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They Never Stop Smiling, Even When They are Talking Trash. The CFL Outsiders S03 E12 · The CFL Outsiders

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  He's nine.
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  and rich apparently.
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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 just joyful today,
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  host, Oldman Shoutingatclouds Joining me this week,
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  back from the wilderness, is GT.
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  Hey everyone, how you doing? And I remain here somewhat unbiased
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  and somewhat partial, but completely disorganized and unprepared co host
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  for this week. So to misquote old man.
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  All right.
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  Yeah. There we go. And MJ.
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  Hey everyone, I hope you had a f are having a better sportsing time than me.
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  I barely survived Blue Jays trade deadline.
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  my team got beat and I'm wearing a Montreal Alohouette shirt,
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  so
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  yes. But I've I've gotta say though,
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  with GT as a late scratch last week,
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  you did a fantastic job of stepping up and carrying the show.
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  So that is great. We'll have a more balanced approach today and and hopefully
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  it all works well.
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  Well, I was going to add that last week's show was perhaps the best
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  of I've ever heard of the show.
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  And some and as and as some guy said,
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  you don't need that G T guy, he's a bum.
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  So ~ and then I realized that was me.
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  So
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  Yes. Yeah.
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  Someone needed to carry that Stampeder torch a little more though.
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  Yeah, that's it.
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  It's flickering, but it's still there.
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  Yes.
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  you're sounding a little bit like Groucho Marx there.
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  I would never be a member of any club that would stoop so low as to have me.
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  That's right.
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  Alright. Well I'm I'm starting with a rant,
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  because I got annoyed this weekend,
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  and I've had ~ a few people on social media tell me to cool down,
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  it doesn't matter, but this really,
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  really got under my skin, and it's just it's a minor thing.
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  Didn't in the end didn't affect the game.
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  But in the Ottawa Montreal game,
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  Ottawa's down inside the five as they were 90% of the time without getting
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  a touchdown. They run a
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  A basically just a running play to Atabadye He gets stopped and
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  the ball gets stripped out and Montreal recovers.
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  Okay, great. Then this the control center jumps in and no no no we've
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  got to review this. And why is it always at Ottawa?
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  It was at Ottawa that like two years ago with Saskatchewan that the game was over,
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  and but the control center, no,
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  no, no, it's come everybody come back.
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  In this case.
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  You've got a play that's been called.
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  It's a judgment call of when you that that player is stopped.
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  If somebody challenges it, then maybe you can bring the control center in and say,
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  okay, yes, he was moving backwards.
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  that shouldn't have been a fumble.
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  But for the control center itself to jump in on a judgment call is just ridiculous.
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  There's a reason we have human officials down there.
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  And frankly, you gotta look at the other side of that question.
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  What if Ataboy
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  Had somehow spun out of that contact after stepping back a step and a half,
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  and spun around and got himself in the end zone.
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  Would there be anything from the control center there going,
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  no, no, he was stopped. His forward progress was stopped?
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  No. Frankly, it's just BS. The control center has got to keep their noses out,
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  keep it in their pants, unless there's something egregious that they should
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  be in on. Okay, I got that out of my system.
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  We can move on to other things.
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  Well
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  Any comments or are
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  you just gonna sit and shake your heads?
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  Well,
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  I just I'm curious because I have forgotten,
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  is it not every turnover is r automatically reviewed?
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  And therefore that would have been automatically reviewed,
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  whereas your point that if he had been stopped and then just turned around
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  and went into the end zone, it would have also been automatically reviewed because
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  any TD, every T D is reviewed.
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  So while
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  Yes.
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  I agree with you in principle on the rant,
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  on the whole idea of stop interfering.
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  I think that's just a rule that they ha that the in that they review every turnover.
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  And that was considered a turnover.
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  Yes, it is. And I would e
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  Thank you.
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  Yeah, sorry, Ed, I'm I am still passionate about this.
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  I would agree with you if the review had said,
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  the whistle sounded before the ball was stripped.
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  On the field it was re it was ruled that his progress was stopped.
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  It wasn't. So there's no reason for that review to be able to say there
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  was no chance for that play to go on.
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  Like I said, if he had broken free and got in,
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  they wouldn't there wouldn't have been reviewing that.
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  It's a it's the point of trusting the judgment of the on field officials.
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  Okay. No more rebuttals. I'm done.
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  I'm off my s
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  All right, we're back. Here we go.
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  Yes. Now now that Yes. Yes.
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  It's it's it's it's start it's starting off as a great week.
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  We we we and now that we're we're back to this.
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  We've we've been ~ Yes Yeah,
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  Let's get this thing on the road.
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  Let's go.
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  well, you know, it's a slow start.
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  It's a slow start.
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  It's your traditional bomber game.
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  It's a slow start, but we'll pick it up.
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  We'll get it rolling.
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  We we've also been playing ha had played for part of the season here a game that
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  GT came up with called Lyrical Eloquence and we've got some good results
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  and we'll probably keep dropping these things in there and if anybody guesses
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  it we'll report on it. But other than that,
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  we're maybe not so much. GT you were gonna talk a little bit about this
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  as it was your idea.
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  Well, you know, in every in every playbook there's that play that you pull
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  out when you want it to work and then you just realize,
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  ~ not maybe not. So that's what we've done with lyrical outcome.
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  We're gonna take that out of the playbook and never to be seen again,
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  unless of course we need it absolutely in the playoffs.
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  And then it will come back to haunt us and someone will be misquoted again.
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  But nonetheless, I did wanna just say before
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  before we do end lyrical eloquence off that unfortunately I was not here last week
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  because the week previously I believe I had old man's eloquent old man's lyric,
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  but I'm not a hundred percent sure.
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  so I will ask you if you had it.
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  What did I have for you last week?
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  Yours was another ride around the sun,
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  if or something along that lines,
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  if I remember correctly. And I I wasn't sure.
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  Yeah.
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  Hold on, I have it. It was
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  Yeah.
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  your no, that was two weeks ago.
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  forget about it. Anyways, I thought
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  Yeah.
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  I had yours, but mine that and and because you mentioned Sun,
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  I was able to sneak a second one in of that I wasn't going to use.
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  But it allowed me also to ta to bring up my tape my two favorite all-time singer
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  songwriters.
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  And I thought ~ in one show and I thought that was kind of fun,
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  so it's a good way to end it. And of course mine was the sun's not yellow,
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  it's chicken, which is, you know,
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  tombstone blues by Bob Dylan from nineteen sixty five,
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  maybe the most important album of all time in Highway Sixty One revisited.
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  So that's just, you know,
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  Yeah.
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  close to my heart and dear to my heart.
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  But even more so because we were talking about kickers and because everybody
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  was missing kicks that week, I also said
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  You don't have to have a point to make a point if you get the point,
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  which of course is from Harry Nielsen The Points.
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  And I would highly
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  Yeah.
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  recommend anyone with children that has not watched Harry Nielsen The Point
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  as a half hour show, YouTube it,
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  watch it. It may be one of the most important things you could ever have your child
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  child watch. It is tremendous.
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  Simply tremendous. So I will leave that on that and
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  Harry Nelson was a gem, an absolute gem,
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  and again, close to my heart. So that's the that's the two that will send lyrical
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  eloquence off with with a bang,
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  so to speak, and then maybe, just maybe,
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  we'll drag one out later. And that's that.
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  Yeah. thank you for that. Yeah,
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  sometimes we're a football podcast,
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  sometimes we're a rock and roll podcast,
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  sometimes Basket ~ who knows, whatever.
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  It could be anything. And you gave me too much credit there.
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  I didn't actually know that I was sneaking something in.
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  My my line there at the opening about another exhausted from another trip around
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  the sun was my obscure way of saying I just got past my birthday.
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  But I may I may end up
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  Well, congratulations on that.
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  dr I mean we
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  This
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  started when I threw in a line that was a quote from a song,
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  but it wasn't intended that way.
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  It was just a part of what we do.
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  So if you spot us doing anything,
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  fit please, please still send in a comment and let us know about
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  any lyrics and sometimes you'll catch us without knowing,
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  like GT did just there with me.
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  Anything from you on it, MJ before we move on?
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  Well, I am glad I ended Lyrical Eloquence with an Arkell's lyrics that
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  my kid clocked right away. And you just you never know what a Taylor Swift lyric
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  will just drop in.
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  Yes.
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  It's some things are inevitable.
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  There you go.
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  Yeah.
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  Yes. and speaking of inevitable,
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  teams that are having a bad time have to find themselves a scapegoat.
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  Or two or three. And Ottawa this week after going 0 and seven.
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  Still confident to be the first team ever to go and seven and make
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  the playoffs and win the Grey Cup.
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  But, you know, that's
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  Full full credit to them for that.
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  they decided their problem is their defense.
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  Not an offense that can get to the five yard line and stall continuously,
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  but their defense. So they released,
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  fired whatever, their defensive coordinator,
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  William Fields, and took the special teams coordinator,
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  Jeff Reinbolt, and made him the defensive coordinator.
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  What do you figure? Is that going to make for a better red black team?
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  I don't know. I mean I was a big field supporter when he got the job.
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  I thought he was a really good coach when he was co coordinator in Toronto
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  and I thought him and Dinwiiddie had a relationship from those days.
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  So I thought it was going to work.
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  And ~ but as you said, they needed a scapegoat.
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  Their defense has not been great.
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  It was really bad again the other night.
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  And ~ yeah, so surprise, no, there's no surprise.
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  That yeah, it's gonna happen. It's somebody's
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  Yeah.
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  gonna happen.
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  Ryan said in his press conference today that ~ he had given Will Field some
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  suggestions or told him to do things and those things were not done.
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  But I was like, okay, they they're looking for blood there at 0 and 7,
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  you gotta fire someone. Someone's heads on the chopping block.
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  It's not gonna be Ryan, who is head coach and offensive coordinator
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  and general manager, and it's not gonna
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  Morning.
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  be Jeffrey Reinbolt
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  I don't think you're firing him.
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  So what y w I mean w Fields is kinda just the scapegoat here,
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  right? Like whether they he deserved to be fired or not is kind of immaterial.
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  It doesn't really matter. ~ maybe they should look at firing Sean Burke
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  for hiring all these people. Or hiring Ryan.
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  Yes.
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  And not not doing a lot to replace any of the defensive backfield,
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  which wasn't good last year and surprise,
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  surprise, isn't good this year.
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  please direct all your complaints to the CFL as they have implemented
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  the coach's cap. And now s teams
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  Yes.
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  find themselves in these situations and bad teams cannot dig themselves
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  out of this s these situations.
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  even if you can find a way to afford it,
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  you can't afford it. Yes. Trust me.
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  yeah. I personally I think that their defense could be better,
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  but it was not the the biggest problem on the team.
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  And frankly, if there was one part of the team that looked brighter than anything
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  else, it was the special teams So to take your special teams coordinator
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  and make him a defensive coordinator and I d I don't know.
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  That's
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  How is Reinbold at defensive coordinating?
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  To me I I don't see these as positive.
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  Like, does he have a lot of experience?
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  Yeah, he's
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  I don't know if he's done it in the past.
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  Yeah, he's done it he's done it in the past.
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  I don't remember it being terrific when he 'cause I seem to remember he
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  was a a defensive coordinator in Hamilton at one point before he got fired
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  and then came back as the special teams coordinator.
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  so I think that was the case. I may be mistaken.
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  he's bounced around in Montreal,
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  I think he was only special teams,
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  but he might have been DC there for on and off too.
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  he's bounced around in and out at so many different teams over different years.
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  it's hard to remember which position he's at.
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  It's primarily been special teams,
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  ~ for sure though. For sure.
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  Yeah.
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  I saw that he was once head coach of the Blue Bombers and their general manager.
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  That is That is correct. Those
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  are the dark days of Winnipeg that no one likes to talk about in the
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  Yeah. Yes. there's a reason that that not many people know that.
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  Ha
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  ha ha.
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  He's been like
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  coaching almost like as long as I've been alive.
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  So I don't know. Maybe maybe some maybe some osmosis has
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  Yes. And he's got a lot of experience.
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  happened.
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  Moving on to other stuff from from the weekend here.
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  MJ, you were mentioning that the ~ the T S N
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  AI slop of Tyson Philpot this weekend was not impressive.
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  Well, okay, this this is enough,
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  right? Like this has to stop. they do these little videos.
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  I mean if you live under a rocker,
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  you fast forward if through everything.
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  ~ AI, like TSN likes to do these little AI videos of players.
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  And they used to be just a little bit last year,
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  and this year they're doing like full like feature length like video.
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  Anyway, this on Friday, they put Tyson Philpot up and he was white.
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  Wow. Okay. Yeah, I do fast forward through them or turn them out 'cause
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  I hate that crap, but
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  Yeah, so that that's enough. That's enough.
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  This is whitewashing players is if you want to complain as I have complained
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  and demand they apologize, ~ you can email audiencerelations at tsn.ca
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  to complain about this because this is just it is this it's not right.
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  It's not right, it's too far, we're done.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  No, I gotta agree.
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  it shouldn't make your blood boil just watching football.
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  At least only for reasons of that are football related,
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  but this other stuff, yeah, I don't know.
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  I wanna be upset about play
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  on the field, not this stuff.
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  Yeah,
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  I just think it's shoddy production,
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  you know. AI is a computer and AI will only spit out what parameters you put in.
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  So they didn't put in the parameters.
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  so it just spit out a white guy.
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  and because somebody in that f did when they were doing this,
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  keying away, do you know, make him do this,
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  make him do that, which is what they did.
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  the computer just spit it out and nobody looked at it and it just laziness
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  and bad production It's just laziness.
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  Again, it's sheer laziness from your are your T SN,
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  your primary partner that didn't sit down and just go,
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  let's have someone with a sense of reality edit it and go,
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  wait, there's something wrong here.
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  And yeah, and add another click to your to your
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  whatever to your parameters and it would have been fine.
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  no, I mean it wouldn't have been fine because those things are horrible
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  begin with. And that one was one of the worst I've ever seen.
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  ~
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  Yes.
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  so it was really bad, but then you could have at least made
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  it just being horrible rather than being horrible.
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  The Stampeders released
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  Yeah. It's
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  a video today of their players trying to like they gave them a a bag of milk,
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  because they're in Ontario this week,
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  and they were had a video of the players trying to pour milk out of this bag,
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  and I would have much rather watched that than these AI videos.
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  I agree. I am serious when I say that stuff comes on and either I tune
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  out and use the chance to to check something else that's going on at the moment
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  or I just fast forward through I've got no that is just it is such a lazy cheap
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  way to try and do entertainment.
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  But apparently we're all in a bit of a mood tonight,
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  so I'm gonna try and move on and
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  Not not make this too negative a podcast.
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  On the upside in Tyson Philpot News,
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  Tyson got to a thousand yards in eight games this weekend.
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  Third player in
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  That's insane.
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  CFL history to do that. About once every third of a century.
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  Hal Peterson in what do I have here?
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  Hal Peterson in fifty six and Terry Greer in nineteen eighty three.
