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"it's Hard to Win on the Road"-The CFL Outsiders S03 E07 · The CFL Outsiders

• 0:36
  Hey kids, welcome back to another episode of the CFL Outsiders.
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  I remain, as always, your 100% impartial, completely unbiased and almost recovered host, Old Man Shouting at Clouds.
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  Joining me on the panel this week as usual is GT.
• 0:56
  Hey everyone, welcome back.
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  It's Tuesday.
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  I get to wear red this week.
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  I'm the happy guy.
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  What did I say?
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  Well earned.
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  And MJ.
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  hey everyone, where I am we have a trifact of rain, mosquitoes and smoke, so it is perfect to sit inside and watch football.
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  Nice.
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  yeah.
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  And luckily there's no game there this weekend 'cause that they're coming out to Kelowna.
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  I thought maybe I'd jump in just a little bit about that Apple Bowl experience since uh I was there and when I said almost recovered, you'd be forgiven for thinking I'm talking
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  about the riders loss, but no.
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  I'm I've been
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  fairly diligent about getting out and doing hiking with both the knees replaced now and whatnot and I thought I was in reasonable shape.
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  A full day of hiking from the parking t to the stadium on my feet a big chunk of the day and back, I it just it destroyed me.
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  I got home and sat back in the recliner and my quads were literally spasming.
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  So
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  this this week will be better.
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  But I thought I'd just real quick maybe run through for the folks what what it was like there, because it was a sort of a new experience.
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  I'm gonna do something we used to do back in business where we looked at things we said from the good, the bad, and the interesting with it.
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  And there was bits of both.
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  So probably the worst part of it, the only two things that took away from my experience at all was the fact the PA was
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  was not capable of overcoming the crowd noise.
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  It's built for a small stadium, so I hope they they put a better PA in because I had to literally watch the game on T V the next day to figure out what a a bunch of the penalties
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  were and whatnot.
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  Had no idea.
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  And then the other one which I know they won't be able to fix by this weekend is the seating.
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  uh I'm told they brought in seating from the F one events.
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  They rented that out.
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  And I have a feeling
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  F one fans must be a little bit slimmer than football fans.
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  Cause they literally when you looked at the space they had designated on the seats, it was about maybe fifteen, sixteen inches per seat.
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  And so I was on the end of one row.
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  I wasn't alone in this.
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  I was on the end of one row and there was maybe three inches of seat left.
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  I just sat on the stairs.
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  And they they came in came and told me you can't do that and I pointed at my seat and said, There's what I've paid for.
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  What are we gonna so they walked away.
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  But I wasn't the only one.
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  There were a lot of people talking about the fact that the better part of their posterior was hanging off the end if you were on the on the outside seats.
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  But those were really the only two things that that were to me anyway, a significant sort or enough to bother me about the game.
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  They had other things with it.
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  The uh the food service was really slow and I think what it was was they just they didn't have enough cooking surface there.
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  It seemed like they couldn't keep up with it.
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  I didn't get a chance.
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  Th mu this was my bad.
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  I thought, you know, I'll know what we know what we're doing.
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  It was me and my two sons that went and saw this one.
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  So we headed in, we thought in lots of time and the traffic was much worse than we expected and everything else.
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  So by the time I got there, I had the choice of either lining up and getting merchandise and going to the food trucks and everything or watching a football game.
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  So we'll do better on that this week.
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  We're going gonna go in a lot earlier.
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  But yeah, the
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  The food service was slow because or at least the at the uh the main food tents, and apparently they ran out of beer and other stuff about halftime.
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  So people were complaining about that.
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  But I tell ya, it was the game was yeah, okay, but the atmosphere was great.
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  The crowd just just fantastic people.
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  You know, ended up talking to dozens and dozens of people there, everybody in a good mood, everybody enjoying themselves.
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  my son made the comment, they keep telling us how divided this country is, but you go to an event like this and everybody's just happy and and having a good time.
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  The other thing we got basically pretty damn good weather.
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  They if they were talking about it raining all day.
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  We got a couple of sprinkles off and on through the game, but that was about it.
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  And then the last bit, which is what I find the interesting part, is there's been
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  I don't know if it's showing up.
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  I've s seen a little bit of it on Blue Sky and some of the other social media, but Reddit especially, there's a lot of people saying, Why doesn't Kelowna have a team?
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  Why aren't they one of the cities that they're talking about with Because it w works so well.
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  And there's e and I I think that there might be a market there.
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  It's questionable.
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  there's not a lot of market for the junior in high school here, but there's an a enough
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  CFL fans that have moved here from other areas, it might work.
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  And then there's also a lot of people saying, Well, why don't they just go up and do three games in Kelowna every year out of their schedule?
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  And I and I don't think that would work either.
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  But I'm interesting to I'm guessing you guys saw the game on TV and some of the hype.
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  What was your external impression?
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  Um, well it looked terrific.
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  It looked like the stadium was was set up really nicely.
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  It looks like they did a good job in making it work with eighteen thousand portable seats, which is pretty impressive.
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  it was kind of cute to see the little booth that they normally have, the little white area that said, you know, the Okanagan sun or something on the back of it, and that was what
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  that's what the real Stands looked like.
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  Uh and and and so it it was r I thought it was really well done.
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  I was pretty amazed.
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  By the commentary of the broadcasters, particularly Rod Smith, kind of blew me away.
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  It sounded like he'd never been to Kelowna.
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  Sounded like he'd never been to the interior.
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  And I was like Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Well, that's all that's a different thing.
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  That's Glenn Souter being Glenn Souter.
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  but but I was shocked.
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  this is not not disrespectful, but maybe I'm more traveled than most people.
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  But I'm shocked at how many people don't seem to know our country and don't seem to know the geography of our country and don't seem to know that Kelowna is in the middle of a
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  beautiful place.
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  Like how can you not know that?
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  Like that's to me that's as obvious as saying Calgary's next to Banff, as Toronto is by Niagara Falls.
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  It's like it's like obvious.
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  I can't and yet these very well known, very well educated, very
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  High profile people on the broadcast just seem to have never considered this part of the country as a place to go, a thing to do.
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  I'm just like, I'm constantly amazed at how many people in our country don't travel our country and get to see the extent of how beautiful this country is and how many places
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  there are to go and revel in how great this country is.
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  It just constantly amazes me.
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  Well, it's cheaper to go to Mexico than it is for me to go to Ontario.
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  Like, so I mean, it is hard, it is hard.
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  And those guys probably travel, like they're constantly traveling.
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  The probably the last thing they want to do once the CFL season's over is travel to more like go to more Canadian airports.
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  They're just probably like, I'm out.
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  But it was like the ultimate Kelowna hype though, because it was like he w they were just genuinely so excited to be there.
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  Yes.
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  I yeah, and it lo as I said, it looked terrific.
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  obviously the Lions and the League did a great job of setting it up.
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  hopefully the weather holds again this weekend for another beautiful day, 'cause that certainly helped.
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  If it had it been pouring rain, it might not have looked so great.
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  But but the fact that it was a beautiful day certainly helped.
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  So
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  I was expecting worse camera angles it looked it was seamless.
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  It looked perfect.
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  It was great and and it was kind of funny.
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  This is my own thing.
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  Every once in a while I could see this dark in the back and I'm like, ooh, is it clouding up?
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  Looks like it's clouding up.
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  Is it gonna start raining in Kelowna?
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  And then they pan back, no, it's just a mountain.
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  I'm like, oh no, I I've been on the prairies too long.
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  Ha ha ha.
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  Yes.
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  I I was Well, when I when I watched chunks of it the next day on TV to figure out, like I said, the parts I missed from the announcer.
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  I was really quite impressed with the drone shots they had for some of their coming in and out of commercials and that.
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  They did a a good job of make it this is a beautiful area, I'll say that, but they made it look about as good as you can.
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  Yeah, I I I want Yeah.
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  n information getting out there.
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  I also I thought they did a better job of presenting the game than they do for most games.
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  Like it was like the league itself and the broadcast itself did a tr as you say with that drone and stuff.
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  They don't do that in Regina.
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  They don't do that in in Toronto and show the beautiful skyline behind the city with all the lights on in an evening game.
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  They don't do any of that stuff.
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  the in you know, they show a little bit in Montreal with the mountain there, but that's about it.
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  they did a great job.
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  It really was it it was but well done.
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  Uh full credit to the league and the broadcaster for making it look terrific.
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  And the field looked great in great shape.
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  Yeah.
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  well, I don't usually like the Straight Fire segment, but what I liked about Straight Fire that game was that they had the kids that were on the Straight Fire there with them and
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  that was what a moment for those kids.
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  That was amazing.
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  I loved it.
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  Yeah.
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  That was that was very nice.
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  And I gotta say, full credit to TSN for the amount they're spending on sending the panel out to these games this year.
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  You know, it used to be Labor Day and maybe if there was some other big event or something.
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  They've been on the road a lot so far this year.
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  Almost every week it feels like.
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  Stampede Bowl actually a lot more seriously than I thought they were going to last year.
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  I thought they were gonna be like whatever and treat it, but no, they did a big deal.
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  And this was kind of felt like how they're doing Kelowna is how they did Stampede Bowl last year.
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  And I'm just wondering if maybe this week it'll be toned down quite a bit more for the next Kelowna game.
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  But it showcased really well.
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  It showcased so well.
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  a a great job.
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  know what, when there's a CFL team there, you won't have to worry about the seats because there'll be permanent seating there.
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  Yeah, it'd be fine.
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  Well, not in my lifetime, I don't think, but
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  Yeah, no, feed that fire, keep it going, but it ain't ever gonna happen.
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  Like just come on.
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  Some people.
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  Yeah, yeah.
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  But w we can talk more about the actual game itself when we get there.
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  let's move on.
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  A couple other quick things.
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  Uh some comments.
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  we had a few comments this week in a few different places on uh YouTube and social media and whatnot.
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  A few of them about uh our title last week being not safe for work.
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  And I knew as soon as MJ said the line that it had to be the title.
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  Yes.
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  But we also had and I had to do this one just to give myself a pat on the back.
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  It's it's kinda surprising my head still fits in this screen 'cause we had one on um actually the Stampeders forum on Reddit.
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  I'm terrible with names and usernames I'm gonna go with Miserlu Pagnini, who said about uh my old man plays weekly fantasy show.
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  Said old man's voice alone could probably carry a whole show about a plant growing.
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  So this is just icing on the cake.
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  Ha ha ha ha.
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  don't be d don't be feeding the ego like that.
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  It's dangerous.
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  We also had uh had nobody guessed any of our lyrical eloquence last week.
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  I thought I I saw someone guess and guess correctly after.
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  Absolutely.
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  Yes they do.
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  Was that on the YouTube?
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  Let me pop over there and see so let me just see if I've missed something here with that.
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  Um
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  got one but he obviously doesn't have social media.
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  So why while see if I can see any comments.
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  Well, I had two last week and because MJ has been so stressed about this segment and she admitted it last week, I threw her a complete softball and wondered if and she indicated
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  she got it and hit it out of the park, but she never said she did.
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  So she still hasn't come through with her if she got it right or not.
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  So the question is, what song did you hear?
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  What lyric did you hear?
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  some old friends from down in T O but old Queen Lizzie send it back home They look so sad at the end of the night I wanna yes Ti cats are hummin our kells
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  Yes.
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  Okay.
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  Good.
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  Well I I as I said, it was a pretty much a softball.
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  If you hadn't a got that you w if you hadn't have got that, yeah, that would have been it.
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  You would have been, you know, it would have been old man and me on the show.
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  That's it.
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  as a sidebar, we took we took our son to an Arkels concert.
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  It's the first time to see the R Kels, he's first time I've seen him.
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  And afterwards he's like, they didn't play my favorite song.
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  And I was like, what what's your favorite R Kell song?
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  He's Ti cats are humming.
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  And I was like, Well, the the Ti cats own that song.
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  They don't think they're allowed to sing it at their concert.
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  That's true.
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  but because I that was a softball gist for you, I did include something.
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  I did I'm just being mean, you know that, right?
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  The
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  Hey, if you wanna like if you wanna put our our Kells and Ty Cats lyrics in, that is fine by me.
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  I did i I did include another one and uh I believe old man, there was a comment that got it right.
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  right, I found it.
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  At again, Atum A T O Kangle Ten commented GT saying and without me.
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  Ooh.
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  Correct.
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  I did.
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  sounds like GT watching the Stamp or also GT watching the Stampeders game sounds like you both had Dickinson experiences.
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  Yeah, both decades and experiences, yes.
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  Yeah.
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  poor boy.
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  Yes.
