VSiN By The Books | October 15, 2026 | Hour 3

SPEAKER_1 (0:01)

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Dave Ross (0:23)

Power Hour is set to begin on this Thursday morning. Dave Ross, Jensen Lewis here with you. You're going to have Mike Palm, the maestro himself, he's going to join us from the mothership at Circa in Las Vegas. Let's find out what is on his mind with Palms Pressing Three. Going to get to our best bets and some viewer emails, some very good ones too. And I know some people had some questions about my overtime, how to save overtime, and some queries that they had about that. We'll discuss that as well. But Jensen, we've got Primetime Football tonight. We're kicking off week number six in the NFL with the Broncos and the Seahawks tonight. That means we get to bet that build. Let's do it today in this edition of the Daily Gridiron.

SPEAKER_1 (0:59)

This is the Daily Gridiron.

Dave Ross (1:06)

I'll be curious your builds today because with the numbers coming down in the total from 42.5 to 40.5, with the number on the move where it was Seattle 3 down to 2.5, some twos starting to go out there as well, will that be reflected in kind of the correlated plays that you might have to bet your builds?

Jensen Lewis (1:26)

Man, I was very close to putting an MVP selection as one of the defenses and it's rarely seen because I was so close and every time that I started building one, I'm like, you know, when this happens, you watch it. It'll be, you know, one, one guy like again, Pukinakua ends up having, you know, 100 targets and 50 catches, something like that.

All right. So here's kind of where I went.

One of these lineups is more Seattle heavy. One of these lineups is more Denver heavy. So hopefully, you know, there is one that ends up getting us to the line, if not both. In FanDuel, I did go with Sam Darnold in the MVP spot because narrative base, Dave, if Seattle is behind, which we've kind of seen the line move in favor here of Denver, I would expect him to throw. And I don't know about you. Who are you trusting in the Seattle backfield to run the football? If I'm going to go down, I'll go down swing in with the top duo of Darnold and Jackson Smith and Jigba. So those are the two guys in here to be to be able to fit JSN and some of the other notable guys in his salary would have been just astronomical. So I put him in flex. And that's why I have Sam Darnold in the MVP spot. Bo Nicks just for the running and the throwing ability. Again, your guess is good as mine who he trusts as far as receivers. So I didn't put any of them in there. I did get AJ Barner as an outlet. He's had some great red zone looks here from Sam Darnold. So that's the other option there. Jason Myers, low scoring game. We get a lot of field goals with that. And then the Seahawks defense did make it in there, Dave, because I don't know about you, but are you worried about Bo Nicks putting up 24 points on this defense who for the last couple of weeks has had film after film of like, boys, you're getting your rear end handed to you. All right, let's get it figured out here. So that's how we go with my fan dual build for Thursday Night Football.

Dave Ross (3:26)

And I'll just say this for Opta AI's sake here, when you look at just the passing touchdowns, we gave earlier in the program here, the passing yards, there's a big discrepancy in Sam Darnold's number specifically would be a play to the under. It's also an underplay here according to Opta AI for passing yards. For touchdowns, though, it's slightly different. Now, Bo Nix is at one and a half here. It's plus $1.69 to get over that number here. The average there is 1.2, so a slight adjustment to the under for Opta AI. But for Sam Darnold, even though the yards is to an under, and you pointed this out with JSN as well with this target share, 1.5 plus $1.23 if you like the over, it is projecting to go over at 1.8. They might not be long touchdown passes, but the running game is so inept right now with Seattle. That's why Opta AI says if they're going to score multiple touchdowns, it probably have to come off the right arm of Sam Darnold. So you do have them in there as flex number one. And again, when you're a VSiN Pro subscriber, you get access to all this information. How was the build different now when you move it from DraftKings to Fandol?