1) Dono­van McN­abb vs. Pack­ers — Com­bine the top scor­ing fan­tasy quar­ter­back with the 31st ranked pass defense. Do I need to say any­thing else? 300 yards and two or three touch­downs.

2) Pey­ton Man­ning vs. Jets — Man­ning actu­ally did a bit bet­ter last week than I was expect­ing. 300 yards and one or two touch­downs.

3) Marc Bul­ger vs. Lions — Detroit’s pass defense has been quite bad as they’ve given up seven pass­ing touch­downs in three games (tied for sec­ond worst in the league). 275 and two touch­downs.

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Week four is upon us and the pre­tenders are start­ing to fade. We go over who to start, what Carnell’s other nick­name is, and what shows we’re look­ing for­ward to the most this year.

Grab it all here.

If you are wrestling with any week four lineup deci­sions and would like to know what Derek and/or I think about it, either leave a com­ment on this post or email us at andyg@mvpff.com or derekj@mvpff.com. We’ll either answer your question(s) here, through email, or on the show.

In case you are just wak­ing up or have been under a rock over the past 24 hours, the story of Ter­rell Owens has taken a bizarre and sad turn. Owens was rushed to a Dal­las hos­pi­tal for what was believed to be an “aller­gic reac­tion” to pain med­ica­tion. As it turns out, sev­eral Dal­las media out­lets are now report­ing that Owens attempted sui­cide by tak­ing a heavy dosage of pain med­ica­tion. Stay tuned.

Hey gang. The show will not be up until Thurs­day evening. I’m attend­ing a rally for senior cit­i­zens on Wednes­day night at the House that Eli Built, which will delay the show. At this same rally, an upcom­ing band from Eng­land is play­ing. I pre­dict big things for those guys. Espe­cially that Mick fel­low. By the way, I was forced to write an expla­na­tion by the pow­ers that be at MVP…whoever those peo­ple are. 

Rumors per­sist through the Ari­zona Car­di­nals hier­ar­chy that Matt Leinart will start for Kurt Warner on Sun­day when the team vis­its the Atlanta Fal­cons. Warner played poorly on Sun­day against the Rams when he turned the ball over four times includ­ing a game-ending fum­ble when the Car­di­nals were set­ting up for the go ahead field goal. Stay tuned for more details on this devel­op­ing story.

As we talked about in the pre­sea­son, Shaun Alexan­der had a lot of things going against him this year and now it appears as if his fan­tasy stock is tak­ing a big hit.

Accord­ing to the Tacoma News Tri­bune, Alexan­der has a cracked foot and will miss “a few weeks.” Mau­rice Mor­ris will take over at the RB spot for now and is a decent fill in.

Week 3’s Sun­day action is in the books with offense rul­ing the day. Seat­tle assaulted the Giants in the Pacific North­west; T.J. Housh­mandzadeh informs Joey Porter on the where­abouts of his momma; and Philly’s Brian West­brook runs roughshod over the 49ers. It’s all a part of the Sun­day Wrap.

Cincin­nati 28, Pitts­burgh 20

Fan­tasy Player of the Game: T.J. Houshmandzadeh

Prior to Sunday’s game, T.J. Housh­mandzadeh sent a text mes­sage to Deion Sanders which read, “watch ya boy get off.” After miss­ing the first two games recov­er­ing from a heel injury, Housh­mandzadeh deliv­ered the goods. Housh­mandzadeh silenced the Pitts­burgh faith­ful by catch­ing two touch­down passes and reel­ing in 94 yards. He picked up the slack for Chad John­son who only caught one ball for 11 yards. His quar­ter­back, Car­son Palmer con­nected on four touch­down passes on the day. Ulti­mately, it was “Who’s Your Momma’s” con­tri­bu­tion that put the Ben­gals in the winner’s circle.

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We will have cov­er­age of Week 3 with a game­day blog like last week. There is a rumor going around that the audio por­tion will be back again this week. I may have lifted the ban on Andy from my house.

7:43PM

• The close on the 4pm games. 

6:30PM

• Another recap of 4pm action. 

5:15PM

• An inter­est­ing start to the 4pm games. The Giants have declared that they will only play in the sec­ond half. Either that or they are just going to get beaten to death. The Sea­hawks lead 21–0.
• In Ari­zona, Anquan Boldin has been amaz­ing. He has six catches for 82 yards. Mean­while, Edger­rin James is run­ning well. They lead the Rams, 7–3.
• Cleve­land and Bal­ti­more is bizarre. The Browns are lead­ing on a Bray­lon Edwards touch­down catch. He is going to be a good one.
• Brian West­brook broke off a 71 yard touch­down run to put the Eagles up 21–3. Their over­all gen­eral dis­dain for run­ning is sure to continue.

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1. Anquan Boldin vs. St. Louis– It will be a long day…

2. Larry Fitzger­ald vs. St. Louis–…for the St. Louis Rams. Fitz goes for 110 and a score while Boldin thrills with 125 and a TD.

3. Torry Holt vs. Ari­zona– In Torry I trust. The Rams pass­ing attack will click even­tu­ally. This week could be the start. Holt should go for 100 yards plus and a score against a sus­cep­ti­ble Car­di­nals defense.

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