Fantasy Playoffs Just a Few Weeks Away

We are getting into crunch time in fantasy football leagues. The beauty of the NFL is that every week counts. Week 1 games are as important as week 10 and week 16. As we enter another big week, we are all left with tough decisions to make with regards to our starting lineup.

Who do you start??
Kurt Warner vs the Giants or Tony Romo vs the 49ers?

Ricky Williams or Amad Bradshaw

Amad Bradshaw or Leon Washington

Darren McFadden or anyone else in the league???

Suicide Pools
This week we liked the Steelers on Thursday night home for the Bengals, but we have not used the Dallas Cowboys who will be our top pick this week.

Thank You Sean Payton!!!

I would have loved to see Drew Brees get hurt in the final seconds of Sundays butt kicking vs the Atlanta Falcons. The Saints were down over 20 points with 5 seconds to play and instead of kneeling on the ball and putting an end to the misery they elected to throw a hail mary that was caught by Lance Moore for a TD.

In my fantasy league this was worth 16.8 points and I played against both Brees and Lance More and lost by 9 points.

If you could Change Your Fantasy Draft Picks......

We all love to look at our fantasy drafts and play the what if I drafted Chris Johnson over Larry Johnson, or Matt Ryan over Derek Anderson my team would have 3-4 more wins. Many of the fantasy studs over the past few years are nothing more than below average players. This list include Larry Johnson, L. Tomlinson, Hines Ward, Terrell Owens, Randy Moss, Braylon Edwards, Marvin Harrison, Tory Holt, Antonio Gates and Ryan Grant and even Darren McFadden who was likely selected over many of the other rookie running backs this year.

The new list of fantasy studs include Roddy White, Chris Johnson, Matt Forte, Matt Ryan, Michael Turner, Steve Slaton, Brandon Jacobs, Lance Moore, Donnie Avery and Kurt Warner. Its not to late to try to trade some of the "Big Name" players noted above to try to get your hands on some of these new studs.

Fantasy Stinkers

Well after this week we find out who the true fantasy stinkers are. The injuries are starting to pile on as usually as I lost two of my running backs this week in Michael Pittman and Kolby Smith OUT FOR THE SEASON. My other running backs, Larry Johnson SUSPENDED, the other Darren McFadden has turf "toes" and basically has done nothing this year.

The Dallas Cowboys "STINK" They put together a "Jim Mora" performance on Sunday vs the Giants. The game was over before it started and the Cowboys will really regret trading their entire draft for Roy Williams when the lions are picking in the top 10 because the Boys are in serious trouble with a tough schedule remaining. They are the perfect example of why any other team even thinking about doing the HBO sports special "Hard Knocks" DONT DO IT. As entertaining as it is, it is like the Madden Football Game Jinx!