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That’s Not the Way You Storm a Concrete Castle/The CFL Outsiders S03 E 18 · The CFL Outsiders

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  Hey kids, welcome back to another episode of the CFL Outsiders.
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  I remain as always your 100% impartial,
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  completely unbiased and ~ distracted host Old
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  Man Shouting at Clouds. Joining me this week,
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  as usual, is MJ looking very
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  Very colorful and summary
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  Yeah.
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  showing out that you you clean up real nice.
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  It's still summer, everyone. you
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  know, it's my favorite time of year for two reasons.
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  First, CFL and MLB playoffs are heating up,
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  and two, there's Taylor Swift sightings at NFL games again.
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  Yes. That's true. And and I'm sure we're gonna hear about everyone there is.
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  Over and over. Okay.
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  Yes. Yes. The
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  the thirty seconds they show her is a seemingly a massive deal.
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  Yes.
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  Yes. Well I said distracted and I'll say I apologize in advance
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  if there's any banging, clattering,
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  anything like that going on. Back behind this wall here we are have them replacing
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  the the furnace and air conditioning.
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  So they're working on that,
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  trying to get it done before they they finish off for the day and that we
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  may or may not get some noise out of that.
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  And then the the other thing I wanted to ask is so how did you do with
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  the quadruple header?
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  So I hosted a tailgate party and then I went to a game and then there
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  was 30,000 people at the game and took me quite a while to get home from
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  my that game so I saw a little bit of the red blacks and Argos and I
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  saw the second half of the Allo WhatsBC game.
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  So that that's too much. There's too much football one day.
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  I know I can't believe I'm saying that,
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  but it's just it's too much for
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  For me personally. I need to have it spread out a little.
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  Yes. I
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  Yeah, they some people on T SN panel were saying,
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  this is great, we have to do this every year.
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  I don't know. It it was okay, but I was pretty punch drunk by the time it was over.
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  I sat through all four of them.
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  Mind you, I also had a few of the Mott Caesars.
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  Feel free
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  Well
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  to sponsor us if you want Mots,
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  but I had a couple of those during the Saskatchewan game just to stay calm and
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  Well, the BC Montreal
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  game was like the length of two football games,
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  so that the they just
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  ~ yeah.
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  that that day was never ending.
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  Yeah.
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  Funnily enough, that's what I that's what I thought maybe the title
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  to this episode should be The Neverending Football Game.
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  We'll see what else we come up with.
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  Couple other comments on it just in j in general generic type stuff.
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  I was really happy to see it wasn't sponsored by a betting company.
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  Good to see we're going back to Canadian wholesome routes and having
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  a whiskey company do the sponsorship.
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  And
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  Then the other part of it was man did TSN have to work hard to get that staffed.
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  they only had two people on the panel for the first two games.
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  And then Lapo, who did the play by play in the Toronto game,
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  managed to get back to the panel and sit in for the last two.
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  But yeah, they had Marshall and Lapo doing Toronto,
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  they had Dustin and Luke doing Winnipeg,
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  Farhan and Duane doing Edmonton,
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  and Rod and Suits doing
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  B C. So I don't think they had anybody else available.
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  Okay. It was
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  Farhan because I was watching some highlights and I was like,
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  I don't recognize this voice. Who did they end
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  Yeah. Yeah.
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  up having? Like I knew they had to pull someone in,
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  but I I should have known it was Farhan.
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  Yeah,
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  he's the ~ he's the emergency ~ play by play guy that gets called
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  Emergency backup.
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  in when they really need them.
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  But yeah, they they they had pretty much run out everybody that they had.
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  Although Davis Sanchez wasn't there.
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  I didn't know what he was doing unless he was off with B C because apparently
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  he got inducted in the B C Hall Football Hall of Fame.
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  So I don't know if that's coming up or whatever.
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  I just saw a quick headline on it.
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  But yeah. So fun weekend. We've got
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  Lots to talk about with the games.
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  We got a few news items. You were just mentioned to me you hadn't seen this.
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  I wanted to talk about the fact that Dinwiddie's not taking losing well.
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  He ~ He came out and complained about the fact that late in that game there
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  was a fairly I thought very legitimate offensive pass interference call when
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  a receiver ran right over a and
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  cost them a chance to get a touchdown,
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  they a kicked a field goal, but couldn't get the lead with it.
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  And he came out saying, That's a homer call.
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  That's terrible. That's ridiculous.
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  first of all, what do you think of that?
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  Quick reaction.
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  Well, I didn't actually see the play,
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  so I'm not sure I'm qualified to comment.
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  Okay. Well,
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  even if it was, say, a legitimate call,
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  how do you feel about ~ a CFL coach accusing the officials of making homer calls?
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  Well is this the same press conference where he yelled about McLeod Bethel
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  and threw him under the bus too?
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  I think
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  Yes.
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  that's just a that the house is on fire over there and Ryan the I don't know
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  why anyone's surprised what Ryan says anymore.
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  Because he loves to say things and
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  Yeah.
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  then with no follow through. ~ he po I'm he might probably get fined by the league,
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  I assume. I I other leagues you get fined for criticizing officials,
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  so I assume that's what's going but maybe he just
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  Well that could be and and that was my reaction I sure as heck hope
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  he gets a discipline out of this.
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  'Cause what they fined people for on other things,
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  when you're calling the integrity of officials into question and you're
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  the head coach, to me that's just unacceptable.
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  He's not the only one though.
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  No, he's not the only one, but that was to me that was blatant.
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  I mean there's one step between
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  going, Well, I thought that was a bad call and saying calling it a homer call.
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  Called because it was for the home team.
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  Yeah, they almost won that game.
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  That's not a good look.
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  They almost won that game, so that's probably just the a reaction to that,
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  because they were they were so close.
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  Yeah, but they weren't either.
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  I mean they were close to winning,
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  but they had no reason to win that.
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  That was a game that it was just a matter of whoever was the least inept
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  was gonna win that sucker. I mean we'll talk about that in the game,
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  but yeah. Anyway.
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  It's not the worst
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  thing Ryan has said in the news.
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  No,
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  it is not. I'll give you that.
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  Well, maybe it is though, because it's I mean,
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  it's not classy to call out your players.
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  It's not classy to complain about a bunch of other stuff.
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  But when you start questioning the integrity of league officials and again,
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  bad enough for a player, but to me from a head coach,
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  that is just that doesn't stand.
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  You you can't let that happen.
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  Maybe I'm too strong of an opinion on it.
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  But anyway, let's go on to some other stuff.
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  ~ not necessarily happy stuff.
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  We did see a couple of unfortunately a couple of ~ injuries on the weekend.
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  Deadman in that ~ Montreal BC game was badly injured on a return and had
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  to leave on a cart, so he's probably done for the game.
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  And Zach threw an interception that got a good return by Saskatchewan and
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  They're saying he got injured attempting the tackle.
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  He didn't. He ran over close to where the tackle was going to happen
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  on the sidelines and and kind of hovered there and ended up getting tripped back
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  a little bit backwards and that was enough to take him out of the game.
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  So you know, not minimizing that he was hurt,
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  but it wasn't like he went.
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  Should not have even
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  been over the you pretend to jog that way.
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  You don't run that way, Zach. Come on.
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  Yeah. Yeah, you don't get that close to it at all.
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  You just pretend
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  No, and but I I just
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  make it look like you're gonna help out,
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  but you don't.
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  And that's
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  what he was trying to do, but he got a little too close to the action.
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  ~
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  So that's why I get a little bit heated when I hear people say,
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  Well he got injured making the tackle.
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  No, he did not. He got injured 'cause he didn't stay quite far enough away.
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  But anyway, hopefully he'll
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  Yeah.
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  be back after the bye. Dedmon I'm thinking is from what they showed,
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  ~ well when I s watched
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  he's
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  that, I for sure his knee blew out apart into a million pieces.
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  Yeah. Yeah, hyper extended.
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  And then I thought that was
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  the worst of it, and then all of a sudden they're stabilizing his neck.
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  And I'm like, I didn't even see the neck part 'cause I was
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  too horrified watching his knee like bend
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  Yeah.
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  backwards and then land on that knee.
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  I was like, ~ no. no.
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  I think
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  And then
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  Mills and Rankin both got injured in the that Elks
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  you were live
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  was it obvious when Mills got hurt?
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  'Cause they on the T V there was nothing pointing it out.
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  I I was
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  It ju they just you suddenly noticed he wasn't back in the game and
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  I was sitting in the end zone where the Calgary Stampeders go into their locker room
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  and all of a sudden I'm watching the game and I see Mills walking by into
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  the locker room in the middle of the game but I didn't actually see how
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  he got hurt or when he would have even got hurt.
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  I just saw him walking across into the locker room and I was like,
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  that's not good.
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  that's
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  what I saw on the television too,
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  is it looked to me like he wasn't treated on the field Whatever happened,
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  he got up and ran off. And then Rankin was treated,
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  but it didn't look like that bad,
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  then he was gone.
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  Well, I watched Rourke also run off in that exact same spot where he jogged
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  off and then just never right,
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  so who knows? Tough week,
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  Yeah. Yeah. So it yeah, was a we weird
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  tough week.
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  I th well see later in my notes,
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  but I think they both did not participate,
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  but neither of them seemed like they were really serious injuries,
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  whereas the the Dedmon one one was obviously
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  well that
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  was very obvious. Yeah.
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  Very bad.
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  So that's unfortunate and hopefully he'll be able to come back
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  and play another year. They also had we had and ~ you mentioned that
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  you wanted to talk about this a little bit.
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  Montreal went into their bat back way back in their way back machine
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  and pulled a bag talk old man,
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  pulled a trick out of their bag of tricks from two or three years ago.
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  Yeah, I just want this is this is in defense of the onsite punt.
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  This doesn't happen very often.
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  Actually, someone put together some stats for us,
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  and in the last there's only been since 2014,
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  it's only been attempted seven times.
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  One by BC in 2014, one by Ottawa in 2017,
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  and between 2023 and 2026, Montreal's done it five times.
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  ~ this is actually everyone's like,
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  this is like a a stupid Mickey Mouse thing.
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  I'm like, this is actually an extremely difficult rule,
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  like a trick like play to pull off.
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  It's dangerous. It has a huge payoff,
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  but it is very risky. and then,
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  you know
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  the Vancouver, all the Vancouver news outlets are like,
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  we all we this rule needs to go.
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  And then everyone's talking about how the next year they they'll probably
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  get rid of this rule. And I don't want this rule to leave.
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  Don't be salty because your team doesn't practice it and your coaches can't figure
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  it out.
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  Don't don't be mad about it. You go figure it out.
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  Montreal has Jason Maas has figured this rule out,
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  and it doesn't happen very often because again,
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  the there's a high risk in it.
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  But when it works out, it's magic.
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  And these are the exact rules that make me love this game.
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  Yes. Yes. Yeah.
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  I
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  love this rule. I love, but I love rouges.
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  I love quirky little random things.
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  If you start getting rid of all of these and making it generic,
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  I mean, everyone loves a trick play.
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  They are fun and exciting. This was very fun and exciting and it caused
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  a lot of drama and everyone's talking about it.
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  That's exactly what the CFL wants and needs.
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  And so you're gonna probably take it away.
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  You're taking away goalposts, you're taking away Rouges,
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  you're taking away other things.
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  And y if you make it so it's the exact same,
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  almost the exact same rules as some other league that we shall name,
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  what's what what
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  makes me watch CFL over that league when they are basically doing the same thing.
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  I love this and I'm if it leaves I'll be so sad.
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  Yes.
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  Good good radio depends on descent.
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  We're supposed to argue about everything,
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  but I can't argue with you on this one.
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  knowing the obscure rules, knowing the rule book as well as Jason Moss does,
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  is an advantage and shouldn't be taken away just because other people don't do it.
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  And frankly, that is such a brilliant play,
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  not just because it gets you the first down,
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  that you know the rules, you can pull it out and use it when it works.
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  But it also means that next time you're in a second and long,
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  they can't just drop back ten,
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  fifteen yards. If they want to defend that,
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  they have to defend the whole field,
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  and that gives you an advantage on a deep pass.
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  So no, don't get rid of it. I mean,
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  teams can choose to use it or not.
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  The fact that they don't choose to use it does not make it Mickey Mouse.
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  It is a brilliant understanding of the rule book.
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  Reward the people that
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  Yeah, there's eight other coaches
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  that could be doing this and they are not.
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  Yeah.
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  Certainly could. Yeah, reward the people that know how to make the game exciting.
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  Don't dumb it down to I didn't like that 'cause we weren't ready for it.
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  You know, it's
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  your defensive coach also knows the rule book,
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  so they should be ready for it.
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  Yeah, exactly. That's the thing,
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  And you
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  isn't it?
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  know Montreal likes to pull it out.
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  They haven't done it for two years.
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  So just wait in the back pocket.
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  Mm-hmm. It's just sitting there in that back pocket for when they need it.
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  Going in towards the playoffs,
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  it gives
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  everybody else one more thing.
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  It gives them an advantage in every game going forward now.
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  Cause every defense has to be ready for it.
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  it's ~ unique little rules that have been around this league since
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  it started before the league started in nineteen forty nine,
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  around Canadian football. Don't lose them.
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  Celebrate them. Sorry. Sorry folks,
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  we can't argue over this one for
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  Anything else on that other than to say good job,
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  Yeah, just like
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  Jason?
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  yeah, don't good job Jason and like the rest of you,
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  don't be salty.
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  the thing is it was also executed so well that the rest
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  Yeah.
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  didn't even know what was going on.
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  No, Jason had to use a challenge for that and I felt bad.
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  Yeah. Which is
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  I was like, he shouldn't
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  have to. They you refs, you also know the rules.
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  the refs
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  did not perform well in that game.
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  so we can talk about it, just know that at the start of the season,
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  they're like, we need to put the top two reffing crews on the Banjo Bowl
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  and that Calgary Emmonton game,
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  because those are gonna be the two hardest ones.
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  There's gonna be it's gonna be smash mouth,
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  and we're gonna really crack down.
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  Those are where we need to send our best crews.
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  This BC Montreal thing, it'll be fine.
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  And but actually
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  Yeah.
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  Were they did they miscall that,
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  But you just know they were like we'll
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  yeah.
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  just put the the chillest refing crew on there,
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  it'll be fine.
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  I personally, you know, I hate to see it when the official crew doesn't do well.
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  Most we've got some great officiating in this league.
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  And it's unfortunate when it when it slips up some one thing that
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  we missed last week that I forgot about that I absolutely loved I think
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  it was the Sunday game. I think it was the the Labor Day Classic that
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  Ben Major did as the as the head ref and then showed up in was it
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  the Hamilton game as the umpire.
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  'Cause they were short a man, so
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  Yeah, they were short. If only
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  they had NFL refing crews just waiting at games so we can pop them in.
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  Yeah. well. Okay,
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  Good job, Ben.
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  what else can
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  what else can we talk about? Tiger Cats quarterbacks.
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  ~ to the surprise of absolutely no one,
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  as you pointed out in our in our email exchange earlier,
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  Bo has been ruled out for the rest of the season.
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  Trey was limited in practice Monday.
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  They listed him as full today.
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  So I hope he's okay. I don't know after that,
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  trust you know what I
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  don't trust that the TyCat's medical staff so
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  ~ I don't know that
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  I hope he's gonna be okay. I hope they don't wreck him.
