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Ok, So Not Quite a Tight 30/The CFL Outsiders S03 E24 · The CFL Outsiders

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Hey kids! Welcome back to another episode of the CFL Outsiders.
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I remain as always your 100% impartial,
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completely unbiased, and wearing my speed boots,
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host Oldman Shoutin' at Clouds.
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Joining me tonight is MJ.
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Hey everyone, can you believe that regular season's over?
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How did that happen?
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Badly this weekend, but
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Very
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badly, unless you're the Hamilton Tiger Cats.
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Yeah, there
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we go. Hey, I got my Costco, my embroidered Costco one
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Twins is that looks great.
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and got CFL fans gotta love Costco.
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So
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give everybody a heads up. It's gonna be a short one tonight.
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MJ's off vacationing,
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I think, in BC and they left early to beat the snowstorm.
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Or sorry, MJ two is doing that.
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And MJ here, I believe you've got a World Series game you gotta watch with your
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son in like about
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Half an hour or so?
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Alright,
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so I just wanna this is my World Series report.
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I'll just give it to you quickly.
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I am not on vacation in BC, I am here working.
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the Brewers are it's game four tonight,
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so by the time you listen to this,
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this will be the future, and hopefully they've won.
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But they are up 3-0 on the Tampa Bay Rays and neither team has ever
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won the World Series. And the last time that the Brewers were in
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the World Series was 1982. So this is almost from us,
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like the TI Cats in the Grey Cup.
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this is very exciting.
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Very
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much so. And I hear I hear you have a fan in your house.
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My son is a huge brew crew fan.
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He says he keeps trying to talk us into going to Milwaukee to go see a game,
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but I am not convinced.
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I've met a nice couple from Milwaukee.
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They said it's a nice place, but probably not for tourists.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Anyway, let's let's get this going,
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because we're on we want to hit a tight thirty tonight,
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so it's gonna be real short. So fortunately,
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not a lot to talk about in the games.
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But I do have a couple of things I wanted to pop right off the top.
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every now and then life gets a little cyclical and comes back and whatnot.
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I've mentioned before I coached for a number of years some minor football.
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Met a lot of of very good young men who are now grown ass men and I don't know
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if it had anything to do with football,
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but a lot of them have turned into really good people.
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And one of those really good people reached out to the goddess on Facebook this week
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and said, Hey, I saw a coach has got a podcast.
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I'm loving it. Went back and watched all the old back episodes.
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So hey Matt!
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Good to hear from you. It's been a while,
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but thank you. And I hope you keep enjoying.
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And then the the other thing I was just gonna say real quick,
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fantasy. I don't think we're gonna play next year.
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But I did just wanna point out,
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not to brag, but well,
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Well, we can brag a little bit.
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maybe a little humble brag, but also just to to fill out our bona fides here
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for the fact that if you're watching,
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we do know a little bit about football.
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UMJ lost in the final this year.
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Did very well all year. Number th three in scoring overall through the league.
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Very nicely done. I never made the finals
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Thank you.
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because I ran into a buzzsaw in the first round.
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That'd be her over there. Put me out bad time.
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But I did get to the finals last year where I lost Adam and
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Well, there's a caveat. Like everybody else,
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the most of the league phoned it in this this weekend and about half
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of them only picked a full team.
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But I still got first in the league for the fifth time.
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Five out of eighteen games. That's better than like twenty-five percent.
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So we know a little bit about our football here.
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a little bit. Alright.
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Okay. Now we'll go back to being h our humble little
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Congratulations on the great year.
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I don't don't know if either of us playing next year,
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but congratulations.
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You certainly proved yourself.
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If I do, it'll be secretly.
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Yeah.
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Ninja Fantasy.
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Yeah
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you'll never know until win.
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Okay, well anyway, let's get moving here because I'm taking up too much time.
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League announced their teams for the awards this last week and then have
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now announced finalists in three categories.
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We're not gonna talk about that because MJ two's not here and we're going quick.
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So they're not picked before the week before Grey Cap.
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We'll do our picks and our talk next week.
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Red Blacks.
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Little bit of news out of the Red Blacks.
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not a lot, but some Mike Morale has come out and said he would like to have
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all the changes made, anything that they need to announce by the end of November.
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So hopefully the fans there will know fairly quickly.
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And Mr Dinwiddie came out this week and said,
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I'm good with not being the GM.
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If they just want to make me the coach,
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I'm good with that. I didn't really do any GMing anyway.
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I think he was so
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he was so desperate to get out of Toronto he had to have a promotion to
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be able to leave. And so they technically gave him a promotion,
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that's how he got to leave Toronto to go to Ottawa.
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Yeah. And now he may be desperately trying to stay in Ottawa,
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so
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Well,
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I think he walked out of one hornet's nest into an even bigger one.
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You never know. You never quite know until you get into those situations,
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just what's actually happening.
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'Cause what you see and what's actually happening are two different,
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very different things.
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Funny
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how they always put their best face forward in a job interview.
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I think we all do that to be fair.
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Yes.
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Yes. And speaking of kind of of the the same thing,
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in the game one of the games this weekend they interviewed Mike Morales.
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And
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it was a great interview when he talked about all this,
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but my favorite answer of the interview was they said to him,
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you had your you had your whole football career,
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you've done the C E B L, you've had all the success success.
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What made you decide it's time to come back to the C F L?
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And he said, Well, they called me.
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Yeah. A humble
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~
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some tea on that is that Henry Burris also interviewed for that job and apparently
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Yes.
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was like completely heartbroken that he did not get it.
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Yes.
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And you know, Henry, there is a GM job in Hamilton.
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Yeah.
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Or maybe in Ottawa.
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Yeah. I mean t no,
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Yeah. They did s yeah.
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come to Hamilton. We need a GM
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Yeah, there we go. But they did
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I did see some talk that they are open to still having Burris join
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the organization somehow. So who knows,
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I think he loves the Red Blacks more than he likes the Ti Cats,
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so
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Yes.
