 Thursday night football coming up tonight and what a thrilling matchup it is indeed as Washington is taking on the New York Giants. We're here to break things down from a betting perspective also from a single game DFS perspective and let you know what we are on for tonight and take your questions live on air. This is the FanDuel Live Q&A on the FanDuel YouTube, Twitch, Facebook and Twitter channels, my name is Jim Sonnis. I am a senior writer and analyst for numberfire.com joined here by Olivia Moody. You know, live from girls who bet every Wednesday night. She is here with us today to talk some Thursday night football. He calls you, of course, no live from the volume as well live. Welcome to the FanDuel Live Q&A. How are things going for you today? Things are going good. You know, I kind of talked to you a little bit earlier before we jumped on here about this Thursday night football matchup is definitely not my favorite. However, we are going to find the diamond in the rough and figure it out. That's just what we do. It's our job. So, you know, nonetheless, I think I've cooked up a couple of player props for tonight and have a have a bet that I like. But this is a tough one. This is definitely not my favorite Thursday night football matchup. I'm just being honest. The good thing is we can still win some money. No matter how bad the matchup may be, we can still try to win some money as always. No matter where you are watching, you can get your questions in for today. YouTube, Twitch, Facebook and Twitter. I see Savannah is in the comments section already. Baseball coming up at 430 for today. So if you want to chat some baseball for, honestly, a worse slate than this game, I will tell you that. Farmerfall does get scratched. Yeah, it's not great. So we're going to talk about Houston pitching situation at 430. So stick around for that. Talk about the main slate. We're going to talk through Thursday night football for tonight. I see Dennis over in the Facebook chat is saying, hail to Washington. OK, and he says, Heineke over 20 yards lock. Is that for the longest completion, Dennis? Not sure what that one is for. But we'll get back to these questions here in a bit. Jay is on the Giants, it appears. He says, big blue there. Now, Liv, I want to talk to you because I think that a lot of the way you want to look at things from a betting perspective is deciding how you think this game will play out first. Because a lot of that does dictate the way we view the game overall. So when you're looking at this game, what's going to stand out to you? Like are you doing this as being a situation where you expect it to be low scoring? Are you expecting one team to dominate? And what do you think here? So initially, this total opened up at 46. And when I saw that and then I heard about the QB situation with Heineke starting, I loved the under. The total has moved now to 40 in the Fandall Sportsbook, which is pretty stinking low and makes me very nervous. So I do think we see a low scoring matchup here. But that 40 feels a little bit like a trap. I could see us losing by maybe one, two. I don't know, it just feels a little nerve wrecking for me to put any money on the total. But I do think we see a low scoring matchup. The reality is these two teams are pretty solid on defense, not so much on offense. So I think we just see a lot of great defense. That being said, Heineke, this is only his third career start. So there's a lot of just unknowns for me with this Washington football team. And I take full responsibility for the fact that I just don't watch them enough. I don't watch this team enough. I don't look at a Sunday slate and go, wow, I really want to watch the Washington football team. And that's just me being transparent and me being honest. So I don't want to say that I think that Heineke is going to have his third career start and absolutely crap the bed. Because I don't know if that's true or not. However, I just don't know enough about him. It does make me nervous that it's his third career start. He is going up against a pretty solid Giants defense. So that being said, there is one play that I liked. Because again, staying away from that total. But I do think that because the pressure will be on Heineke a little bit, I like him to do a little less passing and a little more rushing. That being said, if you're comfortable with the line that he's sitting at for his rushing yards, you take that over. If you like that, if you think that the passing yards is too high, you take the under. I'm on the under for passing yards because I do think he's going to be rushing a bit more. Not sure how much. So I don't want to take the over on his rushing yards. But I do think we see him rushing more than passing this game. So if you agree with me, I definitely think that there's some player props for Heineke that you can look at in the Fandall Sportsbook. So I'm of a similar mind with you when it comes to Heineke. And it's about Heineke, but it's also about, I think, the approach Washington will take to this game. And I think the question that I have to answer to myself first before I decide how to bet this game is, how do I view Taylor Heineke relative to Ryan Fitzpatrick? Because that's going to dictate a lot of things here. Based on the line in this game, it does seem like Fandall Sportsbook does you as being a downgrade for Washington to have Taylor Heineke, like I have my numbers. And I can manually update things based on injuries. I didn't change anything based on Heineke starting. Maybe that's a total flub on my part. Maybe I'm underestimating Ryan Fitzpatrick, but I didn't change anything. Because I didn't have a super high opinion of Fitzpatrick because oftentimes veteran journeymen are veteran journeymen for a reason. They're not sticking with the same team for a long time. So I had Washington's passing offense projected as being below average. And I've kept it there. Heineke in the times he has played has been a tiny bit below average, but like in line with what I expect out of Fitzpatrick. So I actually kept things pretty even there. The difference for me is I'd expect Washington to be a bit more run heavy in this game. So Heineke under 2.45 and a half, I think that that is a definitely enticing one for me in terms of the straight up player props. I think that that stands out. But also, do you want to have something that DJ had mentioned over on Facebook? He says Antonio Gibson is MVP. Now this is moving over to some DFS talk really briefly. He likes Antonio Gibson as MVP. And DJ, I agree. I agree with that wholeheartedly. If I have a single entry lineup for this game, Antonio Gibson at MVP, I think is the way I'd want to go. It's not just because I do expect him to be a bit more conservative for this game, but it's also because Antonio Gibson got outstanding usage in the first game this year because he had 20 carries and five targets and that is a whole lot