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The Worst CFL Fantasy Advice You'll Hear This Week -Oldman Plays CFL Fantasy S03 E12 · The CFL Outsiders

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  Hey kids, welcome back to another week
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  of Old Man plays CFL weekly fantasy
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  ha ha.
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  I'm. Trying to sound as
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  upbeat as possible this week.
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  If I have any advice for you this week,
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  it's don't listen to anything I have to
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  say. Ah, I it's been a bad few weeks.
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  I don't know what's going on with the CFL
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  Podcast Fantasy League. They haven't
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  updated the standings in the last couple
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  of weeks, but looking at the schedule and
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  the scores, I know I've lost a couple
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  from bad decisions. Last week I was up
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  against Sheldon Jones from the Two and
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  out. Lost by what was it
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  here? It looks like a boat.
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  2.1 points, which the way this season's
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  going with me is a wide margin. They've
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  been tight games, but anyway, I'm down I
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  believe at. Six and five
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  now, and I know I sit 10th in
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  overall point scoring in the league. I
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  have no idea where I sit in anywhere
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  in the actual standings, but I'm sure
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  Adam will get those out and he's my
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  opponent this week, so we'll have to see.
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  I I've just I've been struggling with
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  this. I've it's been about 3 or 4 weeks
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  back to when we were against the average
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  that I just. I don't get a feel for.
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  What's going to happen? I usually I've
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  got a few things that are locks. The the
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  only one this year has been Zander
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  Horvath has been good, but he's climbing
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  in price. And this week I don't know
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  really. I mean, I've got I'm going in
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  with two certainties. I'm going in with
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  the fact that Davis Alexander is back and
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  I think you're foolish not to take him.
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  And I do like that Hamilton defence
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  against, uh. Kelly
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  and his tendency to throw multiple,
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  multiple interceptions, plus they've been
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  fumbling and who knows what else. So
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  we'll see how that game goes. Apparently
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  Ford's been taking first team reps and
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  I've said before, yes, he's got
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  limitations, yes, he's may grow into
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  something, he may not. I think that if
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  they ever tailor an offence for him and
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  give him a few games where he knows
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  he's in there, he doesn't have to worry
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  too much. That he might start to shine,
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  but I could be wrong too. I will say
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  this though. I don't think
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  that any of the quarterbacks at Hamilton
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  are capable of giving them a lot
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  of points and a lot of wins
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  by playing just standard football and
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  with either Dollagata. Balagala talk old
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  man or Frost, they're going to sit in the
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  pocket and try that and I don't think
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  it's capable. Ford looked good out of the
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  pocket in the second-half last week. He's
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  also looked terrible out of there. But
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  what he does give you is the chance for
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  the off schedule plays. So that could
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  be an interesting game, but like I
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  said, I don't. Have faith that anyone
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  there is going to get the ball to Smith
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  or Lawler and I certainly while Ford
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  might be a cheaper quarterback, I don't
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  think that's the way to go. So I'm going
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  with Alexander, like I said at
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  quarterback, and I was tempted for a
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  little while to do a French Ryan
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  Ballantyne and. Just go
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  all Alouettes, but that wasn't going to
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  work either. So we'll see. So let's think
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  about this quarterback. It seems obvious
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  to me, like I said, and and that's a
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  good thing. Two weeks ago I took VA
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  coming off the wind in Hamilton going
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  into Toronto. I thought he would look
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  fantastic. He's looked bad the last
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  couple of weeks and he's not a choice
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  this week anyway. Last week I'm well,
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  frankly, it was I was an idiot. I took
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  Harris against Hamilton, completely
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  forgetting that they'd. Them to just over
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  200 yards in the first game that they
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  played so a deserved loss. I mean in
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  the end the the point difference that
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  interception that he threw into triple
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  coverage at the end cost me the game
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  against Sheldon, but I was in a should
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  never have been in that position anyway
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  so. Quarterback, yes. Defence, yes. What
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  do I do from there? Well.
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  My running backs? Who is worth spending
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  money on as a running back right
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  now? I don't. I don't really see
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  too much Montreal. Yes Thesis is there
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  but he is expensive now and last
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  time they played Ottawa they didn't use
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  him so much. So that
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  makes me a little bit worried. And the
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  rest of it, Roundtree might be a good
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  choice if. They've got 40 in
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  there and he's stretching the edges, but
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  I still don't necessarily see him getting
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  a lot of work. And they just, they
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  aren't running the ball. And again, Bell
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  in Ottawa, not a chance. They're not
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  running the ball. Winnipeg, Brady be
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  great, but 15K and what if Tommy Condell
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  doesn't use them? It's going to be a
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  a tough game for Winnipeg. They're not
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  going to have a lead unless things go
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  very bizarre. And that's where Condell
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  tends to want to run. His offence through
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  Tim White again as he said so.
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  I don't. Don't feel good there,
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  Saskatchewan. Who's starting? Will
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  Connolly be back? Is it star again? I
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  don't know. I haven't seen the depth
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  charts. Connolly isn't on the injury
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  report, so hopefully he's there. But
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  again, BC has an excellent, excellent
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  running, her defence. So
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  I just. Doesn't
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  seem good there. Rankine in Edmonton
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  started really fast but has cooled off
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  and I don't know if that's the defences
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  have learned how to play against him or.