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  How just how amazing is Philpot playing this year?
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  like lights out. This has been a lot of fun.
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  Yeah, it's incredible. Yeah. Like
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  A lot of fun to watch.
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  like at this point in time, there's not even anyone close
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  to winning outstanding player besides him.
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  And if it, you know, if like even like it Davis,
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  you know, as well as Davis Alexander is playing,
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  he's not even gonna get the nomination for Montreal.
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  He can't. Like it Phil Potts gotta get both.
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  Like you can't just give Phil Pot Canadian only.
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  That's crazy. So so yeah.
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  no.
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  If he
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  Yeah. If he gets his piece
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  So like that
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  up and Rourke gets nominated and wins,
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  like we all riot, right? Like
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  Yeah, absolutely.
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  Yeah,
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  exactly. No, not
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  Like but that's like that's
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  crazy that you could have you could have the like literally the best quarterback
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  in the league not even get the team nomination because
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  Yeah. Yeah.
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  that because Phil Potts doing so well.
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  So incredible.
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  No, n
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  knock on wood, the only thing that could stop him at this point is an injury.
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  And I do hope we don't see that 'cause he he'll set the record for most yards
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  in the season otherwise and and frankly I agree with you.
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  And the only person that I think that that has a chance of being close
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  is depending what happens with Edmonton and Rankin for the ~
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  the rest of the year. Edmonton's gone through a gauntlet of teams that
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  are very good against the run and they're through that now and they're gonna you're
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  gonna start seeing Rankin pick up to some more yardage again.
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  So if he has a big second half of the season and gets to say somehow
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  he ~ still manages to get to a thousand and a thousand,
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  he might challenge Phil Pop. But I could easily see it'd be the rare year where
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  we don't have a quarterback in the MOP race.
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  not the
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  Yeah.
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  final two anyway.
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  Yeah.
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  I'll just close this on saying I know there's a whole bunch that goes into
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  all this and everything that you do,
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  the all the work it takes and everything,
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  Tyson. Thank you 'cause it is just amazing watching you play.
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  You you make this league a lot better and we appreciate it.
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  Okay
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  And and you know, I'll I just
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  before before we jump off the subject quickly,
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  because you mentioned that, because how much we do appreciate watching them play,
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  I just appreciate both of those guys how much fun they have playing.
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  And how much
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  Yes.
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  fun it l you know they're having fun from the time they catch the ball,
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  you know, to when they're smiling all the time.
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  They never stop smiling, even when they're given somebody grief and talking trash.
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  They're smiling. They're having fun all the time.
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  And that's just so much more fun for us to watch.
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  So yeah, that's great. I just want to say
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  Yes.
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  that.
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  And they're the they're ~ and they're the kind of players that will take time after
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  the game to get some pictures with Oseya mother and son,
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  who we have photographic evidence of,
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  Yeah, even in the pouring rain.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
• 19:31
  so
• 19:33
  that's true of both of them. I said Tyson,
• 19:35
  but also to to Justin Rankin. Great stuff.
• 19:37
  it is amazing.
• 19:38
  the attendance this week was extremely good again.
• 19:41
  They averaged just over twenty five thousand.
• 19:43
  Ottawa was the low and even they got almost eighteen,
• 19:47
  well, seventeen in change, which is not bad for Ottawa.
• 19:50
  The high was ~ Edmonton at thirty one seven fifty seven,
• 19:56
  a little bit better than Winnipeg even.
• 19:57
  Now mind you that was a riders game.
• 19:58
  ~ no. ~ upper deck was open.
• 20:00
  So I don't know that you'll see that
• 20:03
  Yeah, I don't know you'll see that every game in Edmonton,
• 20:05
  but I think over twenty five is a reasonable expectation going forward.
• 20:09
  So we'll see, yeah. Hamilton was twenty,
• 20:12
  B C was again just a couple of hundred below Edmonton,
• 20:15
  so a great week.
• 20:16
  And we also saw some big signings and ~ play player transactions as it were.
• 20:22
  Along with fields being fired,
• 20:25
  ~ Eugene Lewis was let go in Ottawa.
• 20:28
  Let's talk him first before I mention anything else.
• 20:31
  was that a good move by them?
• 20:34
  can he make another team better somewhere?
• 20:36
  Any thoughts on landing spots?
• 20:38
  I'm really curious because this was a shocker to me.
• 20:41
  ~ yeah, I think he can make another team better if he if he wants to.
• 20:46
  that's the main point. ~ I don't know first of all,
• 20:49
  he's not gonna get the money he's used to been getting.
• 20:51
  so it's gonna he's gonna have to take a major ego check in the bank book.
• 20:56
  he's gonna have to realize he is going to be the third guy on just about
• 21:00
  any team he goes to. Because I don't see a lot of teams with receiver needs.
• 21:05
  the the the weirdest part is the the team that I think ne could use him
• 21:08
  the most is Edmonton. but the he's not going there.
• 21:11
  ~
• 21:12
  like I don't know what other team you know that can use him beyond
• 21:16
  a number three position. So I mean maybe BC.
• 21:21
  I think BC could use him and I think that would be a good signing and
• 21:25
  it would help BC
• 21:26
  But does he want to go to a team that might not even make the playoffs again?
• 21:30
  You know, and is he willing to take a substantial,
• 21:34
  substantial pay cut to be the third receiver on a team going forward?
• 21:38
  Because that's probably what he's going to be at this stage.
• 21:41
  Yeah, what a what a bad week for Lewis,
• 21:43
  right? Ed Hervey gets on the panel and basically spills the tea that
• 21:49
  he was unscrewing like Lewis's nameplate out of the locker room.
• 21:52
  Okay.
• 21:52
  Like
• 21:53
  you know exactly who he was talking about.
• 21:55
  Yeah.
• 21:55
  Super
• 21:56
  awkward. then he gets released.
• 21:58
  ~ he like he had that offensive pass interference call on him.
• 22:04
  And then the next day he's cut.
• 22:05
  I hope he picked up his fish and his plant from the locker room.
• 22:09
  you know, I failed too fast because he was in he was in Montreal before Alexander
• 22:13
  got there and it was garbage. And he was in Edmonton before Cody got there
• 22:17
  and it was garbage. And now he's out in Ottawa too,
• 22:20
  and I'm just like, This guy is such a good receiver.
• 22:22
  He cannot be on a winning team.
• 22:24
  Maybe he's the bad vibe. I don't no,
• 22:26
  he's not don't no.
• 22:28
  ~ but who needs them? I don't know,
• 22:30
  Saskatchewan, like Emilus and Schaefer Baker are injured.
• 22:33
  What's going on in BC? I don't know,
• 22:35
  depends. I don't see anyone else needing a receiver.
• 22:39
  And I think ~ you know what? He's getting a bad reputation and if Ryan
• 22:43
  and Ed are going on spouting things around,
• 22:45
  who's taking a risk on him unless they really,
• 22:48
  really need him down the stretch.
• 22:50
  Yeah, I don't see Saskatchewan as a landing spot just because those
• 22:54
  are both Canadians that are out and they're fairly dependent on Canadians
• 22:57
  at that position for their ratio,
• 23:00
  so maybe not I wonder about Winnipeg.
• 23:02
  I think that they could maybe benefit a bit if he's utilized properly.
• 23:06
  I honestly don't know if it's
• 23:10
  The play calling hasn't been making use of of his talents the way it should,
• 23:14
  because his targets feel to me like they've been down But as
• 23:19
  far as actual performance goes,
• 23:20
  I feel kind of like he's been riding on reputation since he left Montreal.
• 23:24
  It was underperformance in Edmonton.
• 23:26
  He moved on to Ottawa. It's been underperformance there.
• 23:30
  And again, might not be his fault.
• 23:31
  It's hard to tell with how the the the games on TV are are shot,
• 23:36
  but is he still
• 23:37
  worth a a a good receiver number or is he a now a a number three or four who's
• 23:43
  ~ approaching the end of his career and if he's got leadership experience maybe that
• 23:48
  he brings that to a team.
• 23:50
  Yeah, the thing about Winnipeg though is is he was with Condell for
• 23:53
  two years in Ottawa and wasn't used properly then.
• 23:57
  So I'm not sure that Condell would use him properly in Winnipeg either.
• 24:02
  and at this point in time
• 24:03
  Yeah, that's true.
• 24:04
  we don't e yeah, we don't even know who's throwing the ball to
• 24:07
  him in Winnipeg anymore. So there's that as well.
• 24:10
  I don't know. I agree with you.
• 24:12
  I in Edmonton it was a bad situation.
• 24:15
  Montreal, though he was even when they were bad,
• 24:17
  he was the bright spot. He was the good thing.
• 24:20
  He those Geno Lewis down
• 24:21
  Yes.
• 24:22
  the sideline pat d you know, they were money and you knew it was gonna happen.
• 24:26
  And it was just he was ~ you know,
• 24:28
  thousand twelve hundred yards every single year and was making great plays.
• 24:32
  when he signed at Edmonton, he was with Taylor Cornelius.
• 24:35
  Come on, it was just it was bad.
• 24:37
  So I hardly blame him. And Edmonton was,
• 24:40
  you know, the proverbial
• 24:42
  dumpster there when when he was there.
• 24:44
  So the whole offense. So I can't really blame him.
• 24:47
  But I think that has a impacted on his play.
• 24:50
  And I do believe it looks like he's not the guy he was in Montreal when
• 24:54
  he when every play down the sideline sideline was available to him and
• 24:59
  he was making every catch from whatever quarterback they were using in those days.
• 25:02
  And they were using a lot of them.
• 25:04
  so
• 25:05
  I I you know, I think he's still serviceable.
• 25:07
  I mean, look at two years ago we were all or at least not not we,
• 25:12
  but I had given up on Alexander Hollins and now he's still contributing
• 25:17
  as that third guy in Montreal,
• 25:19
  and he's still a guy that can work.
• 25:21
  And he's not making the money he wanted or who he was making in B C
• 25:25
  off of that couple years he had there.
• 25:26
  So I mean Gino could still come back and do that,
• 25:29
  but is he prepared to
• 25:32
  make that kind of a sacrifice and put his head in that kind of a space
• 25:35
  and then go do the job.
• 25:37
  full credit to him in Montreal.
• 25:38
  I I'll give you that. Like I said,
• 25:40
  I thought since Montreal maybe he's riding the reputation,
• 25:43
  but that a reputation was fully earned in his time in Montreal.
• 25:46
  I per personally I think
• 25:46
  Well, but who's throwing to him
• 25:48
  in Edmonton and Ottawa? Nobody's throwing
• 25:51
  deep.
• 25:51
  he was with quarterbacks who couldn't get the ball to r to receivers
• 25:55
  and for some reason he wasn't being targeted as well.
• 25:57
  So yeah, it it'll be interesting to see if he gets picked up and goes with
• 26:02
  a team that actually uses him in the scheme.
• 26:04
  I think personally what we'll see is he probably won't sign here for a little bit,
• 26:09
  but at some point between now and the end of the season somebody's gonna lose
• 26:14
  a top receiver. And
• 26:15
  Mm-hmm.
• 26:16
  Gino might get himself a reasonable payday out of that.
• 26:20
  Not with Edmonton.
• 26:21
  Alright. Also released with him was Shakir Brown from yeah,
• 26:25
  not with Edmonton. No. Some things are a given.
• 26:27
  ~ although in this although in this league you never know.
• 26:28
  Ed will do anything but
• 26:30
  Ed Ed Ed may Ed ma Ed may have mailed
• 26:33
  him that nameplate for all we know.
• 26:36
  Yes. Yeah. And and hey,
• 26:39
  in in
• 26:39
  this league it wouldn't surprise me if tomorrow
• 26:41
  The scope.
• 26:42
  we see Ed and Gino hugging at a press conference announcing a signing,
• 26:45
  Yeah. No, you don't
• 26:46
  'cause you just never know.
• 26:47
  want you you're you could quite possibly you are correct.
• 26:50
  You never know. Never say never I guess.
• 26:52
  Yeah,
• 26:53
  exactly.
• 26:53
  I mean in that same article where where you were talking about that
• 26:58
  he was trashing not Lewis but unnamed players that were obviously Lewis,
• 27:03
  he was also talking about how character is the number one thing in this team that
• 27:08
  it goes before talent, it goes before everything else,
• 27:10
  and we are building a character driven culture in the locker room and
• 27:14
  we will not bring in bad actors.
• 27:16
  Two weeks after they put Is Isaiah Adams on their negotiation list the same
• 27:21
  day he was charged with firearm offenses,
• 27:24
  so
• 27:24
  Yeah.
• 27:25
  never say never. I mean yeah, they took him off the negotiation list again,
• 27:28
  but still. Anyway, like I was saying,
• 27:30
  Yeah, 'cause he reported to training camp.
• 27:31
  Yeah, yeah, that's true too. Yeah.
• 27:32
  He reported to training camp. That's why he's off the negotiation list.
• 27:34
  Yeah. he didn't get
• 27:35
  They would have left him on there.
• 27:37
  released over this. I guess we don't need him need him on the list.
• 27:40
  Anyway, they also released Shakir Brown out of the defensive backfield
• 27:44
  who started all the games this year.
• 27:45
  And other than not being a receiver,
• 27:48
  he seemed like he was a reasonable DB to me.
• 27:50
  Couldn't catch, and there were a couple of interceptions he should have had.
• 27:53
  But there was that one. And then ~
• 27:54
  Maybe he was friends with Gino.
• 27:56
  yeah, so we'll see what see what happens with as they continue
• 27:59
  to shuffle players back there.
• 28:01
  And then the other transaction was the Hamilton Tiger Cats traded Chris Kolankowski
• 28:06
  to the
• 28:07
  Toronto Argonauts for I believe a sixth round draft pick in twenty twenty seven.
• 28:11
  So another experienced lineman going to the Argos.
• 28:16
  They've been struggling a bit there.
• 28:19
  Yeah, I thought that was interesting
• 28:19
  done okay.
• 28:20
  only because I don't think he's been starting in in Hamilton.
• 28:23
  ~
• 28:24
  He started one game.
• 28:25
  yeah, that's what I thought. so he's kind of fallen off from the days in Winnipeg.
• 28:30
  And I don't know what position he's gonna play in Toronto because they've been
• 28:35
  moving their guys, they're especially their Canadians,
• 28:38
  back and forth from between center and tackle or center and and guard.
• 28:43
  And a little bit of tackle, but mostly center and guard.
• 28:45
  so it's and they've released some other guys that we were surprised they released,
• 28:49
  Canadians. So not sure what Toronto's doing with their offensive line
• 28:53
  at this point in time. It will be interesting over the next few weeks.
• 28:57
  I'm not sure Toronto knows either,
• 28:58
  but the speculation
• 28:59
  Yeah.
• 29:00
  I've heard is they'll put him at center,
• 29:01
  but who knows, yeah. ~
• 29:03
  Yeah, but that's Nicastro right now,
• 29:04
  is it not?
• 29:06
  I'm not certain on this, but from what I had heard,
• 29:08
  Nicastro's hurt and they've been s they've got a rookie they were starting there.
