Don't look now, but Jamal Lewis is the 12th highest ranked RB in our league, and CLE has the 4th softest schedule against the run going forward. While there were certainly better value picks in our draft than Jamal (like 6th ranked WR/TE Wes Welker, for example ) Jamal has turned out pretty well. Many of you snickered at my Jamal Lewis pick. But like Linus and the Great Pumpkin, I believed in you, Jamal. I believed.

at 9 and 2 and leading the league, i suppose more gloating is in order

Oh, I'm not gloating. But *if* I were, I'd be sure to point out my 8 game winning streak. But that's just not my style.

this can lead to bad karma ... or to benching manning.

Garcia was the better play the last two weeks, and I've won in spite of the fact that I started the wrong QB both weeks. So if I lose this week because I started the wrong QB for the third week in a row then I can't exactly complain about it.

You can afford to make some mistakes over the next couple of weeks as you have the 1st round bye locked up at this point.

Agreed. Playing Manning might have gotten me the win this week, but he wouldn't have gotten me highest score. So it was sort of a nothing loss. But hey, with Benson's injury the value of CHI's Adrian Peterson goes up substantially. So at least this weekend wasn't totally worthless for me.

Yeah, I am in a little of a bind going into the final week. Not sure what AP's (or AD as many call him around here) status will be for this coming weekend. It looks like he'll play, but it seems like he'll split carries with Taylor whom I have and has been the reason I have been winning. I have AP in a couple of other leagues so it'll be nice to have him back, but I'd rather know that he'll be getting the bulk of the carries this week or that he's going to sit. It causes a problem in all my leagues with his "in between" status.

Be happy you are sitting pretty while the rest of us need to sweat it out for one more week even if I am in decent shape to make the playoffs. Boy, I really needed that bye.

Oh, I'm very happy about the playoff bye. Nothing sucks worse than dominating in the regular season only to get punted from the playoffs due to a fluke underperfomance in Round 1. You know what I'm also happy about? Jamal Lewis: now the 11th most productive RB in our league.

I'm not too unhappy about my RBs either. I just need Lynch to come back or Alexander to stay injured/lazy.

You know what I'm happy about? I have running backs that are actually playing. Shut up both of you.

make that the 10th.