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“This is the Chaos I First Fell In Love with.”. The CFL Outsiders S03 E16 · The CFL Outsiders

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  Hey kids, welcome back to another episode of the CFL Outsiders.
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  I remain as always, you're 100% impartial,
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  completely unbiased, and happy not to be in the doghouse host,
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  old man, shouting at clouds. Joining me this week,
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  it's just the two of us, the dynamic duo back.
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  Hey MJ, how's things?
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  Yeah, you know, I ~ better sportsing weekends,
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  but you know, here having fun.
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  It's all good.
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  Good stuff, yes.
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  I don't know if I've mentioned it here before,
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  but my the love of my life, my wonderful partner,
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  the goddess, is a Penticton girl,
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  born and raised here in the Okanagan.
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  So of course she's a BC fan. And Sunday afternoon before the game started,
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  I casually mentioned this has been a weird weekend,
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  you know. Maybe it's the one o
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  That the Red Blacks get their first win against the Lions.
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  And when they were up 14 to 3,
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  the Red Blacks were, she was giving me the stink eye and told me
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  in no uncertain terms, BC lost,
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  it was on my head. So luckily
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  Absolutely. Absolutely.
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  the BC came back, pulled it out,
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  and there's harmony in old man's household again.
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  were jinxing it.
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  That's what she said. You put it out there.
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  Anyway, that was and it was it was a weird weekend of football.
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  It really was. But ~ I thought I'd we'll we don't have a lot of news,
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  but a couple of things that I'd cover.
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  First of all, I'm just gonna remind people.
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  Well, I'm gonna remind people,
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  please, if you're enjoying this,
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  subscribe. Drop us a like. We're we're seeing our numbers increasing almost weekly
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  and that feels good. So help us out here.
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  But I also wanted to mention, even though GT unfortunately has had to step back from
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  the show for a while here now,
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  he is still running his CFL Fans Fight Cancer promotion he's taken four
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  of the jerseys from his own personal collection and he's selling them this year
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  the proceeds going to CFL Fans Fight Cancer.
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  And the concept he came up with,
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  regular listeners will know about this,
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  is that the team that the jerseys from
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  Since he's a Calgary fan, when they play Calgary,
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  the total points in those games is the cost of the jersey.
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  And the first one that we know for sure is a Kerry Joseph jersey from Toronto.
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  It is still available. The two total point in the two games between Calgary
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  and Saskatchewan was $157. So that's what the cost on that one will be.
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  Now, maybe it's not something that you want,
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  but if you've got a CFL fan.
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  a Toronto fan, a especially a Kerry Joseph fan in your household in your gift list.
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  I'll tell you one of the things I did last year was I bought part
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  of my Christmas presents for everybody was merchandise from CFL fans fight cancer.
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  Their t shirts, their hoodies,
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  stuff like that. And besides it being a nice gift with a great logo,
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  it had the nice story to go with the gift giving.
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  So you've kind of got an opportunity for that with these ones here too.
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  You can tell the people that you've got it for
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  A, you've got a jersey special that you know them and that they'll enjoy,
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  and B, they're supporting a great charity So think about that.
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  That jersey is still available.
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  Just drop us a comment here either in the comments or on any of
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  our social media stuff. Let us know you're interested.
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  We'll put you in touch with GT and he'll do the deal.
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  And still to come later in the season will be a Winnipeg Blue Bombers
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  one that has no name on it. And so that he's taking the two.
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  higher scoring of the three games.
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  He's not charging for all three games.
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  He's got a Saskatchewan Michael Bishop jersey that will be coming up after
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  the last Saskatchewan Calgary game.
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  And a BC Lions G Roy Simon jersey that will be after the last BC game.
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  So keep those in mind and help out the ~ well not us,
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  help out the CFL fans fight cancer.
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  And help out a good charity and get yourself some good gifts.
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  and again, if it's not for you,
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  pass it around to friends. We'd love to see us make some money for
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  a good charity here. wanted to get that plug-in.
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  And then we'll move on to the news.
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  And there's some interesting news In Montreal.
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  They lost, but apparently a lot a loss was still enough to get Mr.
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  Machosha and Mr. Maas extended.
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  Machoza Machocha couldn't have trouble struggling with the name.
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  Extended to twenty thirty one and Mass to twenty thirty.
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  What do you think, MJ? Is that well rewarded or are they being a little
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  too future driven?
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  Well, it's both and, right? This is a very double-sided coin.
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  Either you are building a dynasty or you're carrying a coach's salary that
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  you don't want to be carrying.
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  But based on how things are going out there in Montreal,
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  I would say this is building a dynasty a little bit more on that side.
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  So good for them. It's stability for
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  Right.
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  that team. Great, smooth sailing.
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  Looks things are looking bright in Montreal.
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  I have to agree. Machocha came in post COVID and ~ relieved Kahari Jones
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  of his coaching duties and did half a year himself,
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  but brought Moss in and they've been basically trending uphill
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  or maybe not Yes.
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  They're like a dynamic duo. Like they're Yeah.
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  Maybe not trend just like us. A great team together.
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  Yes. Maybe not trending upward the whole way.
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  They won their Grey Cup in twenty three,
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  but they've done well since then and
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  They were in back in
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  Yeah.
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  the cup last year and it looks like they've got a good shot at this year.
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  So yeah, definitely locking that in.
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  But on the other hand, if twenty twenty seven something goes wrong,
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  that's a a lot of salary cap to have to eat and not not be able
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  to make any changes. So good luck to them.
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  'Cause feel like
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  we just talked about their extensions.
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  Like I feel
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  Yeah.
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  like they were just extended and now they're doing it again,
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  but
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  Yeah, that's what I'm thinking.
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  If you've
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  got them locked into like twenty-eight,
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  what's the urgency here? But well,
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  that's up to them, not up to us.
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  I am a little bit jealous, not not gonna lie.
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  Yeah, I can see that. Nice to be in that position.
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  You also were mentioning there's some new NFL player safety rules that
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  had somehow slipped under my radar.
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  So fill us all in. What are they doing?
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  Alright, so this is actually just a fun,
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  like interesting little continuation from our discussion last week about player
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  safety. the NFL is taking a huge step in player safety.
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  They have five new rules that are gonna be like basically subject to what
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  you would classify in soccer as like yellow cards.
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  so then there's new rules for hip drop tackles,
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  which is ~ if you don't know what a hip drop tackle is,
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  it is illegal in the NFL, it is legal in the CFL.
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  And I believe that's what took.
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  Bow Levi Mitchell out this year was a hip drop tackle.
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  It's when their legs and knees get stuck under,
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  like they twist and they they and then there's lots of wrecked knees
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  and broken ankles from tackles like that.
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  So though that's hip drop tackles,
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  horse collar tackles, watch out Nathan Rourke launching hits on defenseless players,
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  and blind side blocks. These are their five that they have specifically said that
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  are going to be applied to these new rules.
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  Your first
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  First
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  offense is a fine. If you end the year with only one of these offenses,
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  you get 50% of your fine money back at the end of the season,
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  and you have a clean slate going forward next year,
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  so your card doesn't carry over.
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  Your second offense, you will have a strike carrying over to next year's season,
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  so you'll already start one strike in.
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  Your third offense, automatic one-game suspension.
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  Fourth and up, one game suspension for each infraction.
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  And they carry over to the next season.
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  So yeah, if you have if you have ~ so after a suspension,
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  a pair a player carries two strikes into the next season.
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  So if you've horse collared twice,
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  three times, three times in one year,
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  you have two strikes going into you next season.
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  So if you do one more horse collar that next season,
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  you are suspended a game. And then carry it over again.
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  coaches will now be required to join players in meetings for suspensions because
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  and clubs with excessive violence.
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  Will now face increased financial penalties.
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  They said that player safety is a shared responsibility.
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  So now coaches and teams will also be like,
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  so yeah, your coach has to attend the meeting with you where they
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  go through your video and ask you what you were you thinking and why were
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  you doing that. So the this is big,
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  right? Like people are gonna start
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  Mm, yes, it is.
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  getting suspended and because they're like,
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  we've had enough.
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  Again, I'd like we talked about last week,
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  you you come to see people play,
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  you're not coming to see people laying on the ground.
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  Injured. So Yeah. Well
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  Yeah, I agree. Right.
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  it's like, whoa, CFL, look at this.
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  Like ~
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  Yes, NFL ca. Maybe we'll
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  follow their lead. I do think we've got to get better.
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  We talked about this last week with stuff like the hits on the quarterbacks that
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  the quarterback slid late and stuff,
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  and yet somehow, as I've said before,
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  the people who can't control their bodies enough to not hit
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  the quarterback still manage to hit his head with some part of their body every
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  time. So those sorts of things I think they do have to get out of it.
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  And I like the idea of the suspension.
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  I've said before, if it's a clean hit
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  And somebody gets hurt, okay, that's fine.
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  But if you're doing something that's an obvious rule break,
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  an obvious infraction against the rules,
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  and you injure a player, the length of time they're out should be the length
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  of your suspension. I know that sounds harsh but I think that that's a a a
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  way to to make it fair. Not if you know,
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  if you're just playing, but when it's obvious.
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  The hip drops, I gotta do some research on that.
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  I don't really understand what a hip drop tackle is.
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  And the only thing I will say on it is as long as it's something that
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  a defender has to make an intentional move to cause that kind of a tackle,
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  then I'm all for banning it and getting it out of there.
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  It is. It is.
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  But if it's just a case
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  of if you tackle someone and their legs get tangled up underneath them like that,
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  NFL did actually a really
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  I don't know enough about it to speak.
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  the NFL did a video explaining what a hip drop tackle is,
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  so I can send it to you so you can watch it,
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  but yeah.
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  Yeah, please do and
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  ~ I'll put the link on on the show notes too.
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  So everyone can see what we're talking about.
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  But yeah, they showed a bunch of guys getting
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  injured in exactly what was happening.
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  And I was like, yeah, we and the CFL allows them.
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  we don't want anybody injured
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  a hundred percent. I just thought it was really ~ that the the your strikes carry
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  over to the next season. So now you
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  Yeah.
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  gotta really watch yourself and your your teammates aren't gonna be putting
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  up with much.
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  No. That's
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  and that's a good way to get it out of there.
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  When it's hurting the team, they'll make it stop.
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  Yeah. Like
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  and like does your coach want to spend their time going
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  to your disciplinary meetings?
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  No. Does your
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  No.
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  club want to keep getting fined for your bad behavior on the field?
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  No. So yeah. Big big big deal.
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  Yeah. And yeah.
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  And the other thing I will say on it is I just want them my little puppy came along
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  here, so I'm suddenly having to give her some lubin too,
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  'cause she's alone with me tonight.
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  I will also say they've gotta get consistent in how they call these things.
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  I didn't think I thought this was another bad weekend for officiating
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  all over the place with calls that didn't make a lot of sense and
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  the control center getting sticking their nose in where it wasn't needed.
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  And I'm not gonna rant on that,
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  but it just for instance, there was I believe I think it was the ~
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  not this last week but the week before in the Hamilton game,
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  that Stubblefield got called on horse collar tackles twice when his hand went
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  up around the back of the jersey.
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  But he didn't pull back. He didn't make any other than landing
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  the hand there and then bringing it around,
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  he got called for the horse collar.
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  So okay, so if a horse collar is anything up around the nameplate,
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  then that's fine. Call that. I don't have a problem with it.
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  But again, this last weekend there were at least two calls that looked
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  to me like they were fairly obvious grabs of the nameplate and tugging back
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  on the jersey and didn't get called.
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  And it was only the TSN guys,
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  but they were justifying it, saying,
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  Well, it didn't actually grab the shoulder pads,
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  it was just the jersey. So just make a rule and stick to it.
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  That's what I say. Sorry, am I being too grumpy?
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  All right. moving along. Being as it's now well the the CFL
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  I believe the CFL US expansion folded in ninety six,
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  so that's been thirty years, so there's a lot of stories coming out,
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  and I ~ for whatever it's worth,
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  just a quick one. Found out we all know about the Atlantic schooners
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  I'm told since nineteen eighty two that team name has been there trying
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  to get into the CFL. So they're the granddaddies of it all.
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  But ~ also in the last couple of weeks I discovered that when the
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  US CFL expansion was going on,
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  there was a proposal for a Miami team,
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  the Miami Manatees. Who had a a logo and colors and uniforms made up and everything,
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  and they were first going to put a new team in and then they talked about well they
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  were gonna move the Las Vegas posse out to Miami to be the Miami manatees
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  and that all fell through.
