For all your fantasy questions, feel free to Ask Papa Weimer @ papaweimer@hotmail.com. As for questions directed at me, good Ol’ Lucky Lester, throw your questions to lester@luckylester.com. Let the Fantasy season continue the point tallies – and feel free to knock me on my picks! How’d I do? Check it out.This Week’s Top Team: Week 4’s team produced… NOT NEARLY ENOUGH DAMN POINTS!!!
QB: Tom Brady vs. Cincinnati: 231 yards, 3 touchdowns, 1 interception – free flowing greatness. Tom finished 4th in the quarterback ranking lists – boy is this guy good.
RB: Brian Westbrook vs. NY Giants:. “The Giants defense doesn’t have one guy that is fast enough to keep up with Westy, so I imagine he’ll beast them if he dresses.” I guess the key is here that Westy didn’t dress. Not only did Correl Buckhalter rush for over 100 yards, but the Eagles missed Westbrook dearly. The Giants defense pinned their ears back and went gung-ho after Donovan. 12 sacks later, the Eagles hope the bye week heals Brian’s riblets. 0 points here, obviously.
RB: Joseph Addai vs. Denver: Addai finished 3rd in the league for running backs, and he was hurt for the better part of the 2nd half. I don’t know what more to say, I hit this one right on the head. 136 yards and a TD. 20 fantasy points.
WR: Randy Moss vs. Cincinnati: Randy was 4th in the league behind a trio of surprises. Crayton, Bowe, and Holmes. I’ll tell you this, I’ll take my 102 yards and two scores from Randy any day. That’s 4 straight 100 yard games from Moss, and a score or more in each one of them. He’s back, folks. With Cleveland up next week, expect more of the same. Better yet, he was thrown to 9 times and caught 9 balls. LEGIT!
WR: Terrell Owens vs. St. Louis: Apparently TO told Tony Romo to see what Patrick Crayton could do this week with all the coverages in St. Louis all over Owens. Crayton went for a billion fantasy points, but TO only had 33 yards. 3 points on a day I needed more from the talkative WR.
TE: Antonio Gates vs. Kansas City: Gates had 6 grabs for 79 yards, but the Chargers couldn’t find the end-zone and they lost again. 7 points for the best TE in football. 9 guys had more fantasy points at the TE spot.
K: Matt Stover vs. Cleveland: Stover only had 7 points, and the Ravens looked absolutely terrible. Either that or the Browns are good. Well, I’ll take option one.
D: Chargers vs. Chiefs: The Chargers were bad, and this game has me thinking – coaching has more to do with Ws than people think. Phillips, Cameron, Schottenheimer – gone – enter a new coaching staff and a 1-3 record to start the season. 6 useless fantasy points.
LUCKY’S Week 4 SLEEPERS
Daunte Culpepper: 5 touchdowns and an end zone dance that had him pointing to his knee “problem” – brilliant. Daunte rocked the Dolphins, and although his passing numbers weren’t grand – he was solid, and you have to love it. A+
Rex Grossman: Hey, Rex got the boot by Wednesday, so like I said, cross this one out. I do think he would have put up at least as good of numbers as Griese, maybe even have led the Bears to a W – but what do I know?
Brian Leonard: Leonard only had 6 fantasy points, and Dallas destroyed the Rams’ offense. How bad have the Rams been? How good is Dallas? This is worth a C-, because Leonard got 6 points as a stop gap start.
Marshawn Lynch: Lynch finished tied for 6th in RB rankings, with only 79 rushing yards and a touchdown. This kid is good, because everyone on the Jets defense was trying to shut down the run – yet he was still productive. B
Thomas Jones: 5 fantasy points. I hate the Jets play calling. They need to ride their rushing attack, because Chad can’t throw the ball 40 times a game. 12 carries for Thomas Jones is just downright ridiculous. D
Lee Evans: Lee only had 7 points, but outscored his first 3 games combined by catching 6 for 72 yards against the Jets – plus the Bills won a game. Crazy. B-
Joey Galloway: Galloway didn’t register on the WR list in my league. That’s English for F-.
Greg Olsen: 1 fantasy point – I hate the Bears. F
Packers DST: 12 fantasy points for the Pack, but it would have been less if the dumb Vikings play callers had given the ball to Adrian Peterson more. If you have a stud, use him. I’ll take a B.
LUCKY’S Week 4 Bench Riders
Peyton Manning: Peyton Manning is good – I was wrong – I apologize to the whole Manning family and everyone else involved with those two square-headed donkeys. 25 fantasy points for Peyton.
Larry Johnson: LJ had 140+ total yards and 14 fantasy points. He was solid. He was LJ. Its nice to see the old LJ back, and kind of freaky to see how bad the Chargers defense is playing.
Edgerrin James: Edge was solid. I was wrong. He was tied for 6th, finishing with 77 yards and a touchdown. I was wrong again. Dang.
Marvin Harrison: Marvin had a bad day, but mainly because he sprained his knee and only played one half of one quarter. So if you say Marvin, that was probably a lucky move for you.
Algae Crumpler: There will be no time for Harrington to get the ball to his tight end, and the short pass will be heavily guarded by a nice set of linebackers and safeties. Overall, I think Crump’s day will be very average at best.