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Yeah. Well he did have his gray cup there,
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so
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Yeah, well mm mm
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other news. Everybody knows this,
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but I'll say it. The playoffs are set.
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We've got Winnipeg going to Toronto this weekend.
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BC is hosting Saskatchewan. We'll talk about our predictions later.
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Didn't that just happen
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last year except for the the home field was flipped last year
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in the Saskatchewan BC? Yeah.
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Yeah, I think so, something like like that.
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Well well
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no, because last year Saskatchewan had first place,
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so BC came in for the final. And I think Winnipeg tr crossed over
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~ right, B C E K. Okay. I was like,
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this is such a they did.
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and lost to Toronto, maybe. I don't know.
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Anyway, it feels like we're repeating.
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Hamilton. I can't re can't even re Hamilton.
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Can't even remember.
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The other team out of the playoffs,
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Calgary, Jalen
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poor guy
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Philpot has said he's not committed to returning to them next year.
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He's a free agent.
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well Brady said that about Winnipeg.
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Yes,
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he did. He did. That's true. But Jalen said specifically I've played winning
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football all my life. Not being in the playoffs a number of years is hard.
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So
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We'll see if VA can talk him into staying.
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Could be. It also tells me though that if he's saying that,
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then maybe the players aren't seeing a big turnaround.
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if Dickinson stays in all of his same roles,
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what are we even doing here? That's a mistake.
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Well, he's already said he's Dickinson
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already said he's g ready to throw some other coaches under the bus.
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He's fine with that.
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Perfect.
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does that include his brother?
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I don't know. We'll we'll see in the next couple of weeks,
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hopefully. I am going through these quick,
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but take time to talk more if you want.
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But like I said, we're
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Well,
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I just think where would Jalen go?
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I'm like maybe he'll go to Montreal.
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They seem to like to just can you imagine Phil Pot Vif
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Maybe Montreal, yeah. Saskatchewan likes a lot of receivers.
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I wouldn't hate seeing Jalen playing in Saskatchewan.
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I he can come to Hamilton too,
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that'd be totally fine by me. Any team would wanna have him,
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so Calgary's gonna have I think Calgary
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Well yeah, I d I think so.
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has like they said today he they like thirty pending free agents,
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so they have some work to do while they're trying to organize their front office.
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that's a big a big mess.
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Yes. That that's
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the new CFL and that segues into what was next on our rundown here.
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The fact that Three Down has put out articles now saying that the Tiger Hats have
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something like twenty free agents,
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the Red Blacks have more than twenty,
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the Stampeders have thirty. That seems to be the CFL now.
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signing one or two year contracts there's it's just bound to to be a
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lot of people pending every year because those it's those are pretty short cycles.
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Exactly.
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And that does seem to be it. They're they're
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Yeah.
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not not signing people to longer deals.
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I don't know if that's I mean,
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for a player almost why would you?
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Because you can still be cut. And
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Yeah, and
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I think you're not going to that sounds like a big list,
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but most people you're never gonna hear about them re-signing because
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if they're not a top receiver,
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top D B, top you know, a household name,
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they're gonna just keep re signing.
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I mean, they're never gonna get signed to long term contracts,
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but maybe they have family there,
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maybe they have things going on there.
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Like they're gonna keep re signing,
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so I mean, you'll just never hear about it.
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Yeah, exactly. Unless a team is really in love with somebody.
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That's the world we live in. I expect when it comes out as each of these teams gets
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knocked out of the playoffs, they're all gonna be at least twenty and maybe more.
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well. other bits of news.
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Drew Brown took the first starting reps at practice this week,
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after Zach went out this weekend.
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We're not gonna talk a lot about the games,
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but we'll mention that there. Chad Kelly Miller's
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Well so circle
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back, do you think Drew Brown and Zach Clarce are pulling a Michael Riley,
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Nathan Rourke situation where Zack's not taking reps but he'll start?
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That's what I think might happen.
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He said it's his ribs, so I don't know.
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I don't know. We're not doing games,
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Yeah.
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so let's talk about it th this way then.
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In the game on the weekend, Zach did absolutely nothing.
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They were behind when
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Yeah, that's true.
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Zach got hurt. Now Drew came in and started hitting passes Zach wasn't.
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They won. So injuring your starting quarterback,
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not usually a winning strategy,
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but so I don't know. Even if Zach good,
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you want him in there. Now to be fair.
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By the time that Drew got in, he did score right away quick,
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but they had s rolled in almost every backup BC had.
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So I don't know.
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Yeah. ~
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two I guess two points. One, Drew plays better off the bench,
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and I think we've all seen this.
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And second, he plays really well when he's not being pressured.
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And as soon as like I'm like, you
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Yeah. It wasn't a lot of pressure.
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what? I don't think you're gonna see the same level of play.
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Because BC again, for a second week in a row,
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did not care and weren't even trying.
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Now Parker McKenna, who's
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Yeah, they
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their linebacker, this really helped that defense and is their rookie of the year,
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did get dinged at the end of the game.
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Hopefully he's back in. I don't know.
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I'll spoiler alert, we usually talk later,
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but there's no injury reports out.
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So we just don't know. who's hurt,
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who's not. But
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I assume
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everyone's on the injury report until they're not near the end of the week.
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Yeah, exactly.
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The other injury was Chad Kelly,
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who two weeks ago hurt his knee.
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He took apparently limited reps in practice on Monday and Coach Miller said today
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he expects him to play. he took the majority of the reps was the quote.
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So we'll see. Can he play? Is he effective?
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he should be because in player transactions he signed the contract with the Argos.
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And three down literally as we were going to the air,
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three down announced he got his million dollars from them.
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Million dollars a year over five years,
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I believe it was. Which is Ridiculous.
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Am I wrong?
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~
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and two hundred thousand dollars a year in marketing money on top of that.
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I'm not sure who he's marketing for or if anyone wants him to market,
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but he's getting paid to market.
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Well, does he do the work and will it hold up?
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'Cause that's the thing is the marketing isn't just free money.
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from what I understand, the league has put a dollar value on the hours
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of marketing you do. So when you say you're getting thirty grand in marketing money,
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you have to earn that with your time.