• 29:12
  I'd have to look at the last depth charts to find out.
• 29:12
  Okay, so maybe that's why. Yeah.
• 29:15
  Yeah. Yep.
• 29:15
  That and that might be why. So there you go.
• 29:17
  Again, as
• 29:18
  I said off the top, I am unprepared.
• 29:20
  So I will make everything will be with maybe.
• 29:20
  Yes. Well and
• 29:24
  Yes, and and and keep in mind that anything that comes out of my memory
• 29:27
  has like a fifty percent correct rate anyway,
• 29:29
  so it it could just be something that that wandered in from the fog and wasn't true.
• 29:34
  What else? Hall of Fame announcements.
• 29:37
  Jim Evanson, running back with BC in Ottawa from sixty eight to seventy three.
• 29:42
  I can remember him, but not a whole lot.
• 29:47
  I'm understand he's well worthy of the
• 29:50
  Hall
• 29:50
  of Fame induction, a have you any memories of him,
• 29:53
  G T or
• 29:55
  No, that was that was prior even to my time watching football.
• 30:00
  I don't have any stories from ~
• 30:03
  I'm the same. I would have been ten when he started playing and we had
• 30:07
  one game a week on C B C So I remember knowing the name and knowing he
• 30:11
  was a good player, but that's about it.
• 30:12
  And then the other one goes even further back.
• 30:14
  Frank, Pop Ivy, head coach of Edmonton from fifty four to fifty seven.
• 30:19
  And being as I wasn't even alive then I have no memories of it.
• 30:23
  I doubt any of us do.
• 30:25
  But I'm again apparently very successful over ten wins in every season
• 30:28
  he was with them. Did quite well with the team,
• 30:31
  so
• 30:32
  obviously I do know how good that team was at those times just from their record
• 30:36
  and from the Grey Cup appearances in those days.
• 30:39
  a guy that coached them through all of those years is gotta be a pretty good coach.
• 30:42
  So going in as a coach that makes sense.
• 30:45
  I trust the history. I don't have to have seen it.
• 30:47
  And MJ, when I put the showrundown out,
• 30:50
  you came back with ~ we hadn't talked about Calvin Tiggle and I didn't even realize
• 30:55
  he'd been announced at all. Do you have anything more on that or?
• 31:00
  just he played for the Ty Cats but in well he was part of the Grey Cup team
• 31:04
  and he played their ninety six ninety nine.
• 31:05
  Yes. Wha when did do you know when they announced him as the ~ as going in?
• 31:06
  it was a couple of weeks ago it was a couple of weeks ago.
• 31:10
  Okay, yeah. I completely missed it.
• 31:11
  I think they have everyone now.
• 31:13
  Yeah.
• 31:14
  I think they have
• 31:14
  Yeah, I remember Yeah,
• 31:16
  I remember seeing that and and no offense to these guys 'cause they're obviously
• 31:20
  if they're in the going into the Hall of Fame,
• 31:22
  they they were tremendous players.
• 31:23
  And I remember watching Calvin Tiggle and I remember thinking that's
• 31:27
  a really good linebacker. But I don't ever remember thinking that's an
• 31:30
  all star or well, maybe an all star,
• 31:33
  but a hall of fame linebacker.
• 31:35
  I don't know. Sometimes I those are the ones that I go,
• 31:38
  Mm, okay.
• 31:39
  and then you look at their stats and you go,
• 31:41
  Yeah, no, I get it. Wow, those like that's ~ better than I remember him playing
• 31:46
  So then it's well then then it's you I kinda go,
• 31:49
  Okay, that makes more sense. I get it.
• 31:50
  But and it's probably that case.
• 31:51
  Yeah. Yeah, they felt the
• 31:53
  He he was also of the
• 31:54
  era of the great linebacker shoulder pad,
• 31:56
  so that's you know, that's another thing.
• 31:57
  Yes. You probably didn't recognize him out of uniform.
• 31:57
  Yes. Yeah. Yes. Yes.
• 31:58
  ~
• 32:03
  Yeah, the yes with w when your shoulder pads could cover from tackle to tackle.
• 32:08
  Yes.
• 32:09
  apologies to Calvin that we didn't catch it on the when it was initially announced,
• 32:13
  but you're right. It's there's some of the players that are like that that that even
• 32:17
  if they didn't necessarily stand out from the little bit that I remembered
• 32:21
  Once you start looking at what they did,
• 32:23
  it's pretty amazing. And if they're going in,
• 32:25
  there's a reason. So congratulations to all of them.
• 32:28
  What else?
• 32:29
  Absolutely.
• 32:29
  we'll switch to our basketball ~ podcast format for a minute 'cause
• 32:35
  you mentioned MJ News out of the Seabears from Winnipeg.
• 32:38
  Yeah, well you as we know, you we are a Seabears podcast,
• 32:41
  secondly. just quickly because this is pretty big news out of Winnipeg.
• 32:45
  They ~ it's CEBL Playoffs on Thursday night,
• 32:47
  all their semi final players and the Seabears Star Player,
• 32:51
  their top
• 32:53
  Top score was ~ assaulted at a restaurant nightclub a couple nights
• 32:58
  ago by the security and was actually in the hospital and he can't play
• 33:01
  on Thursday for the Seabears So but ~ this is like if if you know,
• 33:06
  if VA or or Philpot or Brady got like into an altercation at a bar and ended
• 33:11
  up in the hospital, that's that's the level of this.
• 33:15
  So hopefully
• 33:15
  they can pull it out. They have to play ~
• 33:19
  ~ saskatoon.
• 33:20
  he is a a definite bona fada star in that league,
• 33:24
  I from what I've seen.
• 33:25
  Yes.
• 33:26
  It's one of those things it's unfortunate as hell.
• 33:29
  I don't know what to think when I see stuff like this.
• 33:32
  The the reporting I saw said that the team was saying he was assaulted
• 33:36
  by security staff at a nightclub I haven't seen anything to contradict that.
• 33:41
  However, I don't I honestly don't know anything about the the team,
• 33:44
  the player, anything like that.
• 33:46
  And when I posted on EH! about the his the assault fellow o ~ I think Grumpy
• 33:52
  Old Man or Old Grumpy Man was it at a A dot social whatever.
• 33:56
  posted an article from twenty four on how the Seabares had released
• 34:00
  him at that point because his behavior was detrimental to team morale
• 34:06
  well
• 34:06
  remember we talked
• 34:06
  Yeah, just
• 34:07
  about we gossiped about this earlier about how he and the head coach last year
• 34:10
  did like the couple of years did not get along.
• 34:12
  Yeah. ~ right, you did talk about this,
• 34:13
  So Yes. Always something going on in Winnipeg.
• 34:14
  yeah, so so I don't know. It
• 34:19
  Yeah. Yeah, exactly. And I think it's it's it just
• 34:19
  I mean also there was like a fight.
• 34:21
  Drake was at
• 34:22
  this yeah, Drake was at the shooting stars game and there was a fight between
• 34:25
  Okay. I didn't know that one.
• 34:26
  the shooting stars and the honey badgers anyway.
• 34:28
  So concludes my CBL report.
• 34:30
  Yeah.
• 34:31
  Go watch playoffs on
• 34:31
  Right.
• 34:32
  Thursday.
• 34:33
  Yes. Well I I think that it's best just to wait and see what else comes
• 34:38
  out before we talk too much about this because it's it seems like it Yeah.
• 34:40
  Anyway, they havoc Savior Moon.
• 34:42
  It's not a total loss, guys. You'll be okay.
• 34:43
  Xavier
• 34:46
  Moon, what a great name
• 34:47
  Yeah.
• 34:47
  for a basketball player.
• 34:49
  He used to play
• 34:50
  for the Clippers
• 34:51
  and the raptors.
• 34:53
  and the Raptor Did he play for the Raptors?
• 34:54
  Okay.
• 34:55
  Yes, I did.
• 34:58
  yeah.
• 34:58
  I think he was the first Raptor to come back to the C E B L after and
• 35:01
  he played in Scarborough, if I remember correctly.
• 35:03
  That kind of kicked off the shooting stars rise if I remember correctly.
• 35:07
  'Cause he used to
• 35:07
  ~ Mira no that's someone else 'cause like Xavier Moon used to play for the Stingers.
• 35:11
  And then he went
• 35:12
  Okay.
• 35:12
  to the Clippers. ~ you are th you are correct.
• 35:15
  There is another Raptor who is playing on this the shooting stars.
• 35:18
  I know so Jake Cole used to play for the shooting stars as well before
• 35:21
  he went off on it like music tour.
• 35:25
  Mm. sorry, I tuned out for a moment there.
• 35:27
  We know this.
• 35:31
  Okay, anyway. so far about this point in the podcast we've been talking about
• 35:36
  our fantasy results, but then last week MJ brought up a point of sort
• 35:40
  of just how everywhere the gambling advertising
• 35:46
  and stuff goes and how that fantasy can kind of feed into that.
• 35:49
  So I've decided
• 35:51
  in honor of that, we're I'm not gonna talk fantasy on here anymore.
• 35:54
  If you really care about it, I do.
• 35:56
  Old man does plays weekly CFL fantasy the it drops the afternoon of
• 36:00
  the first game of the week. You can come on over there and get my picks
• 36:04
  and and my strategies but we'll I think we'll drop it from this portion of the show.
• 36:08
  Other than to say in one last thing,
• 36:11
  earlier this year, I think the second week of the season,
• 36:14
  I lost by zero point three points,
• 36:16
  which was h highly disappointing
• 36:18
  This week I won by zero point three points.
• 36:21
  So the football gods were threw a makeup flag for me.
• 36:24
  Anything else? Come back on Thursday and we'll talk about it then.
• 36:28
  the only thing I would add is ~ after listening to last week's show
• 36:31
  all the way through, ~ of course,
• 36:32
  Yeah.
• 36:33
  of course, the ~
• 36:35
  I did appreciate your point of view there,
• 36:37
  MJ. And yeah, I noticed as well that ~ this year since I'm not that
• 36:42
  I wasn't doing fantasy, again I was back to vibe watching football rather than
• 36:47
  player watching football. Much better.
• 36:49
  Much better.
• 36:51
  Yeah, we'll see. lots of changes in the CFL next year,
• 36:54
  so who knows what's going to go on with all this,
• 36:56
  but I think this may be my last year for fantasy.
• 36:58
  it's like I said to you last week,
• 37:00
  MJ, you make the commitment for the year,
• 37:02
  you stick to it. Anyway, on from there.
• 37:04
  The the games of the week. It was a
• 37:08
  Interesting week. Is that a good way to describe it?
• 37:10
  BC had a third string quarterback in going into Winnipeg,
• 37:17
  which has traditionally been a hard place to win.
• 37:19
  And
• 37:21
  They won. Thirty-five nineteen.
• 37:24
  Now I'll let you guys talk about this a bit,
• 37:27
  but a couple of things that I said is watching the game,
• 37:29
  I it occurred to me at one point,
• 37:31
  this must have been what football was like before they legalized the forward pass.
• 37:35
  Because it was just I think Psalter had nine completions.
• 37:40
  And I don't know what Brown and algorithma had,
• 37:44
  but it was not pretty.
• 37:46
  There was three minutes and thirty seconds left in the first half.
• 37:49
  So almost the entire first and second quarters played before Condell called
• 37:55
  a play that allowed for a forward pass.
• 37:57
  He obviously either decided to listen to Brady
• 38:03
  or got his nose out of joint over Brady and said,
• 38:07
  You want to run the ball? Okay,
• 38:08
  we're gonna run the damn ball.
• 38:10
  And that's all they did for the first
• 38:13
  Half of the game and it worked real good between the twenties.
• 38:16
  And then it didn't work. And rather than going for third and short a few times,
• 38:22
  they kicked the field goals going,
• 38:24
  well, they've got a backup quarterback,
• 38:26
  they've got a third string in.
• 38:28
  All we have to do is not make any mistakes.
• 38:30
  yeah. Didn't work well. end of the first half,
• 38:33
  Salter started running and hadn't been doing much anywhere from there.
• 38:37
  It started running.
• 38:39
  Strangely enough, Winnipeg defense made no halftime adjustments.
• 38:42
  They came out and let him do the same thing through most of the third quarter.
• 38:46
  And then in the fourth quarter they tried to adjust and widened their ends
• 38:50
  and started making sure they weren't gonna let him get outside,
• 38:53
  and that just opened it up for Horvath to ~ to run inside.
• 38:57
  In the fourth quarter alone, he had I think it was a hundred and sixty some yards,
• 39:00
  two long touchdown runs. There was one that
• 39:05
  It reminded me of way, way, way back in the day when I w used to watch NFL football.
• 39:11
  Steve McNair from the Titans got flushed out of the pocket and rolled off
• 39:16
  to the ~ to the left and a linebacker came flying in after him
• 39:19
  and he basically stiff armed him and tossed the linebacker about five yards
• 39:23
  out of the way and made his pass.
• 39:25
  Well, Horvath did pretty much the same thing to Evan Holm of the ~ the bombers.
• 39:30
  They wa ~ one of his long runs home came in trying to make a
• 39:34
  a tackle and he just literally just threw him out of the way like a a ragdoll.
• 39:39
  And in the end that was it. They they just overran Winnipeg.
• 39:45
  I think they had three hundred and seventy seven yards total rushing,
• 39:48
  a franchise record.
• 39:50
  How about you, MJ? did you see this one or how what did you think of it?
• 39:53
  This is not a serious football team.
• 39:56
  This is not a serious football team.
• 39:59
  I'm pretty sure ~ Winnipeg.
• 40:00
  You have to clarify which one you're talking about here.
• 40:02
  Okay, just just Just to be sure.
• 40:02
  Winnipeg is not a serious football team.
• 40:05
  ~
• 40:07
  Pretty sure Condell and Brady are fighting at practice.
• 40:11
  I think they're fighting in the locker room.
• 40:13
  He's Brady's starting to make comments in the media.
• 40:16
  And I think you're right. I think he would Condell was like,
• 40:18
  fine, you do it. And let him run it.
• 40:21
  And then was like, now he's gonna be like,
• 40:23
  see, we lost. So put up or shut
• 40:26
  Mm-hmm.
• 40:26
  up, right? Like, it was it was
• 40:29
  know to how to describe what happened.
• 40:32
  Salter just like came in there and put on a little Casey Printer show,
• 40:36
  huh? Like
• 40:37
  Yeah.
• 40:38
  he was throwing around. He was at my favorite Salter moment is when he was skipping.
• 40:43
  At the end, he was just skipping
• 40:44
  Yeah.
• 40:45
  around the field and I don't blame him.
• 40:47
  He was just having the best day of his life.
• 40:50
  he hatcher threw him a two-point conversion pass,
• 40:53
  like they were running. they just it felt like they they didn't do anything
• 40:59
  and did everything and Winnipeg had to know that they were running.
• 41:05
  It was not a secret and they I mean the only bright spot is like again Willie
• 41:10
  Jefferson.
