Sunday Six Pack: Week Four

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We’re with you every Sunday to provide the Sunday Six Pack, an article featuring six of the biggest storylines heading into each and every week of the season. Keeping tabs on these events will keep you prepared and informed throughout the season – just don’t drive within six hours of reading this.

Can #1) Aaron Goes to Hollywood

When you want to go it. When you want to come. After last week’s debacle in Detroit — 16/27 for 162 yards and just 1 touchdown — we all want Aaron Rodgers to go it, but he’s telling us all to R-E-L-A-X. Well, in this deflated quarterback value world we live in, it’s hard to relax when your major quarterback asset is just the QB12 after three weeks. The Bears depleted secondary just may be the cure for what ails the Packers offense. Take away the two mind-numbing interceptions and Geno Smith — without Eric Decker for most of the game — went for 316 yards on Chicago last week. Although the Bears are ranked in the middle of the pack against the pass (15th overall), those numbers can be deceiving (see Redskins, Washington on Thursday Night Football), especially considering all of the players the Bears have lost on the back end of their defense. Rodgers’ owners just need to wait this lull out and there’s a good chance that it could come this week in Chicago against their now injury-depleted secondary.

Can #2) Stupid Sexy Donald Brown

If there’s one thing I’ve learned, it’s that life is one crushing defeat after another until you just wish Flanders was dead. Donald Brown is the Ned Flanders of running backs (tell me that you can’t picture Trent Richardson shouting “D’oh!” after every negative run). You don’t want to start Brown, but here he is, the undisputed leader for touches on the run-oriented Chargers in a Homer-like drool inducing [inlinead]matchup against the Jaguars, who’ve given up the most rushing yards in the NFL through three weeks. Our good buddies at 4for4.com have Brown ranked as the #4 PPR RB option for week four You can’t not start him, even though it will haunt your dreams. Side note: the Jaguars have also given up the most passing yards in the league through three weeks as well, so it wouldn’t shock me at all if your window to buy low on Keenan Allen ended this week.

Can #3) Mike Glennon Doesn’t Want To Share His Tots

Mike Glennon is freakin starving because he didn’t get to eat anything today. Completely ineffective starter Josh McCown is out with a thumb injury and Offensive Coordinator Jeff Tedford has taken an indefinite leave of absence due to health issues. So, Glennon takes back the job he had for three quarters of last season, where he averaged about 200 yards, a little over 1 touchdown and a little less than 1 interception per game. The only start/sit question where Glennon is the answer this week may be against “Clipboard Jesus” if he ends up starting for the Titans. The Tampa defense is bad and needs to stay off of the field. I’d expect a heavy dose of supposedly healthy Doug Martin and perhaps fumbling Bobby Rainey in an attempt to shorten the game, take the pressure off of Tots, and keep that horrendous defense from getting carved up by Le’Veon Bell, Antonio Brown and Ben Roethlisberger. Oh, and Heath!

Can #4) Should I Stay or Should I Go?

Coach Philbin you gotta let me know. Should I Stay or Should I Go? Apparently embattled Dolphins quarterback Ryan Tannehill will stay this week, having survived whatever the heck Joe Philbin was trying to do when he refused to name him the starter for this week’s game against the Raiders in London (coincidentally the home of The Clash). As bad as the Raiders have been this year, they’ve given up the fourth fewest passing yards in the league through three weeks and they held Tom Brady to 234 yards and just one touchdown in week three. They are 31st in the league in total rushing yards, however, which could be a boon to starting running back by attrition Lamar Miller. While I’m not too optimistic about Tannehill rebounding this week, I’ll still confidently roll out Mike Wallace who is tied for eighth in the league with 31 targets through three weeks.

Can #5) Like a Bridge Over Troubled Waters

Hey Vikings fans: When tears are in your eyes, I will dry them all. I’m pretty sure that’s what rookie quarterback Teddy Bridgewater said when he spoke to the media, although I am paraphrasing. Bridgewater takes over for Matt Cassel, who was placed on injured reserve with a broken foot. Bridgewater gets to attempt to operate Norv Turner’s offense without two of its biggest weapons — Kyle Rudolph (sports hernia) and Adrian Peterson (suspended). Hopefully, Norv helps Bridgewater out by figuring out that the offense now needs to operate through playmaker Cordarelle Patterson’s hands. Five targets and one rushing attempt isn’t going to cut it against the high octane Falcons this week.

Can #6) Bortles of Red, Bortles of White.

It all depends upon your appetite (had to go with a second one from this game). Another quarterback change was made halfway through week three with the Jaguars finally giving up on Bad Henne and inserting rookie Blake Bortles, who showed well in garbage time against the Colts, passing for 223 yards, two touchdowns and two interceptions in the second half after the Jaguars fell behind by a bajillion or so. With fellow rookie Allen Robinson and veteran Cecil Shorts finally healthy and joining rookie standout Allen Hurns, Bortles will at least stand a fighting chance against a Chargers defense that is just tied for 13th in the league against the pass. While I think that the insertion of Bortles will ultimately help the offense and open things up for the dreadful-to-date Toby Gerhart, it may not be this week as the Chargers are ranked eighth against the run having held Fred Jackson and CJ Spiller to a combined 59 yards in week three and Marshawn Lynch to 26 yards in week two.

Enjoy your Sunday!

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