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Two hundred and fifty grand is a lot of time to be spending on marketing.
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I think he makes the same amount of marketing money as Nathan Rourke now.
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I think there's only one QB in this league that is worth a million dollars a year,
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if anyone even is, and that's Davis Alexander.
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And I don't think anyone is and I think this is I mean the kids this
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is what happened. I was thinking about this and I'm like,
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you should just go get paid and then I'm like,
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this is what the NHL runs into every year is that you pay your top,
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top first line forwards and then you don't have money for a goalie.
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the oilers ran into that. Or you are
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You pull a Colorado Average Lanch situation where Nathan McKinnon takes
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a pay cut purposely so that they can build a team around them and then they
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go win a cup. I mean there's there's two ways about it.
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and the Argos have chosen to front load their quarterback who likes
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to throw interceptions and is seems to be a little injury prone and is in his 30s.
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So yeah, five years is a lot of like that's a lot of money for someone who
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It tends to get hurt and tends
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Yes.
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to throw interceptions. so I guess if they want to run with that,
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and you know, it has a like let's be honest,
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has a really bad reputation and is very polarizing.
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And you've chosen th this person to be the face of your franchise for
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the next five years, that is certainly a choice you have made.
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I I I mean maybe this'll work out.
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see this kind of blowing up in their face.
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Yeah.
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Well I hope that it's a one off.
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I said on a few of the different platforms this week,
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I said, I firmly believe that one rule change the league should make,
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talk to the CFLPA do what they need to to put it in,
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put a cap of ten percent of the salary cap is the maximum any player can make.
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Salary cap's currently at six point two million,
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a quarterback can still make six hundred and twenty grand.
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Right now there's only two quarterbacks in the league making more than
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six hundred and twenty grand.
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Nathan and Chad was over it and now he's way over it.
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So yeah, I don't see it hurting a lot and it leaves teams room to hire other players
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'cause that's the other thing is we've seen what happens.
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With they went crazy with this a few years ago s giving at that time what
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was the equivalent of a million to Mike Riley and I forget who else have
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got a big payday in that time.
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And the teams just sucked.
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And you're seeing it with Toronto this year.
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how much worse is it gonna be next year when they even with the salary cap going up,
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they take another four hundred grand out you know,
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that's f three to four good players.
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So
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Yeah.
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if you don't have an O line protecting your look what's happening in BC.
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If you don't
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Yeah.
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have an O line pr that's getting paid and is really good and your star prize highest
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paid player it's getting knocked around all the time,
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what's the point?
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Yeah, exactly. I think it's bad for the league,
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I don't like it. But it happened.
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by the way I'm sorry about this.
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I did see on Blue Sky that you've got a self declared moratorium
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on talking about the Chad and I made you talk about him anyway,
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so I apologize.
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Well, this is about
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it. yeah, just just for public service announcement,
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I this this man is never apologized to that woman for what he did.
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He the the organization never apologized for covering it up,
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for trying to sweep it on the cover,
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trying to make it disappear. and everyone will probably tell me to get over it,
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but you know what, this is just what people know.
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I think he and then I the the league has done a a lot of work this year and
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T SN has done a lot of work this year to make the hype him up.
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And I think once Nathan Bourke opened his mouth about the rule changes,
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he was no longer the CfL's golden child and you hardly hear about Nathan Bourke
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anymore. They don't talk about him he has been blacklisted and they've circled
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the wagons around Chad for some reason and I just I honestly cannot figure
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out why when there's so many other like
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You could be talking about VA,
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you could be talking about Alexander more and they have just chosen to bang
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the just continually prop this guy up.
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And I don't even think he's that good of a quarterback.
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I mean, it's like he's the best quarterback in the league.
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I'm like, no, he's not. No,
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Not even close. Not even close.
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And I think the Argos carry a a lot of weight there,
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he's not. Yeah.
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but I don't want to waste a lot of more
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time on that. Other than
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Anyway, well
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I after after this I hope they get knocked out and then I don't have
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to talk about him again, but I just I cannot see his name anymore.
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It's awful. it just
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Okay.
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yeah.
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Yeah. I will say, is a get over it.
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Principles aren't something you get over.
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Principles are what define you.
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So anybody saying that, maybe get some.
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~
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Ha
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ha.
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let's see. other transactions.
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The good news that came out just after our show last week for you and
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a bunch of others. Bo has re signed with the Ti Cats through twenty eight,
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I think, wasn't it?
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twenty eight.
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Is that
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Yeah.
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good news?
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I think it is. Why not?
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Okay.
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Well, I think it shows that Scott has zero interest in
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teaching a new an upcoming quarterback.
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He just wants to coach Bo and not learn anything new and not develop sorry,
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the word I was looking for was develop.
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He doesn't want to develop a new quarterback,
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a younger quarterback. He has no interest in doing that.
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Bo is older and I don't see anything that this organization has given
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me any glimmer of hope that they are interested in developing a replacement
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for Bo and we're gonna turn into the Alouettes after Calvio left and that's
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how I I just s
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It it could be. Milanovich's MO has been working with older quarterbacks.
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That's what he wants to do. He worked with Calbillo,
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he worked with Ray, he worked with who who else was in there?
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I forget there's a couple others he likes working with an older quarterback that
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he can sort of redefine into his mold and Bo's bought into that.
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So I think it's good news 'cause I think Bo's got a year or two of good football
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in him. And then
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Good thing good
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Two years down the road is probably too much to worry about.
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Good thing they're paying all their O line men.
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that's
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Yeah. Yes.
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another thing, like Bo is not getting paid when he could probably
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get paid because he is paying for O-line guys to protect him and that's
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Yeah, I
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haven't seen the numbers on him,
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but it I don't imagine as much Most of the quarterbacks in this league have said
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we're not gonna go for the big,
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big money. We're going to go for something the team can work with.
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You've seen that with with Bo,
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you've seen that with Cody in Edmonton,
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you've seen that with Trevor, you know.
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Ottawa, well it's not like there was a chance to ask for big money there.
