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The Ultimate Episode, So Long and Thanks For all The Fish Oldman Plays CFL Weekly Fantasy · The CFL Outsiders

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  Hey kids, welcome back to
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  the ultimate episode of Old
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  Man Plays CFL Weekly Fantasy.
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  Ha ha, yes.
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  Bad week last week. Not that it really
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  matters anymore, but I pick Kelly. You
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  had zero points as my quarterback and
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  captain, so 58.4. And
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  this is it, this is going to be
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  the last one because I've decided as much
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  as I've enjoyed playing fantasy this last
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  couple of years. And as much
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  as I've done fairly well, I'm usually in
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  any of the leagues I've joined, I'm top
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  25 per cent. I've been high score I think
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  4 times in the podcast league this year
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  ended up, I'm not sure where I'll finish,
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  but I've been hovering third or fourth in
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  scoring every year. So I think feel like
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  I'm fairly successful. I went to the
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  finals in the playoff league last year,
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  went to the YEAH finals and lost to CFC
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  Adam. MJ knocked me out this
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  year. In the first round, but
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  still, it's been a lot of fun. However,
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  I've found that over this last.
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  Probably the most of the year, fantasy is
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  having a negative effect on my enjoyment
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  of the CFL instead of just watching the
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  games and sort of enjoying the play and.
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  Seeing what happens and being worried
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  about the victory, I find that I'm
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  focusing on the players I've got, maybe
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  the players I suspect my opponents have,
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  and looking into that rather than.
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  I don't know, Just it keeps me out
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  of the flow of the game. So this
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  is it. I think I won't be back
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  next year. Yeah. So this old man plays
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  CF LS weekly Fantasy is.
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  Not just at the season end, but at the
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  series end. If you've enjoyed
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  it, I'm sorry, but life goes
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  on. Good luck with your fantasy
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  in the future. Let's talk about
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  about this week.
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  So everybody's playing backups
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  except Winnipeg.
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  Can load up on Winnipeg players but.
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  I don't know. We'll talk about that as we
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  get through with the games on it. The
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  other thing that's good this time of year
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  is all the backup quarterbacks are in,
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  so. Look for backup
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  receivers that are in that they've
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  developed a rapport on the scout team on
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  the during practice. Doesn't really
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  work this year. Most of the people that.
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  Is he the backup quarterback is in and
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  the starting receivers are there or?The
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  backup quarterback, we don't expect to be
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  able to do anything with those backup
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  receivers because of what we've seen so
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  far. So I don't know.
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  Let's see where we go. Montreal
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  goes to Toronto. Defences.
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  Montreal's expensive. Toronto's running
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  a lot of backups, so I don't know that
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  I'd go defence either way. Quarterbacks,
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  if it was Arbuckle, I'd say great, but
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  obviously they figure they won't have to
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  learn anything more about Arbuckle, so
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  they're going with Horn. Does he even run
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  the scout team in practice? I don't know.
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  And they do have the one receiver there
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  that they've brought in Miller, but
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  otherwise it's pretty close to their
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  usual receivers with a third string
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  quarterback in. I don't know that I want
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  to take. The receivers for Montreal
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  Crumb, we saw last week, he got in
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  some yardage but not much against
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  Saskatchewan. And yes, that's a good
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  Saskatchewan defence. So the Toronto
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  defence with backups in may not be
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  playing as well, but I'm still I'm very
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  leery they've still got Mead and Philpot
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  out so. Maybe.
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  Maybe Ferdinand, maybe Rambo, and
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  then running backs. Well, Stevie
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  Scott, the third is listed to start, but
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  how many reps is he going to get?
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  So I'm very leery about that. And on
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  the Toronto side of things, running
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  backs, it's the brand new Para
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  Paradisial, I believe, something like
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  that. Toronto doesn't run the
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  ball much more than, say, Ottawa does so,
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  and against a Montreal defence that is
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  largely intact along the front line, I'm
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  leery. So I don't think I'd be doing
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  a whole lot there at all. That takes
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  us to the next game, Winnipeg at BC.
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  Now this is where a person can maybe
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  load up some. Defences.
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  That Winnipeg defence has been pretty
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  good and against Salter they might be a
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  good choice. But will they prop the bat
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  against the run the way they did earlier
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  in the season? Hope not, but I don't know
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  BC defence. They've taken up bets,
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  they've taken out other people and it's
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  the most expensive defence there so I'd
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  stay away from it. Quarterbacks.
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  Well, you got Salter for BC. He might run
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  a bunch, but I wouldn't be taking a
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  chance on there. And you got Zach for
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  Winnipeg, who should be the quarterback
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  this week, you'd think if you'd count on
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  him staying in there, but. I don't just
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  don't know running backs. They're going
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  with Bailey in BC, which might be good
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  and they might be running a lot with
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  Salter in there, so he might be worth a
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  consideration. And then on the Winnipeg
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  side of things. Brady's only 8.2
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  and if they're going to win this game,
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  it's probably going to be with the run.
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  I would say he's a reasonably
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  good chance. And then receivers.
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  Wilson's been playing well for Winnipeg
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  Singer has been playing very well for
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  Winnipeg White. Dropped some
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  but catches some. So any of
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  those might be good on the BC
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  side of things, less encouraging. They've
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  got a lot of backups in, Katoi's
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  in, but in the backup role. So
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  now you've got Poisson and Williams and
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  Fitzgerald and de Montague. Who
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  hopefully will play well, but can Salter
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  get the ball downfield? We haven't seen
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  it, so I am staying away from
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  BC receivers myself. Now that
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  takes us over to Ottawa, goes into
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  Hamilton, so it's a Hamilton home game.
