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The 90s Are Back-The CFL Outsiders S03 E05 · 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% unbiased, completely impartial, and happy, happy, happy, happy, happy host, old man shouting at clouds.
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  Joining me this week with is our usual panel, GT.
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  Hey everyone, welcome back.
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  another week here.
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  It's uh as you can probably tell I'm back in the home studio or as my wife calls with the basement.
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  And and here are we are it's it's Tuesday night, we're all revved up with nowhere to go, so let's do a podcast.
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  Sounds great.
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  And also MJ.
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  Hey everyone.
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  I just, you know, I came off a great weekend of football.
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  Not only did the Ticats win, but my kid had his football flag football playoffs, so they played three games, they swept they ran the table, won the tournament, and my kid scored
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  seven touchdowns.
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  So it was a great weekend for me.
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  Yeah, it was pretty awesome.
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  I hope so.
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  Well you've got a right to be happy.
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  I'm happy too because it was a great weekend of football, but even though that that Riders Lions game was as fantastic as it was, that's not my prime happiness.
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  Mostly I'm happy 'cause I mentioned last week I was so close to getting back out and being able to hike and that and I've done it.
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  My puppy and I have been out a couple of days now, so
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  Nothing huge, you know, two or three kilometers, but I'll say this, I was I was doing the treadmill a bit to get my stamina up and I thought I was ready.
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  Boy is it different in real hills and stuff.
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  It's not too far that I'm walking and I'm taking a day off in between
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  MJ, you were saying there's some kicker news going on in Montreal.
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  so friends, today I saw an Instagram post that said Lewis Wards signs with the Alouettes.
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  I was like, excuse me?
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  With the Alouettes?
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  And then someone's like, no, no, he's signed to the practice roster.
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  And I'm like, on Instagram looking, and Lewis Wards posted a story of him traveling via rail first, like business class.
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  I'm like, hmm, interesting.
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  And then the Montreal Gazette.
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  said that Maltos Diaz wasn't at practice.
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  What's going on?
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  I just looked at the injury report.
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  Maltosillas is out with a groin injury.
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  So get ready for Lewis Ward this weekend, friends.
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  But I'm happy he's found a little landing spot.
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  I hope if Maltos can't kick I hope Lewis Ward goes out and excels.
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  we kinda thought he'd be the number one signing when a if and when an injury happened across the league and there it is already showing up.
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  So yeah, those there there's a few of those guys like that kicking around, pardon the pun, or don't we'll probably see a few more of those type of signings over the next few weeks
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  as players get injured or and have to be moved around a bit.
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  We saw one in Ottawa this week too, and we'll talk about that in a little while.
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  the thing with Ward is he won't be hitting those fifty five close to sixty yarders that Maltos Diaz does, but from forty five and in he's probably Well, he should be close to
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  money.
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  He had an off a year last year just like Lauther did, and they're both back kicking
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  in the Alouette fan in my house is quite concerned with this development.
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  Ha ha ha.
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  that, especially since as I recall, he's particularly a fan of Maltos Diaz.
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  Yeah.
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  Let's hope it's short term, but you never know with with the groin injuries.
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  We were going to talk jerseys.
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  Not a lot of news this week, but we'll get into it though the the new white jerseys that are the away jerseys, everybody's uh announcing new ones.
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  I'm told it's because the kids are all into the all white look.
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  And so we're trying to bring in the younger fans now.
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  I can't verify that.
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  My sons are too old to be kids now, and their their sons are too young to be the kids they're talking about.
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  But apparently all white, which I usually hate is i is is the bomb.
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  So first of all, since they wore them on the weekend, what did you think of the Pacific Frost the that the lions have put out?
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  I can't I can't tell you about I didn't see any of the games this past weekend, so I'm gonna be a little bit out of sorts on that kind of stuff.
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  I could talk about the upcoming uh Ottawa ones because I saw those, but I didn't see the Lions.
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  I thought Saskatchewan I'd come out with some white ones too, right?
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  They
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  it.
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  They haven't released it.
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  um
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  they they've got them coming out, but I figured we'd start with the the Pacific Frost Did you did you get a chance to see them, MJ?
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  And what did you think?
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  I saw the whole little package they put together of um, you know, the guys up in the top of Grouse Mountain in the snow.
