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The CFL Outsiders S03 E01 The Panel Stages A Coup · The CFL Outsiders

• 0:36
  Hey kids, welcome back to a brand new season.
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  Season three of the CFL Outsiders.
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  Who'd have thought we'd last this long?
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  I remain, as always, your 100 % unbiased, completely impartial host, Old Man Shouting at Clouds.
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  And joining me, as we've done in the past, we have a panel of experts.
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  Now, a lot of these panels are football experts, so where they can...
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  break down the tape and someone like maybe J.C.
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  Abbott can tell you everything about what's going on in the draft.
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  Our panel, they're good on football, but what they're experts at is fans.
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  They've both been fans of this league forever and they know what they're talking about when it comes to the trials and tribulations of the CFL.
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  So back this year, we've got MJ.
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  Hey everyone, the snow is gone, the robins are here, there's baseball outside my window and the sound of the gridiron is back.
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  So excited.
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  sir.
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  CFL football, yay.
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  And GT.
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  Hey everyone, welcome back to another new tradition.
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  As our principal used to say in high school, another first for Crawford Park.
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  Let's make it a tradition.
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  So the tradition continues that after every win this year, I will be wearing the jersey.
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  After every loss, I will be in consolation colors of some other type.
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  So here we go.
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  We are 1-0.
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  Let's go.
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  Yes, and you earned that in the pre-season there.
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  Hey, it wins a win with Dave says you got to win them all
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  Exactly.
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  That never hurts starting the winning culture early.
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  I'll give you that.
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  And I got to say, folks that are back from before will have noticed we've got, as we talked about in the off season, a brand new logo.
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  We're changing the look a little bit.
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  We're trying to update stuff.
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  Apparently folks are liking it.
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  We're seeing more and more people paying attention.
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  I wanted to mention we've had a few folks start to...
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  throw in some comments and that's great to see.
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  if you haven't subscribed yet, please subscribe, hit a like, it's easy to do.
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  And if you've got anything to say, throw in a comment.
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  We love to hear them.
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  And frankly, that's how we feed the logarithm God.
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  That's what he likes.
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  So just to mention a couple of folks that have been paying attention, we've got Theodore King, 8468 here.
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  And we were talking about the moving the season up early and he's, Theodore put in.
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  a number of really good comments, go to YouTube and you can read them there.
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  A lot of good ones, some I agree with, some I don't, but this one that I'm just going to do, he talked about the snow in training camp isn't a big deal.
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  There are indoor facilities that can be used.
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  The snow can be cleared like they do for regular season games.
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  CFL will have taken that into consideration.
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  And I got to say, Theodore, overall on the schedule, you've kind of convinced me.
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  I don't like a lot of what they're doing, but.
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  When they put the league, when they put the games out there, that's up to the league.
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  And if they're going to finalize it as a May long weekend start and move ahead, let's just hope that tradition works.
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  You're right.
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  So of all the things I might complain about, that's when I'm going to stop.
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  And then the other one I wanted to mention, just because I got a kick out of this, it was degenerate 4-2-8, 4-2-3-2.
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  Not for nothing, but I'm looking forward to see how this will all play out.
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  He was talking about the new form, playoff formats.
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  And then he said, and if it means more GT rants, then I'm here for it.
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  LOL.
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  So the rants are proving popular.
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  I'm not sure you can avoid those no matter what happens.
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  So there we go.
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  that's a good thing cause folks are liking them.
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  so thank you to, I should say thank you both for a great season last year.
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  Having you both come on the podcast is really made it a lot more fun, a lot more enjoyable and people are apparently starting to take to that So good stuff.
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  I will jump right into things.
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  I don't know how long this one's going to be.
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  It's our first one of the season, but there's only so much to talk about.
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  We've had one preseason game, of course, and.
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  Then we've had the training camps and frankly, I don't know if it's that I'm a little more disengaged or if there's just been less.
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  I'm not seeing a lot of news out of the first week of any of the training camps, nothing big, nothing that would sort of really make me stand up and take notice.
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  How about, how about the two of you, anything?
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  Well, I think so far there hasn't been another cut down date since the initial one.
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  I sent uh whatever we do call that on Blue Sky, put out a message just saying there was some surprises in the first few days of cut downs at the first round where they had to get
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  down to 85.
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  There were a few names that I was a little bit surprised about.
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  No huge, huge names, but still some pretty steady guys, oh you know, and some multi-year veterans that I was surprised were released that early.
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  Since then, there's been no cut down necessary.
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  So I don't think we have anything to really hear about.
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  I think this year has been pretty good.
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  Blue Sky has now, for everybody that doesn't already know, I think all three of us are off of Twitter and onto Blue Sky as our main source of information.
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  And finally, this year, most of the teams, in fact, all the teams and the league are now mirroring their, no, not everybody.
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  it's not the league that did it.
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  Somebody made bots that are just reposting them.
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  So somebody went and did the good work of just like automating it for all of us.
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  Don't get this.
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  Don't get the team's credit.
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  It's not them.
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  it's there at least.
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  it's an MJ rant There we go.
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  But yes, at least it's there.
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  And I've been seeing a lot of news that I hadn't been seeing, like I did not see last year.
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  And so that's been great.
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  There's been a lot of, it's all internal hype from their own PR teams.
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  know, everybody's fantastic.
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  you know, it's a winning season to be sure type of stuff, but at least it is information and you're getting it.
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  So, so I've been pretty pleased with that.
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  I just have like well my two surprise cuts that things that are happening on the Argos cut Doege and he's over in BC now and the Thai cats release Keaton Berkling so our guest Ken
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  and I had a little cry about it and we we sorted through some feelings and my favorite thing out of training camp is the social media videos and
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  The red blacks have been giving some of their players plants to take care of during training camp.
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  So that's been fun to watch them try to keep them alive.
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  And my favorite is every team's doing this, I think, well, except for a few, but they have the, they're asking players when they were born.
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  And if it starts with 19, they just put a dinosaurs in the background.
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  Hahaha
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  Yes.
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  It just, it makes me realize how young all these players are.
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  it.
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  Yeah, so I think it was in the game, the preseason game, that they mentioned somebody playing out there was born in 2005.
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  And I thought, oh my god.
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  Uh, life just keeps right on going by.
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  Well, as far as Burling goes, I wouldn't, I'm not going to, um, be too sad yet because he was a solid Canadian player and as teams get through training camps and get some injuries
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  and see what they have, I wouldn't be surprised if he's back somewhere in the league.
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  uh
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  part of it is that he wants to keep bobsledding, like bobsled training.
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  He'll have time to dedicate to it.
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  The only...
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  have to find another team that'll let them do both.
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  Kind of like Shohei Otani can pitch and bat.
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  There you
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  There was a time that wasn't such an amazing thing, just thinking back to baseball history, like I know any of it.
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  The only thing that I noticed, and it's not really a training camp thing, it's just one of those, one of the things where things are cyclical.
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  And I was looking at a bit of the stuff out of camps and I realized, you know, we went into the, the season last year.
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  think our first broadcast, we were talking about the fact that every team had a good seasoned backup quarterback behind, uh, the starters.
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  And so that they looked like they were in good shape.
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  And that has certainly turned around in the West this year, the East they've, they've still pretty good.
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  But if you look at it in the West, it is, I mean, Edmonton has got,
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  Taylor Powell who's got some game experience, but other than that BC's not really got anything.
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  Calgary's got a, a battle.
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  Well, yeah, they have Doege now.
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  I guess, sorry, I forgot that.
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  So he may be the number two, but, but Calgary's got a battle going.
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  Saskatchewan does.
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  Winnipeg, everyone assumes it's going to be Elgersma but he's never played a CFL game.
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  So.
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  Could be interesting if the starters start to miss some time in the West.
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  Absolutely.
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  Absolutely.
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  I think that is one of the funnest things about the preseason is seeing those kinds of things and watching those battles where there are positions open and or a veteran that
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  might be losing it to a rookie.
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  And those are always good.
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  And I think the backup quarterbacks in the West is probably the key story of the training camps.
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  And so far,
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  We'll see what happens in these games coming up, but on Monday there wasn't much indication of anyone really standing out, so we'll see.
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  Well, there you you blew my lead in GT because I was going to say, speaking of which, let's talk about how they did the ones in the game on Monday.
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  Because really it was it was that's OK.
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  It was it was a.
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  It was an early preseason, preseason game, and My personal thought was it was, good to see some football again.
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  Nothing jumped out as, here's a potential star coming out of here.
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  Nothing jumped out as, oh, this looks terrible.
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  It was just a preseason game.
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  And how about for you?
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  How did you see it?
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  Let's start with MJ then.
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  Oh well.
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  So they're actually lucky they had nice weather because two days before it was snowing in Calgary for the soccer game.
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  So they were nice that they had nice weather.
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  I'm actually surprised I started VA.
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  I saw that depth chart and I was like, excuse me, what?
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  Okay, so he played, I actually didn't even want, I didn't even start this game until the second half, so I didn't actually get to see him play.
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  My things are not football related, they are announcer related.