• 41:10
  I was Willie's gonna make this cute like rookie quarterback cry.
• 41:14
  Like it's gonna happen. And he did for a little while.
• 41:16
  And then I mean but if your defense is running around all night after someone's
• 41:21
  sprinting, you you can't keep up after a while.
• 41:25
  I don't know. Drew Brown looks like he hurt his back.
• 41:27
  I was like, that looks like an L4,
• 41:29
  Yeah.
• 41:29
  L5
• 41:30
  disc situation there. Because he hurt it and then he kept playing and then
• 41:34
  he got hit again and it looked not great.
• 41:36
  And then El Charisma came in and looked just as bad.
• 41:39
  And remember how we were all like,
• 41:40
  what are they gonna do? They have four quarterbacks in that team.
• 41:43
  ~ they have so many quarterbacks.
• 41:45
  Maybe they can get rid of some quarterbacks.
• 41:47
  so many quarterbacks. And now they have no quarterbacks.
• 41:51
  Like I don't
• 41:53
  I don't know what they're gonna do.
• 41:54
  I think Zach's coming off that sixth game.
• 41:56
  You said he wasn't, but I think he might be because if Brown is at all hurt,
• 42:00
  Elgersma did not look great. And yeah,
• 42:03
  when it ~ BC came out with a win that they should not have won,
• 42:07
  and that gave them home hope because Nathan's back to first team reps
• 42:10
  and they've kind of weathered that storm.
• 42:13
  I don't know who's is it Mike O'Shea who's calling for these conservative like
• 42:18
  little chip shoddy field goals because
• 42:20
  Yeah.
• 42:21
  the you should have had your like pedal to the metal on on this B C team
• 42:26
  and you just
• 42:26
  Yeah.
• 42:27
  like took these like very conservative choices I know you would th these rules make
• 42:31
  f coaches be more aggressive and d no you cannot and Mike O'Shea will
• 42:37
  not and yeah,
• 42:40
  Good job for Salter. I'm really happy.
• 42:43
  And good job for Horvath. Horvath proved he's not he's not just for short yardage.
• 42:47
  I think this what a great breakout game
• 42:49
  without him I would have lost badly.
• 42:51
  Like I said, it's not supposed to talk fantasy,
• 42:53
  but I would have lost real bad without him.
• 42:54
  I he w I think he was thirty seven point one points,
• 42:57
  so yeah. Thank you, Xander. How about you,
• 43:00
  GT? What were your thoughts?
• 43:03
  Well, I turned it on just as BC scored that first half touchdown late
• 43:07
  in the half and that and I heard about ha what had happened and I was like,
• 43:11
  This doesn't make any sense. This just does not make any sense.
• 43:15
  And then in the second half, it was like,
• 43:17
  Okay, the Winnipeg adjustments,
• 43:20
  halftime adjustments, as MJ keeps calling them,
• 43:22
  and it looked like they were gonna make something.
• 43:24
  It looked like they it was going to work.
• 43:26
  It looked like okay. But then they just stalled out again
• 43:29
  they were not prepared or not able to stop the run,
• 43:32
  because it was or to stop him running around.
• 43:34
  It was obviously that's what he was going to do.
• 43:36
  And yet somehow they weren't able to to either control one or the other.
• 43:40
  But between the two do it reminded me of those games,
• 43:43
  those couple of games last year from Edmonton when they had Trey Ford
• 43:47
  and Rankin and Leake all running amok.
• 43:51
  and you couldn't do anything about it,
• 43:53
  that's almost what it looked like.
• 43:54
  I can ~ understand them being slightly unprepared for a guy you net had
• 43:58
  no tape on other than college,
• 44:00
  etc. but by halftime you have tape and certainly by three quarter time
• 44:05
  and yet the fourth quarter was when BC really opened it up.
• 44:08
  So yeah, Winnipeg looks in pretty rough shape right now.
• 44:12
  They look in pretty rough shape
• 44:13
  we will see who they have behind center this week.
• 44:16
  And or do they have the bye. No,
• 44:19
  yeah, they have the bye this week,
• 44:19
  They have the bye this week.
• 44:20
  right?
• 44:21
  So that's that's a bit of a saving grace.
• 44:23
  It gives them a week to get somebody back healthy.
• 44:26
  or a week to give Elgersma at least a few first team reps because the
• 44:31
  one thing we can say as much as as bad as he looked,
• 44:34
  and he looked bad.
• 44:35
  He was not prepared to go into that game.
• 44:38
  That was obvious. And he had not seen the ball.
• 44:41
  That was also obvious. ~ anyways,
• 44:44
  the bye week might help them. But yeah,
• 44:45
  they're kinda messy. There's no doubt about it.
• 44:47
  They're kinda messy.
• 44:49
  Yes. And they they they do have four wins,
• 44:52
  but Ottawa, Toronto, they squeaked one out over ~ Calgary early
• 44:59
  in the season when Calgary still had basically the the bare bones
• 45:03
  of a defensive line there. And who else did they beat?
• 45:07
  Hamilton after knocking Bo out.
• 45:09
  So it's not like they've had convincing wins.
• 45:12
  if Ottawa had a caught one of those interceptions,
• 45:14
  that would it would have changed out of the four,
• 45:15
  Before.
• 45:15
  Yeah.
• 45:17
  it would have changed that
• 45:18
  game around. So yeah, you're right.
• 45:20
  their record flatters them, not the other way around.
• 45:23
  You know.
• 45:24
  ~ th there were a couple of things.
• 45:26
  There was a moment that I thought you would appreciate,
• 45:28
  MJ. That ~ it wasn't even TSN doing their normal sort of ~
• 45:34
  in your face stuff taking a shot of somebody at the wrong time,
• 45:37
  but there was a point where BC took a a delay of game because they were punting
• 45:43
  and only eleven players went out.
• 45:44
  And after
• 45:47
  The penalty was called the shot was of Buck Pierce on the sidelines.
• 45:50
  The head coach, what does he think about this?
• 45:52
  And yeah, it was basically him turning a little bit and saying something
• 45:56
  to McKnight, the special teams coach.
• 45:58
  But McKnight's look was everything you would expect it to be from his resume
• 46:02
  as an X O lineman tough special teams coach.
• 46:07
  You could not have had a a better look of disgust and someone's gonna pay.
• 46:14
  Someone's running sprints after the game.
• 46:16
  Yes.
• 46:17
  Yeah, there's some gut busters
• 46:18
  Good yeah.
• 46:19
  happening.
• 46:20
  Yeah.
• 46:20
  That's right.
• 46:21
  Good thing it's flat all the way home because you're
• 46:23
  Yeah.
• 46:24
  Yeah. And then the other one was I I can't even remember who
• 46:27
  the sideline reporter was ~ the in ~ for TSN in the game.
• 46:32
  But at one point they had a him talking a little bit about
• 46:35
  the relationship between Brown and Colaras and and quoting Brown as saying
• 46:40
  the best thing about Zan.
• 46:42
  Even if he's not on the field,
• 46:44
  when we're playing, when things are out there,
• 46:47
  no matter whether it's going good or bad or whatever,
• 46:50
  he seems to know exactly what to say to me to keep me on pace and everything,
• 46:55
  which was good. And then they cut over to a shot of Zach on the sidelines,
• 46:59
  and he's standing there shuffling through basically some index cards,
• 47:03
  and it looks like almost like he's checking his notes.
• 47:05
  Okay, what do I say in this case?
• 47:07
  okay, here it is. Don't let that get to you,
• 47:09
  kid.
• 47:10
  Ha ha.
• 47:11
  My mind is strange, but that's what occurred to me.
• 47:13
  Anyway.
• 47:14
  Yeah, is
• 47:15
  was ~ Ryan is Ryan right?
• 47:18
  He's probably right on several things.
• 47:18
  Was he right about was he right about Drew Brown?
• 47:19
  Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
• 47:22
  True. I a editorial aside here,
• 47:23
  Yeah.
• 47:23
  They weren't letting Drew throw.
• 47:25
  He was
• 47:25
  not throwing anything past ten yards,
• 47:29
  right? Like
• 47:29
  You know he wasn't
• 47:30
  but Condo wasn't letting him. Like I said,
• 47:32
  there wasn't for the first almost
• 47:33
  Yeah.
• 47:34
  half a game.
• 47:35
  It reminds me of when they hired Tommy Condell and Speedy B posted on that post
• 47:41
  and was like, I hope you have a Speedy B in the backfield to run
• 47:44
  all these like hitched passes.
• 47:46
  And we're like,
• 47:47
  Yeah, that's exactly right. That's it.
• 47:49
  yeah, that's exactly what happened.
• 47:51
  Yeah.
• 47:52
  and yet Dempski is that guy and they don't use him either.
• 47:56
  They're not using Dempski often enough.
• 47:58
  Like how often are you hearing his name these days?
• 48:00
  Not nearly enough.
• 48:02
  Not nearly enough. ~ like he I don't even have him like on the stats sheet because
• 48:08
  it was so low
• 48:09
  There's problems.
• 48:09
  I don't know.
• 48:11
  There's a lot of problems and yeah.
• 48:14
  I'm surprised the defensive corner from there had a job today.
• 48:19
  Yeah.
• 48:20
  Would you not be firing someone after they ran three hundred and seventy seven yards
• 48:24
  on you?
• 48:25
  And
• 48:26
  Maybe the defensive coordinator needs to be doing some wind sprints and gut busters.
• 48:30
  I don't know. Yeah, not good.
• 48:33
  well. It happened. And ~ we'll see what happens this week.
• 48:38
  Who plays for BC we'll go on to the Ottawa Montreal game,
• 48:42
  but I will say right at the start of the pregame to the Ottawa Montreal game,
• 48:47
  they were talking about the night before.
• 48:48
  And I believe it was Lapo.
• 48:51
  who said, anyone who tells you they picked BC to win that game last night is lying.
• 48:56
  So, over to you, MJ. Time for you to respond.
• 48:59
  They the the BC Lions
• 49:01
  cut in a ~ J C from Three Down picked them too.
• 49:05
  And I was like, you should have cut me in picking them too 'cause I also did.
• 49:09
  But then he also picked Ottawa and so did I,
• 49:11
  so I mean it's all awash really
• 49:11
  Yeah. There we go. Yeah, so that was Mr.
• 49:14
  Abbott, wasn't it? But yeah, I
• 49:16
  I thought you should have a respon a chance to respond 'cause you were
• 49:19
  on the record ahead of time.
• 49:21
  Well
• 49:21
  and I said that it was gonna be Salter versus Brown and
• 49:25
  Yeah.
• 49:26
  we'll s right. Like and I said I said last week that Winnipeg
• 49:29
  was messy and everyone's like,
• 49:31
  Well, maybe and I'm like, ~ yes
• 49:32
  Yeah.
• 49:33
  they are But but I just I don't understand.
• 49:35
  I don't understand why anyone thought Tommy Candell was a good hire,
• 49:39
  but I say this every week. But it continues to be true.
• 49:43
  I just wanted to give you your chance to do your little happy dance.
• 49:47
  Yes, my
• 49:47
  Ha ha
• 49:47
  ha.
• 49:47
  one
• 49:48
  ~ my one like underdog correct pick this season.
• 49:52
  Good j good job, me.
• 49:55
  Okay. But speaking of the game,
• 49:58
  Montreal 34 at Ottawa 13.
• 50:02
  And again, story of the game.
• 50:07
  Ottawa was inside the Montreal ten yard line four times.
• 50:12
  I don't remember if they kicked field goals on any of them,
• 50:15
  but none of them were touchdowns.
• 50:16
  So again, Maier as I said a couple of times this season.
• 50:20
  Fifty one percent of the time looks like a good starting quarterback.
• 50:23
  He made some nice throws, he got things moving some,
• 50:25
  but they just cannot finish it off.
• 50:28
  Not at all.
• 50:30
  In the end that was that was their downfall.
• 50:32
  if you score you know, even on a cup couple of those four,
• 50:37
  you're within a one score game.
• 50:39
  But if you keep going down there and just things go wrong and wrong and wrong,
• 50:43
  like I said last week Trey Ford,
• 50:44
  it's not just all on mare. The team is making stupid mistakes.
• 50:48
  They're just they look like an O and seven team.
• 50:52
  How did how did you feel about it,
• 50:54
  GT?
• 50:55
  Well, I agree with you, except that I think that again,
• 50:57
  I thought it was Mare's best game of the year.
• 51:00
  He's had a he moved the ball. he threw with some authority.
• 51:03
  he threw relatively mid to long well.
• 51:06
  and then I thought it was just bad play calling when they got down into those into
• 51:10
  those situations. I've often said their their biggest weakness
• 51:14
  is their offensive line. They're just not mean enough.
• 51:17
  They're just not
• 51:19
  tough enough on that offensive line to make those goal line stances and
• 51:23
  or to push people over to get them into those situations.
• 51:26
  But I thought those were some bad calls if they had a scored one you said
• 51:30
  old man that they would have been a one score game.
• 51:32
  No, they would have been winning because that game was close until
• 51:36
  the last you know, till late before Montreal finally blew it open.
• 51:40
  That score kind of flatters Montreal to be honest.
• 51:43
  Yeah.
• 51:43
  ~ it
• 51:44
  Ottawa is just like, yeah, they're you know,
• 51:47
  they're a mess. They are a mess.
• 51:49
  And they they need to start winning and until they start winning,
• 51:52
  they're gonna continue to lose.
• 51:53
  There's j it's a silly thing to say,
• 51:55
  but that is basically where they're at.
• 51:58
  Again, it's Edmonton from two years ago.
• 52:01
  And it's that's, you know, until they get to Edmonton from last year
• 52:05
  and get at least on the right path,
• 52:07
  they're gonna continue to look like this.
• 52:09
  And they're gonna continue to go through coaches and players and everything else,
• 52:14
  and maybe even a co a head coach and general manager,
• 52:17
  ~ until they finally get something figured out.
• 52:21
  you might not even know who it's gonna be.
• 52:23
  There is a nucleus of players there that are very good.
• 52:27
  ~ and then there's
• 52:28
  Mm.
• 52:28
  a bunch of guys that are really good players but somehow aren't ever gonna work
• 52:33
  in that system
• 52:34
  Well, s speaking of the head coach thing,
• 52:38
  it's awful hard probably for a next year or two to do anything about Dinwiiddie
• 52:42
  because of the coaching cap. But if they're going to,
• 52:45
  perhaps the bombshell of the weekend was in the pregame show they were talking
• 52:49
  to smiling Hank Burris, who said he's been sticking down in the States with
• 52:54
  his coaching work while his son's in high school,
• 52:56
  'cause his son's a kicker that's doing very well and he's working with him.
• 53:01
  But that his son is graduating high school this year and Hank is now ready
• 53:04
  to come back to the CFL. So who knows?
• 53:07
  Maybe the Ottawa Red Blacks will be coached next year by Smilin' Hank.
• 53:12
  Could be.
• 53:13
  can't afford to.
• 53:15
  Any thoughts you've got from the game,
• 53:16
  MJ, or if you want Hank back.
