I honestly thought about this for 20 minutes on the ride home and couldn’t decide where to start. This week was chaos. It was like somebody threw a wrench into the giant machine of what we knew. This weekend broke fantasy football, or our vision of it when this all started. Injuries, steps backward, complete implosions…it had it all.

Let’s start with the obvious…at least in my neck of the woods.

20) The Eagles
After much consideration and some deep thought, I can say this was the worst football game I ever saw. High School, College, Pros, Arena League, NFL Europe or the XFL it was hands down the worst. I went to Temple University. I watched them get destroyed by Penn State my freshman year 48-21. THAT game was at least competitive for one quarter.

I sat in traffic for an hour and a half to get to Sunday’s game. I’m actually still simmering a little still.
From a Fantasy perspective I really don’t know what to say. Their defense really did play fantastic considering what happened on the offensive side of the ball. I don’t think they are going to get beat up on this season. Maxwell has been horrible and is easily beat by simple things like slants. That aside they did what they were supposed to do.

The offense was just sad. In the first half they had the ball for 6:51, had 1 first down, -3 rushing yards and 24 passing yards. To say that the Eagles have first half problems is an understatement. For a fast paced offense, that’s a really fast amount of no offense.

Sam Bradford is part of this. Reuben Frank of CSN Philly wrote a fantastic article on Bradford throwing down the field. It frightens me about this decision to bring Bradford in. I can’t remember seeing him take one shot down the field against the Cowboys. If the defense has to only take away intermediate and short throws, that running game isn’t going to work.

It doesn’t help that when a former NFL player tells you that the offensive line is the source of the woes. Your incredibly rose colored opinion of things changes drastically. In terms of ownablility, Bradford is a hold but bench, especially against the Jets this week. When you drafted him you knew this was possible and hopefully you prepared. Sproles is still a low end flex play at this point but it’s borderline. Matthews you have to own if you have Murray, unfortunately.

Jordan Matthews has been very good. 16 catches, 182 yards and a score aren’t bad at all considering how the offense has performed. Ertz is somebody that you should hang on to but he’s not a must start with only 6 catches and 63 yards. Agholor is somebody I can’t justify keeping on a roster.

19) Tony Romo 18) Dez Bryant
Welcome to the top of the list of owners with people out for an extended period of time. Honestly if you were a Romo owner you started thinking about unloading him the Moment that Dez got hurt. How about Dez going from out 4 to 6 weeks to 10 to 12 weeks. That happened pretty quick didn’t it? To me to roster a Cowboy is heresy. I don’t do it. So thankfully I avoided this mess. Aside from Witten and maybe Dan Bailey, that’s a really hard offense to be invested in at this point. If both players are still hurt, I’m looking to get them at the trade deadline. If you have a good record and the playoffs are possible, I’d like to at least have Dez, you know, just in case.

17) Andy Reid
In that position, I’d want the ball in Jamaal Charles hands too. He’s your best player and you have to do it. 36 seconds and you run it? You have to throw. You have to throw because if you don’t you are just simply giving away a down if don’t get out of bounds or a first down. You either take a knee and go to overtime or you throw it. Andy Reid and clock management are like oil and water.

As for Charles owners I wouldn’t be panicked at all. Alex Smith stinks in case you were wondering. I had somebody start him against me this week and I couldn’t believe it. I laughed for 10 minutes once the rosters locked.

16) Buffalo 15) Tom Brady
What on Earth was that? Here I’m thinking history books for that Defense after week one and then Brady came to town. Buffalo dominated Indianapolis, we’ll get to them in a minute, in week 1. They picked off Andrew Luck twice and then Tom Brady hangs 466 and 3 Td’s on them.

It made me realize 2 things in succession. After 2 games Brady has a QB Rating of 119.9 and the highest completion percentage of his career at 69.2 percent . He’s thrown for 754 yards, 7 scores and no interceptions. Tom Brady is going to punish the NFL this year. This is the reason I’m not selling on the Buffalo Defense yet. It was just their turn.

14) The Colts
Buy low my friends. Buy low. You know that Andrew Luck owner that’s getting a little antsy? Be a friend and take Luck off his hands. Hilton, Gore, Andre Johnson…go get them all. This is an offense that has faced Buffalo and the Jets to start the season. Cut them some slack. Next up for them the Titans in a division game and the Titans just lost to the Browns. The Browns are dead last in the league against the run. Gore will bounce back.

13) The Jets
Ivory is obviously legitimate. 148 rushing yards and 2 scores in 2 games proves that. He’s not a PPR guy for sure, but he is a guy that will put up points. Brandon Marshall looks good but nothing unbelievable will happen here. The Defense will help for sure and as an Eagles fan next week makes me cringe.

