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“I Can’t Believe I said Nice Things About Scott”. The CFL Outsiders S03 E011 · 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 your one hundred percent unbiased,
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  completely impartial, and very kerfuffled host,
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  old man shouting at clouds. Joining me this week is MJ.
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  ~ hey everyone. My household is pleased to announce that the moose is loose.
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  Yay. Haha That looks a lot like a moose shirt there.
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  It looks very
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  much like a loose is loose shirt,
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  yes.
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  and it appears the Moose's loose shirt might have saved you from having
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  to wear a Montreal jersey today.
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  So even better.
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  I you know what?
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  He they were given an option of and this is what he chose.
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  Ha ha ha God.
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  Okay, and unfortunately it's just me and MJ tonight.
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  GT was a late scratch. And ~ it's been a little bit of an adventure just getting
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  to this point. So it's too late for us to be able to get a replacement in.
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  we'll do our best to entertain you.
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  And full disclosure
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  MJ has just mentioned that in Edmonton where she is,
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  there's a large thunderstorm going overhead.
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  So if it suddenly becomes me and we go back to season one,
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  my apologies. I'll do my best.
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  Alrighty. I thought I'd start off with ~ we love it when folks
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  out there interact and come back and give us some comments and tell
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  us what you're thinking. Please keep doing that.
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  I mean, it's nice seeing the subscribers continue
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  To grow on the YouTube channel and on the podcatchers and we love that.
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  We'd like to know we're entertaining you.
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  But given the actual comments sort of just helps us know what you're thinking too.
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  So I've got a a few this week.
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  the first one came from the ~ the CFL subreddit.
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  Interaction IC twenty seven twenty eight said regarding last week's show,
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  I can see why MJ would be frustrated with those rule changes.
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  They've definitely changed the flow of the game.
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  And then he added, Old man has a knack for finding the strangest things to focus on.
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  But it does make for entertaining discussions.
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  And and thank you, interactive action.
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  I see that's what I'm here for.
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  To find things nobody else does.
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  we've also been a couple of comments out of YouTube,
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  we've been kind of bashing on the red blacks,
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  although they may be earning it.
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  And apparently the fans from there are still with it,
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  because we had ~ Mail V6 at Mail V six saying,
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  Lifelong Ottawa fan here, keep it up.
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  This is good stuff. So thank you.
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  And I we're s we're so sorry for how your season's going.
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  But as I said on the ~ the CFL Reddit to some Ottawa fans,
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  this too shall pass. Trust me.
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  Riders fans since the eighties.
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  I've been through this a few times.
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  And you'll just feel so much better when they start winning again
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  and you've stuck with them. So hang in there.
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  And and your team has won a Grey Cup this century.
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  And then the last one sorry.
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  their team has won a Grey Cup this century.
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  Yes, there is that. Yes,
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  I mean, you know Yeah.
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  that th that
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  Hang in there.
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  comes from a very specific fan base there.
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  Yes.
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  No one needs to mention names.
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  ~ and then the the the
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  last one ~ was at Randy Peterson from YouTube and we talked on the show about
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  how the the crowd in Calgary looked fairly sparse and he said ~ just
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  FYI Calgary explained the crowd looking so thin on TV.
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  Everyone moved to the west side of the stadium to take advantage
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  of the shade because it was so hot.
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  It would have been nice if there was no room
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  It was so hot.
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  to do that, but here we are. Thanks again
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  Yeah.
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  for the pod.
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  And thank you, Randy. Yes. So thank you for getting back to us and letting
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  us know that we're not just shouting into the void out there and we'll keep trying
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  to inform and entertain ya. A ~ few news items.
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  These may go fairly quick tonight,
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  especially with only the two of us here,
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  and ~ we'll see if either of us is in a rant mood.
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  usually we fill a few few minutes 'cause something hits G T and the
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  sticks in his cross so we won't have that tonight.
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  But first thing that three down this week announced that sources have confirmed
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  the twenty twenty seven Combine will be held in Calgary this year.
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  Or next year actually, twenty twenty-seven,
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  yeah. ~ it's gonna be the week of March fifteenth to accommodate
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  the new earlier start to the season.
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  And not a lot other details than that.
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  I'm hoping that
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  What was it? De Zone that is picking up the Saturday broadcast next year.
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  They talked about the fact that they would be providing coverage to
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  the Combine and the draft and whatnot.
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  I hope that starts next year. But we'll have to see.
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  Yeah, that would be nice.
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  Interesting, Calgary got Grey Cup and Combine.
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  Yeah. Hey, if anything to promote it in that market,
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  we need to bring them back a bit.
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  For sure, for sure.
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  There
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  And as you mentioned last week it'd be nice if the company that owned them
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  put some money into it too, but we'll all do our best here.
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  See Yes.
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  I'm wearing a Stampeder shirt.
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  I'm helping.
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  Yes, exactly. Go stamps. So that's where it's a shame.
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  We're all doing our part.
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  That's where it's a shame that GT couldn't make it on tonight.
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  I'm sure he would have loved talking about that Stampeder game,
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  but we'll get back to that.
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  Honestly, what a g yeah.
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  What a game.
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  You know, it's What else do we have here?
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  you were mentioning, ~ MJ, that they a Canadian team won in the
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  NFL flag summer championship.
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  Yeah, so
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  It was interesting. there's a lot of teams.
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  There's it's like U eighteen and down.
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  And it's there's co-ed, there's men,
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  there's boys, there's girls, and there's international.
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  And the NFL has done such a fantastic job of promoting this tournament.
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  They on their main NFL page they've just been posting videos of crazy catches
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  and interceptions and throws.
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  And it was has been so like what a joy to watch this week.
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  It's been so much fun because let me tell you,
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  there are some fantastic athletes playing flag,
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  including the U-15 Montreal flight school elite
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  who won the U-15 championship.
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  And they're
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  receiver Isaiah Smith was the U fifteen MVP.
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  And if you get a chance to check out his one-handed grab in the end zone,
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  do because it was fantastic. So yeah,
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  Canada out there giving everyone notice.
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  great job. Yeah.
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  Okay? Good to see you. Canadian
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  teams doing well. Congratulations,
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  Montreal's flight school elite.
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  And ~ please keep it up. Yes, we also got announced today that the ~ Flag World Cup,
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  the can Canadian rosters got announced for that.
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  Now on the ~ the men's team apparently going into the the World
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  Cup tournament is ranked 10th.
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  And
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  They these are 12-man rosters.
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  About half of them are either ex-CFLers or
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  cl or at least have tried out for the CFL.
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  We biggest name is Mark Antoine.
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  Marc Antoine Dequa is is now going to be playing for Canada in the flag team.
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  And joining him is ex CFL receiver Daniel Peterman,
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  former University of Manitoba quarterback.
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  Jackson Taczynski. And he did try out with Edmonton as a receiver,
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  but did not get out of camp. And then we also have Michael O'Connor
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  who played quarterback in the CFL as a backup for a little while.
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  DB Maxim Lavallée and former NFL tight end Anthony Auclair.
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  And then the rest of them are made up of former college players,
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  I believe, but not pros.
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  And on the other side, the women's side,
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  unfortunately we don't get to hear nearly enough about women,
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  so there's no names that I recognized on there.
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  but they are ranked higher than the men's team.
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  They're ranked fourth in the world going into this one.
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  They are.
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  And you can tell that football has a little bit of a impact in Quebec because
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  of twelve women on the squad, there's one from Alberta and eleven from Quebec.
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  So
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  Sorry, go ahead.
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  Yeah, the men's
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  team, men's team, there's nine players on their team from Quebec,
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  one from Winnipeg and two from Ontario.
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  So whatever Quebec is doing for flag football,
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  they are miles, years ahead of everyone else in the entire country.
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  So everyone else has work to do.
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  But this is really exciting for the province of Quebec because this
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  is this is fantastic for their program and fantastic for all these men and women.
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  Quebec has a huge football culture.
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  If there's the junior and amateur teams there are get lots and lots
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  of support and have contributed a lot of great players at the university level.
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  You got Laval, you got Montreal and there's others,
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  but those two have been the premiers of it.
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  yeah, I don't know that everyone understands just how much football
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  is popular and how what an impact it is in Quebec.
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  That's where it'd be
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  Fantastic to see the team a CFL team in Quebec City.
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  'Cause I'm sure they have the fans there to support it.
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  And
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  as we discussed too, like this is an actually a really big testament
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  to their flag program because flag is very different than tackle,
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  and they're almost two entirely different sports.
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  So the fact that they have so
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  Yes.
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  many elite athletes that are playing and the women are ranked fourth in the world.
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  They're basically all from Quebec.
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  So whatever they're doing there in their flag is is yeah,
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  you're yeah. Fantastic. I can't wait to watch.
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  Yes, exactly.
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  Flag is everything I love
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  about football. Like great throwing,
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  great interceptions, great like breaking ankles down the field.
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  Like it's ~ it's a lot of fun.
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  Flag's a lot of fun.
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  If anyone watching on video will notice it's I brightened up here a little bit more.
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  It's not my personality. I just realized one of my studio lights was out.
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  Now you might be able to see me.
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  That's not necessarily a positive thing.
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  But yeah, I agree with you. It's I I certainly will I'll try and keep track
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  of this and see if I can find out if these games are gonna be televised
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  and get the information out there.
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  But yeah, full ~
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  Full credit to Quebec for what they're accomplishing below the professional level
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  in Canadian football, flag football.
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  And at the professional level with the Als right now,
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  but let's see. What else? I am definitely out of rhythm and everything,
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  so we'll try trying not to make this too boring.
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  you were mentioning also, MJ, that ~ this whole drama with the white caps
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  and Vancouver and B C Place, there's more news this week.
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  Yeah,
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  things are getting spicy in Vancouver.
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  So it was announced that the White Caps want to buy BC Place.
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  The BC Place is owned by the province of BC.
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  And the White Caps want to buy it so that they can take over ownership
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  and management of it. And now it is announced this week that Amar Domin,
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  the owner of the BC Lions, also would like to buy BC Place from the government.
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  so it'll be interesting because if the government wants to sell,
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  it sounds like they need to do a public bid.
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  process so those two might actually lose out then someone else might swoop
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  in but I think I know there's a lot of drama and GT is not here to talk about
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  the soccer team but
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  I would like to maybe see a joint ownership situation,
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  because I don't think either of them can really fund it on their own.
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  But maybe they can work together like other teams do and maybe work
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  out something for it. hopefully this is good news for either the White Caps,
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  BC Lines, and I I actually really hope this is gonna be end up being good news
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  for both teams because your city is better when there's more sports
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  at at a professional.
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  professional level.
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  Definitely. And I agree with you completely.
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  I don't know what the what the laws are,
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  what the rules are around taking bids on it.
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  But I am fully in favor of the idea of having the the province go to both teams
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  and say, Look, you want to take this over,
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  that's great. Do what basically what MJ said.
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  Create between the two of you a stadium corporation where you both have fifty
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  percent ownership.
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  And take it. And then that lets all the drama of scheduling
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  get figured out internally between the teams.
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  It gets the monkey off the government's back.
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  I think it'd be a a good way to move ahead,
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  but
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  See because there's a lot of people upset that they would sell a public asset that's
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  making money, so I don't know,
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  I don't know.
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  Well, I
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  yeah, if they if they can get private ownership for it and get
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  a reasonable dollar for what it's worth,
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  I don't have a problem with that at all myself.
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  And ~ yeah. Just make it simple.
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  But of course because that's such a simple answer,
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  it it's probably impossible.
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  No, it's gonna be
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  ~ it's gonna be I think it's gonna be pretty messy out there,
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  so we'll keep an eye on it and see what happens and what shakes out at the end.
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  Yes. Yeah.
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  Maybe somebody'll end up building another temporary one at the PNE grounds
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  and the way the Lions went for
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  Yeah.
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  a couple of years while the Rena's were going on.
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  That was not a bad way to watch football.
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  Yeah. Yes.
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  I loved going to Empire Field.
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  I had a great time there. But I mean
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  temporary stadium seats are fun for like ice season,
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  not for ever. Yeah.
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  Yeah. Yeah, exactly.
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  Yeah.
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  speaking of stadiums and what the attendance is what they'll take,
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  this was the second best week of CFL attendance of the season so far.
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  The only one that was higher on average was week three,
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  and they only had three games,
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  so Winnipeg and and Regina basically carried that week.
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  This week we did have games in Winnipeg and Regina again.
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  BC and Montreal were both over twenty one thousand.
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  So the average this week was just under twenty six thousand.
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  And that's very encouraging. It's ~ like I said,
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  week two on average was about two K higher,
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  but overall it's i that looks good.
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  The further we get in the season,
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  the more that it gets to matter.
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  We're starting to get people coming back.
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  signings and releases for this week.
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  There's there's a few to note.
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  ~ Dejon Allen was released in BC.
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  I'm expecting he'll be picked up soon as we'll talk about in another segment here.
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  But he is out after basically missing the block that got Nathan hurt,
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  so good way to get cut in B C,
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  yes.
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  We had Giovanni Robinson, the global tight end.
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  Hamilton traded to Ottawa. And I guess with Max.
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  I'm like, I saw this, like,
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  did they have two global tight ends on that team?
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  I was like, excuse me.
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  Yes, Robinson was still on the practice
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  rut squad.
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  This seems so strange.
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  Yep.
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  Yes. Well he played, he was in the starting lineup for the last two seasons
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  and then then when Max Mang came I guess he became the expendable.
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  I take it you're not overly worried about Hamilton losing that player.
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  It's fine. There's other things to worry about in Hamilton than a tight
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  Yeah. Plus Yeah. Plus Max Mang has a much better name.
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  end practice roster. He'll probably go play really well somewhere
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  else, I assume. I assume. The everyone plays better when they leave Hamilton,
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  it feels like.
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  Yeah. Well we'll see what Dinwiddie does with a tight end in his offense.
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  He hasn't been known to use them
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  Yeah.