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  you know what my favorite part of those uniforms are?
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  Are the helmets.
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  They look s they are look fancy.
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  They're a little silver kind of chrome.
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  the kids these days.
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  Chrome is bake is in.
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  Is in.
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  All white is in.
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  You know what we can complain about white jerseys all you want and how you hate them, but they're not for our demographic.
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  We're gonna watch regardless.
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  this is for younger audience and this is the what's happening.
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  the Ottawa jerseys, I do like them.
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  someone got mad at me for saying this.
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  But
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  I thought that the helmets shouldn't have been black as the main color if you're gonna do an all-white jersey.
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  But
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  seen that comment echoed.
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  well the difference may be I think the all white jerseys are more about a uniform change, whereas Ottawa's more about a throwback.
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  The Ottawa jerseys and uniform are a throwback to the original
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  uh Rough Riders jerseys and uniforms of the sixties That's why the black helmet works for there because that was the uniform at the time.
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  Versus I pick BC as an example.
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  If they went white head to toe, then yeah, the helmet should be white as well.
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  Calgary's is all white, I think, on the road.
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  We haven't seen it on the road yet.
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  But if they go to a white helmet and a red horse, that'll just look ridiculous.
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  I mean, that'll look ridiculous.
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  Ottawa the the B C Lions all whites are for young people and the Ottawa Red Blacks all whites are for old people.
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  Maybe.
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  Maybe.
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  But maybe but but the thing is the the lions
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  nostalgia is also in, so Well, no, you don't want to do that.
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  There was no team in the nineties.
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  uh
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  and and the the BC ones, if they're going for an all white look, they're not all white, which to me saved it.
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  'Cause I personally I do not like their jerseys.
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  They there are too much white and just a little bit of orange around the numbers and that and it's I think it looks washed out, but they saved the overall uniform because they've
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  paired them with that silver helmet and silver pants.
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  it looks not bad.
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  If they'd gone white pants and white helmet on that, I would have hated it.
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  But again, like you said, they're not going for me.
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  Maybe the Ti cats will do like a yellow chrome jersey and pants.
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  that could look good.
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  seen teas
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  limit!
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  I have no problem with white jerseys.
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  I think white jerseys are traditionally, a away color.
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  and that's going back to when TV was black and white, and that's why they had two different color jerseys.
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  So you could tell which team was which in black and white televisions.
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  and so they I have no problems with white jerseys and I just don't like complete white uniforms when it's white jerseys, white pants.
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  if it's white jerseys and the other dark colored pants, then I I think that's a classic uniform, class uniform.
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  But when it's all white I yeah, I'm not a big fan of it.
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  Well, I can even live with the all white full uniform if they do some striping on the pants Just something to break up the the full solid white look.
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  But again, I don't know what what the kids would think of that.
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  Yeah.
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  Oh, everyone's got white runners.
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  Yes.
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  We we've seen the Riders tease their Prairie Blizzard one.
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  I can't wait to see what that looks like.
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  And yeah, the Red Blacks had came out with their I'm not sure what they're calling theirs, but as GT said, it's sort of the the answer to their home retro jerseys that they brought
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  out last year.
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  And the Riders had all white a couple of years ago, didn't they?
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  I seem to remember the Riders in all white a couple of years back.
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  And maybe it was just a third jersey or something, but I seem to remember that.
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  Maybe I'm wrong.
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  Maybe it's I'm misremembering.
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  I tend to do that.
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  pr some jersey they yeah, they had like white jersey white pants, didn't they?
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  it's exactly.
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  I'm positive they did two years ago.
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  Maybe not last year, but at least two years ago I'm pretty sure the riders were in all white for a few games.
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  Yeah.
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  I don't know.
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  The riders I feel like have like twenty jerseys like in rotation.
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  Yes.
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  Well from what I see out there, the fans are saying this is all great, but we need a black jersey again, too.
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  It's been too long since we had the black,
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  Yeah.
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  I think they should be like the MLB.
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  You know how like the the City Connect jerseys familiar?
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  Like the Milwaukee Brewers just says the brew crew and like the Chicago's like Chai Town.
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  We could have like fun little like cool nickname jerseys for for like Labor Day or something, right?