12) Peyton Manning
Honest to God, it drives me nuts how much Commentators lurch about from praise for one player or another. Half the game, I’m listening to how bad Manning’s throws are, then the second half rolls around and its Peyton Manning is just the hall of famer he is. It’s infuriating.

His completion percentage and QB Rating is in decline again but you can do a lot worse under center. Just don’t expect 2013 Manning and you’ll be just fine. The Broncos have a lot of soft looking defenses on the back end of their schedule.

11) The Raiders
Thank God they did well or one of my teams is cursed since I have Latavias and Cooper. Derek Carr looked awesome. 30 of 46 and 351 with 3 touchdowns is something I’ll take every time. He’s a decent bye week replacement to look for depending on the match up and if he duplicates those numbers he’s a potential starter. Cooper and Murray completely depend on Carr. If he is healthy and in the game everyone has value, but if Carr is hurt forget it.

10) Drew Brees
It was a real rough week for people that were counting on either Brees or Romo to put up Top 5 QB numbers this season. Brees has an apparent shoulder injury that will cost him a few weeks. Those drafting Brees weren’t hoping for news like this. His QB Rating was the 3rd lowest of his career at 82.0, but those 610 yards are enough for 5th in the league. This is a huge blow to owners and they will have to think about a position they never thought they would have to worry about.

9) Jay Cutler
Well some Bears fans will be happy. They don’t have to watch Jay Cutler. Only problem is that Cutler was the only chance the Bears had under center. Alshon Jeffery has been a no show, Martellus Bennett will always be a decent play, poor Matt Forte. He’s all alone on an island of the guys from the Bears I’d start right now.

8) Adam Vinatieri
One league I go a few rounds early on a kicker. There was nothing out there so I jumped a few rounds for a Vinatieri and it’s haunting me. I wanted to pair him with Luck and see what happened and it’s been a nightmare. Vinatieri has missed 2 field goals and made one extra point. This is garbage. Here I’m thinking I’ve got a kicker tied to my QB that would be getting points. Rough start for the hall of famer.

7) Crockett Gillmore
This is my new favorite football name. If you happen to need a TE this is a guy to look at. The Massive games like Sunday’s 5 Catches for 88 yards and 2 TD’s might not continue. It’s just that with Joe Flacco it might. He’s somebody to keep an eye on and if you have an extra bench spot why not gamble.

6) Jake Stoneburner
He has my second favorite football name. He scored a touchdown this week for the Dolphins, but he should be ignored for now. I only bring it up because of the name.

5)Dexter McCluster
Let’s welcome some more confusion into the Titans backfield. Bishop Sankey or Terrance West were supposed to be the guys for the Titans. One of them would emerge and it looked like it was going to be Sankey. Then McCluster rips off 98 yards rushing on 10 carries on Sunday. Things just got a little murkier. Stay away until some consistency comes in usage.

4) Travis Benjamin
I think Johnny Football found a new best friend. 6 catches for 204 Yards and 3 TD’s? I don’t care if it is Johnny Football…those numbers are good enough for Benjamin to be ranked 7th in standard scoring at Wide Receiver. This guy is a home run hitter so don’t expect consistent production yet. He has no statistical support for this particular outburst of points considering his 6 catches already moves this season into 3rd place in terms of career high in catches. In his 4 year career his career high in catches is 18. Which he did 2 times, meaning he hasn’t done much. Maybe he’s a late bloomer or maybe it’s a fluke. We’ll see.

3) Cardinals RBs
Chris Johnson isn’t the guy. Until Ellington returns the guy you have to own is David Johnson. The Coaching staff down there said he’s a young guy and they aren’t planning on throwing him into a starting role. Whatever, they want to win games and this is the guy. 2 scores in one game and one of them being a 108 Yard kickoff returns says he needs the ball more. He’s averaging 8.4 yards a carry. Ellington takes this job back when he returns, but they have to give this kid the ball.

2) Ameer Abdullah
Speaking of giving somebody the ball, if I could walk up to Mike Caldwell grab him and shake him I would. 7 carries last week, 6 this week. 4 Catches a weeks ago, 1 this week. Seriously I don’t understand what’s happening in Detroit. How are they not running the ball? Is the line that bad?

1)Defenses
It’s too soon to tell in some cases but the Saints, Bears, Patriots and Raiders are now my Top 4 Defenses to go against. Others will present themselves further after this week. 3 Weeks worth of stats and then we can start to spot some interesting things. I can’t wait just to have a more complete look at data.