of chances, a whole lot of rushing volume. I don't expect to be a lot of high scoring fantasy guys in this game. So Gibson to me is a really solid option there. So to me, both things for DFS and for betting revolve around my assumption that Washington's offense may be a bit more conservative, might keep things on the ground a bit more. I find that all to be pretty enticing. So Liv is checking out the Heineke underpassing yards at 2.45 and a half. I think that that is the right way things to go. Check out some comments over here over on YouTube talking to Salvatore. Salvatore says that Daniel Jones is 4-0 versus Washington, six touchdowns and no picks. I know that's true, Salvatore. I get a little bit nervous about that though because our boy Danny Dimes loves coughing ups and turnovers. And also that bringing me to another bet I do like over here. Let's go over here and check out any time touchdown score. This was plus 420 yesterday and it is plus 480 today. Okay, so this one actually moved against me, but the Washington defense to score a touchdown is plus 480 and against Daniel Jones, I kind of don't hate it. I think that that's the way I'm leaning here. So I don't know, I think that's why I'm leaning Liv is I feel like this situation is I don't see a big downgrade from Fitzpatrick to Heineke, but I think it's a change in the way that they attack this game and being a bit more rush heavy than they would be otherwise. Yeah, I was just gonna say I don't, again, I don't know Heineke well enough to kind of determine if he's a downgrade per se, but I do agree that I think it just changes the way that they're gonna approach this Thursday night football matchup. I actually do have another player prop on the other side, looking at the Giants here. One thing that I found interesting was that of the yards that Washington allowed to the Chargers in week one, 78% of them were passing yards. So I'm trying to think, okay, which receivers do I like on this Giants team to have a game? Well, Sterling Shepherd is coming off of week one with 133 yards and a touchdown. So I kind of like him to be Daniel Jones guy in this game. His over for receiving yards is what I'm looking at as another prop that I like just because again, I do think it's gonna be primarily rushing in this one, but if there is passes going out, I like him to be the guy that's gonna grab him because he's coming off of a really, really strong week one. So I'm actually riding with his over in receiving yards as well as the under in passing for Heineke. And I think that makes sense too for Shepherd because it's not just week one, he did get awesome usage in week one, you're right about that, but also camp rapport for very good on Shepherd. He was someone who a lot of people had written off once they took it areas Tony in the first round with the thought process of, okay, Shepherd, I believe entering a contract here now, they're taking Tony to be like a replacement friend they brought in Kenny Galladay, but Shepherd still seemed to have a rapport with Daniel Jones. For me, if I'm looking at these receiving yardage props on the giant side of things, Darius Slayton at 35 and a half is interesting. I'm not sure I'd bet it there. I'd have to dig a bit more into it because I've not looked at this one yet, but I think 35 and a half is interesting mostly because Darius Slayton gets chunk targets. That's a weird term. I don't know if that's actually a thing, but like we'll call it chunk targets. He gets downfield looks, which means he can rack up a yardage in a hurry. I find that a little bit intriguing. The problem I have and the reason I'm not saying, oh, I want the over on this one, is you got to catch those. And that can sometimes be difficult when the quarterback is Daniel Jones. Again, no disrespect to him or anything, but you know, a little bit scary there. I see Dennis over on Facebook says he has Shepherd also. I mean, this is the over on his yardage total. So live Dennis on board with you for that one. Taking a look at some other thoughts here. Salvatore says the Giants shut down Gibson last year. That is true, but it's also important to keep in mind that the workload for Gibson now is different than it was last year. The context, the situation around him is very different because at that time, Gibson did not have the role he currently has. And that is as a featured back in this offense that I do expect to be pretty run heavy. I think that we can, if we're talking about daily fantasy again, very briefly, if you want justification for going DJ's route and potentially having Antonio Gibson in your MVP slot, I think that what you look at is the anytime touchdown score odds, he is minus 105. Nobody else shorter than plus 150. So clearly among the skill position guys are expecting him to potentially be, you know, find the paint stuff like that. If we go with the rushing yards, Gibson is up at 70 and a half. And then the receiving yards, he's at 18 and a half. So like if you cobble those together about 88 to 89 receiving yards, I think that this is a situation where when you add the workload together, I do think that Antonio Gibson is pretty intriguing as far as an MVP when it comes to DFS. Dennis also says he has a Chase Young pick six. That would go well with the Washington plus 480, anytime touchdown here. Now, I know you mentioned before we got on, you were interested in the same game parlay. And I was of difficulties with these. I'm gonna leave this one to you. Was there one that stood out to you here with regards to the same game parlay for this game? Yeah, so I'm taking those two player props that I've already talked about. And then I must hate myself because I'm riding with an under and I don't know why I continue to do this. But unders are the worst thing to watch. Like the, and it gives me anxiety every single time. Yes. For whatever reason, I still do it to myself. So I actually like the under for the team total for Washington. Again, I think this is a low scoring matchup. I am really struggling to pick a side in this one. So the bets that I picked were kind of my way of betting on this game without betting on this game, if that makes sense. I do think we see a low scoring matchup. And I liked Washington's line. I believe it was a 22 and a half, maybe 21 and a half. Yeah, 22 and a half. So I liked the under there. Again, I might regret that because unders are super, super horrible to watch. And most times I just have to turn the TV off because I'm like, I can't handle the anxiety anymore. But that along with the two player props that I talked about Sterling Shepherd and Heineke Under for his passing yards. That is the same game parlay I cooked up. So fingers crossed, same game parlays are tough. They are great value when you can hit them. But when you don't, it's, you know, it is what it is. This Thursday night football matchup like I alluded to in the beginning is just not the best. So we're