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  My favorite things were the, well, it was the Calgary radio guys.
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  And they're actually quite fun.
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  My son actually was like, I actually liked this better than the regular announcers.
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  You
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  Okay.
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  But they got caught on the hot mic at least twice where they went to commercial and they were over talking the commercial.
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  So I got to hear, we all got to hear some behind the scenes about how they're going to come back in from break.
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  So that was a little behind the scenes look.
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  And it's always fun to like have some local accents because how that announcer was pronouncing Hawaii was Hawaii.
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  And that's how it's now being pronounced at my house constantly.
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  Okay.
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  Yes.
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  I also noticed that now that Dante McMahone has moved to McMahon Stadium, they're calling him Dante McMahon again.
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  No, they did not.
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  I couldn't figure out who they were talking about for a minute.
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  was like who were they talking about?
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  I was like oh Mac Mahone.
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  So we'll see.
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  Yeah, they actually had an interview with McMahon after the game with the Stampeders broadcast girl, Natasha, and she asked him, how do you want us to pronounce it?
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  And he said, I'm fine with McMahon.
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  I've been called McMahon forever and now I'm at the stadium, but my name technically is McMahon And she said, okay, we're your McMahon from here on.
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  So hopefully they figure that out on the radio too.
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  Yeah, but they did go through it for the, I guess for the local color at least to let people know.
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  Yeah, that was good.
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  I thought the broadcast was exactly what you said old man.
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  It was okay.
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  The game was okay.
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  There wasn't anything tremendous.
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  VA threw a couple of bombs, one that worked, one that didn't.
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  Although I thought they could have challenged the one that didn't.
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  And I thought the most interesting and the best thing about the broadcast was with the first break,
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  that they did was an ad for flag football and for the Olympic flag football thing.
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  And I thought that was really well done.
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  I thought that was a really nice, like nicely shot, nice ad.
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  then I was, and I was hyped because I thought, we're going to see more than just shots.
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  then for the rest of the game, it was just the player shots for, you know, minutes.
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  So I just skipped through as much as I could.
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  And hence I missed the two things that you talked about MJ there with the local guys.
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  So I didn't hear either.
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  But I didn't think there was any real standouts either.
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  I thought Calgary's defense swarmed to the ball well, if nothing else, but it was almost like a Pee-wee game where a play would happen and be 15 guys running at the ball.
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  It was a little bit of that.
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  There was a couple of nice catches from both sides, but there wasn't anything outstanding.
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  What did you think of the quarterbacking?
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  I'm interested in your opinion of the quarterbacking, Oldman for Saskatchewan in particular.
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  well I'll start with Calgary because Calgary had more people out there to see.
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  And I will say right off the bat that I think probably every quarterback that played in that game had at least one throw they'd want back, including VA on the deep bomb.
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  But like you said, that's early season rust.
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  He did look good.
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  Outside of VA, I, for the little bit that we got, I actually thought that, Wooldridge looked the best out of the Calgary Pivots back there.
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  I thought he.
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  I know Love's got more time in the league, but I Wildridge looked better on the Saskatchewan side.
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  To me, Cohn looked like somebody who needs more live reps and it, I can't tell if he's going to turn into something good or if it's going to be misplaced trust for the last
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  three or four years.
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  He didn't look terrible out there, but he made some mistakes and like I said, needs more time.
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  know Dunk.
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  from the three down guys has been raving the few times I've heard him about, uh, was it Shagler?
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  think they're the third or fourth string in Saskatchewan now that the 22 year old out of Hawaii and yeah Hawaii.
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  And I, I don't know what he was watching that it did.
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  mean, he's an ex college quarterback, so I'll, I'll bow to his expertise there, but Shagler, he made a couple of nice throws.
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  He.
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  Drew to the right place a couple of times, but he was also inaccurate and missing, throwing where, where it shouldn't have been in my mind.
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  So I was not near as high on that.
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  think that based on what I saw that we, the riders have to hope that Cohn actually turns into something for when they need him during the season.
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  Any dissent from either of you?
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  Actually, I was more interested and I asked specifically about Saskatchewan because of the headline on the Three Down article and I didn't read the article.
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  I just saw the headline and again, I'm sorry, I cannot get over it.
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  I need to get over it.
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  I have to get over it, but it just makes me nuts.
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  It's Pavlov's dog.
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  As soon as Three Down's
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  leads with a writer story like that.
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  I'm like, what game were you watching?
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  Where does this come from?
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  I didn't see that.
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  Am I wrong?
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  Or what are you looking at?
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  And you just basically said what I saw.
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  He looked okay, but he's, you know, it's the third or the fourth quarter of the of an exhibition game or a preseason game against third string guys that don't even so like to
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  GT, he was directing traffic.
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  I heard.
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  I didn't see, I have not read the article, so I cannot make comments on it, but just the headline, as I say, it's like, guys, stop doing that.
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  You're supposed to be a league wide coverage.
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  It's like, ay, ay, ay.
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  But anyway, I gotta get over it.
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  That's my issue, not theirs, I'm sure.
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  So.
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  so happy this is happening first episode.
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  Okay.
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  Yeah.
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  It's about like, like I've said before, they are officially part of Harvard broadcasting now, the official voice of the writers.
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  And I know Dunk is on the pregame show and the postgame shows.
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  And I think he does all on the radio, of course.
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  I think he does some of the halftime in that.
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  And yeah, he's, uh, I believe he's dranken the Kool-Aid.
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  Mind you, I.
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  to like get away from this so we don't have a...
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  I tried because all I saw the whole commercial time was CFL pick them and my kid kept bugging me, bugging me, bugging me so we went on the site and we're like doing our little
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  pickups and then it kept giving me an error.
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  Did that happen to you guys?
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  I didn't even try
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  I tried to get in today and yeah, I don't know.
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  I tried to get in today and, and it seemed to work fine.
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  I set up, uh, my personal account and I set up one for the show so that when we do our stuff later, we'll be, we'll be going to the right place.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  Well, it's working now, but, but we're still, there's still a lot of stuff going on there that, that's strange.
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  talk about that a little bit.
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  And I will say in Justin Dunk's defense, I have been part of the riders broadcast team way back in the day, not actually on the air, but I was the tech from 84, no, from 87 to 90,
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  the tech in the, I was the chief engineer for the station.
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  So I did all the, the broadcast set up and that, and it's awful hard not to drink the Kool-Aid when you're around that.
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  It is just.
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  24-7 of positive rider vibes all over the place.
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  It's so, you know, it's hard to stay neutral.
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  Yeah, and you know, he didn't look horrible.
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  It's not like he was pumping the tires of a guy that looked terrible.
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  But at the same time, and again, I will, you know, full disclosure, I did not read the article.
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  So I don't know.
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  But the headline is just the bait.
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  That whole click bait thing that drives me crazy.
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  So before we move on, we'll do it quick, but what, what about you on the Calgary quarterbacks behind VA?
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  I thought love was disappointing.
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  I thought and hoped that he would be a solid number two.
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  I've said that here and I've said it other places and ah I thought he started very slow and got a little better and then threw a touchdown But I thought he looked tentative and I
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  thought he looked a little worried about his job.
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  I thought Woodridge looked really poised when he came in.
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  You know, again, who's he playing against is a big question.
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  But I thought he looked pretty good.
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  He made a couple of really nice passes.
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  We'll see.
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  And I thought, what's his name?
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  Jacoby, the last quarterback.
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  can't remember his last name, which is horrible.
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  And I apologize.
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  But he was, again, I guess Dave said he's only been there a week or two.
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  He has no background.
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  So it was pretty tough for him to
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  to maneuver much and he's a big body is what I thought more than anything.
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  He's not a quarterback looking quarterback.
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  He's a linebacker looking quarterback.
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  He's a big body.
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  So.
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  a short yardage quarterback.
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  No.
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  he's, he, he just reminds me of a guy that was in Montreal in that whole, you know, rotation after Calvio was gone.
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  had one guy that was just massive as a quarterback.
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  And this guy kind of reminded me of him a little bit stature wise.
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  Um, and he may turn out, he may not.
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  And Dickinson said afterwards that he's going to, you know, he's not doing any cuts until after, until he has to, and he's going to run all four quarterbacks.
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  And he said,
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  at the end of the interview that hey, there might be somebody else that's let loose by another team that we go after instead.
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  So he's not, he's not, he's not set with the four guys he has and he's not set any order of them yet.
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  And you know what?
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  Montreal brought back James Morgan, which I thought was kind of odd.
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  what I was going to say on Wildridge though, was, um, the thing that impressed me the most was there was at least twice I saw where the, the riders blitzed and he basically threw
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  where the hole was that was created by the blitz was and completed nice passes.
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  And so that kind of recognition in your first pre-season game in the CFL, that, that impressed me.
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  Anything else about it or, I guess I should say the other thing is you mentioned the flag football.
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  They also had some interviews with little snippets with players that they played at halftime and during some of the, um, the commercial breaks and that.
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  So they, they did have a little more commercial content.
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  It was nice to see them doing that.
