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Apparently, I'm Channeling The Calgary Stampeders-Oldman Plays CFL Weekly Fantasy S03 E14 #cfl · The CFL Outsiders

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  Hey kids, welcome back to another
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  week of Old Man plays CFL
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  weekly fantasy. Ha ha yes, feeling
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  a little better this week.
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  Feel like I'm channeling the Calgary
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  Stampeders. To tell you the truth, I'm
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  still sub 500 in the league. I believe
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  I'm clawed my way back to six and seven
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  with a victory over Greg Unsports whose
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  top scoring in the league and.
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  I think I went by like 50 points because
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  I had a real good team last week. But
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  this is where the Stampeders thing comes
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  in. Subpar record, but of the six games
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  I've won, three times I've been the top
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  scorer in the league. And this last week
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  I was I think 103rd across the entire
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  game, which I don't know how many people
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  play, but that's got to be in the top
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  five, maybe the top 1%, so I'm happy.
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  So what did I learn from it? Well. Trust
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  your guts and sometimes you're going to
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  get lucky. It just worked out. The
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  players that I picked all hit for some
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  reasonably good points with one
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  exception. And here's the other thing
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  that I've learned again from this or was
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  reminded of is, yes, trust your gut, but
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  don't get locked in because I made a
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  mistake there. I saw Shamir Bridges was
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  starting at the boundary receiver for
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  boundary wide out for the Riders, and I
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  thought, oh, he's going to be cheap and
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  at that position he's going to get some
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  targets. Be worthwhile. Well they got
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  some targets and I think he got like 3.9
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  points, but he wasn't cheap. He was I
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  think 5.8 K and I went and took him
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  anyway. Never just I was locked in. Oh,
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  he's going to be a good deal and I didn't
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  think it through. So that was the one
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  part that hurt me. The other thing that
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  became obvious, looking at the scores
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  that had high scores last week, all of
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  them took Xander Horvath and put them as
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  their captain and he had that amazing
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  game. So that's going to happen. But
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  not every week and. We'll
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  talk about that as we go along. So let's
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  let's think about this from. This week
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  going forward, what am I going to do?
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  Quarterbacks is a bit of a quandary.
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  Alexander is generally a pretty safe pick
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  and I still don't have much belief in
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  that defensive backfield in BC. Their run
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  stop is good, but they're against the
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  past. They're not so good, however.
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  Alexanders hobbled. How much will that
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  hurt him? He played well in the Grey Cup
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  on a bad hamstring last year. Will he be
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  able to do that? I don't know, and I
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  don't have the faith to take him.
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  The other part of that game is.
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  Nathan, of course, who's played well.
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  Montreal defence is very good. BC's been
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  on a short week, 5 days rest. They
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  had to stay out east. So they're maybe
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  they bonded, maybe they didn't. Sometimes
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  that works out really well. Last team
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  that happened to was Calgary between
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  Hamilton and Toronto and Toronto just
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  cleaned their clocks. So I'm staying away
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  from BCI. Think this week with the
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  exception, well, we'll talk running
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  backs. OK, so
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  next game on the schedule, we've got
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  Saskatchewan at home. To Winnipeg.
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  Trevor is usually a good pick that
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  Winnipeg defence, despite what they did
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  with Montreal, they did give up 4
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  touchdowns so I'm tempted there but.
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  Again, Keyshawn Johnson was limited for
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  one day in practice this week and you've
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  got a bunch of other sort of no names. I
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  don't know that they'll run up a huge
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  score and it sounds like they may have
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  all that back so they may be running even
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  more. So I'm going to stay away from him.
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  Zach I despite. The fact they won last
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  week didn't wasn't a great fantasy
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  numbers so I'll avoid that. Same thing
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  going out to the East. Might be tempted
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  by Kelly, you might want to think about
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  going against that. He can put up some
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  points in the Hamilton defence has been
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  faltering a little bit. So that's a
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  consideration. And again, Ford has been
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  getting better and better and with his
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  rushing and gets if he gets a couple of
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  touchdown passes in, he's not a bad 1 and
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  I don't believe he's at 15 K yet so.
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  There's a definite consideration,
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  however. It's the last game where I'm
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  going for it. Not VA, he's back. He may
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  make some magic against the elk.
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  But I'm going to go with Cody Fajardo. I
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  think he's the most consistent 1
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  available in this situation this week. So
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  yeah, so I like Cody better than the
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  others running backs this week. Well,
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  running backs are are tough because who's
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  yeah, AJ may be back in, we don't know
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  for sure yet. So it's hard to pick out of
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  Saskatchewan. That first game.
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  Montreal at BC again. Horvath.
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  He's up to 12 K, but even at 12 K he's
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  a good bargain. He you get the short
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  yardage touchdowns out of him. He's
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  become their prime running back. I think
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  you have to take him. I don't think you
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  can take him as captain this week. I
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  don't think he'll go off for another 4
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  touchdowns and ridiculous performance
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  like he did last week. But I think he's
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  you have to have him in there solid. So
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  then you're going to look and where else
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  do you go? Well. Calgary, Edmonton Games.
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  That's either one. Mills or
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  Rankin could take off, but they may
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  not. Same thing with the Winnipeg game.
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  Brady's been playing fantastic. Maybe he
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  runs over the Riders, but they have
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  the Riders have a very good run
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  defence. AJ might run over. Winnipeg,
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  but will he be back or will he be kindly?