just gonna rock with it and keep our fingers crossed. I think the key is to find bets that mesh well together. And you know, I think that again, it goes back to what we were talking about before where you want to find with the way you think the game plays out. I think that looking at these three together, they do, they can correlate well because under 22 and a half means you're expecting either a low scoring game or a slow game. And those are two things that set up well for Heineke Under two 45 and a half. So I would say that those two things correlate well together. The Shepherd one independent of those unless you think it's a shootout. So I would say that does blend pretty well together. And I think that that does set up well. So if you're gonna do a same game parlay make sure they are bets that can coincide, that can coexist and stuff like that. And these are bets that can do that. Looking over to Facebook, Dennis says, Liv, I put my most money on your bets two hours ago or your two bets eight hours ago. So Dennis already on the live side of things. We got some mesh here. That's good. It's good to hear. And also that always scares me. I'm like, oh my God, of course, of course you put your money on my bets. Now I'm like nervous all day. Don't want to lose anyone money. But if you liked them enough to tell them, I love that. He said eight hours ago. So you're just on the same wavelength. It's not even like, it's not your fault. You're on the same wavelength that is good. Let's talk to Devin on YouTube. Devin says, Daniel Jones, the best quarterback to come out of the draft since Marcus Mariota and Jared Goff. Devin, how dare you? Very rude to make fun of Jared Goff and Marcus Mariota. Devin is a good dude, but upset. We are now fighting just to let you know, Devin. Also Marcus entered his quad. So especially hurtfully bring up my boy Marcus right now. I dare you. Yeah, just rude, rude across the board, Devin. DJ said, should a kicker go in the DFS for this game? So DJ, what I would say for that is it depends on how you think the game plays out. I'm sorry to keep going back to that phrase, but it really does dictate everything when it comes to player props and it comes to single game because you want to decide how this game plays out. So let's say DJ, you've Antonio Gibson in your MVP slot. That to me says that you don't expect Taylor Heinecke to put the ball in the end zone all that often. So what that says is you should be okay skewing towards a kicker. And it also says to me that you think that Washington will get a lead here. And the way to think about kickers, DJs, first of all, don't put them in your MVP. But second of all, you want to use kickers in situations where you think that team has the game flow in hand because teams don't settle for field goals when they're down big. So if you think Washington gets a lead via Antonio Gibson or whatever it may be, and you think they get a lead, can allow themselves to kind of dictate the way this game goes, that situation where the kicker makes sense. I will say though, the flip side is also true. Like if you think the Giants handle it, then a kicker makes sense there. Other thing that I'd mentioned, DJ with regard to just kicking or thinking about kickers in general is quarterbacks and kickers can cannibalize each other because quarterbacks are very touchdown dependent for daily fantasy. Kickers are field goal dependent and those can be antithetical a lot of times. So in a situation like the one you said, DJ, where you've got Antonio Gibson at MVP, I do think a kicker makes sense there. So just kind of ask yourself how it plays that, ask yourself if the kicker meshes with that projected game flow and go from there. Kyle on YouTube says, are we staying away from Saquon for tonight? I am, I'll mention that right away. Very wary of this, but live on, talk to you. Check out some numbers here for Saquon Barkley. The rushing prop is at 40 and a half. That is down from 48 and a half. So that has been shooting down and there is, I don't think it's receiving prop. Yeah, no receiving prop on Saquon Barkley. So the rushing prop has gone down to 40 and a half. I feel like that has taken away any value that there may have been previously on this number. What do you think about Saquon Barkley for tonight from a prop's perspective? I mean, again, I think we both agree that this is gonna be a pretty rush heavy game. It's just a matter of... Will he be that guy getting his rushes? Yeah. Which again, hello, welcome to gambling. I pretty much just pointed out what everyone is like the obvious, but it's with a matchup like this, I just, I'm too nervous to, for a guy like Saquon put my money. Now when the live, the line movement's also a little interesting to me and kind of raises a question. Like, hmm, I wonder why the line moved all the way down to 40 and a half. It's a big move. Yeah. It's a big move. So that kind of right there, I'm all about looking at bizarre or strange line movement. And typically what my brain does when I see weird line movement is it just says stay away. So in this situation, personally, if it dropped, if it went from 48 and a half to 40 and a half, something's up and I don't know about it and I'm just saying away. That would be my personal approach on this just because I think line movement is very telling in the world of sports gambling and that's a lot. That's a big drop from 48 and a half to 40 and a half. That is a drop of, oh man, 17%. I'm trying to do math in my head, which was a disastrous decision on my part. Trying to do math in my head on the fly. I think it's like 17%, but it's a big move. And I think that, you know, you see that line movement and it tells you, don't chase that steam. It tells you you should have gotten in before. If you didn't get in before, don't get in now. I think that's the way I do that there with Saquon Barkley. That's not always the case. There are situations where there can be lingering value. I don't think that's true with Saquon Barkley at 40 and a half. DJ says, Heineke will be on the bench drinking Heineken after the first half. Are you saying they're gonna move to Kyle Allen? Oh boy, oh boy, DJ, that could be pretty rough. That wouldn't be good for your Antonio Gibson MVP lineup. We want Washington to at least be competent to keep them in the game. So for your Gibson MVP lineup, I am hoping that does not happen. Dennis says Washington football team 49 to three. Okay, so that's, Dennis is heavy on the football team for tonight. Well, half-time lead, half-time lead is what Dennis is saying. Okay, so little aggressive there, Dennis. I like the enthusiasm though. I like it. That is a big, that's a big, I don't know if I agree with that one, but. Yeah, that's aggressive. DJ is asking McClaren or Galaday for 50 plus yards. So this one can relate to both DFS and single game, or some betting. So let's go over here and check out the DFS side of things first. We