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FANTASY WORLD: BEATING THE BYE-WEEK BLUES

By Rick Paulas

Wednesday, October 1, 2008

Last week, I found myself in a bit of a conundrum. One of my teams had the unfortunate occurrence of having most of my elite players unavailable, nursing their wounds on a bye week. Instead of my usual starting lineup of Peyton Manning, Lawrence Maroney, Brandon Jacobs and Reggie Wayne, I had to scan the waiver wire for replacements, eventually settling on Jake Delhomme, Le'Ron McClain, Tim Hightower and Robert Meachum. An ideal situation it was not, but as Chief Grady says in Super Troopers, ...

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