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  And I thought that was interesting new news.
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  I also found out in a different universe,
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  a different timeline, we could have had the Tweed Muskies in the CFL.
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  Have you ever heard of the Tweed Muskies,
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  MJ?
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  No
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  Yeah. This was brand new to me too.
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  This was also in 1996. Tweed,
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  Ontario. A small town somewhere down in southern Ontario.
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  There was a
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  Russell Moon, who was an Atlanta based lawyer who apparently they said
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  had ties to Tweed, put in a proposal with a logo.
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  They had a logo. They they were gonna be maroon and silver in their colors.
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  They their proposal was they were going to put a the Tweed Muskies in the CFL.
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  They had an abandoned cornfield that they were going to set up temporary stands
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  in and start running a CFL team.
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  Strangely enough yeah.
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  Strangely enough it never went anywhere,
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  but hey, that's another one for the CFL Chaos books.
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  ~ I'm still waiting for the Balmy Beach Beachers to become a C F L team.
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  Yes. Yeah.
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  The the Balmy Beach Beachers versus the Tweed Muskies in the twenty fifty eight Grey
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  Cup. Yes. Yeah.
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  Perfect. Perfect.
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  All right. And where else did we have to go here?
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  ~ you had a little bit about social media backfiring on the Lions this week.
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  Some people
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  Alright, so ~ this year has been some elite troll leveling by different social media
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  teams. For example, the Alouettes,
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  when they beat the TI Cats, put out a devastating,
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  devastating video about how the Ty Cats haven't won the Grey Cup in how many years.
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  It was like all the it was a whole like French film cinematic.
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  It was it's just people have been it's been devastating and rightly deserved
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  and completely fair. so
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  As teams have been going along this year,
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  like they've everyone's been like putting out really fun memes
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  and being really jokey and they're actually getting quite a lot of traction.
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  So the the BC Lions,
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  I'm gonna read it out for you because you tell me if this is over the top.
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  They ~ they put out a statement after the win.
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  They're like, the BC Lions have decided to respectfully refrain from posting
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  win memes tonight out of an abundance of caution for the well-being
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  of the Ottawa Red Blacks and their fans.
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  Please note.
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  The BC Lions are excited about their win,
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  but extend the deepest of sympathy for all those who experienced another loss
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  tonight. The road team, please enjoy yet another lemon.
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  Thank you. And
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  Mm-hmm.
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  it was just like
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  No memes, no videos, that it was just a statement.
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  Yeah.
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  and so if you don't know who the road team is,
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  this is a guy who is eating a lemon every day until every
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  Yeah.
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  team wins. CFL team wins. He's like on day 89 of eating lemons because
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  Yeah.
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  the red blacks can't win. Anyway,
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  some ~ some some people were upset about this.
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  there was three, four, four that they quoted in a news article.
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  Dave Campbell from the Elks
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  Bubba O'Neill as a Hamilton sports anchor,
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  Troy Westwood, who we all know,
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  and ~ Chris Hoffleet, the former Redbox Communications Manager,
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  were all very upset about this post.
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  And there was so much pressure,
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  and I just saw there's like this.
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  It's it's everywhere. It's like in the Globe and Mail.
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  There was an article about anyway,
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  Yeah.
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  the BC
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  Lions took it down today because of all these like sad panda people
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  who can't like have any fun.
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  And honestly, like learn to take a little bit of a joke.
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  And if you wanna be the the Alouettes video at front that they did about
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  the red Blacks was much worse than this,
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  but it was in French, so maybe no one noticed.
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  But it was much more devastating than this.
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  Anyway, I was like, you know what?
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  All you want us to do is have social media and engage new fans,
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  and these types of posts have been going on TikTok and Instagram for a
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  few weeks now with different
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  Like a plant store I follow did one like this.
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  So it's just kind of like a thing right now and it's not like that golf
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  one where there was like clear domestic violence and they had to pull down
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  and apologize for their being complete jerks and this this is not the same
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  as that I would say in any stretch of the imagination.
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  so anyway, it's just like you know what,
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  maybe these guys should be eating lemons too.
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  do you know what they're saying is wrong with the thing?
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  Is it too cruel or
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  Yeah,
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  they said what did they say? He's like
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  They're like kicking a team when they're down.
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  It's a cheap shot and a poor look.
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  And all this says to me is that they don't understand memes when teams
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  are posting them. They don't un and they're not watching any team videos.
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  They're just reading this one written state.
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  Because the BC Lions did a written statement,
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  you're this is the one you're paying attention to.
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  Go go back and look because they're much worse and by worse
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  Yeah.
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  I mean like brilliant, brilliant things happening
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  Yeah.
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  on social media.
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  Yeah,
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  frankly what it says to me is the B C Lions were saying,
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  Well yeah, we are we're happy we're happy we won,
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  but it wasn't that great a thing 'cause it was only Ottawa,
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  which is what everybody else is friggin' saying,
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  so it just I don't know. I get a sense of humor.
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  Yeah. Anyway, like it's fun to have fun boys.
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  Yeah.
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  Get a sense
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  of humor, calm down and you know it.
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  This is on the Red Blacks for like
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  Yeah.
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  the you gotta own it a little bit.
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  Yeah, if you don't want the memes like this,
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  start winning some games. You know,
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  Start winning some games.
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  it's
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  exactly. Now I saw I have to admit I d sometimes the social media
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  is absolutely great. Sometimes I just I'm left kind of going,
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  Huh? And this is not a Winnipeg Saskatchewan rivalry thing.
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  This is just was a huh for me.
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  I saw one
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  Winnipeg Blue Bomber social media came out with some kind of a statement today
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  and reading even reading through it I Yeah.
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  Because of this! It was because after they after the lions yes,
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  was it because of this? Yeah, 'cause they were complaining about Regina Pizza
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  so after the lions had Yeah,
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  and I did not
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  so
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  it's just a quip about this because the b ~ they put it out after
• 19:50
  the BC Lions retracted their statement,
• 19:52
  then they they're like, guys, we have something to say.
• 19:54
  Like we we three
• 19:55
  ~
• 19:55
  years ago someone made a comment about Regina Pizza and like we just wanna
• 19:59
  ~
• 19:59
  like formally apologize. Like so they were just This is what's happening,
• 20:03
  right? Like
• 20:03
  Okay, that
• 20:04
  that I can live with. No knowing that I can see.
• 20:07
  That's good then. Yeah.
• 20:07
  It was bec they
• 20:08
  posted it like an hour after the B C
• 20:10
  Yeah.
• 20:11
  Lions had to take theirs down.
• 20:13
  Okay then good good work from them 'cause without that context I just read that
• 20:16
  and went, What?
• 20:18
  no,
• 20:18
  it's because the B C Lions took this down.
• 20:20
  I don't think the B C Lions should have taken it down.
• 20:22
  They didn't do anything wrong.
• 20:22
  No, I don't think so
• 20:23
  either, but yeah. People gonna do what they gonna do.
• 20:27
  I have to admit the social media has
• 20:27
  Anyway, so good job, B C Lee.
• 20:30
  been better in the CFL. I don't see it all,
• 20:32
  but the stuff I see has been good this year.
• 20:34
  Yeah, it's it's not it's not nasty to
• 20:40
  do some trash talking between teams and rivals and stuff like that.
• 20:44
  It's just part of the fun and it i if you're doing it,
• 20:47
  if you r if you're one of these
• 20:49
  Frankly, idiots that really hates another team.
• 20:53
  You know, to the point that you wanna see their players injured and stuff,
• 20:56
  well, I don't think you're a great fan and you shouldn't be in the league.
• 20:59
  or shouldn't be a fan of it, and anybody that's doing that I got no time for.
• 21:02
  But those of us that are just making fun of other teams,
• 21:06
  you know, it it is. It's it's good natured,
• 21:10
  it's kind of family ribbing, you know,
• 21:12
  it's like ribbing siblings
• 21:14
  I enjoyed the Alouettes one of the Ty Cats so much.
• 21:16
  I was like so like I l I downloaded it.
• 21:19
  I took some screenshots from it.
• 21:21
  I use one of the screenshots every time like so they make a bad play because it's
• 21:25
  just Lawler missing a b a pass and it says Oskie
• 21:26
  Yeah. Yeah.
• 21:28
  no no. And I use it all the time.
• 21:31
  Yes!
• 21:31
  Yeah. And see and you're a Hamilton fan,
• 21:33
  you get it, yes.
• 21:35
  I'm like, you know what? It's fair.
• 21:37
  That's fair.
• 21:38
  Yes. well. I'm
• 21:39
  Yeah.
• 21:40
  glad that they're doing better with a bunch of it.
• 21:42
  Anyway, BC Lions social media,
• 21:44
  if you see this, please keep posting because I enjoyed it a lot.
• 21:49
  Likewise. You have our support.
• 21:51
  You have the CFL outsider's
• 21:51
  Yeah.
• 21:52
  seal of approval on what you've done.
• 21:54
  Please keep doing it. Although sticking with the Lions here,
• 21:58
  there was an article in three down this week where they had a bit
• 22:02
  of an interview with ~ Benavides,
• 22:04
  the Lions defensive coordinator,
• 22:05
  who had a rough start to the season.
• 22:09
  Their defenses are playing some better,
• 22:11
  although we'll see how much better this weekend if
• 22:15
  Alexander is playing and at a hundred percent or close to it,
• 22:18
  that'll be a test for them. But they were interviewing Benavides and he went
• 22:24
  off on this bit where so many people are complaining that the CFL doesn't bring
• 22:29
  in new coaching talent. That it's basically it's the same coaches that have been
• 22:33
  there for twenty years, their retreads,
• 22:35
  they're they're just hiring the same thing over and over again.
• 22:39
  And he said that that is s his well
• 22:43
  Apparently he used the full version of BS that that is ridiculous that
• 22:48
  you want coaches that have been around forever,
• 22:51
  you want coaches with experience,
• 22:52
  yadda yadada. And apparently he said Look at it like a quarterback.
• 22:57
  Do you want a quarterback with experience or do you want a rookie quarterback?
• 23:00
  You go with who's gonna win for you.
• 23:02
  I saw that and I thought, Yeah,
• 23:05
  but do you want every quarterback in your quarterback room to be
• 23:08
  in his late thirties too?
• 23:10
  You know, there's
• 23:10
  McCloud
• 23:11
  Bethel Thompson is a experienced quarterback.
• 23:14
  Yes, exactly. You know, you could you could build quite a quarterback room
• 23:19
  ~ with experienced quarterbacks who aren't winners.
• 23:22
  And and my whole point is, yeah,
• 23:24
  you need experience, but you also need to bring in new talent and you need
• 23:28
  to be creating a continuous turnover where you've got that balance between it.
• 23:33
  So I don't know if if Benavides is upset because people have been calling
• 23:39
  for his head all year or where it's at but
• 23:42
  be happy you have a job and to me don't be criticizing we need new coaching.
• 23:48
  It's like a both and. You need like people who have experience in the
• 23:53
  CFL and can run an efficient and effective team,
• 23:57
  but you also need new talent and new ideas.
• 23:59
  I don't think it's one or the other.
• 24:01
  like I know when when Jim Pop came back,
• 24:03
  everyone's like, just retreading the same old guys again,
• 24:06
  like ~ but I'm like I get it, I get it.
• 24:09
  I think it's ~ I think there's a little bit of an old boys club in coaching ranks
• 24:13
  in the
• 24:13
  This
• 24:13
  leak, and I think it's very extremely hard to break in in any meaningful
• 24:19
  way to head coaching positions.
• 24:21
  I actually am quite shocked Mark Killam even got a head coaching position
• 24:24
  considering all things. it's hard and it doesn't happen to very many people,
• 24:29
  and I think they are losing a lot of talent.
• 24:31
  but at the same time there's people who know CFL inside and out,
• 24:35
  I think part of this is coaches capping again where you
• 24:37
  can't take on and develop more coaches because you just don't have
• 24:41
  the room for them.
• 24:43
  Yes.
• 24:43
  there is something to that and I do think they need to adjust that coaches cap.
• 24:49
  And I'm not sure where you adjust it if you allow for more money to be spent
• 24:54
  so you can bring in more coaches,
• 24:56
  or if it's just a matter of you don't charge a team money that
• 25:00
  is still paying somebody they've had to release 'cause of a non performance.
