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| Looking for Brent Celek? You'll find him in a black hole of fantasy irrelevance. |
QB, David Garrard, Jacksonville Jaguars: If you subtract his performance against the Titans, in which he was concussed out, Garrard has thrown 9 touchdowns in his last 3 games (13 for the season) while only throwing 2 interceptions. Coming off a bye week the Jaguars play against the worst (32nd) passing defense in the league that let Philip Rivers throw for 4 touchdowns to a TE not named Antonio Gates and a guy known as "tutu". Beyond Garrard having great fantasy numbers this game should show whether the Jags are rising and the Texans are falling.
RB, Brandon Jacobs, NY Giants: despite not rushing for a touchdown for the first time in 5 games Jacobs did carry the ball 11 times for 78 yards. Dallas is giving up 128 ypg on the ground, and is poised to give up a red zone score as they have done against opposing RB's all year. As usual Bradshaw should end up with more yards, but Jacobs will get a touch or two in the red zone making him starter friendly.
WR, DeSean Jackson, Philadelphia Eagles: Besides the woeful Texans who else is giving up nearly 300 ypg to opposing WR's? Vick looked good last week and so did his #1 target Jackson for 109 yards and 1 touchdown on 7 catches. Washington is allowing nearly 20 ppg at home, and averaging less then 2 sacks per game which should give Vick all the time he needs to find Jackson.
TE, Brandon Pettigrew, Detroit Lions: if Stafford was playing I would be all over this like conservative on Fox News, but considering the Lions run game stinks, Shaun Hill will throw until he can throw no more, and the matchup against a Bills d that has given up 8 touchdowns in 6 weeks to opposing TE's I like Pettigrew to have a decent game for a Lions team looking for their first road win in their last 25 attempts vs. a Bills team looking for their first win all season.
D-ST, Philadelphia Eagles: this game has revenge sprinkled all over it like parmesan on spaghetti (are you tired of the alliterations yet?). The Eagles D was humiliated by McNabb and company when Donovan made his return to Philly. Donovan gave the Eagles D plenty of bulletin board material by saying post game the Eagles made a mistake trading him, plus who knows if or when he'll get pulled for Rex the Hex. Even if Donovan plays the whole game don't look for an offensive exposion as he yet to throw more then 1 touchdown in a game all season, and has more interceptions on the season then touchdowns (8-7).
Guys who may not look so good Sunday...
QB, Jon Kitna, Dallas Cowboys: how do you neutralize Kitna's effectiveness?
- make it impossible for him to find Dez Bryant. 3 of Kitna's 4 touchdowns have gone through Bryant, and when you remove him from the field like Jacksonville did Kitna is nearly useless.
- score on consecutive drives against the Cowboys D forcing Kitna to make plays. The Cowboys have been unable to stop anyone lately, and it has caused Kitna to turnover the ball 8 times, yeah 8 times, in the last 2 weeks.
Kitna managed two touchdowns in week 7 against the Giants, however, both of them came in garbage time. With Romo still hurt Garrett may be forced to throw the untested Steven McGee into the game against the Giants.
RB, Ronnie Brown, Miami Dolphins: so Brown has his 2nd touchdown in 8 games and you are thinking of starting him? Don't be so quick. Though the Titans are giving up just over 100+ ypg on the ground they have only yielded 3 touchdowns all season. Combine the fact that Chad Pennington will play this Sunday (making Brandon Marshall owners hopeful) and at home Brown has peaked to no more then 11 carries/ 54 yards in a game your expectations for Ronnie having a great game should be tapered.
WR, Chad Ochocinco, Cincinnati Bengals: ode, thy name is garbage time. If you take away two garbage games against New England and Atlanta #85 has no touchdowns and is averaging 3 rpg/ 34 ypg. When Palmer is looking for a WR he is finding Terrell Owens who has 7 scores in his last 5 games. Indianapolis isn't a team looking to give up trash time touchdowns besides this Bengals/ Colts matchup looks more favorable for Cedric Benson then the Batman and Robin combo.
TE, Brent Celek, Philadelphia Eagles: he will continue to remain in the fantasy black hole of doom, and unstartable until he does something productive. As in more then a 0 for 0 for 0 performance last week against Indy.
