's pretty similar to what we're seeing over on DraftKings uh where is damian Pierce's $8,800 so $8,800 that is going to be a very You want to be contrarianContrarianA contrarian play or lineup is one built around choices most of the field will not make, such as low-owned players, unpopular teams or an unusual salary structure.Pick one or two contrarian spots per lineup and ground each in a real reason. The rest of the roster can look like the field.Read the full definition of Contrarian, play Damian Pierce tonight because I don't think anyone's playing him on either site.

You have Elijah Moore, eighteen hundred. Very cheap option. Really, there's not too much of a difference, really, between the two sites tonight. Yeah, I was going to say, I don't see that much, but I guess like it's all relative to each spot title. Did you see anything stood out? Like, I think it's like pretty close across the board.

Uh man even like yeah because like Pickens is $13,500 versus $16,500 and then you go to FanDuel it's $14,700 $18,300 which standard with the pricing and the salary difference but yeah I don't see too much else there I guess Ferguson is the main one right Ferguson same price as well two hundred bucks less or whatever you know three hundred at the captain or mvp sorry so title anything else you want to add No, it feels really similar.

Maybe Saquon's a little higher on FanDuel, but I think you're going to get three three builds, even some four two Eagles with the studs being from the Dallas side. And then if people do punt, I think middling builds feel more comfortable because Lemon and Cooper price is five, six, five, eight versus the $3,000 range. Obviously, though, it's. The pricing's different.

So five, eight is not the equivalent to five, eight on DraftKings due to the extra $1,000 you are, you are $60,000 versus $50,000 in terms of the salary. But I think Elijah Moore, when people do go down, he's going to be the one a lot of people want to go to at eighteen hundred. You have Mingo at sixteen hundred as a pivot and then you got span forward at $2,600.

I think both are very live on both sides of the price to outscore Elijah Moore at a lot less ownershipOwnershipOwnership is the percentage of lineups in a contest that include a given player. Projected ownership is an estimate made before lock; actual ownership is posted once the contest locks.Ownership isn't something to avoid; it's something to build around. The goal is understanding how the field is likely to build, then finding your edge relative to that.Read the full definition of Ownership. Yeah, and I think that is a good point. So all I'll say to add is my two cents now just looking at it a little bit closer is it's way more about like your roster composition and thinking about those things when you're building, especially if you're building by hand, as I know most people do.

We're using optimizersOptimizerAn optimizer is software that builds DFS lineups within a site's salary cap and roster rules. It uses projected fantasy points, your settings and, in some tools, simulations to select combinations for a chosen goal.Build a small test batch first. Check which players and combinations repeat, and investigate why before increasing the lineup count or changing settings.Read the full definition of Optimizer, but just to note it, you just said a great one. Like if people land on, people are way more Likely to play Flournoy at $5,400 than the expensive $5,600 and $5,800 receivers. Right. They'd be like, that's it's a deal over there versus it's more expensive on DraftKings. But then they would have Elijah Moore potentially to fit the studs in.

You could flip it and play one of those Lemon or Cooper plays that are more expensive than Flournoy over there, but then drop it down to a Brevin span board or something like that instead. And you'll have to have a little bit of money left over, like for yourself to, to make up for that. But that's an example of how you can do it. Mingo is even cheaper. Like you said, he's sixteen hundred.

So I think it's, um, Elijah Moore and Flournoy is the same price as Cooper and Mingo, but one is going to be way higher owned than the other. And it's exact two V two. So again, not saying it'll fit your build or just to do it, to do it, but look at your build for more things like that. That's where I would say. And then the last thing is MVPs over there. Always get a little bit boosted up to the big dogs.

So you're going to see Javonte, Dak, Lamb, Pickens, similar to DraftKings, but it's even more. Let's say Dak is eighteen on DraftKings. On FanDuel MVP, he could be like twenty-five to thirty because it's just the way people set it up. All right, Hoop, any final thoughts from you before we get out of here? No, good luck to everyone and let's finish the week strong. Yeah. If you guys want to check us out, go to ShipItNation.com.

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