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  yes, and also he says it was at the uh at the Elks game with you, MJ.
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  And and I'm having trouble seeing the the full comments, something else after that.
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  But Okay, anyway, so yeah, so Adam Gangle, congratulations.
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  He got that right, did he A G T.
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  Yes he did.
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  That that was a little you know, not out of the ordinary, but a little I thought a little tougher, so we'll see how this week's goes.
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  Yeah.
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  Okay, and and mine did not get any.
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  I I went with Cheryl Crow.
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  I I was m mean to GT and he said something nice to me and I used it as a uh as a lead in to say, you don't bring me anything but down, which is, of course, from Cheryl Crow,
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  anything but down.
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  So we didn't get it and I apologize, GT.
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  I shouldn't take advantage of you like that 'cause ooh, you're my best friend.
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  Yeah, yeah, okay.
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  I yeah, I'll believe that when I see it, as I said.
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  Okay.
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  Anything else with uh around those that we need to talk about.
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  You didn't slip any in again, MJ?
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  Oh.
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  okay, you do that.
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  Okay, yes.
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  the name It's also in the song.
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  are gonna say, Ti Cats are humming that's it, that's me, I'm done.
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  uh
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  Makes for easier guessing every week.
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  No.
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  Uh yes.
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  we had some really nice comments this week um on Instagram from regarding like the Edmonton stuff, Edmonton referees and the Prairie Blizzard uniforms were quite the little
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  talking point, and then our our segment about Jake Mayer.
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  We also had a couple of negative comments about the when we were talking about the the whole stuff around the the elk's name and the residential school issues and that that were
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  coming came out from people who were obviously of the bent that they they have no time for social issues or yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  It's
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  I just don't.
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  I I don't I don't even respond to those 'cause that's not what we're here about.
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  If you're if you're gonna take that as the one takeaway from the show, I'm sorry.
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  But no, I'm glad.
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  Thank you everybody else who has come in.
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  uh I only want to quick rebuttal because I only wanna say to our listeners, all opinions are valued.
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  It doesn't mean we agree with your opinion.
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  We are it it no no, it depend I don't know I do not know what the comment was.
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  Okay, so then that's not yeah, that's just that's just yeah, that's not valid.
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  No, that's not that's not b it's not it's it's just wrong.
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  Sorry, that's just wrong.
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  So
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  Yeah, I agree with you there.
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  But all opinions are valued.
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  No, you wanna argue football with us, great, but there's certain things that are not defensible.
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  there was one that was denialism, yeah, that MJ's right on, and the other one was just all caps, liberal and then exclamation mark, exclamation mark.
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  Okay.
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  I have a fairly liberal attitude.
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  I don't mind admitting that.
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  Anyway.
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  Yes.
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  on.
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  Yeah, you picked up on that, did you?
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  That it's somewhat of a a liberal attitude on the show here.
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  Not big L, small L, you know.
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  Anyway, moving on to some other quick news items.
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  The BC Lions fired a coordinator this week.
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  And there was much joy, but not really, because it was the wrong one.
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  They released um their special teams coordinator.
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  ha.
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  know, because their players were running into each other on special teams, so that did need to happen, but that was not the f the top tier firing that needed to happen, in my
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  opinion.
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  it's safe to say it's time to open fire.
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  He's out the pasture.
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  Safe to say it's time to open fire.
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  Yes.
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  Yeah.
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  There were a lot of comments about hopefully they're just warming up with this one.
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  What's their coach's cap situation for well, that's Buck there though, so I don't know.
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  No, they should they should be at, you know, at the point where if they've had anything historical it should be going away, but I don't know how long Campbell had left when they
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  cut him out, but anyway, anything more to say about that?
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  No, I don't think so.
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  well, I guess we could talk about it in the game where we can talk about it now.
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  But I mean it was a terrible special team's performance from beginning to end in that game for BC.
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  And they haven't been great throughout this year certainly and in even into last year they were not tremendous.
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  So I'm in some ways i I'm not surprised.
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  again, I'm surprised he was the first to go, but I'm not surprised
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  You know, they're in a bit of a free fall and it's not the end,
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  Yeah, it's like you said, we'll talk more, but but just sort of summary.
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  Two bad mistakes on returns and two punts shank badly.
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  I can see where he's gone or why he's gone.
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  Uh what else here?
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  Oh MJ, you said you had something you wanted to talk about changes with the officials down south in the NFL and AFL.
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  Well in the um in the NFL and the UFL.
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  So yeah, so there's so there's a new collective bargaining agreement between the NFL and the referees.
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  I'm not sure if it's ratified yet or they're still negotiating, but anyway, so what they want to do, this is interesting, they want to send down poor performing referees from the
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  NFL down to the UFL for extra training.
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  And I guess in 2025 they had four referees that they sent down to the UFL for further development because they were not performing adequately.
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  And they also want to have a practice squad at each game of 12 officials to travel with crews to substitute in for injured or underperforming referees and rotate people in for
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  development.
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  So
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  And then in the UFL, good luck referees, because have you seen these clips?
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  In the UFL they do in-game interviews with the referees.
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  They're like, why did you what was your reasoning behind that call?
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  Oh.
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  And they just like stick the microphone in them and then got the referee answers and they're like, okay, next play, okay, let's go.
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  So I was like, ho ho, in-game interviews of referees, referees being relegated, like taxi squads of referees.
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  so I'm like, okay, so sometimes when things happen down there, they tend to happen up here.
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  I don't think the CFL's ever gonna carry a 12 referee taxi squad.
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  But it makes me wonder if they're gonna start relegating or moving up and moving some pieces around if there's more attention on the game internationally.
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  Um well we've had a n C F L and the NFL have had a referee an officials agreement for quite a while where there's been officials going back and forth and actually officiating
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  in each league.
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  So CFL guys go down there and officiate in pregame and uh NFL guys come up here and officiate in pregames.
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  Or in preseason, I mean.
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  So so that's that wouldn't be new.
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  I can see them doing it.
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  I'm a little surprised
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  Well no I mean 'cause there's been a lot of issues from what I've heard and read about NFL officiating over the last few years.
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  So I'm not a that surprised that they're trying to do something to improve it.
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  But relegating them down, that doesn't sound a lot.
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  And to me, if I'm a UFL fan, so what?
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  I'm getting the dregs?
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  Like it's bad enough I'm not getting the players the best players.
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  We kind of accept that because we know, but now you're flat out telling me that our reference
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  that our referees are like cast offs and not good enough and are down here to like that's just like man, how do you maintain the integrity of the game without flat out saying,
• 22:07
  yeah, we're a development league, get over it.
• 22:09
  That's all we are.
• 22:10
  So it set it doesn't help them set themselves apart at all.
• 22:15
  And again, from a UFL point of view, I don't think it does you any good at all to do get that tied to the NFL unless you're simply that's all you want to be.
• 22:24
  But if you want to be a standalone professional football league, I don't think you can do that.
• 22:30
  And I think that's a huge mistake on their behalf for the integrity of their league as such.
• 22:35
  So I'm a little surprised that they've done it that way.
• 22:38
  But again, maybe that's just the power of the NFL and if you you wanna play, you gotta pay type of idea.
• 22:45
  Or maybe there's some NFL money coming with it too.
• 22:47
  Who knows?
• 22:48
  It's it's an interesting sort of thing.
• 22:50
  I I'm assuming what they're saying with this taxi squad is that if you get an official on one of the groups that has a bad weekend and underperforms in his game, the next week
• 23:00
  he'll be bumped back to the taxi squad or the UFL or whatever and somebody else will take his spot on that team.
• 23:07
  I hope it's not something where they're actually going to be in the middle of the game saying, no, we're changing an official now because who makes that call?
• 23:15
  rotate people in during the game.
• 23:17
  I don't think head referee, but maybe line judges or back judges, they might be like, Okay, well you're never gonna get experience.
• 23:23
  This is like how backup quarterbacks.
• 23:24
  You're never gonna get playing time experience if you're not in.
• 23:27
  So okay, back judge, you're in for these three plays and then we'll break like so I'm not sure how many how it's gonna work, but they did say that they're going to be subbing in
• 23:37
  for developmental.
• 23:39
  that's no there's no consistency in penalty calling everybody says what you want out of a referee or whatever official the game is called by is consistency.
• 23:47
  And if you're moving guys around by literally quarter by quarter or play by play, there goes your consistency.
• 23:53
  And yikes, that's that is wow.
• 23:56
  That's wild.
• 23:57
  that's what I wanted to talk about 'cause I like, this is actually very like this is huge really.
• 24:04
  is interesting.
• 24:05
  that ever happening in the CFL.
• 24:07
  I mean we don't have enough officials as it is.
• 24:09
  They're constantly harping on the fact that there's not enough officials coming through the system and to then go put even a what, another six guys if you wanted to cut it in
• 24:18
  half from twelve to six or even two or three.
• 24:20
  They're not they don't have that many officials to hang around a place thing.
• 24:23
  Yeah.
• 24:24
  like can you tell us why you called that to pass interference?
• 24:27
  that's doesn't help with the officiating too much,
• 24:31
  you know what I watched one interview, what an interview with a UFL referee and he was very straight to the point, this is why I did it and this is the reasoning and this is how
• 24:38
  I see it, that's how I call it.
• 24:40
  And I was like, I appreciated that.
• 24:42
  I was like, Okay, great.
• 24:45
  think you can give a little too much access though.
• 24:47
  Again, if you're gonna make uh a ref available after the game to discuss stuff, that might be worthwhile, but in game or halftime, I don't know.
• 24:56
  And and again, also this bit up to they're gonna rotate people in for experience, I don't like it, but that's still a little bit better than the impression I got that there's
• 25:05
  somebody in the command center who's gonna be sitting there saying, no, no, the side judge is having a terrible game.
• 25:10
  Get him out of there and put a replacement in
• 25:12
  Yeah.
• 25:13
  I hope that's not gonna happen.
• 25:15
  are gonna be under like can you imagine a taxi squad of guys just or like people just standing there waiting?
• 25:20
  And you're like Oh the stress, the stress of getting that that they're not getting paid, what players are getting paid.
• 25:29
  not, although they get more than C FL refs, but
• 25:32
  not getting like g people standing behind your shoulders pay.
• 25:36
  That's different.
• 25:37
  Yes.
• 25:38
  Well it'll be interesting to see where it goes.
• 25:41
  Thank you for bringing that to our attention.
• 25:43
  That was completely off my radar.
• 25:46
  I uh we've also sorta been following the attendance this year with the CFL, the the gate attendance.
• 25:52
  I don't wanna waste a lot of time on this, but since we've been doing it I figured I'd just I'd run through them again.
• 25:58
  Looked like it was a better week.
• 25:59
  They were up back up to twenty three thousand four hundred something was the average.
• 26:05
  And it went from thirty two and change in Winnipeg down to seventeen and change in Montreal.
• 26:12
  And in between Saskatchewan had twenty five and the Apple Bowl sold out at nineteen thousand
• 26:18
  that was a Toronto Argos home game.
• 26:20
  Argos had twenty five thousand people.
• 26:22
  No, the Argos had twenty five thousand people at their game.
• 26:26
  Good job, Argos.
• 26:28
  have a very good home games in Saskatchewan.
• 26:30
  Unfortunately they played like it was a home game too, damn it.
• 26:33
  But anyway.
• 26:34
  But yeah.
• 26:35
  And then uh like I said, the the sold out Apple Bowl, yes.
• 26:42
  I'll tell you it was something else.
• 26:43
  Including they had they had to have two or three hundred people there in standing room only.
• 26:48
  Just standing in a pack of people to watch the game and it was great because they were
• 26:52
  right at the sidelines, but six or seven deep, I don't know that I'd want to do that for a game.
• 26:57
  So it went over well.
• 26:58
  moving along, getting stuff.
• 27:00
  Oh, I'm just gonna mention this.
• 27:02
  If either of you wanna say anything, feel free, but I don't think we have to.
• 27:05
  We talked last week about the whole Brandon Soresby banned from the college ball for gambling stuff and people saying, Well, he'll go to the C F L for his year.
• 27:15
  He won't, 'cause the C F L has officially said no, he's he cannot play in the C F L because of his
• 27:20
  history of gambling.
• 27:21
  So good on them.
• 27:22
  they said and they said it no team can even add them to nego to their negotiation list, which I thought was the more interesting part of it.
• 27:29
  Was like, yeah, no, not only can you not sign right now, you can't even be put on a list.
• 27:34
  So that's I thought that was pretty interesting.
• 27:37
  And yes, it was.