• 53:17
  Well, first of all, they won't be
• 53:19
  Well they well they can't afford to hire him next year,
• 53:22
  so it doesn't matter. they I I don't know who plays this terrible off the by.
• 53:26
  I'm not sure I've seen a worse team off the bye.
• 53:29
  Ed Henry Burris was there. You played like this in front of Henry Burris.
• 53:33
  And it was like the whatever they had a big celebration with a bunch
• 53:36
  of old players and stuff there,
• 53:37
  and and Henry was there and this is how you played.
• 53:40
  Short yardage continues to be a complete and utter disaster.
• 53:45
  I I don't
• 53:45
  You think?
• 53:46
  understand how it can still be so bad.
• 53:49
  It's week eight. I truly don't get it.
• 53:52
  I
• 53:53
  Yeah, it's not like they're failing at one attempt and just keep trying it,
• 53:58
  It's not like, okay, we're gonna keep running that quarterback sneak until
• 54:01
  we get it right. They are trying every different way you could possibly think
• 54:06
  of of getting a yard when they need it and failing at every of them.
• 54:09
  Every one of them.
• 54:10
  So
• 54:10
  in baseball you would call this the yips.
• 54:13
  And you have short yardage yips.
• 54:15
  You have goal line yips.
• 54:15
  Never say the yips.
• 54:17
  And there's nothing you can really do about it except for keep trying.
• 54:23
  Yeah.
• 54:24
  You know, the Alouettes like they okay,
• 54:27
  so Justin Hardy basically got murdered on the field,
• 54:29
  and it was a objectionable conduct call.
• 54:33
  And then the Alouettes challenged it,
• 54:35
  and I was like, you are joking.
• 54:38
  You are challenging this call.
• 54:40
  I'm like, this is ridiculous. Like,
• 54:42
  look at this replay. He's being murdered.
• 54:44
  And Geno Lewis got called in on illegal block and just negated it.
• 54:49
  And
• 54:50
  Yeah.
• 54:50
  That that that's how it goes when your team's not playing well and you got the yips.
• 54:54
  ~ Yeah, and
• 54:55
  Yeah. Exactly. If I
• 54:57
  if I I'm sorry, sorry, MJ, if I can jump in.
• 54:59
  I thought that that was one of the moments of the weekend that I enjoyed
• 55:03
  the most because coaches make such stupid challenges all the time.
• 55:08
  And yeah, Hardy made the catch,
• 55:10
  got hit hard, fumbled the ball,
• 55:13
  or might have fumbled, but it turns out he was down by contact.
• 55:16
  Because it's a potential turnover,
• 55:18
  they automatically review it.
• 55:20
  And then Dinwiddie comes out and throws the challenge flag,
• 55:22
  and my immediate thought is it's another one of these idiot coaches saying,
• 55:25
  look at it again, and they're gonna lose the challenge.
• 55:28
  But no, you're right, he had something completely different.
• 55:31
  He was challenging a downfield blocking which took that ten yard gain that Hardy
• 55:36
  got at that point and turned it into a ten yard loss,
• 55:39
  second and twenty. I thought that was a brilliant challenge.
• 55:42
  Anyway, go ahead.
• 55:42
  Yeah, good job, Jason.
• 55:45
  yeah, the alouettes like ~ boy.
• 55:47
  They only needed they alo
• 55:50
  Alex Allen only threw to four receivers and these.
• 55:53
  That's all he needed. That's all he needed for his 420 yards.
• 55:57
  And somebody on Blue Sky was like commenting about how much he they hate
• 56:01
  him because he's like such a little cocky SOB.
• 56:03
  And I was like, yeah, you're right.
• 56:04
  He is on the field. He is like the worst.
• 56:08
  When he's playing your team, it is the worst to have him playing because
• 56:12
  he is beaking at your bench, he's beaking at your fans,
• 56:15
  he's just like just being a jerk all over.
• 56:18
  And every player on that
• 56:20
  And if he's on your team, you love him too.
• 56:24
  Yeah. And my last note is that Lewis Ward came back and put that in your pipe
• 56:30
  and smoke it, Ryan. I went two for two on my field goals.
• 56:34
  And if you don't want Davis Alexander to be acting cocky towards your team,
• 56:38
  just don't give
• 56:38
  Shut down.
• 56:39
  him the opportunity.
• 56:40
  You gotta shut down because when the he is shut down,
• 56:43
  they are awful. And very,
• 56:45
  Yeah.
• 56:46
  very beatable. If he gets a little groove and he's beakin' a mouthing
• 56:49
  and running around, then you're done.
• 56:51
  Good night.
• 56:52
  this may be a sign of the fact that I'm mellowing with old age,
• 56:56
  who knows. But this is the exact behavior that a decade ago made
• 57:01
  me absolutely livid at Bo Levi.
• 57:04
  And now I'm just enjoying it with Alexander.
• 57:08
  Mind ya I'm enjoying it or I was enjoying it with Bo this year too before
• 57:11
  he got hurt, 'cause he had got a lot of that swagger back himself with his
• 57:16
  A lot of his little postings post game and whatnot.
• 57:19
  Fine.
• 57:20
  Yes. I want to see more players doing that.
• 57:23
  Alright, ~ so let's talk then Calgary and Hamilton.
• 57:26
  And ~ to me the there was an obvious difference in this game.
• 57:32
  Calgary brought an offense and Hamilton didn't,
• 57:36
  unfortunately. Calgary did Calgary did what Calgary's doing they have very
• 57:42
  quietly
• 57:44
  climbed into a spot where people have stopped talking about the top three teams
• 57:48
  in the league and started talking about the top four.
• 57:50
  they deserve it. they didn't play mistake free football,
• 57:54
  but they played good, solid football,
• 57:56
  and they just kept doing what they do consistently.
• 58:00
  And Hamilton could not figure out an offense that would work against them,
• 58:03
  whether it was Trey Ford or after he fumbled in the
• 58:08
  end of the first quarter at towards the end of the half they put Harrison Frost in.
• 58:12
  Didn't get a whole lot better from there.
• 58:15
  You know, they were just unfortunately outmatched,
• 58:19
  I thought. Wha how about you, GT?
• 58:23
  ~ well a little couple of little things about this game.
• 58:26
  First of all, it was the first game I was able to take my grandchildren to.
• 58:29
  So it was Yes. and Yeah,
• 58:29
  good. Hey. Gotta build that family stuff.
• 58:34
  and they are both ~ now TI Cat fans 'cause he was he was a Tiger
• 58:37
  Yay.
• 58:39
  Cat fan and he had decided last year and she had not made her decision until earlier
• 58:44
  then during the game she confirmed that she is now a Tiger Cat fan.
• 58:48
  So that was terrific. It was ~ it was a smoking hot day.
• 58:51
  It was twenty eight feeling like thirty five.
• 58:53
  sun through the cloud the humidity which made it even worse.
• 58:57
  And we were just sweating. But the most important thing about the game
• 59:01
  was not only did I get to take those two to the game for the first time,
• 59:06
  but I we also got to be on the field with the flag.
• 59:09
  We got to be flag holders.
• 59:11
  so that was tremendous because that's the first time I've ever
• 59:15
  had the opportunity to do that in
• 59:16
  Yeah.
• 59:17
  any of the stadiums I've been to,
• 59:18
  in any of the games I've been to.
• 59:20
  So I was more excited than they were,
• 59:21
  of course. ~ but
• 59:22
  Hey, gotta like it.
• 59:23
  Exp exploit them cute kids.
• 59:26
  Absolutely.
• 59:26
  Nothing like two children. Yeah.
• 59:26
  It's absolutely
• 59:29
  So so they ~ so anyways, they had a great time and there and as I said
• 59:34
  to to my grandson, I said, Look,
• 59:36
  it's the perfect day. It's beautiful,
• 59:37
  it's sunny, you you're at the tiger cats,
• 59:39
  you you got to run out the flag,
• 59:41
  you got everything, your team's gonna lose,
• 59:43
  it's gonna be the perfect day.
• 59:45
  Ha ha.
• 59:46
  And he just looked at me like So anyway,
• 59:47
  Well, tea teaching that Ti- cat culture early.
• 59:48
  the game itself. Yeah.
• 59:51
  did they learn the chant? Did they learn the tyque?
• 59:52
  ~ they knew ~
• 59:54
  absolutely they had the Oski Wee Wee down pat.
• 59:57
  They had it down. They
• 59:57
  Tá.
• 59:58
  knew it. So yeah, they were waiting for Pigskin Pete to come over.
• 1:00:01
  so they could join in. the game itself though,
• 1:00:05
  Calgary started off tremendously and then went to sleep.
• 1:00:08
  Then they finished the half tremendously,
• 1:00:10
  came out of the third quarter,
• 1:00:12
  started tremendously, went to sleep,
• 1:00:14
  and then finished the game tremendously.
• 1:00:16
  But had really big lulls in between.
• 1:00:18
  And midway through the second quarter,
• 1:00:20
  I was like, we're letting Hamilton hang around.
• 1:00:23
  There's no reason for Hamilton to be in this game,
• 1:00:26
  but they're only down four points.
• 1:00:28
  And that's not a good sign. it just felt a game that could slip away because
• 1:00:33
  I will say this Hamilton's got a very good defense.
• 1:00:37
  And they just
• 1:00:37
  Yes, they do.
• 1:00:38
  they did their job.
• 1:00:41
  ~ and they really put Mills,
• 1:00:44
  you know, until late in the game,
• 1:00:46
  he was not able to rip off any big ones at all.
• 1:00:48
  They had him bottled up entirely.
• 1:00:50
  McAllister got the one the one decent run himself.
• 1:00:54
  But other than that, ~ Hamilton's defense did a very good job against the run.
• 1:00:59
  VA that first pass pass to Purset was just obviously a broken coverage,
• 1:01:03
  but that was so beautiful to watch.
• 1:01:05
  It was like I went crazy
• 1:01:05
  It was nice.
• 1:01:07
  and the guys around me were like,
• 1:01:08
  you know.
• 1:01:09
  ~ so anyways, I was giving grief.
• 1:01:12
  Why not?
• 1:01:12
  Yeah.
• 1:01:13
  but then they just stopped. They didn't do anything else until like
• 1:01:16
  two or three minutes left in the half.
• 1:01:18
  And the same thing in the f in the second half until late in the game
• 1:01:21
  in the fourth quarter. I think that score kind of flatters Calgary.
• 1:01:26
  Hamilton got a couple of, you know,
• 1:01:29
  touchdowns that are that were like,
• 1:01:30
  Well I
• 1:01:31
  Yeah, whatever.
• 1:01:31
  mean Frost threw to Moncrief like just flew it
• 1:01:35
  Yeah, yeah, absolutely. You know,
• 1:01:36
  Yeah.
• 1:01:37
  perfect.
• 1:01:38
  right so I mean there was there's a few things like that.
• 1:01:41
  Yeah. Yeah, there was definitely
• 1:01:41
  Yeah.
• 1:01:42
  that. There was definitely some of that going on,
• 1:01:45
  for sure. I thought it was a very good game,
• 1:01:47
  but it wasn't a game where I felt like there weren't things to fix.
• 1:01:50
  There was quite a few things to fix coming out of that game.
• 1:01:54
  Yes.
• 1:01:55
  Yeah.
• 1:01:55
  I
• 1:01:56
  I thought it was very cute they they caught it on the television that
• 1:01:59
  ~ McAllister after his touchdown was running off apologizing to the Hamilton fans.
• 1:02:05
  I'm back. I'm sorry I didn't
• 1:02:05
  Yeah. it's me,
• 1:02:08
  I'm so sorry Mike.
• 1:02:10
  Yeah.
• 1:02:10
  I was ~ and I and I
• 1:02:12
  and I did think just in your in your honor,
• 1:02:15
  MJ, that the TSN shady moment of shady moments was coming out of halftime just like
• 1:02:21
  a full minute of Trey Ford standing on the sideline.
• 1:02:24
  Yeah. Yeah.
• 1:02:24
  it was like not even a brief glance,
• 1:02:26
  just like no, f let's focus
• 1:02:28
  Yes.
• 1:02:28
  on Trey.
• 1:02:29
  Just standing on the sideline,
• 1:02:31
  perhaps watching, his chance slip away.
• 1:02:34
  Because that's what it felt
• 1:02:35
  Yeah.
• 1:02:36
  that's what it felt like this could be his
• 1:02:37
  Yeah.
• 1:02:38
  chance slipping away.
• 1:02:39
  they kind of got the feeling that that was probably the last time he
• 1:02:41
  It it could be
• 1:02:42
  was on the field.
• 1:02:43
  ~
• 1:02:43
  Yeah.
• 1:02:44
  they sh after the game, I do have things to say at the game,
• 1:02:46
  but after the game, VA went over and like hugged him,
• 1:02:50
  and they actually talked for quite a bit.
• 1:02:52
  And I'm like, Trey, just get on the team bus.
• 1:02:55
  Get
• 1:02:55
  Well.
• 1:02:55
  on that Stampede team bus and just go back with VA and Jarius Jackson.
• 1:02:59
  Yeah. Yeah. Just sneak into
• 1:03:02
  someone's suitcase, yeah. No.
• 1:03:04
  Yeah, just just they won't even
• 1:03:06
  notice you. Just like sit in the back.
• 1:03:08
  Like you'll be okay. this is the thing,
• 1:03:10
  he was trying to do too much. So Trey had that hurdle.
• 1:03:13
  He tried to hurdle someone.
• 1:03:16
  And then he got the ball knocked out and fumbled,
• 1:03:18
  and they picked it up and ran.
• 1:03:19
  And then after that, he got benched.
• 1:03:21
  Actually, my sister texted me.
• 1:03:22
  She's like, I'm sorry, did Trey just try to hurtle someone and that's
• 1:03:25
  why he's benched? I'm like, yes.
• 1:03:26
  My dad was camping and called me and saw that Frost was in,
• 1:03:30
  was like, what's happening? Did Trey get hurt?
• 1:03:32
  I'm like, no, he got benched.
• 1:03:34
  And as much as like I was upset about it,
• 1:03:37
  I'm always the one that's like,
• 1:03:38
  if they're not playing well, they should be sat down.
• 1:03:40
  And I'm like, well, you weren't playing well.
• 1:03:42
  And Scott Milanovich's number one rule is ball security.
• 1:03:45
  He has benched Bo over ball security.
• 1:03:48
  Don't think he won't bench you.
• 1:03:49
  he did let Harrison Frost throw two very bad interceptions and did not bench Frost.
• 1:03:53
  Yep. Wow, what are you what are you gonna do?
• 1:03:54
  And I actually told Frost was one.
• 1:03:55
  Yeah, and a and a fumble that went for six.
• 1:03:57
  Go to what are you gonna
• 1:03:58
  do? Go to Jacobala?
• 1:03:59
  who knows what he'll do this week for a starting quarterback.
• 1:04:01
  Yeah. Yeah. I I think
• 1:04:02
  But if he puts
• 1:04:03
  Yeah.