• 25:04
  I think it's a little bit overblown to the old boys club.
• 25:07
  Yes, there's some of that, and and we're seeing it more because Toronto brought back
• 25:13
  Jim Barker and brought Huffnagel over from Calgary and Pop came back
• 25:17
  in for Ottawa when they needed it.
• 25:19
  But if you look at the last three,
• 25:22
  four years, we've got three head coaches that
• 25:26
  Yeah, they're they've been around the league a bit longer,
• 25:28
  but they worked their way up you've got out in B C Buck Pierce,
• 25:31
  who's in his what, third year,
• 25:33
  I think, as head coach. You've got Mace in Saskatchewan in third or fourth year.
• 25:38
  You got Killum in his second year.
• 25:39
  So in a nine team league, that is bringing in some new coaching there
• 25:43
  is a certain amount of
• 25:47
  younger players coming in at the positional coaching.
• 25:49
  But at the same time, you have a chance to bring in new coaches in Toronto
• 25:54
  and you promote your quarterbacks coach to a head coach.
• 25:58
  And then you you know, you bring in,
• 25:59
  like I say, Hofnagel and Barker,
• 26:01
  and then you bring in Greg Quick,
• 26:02
  who's been bouncing around the league forever to run your defense.
• 26:06
  And in Hamilton when they run into problems with William Fields,
• 26:09
  who was a younger coach and maybe shouldn't have been like,
• 26:11
  but
• 26:12
  They replace him with Reinbolt,
• 26:14
  who's been around forever. So to me there's something to the old boy stuff.
• 26:18
  Not Hamilton, that's Ottawa. I was like,
• 26:19
  Or Ottawa, sorry. Thank you for correcting me.
• 26:21
  hey now! Hey now, wait a second.
• 26:22
  Thank you for correcting me. Yes.
• 26:24
  Because I was like, yeah, that Ottawa.
• 26:25
  But say w listen to what I mean,
• 26:28
  not what I say.
• 26:28
  Did you see
• 26:29
  that Fields interview that he gave three down?
• 26:31
  That was spicy. That was spicy.
• 26:33
  Yes. Yeah, but I think he had a right to do it.
• 26:35
  ~ he had a right to.
• 26:36
  If you're gonna you know, if Dinwiddy's gonna come out and start telling tales
• 26:38
  He's like, you know what, Ryan?
• 26:39
  Actually.
• 26:41
  out of
• 26:41
  school, then he should respond,
• 26:43
  yeah. Anyway,
• 26:43
  Yeah.
• 26:44
  it's less to me about it being a crisis in the CFL.
• 26:48
  I think that they are getting new coaching in.
• 26:49
  I just found it interesting that that's what Benavides decided he was gonna take
• 26:53
  his interview time to talk about.
• 26:55
  Well, he's got a lot of heat on him.
• 26:58
  Yeah. Yeah, and it did seem a little defensive to me.
• 27:00
  Yeah.
• 27:03
  All right, our a our our weekly check on attendance,
• 27:07
  checking in quick. Again, another good week,
• 27:09
  just shy of twenty-five thousand average.
• 27:12
  So that's good and it's up in the top two or three weeks that they've had this week.
• 27:17
  Saskatchewan sold out finally.
• 27:20
  They had the top of the week at thirty-three three fifty,
• 27:23
  and then Winnipeg had thirty-two and change.
• 27:26
  Calgary was just
• 27:28
  just under twenty and unfortunately Ottawa was still under fourteen.
• 27:31
  So Ottawa games will drag it down,
• 27:35
  but when you have an Ottawa game and you still average twenty five thousand
• 27:38
  per game, that's pretty good.
• 27:40
  Let's see, what else did we have?
• 27:40
  And that Ottawa game was like at
• 27:42
  7 PM on a Sunday night. How is that even
• 27:45
  Yes, that's true too.
• 27:47
  helping a team out, honestly?
• 27:49
  fa the the the
• 27:50
  Schedule maker, come on.
• 27:52
  but the television fans like the Sunday night stuff,
• 27:55
  so
• 27:56
  What are you gonna do? personally I think there's something to be said
• 27:59
  to the one game a night for four nights in a row.
• 28:02
  It stretches the football over the weekend,
• 28:04
  keeps the interest there. I do kinda like that.
• 28:07
  But we won't be seeing it anymore now 'cause the NFL's starting up and ~
• 28:11
  so we won't have the Sunday games and we won't have the Thursday night games.
• 28:14
  It'll be down to either Friday,
• 28:17
  Saturdays, or I think yeah.
• 28:18
  Or four in one day.
• 28:20
  Two weeks out for in one day or when we get to Thanksgiving there'll
• 28:25
  be some around that too.
• 28:26
  But anyway. signings this week.
• 28:28
  Only one that I saw. Caleb Evans and the signed back with Montreal.
• 28:31
  Which is what got me looking for the injury reports.
• 28:35
  Cause Davis did take that hit that ~ took him out for a little bit on the weekend.
• 28:39
  So Dustin Crum,
• 28:41
  Dustin Crumb did first team reps today,
• 28:43
  but when asked, they said that Alexander was starting this on Friday.
• 28:46
  Yes. That's what I finally
• 28:48
  saw that he was we'll talk about that in the injury reports that he was limited,
• 28:52
  but they're expecting him
• 28:54
  They signed Caleb for one year,
• 28:56
  so that's interesting. I wonder who
• 28:58
  Yeah.
• 28:58
  Yeah.
• 28:59
  is getting bumped down. If anyone
• 29:01
  if anybody, you know, or is it just in
• 29:04
  case kind of thing? I don't know.
• 29:06
  I mean it it w if Alexander can't go,
• 29:08
  it'll certainly be a break for the the Lions because they're on a short week,
• 29:13
  five days between games, they're having to stay out east.
• 29:16
  They're gonna have tough tough sledding in there and if they don't have
• 29:20
  to face Alexander, if it's Crumb instead,
• 29:22
  that'll be a
• 29:23
  great equalizer in that game.
• 29:25
  But speaking of the games, let's talk about them.
• 29:27
  Montreal at Winnipeg.
• 29:31
  Montreal twenty-eight, Winnipeg forty-four.
• 29:34
  Like everyone
• 29:34
  Like we all predicted.
• 29:37
  was predicting. It was so obvious.
• 29:39
  And
• 29:39
  So obvious.
• 29:41
  I thought two things about this,
• 29:42
  to tell you the truth. I thought partially trap game,
• 29:46
  because
• 29:48
  Montreal's been flying so high and Winnipeg didn't look like they were doing very
• 29:51
  well at all. So I think you got a little bit of that.
• 29:54
  It didn't look like Montreal had as much bounce in their step as you would like
• 29:58
  to see. But it also showed just how close teams in this league really are,
• 30:04
  you know, and it's easy for us to get on here or any of the other talking heads
• 30:08
  to get on and go, well, you know,
• 30:09
  it's obvious that this team should overcome this one or this should be
• 30:13
  an easy win here. But the truth is
• 30:16
  probably even with Ottawa and definitely with outside of Ottawa.
• 30:19
  As much as teams have struggled here and there,
• 30:21
  the league is close enough that if you let a team who's vulnerable
• 30:28
  get their legs under them in a game and let them start to get some confidence behind
• 30:32
  them and start to believe in what they're doing,
• 30:35
  it can be dangerous as hell. And that's what happened here,
• 30:39
  I thought. W how did you feel about it?
• 30:43
  Well, Tommy Condell finally called a game that we all wanted him to call.
• 30:47
  Finally! Finally using weapons effectively.
• 30:52
  Noel Thorpe didn't have an answer,
• 30:53
  really, especially in the second half.
• 30:55
  I yeah. And defense put on a clinic.
• 30:58
  Willie j has his a hundred and knockdowns now.
• 31:02
  Mm-hmm.
• 31:03
  Alexander was having an absolute temper tantrum for two-thirds of this game.
• 31:07
  Like he was just like in fistic like he was just so flustered.
• 31:13
  And so whatever they did, everyone's watching game film on because they finally
• 31:17
  got him so rattled. And I was like,
• 31:19
  all I want to know is what Willie Jefferson and Davis Alexander are saying
• 31:23
  to each other. It's all I want.
• 31:25
  Because I think it was pretty awesome game.
• 31:28
  Yeah, like the Alouettes had no rushing.
• 31:31
  Like these had 31 yards. Excuse me,
• 31:33
  Yeah. Yep. And didn't even really try that much to rush with him.
• 31:36
  what? Like and No, they had eight carries.
• 31:38
  Yeah.
• 31:41
  And he had one one receiving, like he had one out of the backfield
• 31:44
  for negative 12 yards. So
• 31:47
  Brady was ~ having a day. Finally,
• 31:50
  thank you. That's the game I expect from him.
• 31:52
  So I'm not quite sure what happened because Tommy hasn't wanted to call this game
• 31:56
  all year, so I'm not quite sure what shifted there,
• 31:58
  but yeah.
• 32:00
  Yeah. It
• 32:01
  it was certainly good for Winnipeg fans.
• 32:04
  great and finally at home because it's not been fun there at Princess Auto
• 32:08
  at all lately. there was a point where Zach got hit and I thought
• 32:13
  for sure the concussion spotter was gonna pull him.
• 32:15
  Cause he looked pretty woozy getting up and they just let him continue playing.
• 32:19
  Yeah, again, consistency, please.
• 32:22
  Yeah. you know, like and then there's like some drama like O'Shea challenged
• 32:25
  PI on the second play of the game and he won.
• 32:27
  I was like, no, you I was like,
• 32:28
  Yes. Which is a good thing it set the tone.
• 32:32
  no, so early. What a waste of a challenge.
• 32:34
  Waste of a challenge. And then yeah,
• 32:35
  I like, ~ okay. Alright then. Kennedy,
• 32:38
  yeah, on Kennedy Kennedy, yeah,
• 32:40
  I don't know. There was but again,
• 32:42
  officiating this week was very hit or miss.
• 32:45
  Yep, there was questionable
• 32:47
  stuff out there. Both ways.
• 32:49
  Yeah,
• 32:51
  um's Diaz tackled Vavel on Special teams
• 32:55
  Mm-hmm.
• 32:57
  Don't do it, sir. Like on just pretend to tackle No,
• 33:00
  he went full for it.
• 33:01
  Yeah.
• 33:02
  yeah, but Montreal just had bad all three phases of their team were rattled.
• 33:05
  Yeah. Yeah. Hey,
• 33:07
  I yeah.
• 33:08
  kickers are football players too.
• 33:10
  They're allowed to tackle. Yeah.
• 33:11
  I know him at he's he shows me he's he's got muscle.
• 33:13
  I see it all the time. He's always flexing around.
• 33:14
  Yeah, we saw
• 33:16
  two good kicker tackles this weekend,
• 33:18
  so
• 33:19
  Yeah,
• 33:19
  we did. my favorite T SN moments for this game were a field goal during
• 33:23
  a commercial break.
• 33:24
  Mm-hmm.
• 33:25
  Thank
• 33:25
  thank you, TSN. I don't understand why you thought that was And then Luke Wilson,
• 33:30
  d I just have like Luke Wilson dismayed by Tommy Condell playing call
• 33:34
  was like an utter joy. He's like,
• 33:37
  okay, now they're gonna call this.
• 33:39
  This is this is what you need to call in this situation.
• 33:39
  Yeah.
• 33:42
  Then he's like, ~ Dustin,
• 33:44
  I don't understand what's happening right now.
• 33:46
  This doesn't
• 33:46
  Yes.
• 33:47
  make any sense to me. And I was like,
• 33:50
  Yeah.
• 33:51
  Yes. Which Yes.
• 33:53
  You're right, Luke. Anyway.
• 33:55
  And the thing is, I'm
• 33:58
  I'm willing to eat some crow about Luke.
• 34:00
  I was calling him an idiot over his CFL stuff for the longest time.
• 34:04
  Watching him as the analyst, he knows his football actually.
• 34:07
  And he explains it better than I do,
• 34:08
  He just needs to stay off social media.
• 34:09
  so give him credit for that.
• 34:12
  Yeah, well stay on social media and also realize that there's
• 34:16
  As bad as Tommy Condell may be as a OC,
• 34:20
  he's a CFL, he's a professional O.
