Every Saturday morning, I'll take a quick look at all the week's games, offering my own brief take on what I think will happen, as well as touching on significant injury news since our Weekly came out. I'll check in every so often over the course of the day to answer lineup questions, too.

What follows is a brief look at all the games with how I'd react in my own lineups to injury developments or other news. The official rankings are the ones in the Weekly. Those take precedence. But sometimes players are very close, and in those cases I'm glad to offer opinions on how I'd approach those situations. Sometimes I like certain players more or less than Ian, and sometimes I have different risk tolerance with injuries etc.

It's the fantasy playoffs, for many. I'm in a couple of leagues where I have a byes, and that's a weird feeling -- not setting a lineup. I have to keep going to the site and looking to make sure I'm not screwing up or something. I'm not really crazy about byes, but I run a league where 4 seems like to few playoff teams and 8 seems like too much. So we have byes. Not ideal but I guess it's OK if you have one.

General playoff counsel/advice: if you got this far, you have a good team. You SHOULD have enough good players where you've got somebody capable on your bench. If you have only quality starters in your lineup, nobody who gets you 15-20 points on your bench, you probably wouldn't be here. So accept it, and just put in guys you think will have good scores -- don't freak out about a player or two who might put up good numbers on your bench. It happens. OK, let's go win a playoff game.

Vikings at Bucs: After watching too much of Vikings-Jaguars last week (Survivor pick) I've come to the conclusion that Minnesota is really not very good. Justin Jefferson -- he's amazing. Dalvin Cook too, Adam Thielen. Kirk Cousins is OK. There's nothing else to recommend this team, which should lose this one convincingly. Teams pretty much healthy, unless you were hoping to use a Vikings tight end. I'll advise against it.

Cardinals at Giants: Things have really gone straight downhill for the Cardinals since I guess the Hail Murray. Though their last good game was even before that, the win against Seattle. We've been saying for a while the Giants D is legit. I'm pretty sure I'm using Kyler Murray somewhere, just hoping he gets back to putting up good rushing numbers, but it hasn't been happening. For the Giants, Wayne Gallman, Sterling Shepard and Evan Engram all viable. Kenyan Drake apparently tweaked something in practice and is questionable. Gotta check the inactives tomorrow; if he's out, thumbs up on Chase Edmonds. If he's in, kind of risky.

Kansas City at Dolphins: Gotta respect what the Dolphins defense has done in a lot of games. Lots against lesser offenses, granted. I'm certainly starting Mahomes-Hill-Kelce and you should too, but CEH is no gimme. For Miami, Parker-Gaskin-Gesicki are the players to consider. Receivers would look better with mountain man Fitzpatrick in the lineup though.

Titans at Jaguars: Tennessee's offense (running and passing) looks very good. Since the Titans don't play much defense themselves, James Robinson also looks good, though difficult to get too enamored of Mike Glennon and this receiving corps. Do I want to count on DJ Chark in the fantasy playoffs? Not really. Would be happy with any Titans though. Jonnu Smith returns.

Cowboys at Bengals: Whoo-eee, here's a thriller. Are there Cowboys fans still studying the various permutations of how Dallas can win the NFC East? I don't personally know anyone who even wants that, but maybe. Anyhoo, neither defense is very good so there will be some production here, guys like Cooper and Boyd and Higgins and oh yeah Andy Dalton revenge game. Gotta mean something, right? It's not like Favre versus the Packers or anything, but still. Ezekiel Elliott, hey if he's gonna go for 100 yards and score again this season, this is the one. Giovani Bernard to a much lesser extent.

Texans at Bears: I've got it in my head how well the Bears defense was playing earlier in the year, but that's long gone. So although I'm not about to send out Chad Hansen, I will sign off on not only Deshaun Watson but also Brandin Cooks and Keke Coutee. David Johnson out, so Duke Johnson is in. Not a huge fan. Love David Montgomery though, and I'll sign off on Allen Robinson too.

