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Fuelled By Pumpkin Spice Latte Oldman Plays CFL Weekly Fantasy S03 E 15 · The CFL Outsiders

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  Hey kids, welcome back to another episode
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  of Old Man Please CFL weekly fantasy. Ha
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  ha in a good mood this week I
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  finally got some sleep because my sleep
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  survey medical stuff is out of the way
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  and I am now back to using my
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  machine properly. Things are going well
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  at the old homesteads, the goddess has
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  had a real winter week with her work
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  and some other things so she's in a
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  great mood which. Makes it much easier
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  for me to be in a great mood. And
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  then more specifically, we're into post
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  Labour Day football, so lots of good
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  heavy physicality football that I like
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  everything with lots of playoff
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  implications unless you're Ottawa, but
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  other than that you've got that going on.
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  I won last week in my in the fantasy
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  league here. I was up against BB Ryan
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  Can, which is Ryan Valentine, who he only
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  picks Stampeders. So I should have had a
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  good chance to win, but I did manage to
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  win by. I think they're
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  almost 30 points. Worked out fairly well
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  for me. And I was also the second
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  high scorer in the league, 108 points,
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  109 was top scores. I was one point off
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  low scoring week for Labour Day. But
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  there it goes, you know. And then the
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  last reason that I'm frankly happy is I
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  not don't do a bunch for Starbucks. So
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  they're not going to come and sponsor the
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  show very often. But we're in the fall.
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  Pumpkin Spice Latte is back, ha ha. My
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  wasteland'll expand over the next few
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  months though. One Starbuck product I
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  love and I'm indulging. So let's talk
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  some football here, though. That's what
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  we're here for. The games this week.
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  Well, I'm going to this week. I'm going
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  to talk about them game by game and then.
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  We'll see what we get out of that,
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  so let's start with the first game of
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  the day that starts out first of four.
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  Wow. Ottawa
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  at Toronto. Starting with the defences,
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  Ottawa, well, Kelly turns over the ball a
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  lot, throws a lot of interceptions, most
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  in the league. But I think he'll
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  also score a lot of points against them
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  and get a lot of yardage, so I don't see
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  them being a high scoring defence.
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  Toronto, on the other hand. They'll
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  probably have a lead, which means that
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  Mare and the Red Black will be pushing to
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  get back in. It could be lots of
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  opportunities for some pit turnovers. I
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  suspect there'll be sacks to be had.
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  They're a good choice, I think one of the
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  ones that you want to look at.
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  Quarterbacks in this game well, mayor is
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  mayor. He gets some fantasy points, but I
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  don't think even at the slightly lower
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  price he plays at, I don't think it's
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  worth while. Kelly, I think will go off
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  against this Ottawa defence. He might
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  throw a pick or two, but he'll probably
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  throw for well over 400 yards and.
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  I wouldn't be surprised to see three or
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  four touchdowns up there. They don't run
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  very much so. Probably mostly passing
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  touchdowns. We'll have to see, but I
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  think he's a good choice. Running backs
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  in this game, Bell for Ottawa. Ottawa on
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  pace to set the worst rushing yardage of
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  any CFL team in history, I'm told. So
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  yeah, I'd stay away from there. I was
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  going to put any one on from there. I
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  might go without a boy at a lower price
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  and they seem to use him in really
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  important situations. On the
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  other side, Toronto's been running the
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  ball better and more. Auto wise and
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  great against the run. There was no
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  running backs last week that got over 50
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  yards in the game. No, I lie. Connolly
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  got 59 for Saskatchewan. A couple got
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  some touchdowns. But nobody really
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  performed, so who are you going to pick?
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  Well, with Toronto, they've got Smith and
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  Jones, who are both rookies, both low
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  price. Smith is a little higher price,
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  but he gets more touches and he did get a
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  touchdown last week, so I'd consider.