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  Ottawa's playing barns again and he
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  looked good and he's cheap and you can
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  get him, so I would consider that quite
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  strongly for Hamilton. Trey Ford is it
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  his last chance to prove himself and get
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  some glory Defences to Hamilton. Defence
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  has been very good. It'll be interesting
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  to see. We'll find out if how real
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  The Winter Soldier, Bryson Bucky Barnes
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  is and I might be considered taking them
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  just based on that. That Ottawa defence
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  has shuffled some again. I'm leery
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  rounding backs. Hamilton's got Rowntree
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  but they haven't shown a tendency to
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  run the ball with Ford in there
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  stretching the edges. Maybe they will.
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  Might be worth it Savers. Pimpleton did
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  well last week. Eberhardt did fantastic
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  last week. Hardy is back, White got
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  a lot of targets last week but didn't
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  catch so many of them so might be worth
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  considering that. And then on the
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  Hamilton side, well Ford played before
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  with some of these that are out there. So
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  Mitchell Gittins junior are both good but
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  they are also playing Smith and Lawler.
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  So if you want to spend some money,
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  that might be worthwhile. And then
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  the final game of the weekend, Edmonton
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  at Saskatchewan. Well.
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  We've got 2 backups in.
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  We got 2 defences that are reasonably
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  good, although if you look at the
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  Edmonton defence, they pulled out Carney,
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  they pulled out Brinkmann, Morgan, I
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  believe at linebacker, they pulled out
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  Lonco. Sorry, I'm just trying to think
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  who all would be in there for
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  these things. So yeah. Jackson
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  isn't playing, it's not the same
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  defence. And on the Saskatchewan
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  side of things?They've only really
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  made one change, but Fields is out and
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  Eduard has moved over to take his.
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  Fieldside halfback spot, so they might be
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  worth it against Powell. We'll see. They
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  do shut down the run very well
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  and with Powell in there they won't
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  have to guard the edges near so
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  much, so they may shut down.
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  Powell, they Edmonton strange enough as
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  Powell at running back and Powell at
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  quarterback. So there's that. Cohen, we
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  haven't seen much of him. Will he
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  prove himself against a weaker defence?
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  He might be worth a consideration. But
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  again, if you're going to go for
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  receivers. They're not playing the
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  receivers that have been in the backups.
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  They're not playing Mims. They're. Weeb
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  is starting and Jatay is backing him up,
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  but otherwise at the same 4.
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  DDB. KSB.
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  Keyshawn and Emilis, they're all probably
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  good picks if. Cohen can
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  get the ball there, Certainly worth a
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  consideration and I've jumped ahead. I've
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  done receivers already here when we've
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  been talking should next thing should be
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  running backs, which was Powell's is
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  starting for Edmonton. That would be
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  Shanderick Powell as opposed to.
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  Tower Paul, I think at quarterback, I
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  can't even remember. They got leaked
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  backing him up. So he'll get the majority
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  of the carries. He's run well. He's
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  looking very good. I think that you want
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  to probably lock him in and he's not all
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  that expensive a player. And the
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  Saskatchewan side, they are starting
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  Jackson, who I haven't heard of, I'm not
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  sure if he started before the cfl.ca
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  weekly fantasy has never heard of him
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  because he's not available. So forget
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  that. And I've already talked about the
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  Saskatchewan wide receivers. So now.
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  Talking about on the Edmonton side again,
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  Powell could be could be a very
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  good quarterback. So they're starting
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  most of their regulars. It might still
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  be worth while looking at a Robustelli,
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  a Luther. They aren't starting Mac,
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  they've got Cephas at the wide out.
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  Maybe there, I'm not sure.
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  So there's all lots of things to think
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  about, but in the end. We've got
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  to come up with something and this is an
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  extremely difficult week because. Because
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  who knows who's playing is as much
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  guessing about who will play if you
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  take any of the bigger name players
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  other than Winnipeg. Will they?
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  Start shutting them down early. If
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  Winnipeg somehow gets like a three or
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  four touchdown lead, do they start
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  pulling out their better guys in the late
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  3rd and fourth quarter? I don't know.
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  When it comes down to it, these are my
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  picks, this is my team. It'll be what
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  it'll be. On
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  defence I have the Winnebag Blue
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  Bombers, hopefully motivated and playing
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  against a depleted BC Lion's team.
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  Quarterback. The Winter Soldier Grayson,
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  Bucky Barnes for Ottawa. He's still
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  already 12K, which you know is pretty
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  much after one game. But I certainly
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  didn't run short on money. I had 3.6
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  K left over to to play with.
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  Running backs I'm going to go with and
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  Eric Powell out of Edmonton 'cause I do
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  believe they'll run the ball a lot, even
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  with. The other Powell at quarterback?
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  And I'm going with Brady Olivera because
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  I think if they're going to win, he's
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  going to have to run a lot and I
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  expect he'll be in the entire game. Wide
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  receivers, I've gone with Singer from
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  Winnipeg and Ontario Wilson from
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  Winnipeg. They've both been putting up
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  points. Well worth it. And then my last
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  one, I just had to He's been consistent
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  where a team has not. He's been
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  absolutely. Solid all year.
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  So Adam Eberhardt. From.
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  The Ottawa red Blacks.
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  And that's it. Those are my picks,
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  that's my team. As I've said
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  through three years of doing this, if you
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  choose to use any of them, do so
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  at your peril. And.
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  Thank you. Thank you to the
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  folks who for the last three years have
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  been coming back and listening to what I
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  have to say and leaving the occasional
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  comment. It feels good to know that there
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  are folks that appreciate your opinion.
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  But barring a huge change of
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  heart. You never know. Get
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  close to football season, maybe the
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  competitive juices come back up, but I
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  think barring a huge, huge change of
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  heart, this will probably be it.
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  So long and thanks for all the
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  fish, Brinkmann.