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I think VA does that too. No.
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I don't think Davis Alexander has really even paid big money.
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I when I saw originally the ask for a million dollars,
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I checked it. I was really surprised to see that the third highest one
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is Zach at five fifty.
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And look what Montreal's been able to assemble around Davis.
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Yeah. Which is what
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Look at what they have.
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which
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is what these quarterbacks are smart at because you can bet they're also making
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a lot of money marketing outside of their contract.
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'Cause the team is successful and they're successful and if you're smart
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you know that.
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He's like the toast of Montreal.
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You don't think he's making bank out there?
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Like yeah. Yeah.
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yeah, yeah. An endorsement here or there,
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I think, yes.
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other signings we had speaking of O line,
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Revenberg re-signed in Hamilton,
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so that will help out Bo. Burns in the back in the defensive backfield of Montreal.
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Collins, the left tackle out of the riders,
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and of course Kelly was extended.
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And then the other player transaction news,
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Darien Newell, who Newell? Newell?
20:20
Newell, I don't know. Newell, I think,
20:22
who was a draft choice, twenty-five draft choice of the
20:26
elk which got suspended for a year for using a banned substance,
20:33
couldn't join. Nine was an okay a bunch of a cocktail of banned substances.
20:33
Nine banned substances. Ho ho ho make tes.
20:40
Sadd out his suspension, came back,
20:42
played with the elk this year,
20:43
got hurt, didn't play a lot, and apparently has been suspended for
20:46
ban substances or some substance again,
20:49
so I don't know if we'll see him.
20:50
Yeah. So this time around it's a nine games
20:53
it's a nine game suspension. He is.
20:55
Like I think he tore his Achilles.
20:56
Like I don't even think he played.
20:57
I think he did in the preseason.
20:58
this is like honestly, it's just sad.
21:01
Like what a waste of an opportunity.
21:03
That's a waste.
21:03
Yeah. Well the thing is he might have not
21:05
got the opportunity without a lot of maybe extra physical help,
21:08
but if you're doing that to your body to succeed,
21:10
it ain't worth it.
21:12
I don't know how you show up to the CFL combined juiced out and don't think anyone's
21:17
going to check. I don't
21:18
Yeah. I
21:19
know what you were thinking. Anyway,
21:21
I just I don't know what goes through people's heads when this happens.
21:24
Yeah. If you are have
21:26
anything to do with a young athlete,
21:28
let them know none of that stuff is worth it.
21:31
You pay for it all your life and you don't get the gains.
21:33
And people are so stupid. I saw something this last week liter literally these guys
21:38
that do the looks maxing where it's all about how good you look,
21:40
not how good you are. Yeah, well get
21:41
To chisel your face with a hammer.
21:44
this. Apparently the latest thing is injecting oil into their muscles because
21:47
it plumps them up and makes them look muscular without any workouts.
21:52
It also apparently leads to sepsis and narcosis and amputated limbs
21:56
and chunks of flesh but people are doing it.
21:58
I dunno.
21:59
But look how think
21:59
of how good your Instagram posts will look.
22:02
Yeah. move it move it along. We're moving along.
22:04
We're on a timeline here. We're on a timeline.
22:06
It's okay. We're okay. I don't
22:06
And I don't need I don't time to talk about idiots.
22:08
So the games
22:10
have I don't want to listen to the American national anthem anyway.
22:13
Yeah, okay. There
22:14
we go. The games this week we're not gonna go into a bunch of detail 'cause they
22:18
were mostly duds. So I will well first of all I'll say Montreal beat Toronto
22:23
thirty-three sixteen, Winnipeg thirty-four over BC ten.
22:27
Saskatchewan sixteen over Edmonton nine and Ottawa twenty two and Hamilton
22:33
won that thirty-five twenty two.
22:35
Yay, raise the roof. So yeah,
22:38
surprise. I imagine you all know that now and know who's in,
22:41
but
22:41
I thought maybe here since we're moving quicker rather than go through the games,
22:45
I'll throw out a few thoughts I know you didn't get a chance to watch much
22:48
of any of them, so I'll throw these out.
22:50
If you want to comment on them,
22:51
You can and then we'll we'll go from there.
22:55
Okay, so the the first thing that got my back up
23:00
was in the Friday night game Toronto and Montreal,
23:04
Luke Wilson decided he would get on to the whole thing about the rule changes
23:08
and complained about the people complaining about them.
23:12
call them potatoes on air.
23:14
I don't know. He called them he said they were being disingenuous.
23:19
Now, I gotta tell you, my wonderful better half the goddess,
23:25
is a casual fan. She cheers for the lions.
23:27
She'll watch the games occasionally with me.
23:30
Not that much, but
23:31
she had nothing else to do. So she was sit watching that game with me and
23:36
she has a rough idea who who Luke Wilson is.
23:39
He started in on his comments and she was livid.
23:43
She was just screaming at him he is such a self promoting
23:49
and stuff like I notice his football,
23:51
I'll give him that, but but stay out of this stuff.
23:53
And the thing that bothered me is he's sitting there calling them disingenuous,
23:56
and then just after that we get to the end of the quarter,
23:59
and there's like ten seconds left and the they're getting up to
24:03
the line of scrimmage and he says,
24:04
well or they're talking about what play they're run.
24:08
don't worry, they can't get it off in in ten seconds anyway.
24:10
This is a CFL. zeros doesn't stop the play.
24:15
Now I know that's just an error anyone could make,
24:18
but it shows his head is in the friggin' NFL.
24:20
He doesn't understand the soul of CFL football and he should just shut up.
24:25
I left a word out there. Two words.
24:29
He'll
24:29
be so thrilled next year when things are so much easier for him to follow.
24:33
Yeah.
24:34
yeah. Anyway, that we don't have to go on that,
24:37
but that that made my blood boil.
24:39
Dwayne talked about it too, but at least he had the self respect to say,
24:44
I understand why they're doing it.
24:46
I don't like it.
24:48
Yeah.