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  Receivers Ottawa. Eberhardt's the only
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  one I'd think about. It's
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  just yeah. But whereas Toronto, well,
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  Coke sees 15K and may get a
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  lot of looks in the game. So
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  he's worthwhile, but they're lower price
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  ones that they have out there. I mean
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  you, you look at who they're renting come
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  and get. Not so many catches
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  but lots of second down stuff for better
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  yardage and touchdowns. So he's
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  definitely worth the look. Unger, the
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  third is sneaky good in fantasy. Not a
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  lot of touchdown some, but lots of
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  catches and shorter yardage stuff. So he
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  may get 50 yards, but he might get that
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  on 7 catches. So you got 13 points right
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  there at a relatively low price player.
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  So he's something worth thinking about.
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  Same thing with Mattel. Now Herslow and
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  Polk are both out and they've got Davis,
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  a rookie in there, so I'd stay away from
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  that. But. There's might be some hay to
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  be made there. Moving over
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  to the next game, Saskatchewan going into
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  Winnipeg, either defence. Performed
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  exceptionally well last week.
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  Saskatchewan was not bad. I don't see
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  either of them getting a lot of picks.
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  Maybe, maybe if Zack is an off game there
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  may be some turnovers there. I suspect
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  Saskatchewan will get two or three sacks,
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  so they might be might be worth doing it.
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  But the way that Saskatchewan plan, I
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  would not go against. I would not pick
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  the Winnipeg defence. And quarterbacks
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  Zach is. People say he's back but I
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  don't see it. And his fantasy point
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  scoring just is not there. So I'd stay
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  away from him. Harris might be a good
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  choice. The downside is he's playing in
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  Winnipeg against all that crowd noise.
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  Could lead to some miscues. Might want
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  to be a little bit careful. Running
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  backs. If anybody but Tommy Condell was
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  running the Winnipeg offence, I would be
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  on Brady Olivera like. White on rice, as
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  they say. He's by far the best running
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  back in the league. He rarely gets
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  tackled for a loss. He always gets at
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  least 234 yards on a run and breaks some
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  of them out to 810 and can take over a
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  game. He receives well out of the
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  backfield. He last week he got 3 catches
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  for 33 yards, but on the ground 8 touches
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  for 29. So you can't count on Condell
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  using him. If you want to take him you
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  it's boom or bust. You might get huge
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  points or you might be throwing money
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  down the drain. On the other
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  side, Connolly is not as expensive and
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  he'll probably get 50 to 70 yards in
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  the game. So, you know, he's still, I
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  don't think his yardage will justify his
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  price unless he gets a touchdown. And if
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  they're in close, it's much more likely
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  Tommy's going to get the touchdown. So so
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  I stay away from there. And then
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  receivers, well, Singer, he's 3.5 K with
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  Winnipeg. So you know.
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  3 catches for 30 yards and he's more than
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  paid for himself. If he has a game
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  anywhere near like we did last week, he's
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  a steal. So I think you've got to lock
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  him in. But otherwise maybe Claire says
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  he's starting to come back. Demsky is
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  back in the lineup, but he's just been
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  too inconsistent for me and. Ontario
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  Wilson is out. Kneeled and
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  Cobb are sharing time over at the
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  fieldside wide out, so I don't see any of
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  them being productive. Saskatchewan,
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  Winnipeg did a good job of shutting down
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  Keyshawn Johnson last week, but that
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  opened up Dell, Duncan, Busby. So they
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  they worked more on shutting them both
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  down and opened up Johnson. Or do they
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  leave Busby open a bit? And I think that
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  that will be what they'll do. And I think
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  he will have, maybe not a career high
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  game like he had last week, but he'll
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  have another good solid game. Other than
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  that, Mims has been underperforming.
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  Weeb, who I would seriously look at is
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  out in Shmar Bridges is in at the wide
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  side receiver for him. So.
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  You know. Maybe, but
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  I. I'm not
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  highly confident in any of that.