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  as anything other than blocking mostly,
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  so ~ we'll see. But anyway, going along,
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  Lewis Ward re signed in Calgary as a kicker.
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  In Ottawa?
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  Or yeah, Ottawa, thank you. I it is a disjointed night.
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  ~ Calgary doesn't want a new kicker.
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  I'm not anywhere I have no No,
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  They're they like theirs. No?
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  Calgary's got a good kicker. Edmonton doesn't want a new kicker either,
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  but
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  ~ Ottawa apparently may need one,
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  and as will I'll I'll end up mentioning it in the injury reports,
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  but apparently Louther's got a hamstring.
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  So he was did not participate and yeah.
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  Like everyone else is on the trigger boards.
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  Yeah.
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  ~
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  The Moose
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  Being honored by MJ
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  Mm-hmm.
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  Shirt, re-signed in Calgary after a tryout down in the NFL last week,
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  got in the game, had one target.
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  Didn't work very well, but hey,
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  you'd been back with the team for two two days.
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  well, first game back. Two days of like
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  Yes.
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  Yeah. It's just
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  Yes.
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  nice to see him back on the field.
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  That was a lot of
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  It is.
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  fun. Yeah.
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  Yes. And it's a bit much to ~ to expect even a receiver to come back on
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  two days and and and do anything.
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  Mind you, the Lions did it with Nathan at quarterback a while back and
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  and we saw how that worked out too.
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  But I will say
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  the Stampeders did a really, really awesome job of announcing him back.
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  They just had like a moose sign that says said moose sighting and posted it
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  Yeah. Yes.
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  up and then they started going from there and it was it was a lot of fun.
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  it was a good Instagram day with the Calgary Stampeders.
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  Yes. Yeah, the social medias from the
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  the CFL teams are getting better and better.
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  There's still a few that seem
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  Yeah.
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  to to lag a bit, but everyone gets some good ones in and a and a few
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  of the teams like like Winnipeg and Calgary and Montreal all seem to
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  be above and beyond. what else did we have?
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  the last one. Lorenzo Malden. The fourth,
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  isn't it, I think. Anyway, after ~
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  Going down to the AFL or UFL or whatever it is for a while is now back with B C.
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  So they're still trying to find something to help with that D line.
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  And that was it for the changes there.
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  Although we did get to this is a report.
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  It hasn't been confirmed by the team yet,
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  but ~ Three Down Nation reported that BC's moving to Salter
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  for their starting quarterback this week against Winnipeg,
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  moving on from Bryce, which kinda makes some sense and and
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  to me Bryce's performance over the last two games show is a perfect example of why
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  you don't ever want to get too hyped about a quarterback's preseason performance.
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  'Cause he looked pretty good up against a bunch of people trying to make
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  the teams in the preseason, but even against the well,
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  Toronto's one of the weaker defenses in the CFL and he still looked bad.
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  So ~ apparently Farn Lauje said that he's supposed to start and JC Abbott
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  was at the practices and said he's been taking all the first team reps.
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  a fun fact for us, Salter is Casey Printer's cousin.
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  Wow.
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  So he'll have a fantastic year.
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  Somehow Nathan won't get back,
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  he'll have a fantastic year for BC this year and then disappear.
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  That's what the Gen X say.
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  Well, maybe maybe he ha'll have
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  better coaching support than Casey did.
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  Yes.
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  Yeah. That's that's mean of me.
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  I shouldn't do that.
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  But anyway, that was
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  that was a fun little fact. And he like didn't realize
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  Yes.
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  that Casey had played in BC. And so.
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  Yeah, he like
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  ~ okay, yeah.
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  learned a little learning. ~ so anyway,
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  Yeah, maybe ~
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  I hope
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  he does well because I know a lot of all my BC fans that would say that they
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  if Bryce had a starting, they weren't watching.
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  So
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  I can see why. So but hey
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  That's fair. That's a fair comment.
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  hey maybe Salter will get a little bit of the skinny from Casey on how to
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  ~ how to play C FL quarterback.
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  He did look
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  Yeah, maybe Casey'll
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  come watch him in Winnipeg.
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  I'll say this for him, he did look kinda printer esque out there.
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  He was running around and not completing a huge number of balls,
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  but the ones he was were for good yardage.
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  Now mind you it was late in the game too,
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  but yeah. Cool And ~ sort of the last thing before we get into well,
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  second last thing, I guess we'll talk fantasy yet,
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  but
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  I just wanted to mention and I wanna hear what you have to say.
• 20:00
  It's just a shame where GT's not here 'cause I'd like to hear what he
• 20:03
  has to say too, but this is where I mentioned DeJoun Allen I expect will sign
• 20:06
  somewhere. It has been a really nasty few weeks on offensive tackles
• 20:12
  in the CFL. two weeks ago, both Reed and Barrow went down for Hamilton
• 20:19
  and that's when Max Mang ended up playing
• 20:23
  Guard at two hundred and sixty five pounds This last week in the
• 20:26
  BC game at different times both of their tackles were out.
• 20:29
  They didn't end up having to go to the emergency linemen because one
• 20:33
  of them managed to hobble back in when the other one got hurt,
• 20:36
  but still that was really tough And then it was reported this week that coming
• 20:42
  out of the game against Calgary,
• 20:43
  Winnipeg, both Bryant and Broxton were did not participate in practice.
• 20:49
  Now they've they've moved I think Bryant was up to practicing the second day,
• 20:55
  but still it's just it seems like every year a position gets hit with injuries,
• 21:00
  and this year it seems like it's the tackle spot.
• 21:03
  Am I reading too much into this
• 21:06
  I don't know. I feel like it just goes in cycles.
• 21:09
  Like one year everyone on the D line's hurt.
• 21:12
  One year D Bs are down. One year like kicker every kicker is injured.
• 21:17
  Like QB well, QBs getting injured is every year,
• 21:19
  but it's actually gonna be worse for QBs as we can see because
• 21:23
  of what's happening with the offensive line.
• 21:26
  So that's
• 21:26
  Yes.
• 21:26
  that's tough. That's tough for QBs.
• 21:28
  Hope you're mobile and can run because things might be not so great
• 21:33
  for you out there.
• 21:35
  Yes. Yeah, exactly. tackles are getting harder and harder to find.
• 21:38
  And any that have sort of much talent at all are getting scooped up by
• 21:43
  the the NFL just because there's so few of them available with talent these days
• 21:48
  and and it seems like the C F L's been having the same problems.
• 21:51
  They they can get Americans that can come up and play the interior quite well
• 21:56
  and a few teams have moved to that,
• 21:58
  but getting good tackles is still really tough.
• 22:02
  Maybe maybe with
• 22:02
  So hopefully for our
• 22:03
  the rise of flag football, like CFL football's gonna evolve maybe you won't need
• 22:08
  a D or O line as much as you used to anymore,
• 22:11
  like in twenty years from now.
• 22:12
  I hope that never happens. Yeah,
• 22:13
  Maybe they'll maybe they'll evolve it.
• 22:14
  ~ I don't mind
• 22:15
  as
• 22:16
  because I'm just here for the high flying.
• 22:18
  I it's doesn't
• 22:19
  Yeah.
• 22:20
  matter to me if there's like six guys like no,
• 22:23
  it doesn't but
• 22:24
  Yes.
• 22:24
  I mean it is what it is and it just sucks that there's so many people injured,
• 22:29
  it's a tough position. It's a tough position.
• 22:31
  You are hustling all the time.
• 22:33
  And and if quarterbacks aren't necessarily pocket passing anymore
• 22:37
  and they're dancing around a bit,
• 22:38
  it gets even harder.
• 22:41
  That is where QBing looks like it's evolving.
• 22:42
  Yes.
• 22:43
  So now it's extra work if someone's dancing around.
• 22:47
  And I mean, and that's partly is probably because DBs are getting better
• 22:51
  and they're covering receivers better and they're jumping roads more effectively.
• 22:55
  Quarterbacks
• 22:55
  Yeah.
• 22:56
  are having a harder time fight.
• 22:57
  So I mean it's just it just starts to domino and now they've kind of
• 23:00
  hit the road where linemen are starting to go down because they're kind
• 23:04
  of like the last man standing and it's working really hard.
• 23:06
  think I think
• 23:07
  I think that's maybe the the train of thought.
• 23:10
  Yes. Well, and I I hope you're wrong about the game evolving to that.
• 23:15
  As much as I like the passing and the high flying stuff,
• 23:17
  I'm I'm enough of an old school football guy that the game in the trenches
• 23:22
  is what I'm here for. So please don't ever take that away.
• 23:25
  If no one can play it though, I don't know.
• 23:26
  ~ Yes.
• 23:29
  Yeah. Well that that is true too,
• 23:29
  I don't know. It's a tough position.
• 23:31
  How do you how do you sell that
• 23:32
  but
• 23:33
  position to somebody in high school or college?
• 23:36
  Like how do you sell that
• 23:37
  Yeah.
• 23:38
  job? Like it is the worst. Like it's the hardest.
• 23:43
  Yes it is. But if you're good at it,
• 23:45
  you can make money. I mean it's also probably the highest paid line position,
• 23:49
  so we'll see. I this isn't I nowhere on the rundown,
• 23:51
  But yeah, D B stop being so good at your job.
• 23:54
  but
• 23:54
  it just it just twigged with me when you talked about how the game is changing.
• 23:58
  apparently the glorious leader down south weighed in on the NFL and
• 24:02
  a bunch of changes that he wants to see happen.
• 24:05
  with it. He wants the the old kickoff back.
• 24:07
  He doesn't like the new kickoff.
• 24:09
  he doesn't want them streaming games anymore.
• 24:12
  And he wants them to stop calling it football.
• 24:15
  Because apparently the FIFA World Cup taught him that football in the rest
• 24:17
  ~ 'cause FIFA is football. It's soccer.
• 24:21
  of the world means something different.
• 24:23
  Yeah, well he and FIFA present are besties.
• 24:23
  And he feels they should be respecting that.
• 24:26
  Yeah, he and the FIFA president are best friends.
• 24:27
  Yes. And he feels they should be respecting that.
• 24:30
  And I
• 24:30
  don't know what he's
• 24:32
  He made no suggestions about what it should be called,
• 24:34
  but it shouldn't be football anymore.
• 24:36
  Anyway sorry, that just
• 24:36
  You know, when he talks it's
• 24:38
  just like it's just like the peanuts teacher voice.
• 24:42
  That's all I hear. I
• 24:42
  Yes.
• 24:43
  don't actually hear words anymore.
• 24:45
  So I'm sure the NFL will take it under advisement,
• 24:47
  Yep. Wh wah wah wah wah wah wah Yes.
• 24:50
  like the
• 24:52
  The highest growth. They make more money than like there was just like a a study,
• 24:55
  like a a thing that came out that the NFL makes more money than MLB,
• 24:59
  NHL, and one other sport. Something combined.
• 25:01
  Like I don't think they're worried.
• 25:02
  I don't doubt it.
• 25:03
  They don't
• 25:03
  c they don't care. They're making buckets of cash.
• 25:07
  Buckets. Yeah.
• 25:08
  They are a machine and
• 25:11
  yes, and they they put a product that's sometimes good,
• 25:15
  sometimes not so good, depending on the teams and who they've got involved,
• 25:19
  so they put out a product that's passable,
• 25:20
  but what they really do is market it.
• 25:22
  And we talked about that several
• 25:24
  Yeah.
• 25:24
  times, how good they are at marketing,
• 25:26
  so gotta give them credit for that.
• 25:29
  P. T. Barnum said if there's something along the lines of if the
• 25:33
  a market doesn't exist, create one,
• 25:35
  and that's certainly what they did.
• 25:37
  Good for them.
• 25:38
  ~
• 25:38
  what else did we have? sorry, anything else,
• 25:40
  sir?
• 25:41
  Okay. Alrighty. quick thing with our fantasy this week.
• 25:45
  I think we both lost 'cause it was against the average and ~ the average
• 25:51
  was ninety three points. I had seventy six point three points,
• 25:55
  so I was well under it, but the biggest reason was I didn't feel
• 25:59
  bad about my strategy. I thought I was I had some trouble tr this week trying
• 26:04
  to figure out because it was just against the average who I should be picking,
• 26:07
  but
• 26:08
  Most of my players did not bad,
• 26:10
  but I put Kelly at quarterback.
• 26:11
  And he got hurt. So if he'd played the second half,
• 26:15
  as long as he got ten points in that second half,
• 26:17
  I probably would have had a victory,
• 26:18
  but I didn't. So I'm now at four and four again and sitting at eighth.
• 26:22
  And I think you fell just a little bit short too,
• 26:25
  did you not? Or did you get a win
• 26:27
  Yeah. ~
• 26:28
  this week?
• 26:28
  So I actually have a little public service announcement about fantasy,
• 26:33
  and I just want to preface this by saying this is my opinion,
• 26:36
  and it is not the opinion of the podcast or my wonderful co-hosts.
• 26:41
  I don't know if you have legalized gambling in your province,
• 26:44
  but I do now, and for months, for months,
• 26:47
  all I've gotten are gambling ads on my podcasts,
• 26:50
  on my Gmail. I get podcasts,
• 26:54
  a gambling podcast in my Gmail.
• 26:55
  There's billboards in my
• 26:56
  my
• 26:56
  city for gambling. TSN is one big gambling ad.
• 27:00
  There's gambling ads on the field.
• 27:02
  On the sideline, on the superimposed.
• 27:05
  Every pregame is just gambling.
• 27:07
  SportsNet is the same thing. And you know what?
• 27:10
  I
• 27:12
  I feel like I'm sticking a band-aid on a burst pipe,
• 27:16
  but I just you know what this has changed like fantasy has been fun,
• 27:20
  but it's changed how I enjoying the I how I'm enjoying my games.
• 27:23
  And most importantly, it's changing how my kid is enjoying the game and
• 27:26
  how he is viewing games. And you know what?