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  Yeah.
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  But anyway, there's ~ there is that.
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  a few other just quick points to run through.
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  ~ god. I got another one double I sent you like four copies of
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  the the rundown because I kept getting it wrong,
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  and I realize now looking at it,
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  there's another one that I put on here twice.
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  But anyway, the the Elks clinched their playoff spot.
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  Yes.
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  Not a home
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  game yet, but a playoff spot and
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  Montreal has done the did the same last week and with Montreal
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  it pretty much guarantees them a ho a p home playoff game,
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  but but the Elks have punched the ticket,
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  so two teams are in. The two teams that are sitting with where are they at now?
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  I think is it nine and three records they're at or ten and three?
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  Yeah, they're both at nine they're both I think at nine and three.
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  Yeah.
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  I think we're at thirteen games,
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  so maybe it's ten and three they're at.
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  Yeah, they're ten and three. 'Cause they're the riders are eight and five.
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  And ~ Yeah. I can check that.
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  Well, this is nice
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  because the the Thai the Thai cats,
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  goodness. The Elks haven't clinched a playoff spot since twenty nineteen.
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  And
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  Yes.
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  they are now the first team in the West to do that.
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  So what a turnaround for them.
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  To not just clinch, but like you're the first team in.
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  So yeah, they are ten and three.
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  But yeah, so that's that's a really exciting for the Elks organization.
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  Mark
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  Killum, what a what a this is so fantastic.
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  Yes.
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  I can't say they're playing fantastic football.
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  They're playing very good football,
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  but they're also just refusing to lose.
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  Yeah, so
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  They're doing better than everyone else.
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  it's not like they're winning these games by being perfect,
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  but they're winning them by just refusing to lose.
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  And that's impressive.
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  That's a dangerous playoff team.
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  At the other end of the spectrum in the west we have the Stampeders,
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  and you mentioned you wanted to talk about that a little bit.
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  ~ well I just wanted to talk about the amazing race.
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  Miss Calgary Stampeters. well,
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  I thought that sorry, were they with did that you said Amazing Race and Stampeders.
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  I thought they were separate topic.
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  because it's together. They're together.
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  Okay, well,
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  Amazing Race is further down the rundown.
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  Ignore that. Talk about it now.
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  So if you have been watching Amazing Race Canada tonight,
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  well by the time you listen to this tomorrow
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  the finale would have been the day before.
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  It's they're doing the finale for the Amazing Race Canada in Calgary
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  and they're gonna be at the Cavalry Stadium and they're gonna be
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  at Mac McMahon Stadium doing stuff with and I saw a big ad and it said Grey
• 18:29
  Cup Festival on the Amazing Race ads of the trailers for the new episode.
• 18:34
  So I thought that was really awesome.
• 18:35
  Like what a good PR move. I bet you the Calgary Stampeders organized this
• 18:39
  and not the CFL. So good job Stampers for getting your team on TV
• 18:43
  Yeah, good work.
• 18:44
  Maybe I will CPA.
• 18:45
  I'm hoping I'll see PA. I hope so.
• 18:47
  Possibly. I Yeah.
• 18:48
  I don't think
• 18:49
  so, but you never know.
• 18:51
  Obviously I haven't been watching the Amazing Race because I didn't realize those
• 18:55
  were the same topic. But but yeah,
• 18:56
  it's not the first time. They did do they did a ~ show featuring
• 19:00
  the riders last year in Regina.
• 19:02
  So it Okay,
• 19:02
  Yeah, so they've been to Commonwealth Stadium doing
• 19:05
  yeah.
• 19:06
  stuff there and then yeah, they had r ~ not was last year before they
• 19:09
  had where the ride where they were at Mosaic and you had to catch a pass from Trevor
• 19:14
  at practice with like a s
• 19:14
  Mm. Yeah.
• 19:16
  scheme set up. And they called the play and you had to run the route
• 19:19
  and catch it before you got your pass.
• 19:20
  I was like, ~ boy. I don't know if I could catch a pass from Trevor Harris.
• 19:23
  Yeah. ~ Well,
• 19:24
  I hope we hopefully he wasn't just like gunning it in there.
• 19:26
  hopefully he took pity on them and and Yeah,
• 19:30
  hopefully he
• 19:30
  had some touch passes going on.
• 19:32
  Yeah.
• 19:32
  But
• 19:33
  yeah. I I love the cross promotion.
• 19:35
  Love to see the C F L doing this.
• 19:37
  You know, a lot of people complain in B C when they did had the Kelowna Shore people
• 19:43
  doing stuff. I thought, you know,
• 19:45
  not my kind of show, but I love the promotion and it's exactly the audience
• 19:48
  the C F L needs to promote too,
• 19:50
  so
• 19:50
  That was good. Now the amazing race again.
• 19:53
  Yeah. Keep it up, CFL, or Stampeders
• 19:54
  Yeah.
• 19:55
  or whoever's doing it.
• 19:57
  And if you find if you watch the Amazing Grace finality for me,
• 20:00
  friends, don't spoil it for me.
• 20:02
  Don't. I have to watch it tomorrow.
• 20:03
  Well okay. Well
• 20:06
  moving on from there, you mentioned that ~ Ryan in his whining threw
• 20:11
  MBT under the bus, said that he made a couple of mistakes when on
• 20:15
  and I shouldn't maybe I'll just drop back and say in my opinion that call that
• 20:18
  he was complaining about was a dead obvious one.
• 20:21
  It was a pick play, but he didn't
• 20:23
  even try to run past the D B. He ran straight into the center of him
• 20:27
  and knocked him off the play. And so yeah.
• 20:30
  Anyway. But after all after throwing MBT under the bus and saying all
• 20:34
  the things he did wrong in the game,
• 20:35
  he announced today he's starting against Calgary this weekend.
• 20:40
  So I think if they had started MBT they would have beat the Argos.
• 20:44
  They might well have
• 20:46
  He 'cause what I saw what I saw,
• 20:48
  I didn't watch the whole game,
• 20:49
  Friends. I was very busy. I I have
• 20:50
  Yeah.
• 20:51
  I have
• 20:52
  family and friends and things were going on.
• 20:54
  But it looked like McLeod was running that offense a little better.
• 20:58
  And he's a little bit more okay,
• 20:59
  so this is the thing. Jake's very chill and he doesn't get flustered,
• 21:03
  but McLeod is the opposite of that.
• 21:06
  And McLeod's gonna be yelling at people and he's gonna be like hyping people up.
• 21:09
  And I am actually surprised they didn't put him in earlier.
• 21:13
  I know everyone wants Barnes to start I get that.
• 21:15
  I get it. But at this point you are playing for a win.
• 21:19
  You're not playing to
• 21:20
  Yeah.
• 21:20
  get into the playoffs
• 21:21
  You're not playing for future,
• 21:22
  you are keeping sponsors and fans happy.
• 21:26
  And what keeps fans and sponsors happy is winning.
• 21:30
  So there I don't think he had a choice.
• 21:31
  I know people are gonna complain about that,
• 21:34
  but I think you have to start MBT.
• 21:36
  It's your best option to win going forward.
• 21:39
  And you know, Mr. Rogers would tell us to look for the helpers in times of crisis,
• 21:43
  Yeah.
• 21:43
  and I
• 21:43
  would contend that MBT is the helper here.
• 21:46
  I think so. Plus, get that win under your belts.
• 21:50
  That will make the team feel a little bit better about itself.
• 21:53
  And then maybe you consider putting Barnes in and see what what he's got.
• 21:57
  You have a pretty
• 21:58
  winnable schedule coming up.
• 22:00
  that first game between them and Geronto was so bad.
• 22:03
  When we get to the games, you know we don't do play by play and we don't talk about
• 22:07
  stats and everything. I've got my notes set up because I'm gonna
• 22:10
  run through the first half just because it's amazing how bad it was.
• 22:14
  So we'll we'll get to that. Anyway,
• 22:18
  the other bits of news, not too much else here.
• 22:20
  The Halifax Wanderers
• 22:23
  Football, soccer, however you want to say it team has apparently come
• 22:27
  up with a proposal for a new stadium that they say they want to have built
• 22:31
  as CFL ready to accommodate a CFL size field and be able to support a CFL team.
• 22:37
  Problem is it's an eleven thousand ste seat stadium.
• 22:41
  I don't think as much as the CFL needs to be looking at smaller stadiums
• 22:47
  and downsizing, you can't go down that much.
• 22:49
  Why?
• 22:50
  you need to be able to see at least twenty thousand to to be economical.
• 22:53
  Why? I don't think you do. I don't think you do.
• 22:53
  Yeah. maybe okay.
• 22:57
  what's the minimum fans you need to be able to run a team then?
• 23:00
  Well, look at there's teams running with fifteen thousand people
• 23:03
  in the stands constantly, continually.
• 23:03
  Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
• 23:05
  Look at the Argos. That's about a fifteen
• 23:08
  thousand The Stampeders are running about
• 23:09
  Yeah.
• 23:09
  fifteen thousand. Montreal runs around twenty.
• 23:12
  so
• 23:13
  Yeah.
• 23:15
  What's better having your eleven thousand stadium sold out every game
• 23:19
  or having a sixty thousand person stadium with nine thousand,
• 23:23
  ten, under fifteen thousand people sitting in it?
• 23:26
  I don't think we want any of the big,
• 23:28
  big stadiums anymore. I don't think eleven thousand that's your maximum.
• 23:33
  So you're you're starting out with a capacity to to earn two-thirds
• 23:37
  of the gate revenue of Ottawa and Toronto,
• 23:39
  which I don't think is feasible.
• 23:41
  I would say you get up to maybe not even twenty.
• 23:45
  build an eighteen thousand seat stadium and then if you can start selling it out,
• 23:49
  you're bringing in a reasonable crowd.
• 23:51
  But
• 23:53
  Something that small, it just I don't see it being workable for the CFL.
• 23:57
  Okay, to counter, I
• 23:57
  Yeah.
• 23:59
  have been told my whole life that this is a gate-driven ~ league and
• 24:02
  now I've been told that that is not true anymore,
• 24:05
  and that everything is about TV revenue.
• 24:07
  So why do I need 25,000-30,000 people at a game if I'm getting TV revenue?
• 24:12
  Quite possibly.
• 24:14
  Because these teams are floating with not sellout crowds unless you're Saskatchewan
• 24:19
  and Winnipeg, but I would say though those are pretty ~ th those aren't
• 24:22
  the norm anymore.
• 24:23
  Yes, exactly.
• 24:25
  So maybe you can, maybe the way of the future is a smaller stadium that's more
• 24:30
  intimate and doesn't feel like a cavern.
• 24:32
  And you have maybe I mean, soccer's not gonna want to build a 20,000 person stadium,
• 24:38
  and they're not going to. So they must know something.
• 24:41
  This is what I'm saying, because I'm like,
• 24:43
  they must know something, because they wouldn't have put CFL Stadium
• 24:46
  in there unless they knew something and had been talking.
• 24:49
  That wouldn't just be a random thing that they would put in a headline note.
• 24:54
  That's why I was.
• 24:55
  like interesting that they have exactly that capacity and CFL Stadium
• 25:00
  in their headline notes and I'm just wondering why if they hadn't been speaking
• 25:05
  to people behind the scenes.
• 25:07
  Yeah.
• 25:08
  Well possibly. there is not a right or wrong to this no it's an opinion,
• 25:13
  but look at us doing good radio.
• 25:15
  Conflicting with each other, disagreeing,
• 25:18
  hey
• 25:18
  I hate
• 25:20
  going to 30,000 people events.
• 25:21
  I don't like it. I would
• 25:23
  Yeah.
• 25:23
  much rather go to a 15, 10, 15,000 person event.
• 25:27
  That I have more fun. I have more fun.
• 25:30
  I I think intimate venues are gonna be the way of the future.
• 25:34
  I think I think we should be looking at in the range of the twenty
• 25:38
  to thirty thousand seat stadiums,
• 25:40
  but I could be wrong too. So we'll see.
• 25:43
  another Yeah. Yeah,
• 25:43
  I won't hold my breath on this because I've heard this before.
• 25:46
  this could
• 25:47
  yes, this could be the the wanderers looking for some public money
• 25:50
  and trying to find a way to say,
• 25:52
  they said they were fully funding it themselves.
• 25:52
  well, and it's not just us we can support a C F L team.
• 25:55
  I thought they said that they were gonna fund it themselves and they weren't taking
• 25:58
  did they? I I
• 25:59
  public money.
• 26:00
  if that art was in the article I missed it.
• 26:02
  ~ when I saw the headline said propose it,
• 26:04
  I assumed that they meant they were going for something else.
• 26:06
  Yeah, construction
• 26:06
  It is on the land they own.
• 26:08
  Yeah, construction funded privately by the Halifax Wanders,
• 26:11
  artificial turf field for year round reuse,
• 26:13
  size for soccer and Canadian football,
• 26:15
  commitment to five thousand hours of field time for community organizations,
• 26:18
  hidden parking garage for the hospital,
• 26:21
  permanent roof over all seats and permanent stage for hosting concerts.
• 26:24
  So Yeah.
• 26:25
  Not bad, maybe. And hey.
• 26:28
  Maybe we will end up with a CFL team in Kelowna then,
• 26:31
  'cause we could build a ten thousand seat stadium or convert the Apple Bowl into
• 26:36
  a ten thousand seat stadium quite easily here.
• 26:37
  You're never gonna
• 26:38
  scale building thirty to fifty thousand
• 26:41
  the Apple Bowl, which is our local field where the the touchdown Kelowna
• 26:44
  was was handled, ~ holds about two thousand people and part of
• 26:49
  the upgrades that they've already said they're or at least proposed they're gonna
• 26:52
  do is adding another five thousand to that seating.
• 26:55
  So that would take it up to seven.
• 26:56
  If it starts to look like a CFL team is coming in and you figure you can
• 27:00
  do it with ten to twelve thousand,
• 27:03
  that's not that much more construction.
• 27:05
  Who knows?
• 27:07
  They might be able to like
• 27:07
  Pipe dreams.
• 27:09
  put in temporary I mean they might be able to expand it for certain things.
• 27:12
  That's another reason.
• 27:12
  Yeah. Yeah, exactly. Well they expanded
• 27:14
  it nicely temporarily for the for the touchdown Kelowna,
• 27:18
  but yeah.
• 27:18
  I mean they did
• 27:19
  yeah. There's ways to do it,
• 27:21
  maybe it'd be like baseball where you can just pay to sit on the grass
• 27:24
  Yeah. They've they've they've been doing that in
• 27:24
  up on the berm.
• 27:25
  they used to do that in Taylor Field.
• 27:27
  I don't know if they do it i in Mosaic,
• 27:29
  but Taylor Field, the Labor Day,
• 27:30
  the end zones used to be completely or the grass behind the
• 27:33
  end zones completely packed with people.
• 27:34
  So yeah, who knows? And it certainly maybe it starts opening up the idea that,
• 27:39
  you know, Quebec City isn't quite so hard to do and some of those southern Ontario
• 27:43
  teams they or towns they talk about,
• 27:45
  cities like London and whatnot.
• 27:47
  Could be.
• 27:49
  Could be
• 27:50
  It would certainly also justify Victoria.
