The Daily Spin – NFL Cash Game Selections – Week 13

Zachary Turcotte
By Zachary Turcotte November 30, 2019 02:30

The Daily Spin – NFL Cash Game Selections – Week 13

NFL DFS can be alarmingly volatile throughout each Sunday afternoon. By early afternoon last week, I had largely given up hope of winning for my cash game team. I paid up for Matt Ryan, stacked him with Julio Jones and thought I would be in great shape. Instead, Ryan struggled to figure out one of the most beatable secondaries in the league and could not muster a TD pass. Not surprisingly, since I rostered Julio, he struggled to stay on the field as he was hampered by a shoulder injury that took him off the field for long stretches and then forced him to miss this week entirely.

I found myself needing a massive effort out of Derrick Henry and anything from N’keal Harry to get me to the cash line. Harry flashed early in grabbing a TD. I had added him to my team late after seeing that both Dorsett and Sanu would sit for the Pats. Fortunately, Harry scored on the play as it was his lone catch for the game.

Henry scored what I thought was an early TD, but then a penalty took it off the board. I figured I would need at least 100 yards and 2 TDs in the second half to have a chance to make any money and miraculously, he continued to be a late season terror for the Titans in doing just that. A 75 yard gallop was followed by a 6 yard push just seconds later and suddenly I was in business and held on for the rest of the day to take home a nice profit for the day.

What made it really remarkable was that I had to overcome multiple busts to get to the money for the week. Phillip Lindsay underperformed in a big way as the Broncos seemed to give up against the Bills just a week after fighting the Vikings to the finish. Perhaps they were a little deflated after blowing a 20 point lead the previous week. Also, it appears that I might have undersold the Bills who crushed the Cowboys on the road this week.

I also ran into Vance McDonald last week who had no role at all in the Steelers game plan against the Bengals who are awful against the TE. He caught one pass for one yard. Ouch. Fortunately, I went back to the TE position for my flex play and it paid off big as Zach Ertz became a garbage time vacuum cleaner, grabbing one pass after another in the 4th quarter culminating with a sweet garbage time TD with seconds left in the game.

My other WR was Odell Beckham who found the endzone early for the Browns as everyone got well for their offense against the Dolphins. I regretted not using their whole roster for cash as every skill player took off. Will that be a sign of things to come for the Browns or will this recent resurgence come to a crashing halt against the Steelers this week?

Finally, on defense, I finally made the decision to pay up to get the Saints after how well they had been playing and having seen Kyle Allen implode the previous few weeks. Of course, they got lit up and CMC and Allen killed them all day. If not for a missed 28 yard FG, they might have won the game. Absurd.


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Zachary Turcotte
By Zachary Turcotte November 30, 2019 02:30

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