24:49
so quick story. I was like my son's been playing like football
24:52
at the Commonwealth for the last couple months,
24:54
and so we were there on Sunday for the last game,
24:56
and I was like, wow, like I have one more game here with this
25:03
setup, and it was actually I felt a little sad.
25:06
Yeah.
25:06
I'm hearing that a lot. People are talking about last
25:08
time they'll see the fifty five yard line if your team's done for the season.
25:12
Unless you're watching, you know,
25:14
In the goalposts. The the goalposts,
25:14
any other Canadian football game in the world.
25:17
I think. Yeah, the goalposts is like one of the ones I'm like really sad about,
25:21
but
25:21
Yeah, and
25:22
no and no more f missed field goal returns.
25:25
But
25:26
Anyway, yeah, Dwayne was like,
25:28
I don't like the rules, but I'm just gonna have to accept it.
25:30
I appreciated the honesty of that rather than just like telling everyone they're
25:33
Yeah. Hope he doesn't get into trouble on that.
25:34
stupid. I don't think Dwayne cares.
25:36
And yeah
25:37
I think he's heard what
25:40
like I can't Luke just a Milton,
25:42
like they're just saying whatever they want all year,
25:44
so like why can't he have a little like sales piece a little bit?
25:49
Yes, exactly. and that was the Hamilton Ottawa game because we also had
25:53
the fun of that game where it was it was a complete blowout.
25:55
But at least at the end they managed to entertain us for a few minutes with Dustin
25:59
talking about trying to make his flight that was leaving in an hour and
26:02
Why would they book his flight
26:02
a half from Toronto.
26:04
so l early? Poor Dusty.
26:08
I don't know. what other thoughts?
26:10
Met Kevin Mattel went over a thousand yards,
26:13
so the Argos had four thousand yard receivers this year.
26:15
I did notice it just I mean it's not like it's just happened,
26:18
but it struck out to me this weekend it's not a lot,
26:21
but it's two, three players a team are starting to wear the Guardian caps.
26:25
Yeah.
26:26
And I like to see that. I hope it's just keeps on going.
26:31
Well, Rambo wears it and Bertrand Houdon does.
26:33
Yeah. Thomas Badron Houdan wears
26:34
Yeah.
26:35
it. A few of them on defense on a few teams do.
26:37
The more I see it 'cause it's just it's smart.
26:40
why not do what you can to protect your body?
26:42
That's what's paying your salary.
26:43
And protect your life
26:44
Yeah.
26:45
after football. All right. other quick points.
26:48
They did say the Als scored six hundred and thirteen points,
26:51
which was a this year, which was a club record.
26:53
The
26:54
CFL record apparently is six hundred and ninety four by Calgary.
26:58
I forgot what year they said, but I have a feeling it was the Flutie era.
27:02
Yes, one can safely assume.
27:04
Yes. Brown definitely came in and saved the game for Winnipeg.
27:08
He looked much better than Zach,
27:09
so we'll see where that's going on.
27:10
Let
27:11
But like to
27:11
be fair, this is how Barnes when everyone's like,
27:14
he's a new franchise quarterback,
27:15
Yeah.
27:15
and
27:15
the Argos didn't care. I'm like the B C did not care.
27:19
I mean
27:19
No, they
27:19
they cared even less as the game went on when Brown came in,
27:22
Yeah. Well they they seemed
27:23
so
27:24
to care in the first half 'cause their backup sure gave Winnipeg everything they
27:27
had that could handle.
27:28
Yeah.
27:29
It was Winnipeg was the only team that fielded a full team this weekend.
27:32
And yes, it was a big high score in the end,
27:35
but it was close for well into the the second half when they started really putting
27:40
their their bac deep backups in.
27:43
Winnipeg.
27:45
Yeah. Farhan was talking about I'm not sure I which of the quarterbacks that it was.
27:50
One of the one of the team's third strings or or something like that that
27:54
had brought up and they talked about the fact that the guy had made whatever.
27:59
1.5 million in what is it? The image licensing name image and licensing,
28:04
the nil money out of college where they can make money now.
28:06
And everybody's
28:09
whining about the fact that, well if they're making a million in college,
28:12
they're not gonna come up here and play in the CFL Farhan said,
28:15
This fella made a point of saying,
28:17
I made the money, I was smart,
28:19
I've got it stocked away, now I can go and figure out where I'm gonna play football
28:23
and how. So the NIL money, if they take that attitude,
28:27
might not be such a bad thing for the league.
28:29
is very wise for someone so young.
28:32
Yes,
28:32
it is. But it's it's an interesting counterpoint to the whole thing
28:37
of they'll just blow the money all and then expect to make NFL.
28:41
If they're smart and they know they want to play football and they
28:43
may not get straight to the NFL,
28:44
it c it could give them a cushion where they can come and play
28:49
for practice money roster or third string quarterback rost money for a year
28:54
or two while getting their their foot in the door.
28:57
So it could be a positive thing.
28:58
I never thought about that.
29:01
I think it was Dwayne also pointed out that
29:03
It's really difficult to win your last game of the year in football.
29:07
And this year three teams in the CFL will.
29:11
Hamilton will, Calgary will,
29:14
and one of the ones in the playoff will.
29:17
Everybody else loses their last game.
29:20
And it makes sense.
29:21
Yeah.
29:22
Yes. And the last thing before we move on,
29:25
because I've already got you a couple minutes over,
29:27
but we'll see what we can do with this.
29:29
You might not like to hear this.
29:31
After watching the Hamilton game,
29:34
I'm kinda ready to move on from Trey.
29:37
He he is fantastic when he scrambles and he makes stuff happen out there and things,
29:42
but the more I see him play and in that game especially where it was his game,
29:46
he knew that he was starting just not enough consistency.
29:49
Too many mistakes. Am I being too harsh?
29:51
Well,
29:53
I think it's really nice that he ended off with a win and could showcase
29:57
a little what he could do.
29:59
there was a lot of times we were like,
30:00
that might have been the last time we see Trey and it was really
30:03
Yeah.
30:03
like not
30:04
good situation. so I was just happy that he was able to start and showcase that
30:08
he is not a complete washout and he can do things.