• 27:52
  I'm sure you could get that number of fans out in Victoria.
• 27:55
  We'll see. Speaking of of
• 27:58
  We'll see. Maybe Saskatchewan
• 27:59
  will get two teams one day.
• 28:02
  Yeah,
• 28:02
  s went up in Saskatoon. That would be interesting.
• 28:05
  Yeah.
• 28:05
  I'll tell you you go down to the junior level and the rivalry between
• 28:10
  the ~ the Thunder and ~ the Hilltops is intense.
• 28:15
  So yes.
• 28:17
  Speaking of attendance, not a bad week.
• 28:19
  They averaged twenty four thousand and actually just shy of twenty five thousand,
• 28:25
  which was pretty good. Winnipeg sold out,
• 28:27
  at
• 28:28
  Over thirty two. Edmonton was close with thirty one five,
• 28:32
  so if you don't like thirty thousand crowds,
• 28:35
  that must have been a tough weekend for ya.
• 28:37
  'Cause it looked like they were
• 28:38
  It was
• 28:38
  very busy and they sold out of everything.
• 28:42
  Except for candy.
• 28:43
  Yes. I believe that. Yes.
• 28:46
  So great.
• 28:48
  BC was down from their last game.
• 28:51
  They had twenty three, which is not bad,
• 28:52
  but they definitely had more when I think the last game was Saskatchewan,
• 28:56
  which would make sense. And Toronto had their lowest crowd of the season so far.
• 29:01
  At twelve and change. So there you go.
• 29:03
  Not much more than the eleven,
• 29:05
  yep.
• 29:07
  But yeah, they averaged just shy of twenty-five,
• 29:09
  which was about the middle of the pack for this season.
• 29:12
  We also saw a cup couple of well,
• 29:16
  sort of player transactions. One player transaction,
• 29:18
  ~ Nick Constantinum was my I remember is that how you pronounce it?
• 29:23
  Constantino? Anyway, the punter is back with Hamilton now.
• 29:26
  So that probably makes you happy.
• 29:28
  This is exciting. What little glimmer of
• 29:29
  Yeah.
• 29:31
  light, even though it's a dark days.
• 29:33
  Building for next year.
• 29:34
  I hope he
• 29:35
  stays, because he is very good at his job.
• 29:38
  Yeah. Yeah. Well if he's coming back now,
• 29:40
  I think there's probably a chance he's there for at least a year or two.
• 29:43
  And then the ~ the other one was we haven't heard officially about
• 29:47
  any of the injuries that happened on the weekend,
• 29:49
  but before the weekend ~ Kyrie Wilson,
• 29:51
  it the the linebacker from Calgary got put on the sixth game list.
• 29:55
  So that's not going to help.
• 29:56
  Yeah, I think he had surgery
• 29:58
  actually this week, so I think he had surgery based on Instagram.
• 30:00
  Sorry, which was that? did he?
• 30:03
  Okay, yeah. Yeah,
• 30:04
  so he's he'll pro I'm well, six game list,
• 30:07
  unless they somehow make the playoffs,
• 30:09
  he won't be back this season 'cause there's five games left.
• 30:11
  I'm assuming Brissett
• 30:13
  will be on that 'cause it looked like he broke his arm
• 30:16
  not on the list yet, but marked does did not participate this week.
• 30:19
  yeah,
• 30:19
  I bet. That did not look good.
• 30:21
  Okay, so shall we talk about the games?
• 30:24
  Alright. Like I said, I'm taking a slightly different approach to this
• 30:29
  one just because about two-thirds of the way through the second quarter I
• 30:35
  had in my notes This is really painful to watch.
• 30:39
  It was just what an a completely inept start to the game by both teams.
• 30:44
  It started out
• 30:46
  Toronto kicks off, Ottawa lets it bounce past the returner,
• 30:51
  gets into the end zone and gives them a rouge.
• 30:54
  So they start the scoring which with a kickoff rouge,
• 30:58
  which is really rare.
• 30:59
  Ottawa gets the ball at the 40.
• 31:01
  I think they got one first down.
• 31:03
  They get it down to like about the 50.
• 31:05
  Just outside of field goal range.
• 31:08
  Toronto stopped them. Good. So they punt and pin Toronto down at
• 31:13
  the eight yard line. Except Toronto's got too many men on the field.
• 31:16
  So now they get the ball inside the Toronto 50.
• 31:20
  I think it was down to like about the 43 in field goal range.
• 31:23
  Great.
• 31:24
  They give up a sack to take them out of field goal range.
• 31:26
  They punt, and Toronto takes over at the twenty three.
• 31:30
  So I also said in my notes an interesting coaching strategy to gain some more yard
• 31:35
  some more distance out of your end zone,
• 31:37
  And when they I also said they had a shot after that.
• 31:41
  Too many men that they had Mickey Donovan on the sideline doing his very best Dennis
• 31:45
  McKnight impersonation. He was a steaming special teams coach.
• 31:50
  But anyway, so there's that. So then Toronto they go basically Toronto gets
• 31:55
  the ball back, marches it fair reasonably well.
• 31:57
  Kelly gets intercepted. Ottawa goes two and out.
• 32:01
  They punt. Toronto gets the ball back,
• 32:06
  punts it through the end zone.
• 32:07
  Because they can't move anywhere.
• 32:09
  Ottawa goes two and out. Kelly gets a beautiful long pass to David Ungerer,
• 32:14
  about an eighty five yarder. And then throws an interception in the end zone.
• 32:19
  The Ottawa DB, instead of taking a knee in the end zone,
• 32:22
  decides to run it out, gets it to the two-yard line.
• 32:24
  You know? It's just ineptitude after ineptitude.
• 32:30
  They punt. Grant returns the punt down to the Ottawa 30.
• 32:34
  Fantastic. no, there's a penalty.
• 32:35
  We're back at the 45. Toronto gets it into field goal range then.
• 32:40
  Six minutes and fifty-two seconds to go in the second.
• 32:44
  Quarter, there's finally an actual scoring play.
• 32:47
  Ottawa puts MBT in, marches the field for a touchdown,
• 32:52
  but has to go on short yardage twice,
• 32:54
  including not all third and ones,
• 32:56
  to get it done. And then after that,
• 33:00
  Toronto that there's like a minute left.
• 33:01
  Toronto gets a good return, marches the ball right down to the Ottawa 10.
• 33:06
  Kelly gets sacked and they kick a field goal.
• 33:08
  So at that point, it was, I think.
• 33:11
  7-6 for Ottawa. But it was just everything they could possibly do to not win a game,
• 33:18
  both teams were doing. Kelly threw his nineteenth and twentieth interception
• 33:24
  of the season. That's a modern CFL record.
• 33:26
  Apparently Jonathan Jennings in twenty seventeen through nineteen.
• 33:30
  And
• 33:31
  Way back in, what did they say?
• 33:33
  Fifty-four. The Argo's Tom Debrowski threw thirty-four.
• 33:36
  So I don't think Kelly will get that in the last six games.
• 33:38
  But just yeah.
• 33:41
  Can you imagine if Scott was his coach?
• 33:42
  That's all I can think about.
• 33:43
  Yeah.
• 33:46
  That's all I can
• 33:47
  think about is that if Scott was coaching Kelly,
• 33:49
  how ~ fast he'd be sat down and
• 33:52
  Yeah.
• 33:52
  our buckle would be playing.
• 33:54
  Yes. Exactly. And then the second half got better,
• 33:59
  but not a lot better. Toronto kicked a convert wide.
• 34:02
  Pimpleton returns a ball all the way down to the Toronto twenty when they
• 34:09
  need a big play. And they can't advance it from there and have to get a field goal.
• 34:13
  They take that offensive pass interference once they've got a a touchdown on it.
• 34:18
  Chad does his very best to throw another interception and
• 34:23
  is only foiled by the fact he gets a D B that can't catch.
• 34:25
  There was a punch shanked out of bounds to make a short field for Ottawa
• 34:30
  to let them come back in Couldn't do anything with it.
• 34:32
  And then they managed to get the field goal to go ahead and win at the end of it.
• 34:36
  So just You said you saw some of the game.
• 34:40
  Did was there anything that looked like professional football in it to you?
• 34:43
  Well these are these are my three notes from the game.
• 34:47
  One
• 34:47
  Okay.
• 34:48
  We were all cheering for you, Ottawa.
• 34:50
  We all
• 34:50
  Okay.
• 34:51
  wanted you to win. Nothing would have made me happier than you winning
• 34:55
  and the Argos being the first team you win against.
• 34:58
  Chad, how do you throw have four hundred and forty-three passing yards
• 35:02
  but only win by three on a team whose like top like MBT threw 192 yards?
• 35:07
  Like come. So you're doing lots of things,
• 35:10
  but they're not you're not converting
• 35:12
  Mm-hmm.
• 35:13
  any of it.
• 35:14
  c Miller, I don't
• 35:16
  Like s there's been lots of talk about if Miller should like give Kelly
• 35:21
  the gears for this or not if you just let him play and I so you're
• 35:24
  not gonna be Scottin' sitting for an interception,
• 35:26
  but this cannot continue either.
• 35:28
  There's gotta be some middle there,
• 35:30
  and then Chad's like, Well, I don't wanna like do check downs.
• 35:33
  I wanna do the deep bike, I wanna and I get that.
• 35:36
  I get that, but at some point that is selfish.
• 35:40
  Mm-hmm.
• 35:41
  wind back to when GT was talking about Chad Kelly and his
• 35:45
  ~ emotional intelligence level and his selfishness and I think
• 35:50
  he said everything correctly.
• 35:52
  It's too bad because they have like a receiving core that is amazing.
• 35:56
  They have like Holly and Sean Lemon
• 36:00
  Yeah.
• 36:01
  and I expected them to like steamroll the red blacks,
• 36:05
  to be quite honest. So I was actually very shocked when I saw the score
• 36:09
  at half was 7-7. And I'm like,
• 36:12
  excuse me? Like
• 36:15
  Yeah.
• 36:15
  And then it came down to the last few minutes.
• 36:18
  and then I had a note before I found out,
• 36:20
  but I was like, is MPT starting the next game?
• 36:22
  And that was my question, and it has been answered.
• 36:24
  ~
• 36:24
  Yeah.
• 36:25
  but yeah, I think if he had been playing,
• 36:27
  they probably would have won that game.
• 36:29
  He seems he think the receivers seem to be playing
• 36:29
  Yeah, 'cause they basically gave up the first quarter.
• 36:32
  Did nothing.
• 36:34
  better for him. You can tell when receivers are upset with their quarterback.
• 36:38
  Yeah.
• 36:38
  You will see how hard they are trying,
• 36:40
  how hard they'll lay out, how fast they'll run a route.
• 36:43
  Are they how willing are they to take a hit for a a catch?
• 36:47
  And that's not happening with Maier And so it seemed to be happening better with
• 36:52
  MBT.
• 36:53
  Yeah.
• 36:54
  And you know what, MBT, like I will say,
• 36:56
  like Ryan calling him out. I think MBT is like basically doing Ryan a favor.
• 37:00
  he doesn't need to be up here.
• 37:02
  He's running a football camp. He's got things going on.
• 37:04
  I don't think he expected to actually come back.
• 37:04
  Yeah.
• 37:06
  I think
• 37:06
  Ryan begged him to come back, and he's doing him a favor.
• 37:09
  And so you call him out in the media,
• 37:11
  and then I think maybe he's like making it up to him,
• 37:14
  being like, fine, you can start.
• 37:15
  Like I just I don't know what's going on.
• 37:16
  Yeah. I
• 37:17
  Like it's
• 37:18
  just so wild.
• 37:20
  do not make the mistake of trying to apply logic to Ottawa at this point in s
• 37:24
  no, it's
• 37:24
  just I think you're you you're throwing everything at the wall
• 37:27
  and hoping something sticks. I get the
• 37:27
  Yeah. Yeah.
• 37:28
  desperation and I get that, but it's just someone needs to be calm there
• 37:33
  and not Jake, that was too calm,
• 37:35
  but somebody in management needs to be calmer and I'm hoping maybe maybe
• 37:39
  Jim was like you need to start McLeod.
• 37:41
  Yes.
• 37:42
  Now, I will say on the upside,
• 37:45
  they certainly didn't take a lot of penalties in this game.
• 37:47
  I think they took three for twenty five yards.
• 37:51
  they've been taking a bunch more.
• 37:52
  They they do seem to be coming together.
• 37:54
  I've talked in the past about a desperate team is dangerous,
• 37:57
  but they are desperate in the wrong ways.
• 37:59
  This game they were desperate in the right ways.
• 38:02
  They were going for it on third and two or three when they had a chance.
• 38:05
  They weren't doing stupid things to to try and score at the at an end of
• 38:10
  a game or anything. So so yeah,
• 38:11
  it they may have some hope. We'll see.
• 38:16
  They're they've rebuilt that defensive backfield and
• 38:19
  Apparently it works not bad. You know,
• 38:22
  Toronto's whole thing is we're gonna get the big plays and put and we
• 38:26
  can give up interceptions 'cause we're gonna put up four hundred yards
• 38:29
  and forty points on you. Well they put up four hundred yards and twenty six points.
• 38:32
  Yeah.
• 38:33
  and could easily have lost that and and yeah,
• 38:35
  what you said about Kelly throwing the interceptions,
• 38:37
  the other question on that is what are you trying to do?
• 38:39
  Are you trying to win enough games in the regular season that you look relevant
• 38:44
  and hopefully don't lose the fans?
• 38:46
  Or are you trying to win a gray cup?
• 38:47
  they don't care. They don't care about losing fans.
• 38:48
  Yeah. Yes,
• 38:50
  They don't have fans.
• 38:52
  but my point is if you're trying if you want to get into the playoffs
• 38:55
  and win the gray cup,
• 38:57
  You've got to win three games against teams that are at least competent
• 39:02
  and the last two are probably going to be against very good teams.
• 39:04
  And you're not going to do that throwing three or four interceptions in a game.
• 39:08
  So why are you building an offense that's dependent on that?
• 39:13
  Well we were saying, like defenses are starting to ramp up.
• 39:16
  Like the offences were outplaying them the beginning of this year,
• 39:19
  and usually it's the opposite,
• 39:20
  but now defenses have a caught up and it's th it's not so easy sailing
• 39:25
  out there on the long bombs anymore.
• 39:27
  Yeah. Yeah, the game film's starting to pay off.
• 39:27
  Yeah.
• 39:31
  Yes. And speaking of it, that's a good segue into our second game,
• 39:36
  which was the banjo bowl and Winnipeg nineteen Saskatchewan six.
• 39:41
  to me the whole story of this game was how well the Winnipeg defense played
• 39:47
  and the fact that Mark Mueller just could not scheme his receivers open.
• 39:51
  Even the passes they were catching,
• 39:52
  everything was contested.
• 39:54
  The Winnipeg coverage was just it was blanket on that Saskatchewan offense.
• 39:59
  And you can blame, yeah, you can blame a bit of that on the fact that,
• 40:03
  they've got newer receivers in there and even the Weeb,
• 40:06
  who's been doing well as a rookie,
• 40:08
  wasn't in for this game. But it wasn't all of that.
• 40:11
  They just weren't getting anybody open.
• 40:13
  the only thing that they were getting that did not give them
• 40:17
  a tightly contested catch.
