Not long after many were projecting this to be the first season for two 16-loss teams, the two winless teams jumped up and bit their opponents. The Tampa win wasn't much of a stretch. They were at home, had lost some close games already this season, were facing a geographic rival and their opponent had being dealing with a 10-day news onslaught that cost them two offensive lineman. Jacksonville was a bit more of a stretch since they had been routinely blown out this season. Hats off to them for getting off the schnide.
Aside from those two upsets, the majority of the NFL continues to battle for positioning. St Louis showed Indy that it cannot continue to rely on big second half comebacks in their bid for the playoffs. Carolina had a HUGE statement game. The NFC East continues to demonstrate its overall mediocrity. The Saints and Seattle forge ahead on a collision course in the NFC Championship. That New England loss may ultimately cost the Saints a Super Bowl berth. The Bears proved that no matter how long a coach coaches in another league, he is still a rookie when it comes to NFL coaching.
Trying to avoid the obvious pile-on of Coach Tressman, he really proved me wrong in my projection that "the Bears are not dumb enough to start Cutler" in week 10. Sadly, compounding the mistake by not pulling him at half when he was obviously hobbled was a far worse mistake. Every game is huge in the NFL, but against a co-division leader who has beaten you once is criminal. The team deserved much better than what Tressman delivered on Sunday.
We have finally reach week 11 and have the Broncos-Chiefs game in Mile High to look forward to Sunday night. The Chiefs run of luck continues as this game is after a Bye and has Peyton a bit hobbled going into the game. There are many other crucial games this weekend, but this game should be better than all of the others. It is fantasy playoff stretch time so pull off those trades before the trade deadline and pick up players and cut your dead weight!
QB: Luke McCown (CHI) - ok, THIS week, the Bears are not dumb enough to start another QB. McCown has proven that he can lead the Bears and put up good fantasy numbers. He is a very nice fill-in this week if you have a QB injured or on Bye.
RB: Bobby Rainey (TB) - poor Mike James. He toughed out the toughest part of the remaining schedule after taking over for Doug Martin and was looking good, only to get hurt and lose the rest of his season. Brian Leonard looked sluggish when he initially took over, but Rainey looked much better when given the chance. He is the RB to own out of the two if you are desperate for RB help.
WR: Rishard Matthews (MIA) - it appears Miami management and Ryan Tannehill have all realized that Mike Wallace has checked out for the remainder of the season and decided to try Matthews out. It was a wise decision as Tannehill-to-Matthews clicked nicely on Monday. Miami is still a mess overall, but Matthews could easily be here to stay for the remainder of the season.
TE: John Carlson (TE) - It took about half the season of Minnesota to find the plays missing from the playbook that include tight ends and then they lost Kyle Rudolph for the rest of the season. Fortunately, Carlson is equally as talented. Since the Vikings have absolutely no wide receivers, expect them to continue to feed the tight end.
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