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  Killam did say last week he's a bit
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  dinged and working through it, so I don't
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  feel great about that. And
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  then we go up to BC. Well Butler is
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  getting far less carries, Horvath is
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  getting a lot more. The Riders run
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  defence is good, but Horvath is getting
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  the carries and he's the short yardage
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  guy as well, so. I think there I'm
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  going to go that way.
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  Cheap out if I can. Who's another cheap
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  running back that maybe looks like
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  they're going to give me some points?
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  Edmonton's been spelling Rankin putting
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  Leek in every third series. And
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  he's. Playing fairly well, so I think
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  Leek works out there and then the same
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  thing when we get down into the
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  receivers. Who can you count on? Nathan
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  may have a good game against
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  Saskatchewan, although that is still a
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  tough defence to throw against and
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  they're going to put some pressure on
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  him. But who's he going to throw to?
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  Hatcher maybe, but he's been all over the
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  board, which is good for the team, bad
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  for fantasy. Again, in Saskatchewan,
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  they've got Keyshawn Johnson. But if he's
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  the only one out there. Then a
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  defence can shut him down. I did see that
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  Emmalus was back on the practice squad
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  playing at full this week, but I don't
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  know if that means he's in or not. I
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  have they taken him off the 6th game
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  list? Who knows.
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  Edmonton again, there's the lower price
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  guys there. There's Luther and Cephas,
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  who are both. Pretty
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  good. Mac is getting lots
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  of yards but not, strangely enough, not
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  as much of the touchdowns from what I've
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  seen.
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  Yeah, and then Winnipeg, they will throw,
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  but to who?Tim White's expensive
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  and not producing at the level that they
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  want. The Toronto receivers will probably
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  get some. Some points, but Polk is
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  out, so the maybe coaxy and coaxy didn't
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  have a good game last week. Hamilton,
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  like I said. Don't think you
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  can count on it. So that puts us
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  back to Montreal. Now the good thing
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  about Montreal is. Alexander throws
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  mostly to two people, Philpot and Sneed,
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  a little bit to Speaker and then you'll
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  get a few others. But Philpot and Sneed
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  are his main ones and I think they're
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  going to put up a bunch of points against
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  Ottawa, so I'm going to take both of
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  them. So I'm spending my big money, MY15K
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  on those two receivers and Davis
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  Alexander. Fingers crossed everything
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  goes well. That
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  meant I had to get someone in at
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  under probably 5. It worked out to about
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  5K for my flex position and looking
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  across the board there, there was Leek
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  who had already taken but a lot of
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  others that probably won't get a lot of
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  work so. I
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  went with Saskatchewan Mims
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  because he. Especially if Emily's
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  isn't back in there, he's going to get
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  targets he has to they. If they shut down
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  Johnson, Mims could be a big receiver. I
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  did like also Jatay out of Saskatchewan
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  but for some reason he was on last week
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  at $0.00 and got me I think 5 or
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  6 points this week. He's just not
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  available on the fantasy.
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  So like I said, don't listen to me
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  because I have no idea what the hell
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  I'm doing. But at the
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  same time, this is what I do every week,
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  so take it for what it's worth. Use any
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  advice here at your peril. And I'm hoping
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  that I start climbing back up because if
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  I eke into the playoffs, just like the
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  CFL, if you're in, you can win.
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  All right let's just do a quick
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  recap for you here. I ended up
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  with 1.4 K left over, but I'm
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  happy with my lineup, which was the
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  Hamilton Tiger cats defence. My
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  quarterback is Davis Alexander from
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  Montreal. He'll also be my captain my.
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  Running backs will be Xander Horvath out
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  of BC and Johann Leak out of Edmonton.
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  My receivers are the two big guys out
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  Of Montreal, Tyson Philpott and Tyler
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  Sneed, and my flex I've gone with Deshawn
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  Mims out of Saskatchewan. Oh, hopefully,
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  uh, you find a much happier old man
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  back here next week. But.
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  Oz Davis came in and helped me out
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  having to do the power rankings and.
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  Decided to have some fun and and take an
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  alternate view on them. And boy do people
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  take their power. Ranking seriously.
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  Oh well, I hope we get some good
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  games. There is some promise this week.
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  Last week was. Largely
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  duds this week other than,
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  well, Montreal should steamroll Ottawa
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  and I have trouble seeing
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  Winnipeg competing against Edmonton, but
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  the other two games are.
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  Should be relatively close.
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  Saskatchewan's vulnerable with their
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  injuries at receiver. That brings
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  them down to BC's level and.
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  Hamilton should be a much better team
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  than Toronto. But they.
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  Don't ever reliable quarterback, so those
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  two games the last two of the week could
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  be interesting. And unfortunately we
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  don't have depth charts for them at all,
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  so who knows.
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  That's me done babbling.
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  Old man. Signing off.