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"I Have No Friggin' Idea"-Oldman Plays CFL Weekly Fantasy S03 E08 · The CFL Outsiders

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  Hey kids, welcome back to another episode
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  of Old Man Plays CFL weekly Fantasy.
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  Ha ha. Certainly hope conditions for
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  football are better where the games are
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  being played than they are where I
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  am here. I'm in the Okanagan Valley
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  and the smoke has rolled in from
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  somewhere. Would wildfire smoke? It's the
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  lake's a mile wide and you can't
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  see the far shore at all. It's
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  probably down to about 1/3 of a
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  mile. Ability and. Smells
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  like you're at a campfire anytime you
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  step out the front door. So ugly week
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  here. Hopefully the games will go off
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  well. Last week I had I
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  believe 120.9, which was enough to get
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  me the win over Commish KD in
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  the CFL Podcast Fantasy league. That
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  leaves me at 4:00 and 3:00, steadily
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  clawing my way back from my own
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  two start and I'm about 500 for
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  the first time. I'm 4th in overall
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  scoring in the league and 6th in
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  actual placement of the standings, which
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  has me in the playoffs, but not
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  with. Lot of wriggle rooms so this week
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  could be big because this week we're all
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  up against the league average. If I beat
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  half the the players in the league then
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  I'm. Get a win. If I'm
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  below that average, I get a loss. And I
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  don't feel very good about this week. I
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  don't I don't feel like I have a coherent
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  plan. It's getting harder and harder to
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  try and pick the players that you need
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  and get them in under the the price cap.
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  They everybody who can be counted on for
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  much of anything is about up about 15 K.
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  So what did I do this week? Well.
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  Looking at quarterbacks, I figured
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  there's four that are left standing that
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  are. Reasonable to
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  consider. As putting up pretty
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  good numbers. And that's basically two
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  out of the West VA in Calgary and
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  Harrison, Saskatchewan, and two out of
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  the East Kelly in Toronto and Alexander
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  in Montreal. Well, Alexander's up against
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  Hamilton, which is one of the best
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  defenses in the league. And Harris
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  is up against Edmundon, which is one of
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  the best defenses in the league, and Cal
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  carries up against Winnipeg, which is the
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  other one in the top three defenses in
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  the league. So. You
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  look at that and you look at Kelly, who
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  yes, he has been scoring less lately.
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  Teams have been figuring him out, but
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  he's up against that BC defense. And
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  while a lot of folks are saying they're
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  so much improved this last two weeks ago
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  how they performed against Edmonton. I
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  don't see it. That was just a matchup
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  where they perform well against running
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  teams. I think Kelly will shred that
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  defensive backfield. I could be wrong,
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  certainly could be, but to me he's the
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  best pick this week to try and get some
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  some fairly good points. Plus, BC's got a
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  backup quarterback in, so Toronto may
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  take the ball away, which will give Kelly
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  even more chances, yada yada yada. So
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  that's where I'm going at the quarterback
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  spot. Now, running backs. OK,
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  so who are the big names? Olette. I
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  don't know that he'll do that well
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  against the Edmonton run defense. They've
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  been not bad. Mills could be good.
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  Against Winnipeg, he. When
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  they've given them the ball, he's been
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  very good. He's played half games a few
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  times and gotten a lot of yardage.
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  But will they?Will they go that route?
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  I don't know. Rankin has been
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  fairly consistent in except against BC.
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  Is there any reason to think Saskatchewan
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  will stop him?
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  Well, they've got a good running defense,
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  but all he has to do is breakthrough that
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  second level once or twice. So I think
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  these days you almost have to take Rankin
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  as a defensive pick. Probably a lot of
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  people will be taking him as a captain.
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  I'm not brave enough to do that yet, but
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  I will be putting him in there, which
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  means my other running back now is going
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  to have to be a lower price one because
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  I've already spent 30K on my quarterback
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  and run it first running back. So.