• 1:04:04
  Frost back i in there starting this week after those two,
• 1:04:08
  then that tells me the whole narrative about but he doesn't put up with turnovers
• 1:04:13
  is just bullshit. It tells me that he's not doesn't want to give Trey a chance.
• 1:04:16
  Yeah. Yeah.
• 1:04:18
  We'll see.
• 1:04:18
  Yeah.
• 1:04:19
  I hope I'm wrong. I hope he starts Trey 'cause I think he gives them their best
• 1:04:21
  ~ no, it's gonna ~
• 1:04:21
  Yes.
• 1:04:22
  chance.
• 1:04:23
  I would put money down on it's Harrison Frost.
• 1:04:26
  Yeah, I think you're probably right,
• 1:04:26
  I would put money.
• 1:04:27
  but it also tells me tells me a lot.
• 1:04:28
  I think
• 1:04:30
  There's
• 1:04:30
  a lot more in that statement. Yeah.
• 1:04:32
  Go ahead.
• 1:04:32
  They need to run
• 1:04:34
  ~ Jeremiah Mazzoli, Dane Evans,
• 1:04:35
  quarterback system till Bo is back.
• 1:04:37
  With Frost and Ford. That is what you should do to weather this storm.
• 1:04:42
  Yeah, th there is something
• 1:04:44
  to that. they don't do it though.
• 1:04:46
  There the there's this narrative that you have to give a quarterback
• 1:04:51
  the reins and he has to know it's his team.
• 1:04:54
  And I don't know that I buy into that.
• 1:04:56
  back in the day back when Austin was was quarterbacking for the riders.
• 1:05:03
  They also had Burgess and for a while there it was a kind of a thing that well,
• 1:05:06
  which one is it? 'Cause they're both good.
• 1:05:08
  my stance the whole time was you start Burgess in every game,
• 1:05:12
  and then as soon as he throws an interception,
• 1:05:15
  you pull him. And you can't do that,
• 1:05:17
  you'll destroy his confidence.
• 1:05:18
  I don't care. Once he threw an interception,
• 1:05:20
  he threw four. But until that happened,
• 1:05:23
  his confidence was huge and he he was putting up big leads So I said,
• 1:05:28
  put him in.
• 1:05:29
  He throws one, you pull him out,
• 1:05:30
  you put Austin in to finish the game,
• 1:05:32
  and then you go back and you to Burgess and you say,
• 1:05:34
  And you're starting next week.
• 1:05:36
  You run a system like that, but I could be wrong,
• 1:05:36
  So here's here's the difference here.
• 1:05:39
  These are neither
• 1:05:40
  I don't get paid to coach.
• 1:05:41
  these are neither your your bona fide starter.
• 1:05:44
  They're not
• 1:05:45
  Yeah.
• 1:05:45
  your two backups till Bo's back,
• 1:05:47
  and everyone is of the understanding of that.
• 1:05:49
  So I don't understand why you're not just running play packages for both of them.
• 1:05:52
  Anyway, I am not the Ti-Cat's head coach.
• 1:05:55
  a few other notes. Trey Ford got hit in the head on a slide and there was no call.
• 1:06:02
  So I'm not quite sure what the penalties are this year for quarterback sliding.
• 1:06:07
  And again, I am of the opinion that there is a level of quarterback eliteness that
• 1:06:13
  works its way from top to bottom,
• 1:06:14
  and Trey is not on very high on that list.
• 1:06:16
  And you know what? Neither's BA,
• 1:06:17
  but I've already talked about that.
• 1:06:19
  June McCatney, welcome to Hamilton.
• 1:06:22
  He missed a kick that he really should have had.
• 1:06:24
  And I was like, I was like, well.
• 1:06:24
  Yeah, no kidding. That was threatening
• 1:06:27
  me out.
• 1:06:27
  Welcome
• 1:06:27
  to kicking in Hamilton. The swirl the wind swirls there,
• 1:06:31
  a little tricky. And ~ I think that was his first time kicking in Hamilton,
• 1:06:35
  so he will know next time. Jamal Peters had VA intercepted twice.
• 1:06:41
  Yeah.
• 1:06:41
  Once he like got the ball ripped out of his hand.
• 1:06:44
  The second time he had that interception,
• 1:06:46
  I was like, that's it! VA's interception,
• 1:06:48
  he's got it. And then Fox had hit VA in the helmet with his helmet
• 1:06:54
  and negated that interception.
• 1:06:55
  I did not see that because I had taken that moment to excuse myself from
• 1:07:00
  the stands and then I heard it in the thing and I was like,
• 1:07:04
  and then I heard penalty and I went,
• 1:07:06
  that's good, that's against them.
• 1:07:07
  Yeah.
• 1:07:07
  And right
• 1:07:08
  away it continues because when he threw that touchdown to Brissette,
• 1:07:12
  I wasn't jumping up and down and yelling touchdown.
• 1:07:14
  I was jumping up and yelling up and down,
• 1:07:16
  twenty four, twenty four, and only two people
• 1:07:18
  Yeah, yeah.
• 1:07:18
  Yeah.
• 1:07:19
  knew what I meant.
• 1:07:20
  like Wheatfall had that contested catch that was really like what a crazy catch that
• 1:07:25
  was too. Like you couldn't have the DB couldn't have played that any better,
• 1:07:28
  but so there was some nice things there.
• 1:07:30
  the Tycats returners and one return ran into each other,
• 1:07:33
  and
• 1:07:34
  Mm-hmm.
• 1:07:34
  that sums up the game vibe for me.
• 1:07:39
  I've seen some people on social media going well be a any further
• 1:07:43
  on the record shouldn't count because he was intercepted.
• 1:07:45
  A penalty doesn't shouldn't negate that well.
• 1:07:47
  I haven't gone back and looked at this,
• 1:07:49
  but I'm pretty damn sure that if you looked at the other people that
• 1:07:53
  are that he surpassed for the record and that are up there,
• 1:07:55
  they probably had one or two called back during their runs as well.
• 1:07:59
  'Cause it's part of
• 1:07:59
  Yeah.
• 1:08:00
  football.
• 1:08:01
  You know, so it it just happens.
• 1:08:01
  Yeah. Those are just th you you yeah.
• 1:08:02
  And yeah.
• 1:08:03
  Don't hit people on the helmet with your helmet.
• 1:08:06
  the last thing that I will do,
• 1:08:07
  I shouldn't I probably don't need to be well,
• 1:08:11
  not an apologist, but a ~ a defender of Starver's Katsantonis,
• 1:08:17
  but I am really, really annoyed at how many people are blasting him this week
• 1:08:23
  for the brissette touchdown. what a busted coverage.
• 1:08:26
  He jumped on a short pass and
• 1:08:28
  He just let himself get run right by.
• 1:08:30
  Yes he did, because Hamilton was on a full blitz.
• 1:08:32
  And you gotta expect the balls coming out fast.
• 1:08:36
  So he made the right play. He came downhill at a pass that didn't happen,
• 1:08:40
  and then he couldn't make the hit and Brissett got open.
• 1:08:43
  Still wasn't a bad play on his part.
• 1:08:45
  If there's anything, it was the fault of the D line and the the blitzers
• 1:08:49
  not getting to VA in time, giving him enough time to make a thirty yard pass
• 1:08:54
  in a blitz situation.
• 1:08:55
  ~ to be fair, Brissett's
• 1:08:56
  So I don't think that was a busted coverage.
• 1:08:58
  Yeah.
• 1:08:59
  made a quite a few DBs look silly this year.
• 1:09:03
  Yes he did. I'm not saying no credit to Brissett.
• 1:09:06
  It was a great route to get open like that.
• 1:09:08
  But I don't I'm just saying I don't think I don't think it's fair
• 1:09:12
  to to burn Katsantonis saying he made a terrible decision.
• 1:09:15
  I think he made a good decision and got beat by a better play.
• 1:09:21
  There were worse decisions made that game.
• 1:09:23
  Much, much
• 1:09:24
  There were
• 1:09:24
  worse.
• 1:09:25
  Yes. All right. So
• 1:09:27
  Maybe Henry Burris will
• 1:09:28
  come and coach the Hamilton Tiger Cats.
• 1:09:32
  It's a possibility too. I'm not sure how long Scott's contract
• 1:09:33
  Hmm. Would not be sad.
• 1:09:36
  runs did they extend him, I don't recall.
• 1:09:38
  I don't care. I've disassociated from that information
• 1:09:41
  He's
• 1:09:42
  Probably closer to the end of his contract than Dinwiddie is.
• 1:09:46
  Yes, that I know. And like O'Shea
• 1:09:47
  Mind you, if Bo hadn't got hurt we probably wouldn't
• 1:09:49
  be complaining about Scott so much 'cause they'd probably be somewhere
• 1:09:53
  up there with Montreal too, so
• 1:09:53
  Yes, what a great
• 1:09:55
  coach when you can only coach one type of quarterback.
• 1:09:58
  One specific quarterback. Just one.
• 1:10:00
  So great. Alright.
• 1:10:02
  Yes. I would rant about that more,
• 1:10:05
  but I'd be a broken record. I've been saying that for a few weeks now.
• 1:10:09
  So Saskatchewan at Edmonton.
• 1:10:13
  Two hours of football. What was it?
• 1:10:16
  67 minutes of lightning delay.
• 1:10:18
  And in essence, we had a 62 62 tie.
• 1:10:23
  Yes.
• 1:10:24
  They each won one game. They both scored 62 points.
• 1:10:27
  It was another dogfight. It wasn't.
• 1:10:29
  It looked sloppier than the one a week ago in in Saskatchewan.
• 1:10:34
  But it was just.
• 1:10:38
  Two very good teams playing each other,
• 1:10:40
  I thought. And again, it's the best home and home series I've seen in quite a while.
• 1:10:44
  And I really, really hope the season plays out so that when their third game now,
• 1:10:51
  when the deciding game of their series in the last week of the season is there,
• 1:10:54
  I hope that's for first place.
• 1:10:56
  ~ you couldn't ask for a better scenario.
• 1:10:59
  few things that we could talk about,
• 1:11:01
  but basically, yeah, it was just scrappy and
• 1:11:05
  This time Saskatchewan managed to pull off the wind.
• 1:11:09
  I didn't think they looked great in it.
• 1:11:10
  their offense to me looked like they couldn't figure out
• 1:11:13
  the Edmonton defense through a good chunk of it,
• 1:11:16
  like they were struggling bad.
• 1:11:17
  Both teams took bad penalties.
• 1:11:20
  I've seen complaining about some of the penalties that Edmonton took late
• 1:11:23
  in the game when Saskatchewan was trying to run out the clock,
• 1:11:26
  but Saskatchewan also took a couple of really stupid
• 1:11:30
  roughing the passer penalties.
• 1:11:31
  And
• 1:11:32
  Mm-hmm.
• 1:11:33
  I don't mean that stupid in that they shouldn't have been called.
• 1:11:35
  I mean that stupid in that they were a fully justified call and it was just
• 1:11:40
  a dumb move by the players in question.
• 1:11:42
  What did you see, MJ?
• 1:11:46
  Well, the s the stupidest penalty award of the night goes to Taylor of the Elks,
• 1:11:52
  who had a one misconduct for contacting an official and
• 1:11:56
  a second misconduct disqualification for embellishment
• 1:12:01
  He did the feel.
• 1:12:01
  Yes. Yep.
• 1:12:01
  in the first quarter. He was a FIFA
• 1:12:04
  pla a men's FIFA player. Like
• 1:12:06
  Yeah.
• 1:12:08
  it's so
• 1:12:12
  It should have. It was ridiculous.
• 1:12:13
  ~ yeah.
• 1:12:14
  It was totally
• 1:12:15
  Embarrassing
• 1:12:15
  it was t it was
• 1:12:18
  it was totally ridiculous. It was it was
• 1:12:20
  How embarrassing like
• 1:12:23
  like I was r I was rolling around as much as he was.
• 1:12:26
  Only mine was with laughter.
• 1:12:28
  Yep. Yep.
• 1:12:29
  You know.
• 1:12:30
  I just way to put your team in a in a bad spot in the first quarter.
• 1:12:35
  yeah, ~ then there was a elks also took a too many men penalty and I was like,
• 1:12:40
  I'm sorry, I think you meant riders,
• 1:12:42
  but no, it was elks. Little there's a little that's a little rider joke for you.
• 1:12:44
  Yes. Which at an important time 'cause the riders had fumbled on that play
• 1:12:46
  Yeah. Yeah.
• 1:12:50
  on the goal line. So yeah, a little
• 1:12:51
  Yeah.
• 1:12:51
  Yeah. ~
• 1:12:53
  reprieve.
• 1:12:54
  Conley and then another another Instagram worthy thing that's making
• 1:12:59
  the rounds is Conley's Backwards Hurdle.
• 1:13:01
  Yeah.
• 1:13:02
  Yes. If you haven't seen that,
• 1:13:03
  That was the one of the plays of the year.
• 1:13:05
  go look at it.
• 1:13:06
  It was beautifully executed. Beautifully executed.
• 1:13:10
  Yes. Yes. I
• 1:13:11
  It probably can never
• 1:13:12
  be repeated, but fantastic.
• 1:13:15
  I
• 1:13:16
  I posted after that I scored Conley nine point eight for his single axle middle
• 1:13:22
  run and got a few laughs in it and got a lecture from the goddess on that
• 1:13:27
  is not an axle jump. That was not even close to it.
• 1:13:29
  It could have been this kind of jump,
• 1:13:30
  it could have been that kind of jump,
• 1:13:32
  but it's not an axle. You know Yes.
• 1:13:34
  She's she's obvious she's the Russian
• 1:13:34
  She is correct. She is correct.
• 1:13:36
  I know where she is.
• 1:13:38
  she's the Russian judge in the house,
• 1:13:40
  I assume.
• 1:13:41
  ~
• 1:13:41
  Yeah. yeah. She
• 1:13:43
  know she knows her figure skating stuff and
• 1:13:44
  never get Oooooh
• 1:13:48
  We wanna talk
• 1:13:48
  Yes.
• 1:13:49
  figure skating culture. ~
• 1:13:53
  You know, and also like I'll let you guys talk because I I was just actually just
• 1:13:57
  I didn't really take a lot of notes in this game.
• 1:13:58
  I just enjoying it. But it was really nice to have the upper deck open.
• 1:14:02
  That was really nice. we were at the Stingers game on the Friday night
• 1:14:06
  and they were playing the Saskatoon Mamba and there was a lot
• 1:14:09
  of people from Saskatchewan at the game,
• 1:14:11
  so nice for them because they got to go to see their team play basketball
• 1:14:13
  and then go to football the next day.
• 1:14:15
  So that worked out really well.
• 1:14:16
  it was nice to have some extra people in the Stingers.
• 1:14:19
  they were sitting behind.
• 1:14:20
  Me though, so and all around me.
• 1:14:21
  I'm not sure how much I enjoyed that personally,
• 1:14:23
  but it was nice for
• 1:14:24
  Ha ha ha.
