Week 4 Matchups + In-or-Out, Turf Toe Woes

Yeah, it disintegrates your whole season. But at the same time, we've seen Andy Dalton given a license to throw the ball over and over and over again, and there are problems in the Steelers secondary. They have the second highest pass play rate in football right now at 72.9%. They run three wide receiver sets 84% of the time, which is why you can look at both Tyler Boyd and John Ross in this matchup. Yes.

Ross has a lot more risk to him than Tyler Boyd does. Tyler Boyd has a 24% target share. He's been double-digit targets every week. And he's Jason started the week for a reason this week. I think Boyd is the safest. Ross is the riskiest with some upside. Yeah, that's how I see it. I mean, obviously Mika Fitzpatrick helps the defense a lot against the slot. But still, you have a very good highly targeted wide receiver. I'm confident in Tyler Boyd, even though.

I'm not confident in Andy Dalton. I think that, you know, one can have a good game without the other. Dalton, I mean, on paper. Dalton should crush this week. I still worry. I know it's narrative driven the whole Andy Dalton in primetime thing. But I mean, it's you got a lot of. That story got started for a reason. Yeah, that story got, I mean, since 2011, Andy Dalton in prime time games is six and 15, two and five on Monday night football. So.

You know what jumps out of me with that stat? Too many primetime games for the Bengals. Right? Like, wait a minute. How many, why do you keep giving them prime time? Six and 15. Six and 15 since 2011. I wonder who hates primetime more. Kirk Cousins or Andy Dalton. That's the real question. Oh, what if they played each other in prime time? Oh, goodness. It would be a six-eighths time. Maybe that's what would break the curse. Oh, you know what I mean? You have to do that. Like you smash the mirror. Like putting you in the room with the spiders. Ah!

No, thank you. At the running back position, James Connor, Joe Mixing, it's been rough for both of these guys to start the season. And it's no surprise when you have winless teams that their running backs are struggling. It's a chicken egg thing at times. But generally, I like running backs on winning teams. I like that for the sake of game script and opportunity and goal line opportunities and all of those things. I do like James Connor to have a bounce back in this game.

Bengals are giving up 32 fanny points per game to the running back position. 168.7 rushing yards per game, second most in the NFL. This is a great matchup for James. This is your shot, James. To let me know if we can count on you in the right matchups despite Mason Rudolph or not. And so I have them as my start of the week. I think he shows up in this one. Joe Mixing, Pittsburgh's given up the third most rushing yards. Mixing looked pretty good last week in a tough matchup. You know,

The question fantasy owners may have is, has the ship sailed on either of these guys putting up a top 12 season? No, I don't think the ship has definitely sailed. Joe Mixen dealt with an ankle injury, missed part of week two, wasn't right for week, or week one, wasn't right for week two. Connor is dealing with, he just dealt with his own knee injury as well. Tyler Boyd, we talked about that side. Juju, he was in the panic room on Wednesday. It's not been good for Juju.

Can you play him in this game with confidence? Yes. I think you can play him in this game with confidence. He's, this is a very beatable matchup. He's at home. I think Mason Rudolph will play better at home when, you know, you're not dealing with crowd noise and things like that. He's still targeting Juju. I think all Juju needs is 10 targets and he'll do something with it. Look at last week where, you know,

It was rough. Mason Rudolph looked bad. But Juju made his own breaking away for a 76-yard touchdown. That's not to say that Juju is, you know, a top five wide receiver this week, but I'm starting it with confidence in this match. Okay. All right. Somebody's got to win it. That's the truth. Injury updates since the show started. Scary Terry. Terry. Still not practicing on Friday. Uh-oh. Late week. Injury ad.

Two mispractices. Not good. Jamal Williams says he's good. He says the only thing hurt is his pride from not being able to finish the game. That's a good report after what happened to him. That's awesome. They say Godwin will be a game day decision, but it's nice that he returned to practice. And then T.Y. Hilton remains sidelined again on Friday's practice, throwing some doubt there. So let's go ahead and get into our Friday segment.

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That's how they got ready for battle. I didn't know that, Mike, but thank you. Wow. So look, we're giving you some of our favorite picks that are cheaper on Fanduil, guys that we think can very much outproduce what they cost right now. And you guys can get in on this. The Fantasy Footballers Leaderboard series is going on. And just so that everybody knows how this works, because you might think, oh.

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us do a live recording uh so it's going to be great uh a great time what's the web address jason oh yeah if you want i guess if i guess if you want to play you can go to fandul dot com slash ballers uh since i'm talking i'm going to go with my uh super chalk i think it's chalky but i think you you you're going to benefit from putting waying galman in your lineup

He's priced like old Wayne Galman. He's at $5,900. That's what you'd pay for Rashad Penny, who might not play, or Tariq Cohen, who has done nothing. Wayne Galman is inheriting the Seguan Barclay role. He won't be Saquan Barclay. But in a game that we expect a lot of points to be scored, Wayne Galman at 5,900 is a steal. Usually I like putting a lot of my money into the stud, stud running backs and finding cheaper.

value elsewhere, but this week with Galman mispriced, I would throw him in my lineup. All right, I'm going to go with Hollywood Brown. Hollywood. I was really surprised. I saw him at $5,700 against Cleveland. It's been targeted 27 times on the year. I want people to understand. That's the same as Kenny Gulladay. That's more than T.Y. Hilton. There's more than Julian Edelman. And this is a player that had limited snaps in week one. I just think you get everything that you could want. You get a bargain price.

on a player that can boom for you and has the target baseline. So Hollywood Brown and 5,700 is my favorite pick of the week. That price point for Marquis Brown is. It seems wrong. That's broken, man. Like, yes, you are 100% right, Andy. That's a fantastic call. I wanted to go with Scary Terry at $6,300 against the New York Giants to matchup. Are you going from Terry to Larry?

I might have to. Oh. I may have to do that. Look, I'll give my piece. So, Terry McLaurin, the Giants are giving up the most points to the wide receiver position. He should be matched up against Janores Jenkins, which is one of the most advantageous matchups of the weekend. But he's not practicing again. So now I have my concerns that he's actually going to play. So I will pivot to Larry Fitzgerald. Larry's at home. The Seattle secondary is absolutely beatable.

Larry Fitzgerald has had double-digit targets two of three weeks. He has scored in two of three weeks at home. So I think that he is safe for volume and that his pricing point at 5,900 is very fair. Do not miss your chance, as Jason said, to win an all-expenses paid trip out here to Arizona. Hang out with us. The Fantasy Footballers Leaderboard series, you can go to Fandual.com slash ballers. That's fanduil.com slash ballers to enter each and every week.

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Oh, that just totally cut the outro off. Oh, fantastic. It was worth it. I didn't know I would do that. Oh. Let's hit it again. Marlon Max signed jersey, $55, as I said. Pristineauction.com, use the registration code. Ballers. Check it out, pristineauction.com. Thanks for listening. Good luck this weekend. Good luck on Sunday. Goodbye. Thank you for listening to another episode of the Fantasy Footballers podcast.

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