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  What are you looking at? Hicks out of
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  Toronto might get some yardage. Rowntree
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  might, but I don't have faith that either
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  of those teams are going to run the
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  ball consistently. Horvath out of BC.
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  He's the backup, but he's also the short
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  yardage guy, so I think he'll get
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  probably every 3rd series on the ground
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  and he may pick up a short yardage
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  touchdown or two. I'm hoping on that. And
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  he's only 5.2 K.
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  So that's going to be my other running
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  back. Receivers. It was tough. I wanted
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  to go with a Sneed or a Philpot out
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  Of Montreal, but 15K there would have
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  made it very difficult to get anyone else
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  who's worth much in the way of points. So
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  I backed off on that and I started
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  looking What else could I get? Was there
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  anyone who?Is relatively lower price,
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  half the price of the big boys, and it
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  gives me a chance. And Speaker, who's
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  back in the lineup from Montreal last
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  week, had a great week. Just coming back
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  with it. He's 7.7, so I put him in
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  there. And defenses when
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  I went and looked to them and the next
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  one to see what I could have left, well.
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  Edmonton and Saskatchewan are both very
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  good defenses and they're both very
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  cheap. But given the two, I
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  think there's a better chance that
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  Saskatchewan will maybe not pick off
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  Fajardo, but get a few sacks against him,
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  maybe a fumble somewhere around there. So
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  I'm going with the Saskatchewan defense.
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  And that then left me basically about.
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  22K to spend on two more, a wide
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  receiver and a flex. Looking through it,
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  I thought OK, I've got Kelly. I haven't
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  put anyone from Toronto on with him.
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  Looked at who's good in Toronto, Polk or
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  Coxy, either one. For whatever reason,
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  I'm going coaxy. He felt better. And then
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  looking at what was left, I didn't have a
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  whole bunch left. Common for Toronto, who
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  scored a lot of touchdowns and.
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  You know, maybe not as much in yardage,
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  but he's definitely utilized by Kelly. So
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  that's what I did. Now I know I'm
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  not talking about other wide receivers.
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  You've got all of the ones at
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  Saskatchewan, Emmalus Johnson and umm
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  Schaefer Baker up against a good Elks
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  defense, but could get an awful lot of
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  yardage. You look at Jalen in.
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  Calgary or Tevin Jones, who if he has
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  a big game, could take off. You've got
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  Ontario, Wilson in Winnipeg who could
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  have a big game with it. You never
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  know with the uh, with Hamilton, if Trey
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  gets the ball away a bit, maybe Keandre
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  Smith would be a good choice there. But
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  All in all, I'm shying away from a
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  bunch of that. Like I said, every week
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  I say. Be careful.
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  These are my picks. Use them at your
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  peril. As I say this week especially, I I
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  don't know why I just I don't feel like
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  I've got the handle on putting together a
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  very good team this week. But if you're
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  interested, if you want to listen to
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  anything that I've got to say, here's my
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  recap. It's going to be the riders on
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  defense for me. Kelly out of Toronto as
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  quarterback and captain. Rankin out of
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  Edmonton and Horvath out of BC will be my
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  running backs. My wide receivers are
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  going to be coaxy out of Toronto and
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  speaker out Of Montreal, and my flex is
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  going to be common out of.
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  Toronto. There it
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  is, like I said, four and three clawed to
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  stay in the playoffs in the league. I
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  hope I do well. Hope if you're playing at
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  fantasy, which why else would you be here
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  if you're not doing that, I hope you've
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  playing fantasy. You have a good team
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  this week. Hope it goes well for you.
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  Same for picking if you play there. And
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  most important, I hope we see a good
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  weekend of football. Last weekend was a
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  it had an exciting moments, but it was
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  a bit of a let down this week
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  I think the teams are all fairly. Well,
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  matched up, I guess I'm dragging drawing
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  on too long here. You probably just want
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  to get to the end now that you've got
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  the information. So that's it till next
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  week old man signing off.