30:12
I think he it needs to be on a different team who runs packages.
30:16
I think he would be a player that where they work in a two-quarterback system more
30:20
Yeah. That's possible,
30:21
so.
30:22
but I think he needs a lot of rehab.
30:24
I think the way he was handled in the first three,
30:26
four years of his career screwed him up and he never had a chance
30:26
~ Chris Jones ruined him. A hundred percent.
30:30
to really learn how to play CFL quarterback unless somebody is going
30:34
to take the time to bring him in as a backup and treat him like a rookie
30:40
and start from the beginning, I don't know that there so that's unfortunate.
30:44
talk about someone who's smart with their money because he has bought a
30:46
lot of our Airbnbs, investment,
30:48
property and runs them as Airbnbs,
30:50
and that's a person who is smart with their money because I think
30:53
he was probably like, I don't know if I'm gonna get to play.
30:56
because he made good money in Edmonton and he's making good money now.
30:59
He's make making $200,000 a year to sit on the bench,
31:03
right? So good for him.
31:04
Yeah. if he's been smart
31:05
enough to parlay that into a nice nest egg to start a good life out of then good.
31:10
And it's just a shame we never really got to see that talent nurtured and mature.
31:15
Yeah.
31:17
it's too bad he wasn't open to doing like a Synopoly where you turn receiver
31:20
or D B or
31:22
Well, I would have still loved to see him at quarterback where somebody teamed
31:26
him up with a similar style quarterback.
31:29
it might still happen. Bring him in and let him play behind a VA or
31:34
a Nathan Rourke see
31:35
in Calgary
31:36
where he plays with VA and Jarious Jackson's the quarterback coach
31:39
who coached him in Amenton and really likes him.
31:43
Yes, that team D let's see if what Dickens I don't know,
31:46
I don't think I think their front office isn't too much of a turmoil
31:49
to even do things anything. But what I do know from this weekend is like
31:54
you guys need to not be so smug about
31:56
You guys, just the general CFL.
31:58
Don't be so smug about Ottawa and Hamilton because let me tell you
32:02
how your backups played this weekend is you this
32:04
Yeah.
32:05
could have happened to any of you.
32:06
Like it
32:07
yes. It was hard picking a good qua back up quarterback this week.
32:10
I went with
32:11
could this could have this season could have been any of yours.
32:16
I said I got top in the league score in the league.
32:20
I did that by after the Winter Soldier's wonderful game last week taking him,
32:24
thinking, well, he's probably the best of the bunch and he got three point four
32:28
points. I doubled it to six point eight by taking him as captain.
32:29
I pick Trey. I pick Trey Ford.
32:31
Yes, I saw that.
32:35
But luckily my other guys all the ones
32:37
that I thought would do something did something.
32:39
So anyway, doesn't ~ Yes it was.
32:40
Well, I mean, it was preseason football.
32:42
You just never know who's playing or what will happen.
32:43
It was
32:45
Yeah, exactly. That was part of it.
32:47
We had to figure out who was good enough to stay in the whole game
32:51
and get some attention, but not ~ not so good that they're out by either they
32:53
Not so good that they were getting sat down.
32:56
weren't playing or out by the third quarter.
32:58
it was a an interesting sort of thing.
33:00
And yeah, and the thing is with
33:00
Anyway, I'm happy
33:02
Hamilton won their last home game after a really garbage year.
33:06
Yes.
33:06
Yeah, and you could tell they wanted to.
33:08
they played extremely well and they and they'll look good.
33:11
We'll see who they none of their free agent or very few of their free agents
33:15
are ones that would be a big loss to the team.
33:18
They do have most of the people that they need locked down and so we'll
33:23
see what happens, like I said,
33:25
next year. Maybe Trey does get in behind somewhere,
33:27
I think Trey's still there for another year.
33:29
Well, if they keep him. Who knows if if they do.
33:32
'cause the thing is I don't know how much you can learn from Taylor Cornelius,
33:37
but he was quarterbacking when Trey started.
33:39
And then they put him behind McLeod Bethel Thompson and I forget who else
33:43
is in there and now he's behind Bo and they're all just straight drop back passers.
33:47
He's never had a chance to learn from a professional quarterback who
33:50
is a dual threat and knows how to play that way.
33:53
to be fair for the Ti Cats a little bit like Tra just chose to sign there knowing
33:57
that.
33:58
Yeah, that is true. It's not all not on the tiger cats,
33:59
So I mean that's that's part of it.
34:01
They he had
34:02
but
34:02
offers in other places and he chose Hamilton,
34:05
which I think part of it was for family reasons and that's totally valid,
34:08
Yeah. Close to home, yeah.
34:10
but then that comes with a price,
34:12
right? There's payoffs and there's pros and cons to everything.
34:15
So but yeah. I think there's some blood in the water in Hamilton and they know that
34:19
they can make to be able to do this next year with Bo.
34:21
So I don't think any pending free agents are really gonna like
34:26
No. No. I w
34:26
jump ship quite yet.
34:28
I wonder about Trevor Powell after watch is it Trevor?
34:31
Taylor Powell. Taylor Powell after
34:31
Taylor, ~ man,
34:33
Hamilton was so dumb to let him walk.
34:36
He was probably one of
34:36
Well
34:37
the better backups this weekend.
34:39
Yes. he was okay. He wasn't great,
34:41
but the he was okay. But I was just thinking from his perspective,
34:44
he's sitting behind Bo and it's well,
34:46
I had a chance to overtake him and it didn't work and now he's solid
34:50
and I'm never gonna play. I better go somewhere else.
34:52
And he leaves and four games in Bo goes down.
34:54
He would have
34:55
Yeah.
34:55
had sixteen games of C F L experience if he'd stayed in Hamilton,
34:59
but you roll the dice.
34:59
And I feel like think Hamilton would have been a
35:01
l he would they would have been in a lot better position if they had Powell because
35:05
yeah.
35:05
he had been sitting in that system and it wouldn't have been rookies,
35:07
Yeah. He'd already proven he could do it,
35:09
so
35:10
like rookies to the system anyway.
