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"DAZZLING!" The CFL Outsiders S03E03 · The CFL Outsiders

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  hey kids, welcome back to another episode of the CFL Outsiders.
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  I remain as always here one hundred percent impartial, completely unbiased, and at different odds host Old Man Shouting at Clouds.
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  Joining me as usual this week we have our panel of experts, MJ.
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  Hey everyone, I just want you to know based on one two-quarters of one preseason game, I am now accepting apologies for everyone who told me that Trey Ford was washed up not good
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  because words I heard were dazzle and cinematic.
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  Yes, indeed.
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  And don't adjust your sets.
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  You're not seeing double.
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  It's MJ2 as well this week.
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  Hi everyone, uh really happy to be here.
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  I am so excited.
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  Thursday is the first game of the season and I'm so glad that the Ti-cats are playing on Thursday and not on Saturday.
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  Yes.
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  And joining us again from somewhere in Europe, an an undisclosed location perhaps, perhaps not.
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  It's the man who's taken time from his vacation to be here because he's so dedicated, GT.
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  Hey everyone, good morning again.
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  It's still four o'clock in the morning.
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  I'm still drinking beer.
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  And uh this week I'm coming to you live from Prague.
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  Um been having a great time.
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  a couple things that because last week I just want to get let everyone know I was kind of jet lagged in last week's episode.
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  So sorry for no energy and uh then the internet doing its thing too and it kind of made it all messed up.
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  But I apologize for last week's
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  version I hope this week's will be better.
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  A couple of things I'd like to clear up right off the top from last week that I didn't get to mention because uh the internet didn't allow me to was that first of all shout out to
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  some new friends that I made in uh Budapest last week, Frank and Amy Stelke from Boston, uh who immediately became subscribers to the show.
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  So I hope that you did what you've had a chance, Frank and Amy to watch the the
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  Some of last week's and you will stick around for a little bit while at least and become a regular.
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  Appreciate all our chats on on Doug Flutie and and general stuff.
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  So that was real fun.
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  And the other thing that happened in Budapest that was terrific was that I was able to hook up and spend a few minutes or actually a few couple of hours with Oz Davis from the
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  Rouge, White and Blue.
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  So we had
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  Yeah, so we had the two of the two of two CFL podcasters hanging out and having beers together in Budapest though, which was kind of fun.
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  and a fun fact that not a lot of people, including myself, might know is that like this group here, we've never actually met each other.
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  We've been podcasting together for uh now what, this is our second season and we've never physically been in the same space.
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  Well Oz and Joe Pritchard, who run the Rouge, White and Blue, have never met each other either.
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  And they've been doing it for over 10 years.
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  So it is possible.
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  those and uh and it was fun to know I did not know that when I met with Oz, but that was great.
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  so shout out to him as well.
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  And yeah, other than that, the only thing that I can tell you from this side of the pond is unfortunately, uh last week in Vienna, the Vienna Vikings were not in town, so I didn't
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  get to go to their game.
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  They were on the road.
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  but there was lots of posters everywhere for the Vienna Vikings, which seemed to be more
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  More postering around town for them than I've seen in most CFL cities.
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  That's the update, kids.
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  we like to hear what's going on and especially well, first of all, hello and welcome to the latest to members of Outsider Nation.
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  And I hope hope we can entertain you.
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  And I did not know that about about Oz.
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  and Pritchard I they just they seem like they've they work so well together
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  I did want to mention to folks it is a brand new season, which is why we're excited.
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  my disappointed part is, of course, well, the show's team lost its final preseason game, so I have to be a little disappointed.
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  But really excited about what's coming up and how we're going to have a fan.
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  I do I I mention that mostly to see MJ's reaction.
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  Ha.
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  Anyway, I want to remind you, we're we're definitely we're past the preseason.
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  We'll be talking about the upcoming games of the regular season.
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  This is the new season.
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  Can you imagine 10%?
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  If 10% of you just stopped right now and dropped a like, would that would really, really help us out.
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  What about 20?
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  Can you imagine if 100% of you stopped right now and dropped a like, what that would do to the logarithm?
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  It would think we got a movement going here.
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  And we do, folks.
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  The CFL Outsiders Anti-Massacree Movement.
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  Haha.
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  With apologies to Arlo Guthrie, of course.
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  But drop us that like.
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  It'll help us out.
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  Yeah, there's a couple of lines for the song I could use but I won't.
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  I just wanna jump up and down his head to the dock.
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  I just jumped up.
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  You're our man.
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  uh
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  look it up.
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  It's amazing.
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  I thought I wasn't sure whether you were doing Alice's restaurant or the shopping channel there for a little bit, old man.
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  It was one or the other.
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  I wasn't sure which.
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  my impersonations aren"t I got that I thought I'd talk about.
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  I don't know if you've seen this GT bin over in Europe, but they dropped the or the they've given out the Riders Grey Cup rings from uh from last year.
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  And I've seen some criticisms.
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  Most people tend to seem to be thinking it's
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  It's pretty good.
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  Apparently go hard is now a good thing, and I've seen a lot of that on it.
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  So just to let you know, real quick, they put together a committee.
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  Trevor Harris, Jameer Thurman, Jorgen who's the bac long snapper who's retired now, Corey Mason, Jeremy O'Dea, um designed this sucker.
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  It's got the
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  Logo or the writer's logo over top of a gray cup.
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  It's got, I believe it is 14 of one type of stone to recommend to uh recognize every victory of the season.
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  It's got another type, and I don't know what these differences are, but four of them at the bottom for the four previous gray cups and one in the gray cup itself to represent
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  this victory.
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  It's like the um Argo's done before.
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  It's a class, so you can open it up.
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  The inside is then Mosaic Stadium.
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  And on the upper part of the inside is a authentic piece of the Grey Cup Game Ball Leather, which apparently they had a tradition I didn't hear about before it.
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  They were putting a burn on one of the beams above the entrance to the locker room last year for every win.
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  So they've replicated that now on the leather.
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  That's what they've given out.
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  Who's seen it and what are your thoughts?
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  I just looked it up.
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  This is really fun.
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  I I really like that it's interactive and I know that's not the first one, but I do like the idea that it does include like some of that game ball leather.
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  That's a that's special.
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  Like that's a great memory for someone to keep.
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  Yeah.
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  It is gaudy and therefore perfect.
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  Yes.
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  Everything a championship ring should be right in your face.
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  Look at this.
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  Yeah.
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  Exactly.
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  Oh, all I know is it's dazzling.
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  I was gonna go back and search their reports for the last four Grey Cup rings and see if they use uh some sort of w wording like that for those, but I know it was dazzling and as
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  for uh
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  The piece of field or whatever it is that you mentioned there.
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  I that's the first I've heard of that one 'cause I did not read the articles.
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  But that just reminds me of the old Black Oak Arkansas record where you got a square inch of Arkansas when you bought the album.
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  they they gave you a a titled land deed for one square inch of Arkansas when you bought the record.
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  I have to admit that may be the part I like about it the best.
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  The fact that it's the leather from the ball and there's a little chunk of it in there for it.
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  I like that.
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  But anyway, unless there's anything else on that, we'll we'll jump along to some of the other big news that's been going on.
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  And that is the broadcast deal has been announced.
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  And I think.
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  We might have talked about this a little bit last week.
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  I can't remember if it came out or not.
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  If we didn't, anyway, it's a big change.
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  The CFL on T S N will be carrying the bulk of the games, but not the Saturday games.
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  Saturday games are going to what I'm told is pronounced Dazone.
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  D-A-Z-N.
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  I don't get it anyway.
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  It's a streaming channel.
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  they'll be handling all of the Saturday games.
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  And two playoff games.
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  And then they've well, no, sorry.
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  One one game a Saturday.
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  Yeah, sorry.
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  I should thank you for that, MJ.
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  they'll be handling one evening Eastern game a week.
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  they won't be doing anything out of the West, so it sounds like it'll be basically Toronto Hamilton.
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  maybe the other two cities with it.
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  uh that's a streaming platform that people will now have to subscribe to.
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  YouTube has also been named as a special promotional partner, I believe.
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  So we'll have to see what that means.
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  There's no word on that at all.
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  Um I have a bit of a mini rant on this, but before I do that, I'll I'll let you folks jump in.
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  Have you heard any about this while you're over there, GT?
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  Yeah, I was able to read uh through it a few times and try to keep uh keep gist of what it was.
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  It's we all knew it was coming to a streaming service.
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  We all wanted a streaming service.
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  None of us thought about the cost of a streaming service, I think, until it flap it's now slapped us in the face, although z there's no cost associated with it as of right now.
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  They haven't figured out what it's going to be.
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  The one thing I did read was that Dizone is also, of course, their international partner, so there will be no more CFL plus.
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  Uh as such, it w so if I'm sitting here next year, I will be watching games on DZone rather than on CFL Plus, which may be much better be for the international market because
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  Dizone did say they are going to do their own broadcast team.
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  So it'll be interesting even for outside of the games that they um have on Saturday nights, what they're going to do for the rest of the games internationally, whether
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  they're gonna
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  do their own broadcast or whether they would just again use the TSN broadcast or not.
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  But that'll be a nice change.
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  It'll be a great change to have another broadcast team of some sort to give competition to TSN's broadcast team to maybe have to up their quality So that'll be good.
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  And DZone is of course a streaming service that you do have to pay for.
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  But they have not yet said whether they will have an actual CFL only subscription model or whether they will have you will have to buy the entire channel, which I think is about $25
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  a month Canadian, if I re if I'm getting my numbers right.
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  However, they did say as well that DZone will be carrying all the games internationally and they will be doing that for free, like it is sort of for CFL Plus.
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  So
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  I'm not sure if I've already in my you know, miserly mind, wondered whether we'll be able to use a VPN in Canada and be able to pick up the games for free off of a VPN and then not
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  have to worry about you getting the subscription rate and how long if that does work, how long it'll take for shut us down.
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  But nonetheless, that's gonna be my first option.
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  But we shall see.
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  but anything, I think it's interesting.
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  I think it's good.
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  Um
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  That again, DZone it does have a lot of other broadcasts, international things that they do.
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  they seem to be um pretty high profile.
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  They they get a lot of pressed and they seem to do things right.
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  So I I'm I'm okay with this.
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  You know, I'm not big fan of having to pay for another package, but I don't know that anywhere else you don't have to pay for another package uh either.
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  So it it's kind of today's world.
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  Well, this is similar to what the NHL has done with the, you know, Monday night prime games or um app like baseball with Apple T V.
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  And so I feel like it makes sense that this is sort of the way things are going.
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  I feel like they're testing out to see how this works, how people respond.
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  Because in our house we get cable because we watch a lot of sports and sometimes streaming isn't the best.
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  But I was also just in Europe and
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  everywhere do zone that's the games that they were playing that's what they watch and so i got really excited i mean minus the pay for the part i don't like but the the new
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  commentators and and what that means and what that's going to look like and i think you're right that competition of what are we trying to build how are you going to differentiate
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  your broadcast from this one
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  And getting to know some new personalities is always um kind of interesting, but I wonder, yeah, like you said, GT, if they're going to continue to have those commentators for all
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  the games or use the T SN broadcast and just broadcast that.
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  different crew.
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  So there won't be any like they might use the TSN cameras, but they're not gonna use the crew, like the commentators or the panel.
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  I was like the I was thinking Yeah.
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  but I don't know about the rest of the games that they don't have the broadcast rights to, but they are going to broadcast internationally.
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  That's where I'm gonna that's where that's I would think so.
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  I would think so.
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  I actually be speaking of which I thought it was kind of funny that they did the big announcement and then within the next couple of days there was a preseason game on CFL
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  Plus.
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  And the one that I watched and there was oh coming next year and D zone as the next big thing and it was all T S N moments T S N highlight packages.
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  I kinda thought, I guess you had to use but nonetheless I thought it was a little amusing.
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  I sincerely hope that it is better than Blue Jays on Apple TV, which is objectively awful.
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  It is so awful and like just infuriating.
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  So I hope that they get some good people in, and I was like, hmm, I wonder what CBC people they might pull over.
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  It's like maybe Darren Flutie might come back or Gregory Frerez.
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  Yeah.
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  I'm like, hmm, you never know.
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  I'm it ex it'll be interesting to explain to our dad that his BC Lion games are not on Saturday nights on TSN.
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  We're we're gonna sorry dad, we're gonna get texts about it.