• 27:37
  And it was a it was a good optics thing, but frankly it was easy to do, because he was never coming up here anyways.
• 27:44
  Not costing yourself anything to take that stand.
• 27:48
  Yeah.
• 27:49
  Speaking of stuff sort of along those lines, the um bad behavior going on to the transactions.
• 27:56
  we didn't have a lot this week, although Lewis Ward was released from the alloettes again, so I guess Maltos is is healed.
• 28:05
  And then the probably the big news just dropped this afternoon, the CFL or bigger news anyway.
• 28:11
  CFL came out and said that Ajou Ajou who'd been released by Saskatchewan for his conduct in the post Grey Cup parties and sexual harassment and I think they said unwanted
• 28:22
  attention and things like that.
• 28:24
  He's now I guess completed his counseling and his meetings and has been reinstated and then
• 28:31
  Literally I think just before airtime from what MJ said it came out that he's signed with the stamps now.
• 28:37
  But he will still have to serve his six game suspension that the league put on him.
• 28:41
  So they could have him back by past mid season, I guess, week ten.
• 28:44
  Any thoughts on that?
• 28:45
  Um, I thought it was weird, to be honest with you.
• 28:48
  I just thought it was a weird signing in that i the first thing it says to me is that the Stamp Peters are not expecting Reggie Bagleton back at all.
• 28:55
  he's done for the year and he may be done, in fact, for the career.
• 28:59
  That's this that's the gut feeling I'm now having about Reggie, unfortunately.
• 29:04
  And it's horrible to see that great a player leave after have to leave after an injury, an injury end of his career rather than any other way.
• 29:12
  But back to a Joe Joe.
• 29:13
  so I think that the Stampeters are signing like that's the reason I think they signed another receiver, is because they have a receiver hole.
• 29:20
  But st he's got a six game suspension, as you mentioned, which means it'll be game ten before he can even get into the practice field, which means it's game twelve or so before
• 29:31
  you get you get a chance to be on the field.
• 29:33
  By that time they could have Damian Alford back from the NFL.
• 29:37
  Like it's like
• 29:38
  I don't know that's what is weird to me is like if you had nobody else at all, like if you had no hope, but you've got Clark Barnes, you've got you know, Phil Pot, you've got
• 29:48
  Brissett, you might have Damian Alfred, and then why do you need a Ajou Ajou after all the baggage?
• 29:54
  That's the strange part to me.
• 29:56
  Is like I just don't it's it's a not that you know the fact that they signed him is not good.
• 30:03
  I get it.
• 30:04
  But the weird part is why did they sign?
• 30:07
  I just that's what I don't understand.
• 30:09
  so yeah, anyways.
• 30:11
  That's my comments on it.
• 30:13
  Rage.
• 30:14
  Very strange.
• 30:14
  just glad that O'Day said when it happened that he won't be playing for the Riders again.
• 30:19
  That's my own personal opinion.
• 30:20
  And apparently they didn't want him or did there was no sniff when he got reinstated, so
• 30:25
  Anything MJ or can I
• 30:27
  Okay.
• 30:28
  it's bad vibes.
• 30:29
  It's bad it's a bad look.
• 30:31
  It's a bad look.
• 30:32
  I hope he has learned lessons and is working on being a better human.
• 30:36
  Yes.
• 30:37
  Yeah.
• 30:37
  Yeah, mean everybody should get a second chance and if he you know, if it is a learning experience, if he comes back as a a much better person than great.
• 30:44
  So we'll see.
• 30:46
  But let's move on to uh to MJ's favorite segment, our World Cup report, which this week is most of us don't care.
• 30:55
  No, no, no, most of us don't care.
• 30:57
  But but there is actually a second part to this week's World Cup report beyond that.
• 31:03
  And that is
• 31:04
  But maybe we have a chance here to um send trade whatever Stuart Johnson over to FIFA because he's willing to turn the rule book into toss salad to get more scoring and Lord
• 31:17
  knows if there's a game that needs more scoring, it's soccer.
• 31:20
  But they scored six goals in one game, didn't they?
• 31:23
  Six goals.
• 31:25
  the output for eight games.
• 31:27
  It's about the setup.
• 31:28
  It's about the setup.
• 31:30
  Okay.
• 31:31
  Okay, I'm saying you're allowed one cheer for the Canada win over South Africa.
• 31:34
  you don't understand.
• 31:35
  This is really big fans in case you live under a rock.
• 31:38
  This is hi Canada made history.
• 31:41
  This is the first time ever that they have been to the realms of sixteen.
• 31:45
  So this is very big, very awesome.
• 31:49
  We are playing playing Morocco on Sunday.
• 31:53
  I think history is a strong word to use in this case, but it is a significant win that they've achieved to go on to the next round, I will say.
• 32:01
  and a Canadian team did well.
• 32:03
  So I will celebrate just like I celebrate when the doubles badminton team makes it to a semifinal in some world tournament.
• 32:11
  Oh yeah.
• 32:12
  I'll be watching soccer on Sunday.
• 32:14
  Ha ha ha.
• 32:17
  Oh, I'm awfully cocky for somebody who got his butt handed to him in the fantasy league this week, by the way.
• 32:23
  I had a hundred and fourteen point five points, which I thought.
• 32:27
  Most of my uh most of my players I thought did well.
• 32:31
  Tommy Nealed let me down a little bit.
• 32:33
  well actually he didn't.
• 32:34
  The the bombers did by only targeting him like three times.
• 32:37
  I thought he'd get more.
• 32:38
  However, I was up against uh Travis Kerr from two and out, and it wouldn't have mattered how well Neald had done 'cause Travis had Tyson Philpot and Khaman from Toronto on his
• 32:50
  team.
• 32:50
  So he beat me by almost thirty points, one forty six something.
• 32:53
  I'm now
• 32:55
  One and three and looking for answers this week.
• 32:58
  MJ, you had a better week.
• 33:01
  Well, I want to before MJ jumps uh and says talks about her astounding week at fantasy football, I'm just gonna say I think Karma has just come out and bit you on the the hind
• 33:11
  there, old man, as immediately after that soccer rat and des downplaying how important that was to our fair country, your video has since disappeared again like last week.
• 33:22
  You have now been you have now been sent off with a yellow card.
• 33:26
  You've you have got a yellow card and been sent to the sideline
• 33:30
  And that's it.
• 33:30
  And maybe if you don't get a red card, we'll allow you to come back in at some point during this broadcast.
• 33:36
  However, at this point in time, yes, you have been yellow carded.
• 33:39
  One more and you're done, pal.
• 33:40
  One more.
• 33:41
  That's it.
• 33:41
  I think that's the rule.
• 33:42
  I tell you what, let let me let me yeah.
• 33:49
  I don't wanna lose another whole week.
• 33:50
  So we're gonna try something here just to make it worse.
• 33:52
  I'm gonna I'm gonna back out for a minute and see if I come back in.
• 33:55
  that game, right?
• 33:56
  I know about that game.
• 33:57
  meantime, MJ, how did you do with fantasy this week?
• 33:59
  I was up against Greg from Piffles and I beat him.
• 34:03
  Yay, good for you.
• 34:05
  All the writers lose.
• 34:07
  not a great week at fantasy.
• 34:08
  I was actually pretty worried.
• 34:09
  So because I had Brissette as my flex, and he had zero catches.
• 34:16
  So I got zero points with brissett.
• 34:18
  I had who did I have?
• 34:19
  I had the stamps defense.
• 34:20
  So yay me.
• 34:21
  And I had um I bro, you know, carrying on with Alexander and Philpot.
• 34:26
  And I wish I had made Philpot my captain.
• 34:28
  I'm still too stressed to make a non-
• 34:32
  quarterback a captain just in case.
• 34:34
  I don't know.
• 34:34
  I don't know.
• 34:35
  And then I had I cheaped out of my running backs this time because I thought, mm-mm.
• 34:41
  But I put Scott and Conley and so they did okay.
• 34:44
  And then I had Schaefer Baker and yeah.
• 34:46
  And Brissett with zero.
• 34:48
  But I still managed to.
• 34:50
  I am sitting second in the podcast league.
• 34:53
  I'm three and one.
• 34:54
  Managed to beat Greg so things aren't so bad.
• 34:58
  Yes.
• 34:58
  Yes, he he yeah.
• 35:01
  I have to
• 35:02
  me at fantasy though, so I mean the the the quest continues for dominancy in fantasy.
• 35:08
  Greg on sports in the X organizing part that I see but you don't was made a point of coming out saying he felt like he should be in line for the Red Blacks GM position 'cause
• 35:18
  he started Lewis without bothering to see if he was actually on the on the game day roster.
• 35:24
  I had Thiece and then I was like the then I looked at the last second depth chart and I was like, whoa, Scott?
• 35:31
  And then I had Bertrand Hoodon.
• 35:33
  And then I was like, oh I better check the depth chart and it wasn't.
• 35:37
  It was Conley, so I'm glad I Yeah.
• 35:41
  I was happy with Conley.
• 35:42
  I went with him too.
• 35:43
  I thought they'd s get more split put Bertan Herdan in a little bit more.
• 35:48
  Tommy the train, I was happy with my team.
• 35:50
  I just ran into a roller coaster there.
• 35:53
  So you've got though, you're number two in the league at this point and you're up against number one this week, are you not?
• 35:59
  I am so No, I'm playing Ryan, I think, from the horse from I think I'm playing R be Ryan from I hope not.
• 36:09
  Don't stress me out.
• 36:10
  I was just gonna You know, I I do best when I do this last minute with my kid hovering over my shoulder and giving me like suggestions that are may or may not be helpful, so
• 36:20
  Yes.
• 36:21
  Well, my week isn't gonna get any easier 'cause I've got Sapphomod from the Piffles podcast and somebody else who's usually very good.
• 36:28
  Gotta start clawing my way up.
• 36:30
  Anyone cares?
• 36:30
  I'll be putting out old man plays CFL Weekly Fantasy on Thursday four three or four hours before the game.
• 36:36
  And we'll see what we're doing this week.
• 36:38
  But that's yeah.
• 36:41
  Yes.
• 36:41
  That's how
• 36:43
  Hey, mine is basically the same.
• 36:44
  Instead, I have a dog instead of a kid.
• 36:46
  Whatcha doing, Papa?
• 36:47
  Whatcha doing?
• 36:50
  All right.
• 36:51
  So let's go on to what actually happened in the games this week.
• 36:54
  We had four of them.
• 36:56
  And I gotta say, after Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday night football, I hit Monday night and I was kind of, where's the football?
• 37:02
  I was I was enjoying getting back to this one game a day.
• 37:08
  Yes.
• 37:08
  great.
• 37:09
  And we started out with Edmonton going into Winnipeg and winning twenty three eighteen.
• 37:16
  And I'll just say a couple of things before we let you guys hop in on anything that you may want to add.
• 37:23
  I I was really impressed with the play calling from on Edmonton's part with Masinic.
• 37:28
  He had a balanced game.
• 37:30
  He had Winnipeg confused.
• 37:31
  They didn't know what was coming going on.
• 37:33
  They had they discovered something with Rankin off their right side, Winnipeg's defense is left side there.
• 37:40
  I like the fact it was a well played game.
• 37:41
  There weren't a lot of penalties in it at all again, which is nice to see.
• 37:45
  We're getting more in that.
• 37:46
  There's only a again, only one team over a hundred yards in penalties out of the four games this week, so that's nice to have.
• 37:52
  And the last sort of generic comment I had is is Brady, they got 13 carries for 77 yards, and I I don't remember exactly, I think it was like five or six catches for another 40
• 38:03
  yards.
• 38:04
  But it didn't feel to me like he was really used.
• 38:06
  I don't know what it was.
• 38:07
  It just it didn't feel like he had an impact in that game to me.
• 38:11
  Maybe it's because he had that terrible fumble and he wasn't to be trusted the rest of the game.
• 38:16
  Maybe.
• 38:17
  Well.
• 38:18
  I thought of Yeah, or it's just Tony Gonde.
• 38:22
  I I don't know.
• 38:23
  after the first half I said, Is it Thanksgiving?
• 38:25
  'Cause there's an awful lot of butter balls out here, man.
• 38:27
  There's just flying everywhere.
• 38:29
  Turkey turkeys are flying, you know.
• 38:31
  It was ridiculous.
• 38:32
  It was just guys like it was crazy.
• 38:34
  But it turned into a better game than I thought.
• 38:37
  because it started out so sloppy and so, you know, so ridiculous.
• 38:41
  But it was again one of those games that
• 38:42
  felt more exciting than the score indicated and felt more exciting than the game really indicated.
• 38:47
  I thought Edmonton played very well.