• 1:14:25
  them. ~ if you were surprised by the thunderstorms in Edmonton,
• 1:14:29
  jokes on you. This has been our entire summer,
• 1:14:31
  so I hope you brought a
• 1:14:32
  So
• 1:14:32
  little game, card game to play or something because you should
• 1:14:34
  not have been surprised there was a thunderstorm rain,
• 1:14:37
  like lightning delay.
• 1:14:39
  And G T ~
• 1:14:39
  And Calgary Calgary would like a
• 1:14:41
  little word about who's gonna be top in the West,
• 1:14:43
  cause I think Edmonton probably should have won this game.
• 1:14:46
  They took s yeah, get like too many stupid penalties.
• 1:14:48
  I think Calgary's gonna be right up there with them,
• 1:14:52
  if not ahead of s a couple of these teams if they keep playing the way they do.
• 1:14:56
  Yeah, well we talked last week about if Edmonton won that game,
• 1:14:59
  there was very little chance of Saskat you know,
• 1:15:02
  barring something catastrophic,
• 1:15:04
  Mm-hmm.
• 1:15:04
  like an injury
• 1:15:05
  all things considered, there if Edmonton had won that game,
• 1:15:08
  there was very little chance of Saskatchewan overtaking them for first place
• 1:15:13
  in the season. But we also said there's the Calgary home and home
• 1:15:19
  in Labour Day and
• 1:15:20
  In the rematch after that, that could make a big difference in who ends up
• 1:15:25
  in the at the top of the West division.
• 1:15:28
  so Jeremy O'Day, if you're listening,
• 1:15:29
  ~ Dean Faithful's ~ season wraps up here in the next week or two in Paris.
• 1:15:34
  So maybe you want to give him a call.
• 1:15:35
  Yeah. Yeah,
• 1:15:37
  I hope so because that was ugly.
• 1:15:39
  That was one of the that
• 1:15:40
  That was ugly.
• 1:15:41
  But
• 1:15:41
  was one of the ugliest kicks I've ever seen,
• 1:15:43
  that one that he missed. That was brutal.
• 1:15:44
  Yeah. Yeah. ~
• 1:15:45
  ~ the the Elks also
• 1:15:47
  moved a pl a global kicker to their retired list.
• 1:15:50
  So I think there's a there's two options.
• 1:15:53
  Okay, there we go then, yeah, 'cause 'cause yeah,
• 1:15:55
  at this point Saskatchewan is certainly taking the foot out of football.
• 1:15:59
  I don't know. Any other thoughts on that,
• 1:16:02
  GT?
• 1:16:03
  No, it was it was again, I thought it was a a a a really good game to watch.
• 1:16:08
  I enjoyed it. I thought again both teams showed that ~ that they
• 1:16:13
  are contenders. I don't think that either team showed that they're dominant.
• 1:16:19
  like I didn't
• 1:16:19
  No no.
• 1:16:19
  think the week before either team showed that they were dominant.
• 1:16:23
  one team won, the other team could have just as easily have won.
• 1:16:26
  I agree with you guys, I didn't hear that portion,
• 1:16:28
  but I agree with you guys a hundred percent that the Labour Day be all four game,
• 1:16:33
  all four teams are gonna be, you know,
• 1:16:35
  really gonna need that to come out of that.
• 1:16:37
  ~ at least with a split.
• 1:16:40
  if you lose both games, any one of the four teams,
• 1:16:43
  including Winnipeg, you're done.
• 1:16:45
  Like that's it.
• 1:16:46
  First, second or out of the playoffs for any one of those four teams,
• 1:16:49
  because if Calgary is able to take two from Edmonton,
• 1:16:53
  they're right in the thick of it for first place.
• 1:16:55
  if Saskatchewan takes two for from Winnipeg,
• 1:16:58
  they're the same. And if Edmonton takes two from from Calgary,
• 1:17:01
  they've got it locked up pretty much.
• 1:17:03
  So yeah, it's yeah, I think that weekend's gonna be a very fun
• 1:17:07
  one for those reasons.
• 1:17:08
  Absolutely. they both took bad both teams took bad penalties.
• 1:17:11
  Saskatchewan had seven for eighty yards and Edmonton had ten for ninety two yards.
• 1:17:17
  So there was nerves out there.
• 1:17:19
  There was some stuff that people pushing a little too hard and and Cody said that
• 1:17:25
  in his postgame interview. He said he thought that some of the young players were
• 1:17:30
  playing a little tight and
• 1:17:33
  That he was trying to tell them it's not the playoffs.
• 1:17:35
  It doesn't matter that much in the end.
• 1:17:37
  We're still back next week. we can deal with this.
• 1:17:39
  But that was most of it. Although the one thing that I will say
• 1:17:43
  is the radio broadcast, CKRM picked Mike Rose as the defensive player of the game.
• 1:17:50
  And Mike Rose has been around this game for a long time and he's a very good player.
• 1:17:56
  So I'm sure it's not the first time he's had a radio interview,
• 1:18:00
  but it sounded like it. It was just it was such an incredible interview.
• 1:18:06
  It wasn't guarded at all. It was just pure joy.
• 1:18:09
  And not even joy at the win, but just joy at playing in that kind
• 1:18:14
  of a football environment and being able to do what he's gonna what he
• 1:18:18
  was able to do. It I
• 1:18:19
  I co I was smiling the whole way through it.
• 1:18:21
  So I'm gonna throw in the show notes if anybody cares.
• 1:18:24
  a link to the ~ the podcast version of that post game show.
• 1:18:28
  Hit about the ten minute mark and just take a couple of minutes to listen
• 1:18:31
  to the interview with Mike Rose.
• 1:18:33
  It's well worth your time. And I think that's about all there is to
• 1:18:37
  say on the games. Again, I said it last week.
• 1:18:39
  I think this week sort of echoes it.
• 1:18:43
  Well, that was fun, but
• 1:18:45
  Did we learn anything? 'Cause I don't I don't think so.
• 1:18:50
  So given that, guess who's got the unenviable job of putting
• 1:18:56
  out the GT Barnum official CFL Outsiders Power Rankings?
• 1:19:01
  All right. So I have I did not write down last week's.
• 1:19:05
  I simply sent them to you guys and you posted them.
• 1:19:08
  Thank you for that. I appreciate it.
• 1:19:09
  But I have no recommend recollection of what I did.
• 1:19:12
  and I did not write anything down from this week because,
• 1:19:16
  as I said, I am totally unprepared.
• 1:19:18
  So these are completely off the top.
• 1:19:20
  so even more so. ~ but I am going to put Ebonton back at number one.
• 1:19:28
  I'm gonna put Montreal at two,
• 1:19:30
  Saskatchewan at three, Calgary at four.
• 1:19:34
  ~ and then after that, who knows?
• 1:19:37
  Calgary at four. I'm gonna put Toronto at five,
• 1:19:41
  BC at six, and that's a big jump from last week.
• 1:19:46
  I know, but they won and they're getting Nathan back,
• 1:19:49
  so that's gonna put them at six.
• 1:19:52
  Ottawa at ninth and take your pick between Hamilton and Winnipeg where
• 1:19:57
  you want to put them, seven or eight.
• 1:19:58
  'Cause they're
• 1:19:59
  I will put Hamilton seven.
• 1:20:01
  they're okay. Hamilton's seven.
• 1:20:01
  I was just gonna say, ge given
• 1:20:03
  who's recording these, I know where Hamilton's going.
• 1:20:05
  I'm recording
• 1:20:06
  it.
• 1:20:06
  Yeah.
• 1:20:07
  So there you go. Because it's yeah,
• 1:20:10
  Okay.
• 1:20:11
  these those those teams are just in so much flux and so much
• 1:20:16
  is happening around them that you just can't tell where they are going
• 1:20:20
  at this stage and where they deserve to be at this stage based
• 1:20:24
  on their personnel more than anything.
• 1:20:26
  thank you very much for that. And to you fans,
• 1:20:30
  viewers, listeners out there, I hope you realize you've been given
• 1:20:34
  a unique peek behind the curtain at the intense analytical process that goes into
• 1:20:40
  determining the GT Barnum official CFL power rankings.
• 1:20:45
  That's right.
• 1:20:47
  That's right. It takes mere seconds.
• 1:20:49
  Mere seconds to
• 1:20:50
  Ha ha.
• 1:20:50
  make these decisions. It's, you know,
• 1:20:53
  on the fly. You're calling them you're in a hurry up Ofense right now.
• 1:20:56
  Let's go. ~
• 1:20:57
  Yeah. Alrighty.
• 1:20:58
  Yeah.
• 1:21:00
  Okay, well before we take our picks for the week,
• 1:21:03
  my injury reports that I do every week.
• 1:21:05
  ~ Toronto. And again this is Tuesday practice,
• 1:21:09
  so two, three days for some teams,
• 1:21:10
  one for some and ~ nothing for Calgary yet.
• 1:21:14
  I believe they're only practicing one day this week because they're staying
• 1:21:17
  No, Calgary put
• 1:21:17
  out east for
• 1:21:18
  out a injury report with no injuries today.
• 1:21:22
  did they? I yes.
• 1:21:22
  Again. Two days in a row, no injuries.
• 1:21:25
  They didn't even get
• 1:21:25
  an injury from practice.
• 1:21:27
  Yes. so Toronto, Goss at linebacker and Haggerty were did not participate.
• 1:21:34
  Lemon
• 1:21:34
  Mm-hmm.
• 1:21:35
  was limited in a non injury related capacity.
• 1:21:41
  I know people ~ mispractices get did not participate 'cause they've got,
• 1:21:45
  you know, family stuff going on or whatever.
• 1:21:46
  But why are you limited in a non football related stuff?
• 1:21:49
  You just I'm a vet and I didn't feel like going full up speed this time?
• 1:21:53
  I don't know.
• 1:21:55
  Well, maybe he was may maybe
• 1:21:55
  But there was that.
• 1:21:57
  he started out and then he was d you know,
• 1:21:59
  chucking on the sidelines or something and had to be taken away.
• 1:22:01
  Yeah. Yeah.
• 1:22:03
  That's not injury related. If you get the stomach flu halfway through a practice
• 1:22:07
  Yeah. Yes, that that
• 1:22:08
  Mm.
• 1:22:08
  could well be. Yes. Yeah.
• 1:22:12
  The much of reminds me of the fact that ~ Ottawa last week also didn't have McLeod
• 1:22:16
  Bethel Thompson because he had a family commitment that has went previous
• 1:22:21
  to his signing, which is interesting.
• 1:22:23
  But anyway, Ottawa does ~
• 1:22:24
  Well that's fair though. they called him last second.
• 1:22:27
  I don't like him, but to be fair,
• 1:22:28
  they called him at a very last second and basically begged him to come
• 1:22:32
  up there so he probably was like,
• 1:22:33
  I have a wedding to go to, so
• 1:22:34
  That's right.
• 1:22:34
  Yeah. yeah, I'm I'm not saying against
• 1:22:37
  him. I'm just saying it's a weird situation.
• 1:22:39
  You know, it's we're struggling a big t we're struggling big time.
• 1:22:43
  Here's somebody who can maybe help us.
• 1:22:45
  Will you come and help us? Well,
• 1:22:46
  okay, but I'm available these days.
• 1:22:48
  Anyway, ~ Ottawa, DeJarlis on the offensive line was did not participate.
• 1:22:53
  ~ Saskatchewan
• 1:22:56
  Starting to look a little beat up again in the receiving core,
• 1:22:59
  especially. ~ Awachee at the the fullback,
• 1:23:04
  Emlis, and KSB were did not participate as receivers.
• 1:23:07
  And then Fry on the offensive line.
• 1:23:09
  He was out this last week. Johnson went in and did a reasonable job,
• 1:23:13
  I thought, but he still did not participate.
• 1:23:15
  And Campbell. So if he can't go,
• 1:23:17
  I don't know, maybe we see this year's Bell,
• 1:23:20
  this year's rookie, first round draft choice,
• 1:23:22
  be interesting. But they're up against Ottawa,
• 1:23:24
  Mm-hmm.
• 1:23:24
  so
• 1:23:26
  Maybe that helps. And then the only other one was Said Sad,
• 1:23:29
  I can never pronounce his name properly.
• 1:23:30
  On the D line was limited. But I think he's been out,
• 1:23:33
  so he might be coming back. Edmonton DeBlanco was did not participate,
• 1:23:38
  which is not good for them. But interestingly enough,
• 1:23:41
  Anderson was back to practicing full.
• 1:23:43
  So that may be a wash. Brinkman,
• 1:23:46
  Curtis, and Logan Jr. were all limited in practice.
• 1:23:50
  For Montreal, Canton Arcou, Naj Murray and Sutton were all did not participate.
• 1:23:56
  So that's a bit of a hit to their back end on the defense.
• 1:24:00
  Yeah.
• 1:24:01
  Ha Hamilton Augustine was did not participate,
• 1:24:04
  and Wooden was limited with a head injury.
• 1:24:07
  So I don't know if there may be some sort of concussion from that hit that took
• 1:24:10
  him out on the weekend. And BC Tevai was did not participate,
• 1:24:16
  and looking at how he was
• 1:24:18
  went off the field on the the weekend.
• 1:24:19
  I wouldn't expect him back in a hurry.
• 1:24:21
  They also had nine limited players.
• 1:24:24
  I found this interesting. This was about three hours ago that I was looking.
• 1:24:27
  I thought, okay, so where's Nathan?
• 1:24:29
  Is he a full participant in practice?
• 1:24:31
  Is he on the injured list? Where is he?
• 1:24:32
  And he wasn't listed on the injured list.
• 1:24:34
  So I thought, okay, good. But I would have expected to see him there.
• 1:24:41
  I hope nothing else went wrong,
• 1:24:42
  so I went to the roster. And for whatever reason he wasn't on the active roster.
• 1:24:47
  So I started thinking, crap, so I went down to the one game injured and
• 1:24:51
  the six game injured list and he just wasn't there.
• 1:24:53
  He was not on the BC Lions documentation anywhere I could find today.
• 1:24:57
  So I'm assuming he's good and it's just a lull between putting him back on
• 1:24:59
  He took first team reps today.
• 1:25:01
  the active roster or something.
• 1:25:04
  He he took first team reps today.
• 1:25:05
  There was pictures of him all over the place.
• 1:25:06
  Yeah. Okay, well that's good to know,
• 1:25:08
  So he's there doing first team reps.
• 1:25:10
  yeah. Like I said,
• 1:25:10
  Yeah.
• 1:25:11
  it was just one of those weird documentation anomalies.
• 1:25:14
  Yeah.
• 1:25:15
  I and I looked like four times.
• 1:25:17
  I looked by number, I looked by position,
• 1:25:19
  I looked by name. He was just gone.
• 1:25:21
  So Gremlins, like the like the AI slop,
• 1:25:24
  garbage in, garbage out.
• 1:25:26
  So that's it. Those are who's possibly hurt,
• 1:25:29
  possibly not. Looks like for Toronto that Kelly is going to be back.
• 1:25:33
  Nathan could be back with BC. We don't know who's going to be quarterbacking
• 1:25:38
  in in Hamilton. So let's ~ talk about game predictions.
