Week 6 Booms, Busts and WW Wonders

BOOMS:

Green Bay Packers players: I'll start off with a gimme. Detroit will be playing without Stafford and Calvin, meaning the starting skill players will include fearsome names such as Culpepper, Northcutt and Bryant Johnson. This means you start Rodgers, Grant, Jennings, Driver and the Packers D with confidence.

New England passing players: Brady, Moss, Welker are absolute 'duh's this week. I know you'd be batty to sit them on almost any given week, but I actually had 2 people ask me if they should bench Moss because of his performance this year. No. Tennessee will be without both starting CBs, and even with those CBs, Tennessee has allowed 13 TDs and 288 YPG through the air.

David Garrard: One, he plays St. Louis. Two, you'd think he'd be motivated after last week's disgraceful performance by all the Jags to come out and stick it to a team. Luckily for the Jags, that team happens to be the Rams.

Brian Westbrook/Lesean Mccoy: As most people know, Oakland has a serviceable pass D. As most people know, Oakland has a run D about as effective as a drunk Ryan Leaf at QB, so we may be able to expect Westy to get slightly more touches while the game is competitive, then Mccoy to get more as it starts to get away.

Donnie Avery: Jacksonville's pass D is bad bad bad, as you no doubt witnessed last week if you had a Seahawk. Keenan Burton isn't an NFL caliber WR in my opinion after watching him, so the passing game should feature Avery a ton.

Nate Burleson: This may be a close game, but the Cardinals have a pretty rancid pass D, and Hasselbeck seems to have nice rapport with him.

Knowshon Moreno: Buckhalter may play, but Moreno should be the feature back, and SD is banged up and playing pretty cruddy D. He's got RB2/flex status this week.

Thomas Jones: Reverse psychology baby. The Bills have an awful D, this should be a blowout, Jones is an awful runner with all the opportunties, you get the idea.

Cedric Benson: The NFL's leading rusher (man that feels weird to say) shouldn't have much trouble against a D that has given up 8 combined TDs to Thomas Jones, Chris Johnson, MJD and Hightower.

Santana Moss: I'd like to present you with stats of some WRs against KC this year: Miles Austin, 10 rec 250 yds 2 TD. Steve Smith, 11 rec 134 yds 2 TD. Desean Jackson, 6 rec 149 yds 1 TD. Mark Clayton, 5 rec 77 yds 1 TD. Of course, to their credit, KC played well against Oakland's stellar, vaunted, grade-A WR corps.

New York Jets D: Oh, they'll be angry. And oh, they'll be playing the Bills o-line. The same Bills team that scored 3 points against the Browns.


BUSTS:

Marques Colston: And now I'd like to present you some stats of #1 WRs against NYG. Santana Moss, 2 rec 6 yds. Roy Williams, 1 rec 18 yds. Antonio Bryant, 1 rec 6 yds. Dwayne Bowe, 1 rec 11 yds. Oakland WRs, typical Oakland WR stats. You get the idea...tough to bench, but expect less than usual.

Eli Manning: The Saints have allowed pass TDs in exactly 1 game this year. 1. Eli Manning will be the best QB they've faced, but this may actually be less of a shootout than people think.

Kevin Smith: I hate putting my own players as busts, but the Detroit offense looks absolutely 1 dimensional this week. The Packers contain Smith and they absolutely coast.

Willis Mcgahee: Ray Rice seems to be becoming the clearcut #1, and he plays Minnesota. Scary stuff.

Jamal Lewis: The Browns will be down early. He can't catch the ball. This should be an amusing game.

Terrell Owens: He'll be playing a pissed off Revis (he's overrated, but he's for sure a top 5 CB) who got smoked by the Dolphins. And let's face it...he sucks in Buffalo.

Jeremy Maclin: I THINK Nnamdi is covering his side of the field. I wish I could get verification from somewhere, but regardless, last week was probably his best week all year.


Waiver Wire Wonders:

This is my favorite part of this writeup now btw.

Dennis Northcutt: With Calvin Johnson out, he'll see targets, as Culpepper looked his way alot last week. A decent PPR plugin for desperate owners.

Jake Delhomme: It's scary starting a guy like Jake, but they should win the game, and Tampa Bay is pretty cruddy against the pass.

Chaz Schilens: This isn't a play for now, but rather a more speculative play in deeper leagues. There's an outside chance he plays this week, and he's got the talent to succeed in the league. His main problem is obviously Jamarcus, so look and see how Jamarcus looks at Schilens the first week or 2 that he's back, and that will dictate his rosterability as the season goes on.

Todd Heap: You'll be HEAPING the praise on Todd when he gets you a nice bye week fillin, specially in PPR leagues. (I'm sorry, I had to.)

Washington D: Cassel doesn't throw many INTs, but KC fumbles here and there, and their o-line is definitely crappy. Washington had better come out and play motivated, otherwise some jobs are absolutely gone.

Keenan Burton: I mentioned Keenan Burton isn't an NFL caliber WR, and I stand by what I said. That said, he's still the #2 WR in STL, and assuming they're playing from down, having a crappy skillset doesn't mean you can't catch 4-6 passes given enough targets. Deep leaguers, take consideration.

Josh Freeman: Again, a completely speculative add for deep leaguers only. Josh Johnson actually put up decent fantasy stats last week, and assuming Tampa Bay goes into their bye winless, the coaching regime has stated they might make the change to Freeman.

Chad Henne: He's likely gone in your league by now, but in case he isn't, this guy looked like a legit NFL QB against a really good D. You could do worse in a deeper league for a backup QB.

Carolina D: 2 solid plays in Week 6 and 7 facing TB and BUF.

Mushin Muhammad: If he's available, he's usually good in PPR leagues for 8-12 points. Tampa's pass D, as aforementioned, is pretty cruddy.

Hakeem Nicks: He's still rotating at WR right now, but he's got the skills to succeed. More of a longer term play than a Week 6 play.

Vince Young: Again, a similar situation to TB. With TEN's season all but over, they need to either see what they have with VY or 'showcase' him in case they can get a cheap trade. Won't happen this week, but wouldn't be surprised if it happened in a few weeks.


Good luck this week.