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  I want to see more.
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  It doesn't take that much to have something unique for each commercial break.
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  And then, you know, we're going to play the season predictor because.
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  It seemed to sear into my brain.
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  was still 50 % of the ads time was to play the CFL season predictor.
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  So we'll get to that later.
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  All right.
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  Um, we're going to talk about the latest rule changes and we discovered here as we were getting ready for this, that GT's got them, but a few technical difficulties.
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  So we may or may not see his smiling face while he gives us the rule changes.
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  Over to you, GT.
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  you're gonna, I'm gonna read them off and you're gonna hear my dulcet tones, but you're not gonna, unfortunately, or fortunately as the case may be, depending on your outlook, be
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  able to gaze upon me at the same time.
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  please forgive me while I disappear for a few minutes, but this is only a technical thing and I hopefully shall return without any issues.
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  Let's make this work.
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  the magic go on, here we go.
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  So they have.
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  2026 keynotes on Rule changes directly from the CFL website.
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  The final three minutes will be 20 second play clock maintained.
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  So that's good.
• 22:42
  And I wanna talk about briefly that does bring back to the game that we just talked about.
• 22:47
  I was watching the play clock during that game to see if I could see the 35 seconds and how it impacted my viewing of the game.
• 22:55
  And I don't know if it was because it was.
• 22:58
  the one camera or if it was because it was a preseason game.
• 23:02
  But it seemed to me that there was an awful lot of time where that clock just showed 35 seconds and stuck there.
• 23:08
  I thought it was supposed to count down immediately upon the previous play being dead.
• 23:13
  And yet that didn't seem to happen.
• 23:14
  So I'm not sure whether it was me, whether it was the game, whether it was the broadcast.
• 23:19
  But that's interesting.
• 23:20
  Because I was worried that we were going to have less showboating and hot dogging because by the you do your barrel roll and do your air guitar, the play has snapped again.
• 23:31
  Yeah, absolutely.
• 23:32
  So there is that.
• 23:33
  There's the first one.
• 23:34
  The second one is the regular season overtime.
• 23:37
  So no more ties, basically is what it comes down to, is that they are getting rid of ties.
• 23:43
  And again, this is something that our friend Stuart talked about as far back as September, when he, know, going back to his high school days, he hated ties, apparently.
• 23:51
  So that was something.
• 23:53
  So they've done away with ties.
• 23:55
  to mini games from the 35 yard line, those will still happen.
• 23:58
  But if if it's still a tie after that, we will now have a shoot out from the two point conversions until somebody actually wins.
• 24:08
  Again, I believe and this is just my, you know, tinfoil hat stuff.
• 24:13
  It's, I believe that this is all about gambling because the bookies and trendsetters, line setters hate ties.
• 24:21
  They know that they've complained about it every time they show the, some guy in Vegas, his head tilts when they say you can do it a rouge or you can get a tie.
• 24:30
  Those are the two things that they tilt on.
• 24:32
  So I'm pretty positive no matter what the league likes to say, this is more about anything, more about the gambling than anything else.
• 24:40
  Um
• 24:41
  So quickly, do you still get a point if you've made it over time?
• 24:46
  Or is it like after the mini game shootout zero points if you lose it?
• 24:52
  zero points if you lose it.
• 24:53
  So, so there will, so yeah, and that's where, and that's where I think that comes into the gambling aspect.
• 25:00
  Again, I'm not a degenerate gambler like some people are, but I believe that's the case.
• 25:05
  Okay, so it's automatic review on turnovers on downs.
• 25:09
  So a turnover on downs ruling will result in an automatic review from the replay center.
• 25:14
  I don't see what difference that makes unless they're gonna have a completely different weird camera that we're not gonna be able to see, because in a pile up,
• 25:21
  on a short yardage, you know, it's a third and one or third and two and it's, especially now that they're gonna ask oh teams to go for it more and not kick field goals with the
• 25:30
  change next year, then you you might have third and ones, third and twos, third and threes even, you know, and a big mug of players all in there, how they're gonna spot the ball and
• 25:40
  how will they know and what difference that'll make is gonna be interesting.
• 25:44
  Then the QB kneels to end a half or a game.
• 25:48
  A of the game or may a half or the game may end on a single kneel if all of the following conditions are met.
• 25:55
  The defense does not possess a timeout.
• 25:58
  It is first down and the offense wishes to end the half or the game.
• 26:02
  40 seconds or fewer remain on the game clock.
• 26:05
  So you have to have all three of those.
• 26:08
  So we're, don't believe it's going to turn into two minutes left in the game and like the NFL and people are wandering onto the field.
• 26:16
  Yeah.
• 26:16
  I'm going to say my piece on this.
• 26:19
  I've wanted to change that rule forever.
• 26:22
  My whole thing is, is there should be no kneel downs as long as the game is within a converted touchdown.
• 26:28
  So if the game scores within a converted touchdown, in my opinion, no matter how much time is left, if it's one second on the clock, you should have to put the ball in play.
• 26:38
  The whole point of this game is two.
• 26:40
  Number one, the offense to put the ball in play to try to score.
• 26:45
  And number two, the defense to take the ball away and prevent them from scoring and try to score.
• 26:51
  So as long as it's within a converted touchdown, I believe, in my own personal opinion, the rules should be simply you're not allowed to it can be a fumble, it can be an
• 27:02
  incomplete pass, it could be a bad snap, it can be any of those things under the pressure of you need to do it.
• 27:09
  So as long as it's within a converted touchdown,
• 27:14
  and that includes the two point conversion, then you should be able to, the defense should get the chance to get the ball back.
• 27:22
  That's my own opinion.
• 27:23
  Everybody that's out there that listening to us or whatever, or if you guys have a different opinion, please let me know.
• 27:28
  But that's how I believe they could have changed that rule.
• 27:31
  They should have changed that rule and it would make the league distinct again.
• 27:35
  It would make it exciting again.
• 27:37
  And it would have given us a yet another way that we could watch those final three minutes of the game on the edge of our seats.
• 27:44
  That's that's a fair point.
• 27:45
  I'm going to give us a baseball analogy.
• 27:48
  And the kneel downs near the end, especially at halftime when the clock is really close.
• 27:55
  It's kind of like in baseball where they used to walk intentionally walk batters and they had to make the catcher stand a foot away and the catcher would stand up and they just
• 28:04
  like they wouldn't even throw the ball they just lob the ball in and we'd all have to then the
• 28:10
  catcher throws it back and then the batter could step out of the box step back there step and we're all just waiting and watching because it would take forever and now they're just
• 28:19
  like now they just say we're intentionally walking this person just go to first base like do not do not do the whole rigmarole like this is pointless just just just we know what
• 28:29
  you're doing just go to first so i feel like they're kind of trying to say like okay there's
• 28:34
  Less than 40 seconds left.
• 28:36
  No one has a timeout.
• 28:37
  It's just just we know you're going to kneel at three times.
• 28:41
  Just like forget it.
• 28:41
  Just wrap it up and let's At the end of the game, at the end of the game is a little bit dicier because there's a 20 second clock and as we all know what can happen in 20 seconds
• 28:52
  end of half.
• 28:53
  Probably a little more.
• 28:55
  Just take your base.
• 28:56
  But I think at the end of the game, maybe not so much, but.
• 29:01
  I guess we'll see how it plays out.
• 29:02
  Yeah.
• 29:04
  So the next one was dead ball placement.
• 29:06
  If a kick goes out of bounds, basically, and no points are awarded, you're going to scrimmage from the 40.
• 29:12
  That was everybody was trying to figure out where that was going to go, where the ball was going to be.
• 29:17
  It's going to be at the 40 yard line.
• 29:19
  I'm wondering if they're going to change that next year when we go to the shorter field, because that's awfully close.
• 29:24
  That's awfully close.
• 29:25
  So it might be, this might be adjusted next year for the shorter field and it might go back to the 30 instead.
• 29:32
  It might go to the 35.
• 29:33
  I don't know.
• 29:34
  I wouldn't be surprised.
• 29:35
  I would be surprised if it's a faster.
• 29:38
  Yeah.
• 29:39
  Just leave it.
• 29:40
  But the 40 is instant field position, really.
• 29:44
  You can cough and corner a kick from there easily, especially if you take out the once the extra 10 yards are out.
• 29:51
  Like there are going to be kickers.
• 29:52
  I guess the goalposts will be at the end.
• 29:53
  But so it's different.
• 29:55
  But still, you're in immediate field position anyway you cut it.
• 30:00
  Agreed.
• 30:01
  I think we lost Old Man.
• 30:03
  okay, well, perhaps it's just you and I running the show again.
• 30:06
  I run in the rules.
• 30:08
  He just didn't want to be a part of the rules.
• 30:09
  Too cool.
• 30:12
  Too cool for school.
• 30:14
  I'm back, sorry, I don't know quite what happened there.
• 30:19
  my yeah
• 30:21
  down,
• 30:22
  changes.
• 30:22
  a couple, there's just a couple small ones left here that they're not really big deal.