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  We might have to split the zone three ways and two houses get to watching one game per week.
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  Like
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  well, yeah, that's that's another thing.
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  Will you be able to split like, you know, at least into different rooms?
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  So will you you know, if you want to watch the zone in two different or three different devices at the same time on an account and so on.
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  So all those streaming kind of questions that you have with any streaming device have not been answered and it's at least a year away.
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  It is a year away, so I guess we will learn more as they go, but there are lots of questions for sure.
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  most major leagues in the North America do this.
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  Like NFL you need like seven different s subscriptions to watch NFL football.
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  MLB and like we are lucky in Canada with the Blue Jays that like ninety eight percent of the games are on Sports Net because if you are a a fan in the US, good luck finding your
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  game.
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  Good luck.
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  They're everywhere.
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  They're blacked out.
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  it's a mess.
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  I think NBA does something.
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  Yeah, Prime, Monday Nights, um, NHL.
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  I mean, I think I think some people were hoping that it wouldn't be Dizone because things like Apple and Prime, a lot of people already have.
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  Most people have a Prime account, most people have a Netflix account.
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  So DZone is a little bit of a tough pill to swallow when if you don't pay for the yearly package, it is $35 a month.
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  uh
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  really like the fact that it is designed because they are sports oriented.
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  watching yeah, watching like that
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  Baseball on Apple TV was brutal.
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  Um if you are a fan of the game and not just a fan, it was really hard.
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  Um same thing we watch a lot of hockey in our house and to do the prime, it it was really hard getting used to different commentators and how they do things and like they threw a
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  lot of money at it, but I don't think it had I mean I guess they get better at it the more they do it, but that's what I'm hopeful is that at least the zone specializes focused
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  is only does sports.
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  And so that to me means like maybe we'll get some really good production quality because this is something that they they already do.
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  Well I think I personally agree with just about everything you say.
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  uh I've got one issue not even so much with the broadcast deal itself.
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  I think that like you said it's it's got a chance to increase the international viewership of the CFL.
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  I think that it's something that we were gonna get no matter what, and maybe going with a sports service is a good thing.
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  Now I will say that they have
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  Apparently 20 million subscribers worldwide.
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  It's hard to get an answer on that for Canada.
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  It looks like in Canada they're probably somewhere between about 400,000 and a million.
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  And I reading between the lines, it looks like it's on the closer to the lower end at this point.
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  Maybe that'll up a bunch with the CFL.
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  But my problem with this is not the deal, but there are people out there
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  That are defending this to the death of what a wonderful thing it is.
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  And they keep saying the same thing.
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  So it's an extra 25 bucks a month.
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  Well, we don't know if it's going to be an extra 25 bucks a month.
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  It's going to be whatever it's going to be.
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  And I can't see the price going down.
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  And they're going, but what's that?
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  You know, anybody can afford that.
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  If you're a real fan, you're you're gonna bid just pay that.
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  And then they turn around and say, and the great thing about it is this is this like platform that attracts all the younger people, the young men and and younger families.
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  Well, if you're a young family, twenty five bucks more a month that you're not budgeted for can be significant.
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  And I really I get annoyed at people who just assume that that everybody can just afford a little bit more of this.
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  So are you chasing away fans you have that are young fans who now can't see their team three, four times a year and does not chase them away, but does that reduce the engagement
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  on it?
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  this is like when T um CFL moved from C B C to TSN.
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  So but a little bit same difference.
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  but they started with like f it's like someone pointed this out to me.
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  I don't even know if it's true or not, but that like they went from they went from fifteen games originally over to TSN and then the rest were on C B C.
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  And they're like, Well you were your family just would have paid for cable to watch all those games.
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  And I was like, I don't think our parents paid for cable to watch fifteen games of CFL football.
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  We just didn't watch them.
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  And then actually for about 10 years, I didn't even have cable because I couldn't afford it.
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  And I just did I went to um I was living in Calgary.
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  I went to one CFL game a year when the Ti Cats came to town, and that's the only thing I could afford to go to.
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  so we're already paying for a hundred streaming services.
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  I pay for TSN, I pay for SportsNet, I pay for Prime, I pay for Netflix, I'm so adding twenty-five to thirty-five dollars a month extra is a big deal.
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  Yeah.
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  It is a big deal and for for four games a month, it is a that is a big chunk of change.
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  And I r didn't really appreciate the three down guys calling me out like that 'cause I'm like I have been very poor where I couldn't even watch football because it wasn't on a
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  free broadcast.
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  And how many people did they lose moving f it from C B C to T S N?
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  I mean, do they ever have numbers on that?
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  I don't know.
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  I don't remember.
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  But I mean it is good competition for TSN because like let's be honest it's getting a little like uh slack over there.
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  So they they do need some competition.
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  Well, and I guess I don't know much about broadcasting at all or numbers, money, but I I was curious why they didn't go back to C B C.
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  Maybe C B C doesn't have the money um that they were looking for, because that's how I watch all of the Northern Super League soccer games.
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  like the Canadian Base or Basketball League is on C B C as well.
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  W H L is on.
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  Yeah.
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  so I'm I'm just it it looks like C B C is kinda cornering the market on a lot of those sports that families watch.
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  And so that got me thinking, well, it was like I guess always follow the money.
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  So was it did they even maybe consider and I guess w I I'll never know and not that that matters, but I'm just really curious why they went with um DZON streaming um paywall
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  versus a deal with C V C and it probably does come down to money.
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  Because they want twenty year olds who are betting.
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  They don't care that you're s five year olds watching the game.
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  They want twenty year old men who are betting.
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  That's where the money is.
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  That's where money is now.
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  That's it that's where it is.
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  That's where all sports is going.
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  They don't care if you're at the stadium.
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  They don't care if you're necessarily even watching it.
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  They just want you betting on it.
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  And I think part of it, my conspiracy is, is that they hope that they'll accidentally think it's an
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  NFL game and just start watching it.
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  Like, like when it goes on to the zone and they're pulling all the NFL games.
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  I'm like someone they're just hoping some like guys hanging out are just accidentally gonna start watching it.
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  And that's their new demographic.
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  exactly.
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  And and and it might have been the money some bit, but I do think it's more of that.
• 22:57
  The fact that they're trying to and to their credit, you the you do need to lower the age of your fan base if you wanna stay healthy and financial and all.
• 23:06
  And they're looking at the fact that apparently, I don't know, but I'm told that an awful lot of people in that young generation just don't bother with cable.
• 23:14
  They do everything through streaming now anyway.
• 23:17
  So there's that
• 23:18
  But if you're paying for cable, you are paying probably at least a hundred bucks a month for a minimum package that would have T S N.
• 23:25
  And if you're not, then if you want to watch the CFL, yeah, this isn't under twenty five bucks, but you're also already paying thirty bucks for T SN streaming.
• 23:33
  So now you're at fifty five bucks a month, you know, for for half the year, that's not a a small ch chunk of change.
• 23:40
  But
• 23:40
  get a discount on my TSN subscription because I'm gonna be down four games a month?
• 23:46
  Not a chance
• 23:47
  luck.
• 23:47
  Good luck.
• 23:49
  Now
• 23:49
  gonna ask if you got a press discount 'cause you're in a podcast.
• 23:54
  I should!
• 23:55
  Can I write off my TSN subscription?
• 23:58
  I I think so.
• 23:59
  It's important to be able to do this.
• 24:00
  Yes.
• 24:02
  Anyway, I will say the upside the two upsides to the deal that I do see are the fact that they're taking over the preseason games, which means we should see better production,
• 24:15
  better value on that, because they're not gonna go in with just a a a cut down stadium crew because that's their product going ahead.
• 24:22
  that the preseason games are gonna be on YouTube.
• 24:24
  okay, are they 'cause the initial announcement I heard was D uh Zone, whatever.
• 24:29
  um d the you preseason's gonna be on YouTube.
• 24:32
  Okay, well we'll see how they do with that.
• 24:34
  The other good thing with this deal is they were talking about the fact that there there's also going to be coverage of the combine out of it.
• 24:40
  Now whether that'll be YouTube or or or DZone, I don't know, but that
• 24:45
  it'll be on YouTube so with that's free for everyone, right?
• 24:47
  Like that'll be nice.
• 24:50
  Yes.
• 24:51
  And l and my last thought on it was I think possibly this explains the expanded playoff format because they needed two playoff games to give to Dzone and they didn't have enough.
• 25:04
  Which fits that fits into the no ties because if we're thinking about gambling, can't have a tie.
• 25:09
  Yeah.
• 25:10
  Yes.
• 25:11
  I will point out that I think it was JC Abbott on three down about two or three weeks ago who said there is no guarantee we'll never have another tie in the CFL.
• 25:21
  'Cause the name the the rule doesn't say anything about what happens if you're in a game that's tied and has gone far enough to be considered a result and then you get a rain
• 25:31
  delay of eight hours.
• 25:34
  You get a tie.
• 25:35
  And or do they change the rule for that?
• 25:37
  Trust somebody to find the most obscure thing that it could be.
• 25:40
  But anyway, what did y'all think of the fact that Ryan Dinwiddie came out before even watching Drew Brown in a game and named Jake Maier his starting quarterback?
• 25:51
  Drew was so mad in that game, he was like throwing like his life depended on it.
• 25:56
  He's like, I'll show you what's up, Ryan.
• 25:58
  Like
• 25:59
  Yeah, interesting.
• 26:00
  I don't know.
• 26:01
  I don't I don't even know what ri he's a magician though, so who knows?
• 26:05
  It's probably gonna be amazing.
• 26:06
  He's the quarterback whisperer, yes.
• 26:09
  I'm not surprised at all.
• 26:10
  He's it's some from the day he was hired in his first press conference, he said, I'm not comfortable with Drew Brown.
• 26:16
  He flat out said, you know, it's gonna be an open content.
• 26:19
  He didn't even have Jake Maier in those days.
• 26:21
  He didn't even have another quarterback and he was already downplaying Drew Brown before last season was basically over.
• 26:29
  So he did he get a fair shake at at training camp?
• 26:32
  Who knows?
• 26:33
  Um was it was it already preset that Maier was gonna be the guy?
• 26:37
  who knows?
• 26:38
  but it certainly reminds me a little bit of the Edmonton scenario from the past few years where it was like, yeah, no, uh, we're talking through our R, but it's really going to be
• 26:47
  someone else.
• 26:48
  It's not going to be Trey Ford and it's not going to be Brown.
• 26:51
  it's both it's interesting that both of those guys signed almost identical deals three years ago and when they moved to new teams, by based on their
• 27:00
  on the same agent and now they've both been relegated to backup status on on different teams, or at least in Tre Ford has.
• 27:08
  so but at least Dru Brown's still making the starter money.
• 27:11
  So you know that's not so bad for him and good for him.
• 27:14
  At least he's got that this year in his bank.
• 27:17
  but uh I would be pissed and I don't blame him if he it looked like he was, even though he was doing his best in the interview that I saw not to look like he was.
• 27:25
  He was
• 27:26
  He still looked like he was and he deserves to be pissed, if he didn't even get a fair shot.
• 27:30
  hey, it's all Jake Maier will fool ya That's all I can say.
• 27:35
  Yeah.
• 27:35
  stamps fan, you know very well, yes.
• 27:38
  Yeah.
• 27:38
  uh
• 27:40
  I don't know.
• 27:41
  It was a bold move.
• 27:43
  give uh give Coach Dinwiddie his credit.
• 27:45
  he believes in what he does and moves ahead with bold move.
• 27:48
  I did find it interesting that after doing that in the s game, the the next preseason game where they got to play, they gave Maier over a quarter to play and he was six for nine and
• 27:59
  thirty five yards and did not look near as good as he did the week before.
• 28:04
  And then Dru Brown came out and they gave him two drives where he went seven for eight and two touchdowns.
• 28:08
  And all of a sudden, real quick, he was off there.
• 28:11
  do not want a quarterback controversy going at this point.
• 28:15
  But uh yeah, after after his first touchdown, this didn't happen.
• 28:19
  Well, part of it happened.
• 28:20
  After his first touchdown, he came running over and and he talked to Jake Maier of course, is the way the quarterbacks always talk after s usually after a series or stuff like that.
• 28:30
  But in my mind, he ran over and he said,
• 28:32
  That's how you do a starting performance.
• 28:37
  No
• 28:38
  I was just is it not working?