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  Like that would be fun.
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  Yes.
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  You're talking team nicknames, not right, not the player nickname like the XFL tried for a year where which was so ridiculous.
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  MLB does both on Player Weekend.
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  They get to wear their nickname as their name on the back of their jersey.
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  But I am talking about City Connects, which has a team name or team nickname.
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  Yeah, I don't need to see he hate me playing in s slot back in the CFL,
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  he but he's but he's history and he's had his moment.
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  yeah, yes, yes exactly.
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  Nobody will remember his name, but they'll remember his nickname.
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  But speaking about jerseys, GT's got a little bit of an announcement to make here too.
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  Yeah, well one of while we're talking about new jerseys.
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  Let's talk about some jerseys from the past because at the end of last year, of course, we did a jersey auction and look at what what MJ's wearing today.
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  The jersey that she got in last year's auction, the Casey Printers jersey uh the Hamilton Tiger Cats.
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  So this year, uh I had said that I would auction off or do something with the rest of the jerseys in my collection.
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  So as a reminder, it is
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  A bombers unnumbered gold from the with the with the different logo.
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  It is a Michael Bishop, Saskatchewan jersey.
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  It is a Cory Joesph Toronto jersey.
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  And it is a G Roy Simon Lions classic jersey.
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  So what we're going to do this year Well, what we're going to do this year is rather I'm decided that rather we're going to auction them
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  It's simply going to be the cost of the jersey will be the total score of the series between the Stampeders and these teams.
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  Mm-hmm.
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  So in c in this case, we're going to start with the Bombers and the Stampeders, because they've already played.
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  And the score in that game, if you remember, from two weeks ago, was thirty to twenty-eight for the Bombers.
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  So this jersey is now at fifty-eight dollars.
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  So every game we'll take the total points, we'll add them all up, and once the teams have played, whether that be in August or that be in November, I think it's still November
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  we're playing this year, right?
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  the
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  Then that will be the final tally to be able to purchase the jersey rather than bid on the jersey.
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  You will purchase it and it will be uh first come, first serve at that point in time.
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  So that's how I would like to run it this year.
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  So I will keep track of the score and mention it after every time the Stampeders play one of these teams, we will keep track of the score throughout the season and that will become
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  the dollar value of the jersey.
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  So there you go.
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  That's how I think we will run it this year.
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  Okay, I like that.
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  Now just to clarify, is it going to be the total score of the one game that they played or are you gonna wait until they've played their season series and it's the total of the
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  season?
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  Total of the season.
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  oh so if they if they only play twice, it will be the total of the two games.
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  So if they play the Riders, you will be end up spending more money.
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  And I know the Riders fan will spend more money.
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  and hopefully they play B C three times because that's a beauty.
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  And that sh deserves to go for some money.
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  be worth worth a chunk.
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  Okay, well well you're off to a good start and uh I'll try to remember before next week to go through the schedule and let people know when they can start jumping in.
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  Yes.
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  to make some um tase videos we can put up on Instagram of like how what the bids are
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  at for each jersey.
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  do yourself modeling s m modeling the
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  away from the pod in a separate moment, but we'll figure something out.
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  hopefully people will have interest in that.
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  That that Geroy Simon one is great, but even the others there's some interesting memories in there.
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  So
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  just and just as a reminder, all funds raised by these sales are going to CFL Fans Fight Cancer.
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  we will donate the check at the end of the year to to CFL Fans Fight Cancer.
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  So it's for a very, very good cause.
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  So please, if you're interested in supporting something and getting yourself a terrific jersey at the same time, there you go.
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  And no there's no receipt, unfortunately.
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  No, we're not a uh fully registered charity.
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  you get to know that you're going towards a good charity, because as GT said, important it's CFL fans fight cancer.
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  So thank you for that, GT.
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  That that is fantastic.
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  Um just jumping ahead now.
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  There was a lot of talk this last week about the attendance of the first week and how dismal it was.
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  uh the average for the first week was seventeen thousand and change.
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  So not great.
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  Going into this week, we had some very good games coming up and teams that are maybe a little higher in the winning percentages last year.
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  Would it turn it around?
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  Well, Winnipeg had the sellout.
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  On the the Thursday night, thirty two thousand three hundred and forty three in the stands.
