Hey, ten wins. Cool. Too bad my prior-week picks were very mediocre, so my Football Pick 'Em Y! team is pretty average. I was much better a couple years ago, but this year has kind of been one big anomaly anyway, in terms of overall team performances.
This is an interesting week. Most of the early games look one-sided more or less, and the winners look pretty clear-cut; however, the late games are all enigmatic teams up against other enigmatic teams (Dallas-Philly, SG-NYG, KC-JVille, et al). Makes for an interesting week for picks.
ATL
Chi-Town
Baltimo' (let's hope Palmer doesn't have any more GW-drives in him)
Indy
New England
Green Bay (IN THE BATTLE OF THE BAYS)
J'Ville
Nawlins
Seattle
San Fran
Gonna go NYG on this one, but I won't be surprised if I'm wrong
Going with Philly here, but again, if the 'boys win, no shocker
Pittsburgh
In other news...my fantasy teams are still sucking. NG League team moved to 4-4 on the year, but with only 801.64 total fan pts, I'm sitting in 8th place. Another big problem is that I'm down to $56 in WW spending, and am potentially in line for a few more dollar-losses this week with pickups (got bids in on Ryan Moats and Malcolm Floyd, obvs). I benched McNabb in favor of Garrard at Tennessee in light of the past week's play and favorable matchups, and got thoroughly fucked because of it.
Andre Johnson got injured but should be alright, Steve Smith came back to life thanks to a 50-yard TD. My running game is still shoddy (B Jacobs and Jonny Stewart, plus Laurence Maroney @ flex). Shonn Greene is on a bye.
Westbrook might play Monday, but I doubt he'll be all too effective; should be able to tell by Saturday though.
Kevin Walter still sucks, and I'll give him two more weeks on my roster before he becomes a casualty. Now that Owen Daniels is down for the year, Slaton is on the bench, and Andre is recovering from chest injuries, Walter's time is as good as ever to prove he can still be a viable target for Matt Schaub.
Boldin is gonna be questionable again, once again potentially fucking one of my two flex spots. Anthony Gonzalez still isn't practicing for Indy, but I hope he gets back soon because I need him as a contributor if I want to stay in playoff contention.
One of my two Y! League teams, the Buffalo Soldiers, moved to 7-1 and 2nd place in the league. This is my one stacked team. Now on a 7-week winning streak, the team looks like this:
QB - Aaron Rodgers
RB - Frank Gore, Jonathan Stewart, LeSean McCoy, Correll Buckhalter, Laurence Maroney, Justin Fargas (only first two are in the lineup)
WR - Miles Austin, DeSean Jackson, Randy Moss, Hakeem Nicks, TJ Houshmandzadeh, Kevin Walter, Malcolm Floyd (last four are on bench)
TE - Greg Olsen
No kicker, 3 IDP instead of a team D (I have Barrett Ruud, Justin Tuck & Yeremiah Bell as my 3)
My third and final team, the Oakland Raiders, clocked in with another L this week and fell to 4-4 as well. I'm 2-3 in my division, and sitting 3rd in the division and 4th overall. Team's got its' share of question marks:
QB - Schaub, Flacco
RB - Gore, Rashard Mendenhall (flex), LeSean McCoy, Ryan Moats, Steven Jackson (SJax on bye, others on bench)
WR - Austin Collie, Dwayne Bowe, Hakeem Nicks, Anquan Boldin (Nicks and Boldin on bench, might bench Collie or Bowe for Nicks)
TE - Fred Davis (lost Chris Cooley and Owen Daniels to injuries in consecutive weeks, bitchslapped)
K - Gostowski
D - generally streaming, this week Seattle because they play Detroit