I've been starting him since week 3, and to be honest, this was the do-or-die week before I gave up until further notice. Forget about that now. I'd like to see more than 4 catches, but 57 yards is A-OK for a non-Gates TE, and I'm pretty confident we'll be seeing plenty more of Olsen in the end zone.

I'm not sure if you were able to see video of Trent Green's concussion-causing hit this weekend, but in case you didn't, you can see it right here:

When I first heard about Green's injury, I was watching the video on the highlight show, and the first thing I noticed was not Green getting leveled on the ground, but the huge guy flipping over him. Watch that video and tell me that you don't completely ignore Trent Green as soon as you see the other guy, Travis Johnson, flying through the air (with the greatest of ease?)

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A: Because if you did, you'd get to spend the next week with a coach who thinks this is a smile:

Dear Yahoo,

Let me start by saying that I love your fantasy football system. I've tried ESPN, NFL.com, CBS Sportsline, and FleaFlicker, and none of them hold a candle to your simple, efficient interface. Way to go. I'm golf clapping right now. By myself. It's kind of weird.

But StatTracker sucks worse than every Miami quarterback since Marino. For starters, it's an unbelievable resource hog - it's using around 20% of my CPU on my dual-core laptop, and it's just as bad with every other computer I've used it on. When StatTracker's running, computers tend to freeze up every ten seconds or so. It's annoying. When I watch football on Sundays, I'm usually surfing the web at the same time (I don't have the attention span to concentrate on just one game), and while I'd like to have StatTracker running at the same time, it's just not worth it.

Second, here's something you should know already but apparently don't - many people are in more than one fantasy league. So, then, why does StatTracker make it such an enormous pain in the ass to monitor multiple teams at one time? Why do I have to sit through a twenty-second progress bar every time I check on a new league? There should be tabs across the top of the screen, one for each league you're in, and the data for all of them should already be loaded, but hidden. There's no reason I can think of that this would be impossible, or even difficult, to do. If it's because it would increase the system resources the program takes up, then clearly you need to figure out a new way to pull stats down in real time. There's no reason this should be a CPU-intensive task.

Really, it's just a bad system, and obviously needs to be overhauled. Given that it's likely the main way you make money off your fantasy football product (aside from advertising), it seems like it'd be worth the investment.

Sincerely,
Matt from ffgeekblog.com

To all those wondering whether to start Laurence Maroney or not, you can put him on the bench. Maroney has been declared inactive for the game this afternoon, so get Sammy Morris or another backup running back into your lineup.

Other players to keep out of your lineup this week include Ahman Green, Anquan Boldin and Santana Moss, each of whom are inactive for their games today.

Players that WILL be playing this week though, include Calvin Johnson and Travis Henry.

Brandon's take: I would go with Andre Davis this week after the way he seemed to mesh with Matt Schaub last week (117 yards and a TD). It seems that Schaub only needs one "go to" guy each week, and due to injury troubles with Andre Johnson and Jacoby Jones, that guy is Davis. Jackson is on one of my teams and is yet to impress me. I see much more upside with Davis.

Matt's take: Miami's secondary is very, very bad. That swings the balance to Davis this week.

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It appears that Ricky Williams is not the only NFL running back to enjoy his Mary Jane. Denver Bronco's running back Travis Henry, the current NFL leader in rushing yards, is in danger of being suspended for a year for violating the league's substance abuse program.

This story is pretty interesting, because while the league is trying to suspend Henry, he is suing the league to prevent it from using his urine sample, saying the league violated its own substance abuse policy. Henry claims that the league was in violation because it did not allow his "experts" to be present to test the sample.

I'm not sure if Henry is trying to say that the NFL's "experts" do not know how to perform a drug test or that they're trying to set him up with false results in some big conspiracy. Either way though, if found guilty of this violation, Henry is in danger of being suspended for the remainder of the season, as he already sat out four games two years ago for violating the policy a first time while in Tennessee. I'm crossing my fingers that he finds some loophole in this situation, as he's one of my running backs in my Keeper league, but we'll just have to wait and see what the verdict is on this situation.

These are the guys you might normally start, but may want to reconsider this week for one reason or another. This week, let me start out by saying this: I seriously almost decided to add Steve Smith to the list this week, simply because with David Carr throwing the ball, he's just plain screwed. Carr sucks - SUCKS - and so will Smith, DeShaun Foster, and every other part of that offense as long as Carr's running the show.

But I know, I know: You can't bench Smith. But I'm willing to bet that, come Monday, you'll be wishing you had.

With that out of the way...

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Every week in fantasy football for as long as it has existed, there has always been one constant: Some player comes out of relatively nowhere, has a gigantic, multiple-touchdown game, becomes the league's hottest waiver or trade commodity, and then generally sinks back to his normal level of production the following week. If you could predict who that guy would be each week... well, you'd have a lot of trouble convincing your friends to let you into their fantasy leagues. So it's a good thing that I'm probably going to be way, way wrong here, but here goes: These are the five guys who I think could shock everyone with a monster game this week.

This has nothing to do with the other definition of shocker, so shut up. But whoa, thanks to my Google search for an explanatory link, now I have to buy a giant foam shocker hand. Stupid Google.

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Although it is obviously not the "Gus Frerotte Era" in St. Louis, it will be Frerotte's team for the next couple weeks while Bulger rides the pine, trying to heal some of his wounds (broken ribs, sore knee, hurt shoulder, etc). Bulger has been a sitting duck the past few weeks with the offensive line in disarray, something you don't want to say about a quarterback your team just gave a huge contract extension to. Frerotte has been a journeyman throughout his career and has proven to be a decent backup in his time with Washington, Detroit, Denver, Cincinnati, Minnesota, Miami, and now St. Louis, but he's probably most famous for his self-caused concussion while playing for the Redskins.

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