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Welcome to Week 8 of your Fantasy Football Sleepers and Busts.  I'll review last week before going into this week's studs and duds. 

Sleepers:

• Trent Edwards:  25/30, 261 yds passing, 1 TD / 0 INT, 6 yds rush = 16 pts.  He was in the top 10 for QBs last weekend, played well, and won.  I'll give myself credit for this one.
  
• Chris Johnson:  168 yds rush, 1 TD, 2 catches, 4 yards = 22 pts.  This probably was too easy, as the Chiefs are awful.  I could have picked LenDale, and been correct as well.  I'm hoping this doesn't happen again this week.
  
• Brandon Marshall:  6 catches, 77 yards = 7 pts.  The Broncos got blown out in Foxboro on Monday night.  I'm sure Cutler hurting his hand on the first play of the game didn't help.  No good for Marshall.
  

Busts:

• Drew Brees: 231 yds passing, 0 TD/1 INT = 7 pts.  Brees is the #1 QB in fantasy, but certainly wasn't last week against Carolina.  It didn't surprise me though.  Mark another one on the board
  
• Steven Jackson: 160 yds rushing, 3 TD, 16 receiving = 35 pts. Oops.  Guess I shouldn't start picking players 2 weeks in a row.  Jackson ran all over the Cowboys.  As right as I was with Brees, that's how wrong I was on Jackson.
  
• Braylon Edwards: 4 catches, 58 yards, 1 2PT = 7 pts.  Scored the same as Marshall, and didn't count him, so I will count as a win with Edwards.  It didn't help that his quarterback was horrible, again.
  

My bonus pick of Matt Schaub also worked out well, 267 yds passing 2 TD / 1 FL, which is 20 points.  That's another win for me.

So I was 5 / 7 last week, and 28/47 for the season. There are 4 teams on bye this week, so make sure to take them out of your lineup (CHI, DEN, GB, MIN).  Here are you fantasy nuggets for Week 8:

Sleepers:

• J.T. O'Sullivan vs. SEA:  Seattle is bad.  Really bad.  I'll go with the 49ers quarterback, who has had some decent weeks against bad defenses.  Seattle is the 3rd worst against QBs this season. 
  
• Sammy Morris BenJarvus Green-Ellis vs. STL: Morris had a big week against the bad Broncos defense, and I expect another big week for the Patriots RB against the Rams (whoever that may be).  Denver was 2nd worst against RB, and the Rams are 3rd worst.  Big day for Morris (or Green-Ellis, if Morris can't go).
  
• DeSean Jackson vs. ATL:  Both teams are coming off of a bye, so they will be well rested.  We all know Andy Reid likes to throw the ball, and I think the return of Brian Westbrook will help the passing game immensely.  The Falcons are also pretty bad giving up points to WR (26th), and the Eagles are 4th.  I'm seeing a break out game for the rookie.
  

Busts:

• Kurt Warner vs. CAR: I'm riding the Panthers defense once again, this time against the high flying Cardinal offense.  Both units are highly ranked, but the Panthers shut down Brees last week, so I think they'll do it again, at home, to Warner.
  
• Marshawn Lynch vs. MIA:  The Dolphins are 7th against RB this season, and this is the first divisional game for the Bills.  Expect a hard fought game, and not a good week for Lynch.
  
• Plaxico Burress vs. PIT: Burress, while scoring a TD each of the past 2 weeks, is going against his former team for the first time.  The Steelers are playing at home, and are very good against WR (5th).  Don't expect much from the Giants #1 Receiver.
  

Bonus pick:  Jason Campbell vs. DET.  I'm a happy owner of the Redskin QB this week.  I think I'll be playing him over Eli this week as well.

Weekly Derek Anderson "bust" pick:  That's the Derek Anderson we all know and love.  14/37, 136 yds, 1 TD / 0 INT.  Only 11 points as well.  But Crennel will be fired before he even lets Quinn sniff the field.  But I digress.

Archie Manning, far right, shows his sons how to throw.

Photo via i.cdn.turner.com

First of all, happy belated Father’s Day to all you dads out there. I was away from my machine most of yesterday and not able to post an appreciation thread. So, just to make up for it a little bit, I offer this little tidbit on one of Indiana’s favorite dads: Archie Manning.

Contrary to what jerks like Mike Florio think, many people do enjoy Archie Manning talking about his sons and their success. One tidbit that is often missed by media when they talk about Archie is the fact that Archie Manning himself had a storied NFL career, and had he played for a team that knew what the hell it was doing, he’d have won a few Super Bowls. In 1979, Archie threw 17 TDs, 16 INTs, and completed 61.8% of his passes. This was his best statistical season of his career. He was voted NFC Player of the Year and voted onto the All-NFC team. The Saints that year were 7-9.

When Eli Manning went to his father for advice on how to better himself as a player following the 2006 season, Archie told him he was on the right track. By the then, Eli had taken the Giants to the playoffs two straight years despite playing for a coach nobody liked and having to deal with over-rated, prima donna players (Jeremy Shockey, Plaxico Burress, Tiki Barber, etc.). In his 11 years in the NFL, Archie Manning never played in a playoff game. By his second year, Eli (like Peyton) was in the playoffs.

By the time Archie hung up his cleats, he’d been sacked 396 times. Archie joked that he was the reason Rams great Jack Youngblood made the Pro Football Hall of Fame, padding his sack count by feasting on Archie. Archie’s middle son, Peyton, is now entering his 11th year, the same amount of time Archie played in New Orleans. Peyton has been sacked only 191 times. When Archie left New Orleans for the Houston Oilers, he’d been sacked 338 times. God knows how many times he was hit after throwing the ball. Back then, there was no illegal hit penalty on QBs. Though, because of Archie’s stature as a respected player, defenders were often seen helping him up off the grass after hitting him. They respected Archie that much.

The point of this Archie love fest? Well, in a small way, it shows (somewhat) how we kids are supposed to live better because of what our parents provide for us. Unlike the modern NFL, the league of the 1970s was not full of multi-millionaires. These guys got paid far less than they do now. Their injuries were more severe, more life threatening. You’ve likely read the news many of these vets are making asking the NFL to take care of them as they deal with injuries post-career.

This was the NFL Archie Manning played in, and he made enough to put his sons through college, where two of them would go on to help build the foundation of the modern, multi-trillion dollar NFL while the other son is successful in his business and raising his family.

Today, like Tony Dungy, Archie Manning is very much the NFL’s resident dad. Much of what Archie did, in both in his professional and personal life, fathered this modern NFL we know and love. So, to Archie, post-Father’s Day, we salute you. You’re a good dad, Mr. Manning.

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