Welcome back to The Hive!
The bye weeks are over, but the significant IDP injuries have increased
dramatically in recent weeks. Owners of guys like Troy Polamalu and Terrell
Suggs have to be wondering if their guys will be back in time to help them in
the fantasy playoffs, much less to help them make the fantasy playoffs. Keep in
mind that with the Thursday games upon us, The Hive comes to you before the
Thursday and Friday injury reports are out, so don’t forget to check out my Twitter
feed @ http://twitter.com/thehiveIDP
for the latest up-to-date IDP goodness!
How we rank `em-
Giddyup!
– start with confidence
SINS!
–
Solid
If
Not
Spectacular
Hellno!
– HELL. NO.
Thursday Night Football
– Start time: 5:20 p.m. pacific (8:20 p.m. eastern)
Miami
@
MIA
Giddyup! – Yeremiah Bell,
Randy Starks (I think he bounces back this week)
SINS! – Jason Taylor,
Channing Crowder, Gibril Wilson, Vontae Davis/Sean Smith
Hellno! – Joey Porter
CAR
Giddyup! – Jon Beason,
Landon Johnson
SINS! – all defensive
backs, Everette Brown
Hellno! – Julius Peppers,
Charles Johnson
Early Sunday Games –
Start time: 10 a.m. pacific (1 p.m. eastern)
Buffalo
@
BUF
Giddyup! – Aaron Schobel/Chris
Kelsay/Marcus Stroud, Paul Posluszny
SINS! – Jarius Byrd,
Bryan Scott (looked good in his first week at LB)
Hellno! – Donte Whitner/George
Wilson (Whitner sat last week, might start this week and send
Thursday lineup submission deadline I’d stay away altogether).
JAX
Giddyup! – Daryl Smith
SINS! – Derrick Harvey, Sean
Considine/Reggie Nelson, Derek Cox
Hellno! – Justin Durant,
Rashean Mathis (both hurt)
Pittsburgh
@
PIT
Giddyup! – James Harrison
(this could be one of those games where he just gets ridiculous)
SINS! – James Farrior/Lawrence
Timmons/LaMarr Woodley, William Gay
Hellno! – Troy Polamalu
(he’s questionable)
KC
Giddyup! – Tamba Hali
(just a hunch)
SINS! – Corey Mays (seven
solo tackles and two assists last week, not a bad injury replacement against a
studly Steelers offense that will likely be running the ball all day long),
Brandon Flowers, Mike Brown
Hellno! – no one you
would normally consider
Washington
@
WAS
Giddyup! –
SINS! – Andre Carter/Brian
Orakpo (tough matchup but both have been hot), Rocky McIntosh, Reed Doughty/LaRon
Landry
Hellno! – no one you
would normally consider
DAL
Giddyup! – Demarcus Ware,
Jay Ratliff
SINS! – Keith Brooking,
Terrance Newman
Hellno! – no one you
would normally consider
Atlanta
@
ATL
Giddyup! – Curtis Lofton,
Erik Coleman/Thomas DeCoud
SINS! – Mike Peterson,
Jonathan Babineaux
Hellno! – John Abraham
NYG
Giddyup! – Osi Umenyiora/Justin
Tuck, Terrell Thomas
SINS! – Antonio Pierce,
Aaron Rouse, Matthias Kiwanuka
Hellno! – no one you
would normally consider
Cleveland
@
CLE
Giddyup! – Shaun Rogers
SINS! – all linebackers,
Brodney Pool/Abram Elam
Hellno! – all cornerbacks
DET
Giddyup! – Larry Foote,
DeAndre Levy
SINS! – Louis Delmas/Ko Simpson,
Julian Peterson
Hellno! – Cliff Avril
San
Francisco
@
SF
Giddyup! – Pat Willis,
Dashon Goldson
SINS! – Justin Smith,
Manny Lawson, Michael Lewis
Hellno! – no one you
would normally consider
GB
Giddyup! – Charles
Woodson, Nick Collins
SINS! – all linebackers,
Cullen Jenkins
Hellno! – Aaron Kampman
(might go this week, but probably not worth the risk unless you are desperate)
Seattle
@
SEA
Giddyup! – David
Hawthorne
SINS! – Josh Wilson/Marcus
Hellno! – all defensive
lineman
MIN
Giddyup! – Jared Allen, E.J.
Henderson/Chad Greenway, Cedric Griffin
SINS! – Antoine Winfield
(questionable as of now, if he is a full blown go I’d bump him up to a Giddyup!),
Ray Edwards (fool me once …), Kevin Williams
Hellno! – no one you
would normally consider
New
Orleans
@
NO
Giddyup! – Jonathan
Vilma (he’s baaaack!), Darren Sharper (is a go this week and this matchup
screams pick six), Roman Harper
SINS! – Will Smith, Scott
Shanle
Hellno! – all cornerbacks
TB
Giddyup! – Tanard Jackson,
Barrett Ruud, Sabby Piscatelli
SINS! – Aqib Talib/Ronde Barber,
all defensive lineman
Hellno! – no one you
would normally consider
Indianapolis
@
IND
Giddyup! – Antoine
Bethea, Jerraud Powers, Dwight Freeney/Robert Mathis, Clint Session
SINS! – Gary Brackett,
Melvin Bullitt
Hellno! – no one you
would normally consider
BAL
Giddyup! – Ray Lewis
SINS! – Ed Reed/Dawan Landry,
Dwan Edwards/Kelly Gregg, Ladarius Webb
Hellno! – Terrell Suggs
(those in deep leagues might want to grab Paul Kruger, as he has a couple of
very tasty matchups coming up while Suggs is out. This is not one of them
though).