• 38:49
  I really think that they I thought their defensive line played really well.
• 38:54
  I thought yeah they they called a good game.
• 38:56
  I thought Winnipeg played okay.
• 38:58
  and they did get Brady uh going.
• 39:00
  I thought he was more consistent and like wasn't didn't break the big one but had some really nice runs.
• 39:07
  Um, Rankin had the big one again.
• 39:09
  And that's you know, that makes all the difference.
• 39:10
  But again, I thought he kind of disappeared.
• 39:13
  Uh as you keep saying, old man, he he had goes through those periods where he just disappears.
• 39:17
  And I thought he did that in the second half, pretty much.
• 39:20
  But and Winnipeg made a lot of adjustments and I thought played much better in the second half.
• 39:24
  But yeah, Edmonton's full credit.
• 39:27
  when we get to power rankers to talk about it, but yeah, they're they're winning.
• 39:31
  they're three and 0
• 39:32
  Full credit.
• 39:32
  Yes.
• 39:33
  And the the one thing I will say that though the still to me the difference between Rankin and Ray well, not just Rankin, but Rankin and the the Elk's O line as opposed to Brady and
• 39:44
  the Winnipeg O line, if Winnipeg does get a lead in a game, it looks like they can still depend on running that game out and getting four to five yards a run.
• 39:55
  Whereas with Edmonton in that run out of the game situation, they're constantly getting stopped for no yards or a loss of yards.
• 40:02
  So they need to either sort that out or start using a different running back in those late game situations.
• 40:09
  They've got Isaiah Knight who's out of UBC looked really good in the preseason as more of a power back.
• 40:15
  Maybe you use him when it comes time to to get the hard yards.
• 40:18
  Yeah.
• 40:19
  Yeah.
• 40:19
  I mean that hit on Brady that caused that fumble in the begin in the first part of the game, that was that was crushing.
• 40:25
  I mean he fumbled the ball, but man, no wonder.
• 40:28
  I mean he got that was smacked.
• 40:30
  That was smacked.
• 40:31
  That was an incredible hit to start the weekend off.
• 40:34
  And there were some good ones over pretty much every game there was one of those.
• 40:37
  But that that was a very good one to start the weekend.
• 40:40
  Well is that the one because that was the play where Brady fumbled it and Mogenson recovers it, throws it up, runs it up, then and lateral passes it to Tyrell for it, and
• 40:50
  then Tyrell just turns the jets on and almost scores a touchdown.
• 40:55
  I was like, here we go.
• 40:57
  Look at this.
• 40:58
  Look so nice.
• 41:00
  That was beautiful.
• 41:01
  Beautiful play.
• 41:03
  it didn't help it didn't help that uh for Winnipeg that Pokey Wilson got hurt on that play.
• 41:08
  Um so it exactly.
• 41:12
  Exactly.
• 41:12
  So yeah.
• 41:13
  Yeah.
• 41:14
  And then.
• 41:15
  they got it to the three yard line and I know they're doing well, but they didn't score on that one.
• 41:21
  they did leave points on the board.
• 41:24
  That was in f they did that more than once.
• 41:26
  It was actually quite infering.
• 41:27
  I was like, so um Winnipeg's defence is bend but don't break at the three yard line.
• 41:31
  Is that this is how the the game is gonna go?
• 41:34
  It was so strange they could not punch a goal line in to save their lives.
• 41:39
  It was like they should have been up on Winnipeg a lot more than they were.
• 41:43
  That score should have been much higher before the half.
• 41:47
  yeah, which is goes back to my comment that I made earlier, They're winning by exactly.
• 41:52
  Like at one point Winnipeg had five fumbles.
• 41:55
  Not all of them were a turnover.
• 41:57
  They fumbled the ball five times and were up by one point.
• 42:01
  Like what what is that?
• 42:02
  What is I was like, this doesn't even make sense.
• 42:04
  Like this game's so weird.
• 42:06
  Like
• 42:07
  Edmonton is sort of reminding me of Calgary last year where Calgary did the same thing.
• 42:11
  no one really expected them to be like this, and then they won all those games early in the season.
• 42:16
  Now, not saying that Edmonton's going to level off like Calgary did last year, but at this point in time, I'm just I'm not fully confident.
• 42:24
  I'm not fully confident that this is a reality for them yet.
• 42:28
  Um,
• 42:28
  they also had a touchdown or should have had a touchdown where Lothair caught it in the end zone but was bobbling it a bit and uh ended up knocked back out of the end zone before
• 42:37
  he got it and it was a turnover on downs 'cause it was third down.
• 42:40
  So yeah, they definitely left stuff out there.
• 42:42
  Yeah.
• 42:42
  Um also I wanna know please help me out.
• 42:45
  Why were the bombers playing zone defense at the very end of the game and just like w like Edmonton just like walked right in.
• 42:52
  I couldn't believe it.
• 42:53
  They're just like the cushion was so soft on those receivers.
• 42:57
  It was
• 42:59
  I w if I were like I'm like not I'm an impartial viewer of this game and I was furious at the bombers defense.
• 43:07
  If I was a bombers fan, I would have been tearing my hair out.
• 43:11
  uh I don't know whether they were trying to put pressure on Cody's and and you know, and therefore they were in soft zone, instead.
• 43:17
  But yeah.
• 43:19
  Yeah.
• 43:20
  If if you don't get him under pressure, he'll deliver the ball.
• 43:22
  So and they and Edmonton's offensive line seem to be doing okay.
• 43:27
  Edmonton's defensive line was very impressive.
• 43:29
  I thought their defensive line finally showed that they're the money that they're being paid, you know?
• 43:34
  they had Zack so flustered, he like shovel past a pass forward.
• 43:38
  I'm like, whoa, Zack, that's so dangerous.
• 43:41
  And it's not like him to do that.
• 43:43
  He is a veteran quarterback.
• 43:44
  That was actually quite a rookie mistake.
• 43:46
  I was like, but he just looks so flustered.
• 43:48
  Wasn't that and wasn't that one of the first of several intentional grounding.
• 43:53
  I think that got called because there was nobody there at all.
• 43:56
  There was nobody even close.
• 43:57
  So
• 43:59
  I think like a a O Lyman ended up having picking up a ball.
• 44:03
  Yeah.
• 44:04
  Like it was just flustered all day.
• 44:08
  Yes.
• 44:09
  Not pretty football for parts of it.
• 44:11
  It was you know, JT and I were
• 44:13
  defense it was a great game.
• 44:16
  But
• 44:17
  I mean GT and I were talking about this b while we were waiting for you to g to to join us earlier and saying all the games this weekend had very good parts, but none of them were a
• 44:26
  good game all the way through.
• 44:28
  They all had bad plays or bad decisions But the Elk are three and at the top of the league.
• 44:37
  Only undefeated team.
• 44:40
  So
• 44:40
  we all predicted.
• 44:41
  Yeah.
• 44:43
  I just have a question about Winnipeg.
• 44:45
  I just wanna circle back a bit.
• 44:46
  Do they have a kicking problem?
• 44:48
  Or is this just a weird off game?
• 44:51
  Well, I think it's a weird off game.
• 44:53
  maybe but Castile's missed in a few games now.
• 44:58
  He maybe this year's Brett Louther.
• 45:00
  Okay.
• 45:01
  Maybe.
• 45:02
  struggling with anything?
• 45:03
  No.
• 45:06
  Yes, he is.
• 45:08
  Maybe Lewis Ward will do the the No no I'm quarterback, Glenn Kevin Glenn tour, yes.
• 45:18
  Maybe he'll do it in one year.
• 45:19
  Maybe he'll sign with all nine CFL teams in in the one year.
• 45:25
  dear.
• 45:25
  Okay, I'm gonna jump ahead to a game that uh I don't want to talk about, but we have to.
• 45:30
  Toronto went into Saskatchewan, but really we're playing a home game.
• 45:34
  And as the home team won 40 to 34, and it I gotta admit it shocked me.
• 45:40
  I did not think they would be able to put up those kind of points against the Saskatchewan defense.
• 45:45
  But full credit to the Argos team and full credit.
• 45:49
  Credit as a player to Kelly.
• 45:50
  I do not like what he does as a human being very much, but he put on quite a show of talent and athleticism on Friday night there and basically carried that team to the
• 46:02
  victory.
• 46:03
  they were they were on.
• 46:04
  They took advantage of every mistake that the riders made and
• 46:08
  Frankly I thought they deserved to win.
• 46:09
  Any thoughts
• 46:10
  I thought yeah, no, Toronto it was a surprising game.
• 46:13
  Saskatchewan looked flat from the get go.
• 46:15
  I don't know if it was a trap game for them.
• 46:17
  It's not like they have a big opponent coming opponent coming out this week against Ottawa.
• 46:22
  So so it shouldn't have been a trap game.
• 46:24
  I don't know if they just but they looked flat from the get go and then they were just never able to catch up and Kelly kept firing bombs.
• 46:31
  And and as I said the week before,
• 46:33
  I picked Calgary because of that secondary.
• 46:36
  And I think that secondary showed up this week against, you know, against Kelly because he was throwing bombs and they weren't able to get there.
• 46:41
  and yeah, I yeah, it's yeah, I was very surprised in some ways.
• 46:46
  and they made a couple of strange decisions that I thought were like, why did they do that?
• 46:51
  you know, when they should have gone for it and didn't.
• 46:53
  just so everyone knows, I'm not taking notes.
• 46:55
  I'm kind of just doing I'm doing MJ vibes.
• 46:58
  I'm just watching the games and doing vibes.
• 47:00
  So so there's some of it that I kinda have to dr think back on.
• 47:04
  But was that the one where there was third and short.
• 47:06
  They challenged it.
• 47:08
  Then they didn't get the call and then they decide not to kick.
• 47:11
  It was like, Why did you do that?
• 47:13
  That was bizarre.
• 47:14
  Why didn't you just go for it then?
• 47:15
  If you like it was very strange.
• 47:17
  So there was a lot of weird stuff in that game For sure.
• 47:20
  Yeah, that that was on the Toronto side.
• 47:22
  I couldn't understand that challenge 'cause it was one of the ones that uh you're never gonna get it an overturn 'cause there was you couldn't see anything in the pile, yeah.
• 47:31
  And
• 47:31
  rookie head coach mistake though.
• 47:33
  I'll allow it.
• 47:35
  I'll allow it when you're a rookie head coach, but
• 47:38
  and the thing is I would push back a little bit about him throwing bombs all night.
• 47:42
  He threw a lot of deep stuff, but he didn't complete a lot deep.
• 47:45
  where he was beating them was in the shorter and intermediate stuff.
• 47:49
  He ended up he wasn't over four hundred yards this week.
• 47:51
  He was below three hundreds.
• 47:53
  Yeah.
• 47:53
  So he just he played well and he missed uh plays the way he will do, but when he was needed.
• 48:01
  they kept saying in the broadcast the off schedule plays and that was it.
• 48:05
  He when he when the play broke down, he was pretty good.
• 48:09
  he he managed to scramble around and somebody said earlier that he's he's very similar.
• 48:15
  it was in an interview with Dave Dickinson I saw today and he just said, Yeah, they're you know, we played Nathan Work last week, played Chad Kelly this week, and they're basically
• 48:24
  the same quarterback.
• 48:25
  Like that will run around and then launch the ball.
• 48:28
  so you have to be totally prepared for that at all times.
• 48:31
  And if you're
• 48:32
  And if you even leave one guy open for a split second, the quarterback will find him, and that's what he seemed to do in that game.
• 48:38
  Yeah.
• 48:38
  Um they're gonna have to Argo's gonna have to watch it because he got sacked four times.
• 48:43
  That is a lot.
• 48:45
  And honestly, it feels like watching these Argo games that every single player in the league has a personal vendetta against this man.
• 48:53
  The way that they are going after him is nothing I have not seen them go after any other quarterback like the CR series.
• 49:00
  Like I was like, whoa, this is like pretty vicious and they need to shore up that old line because he's not gonna survive if he gets keeps getting like hit like this.
• 49:09
  And most of it with four man rush from the riders.
• 49:12
  they did blitz some, but it wasn't that that much.
• 49:16
  Mind you, the Toronto D line did fairly well too.
• 49:19
  That they didn't get as many sacks, but they were they were giving Harris some problems.
• 49:23
  And he took one horrendous hit on a obvious miscommunication that they just let I think it was Chatfield have a straight run at him with no blockers.
• 49:33
  Yeah.
• 49:33
  I remember being a little surprised and I thought that was just Saskatchewan being flat, but their O line was not as good as it normally is.