• 40:20
  was little short outs to Del Duncan Busby the just the l the little short sideline
• 40:24
  stuff to him, they had a a yard or two of separation.
• 40:28
  Everything else, every other pass,
• 40:30
  there was a Winnipeg D B right on top of the receiver.
• 40:33
  So fantastic and job. And I mean again,
• 40:36
  Winnipeg scored nineteen points.
• 40:38
  And that's pretty common. So it's obvious for Winnipeg to win their defense
• 40:43
  has to play really well.
• 40:44
  And they
• 40:46
  Did did they not score a touchdown?
• 40:48
  They scored one touchdown. Tommy Neal got one touchdown.
• 40:52
  No, the riders did not. All their score Yeah,
• 40:53
  No, no, the riders. Yeah, I see two field goals.
• 40:57
  ~ no.
• 40:58
  from
• 40:59
  from Dawson Hodge, their new kicker.
• 41:01
  So that might be a bright spot for them.
• 41:02
  I think they only got into the red zone once.
• 41:05
  It
• 41:05
  I saw a stat that they were four for twenty two on their f second down conversions
• 41:09
  and I thought that was a mistake,
• 41:11
  but apparently it was correct.
• 41:13
  No, it was correct. It was 'cause
• 41:15
  it's great D now it's also true,
• 41:16
  mind you. It felt to me like I I realized after I looked at the stats,
• 41:21
  not necessarily true, but it felt to me like the refs in this game
• 41:24
  had their flags glued in their pocket.
• 41:26
  And that's not I know there's a lot of people saying,
• 41:29
  the Ryder fans are bitching about this week.
• 41:31
  That's I'm not saying it's with the for the riders.
• 41:33
  There was there was a roughing the passer where the D B landed square on Harris that
• 41:39
  should have been called and wasn't.
• 41:40
  But other than that, the PI there were calls on both teams that to
• 41:44
  my mind should have been PI calls.
• 41:46
  And weren't. it was the ultimate let them play kind of game.
• 41:49
  Only hand fighting is allowed.
• 41:51
  Go up and get the ball. But only in this game and only for certain people.
• 41:51
  Yes. Yeah. And it shows too just how much Yeah,
• 41:58
  exactly.
• 41:59
  But it shows you how much that can affect the game.
• 42:01
  'Cause if you remember it was who was it that Winnipeg was was playing
• 42:05
  at home a couple of weeks ago?
• 42:07
  Their first pass got batted down,
• 42:10
  they challenged for PI. that was the Montreal
• 42:12
  Montreal.
• 42:13
  game. First pass got batted down,
• 42:14
  they challenged for PI, won the challenge,
• 42:16
  went down, marched, got a a touchdown out of it,
• 42:18
  and moved on from there.
• 42:20
  It was the same situation this game.
• 42:22
  Saskatchewan gets a a pass there.
• 42:25
  They challenge for PI. It wasn't the most egregious miss.
• 42:29
  You could say it might have been PI,
• 42:31
  it might not have been. They ruled it no PI.
• 42:35
  Saskatchewan has no more challenge for the rest of the game.
• 42:37
  So as a coach, how do you decide that you know we really need this
• 42:42
  to build momentum or I should keep this in my pocket?
• 42:45
  Because again, there were multiple,
• 42:47
  multiple challengeable calls in that game.
• 42:49
  I feel for the coaches trying to to sort on something like that.
• 42:52
  Listen to you riders fam! Listen to this!
• 42:52
  I think Mace made a ch mistake.
• 42:54
  Sorry, what's that?
• 42:56
  Everyone's against us! The league doesn't want us to win!
• 42:59
  Yeah, the yeah, the red Yeah,
• 43:01
  The refs are having parlays about the game!
• 43:02
  no. And that's not what I'm saying.
• 43:04
  Yes.
• 43:07
  Yes. And and don't get me wrong,
• 43:09
  that's not what I'm saying. I'm saying feeling for the coach,
• 43:12
  that situation was exactly the same for both coaches.
• 43:16
  It really worked out well for one of them.
• 43:17
  It didn't work out for the other one.
• 43:19
  And in fact, to tell you the truth,
• 43:20
  in the Winnipeg game, against Montreal,
• 43:22
  I thought the PI that they up
• 43:24
  That they overturned and called PI when O'Shea challenged it was really ticky-tack.
• 43:29
  It was not an obvious PI at all.
• 43:32
  But regardless, he made the call,
• 43:34
  he got it, the game went well for him.
• 43:36
  Mace made the call, didn't work out for him.
• 43:39
  So as a coach, you know, I feel for them going,
• 43:41
  ~ do I throw the flag here and try and keep the minimum ring,
• 43:44
  I know.
• 43:44
  or do I just hold
• 43:45
  on to it? It's it's gotta be so tough.
• 43:48
  It there's a whole second game of when to use your challenge flags or when
• 43:52
  to use in baseball your ABS challenge,
• 43:54
  right? Like it's it's a whole extra layer of the game.
• 43:54
  Yeah. Yeah, it it certainly is.
• 43:57
  Yeah. Yes.
• 43:59
  Because there was
• 44:00
  one I think Miller like last week,
• 44:02
  somebody made a call and then there was a very egregious face max that didn't
• 44:06
  get called and he has out of challenges and I'm like,
• 44:08
  Yeah. Yeah. Exactly.
• 44:08
  ~ no.
• 44:10
  yeah.
• 44:11
  That's
• 44:11
  what happens. It sucks, but that's part of the game.
• 44:14
  Yes. And and and again, don't don't get me wrong.
• 44:18
  I'm not saying that should have been over or should have been overturned.
• 44:21
  Maybe they should have converted
• 44:22
  more than four for twenty-two on their second downs.
• 44:25
  Then they wouldn't have to worry about a PI call.
• 44:25
  Yeah. Yeah, exactly.
• 44:28
  in those situations, I would rather that the command center trusts what this
• 44:34
  was called on the field. So I'm happy with them not not t overturning
• 44:40
  it to a penalty there. just the fact it happened within
• 44:43
  Three games of each other and all the rest of it I found really interesting.
• 44:46
  But but yeah, there was a lot more to it than that.
• 44:48
  They they fumbled twice. Mims fumbled.
• 44:52
  Keyshawn Johnson fumbled.
• 44:55
  It wasn't a great offensive game.
• 44:57
  Winnipeg didn't march up and down the field by any means either.
• 45:00
  No, okay, so I see like the riders got five sacks and two interceptions
• 45:05
  on Zack and still lost this game.
• 45:07
  Yeah. Yeah. Which
• 45:07
  How?
• 45:09
  tells you how well the Winnipeg defense was playing.
• 45:11
  Yeah, Jordan Younger not losing his job anytime soon.
• 45:14
  It's just like not on that.
• 45:14
  Not on that. And and they were making a big deal about
• 45:17
  the fact that Kramdi was back and and he certainly d he mean he played well where
• 45:21
  I saw him and the whole defense played so much better.
• 45:25
  Maybe he really is a linchpin that they need in there.
• 45:27
  That's what they kept saying,
• 45:28
  Yeah.
• 45:29
  but
• 45:30
  we were at the Elks game because we got there early because my aunts were very
• 45:34
  worried about time, and that's fine.
• 45:36
  We it was a beautiful afternoon.
• 45:37
  We wanted to be outside. And I kept looking,
• 45:39
  like, takes forever at Commonwealth for my phone to load because like there's
• 45:45
  so much concrete. but I kept my concrete castle of the north where my phone
• 45:46
  The concrete castle of the north.
• 45:50
  has no data. So I took my phone,
• 45:52
  but every time I tried to load my phone,
• 45:54
  and I would think that the score was a mistake or like it hadn't loaded,
• 45:58
  and it just kept being this really low score and I
• 46:00
  like showing them my husband he's like let me check and he's like no that
• 46:03
  is the score and we're like looking at it we're like but why like this
• 46:08
  Yeah. Yeah.
• 46:10
  doesn't make I just you just assume with banjo bowl it's gonna be like
• 46:13
  r score like you you just think be
• 46:15
  a shootout and it was a very defensive game it sounds like
• 46:18
  Yeah, it was. Saskatchewan
• 46:19
  defense played well but not fantastic.
• 46:23
  That to me was the nineteen points was more about the fact that
• 46:26
  the Winnipeg offense is just not a high power offense.
• 46:29
  Winnipeg defense played lights out.
• 46:31
  Absolutely. Probably the best defensive game I've seen a team play this year.
• 46:34
  It was Yeah.
• 46:35
  I think they're feeling a little desperate,
• 46:37
  right? Like
• 46:38
  It was amazing. But there were
• 46:40
  There were a couple of interesting minutes a moments there.
• 46:43
  I got a a question answered that I wasn't sure what the answer
• 46:45
  was because Trevor Harris threw a pass to himself.
• 46:48
  Threw pass up, got batted in the air,
• 46:51
  he grabbed it, got tackled for a two yard loss,
• 46:53
  and so I'm
• 46:54
  Yeah, I was
• 46:54
  saying like ~ one for one minus one yard receiving.
• 46:57
  I was like, What happened? Did they try a little like s
• 46:58
  Yeah.
• 47:01
  like flea flicker? Like I was like,
• 47:02
  What
• 47:02
  Yep. No, it was just batted up in the air,
• 47:05
  caught it himself, got tackled for the yeah,
• 47:07
  I guess a one yard loss. And I was saying said to myself during the game,
• 47:10
  So is that a sack or a tackle for a loss?
• 47:13
  And apparently it's a tackle for a loss.
• 47:15
  That's a you shouldn't have touched that ball,
• 47:17
  'Cause he's no longer the quarterback after he's
• 47:17
  so yeah.
• 47:20
  caught completed a pass to himself.
• 47:23
  Yes. And we already talked about ~ earlier about Zach getting hurt
• 47:27
  on his interception.
• 47:29
  Good writer f bomber fans.
• 47:32
  anything else did I have to talk about here?
• 47:34
  ~ I like a lot of what Luke Wilson is doing with his play by play.
• 47:40
  But please, Luke, we get that you really like the fact you've got a line that says,
• 47:47
  I just tell the kickers to kick it between the goalposts.
• 47:49
  Just do that. It's easy. Good line.
• 47:53
  The first time I heard it. We're now what in week fifteen,
• 47:57
  so I've heard it fifteen times at least.
• 47:59
  And yeah, you can stop using it now.
• 48:01
  Yeah. Yeah,
• 48:01
  And Bulls on Parade. Do you also enjoy that one three times a game?
• 48:05
  yeah, that yeah, but that one's that
• 48:07
  one at least you know, may get the odd game off in there,
• 48:10
  here and there. This one's been consistent.
• 48:12
  Yes. Yeah.
• 48:14
  Luke, you can be the emergency backup kicker.
• 48:16
  Let's
• 48:16
  see how you do.
• 48:17
  ~ Winnipeg did have a touchdown called back on a short yardage play from
• 48:22
  I think about the twenty or thirty yard line.
• 48:24
  Perkins got outside and managed to run it into the end zone,
• 48:28
  but it was called on a a fairly obvious holding call,
• 48:31
  although again Luke was bitching and complaining that he didn't like the call.
• 48:35
  I don't know why. Caleb Sanders,
• 48:36
  I still think is one of the more underrated defensive tackles,
• 48:40
  made a fantastic sack.
• 48:42
  Swim move up the middle and just rock Zack big time.
• 48:46
  and the last thing I had to say is Brady's head slap.
• 48:49
  I feel like they've gotten less impactful as he's so frustrated with
• 48:53
  not getting the ball because a year,
• 48:55
  two years ago, they would be in the game and Brady would be up to sixty,
• 49:00
  seventy yards and have broken off two or three runs of close to ten.
• 49:05
  And then they'd get into that mode of,
• 49:07
  okay, now we're marching out the game,
• 49:09
  and he'd start he'd get two or three in a row,
• 49:10
  and that's when he'd hop up and start slapping his head and going,
• 49:13
  Now we're going, now we're on it,
• 49:15
  and it meant something.
• 49:17
  He's getting so few chances now that he gets a ten yard carry and
• 49:20
  he gets up slapping his head. And it just no.
• 49:24
  I don't buy that.
• 49:24
  There's a new helmet
• 49:25
  slopping guy in town and his name is Alexander.
• 49:28
  Yeah, yeah, exactly.
• 49:30
  I So you know, save it for once you're actually building the momentum.
• 49:35
  My opinion.
• 49:35
  Well he might not get
• 49:36
  another chance with the ball, this is the thing.
• 49:38
  That might be his last carry of the game,
• 49:39
  ~ Yes. Well that's true too,
• 49:42
  so he gotta make it worthwhile.
• 49:43
  yes. You may never
• 49:44
  see it again. Although I didn't see what I didn't check what his stats were,
• 49:47
  but they did use him better in this game.
• 49:49
  He did get
• 49:50
  ~ he had fourteen carries for a hundred yards and one we went one
• 49:55
  for two with twelve yards receiving.
• 49:57
  Yeah.
• 49:57
  Yeah, they used him running out of the backfield and he got a few good ten,
• 50:01
  twelve yard runs He was definitely a a bigger factor in this game than he's been
• 50:06
  in others. And mostly to tell you the truth,
• 50:09
  not in scoring, but in just the fact that he was keeping the ball away from
• 50:13
  the riders. They chewed up a lot of clock using him.
• 50:19
  And then my last question for the game didn't get answered either.
• 50:21
  Because we did have the thing that
• 50:25
  Here's me patting myself on the back.
• 50:26
  Last week I mentioned when Baldonado came available they could bring him
• 50:30
  in and then they didn't need their global kicker.
• 50:32
  And guess what? They brought him in and changed to the Canadian kicker.
• 50:35
  Now, I don't know anything about Dawson Hodge other than apparently he
• 50:39
  was with the Goldenhawks and yeah,
• 50:41
  he looked like he was about I think he was about seventy percent with them.
• 50:45
  Longest was forty nine yards. He hit a fifty five yarder in preseason with Calgary
• 50:51
  a year ago. So he's got some leg.
• 50:53
  Does he have the accuracy? I don't know.
• 50:55
  But the other thing looking at it was the kickoffs.
• 50:57
  his average kickoff with the Goldenhawks landed about the twenty-two,
• 51:02
  twenty-three yard line and was returned from there.
• 51:05
  And most CFL kickers these days are getting it down to about the five,
• 51:09
  so I thought, okay, so maybe they're gonna use their punter.
• 51:11
  Other teams do that. Bigger leg on the punter,
• 51:13
  maybe they'll use Chapman to do the kickoff.
• 51:16
  But we don't know, because they never kicked off in the game.
• 51:22
  Winnipeg won the toss and deferred.
• 51:24
  they kicked off to Saskatchewan to start the game and then they came
• 51:27
  out in the second half and said,
• 51:28
  no, we want the wind in the fourth,
• 51:30
  so we'll kick off to you again.
• 51:31
  And with two field goals, there were no kickoffs.
• 51:35
  and Saskatchewan's on a bye this week,
• 51:37
  so another week before we f before that burning question in my little brain gets
• 51:42
  answered.
• 51:43
  What can I say? Anything else for you?
• 51:46
  Anything from
• 51:47
  Yeah,
• 51:48
  that's also sounded like a really sad game.