35:12
It I mean, it is what it is, and that's just the dice.
35:17
The roll of the
35:17
Yeah.
35:18
dice for the CFL. And any professional sports really.
35:20
Okay. Yeah, exactly.
35:23
This is how it goes. Anyway, moving on,
35:26
moving on because we're over forty forty minutes now.
35:28
So did you do any power rankings?
35:30
Okay.
35:30
Yes. Alright
35:33
I tallied all of our picks. I have our season standings for all three of us
35:39
good.
35:40
and the show, so we can do that too.
35:42
Alright, but
35:42
Well, why don't we save
35:43
that part for next week when we have more time and MJ two's here.
35:46
Or do you want to do it now?
35:48
She only did half of these.
35:50
Okay,
35:50
we'll do now. Go ahead.
35:52
Okay, well I will do our our our tallies for the year.
35:56
So at the end of the year, you came in first at 48 and 33.
36:02
The show yeah the sh yeah
36:03
over five hundred. Thank you.
36:05
the show came in at 47 and 34.
36:08
GT, MJ2, and Co. came in at 46 for 35 and I came in at 45 for 36.
36:15
So we were we were all very close,
36:15
Ooh. Yeah, within a yeah,
36:17
but you won that one.
36:20
but
36:20
but within like a a basically a game margin each.
36:23
So yeah.
36:24
Yeah.
36:24
And all well over five hundred,
36:26
so congrats to us. Yes.
36:27
We're all over 500. Yay us!
36:32
Alrighty. ~ that was quicker than I thought it'd be too,
36:33
Confession time, I hadn't yeah.
36:35
so
36:36
I
36:36
I hadn't updated it since week nine and I really opened it up.
36:40
I was like, no. earlier last week
36:41
Yeah.
36:41
I had to spend like an hour trying and I had to math many times and I but
36:44
~ the the torture
36:46
I it got all got sorted out.
36:49
of it all. Well
36:51
fix that later and then later came and that was not Yeah.
36:53
Yeah. I remember that from doing it myself last
36:57
year, yes. and full disclosure,
36:59
that went a lot quicker than than I thought.
37:00
Part of the reason I said save it for next week was I saw on screen
37:03
you pulled up your book there and there were pages and pages of writing.
37:06
But you got it all totaled.
37:07
well I was like, I am gonna do this in my bullet journal and it's gonna be so
37:11
nice and organized and then I just stopped and then I was like,
37:14
no, I need to redo that I need to finish this.
37:18
Life. Gotta love it.
37:20
Grand
37:20
plans for my bullet journal, they all just fade away.
37:24
Yeah
37:26
I understand.
37:28
Alright, power rankings. this is the final I I hmm
37:34
Some of these we can we can chat,
37:35
but so at the end of the season heading into the playoffs.
37:39
I don't this is just regular season.
37:41
Here we go. Number one, Alouettes,
37:43
number two, elks, number three,
37:45
lions, number four, Argos, number five,
37:49
bombers, number six, stampeders,
37:52
number seven, riders, number eight,
37:54
Ti Cats, number nine, red blacks.
37:57
Alrighty.
37:59
I don't know about your bombers placing after watching them on the weekend.
38:03
But other than that, good.
38:04
Ayy
38:06
No.
38:06
They look some games they look like they're gonna blow out the world
38:09
and other and then this you know.
38:11
Anyway, your choice.
38:11
The bombers, the Stampeders,
38:13
the Riders all just meld into like a three that just like shotgun.
38:15
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
38:18
They sort of share whatever it is fifth through seventh.
38:19
They share a one place.
38:22
Yeah, they fifth through seventh,
38:24
I think they've been there most like all year long together.
38:26
Yeah, we have a tie for five through seven.
38:27
We have a tie.
38:29
Yeah.
38:30
Okay. I normally do injury reports now before we pick our games.
38:34
There aren't any. Don't know why?
38:35
Haven't been released. Not on the page.
38:37
I went searching. All I could find was nope.
38:40
Nothing's been put out there.
38:42
So we get to go right to our game picks.
38:46
Now MJ two is not with us, but I understand she has given you her picks.
38:50
She gave me pics with commentary.
38:53
Okay, so I'll let you decide where you wanna put them in.
38:56
First, second or third. Winnipeg goes into Toronto as the crossover team.
39:03
Don't know who's starting at quarterback.
39:05
Brown took first team reps. Kelly apparently his knee is bothering him,
39:11
but he's taking reps and will start.
39:13
Do you wanna go first or do you wanna give MJ twos?
39:17
Other than Argo Suck.
39:18
Give hers first. Well, that was what
39:22
it said. And then it was like and then it said real answer.
39:22
Alright, that's what I thought.
39:25
She's
39:27
like, I think the bombers have better coaching.
39:29
They have something to prove, and I'd love to see a crossover team this year.
39:32
I wonder how much longer this group,
39:34
Zach, Dembski, and Brady will stick together this season.
39:36
Winnipeg D is going to make Kelly and the Argos pay for all his interceptions.
39:41
They've seen the tapes. So she's picking bombers.
39:43
Yeah. Picking the bombers.
39:45
Okay, well I d this is a tough one 'cause the bombers could easily win this
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and they could easily lose
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Yes.
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by thirty points. It just depends which version shows up.
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They've been so heckle j heckle hide and jackal.
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What am I doing, Jekyll? Hyde and Jekyll,
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Yes.
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I still I still think that in Toronto Toronto's gonna take it.
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How about you?
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I hope Major Williams makes Chad Kelly cry.
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But you're right, like either the bombers are gonna be up by ten
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or they're gonna lose by thirty and there's no in between.
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And I trust Brady and I trust Dembsky.
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I don't trust Tommy Condell. And
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I don't trust Mark Miller to
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manage a clock effectively, but I think that against Tommy Condell there's
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not even gonna be a situation where they need to try and manage
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the clock effectively.
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my god. I hate the Argos so much,
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but I think they might win.
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Okay, yeah. Yeah, that's the shame of players like Brady.