• 28:41
  Can you hear me?
• 28:43
  okay.
• 28:44
  sorry.
• 28:44
  I was just
• 28:45
  we're just we're just way more aggressive than you are, MJ too.
• 28:48
  So yeah so yeah, you got fight for your right as you know, as the beastie said, fight for your right to party.
• 28:54
  Come on, let's go.
• 28:55
  Yeah.
• 28:55
  This is bare knuckle broadcasting.
• 28:58
  Ha ha ha.
• 28:59
  But I can't help but think after coming out of a training camp, you've got all of your offensive team thinking, okay, so we're going with Jake Mayer, but what if you wanna stick
• 29:10
  with Dru Brown?
• 29:12
  And so I don't know, that's like you like as a player I think that that would be good that you had a clear direction from your coach and you knew, but also when you're seeing this
• 29:25
  like backup
• 29:27
  get the results, that that might be tricky yeah, controversy.
• 29:32
  Yeah, it's possible.
• 29:33
  I ha I had in my notes from later in the game that the starting unit that were out there at the start of both preseason games didn't seem to have quite the jump in their step that
• 29:43
  they did the first week.
• 29:45
  And is that maybe 'cause they're Brown people.
• 29:50
  And I I don't think we're gonna see the full on sulk that we saw in B C a few years ago when Nathan came back and
• 29:56
  replaced VA.
• 29:58
  But if you don't really believe in the quarterback you've got out there, do you perform as well?
• 30:03
  So is there gonna be any kind of a quarterback?
• 30:06
  Yeah, is there gonna be yeah, exactly.
• 30:08
  Is there gonna be any kind of locker room repercussions?
• 30:11
  Who knows?
• 30:11
  lessons.
• 30:12
  No lessons have been learned.
• 30:14
  That's exactly it.
• 30:15
  I'm like we've lived this before.
• 30:16
  they just forget them.
• 30:19
  Or or yeah.
• 30:22
  This time it'll be different.
• 30:23
  This time it's me doing it.
• 30:25
  Yeah it
• 30:26
  Good luck, Jake.
• 30:27
  Hope you do well.
• 30:33
  Yeah, that's right.
• 30:35
  We don't No wait!
• 30:37
  Yeah, we're we're Argo fans.
• 30:39
  Forgot about that.
• 30:41
  Ha ha.
• 30:41
  Hard to forget.
• 30:43
  I'm moving on.
• 30:45
  Uh the th they did the cuts and most of them were again people that we've never heard of.
• 30:51
  Rather than run through a sort of a team by team thing, I've got a list of about yeah maybe a dozen people here that I'll just ramble off the names and then we can talk about
• 31:02
  it from there about whether you thought it would happen or whatever.
• 31:05
  So this is in no particular order of teams because of how I put them together.
• 31:09
  I
• 31:10
  lineman Vandal from Toronto, who's been a starter, was released.
• 31:14
  tackle Kendall Randolph from Winnipeg was released.
• 31:17
  Defensive lineman, Kenny Onyeka from Hamilton.
• 31:21
  Defensive lineman, Dylan Wynne.
• 31:23
  Chico Bennett Jr.
• 31:24
  from Saskatchewan.
• 31:25
  I added him in there.
• 31:26
  That's not a name that you're probably going to be familiar with.
• 31:29
  He came into the Riders camp, or he came in with the Riders late last year and got into a couple of games.
• 31:34
  And everybody was saying at the start of the season.
• 31:38
  At the start of camp, he was the front runner to get a starting position at that extra D end.
• 31:43
  So to see him gone is a little bit strange.
• 31:46
  Casey, the linebacker from Toronto also surprised a lot of people.
• 31:50
  Deonte Ruffin from BC, Tyson Blackburn.
• 31:54
  they're both DBs, Tyson Blackburn out of Toronto.
• 31:57
  DeAndre Lamont, another D B out of Winnipeg.
• 32:00
  The kicker out of Saskatchewan Kim, and I'm told that came down more to nationality than anything.
• 32:06
  And this one who is probably not going to be a name most people recognize, but it was the MJ curse on him, so I had to say that Bly from Ottawa also got cut.
• 32:16
  Yeah.
• 32:17
  I know.
• 32:18
  Any thoughts on any of those?
• 32:20
  Are they people that are past their prime?
• 32:22
  Are there s ones I also I didn't have Hergey Malala from uh BC in there and he was
• 32:29
  cut Newton.
• 32:30
  He had three touchdowns in that preseason game and they cut him the next day.
• 32:36
  And I'm actually surprised Dylan Wynne got cut, but
• 32:39
  You know, th there was there's what happened to Super Mario Alfred, so I'm thinking the way to get cut in Ti Cat camp is score a bunch of touchdowns.
• 32:46
  Yeah, do well.
• 32:46
  We don't like that.
• 32:49
  We might win a gray cup that we that can't be happening.
• 32:52
  No no.
• 32:54
  No no Can't have you show up Kenny Lawler.
• 32:56
  Enough with you.
• 32:58
  The Argo spies.
• 33:00
  Argo spies, maybe you're right.
• 33:03
  Hmm.
• 33:05
  So there was there wasn't there wasn't a lot of names that I was surprised uh actually there was a fair amount.
• 33:11
  As I had suggested there was going to be guys that were you know, pretty big names that get cut and there always are.
• 33:16
  I mean I think Dylan Wynn's pro MJ is probably your biggest, but again, he's thirty two going on, thirty three years old.
• 33:22
  As a defensive lineman, that is sort of the end of your shelf line.
• 33:24
  He's gone through what, three teams in the last three years, I think.
• 33:28
  So
• 33:29
  that's also shows you something and they just moved on.
• 33:33
  they just, you know, it's I'm not that surprised by him.
• 33:36
  I was a little bit will I think he get another job?
• 33:39
  Yeah, he might get another shot, especially as an injury guy.
• 33:42
  Um, midway through the season, you might see him get another job.
• 33:45
  A lot of these guys also get re signed, as I think is also on the rundown that they get signed immediately to other teams.
• 33:51
  Guys like Blackburn from Toronto got re signed immediately into Eb I think it's a he's gone to Edmonton.
• 33:57
  Um the one that surprised me out of the Argos the most was um was Casey.
• 34:02
  He really looked good last year when he was in and I I'm surprised that it's been two or three days and he's not re-signed somewhere else.
• 34:10
  So either he's taking his time or he's just you know to decide where he wants to play or maybe if he wants to play.
• 34:18
  but that one was probably not the fact that he got cut, that surprised me, but the fact that he hasn't re signed somewhere, that's also surprised me.
• 34:26
  Um
• 34:27
  news.
• 34:28
  Breaking news, he's re signed.
• 34:30
  Go ahead.
• 34:31
  I'll tell you about it in a minute.
• 34:32
  Okay.
• 34:33
  and the the one the another one that was um prior to the cuts that surprised me as much as anything was in Calgary where they released just like minutes, literally minutes before,
• 34:45
  apparently before the uh the announcement of the um
• 34:48
  starting lineup for last week's preseason game.
• 34:50
  They they cut the defensive back that they've signed as a free agent out of Edmonton And then he's already re-signed in Hamilton.
• 34:58
  So I was surprised at that because I was quite high on him coming into coming in because he has such an outstanding rookie year.
• 35:04
  but then he was you know had a bad injury and was was injured all of last year.
• 35:09
  So maybe it came down to some something like an injury and the stamps just didn't think he was going to be able to go.
• 35:16
  Or they said, you know, we're not comfortable, will you move to the practice roster?
• 35:20
  And he just said no.
• 35:21
  so they cut him early.
• 35:23
  So that one was a little to me was was surprising.
• 35:27
  and yeah, there's a few other guys that I'm sure will show up on other teams roster because there is a always a bit of churn after uh training camps.
• 35:35
  And Deonte Ruffin was, I think, probably just a an age thing again, getting to the end of his career.
• 35:41
  Anything else from either of the MJs?
• 35:43
  Anybody surprised you?
• 35:45
  Well, Mazzoli and McLeod Bethel Thompson remain free agents.
• 35:51
  So shocking.
• 35:52
  Just in case you were wondering.
• 35:54
  Who do you think will sign first?
• 35:56
  We should have a like a speaking of gambling, we should have a
• 36:00
  camping.
• 36:00
  What's the over under what's the w what's the over under on or yeah, or or what are the odds of the the the Thompson signs perform Mazoli Well I gotta tell ya but the the one
• 36:16
  that surprised me based on previous stuff, so who knows where his level of play is at, but
• 36:20
  I was quite happy for Winnipeg when um when they picked up DeAndre Lamont uh out of Ottawa.
• 36:27
  I thought that two yeah, two years back, him and Webb on the boundary side in Ottawa, I thought were the best combination in the league.
• 36:36
  And then Webb went off to Saskatchewan and Lamont seemed to play okay, but mm w what I saw of him playing in the preseason, he seemed to be doing okay, but he's gone, so who knows?
• 36:46
  Now you like you said, GT, that yeah.
• 36:49
  Devodrick Bynum signed with uh re-signed with or signed again with Hamilton.
• 36:54
  So I had him Edmonton's Calgary Hamilton as his trajectory.
• 36:59
  Kendall Randolph with Winnipeg Cut is with Toronto and Ottawa has signed three people.
• 37:04
  They th signed Casey out Toronto, they signed Benjamin Victor out of Edmonton, who I should have probably had on my list of notable cuts, but he only played four or five games
• 37:14
  at the end of last season.
• 37:15
  And they also signed a global defensive lineman.
• 37:19
  Kamari
• 37:20
  It's got probably a French thing spelling on this or something.
• 37:23
  Anyway, Kamari Meunier Bailey, perhaps.
• 37:25
  Am I close on that?
• 37:26
  I don't know.
• 37:27
  He's uh didn't play much last year, but he was in the global draft last year and they picked him up from Winnipeg.
• 37:35
  And that otherwise, yeah, we're just looking to see where the dust settles.
• 37:38
  I'm gonna jump this one one ahead on the rundown so nobody gets too confused.
• 37:42
  I'm sh I imagine you heard even in Europe.
• 37:45
  I I think I sent a text saying, Are you even coming back if being in Europe gives the stamps this kind of luck?
• 37:51
  Because they re-signed Hutchings and then announced this week that him and Arimilade are both cleared to play.
• 37:59
  Which seemed early.
• 38:00
  did Reggie get cleared to play?
• 38:02
  Because I haven't seen that.
• 38:05
  Okay, yeah.
• 38:06
  Last I saw he was
• 38:07
  did not participate.
• 38:08
  So yeah.
• 38:09
  they cleared him he's on the active roster now.
• 38:11
  Okay, yeah, because I did not see that either because the last interview I saw was after I think Monday's practices and di and Dickinson said Reggie wasn't quite ready yet.
• 38:21
  So that's good news as well.
• 38:23
  They'll probably ease him in a little bit more, but I imagine Hutchings Flo Orimolade are gonna be ready to go.
• 38:30
  Um I'm not surprised by Flo Orimolade because the he you know the interview was a couple months ago with with uh their own
• 38:38
  in house guys um and and they interviewed him and he said he would probably be ready for for the start of the season.
• 38:44
  so that's great news obviously and then Hutchins coming back disappointed for him on one hand but happy to have him back again and super happy that he signed a three year deal as
• 38:54
  well when he did manage to come back.
• 38:56
  so that's terrific.
• 38:58
  And I think yeah that that line
• 39:00
  Now looks like the line that they had in the first half of last year rather than the second half of last year when that defense was pretty darn awesome.
• 39:08
  So they've got all almost all of the pieces back.
• 39:12
  um I think the stamps are looking pretty good at this stage of the game.
• 39:15
  They're they're looking almost like a not a lot of turnover, a couple of small pieces, unlike they needed last year.
• 39:22
  And I think, yeah, it's gonna be a good start for them.
• 39:25
  So that's great news.
• 39:26
  cup year.
• 39:27
  Like you're building f to win at home, right?
• 39:30
  And I think that's exciting to come back and sign 'cause especially when you already know like Hutchings coming back, he knows that system, he knows that team.
• 39:40
  And especially like yeah, cup run year, like
• 39:43
  That's an exciting time to get into like back at the team.
• 39:47
  I've been noticing like I'm at the McMahon Stadium for some of the Calgary Wild games and they've been sprucing things up for the start of the season, so starting to get exciting
• 39:57
  for for Calgary.