• 51:51
  Two sad games in a row. Mm
• 51:53
  Yeah. Surprisingly enough, it wasn't.
• 51:55
  It was actually
• 51:56
  a quite exciting game. It was fun to watch.
• 51:59
  Even as a rider fan, watching o my offense not be able to do anything,
• 52:04
  it was an interesting game.
• 52:07
  there aren't a lot of nineteen six football games that would have be would have been
• 52:10
  as much fun to watch as that. So
• 52:14
  Congratulations to the Bombers.
• 52:16
  Full credit to their their defense.
• 52:18
  And I'm sure the the Bomber fans are happy and they're only a game
• 52:22
  off of Saskatchewan now. So they do find a way to win when they're even when they're
• 52:26
  not the at the top of their game some years.
• 52:30
  This last two, three years they everyone says they're tailing off and
• 52:33
  it looks like it, but they keep coming up with stuff like this.
• 52:37
  O'Shea is a hell of a coach. Can't take anything away from him.
• 52:41
  Then the ~ should I say game or debacle that you were at?
• 52:45
  Edmonton fifty th Yes.
• 52:47
  Defending the concrete castle of the north.
• 52:50
  Edmonton
• 52:51
  fifty three Calgary sixteen. Should have been thirteen,
• 52:55
  but you were there. Do you want to talk about it first?
• 53:00
  well it was a perfect night for football.
• 53:02
  It had been cloudy and cold and windy that whole day and then as soon
• 53:06
  as it was getting close to kickoff all the clouds parted and it was sunny
• 53:11
  and it was like around twelve degrees and it there's n ~ it's perfect football
• 53:16
  weather. there's like yeah it was tons of people.
• 53:18
  I
• 53:19
  I you know, I I was at this game,
• 53:21
  I was sitting in one of the end zones,
• 53:23
  and most of the play was in the other end of the field,
• 53:26
  on the far side. And even when it came down to my area of the field,
• 53:30
  it was on the far side.
• 53:32
  Yeah.
• 53:32
  Usually there's at least one good end zone,
• 53:35
  like touchdown right in front of us,
• 53:37
  and there was absolutely nothing in front of us the whole game.
• 53:40
  So
• 53:41
  ~
• 53:41
  I was like like
• 53:42
  This, like trying to see what happened.
• 53:45
  Like I didn't I couldn't even tell Rankin got this is the this is the tragedy
• 53:49
  of ~ live sports in person. ~
• 53:52
  Yes.
• 53:53
  you just ~ you know like guys come over this way.
• 53:56
  Like why why are you over there?
• 53:58
  No, no, ~ yeah
• 53:59
  Yes.
• 54:00
  So there was like qu quite a lot of Calgary fans there.
• 54:03
  There was a lot of people wearing their Reggie Bagleton jerseys.
• 54:06
  So it was nice to have him back and everyone was really excited about that.
• 54:11
  The consensus of Stampede fans that I talked to during the game,
• 54:15
  going home from the game, is a couple things.
• 54:18
  One, we are all pretty sure VA is still injured.
• 54:21
  Because he did not look like he was seeing anything.
• 54:25
  I expected him to play a lot better.
• 54:28
  Yeah.
• 54:29
  And it just didn't seem like he was quite with it,
• 54:31
  and I'm actually quite concerned about that.
• 54:34
  B, it's not really about the game,
• 54:36
  but it is. But ~ this team has everything.
• 54:39
  This team has everything. The Stampeders on paper are a powerhouse team.
• 54:45
  So what is going on that they cannot put it together?
• 54:48
  There's some sort
• 54:49
  No 'cause
• 54:50
  of management or coaching thing because it is not player-related.
• 54:54
  It is definitely not player-related.
• 54:56
  There is something happening. And there's a lot of people calling
• 54:59
  for Dave Dickinson to be done by the end of the year.
• 55:02
  lot, a lot of the Calgary and not a single Calgary fan I talked to wanted
• 55:06
  him to stay and and keep coaching.
• 55:08
  it was maybe six weeks ago we were talking about,
• 55:10
  they've had a couple of close losses,
• 55:12
  but they're looking like we're gonna be talking about them in the top tier
• 55:15
  of teams real soon, and it's just it's gone downhill from there.
• 55:19
  And on the VA thing, there was also I'm sure well,
• 55:24
  you were there, you saw it, they ran a trick play where they had
• 55:30
  Philpott took for like a sweep and then VA went out the other side
• 55:34
  and they taught and they passed back to VA and it didn't go for any yards
• 55:38
  and he got hit and he got hit in the head.
• 55:40
  And they threw a flag and then they picked it up and they said no,
• 55:44
  that's not a ~ an unnecessary roughness,
• 55:47
  and it's possibly because he's now a receiver,
• 55:50
  not a quarterback, that they did that.
• 55:52
  That was in maybe two thirds of the way through the s third quarter.
• 55:56
  He played another two and out series and then that was Love in the game again.
• 56:00
  And people
• 56:00
  Yeah. What
• 56:01
  were saying, well they're they're losing it.
• 56:03
  It's not going, you know, it's obvious they may as well they're looking for a spark.
• 56:06
  I don't know if he didn't get himself hurt again.
• 56:08
  And he's not Yeah.
• 56:09
  Honestly that's a dangerous that's dangerous.
• 56:14
  he's not on the injury list for Calgary on the injury reports,
• 56:19
  but
• 56:20
  That's another one. Him and and Trey I'm both kinda worried about are they
• 56:23
  out there playing when they shouldn't be?
• 56:26
  ~ a hundred percent I think they are.
• 56:28
  And this had to feel good for Mark Killum.
• 56:31
  Another that it's hard to win at home at home.
• 56:35
  And to win
• 56:35
  Yeah.
• 56:35
  a home at home against the team that ran you out of town has to feel amazing.
• 56:39
  and then this game turned into a passing game because,
• 56:42
  well, Powell ended up playing really well.
• 56:44
  But Rankin and Mills both got injured,
• 56:46
  and so now you have no choice.
• 56:47
  But I thought that I thought that the Calgary would use McAllister more,
• 56:51
  and they didn't. So.
• 56:54
  Well, and when they tried to it went nowhere.
• 56:55
  Yeah, I guess they use Chikette.
• 56:56
  So maybe Edmonton talked them out of it.
• 56:58
  Just they did not look prepared to be at that game.
• 57:01
  They did
• 57:02
  Yes.
• 57:02
  not look ready and again they have an elite team.
• 57:05
  I think they are probably on paper one of the top teams in the league,
• 57:08
  so there's something going on.
• 57:09
  Calg Edmonton is not a top team on paper.
• 57:12
  On paper, they are nowhere near close and they are winning.
• 57:15
  Yeah.
• 57:16
  So that
• 57:17
  comes from management, that comes from coaching.
• 57:19
  Yeah.
• 57:20
  and a lot of little things that you don't necessarily notice.
• 57:23
  Everybody talks about the fact that they're getting so many turnovers.
• 57:27
  And that's true, that makes a big difference But it's also points
• 57:31
  off turnovers that matter, and I didn't realize until they mentioned it
• 57:33
  in this game I started and went and did some math on it.
• 57:35
  They're averaging better than a field goal in points every time they get a turnover.
• 57:39
  So they're not wasting them at all.
• 57:43
  And then T S we've talked about T S N likes to do their well,
• 57:47
  shade or whatever. There if there's any reason to get on a player
• 57:50
  on the sidelines to get shots of them they will.
• 57:52
  So after Rankin came back out in his civvies,
• 57:54
  they were working hard to get a lot of shots of Rankin along the sidelines to
• 57:59
  Mm.
• 57:59
  do what they do. And he was brilliant.
• 58:01
  He just kept ducking beh you could see him he was smirking and he knew what they
• 58:06
  were doing and he just kept ducking behind the linemen or ducking behind this crowd
• 58:10
  or
• 58:10
  Perfect.
• 58:11
  No,
• 58:11
  I'm not gonna give you an easy shot of me out here.
• 58:13
  I didn't even know he got knocked out of that game.
• 58:17
  Because obviously at the game they don't announce it.
• 58:17
  Yeah. No, they don't. Yeah.
• 58:19
  And again, my phone doesn't my phone doesn't work in the concrete
• 58:22
  castle. So I actually couldn't even look up stats because my phone would take five
• 58:26
  minutes to load. So I just was like,
• 58:27
  okay, I guess I'm just enjoying this game on the other side of the field.
• 58:30
  so but it was
• 58:31
  Peter.
• 58:31
  fun. We had fun. There's lots of people there.
• 58:33
  It was a really good atmosphere.
• 58:34
  so good for Edmonton. Like they need this.
• 58:37
  They need this. And so that was that was really awesome.
• 58:41
  And ~ yeah, Calgary, that is a mess.
• 58:42
  Yeah. Yeah.
• 58:44
  Yes. And it sounds like you didn't even get your wish of having
• 58:45
  And it's unfortunate.
• 58:48
  Alfred catch one of his passes in front of you.
• 58:50
  No, no. But my s my son did talk
• 58:50
  I think he had a couple of catches but
• 58:52
  to him before the game. Like he ran down to talk to him before the game.
• 58:55
  After the game, those they all were walking over out with their head like towels
• 58:59
  over their heads and like they weren't talking to anyone.
• 59:02
  Reggie, Reggie went and talked to some people as he does,
• 59:05
  but no one else ever. I think everyone else was like out of there.
• 59:08
  And I have to explain to a child that when you get a beat down from by your rival,
• 59:12
  Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
• 59:14
  you're you're not sticking around to talk to kids after the game.
• 59:16
  Yeah, exactly.
• 59:19
  It's not like your hometown where you have to.
• 59:21
  Like no, you can just walk off.
• 59:21
  Yeah. Yeah.
• 59:23
  ~ it's just too bad. Yes.
• 59:24
  But hey, you got to see early before the game,
• 59:27
  I love the fact they're doing that,
• 59:27
  Yeah.
• 59:28
  yes.
• 59:29
  It's just too bad 'cause I was I was so excited for Reggie to be back
• 59:32
  and like VA and like yeah, they they have such a good receiving core
• 59:36
  and they have such they have Clarence Hicks and like,
• 59:39
  you know, Flo and I just you think that they're gonna do so well and Yeah.
• 59:44
  Yeah. Yep.
• 59:44
  ~
• 59:45
  on the Edmonton side, like Robostelli is I'm so happy he's off the injured list
• 59:49
  and playing. He looks so great.
• 59:50
  yeah. Yes, and there was such
• 59:51
  That's what a great pickup.
• 59:54
  such a nice t connection between him and and Cody for one of the touchdowns.
• 59:58
  Yeah.
• 59:59
  Just o over the D B's hands, just perfect.
• 1:00:02
  It was yeah. They ~ Yeah.
• 1:00:05
  This team's dangerous. They're dangerous.
• 1:00:07
  Yeah.
• 1:00:08
  It was ~ the last two games of the weekend were good for big man scoring
• 1:00:14
  and it started in this game when
• 1:00:16
  Herbert for Edmonton, who's one of their backup D-ends on a punt,
• 1:00:21
  burst up the middle and nice swim move,
• 1:00:25
  came in clean, blocked the punt,
• 1:00:26
  and recovered it himself for a touchdown.
• 1:00:28
  Yeah, if that
• 1:00:29
  could happen on the end zone I was sitting in,
• 1:00:32
  Yeah. Would have been nice, Yeah.
• 1:00:32
  that would have been much nicer for me.
• 1:00:35
  Yeah, ~ one of the touchdown Kelowna games that I went to.
• 1:00:38
  I sat in the end zone and I think one field goal was scored in that end zone.
• 1:00:41
  And everything else was Yeah. Yes.
• 1:00:41
  Yeah, it's always the way. It's always the way.
• 1:00:44
  ~
• 1:00:45
  I feel like that blocked punt touchdown was the end of any glimmer of
• 1:00:50
  any sort of comeback like that was that was that's
• 1:00:52
  Yeah. Yeah.
• 1:00:54
  a morale killer.
• 1:00:55
  And that was all just pure individual effort.
• 1:00:57
  They didn't have a a punt block called.
• 1:00:59
  Like when he blocked it, there was him and the punter in the end zone
• 1:01:02
  and nobody else. Everyone else has had wheeled and were running
• 1:01:03
  Yep, so for every
• 1:01:05
  downfield.
• 1:01:06
  every defensive player that contacts the kicker and say that they can't because
• 1:01:10
  they're trying to block the punt,
• 1:01:11
  you watch that. Perfectly executed.
• 1:01:13
  Yeah. Could not have done that better.
• 1:01:15
  Could not have done that better.
• 1:01:17
  do I not did I have anything else here?
• 1:01:19
  they they also there was a very n ~ I can't I don't remember which
• 1:01:23
  of the Edmonton defensive tackles got it,
• 1:01:25
  but there was a very nice sack on I think it was VA that was still
• 1:01:29
  in there when they ran a a twist between between their defensive tackles.
• 1:01:34
  The two inside guys basically switched gaps on their rush and got clean.
• 1:01:39
  was ~ the Calgary offensive line was nowhere near ready for that.
• 1:01:44
  I guess like VA's saving money 'cause he's not buying dinner for the O line anymore.
• 1:01:48
  Yeah, that
• 1:01:49
  is definitely that is true very much so,
• 1:01:52
  yes. I think that's probably about it.
• 1:01:55
  ~ I said, you know, Edmonton, yeah,
• 1:01:56
  they're still making mistakes.
• 1:01:57
  They did get twice called for no end penalties,
• 1:02:01
  which should never happen. you should be able to ~
• 1:02:05
  to at least have enough people up on the line of scrimmage and to have
• 1:02:08
  it go around twice. Yeah, but they doesn't seem to phase them.
• 1:02:13
  And did I have
• 1:02:13
  Yeah.
• 1:02:13
  anything else? c yeah, the penalties.
• 1:02:15
  The penalties. Winnipeg. After the game
• 1:02:17
  There was a lot of penalties.
• 1:02:19
  in Winnipeg where it felt like the flags were glued in the ref's pockets,
• 1:02:23
  I thought, you know, you need to start tucking them a little deeper
• 1:02:26
  in your pockets in this game. Yeah.
• 1:02:28
  Twenty-three flags. That's one
• 1:02:30
  Yeah, there was
• 1:02:31
  every l less than three minutes.
• 1:02:33
  And you get about thirty five second play clock,
• 1:02:36
  you get maybe two plays a minute,
• 1:02:38
  so that's one every six calls,
• 1:02:39
  basically.
• 1:02:41
  And yeah.
• 1:02:41
  It felt
• 1:02:41
  like one every two. Like it felt like it was constant it
• 1:02:43
  Yeah.
• 1:02:44
  really actually quite slowed the game down 'cause yeah,
• 1:02:46
  Yeah. Yeah. Yeah,
• 1:02:46
  it just felt like we were always hearing from it was Ben,
• 1:02:49
  and I felt like a lot and again I felt
• 1:02:49
  right? I felt like we were always hearing him.
• 1:02:52
  like a lot of those were a little bit tikky tacky both ways.
• 1:02:56
  I felt like there was a bunch there that maybe didn't need to be called,
• 1:02:59
  but yeah, Calgary eleven for a hundred and eleven yards.
• 1:03:02
  Edmonton twelve for a hundred and twenty five.
• 1:03:05
  And it still wasn't the worst officiated game of the weekend.
