 Hey everybody what's going on? I am Greg Sussman joined today by Tom Vecchio of Fanule who's here to give us the top plays on the board for week 11 in Daily Fantasy. What's going on Tom? I'm doing good. You know Daily Fantasy is still cruising along. Season long fantasy playoffs are right around the corner so let's get to it. I think this first player we're going to talk about is the most interesting and that's Michael Thomas. He's your favorite receiver on the board. He's priced at $8,200 and we got a famous James back in the saddle. He's throwing the ball to Michael Thomas with Drew Brees out for at least the next couple of weeks here. You're buying Michael Thomas with James Winston who let's be honest didn't do all that much in the second half last week. I get there playing a burnable secondary but are you a little nervous about this James Michael Thomas connection here? Yeah this one's this one's interesting but I have plenty of faith in Michael Thomas. First of all 8,200 I think is a really solid price tag on him when he normally should be up in the you know higher $8,000 range $9,000 range. If we look back to last year when Brees was out it actually didn't impact Michael Thomas all that much. We know he set all or broke all those records last year in the five games that we saw Teddy Bridgewater as the quarterback last year for the Saints. Michael Thomas had eight receptions or more in four of the five games 89 yards or more in four of the five games and the one game he was under those totals he had five for 54 and still had a touchdown. So for him it really didn't matter who his quarterback was last year. Don't really expect to do impact too much this season considering he's going up against this burnable secondary like you said in the faculty tour allowing 37.5 a fan who points per game to opposing wide receivers. That's the second worst in the league. They still have a 28 implied team total the over under still setting at 51. So combining all these things I love the price tag love the matchup we would be buying into Michael Thomas even if you like if he was having a normal year we'd be all over him against this Falcon secondary. It hasn't been a normal year for anybody certainly not Michael Thomas with all that he has been through with his injuries his team imposed suspension and now Drew Brees out for this one. Yes the Teddy Bridgewater connection with Michael Thomas was totally good. We'll see what James Winston can do in what is expected to be his first start for the Saints this Sunday. Speaking of quarterbacks let's go to old reliable that's been Rothesberger is priced at $8,000. He has a tasty match up against the Jaguars here this weekend as the Steelers look to continue this undefeated streak. It was a tough game tough sledding in Cincinnati but Rothesberger and the Steelers offense well they didn't have much of an issue and we expect more of the scene here on Sunday. Yeah exactly this matchup against the Jaguars is absolutely phenomenal. They have a 29 implied team total that's the second highest on the board the Jags are on 23.7 feint two points per game to opposing quarterbacks that's the third worst no lead. Now everyone might talk about Big Ben and his home road splits because they're on the road in Jacksonville but if we look at this season he has 12-1 that's TDs and interceptions at home this season he has 10-3 on the road in four starts 10 touchdowns three interceptions but all three interceptions came in one game against Tennessee and I put him at 15 feint two points which certainly isn't like he had 15 feint two points again against Baltimore certainly not a lot but the other two games against weaker defenses he had 22 fan two points or more so we're looking at some actually solid production from Big Ben on the road we can hopefully throw out those narratives we have a super strong implied team total of phenomenal matchup against the Jags I want to be going back to the Steelers this week. With that matchup I agree you throw out the home road splits and it's just been a career long home road split for Ben Rothesberger that fantasy analysts have looked at I don't think it matters here much this week much this year because of how well the Steelers are playing in this matchup with all the weapons at Rothesberger's disposal back at practice without having to sit out because of COVID restrictions Rothesberger in a good spot against Jacksonville. Finally top running back on the board for you this week Tom is well not running back in the in the leaves at the NBA in the NFL it's Dalvin Cook he's priced at ten thousand five hundred dollars it is a hefty price to pay but something that you deem worth why cook over Alvin Camero why cook over Ezekiel Elliott out of the buy why go down and cook in this matchup. So first of all we want to be buying into some of the you know the simple things a home running back a player that could get 20 plus touches you know not only home running back but a home favorite and we have those things with Cook they're up against the Cowboys the Vikings are nine-and-a-half point home favorites they have a 29.5 implied team total that is the highest on the board now last night he didn't have a touchdown this was his first game all season where he didn't have a touchdown ended with 13 fandal points which is okay but if we look at the other stuff we saw him with 34 total touches with four touches in the passing game seeing about two three four targets every game so besides the fact that he didn't have a touchdown he still was over a hundred combined guards still had 30 plus touches now has a good match up against the Cowboys they're around a round league average rallying was a 21 fandal points per game to opposing running backs home favorite like i said like we should be buying back into Daven Cook having another touchdown this week against the Cowboys Cook has been on fire as of late let's buy into the fact that he can get over 20 touches that he could just dominate the line of scrimmage and could break one at any time down and cook worth the money and the hype this weekend on fandal that's gonna do for us here on the hurry out tomorrow we'll be joined by Megan Union as we as we go over her top plays and picks for this weekend in the NFL Tom Mecchio we appreciate the time man talk to on thursday have a good one absolutely Tom and i'll be back on thursday to chat about the top value plays on the board you're gonna pair up with these stars for Tom Mecchio i'm Greg Sussman thanks so much for watching and we'll see you back here tomorrow for another edition of the fan duel hurry up