• 27:29
  I'm glad everyone's ha people are having fun and that's awesome,
• 27:31
  but I need to be a good role model for my kids,
• 27:34
  so I'm gonna keep playing fantasy,
• 27:36
  I will not be
• 27:37
  talking about my fantasy anymore unless we are playing each other.
• 27:40
  But I just I it it is we are inundated and he really loves sports
• 27:45
  so he is constantly being advertised to gamble.
• 27:50
  And so yeah.
• 27:52
  So not to not to say y everyone
• 27:53
  Yeah. I
• 27:54
  does what they want to do and that's great.
• 27:55
  I just s yeah, I gotta I gotta I gotta be at least one person who is
• 28:00
  not gambling on sports in this world.
• 28:01
  Yeah. Yeah. Hey I I yeah
• 28:02
  Even if it's for free. So
• 28:06
  I fully support you with it. A and you're right on a couple of things.
• 28:10
  I mean yeah, well they're even the the gambling companies are even sponsoring
• 28:13
  now like it was the fan duel Canada Day weekend,
• 28:19
  you know, and it's ~ it's a bit much this fantasy that we do is not a
• 28:23
  pay money for fantasy, but I get your point.
• 28:26
  And frankly that's the other thing is I commented on the league sort
• 28:29
  of chat thread on on X that when Kelly went down halfway through that BC game,
• 28:36
  I knew that I probably wasn't gonna win against the an average this week.
• 28:41
  So I had a game and a half of football where all of a sudden I didn't really give
• 28:46
  a damn who did what.
• 28:47
  And if the players I'd pick were scoring points or not,
• 28:50
  and if ~ other good players were and it was kind of a ver nice throwback.
• 28:54
  So
• 28:55
  Yeah.
• 28:56
  I really respect the fact that you've joined the league.
• 29:00
  Now things are going in a way you don't like,
• 29:04
  but you're still you're gonna p play out the season,
• 29:06
  which is what a commitment's about,
• 29:08
  but you're not gonna talk about it so much.
• 29:10
  And frankly I'm
• 29:12
  I'm beginning to think maybe next year,
• 29:14
  depending on whatever happens else happens,
• 29:16
  I may not go back into the fantasy.
• 29:17
  'Cause it does definitely change the way I view the game.
• 29:20
  It puts my focus
• 29:21
  Yeah. ~
• 29:23
  on things other than just enjoying the great athletic plays.
• 29:28
  Honestly, I thought it would enhance my game viewing experience.
• 29:31
  And it honestly, you're right.
• 29:33
  It I was I'm like worried. I'm worried.
• 29:35
  I'm thinking about it. I'm like,
• 29:37
  man, like I should have done this.
• 29:39
  ~ I can't he got hurt. I would have ruined my whole week.
• 29:42
  And I'm like, you know what? Like,
• 29:44
  what what why? Why am I so worried about this?
• 29:47
  Yeah. Yeah.
• 29:47
  I'm like back to vibes
• 29:49
  based. Enjoy the plays. Enjoy the games.
• 29:52
  Yeah.
• 29:53
  Yeah.
• 29:54
  Yeah.
• 29:56
  I'm with ya. Okay, so we'll see see how it goes.
• 29:58
  Sorry, I kinda threw that on you.
• 29:59
  Maybe Yeah.
• 30:02
  No, that's that's perfectly fine and and I'm like I said,
• 30:05
  I respect it. I get where you're coming from.
• 30:08
  I'll probably still give my weekly updates but keep them short and we'll just
• 30:13
  not worry about it until I think it's the second or third last game of
• 30:17
  the season we take each other on.
• 30:18
  So maybe we'll talk a bit more about it then.
• 30:19
  Yeah, well that's
• 30:20
  that's different.
• 30:23
  Yeah. So anyway, that takes us to the actual games that were played.
• 30:27
  And I don't know how much we'll be we'll have for this with again with just
• 30:32
  us without GT here and frankly,
• 30:37
  we kind of talked a little bit about this before the in the pre-show
• 30:40
  as we were getting stuff together.
• 30:41
  It was a week where either the games were so good that there's almost
• 30:45
  too much to talk about, so it's
• 30:46
  Hard to fit stuff in and we'll probably just be skipping over the highlights.
• 30:50
  And some of them were, frankly,
• 30:52
  hardly worth talking about. So we'll see.
• 30:55
  The f the first one, which I feel fairly safe
• 31:01
  in calling the game of the year to this point,
• 31:04
  because I'm not the only one doing that.
• 31:05
  Just about everybody I've seen has been raving about this game.
• 31:08
  It was the battle for the first battle for first place in the West,
• 31:13
  Edmonton going into Saskatchewan.
• 31:16
  And they pulled it off. They managed to win 36-34.
• 31:20
  Now this was a incredible game.
• 31:24
  all three phases, offense, defense,
• 31:27
  and special teams on both teams made fantastic plays and made bonehead plays.
• 31:33
  you could tell there was a lot of nerves going on there with it.
• 31:37
  It it was something to to watch.
• 31:40
  And in the end, Edmonton managed to
• 31:44
  get themselves a walk-off fifty-seven yard field goal
• 31:51
  from Vincent Vincent Blanchard,
• 31:55
  is it not? I I believe, yeah. Anyway,
• 31:57
  ~ yeah.
• 31:57
  absolutely
• 31:59
  clutch kick straight down the middle at kicking from fifty-seven yards.
• 32:05
  The ball ended almost at the back line.
• 32:07
  line of the end zone. So he could have had another at least fifteen yards
• 32:12
  on that kick.
• 32:13
  where's GT for me to tell him that Blanchard went three for three and
• 32:16
  won the the game on a walk off field goal?
• 32:20
  Yes. my favorite maybe favorite part of the weekend was on I think it
• 32:23
  was the Sunday night games. They gave out the dog of the week and Milt gave
• 32:28
  it to a kicker to Blanchard and and I thought that was fully deserved.
• 32:31
  Awww. Fully deserved, yeah.
• 32:33
  It was he was
• 32:35
  one of the stars of that game.
• 32:37
  But the game started out they th they were in a tough
• 32:42
  Pzi emotional position. I think both themes were affected because we'd
• 32:45
  had the Dalke crash and the tribute to Jaden and Bishma,
• 32:51
  who was also killed in the in the accident.
• 32:54
  And it there's enough stuff sort of floating around about it that it was
• 32:58
  had to be handled just about perfect to to come off okay.
• 33:02
  And I thought they did very well with the tributes,
• 33:05
  the way that they handled them both.
• 33:06
  They didn't get into any of the weeds.
• 33:10
  And they did equal tributes, probably more to Bishma So I thought that you've
• 33:15
  got to do something about it. regardless of what the circumstances were,
• 33:20
  Dalke was a teammate that was heavily missed by obviously by his football family.
• 33:27
  And I thought the one thing that was very nicely done and obviously both teams were
• 33:31
  involved. The first time that they went to punt,
• 33:34
  Saskatchewan fielded eleven players and left Dalke's position on
• 33:40
  the punt team empty. And then took the intentional delay
• 33:46
  of game to then turn around and fill it in,
• 33:48
  just making the statement that this is where he should be.
• 33:51
  Edmonton immediately declined the penalty,
• 33:54
  which told me the two coaches had agreed to that ahead of time,
• 33:57
  that that was going to be a
• 33:59
  a way to acknowledge it. And then that kinda put things behind them
• 34:01
  and they stuck they went into playing football
• 34:04
  what else can you have? I an onside kick in the first quarter,
• 34:08
  a touchdown coming in just with like s two seconds left in the in
• 34:13
  the the first half. The game's tight and then late in the game,
• 34:19
  third and one and there's a mix up 'cause of the crowd and
• 34:24
  the snap gets fumbled and recovered and Saskatchewan at that point down by two,
• 34:29
  gets it down to the Edmonton twenty one yard line with like five minutes left.
• 34:33
  A chance to salt away the game,
• 34:36
  but the B s or Edmonton defense comes up yeah,
• 34:39
  the Edmonton defense comes up big and holds them to a field goal,
• 34:42
  and in the end that gives the them the chance to to win it with a field goal later.
• 34:46
  It was it was just like that back and forth and back and forth all the all the way.
• 34:54
  I'll get your comments, but before I d I do I'm going to toss this to
• 34:58
  you by asking you a MJ question.
• 35:01
  Okay.
• 35:03
  D did you know, did you realize that this game featured the
• 35:06
  two most accurate quarterbacks in CFL history?
• 35:10
  I didn't know
• 35:11
  Yeah.
• 35:11
  that.
• 35:12
  Now now I don't know if this if you saw this whole game,
• 35:14
  but yeah, that was the T S N crew was mentioning it at least twice per play.
• 35:20
  Amazing. Well done boys.
• 35:23
  Yeah. Now d I don't know if you saw this one all you were mentioning it
• 35:27
  was a busy weekend you didn't get to see them all
• 35:27
  ~
• 35:29
  I just saw the highlights of this one 'cause Thursday night games are tricky for me,
• 35:33
  but anyway. I think teams have finally figured out how to shut Rankin down.
• 35:36
  So of course like Austin Mack is starting to pop off.
• 35:40
  Of
• 35:40
  it's actually really nice to see the Elks a year or two ago Cody could have thrown
• 35:43
  for 500 yards and they wouldn't have finished this game.
• 35:45
  They would not have been able to put that game away,
• 35:48
  and so it's just nice to the for them to be able to finally like drive
• 35:52
  the final nail in. Mark Killum dedicated this win to the CFL schedule makers.
• 35:57
  ~
• 35:58
  I saw
• 35:59
  that, yes.
• 36:00
  Mori's so salty and I love it!
• 36:03
  I was like, maybe you're a Taylor Swift fan in Secret Mark,
• 36:06
  because that's such a ~ Yeah.
• 36:07
  Yeah. Yes. Well they have had some short weeks,
• 36:11
  but this week they get nine days,
• 36:12
  Yeah.
• 36:13
  so you know
• 36:14
  But yeah, dedicated to the CFL Schedule Makers.
• 36:17
  I just thought that was hilarious and I loved it so much.
• 36:19
  ~ yeah, what a great game. I mean Cody like knocked a pass off the upright
• 36:24
  as he likes to do.
• 36:25
  So this game had
• 36:25
  Yeah.
• 36:26
  everything. This game had everything.
• 36:28
  yeah, it's too bad AJ got hurt,
• 36:30
  right? But
• 36:32
  Yes, and th they're saying week to week for him,
• 36:35
  so he may be in on Saturday, but I'm thinking probably not.
• 36:38
  And that was a knee injury, so yeah.
• 36:38
  How after that. ~
• 36:41
  gross. But yeah, it was ~ elks are the real deal.
• 36:45
  Riders they play better than I thought they were going to play I
• 36:48
  was pretty worried because I know they're form one,
• 36:50
  but they just feel like they've been slow out of the gate.
• 36:52
  For whatever it's worth.
• 36:53
  Yeah. Well yeah. I mean
• 36:56
  this weekend was a lot of fun in a lot of ways,
• 36:58
  but did we learn anything? I d I don't know that we did.
• 37:02
  We learned that the
• 37:02
  I know. We're
• 37:04
  Yeah.
• 37:05
  I I felt like we had a lot of confirmation of stuff we already knew
• 37:09
  and the big question was who's the best team in the West and Edmonton's
• 37:12
  in first place right now.
• 37:14
  Calling out a best team in the West r is is difficult.
• 37:18
  'Cause they're they're both playing well and frankly the more Calgary gets into
• 37:23
  their season, it's it's gonna be interesting.
• 37:28
  And I know the bombers are up there at where are they at,
• 37:30
  four and three right now, but they've had a fairly easy schedule in
• 37:34
  for some of their wins. So I I think that'll tail off and and we'll see.
• 37:34
  Yeah. Yeah. Calgary does not have to play Montreal
• 37:39
  again.
• 37:39
  That's that's a huge part of why they're is you know,
• 37:43
  at three and four or I think. Yes,
• 37:45
  so there were there were a couple of other things that I was gonna mention in this.
• 37:49
  There was after Saskatchewan got the ball in the twenty one there,
• 37:53
  late late in the game, they scored a touchdown.
• 37:55
  And it got called back on an offensive PI call against Emilus that I've seen
• 38:01
  a lot of debate in the
• 38:03
  usually of co mostly from Saskatchewan fans of course about what a cheap call
• 38:07
  and what a what a soft call that was and how terrible it was.
• 38:10
  My personal opinion it was an interesting one 'cause OPI rarely gets called
• 38:17
  and and I've seen hand fighting worse than that go free all the time.
• 38:22
  But I also fall back to this is my attitude and and this is what
• 38:28
  I would say to our team back when I was coaching.
• 38:31
  the game. If you put yourself in a position,
• 38:34
  whether that was a good call or not,
• 38:38
  if you put yourself in a position where one mistake by either your team
• 38:41
  or the officials can cost you the game,
• 38:44
  it's still on you.
• 38:46
  Because that call did not lose them the game.
• 38:48
  If they had perhaps not let Cody and Edmonton slice through them like warm
• 38:55
  bread on the first drive and give up a an easy touchdown,
• 38:58
  if they'd had maybe covered Kaon Julian Grant instead of letting him
• 39:03
  get wide open thirty yards behind anybody everybody else for
• 39:06
  an eighty yard touchdown,
• 39:08
  I think it was in that same late series,
• 39:10
  if Trevor Harris drew the ball that he normally throws to a wide open
• 39:14
  key on Schaefer Baker in the end zone instead of bouncing it in the turf three yards
• 39:18
  ahead of him. So please do not go blaming the outcome of this game on a call.
• 39:23
  The teams have control over where they're at by how they perform.
• 39:28
  And
• 39:29
  If one
• 39:30
  call determines your entire game then you weren't playing well enough ahead
• 39:33
  of that call.
• 39:35
  Yeah, exactly. anytime you leave yourself in a position where one like I say,
• 39:38
  one mistake from w wherever it comes from,
• 39:41
  internally or externally to your team,
• 39:43
  you haven't done your job. Just make sure you're not gonna have that happen.
