NFL DFS: Week 9 Ambush Preview
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(Editor's note: This is a preview of Steve Renner's weekly DFS article.)
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THE AMBUSH, WEEK 9
This article is not only intended to help YOU the reader out with your NFL DFS enjoyment for the week, but it’s also my Bible that I will rely upon each week to do my lineups, contest selection, bets, GIFs, angry twitter rants or whatever else I need for that given weekend of NFL action.
Here’s a recap of what this article covers for FullTime DFS subscribers
- This article will cover plays that I am using on my MAIN lineup & what that is being entered into.
- This article will cover plays that I am using on my SECOND tier lineups & what contests those are being entered into.
- This article will cover plays that I am using on my THIRD tier lineups & what contests those are being entered into.
- This article will cover my favorite weekly BETS for the weekend games.
- This article will cover who I feel is chalk and how it should be addressed.
- This article will cover all my NFL thoughts in one spot.
What are The Ambush plays? These are my plays that I feel warrant the most attention for a given week. It’s a mix of three types of players/teams each week. We’ll cover the stud you gotta have no matter what. We’ll cover the contrarian pivots. We’ll cover my favorite games/stacks of the week. This preview won't include my plays! So you gotta subscribe!
WEEKLY UPDATES
No weather issues this week and we have a shorter slate with only ten games on the main slate: six early games and four late games. It should be a fantastic slate to have a couple TVs on watching all the action this weekend, which to me has lots of very good games.
One of the easy ways to tell if it’s going to be a nice week is just look at the games and ask yourself who you would take in SURVIVOR leagues? Most folks took San Francisco or might be trying to use Dallas if they have them on MNF, but do you still have Buffalo left to use vs Washington? Are you gonna use the Jets on the road in South Beach? Just going through the games and you can see where we have some interesting spots where games could be close and thus that gives us a nice DFS slate.
Now, the chalk is pretty clear in a few spots but that also means just one or two pivots can really accelerate your lineup if you nail them properly and I wouldn’t feel pressured to play someone because the narrative tells you that you have to do that.
The best game this week without a doubt is the battle between Jameis Winston and Russell Wilson and I’ll cover more of that later but just know that when the game comes on at 4:05 PM ET.
Moving forward with the Week 9 overview now, I spent an increased amount of time in traffic this week and thus I felt I would torture myself with listening to others “free” analysis that is out there well after I had done my notes and thoughts on last Monday.
I was dying at some of the sh*t I would hear. It was all about Detroit vs Oakland, Green Bay vs LA Chargers and Chicago vs Philadelphia. A bunch of zombies out there if you ask me and plenty of folks who are falling into the insanity column where they keep doing the same thing and expecting different results. You gotta think slightly outside of the box each week when looking at the games and use that to capitalize without sitting there and feeling like "OMG, 50 callers called into the radio station asking about some guy I was never gonna play and now I feel I gotta play him!"
Here’s a quick example of each game and something you might not have thought of … Welcome, to the Ambush game by game slate overview — and if you have zero interest in this, then just stay for the GIFs…
BEARS at EAGLES – Yes, this is a better spot for Trubisky and probably a good time for him to eventually get better because it cannot keep trending the way that it is going. But he’s not suddenly going to come out and play a perfect game now is he? Probably not, but he should play well. Wait. Stop. Right there. We just answered the question, if he is going to play better then we can like the Bears skill players but if he isn’t going to be great (because he isn't) then … oh yes. Eagles D scores this week. And it’s a weak defense week all around. Simple. Smooth. Excellent….
COLTS at STEELERS – Two weeks ago others complained about .....
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