have got Terry McClaren at $12,000 and we have Kenny Galaday at $10,500. Check out Galaday's usage in the first game here. Six targets for 64 yards. That was a game where they were down pretty big half-time to Liz Denver Broncos. Are you a Broncos fan who just live in Colorado? Of course I'm a Broncos fan and Teddy Bridgewater. My boy, his freaking game one was awesome. I was stoked. Yes, I'm a big Broncos girl. I was hoping that no one remembered that I said to bet the Broncos under eight and a half. So let's just hope that everyone has been brainwashed and does not remember that happening because that did not go well. I also bet the Giants Moneyline with last week. That went great. How dare you? I know, you know? How dare you? No, you know what? I'm going to be honest with you though, the beginning of that game, I was nervous. I was like, okay, neither of these teams are really showing up right now. And what's crazy is I wasn't even worried about Teddy. It was his receivers. It was like dropped passes that should not have been dropped. I was like, oh my God, you guys get it together. But thankfully they pulled it off. But yeah, wow. The only thing I can say in my defense is that I bet it before Teddy won the job. So... There you go. Hey, and I'm not mad. I'm not mad. That does not make it a good bet. It was still a bad bet on my part, but maybe it was less bad. If we assume... It was less bad, for sure. I thought it would be luck. And I was, I was, I love Teddy too. And that takes up what it would have taken the under for the wins as well. So I don't care. Right. Exactly. So bad job by me. But either way, going back here to McLaurin and Galaday, I think the good thing for McLaurin DJ is that there's less competition for targets there with Curtis Samuel being out. But I just don't have a lot of faith in the way... Like from a single game perspective, the way I expect them to tackle this game. Maybe because Heinecke played decently while last year during the playoffs, they have enough faith to air it out. I just don't think that's how I would play things personally if I had my backup quarterback in there and stuff like that. So a little bit nervous about that. And I would say, DJ, if like the number you've got is 50 and a half, I would stay away for both of them. I don't feel any inclination towards that. Let's go over here to the receiving props and see what those numbers actually... I think Galaday is a 53 and a half. He's a 53 and a half and McLaurin is at 69 and a half. Live an inclination for you towards them. I think both those numbers are pretty fair. What about you? Yes. And so just based off of that right there, again, Vegas is dangerously accurate for whatever reason. They always seem to know exactly how things are gonna play out. So in this situation, to the question of McLaurin or Galaday, based on where the lines are sitting, I'd probably go McLaurin because Vegas is pretty accurate for the most part and having him at 69 and a half definitely makes me feel good about having him. If you're asking about the comparison of McLaurin over Galaday, I would take McLaurin. So wheels up on F1, Terry McLaurin, there. DJ says, hey, at least Coralyn Sudden didn't get hurt this time. Also, deep cuts here, deep wounds. Really killed a Dynasty League last year. Also great to see him back and looking pretty good, I thought, in that first game. DJ is asking, should Logan Thomas be on the DFS radar? Don't mind that. Let me see what his salary is for today. He is 10,000. I would rather use Thomas and McLaurin at their respective salaries, especially because I feel like, you know, I think Thomas may have had a good rapport with Heinecke during the late stretch run last year. I could be incorrect about that, but I'm pretty sure they did. But Thomas, he'll be out there every snap. Doesn't seem yardage upside as McLaurin does, but I do still think I think that Thomas at $10,000 does great out pretty well. Let's go back over here to check out the player property than anything else. One thing that you'd mentioned, Liv, was that you don't have a lot of faith and Daniel Jones is not a turn of the football. We do have some interception props over here. Let's see what the number is on Daniel Jones. I'm on the wrong tab. That's why, okay. It would help if I knew how to use the site that we're talking about here. The site can pretty much live on every single day. This site, also, I'm wearing my fan dual shirt. Like, you know, you think I would know how to work my way around here, but let's go down here. Okay, so Daniel Jones is minus 188 to throw a pick. I'm not gonna ask you about that number. Minus 188 is a long number. Any interest in plus 140 for Daniel Jones to not throw a pick tonight? A little bit of interest, just considering his record up against this Washington team and the fact that he has, I think someone in the chat said six touchdowns and no picks up against Washington. So just based off of that trend alone, because I would never lay money on minus 188. I mean, that's just, there's no value to me there. Based off of the trends of Daniel Jones up against this team, then that plus 140 does look a little enticing just because, I mean, it's plus money. Of course it looks enticing, but based off of the trends and the way he performs up against this team and then having, you know, just the question mark of the quarterback and we don't know how this Washington team is gonna go about this one just because their circumstances are different. The plus 140 definitely entices me. Yeah, I think if we get a fumble prop, like John Shearer in a fan dual sportsbook, if you're, if this somehow reaches you, we get a fumble prop on Daniel Jones. There we go. Let me know. I'll be in, I'll be in heavily, heavy interest on the over, whatever it may be. We had a question about kickers earlier from DJ Brandon, my colleague Brandon Cadulla says, he did research on single game slates last year and 58% of optimals had at least one kicker compared to 37% of all overall one game slate. So lower scoring games DJ does sound like those are more inclined to have a kicker in them. So it does go back to what I said before. You know, with Washington, if you want to go Gibson to MVP, I do think that it does set up well to go with a kicker there. Dennis says Jones will throw a pick. So Dennis is on over one pick for Daniel Jones for tonight. Now Liv, the main focus here was the Thursday night game, but also, hey, we've got you here. So if you, before we let you go, any interest for you, other stuff for Sunday on the potentially more fun games before you send you off? Yeah, I've got a couple of picks. I can just kind of briefly run through them. And I obviously will post a little bit more about them as we get closer to Sunday, just because you guys know you're better is that the lines will move and things will change and we may have a late scratch and things just happened. So I'm prepared