• 39:47
  Anyway, that's
• 39:49
  Just like, you know what, see
• 39:49
  my P my PI rant from last week.
• 39:53
  Yeah,
• 39:53
  yeah exactly. Hey and and I I can't even remember who it was this week,
• 39:58
  but I noticed one of the DBs was starting to call for an offensive PI call,
• 40:03
  so it's just getting worse and worse.
• 40:05
  They got a crackdown on that.
• 40:07
  Too.
• 40:08
  anything else here? yeah, two other things real or three things real quick.
• 40:12
  Absolutely clean game. Between the two teams there was six penalties for
• 40:17
  a total of thirty-nine yards. So even though that one penalty may or
• 40:22
  may not have played into the outcome of the game,
• 40:24
  it was played cleanly. And there was one on
• 40:30
  a Saskatchewan short yardage.
• 40:32
  Where Tommy Stevens got his yardage and the Edmonton DB one of
• 40:37
  the Edmonton DBs closed on the pile and started punching away at the ball
• 40:41
  to try and get it out of the out as they normally do and got a flag
• 40:45
  for unnecessary roughness. they showed the replay and it wasn't
• 40:51
  a vicious punching at anything,
• 40:53
  it was he was basically punching tapping on the ball,
• 40:56
  and the officials got together and picked up the flag.
• 41:00
  So I'd like to see that. 'Cause yeah,
• 41:03
  no reason for that call there at all.
• 41:04
  I was gonna be like, that's
• 41:05
  ridiculous.
• 41:07
  All right.
• 41:08
  Yes.
• 41:09
  You're right. It wa it was and they realized it.
• 41:12
  So thank you officials.
• 41:13
  Okay.
• 41:13
  Good job by a good crew. And then the last thing was also about the officials.
• 41:17
  That was I felt like this was obviously an experienced chain gang,
• 41:23
  the people that were that are handling the ~ the sticks on the sidelines.
• 41:27
  Obviously an experienced one that has played in Saskatchewan before.
• 41:30
  Because there was one point where
• 41:33
  AJ broke free and was aiming for the first down marker on the sidelines
• 41:38
  and but he got within about ten yards of there.
• 41:40
  They just dropped them and fled.
• 41:42
  Smartest thing to do. You do not stand in there in that.
• 41:45
  They have on a lot of equipment and are going full pull.
• 41:47
  Yeah. Yes.
• 41:48
  You have no equipment and are standing still.
• 41:51
  Like, no, no, it's not worth it.
• 41:52
  Yeah. It is. And it's not
• 41:55
  just AJ going full tilt at you,
• 41:57
  it's the guys coming behind him
• 41:59
  I don't know how anyone works those sidelines.
• 42:00
  But but yeah, normally like I said,
• 42:03
  and and I'm this is
• 42:03
  not making fun of the ~ the the people in the chains,
• 42:07
  it can be a dangerous job and you want to get out
• 42:09
  Interesting.
• 42:10
  of there, but normally you'll see if the play gets,
• 42:12
  you know, two or three yards from the line of scrimmage,
• 42:14
  they'll do that. I just got such a kick out of this one.
• 42:17
  As soon as they saw where the guy saw where it was coming,
• 42:19
  no, I'm gone. Yep.
• 42:21
  I'm out. I don't get paid enough for this.
• 42:23
  S yep, smart football. Smart Officating
• 42:23
  Yeah. Heads
• 42:28
  up play official.
• 42:29
  Yes. And I think that's about all I've got.
• 42:32
  So unless there's any other last minute thoughts,
• 42:34
  we'll move on. And the next one was Calgary going into Winnipeg,
• 42:38
  and this looked like it could be a good game,
• 42:40
  but not really in the end. Winnipeg or Calgary fifty two,
• 42:45
  Winnipeg thirty. And I thought there were a couple of stories to this game.
• 42:50
  The you could talk about the fact that
• 42:53
  Tyreek McAllister scored touchdowns,
• 42:56
  three touchdowns in the first half on three.
• 42:58
  He scored a rushing one, a receiving one,
• 43:02
  and a missed field goal return.
• 43:04
  Apparently, two other players in CFL history have done that in one game,
• 43:09
  but nobody's ever done it in a single half.
• 43:11
  So that was a storyline. The storyline could be the fact that Drew Brown threw
• 43:18
  Four interceptions, should have been five,
• 43:20
  if Kyrie Wilson could catch at all.
• 43:23
  And they turned the ball over on downs twice,
• 43:26
  so lots of turnovers there. But really,
• 43:29
  I think the storyline in this was the fact that Brady for Winnipeg
• 43:35
  ran 14 carries, 128 yards,
• 43:39
  two touchdowns, a couple of long touchdowns.
• 43:43
  Including one at the end of the third quarter when they were still somewhat
• 43:46
  in the game. And then he did not touch the ball again until the last minute when
• 43:52
  they were already out of it and they were just and frankly they this
• 43:57
  is another one of my rants, but a minute to go,
• 43:59
  they just wanted to get off the field and get out of there.
• 44:01
  So they ran three running plays to Brady.
• 44:03
  Why even bother doing that? Why risk an injury to anybody on the field?
• 44:07
  If you're just saying all we want is out of here,
• 44:09
  take your knee three times. And admit,
• 44:11
  yeah, we've lost.
• 44:13
  Th you're not showing any fight by getting people hurt.
• 44:16
  Anyway, that was he there was an entire fourth quarter,
• 44:19
  he did not touch the ball. And then
• 44:22
  Really detrimental to them because that crowd was out of it,
• 44:27
  and everyone was very sad,
• 44:31
  and then he runs that play.
• 44:35
  They score a touchdown. All of a sudden,
• 44:36
  the crowd is like going, and then and that I think that was off the LeBras lateral.
• 44:43
  He he went, he intercepted it,
• 44:45
  tried to lateral it, and then fumbled it,
• 44:48
  and then they got that Brady got that 10-chan after.
• 44:50
  So that series just put the crowd right back in the game,
• 44:53
  and then you don't use him. And Brady's like dropping F bombs on the sideline,
• 44:58
  you're picking it up, he's like,
• 44:59
  you know, he's all in beast mode and then you just don't use him.
• 45:03
  ~ Tommy Condell. Never change,
• 45:05
  Yes. Yes. ~
• 45:06
  I guess. Like I just you
• 45:08
  know, if he he like tries to change and then when things got you know,
• 45:12
  it's he just he cannot play call.
• 45:15
  Like it's just ~ just terrible.
• 45:17
  Ab absolutely. And he doubled down on it
• 45:20
  after the game. he said that he thought the calls he made gave them
• 45:23
  the best chance to win. And then this is a direct quote from him.
• 45:28
  It takes everyone. It's a team.
• 45:30
  It's not just one guy running the ball.
• 45:32
  There's another eleven. It's always a we over me mentality in that way.
• 45:37
  And yeah, he's right.
• 45:40
  Brady can't win a game on his own.
• 45:41
  They need everybody else blocking well and playing well for it.
• 45:44
  And you can't just run the ball.
• 45:46
  You gotta do other stuff. But I'm sorry,
• 45:47
  that's a BS quote, because saying that it's about the team rather than
• 45:52
  the best player we have, and I choose not to to to use him makes no sense.
• 45:58
  Okay, like so Yeah.
• 45:58
  And he also this was sorry, just let me say this.
• 46:01
  This wasn't a quote,
• 46:02
  but I thought this was really telling.
• 46:04
  They said that he also mentioned
• 46:08
  That he is happy to admit when he makes mistakes behind closed doors to the team,
• 46:12
  but he won't admit them in public.
• 46:14
  That's not helpful.
• 46:17
  Saying you're accountable to the team without showing it to to the fans doesn't tell
• 46:21
  me much.
• 46:22
  I understand. Okay. A they knew this about him and hired him anyway.
• 46:27
  So you live
• 46:28
  Yeah.
• 46:28
  with it now. This is you're getting you're reaping what you're sowing,
• 46:32
  right? Brown threw 40 times. 40 in that game.
• 46:36
  He's not playing well. He's not playing well,
• 46:38
  and you have him throw the ball forty times.
• 46:39
  Tim White is three for seven with thirty-two yards.
• 46:43
  It's you're I thought the offense was running through Tim White.
• 46:46
  That's what you told us all. It's
• 46:47
  Yeah.
• 46:48
  not working. Brady is
• 46:50
  running well why are you abandoning that and trying to force Brown
• 46:55
  to throw when he's not anyway I don't know but they played for two years together
• 47:00
  in Ottawa. Right? Like they know each other.
• 47:04
  So I don't know. It was I mean I mean if you want to talk about good things that
• 47:08
  happened for Winnipeg and they're not a lot,
• 47:10
  but Brady had a good game and Willie Jefferson had a sack and an interception.
• 47:14
  Like he was I was just like, my goodness,
• 47:16
  like he's still scaring QBs, like putting the fear in
• 47:17
  Yeah. I'm
• 47:19
  the heart,
• 47:20
  like
• 47:20
  right? Like
• 47:22
  I have to admit, this is my week for admitting where I was wrong.
• 47:25
  I should have mentioned in the first game.
• 47:27
  I didn't admit where I was wrong there.
• 47:29
  I said last week if Saskatchewan could limit Rankin,
• 47:33
  the Elks could not win in a passing duel.
• 47:37
  Obviously, I was wrong completely on that one.
• 47:42
  And this is the other thing I was wrong on.
• 47:43
  I've said a couple of times I thought Willie's lost a step and isn't playing
• 47:48
  as well. These last three games he's
• 47:51
  looking as good as he ever did.
• 47:53
  So yeah. My apologies, Willie J.
• 47:56
  You proved me wrong and I'm lovin' watching it.
• 48:00
  Yeah. my last note and then I wanna talk about Calgary 'cause that's
• 48:04
  the team I wanna really talk about.
• 48:05
  But ~ the TSN shady moment for me is like they zoomed in on Zach after every
• 48:10
  bad Drew Brown play. And then they just pan in
• 48:12
  Mm-hmm.
• 48:13
  tight to Zack in his street clothes and I was like,
• 48:15
  boy. and then Milt's like, Whoa,
• 48:17
  maybe Ryan wasn't wrong after all,
• 48:20
  everyone.
• 48:22
  ~ boy. it's just too
• 48:23
  Yeah. Yeah. Well
• 48:25
  bad. It's too bad because he had that one good game and then the last it's just
• 48:29
  not looked good. ~ yeah,
• 48:29
  Yeah, but even that was against the Toronto defense.
• 48:32
  And everybody's been
• 48:33
  for sure.
• 48:34
  shredding and so he's he won against Toronto,
• 48:38
  he won against Ottawa, who is also not not the top of the league.
• 48:44
  And the first time he played a real defense that can actually catch
• 48:47
  Yeah.
• 48:48
  the ball, four interceptions. That's one thing that I've noticed about Brown going
• 48:51
  and
• 48:52
  Not to validate myself ca ~ and I know nobody's gonna go back and watch
• 48:56
  the last two and a half years of The CFL Outsiders but I've been saying this quite
• 49:02
  consistently. Brown he throws a lot of balls into trouble and
• 49:07
  for whatever reason DB's dropped them.
• 49:11
  He gets more easy interceptions dropped than any quarterback I've seen.
• 49:16
  He went against a team that actually knows how to catch the ball and yeah.
• 49:19
  He was
• 49:19
  you wanted to talk Calgary
• 49:20
  too.
• 49:21
  Yeah, so let's talk like let's start with LeBros since we're talking about
• 49:23
  interception. He's been sitting on the bench all year.
• 49:25
  And I think it's I think it's green that's out,
• 49:28
  and so he's been in for green.
• 49:30
  And
• 49:31
  Yeah.
• 49:31
  you're not going on the bench.
• 49:32
  You are now like what a way to make the most of your opportunity.
• 49:36
  So he made that little mistake with the lateral.
• 49:39
  I think he just got like really excited and was like,
• 49:41
  Yes.
• 49:41
  I'm gonna extend this play.
• 49:42
  But you know what? He came back and made two and two more.
• 49:46
  So he had a
• 49:46
  Yes.
• 49:47
  such a great game. I was so happy for him,
• 49:49
  and I'm glad he was able to fix his mistake because that could have been
• 49:53
  a TSN turning point disaster.
• 49:57
  Yes,
• 49:57
  exactly. I mean he's after his mistake with the on the one interception
• 50:02
  the next when he returned, I think,
• 50:04
  seventy, eighty yards. It was a a great return.
• 50:05
  ~ yeah. Like just keep it yourself,
• 50:06
  But yes.
• 50:07
  sir. You you run. You don't need to ladder
• 50:09
  it's not rugby. It's not rugby.
• 50:10
  You don't need to lateral this to anyone.
• 50:12
  Just off you go. yeah, McAllisters we talked about three touchdowns.
• 50:13
  Yes, and for anyone who sorry,
• 50:16
  just let me say this in case
• 50:18
  in case anybody isn't aware of what you're mentioning there,
• 50:21
  Labras made a nice interception about the Winnipeg thirty yard line and
• 50:26
  as he was tack being tackled decided he'd try and flip it back to someone else
• 50:30
  to get some extra yards out of it and Ontario Wilson kinda jumped in between
• 50:34
  the two of them and caught the lateral in the air.
• 50:38
  So yeah.
• 50:40
  a bit of a silly move trying too much.
• 50:42
  It was so s I can just I wish they would have showed I wish I wish they would have
• 50:42
  But I d I thought I should let anyone who didn't know about that know about it.
• 50:46
  Yeah.
• 50:48
  showed Dave on the sideline during that.
• 50:50
  But luckily he made up for it.
• 50:52
  as we said, McCallister
• 50:53
  Yeah.
• 50:54
  ~ a rushing touchdown, passing touchdown,
• 50:57
  field goal return touchdown. That is a record.
• 51:00
  this is kind of a game where like if you are you a Calgary Stampeder,
• 51:02
  you probably set a CFL record today.
• 51:05
  Vernon Adams, he
• 51:06
  Yeah. Yes.