• 39:59
  Like that's excellent news for them.
• 40:01
  Yeah, I was surprised when you said that about Bagleton 'cause I did look at today's injury reports.
• 40:06
  He was still listed as did not participate with a knee.
• 40:09
  They list Hutchings on there with his hamstring as limited and Orimalade was full.
• 40:16
  Yeah.
• 40:17
  is active and not on the injured list.
• 40:19
  That's well that's good news to see.
• 40:21
  Yeah.
• 40:21
  So but whether he's ready to play this week may or may not.
• 40:25
  I don't know.
• 40:26
  Cause like I said, it I'm just going by what they said there.
• 40:29
  So still Yeah.
• 40:33
  D doesn't M Yeah, exactly.
• 40:36
  He'll be there or not.
• 40:37
  that's what Dickinson said is that Reggie's not he's not coming along as fast as uh as they thought he might be.
• 40:44
  And he's uh and if he's able to play he will because Dickinson's and if anybody's able to play, I play them.
• 40:51
  But if he's but if he's not he won't play.
• 40:53
  So I don't I honestly don't expect him to to be on the on the active roster this week.
• 40:59
  He's on the roster, but I don't think he'll be on the active roster this week.
• 41:02
  He'll be
• 41:04
  I hope this doesn't turn into like an Adam Bighill kind of situation where you think you're back but you're not back and when you're back you're not the same.
• 41:14
  Um 'cause how long was he out last season?
• 41:20
  Yeah.
• 41:21
  Maybe a little more.
• 41:22
  Yeah, hopefully he'll be ready.
• 41:24
  Yeah.
• 41:25
  think it was the first or second game when he went down.
• 41:27
  So yeah.
• 41:29
  Yeah.
• 41:30
  So yeah.
• 41:32
  he's able to come back and perform as he wants to, but 'cause he's getting up there.
• 41:40
  Yeah.
• 41:40
  definitely or has the potential to help unless he's really lost a lot from the injury.
• 41:45
  I would not expect that.
• 41:46
  I think he'll do just fine.
• 41:48
  And regardless of that, I think you have to say the the stamps prospects, especially for those first two, three, four games of the season, look a lot better now than they did a
• 41:57
  week ago.
• 41:58
  Because we were yeah.
• 42:01
  We were expecting no Hutchings and a Orimalade back.
• 42:04
  Yeah.
• 42:04
  why we picked them to win Great Cup.
• 42:06
  We knew.
• 42:06
  Yeah.
• 42:08
  There we go.
• 42:08
  Alrighty, so that's the good news for the Calgary folks.
• 42:17
  Hey, that's where we are.
• 42:18
  We're choices don't sit well, but
• 42:23
  Okay.
• 42:25
  I also wanted to mention CFL expansion, 'cause interestingly enough, it all became could be something exciting when they came out that there was a group looking at building a
• 42:35
  whole entertainment district and stadium and everything in Halifax.
• 42:39
  And then the president of the Laval Rouge Orge or said that they would be welcome they would welcome CFL into
• 42:48
  Quebec City, if there was a new stadium.
• 42:50
  And then about three days later, cold water got splashed on that when somebody came forward and said, this group that's building in Halifax, the fellow who owns the land has
• 43:00
  pulled out and is now saying he's using it for something different.
• 43:03
  So I don't Yeah, so so I don't think that that that's gonna happen quick.
• 43:10
  However, out of Quebec City today reporting, and I don't know the Quebec City media landscape, so I'm not sure
• 43:17
  Quite who this is.
• 43:18
  I think he's one of he's a radio personality there.
• 43:20
  Uh Sylvain Bouchard did a feature.
• 43:24
  I think it was about a 15 minute feature on this saying that there have been a group of businessmen in Quebec City that have been working for over a year on putting together a
• 43:33
  plan for a CFL team.
• 43:36
  They're extremely excited about it.
• 43:38
  They think they can get it done.
• 43:39
  They're looking at putting a 25,000 seat stadium in on the grounds of the Colisee.
• 43:46
  Now that I'm think is probably a sporting venue in Montreal.
• 43:49
  Does anybody know?
• 43:49
  Am I pi pronouncing that wrong?
• 43:52
  Colisea I believe is the old hockey arena where the old Nordique used to play out back in the day.
• 43:58
  then they built that shiny news uh arena, which I don't know what it's called.
• 44:03
  that I think actually Carl Perado that owns the Alouettes now, I think he built hoping to get the Nordique back into the NHL.
• 44:12
  Um and I think maybe the ramparts in the Q still play out of there.
• 44:17
  And so maybe they're using it, the the land that was available for where the old Colisea used to be, Now that's that's just off the top of whatever little bit of head I have left.
• 44:27
  So
• 44:28
  that makes sense to me.
• 44:29
  It's more than I know about it.
• 44:30
  The other thing is despite what they said last week with the president of Laval football, said they'd need their own stadium, that the PEPS facility would not work for CFL
• 44:39
  football.
• 44:40
  what this fellow is saying now is that that is definitely true.
• 44:44
  They're building a new stadium.
• 44:45
  But that Laval is open to them playing out of PEPS for a year or two as the stadium gets built to establish a franchise.
• 44:53
  So who knows, maybe
• 44:54
  Show me the money.
• 44:57
  Because it's three to four hundred million minimum in a scale down stadium, five to six in today's world as costs have gone up since any of the newly recent ones have been built.
• 45:08
  So to get something that's
• 45:09
  reasonable you're looking at half a billion to more and who's gonna pay for it?
• 45:14
  That's what it comes down to for expansion of this league in every city they want to go down.
• 45:19
  Without a stadium, there's no expansion.
• 45:22
  And without money, there's no stadium.
• 45:24
  And without a reason for government to spend money, there's nobody that's gonna build a stadium because there in this country no one will spend their own money to build a stadium
• 45:33
  for ten dates a year.
• 45:35
  So unless you're going to bring in a bunch of other things and you're able to do that and the city will relax your bylaws enough that you can have concerts and et cetera, et
• 45:44
  cetera, that you can use the stadium for more than 10 dates a year, it's not financially feasible to build it.
• 45:50
  Every time one of these stories come out, the first thing you need to ask is who's paying for a stadium?
• 45:56
  And if there's no stadium and if there's nobody paying for it, and these fly by night things in Halifax, like the one that was announced last week, is exactly the same
• 46:05
  proposal, just on a piece of a different piece of land than the last proposal in Halifax was.
• 46:10
  And they all want to say, just like Ottawa.
• 46:13
  Well, Ottawa wanted desperately and was willing to do it.
• 46:16
  And the guys that that um
• 46:19
  got the red blacks back in the league.
• 46:21
  They also threw a lot of their own money in.
• 46:23
  So if you don't have your own money and if you're not willing to spend it, again, pfft it's pie in the sky.
• 46:29
  And all these stories can jump out and everything else.
• 46:32
  But show me the real money, not the storied money, not some guy from Saskatoon that wants to build a stadium in Halifax like that last proposal was.
• 46:43
  No, let's get real
• 46:45
  investors with real dough with real commitment and make and continue on the progress that we've had in having new owners recently that are deep pocketed and have the sense and the
• 46:57
  money to be able to back themselves up for the long term.
• 47:00
  Because otherwise we're just back into the cycle of rinse, wash and repeat of guys buying teams and then three years later bailing on them.
• 47:08
  And I don't want to see that for this in this league at all anymore.
• 47:11
  I'd rather stay at nine teams than have that.
• 47:14
  on a tenth or eleventh or twelfth team.
• 47:16
  And then you're just back into the same cycle of just running around trying to get somebody else to pick up the pieces.
• 47:22
  So yeah, that's my that's my story on expansion.
• 47:27
  What they need to do in Halifax is partner with the Halifax Wanderers, the soccer team.
• 47:33
  and the tides.
• 47:34
  yeah, yeah, they they you know, again, read what ha what the wanderers want.
• 47:39
  They want their own.
• 47:40
  They're soccer guys.
• 47:42
  Soccer never wants to partner with anyone.
• 47:45
  They're the best in the world.
• 47:46
  It's the grand old game.
• 47:48
  It's whatever they call it.
• 47:50
  They are the most insulated and insecure
• 47:54
  uh and inward looking people there are because they just think they're they are the best game in the world and that's all there is to it.
• 48:01
  And they want what they want and they want nothing less and nothing to share.
• 48:06
  And the wanderers do not want to share a stadium.
• 48:09
  They want their own private little pitch for their own little club that they can all go out and jump up and down for an hour and a half every week and make a lot of noise and
• 48:18
  that's what they do.
• 48:19
  So
• 48:20
  Yeah, sorry, again, I'm off on a tangent, but it's just, you know, when they hear these stories about sharing, no, no, no.
• 48:27
  They don't want to share.
• 48:29
  They do not want to share.
• 48:31
  are teams that do.
• 48:32
  The Forge share with the Ticats.
• 48:34
  And that's a really great part of it.
• 48:37
  because the Ty Cats were there first and they had no choice for the Forge to get into the league if they wanted to go into Hamilton, they had to share.
• 48:46
  If they can get do a way where they don't have to share, that's what they want to do.
• 48:52
  If somebody in Hamilton if somebody in Hamilton, if somebody in Hamilton, if somebody in Hamilton had said that they wanted to buy or they were willing to build their own stadium
• 49:04
  ten thousand or fifteen thousand or whatever they wanted for soccer alone, the forge would run to it with their arms up in the air saying thank you very much.
• 49:13
  They don't want soccer does not want to share.
• 49:17
  They just don't.
• 49:19
  think
• 49:19
  where are all the women's soccer teams playing?
• 49:22
  well they renamed it McWoman Stadium.
• 49:26
  So they play out a McMahon.
• 49:27
  they again, guys, you're arguing my point.
• 49:30
  They had no choice again in Calgary because there was no place else for them to stay.
• 49:38
  They all they play be where they have to because they have to share the stadium.
• 49:43
  If they are allowed to build their own stadium, they won't share.
• 49:48
  If they and the wanderers field, they own it.
• 49:52
  The wanderers field, they're not giving up that.
• 49:55
  It's go back to BMO.
• 49:57
  Why, how and how BMO happened.
• 49:59
  all that because Laval won't share with them either.
• 50:01
  So maybe CFL are just a bad partner to partner business with.
• 50:05
  Maybe no one wants to b do business with CFL football.
• 50:08
  Because Laval, the Rouget R are like no, and then I don't think you're gonna get a CF a Quebec City team in without support of the Rouget or fans.
• 50:17
  You're you're not.
• 50:19
  the dinos, like the Calgary U Sports, they're looking at building their own field and that's a real problem for the stamps as well, because if you don't have that university
• 50:30
  income, what does that do as well?
• 50:32
  So
• 50:32
  Stamps wanna build um their field at the chuck wagon races.
• 50:37
  Like around them during the game, it'll be kind of fun.
• 50:42
  It'll replace their horse who does whatever the stuff.
• 50:46
  uh everybody, whether you're university, soccer, football, whatever, you want your own stadium, and usually it's a pie in the sky, but there's too stuff to what GT says.
• 50:55
  I mean, look at the white caps whining about they're gonna leave if they don't get a their own stadium out of in Vancouver.
• 51:01
  Well MLS is still soccer.
• 51:06
  No.
• 51:06
  white caps for that because they
• 51:08
  it's ex it's extortion.
• 51:10
  That's what it is.
• 51:11
  It's city it's sports extortion, which is what sports has been living off of for thousands of years and will continue to live off of because fans like us all freak out that our
• 51:22
  team's about to leave and then the city or the government or somebody hands up these sports team that are owned by rich people already a whole wack of dough to build a stadium
• 51:32
  again.
• 51:32
  It's extortion based on the same principle that's been going on forever.
• 51:37
  And it will never change.
• 51:38
  The only people that have it right are the teams that are big enough, that make enough money, that can build their own stadiums and deep pocket owners that are willing to do it
• 51:47
  because they know it works.
• 51:49
  On these middling level sports leagues, they cannot and in Canada especially because of the psychology of this country, there's not a chance somebody's gonna invest in their own
• 52:00
  building
• 52:01
  unless they're getting something back and you know and
• 52:04
  who don't share their building are the like raptors and the blue jays.
• 52:09
  Everyone else is sharing stadiums and arenas with a multiple with do they share okay, so the only people are the the blue jays.
• 52:19
  That's it.