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  Ah, takes us Tess. Calgary at
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  Edmonton. Edmonton defence gets a lot
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  of sacks and may get some turnovers, so
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  they're worth thinking about. Calgary has
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  a good defensive line, but they weren't
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  getting as much pressure as I would have
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  expected last week and that secondary is
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  suspect, so I'm going to stay away from
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  them. Quarterbacks VA is in his own
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  head. He may go off and have a fantastic
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  game, but like I said with Brady, he's.
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  It's going to be boom or bust. I don't
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  see him being an average week. It'll be
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  either another report repeat of last week
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  where he. In the end you
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  couldn't get it done or he'll take off
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  and whatever. Amazed the world.
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  How much do you feel at gambling?Pejardo
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  got good points last week. I think he got
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  with the doubling. I think he got me over
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  50 points last week, So more than paid
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  for himself. A lot of that was his
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  running, but they also only played half a
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  game. So he plays a full game. What'll he
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  do? I don't know. If he plays a full
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  game, probably it'll because Rankin is
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  running well too and that may take away
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  from that a bit. And
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  then running backs, yeah, Rankin had a
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  touchdown, 50 yard touchdown to closeout
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  the game last week. Looks good but
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  up till then he had four carries for -1
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  yard so. How's that going to go?
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  Highly suspect. And Mills, like I said,
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  nobody had over 50 yards. Mills didn't
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  have over 50 yards last week. Will he
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  do better? He might he might be worth
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  considering. I think this week the the
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  strategy is lower price at running back
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  if you ask me. And then the you've
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  got the receivers there. Well, Edmonton
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  Mack is I think 4th in the league
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  in yards and a reasonable number of
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  touchdowns, but he's inconsistent. And if
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  they take half a game off again.
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  Not worth having them, so I would
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  probably stay away from that. Riboselli,
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  what a great pick, Absolutely fantastic.
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  Let's get him in there. He started out
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  well again. Calgary last week. He'll be
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  back. Better chemistry, I think against
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  Pjardo. The Elk are crazy. Happy to have
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  him in there. As long as he's not
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  too expensive, he's fantastic. So I went
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  and looked for him and guess what?
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  Nowhere to be found on the CFL Fantasy
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  website. It's going to
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  be a bit of a theme this week. You'll
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  find I'm kind of ****** at them just not
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  keeping up with roster changes. Annoys
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  the hell out of me. Anyway, so he is not
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  available. O'Leary Orange I went with
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  last week because he's been consistently
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  getting two or three catches over the
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  middle for, you know, 15 to 20 yards of
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  catch. That pays for what his price is.
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  But last week he got one target and one
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  catch, so I'm a little off of him again,
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  especially going against that same
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  defence. Cephas lower priced one
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  and. Might be well worth looking at
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  getting him in there. So I consider that.
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  And then on the Calgary side, while they
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  do have a good receiving course, so
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  Philpott definitely, you might want to
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  look at that. Brooks is not bad for them.
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  And hey, Reggie Bagelton is finally back
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  in. What's going to happen with him after
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  being off for a year and a half? Will he
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  be a good price? Will he be like 3 or 4K?
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  Because AT15K he's going to have rust and
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  he's not worth 3 or 4K. He might well be
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  worth it. Let's check out the website and
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  see what he's worth. Guess what?Not
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  available. He's been on the roster
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  constantly, yes, on the six game list,
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  but there's lots of people on the six
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  game list that show up on CFL Fantasy
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  no Bagelton. Ah, I
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  don't know, a JoJo is out injured,
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  and if you're an Alfred fan, he's
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  been demoted. He's second string now
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  behind Brooks, so I wouldn't spend too
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  much time on on there.
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  And then that takes us to the last game
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  of the week. 7:00 in BC,
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  10:00 in Montreal, which may be the
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  defining theme of this game. Travel
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  across the country and trying to reset
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  your body clock. Hard to do We'll see.
