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This past week my wife and I adopted our second cat. I never had a cat until about four months ago when we got our first cat, who is about 200 pounds, give or take 50 pounds, and extremely fast, which is why we named him Jerome, and nicknamed him “The Bus” after Jerome Bettis. I’m normally a dog person, but Jerome is cool, probably because he’s as big as a dog, and because he doesn’t do annoying cat things like jump on your keyboard, scratch up everything in the house, or give you looks like he wishes you would die. So we decided to get him a friend, figuring he would be less lonely around the house. The first few days were horrible. J-Rome (that’s what we call him) and the new cat (Sylvester, which means we can either get a yellow bird and name it Tweety, or get a dog, give it a mohawk and a lot of jewelry and hope it miraculously learns the phrase “I pity the fool!”) were bitter enemies from the start. It was like Republicans vs Democrats, Crips vs Bloods, Red Sox vs Yankees, Old people vs Skateboarders, Newsies vs the newspaper company, and Muppets vs Sesame Street all rolled in to one. J-Rome walked around depressed all day, like Tom Brady owners ten minutes in to the 2008 season. Sylvester walked around like he owned the place, kind of like the feeling you get when you pick Tim Hightower up off waivers and watch him run for 109 yards and a touchdown. However, after a few days they started to get along, ripping up and down the hall together, jumping around on the bed in the morning to ensure I never sleep past six, forming a singing group that performs at five every evening and only shuts up when I feed them, and doing their best to destroy every set of blinds in the house, all in an attempt to patrol the front and back yard from the likes of birds, squirrels, or rival cats. To tie this in to a fantasy reference, J-Rome and Sly are a perfect example of how patience pays off in fantasy football. New guys like Ray Rice, Jamaal Charles, Shaun Hill, and Donnie Avery have emerged from the waiver wires over the last few weeks. Not all of them will have a start like Brady Quinn did last week, but that doesn’t mean you should drop them after one game. I like Rice, Charles, Hill, and Avery this week (and AccuScore simulations do as well), but I’m not dropping them at the first sign of trouble. I’m going to hold on to them, hoping that they rebound from any bad starts, and join up with the other cats on my roster to bring their reign of terror upon the rest of the league. The Truth About Week Ten -The following quarterbacks will score more points this week than Peyton Manning (13.1): Sage Rosenfels (13.3), Shaun Hill (13.5), Chad Pennington (13.7), and Matt Ryan (14.9). -David Garrard (16.7) will score more points this week than Aaron Rodgers (16.5), Brett Favre (16.5), Philip Rivers (15.6), and Donovan McNabb (15.4). -Other quarterbacks to start this week: Drew Brees (19.3), Kurt Warner (17.7), Favre, Rivers, McNabb, Ryan, Hill, Pennington, Rosenfels. -Quarterbacks to avoid this week: Peyton Manning, Joe Flacco (13), Eli Manning (12.6), Trent Edwards (12), Marc Bulger (9.8), and Ben Roethlisberger (7.3) or Byron Leftwich (5.9) (whichever one starts). -With Willie Parker out, Mewelde Moore (16.1) becomes a top option this week against the Colts. AccuScore simulations have Moore running for 94 yards, and scoring a touchdown in 69 percent of simulations. -Tim Hightower (16.2) will score more points this week than Thomas Jones (15.1), Chris Johnson (12.6), Brandon Jacobs (11.7), Steve Slaton (10.2), and Marshawn Lynch (10). -Sleeper running backs to start this week: Jamaal Charles (14.2), Ray Rice (13.8), Kevin Smith (11.4), DeAngelo Williams (11.4), Leon Washington (10), Jerious Norwood (9.3), and Sammy Morris (9). -Running backs to avoid this week: Deuce McAllister (8.6), Fred Taylor (8.2), LenDale White (7.8), Jonathan Stewart (7.7), Joseph Addai (7.6), Ryan Grant (6.3), and Willis McGahee (5.2). -Roddy White (12.9) will score more points this week than Larry Fitzgerald (12.2), Andre Johnson (12), Steve Smith (11.7), Greg Jennings (11), Marques Colston (8.9), and Reggie Wayne (8.7). -Wide receivers to start this week: Donald Driver (9.4), Derrick Mason (9.3), Jerricho Cotchery (8.5), Matt Jones (8), Chris Chambers (7.8), Michael Jenkins (7.8), DeSean Jackson (7.4), Dwayne Bowe (7), Bernard Berrian (6.8), Lance Moore (6.7), Vincent Jackson (6.7), and Donnie Avery (6.6). -Sleeper wide receivers to start this week: Kevin Curtis (6.6), Steve Breaston (6.4), Isaac Bruce (6.3), Greg Camarillo (5.9), Reggie Brown (6). -Wide receivers to avoid this week: Wes Welker (6), Anthony Gonzalez (5.8), Kevin Walter (5.5), Mushin Muhammad (6), and Marvin Harrison (4.6). -Tight ends to start this week: Antonio Gates (8.4), Tony Gonzalez (7.1), Jeremy Shockey (6.3), Owen Daniels (6.1), and Dallas Clark (5.8). -Sleeper tight ends this week: Zach Miller (5.2) and Marcedes Lewis (4.1). -The Dolphins (12.1) are allowing 14 points against the Seahawks, recording three sacks and a turnover. -Defenses to avoid this week: Minnesota (9.7), Philadelphia (9), and Chicago (8.4). |