• 1:03:08
  yeah. I think that's ~ Edmonton had a field goal,
• 1:03:13
  got blocked and went through the uprights anyway.
• 1:03:15
  through you just knew when that happened you just know I'm like this is
• 1:03:16
  Yeah.
• 1:03:19
  how this game is gonna go. It's like those Argo bounces,
• 1:03:22
  right? I'm like, okay,
• 1:03:22
  Yeah.
• 1:03:23
  everything's gonna go their way now.
• 1:03:25
  If that gets blocked and still goes through,
• 1:03:27
  there's nothing that isn't going this team's way for the rest of the game.
• 1:03:28
  Yeah. Yeah.
• 1:03:31
  And is exactly what happened.
• 1:03:33
  Yeah. The old adage, there's some games you're gonna lose no matter what you do,
• 1:03:36
  there's some games you're gonna win no matter what you do.
• 1:03:38
  That kinda
• 1:03:38
  Yeah.
• 1:03:39
  felt like that in in this game.
• 1:03:40
  Full credit to Edmonton. They did it's not like they they were gif gifted a game.
• 1:03:45
  They earned everything, but it yeah,
• 1:03:46
  it just felt like the s the stars were aligned for them.
• 1:03:49
  Yeah.
• 1:03:50
  Maybe there's something to the concrete castle of the north.
• 1:03:53
  yep. I think that's everything.
• 1:03:56
  Anything else for you to say?
• 1:03:58
  No, it was yeah, just happy for the elks.
• 1:04:03
  Mm. So that moves us on to the brawl in BC.
• 1:04:07
  So
• 1:04:08
  The late game, and I'm sure everybody's heard about this,
• 1:04:12
  but a couple of things that besides the brawl part,
• 1:04:15
  I said, great weekend for big man touchdowns and on the defense,
• 1:04:20
  not the offense. We had the punt in the Edmonton game.
• 1:04:22
  B C game Casey Sayles picked off Alexander on a really stupid move by Alexander.
• 1:04:28
  Shouldn't
• 1:04:29
  A ball that should never have been put into play like that.
• 1:04:32
  And then Beverett came up the middle and got a strip sack on Rourke
• 1:04:36
  and Mustafa Johnson picked it up and ran it into the end zone.
• 1:04:40
  Yeah. Beverat, two socks and one force fumble.
• 1:04:42
  He yeah
• 1:04:42
  Yep. He he was
• 1:04:44
  he was he played full out that game.
• 1:04:47
  Yes he did. And
• 1:04:47
  Yeah.
• 1:04:49
  they they pointed out with Johnson the particularly,
• 1:04:54
  but Sayles was kind of the same.
• 1:04:56
  Both of them as once they had the ball and were running to the end zone were looking
• 1:04:59
  back to see surely somebody's gonna catch me.
• 1:05:02
  I'm not fast enough and they didn't get caught,
• 1:05:04
  but it reminded me when I used to coach I'd teach players receivers more
• 1:05:08
  who actually had some speed.
• 1:05:10
  Once you get the ball and you're behind coverage,
• 1:05:12
  don't look back. It slows you down.
• 1:05:14
  Just just run. Yeah.
• 1:05:16
  Like the number one rule of track and field.
• 1:05:18
  Don't look back when you're running.
• 1:05:19
  Yes.
• 1:05:21
  Not good for a person's speed.
• 1:05:23
  Yeah.
• 1:05:24
  There was also maybe could have been more penalties called 'cause of
• 1:05:28
  the way it went, but BC had seven for ninety and Montreal eleven for
• 1:05:32
  a hundred and seventeen. So most of the games this this year the penalty
• 1:05:36
  yardage has been somewhere at or below fifty for both teams.
• 1:05:40
  And two games this week where it went was up at a hundred.
• 1:05:43
  I feel like the refs let this game go off the rails and they should
• 1:05:47
  Yes.
• 1:05:48
  have called it a lot tighter and they should have been a
• 1:05:50
  lot stricter with objectionable conduct and taunting calls because it
• 1:05:55
  you just it just kept spiraling out of control and the it just got worse
• 1:06:00
  and worse as the game went on.
• 1:06:01
  Yeah.
• 1:06:02
  Well and calls that were once it did start to spiral and and things got stupid,
• 1:06:09
  taking literally five to ten minutes in the in the control center
• 1:06:13
  to decide what they're gonna call.
• 1:06:14
  The control center's supposed to have a mandate to get stuff done quickly.
• 1:06:18
  There there's one play there where Betts gets
• 1:06:24
  a good rush on Alexander.
• 1:06:27
  Tackles him as he's approaching the line.
• 1:06:30
  As he tackles him from behind,
• 1:06:31
  he goes for the strip sack and and hits his hand and the ball comes out
• 1:06:35
  and it's an incomplete pass. But it looked like it wasn't a pass attempt
• 1:06:38
  by Alexander. It looked like Betts knocked it out and and hit it forward.
• 1:06:42
  And then he tackles Alexander on top of that.
• 1:06:45
  And then when they're getting up,
• 1:06:47
  Alexander elbows someone in the rips his arm out of the hole pile
• 1:06:52
  and elbows someone in the head on the lions.
• 1:06:55
  And it comes out it's because Betts is in there in the middle of
• 1:06:58
  the pile keeping hold of his throwing arm and twisting on it,
• 1:07:01
  apparently. there's a challenge on it.
• 1:07:03
  I thought the challenge is was it a fumble or not?
• 1:07:06
  No, it turns out it was that that was roughing 'cause there was
• 1:07:08
  a horse collar tackle. But it took them five minutes to sort all that out.
• 1:07:13
  Just look at it and make a call.
• 1:07:14
  Don't slow down the game.
• 1:07:15
  That was too long
• 1:07:16
  because it kept like by but you're taking so long and like Alexander's freak
• 1:07:22
  everyone's freaking out and yelling and screaming at each other.
• 1:07:25
  So it's just boiling and you're just
• 1:07:26
  Yes.
• 1:07:27
  like doo-doo-do-do. Meanwhile,
• 1:07:29
  Yeah.
• 1:07:30
  there there's murder happening and you're just like,
• 1:07:33
  let's look at this from another angle,
• 1:07:33
  Yeah. Yeah.
• 1:07:35
  I guess. I don't know,
• 1:07:36
  like it was like what?
• 1:07:38
  Yeah. I I looked to see
• 1:07:40
  if there was a full moon that night.
• 1:07:41
  'Cause it was yeah, yeah. Alexander's right there literally in Betts' face,
• 1:07:47
  shaking his finger an inch from Betts' face.
• 1:07:49
  Betts is there with this goofy grin the whole time.
• 1:07:52
  Like I think I got away with something,
• 1:07:54
  but you know and and then a little bit later there's a Stevie Scott fumbles when
• 1:08:01
  it's fairly obvious that he was down,
• 1:08:03
  but no they decide they're gonna let that play out.
• 1:08:06
  So somebody scoops it up and runs down the sideline and Tyson Philbutt comes
• 1:08:08
  You can't let
• 1:08:09
  across and smashes him hard after he's a step or two out of bounds.
• 1:08:13
  Now in in Tyson's defense a little bit maybe,
• 1:08:16
  Mm, mm-mm.
• 1:08:17
  there was a bunch of players around him.
• 1:08:19
  He might not have been certain he was out of bounds.
• 1:08:21
  Might have, I don't know. But well,
• 1:08:21
  ~ come on He did
• 1:08:24
  the angle that I saw from
• 1:08:26
  from the TV, I could buy that as a little bit.
• 1:08:29
  I'm not saying it's true, but I'm saying it's a it's an argument you could make.
• 1:08:34
  But then after he does that, Roland Kent
• 1:08:34
  No, not in that game.
• 1:08:36
  comes and smash well, then what Tyson does that's indefensible is he does
• 1:08:39
  go and prepare to stand over Bellew and start talking to him as he's
• 1:08:45
  on the sideline after the big hit.
• 1:08:46
  Roland Kent Jr. comes along and smashes Philpot in the back when he's four five
• 1:08:53
  yards out of bounds. And again,
• 1:08:54
  it takes them five minutes to come back and say,
• 1:08:56
  it was no fumble.
• 1:08:57
  yeah.
• 1:08:58
  So we didn't need any of that.
• 1:08:59
  And
• 1:09:00
  These are the penalties and somehow it ends up being Tyler Sneed gets
• 1:09:04
  a penalty out of it all too.
• 1:09:06
  So the CFL needs a mechanism whereby if things like that happen,
• 1:09:10
  those players can be ejected without getting two objectionable conduct calls.
• 1:09:13
  Because Philpott and Kent those two should not have been in that game after that.
• 1:09:18
  Yeah.
• 1:09:18
  Absolutely
• 1:09:19
  Yeah.
• 1:09:19
  not. I don't care if you're the top receiver in the league.
• 1:09:21
  you cannot handle yourself. what he did was completely uncalled for.
• 1:09:24
  that entire s sideline ruckus was unnecessary and didn't need to happen.
• 1:09:30
  Yeah.
• 1:09:31
  I don't know exactly what the rule says,
• 1:09:32
  but you can be thrown out without two calls against you because you throw
• 1:09:36
  a punch and you're out. bets get ejected later,
• 1:09:39
  apparently for throwing a punch that we never get to see.
• 1:09:40
  Like I don't know why. They didn't
• 1:09:42
  they didn't say that he had an objectionable conduct and then when
• 1:09:44
  we were looking at replay it didn't even make sense.
• 1:09:46
  So I don't know if he said something.
• 1:09:49
  Well they said
• 1:09:50
  on the on the broadcast they said that he threw a punch.
• 1:09:53
  But it wasn't anything that they showed
• 1:09:54
  ~ well they did
• 1:09:55
  any film of.
• 1:09:56
  no, no, so
• 1:09:58
  I don't know but but yeah they just they lost all control of that game.
• 1:10:02
  Now it comes out today that just before we went on air here that Kent and
• 1:10:08
  who else ~ was it there? Kent and Haggerty for BC and Callus,
• 1:10:13
  the the D B for Montreal, have all been summoned to the CFL offices for a hearing,
• 1:10:18
  which can be the first step to a suspension
• 1:10:21
  Phil Butt didn't get suspended didn't get called in for it.
• 1:10:21
  You know amaz funny how that happened.
• 1:10:23
  And yeah,
• 1:10:26
  and and Haggerty I didn't even see take a penalty.
• 1:10:29
  I didn't like okay, Josh Haggerty was a menace the game before,
• 1:10:33
  but I didn't see him doing anything this week,
• 1:10:33
  Yeah. Yeah. Well he was the one that
• 1:10:36
  so I don't know.
• 1:10:37
  hit Deadman, but he got pushed into that hit.
• 1:10:40
  Yeah, no, he didn't even mean to.
• 1:10:42
  he got pushed into that. yeah,
• 1:10:44
  this game. ~ so it's kind of funny.
• 1:10:46
  It's funny because for a while now,
• 1:10:49
  for years, like they CFL's been trying to fabricate a Labor Day rivalry between
• 1:10:54
  Yeah. Yeah.
• 1:10:54
  BC and Montreal, and it's always felt
• 1:10:56
  very forced. It's kinda like you're trying to make fetch happen.
• 1:10:59
  Like, come on. these teams just did it on their own,
• 1:11:01
  huh?
• 1:11:02
  Yeah.
• 1:11:03
  This was
• 1:11:03
  Yeah.
• 1:11:03
  the biggest back-to-back home at home rivalry games of the
• 1:11:08
  Yeah.
• 1:11:08
  season, I would say. Betts versus Alexander and Beverett versus Rourke.
• 1:11:13
  Yeah.
• 1:11:13
  And it's kind of like a Sydney Crosby versus Alexandro Ovechkin,
• 1:11:17
  the league cannot market this any better.
• 1:11:19
  This is fantastic. it needs to be refed better,
• 1:11:22
  but as far as rivalries go, this was the game.
• 1:11:27
  It was the game. and now I think BC has shown you how to get under Alexander's skin
• 1:11:33
  and make him flustered.
• 1:11:33
  It
• 1:11:34
  he had just calmed it down and focused on throwing instead of like jumping around
• 1:11:40
  and yelling and g like which he does need to do and I get it.
• 1:11:43
  It's like that's part of his game,
• 1:11:44
  but it was so far and then I feel like Jason needs to get a a handle
• 1:11:49
  on that situation in
• 1:11:50
  I feel like in these last two games against Montreal,
• 1:11:53
  he's gone from where that was an asset for him to where it's become a liability.
• 1:11:56
  Yeah. Yeah, for sure.
• 1:11:58
  It feels like it's taking
• 1:12:00
  him out of the games now and I don't know,
• 1:12:02
  but it was like I said, a full moon kind of night.
• 1:12:05
  It was BC went up seventeen nothing.
• 1:12:07
  Montreal comes back and scores two touchdowns in like under two minutes.
• 1:12:11
  Tyson Philbott in behind coverage.
• 1:12:16
  drops a pass that's dropped right into his hands.
• 1:12:18
  You know? Yeah. no i but he did there.
• 1:12:19
  Wha what? Right? Like he doesn't drop those.
• 1:12:23
  I know.
• 1:12:26
  You've got a stoppage in play and the trainers come out and work on Alexander
• 1:12:32
  and he doesn't have to leave the game.
• 1:12:33
  Yeah, they say, yeah, because somebody
• 1:12:34
  Because somebody else got injured and then
• 1:12:37
  was already down so we can do that.
• 1:12:38
  I've never heard that's not a rule I've heard.
• 1:12:40
  Now I'm not saying it's not a rule.
• 1:12:43
  But it's not something I've seen in all the years I've watched the CFL,
• 1:12:48
  it's kinda
• 1:12:48
  so
• 1:12:49
  like the shohe otani treatment,
• 1:12:51
  I feel like.
• 1:12:52
  Yeah.
• 1:12:52
  Yeah, it could be. I don't know.
• 1:12:54
  It just like I said, just bizarre stuff that did not make any sense to
• 1:12:59
  me in so many ways in this game.
• 1:13:00
  This would be the game with the onside punt.
• 1:13:02
  If that was the game that was gonna have the onside punt,
• 1:13:04
  it was this game.
• 1:13:05
  Yeah. Yeah,
• 1:13:06
  and the onside punch in time. And Horvath gets another three touchdowns.
• 1:13:10
  Including they decide to go the Tommy Stevens route with him when they
• 1:13:13
  get the ball in the three yard line.
• 1:13:14
  They just put him in and let him run for a yard three times until he punches it in.
• 1:13:20
  Yeah. ~ so in this game, also like Rourke was the top rusher for the Lions.
• 1:13:26
  Butler
• 1:13:26
  Yep. Yep.
• 1:13:27
  had three carries for seven yards.
• 1:13:29
  Like that guy's washed, right?
• 1:13:30
  Like they're not they're not using him.
• 1:13:31
  Yeah. Yeah.
• 1:13:32
  ~
• 1:13:33
  Horvath, yeah, but Rourke should not be your top rusher.
• 1:13:36
  This is a terrible judgment error.
• 1:13:38
  Like it I maybe he was getting flushed.
• 1:13:40
  I didn't see the whole game. I was waiting for trains,
• 1:13:42
  but yeah.