• 34:22
  C. You're a a analyst, so let's give the credit to the people that are being paid
• 34:27
  to do what they do. And the fact that you don't understand
• 34:29
  Anyway.
• 34:30
  it doesn't make it wrong.
• 34:32
  no, I I it was it made my night.
• 34:34
  I was so I loved hearing that.
• 34:37
  ~ but Tommy
• 34:38
  Yes. And I'd say the results showed it was yeah.
• 34:41
  Tommy proved everyone wrong, right?
• 34:43
  Like put it like
• 34:43
  Yeah.
• 34:44
  that's all on us. ~ but we were all we'll see.
• 34:47
  One game is ~ not a big sample size.
• 34:47
  Now. Yeah. And it was a game
• 34:51
  where they were in it so they could afford to run.
• 34:54
  They weren't trying to have to come back.
• 34:54
  Yes. Yeah.
• 34:55
  Well I honestly don't
• 34:57
  know. We'll talk later about predictions.
• 34:58
  I'm not sure what to think. But yeah,
• 35:00
  it was, I think, just a g the right the perfect storm for Winnipeg.
• 35:04
  Showed that they are capable of playing that way and they got up
• 35:09
  and got the momentum behind them and Montreal couldn't come back.
• 35:12
  If Pier or if ~
• 35:14
  O'Shea hadn't challenged that PI and they went two and out.
• 35:17
  Frankly it might have been a different game.
• 35:19
  'Cause they carried on from there
• 35:20
  Yeah, a hundred percent.
• 35:21
  and scored their first score, so
• 35:23
  Yeah. and yeah, and Alexander going down was pretty I was like,
• 35:28
  no. Like I couldn't
• 35:28
  Yeah.
• 35:29
  quite figure out what happened almost like I what I finally concluded
• 35:32
  to myself and like my husband I talked about like where maybe someone stepped
• 35:37
  on his like leg because it wasn't an obvious injury,
• 35:41
  but then they said at practice day he was wearing a compression sleeve on his leg,
• 35:45
  but he came back out and looked pretty good again,
• 35:46
  Yeah. Yeah. Yeah,
• 35:47
  so I don't know.
• 35:49
  he looked a little limited in his movement,
• 35:50
  but he you know, he looked like he could play it was interesting.
• 35:54
  And it wasn't all terrible by Montreal.
• 35:55
  I mean they did have Sneed had that one
• 35:56
  no, they were playing.
• 35:58
  catch he caught down in the flat on about the ten and teleported himself into
• 36:04
  the end zone apparently 'cause he
• 36:05
  He
• 36:06
  is just a machine, that guy Yeah.
• 36:09
  Yeah. And to to break
• 36:11
  those tackles and keep the balance to stay inbounds know,
• 36:14
  He had three touchdowns. Three.
• 36:14
  it was Yeah. Yes.
• 36:19
  Yes. And and the thing is the game really it was relatively close.
• 36:24
  It turned on two things. It turned on a blocked punt but that Winnipeg
• 36:28
  Yeah.
• 36:28
  got on Montreal deep in their own end zone.
• 36:31
  Took turn wasn't a touchdown on the block,
• 36:33
  but it was on the one yard line,
• 36:34
  so they took it in from there.
• 36:37
  And then on the next series, they got Alexander scrambling around.
• 36:43
  He made a desperation throw to Thies who managed to somehow catch it,
• 36:47
  and started to turn around and tried to get upfield,
• 36:50
  and he got it knocked out, and it bounced off to one of the Winnipeg defenders,
• 36:54
  they recovered it, and they were in scoring position again,
• 36:57
  and that sort of put the game out of reach for them.
• 36:59
  Now I will say
• 37:00
  I think that's the play that
• 37:01
  Alexander got hurt on. Like there was like a huge I feel like I don't feel like
• 37:04
  Was that the one I it might have been.
• 37:06
  there's one where the the ball was like bobbled four times back and forth.
• 37:06
  Yeah. Yeah, that was the one I can't r I honestly I should know,
• 37:09
  Yeah. Yeah. I'm pretty sure that's the one he got his leg hurt on,
• 37:12
  but I can't remember if it was the one he got hurt on.
• 37:13
  I think Yeah, I I thought it was a different one,
• 37:16
  because there was just like
• 37:17
  but could be wrong on it. However,
• 37:19
  I will say that I
• 37:20
  went back and looked at it there too.
• 37:21
  This is where consistency in the calls go.
• 37:24
  There could easily have been a horse Collar on the tackle on Alexander on that play.
• 37:28
  He was grabbed up the
• 37:31
  The defensive lineman got a a mitt of his jersey around the nameplate.
• 37:35
  I think he was asking for that call too.
• 37:37
  Yeah.
• 37:38
  Yeah, and it
• 37:39
  got ignored. So consistency please.
• 37:42
  But
• 37:42
  Consistency.
• 37:45
  but full credit to Winnipeg for their win.
• 37:47
  The one thing I could not understand was what the hell Thorpe
• 37:53
  was doing with his defense because there was at least four plays where Winnipeg
• 37:59
  ran a crossing route literally like a yard across the line of scrimmage
• 38:03
  and got thirty or forty yards out of it.
• 38:07
  well, maybe that's an exaggeration,
• 38:08
  got at least a first down, fifteen to twenty yards anyway.
• 38:11
  Their defenders were playing so far back from the sticks,
• 38:13
  and I know as the play starts to go on you want to drop your linebackers further
• 38:18
  back so that bender route that's become so popular isn't as easy But
• 38:22
  you can't be playing them fifteen,
• 38:24
  twenty yards deep where they can't close until the the receivers passed
• 38:28
  the first down line. And yet somehow they managed to pull that off over
• 38:32
  and over again.
• 38:34
  I think they are riding on their offense being really good this year.
• 38:37
  Like last year
• 38:39
  It may be.
• 38:39
  their defense was elite. I would say I think they were first in every category,
• 38:43
  and I wouldn't put them there.
• 38:44
  That's this year. I'm not quite sure what
• 38:45
  No.
• 38:46
  happened.
• 38:47
  No, I have to agree with that.
• 38:48
  And I said about about Luke not being an offensive coordinator.
• 38:51
  I'm not a defensive coordinator.
• 38:52
  I don't suggest that I knew how to fix what was going wrong for them.
• 38:55
  But Noel Thorpe should have known 'cause he's paid to do that.
• 38:56
  I have no idea. Yes.
• 38:59
  And he did not have any adjustments.
• 39:02
  Certainly makes the league more interesting going into Labor Day.
• 39:05
  If you know what, this really does,
• 39:07
  and I they they're fallible now,
• 39:10
  right? Like there's there's film on
• 39:11
  Yeah. Yeah.
• 39:13
  getting Alexander flustered and shutting their defense down.
• 39:16
  And we saw Winnipeg can still put it together for a very effective game.
• 39:22
  Yes, when you use your pieces correctly,
• 39:25
  good things are happening. Yeah.
• 39:25
  Yes. Yes.
• 39:27
  Jordan
• 39:28
  Younger the defense played a lot better.
• 39:29
  'Cause I was for sure
• 39:29
  Yeah. yeah.
• 39:30
  thought he was marching out of that.
• 39:32
  I was like, I don't know how much longer he's gonna be there,
• 39:34
  but yeah. Turnaround game for them,
• 39:35
  Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
• 39:36
  statement game for them, good job.
• 39:38
  Yeah.
• 39:38
  And I mean
• 39:39
  it wasn't the whole game. There were a couple of drives where Montreal marched well
• 39:43
  but overall
• 39:43
  Montreal.
• 39:44
  Winnipeg did what they needed to do.
• 39:45
  All right. And that took
• 39:46
  Yeah? Good for them.
• 39:49
  us to the to the next day,
• 39:50
  I took the Hamilton defense in my fantasy because I thought,
• 39:53
  ~ a first time starting quarterback in that Hamilton defense,
• 39:57
  we're gonna see a a few turnovers.
• 39:59
  Amazingly enough, Josh Love looked pretty good.
• 40:02
  Better than I would have expected
• 40:02
  He looked where is GT?
• 40:05
  GT I wish he was on to talk about Josh Love for us.
• 40:07
  Yeah, yes. Yeah.
• 40:08
  Like
• 40:10
  he looked really good. I don't know.
• 40:12
  He did. He made a couple of mistakes,
• 40:14
  The Hamilton
• 40:14
  but
• 40:14
  defense has not been looking good for a couple weeks in a row now,
• 40:17
  though.
• 40:18
  I'm not sure what's happening there either,
• 40:18
  No, I don't
• 40:19
  it was a good win from Calgary.
• 40:21
  They ran the ball. They got the one big run from Mills at the end,
• 40:25
  but they ran it consistent enough to to keep pressure off Love.
• 40:28
  They completed some passes to they took two penalties for nine yards.
• 40:32
  I mean
• 40:34
  Yeah.
• 40:35
  That's about as clean a game as you can possibly get.
• 40:38
  You know, as opposed to well, Hamilton didn't do bad in this one,
• 40:42
  but I didn't mention the other game.
• 40:43
  Montreal had if what did they have?
• 40:44
  I think Montreal had like close to a hundred yards.
• 40:47
  I had it down at eight for eighty eight.
• 40:48
  So you can see you you lose like that.
• 40:50
  Calgary didn't make those mistakes.
• 40:52
  Hamilton, mind you, didn't make many mistakes either,
• 40:54
  but there were a couple of good plays by Hamilton.
• 40:55
  No, this was a close game. ~ it was a close game overall.
• 40:57
  sorry, go ahead. Yeah.
• 41:00
  Like
• 41:00
  it wasn't a blowout.
• 41:01
  it was, yeah. until
• 41:02
  Mills broke that run with under two minutes to go,
• 41:06
  Yeah it's a a dagger. ~
• 41:06
  they were still behind Calgary was at that point.
• 41:08
  So it could have gone
• 41:10
  either way. Ford played not fantastic,
• 41:12
  but good. He made a that beautiful pass early on to Mitchell for
• 41:15
  You know?
• 41:16
  fifty some yards with it. And what else did you see
• 41:20
  so
• 41:21
  I just had no like, yeah, Ford looked pretty good,
• 41:23
  love looked pretty good. Not great,
• 41:26
  pretty good. ~ if you've noticed,
• 41:28
  ~ I have noticed, I've been watching,
• 41:30
  Ford gets snaps high.
• 41:34
  He gets snaps to the left, he gets snaps to the right.
• 41:37
  Very, very rarely is he getting a snap right to him where it needs to be.
• 41:43
  So that center is, I don't know what is going on,
• 41:46
  but when you're constantly corralling a ball,
• 41:49
  by the time you're corralled it,
• 41:51
  you've missed two reads.
• 41:53
  So he was in tough sledding all day.
• 41:55
  speaking of hits, Ford got hit on a slide.
• 41:59
  He got hit in the helmet and there was no call.
• 42:00
  Yep. Again, yep.
• 42:01
  And I
• 42:02
  said that he and VA are the two quarterbacks this year who keep getting
• 42:06
  hit in the head on slides and no one's calling those.
• 42:08
  And I'm not sure what the criteria is or what the difference is,
• 42:13
  but it's not okay. And someone's gonna really get hurt.
• 42:17
  Yeah, I agree. Had
• 42:19
  that in my notes too.
• 42:20
  there was a well there was a fun play where Wooden fumbled the ball on a punt
• 42:25
  or a kickoff and it hit the goalpost.
• 42:27
  It saved him. Because
• 42:28
  Yes.
• 42:30
  if it hadn't hit that goal post,
• 42:31
  it would have been well, we all know how a football's bounced.
• 42:34
  That could have gone anywhere really.
• 42:35
  So that won't happen next year.
• 42:37
  Next year he's on his own. But for that game he was saved.
• 42:40
  I'm gonna rag on Hamilton for a little bit.
• 42:42
  Read on the O-line got burned again this week.
• 42:45
  He looked bad
• 42:46
  And he's normally good.
• 42:48
  He's not like us two bad weeks in a row and I notice when I notice an O-line,
• 42:52
  a specific one not doing something,
• 42:55
  like they I don't know what Scott Mitchell was thinking.
• 42:59
  Not Scott Mitchell, Scott Milanovic.
• 43:00
  I don't know what Scott Milanovic was thinking.
• 43:02
  He put Dolagala in in the last play for in place of Ford to throw a Hail Mary.