• 49:40
  Saskatchewan just didn't look like they were on top of their game, so to speak.
• 49:43
  know what Hicks had that sixty-one yard rush off the top and that just took all the wind out of their sails.
• 49:50
  That was that was it.
• 49:51
  Yeah.
• 49:53
  It doesn't but that was just enough to get like in their heads.
• 49:56
  my favorite Harris moment of the night is when his helmet got stuck to the defender's helmet and they couldn't get each other pried apart and they're both like trying to they
• 50:04
  couldn't figure out what's going on and they finally realized that their helmets were stuck together and I was like, This is it made my day.
• 50:09
  Mate
• 50:10
  was a Toronto home game, so Saskatchewan had all that travel to do.
• 50:15
  but
• 50:16
  Chad Kelly hit the upright.
• 50:17
  And you know Stuart Johnson's like, see, this is why we can't have these here.
• 50:25
  Yeah.
• 50:26
  I got a kick out of it 'cause last week for Calgary, McAllister did a missed field goal return for the touchdown against Saskatchewan and the CFL announces we're all see we're
• 50:35
  gonna lose this most exciting part of the game.
• 50:38
  Then Kelly puts one off the uprights and they're all oh see that's why we can't have the goalpost here.
• 50:45
  Yeah.
• 50:46
  But yes.
• 50:49
  But it does make me wonder and I'd appreciate you two's input on this.
• 50:53
  I get a little close as a fan, should we be worrying much about the riders special teams?
• 50:58
  That's two return touchdowns in two weeks.
• 51:01
  They gave up the field goal to McAllister and they gave up the punt return to Grant.
• 51:06
  No, because McAllister just scored one off this week too.
• 51:09
  It's just McAllister.
• 51:10
  That one I'm not concerned about 'cause that's just McAllister doing McAllister things.
• 51:14
  So really they've given up one that you maybe need to be concerned about.
• 51:19
  but in both cases they weren't close to make an attackle on either of them.
• 51:23
  there's a special teams coordinator available for you to hire.
• 51:26
  With a hell of a resume.
• 51:28
  There's there's availability.
• 51:30
  Yeah, I w
• 51:31
  not what I would be mostly concerned about.
• 51:33
  to be honest with you, I haven't been paying enough attention to notice Saskatchewan special teams and whether they are, looking soft or weaker.
• 51:52
  their returner got hurt, correct, and they put Emilus in and then he got hurt.
• 51:46
  Why would you put Emilus in?
• 51:48
  That is a terrible decision to put one of your top receivers in for punt returns.
• 51:56
  I don't know.
• 51:57
  I didn't understand that decision.
• 51:58
  I agreed 'cause the broadcasters were like WTF and I'm like, yeah, I agree.
• 52:02
  Like I don't understand.
• 52:03
  Mace basically said it's professional football, people who get hurt, we have to make adjustments.
• 52:08
  That's what we did.
• 52:09
  So I don't know.
• 52:10
  though that's a that's a it's a good point.
• 52:13
  By the time that game was done and with the injury updates from I've seen this week, both Emilus and Schaefer Baker were not practicing and and took shots So are they both gonna be
• 52:23
  missing going into this week?
• 52:25
  That's significant, That's they're playing Ottawa, thankfully, but still it's significant.
• 52:30
  So
• 52:31
  Is there a returner also still injured?
• 52:33
  There yeah, well we'll cover all that in the injury reports at the end here.
• 52:37
  give people the reason to to to stay through my blah blah blah and actually get some information at the end.
• 52:43
  my like last point on this game was at the beginning when they were interviewing Keon Schaefer Baker and honestly I'm so in love I might stop breathing
• 52:55
  Kian, can you please share your curly girl hair routine with us because it is beautiful.
• 53:02
  I honestly, like best hair of the CFL.
• 53:07
  Take your helmet off more.
• 53:09
  Oh, just because he had short hair before and he's grown it all out.
• 53:17
  I didn't even recognize him.
• 53:19
  Well, I had two other things I was gonna say on this.
• 53:22
  And some people might accuse me of being a homer on this 'cause it's a little bit towards the Saskatchewan side, but I gotta say I thought the refs were inconsistent in calling the
• 53:31
  roughing the passer.
• 53:32
  Because there was a play earlier on where Harris was on the ground and one of the Toronto D linemen frankly just pancaked him, fell on him.
• 53:42
  And they didn't call it and
• 53:43
  when Saskatchewan challenged it, it still was not a roughing the passer.
• 53:46
  So I thought, okay, you're not calling this game tight, I get it.
• 53:49
  That's fine.
• 53:50
  A little bit further in the game, there's a play where Mike Rose comes in and hits Kelly nowhere near the head, under the arm, frankly, just a split second after he's released the
• 54:02
  ball, and there's a flag thrown.
• 54:04
  And it's roughing the passer.
• 54:06
  And I could not see
• 54:08
  any reason why and and even the announcers in their sort of ways were questioning that.
• 54:14
  So didn't seem terribly um consistent in that particular aspect, although overall the officiating was good.
• 54:22
  And then my last comment is Jackson Ford got the start at safety with Lacombo out and you can see the family history in there.
• 54:31
  There
• 54:32
  There was some Al Ford hits.
• 54:33
  He was coming downhill and laying the lumber hard.
• 54:36
  He got at least three, maybe four, just real knockdown smackdown hits on curls and stuff like that.
• 54:43
  So I like to see that.
• 54:44
  Nothing dirty.
• 54:45
  Good clean hits, the receivers had to have their head on a swivel.
• 54:49
  Okay.
• 54:50
  the last thing I'll say about that game that I just brought back to my mind when you were talking about uh about that was that uh I thought the broadcast crew was good again.
• 54:58
  I thought Dusty and and well uh why am I drawing a blank?
• 55:02
  Yeah, they worked very well and they were you know, they were excited and they I thought that was a good job.
• 55:08
  I did think that that was, you know, really well done on Probably.
• 55:12
  Yeah.
• 55:13
  Yeah, you know, you know, I'm not usually your biggest fan, but I thought that was a good combination.
• 55:18
  And I thought it was yeah, I thought they did well.
• 55:20
  So
• 55:21
  Yep.
• 55:21
  I will agree with that.
• 55:23
  But we'll move on here to uh Calgary.
• 55:27
  Going into BC, but not the usual place in BC.
• 55:30
  Not BC Place, but the Apple Bowl in Kelowna, the game I got to go see.
• 55:34
  Yay.
• 55:35
  Again, not a terrible game, but not the greatest one.
• 55:38
  The Lions play was sloppy.
• 55:39
  It I can't say anything else about it.
• 55:42
  a lot of it was on special teams, but talking about their special teams coordinator, shown the door this week.
• 55:47
  Well, they had two problems on kickoffs, one of which they barely managed to not lose.
• 55:53
  The second one they lost.
• 55:56
  They had two punts that were shanked badly to the right, and the one w ended up I think with a net of about four yards after the penalty was applied.
• 56:04
  And twice on third down they had the stamps punting and the rushers, on special teams, jumped offside and gave them a first down.
• 56:12
  And I know at least the first time it led to a touchdown, and I think the second time led to points too.
• 56:17
  So just
• 56:18
  sloppy, sloppy football in in a lot of ways for the Lions.
• 56:24
  The stamps stamps played well, although I gotta say it was it was more apparent maybe being live there, but some of their back end was not tackling terribly well.
• 56:35
  I mean I'll give credit there was I think it was Johnson for them who made a couple of just fantastic tackles in the open field all on his own, no support and and cleaned them
• 56:44
  up.
• 56:44
  But the rest of that back end were
• 56:46
  Missing tackles they should have made and giving up yards they shouldn't have.
• 56:49
  That's my overall impressions.
• 56:51
  Jump on in.
• 56:53
  Yeah, well, um, okay, I'll go.
• 56:55
  There's a couple of things that I was that I know like they Stampeders went in with a game plan that was interesting to attack B C special teams right from the get go because that
• 57:05
  initial kickoff was that was a a planned play, that pooch kick, to be able to try to get the ball back and they almost pulled it off.
• 57:13
  I mean that was a great play and they almost pulled it off.
• 57:16
  So there was yeah, they just
• 57:18
  BC again didn't look ready and their special teams didn't look ready throughout the rest of the game.
• 57:24
  They were just like from the get go.
• 57:25
  They were off they were off.
• 57:27
  So my question is this, has anybody said who the replacement for McDermott is?
• 57:31
  Like have they announced do they have a special do they have a special teams coach going forward?
• 57:36
  Or what are they doing?
• 57:37
  'Cause they're playing in three days.
• 57:39
  They're playing in three days and I don't know who's coaching special teams yet.
• 57:43
  that's kind of strange.
• 57:44
  up there, see if they have a new coaching staff update on their website.
• 57:47
  on the Stampeder side, from my point of view, you know, there's a few real big concerns that I had.
• 57:53
  I think two things.
• 57:54
  One of them as you mentioned, old man, their d their tackling was really soft this game.
• 57:59
  They they let a lot of guys go and let a lot of guys get past them for extra yardage that they didn't have.
• 58:04
  And Dickinson even said that today after practice.
• 58:07
  So
• 58:08
  I was glad to know that it wasn't just me watching it on television that the coaches saw the same thing.
• 58:12
  So yeah, I thought their sa their tackling was really soft.
• 58:15
  And I'm concerned about Calgary's O line.
• 58:17
  I Calgary's O line's not nearly as good as it should be, given that it's the same O line that they had last year, and looked really good last year.
• 58:25
  a year later with the same guys, they should have continuity and be as good or better.
• 58:30
  And yet this year I think they're they're giving up too much pressure.
• 58:33
  I think Vernon's under too much pressure.
• 58:35
  And BC's defensive line looked really good this week compared to the first few weeks where they looked horrible.
• 58:41
  So so that's I'm not sure if that's BC or if that's Calgary, but either way, Calgary's offensive line, I wasn't impressed with their offensive I haven't been impressed this year
• 58:50
  with their offensive line.
• 58:51
  Um however, on the opposite side of the ball, the D line looked tremendous.
• 58:55
  I mean, it just looked like they could do what they want by the time that game was finished.
• 58:59
  But with all the rotation with
• 59:01
  both Ormelade and Hutchins back and then with the rotations of other guys going in, it was just it was great to watch.
• 59:08
  And I thought that made a huge difference.
• 59:10
  Their back end needs to be shored up.
• 59:12
  They've got some issues there.
• 59:13
  But the the front seven looked really, really solid again and I'm pretty pleased with that.
• 59:18
  And that Tevin Jones catch where he bobbled it and then knocked it to himself, that was incredible.
• 59:24
  That was an incredible catch.
• 59:25
  no finish it because he like fell back into the end zone and then they had their World Cup soccer celebration.
• 59:34
  Which was the best.
• 59:36
  The best.
• 59:38
  And only the Stampeders could have done that.
• 59:40
  I was waiting because only the Stampeders can pull off a TD celebration such as that.
• 59:45
  Yeah.
• 59:46
  since they've had since they've had a full team a celebration like back in the day.
• 59:50
  But that was a good one.
• 59:51
  That was a very good one.
• 59:52
  And then and then his interview at the end of the game was pretty funny where he was like he he didn't really know how to describe it.
• 59:59
  It was like he does he's n is I he wasn't very comfortable in front of the camera.
• 1:00:03
  I thought that was v very funny.
• 1:00:05
  And finally I would just like to say mention that the the score turning out forty one to thirty three gives us a great head start on the season series for the jersey.
• 1:00:14
  For the and that means it's seventy four dollars after the first game.
• 1:00:18
  So don't forget we're adding up for everybody that's new.
• 1:00:21
  Uh I have a lovely vintage G Roy Simon B C Lions jersey for sale with all proceeds going to CFL fans by cancer.
• 1:00:30
  And it will be costing you the total amount of the total score of all the games between the Stampeders and the Lions this year.
• 1:00:38
  So after one game, it is
• 1:00:41
  Currently riding at seventy four dollars.
• 1:00:43
  And that's my recap of the game.
• 1:00:45
  a good start.
• 1:00:46
  Well, just before you say anything, MJ, let me just jump in and say having seen that Jones catch live and on television, television did not do it credit.
• 1:00:56
  it was unbelievable.
• 1:00:58
  It was just spectacular.
• 1:00:59
  The there it was probably 80% orange jerseys in the stands.
• 1:01:04
  The Calgary's had had a lot of a lot of supporters there.
• 1:01:07
  There was a lot of red as well.
• 1:01:09
  Strangely enough, the third probably best color was Riders Green.
• 1:01:13
  That's they're showing up as they do for stuff.