• 1:25:43
  First one, Thursday night. Calgary.
• 1:25:46
  Short week stayed out in the east and they're taking on Toronto.
• 1:25:51
  Let's let GT pick first.
• 1:25:54
  I'm gonna go with Calgary with low confidence.
• 1:25:58
  Okay, MJ?
• 1:25:59
  I am going to go Calgary with higher confidence than low confidence.
• 1:26:03
  Okay, I like
• 1:26:04
  it.
• 1:26:05
  Yes. And ~ I and I think I'll take it a sweep and ~ you know what?
• 1:26:09
  I'm gonna complete the climb here and do it with high confidence.
• 1:26:13
  I I think ~ I think Toronto might score some points on Calgary.
• 1:26:17
  It's the Calgary defense is getting better and better week to week.
• 1:26:21
  But I think that they'll they will probably also harass Kelly
• 1:26:28
  a bit, may pick him off some
• 1:26:30
  And I just VA's playing so well with his receivers
• 1:26:35
  They they may they may put up fifty six points again.
• 1:26:38
  Many may not, but I think they'll put up enough to win the game.
• 1:26:40
  I don't see that Toronto defense being able to seriously slow them down.
• 1:26:45
  And frankly, even with Kolankowski going over to Toronto,
• 1:26:48
  I don't see the Toronto O line doing very well against that Calgary defense
• 1:26:52
  of monstrosities. I think it could be a long night for Mr.
• 1:26:55
  Kelly. And if his neck isn't fully recovered,
• 1:26:58
  maybe it's a short night.
• 1:27:01
  Mm-hmm.
• 1:27:02
  Friday night, Ottawa going into Saskatchewan.
• 1:27:05
  Well matched team. One is and seven,
• 1:27:07
  one is five and two.
• 1:27:09
  Yeah. Yeah.
• 1:27:11
  I'll take Saskatchewan. MJ?
• 1:27:13
  No
• 1:27:15
  You know, anecdotally, the year the Tycats were one and seventeen,
• 1:27:19
  they got a win off the off the riders.
• 1:27:21
  By a field goal.
• 1:27:22
  Yes they do. Yes.
• 1:27:26
  That being said, I you know, it's okay.
• 1:27:29
  I I talked up the Red Blacks last week 'cause I was like,
• 1:27:31
  they're coming off the bell do better.
• 1:27:32
  And sometimes when you fire a coach,
• 1:27:34
  you played better for a couple weeks.
• 1:27:36
  But I
• 1:27:37
  Yeah.
• 1:27:37
  think the brimstone fire and brimstone is wearing pretty thin pretty fast.
• 1:27:41
  ~ I think it'll be Saskatchewan.
• 1:27:44
  But I'm hoping I'm hoping the Red Blacks can give a run for their money
• 1:27:48
  and make it an entertaining game for all of us.
• 1:27:50
  Well I I was rather glib and and quick in in my analysis of going where
• 1:27:55
  I went with it. But the truth is,
• 1:27:57
  as GT has pointed out more than once,
• 1:27:59
  Saskatchewan traditionally has one game a year where they shouldn't
• 1:28:03
  be any problem winning it at home and they lose it.
• 1:28:06
  And this has all the hallmarks of that.
• 1:28:08
  Because are they down Emilus? Are they down KSB?
• 1:28:12
  You know, what are they putting out there for receiving receivers?
• 1:28:16
  The last four or five games they've
• 1:28:18
  They haven't looked as much like a well,
• 1:28:20
  actually that's not true. They looked a lot like a an offensive juggernaut
• 1:28:24
  in the Edmonton game a week ago,
• 1:28:27
  the first one in Saskatchewan.
• 1:28:28
  But the couple of games before that and this last game they looked tentative
• 1:28:32
  on offense, so they could lose it,
• 1:28:34
  but I just don't see it. How about you,
• 1:28:37
  GT?
• 1:28:38
  Yeah, I just don't see it. I just don't see even with their offense in in
• 1:28:43
  a bit of trouble and not playing great,
• 1:28:45
  their defense is just too good for admi for Ottawa's offense.
• 1:28:49
  And so I can't see it. I yeah,
• 1:28:51
  I just can't see it. I've got Saskatchewan.
• 1:28:54
  Great.
• 1:28:55
  This
• 1:28:55
  game we're gonna watch Tommy Stevens score like a hundred short-yard touchdowns
• 1:28:58
  Yeah, yeah. Yeah.
• 1:28:59
  and Ottawa
• 1:29:00
  fumbling from the two-yard line like a hundred ~ my goodness.
• 1:29:02
  Yes. Yes.
• 1:29:04
  Yeah.
• 1:29:05
  Yeah. I'm I'm waiting for the the the the game where Saskatchewan just decides,
• 1:29:12
  you know what? We're we're on our we're own our own ten yard line.
• 1:29:16
  We'll just let put Stevens in and let him run it to the to the goal line
• 1:29:20
  in a series of about twelve plays.
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  shows though that when a team's ready for it,
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  like if you looked at what Edmonton did against that,
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  it did not work nearly as well
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  against them as it had earlier who I forget who it was they were playing with
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  a couple of weeks back that they did that and it worked really well.
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  Edmonton made it tougher for them.
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  Speaking of Edmonton, Edmonton at Montreal you're wearing an Alouette shirt.
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  What are you gonna win a wear next week,
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  MJ?
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  Yeah.
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  Well you know what? This is a really good this this is the two top teams
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  in the league. This should it should be a fantastic game,
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  which probably means it'll be a garbage game.
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  but I'm hoping it's a good game,
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  and I think the Elks are gonna be in trouble in Montreal.
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  I think Montreal's gonna I'd I
• 1:30:07
  Okay.
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  can't I you know what? They if they take any of those stupid penalties like they
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  took against Saskatchewan, they're toast.
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  Okay, how about
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  Yeah.
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  you, G T?
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  If if ~ Cody thought the young guys were having trouble
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  at home against Saskatchewan, wait till they get into the loudness of McGill.
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  And so and everything that's gonna happen down there.
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  And for all those young guys that may never have been to Montreal before,
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  ~ it messes with you as as there's lots
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  Mm-hmm. There is that element.
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  of ~ lots of stories of that. Every team has got its stories.
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  So yeah, I
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  And it's for first place. And yeah,
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  I'm taking Montreal here. I think that this is a close game.
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  I think it's the third week in a row that Edmonton has been in this pressure point
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  This is the this is probably their toughest part of the schedule.
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  I don't know who they have next week,
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  yeah.
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  but but it's it's pretty tough for them through here.
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  So yeah, I will take Montreal here.
• 1:31:03
  I agree with everything that you said there,
• 1:31:05
  except for your conclusion. I think that Montreal is an extremely good team,
• 1:31:11
  but they haven't really been challenged lately.
• 1:31:14
  It's been a while since they've had a team
• 1:31:14
  That too. Yep.
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  push them push them to the limit and Edmonton this is business as usual after
• 1:31:23
  the last two weeks. I'm becoming a big believer in the Elks,
• 1:31:26
  so put me down for
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  The double E.
• 1:31:29
  And the last one, it's Hamilton,
• 1:31:31
  so we'll let you go first again,
• 1:31:32
  MJ. Hamilton at B C
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  Alright, so if I were Buck Pierce,
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  I would not start Nathan this week against that Hamilton defense if
• 1:31:44
  a shoulder is not fully healed.
• 1:31:46
  I would start Salter again.
• 1:31:49
  I think they're gonna start Nathan,
• 1:31:50
  and I don't think they should.
• 1:31:52
  I don't know who is starting for the Ti-Cats I'm hoping it's Ford.
• 1:31:57
  He looked better than Frost. Maybe Frost will look better with first team reps.
• 1:32:02
  Maybe.
• 1:32:04
  BC's got a kicking issue too. If they need to if Hamilton stops them and they need
• 1:32:09
  a fifty yard field goal, it's not happening.
• 1:32:12
  Is Isaiah wooden bad?
• 1:32:14
  BC's special teams is really bad.
• 1:32:18
  you know what? I'm gonna take the Ti-cats I wait,
• 1:32:21
  Going for the upset. All right.
• 1:32:24
  Yeah. I
• 1:32:24
  well, well
• 1:32:26
  I think that no, I think that B C is probably gonna end up being the favorite.
• 1:32:29
  especially
• 1:32:30
  Yeah.
• 1:32:30
  if Nathan's
• 1:32:30
  Yeah.
• 1:32:31
  back. so I I don't I don't disagree with anything you said.
• 1:32:35
  I just yeah, it's that's I think B C will be the favorite.
• 1:32:38
  ~
• 1:32:38
  Okay. So
• 1:32:39
  are you going with them then or?
• 1:32:41
  they have played well in the last three games or so.
• 1:32:46
  They have played well. I thought their defense has come around and
• 1:32:50
  has been playing better. I am going to go with BC.
• 1:32:53
  Yes, I am going to go with BC.
• 1:32:55
  I know they've got some some areas of weakness still and they're not clean
• 1:33:00
  by any means.
• 1:33:01
  But I think they've been playing better and they still have the makings
• 1:33:05
  of a better team. And I think like MJ,
• 1:33:08
  if they start Salter then that kinda because ~ Hamilton's defense,
• 1:33:13
  as I said earlier, is very good.
• 1:33:15
  But I don't know if anybody can really get that guy under control right now.
• 1:33:20
  and then you can always go to Nathan if you have to.
• 1:33:22
  so maybe that's the maybe that's a trick,
• 1:33:25
  or maybe you do.
• 1:33:26
  Nathan and Salt are back and forth for a little while and to really throw them off.
• 1:33:30
  Okay. And for me it is obviously the toughest decision of the week,
• 1:33:34
  and it's got a lot to do with is it Nathan or Salter in there,
• 1:33:37
  who starts out of the the three choices for Hamilton.
• 1:33:41
  So lots of variables. But what I do know is that Hamilton defense is very good.
• 1:33:47
  Mm-hmm.
• 1:33:47
  And even with Nathan back in there,
• 1:33:50
  I don't see it being a
• 1:33:53
  40, 50 point game by BC. I think their ceiling on the game with Nathan
• 1:33:58
  in is probably high twenties. If they get high twenties,
• 1:34:03
  they maybe win, but then again,
• 1:34:05
  Hamilton. Hamilton is a a little bit of a running team,
• 1:34:09
  but they are. Whoever they put in at quarterback,
• 1:34:11
  they want to throw a lot more.
• 1:34:12
  And BC's pass defense is a lot worse than its run defense.
• 1:34:16
  So.
• 1:34:19
  Question is can the Hamilton quarterbacks find the op the receivers who
• 1:34:23
  are going to be open? And I think they will enough.
• 1:34:26
  So I'm going with MJ. I'm going Hamilton.
• 1:34:29
  All right.
• 1:34:30
  Alrighty. That's it. Those are our brave choices.
• 1:34:34
  I guess we're almost done just saying our goodbyes
• 1:34:40
  GT Any closing thoughts, etc, etc
• 1:34:43
  Sure. There's one more thing that I thought I should mention over that happened over
• 1:34:47
  this weekend because as I said I had my grandchildren here for the weekend
• 1:34:51
  and I also have a CFL checkers game that is all the teams logos
• 1:34:57
  and you play CFL teams ~ in checkers.
• 1:35:00
  So we went with at the playoffs as of now and did the entire run through
• 1:35:06
  the gray cup and between myself and my grandson.
• 1:35:10
  And ~ I will tell you that in the end it was Saskatchewan over Toronto
• 1:35:17
  in a
• 1:35:17
  Ha ha ha.
• 1:35:18
  in a close one, but Saskatchewan over Toronto to take the gray cup
• 1:35:23
  in this year's Checkers Tournament.
• 1:35:25
  And other than that, yes,
• 1:35:26
  Damn s
• 1:35:28
  that is my closing remarks, and you can find me very,
• 1:35:30
  very occasionally ~ at GT Barnum on Blue Sky.
• 1:35:35
  Yes. Damn, so the the podcast's team loses in the Grey Cup.
• 1:35:39
  ~ the hardship we put up with around here.
• 1:35:40
  Yeah. But they got there.
• 1:35:40
  No tragic Tragic
• 1:35:45
  Yes. Yes, I was also thinking earlier,
• 1:35:48
  you know, the nice thing you can say to your grandkids is congratulations
• 1:35:54
  on picking Hamilton as your team.
• 1:35:56
  You're young. There's a chance you'll see them win a Grey Cup.
• 1:35:59
  With that I'll hand it over to MJ.
• 1:36:02
  Honestly,
• 1:36:03
  honestly.
• 1:36:04
  Yes, this is a big sports weekend for me.
• 1:36:08
  The CEBL playoffs are on Thursday.
• 1:36:10
  They play all at the same time.
• 1:36:11
  Four games all at once. They're on YouTube,
• 1:36:13
  CBC Jam, and TSM Plus. I will be cheering for Edmonton.
• 1:36:17
  My husband and I's teams are playing each other this weekend.
• 1:36:20
  We are not friends that day for that three hours.
• 1:36:24
  And yeah, you can find us on Instagram,
• 1:36:26
  getting some good comments. Amar Domin liked one of our reels,
• 1:36:30
  so we're we are on the app.
• 1:36:33
  And you can find me over on Blue Sky.
• 1:36:35
  Being sad about the Blue Jays,
• 1:36:37
  posting about football and basketball sometimes at Sports and Plants.
• 1:36:41
  Very nice. And for me, of course,
• 1:36:44
  ~ you can find me at any of at the CFL outsiders on most of
• 1:36:49
  the platforms except Instagram,
• 1:36:51
  which will take you to MJ. But any of the others,
• 1:36:54
  just drop me a note and or check it out and see what ~ what occurs to
• 1:36:58
  me during the week and whatnot.
• 1:37:00
  And yes, other than that, usual beg.
• 1:37:04
  Please subscribe. It's nice to see the subscriber base increasing on a weekly basis.
• 1:37:08
  We like that. Drop a like, drop a rating,
• 1:37:10
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• 1:37:13
  social media stuff that helps us out.
• 1:37:15
  I'll also say real quick, as I mentioned earlier,
• 1:37:17
  if you follow fantasy at all, I'll drop Old Man Play CFL Weekly Fantasy Thursday
• 1:37:21
  afternoon once we've got the depth charts out.
• 1:37:24
  But other than that, I'm
• 1:37:27
  I'm really curious about this weekend.
• 1:37:30
  We could we could have there's one game that looks like it should be fantastic.
• 1:37:35
  And the other three I don't know,
• 1:37:38
  but those are some of the ones that are turning out to be real exciting stuff.
• 1:37:41
  Maybe not pretty stuff, but exciting stuff in the CFL.
• 1:37:44
  So everybody, that's it.
• 1:37:47
  That's us for this week. Enjoy the CFL.
• 1:37:50
  Enjoy your weekend, and until next week,
• 1:37:53
  for MJ and GT, this is old man saying
• 1:37:57
  Get the hell off my lawn.