• 43:10
  Nothing upsets me more than this.
• 43:12
  Of all that happened in that game,
• 43:14
  that is the plate that just makes me want to pack up and go home.
• 43:19
  It shows you have no faith in anyone in your team.
• 43:21
  I don't understand the play. I don't know if he anyone asked him.
• 43:24
  I'm sure they did, I haven't seen it,
• 43:26
  but I just
• 43:28
  Yeah, I agree. If I don't think they needed the extra
• 43:33
  arm strength if Dolagala has any,
• 43:35
  and he certainly doesn't have the accuracy yes,
• 43:37
  a Hail Mary's desperation, but you also are aiming it where your players have
• 43:41
  the best chance. So I don't know.
• 43:42
  Yes.
• 43:43
  Stupid.
• 43:45
  Mind you, they also had on the Calgary side there was a play where they were trying
• 43:49
  to run the screen that didn't work and Love decided he was just gonna toss
• 43:52
  it into the ground and instead tossed it into his offensive lineman
• 43:56
  and it bounced off two of them and Dabirrie at the at the defensive tackle suddenly
• 44:00
  sa had himself an interception that turned into points.
• 44:02
  Yeah.
• 44:03
  So
• 44:03
  that was fun.
• 44:05
  There was some fun things happening.
• 44:06
  the the best part of this game was that it was family day there and there
• 44:11
  was a ton of tailgating and they had they w you were allowed to go meet
• 44:14
  the players after the game and my son.
• 44:17
  was in Calgary for that game and my sister took him and his cousin to that game
• 44:21
  and he got to meet Damian Alfred.
• 44:23
  And they had made s they
• 44:23
  my, he would have
• 44:25
  made signs for Damian Alfred and he signed their sign.
• 44:28
  And then he Damien Alfred gave him one of his gloves.
• 44:31
  They took pictures together.
• 44:31
  ~ wow.
• 44:33
  He talked to Jalen Philpot about Tyson and
• 44:36
  Yeah.
• 44:37
  So yeah that was honestly he told me it was his best trip of the year.
• 44:41
  So Alfred
• 44:42
  Yeah.
• 44:42
  if you're watching, seriously,
• 44:44
  you just like he was he just
• 44:45
  Made a young man's day. Yeah.
• 44:47
  like could not believe it. He could not believe it.
• 44:50
  And it was just like to see like the that's the fun thing about these things
• 44:54
  is like these kids like
• 44:57
  look up to these players so much.
• 44:59
  And it was just like what a joyful way to add.
• 45:02
  I mean it helps to hit a win so that they were in a good mood,
• 45:04
  Yeah, but but still though it's yeah.
• 45:05
  but but
• 45:06
  No.
• 45:08
  yeah, good job Stampeders. Thank you.
• 45:09
  Yep. So so happy days at MJ's house.
• 45:10
  yeah.
• 45:12
  I'm so I'm so impressed when
• 45:14
  I hear about stuff like that.
• 45:16
  I will say one other thing that I did notice that I thought it's it's funny just
• 45:20
  the little bits that really make a difference in a football game and they
• 45:24
  may or may not make a difference on that play,
• 45:26
  but players that concentrate and focus I love to see it because you never know when
• 45:31
  it's gonna work out. And there was a play for Hamilton.
• 45:34
  That Ford scrambled out to the right.
• 45:37
  There was nothing there, so he ended up running downfield.
• 45:40
  But they had a shot where you could see him from behind.
• 45:44
  So him running downfield and the DBs and the receivers further downfield.
• 45:48
  And five yards after Trey's crossed the line of scrimmage,
• 45:52
  Kenny Lawler still running downfield on a pattern with a DB with his back
• 45:57
  to the line of scrimmage,
• 45:59
  Mm.
• 45:59
  w focusing on Kenny. And not only does he keep running the pattern,
• 46:04
  He puts up his hands like the ball's coming in.
• 46:06
  Just that extra second or two of what it's better than a block in a case like that.
• 46:12
  just smart,
• 46:12
  Yeah.
• 46:13
  smart football. Just tiny little details.
• 46:16
  That's what turns losing teams into winning teams.
• 46:19
  I honestly believe that.
• 46:20
  Yeah.
• 46:21
  Kenny's you know, like they're everyone's saying he's not earning
• 46:24
  his paycheck this year since Bo went down,
• 46:26
  but it's plays like that, right?
• 46:27
  Like you're a team player first.
• 46:29
  Yes.
• 46:31
  Yes, exactly. And that's what I love to see with him.
• 46:34
  Now, anything else for us to talk about here?
• 46:39
  ~ Stampeders put it together at home
• 46:41
  Yeah. And and
• 46:42
  without without VA and I didn't think they could do it and they did,
• 46:45
  and Josh Love actually looked pretty good.
• 46:47
  I didn't think so
• 46:48
  either. I'd taken them last week when I saw that VA was out,
• 46:51
  I thought, well don't like it.
• 46:53
  But hey like full credit to them.
• 46:55
  Unfortunate for you and the other Hamilton fans,
• 46:58
  but it was an entertaining game and you know
• 47:01
  It it wasn't like no one played terribly bad.
• 47:05
  No one was playing fantastic and no one was like they they were pretty evenly
• 47:09
  matched, I would say. Calgary definitely
• 47:10
  Yeah. Yeah, it was it was an average game,
• 47:14
  yeah.
• 47:16
  has a better running game than Hamilton and that's the difference.
• 47:18
  ~ yeah.
• 47:19
  But wait
• 47:19
  a Trey is our running game, I guess.
• 47:21
  There was somebody who made a picture of like a Ti cat throwing to a
• 47:25
  Ti cat and they're like Trey's calling his own number again.
• 47:28
  the thing is there were some of those
• 47:28
  I like, yeah.
• 47:29
  were some of those were scrambles.
• 47:31
  Some of those were called were called plays.
• 47:33
  Yeah.
• 47:33
  Milanovic was calling runs for which is good to see.
• 47:37
  Yeah. Which great. ~ yeah, so why you pull out on your very last need
• 47:42
  to make it plays you put a cold QB in who hadn't been warmed up is
• 47:45
  Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
• 47:46
  in the definition of insanity,
• 47:48
  I would say.
• 47:48
  Exactly.
• 47:49
  And doesn't even really give a great chance to get away from the rush I agree.
• 47:53
  I do.
• 47:54
  Okay. Yes. Yes it is.
• 47:54
  Such is my season. Moving on.
• 47:58
  Yeah.
• 47:58
  And ~ condolences. Yeah.
• 48:01
  Yeah spell.
• 48:03
  Now the next game turned out a little better for me.
• 48:05
  This was where Toronto went into Saskatchewan.
• 48:08
  Toronto twenty four, Saskatchewan twenty eight.
• 48:11
  And I can't help myself. the rider fan in me is gonna come
• 48:16
  out for a big chunk of when I talk about this you'll see why.
• 48:20
  But just
• 48:21
  To be fair, some good things that the Argonauts had going before
• 48:28
  I get into a a rider-centric thing,
• 48:30
  Kelly, yeah, he threw some interceptions and some bad throws,
• 48:34
  but he made some very tight throws.
• 48:36
  He made some good passes, especially in the first half,
• 48:39
  to keep them going. He had almost 300 yards passing in the first half.
• 48:42
  The riders weren't containing him in the pocket as well as I'd like.
• 48:46
  They did a few times and got a a big hit on him on one play but
• 48:49
  he was getting outside and making plays off schedule,
• 48:52
  which he's very good at. The defense was playing well enough.
• 48:57
  Again, twenty-eight points. Saskatchewan had been averaging more than that
• 49:01
  in the early part of the season.
• 49:02
  And yes, their offense is a little bit dinged up with the receivers down,
• 49:06
  but the Toronto defense made some very good plays.
• 49:09
  stopped them on turnover on downs,
• 49:11
  I think two or three times They got a strip sack of Harris in the
• 49:15
  end zone that easily could have been a touchdown,
• 49:17
  but was a ~ safety instead.
• 49:20
  So you know they played well. But this had this felt well
• 49:28
  two things. Before I even talk riders,
• 49:29
  one of my favorite moments in this game was I swear Andre Pru,
• 49:34
  who is a fantastic ref
• 49:36
  was was trolling the riders fans.
• 49:38
  Because there was the play in the where Saskatchewan's backed up into their
• 49:45
  in their own end zone. Harris is trying to throw and sh guess who?
• 49:49
  Sean Lemon comes around the the outside,
• 49:52
  strips the ball off Harris. There's a scramble.
• 49:55
  Harris manages to somehow get his hand reached out and pull the thing back in,
• 50:00
  but we can't see that it's just this scramble and all these bodies on the ball
• 50:04
  And someone's going to have recovered it and it's going to either be a safety
• 50:06
  or a touchdown. And so that's what we're all waiting to see.
• 50:11
  And they strip them away, and Andre steps up to make his call.
• 50:16
  And I swear, in all the years I've been watching football,
• 50:21
  when you signal a safety, your arms are down at your side,
• 50:25
  they sweep up together and come up like this as a safety.
• 50:28
  That's how you call a safety.
• 50:31
  What Andre does is he sticks both his arms straight up in the air like
• 50:36
  a touchdown and then claps the hands together for the safety.
• 50:39
  And just to give everybody that heart attack That to me that had to be intentional,
• 50:44
  that was him having fun.
• 50:46
  I know I'm droning on, but I will say the reason this game meant so much to
• 50:49
  me is I became I went out to Regina in nineteen eighty seven
• 50:55
  and was the broadcast engineer,
• 50:57
  ran the engineering department for CKRM,
• 51:00
  who has the rider's rights. So I went was at all the rider's games doing
• 51:03
  the technical stuff. I got exposed to rider culture and rider mentality
• 51:08
  and that's where I fell in love with it and that's where I became the rider
• 51:11
  fan so much.
• 51:13
  But it was a certain a weird time.
• 51:15
  Those late eighties and nineties.
• 51:17
  I've said be to you before and to folks here before,
• 51:20
  traditionally with the riders,
• 51:22
  I always felt best when they were down ten points at the half,
• 51:25
  because the games were just chaos.
• 51:27
  And you know, it was in a time back then we had well,
• 51:30
  we had Gregory had won the Grey Cup and coached for a while,
• 51:33
  but then they brought in Matthews and Ray York and and John Daly,
• 51:36
  and they just kept going through coaches and they couldn't get the right thing.
• 51:39
  They had at quarterbacks they had
• 51:42
  Austin for a while and then they had Warren Jones and then they had Reggie Slack
• 51:46
  and it was and there was a lot of chaos to it.
• 51:48
  And the thing with them was they might win the game or they might not,
• 51:52
  but it wasn't gonna be normal.
• 51:54
  Or it was always every week with something weird going on.
• 51:58
  It was just all over the place.
• 52:00
  And then over the last few years we've had well,
• 52:04
  a little Dickinson was a bit like that,
• 52:06
  but
• 52:06
  But Corey Mace came in and it became a professional football team and
• 52:09
  you could look at them like a professional football team and judge them that way.
• 52:12
  This game was back to the nineties.
• 52:14
  this was the CFL chaos I fell in love with.
• 52:17
  I mean you think about it, yes,
• 52:19
  there were some touchdowns and there were field goals.
• 52:21
  There were all both teams also missed field goals.
• 52:23
  Both teams missed converts. There was a safety which never happens.
• 52:28
  There was a friggin' convert blocked in return for two points for the defense,
• 52:32
  which I don't know if I've ever seen it.
• 52:35
  this was a nineteen nineties Rough Riders game and I just my
• 52:40
  my nostalgia glasses were just going everywhere.
• 52:43
  Whether they won or lost that,
• 52:44
  I don't I probably I felt a lot better about the win,
• 52:48
  but just just the chaos of it.
• 52:50
  I fell in love with it. How did you feel as a non longtime rider fan?
• 52:54
  Well, I I just have notes. I didn't I actually take a lot of notes on this game,
• 52:58
  but just have like a special teams adventures.
• 53:01
  ~
• 53:01
  Mm-hmm.
• 53:03
  Toronto's rushing game was like a disaster after they did so well last week.
• 53:07
  yeah.
• 53:08
  ~ McFadden was offside on that hard count,
• 53:11
  feel whatever at the end of the game and but ~ Miller after the game they were like
• 53:15
  trying to get him to throw him under the bus and he said like one play doesn't cost
• 53:19
  the team and they should have been playing BFAD.