• 51:08
  now has what it was he needed he was at 17.
• 51:12
  I think he's at 20 now, or either 20 or 21,
• 51:14
  I can't remember.
• 51:15
  Yeah.
• 51:15
  passing touchdowns without an interception.
• 51:17
  this is an incredible record.
• 51:18
  Yes. And ~ more than that as they
• 51:22
  Yes. And as they pointed out in the game,
• 51:25
  I didn't realize this. That was touchdowns without an interception at
• 51:28
  the start of the season. When you go over multiple seasons,
• 51:32
  the record was twenty by Ricky Ray and I can't remember who I can't remember.
• 51:38
  Anyway, somebody else that was right up there.
• 51:40
  And and so VA now in that score is now at twenty three.
• 51:45
  So he o he got both records. Pretty amazing.
• 51:47
  Yeah. ~ this is
• 51:49
  this is an offense that loves playing for him.
• 51:52
  That O line works hard for him.
• 51:53
  Yeah.
• 51:53
  Those
• 51:53
  those receivers work hard. You know,
• 51:56
  last week the Stampeders was showing he went and bought booster juice
• 51:59
  for all the team, the whole team.
• 52:00
  He just showed up with like booster juice juice for everyone.
• 52:03
  I'm like he's just like that person you would want to be on a team with.
• 52:07
  And
• 52:07
  Yeah.
• 52:08
  He's you know, finally I I think you would he would tell you he'd probably trade
• 52:13
  it all in for a grey cup, but right now he's playing lights out.
• 52:17
  And then this makes me wonder I wish GT was here because now we're gonna talk
• 52:21
  receivers and Moose Moose's back and where do they fit him in?
• 52:24
  He was listed under behind Barnes,
• 52:26
  so they'll probably rotate them in,
• 52:28
  but we were joking that th all those receivers are playing as for so they don't
• 52:32
  get sat down for anyone else. Like
• 52:34
  Yeah.
• 52:35
  they
• 52:35
  They all all of them had a really good game.
• 52:37
  And you know, it makes me wonder if they even need Ajo Ajo because look what they
• 52:42
  I don't think they need him.
• 52:44
  they are playing great. Phil Pot had a great
• 52:47
  Yes.
• 52:47
  game. Like Mills had a great game.
• 52:49
  Well no, I he didn't even really,
• 52:52
  but I mean Mills made the most of opportunities when presented,
• 52:55
  but they aren't really like it wasn't as good as Brady,
• 52:58
  but I mean, yeah, but their their receivers
• 52:59
  Yeah.
• 53:00
  are ticking and they're they're firing and
• 53:02
  And
• 53:02
  I think now that they have have Montreal in their rear view mirror,
• 53:06
  I think they are gonna be full steam ahead.
• 53:08
  Yeah.
• 53:10
  Yes. They and I agree with you about Joe Ojo.
• 53:13
  He's he's a good insurance policy to have,
• 53:15
  but I don't know that they need him.
• 53:18
  Will they hold him on the roster now that Alfred is back or will they release
• 53:24
  him again and see if somebody else picks him up?
• 53:25
  I don't
• 53:26
  I just I couldn't find how long they had signed Alfred for.
• 53:30
  I just I all I could see is that they signed him,
• 53:32
  but I no one I couldn't see for how long it was.
• 53:35
  That's a good point. I don't think I saw that reported anywhere,
• 53:38
  whether it's just this season or for for longer term.
• 53:42
  Mm-hmm.
• 53:42
  they did release Janice, who was one of the backup Canadian receivers.
• 53:47
  they've got Brissett, they've got Barnes and Philpot already out there.
• 53:50
  You could, I suppose, take
• 53:52
  Maybe Trayvon Jones off and and put Alfred there.
• 53:56
  But I suspect that what they'll do is they'll just rotate the four
• 53:59
  of those Canadian receivers to keep them fresh and it won't really matter
• 54:03
  who gets who gets the starting role.
• 54:06
  I suspect that it'll it probably will be Barnes and Alfred that take halftime with
• 54:11
  each other, but you can sort I can see them taking Brissett out too.
• 54:14
  I don't see them taking Philpot out.
• 54:16
  I mean that's the other thing we haven't mentioned yet.
• 54:18
  The the first play of the the second half,
• 54:21
  VA hit him up the middle and he just basically ran like a tank and and took it,
• 54:26
  I think, sixty nine yards for the touchdown,
• 54:28
  broke three or four tackles. So you're not gonna pull him off in a hurry.
• 54:30
  Yeah. Yeah.
• 54:33
  No. They were just they were all business,
• 54:36
  right? That was a business trip.
• 54:38
  They were they they got beat out very close the last two times against Montreal
• 54:43
  and they've just I'm glad that they were able to just put it to all together.
• 54:47
  Yeah.
• 54:49
  the missed field goal return that McAllister got was a terrible kick by Castile.
• 54:54
  He's he's usually money, but it was a bad miss and it barely made it
• 54:58
  to the goal line.
• 55:01
  What is going on? What is going on?
• 55:03
  He and Herolahu
• 55:03
  Not a great
• 55:04
  are not having a good year.
• 55:06
  Yeah. Well, let's talk also, you know,
• 55:08
  Alex Hale in Saskatchewan, who everyone's saying when do they I've star I've seen
• 55:13
  the Saskatchewan fans start to refer to him as Alex Fail now and there's
• 55:17
  a lot of pressure but again they put Yeah.
• 55:18
  Tough being ~ it's a tough being a kicker
• 55:21
  in Saskatchewan.
• 55:23
  Yes, and they put themselves in a tough spot in that he's one of
• 55:27
  the two globals they have to carry.
• 55:29
  So if they want to get a different kicker,
• 55:30
  they either have to find a global to carry on the roster for a position that they
• 55:36
  don't need, or it's gotta be a another global kicker.
• 55:39
  And while there's lots of Aussie punters,
• 55:42
  global kickers are at more of a premium.
• 55:45
  Dean Faithful is available.
• 55:49
  I wonder what Boris Beattie's doing.
• 55:50
  I think he's considered global these anyway.
• 55:52
  Yeah. no he wasn't
• 55:53
  ~
• 55:54
  he be yeah. So I you know what?
• 55:56
  I
• 55:57
  I think he'll be okay. I'm a more optimistic about this because I've seen kickers
• 56:02
  grow into some like look at Flanchard again,
• 56:05
  look at what's happening. Like they will grow into it.
• 56:07
  I mean
• 56:08
  it's not like some vets are having a good time right now.
• 56:11
  It's a it's a as much as like Luke Wilson wants to say that kickers
• 56:14
  are like the most pointless part of the of the game,
• 56:17
  I think they're one of the most important parts and there's a lot of pressure to be
• 56:20
  Yeah.
• 56:20
  a a kicker. And sometimes
• 56:22
  Yeah.
• 56:23
  that pressure is I like I don't want to speak for hail.
• 56:26
  I don't know what's going through and what's happening,
• 56:29
  but it's it's a pressure cooker position
• 56:33
  I would like to see that too. and it's more than just kicking the field goals.
• 56:37
  That's the other thing is you've got to get the kickoffs where they need to be.
• 56:40
  There were two or three this weekend that were out of bounds and gave
• 56:43
  p teams possession on the fifty.
• 56:45
  So kicking is not easy, but we'll see.
• 56:48
  It occurs to me too, didn't you say last week that Faithful hit a fifty five yarder
• 56:52
  in Paris? So it's fifty six,
• 56:53
  56. I said he could hit from 65.
• 56:56
  so maybe that
• 56:56
  He's
• 56:58
  Ma maybe Jeremy O'Day's on the Yes.
• 56:59
  global. He's from the UK. Yeah.
• 57:02
  He's global. Maybe Jeremy O'Day's on the ~ phone de Paris.
• 57:06
  Yeah. what else?
• 57:10
  there was also Calgary managed to block a punt in this and they got
• 57:13
  Yeah.
• 57:14
  a field goal out of out of that.
• 57:15
  I thought it was interesting again,
• 57:17
  credit where it's due. Luke Wilson is turning into a fairly good color
• 57:21
  guy and when matched up with ~ Dustin they work well together.
• 57:25
  And he was the one that
• 57:25
  Yes.
• 57:26
  pointed if the
• 57:27
  If the ball pointed out if the ball had been punted the way that you would expect,
• 57:31
  just punted straight down the middle,
• 57:32
  that wouldn't have been a block.
• 57:34
  It came off the side of the the Winnipeg punter's foot and shanked to the right,
• 57:40
  right into where the rusher was coming from.
• 57:42
  So sometimes you gotta be lucky to be good
• 57:44
  Is this the one?
• 57:45
  too.
• 57:46
  Is this the one where it got called for no yards?
• 57:49
  Yes.
• 57:50
  And I was very confused. I was like,
• 57:51
  how can there be a no yards on a blocked punt?
• 57:53
  And I just I was like, I I don't know what's happening.
• 57:56
  But no one explained
• 57:57
  Yeah, if
• 57:58
  it. But it's because it can't just be me who was like,
• 57:58
  It's well let me explain it to you then.
• 58:00
  ~ a block Yeah.
• 58:03
  hmm, that seems weird. They haven't called no yards
• 58:04
  Yeah.
• 58:05
  all year, and now you're calling it on this blocked punt.
• 58:07
  It was so weird.
• 58:07
  Yeah. Yes.
• 58:09
  a block kick, whether it's a punt or a field goal,
• 58:12
  as long as it crosses the line of scrimmage,
• 58:14
  you have to give five yards when the ball is caught.
• 58:18
  And they didn't. And in fact interesting they didn't just call it no yards,
• 58:22
  they called it no yards interference.
• 58:24
  Which tells me that they were both within the zone and hitting the
• 58:30
  Calgary player trying to recover the punt.
• 58:32
  To be fair, most of the people on the field did not notice that punt
• 58:37
  had been blocked the ball was just
• 58:38
  spinning and no one no one knew no one was paying any attention to the ball
• 58:43
  for a few seconds there.
• 58:48
  There was also ~ one of the Calgary touchdowns to Jones I don't I didn't think
• 58:52
  it was controversial, but there were people talking about it 'cause he caught
• 58:55
  it and and then as he turned and was moving heading out of bounds
• 58:58
  the ~ Winnipeg defender came and slapped it out of his hands and
• 59:02
  so they were saying, Did he actually have possession?
• 59:04
  As far as I know the rule
• 59:04
  Yes, he did.
• 59:05
  is if you're in the end zone and you've got possession,
• 59:08
  that's that that's a touchdown.
• 59:09
  Your feet are your toe is
• 59:10
  in. You have possession. know.
• 59:12
  Yeah.
• 59:13
  Well you know what, your teams lose and you get a little you
• 59:15
  get irate about borderline things.
• 59:18
  personally I thought there was another one that I didn't hear anybody talking about,
• 59:21
  but there was a plays where they threw to Jones down on the goal line again.
• 59:26
  I think this was in the late second or early third quarter anyway.
• 59:29
  Threw to the goal line. The pass came up a little bit short by like half
• 59:34
  a yard at the most. He couldn't make the catch,
• 59:37
  which is fine, incomplete pass.
• 59:38
  Except the Winnipeg D B before the ball got there.
• 59:44
  reached his hands around on the shoulder pads to the front of the shoulder pads
• 59:47
  and was preventing Jones from moving back towards the ball.
• 59:50
  And to me that should have been a clear interference call.
• 59:54
  I'm not an official, maybe I'm wrong.
• 59:56
  People here may tell me, hopefully if I am wrong and you know why,
• 59:59
  please may leave a comment and tell me.
• 1:00:01
  But to me that that should have been called for interference 'cause you're
• 1:00:05
  preventing him from making him the play on the ball.
• 1:00:08
  And that's all I've got.
• 1:00:10
  Yeah. Please see my PI rant from last week.
• 1:00:13
  Yes.
• 1:00:14
  Well this was when he didn't call for it.
• 1:00:15
  Nobody called for it. I'm the one s I'm the one going Yeah.
• 1:00:16
  No, but that was a part of it is like nobody knows what PI this is this year,
• 1:00:22
  and that's part of the reason
• 1:00:23
  everyone's having a meltdown. But yeah.
• 1:00:25
  Yes.
• 1:00:26
  ~
• 1:00:27
  great game, Calgary, great bounce back game.
• 1:00:29
  ~ Winnipeg,
• 1:00:30
  Yes.
• 1:00:31
  you're in trouble.
• 1:00:32
  Welcome back to the moose, yes.
• 1:00:34
  Although well we'll talk about it in the games this week with prediction.
• 1:00:38
  BC's coming into Winnipeg, so they're they are getting a stretch without heavy,
• 1:00:44
  heavy ~ opponents, heavy hitting opponents
• 1:00:47
  Yeah.
• 1:00:47
  or or or well performing opponents.
• 1:00:49
  But the next night was speaking of BC,
• 1:00:53
  Toronto went out there won twenty six twelve.
• 1:00:56
  And there's not a lot
• 1:00:59
  I don't think that to talk about it in this,
• 1:01:02
  it never felt to me like the game was in doubt.
• 1:01:04
  Bryce was in for three and a half quarters and went 56%
• 1:01:09
  14 of 25 for 162 yards.
• 1:01:13
  Then they put Salter in for the last
• 1:01:16
  half of the fourth quarter. He threw 15 times.
• 1:01:19
  So between them they threw 40 passes.
• 1:01:22
  Didn't seem to want to run the ball a lot.
• 1:01:25
  He was only 60% 9 of 15, but
• 1:01:28
  He was completing deeper down the field,
• 1:01:29
  a hundred and twenty one yards.
• 1:01:30
  Now he was also against a defense that had a,
• 1:01:34
  fourteen point lead or close to it at that point.
• 1:01:36
  So who knows wh how he'll look this week against Winnipeg.
