The CFL season is a marathon. There are many times when teams catch fire and others sputter and in a blink the roles can be reversed.

Sometimes it’s an injury or it’s a coach tweaking something to put players in better situations. And at the third point of the season is when we usually see teams start to rise and others that were hot start to fall.

When you’re making your picks, sometimes you can’t go on the collective of a teams’ five games but on the recent trends on what is happening on their roster and on the field.

My picks this week reflect what I’m truly feeling about which teams I see as trending up and which are trending down.

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