The Cleveland Browns took the first step to getting Brady Quinn under center when they traded week 1 starter Charlie Frye to the Seattle Seahawks yesterday. Now all that lies in the way of Quinn's promotion is the poor play of Derek Anderson against a surprisingly good defense of the Cincinnati Bengals (last week at least). This whole situation is becoming quite a mess for Cleveland and coach Romeo Crennel (who I don't predict lasting beyond this season unless Quinn proves to be the savior that the team has been looking for). It was obvious that Frye was not the answer, as it is obvious that Anderson is not either. It's time to start Brady Quinn and see what he's got...who cares if he takes a beating.

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Now that the first week is over, you may find that your team isn't in quite the same shape that you thought it was to begin the season. You might have lost a player to injury or realized that your veteran might not be playing at the same level he has in the past. You might realize that your player just won't be a good fit for the new team he's playing on or you might just want to start planning for next year (with a keeper league Post-Draft Draft). In any case, my new weekly post should help you out in these areas. I'll provide a list of good waiver-wire pickups that should be able to help you out throughout the season. I'll also provide a list of the recent players that you might want to start looking at for the future of your keeper league team. Finally, I'll provide a list of a couple players that will make good bye week or injury plug-and-plays to get you from week to week. So here we go with the Week 1 selections...

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Over the weekend, I was checking on one of my rosters after the 1:00 games had finished and noticed that one of my starters had gotten me ZERO points. I was confused at first, as this player was supposed to be the number one wide receiver on a pretty decent passing team. Quickly I thought to myself, maybe they play at 4:00 or something. After checking that, I was wrong. Deion Branch had played the entire game against Tampa Bay and finished with 0 receptions for 0 yards. I then started to notice a trend of some pretty high caliber players pulling off great disappearing acts on my other rosters or on the rosters of other teams in my leagues. Below you will see a list of these players that went AWOL, along with my immediate analysis of whether or not this will be a continuing trend to be worried with, or something to shake off and give them another shot in Week 2...

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Really, you can predict damn near anything before week 1 of the regular season and it'll sound at least plausible. But once the games actually count and coaches turn past page 1 of the playbook, you quickly learn that what you said in the preseason can easily sound downright retarded after week 1.

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In one of my leagues I went to bed last night winning by about 25 points or so. I woke up to see myself down over 45 points or so. What happened? Well the league plays 2 quarterbacks. My opponents two quarterbacks? Eli Manning and Tony Romo. Between the two of them, they scored him 72 points. They threw a combined 8 touchdowns and Romo rushed for another, as well as combining for over 650 yards passing. You might call that a bittersweet evening for me, however, the real pain goes to the owners of Eli Manning and Brandon Jacobs.

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Today a number of heavily hyped rookies made the first start of their career...and in the case of Calvin Johnson, Marshawn Lynch, and Adrian Peterson, it was a pretty good debut.

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We've gotten so used to the idea that Tom Brady likes to spread the wealth, but maybe that's just because he's never had a guy like Randy Moss to throw the ball to before. Moss was absolutely nasty, and the Jets passing defense isn't all that horrible; they ranked 14th in the league last year. It seems hard to believe that he could so easily return to the Moss of old after being spending two years as the Invisible Man, but it's hard to remember another New England receiver having a performance like that.

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I'm watching the Buffalo-Denver game, and Lynch has looked absolutely Tomlinsonian in the 3rd quarter. He looks huge out there and is just plowing over defenders. His touchdown run in the 3rd was very impressive. On an earlier third-down play, he had two tacklers on him five yards from the first-down marker, the play and drive all but dead, and he somehow managed to push them both past the marker.

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Chester Taylor's hip injury has Peterson owners dancing in the streets, and rightfully so. The league's most talented rookie will carry the load for the Vikes until Taylor returns, whenever that is (could be later in the game for all we know). Peterson's a top-12 RB until Taylor comes back.

There's one in every league. They start players on their bye weeks, make a total of zero roster moves on the season, never respond to trade offers, and keep players on their rosters despite season-ending injuries. You're annoyed when they hand over easy wins to other teams, and you're even more annoyed when their autodrafted squad randomly puts up a huge week when you're matched up against them.

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