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  Defences. Neither of them scored really
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  well last week. I think I'm probably
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  going to avoid them. Yes, Montreal had to
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  pick 6, but will it happen again? I
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  don't know. So I'm kind of leery there.
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  Quarterbacks Nathan has not been
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  performing the way he's capable of and
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  he's still he's good. He's probably the
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  top of the second tier of CFL
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  quarterbacks with his performance right
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  now, so he's worth some money. Playing
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  against a tired Montreal defence, he may
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  be. A fantastic pick. We'll see when I
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  get to my team. And then on the other
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  side, Davis Alexander has been a walk but
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  he is playing late. He is still a little
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  bit hurt. The team doesn't have as
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  much to play for his BC.
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  I think I'm gonna. This is
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  going to be a Skip Davis week for me
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  running backs. Stevie Scott, third. He's
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  back with Montreal. Yay. He might be
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  lower priced and they didn't run well
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  last week, but that was because these got
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  hurt early. Scott's a good running back.
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  Let's look at him. Not
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  available on the CFL site.
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  I'm just I'm going to stop complaining.
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  On the other side, Horvath got held in
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  check pretty well by Montreal last week
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  and he's more expensive. He went up, had
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  a terrible game and went from 12 K to 13
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  K. But he does have the chance for those
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  short yardage touchdowns. Buck Pierce has
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  had a week to see what Montreal did to
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  them and to game plan for it. It will be
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  a later game for the Montreal defence. I
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  think Horvath is worth going with again
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  this week. Not a captain but definitely
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  worth going with. And then
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  receivers well. Lots to choose from in
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  this game Montreal. If you're willing to
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  pay the price, you've got Philpott or
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  Sneed. Sneed has outperformed in the last
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  two games, but Philpott in the last game
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  got like 17 1/2 points, which is you know
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  AT15K you need maybe 2122 out of them to
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  really justify the money. But it's pretty
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  close. And he just he doesn't have bad
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  games, whereas Sneed can go off for big
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  games, but he might also have a game with
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  a couple of catches for. 20
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  yards not worth the 15K so.
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  Out of prudence, I think Philpott's a
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  better choice, but you can look at Sneed.
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  Speaker I would stay away from he's
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  slightly. He's in the higher end of that
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  middle tier and doesn't get a lot of
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  targets. If anything, I would say if you
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  want some really cheap for maybe get a
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  few targets out of it, Ferdinand, I think
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  would be the way to go. On the
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  BC side. Because they haven't been
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  playing as well. All their receivers are
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  not cheap. Cheap, but they're not 15K.
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  Hatcher and Katoi are both.
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  Around 12 or 12 and change and they may
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  well justify that. Mckinnis is a real
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  good choice. I think at 11 1/2, if he
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  has any kind of a game, he's certainly
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  capable of it. Jackson is down somewhere
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  around about 88 or 9 and has been playing
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  really well. So yeah. Any of those
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  may be worth looking at. So what did I
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  do? Well, my strategy lately has been.
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  Avoid the high-priced players. Start of
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  the year when I wasn't doing so well, I'd
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  go for my two or three high-priced
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  players that I wanted to lock in.
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  And it didn't work so well, so I've been
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  rejigging that. Now I go back and I look
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  for. Those.
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  7 to 1011 K guys.
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  Who maybe don't go off for big games
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  ever, but they get you.
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  10 to 15 points pretty consistently.
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  And that if you can team them up with
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  a couple, with the right choices of the
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  high price, it works. So here's my team,
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  I'll list it and then I'll come back and
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  talk a little bit more about why defence
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  Edmonton Elk. Quarterback and captain
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  Chad Kelly of the Argonauts.
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  Running back Smith from Toronto
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  and Horvath from the Lions.
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  Wide receivers Singer from Winnipeg
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  and Philpott from Montreal. And
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  the flex is Dell Duncan Bugsby DDB
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  out of Saskatchewan. Bye. Well I would
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  have preferred the Toronto defence. I
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  ended up with 2.5 K leftover to
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  use. And they still
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  were a little too expensive for me. Once
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  I'd put the rest of my team together I
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  was point 2K short of them, so I went.