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  Then we went to Toronto at Montreal and they had twenty one thousand one hundred and six and in Montreal that the stadium isn't as big, that's still a very good number.
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  BC at Saskatchewan, not quite a sellout, but thirty thousand one hundred and sixty eight.
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  So the average attendance jumped from seventeen thousand in change last week to just under twenty eight thousand this week.
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  Almost eleven well, basically about ten thousand and seven hundred more.
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  And I don't know, average ticket what, maybe fifty bucks.
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  If it is, that's another half million each of those teams raked in.
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  So that's encouraging.
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  Parts of the league are still really healthy and hopefully we'll see the other teams sort of jump up in in attendance as they start performing more
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  I'm very impressed with the fans that Ottawa has.
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  Their numbers weren't big be big, but the fans that are there, there were still thirteen or was it fifteen, I can't remember last week, that sat out in a monsoon and watched them.
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  So some of the teams are down to their real hardcore diehard fans.
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  Others are coming up.
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  They're talking about the fact that BC's climbing back up.
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  So I think it looks good.
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  Any thoughts?
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  Well, I think I think again it's gonna probably average out over the course of the year, pretty well.
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  Once both BC and and Toronto get back into their own stadiums.
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  Toronto will actually show an increase
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  Yeah.
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  you're gonna get thirty two and thirty two or whatever, thirty-two and thirty in Winnipeg and Saskatchewan and probably eighteen to twenty, maybe even as high as twenty five in
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  Hamilton.
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  So you're gonna have three really much larger attendance numbers than Toronto would normally have.
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  it will boost overall league attendance by doing that as well.
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  it might offset a bit.
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  From what they lose in BC with their two games because there's what, I think the maximum's gonna be twenty thousand in Kelowna, if I remember correctly.
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  so and they're drawing slightly more than that now on average at BC place So that'll be a bit of a drop off, but I think overall it'll be it'll be well made up for by those three
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  road games for Toronto.
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  And then if Edmonton starts winning and uh they'll they'll they'll come back, those fans will come back.
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  So th I think this year is gonna turn out pretty well.
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  Um, I guess like two thoughts.
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  They did some really amazing crowd shots at the Alouette game this past weekend, and all it made me want to do is go to an Aloetz game because it seemed like such a fun party.
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  I know I know they did the Rum Hut stuff in Winnipeg, but I thought that I would have more fun at Percival.
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  And it is a shame that they can't play
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  football at the same time as World Cup because if you've seen what's going on in the US, like all these like Scottish and Norwegian soccer fans at all the baseball games.
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  Just like hundreds and hundreds and hundreds like a thousand like soccer fans just sitting and like doing their soccer chants at the baseball games and like there's so many people
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  attending those.
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  It's just it it I mean obviously I know it can't happen, but it the C F L I it's just too bad they couldn't capture on World
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  Cup fever.
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  Yeah.
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  Well, maybe some of the folks going to see the cup out in Toronto might travel to Hamilton or Ottawa for a game or Montreal.
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  It's not that much extra travel if you're there.
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  The the folks coming in to watch in Vancouver probably not so much, but yeah.
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  No, hopefully I I think all in all Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  certain players in certain stadiums, I think that would be hilarious.
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  Like they'd make a really good one about Alexander.
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  You know they would.
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  the bottom line is I think the concern about the week one in attendance was a little bit of a tempest in a teapot.
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  I think we'll be back to to where we we should have been anyway.
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  moving on, we do have because the World Cup is on, we thought it's only fair that we do a World Cup report.
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  So this week's World Cup report is most of us don't care about it.
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  Um we also did I said most of us MJ
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  Goodness.
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  all.
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  I did specifically did not say all.
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  dear.
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  Okay.
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  Next.
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  Last week GT presented a little bit of a challenge for you folks out there watching and listening I had inadvertently dropped in a song lyric and he suggested maybe we try and
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  fit some in and see if anybody can recognize them.
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  Well, nobody caught anything from last week, but I will ask you guys first of all, did you drop a lyric?
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  yes, I did last week.
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  uh in retrospect it was a little tougher, but I made this week's much easier I think, to find.
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  remember during the Calgary segment last week we talked about uh the McMahon rabbit.
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  And I quoted run rabbit run.