• 1:13:43
  Yeah. Well, some
• 1:13:44
  of it was like the one one rush was about a twelve,
• 1:13:47
  fifteen yard for the touchdown that was a calculated one.
• 1:13:50
  I don't think it was called, but he definitely saw the opening and the chance
• 1:13:53
  to get to the pylon there. So there was some of that.
• 1:13:56
  But yeah, it was they didn't have a terribly effective running game.
• 1:13:59
  I think Butler is a running back that needs to play a full game.
• 1:14:03
  I don't think you can spell him in there the way they have been and expect
• 1:14:06
  a lot out of him. Unless he's so very good out of the backfield,
• 1:14:09
  get with passing, so maybe some of that,
• 1:14:11
  yeah, you can't you can't say anything about BC's defense anymore.
• 1:14:15
  Yeah.
• 1:14:16
  No, their defense looked good,
• 1:14:17
  although again, twenty six points.
• 1:14:20
  or was that the final what what was no,
• 1:14:22
  twenty nine, 'cause they got a field goal after that.
• 1:14:24
  But I was thinking because it was thirty eight twenty-six when Deadman got hurt.
• 1:14:29
  And again, when he got hurt, and the you can't complain about the time it took,
• 1:14:34
  but because they had to
• 1:14:37
  be as careful with them as they were.
• 1:14:39
  There was another probably fifteen minute stoppage in play.
• 1:14:42
  And so now you you're basically I don't even remember what the time was,
• 1:14:47
  but it was it was probably like well after midnight Montreal time.
• 1:14:52
  And that just to me, that just took all the wind out of Montreal's sails.
• 1:14:57
  They were in the game up till then.
• 1:14:59
  They were down by the twelve points,
• 1:15:00
  but they were coming back and they just
• 1:15:02
  They got one field goal after that.
• 1:15:03
  I don't know if it was fatigue and all the the distractions
• 1:15:07
  and all the interruptions and then an injury like that to a teammate but
• 1:15:10
  to me that the game ended at that point,
• 1:15:12
  basically.
• 1:15:14
  So this is a fantastic win for the BC Lions because they had their first tailgate
• 1:15:18
  party ever before the game. And you could get a BC Lions tattoo for free.
• 1:15:22
  Hmm.
• 1:15:25
  So, ~ I still think they were really h pup pumping it up and then they just come
• 1:15:29
  out and play a football like was it a good game?
• 1:15:33
  I don't know. But they won and they won by all quite a lot and they just like took
• 1:15:37
  it took the what what some would say is the top team in the league to task
• 1:15:42
  Yeah. Yeah, I would agree.
• 1:15:43
  and made them very
• 1:15:44
  vulnerable and showed other teams how to make them very and Winnipeg also made
• 1:15:48
  e they showed everyone how to make Montreal vulnerable.
• 1:15:52
  I'm not sure I would be all that keen on a free tattoo.
• 1:15:56
  I mean tattoos are a fairly permanent thing.
• 1:15:58
  You wanna think long and hard.
• 1:15:59
  I have a tattoo. It's not a Saskatchewan tattoo.
• 1:16:02
  It's you wanna make sure it's something you want on your body the whole time.
• 1:16:05
  I don't know about free tattoo at a tailgate party.
• 1:16:08
  Might not be the best choice.
• 1:16:09
  I don't know, I have I have friends
• 1:16:10
  that will go get tattoos on flash sales of just whatever.
• 1:16:13
  like a little ghost for Halloween and we'll just go grab one.
• 1:16:16
  Like it's just like that's just how things are now.
• 1:16:18
  So if you're a big BC Lions fan,
• 1:16:19
  you're gonna get free tattoo at a tailgate party.
• 1:16:21
  Great.
• 1:16:22
  I am an old man.
• 1:16:23
  I don't keep up with all of these trends.
• 1:16:25
  No, I do not. a fitting end to a quadrip quadruple header.
• 1:16:29
  It was bizarre football.
• 1:16:32
  Montreal signed their first round draft pick.
• 1:16:35
  Rohan Jones, who's a tight end fullback apparently.
• 1:16:39
  So I didn't expect a lot of speed out of him.
• 1:16:40
  They put him in on kick returns and he took one back over the fifty.
• 1:16:43
  So
• 1:16:45
  I just want to circle back to these in-person hearings.
• 1:16:47
  Because why wouldn't Anderson have one for that hit on BA?
• 1:16:51
  I don't know that he didn't, but this I saw these ones were announced.
• 1:16:54
  They said he was had a fine, but
• 1:16:56
  these ones were announced and they usually are pretty I don't understand
• 1:17:00
  the disciplinary
• 1:17:02
  No.
• 1:17:02
  structure of this league.
• 1:17:05
  No. I
• 1:17:07
  anyway, that refereeing they lost the plot on that one.
• 1:17:11
  Yeah. the officials were not in charge of that game.
• 1:17:13
  the other thing I said is it was a damn shame that as much as Rod Black
• 1:17:16
  I don't mind him as a play by play guy,
• 1:17:18
  he's good. This should have been Dustin Nielsen because there were so many
• 1:17:22
  Are you kidding me moments Yeah,
• 1:17:23
  Dusty and Luke would have been the best for this game.
• 1:17:27
  it
• 1:17:27
  was a game made for them.
• 1:17:29
  Yeah. well. You'll have
• 1:17:31
  Yeah.
• 1:17:31
  to wait for the playoffs now. Maybe great up,
• 1:17:33
  right? Who knows?
• 1:17:34
  Mm maybe,
• 1:17:35
  maybe. And then the only other thing I don't usually watch
• 1:17:39
  the commercials but somehow before I could fast forward a one caught my idea
• 1:17:43
  my eye and it was the BDC, the Business Development Bank of Canada doing basically
• 1:17:48
  a rah rah Canada ad. Look how great we are,
• 1:17:51
  and it was Rick Mercer doing one of his rants for them.
• 1:17:53
  So I thought there's a nice little throwback.
• 1:17:57
  Rick's looking a little older these days,
• 1:17:59
  but still, it was nice.
• 1:18:02
  Gotta gotta pay bills, I guess,
• 1:18:04
  right? Like
• 1:18:04
  Yeah.
• 1:18:05
  I enjoyed that one. Most ads I don't enjoy that one I did.
• 1:18:08
  you got anything more?
• 1:18:10
  ~ as bad as some things were, this was a lot of fun.
• 1:18:13
  I like this rivalry.
• 1:18:13
  It was. Yes. You have to say that.
• 1:18:16
  I like this rivalry a lot, and I'm glad that it was not like this is very organic.
• 1:18:21
  Yeah. Yes. I
• 1:18:21
  They finally figured it out themselves and yeah.
• 1:18:25
  would like a game to be entertaining for other reasons,
• 1:18:27
  but it was entertaining, although the long delays was was a bit much to sit back.
• 1:18:32
  The long delays are what made
• 1:18:33
  this a thousand times worse and just tempers
• 1:18:35
  Yes.
• 1:18:36
  made tempers flare even more. Thanks,
• 1:18:39
  Command Center.
• 1:18:40
  So I'm curious as heck, after this weird weekend,
• 1:18:44
  what are the power rankings? The MJ's official CFL Outsiders power rankings.
• 1:18:50
  Right, so number one is the elks,
• 1:18:54
  and you know what, after two weeks of getting crap for it,
• 1:18:57
  everyone else agreed with me.
• 1:18:59
  Yeah. I saw that
• 1:19:01
  last week in the ~ you were mentioning the stats geek has added us to his roundup
• 1:19:05
  and you were the only one that took the elks last week.
• 1:19:08
  Looking pretty prescient.
• 1:19:10
  Now who's right? I have the Lions at number two,
• 1:19:13
  I have the Alouettes at number three,
• 1:19:17
  the Bombers at number four, the Riders at number five,
• 1:19:22
  Argo's number six, Stampeders number seven,
• 1:19:26
  Tie Cats number eight, and Red Blacks number nine.
• 1:19:30
  Yes.
• 1:19:31
  I I have one quibble one
• 1:19:34
  Okay.
• 1:19:35
  disagreement and that's only that despite the fact that the game went
• 1:19:39
  the way that it did, I would flip the lions and the Als I'd still put
• 1:19:43
  the Als above the lions if it was me.
• 1:19:45
  But it's your show. You get to do it,
• 1:19:46
  Mm. did you see
• 1:19:47
  so
• 1:19:49
  them working on Alexander's calf and hip
• 1:19:51
  Yeah.
• 1:19:53
  and him hobbling a little? And I think I think BC has momentum now.
• 1:19:58
  And
• 1:19:58
  Maybe.
• 1:19:59
  that's dangerous.
• 1:20:00
  Maybe.
• 1:20:01
  I I don't know who they play through the rest of the season.
• 1:20:04
  That that'll make a difference.
• 1:20:06
  I know they've got Saskatchewan once.
• 1:20:08
  And I d I'm pretty sure they don't have Edmonton again.
• 1:20:11
  I wonder do I have that over here where I can find it quickly here?
• 1:20:16
  Let's see, week sixteen they don't play,
• 1:20:19
  I know that. Week seventeen. It is
• 1:20:23
  They've got Saskatchewan in week 17.
• 1:20:25
  Week 18. They have Toronto at Toronto,
• 1:20:30
  which, and Toronto does play not bad at home,
• 1:20:32
  but I don't they should be able to take that one.
• 1:20:34
  Then they have the Red Blacks in Ottawa,
• 1:20:37
  so that should be a win. And then they have Calgary.
• 1:20:41
  And then do they play the last week?
• 1:20:43
  They finish off against Winnipeg in BC.
• 1:20:46
  So yeah, it's
• 1:20:49
  It's certainly an easier schedule than Saskatchewan or Montreal has.
• 1:20:54
  Yeah.
• 1:20:55
  You know, so maybe, maybe.
• 1:20:57
  Someone pointed out
• 1:20:58
  that Montreal's only winning against like Toronto and Ottawa and like they haven't
• 1:21:03
  they're not beating like they haven't played enough of the big teams yet.
• 1:21:06
  Yeah. Yeah, well they're one and one with Edmonton.
• 1:21:07
  So
• 1:21:09
  Yeah.
• 1:21:10
  They're I think they're one in one with Winnipeg.
• 1:21:13
  I think they've played twice. They haven't played Saskatchewan yet.
• 1:21:17
  They're one in one with BC. So yeah,
• 1:21:20
  not dominant in that way. And yeah,
• 1:21:24
  it looks more and more like Alexander should be coming to a the games
• 1:21:28
  in a wheelchair.
• 1:21:30
  Yeah, they're have lost their returner.
• 1:21:31
  yeah.
• 1:21:33
  Okay, you've convinced me.
• 1:21:34
  You've convinced me. What the heck?
• 1:21:37
  Let's drop them down below the Argos.
• 1:21:39
  No, not quite that, because they still have a heck
• 1:21:39
  no. No no.
• 1:21:41
  of a team going around them there,
• 1:21:42
  yes. But it is Yeah.
• 1:21:43
  You're still f number one in the East for a reason.
• 1:21:47
  But there ik there is something to the argument that both them
• 1:21:51
  and Saskatchewan are sort of as looking as good as they are because they haven't
• 1:21:55
  played
• 1:21:56
  as much of the strong opposition yet and there will be more of that coming down
• 1:22:01
  the stretch for them. I mean if you look at Saskatchewan's got four games left
• 1:22:07
  and or five games left. And they play BC once,
• 1:22:11
  Montreal twice and Edmonton once.
• 1:22:13
  And then I think they get Toronto.
• 1:22:15
  So yeah. It could be a home playoff game could definitely be in question
• 1:22:21
  for the Riders.
• 1:22:22
  Be interesting to see if they start getting some of the injured players back.
• 1:22:25
  We know that at least one of them is out for the year.
• 1:22:28
  They're not going to have Milligan back this year.
• 1:22:30
  But if they get Campbell back on defense and a couple of receivers,
• 1:22:34
  who knows? Anyway, good job. Good job on those.
• 1:22:38
  We'll see how people react to it.
• 1:22:39
  We've been getting lots of fun reactions over on Reddit when I post them there.
• 1:22:44
  Yes.
• 1:22:45
  Very almost always biased by somebody who doesn't like the fact their team isn't
• 1:22:50
  where they want it to be. So I don't took
• 1:22:52
  I don't put too much credit in that.
• 1:22:52
  I feel like you
• 1:22:53
  know who's never mad right now about that?
• 1:22:55
  The TICAT and Red Blacks fans.
• 1:22:57
  Yes, yeah. Yeah,
• 1:22:59
  yes, yes. Yes. They say you've got us rated too high.
• 1:23:01
  We know. Yeah,
• 1:23:04
  actually can we all be number nine,
• 1:23:06
  please? Like no.
• 1:23:07
  Yes. Yeah. Yes. In fact
• 1:23:09
  someone in Reddit I can't don't have the name,
• 1:23:12
  I'm supposed I'm sorry, but someone in Reddit commented on your power ranking last
• 1:23:16
  week going, How do you how do you have nine rankings in an eight team league?
• 1:23:20
  So And I think they were an Ottawa fan.
• 1:23:23
  Yes.
• 1:23:24
  dear, I know.
• 1:23:26
  Don't worry, you're gonna win against the the riders,
• 1:23:29
  just like the Ty Cats did in 2003.
• 1:23:32
  Yes,
• 1:23:33
  yes. I I ~ well, I don't know,
• 1:23:36
  I don't don't know they the riders are done with them.
• 1:23:38
  But I have a feeling they may have a win coming up fairly soon.
• 1:23:39
  Yeah. It's just it. ~ they're not going winless
• 1:23:42
  because there's two other teams in in worse straits
• 1:23:45
  Yeah.
• 1:23:46
  than them right now.
• 1:23:48
  So let's talk about those games,
• 1:23:49
  but first let me do my injurier part real quick.
• 1:23:52
  ~ Hamilton, Trey was limited the on day one.
• 1:23:55
  Full today apparently. The only other one sort of of note was Panabaker
• 1:24:01
  was did not participate.
• 1:24:03
  Edmonton, Mr. Rankin and Shonderek Powell.
• 1:24:08
  There is a weird first name to spell.
• 1:24:10
  It's got far too many letters in it.
• 1:24:12
  But Shonderek Powell and Rankin were both limited at practice today,
• 1:24:16
  so Yes.
• 1:24:16
  Are both of their running backs?
• 1:24:19
  And Leek is already out and so maybe Isaiah Smith out
• 1:24:22
  I don't
• 1:24:23
  of UBC gets some some playing time next week.
• 1:24:26
  We'll see.
• 1:24:26
  Dear dear.
• 1:24:27
  Toronto.
• 1:24:28
  Ryan Hunter and I can't remember his first name,
• 1:24:31
  Reimer. The two people who played right tackle for them in the last game where both
• 1:24:35
  did not participate. So maybe another new tackle for Noah Taylor
• 1:24:41
  and the the boys in Edmonton to come up against.
• 1:24:44
  And Coxie was limited.
• 1:24:46
  ~ Ottawa, Bell, ~ Brian Cole,
• 1:24:50
  Aidan John, and ~ Sioni Tahima were all did not participate.
• 1:24:55
  So I don't know that Bell's a big loss.