• 1:01:15
  But that catch was just amazing and even the B C fans that were around me in the stands were going, wow So
• 1:01:21
  Yeah, that was a that was a good one.
• 1:01:24
  Yeah.
• 1:01:24
  we have so many options for catch of the year, and it's like week four.
• 1:01:28
  Yeah.
• 1:01:29
  That's up there.
• 1:01:30
  Yeah.
• 1:01:31
  fantastic.
• 1:01:32
  let's see, the they got four sacks on Rourke.
• 1:01:36
  So that's he's not gonna last.
• 1:01:39
  and a lot more a lot more pressures than that.
• 1:01:41
  And a lot more pressures than that.
• 1:01:43
  That is very worrisome.
• 1:01:45
  they basically shut Butler down.
• 1:01:47
  They had like they had no answer, they had no run game going.
• 1:01:51
  yeah,
• 1:01:53
  I think most of mine are special teams related.
• 1:01:55
  I watched BC returner, whatever his guys I can't remember his name.
• 1:01:59
  He was running into his own players.
• 1:02:01
  I saw it twice where he ran into his own player on special Rick trying to run the ball up and I was like, god, you guys, like what are you doing?
• 1:02:08
  This is so frustrating.
• 1:02:09
  McAllister had a really nice uh punt return for a touchdown or 139 yards, and I wasn't sure if you knew.
• 1:02:15
  That he used to be a Thai cat.
• 1:02:17
  I know you didn't watch the broadcast, old man, but just you know, it may have been mentioned more than once that he was a former Hamilton Tiger cat.
• 1:02:25
  I'm like, yes, thank you.
• 1:02:26
  They all do good when they leave.
• 1:02:28
  Thank you for thank you for sharing.
• 1:02:30
  and you know what?
• 1:02:31
  I know Renee Paradis is injured, but man, their rookie got a fifty seven yard field goal.
• 1:02:37
  It was beautiful, and he just no stress on that kid.
• 1:02:40
  That was brilliant.
• 1:02:41
  Really well done.
• 1:02:42
  Yeah.
• 1:02:44
  Yeah, they full credit to Renee and the career he's had, but at this point they wouldn't have been trying that field goal with him.
• 1:02:49
  No, so the kids the kids got the leg for sure.
• 1:02:55
  And you know what?
• 1:02:56
  The turf looked like they were playing on the grass, it looked really good.
• 1:02:59
  They they did a close up of a the TSN shady moment as they panned in tight on a a divot in the field.
• 1:03:09
  But it wasn't torn up.
• 1:03:10
  It looked really good.
• 1:03:12
  Yeah.
• 1:03:13
  Well
• 1:03:13
  guys sliding around a bit that weren't used to playing in it, but overall, yeah, the it didn't impact the game.
• 1:03:19
  It looked it looked great.
• 1:03:21
  TSN did a great broadcast we talked about.
• 1:03:23
  Um we were joking that maybe the BC Lions had been out partying a little too hard in Kelowna.
• 1:03:28
  They weren't quite game ready.
• 1:03:29
  I think they're staying there this week, so I think they're gonna be a lot stricter with players.
• 1:03:36
  because it did it looked like they had been out having a little too much fun in Kelowna.
• 1:03:41
  Not quite ready.
• 1:03:42
  There there may have been some
• 1:03:45
  While it is wine country.
• 1:03:46
  It is wine country as we learned.
• 1:03:48
  Yes.
• 1:03:49
  There may have been some local young fans interested in entertaining them.
• 1:03:53
  it seemed like yes.
• 1:03:54
  Speaking of which, did you catch because I did like I said, I did skim through the stuff on the TV and did you catch the moment the the the this little running joke they have
• 1:04:04
  about all the mascots hitting on on Kate?
• 1:04:07
  Yeah that's
• 1:04:07
  I I s I saw it without p I saw it without paying any attention to it.
• 1:04:11
  That's all I can say.
• 1:04:13
  yeah.
• 1:04:13
  it's not funny.
• 1:04:14
  I don't think it's funny, but I'm sure other people think it's hilarious, but I don't think it's funny.
• 1:04:20
  maybe I shouldn't have, but I have to admit I found it funny.
• 1:04:23
  Yeah.
• 1:04:23
  They had they had her and whatever the lion's mascot is, I think they said Roar or something, sitting at one of the party uh time tables having a glass of wine and then all
• 1:04:32
  of a sudden a young woman in a lion's jersey comes up and pulls Roar by the shoulder and she's got a little stuffed baby lion in her arms.
• 1:04:40
  She slaps him across the face and he turns around and Kate slaps him across the face and
• 1:04:44
  Obviously not funny, I'll stop with that now.
• 1:04:49
  Whoops.
• 1:04:49
  was if no, it this is just mm she m anyway, I'm not getting into it.
• 1:04:54
  It
• 1:04:55
  I gotta tell you, MJ, your reaction actually has me thinking, Maybe I gotta rethink that 'cause if if you're feeling that way about it, I missed something.
• 1:05:02
  So
• 1:05:03
  A is like cheating funny Is putting a female broadcaster through like look at all the the all the mascots wanna be your boyfriend all that's like like
• 1:05:15
  d distill her worth down to like her desirability.
• 1:05:19
  Is that funny?
• 1:05:20
  Is that a fun little like angle?
• 1:05:23
  I don't know, maybe it is.
• 1:05:24
  Maybe I'm just uh you know, I'm just an unfunny feminist, but I think they can do better and be smarter.
• 1:05:30
  There's fun things you can do.
• 1:05:31
  Milt is racing a cow.
• 1:05:34
  Yeah.
• 1:05:34
  uh
• 1:05:35
  That's fun and that's funny.
• 1:05:37
  This this mascot thing has gone like way too far.
• 1:05:40
  But you know what?
• 1:05:40
  I expect this from the broadcaster who has no problem doing AI slop everywhere too.
• 1:05:45
  Like it's a whole rant about my my honestly, if I were a CFL player, I'd have it in my contract.
• 1:05:50
  They're not allowed to make AI slot videos of me.
• 1:05:52
  Because it just it it's it's really bad.
• 1:05:56
  really bad.
• 1:05:58
  And so this Kate stuff is just kinda like AS slop in real time.
• 1:06:01
  Like I just feel like that it's like lowest common denominator and you can be funnier with better material.
• 1:06:07
  Thank you for that, MJ.
• 1:06:09
  Seriously, I I that was not an angle I saw on it at all and and you're right.
• 1:06:14
  I should have seen it that way.
• 1:06:15
  So thank you for taking the time to to express it.
• 1:06:18
  I appreciate that.
• 1:06:19
  I don't mean to like you people are allowed to like find what this funny is funny, but I mean like just there's there's just Yeah.
• 1:06:29
  I am seriously, I appreciate that.
• 1:06:32
  But I will go on to the rest of the game so that we can go back to to chuckling and stuff.
• 1:06:38
  talking about the line play, GT.
• 1:06:41
  I got end zone tickets for this one specifically because I wanted to be able to see what was happening, and it's so much easier to see what's going on with the line there.
• 1:06:50
  The
• 1:06:52
  Lions got more pressure on VA, but they also got lucky.
• 1:06:57
  neither team ran a lot of games.
• 1:07:00
  I'll say that off the start.
• 1:07:01
  Most of them were going just straight ahead, bull rush, speed rush, stuff like that.
• 1:07:04
  There were some stunts and twists, but not a lot.
• 1:07:07
  They the Lions got at least one sack on VA where they ran a stunt and the the D end came inside and sacked VA.
• 1:07:17
  If he hadn't made that hit, if VA was able to spin out of it, the tackle did not get outside for contain.
• 1:07:24
  And and I saw that repeatedly.
• 1:07:26
  There were when they did run the stunts, they were just they weren't being run terribly well.
• 1:07:31
  Calgary ran a couple of twists inside and I think they got a sack off one.
• 1:07:34
  BC Betts got his second sack in four games, but again they got it by putting him inside, letting him go for I think it was they went the B gap between
• 1:07:44
  Yeah, tackle and guard there, but he's not he's not really causing a lot of havoc out of his normal DN spot.
• 1:07:50
  So I was not not terribly impressed with that.
• 1:07:53
  And like I said, that I thought the Calgary O line could have played better, but I think the the sack total favored BC in terms of what they should have had.
• 1:08:05
  They it could have a couple of those sacks could have gone very wrong for them as well.
• 1:08:10
  So just for whatever that's worth that I that's like I said, that's part of what I like being able to get in and and see from the from the end zone with it.
• 1:08:18
  And I thought there was maybe that's about it.
• 1:08:21
  Yeah.
• 1:08:21
  this was yeah, that's the other thing that was disappointing in this game, the penalties.
• 1:08:26
  Calgary had seven for seventy eight, I think it was, but BC is ten for a hundred and eighteen, and it's just sloppy stuff
• 1:08:35
  The fact that it's not happening in most of the other games, when it does happen, it really stands out to me.
• 1:08:40
  Like I said, no other g there wasn't another game that had over a hundred yards for any one team and I think one of them was under a hundred total, so
• 1:08:48
  Well, you know, the refs had to travel to Kelowna too, so I'm glad they had to like put some work in and keep busy.
• 1:08:54
  Made it worth going.
• 1:08:55
  Yeah.
• 1:08:56
  Yeah.
• 1:08:56
  Maybe the refs are out partying too, you know.
• 1:08:59
  Yes.
• 1:09:01
  Yeah.
• 1:09:03
  Yes.
• 1:09:04
  Well, and Calgary obviously had fun, but maybe they saved their partying fun for Saturday night rather than Friday night.
• 1:09:11
  Now we're not saying the lions went out partying Friday night.
• 1:09:14
  We don't know that.
• 1:09:15
  But but it's possible.
• 1:09:17
  And and they did they they were downtown Friday night, we know, because they were talking about from the the panel.
• 1:09:24
  in on the waterfront down clona about the Lions being all there and there was a kickoff concert with Alan Doyle there that they may have been at so yeah who knows.
• 1:09:33
  But that was it.
• 1:09:35
  They're they're now 0 and3 and Calgary's got their first win.
• 1:09:40
  We'll see what where it goes from here.
• 1:09:42
  The last one seemed like a closer game or the score was closer than the game ever felt to me.
• 1:09:48
  Ottawa thirty five at Montreal thirty seven.
• 1:09:51
  There was I thought Yeah, some sloppy play on both sides.
• 1:09:57
  I do think everyone that's that's being
• 1:10:00
  Um being complimentary of Ottawa about how well their offense suddenly did and maybe they're putting it together, we need to remember that Montreal both their cornerbacks were
• 1:10:10
  backups.
• 1:10:11
  Both their starting corners were out.
• 1:10:13
  And that did hurt them somewhat.
• 1:10:15
  mind you, they did play a little bit sloppy too, and it looked like Alexander got hurt once or twice and everybody held their breath again.
• 1:10:23
  But you, MJ, you wanna start on this one?
• 1:10:26
  I was at a basketball game and I didn't actually get to watch this guy.
• 1:10:30
  So I watched a little bit of it, but I saw my four points.
• 1:10:33
  My first one is is the Montreal defense washed?
• 1:10:36
  Because they were number one in every category last year.
• 1:10:41
  Every single category for defense, they were number one.
• 1:10:44
  And this year they look garbage.
• 1:10:46
  Well, like garbage compared to them.
• 1:10:47
  Like they're they're definitely beatable this year, which is interesting.
• 1:10:52
  yeah, two, is Alexander hurt because he was limping off the field at the end of the game?
• 1:10:56
  Was like his knee or his ankle?
• 1:10:58
  I don't know if there's an injury report for them today.
• 1:11:00
  I'm sure he's playing.
• 1:11:01
  I'm sure he's playing, but Okay.
• 1:11:06
  yeah, that's right.
• 1:11:06
  Okay, so he's got like a bye week to rest that ankle up.
• 1:11:10
  three, are we wrong about Mare?
• 1:11:12
  Dull.
• 1:11:13
  I there was one point where he had more yardage than Alexander in that game.
• 1:11:17
  and then four, Castantonis had a really nice suit of our panel.
• 1:11:22
  Yes.
• 1:11:24
  Well, the the the other thing I'll say with Mayor is he owes an awful lot of credit for that game to his O line and the extra blockers they were bringing in 'cause Noel Thorpe
• 1:11:37
  was was bringing the house almost every play for it felt like at least a quarter of the game in or continuously and they were picking it up and he was getting the passes out.