• 52:19
  Everyone else is piggybacking and sharing and divvying up.
• 52:24
  So, I mean that's just the way it's gonna go.
• 52:26
  It's just the way it's gonna have to be like when the Ticats like they were threatening to move the Ty Cats, we just started calling them the Quebec City Tig Tigra shots because
• 52:34
  we're like, fine.
• 52:35
  Fine.
• 52:37
  But then they ended up building where they were, but I mean I mean this the government of Alberta just paid for the Flames new hockey arena.
• 52:44
  I I'm wait I'm waiting for my season seats for that since I am a taxpayer but
• 52:49
  Yes.
• 52:51
  Well
• 52:52
  that's what I say.
• 52:53
  It doesn't happen.
• 52:54
  we could apply maybe Stuart Johnson can apply to the Sovereign Sovereign Wealth Fund and the federal government can build them for us.
• 53:01
  Just create a public company and run the s the football through it.
• 53:05
  Yeah, you can go in like Randy did.
• 53:07
  We don't really have a plan, but we'd like a few million dollars, please.
• 53:11
  Any anyway.
• 53:12
  is a great spot for a thirty thousand Steve.
• 53:16
  Like it'll be fine, it'll be fine.
• 53:19
  I I I'm calling time on this one before we somebody starts swinging here.
• 53:24
  It's it is an a a a passionate topic.
• 53:27
  Who knows where it'll go?
• 53:29
  I will say this the the article or the what I saw out of Quebec City today was not pumping up and saying, we're gonna get a team right away.
• 53:37
  They were saying that there's a lot going on that people don't know about it, that it's been in the plans for about a year, that they have several local wealthy business people
• 53:48
  in
• 53:49
  engaged and talking about it, that they have a spot for the stadium.
• 53:53
  they know their they say the budget for the stadium's gonna be four hundred and twenty-five million, which is in within the reasonable range of it there.
• 54:00
  Two weeks ago the president of the uh Laval University team s changed from saying we don't want CFL here to we'd welcome them as long as they have a stadium.
• 54:10
  And this is saying apparently now Laval is open to talking about at least a short-term share.
• 54:15
  So
• 54:17
  I feel more positive about Quebec Dit City than I have about Halifax in a long time.
• 54:21
  I'm not expecting it.
• 54:23
  and that may be why all of a sudden the shift went from la about this time last year from Halifax to Quebec City publicly by the league and by a lot of other people, that maybe,
• 54:34
  you know, Quebec City's a n the better option and there was and and that might be why, because that that was stuff going on there that we weren't aware of it.
• 54:43
  Yes.
• 54:44
  So
• 54:44
  there's a first someone throws a pass in the new stadium with a new team, then I'll get excited about it.
• 54:52
  Yes, exactly.
• 54:53
  With Jared Deggy as quarterback, 'cause that's what three down did three down built a team out of the cuts and and he was their quarterback.
• 55:00
  Anyway, going on again.
• 55:01
  I'm stuffing one more thing in here that I didn't necessarily have on on what I sent out to you guys.
• 55:06
  I'm not sure if I mentioned this during the the signings and that.
• 55:10
  news came out City Sau, who was a uh Regina drafter
• 55:15
  I I forget where they draft him anyway, two two years ago, has been down in the NFL ever since.
• 55:20
  The Houston waived him.
• 55:22
  Now I'm pretty sure that given the state of the how they're looking for linemen all over down there and the fact that he did start for half the first year with New England, he'll
• 55:33
  probably get some other NFL shots.
• 55:35
  But I also saw that and I thought, yeah, there's a bunch of Ryder fans whose eyes are lighting up because he's down there.
• 55:42
  Now they're saying, okay, send them back and just bring Kyle Hurgal We like the idea of Peyton Collins, Sidy Sow Logan Ferland, Kyle Hurgle and uh Jamarcus Hardrick.
• 55:51
  We'll take that as a line to start.
• 55:53
  Pipe dreams in the prairies.
• 55:55
  And from there, MJ, you had said you wanted to talk a little bit about the fact we're back to Pride Month.
• 56:01
  Yeah, happy pride everyone.
• 56:03
  I just wanted to give a special shout out to four teams who like stepped up and posted about pride.
• 56:12
  So shout out the Redblocks, the Lions, the Ticats and the Bombers.
• 56:16
  You guys are the best.
• 56:17
  Good stuff.
• 56:19
  Let's get everybody else joining in.
• 56:20
  Okay.
• 56:23
  And then I'm on I'm throwing in another question that isn't on here for you guys because I was thinking about this as I was going through the games.
• 56:30
  um when they were doing the Ottawa-Montreal game, they kept saying, Well, you know, it's a surprise that Maier's is a starter, but if you look at the two of them together, they
• 56:38
  probably have the best quarterback tandem, starter and backup in the league right now.
• 56:42
  And I thought, no.
• 56:43
  Hot a chance.
• 56:45
  No who w this was this this was during the this
• 56:50
  t it was on TSN.
• 56:53
  It was on TSN and it was on Friday night, and there was a new broadcaster getting his first taste of it.
• 57:01
  Other than that, I'll I'll let you try and figure out who that might be.
• 57:05
  Someone previewing Friday nights on TSN.
• 57:09
  I don't want to say a name because we don't want him mad at us again.
• 57:14
  Yes, Mr.
• 57:14
  Wilson, Luke Wilson.
• 57:16
  Him and and um and LaPolice were both on Doing Color, and they were both saying this a bit.
• 57:20
  But that raised the question and and it got me thinking about it a bit, and it's been a bit of a hard one for me to answer.
• 57:26
  So let's just go around.
• 57:28
  We'll start with you, MJ.
• 57:29
  Who do you figure the best to what team is best set up with the combination of backup of starter and backup?
• 57:37
  Aloettes.
• 57:38
  With Crum and uh with Alexander and Crumb?
• 57:40
  Yeah.
• 57:41
  MJ two.
• 57:42
  I really like the I really like Hamilton with Bo Levi and um Trey Ford.
• 57:49
  Like I G G G's just gonna laugh.
• 57:53
  But I I don't know.
• 57:54
  I get so excited.
• 57:56
  I I believe in the hope.
• 57:58
  I believe in the story.
• 58:00
  Yes.
• 58:02
  Cause I feel like yeah.
• 58:06
  No.
• 58:07
  No.
• 58:08
  Reality check.
• 58:10
  The best quarterback room in the league, whether you want to say it or not, is absolutely in Toronto 100%.
• 58:19
  Nobody else comes even close.
• 58:22
  I'm sorry.
• 58:23
  You've got the last two MVPs of the Great Cup.
• 58:29
  You've got a quarterback that could have been
• 58:31
  um the MVP of the league last year and and was in the running until he got injured.
• 58:36
  late in the season and he's the backup this year because you're bringing back a guy who set the league on fire the year before and went sixteen and two and was an MVP in the gray
• 58:48
  cup.
• 58:49
  And when in in the half game that he did get to play in the playoffs before he went down was on fire again.
• 58:55
  So I I I don't know
• 58:58
  Like everybody else is like one injury away from going to a second team guy that may or may not be good.
• 59:06
  and nobody has the depth that Toronto has.
• 59:08
  No one has the depth that Toronto has.
• 59:10
  So absolutely not a chance.
• 59:12
  Toronto's by far the best quarterback room in the league.
• 59:18
  So so we're gonna end up picking four teams for the four of us.
• 59:21
  I like this.
• 59:22
  Cause while I agree with it's part of what you say, GT, there's also the fact Kelly hasn't played for a year.
• 59:28
  He's coming off an injury.
• 59:29
  Will he be I I'm not ready to anoint him the best.
• 59:32
  And our buckle, I think, is we'll see if we get the same R buckle under Coach Miller that we got under Dinwiddie, because Dinwiddie seemed to be the R Buckle whisperer.
• 59:40
  So I was thinking about it and I and I didn't like Toronto.
• 59:44
  I
• 59:44
  Until this weekend, this weekend actually changed my mind a bit.
• 59:47
  I thought, you know, as strange as it sounds to say, the best combination I was leaning towards Cody Fidgiardo and Taylor Powell.
• 59:56
  But then Powell looked so bad on this weekend, and Chase Bryce has looked so good in the two preseason games that maybe that's it.
• 1:00:06
  Because they've got the best quarterback in the league.
• 1:00:09
  So if Bryce has made the step, you know, Nathan and and him, they could be it.
• 1:00:14
  That's who that's who I'd give my best shot to right now.
• 1:00:16
  Time will tell.
• 1:00:17
  Fortunately we can always burn the tape if any of us embarrassed ourselves too much.
• 1:00:21
  No, we can't.
• 1:00:22
  It's on YouTube and it'll be there forever.
• 1:00:24
  hopeful hopefully time won't tell because that means one of the main quarterbacks is going down.
• 1:00:30
  the best the best situation is we never get to see backup quarterbacks, right?
• 1:00:34
  Uh unless we're unless we're into the games that don't matter late in the year.
• 1:00:38
  so in reality, hopefully this is all kind of redundant.
• 1:00:42
  So
• 1:00:42
  Academic.
• 1:00:43
  I like that idea.
• 1:00:44
  Yes.
• 1:00:45
  Moot point.
• 1:00:46
  Okay.
• 1:00:46
  T S I was just watching T S N before I jumped on the podcast and they had Milt Stiegel on talking about what does Winnipeg do to protect
• 1:00:57
  Colaros this year.
• 1:00:58
  Like they were talking about his age, the number of concussions, and then they started um talking about all the things they've done to try and like support them.
• 1:01:07
  So we're gonna they're probably gonna r run more.
• 1:01:10
  Like Olievera gonna ask for the ball.
• 1:01:12
  I'm like, Yeah, but he did last year.
• 1:01:13
  Um they brought in some new old linemen and so all I could think about was when you asked that question was well it's not Winnipeg
• 1:01:23
  Yeah.
• 1:01:24
  no no, it Elgersma could be great in the future.
• 1:01:28
  He needs a lot of seasoning and yeah, despite what Mr.
• 1:01:31
  O'Shea says, what Coach O'Shea says, nobody else I believe thinks Zach Colaris is the best quarterback in the league.
• 1:01:37
  Yeah.
• 1:01:38
  I mean the the the best solution would be to wrap him up in bubble wrap like the Michelin man, but it's hard to throw with that, so
• 1:01:44
  I think he needs like a harness and then they can just lift him up and then he just avoids all the tackles.
• 1:01:51
  I think that would be their best plan.
• 1:01:54
  Maybe he'll get like a special rule.
• 1:01:57
  Like Zack has flags now.
• 1:01:58
  You have to flag Zach.
• 1:02:00
  You're not allowed to
• 1:02:01
  that rule for about three years now.
• 1:02:03
  Breathe on Zach and you get a flag.
• 1:02:07
  Okay.
• 1:02:09
  Moving along, I'm gonna I'm gonna throw another question at you folks.
• 1:02:13
  Put you on the hot seat because we are going into the regular season and we did this as a group last two weeks ago, I think, looking at when we filled out our predictor.
• 1:02:23
  But for from each of you now, I'm gonna ask for your who do you think comes out of each division?
• 1:02:28
  in the Grey Cup.
• 1:02:29
  So who are the two Grey Cup teams and who wins it?
• 1:02:32
  And let's start with J two, 'cause you're the the semi guest here.
• 1:02:37
  You're the
• 1:02:37
  Well, like for me it's really easy to pick from the West.
• 1:02:41
  Like I honestly think that Calgary is I don't know, there's something about hosting the Great Cup.
• 1:02:46
  There's something about yeah, bringing back some of these key players and
• 1:02:51
  hope that VA has like a great year so we all know when VA can play.
• 1:02:55
  Uh they're unstoppable.
• 1:02:57
  I'm putting my money or I'm yeah, I'm gonna say Calgary for the West.
• 1:03:02
  And then when it comes to the East, I always want it to be the Ti Cats.
• 1:03:06
  but I don't know this year.
• 1:03:08
  I don't know.
• 1:03:08
  I've I I'll just say the Ty Cats because I don't want to say the Argos.
• 1:03:13
  And who wins it?
• 1:03:14
  Calgary.
• 1:03:14
  I I honestly think that Calgary could win this year and that'd be so fun to win it at home.
• 1:03:20
  Okay, how about you, G T?
• 1:03:21
  Um
• 1:03:22
  Well, like I said, I think I was kind of talked into t taking Calgary when we were together last time, although I had originally picked B C.