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  With the elk who were two point 5K
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  less but I think are by far the.
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  Best second choice and maybe we'll
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  outscore Toronto. We'll see. Kelly yeah,
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  you might throw a couple interceptions
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  but against Ottawa he's probably going
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  off for four, maybe 500 yards, who knows
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  and three or four touchdowns. So I think
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  that's good. He'll may even run for some
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  yardage. I think he's a good choice
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  there. The running backs well like I
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  said, nobody did well last week and
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  somebody might break out and do fantastic
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  this week but trying to guess who is kind
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  of a a mugs game hit and miss so.
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  It went cheaper price where I could with
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  Smith he's getting. More carries. Jones
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  is also in there as another rookie, but
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  he gets less carries. Smith. Scored well
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  enough last week because he got a
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  touchdown and there's a good chance he
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  may run one in from short yardage. For
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  the Argos, they are not as committed to
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  the the quarterback keeper on on short
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  yardage and then Horvath. As I said,
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  waiting to see what Buck Pierce schemes
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  up for him. At 13 K he's expensive but
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  just about any starting running back is
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  going to be that pricey and all he needs
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  to do is get. One
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  short yardage touchdown and he'll
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  probably outscore a lot of the running
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  backs in the games, so I'm going to go
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  with him that way. Singer, like I said
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  earlier, cheap and he just if he's close
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  to the game he had last week, he'll be
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  moved in. Can't remember if it's in or
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  out. He's still playing slot back to the
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  field side, but Demske back. So he's
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  either one closer to the quarterback or
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  one further away. Either way, the way he
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  played last week, I think he got to have
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  him. Philpott with Montreal, he's the
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  most consistent. If you're going to spend
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  15K on a wide receiver. He doesn't have
• 18:23
  bad games generally, so you'll get
• 18:25
  something out of him and then Dell,
• 18:27
  Duncan, Busby again. Winnipeg may try to
• 18:30
  lock him down. If they do, it'll open up
• 18:32
  Keyshawn Johnson. He shuns a lot more
• 18:35
  expensive and I don't think Minibake's
• 18:36
  going to let him beat them, so I think
• 18:38
  DDB will still get a lot of targets.
• 18:42
  That's it Dems, my picks. As I say every
• 18:45
  week, if you choose to use any of them,
• 18:47
  do so at your peril. I am back to seven
• 18:50
  and seven. I'm 6th in the league scoring,
• 18:53
  but I'm still 9th in the standing. So
• 18:55
  trying to claw back into them their
• 18:57
  playoffs. I hope
• 19:00
  you have a great weekend of football. I
• 19:03
  don't know if you're going to be one of
• 19:05
  those folks that. Just watch as
• 19:08
  the couple of games that really involve
• 19:09
  your teams are the ones that you think
• 19:12
  are going to be the best, or if you'll be
• 19:14
  one of those folks that will record it
• 19:17
  and then watch them all over Saturday,
• 19:18
  Sunday, maybe into Monday. Or if you're
• 19:21
  going to be like me and say chapped ***
• 19:24
  cheeks be damned, I'm sitting down to 12
• 19:26
  hours of football. Easier for me 'cause
• 19:28
  I'm in BC, so it's 9:50. It's not like
• 19:30
  being in Toronto where you'd be watching
• 19:32
  from 1:00 in the afternoon to 1:00 at
• 19:34
  night. Or even worse than Maritimes. But
• 19:36
  anyway, regardless of how you consume it,
• 19:38
  I hope you enjoy it. I hope you've got
• 19:41
  some. I hope we all enjoy some great
• 19:43
  football this weekend. I hope you have a
• 19:45
  great week. Not just football, but life.
• 19:47
  And we'll see next week to
• 19:50
  talk about how things went till
• 19:53
  then. Old man signing off.