• 53:20
  No, good point.
• 53:21
  So I was like, you know what? Thank you.
• 53:23
  McFadden isn't
• 53:23
  Yeah. If you're in that p
• 53:26
  the reason. If you're exactly if you're in that position,
• 53:28
  McFadden going offside shouldn't cost you the game.
• 53:31
  Yes. And frankly you were
• 53:33
  in that game 'cause McMaddden played a whale of a game.
• 53:36
  Yeah. Anyway, so
• 53:36
  He was playing tight coverage
• 53:39
  and not letting anything get completed his way.
• 53:42
  So yeah, you
• 53:43
  Yeah.
• 53:44
  go ahead and say he made a bad penalty at that point.
• 53:46
  You wouldn't have been in the game without him.
• 53:49
  Who among us have not taken a bad penalty?
• 53:52
  yeah.
• 53:53
  Right? Who among us?
• 53:56
  it was like another back and forth seesaw,
• 53:58
  Yeah. Yeah.
• 53:59
  weird things
• 54:01
  are happening. CFL weekend on a Saturday night.
• 54:03
  Yeah, K CFL Chaos loved it. And I gotta tell you,
• 54:05
  Yeah. Just
• 54:07
  as a as a fan watching that moment,
• 54:09
  and he jumped and then the flag came out and I wasn't jumping up
• 54:14
  and down and screaming woo hoo or anything.
• 54:16
  I was in stunned silence, going,
• 54:17
  no. No, that the football gods don't do that for us.
• 54:21
  They don't help us that way. It's gonna be something.
• 54:24
  It's gonna they're gonna say we
• 54:24
  Well
• 54:25
  move first. They're gonna say so and I just I had no faith until they made the call.
• 54:27
  You did you
• 54:30
  You did get some help because there was no PI on Coxie on that last play.
• 54:35
  So
• 54:35
  Yeah. Yeah, there is that. So
• 54:38
  I will give you that. Now mind you,
• 54:39
  they still would have had to get in and score,
• 54:41
  so they maybe they could have but I again I don't know
• 54:42
  Still weird officiating.
• 54:45
  I don't know the context that that got put up there on.
• 54:49
  So if it was just a fan putting it up there and then the Argonauts had
• 54:52
  to comment on it, I understand that.
• 54:54
  But it seems I get a little bit annoyed when you see games where
• 55:00
  a team loses and then the losing quarterback comes out with complaints like that,
• 55:05
  the the official did this wrong on this one play.
• 55:08
  Or they should have called this on this one play.
• 55:10
  When one as we've just finished saying,
• 55:12
  one play doesn't make a game. So
• 55:15
  I get a bit annoyed with with sour grapes losers
• 55:18
  Now I will say, last thing on this,
• 55:20
  I could go on forever and I'm gonna limit myself because it was just so much fun.
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  But along with my referencing it as a throwback game,
• 55:30
  I got thinking about that a little bit too.
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  They used to have the T SN turning point in the games.
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  And sometimes it made sense and sometimes it didn't.
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  So this one I'm gonna I'm going to give you a choice of three.
• 55:45
  A ~ multiple choice question here.
• 55:47
  You can pick the ones. Given that the Riders won that game by four points,
• 55:53
  was the TSN turning point the offside that McFadden took
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  that let them go from a field goal to a touchdown?
• 56:03
  Was it the strip sack in the end zone that could have been a seven point touchdown
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  and Harris recovered for a two point?
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  Safety, so there's a five-point swing there.
• 56:14
  Or was it the last 20 seconds of the first half?
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  Where in any normal game, Toronto would have kicked the convert and gone up
• 56:24
  23 to 7 and had a what would that be a 16-point lead going into the half?
• 56:30
  But in this game, their convert was blocked,
• 56:34
  returned for two points.
• 56:36
  The kickoff took five seconds,
• 56:37
  which left Saskatchewan with fifteen seconds to play,
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  and then most teams in that situation are just going to take a knee
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  and say we'll live for the second half.
• 56:45
  The riders got aggressive and threw two deep passes and kicked a fifty yard field
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  goal. that last twenty seconds of the first half was a six point swing.
• 56:54
  The other two were four or five point swings.
• 56:57
  Which was the turning point?
• 57:00
  ~ so I my TSN turning points always hinge on how did this affect the morale
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  of your team? Because I feel like the when it something that breaks
• 57:09
  the mental state of your team,
• 57:11
  like most that's the thing that 'cause it could just be the most mundane thing,
• 57:14
  but if it is the thing that just turns a tide and a mentality so I would say C.
• 57:19
  Because
• 57:20
  Okay. Yeah.
• 57:22
  Nothing is more devastating to you than having a what should be easy point easy
• 57:29
  blocked in return for two. That is demoralizing.
• 57:32
  And that's what you go into half with.
• 57:34
  Yeah. Yes. They also pointed out I thought I found this was interesting,
• 57:40
  not on T SN, but on the radio broadcast of the game.
• 57:43
  They pointed out that they block the convert,
• 57:47
  sales recovers it, runs it back for the two points.
• 57:51
  You'd think that
• 57:53
  That happens very rarely. It should be huge energy and celebrations And sales
• 57:58
  ran it into the end zone and they said basically just disgustingly threw
• 58:01
  it down and headed back. And they Yeah,
• 58:03
  well, that's a lot of running for two points.
• 58:06
  well not only that, but
• 58:08
  they he was their defensive game star on the radio broadcast and they asked
• 58:12
  him about it. And he said what was there to celebrate?
• 58:15
  We we were playing like crap and we were way behind.
• 58:18
  There was work to do. I just wanted to get back to to fixing it.
• 58:21
  And I like that attitude.
• 58:21
  Yeah. Good for you.
• 58:25
  Anyway, that's so much for that.
• 58:27
  That's my little bit of reflective glory that I'm that I've been sitting with
• 58:31
  for a couple of days.
• 58:33
  Then we had the Sunday night game.
• 58:35
  Which, like I said, I thought might end up being a trap game.
• 58:40
  And BC did go down 14 to 3. Nathan threw a couple of early interceptions that
• 58:45
  weren't great. And then they just
• 58:48
  kept sort of plugging away at it and plugging away at it.
• 58:51
  Thr Ottawa had another one where they were on the one yard line and turned
• 58:55
  it over on downs.
• 58:57
  It was a a fantastic Yes.
• 58:58
  And then Rourke got intercepted and then they turned it back and finally got it in,
• 59:01
  Yes. Yeah,
• 59:03
  but still, but still. I mean it turned in the end.
• 59:05
  so it did turn out to be they got points on it in the end,
• 59:08
  but it was still
• 59:09
  Yes, it was there. But but there was also by Jackson for BC had
• 59:14
  an in fantastic catch where he tipped the ball up to himself and caught
• 59:17
  it while others were
• 59:18
  Yeah.
• 59:18
  flailing around him and ran it for down to the one and a half yard line.
• 59:23
  And ~
• 59:25
  Yeah, but they just B C was better than Ottawa in the end.
• 59:29
  And
• 59:30
  Yeah. ~
• 59:31
  most of the games have been pretty good on penalties this year.
• 59:33
  I point out when they're not BC had ten penalties for eighty four yards against them
• 59:39
  in this game and still won handily.
• 59:41
  Partially because Ottawa had fifteen for a hundred and fifty four yards.
• 59:46
  So fifteen penalties and you're averaging over ten yards per penalty is
• 59:51
  I joked that the Red Blacks defensive backs were simultaneously winning
• 59:56
  and losing the game for them. Because for every interception they
• 59:59
  had some terrible PI. Like
• 1:00:03
  Yes.
• 1:00:04
  they just could not. man, because I was for yeah,
• 1:00:06
  for you guys are winning and losing this game at the same time.
• 1:00:09
  it's incredible really how you were managing to do this.
• 1:00:12
  this game was tied at half.
• 1:00:13
  Yeah.
• 1:00:14
  Yep.
• 1:00:14
  And they were only down by a touchdown at the end of the third and then
• 1:00:17
  the fourth they were tired like their defence was done,
• 1:00:20
  right? Like Yeah.
• 1:00:20
  Yeah. Yeah, just Horvath ran over them.
• 1:00:23
  Yeah, Horvath ran over them.
• 1:00:23
  People weren't interested in in
• 1:00:26
  taking him on hard. He'd obviously worn that defense down some.
• 1:00:30
  But yeah, like ~ like Ottawa was in it till they weren't.
• 1:00:34
  Yes.
• 1:00:34
  but they just they just do it.
• 1:00:35
  they said on the okay, in defense of the Red Blacks defense,
• 1:00:39
  because I learned this watching this,
• 1:00:41
  they have on just just the defensive side of the ball.
• 1:00:45
  They have nineteen defensive players on the six game injured list.
• 1:00:49
  Yeah.
• 1:00:50
  Yes. And some very good players.
• 1:00:51
  19! Not the whole team! Just defense!
• 1:00:54
  Yes.
• 1:00:55
  I couldn't bel- I
• 1:00:56
  was like, this is ridiculous. I know,
• 1:00:57
  and then I saw Niles Morton get hurt again,
• 1:00:59
  and I was like, he just came back.
• 1:01:01
  I'm like, ~ no. yeah. Aiden Eberhard has a little heart celly he's doing with
• 1:01:06
  the crowd. That's fun.
• 1:01:06
  It does. Yes, I've seen that, yeah.
• 1:01:08
  Yes. Nice to see him doing well against a former team.
• 1:01:10
  I like that. Yeah.
• 1:01:13
  did you catch the
• 1:01:15
  fact apparently the Red Blacks have hired
• 1:01:17
  Jim Pop Yes
• 1:01:19
  No, I don't know. I I only saw him on the sidelines a hundred times.
• 1:01:24
  I saw more of Jim than I saw of the actual game,
• 1:01:26
  I'm pretty sure. yeah.
• 1:01:28
  I think so.
• 1:01:30
  Rourke took a horse collar penalty,
• 1:01:32
  so he was part of the reason why for those eighty-four yards.
• 1:01:32
  Yes. Dirty player, dirty player.
• 1:01:34
  Alright.
• 1:01:34
  ~ quarterbacks
• 1:01:38
  aren't taught to tackle.
• 1:01:40
  Yeah, that was pretty
• 1:01:40
  funny. Well, you know what, he threw an interception and then he ~ went
• 1:01:44
  and almost recovered his own fumble.
• 1:01:46
  But it was a
• 1:01:46
  Yeah. Yeah. And he got in after where
• 1:01:49
  it's most quarterbacks are gonna run towards the interception and then find
• 1:01:53
  a way to not do much.
• 1:01:55
  Yeah,
• 1:01:55
  no, he he horse-collared. And if he hadn't horse collared,
• 1:01:58
  they might anyway. It was kinda funny.
• 1:02:00
  I had I I enjoyed that. he settled down.
• 1:02:02
  He looked a little he looked a little rough there.
• 1:02:05
  yeah. Like yeah,
• 1:02:06
  Yeah. Starting out, yes he did.
• 1:02:08
  I did. settled down. once they got Horvath going,
• 1:02:12
  then that was that was it. How many four touchdowns.
• 1:02:15
  Yeah.
• 1:02:16
  Now
• 1:02:16
  Let me t ask I'm gonna ask you what you think.
• 1:02:18
  So now Horvath is on pace to beat Milt Stegel's touchdown record.
• 1:02:23
  Do you think short yardage touchdowns should count for that?
• 1:02:29
  frankly I see what people are saying,
• 1:02:31
  but I don't know that it's all that different,
• 1:02:34
  especially in his case. if he got twenty what is it the record?
• 1:02:38
  Twenty three, I think?
• 1:02:40
  one more touchdown than Milt does and they were all from the one yard line,
• 1:02:45
  then I might say, yeah, that's
• 1:02:48
  That's a little iffy. Makes you wonder why they're why they get down to the one.
• 1:02:51
  And it's actually amazing how many teams get stopped on the one yard line.
• 1:02:55
  even with the the fact of PI in the end zone getting it there,
• 1:02:59
  there's an amazing number of plays that are stopped down around the one
• 1:03:02
  or two yard line. But I think that
• 1:03:04
  Given what he brings to that team overall,
• 1:03:07
  that he's is a running back that's putting up big yardage running,
• 1:03:10
  he has run in longer touchdowns,
• 1:03:12
  he's got receiving touchdowns.