• 1:01:39
  I'm not having a lot of high hopes,
• 1:01:41
  but it was just yeah. Even after Kelly got hurt and Kelly was hurt
• 1:01:47
  by he went out
• 1:01:49
  Scrambled, ran for the first down,
• 1:01:51
  slid, and Sankey came down, I saw afterwards Sankey was saying,
• 1:01:54
  that was fine by me. That wasn't a terrible hit.
• 1:01:57
  They were making cheap hits all over the field.
• 1:01:59
  You look at that, he put a shoulder directly into the helmet of Kelly.
• 1:02:02
  And I personally I think that I'm not a fan of Kelly,
• 1:02:07
  as you know. As as a human being,
• 1:02:09
  I don't have much to say good for him.
• 1:02:11
  But as a football player, he's good and you've got to at least treat
• 1:02:14
  him on the field the same as everybody else.
• 1:02:16
  So to me the CFL should be suspending Sankey for a game over that.
• 1:02:20
  That was intentional enough injuring of a quarterback that I think it's
• 1:02:25
  it deserves a suspension. It's beyond a fine.
• 1:02:27
  I don't think those are
• 1:02:28
  any worse than the four hits VA's taken ~ this year.
• 1:02:32
  ~ so the thing the issue with this one is is that Kelly slid late and
• 1:02:37
  he has a little tendency to fake slide.
• 1:02:40
  And then keep going. So if you're sliding late and someone's already in motion,
• 1:02:45
  it's hard. Sankey's like, yes,
• 1:02:48
  great. I get it. Fine me, I'll take my penalty,
• 1:02:52
  but I'm not gonna like I play to the whistle.
• 1:02:54
  And if you're sliding late, I'm already in motion.
• 1:02:57
  And I mean, there there's an argument for that.
• 1:03:00
  ~ I think there's an issue with how we're handling quarterback slides
• 1:03:05
  in general in the CFL.
• 1:03:08
  And quarterbacks are sliding a bit later because they want to
• 1:03:12
  get yardage because it's from where you start sliding that the the ball.
• 1:03:16
  So I mean
• 1:03:16
  There's there's there it needs to be fine-tuned a bit because I Italya,
• 1:03:21
  it's hard to be a defender. It's hard to be a defender because how do
• 1:03:25
  you even how do you even defend against that anymore?
• 1:03:28
  So I get it. I get it. I don't think he needs to suspend it.
• 1:03:31
  I don't think it's intent Awe is a player who probably should have been
• 1:03:36
  he wasn't suspended for hitting VA.
• 1:03:37
  that was very blatant. So why is he
• 1:03:38
  Yeah. Yep.
• 1:03:40
  so if he's not suspended, there's no way you can suspend
• 1:03:43
  Like always wrap sheets like a mile long.
• 1:03:46
  that's an definitely an argument and y and you're right,
• 1:03:48
  they were s they were very similar.
• 1:03:50
  I personally think the Sankey one was worse,
• 1:03:53
  and full respect to what you're saying there and to what others say about it.
• 1:03:58
  But that's BS. If Kelly had slid,
• 1:04:03
  whether it's late or not, if he had slid and Sankey was in motion coming
• 1:04:08
  in to make the tackle
• 1:04:10
  Of a player who has not yet slid,
• 1:04:12
  so in other words, he's going to tackle a player whose he knows
• 1:04:15
  is not giving himself up, that hit would have been at waist height and
• 1:04:20
  he would have basically, once Kelly slid,
• 1:04:22
  flew over top of him. If he did that and somehow his foot hit the Kelly's helmet
• 1:04:27
  and he got a penalty for it, I'd yeah,
• 1:04:28
  that's not fair. But he managed,
• 1:04:31
  with Kelly there going to the ground,
• 1:04:34
  to redirect his shoulder to the one spot where Kelly's helmet was.
• 1:04:39
  You can't do that without targeting.
• 1:04:41
  That wasn't I was out of control.
• 1:04:44
  I'd already committed. If you were committed you'd be targeting
• 1:04:46
  a whole different spot higher up than where he was.
• 1:04:49
  That was an intent to injure. And that should be that should cost you a game
• 1:04:54
  and a game check. My opinion.
• 1:04:56
  You know, I have sympathy for what you're saying about these late slides make
• 1:05:00
  it harder. But if you still manage to somehow get a hit where
• 1:05:05
  the quarterback's head is, regardless of where you think his head's gonna
• 1:05:09
  be when you say you're committing to the tackle,
• 1:05:11
  I don't buy it.
• 1:05:14
  Carl Myers punting for BC is the one bright spot on that team.
• 1:05:17
  That man can punt for distance and places it well and somehow manages
• 1:05:23
  to get enough height he doesn't out punt his coverage.
• 1:05:26
  I think he's the one bright spot there.
• 1:05:28
  Any other comments from you before we jump on on this?
• 1:05:32
  Yeah, ~ I think it's ridiculous that when you have a backup in like
• 1:05:37
  in Bryce you only run Butler ten times.
• 1:05:40
  Yeah.
• 1:05:42
  you're not helping your
• 1:05:44
  Backup quarterbacks succeed by only using your running back ten times.
• 1:05:49
  And Butler can play. It's not like he's like some like no namey guy.
• 1:05:53
  Like he is good and ~ Sean Lemon got two sacks in his first game back.
• 1:05:58
  Yes, he did.
• 1:05:59
  Good to see the lemonator doing his stuff.
• 1:06:02
  High motor still Nah.
• 1:06:02
  So if we were worried about Rust,
• 1:06:04
  worry not. I mean, it was against BC,
• 1:06:06
  No, apparently not.
• 1:06:08
  but it's a good little first game back.
• 1:06:11
  yeah, they they pulled Bryce way too late.
• 1:06:13
  I'm always a fan when Arbuckle plays,
• 1:06:16
  and to be quite honest, I instead of watching this game,
• 1:06:19
  our family chose to intentionally watch Robin Hood Prince of Thieves that night
• 1:06:23
  instead, and I think we made the better choice.
• 1:06:26
  Probably
• 1:06:26
  did, 'cause there's a lot of reasons for it,
• 1:06:29
  but well even as football went,
• 1:06:31
  this was not a terribly entertaining game what's whatsoever,
• 1:06:35
  yeah. I I don't know. I think I find it kind of ironic.
• 1:06:41
  I th I think personally BC's had injury issues and losing losing Nathan
• 1:06:47
  is not helping them. But even before the injury issues they've got a
• 1:06:51
  big problem on defense and I think it's self-inflicted.
• 1:06:55
  They've been talking for two or three years about if you want to win the West,
• 1:07:00
  you've got to beat Winnipeg. We need to build a team that's gonna beat Winnipeg.
• 1:07:04
  So they built a team that's gonna beat Winnipeg that can stop the run.
• 1:07:07
  Look what they did to Rankin. they did fair fairly well against them.
• 1:07:11
  Toronto's not a running team, of course,
• 1:07:13
  but BC's one of the best teams in the league against the run.
• 1:07:16
  Unfortunately teams have moved away from that style of dominating games
• 1:07:20
  and turned into Wild West passing shootouts and
• 1:07:24
  the defense B C has intentionally built,
• 1:07:27
  has designed to to put out there,
• 1:07:28
  can't do it anymore.
• 1:07:31
  Yeah. And also I mean this is going back to like Mike Riley days,
• 1:07:34
  but they are they their O line has never been good enough.
• 1:07:37
  Yeah. Well again you
• 1:07:38
  And you are
• 1:07:40
  paying mu Nathan Bourke bajillions of dollars and he's getting
• 1:07:45
  run around back there. That's that's a waste of money for your team.
• 1:07:48
  Yeah. Yeah.
• 1:07:49
  Hey, the the two highest paid quarterbacks in the league are Nathan
• 1:07:54
  and Chad Kelly and the teams they play on have poor defenses and poor O lines.
• 1:07:59
  So there there's some definitely something to that.
• 1:08:01
  Well, you gotta save money somewhere.
• 1:08:02
  Yeah. Yeah. Yes.
• 1:08:03
  Like there's only so much money to go around.
• 1:08:06
  So
• 1:08:06
  But it's
• 1:08:07
  also y like you said, Buck Pierce,
• 1:08:09
  he ran the Winnebago Highlands for years based on run first
• 1:08:15
  Pass when you need
• 1:08:16
  Yeah.
• 1:08:16
  to and somehow he's just he's forgotten that.
• 1:08:18
  'Cause you're right, Butler's very good and and Horvath is a good back
• 1:08:21
  to spell Butler off too. Horvath is good enough he could be starting in some teams.
• 1:08:24
  Yeah. no, they have the pieces.
• 1:08:28
  They have pieces. And especially especially since most of your starting receivers
• 1:08:32
  are injured. Especially like and I mean Toronto
• 1:08:33
  Yes. Yeah.
• 1:08:36
  you could have run on them. not.
• 1:08:37
  Yeah. Yeah. But they didn't.
• 1:08:38
  Anyway. Home.
• 1:08:40
  But they didn't and they lost.
• 1:08:42
  Yes. Surprise.
• 1:08:45
  Yeah.
• 1:08:46
  Okay, so then that's the last one.
• 1:08:48
  And this is the one that ~ if the first game was emotionally first game
• 1:08:51
  of the weekend was emotionally traumatizing for me,
• 1:08:54
  this is the one that MJ may have needed to spend a little bit of time in
• 1:08:57
  a dark room afterwards.
• 1:09:00
  Yeah.
• 1:09:01
  You had the tray magic and the tray inexperience out there.
• 1:09:05
  You know,
• 1:09:05
  Whoa
• 1:09:06
  it was both
• 1:09:08
  it was close until it wasn't. The Thai cats were winning,
• 1:09:10
  Yeah. Eighteen seventeen with under five minutes to go.
• 1:09:11
  guys. They were winning!
• 1:09:14
  Yes.
• 1:09:14
  Wonder if I'm and ~
• 1:09:16
  you know what I I was looking at the stats and I d okay,
• 1:09:19
  so this is my
• 1:09:22
  Those last few plays, Trey had daylight to run and he didn't.
• 1:09:27
  And I looked at the stats after and he only ran three times that whole game.
• 1:09:33
  So Scott's made him sit back in the pocket again.
• 1:09:35
  We learned nothing from last week.
• 1:09:37
  No lessons were learned. I can't believe I said nice things about Scott.
• 1:09:41
  And then he goes and does this because if Trey had been able to scramble
• 1:09:45
  and move up,
• 1:09:46
  think that they would have played better but they made him sit back there again
• 1:09:49
  and then he made like one decision one very terrible decision but that decision came
• 1:09:55
  after the TI cats had a really nice pass to gittens to move the sticks
• 1:10:01
  and then they had no end. And then they
• 1:10:01
  Yeah. Yes.
• 1:10:03
  mess around and then trade through that really bad interception and
• 1:10:07
  I will admit that's bad. I'm a I wanna prop up trade
• 1:10:09
  Yeah.
• 1:10:10
  but that was a bad mistake. I I understand what you were trying to do.
• 1:10:13
  You were trying
• 1:10:14
  get
• 1:10:14
  around an arm but you should have just ate it like that was not anyway
• 1:10:18
  the defense played spectacular they shut alexander and phil pot down Theis
• 1:10:23
  Yep.
• 1:10:24
  they did not shut down but they shut the they shut the passing game right down
• 1:10:29
  alexander had 187 yards yeah
• 1:10:30
  Yeah. Under two hundred yards for Alexander.
• 1:10:32
  yeah so they did good even when witten mcmanus was ejected from the game they still
• 1:10:37
  managed
• 1:10:39
  To keep it under control. That was very selfish.
• 1:10:42
  If you didn't see Whit McManus,
• 1:10:43
  Yeah think?
• 1:10:44
  it was in a pile and he kicked the pile and ended up kicking by somebody's head.
• 1:10:50
  And I don't know what he was thinking.
• 1:10:53
  I don't know what he was I I get it's a battle.
• 1:10:55
  Like I get that you it's emotional,
• 1:10:58
  but there is no excuse for kicking.
• 1:11:01
  And if someone's like, Well, it wasn't kicked,
• 1:11:03
  they didn't even kick it. That's it is not the referee's job to decide.
• 1:11:06
  Decide how hard you kicked somebody.
• 1:11:08
  Just like it's not the referee's job to
• 1:11:08
  Yeah. It's like a hitting the head.
• 1:11:12
  see how hard you slapped someone's helmet.
• 1:11:14
  So he gets ejected, and that all I was so upset because they're playing so well.
• 1:11:20
  Their defense was playing so well.
• 1:11:22
  And this is another game where if they had just like had
• 1:11:24
  a few different opportunities,
• 1:11:25
  they probably could have pulled it out against the Alouettes and then
• 1:11:28
  so the Alouettes the last like three,
• 1:11:30
  four minutes of the game, just scored two touchdowns,
• 1:11:32
  and that's it.
• 1:11:34
  right like that's it
• 1:11:35
  Yes. But
• 1:11:36
  even earlier McManus getting himself ejected was a selfish,
• 1:11:40
  stupid play, no matter how you look at it.
• 1:11:42
  And what made it worse was their defense was holding them in the game.
• 1:11:46
  They were in a position that there's a very good chance there would have been
• 1:11:50
  a field goal out of that drive that they were on because they were down about
• 1:11:54
  the twenty yard line. McManus takes a twenty five yard ejection penalty
• 1:11:59
  and they get the ball on the one yard line where it's
• 1:12:01
  they're gonna get a touchdown it's just stupid,
• 1:12:04
  stupid, stupid, stupid.
• 1:12:06
  He is a leader on that team. There is n it's just on I don't even know what
• 1:12:11
  was going through his head.
• 1:12:12
  No.
• 1:12:13
  I don't know either. And that's this is where I say Trey made some fantastic plays.
• 1:12:19
  And he escaped and scrambled and made some deepish passes.
• 1:12:25
  He also made some bad plays. And I don't know if it was his decision
• 1:12:30
  or what Scott was telling him,
• 1:12:31
  because there was twice late in the game there where he had it looked like room
• 1:12:36
  Daylight.
