Early Game Notes

Sunday early games are wrapping up. Notes and observations:

• Brett Favre is still Brett Favre. He had two TD's. One of which was an up-for-grabs, INT-waiting-to-happen, rainbow heave that Chansi Stuckey managed to come down with. Don't know who Chansi Stuckey is? Join the crowd. Favre's good looking play action TD confirms that the Cotchery connection could lead to some serious fantasy goodness this year.
• Seattle is a mess. An injury of unknown severity robbed Matt Hasselbeck of Nate Burleson, his one remaining name-brand receiver. The result was a 34-10 beatdown by Buffalo. Not an ego booster.
• Bengals at Baltimore. Mediocrity at it's best. Although seeing "C. Ocho Cinco" in the box score is pretty darn funny.
• Michael Turner is currently the highest scoring fantasy player of the weekend. His line for the day: 220 yds on 22 attempts (yeah, that's a disgusting 10 YPC), 2 rushing TD's and a couple short receptions. That Turner was LT's backup in San Diego shows how good Tomlinson really is.
• Matt Ryan. 1st pass=1st TD. Hang up the cleats, call it a career. It doesn't get any better than that. Seriously though, not a bad outing for the rookie QB: 9/13, 161 yds, 1 TD, 0 INT. Probably not a guy you want on your roster yet, but it's a promising start.
  
• Rams at Eagles. It's just painful to see how good Donovan McNabb can be on the rare occasion he's healthy: 21/33, 361 yds, 3 TD, 0 INT. And Brian Westbrook still looks dominant, but it appears that the rookie WR corps might take some of the receiving load off of Westy. The Rams looked awful. Note to Steven Jackson: Maybe the pre-season isn't a complete waste of time. Is that new contract going to seem as sweet when you and your team suck for the first half of the season?
• Drew Brees. This guy has so many receiving options, it isn't funny. Seriously, I own Marques Colston in a money league. Hitting him three times for 26 yds and no TD's in a 3 TD outing hurts.
• Tom Brady and Brodie Croyle. Two starting QB's going out with injuries in the same game. I'm guessing NE fans are slightly more concerned.
• Houston at Pittsburgh. The Houston offense, with Andre Johnson and Matt Schaub both healthy, looked pretty sorry, earning their second TD in garbage time. Pittsburgh was SOLID today. But the real story here is Willie Parker topping his TD total from 2007 is his first game of '08. If you drafted Fast Willie in round 1 or 2 last season and had a sucking black hole on your roster until he finally went down with an injury, today's performance must feel really special.