It's time to step up your game. Depending on your league's setup, you are either competing in the playoffs or positioning yourself for the playoffs in the last week of your regular season (seriously, like any of our readers would have bad teams).
Hopefully you had Vincent Jackson and Philip Rivers active Thursday night, so you won't have to worry about those spots for today.
Regardless, we have you covered here at FanHouse for any of your needs.
Finally, we can give you that personal touch, here in the chat. We'll get to as many questions as we can, but if you ask something that could not be answered with any of the above links, there's a better chance you'll get through.
Good morning good folks. Hopefully, everybody is off to a good start this week after the Titans read the Lions the riot act on Turkey Day and Brian Westbrook singlehandedly destroyed some opponents' hopes and dreams. Personally, I was hoping for more out of Anquan Boldin, but everybody has an off day now and again.
Moving forward, we'll be here from 10:30 ET all the way up to kickoff in an attempt to guide your fantasy football teams to victory.
We'll be happy to tackle flex position starts, trade situations, shady commissioner activities -- pretty much anything else under the sun, including unrelated questions about Lost and Heroes, .
Just as we do every week, we'll be sitting here Sunday from 10:30 until the first round of games kick-off at 1:00. C'mon in for your fantasy football questions, and we'll get as many as we can. Here are some resources you can use without having to take part in the chat, should you not be able to make it.
Hopefully you learned your lesson Thursday night to not put all your stock into weather reports. Weather can have an adverse affect on players, but for the most part I'm pretty sure you want to play your studs.
Also, hopefully a large number of you -- though I doubt it -- enjoyed Matt Cassel's output.
Moving forward, we'll be here from 10:30 ET all the way up to kickoff in an attempt to guide your fantasy football teams to victory.
Ok, let's get this out of the way. JaMarcus Russell is not going to play this weekend against Carolina. Yeah, I know ... I can hear all the suicidal panic attacks coming from his fantasy owners everywhere. Sometimes you just have to fight through adversity in fantasy-land.
On a serious note, we will be having our weekly Sunday Morning Tailgate this week.
Please feel encouraged to drop on in and bombard our expert panel with questions about your lineup, take part in light-hearted debates, or make fun of over-paid famous people. We're game for anything.
Up to the minute player notes can be found here, and we'll be announcing the inactives who are fantasy relevant around 11:35.
Please join us. We'll publish as many of the fantasy relevant comments as we can and answer as many questions as is humanly possible.
In the infamous words of Jim Mora, that's all it comes down to, my fantasy compatriots. You take it one game at a time, one matchup at a time, and hopefully you're lucky enough to be there in the end. Football is the crapshoot of fantasy sports, and this might as well be the most crucial week yet for some of you -- especially if you're sitting with a 4-4 record, just on the outskirts of the cut line. The rapid-fire, fun-filled tailgate chat you know and love is after the jump. But before you join us for the madness, here's some quick tidbits:
-- Spot Plays: Quarterbacks.... Chad Pennington vs. Denver, Marc Bulger vs. Arizona, Matt Ryan vs. Oakland ... Running Backs ... Tim Hightower supposedly starting vs. St. Louis. Kevin Faulk vs. Indianapolis tonight. Justin Fargas vs. Atlanta may surprise. I would say Antonio Pittman vs. Arizona, but Steven Jackson says he's playing... Wide Receivers ... Devin Hester vs. Detroit, Kevin Curtis vs. Seattle, Antonio Bryant vs. Kansas City, and Kevin Walter vs. Minnesota.
If I told you before the season started that a guy named BenJarvus Green-Ellis would be starting for the Patriots in Week 8, you'd think I was nuttier than a Dennis Green press conference. But here we are. Green-Ellis is likely getting the main workload for the Patriots. Mewelde Moore is starting for the Steelers again. And Kansas City's Kolby Smith fills in for Larry Johnson, who is too busy being disgusted with himself.
As always, if you need the latest news updates on your fantasy players, head over to our Player Notes feed, powered by RotoTimes.com. There's a nifty search function where you can sort it by name. And our rankings for this week can be found here.
We'll be taking this bad boy from 10:30AM EST all the way till kickoff, and maybe we'll stick around to go running through the streets naked after the first touchdown (If you're lucky). Chat is after the jump. Bring your green hat.
Week 7 can definitely be a make-or-break affair for your fantasy squad. If your team is 2-4, you're not quite as desperate as the Seahawks, but it sure is getting there. It's time to pull out all the stops and go with the upside. And that includes those wily Texans vs. "Tornado Dan" Orlovsky's Lions.
The good news is the previously injured Saints have come marching in (Colston, Shockey and even Patten). The bad news is Tony Romo won't be starting. And neither will Joseph Addai. And there's the usual annoying bye weeks to deal with (Arizona and Philly, ugh). The best news is that we'll be here once again answering all your questions until kickoff. Join myself, Brinson and Dr. Slick (Snyder) along with some other possible cameos for a fistful of fantasy football fury.
Note: Due to some scheduling difficulties, this morning's Tailgate may be delayed. Please be patient and thanks for sticking around! You're my boy, Blue!
Apparently, Brian Westbrook and Carson Palmer didn't get the memo from the thousands of fantasy owners begging them to play. And now we're left to pillage the waiver wire like it was full of sweet, sweet gummy worms (or gummy sharks if you like those better). My gummy worms this week are Justin Fargas and Steve Breaston. Hi Justin and Steve, welcome to the "Browning Nagle Bomb Squad".
In case you missed it, we covered the implications of the Palmer injury here and the Westbrook injury here. Other guys that have been ruled OUT already this week include: Jon Kitna, Deion Branch, Anquan Boldin and Matt Hasselbeck is likely out as well with back spasms. Questionables include Laurence Maroney (as usual), Roddy White (reportedly playing despite having his bell rung this week), Kellen Winslow (still in a hospital as of this writing), and Eddie Royal (reportedly a bone bruise, will be limited, and I'd look for other options)
I'm going to bypass any jokes about the Cubs -- it just doesn't seem necessary to rub in the Dodgers' sweep in a fantasy football post. So, no baseball talk, no "I told you so!" type of things ... just some good, old-fashioned fantasy football chat.
So, at 10:30 this morning, if free and awesome fantasy football advice is something you might be interested in, then stop by for the Tailgate. Chat is after the jump. (Latest Player Notes and More Updates Here.)
