Just a quick one this week.  All-Start beat All-Bench by 10 despite a 19-point game by Tyler Thigpen of all people.  Also, in answering a question I managed to pick the player who had the 18-point game and be wrong at the same time, thanks to Pierre Thomas looking better than Reggie Bush and Deuce McAllister somehow.

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The All-Start and All-Bench teams are cursed.  All-Start lost Gus Frerotte and Peyton Hillis to injury, All-Bench lost Marion Barber as a last-minute scratch before the game even started.  But All-Start still managed to pull it out thanks in large part to an abysmal seven-yard-on-seven-carry performance by Jamal Lewis.

From the question submissions my condolences go out to Domenic for having to watch Jonathan Stewart beat the will to live out of the usually solid Bucs defense while on his bench.  That is the definition of a tough break, especially in the playoffs.

All the numbers after the jump.

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I’m really not kidding.  The following running backs either got injured, aggravated an existing injury or didn’t play in Week 14:

• Frank Gore
• Clinton Portis
• Marion Barber
• Peyton Hillis
• Willis McGahee
• Ray Rice
• Brandon Jacobs

If you’re keeping score that’s two of the three running backs on the Ravens (McGahee and Rice), the fifth Broncos running back to sustain an injury this year (Hillis) and the third, eighth, 10th and 14th leading rushers in the NFL so far (Portis, Jacobs, Gore and Barber respectively).

And next week the playoffs begin.

So what do you do if you have one of these seven guys on your roster?  Other than burst into tears in an embarrassing display of sorrow?  (Seriously, stop crying, it’s embarrassing.)

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No questions this week and no live chat due to there being a game on at the time Thanksgiving and family and whatnot, so all you get out of me is a Start/Bench recap.

The recap?  A decisive All-Start win, a bold and brilliant prediction that McNabb would return to form and confirmation that I hate wide receivers and they hate me.  Seriously, no luck at all with receivers.

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Too soon?

That image above, picture that in a nightclub, that’s basically what happened to Plaxico “Cheddar Bob” Burress.  Needless to say he’s out for the season and I’m going to go out on a limb and say he’s pretty much done with the Giants.

But wait, that’s not all!  Due to a mandatory sentencing law in New York, if convicted of unlawful possession of a firearm (which is hard to deny when you shot yourself in the leg) he’ll face a minimum of three and a half years in prison.

Good job, Plax.  Way to make smart decisions.

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According to Jay Glazer, Plaxico Burress just turned himself in to the NYPD and, if convicted of unlawful possession of a firearm, faces a mandatory three and a half year prison sentence.  So he’s not playing.

Playing

Brandon Jacobs
Clinton Portis
Willie Parker
Steven Jackson
Reggie Bush
Kellen Winslow
Jonathan Stewart
Eddie Royal
Roddy White
Zach Miller

Not Playing

Plaxico Burress
Arnaz Battle
Josh Morgan
Matt Schaub
LaMont Jordan (even if he’s active, he won’t see carries)

Too Close to Call

Mark Clayton

The turkey was excellent, which is good because the games were not.

This is why I suggested making sure to start someone from each game.  Which I meant to do, but somehow managed to list two people from the late game on All-Start and none from Cowboys-Seahawks.  But the question remains: How did I do?

Let’s examine my successes, then cover the fantasy storylines you may have missed due to a food-induced coma.

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In what I believe is one of the signs of the apocalypse, Andy Reid benched Donovan McNabb.  The same Andy Reid who drafted him despite getting booed, continued to start him despite rampant booing after Jeff Garcia played far better in limited time, stuck by him despite the boo-filled outcry of fans…you get the idea.  It’s Philly.  They throw batteries and they boo.

Of course it was short lived.  Reid has announced McNabb will start this Thursday.  Apparently the best thing for job security is to have a backup who’s exponentially worse than you are.

In the words of Misti, the Official IFS Eagles Fan, “Our offense is sickeningly inept either way so I’m not sure it makes much of a difference.”

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Again I nail the All-Start running backs, again I get mixed results because of receiver problems.  All-Start’s receiver corps tanked and Lance Moore had a career game.

Don’t take this as me shifting the blame but am I the only one who’s noticed a total lack of consistency in receivers this season?  There don’t seem to be any solid players, no every-week sure thing starters.  Past stars are either having an awful year or just as inconsistent as the pack.

As for the rest, I went 1-1-1 in the posted questions.  I did know ties are allowed.  I also blew Jeremiah out of the water on one question from the Q&A: He recommended Donald Driver (four points) while I suggested Randy Moss (30 points).  No, I will never let that go.

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What’s this?  A new feature?  That’s right, down the home stretch we’re trying out some new things to give you that final push to win your league/make the playoffs/get out of last place.

One of those, as the post title suggests, is a Week in Review.

Every Tuesday from here on out one of us will post a rundown of what happened in the past few days from a fantasy perspective.  Things like breakout performances, debuts, busts and injuries.  All the things you may have missed that have some sort of fantasy impact.  Or that I find funny.

And of course we’re welcome to suggestions.  We’re doing this for you after all, so anything that would help you out we’re probably open to.

So let’s get to it.

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