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  Yeah.
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  course is a very big line from Breathe by Pink Floyd and Dark Side of the Moon.
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  So that was uh that was the quote.
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  That was the line.
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  So and it was and it's not it's not it's not an obscure track.
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  It is a depth track, but it's not an obscure track.
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  And the line is pretty important.
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  So I thought someone might catch it.
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  but this you this week I made it I've made it a l I think a little bit easier for folks, so.
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  We'll see.
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  MJ, did were you caught off guard or did you sneak one in?
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  I did not intentionally though.
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  If I did it wasn't it w didn't mean to
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  Okay.
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  Well well I I did and I went with something that is probably obscure.
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  So anyway, if you remember it was uh I kind of butchered it, but it's basically I had a an eighth grade education and a good Christian raisin.
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  There ain't no need for y'all to go treating me that way.
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  Which was Billy Joe Shaver from on a fast train to Georgia and
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  Since GT asked for the album and whatnot, that was off Old Five and Dimers from 1973.
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  And if you've never listened to Billy Joe Shaver, if you are at all a country fan, I think that might be the only album he had out, but I just love his music.
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  He is fantastic.
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  we're gonna try and do some more of these as as we get a chance with it.
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  Last week G C D said the name of the song and the artist and the album and all that.
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  If you can do it, that's great.
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  But maybe we're being too picky because nobody caught anything or jumped in.
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  So just give us the song and the artist if you can.
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  Yeah, even the song, yeah.
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  Yes.
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  Yeah.
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  Yes.
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  And I have one queued up too.
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  We'll see if there's an opportunity to drop it in, but I've tried to make mine slightly more easy.
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  at least more people might have heard the song.
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  Okay, so that should be fun.
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  Jump in with us.
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  what I'm waiting for is people to start seeing lyrics where we don't intend them.
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  Yeah, exactly.
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  That'll happen at some point.
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  Yeah.
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  I remember that from Depeche Mode.
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  Ha ha ha.
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  Anyway, the other big talk this week is what a weekend for the quarterbacks.
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  I think I read that it's the first weekend since nineteen seventy-five that four quarterbacks threw for over four hundred yards in the same weekend.
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  And back then it was U.S.
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  expansion, so we had seven games going on.
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  This week we had it in three.
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  more than half the quarterbacks went for 400 yards.
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  It was very good play from the quarterback position.
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  Pretty much across the board.
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  So which one?
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  Not who's the best quarterback in the CFL this week?
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  And I know it'll be harder for you GT you didn't see the game, so maybe we'll have to go with MJ.
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  This week, who which of those quarterbacks was the best of them this week?
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  You're not gonna like my answer.
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  But I'm gonna tell you it's Bo Levi Mitchell.
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  He had a huge bounce.
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  He didn't have the as many yardage as everyone else, and he's not he didn't throw over 400, but he had a huge bounce back game.
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  They came in there and shut a party down, and he ran for 15 yards.
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  Yes.
• 22:55
  Well yeah.
• 22:58
  that's the most shocking part.
• 22:59
  uh
• 23:02
  came and shut a party down.
• 23:05
  Yeah, he advanced for fifteen yards.
• 23:07
  He's like Trevor.
• 23:08
  They don't really run.
• 23:09
  Sometimes they get out there and and do the best they can.
• 23:13
  But but no, that was nice.
• 23:14
  I used to call it, it's an accelerated shuffle.
• 23:17
  Yes.
• 23:18
  Yeah.
• 23:19
  I I expect high performances from Alexander and Rourke and that's not a surprise for me.
• 23:25
  but I have a little like conspiracy theory and I think they're using pitchcom this year for offenses.
• 23:30
  Yeah, it you would think they'd have to tell us, but it could be.
• 23:33
  There
• 23:34
  they have to tell you.
• 23:34
  I think that it just seemed a lot the offenses usually take a quite a while to get c going and they are not they are on top and they are ahead of defenses, which makes me wonder if
• 23:45
  they are using pitchcomb.
• 23:47
  that might explain it because it v was very unusual.
• 23:51
  And I will say I thought that it was interesting because they had I think it was on the the Riders Lions game, they had on the panel the T S N pregame they were debating who was
• 24:04
  the best quarterback in the league.