• 1:03:14
  I'm happy with giving him the record for whatever he gets.
• 1:03:18
  He's contributing to that team.
• 1:03:20
  How about you?
• 1:03:22
  Yes and no. I don't know if your one yard sneaks should count.
• 1:03:26
  if you're running it in from not the one yard line or if you're receiving,
• 1:03:30
  that's different because Milts were definitely not running it in from the one,
• 1:03:33
  right? Those were maybe we should differentiate between receiving touchdowns
• 1:03:37
  and rushing touchdowns and punching it in touchdowns.
• 1:03:40
  Cause I feel like
• 1:03:40
  Yeah. Well
• 1:03:42
  there's there they're three different skill sets.
• 1:03:45
  Well I will say this. Anybody who says
• 1:03:49
  Short yardage touchdowns, touchdowns from the one shouldn't count because they're
• 1:03:53
  too easy. Before you say that,
• 1:03:56
  you should have to go in and run half a dozen short yardage plays in the CFL,
• 1:04:00
  not saying they're easy. They're it's it's it's different.
• 1:04:02
  'cause it is not easy. And you get the hell beat out of yourself doing that.
• 1:04:05
  It's different. And those are becoming I mean
• 1:04:08
  and besides the red blacks, they're pretty automatic for most
• 1:04:11
  Yeah.
• 1:04:11
  other teams. So for what it's worth.
• 1:04:14
  Yes, but it's it there c
• 1:04:15
  it comes with a cost. it is not easy on the body.
• 1:04:19
  Trust me, that is that is nasty yards you're getting there.
• 1:04:24
  last thing I'll say about this game again,
• 1:04:25
  it was a weekend of chaos. Things that you don't see often or ever.
• 1:04:30
  this weekend in this game, Ottawa managed to get the ball just in field goal range.
• 1:04:37
  And sent thirteen players out to the huddle.
• 1:04:39
  So they took a penalty that put them outside of field goal range,
• 1:04:42
  which is a stupid thing to do.
• 1:04:44
  And you don't see it that often.
• 1:04:46
  What made it the next grade CFL chaos was when BC decided to do
• 1:04:51
  it another quarter later in the game and did exactly the same thing.
• 1:04:56
  Had themselves in field goal range,
• 1:04:58
  didn't have their substitutions together and got called for too many men
• 1:05:02
  on in the huddle and kick
• 1:05:03
  punts in both cases.
• 1:05:06
  Math is hard sometimes.
• 1:05:08
  Yeah.
• 1:05:09
  Yeah. But you know, just again,
• 1:05:11
  there's so many things that you have to get right to do well
• 1:05:15
  in a professional sports game.
• 1:05:18
  And people don't realize just how many things can go wrong.
• 1:05:24
  Alrighty. Anything else on the games?
• 1:05:26
  Yeah, well this'll be interesting 'cause ~ w well we'll talk about it
• 1:05:30
  but BC's gotta stay out there now.
• 1:05:31
  So
• 1:05:32
  Yes.
• 1:05:32
  I hope they're hope they're enjoying their East Coast tour.
• 1:05:35
  That's not East Coast Central Central tour.
• 1:05:35
  Yes. Apparently they're gonna practice twice,
• 1:05:37
  Yeah. ~ yeah,
• 1:05:37
  they said. Five days rest. So power rankings.
• 1:05:40
  well I mean Red
• 1:05:41
  Black yeah, Red Blacks they they they tried.
• 1:05:44
  They were at home, they played well.
• 1:05:45
  I feel really bad for them and their fans.
• 1:05:47
  they just yeah, some couple stupid decisions and that's the difference in the game.
• 1:05:53
  Do you put Bryson Barnes in or not?
• 1:05:55
  And I've heard people say, Well d
• 1:05:56
  He looked okay, but it was garbage time.
• 1:05:58
  I've heard people say, Well, you don't
• 1:05:59
  do that 'cause the team's so bad it'll destroy any confidence he's got.
• 1:06:02
  I think you've got to find a quarterback.
• 1:06:04
  So you may as well find
• 1:06:05
  Yeah.
• 1:06:05
  out now. Give him two or three games.
• 1:06:07
  If he can't do it, go looking at your negotiation list.
• 1:06:11
  But keeping him in there running short yardage where he's not getting first downs
• 1:06:15
  anyway isn't helping anybody.
• 1:06:16
  Well he clearly he's not good at
• 1:06:17
  short yardage, so he's gotta do something else.
• 1:06:18
  Yeah. Yeah, exactly.
• 1:06:21
  You got your power rankings together.
• 1:06:23
  I do, yeah. All right, power rankings.
• 1:06:26
  This is it's getting tight
• 1:06:27
  Okay.
• 1:06:28
  here in the CFL, like the especially this this weekend I was like,
• 1:06:30
  Making it interesting. Yeah.
• 1:06:31
  I don't understand. ~
• 1:06:33
  I I'm looking
• 1:06:34
  to see what you've got at three through six.
• 1:06:40
  Okay, well we can I'll tell you and then we can discuss.
• 1:06:43
  so first is the elks. They're on the bye.
• 1:06:46
  Second, Alouettes, proving they can be beaten.
• 1:06:48
  Three is the lions, because they are on a hot streak,
• 1:06:53
  and they yeah. Four is the riders.
• 1:06:55
  Five is the stamps, because
• 1:06:58
  They didn't have a starting QB and they looked good and love looked good.
• 1:07:01
  Six is the Bombers. They are moving up because they put a game together.
• 1:07:05
  Whether that can continue, we shall see.
• 1:07:08
  Seven is the Argos. eight is the Tycats,
• 1:07:11
  and nine is the Red Blacks.
• 1:07:14
  Good stuff.
• 1:07:14
  I mostly agree. I do think I probably would've shuffled those middle four from what
• 1:07:20
  you had. I thought I thought Winnipeg looked good enough I would have bumped them
• 1:07:27
  up to third.
• 1:07:29
  To third.
• 1:07:30
  Yeah, just based on what they showed they can still do.
• 1:07:33
  I
• 1:07:35
  I think that's the only game they've shown all year that they can do that.
• 1:07:38
  Yeah, it it well they they also did it for a half a game in Edmonton,
• 1:07:38
  So if they can still if they can do it again.
• 1:07:41
  so and again snapshot
• 1:07:43
  Yeah.
• 1:07:44
  stuff. I'm not saying I'm right,
• 1:07:45
  but I'm saying at this
• 1:07:46
  Yeah.
• 1:07:46
  point in time, maybe th they're there.
• 1:07:48
  I probably would have left BC ahead of Saskatchewan because they neither
• 1:07:52
  of them played absolutely fantastic,
• 1:07:55
  impressive games, but BC got stuff done a bit more on the road in what
• 1:08:01
  and against a slightly weaker team.
• 1:08:03
  But Saskatchewan, while they won,
• 1:08:05
  did not look fantastic. So I would have had them.
• 1:08:07
  So I my ones would have started with Winnipeg,
• 1:08:10
  BC, Saskatchewan, then Calgary in those mid-orders.
• 1:08:13
  But that's why they're so wonderful.
• 1:08:15
  They're an opinion and everybody's is a little different.
• 1:08:18
  So folks, let us know in the comments or wherever on social media what
• 1:08:22
  you think of what we've got here now.
• 1:08:24
  Thank you. Good job doing these,
• 1:08:27
  by the way. So happy you're doing these.
• 1:08:28
  ~ well.
• 1:08:30
  It gives me no joy to be putting the tie cats in at the bottom.
• 1:08:33
  I'm like, this is so stupid.
• 1:08:34
  No. Well, believe
• 1:08:36
  me, it if I was doing them and it would have given me no joy to have
• 1:08:39
  the riders at six, but I think that that would have been fair.
• 1:08:43
  Anyway, injury reports.
• 1:08:46
  Had a real hard time finding this.
• 1:08:49
  The CFL's brand new website apparently is live as of September 1st.
• 1:08:54
  And their app was available as of September 1st,
• 1:08:57
  although it certainly is not any app store I can find at this point.
• 1:09:01
  No one.
• 1:09:02
  And
• 1:09:02
  As a result of the new website which seems a lot like the old website
• 1:09:08
  in some ways things that have just been moved around and are missing.
• 1:09:12
  I could not find injury reports anywhere.
• 1:09:16
  The page they normally show up on was a I think they called it an out
• 1:09:20
  of bounds ki page. Obviously it was broken.
• 1:09:23
  I finally found something just by doing a search under a heading of Labor Day
• 1:09:30
  injury reports and and they were out there but how I'll get to them next week
• 1:09:34
  I don't know so we'll see anyway.
• 1:09:36
  CFL's going through more changes with their social media that I'm
• 1:09:39
  not not completely impressed with.
• 1:09:41
  However, that's fine. so the injury reports as it turns out we with
• 1:09:45
  the games on Sunday and Monday,
• 1:09:48
  the bulk of them this week, the only one that we saw was out of Montreal and BC.
• 1:09:53
  Montreal, as MJ said
• 1:09:56
  Alexander was limited, although they're saying he will play this weekend,
• 1:10:00
  but I didn't I hadn't heard the bit about the air cast,
• 1:10:03
  so that's interesting.
• 1:10:04
  compression sleeve.
• 1:10:05
  Compression sleeve. Okay, yeah.
• 1:10:07
  Different thing. All right, thank you for the correcting that.
• 1:10:09
  Stearns, who hasn't been in for quite a while,
• 1:10:11
  was limited, so he must be coming b ready to come back from injury.
• 1:10:13
  But Phil Pot was limited as well,
• 1:10:16
  and so was Wesley Sutton on the defense.
• 1:10:18
  Una from the O line and then a couple of defenders.
• 1:10:21
  Bell at on the D line and Halatic as linebacker were limited.
• 1:10:25
  And that was the extent of what we know now.
• 1:10:29
  So yeah, that'll be what Alexander can or can't do is going to be
• 1:10:34
  a huge impact on that game this weekend.
• 1:10:39
  What a nightmare to be an Alouettes fan.
• 1:10:41
  Like that's a live by, die by,
• 1:10:43
  like what the any given moment.
• 1:10:46
  And so stressful. So stressful.
• 1:10:47
  Yeah. And I Yeah. Well and I mean
• 1:10:51
  the team, if he misses a game or two or three,
• 1:10:54
  what does that do to Phil Potts chances at the receiving record?
• 1:10:57
  Personally I don't I don't think Phil Potts going to get that receiving record.
• 1:11:03
  Everybody's so hyped on the fact that he's on pace for it and he's certainly playing
• 1:11:07
  well enough to get it. But if he keeps playing well enough and
• 1:11:11
  the team keeps playing well enough to get it,
• 1:11:13
  They'll have clinched first place in another two or three weeks.
• 1:11:16
  And then how many games does he sit out down the stretch so that they don't take
• 1:11:21
  a chance at injuries And I think he's capable
• 1:11:23
  Yeah and
• 1:11:24
  of it, and I think if they were in a push to stay in the playoffs
• 1:11:27
  all the way through, he'd get it.
• 1:11:28
  But given what we've seen this year with the team I don't think he'll
• 1:11:31
  get the opportunities.
• 1:11:33
  And you know what, maybe Sneed'll get it.
• 1:11:35
  Yeah, maybe. They may leave and two.
• 1:11:37
  I mean, yeah, they are one and two,
• 1:11:39
  but anyway,
• 1:11:40
  Yeah.
• 1:11:41
  let's talk about games Did you get anything from MJ two this time or?
• 1:11:45
  Yes,
• 1:11:45
  she sent me her pics.
• 1:11:47
  Okay,
• 1:11:48
  so who does she have between B C and Montreal?
• 1:11:51
  ~ she picked Lions, Horvath and Rourke,
• 1:11:54
  and who are even are the Alouettes after last week?
• 1:11:57
  She said this was her hardest pick.
• 1:11:59
  I I still think last week was an anomaly and I don't think the BC defense
• 1:12:05
  is as especially the pass defense is as good as everybody wants to give them credit
• 1:12:09
  for. I think their run defense has been very good,
• 1:12:12
  but their pass defense not so much.
• 1:12:13
  I will take Montreal in this one.
• 1:12:16
  How about you?
• 1:12:18
  Right, so here's the drama of like the short week for the Lions.