• 1:12:36
  to get at
• 1:12:37
  least
• 1:12:38
  close to a first down, just running the ball,
• 1:12:41
  and at the last second he threw it.
• 1:12:43
  And one was a deep one that went incomplete,
• 1:12:45
  and one was the interception you talked about,
• 1:12:47
  which was a very bad decision.
• 1:12:49
  So whether that was Scott telling him pass whenever you can
• 1:12:54
  or him deciding I've got to be passing more,
• 1:12:57
  I don't know. But you can't blame him for this loss.
• 1:13:01
  Because like you said, McManus got ejected.
• 1:13:03
  There was that play where there was
• 1:13:05
  there were th there was no end when they needed a good play and just you've
• 1:13:08
  got three receivers over there
• 1:13:08
  And they had a
• 1:13:09
  looking at each other in the waggle and nobody doing anything about it.
• 1:13:12
  So this was Yeah.
• 1:13:13
  They all know that someone needs to be on the line.
• 1:13:17
  They just they lost concentration and fell apart.
• 1:13:20
  They could have been in that game.
• 1:13:21
  Like you said, two touchdowns in the last under five minutes because they went from
• 1:13:26
  being a very good team that was scrappy and fighting to stay in it
• 1:13:30
  to suddenly they lost their mind on offense,
• 1:13:33
  on defense.
• 1:13:35
  everywhere. they looked like the Elk did two,
• 1:13:38
  three years ago. They might stay in a game close,
• 1:13:39
  Honestly, it was exactly
• 1:13:41
  but they didn't believe in themselves when it came down to it.
• 1:13:45
  Watching that was like me sitting in Commonwealth watching Trey being told
• 1:13:48
  to stay in the pocket and not scramble and then watching them collapse
• 1:13:52
  in the last three minutes and then walking out of Commonwealth sad.
• 1:13:56
  That was exactly the same experience I just witnessed Sunday night.
• 1:14:00
  It was it was too bad because they had ~ the Alouettes on the ropes
• 1:14:03
  and the Alouettes looked not great like they look Yeah.
• 1:14:07
  They were playing
• 1:14:07
  well. They got that the hundred yard punt return touchdown out of wooden early
• 1:14:11
  Yep. Yeah.
• 1:14:11
  in the game
• 1:14:12
  to give them a lead you're right,
• 1:14:13
  they were they were right in it.
• 1:14:15
  They like I said, they held Alexander to under 200 yards and probably under about
• 1:14:19
  I didn't do the percentage, but I think about sixty-five percent,
• 1:14:22
  so that wasn't great. But they just couldn't seem to play out the whole game.
• 1:14:28
  They also
• 1:14:29
  took eleven penalties for one hundred and sixteen yards,
• 1:14:32
  which didn't help.
• 1:14:33
  It's an entire field, right? Like
• 1:14:36
  they also they had things like there was a short yardage play,
• 1:14:38
  third and one, where the Montreal short yardage guy tried to go around
• 1:14:43
  the outside basically, and Katsantonis just flew flew to it and made
• 1:14:47
  a great tackle to stop them. So like I said,
• 1:14:50
  it wasn't like they weren't doing anything right.
• 1:14:51
  They were making great plays, but they just they couldn't hold it together.
• 1:14:57
  Too bad. That would have been what a what a great upset that would have been.
• 1:15:01
  I also thought you should
• 1:15:02
  wouldn't it have yes? I also think that you should be ~ getting a lawyer
• 1:15:07
  and talking about going after Laura Duncan on the panel for copyright 'cause
• 1:15:11
  she was using the dazzling for Tre in the pregame.
• 1:15:15
  And then ~ the the other thing that was just kind of nice
• 1:15:21
  to to note, ~ 'cause they were talking about it on their
• 1:15:25
  Miles Fox is a D-lineman for Hamilton.
• 1:15:29
  his brother Jamal is autistic and he's written a book called Joyful Jamel,
• 1:15:34
  written based on Jamel's life and how at one point they the quote from
• 1:15:39
  it was Jamal said, Yes, I'm different.
• 1:15:40
  I am, but that's okay. And it's a ch kids book that talks about it.
• 1:15:45
  I think it's great. It was Miles and they said Cheryl Fox.
• 1:15:48
  Now I couldn't find out.
• 1:15:49
  Anywhere that I looked, nobody could seem to be able to tell me.
• 1:15:52
  Cheryl Miles' sister, mother, wife,
• 1:15:55
  I don't know, but but it was there.
• 1:15:57
  So anyway, that book is out there,
• 1:15:58
  a kids book that people are giving great reviews.
• 1:16:01
  The problem with it is it seems to be hard to find.
• 1:16:03
  I went online and looked. I was gonna put a ~ a link in the show notes
• 1:16:07
  in case anybody wanted it for their kids.
• 1:16:09
  They said it's available on the Williams Commerce online store.
• 1:16:16
  They probably had to self publish it.
• 1:16:16
  When that when I went looking there
• 1:16:18
  they Could be, I don't know, 'cause there was nothing about books on there.
• 1:16:23
  Th this site they directed me to was a whole different thing.
• 1:16:26
  Apparently, maybe you can help out and and find if you can find Miles
• 1:16:31
  Fox on Instagram with our Instagram stuff,
• 1:16:33
  'cause they say he's also marketing it through his Instagram account.
• 1:16:35
  So if you find anything there i in the yeah.
• 1:16:36
  Yes. I posted it Yeah,
• 1:16:38
  Okay.
• 1:16:39
  I posted it to our stories.
• 1:16:40
  So and they had and they see they tagged like the co-author,
• 1:16:44
  I think. So maybe I'll follow the trail.
• 1:16:45
  Yeah, if you can send
• 1:16:47
  me something to put in the show notes so that for people that'd be great 'cause
• 1:16:50
  I think that'd be fantastic
• 1:16:53
  So normally this would bring us to the GT Barnum CFL Outsiders official
• 1:16:59
  CFL Power Rankings, but as I said,
• 1:17:02
  GT's a scratch. So the power rankings this week is everyone is tied at one.
• 1:17:06
  Everyone is number one 'cause we don't have anything else to say.
• 1:17:09
  Our guy is out.
• 1:17:58
  Injury reports before we get to the games.
• 1:18:01
  It's there's lots of injuries out there.
• 1:18:03
  Who knows what's real and what's not with it.
• 1:18:06
  BC apparently they've they have got to the point where they've already announced
• 1:18:10
  who's out or available, Questionable whatnot.
• 1:18:13
  Levi Bell from the D line, TJ Lee,
• 1:18:16
  and then Josh Donovan and Brandon Yates,
• 1:18:19
  both from the O lines, are all Rourke.
• 1:18:23
  Barry Hill and Kotoy, or and Peters,
• 1:18:25
  who have been out before, all remain out.
• 1:18:28
  And Butler is questionable. So they may be short staffed going against Winnipeg.
• 1:18:34
  Now Winnipeg, keep in mind this is Winnipeg with their way of reporting.
• 1:18:40
  Player availability. In the on Monday,
• 1:18:45
  they had several people did not participate,
• 1:18:47
  including both their tackles, Bryant and Broxton.
• 1:18:51
  On Tuesday, Broxton and Hallett in the defensive backfield were marked as limited.
• 1:18:57
  The rest were all showing as full.
• 1:18:59
  But according to their official ratings for them,
• 1:19:03
  Broxton, Bryant, Vanderpool from the O line as well.
• 1:19:06
  Oliveira, Dembski, and Hallett are all questionable.
• 1:19:10
  I'm guessing that means they're all going to be playing,
• 1:19:12
  and it's just O'Shea playing his games there.
• 1:19:14
  Ottawa
• 1:19:16
  Louther, as I said, was did not participate with a,
• 1:19:19
  I believe it was hamstring, so they have brought Lewis Ward back in.
• 1:19:23
  And Pelios was did not participate.
• 1:19:25
  Another tackle, who's down this year.
• 1:19:28
  Saskatchewan, Ouellettee Emilus and Fry from the O line were
• 1:19:34
  all did not participate. Miller Jr.,
• 1:19:37
  who got hurt early in the game but then came back and made some very good plays,
• 1:19:40
  was limited.
• 1:19:42
  And Lakambo was back at full after being out for a couple of weeks.
• 1:19:45
  They have also said officially that Ouellette is week to week.
• 1:19:49
  So I don't think we'll see him this week,
• 1:19:52
  but who knows? Edmonton has Anderson at linebacker back to practicing
• 1:19:56
  in a limited capacity, so we won't see him this week,
• 1:19:58
  but that's looking better. And Hamilton,
• 1:20:00
  Montreal had didn't have any reports.
• 1:20:04
  So as you're going through stuff and making your picks for the weekend,
• 1:20:07
  might want to keep that in mind.
• 1:20:09
  And now we have just the two of us doing our picks.
• 1:20:12
  GT draws a blank. Unless we pick all Yeah,
• 1:20:16
  Well, we'll have to text him and get him to s send them to us.
• 1:20:17
  i well
• 1:20:20
  yeah, we could do that or or or we could say whatever any time that you
• 1:20:24
  and I pick are are in agreement on a pick,
• 1:20:27
  we'll give him the other team.
• 1:20:28
  See if we can't gain some some some
• 1:20:28
  Yeah, or we could like rock paper scissors.
• 1:20:32
  pick ~ ground on him. That's what you get when you're scratched for the game,
• 1:20:36
  my friend.
• 1:20:36
  That's what happens.
• 1:20:38
  So
• 1:20:38
  let's start
• 1:20:39
  out BC going into Winnipeg.
• 1:20:41
  response.
• 1:20:42
  I don't
• 1:20:43
  know. I don't know. how is Salter gonna play?
• 1:20:47
  Is Tommy Gantell gonna remember Brady plays on his team?
• 1:20:51
  Winnipeg, BC plays really okay,
• 1:20:53
  Brady's is questionable.
• 1:20:54
  so
• 1:20:55
  he's questionable. BC's gonna shut him down even if he does play.
• 1:20:59
  Salter versus Brown.
• 1:21:03
  you know what? I'm just gonna I'm just gonna take BC.
• 1:21:06
  I think Salter is gonna
• 1:21:06
  Okay, that's a brave choice.
• 1:21:08
  it is a brave choice and you know what?
• 1:21:10
  This is not it just like these these are just for fun and I think
• 1:21:15
  s maybe Salter will channel his KC printer vibes and have a great game.
• 1:21:19
  I think that Winnipeg's
• 1:21:19
  Yeah.
• 1:21:20
  reeling. They're both a reeling,
• 1:21:22
  but I think Winnipeg's really man.
• 1:21:26
  Yeah. They're
• 1:21:26
  I don't know what's going on there.
• 1:21:28
  I think they're both both in in in trouble and I do think that if it
• 1:21:34
  was just that that Nathan was out and the rest of the team,
• 1:21:37
  if if they looked like they were up there with the top two or three teams
• 1:21:42
  in the league and now Nathan goes out,
• 1:21:45
  then I'd say, Yeah, they can probably still beat Winnipeg but there's
• 1:21:49
  too many other problems On that defense,
• 1:21:51
  on just
• 1:21:53
  on how the plays are being called ~ So I can't as much as I'd like to take
• 1:21:57
  B C I can't. I'm gonna have to I think Winnipeg gets another bit of a gimme
• 1:22:02
  win this weekend. Montreal at Ottawa.
• 1:22:03
  Going on, Drew Brown.
• 1:22:04
  Montreal
• 1:22:06
  all right. So here's the fun this here here,
• 1:22:09
  let's break this down a little.
• 1:22:10
  Ottawa is off the bye. Montreal looked truly beatable against Hamilton,
• 1:22:16
  who yeah,
• 1:22:19
  I'll make things easy first and I'm gonna take Ottawa.
• 1:22:22
  my. So we are splitting them up.
• 1:22:24
  This is another e like I said,
• 1:22:25
  I think for fun, I think
• 1:22:26
  I
• 1:22:26
  for chaos they're gonna get their first win of the year.
• 1:22:29
  they're gonna
• 1:22:29
  They're they're not gonna go eighteen and ~ or and eighteen.
• 1:22:33
  They're not gonna lose every game.
• 1:22:35
  They're gonna win one. But I can't see it against Montreal.
• 1:22:38
  I'm yeah, I'm on Montreal there.
• 1:22:40
  okay, so this is the thing about Ottawa,
• 1:22:41
  they're not getting blown out of games.
• 1:22:43
  There's games where they're losing by like four points,
• 1:22:45
  less than a less than a touchdown.
• 1:22:48
  And Montreal almost lost against Hamilton,
• 1:22:51
  who is yeah. Yeah. We'll see
• 1:22:54
  Yes.
• 1:22:54
  what we'll see what Mayor did on the bye week.
• 1:22:56
  We'll see what he did. And I'll just pick Ottawa.
• 1:22:57
  Yes. We'll see. Yeah.
• 1:23:00
  My my opinion though is that that Ottawa defense is is the better part of the team,
• 1:23:04
  but they're not on a Hamilton level.
• 1:23:06
  Hamilton has an extremely good defense.
• 1:23:08
  They are very good,
• 1:23:08
  And
• 1:23:10
  I do not see Ottawa being able to do that.
• 1:23:12
  I think our first show of the season we're talking about preseason football.
• 1:23:16
  I said, that's the thing about Jake Mirror that drives you crazy.
• 1:23:20
  Fifty one percent of the time he looks like a starting quarterback.
• 1:23:23
  And he makes nice throws and good reads and he's moving the team.
• 1:23:27
  But he can't do it consistently and he just too many mistakes.
• 1:23:31
  So no, I don't think so. this is not about
• 1:23:33
  Maybe it'll be a trap game for my
• 1:23:34
  trail. That's what I think.
• 1:23:35
  Yes. This
• 1:23:37
  could be. That's entirely possible.
• 1:23:39
  You never know with it, but I I'm still going with Montreal.
• 1:23:42
  Calgary at Hamilton.
• 1:23:44
  Hamilton took Montreal down to the last two minutes before they melted down.