• 30:26
  Roster flexibility and ineligible receivers, those aren't a big deal.
• 30:32
  The other ones were the major ones.
• 30:34
  There's no player safety rules this year, rule changes this year.
• 30:38
  with the kneel down, I just, I don't quite understand.
• 30:41
  I mean, I'm not going to get terribly upset about it.
• 30:43
  It's, it's a small thing, but why, you know, it worked.
• 30:46
  It's part of our tradition for forever that we played till the end of the game.
• 30:51
  This is one more thing that moves us closer to looking like the NFL changes for the sake of change.
• 30:56
  Why?
• 30:57
  You know, are you going to save 40 seconds on your broadcast time?
• 31:00
  Who cares?
• 31:01
  part of my, yeah, apparently I'll have a lot to do with getting that new deal, which we're still not hearing anything about.
• 31:08
  But, but other than that, to me, they're all house cleaning rules.
• 31:11
  Like you said, MJ, nothing about player safety.
• 31:14
  Does that mean they have it right?
• 31:15
  I don't know.
• 31:16
  Nothing about weather protocols this year.
• 31:19
  Yeah, or smoke as we head into the super Godzilla behemoth El Nino season.
• 31:26
  There's already wildfires in Alberta.
• 31:29
  So.
• 31:30
  Yep.
• 31:32
  ah that's that.
• 31:35
  love our rants about the kneel down.
• 31:36
  You're gonna love it.
• 31:37
  We had differing opinions.
• 31:39
  It was great.
• 31:40
  Okay.
• 31:41
  Well, we'll see what my editing skills are, how I can make something out of the mishmash that was my internet connection.
• 31:51
  All right.
• 31:52
  Let's go on to the power rankings.
• 31:55
  We put that in because CFL hasn't released their AMSOIL ones yet, but 3Down released theirs, although I just went back onto the site to try and find it and couldn't.
• 32:05
  So I, okay, good.
• 32:08
  Well, I've got them here too, but if you've got them easy to, to read through, can do that.
• 32:12
  I went the other way.
• 32:13
  I went back to where I'd posted them on the Reddit CFL and opened it up that way, but they, basically I thought they played it safe.
• 32:21
  They went with the four division finalists as their top four and went from there.
• 32:25
  Do you want to read them out for us MJ
• 32:28
  Alright, so number one.
• 32:29
  Well, I will save my commentary after after I will just read them out and then I will comment after.
• 32:34
  One riders, two lions, three alouettes, four Ti cats, five stamps, six bombers, seven Elks, eight red blacks, nine Argos.
• 32:47
  So that's how three down has stacked it up.
• 32:49
  No surprise they put the riders first.
• 32:51
  No JK.
• 32:53
  They won the Grey Cup They're allowed to be first.
• 32:57
  Yeah, I agree with that one.
• 32:59
  you know don't think it was i don't think they were all of those rankings at this stage of the game
• 33:04
  I played them, I thought they played it very safe going with what they did and they, and I don't know that, that they paid attention to sort of some of the stuff that's going on.
• 33:13
  I, I'll tell you what mine are and then if you want, you can go from there and I'll even, I'll even throw in a couple where I'm off sort of more from what they are and I'll explain
• 33:24
  why.
• 33:24
  So, so I had Sask at the top because again, you're defending Grey Cup champs.
• 33:28
  You should get that out of respect.
• 33:30
  I had Montreal number two.
• 33:32
  I still think that.
• 33:33
  They looked like the second best team in the league and I think that they're going to probably improve this year.
• 33:40
  My third one, and it's got a lot to do with the fact that they've got what could be a reasonably good backup and what they've had in the past.
• 33:47
  I've got Winnipeg at number three.
• 33:50
  And I know nobody's doing that, but I wouldn't be surprised.
• 33:54
  Then I went with Hamilton who's been close but can't seem to put it together.
• 33:59
  Then I had Calgary.
• 34:01
  And the only reason I didn't have Calgary higher is I feel like I've got to see VA put together a full season.
• 34:07
  He's, he's been good, but there's been the lulls in them.
• 34:11
  So there's that.
• 34:13
  had BC below them and mainly because their offense is fantastic, but until I see a defense, I'm not sure that they're, that they're going to do as well in this year's league
• 34:23
  is what people think.
• 34:24
  I had Edmonton at number seven, Ottawa at eight and Toronto at nine.
• 34:28
  So was sort of the same at the top and the bottom as, as them, but I think the middle will be a little different than what people are saying right now.
• 34:35
  Feel free to throw stones at my picks.
• 34:38
  Yeah, well, I'm...
• 34:40
  Go ahead.
• 34:41
  Yeah, no, I, I everybody's picks there, you know, that's power rankings.
• 34:46
  that's not, that's not pick.
• 34:47
  So there's difference I've just looked at it as right now, a power ranking to me is right this week, right now who's, and that's how I view it versus a season predictor of mine are
• 35:00
  different than those power rankings that I agreed to from three, from three down.
• 35:04
  So, I'm closer to where you are on.
• 35:07
  on or at least I have some different projections that people might shake their head at on season long projections that I did.
• 35:14
  Okay, yeah, to that.
• 35:17
  will say I probably should have thought of it more of a power ranking.
• 35:21
  Who will win the first games that they play?
• 35:24
  And mine was more looking at a bit more of a prediction, how the season could play out and just sort of on the relative strengths of them.
• 35:32
  So anything else around that or anything more we need to talk about?
• 35:36
  I wouldn't put a team who doesn't have a viable backup as a number two in a power ranking, but that's me.
• 35:44
  Yeah.
• 35:44
  Well, there, there, there is that, know, mind you depends what you call a viable backup.
• 35:51
  Crum, He may be a viable backup.
• 35:53
  So.
• 35:54
  You know, that's what I said.
• 35:56
  They went with BC as number two and I agree with that.
• 35:58
  know, mind you, they've got a team without a proven backup as their number one as well.
• 36:02
  If we're, if we're going by backup quarterbacks, it would be the top, or the four Eastern teams at the top and then go from there.
• 36:09
  20 different ranking systems based on different like...
• 36:14
  is why power rankings are so much fun, but it's not so much doing it as much as is just seeing reactions to them.
• 36:21
  Because there's always somebody that blows up based on what you've said, right?
• 36:25
  And I'm like, yeah, it's just me.
• 36:27
  out guys the tune out guys do a power ranking sheldon does power rngs and people like lose it lose it every time he does though it's the best
• 36:36
  Yes, I think there's a reason we've stayed away from doing that.
• 36:39
  It's a little too controversial.
• 36:42
  Anyway, going on.
• 36:45
  Sure, well, if we can certainly do that, let's if you want to add it in.
• 36:50
  though!
• 36:50
  Based on uniform color, who is power- power- the power rankings this week?
• 36:56
  Yes.
• 36:58
  Okay.
• 36:59
  Moving on.
• 36:59
  Well, actually not quite moving on, I'm going to display my incredible ignorance of any sports outside football.
• 37:05
  I just noticed Edmonton Stingers.
• 37:08
  What's that?
• 37:09
  is that the C-E-B-L?
• 37:10
  It's our...
• 37:11
  It's the CBL team!
• 37:14
  Season started!
• 37:15
  that one more item down the rundown.
• 37:17
  It would have been a nice lead in.
• 37:19
  We'll come back to that.
• 37:22
  Because the only other thing I had ahead of it was just again, no new CF.
• 37:27
  Yes.
• 37:28
  Yeah.
• 37:29
  Well, no new CFL app and the website doesn't seem, I mean, they're doing something.
• 37:35
  One of the things I noticed as I was setting up the accounts today was
• 37:39
  You get into your account and it's got a place to link all your social media links on when you dig deep enough in.
• 37:46
  And it says you have no social media accounts and there's no way to put them in.
• 37:50
  it's, it's a problem.
• 37:52
  It must be still be a work in progress.
• 37:55
  They've got a explanation of the fantasy game up there, but not really saying, Oh, you'll be able to use the waiver wire and do this and that.
• 38:03
  Or you can still play the way that we've always played the weekly one if you want.
• 38:07
  nothing more with two weeks to go so
• 38:09
  Well, we have to admit though, they said by the time the regular season starts, so they've got two weeks grace yet.
• 38:19
  When they're two weeks in, then we can get on them.
• 38:22
  But for now, have to be nice guys, be nice.
• 38:26
  Yeah, weren't they also supposed to be announcing a new TV deal before the season started?
• 38:31
  uh It's a busy two weeks.
• 38:37
  uh
• 38:38
  Nothing counts.
• 38:40
  Every team's a 0 and 1.
• 38:41
  Every team's 1 and 0.
• 38:43
  Come on.
• 38:44
  Yes, exactly.
• 38:45
  Okay, so now let me reuse that stinger I wasted.
• 38:49
  Hey MJ, you're wearing an Edmonton stinger!
• 38:52
  Is that C-E-B-L?
• 38:53
  Hey guys, I'm learning about basketball!
• 38:56
  Yeah!
