JMToWin's NFL Edge: Week 9

by JM Tohline (JMToWin) Last Updated 2017-11-05 02:07:50 Premium Content Part of the product Combo Lite

Each week this NFL season, JMToWin will break down every game on the NFL slate from top to bottom, with a look at game flow, player matchups, coaching tendencies, DFS strategy, and anything else that shows up in his research that might give you an edge on the slate. Widely regarded as the most in-depth, DFS-specific article in the industry, this top-to-bottom breakdown is just what you need in order to conquer the slate and take home money each week!

A Look Back At Week 8 – Part I

If you have not yet done so, I encourage you to read my interview with (Week 8 Millionaire Maker winner) cubsfan333 . As you are an NFL Edge reader, I think there are some strong keys you can take away from that interview.

Each week, my primary goal with this article is to do all the research you would optimally like to do yourself, and to condense this research into about a thousand words per game – saving you a good 20 to 30 hours of research time you would otherwise have to undertake yourself each week. This is not a picks article, but I have also allowed this article to evolve over the years – learning that plenty of readers like to have a strong idea of how I am interpreting the research myself, and incorporating that into the article.

I think it’s interesting (and instructive), then, that on a week in which the research led me to feel that A.J. Green had the top wide receiver expectation on the weekend (he did), and on a week in which the research led me to feel that Cam Newton had the top quarterback expectation on the weekend (he did not), someone who credits the NFL Edge as a cornerstone of their research took down first and second place in the Milly Maker. Furthermore, he took down the Milly by stacking the Houston/Seattle game that I did not like nearly as much as Vegas liked it.

Again: If you have not yet read that interview, I encourage you to do so. It’s always fascinating to me that I can do all this research and miss certain things in my own play – but that people who use the same research and interpret it for themselves can still have a huge weekend.

Remember! – each week, I’m here to do the research for you. Along the way, I’ll show you how I am interpreting the research myself, but I also provide the numbers to enable you to interpret the research differently if you would like. I believe this is a huge part of what makes this article – an article that, frankly, we have all built together over the last several years – so tremendously valuable. In the interview with CubsFan, he brings up several things from my research (shared in the NFL Edge in Weeks 7 and 8, and on the Round Table show on Friday night) that specifically led to him heavily targeting the Houston offense in Week 8, even though I was not on that game myself. That is such a cool thing to me. The research is here! Sometimes, I will misinterpret it myself (admittedly, Week 8 was an extreme example of me misinterpreting a few key spots – namely Cam and Hou/Sea, with the optics of my misses enhanced by the fact that A.J. Green bombed in spite of actually being the best wide receiver play on the board), but the research and numbers are always there for you to interpret things differently in spots where you would like to do so.