• 1:12:22
  They have to stay out there. And they the red blacks were looking good against them,
• 1:12:28
  so that worries me. Alexander's leg worries me,
• 1:12:32
  but
• 1:12:33
  I think
• 1:12:35
  think let me see what do I want to s I was gonna say something I can't remember.
• 1:12:38
  ~ I'm gonna I'm gonna pick Aloettes because I just think I think I just g
• 1:12:43
  I betcha ~ Anthony Calvillo has been having a meltdown all week about this.
• 1:12:47
  And
• 1:12:48
  Yes.
• 1:12:49
  Noel Thorpe is gonna be having a meltdown and I expect Calvilo and Thorpe
• 1:12:53
  to ~ be like scouring game film and that will be better.
• 1:12:58
  They have seven days between games.
• 1:13:01
  BC has five days. They're were on the road,
• 1:13:04
  came home and practice at home all week and get ready for a home game.
• 1:13:07
  BC has to stay out in the east and practice two days wherever they're going
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  to practice.
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  BC should be a little bit annoyed about how they started,
• 1:13:16
  but they came back and should be feeling good about themselves after that win.
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  Montreal is going to be pissed.
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  And so even if Alexander doesn't play or plays and then comes out early,
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  if it's Crumb in there, I still think Montreal will win this one.
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  ~ so two things. My my aunt texted me,
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  she's a BC Lions fan, she texted me to say this is a Grey Cup preview game.
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  Okay.
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  And then in my household, this is my husband and my son's favorite teams playing
• 1:13:44
  each other, and I think I'm going to hide with my laptop in a different level
• 1:13:48
  of the house during this game and watch it on my own.
• 1:13:49
  Good idea. Yes, let let some family bonding go
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  on bet between the males there,
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  Yeah, I'm like I don't know if I wanna be involved.
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  yeah.
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  I I well, who do I cheer for? I'm like I don't know,
• 1:13:59
  I can't say anything. Otherwise I'll be it'll
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  I'll be accused of favoritism,
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  so Yeah.
• 1:14:03
  Yes, exactly. I'll just be over here.
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  You folks have fun.
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  I'll
• 1:14:08
  be in my laptop on a different level of the house.
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  Yeah.
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  Let me know how it goes.
• 1:14:14
  All right then. Winnipeg and Saskatchewan.
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  Who do you think's gonna take that one?
• 1:14:19
  my god, this say the that my sister thinks that the BC LOS game is
• 1:14:23
  the hardest one to pick. I think this is probably one of the harder ones to pick.
• 1:14:28
  Are the bombers gonna play like they played this weekend?
• 1:14:31
  Are the riders gonna play like they played this weekend?
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  And this is like you know, this is like it's like Zach versus Trevor.
• 1:14:39
  This is like old man football.
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  ~ just jokes, guys. You're both elite quarterbacks,
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  but kind of like you're like the Elder Stateman's ~ Elder Statesman's Labor
• 1:14:49
  Day classic in Saskatchewan.
• 1:14:54
  I will probably pick the riders but expect me to pick the bombers in the banjo bowl.
• 1:14:59
  Okay. That sounds good. I will say Bombers have looked very good
• 1:15:05
  for three of the last four halves of football they've played.
• 1:15:09
  They're on top of their stuff quite well.
• 1:15:12
  Saskatchewan hasn't been. Saskatchewan's offense hasn't been great.
• 1:15:16
  their defense has had some questions.
• 1:15:19
  And yes, there's injuries there,
• 1:15:20
  maybe this is just me, but looking at how things have gone.
• 1:15:24
  I'm wondering how much the whole Jaden Dalke thing maybe got into the psyche
• 1:15:29
  of the riders team there. It seems like they just have not been the same team since
• 1:15:34
  that whole tragedy happened.
• 1:15:37
  And there were so many layers to that making it hard to handle.
• 1:15:40
  I don't know if maybe that's just if they're still struggling with it.
• 1:15:44
  However, with all that said, Zach puts together some good games now and then,
• 1:15:48
  but I haven't seen him put two good games together.
• 1:15:52
  in
• 1:15:52
  a long time. So I don't think he'll play the way he did against Montreal.
• 1:15:56
  they went into Edmonton and everybody was saying,
• 1:15:58
  Winnipeg's gonna be just stomped here.
• 1:16:01
  And I think Edmonton kind of felt that and got behind early and then
• 1:16:04
  had the the gumption to come back and win it.
• 1:16:07
  I think the same thing happened to Montreal and they didn't have the gumption.
• 1:16:11
  I don't think Saskatchewan will be coming into this taking it at all light
• 1:16:15
  in any way. I think it matters to them.
• 1:16:17
  I think
• 1:16:18
  having the home field advantage will make a difference.
• 1:16:20
  So yeah. I'm I'm going to pick them and I'll hold off saying
• 1:16:25
  any banjo bowl predictions until I see what happens this weekend.
• 1:16:29
  but I'm going with them. ~ we haven't got MJ two yet on this one,
• 1:16:32
  have we?
• 1:16:32
  she sa she picked the bombers.
• 1:16:34
  Here's her note. Riding that momentum train and they have Zack,
• 1:16:38
  Demski and Brady, and Tommy actually s was calling run plays last game.
• 1:16:42
  So she thinks that ~ Tommy can keep it going and is gonna pick the bombers.
• 1:16:47
  she may well be right. However however,
• 1:16:49
  She may well be right.
• 1:16:51
  I will say this that the one part of that riders team that's maybe not quite
• 1:16:56
  as good as last year, but still pretty damn good is against the run.
• 1:16:59
  And so if Brady doesn't get going early,
• 1:17:02
  if he does, if they get a run scheme going and he's picking up five plus yards
• 1:17:08
  consistently in the first quarter,
• 1:17:09
  then I think that they've got a really good chance and
• 1:17:13
  that it will be a hell of a game.
• 1:17:15
  I think that they won't get that early and Condell will bail on it
• 1:17:19
  and start going to his passing game that he prefers.
• 1:17:22
  Again, I could be wrong, but that's what I'm going with.
• 1:17:25
  Toronto at Hamilton.
• 1:17:28
  I'll let you go first on this one since your Hamilton is your team.
• 1:17:31
  This is my favorite game of the year.
• 1:17:34
  This is my favorite game of the year and there is no way the Ti-Cats
• 1:17:40
  are losing at home on Labor Day.
• 1:17:41
  I don't care who's playing. I don't care who's starting.
• 1:17:44
  It's not happening.
• 1:17:47
  There's something to that. How about MJ two?
• 1:17:49
  What does she think?
• 1:17:51
  Ty cats, Argo suck. It's Labor Day.
• 1:17:53
  Yeah, there
• 1:17:54
  we go. I'm str my heart wants to say Hamilton.
• 1:17:58
  It really does. but their defense hasn't played as well lately.
• 1:18:03
  Labor Day.
• 1:18:04
  But it is in Hamilton.
• 1:18:05
  And it's Labor Day. And yeah, I'll go with you guys.
• 1:18:09
  We'll make it a sweep. We'll
• 1:18:09
  Yeah.
• 1:18:10
  say Tiger Cats. Okay.
• 1:18:13
  Edmonton at Calgary. And again,
• 1:18:16
  Calgary, I'm assuming VA will probably be back,
• 1:18:19
  but whether he is or not, I don't know how much of a difference it makes
• 1:18:22
  in this game. Calgary's got some good stuff going,
• 1:18:26
  but they're they're way too inconsistent.
• 1:18:30
  And ~
• 1:18:31
  I'm going Edmonton.
• 1:18:33
  so Edmonton's coming off the bye,
• 1:18:35
  and they are the hottest team in the league.
• 1:18:38
  Calgary put it together, but I wouldn't say that they put it together against
• 1:18:43
  a team that's doing well. I hope VA's back.
• 1:18:46
  But if not, I think Josh Love's looking good with those receivers.
• 1:18:50
  They seem to be just fine. you know,
• 1:18:52
  throw the moose little bit more so my kids happier.
• 1:18:55
  Make my day. I you know, and as an aside,
• 1:18:58
  the Elks are sending down team buses for the game and they're sold out.
• 1:19:03
  For the first time in a long in a lot of years.
• 1:19:05
  So there's gonna be a lot of Elks fans there.
• 1:19:07
  And I think that that it's just like a momentum is happening in Edmonton finally.
• 1:19:12
  I'm gonna pick the Elks.
• 1:19:14
  Okay.
• 1:19:15
  And how about MJ two, the other MJ?
• 1:19:18
  She says Elks but the stamps might make it a very close game,
• 1:19:21
  and I agreed. because
• 1:19:23
  That sounds good.
• 1:19:24
  like and Brooks and Brissett can do what Mac can do.
• 1:19:28
  Like it's just it's Rankin and Mills,
• 1:19:31
  like it's on paper, these are two extremely well-matched teams.
• 1:19:35
  Yes. Yes.
• 1:19:36
  And as much as I don't like the history with Ajou Ajou and that,
• 1:19:42
  if he's if he learned from his mistake,
• 1:19:44
  well I guess he's like everybody else,
• 1:19:46
  he deserves a chance to be in there and he has made them a better team.
• 1:19:48
  He's been playing well for them,
• 1:19:51
  especially in the blocking game.
• 1:19:52
  He got himself that touchdown on the weekend and so But I still think it's Edmonton
• 1:19:57
  there. Yeah, I d I know we're not talking fantasy anymore,
• 1:19:59
  but
• 1:20:00
  I was saying this weekend when I was talking to the family here about my fantasy.
• 1:20:04
  I feel like I'm channeling the Stampeders with how I'm playing fantasy this year.
• 1:20:09
  Because my record is below five hundred.
• 1:20:12
  I believe I'm sitting at six and seven.
• 1:20:15
  But of the six games that I've won,
• 1:20:17
  three of them I had the high score in the league for that week.
• 1:20:20
  so I seem to to waste all my talent in one go and then lose a bunch of close ones.
• 1:20:27
  It's the most Calgary thing you can do.
• 1:20:29
  Yes it is.
• 1:20:30
  Me and the stamps were sympathetical.
• 1:20:34
  I think that's got us to the end of it.
• 1:20:36
  Lots
• 1:20:37
  Yeah.
• 1:20:37
  of chaos, lots of fun. Thank you to everybody that's ~ joined that's joined
• 1:20:42
  us lately. You it's been it really was.
• 1:20:44
  I was I was quite surprised at the number of people that downloaded
• 1:20:50
  our show on YouTube and Podcatcher last week.
• 1:20:52
  It was frankly it was about forty percent higher than than what we normally get.
• 1:20:58
  So thank you. Please come back.
• 1:21:00
  If you've come back this week,
• 1:21:01
  please subscribe and keep coming back.
• 1:21:03
  We're loving doing this. Closing thoughts,
• 1:21:06
  MJ.
• 1:21:07
  You know.
• 1:21:07
  The R Kells once told me that Christmas might as well come on Labor Day,
• 1:21:11
  and I can think of nothing
• 1:21:12
  Ha ha ha.
• 1:21:13
  better to say than that. this is my favorite weekend of the year
• 1:21:16
  for football besides Grey Cup.
• 1:21:17
  I this is this is it for me. you can find me over on Instagram,
• 1:21:21
  trying to not get so posts taken down.
• 1:21:24
  Ha ha.
• 1:21:26
  And I'll be over on on Blue Sky at Sports and Plants,
• 1:21:29
  ~ like having fun on Labor Day weekend.
• 1:21:32
  Yes. I'm out there on almost all the again,
• 1:21:35
  as we've said before, all the social media except in s the C F
• 1:21:37
  L outsiders on Instagram, you get MJ there.
• 1:21:39
  You can get her on Blue Sky. Otherwise at Blue Sky,
• 1:21:42
  all the rest, Gander, EH! True North,
• 1:21:45
  whatever. All everything but Facebook is basically
• 1:21:49
  I run and Facebook we don't bother doing.
• 1:21:51
  So find me there anywhere. I yeah,
• 1:21:54
  I dream of the day when we would get a social media reaction that would force
• 1:21:58
  us to take a post down. It'd be nice to get that kind of attention.
• 1:22:01
  But in the meantime, we'll just keep doing our blathering.
• 1:22:04
  Hopefully, we entertain you. We're entertaining ourselves.
• 1:22:06
  Those are our two main goals. So until next week,
• 1:22:10
  for MJ, this is old man saying,
• 1:22:12
  Get the hell off my lawn.