After a perfect 4-0 week last week, you’d think I’d feel a lot more confident making predictions going forward.

But after doing this for so many years, you realize that right when you start to think you have the teams figured out, something changes. An injury can swing momentum in the wrong direction, a player can start to find his stride or a team that’s been inconsistent can begin to establish its identity and get hot.

This week provides a bunch of different matchups that could make you second-guess yourself. Sure, Calgary has looked stronger, but after a loss in Toronto and a win by the BC Lions, will Nathan Rourke and company finally start to become the strong team so many, myself included, predicted they would be in the preseason?

After back-to-back losses, are the Elks starting to sag at the worst time of the season, or do you just shrug it off because those losses came against Saskatchewan and Montreal?

I gather Hamilton even surprised a lot of people by hanging in right to the end on the road, with Harrison Frost making his first start out West against BC.

So I’ll take another crack at extending my lead over the other writers here at CFL.ca.

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Calgary had a tough game to finish its three-game road streak. With the number of turnovers Calgary created, we were all surprised to see them lose. I........

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