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They can be as fantastic an athlete and performer as they as you can possibly see,
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and it doesn't help if they don't have the ball in their hands.
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I hope those bomber DBs have a field day.
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That's what I hope.
40:58
Likewise. Alright, and then the other one,
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Saskatchewan with their win over Edmonton,
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their impressive sixteen to six win.
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Ugh, won the right to go into BC.
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Now I didn't see anything in this weekend to make me think t to change
41:13
my overall thoughts, which is that unfortunately,
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yeah, the Saskatchewan has no deep game on their offense.
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Their defense is good but not as good as last year.
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They last year they were at the top of the league in turnovers.
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This year they're I think in the bottom half.
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And I don't know if it's just the lack of pressure or where it comes from.
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So the analyst in me, the person who knows football,
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thinks it's it would take a miracle for Saskatchewan to win and I'm picking them.
41:43
As usual.
41:43
Alright,
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so my sister is picking the lions.
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Yeah. She's picking the lions.
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Yeah.
41:51
Here's her little
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rundown. The riders started hot and the lions are ending hot.
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This is going to be a Tommy Stevens versus Horvath,
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Harris versus Rourke No contest.
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Harris can't throw long, so that makes defense easier.
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the Lions deserve to move on because they've been more consistent.
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yes. And I will say this, if the Riders win this game,
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it's gonna be because they get an incredible performance out of their special teams.
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And that's possible. They have been covering very well all year.
42:21
They've got Lauther kicking now,
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and he's been solid this year in Ottawa at least,
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and no reason to to doubt it.
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And Sexton as their returner, who they've had back for a couple of games,
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he's only been in about four games,
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but he's taken returns back thirty,
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forty yards. He's took that one to the house that embarrassed the Ottawa Punter.
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So I'm not saying they'll win,
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but if they win, that's one of the things that I think has to happen.
42:47
Their special teams has to really control field position and put them
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in great spots.
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Okay, so the Lions w are like on a tear,
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but they have been lazy the last two weeks.
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so that worries me for them to get back up in full competitive mode.
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But I think like you said, once Matthew Betts is back in in the defense
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and Nathan Borick is back, I I don't see how you beat them.
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They have probably have one of the top two defenses in the league now,
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despite all of our
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ripen about them earlier this year.
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Well, mine especially, yeah. Yeah.
43:17
Like they've
43:18
just completely turned that around.
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Yeah.
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And if Nathan's receivers don't have butterfingers,
43:26
I don't see how you stop this team.
43:28
I think that they are really bitter about what happened in the West final last
43:32
Yeah.
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year. And maybe they'll just pull a Montreal Alouettes and
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use bulletin board material and play a little mean and that's what they need to do.
43:39
So I think Saskatchewan has not been looking great.
43:43
I am worried about Harris. If they can't throw deep,
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then that makes the top defense's jobs much easier and
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That's a long day. That's a long day if you're the riders.
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Yeah, exactly.
43:56
yeah, so I I'm gonna pick the lions
43:59
I I unders certainly understand that.
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And yes, you're right. Their their defense started shaky.
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I didn't have faith in them for the longest time.
44:07
I still think that they're
44:10
Middle of the pack, maybe slightly above average on the back end against the pass.
44:14
they're not the worst in the league,
44:15
they're not the best, but their run defense is very good.
44:19
They've been putting a lot of pressure on,
44:20
which helps that back end. And yeah,
44:24
the offense when people focus,
44:27
I question the focus of a couple of the players on BC's offense.
44:32
But when they focus
44:34
They can be as good as Montreal is.
44:35
So
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Alright. We're done. We didn't get our thirty minutes in,
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but we're in under an hour, so hopefully you only missed maybe the
44:42
Our best yet.
44:43
first first inning or or so. Let let's let let's close this off and get out of here.
44:50
Let you go see if somebody calls their shot tonight.
44:53
Burrs don't hit home runs, but they're winning.
44:56
yeah.
44:56
Okay.
44:58
Looking forward. yes, I am looking forward to a very meaningful weekend
45:02
of football after the last two weekends has been so blah,
45:06
so I am excited for real football.
45:08
Like sign me up. there's still tickets available for the West Final.
45:12
If you go Edmonton and area, if you go to the co-op gas station,
45:15
you can get football tickets for the West Final for two for 40 bucks.
45:20
You can come sit with me and my family,
45:22
because that's where we will be.
45:23
So that that's a screaming deal.
45:24
So thank you, Elks, for not raising your playoff ticket prices.
45:27
yeah, you can find me over on Instagram.
45:29
run on our Instagram page. I'm over on Blue Sky Sports and Plants and Go Brewers.
45:35
Go
45:35
Brewers. I like it. Yeah. And that's that's one of the one of the
45:39
few benefits of playing in a huge stadium.
45:41
You look like you don't have a big crowd very often,
45:44
but when you get to the playoffs,
45:45
you sure got a lot of seats to sell and you can maybe do them at a discount price.
45:49
man, do you imagine if they can get like over thirty out there?
45:53
Maybe forty.
45:54
I feel
45:54
like if they had had this as an afternoon game and not a five thirty PM
45:58
in the dark game. But that's TSN,
46:01
Yeah.
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thank you.
46:02
we won't know, but it would be interesting to see if the opponent makes
46:06
a difference. Because regular season the riders draw big time wherever they go,
46:11
Yeah. Yeah. That will make a difference.
46:11
so we'll see.
46:14
Well, rider fans, if you go to the co op,
46:16
the the tickets are
46:16
Yeah, yeah, exactly.
46:18
two for forty dollars.
46:21
Okay, that's it. I gotta let you get out of here.
46:23
You got you got commitments going on,
46:23
What yes.
46:25
so my final stuff
46:26
for it is is yeah, basically I just did all my final stuff.
46:30
I'm going to appreciate the hell out of the last five games I see with
46:35
a 55 yard line and the goalposts where God intended them to be.
46:38
And other than that.
46:42
Go Brewers, apparently, and until next week for MJ.
46:47
This is old man saying Get the hell off my lawn