• 1:11:46
  So
• 1:11:47
  I wondered about that a little bit, but
• 1:11:49
  Well, I thought um it was a tail of two halves, so to speak, because Montreal looked really good in the first half and then kinda let up in the second half and then just
• 1:11:59
  scored a touchdown to win when they needed to in the fourth quarter.
• 1:12:02
  and Ottawa looked horrible in the first half Mare was terrible.
• 1:12:06
  I mean the first long pass he tried to throw, interception on the goal line, killed a drive, took away all the momentum.
• 1:12:12
  Welcome to the Jake Mare experience in the first quarter of the game, right?
• 1:12:16
  Just when you need him to g to throw an interception, he will, you know, so don't worry, he will.
• 1:12:21
  yeah.
• 1:12:22
  So so it was Jake Mare at his best or worst, however you want to classify it in the first half.
• 1:12:28
  And the second half, it looked like Ottawa made some adjustments and Montreal wasn't ready for Ottawa to make adjustments.
• 1:12:34
  Yeah.
• 1:12:35
  That second half is the beginning of the turnaround.
• 1:12:38
  Because they're three games in.
• 1:12:39
  So maybe they made some adjustments and maybe they figured it out a little bit that these are the things we need to do better.
• 1:12:46
  So if for all the Ottawa fans, I hope that's the case.
• 1:12:51
  But I'm not convinced that's the case.
• 1:12:53
  because it was one half in, as I say, Montreal had a pretty good lead and looked like they were just chillin'.
• 1:13:00
  and as you said, old man.
• 1:13:02
  They had two star uh cornerbacks that hadn't played before, so that also helps.
• 1:13:07
  You go attack those guys, you're gonna make those kind of passes.
• 1:13:10
  So and kind of receptions, so American help in the second half.
• 1:13:14
  But the he was making better decisions and he was making quicker decisions, which is what which is what he's not good at.
• 1:13:20
  So that was that was a little impressive.
• 1:13:23
  It almost looked like the first two games he played against Winnipeg went five years ago when everybody thought he was the next greatest thing.
• 1:13:30
  And Lewis wasn't playing.
• 1:13:32
  Like that's one of their top receivers too, so
• 1:13:36
  Pimbleton had a hell of a game, especially on return.
• 1:13:38
  a hell of a game, yeah.
• 1:13:39
  He looked like he wanted a win.
• 1:13:41
  He look he was playing like he wanted a win.
• 1:13:43
  So yeah.
• 1:13:44
  Yep.
• 1:13:45
  to admit yeah.
• 1:13:46
  got some fire.
• 1:13:47
  they're still missing some pieces that that that are there that they're not using to their advantage.
• 1:13:52
  In that they've got some receivers, they've got some playmakers and they're just not using them.
• 1:13:57
  And even in the second half they're not using them.
• 1:13:59
  So
• 1:14:00
  So yeah, there's still opportunity for Ottawa, but as we suspected, it's gonna take a while before those pr growing pains if they if they have the patience to get through the
• 1:14:11
  growing pains.
• 1:14:12
  That's my biggest concern.
• 1:14:13
  That right now it doesn't look like Dinwiddie has enough patience.
• 1:14:16
  So whether he does or not to get through these growing concerns, to get through, the first half of the season so the second half looks better, much like Edmonton did last year.
• 1:14:24
  Can he do that?
• 1:14:25
  Can he do that in Ottawa this year?
• 1:14:27
  I don't know that he can.
• 1:14:29
  you think MBT's on the depth chart this weekend?
• 1:14:33
  I'm sure you will be.
• 1:14:34
  Yeah, absolutely.
• 1:14:35
  I was I wasn't sure whether he was on the death chart last weekend.
• 1:14:38
  I was like, is he dressed already?
• 1:14:39
  And if he isn't, who do they have dressed if Mare gets injured?
• 1:14:42
  Like who's next if Mayor gets injured right now?
• 1:14:46
  That would have been pretty scary.
• 1:14:48
  So yeah.
• 1:14:50
  I don't know.
• 1:14:50
  The the other thing with it was I di it didn't look especially windy or bad weather to me, but they both both kickers mix missed a convert and Maltos missed his first field goal of
• 1:15:01
  the year, which is needless to say, unusual the first one of the year.
• 1:15:04
  that's why I thought he was still maybe a little bit injured and then they released Lewis for today, so clearly he's fine.
• 1:15:10
  But
• 1:15:10
  Yeah.
• 1:15:12
  Well that was that was from a fair distance and it just drift I don't know it drifted, but
• 1:15:16
  I didn't see the distance.
• 1:15:17
  I just saw like I got a notification while I was at the basketball game that he had missed a field goal and I like, interesting.
• 1:15:23
  one.
• 1:15:24
  It was more the converts that surprised me.
• 1:15:26
  'Cause Lother looked like Lothers looks like like he's been playing better this year and that was not a great miss and then Maltos missing on a convert is just
• 1:15:35
  Strange.
• 1:15:36
  Well, you know, the angles at Percival.
• 1:15:38
  It's like an optical illusion sometimes.
• 1:15:41
  It's tricky, tricky.
• 1:15:43
  There yeah.
• 1:15:44
  So there's obviously something there or Yes.
• 1:15:48
  Anyway, that was the week that was.
• 1:15:51
  So going ahead.
• 1:15:53
  GT, you got some power rankings for us.
• 1:15:55
  This should be interesting after this week.
• 1:15:57
  Yeah, I think they are interesting and I have some controversy right off the top.
• 1:16:04
  Because I'm sure I'm going to make some people angry, but I am still I still have Saskatchewan in first place.
• 1:16:10
  Uh yeah, I still have Saskatchewan in first place.
• 1:16:15
  Even the Rider fan is upset at you.
• 1:16:17
  I'm not upset, I'm surprised.
• 1:16:20
  and and and I have Edmonton in second place.
• 1:16:23
  and I think a lot of people would suspect Edmonton should be in first because they're three and versus two and one in for the riders.
• 1:16:31
  I just again and this might be my own bias, I'm saying it flat out, but I don't think Edmonton has I think Edmonton's kinda still hasn't convinced me that they're they're
• 1:16:41
  winning be they're winning, but they're not winning with confidence.
• 1:16:45
  Like I
• 1:16:45
  They've won close games and they could have lost two of those three games just as easily have won them.
• 1:16:50
  So I'm not a hundred percent still they still look like they're scrambling.
• 1:16:55
  They're not looking like they have a plan and executing.
• 1:16:59
  And Saskatchewan, they came flat against the Argos, but I still think they're a better overall team.
• 1:17:05
  So at this point in time, I'm still gonna put them first.
• 1:17:08
  Edmonton is three and so they're second.
• 1:17:10
  Hamilton is is coming off of a bye.
• 1:17:13
  They shouldn't lose a place going into a b coming off a bye, but they will because Edmonton is three and oh, so Hamilton is third.
• 1:17:20
  Toronto is fourth because Toronto is now scoring a lot of points.
• 1:17:24
  It's pretty tough to stop these guys.
• 1:17:26
  Everybody's proved that, uh Montreal after that, then Calgary, then Winnipeg, then BC, and then Ottawa in last place.
• 1:17:35
  and B C is the surprise because as myself, I picked them as you know, going back to be fifteen and three this year, and now they're and three.
• 1:17:45
  So that is that is that w is way out the window.
• 1:17:49
  and so I don't it's not it's not too late, but I can't see that and they've got a tough game coming up.
• 1:17:56
  So yeah, that's gonna be interesting,
• 1:17:59
  And we don't need the ladies crying 'cause the story's sad.
• 1:18:01
  It's just what it is.
• 1:18:03
  It's just what it is.
• 1:18:04
  So they're in a tough spot, B C.
• 1:18:08
  I'm a little surprised I gotta say, and I don't know even as a fan if I would have put Saskatchewan over Edmonton because I get what you're saying, but keep in mind Saskatchewan
• 1:18:18
  had to come back to win both of their games too.
• 1:18:21
  So they've and come back late.
• 1:18:23
  So th they've looked good, but they've also had that n third quarter lull that has really hurt them, so hey.
• 1:18:30
  I'll take it.
• 1:18:32
  Edmonton wins this weekend, they'll be absolutely in number one in the power rankings.
• 1:18:38
  and deserve and deserve.
• 1:18:43
  If if Bo if yeah, if Bo comes out if Bo comes out and crushes again, then yeah, you know what?
• 1:18:49
  It'll be a tougher decision for sure.
• 1:18:51
  For sure.
• 1:18:53
  So
• 1:18:55
  Alrighty.
• 1:18:55
  So there they are anyway.
• 1:18:57
  Please let us know in the comments here, Blue Sky, whatever.
• 1:19:01
  Wherever you go, you go on the on the podcatchers or even get in touch with us, you know, on some of the other platforms, Gander or Social.
• 1:19:08
  Let us know what you think of GT's power rankings.
• 1:19:10
  I'm I'm surprised, but pleasantly so.
• 1:19:13
  Before we get to the games, I'll just set up what we do know about the injuries so far.
• 1:19:18
  Um we've got for Toronto at Calgary, they've already basically said who's out and who's available and questionable with Toronto it was really only one injury and that was Dakota
• 1:19:31
  Shepley on the O line has a back issue.
• 1:19:34
  He did not participate and he's listed as questionable.
• 1:19:37
  And with Calgary defensive back Jaden Grant did not participate with an ankle.
• 1:19:42
  And is questionable.
• 1:19:43
  So they could still both be in the game.
• 1:19:45
  We don't know.
• 1:19:46
  When we get to the rest of the games, we know where they were on the injury reports, but we don't have any word on whether they think they're expected to play or not.
• 1:19:54
  So Saskatchewan has got a yeah, another laundry list of them, as you said earlier, GT, a bunch of them.
• 1:20:00
  Dalke who's sort of jack of all trades in the defensive backfield there, and Letcher were both did not participate.
• 1:20:06
  I don't think we'll see either of them in this week.
• 1:20:10
  Uh Emilus and Schaefer Baker were both did not participate on the first day of practice on Monday.
• 1:20:16
  They're both back at limited now.
• 1:20:18
  So they're limited.
• 1:20:20
  Lakembo's limited.
• 1:20:21
  Ouellette is still limited.
• 1:20:23
  Sad, I never know how to pronounce his name properly.
• 1:20:25
  From the D line is limited.
• 1:20:27
  And interestingly enough, a couple of long term injuries.
• 1:20:30
  I've mentioned last week Benoit Marion was listed as limited at the D end spot.
• 1:20:35
  And
• 1:20:36
  Ryder Varga from who they got after Toronto released him for the linebacker is now practicing in a limited uh capacity.
• 1:20:43
  So he may be back not this week, but down the road a bit.
• 1:20:46
  On the Ottawa side, nobody was and did not participate, but uh Mardiner is back practicing and was limited in that after his injury last year.
• 1:20:55
  McEwen, Oppoco and Keelan White were also all limited in practice.
• 1:21:00
  And then the only other ones we have are Edmonton and BC, because the Hamilton, Winnipeg ones won't start practicing until tomorrow.
• 1:21:07
  But Edmonton, Mugginson was did not participate.
• 1:21:10
  And that could be interesting because Anderson is on the sixth game list now.
• 1:21:15
  So they may be starting to get a little bit thin at uh linebacker if he can't go.
• 1:21:20
  And then Boyko who less of an impact.
• 1:21:23
  But Mechie from the back end and Rebostelli were also limited.
• 1:21:26
  And with BC, TJ Lee and Poissant were did not participate again.
• 1:21:32
  And Haladic, Renee and Yates from the O line were all limited.
• 1:21:36
  Now, Yates was listed limited all last week and I think he played anyway, so but that's where we're at as you're making your your game predictions.
• 1:21:44
  That's what we know right now.
• 1:21:45
  So let's talk about this.
• 1:21:47
  Toronto going into Calgary.
• 1:21:50
  GT, your team we'll let you go first.
• 1:21:53
  Uh
• 1:21:53
  It's c it it's shaping up to be a shootout.
• 1:21:55
  and Calgary's backfield i is in some disarray and uh another injury last week, as you just mentioned.
• 1:22:03
  So nobody's been able to stop Kelly's yet in three weeks so far, uh putting up lots of yardage and lots of points.
• 1:22:11
  but I think I think Shepley's injury hurts Toronto even more.
• 1:22:17
  Uh I think Calgary's defensive line can get after him and put something put pressure on him that he hasn't seen yet.
• 1:22:23
  So I'm taking Calgary.
• 1:22:26
  I'm not comfortable, but I'm taking Calgary.
• 1:22:28
  As an up and I think that's a little bit of an upset.
• 1:22:31
  In my opinion, that's a little bit of an upset.