for whatever, but for now, I do like a total in this week and it's an over, thank goodness, so that's under this week. I like the over 50 and a half in the Eagles 49ers game. Both teams were very highly offensive, not so hot on defense. I kind of have this phrase right now. Are the Eagles good or were the Falcons just really bad? So I guess this will be a true testament to that, but I do think very, very high offensive matchup between these two, the 49ers had what, 41 points and the Eagles had 32 and the 49ers allowed 33 to the Lions. So I think we just see a lack of defense and lots of scoring. So I like the over in that one. I also am still riding hot with the Cardinals. I said it a while ago that I was Cardinals plus three and I had quite a few people upset about that. I did not like the Cardinals up against the Titans, but I have been hot on this team since the beginning. So I'm riding with them again, minus three and a half up against the Vikings. I'm not worried about them up against a team that lost to the Bengals. I'm just not. Kyler Murray looked incredible. Chandler Jones on defense. I just love this team a lot right now. So that's another pick. And then I have girls who bet. Aaron K. Dole and I, we have a bet together and that is the Chiefs minus three and a half. They are healthy. The Ravens are not. And so, and Don Harbaugh, I think his record is one in four coming off of a loss on Monday night football. So with that trend, what you will, but again, an injured roster compared to a healthy Chiefs roster who played very well against the Browns in week one. It's just hard for me to not, not want to take Chiefs with the spread. So those are, those are some of the bets I'm rocking with on Sunday and we'll see things happen. But I will be posting a video tomorrow as well with some more player props for the Sunday Slate. So once they get posted, yeah, yeah. Nice. Okay, very good. And girls who bet you can find up on the Fandal YouTube page if missed it last night with Liv and Aaron, that is now posted every Wednesday at 8.30 is when they go live on the Fandal YouTube page talking about the upcoming Slate of Games. Check that out there because two very smart people and you want to hear what they had to say. Liv, where can people find the rest of your stuff as you get set for the weekend? Twitter, at Liv Moods, Instagram, at Liv Moods. And then I'll be on the Fandal, the Fandal YouTube here and there. And then also the volume sports Instagram. I'm going live tonight actually with Aaron. So we'll be talking about the Thursday night football game a little bit more and answering questions and things like that. So at Liv Moods on just about everything. Awesome. Well, Liv, thank you so much. I appreciate it. Check out Liv on Twitter at Liv Moods. Good luck to you tonight. And better luck to you for the more fun games. We appreciate you swinging by for today. Thank you. Alrighty, that was a lot of fun talking to Liv about this Thursday night football game. It should be a lot of fun. If you have lingering questions about Thursday night football, feel free to put in the chat. Like I'm fine talking about them as we go along here in part because the baseball slate kind of sucks, everyone. Sorry to let you know, but it ain't great. As always, get your questions in no matter where you're watching, we'll take them via YouTube, Twitch, Facebook or Twitter. Well, let's talk about some MLB DFS for today. And the key thing is something DJ just mentioned. Fremere Valdez is ouch, at least Garcia is in for Houston. So Jordan Montgomery is the top pitcher, came up 10 minutes ago. I will say DJ, not sure Montgomery is actually the top guy. I had him number two tonight. Oh, geez, of course. Oh wait, it's back signed in. How did that happen? I don't know how I signed in. I didn't do anything anyway. Either way, I would say I'm not totally sure that Montgomery is the top guy. Part of the reason is I don't think Garcia is like the worst option. I've got a diamond back there because Garcia is supposed to start tomorrow. It's facing the Rangers. Okay, so the numbers I have here are for the Rangers. I kind of think you could justify using Luis Garcia as your pitcher for tonight over Jordan Montgomery. The key issue with Garcia is he doesn't go deep in games. See here is past five pitch counts, 70, 90, 78, 80, 82. That's not ideal. And he's not gonna go super deep into, are you kidding me? Okay, well, I'll pull this out of, I'll log back in here in a second. But I do think that the key thing is that Garcia doesn't go super deep into games. And that does worry me a bit with regards to his outlook for tonight because we do need him to go deep into game. I know the score won't be super high. That is the one downside of using Luis Garcia for today is how deep will he go into this game? I'm not really sure. The good thing is I feel pretty confident saying that Luis Garcia will be effective while he is in there. And that's not something I can say for most guys tonight. It's not something I can say with confidence for Jordan Montgomery because, you know, not everything is all rosy for Montgomery either. So I think that when I'm looking at this slate here, I do think that there are routes to Garcia being the highest score for tonight. Let's go over here and check out the Sourford Garcia, $8,300. If you made me pick DJ between Luis Garcia and Jordan Montgomery, I feel like I'm gonna go Luis Garcia. I know it's short notice for him and stuff like that. Like that's kind of a bummer, but I do think that things are good enough where I can go. Let's pull up Garcia's game logs here and see how deep he goes in games in that low pitch count, five, five and two thirds, five, six and two thirds, five, five, six. So it doesn't go super deep, but you can see here he still gets strikeouts. So DJ, I think I'm gonna go with Luis Garcia number one pitcher for tonight because I just, I know I have Montgomery won this morning and I do feel like five out that, but I think if I can put Garcia in there instead, I'm gonna go Garcia. So it's Luis Garcia won Montgomery two for me for tonight. Dennis is asking, where does she say primal sports? It's the volume sports. It's Colin Cowherd's new site. So he has, like I think it's a podcast service and Liv does all of her podcasts over there. There's a lot of video work for them. So search for, I believe it's the volume sports on Twitter. That's where you can find Liv's work and find Liv on Twitter at LivMoods to find more. First up, but also girls who bet every Wednesday, 8.30 with her and Erica Dolan here on the Fandal YouTube page. So Vaughn, best stack for single entry. Let's pull up the implied totals here to see which teams project to be a little popular. The Yankees are gonna be popular. I can guarantee you that just because their implied total is outrageously high. It should be, I agree. They're a tremendous stack for today. If we're looking at