In case you had the great (read: bad) idea of sneaking the man formerly known as Chad Johnson into your lineup for tonight's game against the Steelers, think again. Ocho Cinco has been benched for violating an undisclosed team rule and should be sitting safely on your team's bench as well. He's been consistently mediocre at the position this season anyways, so this probably doesn't matter to you, but just in case...

While I wish I could write about something super-exciting that happened this past weekend in the NFL, there just wasn't a whole lot going on worthy of it. The most interesting thing to happen was probably the Chiefs near-victory over the heavily favored Tampa Bay Buccaneers, so we'll start there...

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After staying up late to watch my favorite baseball team lose to the Tampa Bay Rays (!) last night, I'm not sure I'll be able to handle staying up for what will most likely be a disaster of a game tonight when the Fantasy Football Librarian's boys from Denver come into Gillette Stadium to take on the Patriots...but I'll give it a shot. The good news is that even though the Sox are done and the Pats chances tonight are not all that promising, the fantasy football gods seemed to shine down on me this week and I should pull off some solid victories in most of my leagues (although the fact that Jay Cutler and Brandon Marshall having huge games against New England would help many of my teams causes quite the personal conflict!), including a potential victory in which I idiotically started Larry Fitzgerald on a bye. Anyways, enough of my rambling about New England sports and my fantasy teams, let's get to the action from the weekend that caused my good fortunes, including a few running backs gone wild!

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It's looking safer and safer to assume that Palmer will play on Sunday. If he plays, it'll be because he's essentially 100% - so he's actually a decent start in what could become a shootout with Dallas. From here: 

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Well it's week four and many of you are probably feeling the effect of poor planning when you took three starters that all had the same bye week (don't worry...you're not alone!) Anyways, hopefully we can offer you some advice to get you past the bye week blues and maintain your first place spot in the standings...

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So these past few days have been a bit of an adventure for me, as I was traveling down to Puerto Rico for work and due to some hurricane-induced delays, mixed with the reliability of the Puerto Rican internet, I have not been able to write some much needed analysis of what is shaping up to be a crazy opening weekend in the NFL. Let me just start by saying that while Matt felt it unnecessary to mention Tom Brady's season ending injury (and it wasn't even to that stupid foot we kept hearing about!), I have to admit that I am shedding a few tears internally as my favorite team's Superbowl hopes are now resting squarely on the shoulders of a guy I thought the team was going to cut before the season started...Mr. Matt Cassel. Luckily for my alternate, fantasy football reality, I only had Brady in one league this year and it was my lame EA Sports league that I really don't care much about, but let's get to the rest of the action that transpired this weekend...

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Although I only drafted the man formerly known as Chad Johnson in one of my leagues, I find it hilarious that he officially changed his last name to Ocho Cinco, and now that is the name you'll be seeing while reviewing your rosters for this weekend. Looks like most of the major fantasy sites are up to date...Yahoo, ESPN, and even FleaFlicker (although for some reason the search function wasn't returning his name), but not CBS Sportsline as of this post (even though they have a news update that is so kind as to explain the meaning of the name, "Ocho Cinco means 'eight five' in Spanish".) I can't wait to see the name on the back of his jersey this weekend...and also hear an opposing coach refer to him as Chad Ocho Cinco in a press conference after the game (or his own head coach for that matter!)

Tonight's game between the Browns and Giants will wrap up week two of the preseason, but before we jump into week 3, here are some reactions to the games that took place over the weekend...

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