One-wrist bandit

With my left arm bent at a precarious angle, I bring you a very abridged version of this week's review. Hopefully I get a normal cast (or no cast at all) on Monday, and I'll be back to typing like normal. Apologies all around for the tardiness and brevity.

Quick refresher. Numbers in parentheses (#/#) represent Karabell and Engel's rankings for this week. One loyal reader seems to struggle with that concept.

And a quick thought. Why is Reggie Bush on Yahoo's "Can't Cut" list. He didn't have a huge fantasy season last year, he hasn't done anything this year. I understand he's a name with a lot of hype, but he hasn't done anything that should keep him on that list.

The Good
Nice job not putting Drew Brees in top 25 QBs this week. Looks like you can teach monkeys to do more than put the same list together week after week.
WR Randy Moss (5/5) - Third straight big fantasy week. Finally some love from the gurus.
RB Brian Westbrook (4/4) - #2 scorer in fantasy last week
QB Donovan McNabb (5/8- Props to Karabell for seeing the high-offense potential of Detriot-Philly
WR Roy Williams (10/8)
WR TJ Houshmanzilly (7/6)
TE Antonio Gates (1/1) - Doing what the #1 fantasy TE is supposed to do.
PITT defense (4/4) - #3 scoring fantasy D this week
Dallas D (9/20) - Nice work Karabell. #1 scoring D.

The Bad
WR Steve Smith (1/1) - 10 yards receiving. 6 yards rushing. Not good for fantasy.
QB Ben Roethlisberger (9/8) - Only 160 yards and a score. First week looking like an abberation.
QBs Peyton Manning (1/1), Carson Palmer (2/2) - Both had less points than Kurt Warner,
RB Shaun Alexander (2/6) - Now he has a broken bone in his wrist. Stay away. My Niners take control of the NFC West this weekend.
RB Rudi Johnson (9/5) - Reliable Rudi is nicked up. Be careful in week 4.
RB Ladanian Tomlinson (1/1) - >100 total yards, 1 score. Not what anyone is expecting from #1 pick. Norv Turner kills teams as head coach.
Chicago D (2/2) - 34 points to the Cowboys on national television. Ouch.

The Ugly
WR Kevin Curtis (34/30) - #1 scorer in fantasy this week, who else is going to catch the ball in Philly?
RB Ronnie Brown (30/25) - #2 scoring RB. Jets D is not that good, he should have been higher
QB Joey Harrington (NR/NR) - #5 scoring QB. Bad teams have to pass. That means yards, which equal points.
WR Roddy White (NR/NR) - See Harrington, Joey
RB Marion Barber III (21/26)
TE Jason Witten (6/13) - Shame on you Engel. He had a huge week 1, and with Romo tossing the rock he is a solid TE, easily top 10 every week.

This week's kicker report
Top 3 ranked guys by our prognosticators:
Karabel: Vinatieri (finished 5th in points), Akers, Elam
Engel: Vinatieri, Graham, Akers
Top 3 fantasy scorers: Matt Stover (6/10), Sebastian Janikowski (NR/NR), Jeff Reed (10/9)
And another whifffff at the kicker position.

OK thats it, once the wrist is better I'll be back to my rambling self.

The Grades
Karabell: B
Engel: D+
Both missed on big names. Everyone is missing on big names this year. But Karabell had some nice tidbits with Dallas D, McNabb, Whitten. So he sucked less than Engel, and gets rewarded for it.