these, I think the Phillies are pretty solid facing Kyle Hendricks. Not a team I'd expect people to go to in bunches necessarily but Hendricks has really struggled recently. He has always been a guy who has feasted on his ability to get some ground balls, limit hard contact. He's still doing that to an extent. As you can see here, the hard hit rate allowed is 30% over his past 11 starts if you were curve balls, but the results have shifted pretty heavily against him. So I'm not sure if it's situation where the Cubs like, okay, we don't wanna burn you in a year where we're not doing anything. So we're gonna have Kyle Hendricks kind of scale things back this year and try to make sure he can go to 2021 fresh. Although I'm not sure if I care about 2021 either. But with Hendricks, I'm kind of worried that they just aren't really gonna push him right now. And that to me says the Phillies do great out pretty well. So let's check out the Phillies line up here to see if it is up yet. It is up yet. We got Odubo Herrera batting leadoff, Harper third, DD fifth, Brad Miller seventh. Got a question about Freddie Galvis from Kyle over on YouTube asking if Freddie Galvis is in play for tonight. I think he's in play Kyle as a one-off. The concern that I have is that he is batting eighth for a national league team. And that tends to lead to a pretty decent dip in production because you're not gonna see a lot of good pitches when the pitcher is batting behind you. So that's my concern with Freddie Galvis is that because he's batting eighth for a national league team, he might be getting junk all night. So that'd be my issue there. And I think the thing with Galvis is he's also just a couple hundred dollars lower than DD. I'm guessing Kyle, you're asking this because you probably need the $300 to get between Galvis and DD. So I think that if you need to do that, that's okay. You can go Galvis because he's a good hitter. He's been pretty good overall this year. I do like stacking this team. The one concern I would have, and it's a pretty decent concern, is that he's batting eighth in the national league park. Let's go to DJ over on Facebook. Why exactly did the Orioles ground crew get ejected last night in the game against the Yankees? I think that they were out there in case it was raining and the umpire didn't want them there as a distraction. So if I read the situation correctly, they didn't actually get ejected. It was more so they got ushered off the field like scurry, scurry, scurry, go away. I think that was more of it than anything else. So it was funny. It was really funny to watch. They all ran off like looking really strange. It was actually quite fun, but don't think it was an actual ejection, unfortunately. I'd prefer if it works, that'd be a way better story. All right, Savan asking for a Chicago stack. Let's go over here. So the Cubs are facing a bullpen game for the Phillies. The Phillies bullpen is not great. As you can see here, the numbers look good relative to the rest of the slate, but A, it's a bad slate. B, bullpens are always gonna look over value when you pull their full numbers because it's guys in their best state. Whereas for a bullpen game, it's guys in a stretched out state. So I think you can justify going at the Cubs here because they're facing a lot of middle relievers. We want access to middle relievers in daily fantasy. Let's put the lineup here for the Cubs. That's the one downside of them is it's not the best lineup by any means. And Wisdom's betting fifth, Schwindel, or Tega's been fine. So I think the top five guys, I'm not sure why. The top five guys here are okay. I would not say they're my favorite stack. I would say the Yankees are higher, Phillies are higher. I like the Rays more against Tyler Alexander, even though Alexander's been better recently. So I do think that the Cubs can work, just not my favorite stack for today. DJ says Hendrix should have been traded too. I know DJ is, I think here at Cubs fan DJ, it could be you're wrong on that. But yeah, I mean like, get what you can. I'm not sure how much they could have gotten for Hendrix given how things had gone this year. So I mean, it would be nice to him to like give him a shot at a team that might win. Like Brian's on a fun team, Rizzo's on a fun team, Bayez on a frustrating team, but at least had a playoff shot around the trade deadline. So I think for Hendrix's sake, I'd agree. Let him go somewhere where he might be able to pitch in October, cause that's not going to happen in Chicago. So Vaz is, I'm going to stack against the Yankees going with Baltimore for today. So Vaz, I know, okay. So earlier I'd mentioned that Jordan Montgomery might be the number two pitcher. I still think you're the leeway to stack the Orioles here despite that. That's how weird slash bad of a slate this is. Montgomery, not infallible. He has a 21% strikeout rate across this past, six starts with his velocity being down, high walk rates, he'll probably let up base runners and the Orioles aren't bad, Sivan. A one away WRC plus against lefties, a 180 ISO, good part for hitting for tonight. So I don't mind that. I think that's totally fine because they've got guys who can hit. I want to see if Mancini is in the lineup and I got scratched last night. No Mancini. That's kind of a bummer, but Mullins can hit lefties, Mount Castles grade, Hayes is fine. Santander's fine. It's kind of a weaker lineup a little bit with no Mancini in there, but Sivan, I think you can justify doing that pretty easily. So I think that is fine for me. Salvatore says last night's slate gave me a little confidence again for a two team stack just a little. I think especially for tonight's Salvatore, I think a two team stack is the way I would want to go because across just four games, if you go, let's say you do like a three, three, two stack, three players on one team, three on another, two on another, basically what you're doing there is you're getting exposure to 38.7% of the teams in the slate, which means you're getting exposure to 38% of the pitchers. Not sure why I said that so fast. I'd rather have access to 25% of the pitchers on this slate. So yeah, tonight, especially two team stacks work. Last night was fun. We had the A's doing well, Cleveland did well at the end. It was weird because the slate started off so slow, like my lineup's really bad, until like nine, nine, 15 somewhere around there. That's when the dingers started to flow. So it got good eventually, but like I was pretty nervous there for a bit, Salvatore. Glad I worked out for you as well. So Vance, I feel like Tampa Bay will go under the radar. I agree. I think that is a pretty likely scenario. And I do think that they grayed out decently well for tonight. The reason they're not in my top two is because Alexander has gotten better recently, getting more strikeouts. This is over his past six outings with more sinkers, getting more strikeouts, keeping