• 38:57
  Yeah
• 38:57
  got something to tell us about what they're doing with their league and media and everything.
• 39:02
  So if the CFL wants to take some notes from a league that has been just started in 2019, pay attention.
• 39:10
  Mike Morelli has built something quite incredible.
• 39:13
  They have a new deal with CBC to air all their games on CBC, CBC GEM and on YouTube.
• 39:20
  And my husband wanted to make sure I noted that the YouTube games are in 4K.
• 39:26
  Hmm.
• 39:26
  Yeah.
• 39:27
  Nice.
• 39:29
  Yeah.
• 39:30
  Last year, the last couple years, they've had a deal with TSN and it was blurry.
• 39:35
  It was on TV.
• 39:36
  It was blurry.
• 39:38
  It was unwatchable, which felt bad because whenever we were at games, there's guys doing that they had play by play.
• 39:43
  They had sideline reports and they were clearly doing like they were working hard and it just looked like garbage on on TSN.
• 39:50
  So now they're on CBC and they uh CBC did really nice social media and announcing all their announcers, color commentators, play by play, in game hosts, commentators like.
• 40:03
  half time panelists and one of their half time panelists also she's also doing the WNBA as well.
• 40:08
  My son pointed that out to me.
• 40:10
  He was on it.
• 40:11
  He knew.
• 40:12
  So they also have like and also the games.
• 40:14
  This is where the app comes in.
• 40:15
  The games are also on the app.
• 40:17
  I actually did a little video earlier today of just going through their app to kind of show people.
• 40:21
  I posted it on my Blue Sky.
• 40:23
  We posted it to Instagram.
• 40:24
  I sent it to you guys.
• 40:24
  If you didn't watch it, don't.
• 40:26
  It's totally fine.
• 40:28
  But it has everything.
• 40:30
  You can watch full games, can watch highlights of a game, you can watch a condensed game which is about 10 minutes of every single game in the league.
• 40:38
  You can look at during games, have a uh like an in-game tracker.
• 40:46
  It'll tell you when a timeout was called.
• 40:47
  It'll tell you when a substitution was coming in, when a substitution was coming out, everything, everything, everything.
• 40:53
  It's very detailed.
• 40:55
  You can click on a player at any time during a game.
• 40:57
  It'll tell you their stats.
• 40:59
  at the so far for the game there rebounds there assists there whatever whatever whatever field goal percentage everything.
• 41:05
  Imagine the CFL had receiver runtime stats like that you just go to the app go to your game click what's what's Jalen doing here's his like targets here's how much he's ran
• 41:16
  here's his
• 41:18
  Anything you can and then you can go and it has all the player stats for the entire league it has Then they has like league leaders it has by teams you can look at the standings For
• 41:27
  this year you can look at the standings from every single year you can look at the rosters for each team for every single year They've been playing so any data that you want is
• 41:36
  available to you free So I don't know what the CFL is doing, but they need to do something like this
• 41:43
  Yeah, and apparently it's possible.
• 41:45
  I'm guessing the CEBL is not partnered with Genius Sports and that may have a lot to do with it, but it would be fantastic to see that sort of thing come into the CFL.
• 41:59
  if a, you know, frankly, the CEBL is doing a good job, but they are a smaller, newer league.
• 42:04
  If they can do this, then there's no reason the CFL can't.
• 42:07
  Yeah.
• 42:09
  Okay.
• 42:09
  Yeah.
• 42:09
  of teams.
• 42:10
  Yeah, but by smaller, by smaller, didn't necessarily mean team size as much as just exposure I'm fairly sure that whether you're a fan or not, probably everybody in Canada,
• 42:21
  if you say the CFL, they know what you're talking about.
• 42:25
  That may not be true of the CEBL.
• 42:27
  not being actually ahead of the CBL in this.
• 42:30
  yeah, they certainly should be.
• 42:32
  there's no excuse at all.
• 42:33
  you're both making very valid point.
• 42:36
  And it's the same point uh that yeah, there's no reason that the CFL should not already have an app.
• 42:43
  It should have had an app five or 10 years ago, a minimum five and maybe even 10 that makes sense and just been updating and making it better and better.
• 42:53
  Instead you've got, as MJ says, an upstart league that has that,
• 42:58
  Yes, they have smaller rosters and but there are They the technology is there and they've managed to do this on a shoestring budget and make it all work and they've had a guy with
• 43:09
  vision running the league from day one and he has said flat out that he wants to work for the CFL he would love to work for the CFL Morelli said that last year in an interview So
• 43:20
  if they wanted to bring somebody on board, that's the guy we talked about it here on the show last fall
• 43:26
  That's the guy that they could hire or at least hire as a consultant, even if it's not a full-time gig and say, make this work for us.
• 43:34
  Get this, know, give us your expertise on how you've managed to make your social media and your platforms work.
• 43:42
  And I don't know whether it's Genius Sports or whether it's just, or whether they're just a patsy that we all, you know, like to blame, but it's, it's embarrassing still that the
• 43:52
  league is this far behind.
• 43:54
  just is.
• 43:55
  And yeah, you know, when again, a small upstart Canadian basketball, admittedly, I mean, if there's people that say nobody watches Canadian football, wow, no one watches Canadian
• 44:10
  basketball.
• 44:10
  And that's not a word of a lie, other than diehard locals that are watching it in those marketplaces.
• 44:17
  So
• 44:18
  And yet they've managed to come up with a television contract that gives them all those options, yet they've managed to put together a platform that gives them all this
• 44:26
  availability.
• 44:27
  It's embarrassing.
• 44:29
  It's just embarrassing.
• 44:31
  And this football league that we all love still continues to be just not in the right places.
• 44:39
  It's just not in the right place.
• 44:41
  I will tell you, our family for the second year in a row have bought season tickets for CBL over CFL in our city.
• 44:49
  Because it's just been such an enjoyable experience and we've had a great time.
• 44:54
  And you can see us on TV.
• 44:56
  We're always on TV.
• 44:57
  And we're not blurry this year.
• 44:59
  Yeah.
• 45:02
  you're there.
• 45:04
  leadership matters.
• 45:05
  So let's put a pin in that.
• 45:06
  We'll check back in, let's say 2030 and see where the two leagues are comparatively.
• 45:11
  dear friends, just go check out a CBL game, watch a condensed 10 minute game, go cheer on some local Canadian basketball talent.
• 45:20
  There's some really exciting, exciting players coming up in Canada.
• 45:24
  Well, what I'll do is I haven't had a chance to see the video that you put out earlier, but if I can, I'll get it up on YouTube as well.
• 45:32
  And I'll link it through to in the show note or in the show description here, if anybody wants to get through and look for that specifically.
• 45:39
  Cause yeah, like I said, they're in the two leagues are in different trends right now and be interesting five years out where they're at.
• 45:46
  it's interesting because this league is starting to attract like I went to a season ticket holder event and like almost half the team are played on G-league teams.
• 45:54
  So they are getting talent in.
• 45:56
  I mean, it's not competition.
• 45:58
  I don't think it's competition because they're very different.
• 46:00
  But this is just an example of what is possible.
• 46:03
  Yep, exactly.
• 46:06
  Now we're going to, we're going to end trying to end on, some positive and some fun notes here for the, the first season going so that we're looking happy and going forward.
• 46:17
  So the first thing is MJ's pulled out the tarot cards again and apparently going to do some predictions for the season.
• 46:24
  Yes, this is my way too early tarot projections for 2026.
• 46:29
  So I pulled two cards for each team.
• 46:34
  I pulled the vibe check for the start of the season and then I pulled a how's it going to end.
• 46:41
  So I'll I think for fun, I think for fun because I want to save some things for last.
• 46:45
  I think we're going to go through the starter, how the season is going to start for each team.
• 46:50
  So I'll go west to east, because that's how I like to do things.
• 46:54
  BC Lions, Seven of Swords, Trickery and Deception, Get Ready for Unconventional Wins, and Trick Plays.
• 47:02
  That sounds about right.
• 47:04
  Yes.
• 47:04
  The Elks have the King of Swords, is clarity and mental strength.
• 47:08
  Like have the tools if they can get over the mental block.
• 47:12
  The stamps.
• 47:14
  Queen of Wands.
• 47:15
  They're dynamic and authentic.
• 47:16
  VA is ready to get things done.
• 47:19
  This is it.
• 47:21
  The riders have the hermit, which is reflection.
• 47:24
  They're going to try and draw on what they did last year to get a path back to the Grey Cup.
• 47:29
  The Bombers have the Princess of Swords and this is making connections.
• 47:34
  They have a new OC who has probably a million ideas and can they all fit the pieces together.
• 47:40
  The Argos have the Six of Cups, which is familiarity and nostalgia.
• 47:44
  Chad is back, but don't get stuck in the past.
• 47:47
  Mm-hmm.
• 47:49
  Ti Cats, Knight of Swords.
• 47:51
  This is intense focus and this season is a business trip.
• 47:55
  There's no Boveralls, we're standing on business.
• 47:58
  Alouettes, the Queen of Swords.
• 48:00
  This is, I just said all class and sass.