• 1:03:29
  So I'm still gonna go with B C because I think B C they win the West.
• 1:03:33
  They win uh they get home field advantage.
• 1:03:36
  And I think that's the big difference for them going into the West final.
• 1:03:40
  that game i it makes a a big difference that then they don't wanna have to play on the road.
• 1:03:45
  So I'm gonna take B C and then get them uh
• 1:03:49
  up against I still I still gonna take Montreal.
• 1:03:53
  I'm feeling less confident than I did earlier about Montreal, but I'm still gonna take Montreal.
• 1:03:58
  and then I will take BC over Montreal.
• 1:04:00
  Hey.
• 1:04:01
  And MJ.
• 1:04:03
  I think it's gonna be Calgary and Hamilton and Calgary's in a win because Hamilton does not win at McMahon.
• 1:04:09
  True.
• 1:04:10
  probably appear to be a homer, of course, because I'm gonna pick Saskatchewan out of the West.
• 1:04:17
  I I know everybody's head over heels on top of BC, but I still see some flaws there.
• 1:04:24
  And the thing is, while Saskatchewan lost players, their system, their culture, I think, will carry them through.
• 1:04:30
  Could be wrong, so I'm picking them.
• 1:04:32
  And Montreal.
• 1:04:33
  I think Montreal w is is same sort of thing.
• 1:04:35
  He's still just there further ahead than Hamilton is at this point, and they've got the experience behind them.
• 1:04:41
  I think it'll be a great game.
• 1:04:42
  And I have no idea, but because I'm a homer, I'll say Saskatchewan to repeat.
• 1:04:48
  So there you go, folks.
• 1:04:49
  You can throw your bricks at us on that.
• 1:04:51
  Tell us where we're wrong.
• 1:04:52
  The uh other bits of news before we get to sort of the games and that.
• 1:04:56
  The the CFL app.
• 1:04:58
  And the brand new site.
• 1:05:00
  Big news.
• 1:05:01
  It's gonna be here in September.
• 1:05:04
  I was just about to look it up.
• 1:05:05
  I'm like, oh I didn't no, never mind.
• 1:05:07
  Put the phone down.
• 1:05:08
  No, no.
• 1:05:10
  False alarm.
• 1:05:12
  They announced today.
• 1:05:13
  They said it would be ready before the start of the season.
• 1:05:16
  They didn't say which season.
• 1:05:18
  Season doesn't start till Labor Day!
• 1:05:20
  Yeah.
• 1:05:21
  Yeah.
• 1:05:22
  I love it.
• 1:05:24
  Oh fa thank you, MJ.
• 1:05:26
  Okay, sorry, I'm under control.
• 1:05:28
  Go ahead.
• 1:05:29
  and the the CFL fantasy had a complete meltdown on Sunday night and most I s I'd say eighty percent of people weren't able to do their CFL drafts because it just completely
• 1:05:38
  crashed.
• 1:05:39
  So good job CFL.
• 1:05:40
  Yep.
• 1:05:41
  the new fantasy game is here, but as you said, apparently it just did not far too much traffic and they weren't ready for it.
• 1:05:49
  as far
• 1:05:49
  sorry they built it because they thought that they wouldn't have as many fans.
• 1:05:54
  Yeah.
• 1:05:54
  don't know I don't know.
• 1:05:56
  But
• 1:05:57
  on our weekly Pick'em, it works on my laptop, but not on my phone.
• 1:06:01
  Who's using a laptop?
• 1:06:03
  Walk onto my laptop?
• 1:06:05
  I was so mad.
• 1:06:06
  I was so mad.
• 1:06:07
  that'll take take ninety percent out of the people play and pick I don't know.
• 1:06:12
  frustrated.
• 1:06:13
  I had to wait all day to join that fantasy league.
• 1:06:16
  It was so
• 1:06:16
  Yeah.
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  So yes.
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  Hey, and and that's the other thing.
• 1:06:21
  The other big news is we are back with the CFL podcast network fantasy league and it's not just me representing this year, MJ is as well.
• 1:06:30
  Yay.
• 1:06:32
  You wanna tell the folks how you explained to me you're gonna do your picking?
• 1:06:36
  It's gonna be based on Vibes, Tarot, and my kids Montreal Alouette pics.
• 1:06:40
  Ready to run the table.
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  So I so so I I expect you to to clean up the league.
• 1:06:46
  It should you should do well.
• 1:06:48
  Anyway, yeah, so we'll be reporting on that.
• 1:06:50
  I'll drop on start dropping on Thursdays again.
• 1:06:53
  Old man plays CFL fantasy.
• 1:06:54
  We're not doing the new fancy one where it's you have the waiver wire and all the rest of that, because you can only have six people in a team and the league's too big for that.
• 1:07:02
  So we're back to the the weekly fantasy league each week two.
• 1:07:06
  People will go head to head.
• 1:07:07
  You win, you it helps you, your total points helps you, all that.
• 1:07:11
  So Thursday, probably only an hour or two before game time, because I'm looking for as many of the depth charts as I can.
• 1:07:18
  I'll put out what I'm doing this week and why.
• 1:07:20
  And if you want to listen and do the opposite, go ahead.
• 1:07:23
  Yeah, anything else anybody has to say about fantasy before we jump on?
• 1:07:27
  No, okay, here we go.
• 1:07:28
  I again I'm all over the place.
• 1:07:30
  I I don't know why I bother sending you guys a rundown because I'm changing it all over the place.
• 1:07:33
  I had the injury reports next, but I thought let's talk about them before we do our game predictions.
• 1:07:38
  So they're fresh in our head, if that changes anything.
• 1:07:41
  So let's just jump ahead to
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  The covering of what happened with the games on this week.
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  And there wasn't uh a whole lot to talk about.
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  I think probably I'm the only one that that saw them all.
• 1:07:57
  is that true for everybody?
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  It was bits and pieces where you could.
• 1:08:00
  I don't blame your pre season.
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  Yes.
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  But I but because you can on the app you can or on the the G T C F L Plus you you could Yeah.
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  Yes.
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  Well I I started it.
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  Four o'clock's when the game started, and I intended to go till four in the morning and just watch them all.
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  But by about one, I was dead tired.
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  So I left I left the last one Calgary and Edmonton for Saturday morning.
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  Not a not a lot to see there.
• 1:08:27
  two started at four uh in the east.
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  One one Hamilton twenty over Toronto fourteen.
• 1:08:34
  Anybody see any of that?
• 1:08:35
  Anything to talk about?
• 1:08:37
  Ford Cinema!
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  It's like Every Instagram post!
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  Every Instagram post from the CFL!
• 1:08:43
  Trey Ford dazzles!
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  That's all I heard about from that game.
• 1:08:49
  Yeah, he looked better.
• 1:08:51
  And including there was a vintage Trey Ford moment where he got flushed out of the pocket, scrambled right to to the sidelines, somehow put on the brake short of the sidelines,
• 1:09:03
  looped back around the other side and threw a touchdown pass into the end zone.
• 1:09:08
  So it's the stuff he can do.
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  my greatest joy was that play against the Argos with him in a Ty Cat uniform.
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  It was just could anything better have happened on Friday night for me personally?
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  No.
• 1:09:21
  That was amazing.
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  all I needed today.
• 1:09:24
  Yes.
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  And it the thing is that and that big scramble was great, but that was Ford magic that we've seen forever.
• 1:09:29
  He also looked good through the rest of the time he was in there.
• 1:09:33
  it was a heavy wind.
• 1:09:34
  He was throwing passes accurately into the wind.
• 1:09:37
  He was making the right reads.
• 1:09:39
  He wasn't scrambling too early from what I saw.
• 1:09:42
  So, all in all, an encouraging performance from him.
• 1:09:45
  I also enjoyed the announcers talking about the wind and the trying to like call the punts and the kick the That was fun.
• 1:09:56
  Love the radio guys.
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  Yes.
• 1:09:58
  The radio guys were all
• 1:09:59
  There was at least three or four times out of the eight games where the radio guys spent a lot of their time freaking out about the weather and the fact they were in temporary
• 1:10:08
  facilities and that they thought were going to blow over, floods, whatever.
• 1:10:13
  It sounds like they were working in some rough conditions.
• 1:10:16
  about the only other thing that I had to note from this game, uh they did announce that the Argo's first home game of the season is August 20th, which is ouch, awfully hard for
• 1:10:24
  Argo fans.
• 1:10:25
  but on the upside, apparently they're got a deal where your for forty bucks gets you a ticket and all you can eat selective snacks.
• 1:10:31
  So that sounds like a good deal, Falcon People.
• 1:10:35
  Mm-hmm.
• 1:10:36
  Anybody else anything?
• 1:10:37
  I don't
• 1:10:38
  made a big video today about moving their head off of stuff to Guelph and they made a big thing with that box that said Ti Cat Tears and all God, the players up I'm like, if you
• 1:10:48
  were gonna make a video like this, a very high productive video just like why didn't you play your games in Guelph?
• 1:10:53
  But anyway, moving on.
• 1:10:56
  hand, at least they're putting out videos trolling their their rivals.
• 1:10:59
  And I like that.
• 1:11:00
  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
• 1:11:02
  Because I mean again I said I wouldn't bitch you but the C FL plus stuff but this pre season, but one thing that became obvious was how good the
• 1:11:10
  the well the standard of the game, the what kind of cameras they were using it was, but also the commercials, the halftime, how much that was worth sitting through had everything
• 1:11:20
  to do with the team hosting the game.
• 1:11:23
  It was obvious because there were some like BC, Saskatchewan, Edmonton did really good job mixing stuff up, a lot of promoting their team and that.
• 1:11:32
  When the when it was time for the Argos to have their game on it, it was the
• 1:11:36
  No ta no talking, the pictures of the guys in the little square dancing around or flipping the football in the loud music every break, every time.
• 1:11:45
  So it doesn't seem like the Argos put a lot of stuff into that.
• 1:11:49
  So that's why I'm glad to hear they're at least doing some videos like this.
• 1:11:53
  Yeah.
• 1:11:55
  Okay.
• 1:11:56
  Montreal three at Ottawa twenty seven.
• 1:12:02
  And this was again, it was all Montreal backup, so the score didn't mean much.
• 1:12:06
  I mentioned
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  one where they had like the three th I tried to watch this game.
• 1:12:10
  I I did try because I was like, Oh, like with my kid, I was like, Yes, let's watch the other skin.
• 1:12:15
  And I was like, Is that Luke Wilson?
• 1:12:17
  I was like, right.
• 1:12:18
  And then I'm like listening and I'm like, that sounds like Rod and I'm like, listening and I'm like, That sounds like Lapo.
• 1:12:25
  And there's three of them like chitter chattering, and I was like, This is this is I can't.
• 1:12:29
  It was un watchable for me because of the w three of them, like
• 1:12:33
  I just I couldn't do it.
• 1:12:35
  I was like, you know what?
• 1:12:35
  I'll watch the shaky camera on the Guelph game.
• 1:12:39
  That's like moving.
• 1:12:40
  I'm like, I'll deal with that over this.
• 1:12:41
  Ugh.
• 1:12:44
  get closer to the real season and you expand the team.
• 1:12:46
  Like T S N expands their panel.
• 1:12:48
  We've expanded our panel tonight, you know where Yes.
• 1:13:00
  Okay.
• 1:13:00
  Good well I I I th I think that you're good on that.
• 1:13:04
  I actually the
• 1:13:05
  What?
• 1:13:05
  obviously brought Luke in to put the training wheels on before he went live on his own next Friday night.
• 1:13:12
  If he just sticks to talking football, he's not bad.
• 1:13:15
  That's the best I can say.
• 1:13:16
  I'll wait until he's the only one there without having Lapo to to nudge him in the ribs when it's time to shut up.
• 1:13:23
  Should have like the broadcast like a live game on the side just to practice, but we didn't actually have to hear it.
• 1:13:28
  But well.
• 1:13:29
  Hopefully it gets improved.
• 1:13:30
  They don't need three guys in the booth.
• 1:13:31
  That's what I know.
• 1:13:33
  you don't definitely do not and I would not expect that back.
• 1:13:35
  I think like I said, that was just the training wheels.
• 1:13:38
  the next game B C thirty at Winnipeg nineteen.
• 1:13:42
  Anybody see it?
• 1:13:43
  Any thoughts on it?