• 24:07
  And part of what they said was, you've got to look at people like
• 24:10
  Davis and Nathan because they can run and they're the dual threat you need to have that.
• 24:15
  If you're picking a quarterback, you have to have that.
• 24:17
  And frankly, I thought the two best quarterbacks of this weekend were the two that stand in the pocket and throw the ball.
• 24:25
  Trevor and Bo.
• 24:26
  And frankly, MJ, I'm with you.
• 24:28
  He had two hundred and eighty seven yards, the the short least yardage of the weekend.
• 24:33
  But he was at 79.2%.
• 24:35
  He had three touchdowns, no interceptions.
• 24:37
  I thought Bo put on a clinic.
• 24:38
  And I thought Trevor was close behind him.
• 24:41
  He was even better.
• 24:42
  He was at 83.3%, three touchdowns and four hundred and seventeen yards.
• 24:47
  But the reason I went with Bo is when you look at it as an overall package, there weren't a lot of mistakes.
• 24:53
  One that Bo made was missing Kenny downfield for what might have been a touchdown, but
• 25:00
  That was a harder one.
• 25:01
  Trevor missed Keyshawn Johnson wide open in the end zone and could have had another score.
• 25:06
  So that's why I I put him second behind Bo.
• 25:10
  But the the others, I thought they played well, but not fantastic.
• 25:14
  They were all missing throws.
• 25:17
  they were all making some great throws, but they also all missed throws, missed reads.
• 25:23
  when we get to the games, I'll talk, you know, maybe about some of the stuff that we saw with it.
• 25:27
  When get to fantasy, I'll talk about the fact that I had Sneed.
• 25:30
  Tyler Sneed for Ottawa for Montreal, who dropped three touchdown passes.
• 25:35
  You know, so that would that would have put me charging up there with you, MJ, So they didn't get a lot of luck from their or a lot of help from the receivers, but they also
• 25:44
  didn't put the ball in the best places on some throws.
• 25:48
  You know, and frankly, everyone's raving about how fantastic Kelly looked.
• 25:53
  He threw for four hundred and forty five yards.
• 25:55
  So yeah, he was the top yardage of the weekend.
• 25:59
  But they're saying, there was no rest and he's looking great and stuff like that.
• 26:02
  That's not what I saw.
• 26:03
  I saw he made some great throws and he made some great reads.
• 26:07
  But he also missed a lot badly.
• 26:09
  And it shows up his completion percentage, was at sixty percent in the CFL today.
• 26:14
  And and part of that is they're going downfield uh a lot, I would have put him
• 26:19
  Down probably with Zach for the lower performances of the of the weekend.
• 26:25
  but the interesting thing is I guess it's because everybody was over four hundred that it's the topic.
• 26:29
  But week one wasn't too bad either.
• 26:31
  When you look at the Winnipeg Calgary game they were both on, We were talking about wow, where did that come from?
• 26:36
  We didn't expect to see that.
• 26:38
  And uh and Vernon looked really good and Cody Fajardo looked okay in that in that monsoon.
• 26:43
  I mean, he looked okay
• 26:45
  Uh I think that there's some really good quarterbacking and I agree with MJ a hundred percent that the offenses are ahead of uh are ahead of where they normally are at this
• 26:54
  time of the year for sure.
• 26:56
  Which makes the great.
• 26:57
  It's more exciting.
• 26:57
  It's better, right?
• 26:59
  We don't have that two or three two or three weeks of the first of the year that are really just
• 27:04
  a preseason games warming up like we've had in the past.
• 27:08
  they hit the ground running.
• 27:09
  they certainly did.
• 27:10
  Even that first week, yeah, even the the Montreal Hamilton game.
• 27:13
  Alexander played very well and Bo certainly played well enough to win.
• 27:17
  It was a fumble.
• 27:18
  If it weren't wasn't for a fumble, they could have won that game.
• 27:20
  You know, just a bad timing and I see so many people already saying, Well, Montreal's already beat Hamilton.
• 27:26
  Well I didn't learn a lot from that game as far as who the better team was.
• 27:30
  All right.
• 27:31
  So we're glad we ha have quarterbacks this good.
• 27:34
  Let's enjoy it while we can.