• 1:24:59
  He hasn't contributed much this year,
• 1:25:00
  but the others are and Blaylock,
• 1:25:02
  who was one of the ones they've inserted into that defensive back end that
• 1:25:06
  did a bit better than the weekend,
• 1:25:07
  he was limited. So we'll see if he comes back.
• 1:25:09
  How is Bell not one of their big free agent signings that hasn't been cut?
• 1:25:13
  I don't understand that it makes
• 1:25:14
  I don't know. I have no idea. Save yourself a bunch
• 1:25:17
  of money there 'cause I think Adaboya was was has far outperformed him all season.
• 1:25:22
  But of all the people that Yeah,
• 1:25:23
  Hopefully next year they give him the start.
• 1:25:25
  Bring in a draft a good Canadian
• 1:25:25
  of all the people they've been firing and cutting.
• 1:25:28
  running back behind him and
• 1:25:30
  It's weird. Anyway.
• 1:25:31
  Yeah.
• 1:25:31
  and then Calgary. Again,
• 1:25:35
  first day, so we'll see. But Brissett and Mills on the offense were both
• 1:25:40
  did not participate. And as you said,
• 1:25:41
  it looked like Brissett is probably done for the season.
• 1:25:44
  Don't know with Mills, but he was a DNP.
• 1:25:47
  And on the back end, LaBrasse and Grant were both did not participate.
• 1:25:51
  So how will they do?
• 1:25:55
  Because they're up against Ottawa in Calgary.
• 1:25:58
  did you get the MJ two to send us any
• 1:26:01
  Yes, she has her picks.
• 1:26:03
  good. Okay. So let's go there.
• 1:26:05
  Montreal at Hamilton. Will Trey be playing?
• 1:26:09
  I'm gonna mention this. As much as I did not like the way that the team
• 1:26:15
  and his teammates handled when he got injured.
• 1:26:17
  I was thinking about it afterwards.
• 1:26:19
  The way that the teammates went rushing in there and bundled him up and
• 1:26:23
  got him off the field like everything's okay,
• 1:26:25
  nothing to see here, tells me.
• 1:26:28
  They want him in there a lot more than they want either of
• 1:26:31
  the other two quarterbacks in.
• 1:26:33
  The team seems to be behind Trey.
• 1:26:37
  Well, the team was behind Tre and Edmonton as well.
• 1:26:39
  Maybe, maybe he needs to get with a coach that doesn't just automatically devalue
• 1:26:44
  Canadian quarterbacks, but I don't know.
• 1:26:46
  Anyway, Montreal and Hamilton,
• 1:26:47
  let's start with MJ two. what did she say?
• 1:26:50
  She said the aloe. She's like,
• 1:26:51
  I'm not getting burned again by my love for the Thai cats.
• 1:26:54
  Yeah.
• 1:26:55
  Although who will Alexander have to be mad at to play well?
• 1:26:58
  Yes.
• 1:26:59
  Yeah. Yeah, I don't know. ~ he'll he'll probably find find a reason to pick
• 1:27:05
  a beef with ~ Katsantonis maybe.
• 1:27:07
  Maybe Witten McManus.
• 1:27:09
  Well, Witten he plays safety. I betcha maybe Witten and Alexander will
• 1:27:13
  be John at each other all game.
• 1:27:14
  Could be but
• 1:27:15
  b but but you never know. Maybe Hamilton decides to
• 1:27:18
  Well, Hamilton
• 1:27:19
  s needs to spend this week figuring out who on that defense is they need
• 1:27:23
  to designate a person to like get under his skin.
• 1:27:27
  Yeah.
• 1:27:28
  And maybe you do that by blitzing Katsantonis two or three times early.
• 1:27:32
  Maybe it's more about the trash talking and the little grab.
• 1:27:35
  Yeah, but Casentonis is pretty damn good at trash talking too.
• 1:27:35
  Like you just gotta find some I just feel like he's not on the line enough
• 1:27:38
  So if yeah, get get I don't know.
• 1:27:40
  to I think it has to be like every day
• 1:27:42
  every every play you're in his face and that it gets him him frustrated.
• 1:27:45
  I c I yeah. Yeah, I can
• 1:27:48
  you blitz him two or three times and he gets home once or twice and then
• 1:27:51
  he picks up one off off against him and that might do it.
• 1:27:55
  Who knows? Yeah, they it could be winton to ~ McManus does like to to talk as well.
• 1:28:00
  Yeah. how about you?
• 1:28:03
  A yeah, it's the Alouettes.
• 1:28:05
  Yes.
• 1:28:05
  I'm not a Ti cat fan, but even as one I wouldn't be able to go there.
• 1:28:10
  I think it's Montreal.
• 1:28:10
  Even
• 1:28:11
  if Alexander is not playing and it's Crumm they're still winning.
• 1:28:14
  Yeah. Yeah, probably. Although I really hope he's playing 'cause fantasy this week
• 1:28:20
  Who else do you take?
• 1:28:21
  'Cause the ti-cats
• 1:28:22
  defense has not played well. you you take
• 1:28:24
  No. They were were looking really
• 1:28:26
  good, but they've kind of fallen apart.
• 1:28:27
  But yeah, but I mean other than that,
• 1:28:29
  I I don't think you dare go with Kelly in fantasy this week 'cause that Edmonton
• 1:28:34
  defense is a ball hawking one and even though it's in Toronto,
• 1:28:38
  I he may get some yardage, but I bet he turns it over a bunch.
• 1:28:42
  Cody maybe, but Cody as much as he's fantastic at so many things,
• 1:28:47
  he's not always a great fantasy guy,
• 1:28:49
  so I dunno.
• 1:28:50
  You are forgetting about McLeod Bethel Thompson.
• 1:28:52
  Yeah. yeah, sure.
• 1:28:54
  Yes. Anyway, so we're we've all gone with Montreal.
• 1:28:58
  So let's
• 1:28:58
  Yeah.
• 1:28:59
  go on to that Edmonton Toronto game.
• 1:29:01
  I feel like I'm going to go with Edmonton,
• 1:29:05
  but I don't have the kind of confidence I'd like to have.
• 1:29:08
  Because despite this last week,
• 1:29:11
  one thing about Toronto is they generally play good at home.
• 1:29:16
  Edmonton's gotta travel across the country to go there and they've just come
• 1:29:20
  off of two wins against their traditional dry rivals and a big one where they
• 1:29:25
  put up a bunch of points. And does that what does that do for their
• 1:29:30
  their psyche. Are they prepared for this Toronto game or could this be a trap?
• 1:29:34
  I don't know. But I will still go with Edmonton 'cause they've earned that.
• 1:29:39
  Edmonton is winning their trap games.
• 1:29:41
  Yeah.
• 1:29:42
  So far.
• 1:29:44
  ~ I think they're gonna make Chad Kelly's life he's gonna learn no lessons,
• 1:29:47
  and they're gonna make his life miserable,
• 1:29:49
  and they are going you just said it before,
• 1:29:53
  they score off their turnovers.
• 1:29:55
  Yes.
• 1:29:56
  So there's that. That is that's the difference there.
• 1:29:58
  If Kelly can keep his interceptions under control,
• 1:30:01
  I think they have a good chance of winning,
• 1:30:02
  but if he can't, elks are gonna make him pay.
• 1:30:04
  So I will take the Elks.
• 1:30:04
  Yeah. Yeah. I
• 1:30:06
  that's both of us. How about MJ two?
• 1:30:09
  She's like Argo suck. Elks.
• 1:30:10
  Okay, Alex,
• 1:30:11
  yeah. Yeah, I agree. I do think that Edmonton will win it,
• 1:30:14
  but I'd be a lot more confident if this game was even next week.
• 1:30:18
  It's just the timing of it and all.
• 1:30:21
  Watching this league for so long.
• 1:30:21
  They didn't even have to
• 1:30:22
  try this last game though. That turned
• 1:30:25
  Yeah.
• 1:30:25
  into a trap game where they didn't even have to do anything and they still won.
• 1:30:27
  Yeah, I know, but it's that can hurt ya.
• 1:30:28
  So I don't
• 1:30:30
  know, I have a I you know what I am a very high confidence that Mark Killum
• 1:30:34
  has this team ready for anything.
• 1:30:36
  That's the difference, I think.
• 1:30:39
  Yeah, yeah,
• 1:30:39
  that's true. The the coaching has been very good.
• 1:30:42
  So like like I said, I am picking them.
• 1:30:45
  Just there are bits about it that make my tummy a little bit grumbly.
• 1:30:49
  That takes us to the
• 1:30:50
  They barely
• 1:30:51
  beat the Red Blacks.
• 1:30:53
  Yes.
• 1:30:54
  Like barely. A team that's full of UFL players right now.
• 1:30:59
  Like it's just mmm stupid Argos.
• 1:31:00
  Yep. Speaking
• 1:31:01
  So bad.
• 1:31:03
  of the red blacks, they're going into Calgary.
• 1:31:05
  We'll let you pick this one first.
• 1:31:07
  ~ I'm picking I'm picking the red blacks.
• 1:31:11
  my.
• 1:31:12
  I think if they don't win this one,
• 1:31:14
  they'll win the next one against Calgary.
• 1:31:15
  But they are winning one against Calgary.
• 1:31:17
  I think it's this one. I don't think
• 1:31:19
  Again, why are the stamps so good on paper and so bad in execution?
• 1:31:24
  Red Blacks are so bad on paper,
• 1:31:26
  but I think they're gonna execute actually better because I think McLeod Bethel
• 1:31:29
  is gonna strap a team on his back and like yell and scream at them into like
• 1:31:33
  Yeah.
• 1:31:33
  winning this game.
• 1:31:34
  Yeah. and the Red Blacks as a team and Dinwies as a coach go does
• 1:31:39
  d well against Calgary. But how what did MJ two say?
• 1:31:44
  she said the stamps, but she's like I think Ottawa will make this uncomfortably
• 1:31:48
  close in the fourth quarter.
• 1:31:49
  Yes.
• 1:31:50
  Yeah. The only thing that it would take for me to confidently
• 1:31:56
  say red blacks would have been if they flipped the home and home.
• 1:32:00
  If this game was in Ottawa, I'd be saying,
• 1:32:04
  Yeah, this is their first win for sure.
• 1:32:06
  Calgary makes it a little bit tighter,
• 1:32:08
  but the other thing is will Calgary have Mills back?
• 1:32:12
  I don't and will VA be playing?
• 1:32:15
  Yeah. Mind you, Love almost looked like a better quarterback in his game than
• 1:32:18
  If if love is playing, I think they actually
• 1:32:19
  VA has.
• 1:32:20
  if if love is playing, I think they win this game.
• 1:32:23
  also I think for Ottawa there's less pressure not being at home.
• 1:32:26
  That's why I would pick them to win this game versus their home game,
• 1:32:29
  because at home there's just that extra layer of
• 1:32:31
  that's
• 1:32:32
  a good point I hadn't thought about.
• 1:32:33
  Regardless, I am taking the Red Blacks 'cause I they've I think it's
• 1:32:38
  You are taking the red blacks.
• 1:32:38
  the first time I've taken them all season.
• 1:32:40
  Okay, so the
• 1:32:40
  Yep.
• 1:32:42
  red we're we're picking red blacks to win.
• 1:32:44
  I think it's gonna
• 1:32:44
  Yes, we are. It
• 1:32:46
  happen.
• 1:32:47
  it feels like it to me. It feels like there's
• 1:32:49
  Yeah.
• 1:32:50
  that the the this there's just been enough li their defense has started
• 1:32:54
  to come together with all the changes in the last couple of games.
• 1:32:57
  it their starting MBT who is not a world leading quarterback anymore,
• 1:33:04
  but he is better than Maier and he moved the team better than Maier I
• 1:33:10
  to tell you the truth, I don't think that team has ever been behind.
• 1:33:13
  behind Jake Maier as a quarterback.
• 1:33:14
  I think the the first thing that went wrong was when Dinwiddy put him
• 1:33:20
  up instead of Brown and I get the feeling the team was saying Brown.
• 1:33:23
  And so yeah,
• 1:33:26
  we'll see. But okay, so so yeah,
• 1:33:29
  so the podcast picks Ottawa. Woo
• 1:33:33
  And that's it. That's a wrap.
• 1:33:34
  It's just for fun.
• 1:33:35
  Any closing thoughts?
• 1:33:37
  Yeah, just on a little serious note here,
• 1:33:40
  go go support women's sports. between the Oilers,
• 1:33:43
  the Sydney Sween ad and what happened to Holly Rowe this week,
• 1:33:46
  this has been a tough week for women athletes and women in general.
• 1:33:51
  Go go support women's sports. I mean,
• 1:33:53
  yeah, they need they need your support and they're incredible athletes
• 1:33:58
  and they're doing amazing things.
• 1:33:59
  Yeah, you can find me over on Instagram and then ~ I will actually be able
• 1:34:04
  to watch some football this week 'cause I will not be traveling
• 1:34:07
  and hosting parties and going to games.
• 1:34:09
  over on in Blue Sky at Sports and Plants.
• 1:34:12
  Yes, exactly.
• 1:34:13
  And and there's only three games and they're spread out over a couple of days.
• 1:34:17
  It it's
• 1:34:17
  Yes, I yeah.
• 1:34:19
  funny you mentioned that about supporting women's athletes.
• 1:34:22
  I agree with that. And it also occurred to me,
• 1:34:24
  you know, I have not paid even a whit of attention to the Western women's Canadian
• 1:34:30
  Football League yet this year.
• 1:34:31
  it's hard to get any actual footage of games or anything,
• 1:34:35
  but I usually try to pay attention.
• 1:34:37
  So
• 1:34:37
  maybe see if I remember to do a bit of a dive over that week and maybe next week
• 1:34:41
  I will talk women's football for a little bit.
• 1:34:44
  Love to
• 1:34:45
  See where give them some promotion,
• 1:34:47
  see where they're at. Yeah. But that's it.
• 1:34:50
  And yes, for me, I don't know what else to say.
• 1:34:53
  It's it will not be d the same next weekend.
• 1:34:57
  Hopefully it's gonna be some good football,
• 1:34:59
  but it will not be the same. And and unfortunately,
• 1:35:04
  the other thing when you look at this,
• 1:35:06
  yeah, they're not at the top right now.
• 1:35:09
  Edmonton is
• 1:35:10
  I think pretty undeniably the the class of the league at this point.
• 1:35:14
  But Winnipeg, and Saskatchewan are still three very good teams in this league,
• 1:35:20
  and none of them are in games this weekend.
• 1:35:22
  So that makes me wonder how exciting will it be?
• 1:35:26
  But maybe being a negative Nelly.
• 1:35:28
  Tie cats are playing, it's very exciting.
• 1:35:28
  Yes, that's true. That's true.
• 1:35:31
  The Redblacks
• 1:35:32
  are gonna get their first win,
• 1:35:33
  that's gonna be exciting.
• 1:35:35
  Yeah. Yes.
• 1:35:36
  Yeah, that's true. It doesn't have to be good football to be exciting football as
• 1:35:40
  Tyrell
• 1:35:40
  four is gonna intercept Kelly like four times.
• 1:35:43
  It's gonna be
• 1:35:43
  Yeah.
• 1:35:44
  good. It's gonna be good.
• 1:35:46
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• 1:35:51
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• 1:35:55
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• 1:35:57
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• 1:36:10
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• 1:36:18
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• 1:36:21
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