• 1:13:44
  'Cause I don't have much at all again.
• 1:13:46
  my husband would like to point out that the Winnipeg radio guys were his favorite of the preseason.
• 1:13:51
  He enjoyed them a lot.
• 1:13:54
  Doug Brown's an interesting guy.
• 1:13:58
  Yes.
• 1:13:58
  Yeah.
• 1:14:01
  Yeah.
• 1:14:02
  looking.
• 1:14:02
  When did Tim White sign?
• 1:14:06
  Was he plain?
• 1:14:08
  He's not gonna be playing in preseason.
• 1:14:10
  last he played in the first preseason game.
• 1:14:13
  Got three catches for fifty seven yards, if I remember right, and they're building their whole offense around him, we're told.
• 1:14:19
  This is what I was texting MJ about today and trying really hard not to like I I don't know, how do you not laugh like I was struggling to type it out.
• 1:14:28
  Anyway, so I was just trying to look.
• 1:14:31
  Braylon Addison back to coach with him.
• 1:14:33
  He's been with him for five seasons.
• 1:14:35
  I was like, let's check in with Redblack and Ticats fans to see how the last five seasons have gone.
• 1:14:41
  Oh no!
• 1:14:43
  was trying to look at his stats to be like maybe maybe, you know maybe the air is better in Winnipeg for catching balls.
• 1:14:52
  I don't know.
• 1:14:53
  I said it's because it wasn't important.
• 1:14:55
  Yeah.
• 1:14:56
  It's it's possible.
• 1:14:58
  him catching this ball, so ah
• 1:15:02
  I mean to be o to be honest, the the three catches he made were nice catches.
• 1:15:05
  He ran good routes.
• 1:15:06
  They were right there and he didn't drop them, which is you know, for Tim that's 'cause he does drop some that are right there.
• 1:15:13
  But no, he looked okay.
• 1:15:14
  I did I did see someone on uh the CFL Reddit today when they saw my post about Addison being added to the coaching staff of a bomber fan saying, Can he still play?
• 1:15:24
  So I'm not sure they're
• 1:15:26
  They're convinced of their of their receiving crew there.
• 1:15:29
  But no, I I didn't have them much on this.
• 1:15:32
  I said last week in Saskatoon about the nineteen year old very skinny, pale prairie boys f stripping their shirts off to show off.
• 1:15:41
  Apparently they start them young in the prairies 'cause in Winnipeg they had a bunch of ten year olds there doing the same thing.
• 1:15:48
  Yes.
• 1:15:49
  Yes.
• 1:15:50
  And the
• 1:15:51
  And the only other thing that I ha said was their third string guy that they have Perkins.
• 1:15:55
  He was in there, looked good running, but not necessarily didn't look fantastic as a passer to me.
• 1:16:01
  So mind you, he'll get the game by default because he stuck around.
• 1:16:05
  So or he'll get the the position by default.
• 1:16:08
  Anything else?
• 1:16:08
  No, okay, so Calgary twenty one, Edmonton eighteen.
• 1:16:12
  And again, like I said, the last game that I saw out of all this, and that's but the only comment I have.
• 1:16:17
  It was just please let's get on to the preseason.
• 1:16:20
  My favorite part of this game was that the Radio announcers just talked over the CFL fantasy ads.
• 1:16:27
  They were just like, no, we're just gonna keep talking.
• 1:16:29
  This so they just kept their show going over top of all the ads.
• 1:16:33
  It was so great.
• 1:16:34
  I was like, ha, take that.
• 1:16:36
  Like they're just like, hmm.
• 1:16:38
  And then I felt bad for them because they were doing that whole night at the knot hole thing.
• 1:16:42
  And we had
• 1:16:44
  Lightning, like a huge storm blew in and the weather was just awful.
• 1:16:48
  It was poor it's been pouring rain for four days.
• 1:16:51
  So I'd felt I felt bad for them during a lightning delay at Clark Stadium, there's like no cover for you.
• 1:16:58
  Like there's really no concourse for you to be in.
• 1:17:02
  So I'm not quite sure where they put everyone.
• 1:17:05
  Anyway, it's just it's just unfortunate.
• 1:17:06
  I think they probably would have had a lot more people there if it hadn't been the weather.
• 1:17:10
  So
• 1:17:11
  it could be.
• 1:17:11
  It was the hour delay at the start and that pushed the game into the evening and the the lighting looked worse than at a lot of the high schools I've seen football games played.
• 1:17:21
  That it was
• 1:17:22
  had a professional game there since the th well they since well and then the the Edmonton FC used to play there but that's like s that was like six years ago.
• 1:17:32
  we were talking local broadcasters.
• 1:17:34
  Apparently there's a standard joke if you're a local broadcaster and and somebody's helmet came off, you have to say, I hope his head's not still in there, because I heard that on
• 1:17:43
  three different games this weekend.
• 1:17:46
  Yes.
• 1:17:47
  Rankin again look look good and bad.
• 1:17:50
  He looked like he, you know, he got zero zero or less yards or big runs.
• 1:17:54
  Cody did look like he
• 1:17:55
  c rush and he's gonna t have two thousand yards this year, old man, he told us.
• 1:18:01
  Yeah, he told us all that's what's happening.
• 1:18:03
  if if they don't take away the negative yards, yeah, maybe.
• 1:18:07
  He might Uh, sorry, that was mean.
• 1:18:11
  That was mean, Justin.
• 1:18:12
  No, yeah, like I said, it's just uh it it seems to be the style.
• 1:18:15
  Anyway, what else did I see?
• 1:18:16
  Cody Sorry, go ahead.
• 1:18:18
  I was just gonna say, the elks were busy because after I mean this is after the game, but they um they went down to where we've got a lot of family that lives in Wainwright, and
• 1:18:29
  the whole crew of the elks showed up in Wainwright to help with one of their spring camp nights with the Wainwright commandos.
• 1:18:38
  So my cousin has all these photos of her kids with with the elks, and I thought that's so cool, like what a garbage.
• 1:18:46
  weekend to be traveling and I guess um she said Noah Curtis who comes from Florida commented that the ducks on the field for the reason that they were playing inside in the
• 1:18:57
  arena is the most Canadian thing he's ever experienced.
• 1:19:01
  yeah, I'll give him that.
• 1:19:02
  No one wants to play in the rain.
• 1:19:04
  Yes.
• 1:19:05
  Well, it's great to see teams getting out and like you said, involved in community like that.
• 1:19:09
  But and I I did think I did think Cody made some was making decisions fast, which is good to see.
• 1:19:15
  Other than that, I don't know.
• 1:19:18
  you could see that Mark Killam is from the Dickinson coaching tree 'cause they both made challenges that had absolutely no hope of of winning with three minutes left under three
• 1:19:27
  minutes left in the game.
• 1:19:29
  Just
• 1:19:29
  about it.
• 1:19:31
  Perfect.
• 1:19:32
  And the first time, officially the first time, I have seen the new kneel down rule in effect.
• 1:19:38
  The game was the flag was whirled at thirteen seconds to go after one kneel down.
• 1:19:44
  So it's yeah, it just gonna take some getting used to.
• 1:19:49
  the only thing that the only thing that I thought interesting in the game was that well, a couple of things.
• 1:19:54
  First of all, I thought Edmonton's number ones looked really good.
• 1:19:57
  I don't know if they were playing against Calgary's number ones on defense, but their number ones on offense looked very good.
• 1:20:02
  But beyond that, the only other thing from the Stampeder point of view was that I thought Jacoby Griswold looked pretty good going in late in the fourth quarter.
• 1:20:11
  um or midway through the fourth quarter.
• 1:20:12
  I thought and he he had that one run where he was moving really fast for a big man.
• 1:20:18
  He's two sixty, they said.
• 1:20:19
  And he was going really fast and made a couple of nice open field moves as well.
• 1:20:24
  So I was very surprised in the cuts that he didn't make the team even as a um on the on the of reserves or whatever because they cut him outright
• 1:20:34
  And and they added Woolridge to the um practice roster, which means that Calgary only has two active quarterbacks, which is unusual and they haven't done that for I don't know
• 1:20:46
  since when.
• 1:20:47
  They've always had three quarterbacks on the bench.
• 1:20:49
  so this year they'll at going into the season, they'll only have VA and Josh Love out um and
• 1:20:56
  technically Quincy Vaughn as a quarterback as well.
• 1:20:59
  But really he's a tight end.
• 1:21:01
  So so that's I was pretty surprised at that, that they didn't keep that they didn't keep Woodridge on the regular roster and Griswold on the practice roster.
• 1:21:10
  Um because I he I thought they they both looked like they deserved spots.
• 1:21:14
  That was the only that was the only thing that I saw out of the game.
• 1:21:18
  Yeah.
• 1:21:18
  Yeah, I would agree maybe with Wildridge, you know, m like you say, maybe don't make Vaughn a quarterback, list him as a tight end.
• 1:21:25
  He can still do your short yardage but really I would say uh no insult to Tommy Stevens.
• 1:21:31
  he's a fantastic third down quarterback, short yardage quarterback, the best but that we've seen in a long time.
• 1:21:37
  But I don't see him as a viable passer and that and he was their third guy for two or three years, so
• 1:21:44
  I don't see this as all mu that much different for Dickinson's strategy.
• 1:21:48
  Yeah, no, you're right in that.
• 1:21:49
  But the I just um because Vaughn is really a tight end.
• 1:21:53
  He's not a quarterback.
• 1:21:54
  He's their tight end short yardage guy.
• 1:21:57
  He's not their quarterback short yardage guy.
• 1:21:59
  So I thought they could have carried a really a third quarterback on the active roster, uh, especially a young one like Woodridge, and that would have given him
• 1:22:09
  you know, sideline views of the game and got him a bit more rather than just being on a practice watcher and watching film all the time.
• 1:22:16
  So I thought that th they they could have done something like that.
• 1:22:18
  That's all.
• 1:22:19
  Well it's interesting that Calgary didn't even have to attempt a field goal.
• 1:22:24
  I I like I didn't watch the game, but I'm looking at the stats and they didn't have any field goal attempts.
• 1:22:29
  Interesting.
• 1:22:31
  And I can't rem I don't think they attempted and missed any, but then it wasn't Paradise that was in there.
• 1:22:37
  So
• 1:22:37
  that's who I was just looking, so yeah.
• 1:22:40
  Hm.
• 1:22:42
  Getting getting down towards the the the end as we've covered a lot here, we even though he's off in Europe, GT's going to do an impromptu power rankings and then he's gonna put
• 1:22:53
  out a power ranking for you folks every week so you can direct your negative comments to him.
• 1:23:00
  So so GT, what have we got this week?
• 1:23:04
  the same as last week.
• 1:23:05
  Nothing's changed.
• 1:23:06
  There's no games.
• 1:23:07
  There's no point in changing anything because nothing's changed.
• 1:23:10
  So the yeah, so whatever I said last week I will repeat again this week.
• 1:23:15
  How's that?
• 1:23:16
  I don't know what they were.
• 1:23:17
  I honestly don't remember, but nothing's changed.
• 1:23:19
  So there's that.
• 1:23:20
  After this after this week I may make some changes, but I remember it being semi remember it being Saskatchewan number one and then Montreal and then I think it was Hamilton, Cal
• 1:23:31
  Hamilton BC, Calgary, that kind of
• 1:23:33
  So yeah, something like that.
• 1:23:35
  And then uh and then going into it uh once the real games begin, then we can really talk.
• 1:23:40
  Yes.
• 1:23:41
  I okay, I like that and it gives people an incentive that didn't watch last week to to go back and watch it.
• 1:23:47
  Now
• 1:23:48
  Or w or was that two weeks ago?
• 1:23:50
  I don't know.
• 1:23:50
  Maybe whatever it was.
• 1:23:51
  You can go back you could go back you could go back and you could go back and watch every episode we've ever done to try to find it.
• 1:23:57
  How's that?
• 1:23:58
  exactly.
• 1:23:58
  There's there's there's two full seasons on there.
• 1:24:02
  The first one with just my dull monotone going.
• 1:24:06
  Anyway, so full disclosure b letting letting you behind the curtain here.
• 1:24:11
  because GT's in Europe, we haven't been communicating as much and I wasn't certain he'd get the power rankings together.
• 1:24:18
  Plus, when we talked about the power rankings, I put some out there and and you kind of corrected me and and made a good point that
• 1:24:24
  Power rankings aren't necessarily about who's gonna win the end of the season.