• 1:22:33
  Well, I'll jump in here and say I I agree with probably just about everything you said, except from what I've seen in in the first few weeks, I do think that it favors Toronto a
• 1:22:43
  little bit.
• 1:22:43
  It's not I don't think it's gonna be a blowout by any means and it could easily go either way maybe I'm too too still too shell shocked from what they did to the riders, which I
• 1:22:52
  did not expect at all.
• 1:22:53
  But I'll go with the with the Argos.
• 1:22:55
  So MJ, you're the tiebreaker.
• 1:22:56
  Right, so this is Stamp People.
• 1:22:59
  Milt's racing a cow.
• 1:23:00
  World's fastest cow.
• 1:23:01
  the world's fastest cow and he's not gonna get a head start like the like Enoch needed last he actually made a whole video about how Enoch needed a head start and he does not
• 1:23:12
  need a head start.
• 1:23:13
  Stampede Bulls and Intangible.
• 1:23:14
  I think like Flo is gonna make Kelly's life a misery.
• 1:23:19
  If Kelly wears that belt buckle, no, VA's not gonna let Kelly wear that buck belt.
• 1:23:24
  No, he's not giving up that belt buckle.
• 1:23:26
  We're gonna have another picture of VA in his belt buckle and cowboy boots during Stampede.
• 1:23:31
  Forget it.
• 1:23:32
  I'm picking Calgary.
• 1:23:33
  Okay.
• 1:23:34
  Yeah, and actually the fact that it is a Stampede Bowl, which seemed like a ridiculous thing to me last year, but it's been embraced there, it may be the difference in let in
• 1:23:43
  getting Calgary up over the top.
• 1:23:46
  Like I said, I'm not it's not a confident pick I'm making, but okay, so the podcast has Calgary.
• 1:23:52
  Then we've got Saskatchewan at Ottawa, and Saskatchewan is injured.
• 1:23:57
  We don't know
• 1:23:58
  receivers will be able to play and which won't.
• 1:24:01
  But I still think Oops, did you lose me again or have I been gone the whole
• 1:24:05
  card for talking despairingly of the of this Calgary Stampede?
• 1:24:09
  There, I still don't think that uh Ottawa's up there where they can beat Saskatchewan yet.
• 1:24:14
  So I'm taking the riders.
• 1:24:17
  I guess maybe you get to go second, MJ.
• 1:24:19
  I think let's see Emilus injury is an issue.
• 1:24:24
  What they play?
• 1:24:25
  They Toronto made them look silly.
• 1:24:28
  Not really, but a little bit.
• 1:24:30
  You know what?
• 1:24:31
  I'm going for chaos this week.
• 1:24:32
  I think I think there's enough players on the red blacks that mean business that they might be able to eke this out.
• 1:24:42
  I think it'll be close.
• 1:24:43
  I think it'll be close, but I think they the way they are playing, I
• 1:24:48
  If Mare can keep it together, there's enough people playing well on that team that they might be able to pull it off.
• 1:24:55
  Yeah, their defense has been playing better and there's what, uh I think three of last year's Rough Riders on the defense, so
• 1:25:01
  Yeah, and yeah.
• 1:25:02
  And Pimpleton'll probably return a touchdown, it'll be fun, it'll be an entertaining game.
• 1:25:07
  Hopefully.
• 1:25:08
  It's probably gonna be raining.
• 1:25:10
  It's in Ottawa.
• 1:25:12
  Yeah.
• 1:25:12
  Yeah.
• 1:25:13
  No, I'm taking the Riders.
• 1:25:14
  They Ottawa's just not good enough.
• 1:25:16
  Riders are still a much, much better team.
• 1:25:19
  Okay.
• 1:25:19
  Yeah.
• 1:25:20
  And uh maybe we'll get MJ to go on this one again.
• 1:25:23
  We'll get we'll let you go first on the last two 'cause you live in Edmonton and you're a Hamilton fan.
• 1:25:28
  So Edmonton at BC
• 1:25:30
  Well, so this is interesting 'cause this is week two at Touchdown Kelowna and BC's gonna be pretty upset they got shown the door in in their big they in touchdown Kelowna.
• 1:25:41
  I looked up they do not have a special teams coordinator named.
• 1:25:45
  So is it just like random assistant that's been working with the special teams?
• 1:25:50
  I don't know.
• 1:25:51
  They still are bad on defense.
• 1:25:53
  They are still bad on offense.
• 1:25:55
  They are bad at all three phases of the game.
• 1:25:58
  I have no faith really that they can solve Rankin.
• 1:26:03
  There are teams that I think can shut Rankin down.
• 1:26:06
  I'm not convinced this BC defense can do that right now with Benavides.
• 1:26:09
  I don't think he's gonna scheme for that well enough.
• 1:26:12
  but it is like kinda like Stampede Bowl It's a bit of an intangible.
• 1:26:16
  They're there all week, they're practicing there all week, but
• 1:26:19
  my gosh, it's so weird.
• 1:26:21
  The elks are three and and they look good and I think you know, I'm gonna pick I'm gonna pick the elks.
• 1:26:28
  Okay.
• 1:26:28
  Well I will I will go next here and I and I will say that the one thing the BC defense has done well is against the run.
• 1:26:35
  So the there is that.
• 1:26:37
  But I still I think it's just too much of a too much of a mess otherwise for them to to pull it out.
• 1:26:44
  And Edmonton, while they have looked like they're clawing and scratching for everything they can get to get to the wins, they're winning.
• 1:26:51
  So I'll
• 1:26:51
  I'll pick the elk as well.
• 1:26:53
  How about you, GT?
• 1:26:54
  Unanimous or are you going against the flow?
• 1:26:57
  No, absolutely unanimous.
• 1:26:58
  Uh I agree with you a hundred percent.
• 1:27:00
  Uh for everything that I said about Edmonton, they're still winning and uh BC is still losing and so it means Edmonton's gonna win.
• 1:27:08
  Okay, full agreement on that one.
• 1:27:11
  And the last one, Winnipeg going into Hamilton.
• 1:27:14
  Winnipeg has done well in Hamilton in the past couple of years.
• 1:27:17
  What do you think, MJ?
• 1:27:19
  Not this year.
• 1:27:20
  Bo is not interested in that.
• 1:27:24
  And they're coming off the bye.
• 1:27:27
  The bombers.
• 1:27:28
  You try and fumble five times against the Tie Cats this year and see how you do.
• 1:27:33
  Nuh uh picking Tie Cats.
• 1:27:36
  Okay.
• 1:27:37
  GT?
• 1:27:38
  Yeah, this is a game that for the first time I will say this year that I don't think this is even close.
• 1:27:44
  I think this is this is Hamilton in a walk on.
• 1:27:48
  I think this is Hamilton in a lark.
• 1:27:50
  This is like a big game for Hamilton and Winnipeg gets to come up on, so to speak.
• 1:27:55
  And yeah, I think this is where win we learn that Winnipeg's not as good as we or or is the kinda the level we thought they were, which is not that great.
• 1:28:04
  And Hamilton is yeah, is pretty darn good.
• 1:28:06
  So yeah.
• 1:28:07
  I'm picking Hamilton with a big win.
• 1:28:10
  Yes.
• 1:28:11
  And see, I've been around the CFL chaos long enough to know that when I expect a big win, it doesn't happen.
• 1:28:16
  But I still can't take Winnipeg.
• 1:28:18
  I'm gonna I'm gonna go with Hamilton.
• 1:28:20
  It was funny la last week we we all you the two of you picked Winnipeg over Edmonton and I had Edmonton.
• 1:28:28
  And so they won and I thought, great start to the week.
• 1:28:30
  But then I immediately thought, but damn, I never go 4-0.
• 1:28:33
  There's something I've missed.
• 1:28:35
  What's it gonna be?
• 1:28:36
  I hope it's not the riders.
• 1:28:38
  Three and one.
• 1:28:38
  Thanks, Riders.
• 1:28:39
  and I will also say here, just for anybody that's still with us, MJ's mentioned a couple of times about the Lions staying and practicing here in Kelowna.
• 1:28:48
  They're doing that, but they've also they have done I am so impressed with the that organization and what they're doing.
• 1:28:54
  as well as practicing, they've got players out in the um in some events in City Park.
• 1:29:00
  or in one of the parks, I'm not sure which one it is.
• 1:29:03
  I think it's the downtown city park for autograph signings almost every afternoon of the week.
• 1:29:07
  a couple of different sessions a day.
• 1:29:09
  They're getting out with youth football and girls flag football teams and putting on clinics with them while they're here.
• 1:29:16
  They're just they're really increasing their exposure.
• 1:29:18
  So great job to the the Lions.
• 1:29:21
  Thank you for what you've been doing for football in this area.
• 1:29:26
  All right.
• 1:29:26
  That's about it.
• 1:29:29
  What do you think?
• 1:29:30
  GT, time to say goodnight?
• 1:29:32
  What do you got for us?
• 1:29:33
  am.
• 1:29:33
  em
• 1:29:38
  uh I will say this before I sign off, in that you can always find me occasionally, not always, but occasionally you can find me at GT Barnum on blueskies dot social dot net.
• 1:29:50
  I believe is its full thing.
• 1:29:52
  I finally figured it out.
• 1:29:53
  And I had dropped uh two sets of lyrics tonight, just so you know, they're in there.
• 1:29:59
  They're and they're from the same song.
• 1:30:01
  So that I double dipped.
• 1:30:03
  I double dipped and you can find them if you can find them.
• 1:30:06
  and and it's you know, it Kelowna last week, Kelowna this week, and I'm looking forward to it's about wine country.
• 1:30:13
  So there you go.
• 1:30:14
  Yes.
• 1:30:15
  Okay, MJ.
• 1:30:17
  Yeah, I am looking forward to both kinds of football this weekend.
• 1:30:21
  Um Cheering you on Team Canada.
• 1:30:26
  You can find me running Instagram, CFL Outsiders, um keep your comments coming, we're having fun over there.
• 1:30:32
  And yeah, you can find me on Blueskay at Sports and Plants.
• 1:30:37
  Alrighty.
• 1:30:39
  And thank you both for another great show.
• 1:30:41
  It's uh for whatever it's worth, I really enjoy doing this with the two of you.
• 1:30:46
  It it honestly is one of the highlights of my week.
• 1:30:50
  This is so much fun.
• 1:30:51
  So so thank you for for all that you bring to this.
• 1:30:54
  I'm uh you find me of course on Blue Sky uh old man dash sac dot blue sky dot social and
• 1:31:02
  Than the CFL outsiders a whole bunch of other social media.
• 1:31:06
  Gander, Eh!
• 1:31:08
  if look for us.
• 1:31:09
  You have a better chance you'll find us than than not.
• 1:31:11
  And frankly, I'm just I'm looking forward to the second time in a week that I can drive a half hour and go to a CFL football game.
• 1:31:21
  And it's being such a treat for for those of us stuck out here in the hinterlands.
• 1:31:27
  Okay, so before you before you sign off, old man, I just want to say one more thing because I forgot to say this in mine.
• 1:31:34
  And I just want to say to everybody across, you know, the world listening, happy Canada Day.
• 1:31:40
  It is already that.
• 1:31:42
  It is already that here where I am.
• 1:31:45
  And uh we made it through another year.
• 1:31:47
  Congratulations to the everybody in the country for sticking through it.
• 1:31:52
  And yeah, happy Canada Day.
• 1:31:54
  Enjoy, celebrate, be careful with the fireworks.
• 1:31:57
  They can be dangerous.
• 1:31:58
  They're tons of fun, but they can be dangerous.
• 1:32:01
  So be careful.
• 1:32:02
  Enjoy yourselves.
• 1:32:03
  Have a couple of pops or whatever other libration you do.
• 1:32:07
  And yeah, please.
• 1:32:08
  And to all the new Canadians that get your citizenship tomorrow in the sign in in the sign of citizenships, welcome.
• 1:32:15
  Enjoy.
• 1:32:16
  Go to a football game.
• 1:32:18
  That's what I wanted say.
• 1:32:20
  Well said.
• 1:32:21
  Yes.
• 1:32:21
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• 1:32:24
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• 1:32:26
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• 1:32:30
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• 1:32:56
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• 1:32:57
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• 1:32:58
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• 1:33:00
  So I guess tomorrow when you're hearing this with the with the fantasy show for the week.
• 1:33:05
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• 1:33:05
  Other than that, I hope you are having a great Canada Day as you listen to this tomorrow, provided you do take it up when it's dropped.
• 1:33:13
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• 1:33:17
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• 1:33:22
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• 1:33:26
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• 1:33:33
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