the ball on the ground a bit more, but still a 43% hard hit rate allowed. The Rays, with the addition of Nelson Cruz, a much better team versus lefties than they were earlier on this year. So I do think that the Rays are a team that might not be all that popular, but do grayed out pretty well for tonight. We get Mike Zanino in there. It's a small slate. Zanino can go yard twice. Any slate he's on. So let's build out a Rays stack here. Why not? Let's just do it. Let's put Garcia in there. A pitcher, let's go Zanino. Whoopsies, how can I spell it, right? $3,300. Not Rages, that's fine. I don't wanna go Yandy first. Let's go with Margot first. Let's get... Can I get to a Rosarina and Cruz? I probably can, given the pitching salary. Rosarina and Cruz, $3,300 left, sick. That's awesome. I wanna make sure I'm not discounting Yandy though, because Yandy has hit more power in the second half than he did earlier on this year. So let me just double check on Yandy to make sure I'm not gonna be unintentionally too low on him. Yandy is someone I refuse to use earlier on this year because just wouldn't put the ball in the air. Fly ball right against left, he's up to 35% though. That's interesting. That's a lot higher than it was. Let's go here to the game log. To me, that says he's probably kept at the gains we were talking about earlier on. We talked about Yandy about a month ago, I would guess, as being someone who was improving his batted ball data, becoming a bit more dangerous from a power perspective. 7% launch angle, or 7 degree launch angle compared to 6% for the full year. Barrel rates 10% this time. Hard contact rates still high at 48%. That's all pretty good. I don't mind any of that. His ISO in this time, 139. So still not like the best ISO, but he's putting himself in better position to get extra base hits via what he's been doing from an isolated power perspective. So I do think that Yandy is the least interested. Now, would I use him over Cruz or Rosarena? No, no, absolutely not. Would he use him over Zanino, despite the fact that Zanino is lower in the order? No, getting his Zanino there as well. The question is, do you use Yandy over Margot? Margot against lefties, a 140 ISO, 34% fly ball rates. Yandy actually has a slightly higher fly ball rates. So maybe I should just go Yandy. Let's do it. I think these top three are just where I want to go. I know Zanino, like he's over salary, but I don't care. I think he's great for a four game slate where I want a dude who can win the slate by himself, give me some Nino. Sour is not a big consideration here. So yeah, let's do this. I think that this is a slightly preferred four player stack for me for the race over the one that included Margot. I do like Margot a lot. So, you know, don't write him off, but I would say this might be my optimal four player stack for the race for tonight. So I also thought that Tampa, or Detroit might go into the radar. I think they will, but I also don't have a ton of interest in them because it sounds like Detrick ends is going to be the long boy out of the bullpen for the race tonight. They have an opener going, but ends the long boy. That's how you must call them. That is their technical term, the long boy. In the longer outings ends has had 28% strikeout rate, and that's only five outings. So it's a smaller sample. But if you look at the larger sample on ends, of course, against Rachel, of course, I've never learned my lesson. But even the larger sample on ends, if you include the time where he was not going as deep in games, he was still getting a lot of strikeouts. So I'm not super inclined to use batters facing ends because he's been good this year. He has continued to be good when he's been getting stretched out and going deeper into games. He's facing a team that does struggle quite a bit with righties, so I'm okay, or sorry, with lefties, I should say. I'm okay being a little bit lower on him there and not really being all that high on the Tigers for today. Kyle says, I can't get to Didi, decided between Galvis or Ramon Arias. I don't think either are a bad decision, Kyle. I would probably go with Arias, because he's batting fifth in a good park. Facing guy, we're okay, targeting. I don't think either is wrong, though, Kyle. Arias has a little bit of power. Let me double check that, though, just to make sure I'm not, again, talking out my butt. Ramon Arias. All right, let's go down here. Overall, this year, 137 eyes, so that's not great. But a 10% barrel rate, 42% heart rate, that's not bad. All right, so it would be a small sample. Let's check out Arias versus lefties, though. I know, I know, small samples, small samples, small samples. Gets lefties. Five of his 700 runs that come against lefties, that's interesting. He has a 38% career heart hit rate, a fly ball rate of 30%, so still pretty low. 26% strikeout rate. Kyle, I'd probably go with Arias if it's the situation where you're not stacked in the fillets and you're not stacked in the Orioles, so neither guy really messes with the stack. I would say go with Arias, because straight up, I probably like him a bit more, but both are in play. I would say go with Arias, but I don't mind either. So that's the way I'm viewing there. Sivan, I'm stacking a little bit of everybody, even Texas. I guess the angle you could play with Texas is that, again, why did I not change this? Rangers. Aim to play with them is that Garcia didn't know you was starting until today. I still wouldn't do it personally because they're not a good team. He's a good pitcher, so I wouldn't do that, but like you could play at an angle, I will not personally, though. DJ, can you build out a Tiger's Philly stack with Garcia, if possible? Let's build out the Philly stack with Garcia, because it's a bit different than my typical Philly stack, because I don't need to save salary. The problem is Philly's. Why did I search Philly's? That was so stupid. Okay, search Harper, there we go. It's different than my typical Philly stack, because usually I'm stacking the Philly's to save salary, and I don't really need to do that here. Really help if I could type. Let's go Miller. Oh, let's go Ramuto, he's in there. That's where we can allocate more salary there. Let's get Didi in there, and let's put Odubel in there. I would say this is probably the four player stack I want in the Philly's. I don't mind going to Miller, both from a, okay, people go to Ramuto perspective, but also I just think Miller's a good player. So I would say Miller is also an option here within these Philly stacks, I'm okay with that. Let's go over to Enz and check out some stuff with him for this Tiger stack. See what kind of contact profile he lets up. Okay, so Enz does let up a 49% fly ball ring. There you go. That's the only way to use some Tigers here, but again, I'm not as high just because the strike area is so high, but hypothetically, if you want to build out a Tiger stack, let's