• 1:24:27
  It's a snapshot in time, right now, who's where.
• 1:24:31
  And I thought, okay, well, one way to judge that then is to say who's going to win the games this weekend.
• 1:24:38
  And those three will obvio the three winners will obviously be towards the top, and the three losers will get get arranged towards the bottom, and then the other three teams not
• 1:24:47
  playing, I'll just scatter in where they've been.
• 1:24:49
  So this is my one and only, just in case GT hadn't been available.
• 1:24:53
  My one and only power rankings and then we'll be it'll all be on him from the here out.
• 1:24:59
  With great power comes great responsibility.
• 1:25:01
  Remember that, GT.
• 1:25:03
  So so so my power rankings based on the Okay.
• 1:25:10
  My power rankings based on on that criteria was again, I put Sask at the top because they're the champs and they're not playing and you know all that.
• 1:25:19
  Number two was Montreal.
• 1:25:21
  And if you follow through these, you'll be able to figure out what my game picks are too by doing it.
• 1:25:24
  But anyway, so number two, I had Montreal, number three, I had BC, number four I had Calgary, number five, I had Edmonton, number six, I had Hamilton, seven, Winnipeg, eight,
• 1:25:39
  Ottawa, and nine, Toronto.
• 1:25:41
  So that's it.
• 1:25:42
  You can throw bricks at me this week or comments or whatever you want, but
• 1:25:44
  Why is our podcast team at the bottom?
• 1:25:48
  Well, because they're not playing and that's where they ended last.
• 1:25:51
  Same as the Grey Cup team automatically gets to go the top one until they play.
• 1:25:56
  The last team gets to go last until they f until they play.
• 1:26:01
  Alrighty.
• 1:26:02
  So now we gotta start talking about the the games this weekend.
• 1:26:06
  I'll run through because there are some notables on the injury reports.
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  I won't give you everyone.
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  In fact, some of them look like they're mid season.
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  They're pages of injury reports out there.
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  But I'll tell you for the Montreal game, we already know these people, Montreal at Hamilton.
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  We already know these people are already out for the for the week they've been announced at.
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  So Deadman and running back Stevie Scott III are both out with hamstrings for Montreal.
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  Hamilton, Bridges is out with a groin, and McManus, their new linebacker, is out with a knee injury.
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  And Braxton Hill.
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  Braxton Hill, the other linebacker, is was listed as
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  Questionable with a calf, so we'll have to see what happens there.
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  What's going on in the water in Montreal that everyone has hamstring injuries over there?
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  I don't know.
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  was it last year that everyone got injured?
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  And it's happening again this year.
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  of them.
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  There w there was a spade of Achilles as well and and some people just coming back from them that we'll see here.
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  But yeah, but it was Davis wi Alexander with his hamstring with the news last year, but it looks like others, yeah.
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  So anyway, moving on to the Winnipeg game.
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  They haven't said who's in or out, so I can just tell you whether if they were on the list a significant person and and whether they were parti did not participate or limited.
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  So did not
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  Participate was Kevin Clarcius with the receiver with a knee, Santos Knox, linebacker with an ankle, and Cam Allen, who I believe they've been playing at safety with a knee.
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  And limited was Major Williams, who is a name that most of us probably won't know, but it looks like he's slotted in as one of the starting corners this year, I'm told.
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  So see how that goes.
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  On the Calgary side, they still had.
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  Bagleton did not participate with a knee.
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  Sheldon Arnold in a DB did not participate, ankle, and another DB, Ben Lebras with an illness.
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  And then as far as the limited ones goes, there was Barnes with a hamstring, Hutchings with a hamstring.
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  You'll may probably have to help me with the name of the lineman here.
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  GT, I always get it wrong.
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  Jack Kurdila?
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  Am I saying that right?
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  Yeah.
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  knee and uh paradise is limited with a groin injury.
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  then the last game of the week, Edmonton at Ottawa.
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  Edmonton has uh couple of defensive linemen.
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  Barrows, who's uh the veteran, is out with an Achilles night, and I'm assuming we'll probably be gone for the year.
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  And then Darien Newell, who
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  again you unless you're a real fan, you probably won't recognize him.
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  He was drafted in twenty five, but then could not sign because of performance enhancing drugs on his in his testing.
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  So he sat for a year.
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  He came in, he's out with an Achilles, and again, I'm thinking that's probably the season.
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  And then also did not participate where Boyko from the O line with a hand injury and Joe Robostelli, who they brought over from Saskatchewan as a receiver, was out with a
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  hamstring.
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  On the D on the limited was a very good DB Cordell Jackson with a head injury and Noah Taylor from the D line with a hamstring.
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  And then for the Ottawa side, Nick Mardiner, receiver, was out with Achilles.
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  I think he lot missed all last year, if I remember right.
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  So that's probably just him slow coming back.
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  and then uh
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  D-lineman Daniel Ofogo, I believe is pronounced.
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  He's out with a foot, did not participate.
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  And limited, where Alonzo Adai with a hamstring and uh Amari Henderson with a knee.
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  So some injuries in the backfield there.
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  We'll see where they get to.
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  That's just as you're going through fantasy.
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  And if you're making your pick'em predictions, you might want to know that.
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  And this brings us to our pick'em predictions, the first ones of the year.
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  And don't forget these go up on Instagram too and uh and whatnot.
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  So let's start with since we've got two Hamilton fans here, we'll we'll start with the MJ.
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  MJ one or two can pick who wants to go first and tell me who's gonna win Montreal or ha at Hamilton.
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  Three, two, one, tie cats
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  Oh, we did
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  You do the stereo very well.
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  It's an out of sync stereo, but it's there.
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  Okay.
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  Okay.
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  GT.
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  Um
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  Hmm, that's a tough one.
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  I'm gonna take Hamilton.
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  Okay, I'll be the uh the lone man out.
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  I'm going with Montreal.
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  I think they're further ahead at this point than than Hamilton is.
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  But again, we'll see what happens.
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  Hopefully Mr.
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  Alexander really is as healthy as they say.
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  Okay, so GT you get to go first on uh this one because it's Winnipeg at Calgary.
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  Yeah.
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  Calgary's just as you just said, way further ahead, cohesiveness wise, coaching staff wise, everything wise.
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  They're just yeah.
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  That Calgary.
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  Okay.
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  MJ two?
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  Yeah, if it's not Calgary we have some problems.
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  I am picking Calgary.
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  Yeah, Calgary.
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  my husband also picks Calgary.
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  Yeah, so yeah, they're that.
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  Yeah.
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  is oh I was gonna say I didn't realize you were married to Jeff.
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  You'd have a much more professional setup for your for your podcasting.
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  Anyway, we're it's a sweep.
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  I'm with I I'm with uh Calgary as well.
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  So we're good there.
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  Um closing sorry sorry and then to close out the weekend that so those are of course Thursday, Friday games, Saturday we're closing out with Edmonton at Ottawa.
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  I haven't gone first yet.
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  I'm going I thought I would be going with Ottawa at this until they put Maier first.
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  I just I can't.
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  I I can't.
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  So Edmonton.
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  Jump in someone.
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  Edmonton, okay.
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  I also have Edmonton.
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  I I really wanna pick the Red Blacks, but I d uh I think it's gonna be the Elks.
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  The only road team that's gonna win this weekend.
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  Um, no, no.
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  Montreal's gonna win.
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  Oh no, no.
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  No they're not.
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  The podcast picked the Ti Cats
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  did.
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  But but you didn't say the only road team the podcast picked.
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  You said the only road team to win and you know me, I'm I'm really good at predicting things unless they're in the future.
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  Um I I I think that's it.
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  MJ, if w when you get your graphic that you do up on Instagram, can you pop it up on the drive for me and I'll put it up some other places too?
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  For sure.
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  Yep.
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  Cool.
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  Alrighty.
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  But other than that, I think we're um Have we missed anything?
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  Anything else?
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  Anybody really got it to get out their chest?
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  am so ready for real like week one football.
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  So
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  grade game one?
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  I know but who?
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  Who who've they've got?
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  Lapo?
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  No.
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  Marshall?
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  Al's Ti Cats.
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  It's gonna be it's gonna be Marshall, right?
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  Yeah, it'll be yeah.
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  will be the Marshall will do the the the game, the color will be Ford.
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  Dwayne Forde I think he's back.
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  But I mean, that's okay.
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  Yeah, but I I think you're right.
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  I think I heard Rod and Lapo saying they're doing the the Edmonton game.
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  okay.
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  Well
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  I could be wrong.
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  Dusty, yeah, and Glenn Suiter We'll see you.
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  Suiter can be very good when he's on.
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  If he's off, then we'll hear three hours of football cliches.
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  So
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  am excited for Dusty's commentary about VA
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  Yeah.
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  If I had to pick one to call my my real life, it would be him.
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  I was just gonna laugh about the injury reports.
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  I just started my soccer season and already the list of women that are out.
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  it's kinda hilarious.
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  I'm like, this is starting to sound like a football team, but really there's only ten of us.
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  it's it can happen.
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  Like I said, I read off the the relevant players that were there, people that we would recognize.
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  But there were at least a couple of the teams that had twelve, fourteen people on the on their injury lists already.
• 1:34:12
  Alrighty, so um I guess that just brings us down to closing thoughts.
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  If you wanna give any social media where you're available you can and why don't we again we'll start with GT.
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  you can find me on Blue Sky as always, GT Barnum at Bluesky.social dot net, whatever it is.
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  And that's it for me.
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  I'm uh gonna pack and get ready for the next stage.
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  And figure out where that's from.
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  yeah.
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  The sun's up now at least, so
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  Yeah.
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  Okay, well, I hope you catch your train, plane, or automobile or whatever it is, and move on.
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  And we'll we'll talk to you whenever we talk to you again.
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  Or carry on, my wayward son.
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  MJ2.
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  I don't have a personal social media, so if you want to get in touch with me, um you can message MJ and she will text me and that is how you can get in touch with me.
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  But I'm so happy.
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  CFL is back.
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  I've been looking forward to this.
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  I gave MJ the Ti Cat jersey that we bought off of GT last year so that she would have it for opening game.
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  Um so you better see that.
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  We better feel
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  wear it next podcast.
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  Yes, and it and we'd better see that on well, I won't see it because I'm not Instagram on Instagram, but the folks better see a picture of you on Instagram.
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  Yeah.
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  There's your assignment.
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  Yes.
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  Cover reporter MJ's assignment for Okay.
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  And your turn.
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  Any other thoughts and
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  Um yeah, you can just you well, we're on Instagram.
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  you can find our pics there.
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  Uh eventually GT's power rankings will be there in a nice fun format.
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  Clips yeah.
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  Clips from the show, news, commentary, all the things.
• 1:36:01
  Uh you can find me personally on Blue Sky at Sports of Plants and I will be talking some C B basketball.
• 1:36:09
  I'm getting better about it.
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  I'm starting to learn things.
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  always of despairing about Blue Jay baseball and I will be as we all know, I like to live post um C F L games when I watch them, so follow along.
• 1:36:20
  Sounds great.
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  And uh as always, you can get me on Blueska I'm oldman dash SAC at bluesk or dot blue sky dot social whatever.
• 1:36:31
  Uh I did mention we put in we now I've set up again a proper email address for us, the CFL outsiders, all one word at gmail dot com.
• 1:36:40
  We're as far as the CFL outsiders goes, we're on I think all the Canadian social media now we're on.
• 1:36:47
  Gander, we're on Eh!
• 1:36:49
  we're on North Social.
• 1:36:50
  we're on just about every other one of the major ones except Facebook, which we just refuse to.
• 1:36:55
  They we've been trying to do Moob or I have, but it allows me to do one post a day, so I don't know what's going on there.
• 1:37:01
  And other than that, I'm just yeah, I am tickled pink to have real football going.
• 1:37:09
  I wish it was four games.
• 1:37:11
  I wish the riders were playing, but that's beside the point.
• 1:37:14
  I
• 1:37:15
  These three games that we've got this weekend early season games are always hit and miss, but I'm excited.
• 1:37:20
  These all have the potential to be some very good games.
• 1:37:25
  So hopefully we'll be reconvening with a lot of energy and a lot to talk about next week.
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  But until then, until next week, for GT, for MJ, for MJ too, this is old man saying, Get the hell off my lawn.