Every Saturday morning, I'll take a quick look at all the week's games, offering my own 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 questions, too.

It's the first week of the playoffs, for many if not most of us. In a couple of my leagues the playoffs are just Week 15 and 16, but most are 6 or 8 teams, starting in Week 14. You agonize over every decision, switch out kickers and defenses and players who injure themselves in practice. The general advice I'll have is, make the decision you can live with if you're wrong. Don't want to spend the offseason saying, I knew I shouldn't have benched such and such -- why did I?

Seahawks at Ravens: Jimmy Clausen is expected to start for Baltimore, which raises an interesting trivia question. Has there been another backup quarterback for two different teams in the same season forced into the starting lineup against the same opponent? Clausen of course faced the Seahawks early in the season with the Bears. Wonder if he's saying, man, why couldn't this have happened against the Saints? Anyway, Clausen's presence has me cool on Kamar Aiken. Still like Javorius Allen. For Seattle, like the usual players. Doug Baldwin can't keep it up forever but he's on a hot streak.

Falcons at Panthers: Panthers should keep merrily rolling along. Falcons defense has been bad against the pass all along, has now slipped against the run, too. Main Panthers should be good. For Atlanta, pretty much just Julio Jones and Devonta Freeman; will pass on everyone else.

Washington at Bears: As we all know, Washington goes on the road and forgets how to play offense and defense. Alshon Jeffery looks fine. Jay Cutler, uh, less so after last week's dud. Am starting Zach Miller somewhere with Bennett on IR. Would use Matt Forte and consider Jeremy Langford, though in general I hate starting No. 2 running backs, because you never know how many chances they'll actually get. Good matchup though.

Steelers at Bengals: Cincinnati has a good defense, but they've got some injuries, and I simply can't bet against a quarterback playing as well as Ben Roethlisberger. Him, Brown, Bryant, Williams -- probably not Wheaton -- all in my lineups. Miller healthy too. Big game and I expect the Steelers to do well. For Cincinnati, Steelers have been weak against the pass so I like Dalton and his many receivers, and Giovani Bernard. Tyler Eifert back, too.

49ers at Browns: Somebody's been through these rosters with the ugly stick. Shaun Draughn is an appealing starter, which tells you a lot. Barnidge looks fine. Travis Benjamin, and Manziel as a spot starter. Not really daring enough to start Blaine Gabbert, but Cleveland's defense is really bad. I picked up Blake Bell in a "best-ball lineup" but don't think I'd actually risk starting him anywhere. Would pass on Browns running backs.

Colts at Jaguars: After getting burned on the Colts offense against the Steelers, I'm not excited about them here, either. Matchup OK for T.Y. Hilton, Donte Moncrief and Coby Fleener, but they're not in my daily lineups. Which I can temporarily play in New York during the current appeals process, yay. Jacksonville's offense, its entire offense, looks good.

Chargers at Kansas City: Kansas City won 33-3 in San Diego a couple of weeks back, so tread carefully with Chargers. It's a new week, yada yada, but I won't be using anyone I can avoid. No Stevie Johnson or Dontrelle Inman. Rankings have West higher than Ware and I agree.

Titans at Jets: Jets should wear their throwback "Titans" uniforms for this game to mess with the Titans minds. I'm all over the Jets in this game, they should have success with the run and the pass. For the Titans, I would avoid everyone but Delanie Walker. I think that covers it.

Bills at Eagles: LeSean McCoy faces his former team, and I like him. Basically I like all the Bills, Eagles defense has been garbage for a month now. I'm with the company line that Ryan Mathews is the best running back bet for the Eagles, but as with Green Bay, we're just playing hunches based on past usage and stuff coaches have said and done. Chip Kelly and Mike McCarthy don't text us. If you can avoid uncertain committees, do it.

Lions at Rams: Don't really have a good feel for this game, so will defer any questions to the rankings. Rams have kind of fallen apart. Lions might be feeling some effects of the ridiculous gut-punch loss to Green Bay. I have Gurley and am using him, I have Calvin and am using him. Stafford looks OK with the Rams secondary banged-up. Would use Tate. I think that's it.

Saints at Buccaneers: Very high on all Bucs. Some risk with Austin Seferian-Jenkins since the Bucs have been handling him with baby gloves all year, but I'm using him. Ian laid out our feelings on the Saints backfield in the Friday update. I think Hightower will get a little more work, but why assume he'll do much with it? Out of football for three years. Bucs offense should be big. Brandin Cooks is fine.

Raiders at Broncos: It's a week to avoid the Raiders if you can, as Denver's defense has been very tough at home. Ronnie Hillman is the Broncos running back to use. Denver's passing game should be fine, but I'm avoiding the tight end duo (assuming Vernon Davis is active).

Cowboys at Packers: I think you avoid the Dallas offense entirely if you can. Darren McFadden is viable in PPR, but I'm sitting down everyone else including Dez Bryant. Don't Bench Your Studs, I believe, doesn't apply to angry wideouts whose quarterback is Matt Cassel. Green Bay's offense has some big names but Dallas defense has played well all year. Randall Cobb, Rodgers and Rodgers, that's about it (and expectations need to be kept in check). We don't know who the main running back will be. Lacy is our guess today. But risky to bet the playoffs on him. My son has Lacy and Starks and is benching both. Just a whole lot of risk in using a Green Bay running back.

Patriots at Texans: Houston's defense is pretty good, but I'm not betting against New England's offense. Am hoping Gronkowski doesn't fly to Houston today so we can safely use Scott Chandler. I like Danny Amendola, not so much LaFell. For Houston, there's DeAndre Hopkins in a tough matchup, and I don't think you want to use anyone else.

Giants at Dolphins: I really like both passing games here. DeVante Parker, Landry, Beckham Jr. (duh), Tye. I guess Rueben Randle. Lamar Miller is fine, Giants running backs all unusable. Will be interesting to see how Sunday games shake out so a Giants loss could create a 4-way tie at 5-8 in the NFC East. Although I think the Cowboys will lose in Green Bay and the Giants will win this game.

Enjoy the games.

--Andy Richardson