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  And we don't see the the depth charts
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  until to Morrow on that. So we have to at
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  least pick the initial team based on not
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  knowing there. And then that
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  takes us of course to the next
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  game. Hamilton has not run the ball
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  well at all. But Toronto two weeks
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  ago ran against Hamilton big time. BC
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  has run against Hamilton quite badly.
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  Calgary managed to run effectively
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  against Hamilton. So I think a Toronto
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  running back cheap. Smith at,
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  Where is he at here? He's at I
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  think 4.5 K, so good cheap running back
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  option. So that's where I'm going with
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  with there. I mean there are others
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  didn't mention Tyson out Of Montreal.
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  Great running back, might get some yards
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  but the one thing the BC defence is built
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  for is to stop the run. So.
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  So that takes us to wide receivers, and I
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  think wide receivers you've got to. At
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  least I'm going with Tyson. You, you
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  pretty much have to, I think him or
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  Sneed, one or the other. It's all a
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  matter of who's going to get the bigger
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  game against them. I think against that
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  BC defence it's going to be Tyson that'll
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  get a bigger share of the the targets and
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  touchdowns. Other than
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  that, the high price end, I think Coxey
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  is still a good one. Johnson in
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  Saskatchewan I'm a little bit leery of
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  because of the fact that he was dinged a
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  bit, but he should get a lot of action so
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  he's always a safe mint. Mack in
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  Edmonton, although again, to me he's been
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  a little too hit and miss. He had big
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  games and then off games, so I don't know
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  I'd go that way. I don't think he can go
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  wrong with going with. Philpott, the
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  other Philpott, Jalen out of Calgary.
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  Look at some of their. Canadian.
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  Newer Canadians, Uh, Joe Joe
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  Alfred. Probably
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  any of the Canadian receivers there are
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  pretty good. NBC. They've
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  been getting good production out of
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  Jackson and a not huge dollar value, so
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  make money consider him too.
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  However, I think the one that's if you
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  got to go down in price a little bit. I
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  think Brandon O'Leary Orange, who is
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  where do I have him now I think he's at
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  I can't even read this. I think he's
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  about 8K now, which is not real cheap but
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  should get some good catches over the
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  middle. Has a good chance to pick some
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  some touchdowns. When they want to run
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  that Bender route they tend to run to him
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  and that can. Work out well. So yeah,
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  I think he's a very good lower price
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  choice in there. But you
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  do have a lot of the lower priced
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  ones in Saskatchewan, you know, you and
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  Delta Duncan Busby is getting a lot more
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  of the workload. He's not terribly dear.
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  You could also go with Mims there. You
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  could go once you get into Toronto,
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  there's at the not, you know, under 10K.
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  Anyway, you've got Mattel and Common are
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  both putting up some points. So those are
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  are worthwhile looking at. Speaker is the
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  other one out Of Montreal who sometimes
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  gets some. Targets and.
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  I think that's probably about it there.
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  So that sort of covers that off, plus the
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  flexes in there and then defences this
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  week, it's hard to say who's going to
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  score well on defence, but Edmonton has
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  been picking the ball off a lot. They
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  lead the league in turnovers.
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  VA had that string earlier in the season
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  where he had what was it, 1718 touchdown
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  passes without a an interception set, a
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  league record, maybe it was 23. But when
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  you go dig a little bit deeper and
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  go back into some of the stats, he
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  also had of all the quarterbacks, the
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  most turnover worthy plays during that
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  time. So a lot of it was luck.
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  So I think, yeah, let's go with.
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  Here's what Here's what we're doing with
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  it. This is my team this week.
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  The defence, I'm going with the elk.
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  They're not too expensive, I think
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  they've got probably as good a chance to
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  give you a reasonable score out of the
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  defence as possible. Quarterback and
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  captain will be Fajardo. Out of the Elks,
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  I think he's the most dependable. He may
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  not get the most points this weekend, but
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  he'll be one of the top two or three and
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  4th. It's just I feel safer going that
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  way. My running backs Xander Horvath out
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  of BC because of the short yardage and
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  whatnot, and yeah, he's going up in price
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  but still worth it. And Smith out of.
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  Toronto, their young Canadian running
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  back who's been doing well. I think he'll
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  do well against Hamilton again this week.
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  Wide receivers I've gone with. Tyson
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  Philpott out Of Montreal again, 1
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  high-priced receiver. I think he's the
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  guy that gives you the best chance to get
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  bang for your buck. Even if
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  Alexander isn't on full or if Crumb has
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  to come in, I still think that's a good
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  choice. My lower priced ones, I'm going
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  with Brandon O'Leary Orange out of
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  Edmonton, who I already explained earlier
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  why, and Dell Duncan Busby just because
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  again, after Keyshawn, he's the number
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  two guy. He will pick up some looks.
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  That's it. As always, dims my picks.
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  Use them at your own peril. I
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  am feeling a little better.
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  About this week then I did in previous
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  ones. Who knows how it'll turn out, but
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  at least I've clawed my way. I think back
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  to six and seven. Like I said, a nice win
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  over Gregg on sports, an over 50 point
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  win there and top scorer in the league
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  last week, Yahoo.
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  This week I've got BB Ryan
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  Can who is well Ryan Valentine
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  picks all Stampeders so as long
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  as Edmonton defence does their job.
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  I should have a reasonable shot this week
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  and I need it. I wanted.
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  Four games left. If I get the mall, I can
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  claw my way back to 10:00 and 7:00 and I
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  think that puts me in the playoffs. We'll
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  have to see. Until
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  next week. Old man.
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  Signing off.