• 48:04
  it's how it's gonna be.
• 48:05
  The Red Blacks.
• 48:07
  They have the Princess of Swords and this is Creativity and Free Spirit.
• 48:10
  Ryan is breathing in some fresh air.
• 48:13
  So that's how the season's gonna start.
• 48:15
  How's the season gonna end for some people?
• 48:18
  Let's find out what the tarot cards think and we can check back at the end of the year to see if they were correct.
• 48:24
  So the BC Lions have the Emperor and I just have this, like, it's the guy.
• 48:30
  So whether that's Rourke or the team,
• 48:33
  We'll see.
• 48:34
  The elks have the four of cups and this is just distracted and rumination and you just can't put a whole season together again.
• 48:42
  uh So status quo in Edmonton, okay.
• 48:45
  I and you know, I didn't want to talk about it and I won't talk about it, I will say I've listened to a couple interviews with Chris Morris the last couple weeks and this is of no
• 48:52
  surprise.
• 48:53
  The stamps have the chariot, so this is Victory and Inner Drive and there's going to be some bumps in the road, but if VA can hold it together, they'll be just fine.
• 49:05
  The riders have the nine of cups, is the wish card.
• 49:08
  this just says, wishes will come true.
• 49:11
  There's two people on this panel not happy about that.
• 49:17
  The Bombers have the Ten of Pentacles and that's legacy and tradition and it's a long term perspective.
• 49:23
  So this is more building.
• 49:25
  I don't the tarot cards I don't think are they think that this is not the year but they are building towards something really great.
• 49:32
  Did you see did you hear the riders one?
• 49:35
  I unfortunately I missed that one so say that again for me.
• 49:39
  just replay, I'll just retell it to you because you need to hear it.
• 49:41
  It's the nine of cups and it just says wishes come true.
• 49:44
  well that would be nice.
• 49:46
  That would be.
• 49:47
  Time for a...
• 49:49
  two peat at least.
• 49:51
  Yes.
• 49:52
  Alright, the Argos, hanged man, sacrifice and suspension.
• 49:57
  This is, they're stuck between the future and the past and need to explore alternative options.
• 50:04
  So are we saying at the end of the season the Argo fans are going to be ready to hang Kelly?
• 50:09
  Well, we'll see.
• 50:12
  I make no comments.
• 50:14
  The Ticats Wheel of Fortune.
• 50:16
  This is the card that the aloettes got in the gray cup.
• 50:20
  This is like, you can either adapt or complain.
• 50:23
  So there's gonna be some upheaval in Tiger Town.
• 50:26
  And we'll see how they deal with that.
• 50:28
  Alouettes is the fool.
• 50:30
  This is Skies the Limit.
• 50:33
  all class all sass but make sure you keep yourself a bit grounded or you're going to fly too high.
• 50:38
  ah And then the red blacks have the magician and that's Ryan.
• 50:43
  The ultimate power to manifest destiny.
• 50:46
  It's I'm the cards are looking for whether they make whether they finish in the power games or how they do them.
• 50:53
  It's going to be an exciting season for the red blacks.
• 50:57
  So that's it.
• 50:59
  That's that's what they're that's what's going on.
• 51:02
  I'd say a lot of those cards resonate with how I see reality.
• 51:06
  Yeah, some of it seems, some of it sounds pretty close.
• 51:10
  Yeah.
• 51:10
  So we have, so we, well, we'll, we'll see.
• 51:15
  That's the fun of the game.
• 51:17
  And that, that takes us down to our last thing.
• 51:20
  And they, like I said, the every break in the, first preseason game was play the season predictor.
• 51:26
  So we're going to, but first we're going to also, because we all have our own teams on here as far as the, the personalities on here, we're also going to play the team picker
• 51:36
  for the show.
• 51:37
  and see what it says about what team the CFL outsiders should be supporting.
• 51:43
  Ugh.
• 51:44
  Okay, if this works.
• 51:47
  That thing, no matter what I say, I've done that for quite a few years.
• 51:52
  No matter what I say, MJ, you'll love this.
• 51:55
  It says Hamilton every time.
• 51:57
  I can change every single thing three different ways to Sunday and it comes up, your team's Hamilton.
• 52:05
  I'm like, why?
• 52:07
  know, like it, yeah, okay, so let's do it.
• 52:10
  And if it comes up Hamilton, I'll do it.
• 52:14
  Okay.
• 52:15
  So apparently we have, I think, 10 questions to ask.
• 52:18
  The first one is favorite color.
• 52:21
  Red, blue, yellow, or green?
• 52:22
  For who?
• 52:23
  For each of us?
• 52:24
  Are we doing separate ones?
• 52:26
  Yellow!
• 52:28
  Are we to go red?
• 52:30
  And I'd go green, so that tells me...
• 52:32
  Yeah.
• 52:35
  So since we all had individual ones, I'm going to pick the color none of us had and go blue.
• 52:40
  Oh no, that's the worst color!
• 52:43
  Okay, it's game day.
• 52:46
  Who's coming with you?
• 52:48
  A big group of friends, my go-to football buddy, my family, or just me and the game?
• 52:54
  I always put down my go-to football buddy, because that's who goes to the games with me.
• 52:58
  My family goes to the game with me.
• 53:00
  There you go.
• 53:03
  Although this year, this year, this year I am taking the grandkids a couple times, so maybe the family.
• 53:09
  yeah, it's so nice.
• 53:10
  probably family too.
• 53:12
  So family we pick for number two.
• 53:14
  Okay, time to buy merch.
• 53:17
  What are you going to buy first?
• 53:19
  A team jersey, a classic hat or toque, a foam finger, or a hoodie or sweatshirt?
• 53:25
  I'm getting the foam finger, so you guys will have to go from there.
• 53:29
  Okay?
• 53:31
  I probably got a hat.
• 53:33
  Okay, so since we're again all over the board, we're taking the one we didn't pick, a jersey.
• 53:39
  Okay, what's your go-to stadium snack?
• 53:44
  Popcorn, poutine, nachos or candy?
• 53:48
  candy.
• 53:48
  Poutine did you say GT?
• 53:51
  Okay, I vote there too.
• 53:52
  So it's that not candy.
• 53:54
  Okay.
• 53:55
  you people and your gluten, so lucky.
• 53:58
  know.
• 53:59
  I know.
• 54:00
  Okay.
• 54:01
  What type of CFL fan are you here?
• 54:03
  I think we may all fit into the same one here.
• 54:05
  The diehard fan, the casual supporter, the snack MVP, or the stats guru?
• 54:11
  Die hard, of course.
• 54:13
  Yes.
• 54:14
  die hard.
• 54:16
  It's not the stats, MPP.
• 54:17
  We're doing this.
• 54:19
  Okay.
• 54:20
  And, just to let you know, GT, it looks like it might not be Hamilton.
• 54:24
  We're where we're halfway through and it says the teams that suit you best so far are the riders, the Alouettes and the Argonauts.
• 54:31
  So what type of football player gets you the most hyped?
• 54:36
  The deep touchdown pass, massive defensive hit, trick play.
• 54:42
  or goal winning field goal.
• 54:43
  Me, it's gotta be defense.
• 54:44
  What I like about the game, the big hit.
• 54:47
  Trick play.
• 54:48
  Trick play.
• 54:49
  Okay.
• 54:50
  Trick play it is.
• 54:51
  And strangely enough with your tarot about the, the lions and their trick play, the photo for trick play is Nathan doing a sort of backhanded pitch.
• 55:01
  Okay.
• 55:03
  If you were in the CFL, what position would you play?
• 55:06
  Quarterback, running back, wide receiver or defense?
• 55:11
  Defense.
• 55:12
  wide receiver.
• 55:13
  Sorry, it's defense.
• 55:16
  There's two of us.
• 55:18
  I played both sides of the ball.
• 55:20
  I like the defense more.
• 55:21
  oh What's the best part of the CFL season?
• 55:28
  The kickoff, Labor Day rivalries, Gray Cup playoffs, or all season long?
• 55:34
  All season long.
• 55:35
  I can go with that.
• 55:37
  specifically Labor Day.
• 55:40
  It's all I have you guys.
• 55:41
  all it's all I have.
• 55:42
  Well, then we got two of them and I'm going to go, I'm going to go with GT and say all season long.
• 55:49
  Okay.
• 55:50
  We still haven't got Hamilton back in the mix yet.
• 55:52
  It's now, it's now riders, Argonauts and Elks are there.
• 55:57
  Okay.
• 55:58
  How do you celebrate a win?
• 56:00
  With the family, fire up the grill with friends, rewatch the highlights or already thinking about the next game.
• 56:08
  rewatch the highlights.
• 56:10
  Sorry, what were the first two?
• 56:12
  with the family or fire up the grill with friends.
• 56:15
  or already thinking about the next game.
• 56:17
  Or re-watch the highlights.
• 56:20
  Just re-watch the highlights, I guess.
• 56:21
  This is a weird question.
• 56:23
  that is, that's two of us.
• 56:25
  two of you.
