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You might compare Winnipeg Blue Bombers punter Justin Medlock to a baseball pitcher.

He’s always mixing up his deliveries and tosses plenty of curve balls.

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“Instead of just throwing the fastball right down the pipe,” Medlock said Wednesday after the Bombers practised in preparation for Friday night’s home game against the Ottawa Redblacks.

“It’s just changing it up a little bit. Making them guess and not just knowing I’m going to hit the ball 45 yards down the middle every time. It’s difficult to predict.”

Medlock made his name as a placekicker in football, spending time in the NFL and becoming one of the most accurate of all time in the CFL.

When it comes to punting, he’s always been on a learning curve, so despite being in his 10th pro season, the 34-year-old just keeps trying new things.

He’s never going to wow anybody with his punting yardage — his 43.7-yard average is eighth best in the league — but he has become a master of positional punting and deception, which limits the opposition’s ability to return the kicks.