check out the lineup here for the Tigers, Grossman, Sick, Scopefine, Miguel Cabrera. I don't need that search. Let's just see if he's kept that up. I know he had his 500 dingers, maybe Cabrera's slowed things down since then. Maybe not though. Let's go from August 15th on for Miguel and see what the batted ball profile looks like for him in that time. The reason I'm picking August 15th is because batted balls tend to stabilize around 60 to 80 balls in play, batted ball events. If I go back to August 15th, that's probably about 80, 66, close enough. In that time, a 52% art hit rates, the launch angle's 9.3 degrees. That's actually not the worst. It's not the best either, but it's not the worst. See what the ISO looks like for Miguel in that time. ISO is 161. Okay, that could be worse. You know, that's fine. Let's go over here. I want Haas in there. He needs dingers. We want dingers. Let's get some dangers in there. Put them in the outfield. Do I want Miguel? Let's put Scope in there first. Put them at second base and let's put Grossman in there. Okay, so we do that. Got that. Okay, so then we decide between do we want to go with Miguel? Do we want to go Condolario, Goodrum, Garneau? Let's go over here. Check out the Tigers numbers versus lefties. Whoopsies, that's Cleveland. They are not on this slide, I don't think. Okay. And sort by plate appearances. If we do that, we got Condolario to 155 ISO. I believe that has increased recently. So that's enticing. Boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop. So do you want to go Condolario or Miguel? Kind of want to go Condolario. Maybe that's dumb. Maybe it's not, though. Who can say? Condolario at third base. Put him there. I don't recommend making decisions based on game logs, but oh my goodness. Double dong recently for Chimer Condolario. It appears the increase in ISO that I was thinking was there has been there. So let's do this. This is a four player stack on the Tigers. Don't mind that one. Again, not going to be high on them because I respect ends a lot and think that he'll do well even in a longer role. But you know, that can work. So Dee is asking about Dustin Gardner because DJ potentially on a site where catchers are necessary. I'm onto your stick here. The good thing is on Fandall DJ, not only did I have to use a catcher, but Eric Haas is listed as a catcher. This is a catcher on like season long leagues too. It was awesome before it got hurt. We're racking up those dingers for my season long team. Let's go to include this here for Garno. Not a big sample for him. So, but he has been hit for power. I guess that's enticing enough. DJ, I would say you're not going to need to get there for the most part because you can use those guys with Garcia's salary being so low. I don't think salary be an object. But I'll say that Haas has a pretty low salary too. So Dee is looking at the last four games for Garno and going from that angle. So kudos to you, DJ. You're on the right side. That's good. Good for you. Proud of you. I don't think I want to go there over Haas. Like I could use both, but like I feel like this stack is, the stack I have before, because I cleared it out. Let's just, you know, the tiger stack I had in there before, I think was the right way to play things. So I won't be going Garno because I don't think I have to, but like he's had power, DJ. That's a path. So it's not out of play, but not a way I'm going to play things for today. Let's go back over here and check out. We've not talked about the Yankees. Let's check out the Yankees and see that lineup. That game is starting here pretty soon. Brett Gardner's lead off. That's gross. Ew. Okay. Let's build a Yankee stack here with that lineup and with Garcia in here. I'm going to put Stanton in there. We're going to put the judge. I spelled it Uj. That's fine. Gallow and Rizzo. I can make that work because we got Didi. We've got Brad Miller. We've got a lot of stuff to save some salary. So I think we can make that work pretty easily. So I would say if you're going, you're okay going with some shock. I think that Yankee stack rates out pretty well. I will say with regards to Garcia, as it pertains to roster rates and popularity, the good thing for him is that there will be like a natural cap on how popular he can be because there are a lot of people filled out lines this morning and aren't going to go check them later on. Don't want to do the research on him given the change of pitchers. So I would say there is a natural ceiling to how popular Luis Garcia can get. And I think that does bode well for how we want to view him for today. So I would say that Garcia does work. I would say this Yankee stack works. You can go with those two and feel pretty good. Salvatore going back to football here, prophesizing a Sterling Shepard end around for a touchdown to go along with a receiving touchdown. So Salvatore is going bold. What odds do you want on that Salvatore? Like a 12 to one, not 12 too short. I would say 32 to one odds that Sterling Shepard has two touchdowns specifically one rushing and one receiving. Shepard is I think good enough where you can see a situation where they decide to get the ball in his hands without Daniel Jones throwing it. That could be a good thing for him. So Salvatore, I like the boldness. I like the enthusiasm. I will say no, but I like the boldness. I think Shepard does work decently well for tonight. I would also say again, Slayton is interesting for me with regards to those Giants past catchers. DJ says a lot of rain for the Phillies and Yankees games. Let's go over here and check out what Dark Sky weather is saying for this game as always. Make sure you trust Kevin Roth over me. I forgot to see what Roth said this morning. Let me pull that over on the other computer because I don't wanna occupy this other one. Okay, so Kevin Roth's report this morning says there is a flash flood watch yuck. That's not great. Okay, so check out to see what actually looks like he was already on this earlier on. So yeah, weather doesn't look good, DJ. I noticed that you're looking at him too. So that's a little concerning with regards to the Yankee stack. Hopefully that game is good to go though. Would like to stack the Yankees there. Final one from DJ saying my Jets finally gonna upset the Patriots this weekend. DJ, here we go. Ready for this? James Chadwick Pennington. The spirit of James Chadwick Pennington is here to guide Zach Wilson in the New York Jets to victory. I'm not betting them. Just make that abundantly clear. But let's J-E-T-S, Jets, Jets, Jets, just for you DJ. That is all the time that we have here for today on this FanDuel Live Q&A but we are back once again tomorrow to close out the week. We have our Snake Draft for myself, JJ Zacharyson and Brandon Gadoula. JJ won last week. So I gotta catch up. Gotta make up some ground on the Snake Draft. 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