Broncos at Panthers: Seems like a decent enough matchup for both offenses. Denver has some ability but hard to imagine they'll bring the A game they brought to primetime and Kansas City to a game in North Carolina. Curtis Samuel and Mike Davis are in, DJ Moore and Christian McCaffrey are out. I like and am using Davis, yes.

Jets at Seahawks: Only about half of the 18 people left if my Survivor Pool (which started with 177) can pick Seattle. I'm one of them, and am going with them here. I'd feel better about the pick if the Jets had got their win last week. Some chance they have a game where everything goes right with blocked punts or lucky defensive scores or whatnot. But picking against the Jets when you can has been a successful way to go. As for the game, I think Seattle will get good numbers out of Wilson, Carson, and both wide receivers. For the Jets, uh, Frank Gore might play and Jamison Crowder might not. I will not be recommending any Jets this week, thank you.

Colts at Raiders: More offense than defense in this one. I respect the Colts D but also respect the Raiders at home. But I'm using my key Colts. Raiders trickier after Darren Waller. I wouldn't use Josh Jacobs even if he's active, concerned he'd be playing hurt and limited, and would steer clear of the backups committee. And there's not a go-to wide receiver either. Big game in the AFC.

Washington at 49ers: This game will be played in Arizona, as I'm guessing someone reminded us of after the weather report discussed San Francisco rain in passing. Conditions should be fine in AZ. No Antonio Gibson, but I'll pass on Peyton Barber; maybe consider him in TD-0nly, since he'd be the guy carrying near the goal line, but J.D. McKissic should be better in PPR. Give me the main wideouts for each team (McLaurin, Deebo, Aiyuk) and probably Logan Thomas (producing at a high level lately) and maybe Jordan Reed against his former team.

Saints at Eagles: Taysom Hill versus Jalen Hurts, interesting. I picked up Hurts in a league strictly to not have him used against me; I'm sticking with Justin Herbert, counting on a bounce-back game. I'm not really keen on any Eagles aside from Dallas Goedert, though there's certainly rushing upside with Hurts. For the Saints, Hill-Kamara-Thomas a good start and finish. And I love the defense.

Falcons at Chargers: I've got Herbert and Ryan in a league and I'm a little torn who to start. I'm going with Herbert, higher in the rankings, but the Chargers D sure is bad and you wonder a little if the team has tuned out Anthony Lynn (best explanation for last week's debacle against a mediocre Patriots team). Anyhoo, no Julio Jones, so it's Ridley and Hurst probably as the main targets, perhaps Russell Gage in deeper leagues. And the Chargers passing game and Austin Ekeler -- I don't care if it's Ballage or Justin Jackson as the other part of the committee. Todd Gurley for touchdown potential.

Packers at Lions: Packers would be another potential Survivor Pick; I'm the only one left in the pool who can use them. But the Lions have some nice offensive pieces, still, and I give them a puncher's chance of making things interesting. D'Andre Swift should play and be fine, though I'll be watching the inactives. Is it too much to ask for them to let us know what the mystery illness that kept him out last week was. Stafford, Jones, Hockenson, Rodgers, Jones, Adams and Tonyan, those are the other quality starts.

Steelers at Bills: Bills offense should be fine in this one. Steelers defense is good, but few opponents have slowed down Buffalo. For Pittsburgh, thumbs up on the passing game. Team can't the run ball so while I'd consider James Conner, he seems just as likely to disappoint/leave early/whatever. Pittsburgh has looked suspect for a little while with narrow wins and a narrow loss. A convincing loss would strengthen that narrative.

Ravens at Browns: Another interesting one where the Ravens looked like the best team entering the season and the Browns look better now. Can Cleveland firmly arrive in the playoff field with a win here? I think they can. I'm not afraid to use Chubb or Hunt, Landry either. For the Ravens, Jackson-Dobbins-Andrews. If they come out with a three-back committee I might turn the TV off.

Enjoy the games, and good luck.