And the Delhomme comparison to Favre is apt. He does have that gunslinger mentality and has played well in the postseason. I have very fond memories of that magical season Moose had – he carried me to a championship. Watched him personally in SF haul in 3 TDs. He was the man.

They’ve regressed some over the past 6 weeks in pass D. Leaving out Detroit and Oakland (not exactly tests of a team’s pass D), they gave up 7.1 YPA to Arizona (season average 6.7), 9.3 YPA to Atlanta (6.5 season average), 6.2 YPA to GB (vs. 6.4), and 6.9YPA (vs. 5.9) against the Bucs. In addition, in those four games, the QBs are averaging a little over 65% completions. Only 2 INTs across that span as well; while they had 9 sacks in those 4 games, 6 of those were against Atlanta. Pretty much what you’d expect from a soft, “don’t lose the game” zone with little blitzing.

Delhomme’s very mistake prone – but that’s nothing new. He always had 1-3 erratic games each season, but that hasn’t stopped him from putting up extremely good postseason numbers in the past. He’s really a poor man’s Brett Favre: great when he’s on, horrible when he’s not, almost always on when it matters.

Actually, Jake’s numbers this season have been right at his career averages everywhere except TDs; having a decent run game for the first time since 2003 seems to me the most likely explanation for that change. Obviously, not comforting to his fantasy owners, but Panther fans don’t mind that we have two RBs able to punch the ball in from 20 or 30 yards out.

And, yes, Smith obviously makes him better, but don’t forget that when Smith missed almost the entire 2004 season, Delhomme had nearly his best season with only Muhammad as a target (that was the season Moose was statistically the best WR in the NFL). It’s a mutual thing; would Smith be as good as he is if Delhomme didn’t have the utter faith in him he does? And that’s true of almost every QB; even Brady’s numbers were just okay until he got Moss to throw to.

QB- Warner
RB- MJD, C. Johnson (TEN)
WR- Fitz, Calvin, Holmes
TE- Gates
K- Bryant
D- Steelers

That’s not crazy at all keeping both Carolina backs. Also keep Fitz. Let Jacobs and his injuries go.

Portis, C. Johnson and Rhodes. Wow tough benching Slaton and D. Ward. Basically all are borderline top-10 starts. That’s who I’d go with tho.

How drunk am I to be considering keeping both Panther RBs in a league in which I can only keep three players!?!?!? (Only other real keeper candidates are L-Fitz, Cassel and Brandon Breakobs, er, Jacobs.)

I have the same dilemma in my primary league: Cutler or Thigpen? I’m thinking of doing eeny meeny or having my girlfriend choose. Cutler will have to throw a lot and Marshall looked sweeeet last week, but throwing into that D? Yuck. Gonzalez, Bradley and Bowe in the Chargers Secondary smells like Christmas dinner to me…

Choose 3 this week: Portis, Chris Johnson, Slaton, Ward, Rhodes. Tatum Bell and Fargas are riding pine. I have so many RBs… ESPN projections would choose Ward, Johnson and Portis… but they also don’t consider Addai being out.

If anyone has read any of my material over the past couple of years, it’s that I hate aging running backs. I didn’t want to put Westbrook #2, and in fact, I can almost guarantee you I won’t draft him next year. Too injury prone. Approaching 30. Etc. That said, Alexander has 2,187 career carries. LT2 has 2,607. Westbrook has 1,206! That’s a big, big difference. Don’t get me wrong, I’ll probably (like usual) back off and be scared off as well next year, but is there a clear #2 ahead of him?

Regarding Turner – I hate how he doesn’t catch any passes. That makes him WAY too dependent on schedule. That said, with Ryan, White and Baker, that offense should only get better for years to come. Huge TD potential. I agree there are question marks with Turner, but seriously, who would you feel more comfortable with?