I just know you have questions this week.  As soon as you get your starting lineup the way you like it, suddenly the Lions, Colts, Dolphins, Patriots, Giants and Seahawks decide to take a week off and force you to throw in some backups to fill the spots.

Ok, probably not so much the Lions.  Or Dolphins since only about 25% of you started Ronnie Brown and his 39 points (ask Jeremiah about that).  But the Pats, Colts and Giants might be throwing you off.

So ask away and we’ll tell you who to drag off your bench as a fill-in (Hint: Selvin Young).

How was that for a week, huh?  A great Monday night game, a Raiders blowout, a Niners overtime win, a controversial (by which I mean wrong) call at the end of the Broncos-Chargers game and come-from-behind wins by the Colts and Panthers.  A whole season of surprises and drama in two days.

On the fantasy front we’re witnessing a changing of the guard.  Using the default Yahoo scoring (I know not everyone uses Yahoo but, let’s face it, most people do, plus they use pretty standard scoring) Peyton Manning and Carson Palmer, two of the top fantasy quarterbacks going into the season, combined for 17 points and have 34 between them on the season.  Aaron Rodgers, who had to fight for his job and may not have been drafted in your league, scored 25 this week and has 45 in two games.  Things have shifted.

The same thing is happening with running backs.  #1 overall pick LaDanian Tomlinson (3 this week, 13 this year) has fewer points than Michael Turner (4, 38), Julius Jones (19, 24), LenDale White (11, 21) and Chris Perry (12, 14).

So how can a fantasy owner make sense of it all?  How do you know who’s going to break out, which stars will recover and which unknowns will set the league on fire?

Ask us, of course.  Ask your questions in this post’s comments and we’ll answer.

What’s that?  You’re busy this Thursday from noon to 1:00 and can’t make our live Q&A?  Well then we’re not helping you.

Ok, fine, we’ll help you anyway.  Ask your questions in the comments to this thread and we’ll answer them.  But we’ll be giving better answers at our live Q&A this Thursday from noon to 1:00, so you should check the blog for a link and attend.

We got some good questions this week.  Not just the standard ones about who to start or bench but some good questions about tight ends and even one about individual defensive players.

If you missed the Week 1 post but have a last-minute question don’t worry, we’ll be checking all day, ask away.  And remember that you can also interrogate us during our weekly Q&A on Thursdays at noon.

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Welcome to the first edition of the Advice Mailbag question submission post!  We’re just full of welcomes today.

We’ve all been there.  You’ve got two players, both either equally good or equally terrible, and one starting spot left.  You don’t know which to choose.  Who do you ask for advice?

Ask us, that’s who.

If you can’t make it to our live Q&A (probably beginning Week 2) you can ask your questions here.  Just comment on this post with your question and we’ll answer them all in a mailbag post this Saturday before final lineups are due.

So let us have it.  What do you need to know?