TheStandardOne: Hope You're Still Playing This Week (Week 14 Advice)

The drama intensifies this weekend after last nights snoozer. The football fight to the finish includes some games that may replicate last nights blowout than a shootout. Let’s look at games that have the potential to be pretty offensively minded.

Sure Bets:

Houston vs New England:

The Monday night matchupThese two teams are offensive juggernauts, that much is obvious. Matt Schaub, Andre Johnson and Arian Foster are all looked at as top-tier matchups for this week. The last two more so than Schaub. On the Patriots side, they’ve replaced their most feared weapon, Ron Gronkowski, and kept it moving, despite ineffective play from supposed-to-be playmaker Brandon Lloyd. One of the reasons is they still have Wes Welker and Aaron Hernandez, who might be the second best tight end for fantasy behind Jimmy Graham. Owen Daniels is probably the third best tight end play this week; Aqib Talib will be hardpressed to stop Andre Johnson. You know the Patriots are going to try to expose an overrated Texans defense. The Patriots weapons are all great top-end starts and don’t be scared to start Stevan Ridley.

: Lloyd Have Mercy- Its Playoff Time

Surprise Baller: Brandon Lloyd, even though he's questionable will play. They need him. It’s time for a breakout from the big-play receiver. Houston corner Jonathan Joseph is banged up and won’t be 100%.

Tennessee at Indianapolis

New offensive coordinator Dowell Loggains was expected to change the offensive focus for the Tennessee Titans that actually has a lot of talent on that side of the ball. I’d say Jared Cook’s underutilization was one of the main reasons Chris Palmer was booted. Quarterback Jake Locker tried to get him involved with a season-high 12 targets. We’ve been pushing Cook all season and a visit to the Indianapolis pass defense sets up nicely. I’m saying this because Locker has thrown him two of his three scores on the season and you know Luck and company will put up some points. This may be bad news for Chris Johnson owners and good for T.Y. Hilton owners.

Surprise Baller: Vick Ballard, No Donald Brown, nuff’ said.

Detroit at Green Bay

These team put up a min-season’s worth of offense last time they played at Lambeau. The Lions are much more talented than their record suggests but no one finds better ways to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory than the Motor City Morons. They’ll be up against a slighlty off-kilter Green Bay Packer attack that has some mini-problems. Jordy Nelson is banged up as is James Starks; neither will likely play. That means we are due for a Greg Jennings sighting. For Detroit it begins and ends with Stafford-to-Megatron. How valuable does Nate Burleson look now? The Lions passing target pecking order is in a state flux but Brandon Pettigrew and Joique Bell figure to benefit from major attention to Calvin Johnson. Mikel LeShoure is the team’s runner and Joique Bell is the receiving back; put them together and you’d have a complete player. The Lions haven’t won since 1999 in Green Bay.

Surprise Baller: Jermichael Finley, Had 66 yards and a touchdown against them earlier this year ..With a reduced Packers receiving core and a Lions defense that gives up the fourth most points to tight ends..Start Finley as a Top 7 TE this week.

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Surprise Sits and Starts:

Start Reggie Bush: Surpisingly, will shine back in his home state against a 49ers team that has had defensive lapses at times. The offensive isn't quite in sync as they had hoped with Kaepaernick, keeping this game close.

Sit Jamaal Charles runs into a Browns team that has defended the run much better recently; how will the Chiefs emotions factor into this road game? The Browns, while under the radar at 4-8, have played much better lately.