• 27:36
  The defenses will start to catch up and invariably a few of these guys are gonna start missing games because we don't get through the season without quarterback injuries.
• 27:46
  So enjoy the wonderful football while it's there.
• 27:49
  That takes us up to looking at if there were any notable signings or releases this week.
• 27:54
  I didn't see a lot other than, as MJ mentioned, Lewis Ward just signed today with Montreal as a kicker and Mario Alford went to help me out.
• 28:04
  Otta Ottawa?
• 28:05
  Who picked up Mario?
• 28:06
  No, but it was M Anderson, not Alford right?
• 28:10
  It was Mario Anderson.
• 28:12
  Yeah.
• 28:12
  Mario Anderson signed in in Ottawa.
• 28:14
  it the Alouettes released their returner today, Brooks.
• 28:19
  because they're backup running backs on the I L,
• 28:23
  Conley, wasn't it?
• 28:24
  speaking of signings, 'cause that was one that as you said, MJ, that seemed to when you were talking about the kicking situation in Montreal, well the running back situation in
• 28:33
  in Ottawa has had the same kind of connotations when they signed uh Anderson, uh who of course was in Saskatchewan last year and looked very good when he did get some time there.
• 28:44
  It was like, wow, what's going on after Greg Bell sat out and was seemed to be already in a spat after just coming over from Hamilton Then it was no, he actually has an injury.
• 28:54
  Now, of course, now they're saying that he's gonna be ready to play this week.
• 28:58
  And then then they announced, finally they announced that Elijah Collins, who was the backup, is going on the sixth game injured list, and that's why they signed Mario
• 29:08
  Anderson.
• 29:09
  So that's uh all conundrums and so on, but it just reminds me of how how wacky it's been in Sis in Ottawa for running backs over the last few years.
• 29:18
  Like it's a cursed place for running backs.
• 29:21
  they've had so many guys go through there and so much they make so much noise about the guys that they sign.
• 29:27
  Like you just look at it this year Greg Bell the number one signed running back pay wise in the
• 29:33
  in the league, at least in American running backs.
• 29:37
  and he's injured at the beginning of the year.
• 29:39
  It's just typical.
• 29:40
  Last year Steinback was gonna be the guy.
• 29:42
  He was gonna save them.
• 29:44
  Remember he came over from B C he just had a terrible year for him.
• 29:48
  It wasn't a great year.
• 29:49
  And now yeah they never played him and now he's uh retired.
• 29:54
  Uh I go thinking back to the year before, of course, it was crazy, man.
• 29:58
  Raquel Armstead, remember him?
• 30:00
  he went off the rails and they had was fighting his teammates and then he went to Saskatchewan and had that monster game against Calgary and then he ran out of he ran out
• 30:10
  of his welcome there in a hurry and they released him.
• 30:13
  And you go back to William Powell, who was a great running back for his first few years in his in Sis in Ottawa.
• 30:20
  Then he went uh I went to BC if I remember correctly, but I might be wrong when where he left as a free agent and left and then came back on in his second stint he was supposed to
• 30:30
  be the savior again and was horrible.
• 30:33
  And then they went they've just gone through so many guys.
• 30:36
  They have no luck at running back at all.
• 30:38
  As I'm sure I think there's a black cloud hanging over the running back room in the Ottawa dressing area, just because they've had no luck.
• 30:47
  So I feel bad for Greg Bell.
• 30:48
  I hope that it's not a
• 30:50
  a major thing and in fact he is healthy and ready to go again.
• 30:53
  But I thought it was worth pointing out just how how crazy the Ottawa situation's been with running backs the last few years.
• 31:01
  Yes.
• 31:02
  And
• 31:02
  hex on that locker stall?
• 31:06
  Yeah, maybe.
• 31:07
  Maybe.
• 31:08
  who who knows?
• 31:09
  I will say I think by the time Powell signed away from them the first time, he was already sort of past his best before date, because it wasn't BC, it was Saskatchewan he came to.
• 31:21
  And he didn't make a lot of noise with the with the riders uh at all either, and then he went back and didn't do that great.
• 31:27
  But the thing that I don't quite understand is why don't they
• 31:33
  Give more of a chance to Daniel Ataboye.
• 31:35
  Ad Araboye.