• 56:25
  So I don't have to put mine out there.
• 56:27
  I'm of course already thinking about the next game because that's just, that was anyway, what activity or experience would you want to do in the Yukon this summer?
• 56:38
  By the way, this is sponsored by the Yukon by the Yukon.
• 56:42
  Yes.
• 56:43
  Yes.
• 56:44
  Okay.
• 56:45
  Take the reins of your own dog sled.
• 56:47
  Explore the wilderness on a fat tire bike guide along groomed cross country ski trails or see the Northern lights.
• 56:56
  Northern Lights.
• 56:57
  Northern Lights.
• 56:58
  Okay, so it is.
• 57:00
  If you'd pick dog sledding, well, actually not anymore, but if it was 10 years ago, I could have arranged that for you in Manitoba though, not in the Yukon.
• 57:09
  And congratulations, our team is, anybody want to guess who we're cheering for this year?
• 57:14
  Ha
• 57:14
  with the Argos I'm gonna cry.
• 57:16
  So it's going to be Edmonton, of course.
• 57:18
  It's gonna be Toronto.
• 57:20
  MJ's got to get the tissues out.
• 57:21
  We are officially Toronto Argonaut fans.
• 57:24
  I'm good.
• 57:25
  Thanks.
• 57:26
  it pick blue at the beginning?
• 57:28
  It's your fault, old man!
• 57:30
  You picked blue!
• 57:31
  Hey, I went with the...
• 57:32
  I don't know.
• 57:34
  Anyway, yeah, so remember that all season.
• 57:36
  We're Argo fans here as officially as the podcast.
• 57:40
  Good thing they're number nine on the power rankings.
• 57:46
  I think if there was a team that none of us wanted it was sad.
• 57:49
  Okay, let's do our season predictor.
• 57:51
  We're almost done here.
• 57:52
  Let people go and welcome to the season predictor.
• 57:55
  I have read the terms and agreements.
• 57:56
  Yes, I have.
• 57:57
  10 questions on the season.
• 57:59
  Which position will be the first touchdown?
• 58:02
  Which position will score the first touchdown of the 26th season?
• 58:06
  A QB rush, running back, wide receiver, defense or special teams.
• 58:11
  And the first game of the season I'll remind you is Montreal at Hamilton.
• 58:15
  See you,
• 58:15
  I'm thinking quarterback, so you get to break the tie or...
• 58:19
  Last year was a QB, it was a short yardage.
• 58:23
  But those two, but those, but Hamilton doesn't do short yardage.
• 58:26
  So let's go receiver.
• 58:31
  Davis.
• 58:31
  Lawler, got Lawler, you got Lawler and Bill Pot, between those two guys, come on.
• 58:37
  they're gonna air it out, they're gonna air it out.
• 58:39
  Will a kicker make a field goal longer than 60.5 yards?
• 58:43
  Yes.
• 58:44
  I say yes.
• 58:46
  Will a player have more than 12 and a half sacks during the regular season?
• 58:51
  So it's not saying, it's will they have 13 sacks or more?
• 58:56
  Cause we, I'm fairly sure we don't count half sacks.
• 58:58
  I don't think we've done that in years.
• 59:00
  Who made this pretty?
• 59:02
  Yes, Matthew Betts.
• 59:04
  Okay, I was gonna say bonus points for saying who.
• 59:07
  Okay.
• 59:07
  Just remember last year, MJ, you didn't think anybody would get there.
• 59:12
  I still actually don't think anyone will, but we'll see.
• 59:16
  It's like, CUE ME!
• 59:17
  High-fliers this year!
• 59:21
  well, well, well, if I, if I let my fandom come in, I would have to say yes.
• 59:25
  Yes, they will.
• 59:26
  And it will be a yet to be determined Saskatchewan rough rider.
• 59:29
  Cause we have no idea who's playing the ends there.
• 59:33
  Okay.
• 59:34
  Well, Winnipeg's Brady Olivera have over or under 1,700 and
• 59:41
  a half rushing and receiving yards combined during the regular season.
• 59:46
  1700.
• 59:47
  1700...
• 59:50
  so SD at 1701.
• 59:53
  under.
• 59:54
  with Tommy Condell.
• 59:56
  Yes.
• 59:58
  under
• 59:59
  Under.
• 1:00:00
  Yeah, actually that's come to think of it when I rated bombers up in the power rankings, forgot Condel, as the OC well, sorry, Tommy.
• 1:00:08
  It's just my opinion.
• 1:00:10
  What do I know?
• 1:00:11
  Okay.
• 1:00:12
  Which quarterback will lead the 2026 season in passing yards?
• 1:00:17
  And we have four choices.
• 1:00:19
  So Nathan Rourke, Bo Levi Mitchell, Trevor Harris, or other.
• 1:00:24
  but because of garbage time.
• 1:00:27
  Just like last year.
• 1:00:28
  I'm going to go with Bo.
• 1:00:30
  So we're picking Bo because that's two of us.
• 1:00:32
  Yeah, the other there's five others to go from and it's, know, there's some good quarterbacks in there, but.
• 1:00:38
  Was Alexander not an option?
• 1:00:40
  Like, he was other?
• 1:00:43
  Whoa!
• 1:00:45
  Jeavers!
• 1:00:48
  Yeah, he's got to stay healthy.
• 1:00:49
  If he plays 18 games, he could lead the league.
• 1:00:52
  If he doesn't play 18 games, if that leg gives him issues, then he's not going to be close.
• 1:00:57
  So that's the big thing.
• 1:00:59
  But I think if he plays all 18, if he's healthy, he can lead the league in passing for sure.
• 1:01:05
  And they have the receivers to do it.
• 1:01:08
  See, and I would say I don't think he'll get it regardless of how healthy he is just because that's not really how they're set up.
• 1:01:16
  mean, you look at when he was playing well, he's not a guy that's throwing for 300, 300 to 400 yards a game.
• 1:01:23
  It's two to 300 the way their game is set up when defense and that.
• 1:01:27
  So I don't think it's going to be him this year.
• 1:01:29
  Again, my opinion.
• 1:01:31
  think if you go back to those first four games of last year when they were winning and he was slinging the rock, you go back and look at those stats, you'll be surprised at his
• 1:01:39
  yardage
• 1:01:39
  That could be.
• 1:01:41
  I have trouble remembering yesterday, let alone a year ago.
• 1:01:45
  Okay, will any team score over 40 points on Thanksgiving weekend?
• 1:01:51
  Okay, so what are the matchups?
• 1:01:52
  Well, it's like, Thai cats are ghosts.
• 1:01:55
  Way down here now.
• 1:01:57
  um
• 1:02:01
  Thanksgiving, which is what threw it for me.
• 1:02:03
  I can't even remember what the date is on Thanksgiving this year.
• 1:02:07
  I'm looking for a Monday game in October and that's the week.
• 1:02:11
  That's the Saskatchewan Montreal
• 1:02:13
  Here we go.
• 1:02:14
  Monday, October 12th.
• 1:02:16
  So that would have to be the one.
• 1:02:18
  weekend or just the Thanksgiving Monday weekday game?
• 1:02:21
  Okay.
• 1:02:24
  Edmonton at Hamilton, Ottawa at BC, Calgary at Winnipeg, and Saskatchewan at Montreal.
• 1:02:31
  and it's what if any team will score?
• 1:02:33
  Yeah, 40 points.
• 1:02:36
  uh...
• 1:02:36
  i would say yes but i think BC could score forty points against all
• 1:02:41
  Okay.
• 1:02:42
  Are we good with that?
• 1:02:43
  Yeah, well, two of us are.
• 1:02:45
  do that against Edmonton.
• 1:02:46
  Yeah.
• 1:02:47
  Okay.
• 1:02:49
  Will a team finish the regular season with 13 wins?
• 1:02:52
  Yes, I have a team finishing with 13 wins.
• 1:02:55
  Who's your 13-win team?
• 1:02:57
  Are you not saying?
• 1:02:58
  Well, I can tell you if you want, when we've finished, I'll give you my season predictors if you like.
• 1:03:04
  sure.
• 1:03:05
  Let's do that.
• 1:03:05
  We kind of get there with the end of these anyway, but so you're saying yes, how about you MJ?
• 1:03:11
  I always think that they're gonna like be all bunched up and then some teams just dunk it and then other teams...
• 1:03:16
  Yeah, yeah, there'll be a team with 13 wins.
• 1:03:19
  Okay, so we'll say yes.
• 1:03:20
  I personally don't think so.
• 1:03:22
  I think it's going to be a little, little too close in the, in the equality or the pairity in the league.
• 1:03:29
  That's the word I was looking for.
• 1:03:31
  Okay.
• 1:03:32
  So we're now down to the actual playoffs, which team will win the Eastern finals?
• 1:03:37
  So you have the four Eastern teams and a Western crossover.
• 1:03:40
  that will win.
• 1:03:41
  I'll take Montreal again.
• 1:03:45
  Yeah, I would say so too.
• 1:03:47
  The Western, this is where it gets questionable because we've got the five Western teams and the Eastern crossover.