• 1:23:48
  Calgary couldn't beat Montreal,
• 1:23:51
  so can Hamilton beat Calgary?
• 1:23:55
  So
• 1:23:57
  They did this record-setting game against Winnipeg,
• 1:24:01
  who are not Hamilton. And Hamilton's defense is gonna make their life a misery.
• 1:24:07
  And if Wynn McManus can refrain from kicking people and stay in the game,
• 1:24:13
  they will do okay. I think special teams,
• 1:24:16
  these two stack up really pretty even.
• 1:24:20
  It's gonna be like down to VA and Ford.
• 1:24:23
  And
• 1:24:24
  Mm-hmm.
• 1:24:25
  I don't know, go first, go first.
• 1:24:25
  And did he did
• 1:24:26
  I have
• 1:24:26
  to think about this.
• 1:24:27
  Okay, did did the other question is did Hamilton learn from
• 1:24:33
  how Calgary used McAllister in the game?
• 1:24:35
  McAllister's a hell of a player,
• 1:24:36
  but the reason he got three touchdowns was the Winnipeg defense
• 1:24:39
  was completely unprepared for him being in the offense.
• 1:24:43
  and did not react well. If Hamilton can can work on that,
• 1:24:47
  yeah, they've got a very good defense,
• 1:24:48
  but I think
• 1:24:50
  it's shouldn't be a blowout unless it's a late meltdown again.
• 1:24:53
  But overall I think when you when you're looking at how those teams match up,
• 1:24:58
  I think it's gonna be a Dedrick Mills game for Calgary.
• 1:25:01
  I think he's gonna run for probably a hundred and forty yards on twenty,
• 1:25:07
  twenty two carries. 'Cause I do think that that's the one area Hamilton is somewhat
• 1:25:12
  susceptible to and I would not be surprised to see Hamilton win it,
• 1:25:18
  but I think I've got to go with the odds and say Calgary.
• 1:25:21
  Alright, so
• 1:25:23
  Goodness. okay, so here's the thing.
• 1:25:25
  I think Calgary might win this,
• 1:25:26
  but I think Castatonis is ending VA's interception streak record.
• 1:25:30
  Yeah.
• 1:25:32
  No, they it wasn't him but Hamilton
• 1:25:35
  did end Alexander's interception free record,
• 1:25:38
  Yep. Ruin of the party. Here we are.
• 1:25:40
  so yeah.
• 1:25:41
  Yes, I do think there's a very good chance VA gets picked off.
• 1:25:46
  Yeah. Yeah. It's gonna be Casatonis.
• 1:25:48
  If it's not Casatonis, I'll so or Peters.
• 1:25:50
  It's gonna be Casatonis or Peters are gonna ruin that party.
• 1:25:53
  Yeah.
• 1:25:55
  unless they decide it was bad enough that they they suspend McManus for the a game,
• 1:26:01
  I don't think they should. He was stupid play,
• 1:26:03
  but it wasn't serious enough to get he may well he
• 1:26:04
  He's gonna get fi They they never
• 1:26:06
  who are they suspending? No they're not suspending anyone.
• 1:26:10
  Yeah. And
• 1:26:10
  no one's actually getting suspended.
• 1:26:13
  Yes. And if he's in there, he may well be the one to pick up VA.
• 1:26:17
  He gets a lot of balls for a linebacker.
• 1:26:19
  I don't know what his
• 1:26:20
  Yeah, that's true.
• 1:26:21
  total inter career interceptions are,
• 1:26:23
  but there have been enough of them that you know,
• 1:26:25
  I've spent too many games ca because even though we're the we're the fans
• 1:26:30
  of the Argos according to our our team picker
• 1:26:33
  I don't necessarily like to see the Argos do well and over the years there's been
• 1:26:37
  too many times that I've seen McManus just have a team look like they're
• 1:26:42
  in a chance to either hold on to a win or come back and win something
• 1:26:46
  and McManus stuffs it out with a a an interception.
• 1:26:48
  So I wouldn't be surprised to see him be the one.
• 1:26:51
  So who w did you decide you're saying Calgary or Hamilton?
• 1:26:54
  I said Caldui's probably gonna win by a field goal and VA's record is gonna stop
• 1:27:00
  in Hamilton.
• 1:27:01
  Yes. Yeah, that could be. And I I think Calgary will win.
• 1:27:05
  I'm not even gonna try and put a score on this.
• 1:27:07
  And I wouldn't be and as I said,
• 1:27:09
  I wouldn't be surprised if Hamilton does win too.
• 1:27:11
  I just I got so discouraged by how it's been two weeks in a row.
• 1:27:16
  Now Hamilton won off held on and beat Toronto when they missed the late field goal
• 1:27:22
  two weeks ago or a week and a half whatever.
• 1:27:25
  But they melted down at the end of that game too.
• 1:27:27
  They were in it and in it and then they just it seemed and this week they
• 1:27:30
  did it too. So if they can avoid that,
• 1:27:33
  if they can keep calm and not give stuff up,
• 1:27:37
  it'll probably be a field goal one way or the the other.
• 1:27:39
  If they start panicking the way they seem to in the last games,
• 1:27:42
  it could be another, you know,
• 1:27:43
  fourteen, ten, fourteen point s surge late in the game for Calgary.
• 1:27:49
  Yeah, 'cause ~ Calgary's kicker,
• 1:27:51
  what's his name? I can't remember his name,
• 1:27:52
  Jude. I can't remember his last name right now.
• 1:27:53
  But he is not going to panic and miss field goals at the end of the game.
• 1:27:56
  No. N no he's not. Yeah.
• 1:27:58
  That that is not happening with Calgary.
• 1:28:00
  Yeah.
• 1:28:01
  Mind you, Hamilton is also a team that has always played well against Calgary.
• 1:28:06
  So
• 1:28:06
  I think these
• 1:28:07
  two teams stack up really well against each other,
• 1:28:09
  and I really wish Bo was playing because this would have been this
• 1:28:12
  is like would have been a premier game
• 1:28:14
  it's yeah.
• 1:28:14
  for this this season. This would have been just the best.
• 1:28:18
  But it's not. I hope Trey plays well.
• 1:28:21
  I hope Scott may if Scott lets him run,
• 1:28:23
  I think they can maybe win. If Scott's gonna make him sit in the pocket
• 1:28:26
  and make stupid throws because he's too scared to run and worried Scott's gonna
• 1:28:31
  sit him down, then I think they're gonna be in trouble.
• 1:28:35
  Yep.
• 1:28:36
  I would agree with that. And that takes us to the last one.
• 1:28:40
  The Saskatchewan at Edmonton. They started the week this last week.
• 1:28:44
  They ended the last game on the Saturday night this week.
• 1:28:46
  And it was such a clear domination by insert team name here.
• 1:28:51
  I don't know. I ~ as I said last week,
• 1:28:54
  because my my heart gets into it,
• 1:28:56
  if s if Saskatchewan has a chance of winning,
• 1:28:59
  I'm gonna pick them.
• 1:29:00
  That that's how it goes. But I honestly don't know.
• 1:29:03
  And I don't think any anyone who tells you they they can say for certain which
• 1:29:08
  way this game is gonna end is delusional or a liar.
• 1:29:12
  Yeah.
• 1:29:13
  But Saskatchewan for me. Go riders,
• 1:29:16
  how about you?
• 1:29:17
  I you know what this is gonna be in Commonwealth there's twenty thousand people
• 1:29:20
  there for a BC game. I think there's gonna be it's gonna be crazy for this one.
• 1:29:21
  Yeah. ~ there could be twenty five,
• 1:29:24
  it'll be fun. yeah.
• 1:29:25
  twenty seven. Yeah.
• 1:29:27
  I'll pick the elks, and you know what,
• 1:29:29
  just to keep us balanced so we don't have to worry about picking for GT,
• 1:29:32
  I'll I'll change my pick to the Ty Cats.
• 1:29:35
  It doesn't really matter. So then we'll we'll we'll even out.
• 1:29:36
  Okay. Sure. There we go.
• 1:29:38
  We'll even out and it'll be fine.
• 1:29:39
  Yep. Yes.
• 1:29:42
  Yeah. Now now I'm now I'm the problem with that is I don't know what to
• 1:29:46
  put into the actual official pick when we're splitting all these games,
• 1:29:49
  but
• 1:29:49
  well like flip a coin. Or you know,
• 1:29:52
  we'll just email GT and see what it's in.
• 1:29:52
  Yeah, I'll that's what I'll do.
• 1:29:53
  I'll do a G T coin
• 1:29:54
  Yeah.
• 1:29:54
  flip when I'm looking at this tomorrow and and and see each of them.
• 1:29:57
  Yeah. Or or on Thursday. Yeah.
• 1:29:58
  About as good as any of our guesses really.
• 1:30:00
  Yeah.
• 1:30:01
  I think so. Probably smarter. Yes,
• 1:30:03
  Yeah, probably smarter.
• 1:30:04
  there's ~
• 1:30:06
  Who was it? It was I think if I remember right,
• 1:30:09
  it was Canadian football countdown who I haven't listened as much this year,
• 1:30:14
  but in the past they've Adam from there,
• 1:30:17
  who's the commissioner of the Fantasy League and all that,
• 1:30:19
  had his lucky coin that did all his pick'em for him.
• 1:30:23
  and it was ~ on par with what everybody else's record was,
• 1:30:27
  if not better. So Hey. Yeah.
• 1:30:29
  Yeah, so I mean
• 1:30:30
  you and I'll bounce out,
• 1:30:30
  We'll
• 1:30:31
  we'll flip a coin and we'll see how our what the podcast does.
• 1:30:33
  Yeah,
• 1:31:07
  I just I'm looking forward to this game,
• 1:31:09
  but I have no idea. I mean, AJ may not be in there,
• 1:31:13
  but I'm not that I don't know that that makes that big of a difference because
• 1:31:17
  he wasn't performing fantastic against that Edmonton line anyway.
• 1:31:22
  Will you know, Fry on the O line was did not participate.
• 1:31:26
  If he's out, he's the weakest link there,
• 1:31:29
  but he's still better than
• 1:31:31
  If they have to put Johnson in there or something,
• 1:31:33
  so those things could play out.
• 1:31:35
  But then with with Edmonton again,
• 1:31:37
  they looked impressive. Cody made some great plays.
• 1:31:41
  they played like a championship team.
• 1:31:44
  But they also had fumbles and turnovers that wasn't exclusive to them.
• 1:31:50
  It wasn't like, ~
• 1:31:52
  Saskatchewan played a clean game and Edmonton made mistakes and still managed
• 1:31:56
  to win it. They both made mistakes.
• 1:31:58
  And they both played fantastic football too,
• 1:32:01
  so I'm like I said, I'm going with Saskatchewan 'cause that's my heart,
• 1:32:05
  but who knows what it'll be. I will say this,
• 1:32:08
  if Edmonton pulls it off and takes a three game lead at the top of
• 1:32:12
  the standings and wins the season series against the Riders,
• 1:32:15
  I don't know who's catching them for first place.
• 1:32:19
  Calgary would have to maybe if Calgary picks their record up and they sweep them
• 1:32:24
  in the Labour Day and ~ and the rematch they might have a shot at it.
• 1:32:29
  But No, Edmonton's playing well.
• 1:32:31
  But damn Cody, how does he do that?
• 1:32:35
  you know, good for him because he's the one who's like we're like,
• 1:32:39
  ~ Cody, they re-signed Cody, ~ Cody,
• 1:32:41
  ~ and look at him
• 1:32:41
  Yeah. Yeah.
• 1:32:43
  winning Great Cups in Montreal and now look what he's doing in Edmonton.
• 1:32:45
  Yeah. Yeah. And
• 1:32:46
  Like I'm really happy
• 1:32:48
  for him.
• 1:32:50
  Yeah.
• 1:32:50
  within a crossbar of of getting to the Grey Cup in in Saskatchewan.
• 1:32:55
  And now looking like he'll get to the Grey Cup in
• 1:32:55
  Yeah. So maybe we all
• 1:32:58
  in Edmonton, which is the three places where he's actually been a starter.
• 1:33:01
  You know, there's something they say he's the most disrespected quarterback
• 1:33:06
  in the league. I think he probably is 'cause he's just he's got scrap in him.
• 1:33:09
  He is. Yeah.
• 1:33:11
  And
• 1:33:12
  it
• 1:33:12
  It just ~ It looks like it to me,
• 1:33:16
  every friggin' game looks like Cody is somehow d pulling off some magic
• 1:33:21
  and willed the team to a win. You know,
• 1:33:24
  that can't happen every week. But apparently it can 'cause
• 1:33:29
  it can't yeah, I don't
• 1:33:30
  Alrighty.
• 1:33:31
  know. I don't know. We're done.
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  We're done. That's
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  everything and just any final thoughts you have?
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  ~ yes, if you have a chance, please go and check out what Canada is doing
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  at the Commonwealth Games right now.
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  They are winning medals in everything.
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  Just having a great Commonwealth game.
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  So go check it out if you get a chance.
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  Like go cheer on our country. yeah,
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  find me running Instagram and ~ I'll be over on Blue Sky at sports and plants.
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  Yes. Thank you. I'm retired. I'm not supposed to have anything to to do,
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  but I seem like I'm so bloody busy I haven't watched much of the of
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  the the games and I probably should.
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  I keep seeing headlines saying that anada is doing fantastic.
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  But I'm concentrating on football right now,
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  other than Instagram, I'm o run in most of the CFL outsiders accounts.
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  So on Blue Sky, on X, on Twitter,
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  or whatever it is now, on on Gander,
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  on A all of them. look for The C F L outsiders anywhere there and you'll
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  f that's me behind the curtain running everything there.
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  And otherwise
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  We're on a short roster today.
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  Hopefully we've managed to pull off a win.
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  That's up to you to tell us. We we don't know,
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  but we're we're still in there like Cody scrapping away under tough circumstances.
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  Thank you very much, and this week for MJ,
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  this is old man saying Get the hell off my lawn.