The Hive – Week 11 Edition

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

@

Carolina

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

@

Jacksonville

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

Wilson to the bench, but if your league has a
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

@

Kansas City

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

@

Dallas

WAS

Giddyup! –

London Fletcher

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

@

New York Giants

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

@

Detroit

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

@

Green Bay

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

@

Minnesota

SEA

Giddyup! – David
Hawthorne

SINS! – Josh Wilson/Marcus

Trufant,

Jordan Babineaux, Leroy Hill

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

@

Tampa

Bay

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

@

Baltimore

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).