• 1:03:55
  the Easter
• 1:03:57
  ah I'm taking BC.
• 1:03:58
  I'm going with Saskatchewan again, cause I'd have to, but.
• 1:04:02
  So you get the deciding vote.
• 1:04:04
  the tarot cards told me Riders but I...
• 1:04:07
  think...
• 1:04:08
  I think it's...
• 1:04:10
  You can go with somebody other than-
• 1:04:11
  go, I know it could be Calgary, I'll pick Calgary because it's a home playoff, it's Grey Cup
• 1:04:18
  Okay, so now we have to find a way to figure that one out because we're all over the board on there.
• 1:04:26
  So does anybody want to change their vote?
• 1:04:29
  Or should we just...
• 1:04:31
  Does anybody have a dice near them?
• 1:04:33
  You
• 1:04:33
  So if there's a team that could knock up, so we're saying the West final, who wins the West final?
• 1:04:41
  Okay, I will change mine to, only because I'm willing to, I will change it to.
• 1:04:49
  We're still in the old playoff format this year.
• 1:04:51
  oh
• 1:04:53
  Oh, this is the last year for those predictions.
• 1:04:56
  This is it.
• 1:04:57
  I'm going to go Calgary.
• 1:04:59
  Okay, so Calgary it is.
• 1:05:02
  And then we have to pick out of the nine teams and we've kind of said Calgary and Montreal, so which of those two is going to win the the Grey Cup?
• 1:05:11
  ah I
• 1:05:11
  I would take Montreal.
• 1:05:14
  And see, I will take Calgary if we have to go with those two simply because it's in Calgary.
• 1:05:20
  And I think that, I think that will take it over the top.
• 1:05:25
  So MJ, the final question you get to decide Montreal or Calgary.
• 1:05:30
  man.
• 1:05:31
  Do it!
• 1:05:31
  I'm put my belt buckle on and pick Calgary.
• 1:05:34
  ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
• 1:05:37
  VA is hoisting the trophy at the end of the season.
• 1:05:40
  I got to admit that would be, that would be about, yeah, that would, that would be one, a good one for the universe.
• 1:05:49
  Yeah, all things being equal, that would be really nice.
• 1:05:54
  For him, not for me personally.
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  you were saying you were willing to talk about your predictions for the year.
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  I don't know if either of other of us are ready, but go ahead, be brave.
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  See, so you want my season predictors, what I said I done?
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  Okay, so about a month, what was it, about a month, it's already been about a month since the draft, just around draft time.
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  It was post-draft.
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  I sat down with the schedule and I just went through the schedule each week by, each week and went, based on this, based on nothing else, just based on gut feel.
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  where they were last year, who they've drafted and where I think their weaknesses are, who could win this game at this time of year?
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  If they're coming off a bye, if they're at home, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
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  Okay, that's it.
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  And so then I went through it and I did it that way so that I could see the numbers work as well so that I wasn't, oh, you had a whole bunch of teams and your numbers don't work
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  out right.
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  So this is what I came and...
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  I was very surprised at this, by the way, when I was finished.
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  I did this unbiasedly as much as I could.
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  I didn't do it like, you know, with an intent.
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  I just did it based on the games that I saw in front of me.
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  And I was surprised at the way it came out.
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  So I had in the East, I had Hamilton in first place at 11 and 7, Montreal in second at 10 and 8.
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  I had Ottawa in third at 6 and 12.
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  and Toronto in last at four and 14.
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  In the West, it's a little more interesting.
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  I had BC in first at 13 and five.
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  That was my 13 win team.
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  I had, this is the weirdest, this is the one that's kind of bizarre.
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  And this had nothing to do with our colors.
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  It's just the way it turned out.
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  I had Calgary in second at 11 and seven.
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  I had Saskatchewan in third at only 10 and eight.
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  and I had Edmonton at nine and nine and Winnipeg at six and 12.
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  So that's my, you know, simply looking at the schedule and saying, yeah, I think that's who would win that game.
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  Okay.
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  Yeah.
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  That, okay.
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  That, that makes perfect sense.
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  And actually I'm going to throw an, I'm calling an audible.
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  I'm going to throw an unplanned question at, at you on this.
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  And that's basically when we went into the playoffs last year, I would say that of the six teams in the playoffs, they were probably five that had at least a reasonable chance of
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  getting through to the gray cup.
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  I don't think Winnipeg the way they were playing at the time did.
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  So that left Winnipeg and then the three non-playoff teams, Ottawa, Toronto and Edmonton.
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  So of those four that really had no chance last year, if one of them comes up and wins the cup this year, who will it be?
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  if one of them comes up and wins the cup.
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  Oh, it'll be the Argos.
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  Because they always win when they're in turmoil.
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  Right?
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  It's just the way it works.
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  It's if there's six and 12 and win the cup.
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  mean, that's what they do.
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  And somehow, if there's one team that can do it, it'll be them.
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  With everything else they got going on this year, if there's a team that somehow
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  How did they manage to do it?
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  It'll be the Argos.
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  Because even if it's Edmonton, Edmonton you can kind of see they've built it for now, they've got it in place.
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  They're on the up.
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  I have them as the crossover team, by the way.
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  They would be the, if those records that I just predicted stand, it would be Hamilton, Montreal, BC, Calgary, Saskatchewan, and Edmonton as the crossover.
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  yeah, I could see Edmonton doing it, but.
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  of the teams that would be the biggest surprise, it would be Toronto, somehow sneaking in there and then winning it all.
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  I will say that my the magician card in my tarot pull it's if anyone's gonna pull something out of their hat it is Ryan and
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  Yeah, if out of those four if anyone's gonna do it, it'll be the red, black, we'll all look silly.
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  Okay.
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  And yeah, and, and with me, with me, I'll, I'll go to the other side of the country.
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  And the way that I sat on the power ranking, you're thinking it'd be Winnipeg, but no, I really think that if one of those four sort of surprises us badly, it much like you said,
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  GT, it'll be Edmonton.
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  And there's something about just about Fajardo and that underdog mentality and the way they were putting stuff together.
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  If there's a surprise, I think they're the team to do it.
• 1:10:28
  Yeah, but see, but they're not, that won't be a surprise to me.
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  That's the difference.
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  The difference is that won't be a surprise.
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  playoffs?
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  I think they made playoffs for so long.
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  I don't know.
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  And it's a nine team league.
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  So it's kind of hard to say, to pick many that would be a surprise.
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  know, it's, of those all of them all, really, I would think that the only two that would, would seriously be a surprise would be the two Eastern ones, Toronto or Ottawa.
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  But, if I have to pick between the two of those, I would say Ottawa just because they've made a lot of changes and look what Dinwiddie did when he first got to Toronto.
• 1:11:05
  So.
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  Maybe until, until we see how the, I can't even remember the coach's name, the quarterback coach that became the Johnson is it?
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  The, their new head coach Miller Miller.
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  That's it.
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  Yeah.
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  One of the many Ken Miller's coaching in the league.
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  Is it Ken?
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  I can't, anyway, we should lose it.
• 1:11:24
  We should end this before I can't make it too much of a fool of myself.
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  So any closing thoughts?
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  Want to let people know where they can follow you.
• 1:11:32
  Well, as always, you can see me at GT Barnum on Blue Sky and that's about it.
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  and wait a minute.
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  I have had a couple things thanks to my helping hands here show up on Instagram and so on.
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  those are there and apparently shorts on YouTube and stuff.
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  So hey, thank you very much.
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  And yeah, that's where you can find me.
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  And next week, you may find me here again.
• 1:11:57
  You may not, but you may find me here again next week.
• 1:12:01
  something we don't know?
• 1:12:05
  Okay.
• 1:12:06
  We're posting on Instagram, season's starting up.
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  I'm going to post the tarot cards up on Instagram and we can see if anyone has a comment about them.
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  You can find me over on Blue Sky learning basketball and the element ending in the CBL, despairing of the Blue Jays and putting on some black and gold ready for the CFL season.
• 1:12:28
  Yeah, I'm over there at Sports and Plants.
• 1:12:31
  Okay.
• 1:12:31
  And I'm personally on bluesky at old man dash SAC and the podcast is now all over the place.
• 1:12:41
  We do still have a presence on Twitter to promote there, but we are on bluesky.
• 1:12:47
  We're on gander.
• 1:12:48
  We're on, Eh!
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  North social.
• 1:12:51
  We're on Moob we're on Mastodon, I don't know.
• 1:12:54
  Look anywhere for the CFL outsiders, we're taking over the world.
• 1:12:57
  So you can find us everywhere there.
• 1:12:59
  And remember, if you haven't subscribed yet, if you're one of the new viewers or you just haven't got around to it, hit the subscribe button here on YouTube.
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  We're looking forward to a full season of it.
• 1:13:20
  We've got...
• 1:13:20
  21 weeks of season and three weeks of preseason so what 24 maybe 25 shows coming up and hopefully we'll continue to entertain you until next week for GT and MJ this is Oldman
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  saying get the hell off my lawn