Mikey D

The Lions are awful. 13 points against San Francisco? Come on, now. We might not be the best on defense, but we do have some weapons on the offense, right? Or at least I thought. I've been thinking about arguably the three worst teams in the NFL right now: St. Louis, Kansas City, and Detroit. In my opinion, I think we'd lose to Kansas City (they'd run all over us, and their pass defense is pretty good...just a bad matchup for us), but beat St. Louis (how is that team soooooo bad???). That puts us in line for the #2 pick...but wait, we're the Lions, so we'll end up being the worst and have the #1.

My god fantasy is frustrating this year! ANYBODY BUT KEVIN this past week. Wasn't looking forward to the matchups he had with his studs, and with good reason. Still, I am happy Marion Barber is making me look good. He trails only Turner (played Det and K.C., enough said there) and Brown (one outrageous game) in running back fantasy points. Marion the Barbarian...keep it up, sir!

Pretty even picking this past week. Believe it or not, none of us correctly picked Miami over New England. Our bad.

Updated Standings:
Mike: 31
Adam: 26
Kevin: 25

Go make those Week 4 picks!

Week 4 Picks:
Cincinnati over Cleveland
Carolina over Atlanta
Denver over Kansas City
Jacksonville over Houston
Tampa Bay over Green Bay
New York over Arizona
New Orleans over San Francisco
Tennessee over Minnesota
St. Louis over Buffalo
San Diego over Oakland
Dallas over Washington
Chicago over Philadelphia
Pittsburgh over Baltimore

My upset: St. Louis over Buffalo. St. Louis is desperate, and they have too much talent to keep playing the way they are. Buffalo is feeling good, perhaps a little too good, and sees a winless team and thinks easy win. Not so fast, my friend! St. Louis, at home, with something to prove, takes out the cocky, visiting team from Buffalo. Woooo!

Fantasy Guys I Was Impressed With This Week:

QB: Brian Griese. Word on the street is you can't run on the Bears, but you can pass on them. Apparently Tampa Bay believed it. 67 pass attempts?!?! Holy shit. I know the game went to OT, but damn. Talk about needing an icepack after the game. Couple that with 400+ yards and a couple scores, and you've made me impressed.

WR: Brandon Lloyd. He's bounced around a bit in the league because of his work ethic. When he was in Washington he never saw the field because he rarely brought it in practice. The Redskins let him go because he had a desire to "pursue other interests". I guess those interests included playing for the Bears and being Kyle Orton's go-to. 6 catches, 124 yards and a touch later against a good Tampa Bay secondary is showing up for work.

RB: Ronnie Brown. Um, easy one. 4 rushing TDs, 1 receiving. Goddamn. Nobody could have seen that coming. I'm sorry Stacey, at least you won this week.

TE: Anthony Fasono. I wish he was still available for a bye-week filler. 2nd TD this year for Miami...they're looking for him!

Fantasy Guys I Like This Week: QB- Jason Campbell (played well the last two weeks, and will have to throw a lot to keep up with the Dallas offense), RB- Chris Perry (this just in: you can run on Cleveland), WR- DeShaun Jackson (you can't run against Chicago, so that means you have to...), TE- Robert Royal (is there such thing as a bad play against the St. Louis defense?)

Last week I would say 2 out of the 4 I "liked" did well (JT O'Sullivan, Michael Turner). Going with some "sleepers" this week.

~Mikey D