• 31:36
  How do you how do you say his name?
• 31:37
  Ataboye.
• 31:38
  Yeah.
• 31:39
  Yeah, Adam.
• 31:40
  Yeah, because he anytime he gets the ball, he's not breaking off like 90 yarders, but he's not getting that many chances.
• 31:47
  And once he went in there, what did he get?
• 31:49
  I think he got something like sixty-five yards in that game on an average to about five yards of carry.
• 31:53
  He he runs nice.
• 31:55
  I don't know why he's relegated to special teams.
• 31:58
  Well, because he's not a Dinwiddie guy.
• 32:03
  Don't forget.
• 32:03
  He he left he left Toronto to go to Ottawa because he wasn't getting the chance when he signed in Toronto as a rookie even he was everyone thought he would be the Canadian
• 32:15
  running back to fill Andrew Harris's shoes when Andrew Harris left.
• 32:19
  And they just went right away from him and they didn't give him the opportunity at all.
• 32:25
  And then he's gone to Ottawa and of course Condell doesn't run so he didn't get a chance last year.
• 32:30
  Uh and now I just don't think he's a Dinwiddie guy.
• 32:33
  I don't I that's my gut.
• 32:35
  Is that he doesn't have he doesn't have faith in either that particular player or for some reason's Canadians at running back.
• 32:42
  I don't know.
• 32:43
  I don't know either, but it's I feel bad for him.
• 32:46
  fan of Daniel Adam Maboye as well.
• 32:48
  I think he's a terrific running back.
• 32:49
  And I think given the opportunity, he could turn into a really, really good, solid running back.
• 32:56
  He may not be that seventeen hundred yards like some of the top guys combined, but he I bet you he'd be up over close to a thousand combined yards between catching and running.
• 33:05
  You know, he's gonna get you six, seven hundred yards in the on the ground and three to four hundred in the air, I bet over the course of a year.
• 33:11
  If he was a if he was a prime
• 33:14
  Prime running back.
• 33:15
  Yeah, he's he's certainly as as good or better than some of the American running backs I've seen in the leagues over the last few years, but we'll see.
• 33:24
  Okay.
• 33:25
  Um I'm gonna call an audible here too.
• 33:26
  I didn't because I forgot to put this one on the rundown guy, so just but I'm gonna throw it out there um because it's important.
• 33:33
  there is a yes.
• 33:35
  I know.
• 33:37
  I know.
• 33:38
  Hey
• 33:39
  Adaptability
• 33:40
  you if you're not adaptable it's hard to stay on the team, you know.
• 33:43
  You gotta roll with the punches.
• 33:45
  You're gonna turn into a boy.
• 33:47
  Zo.
• 33:48
  Yeah.
• 33:48
  Yeah, who knows?
• 33:49
  Maybe maybe two and out will lose Sheldon look for you in the free agency over the the off season.
• 33:55
  No, this one is an important one and it's a actually a serious one.
• 33:58
  Uh Baron Miles, who's a long time C FL player and coach and whatnot.
• 34:05
  Apparently his daughter has a serious illness, life threatening illness.
• 34:09
  I
• 34:10
  Haven't seen stated what it is, but Wally Buono and his wife have started a GoFundMe campaign to pay for the treatments that are needed.
• 34:20
  So I will drop in the show notes here, check out the show description, and I'll put the link to the GoFundMe campaign.
• 34:27
  Or if you search for it, I'm sure you can you can find it.
• 34:30
  But anybody who can give a little bit of money to help uh them through what's gotta be a very tough period in their lives.
• 34:36
  And,
• 34:36
  Of course our thoughts go out to them
• 34:39
  No, always uh always sad to hear when someone's child is in trouble if you can contribute, please do so.
• 34:44
  Yeah.
• 34:45
  They've given us an he Baron's given us a lot of entertainment over the years.
• 34:49
  Let's be there for him.
• 34:51
  Yeah.
• 34:51
  And on to well, I don't know if it's a hoppier happier topic or not, but I wanted to throw this out as a thought for you guys to talk about at home and enter in the comments.
• 35:01
  Let us know what you think and I want to hear what the two of you have to say on this.
• 35:05
  last week we were talking about promoting the CFL and where it fits in the world MJ mentioned that it's in a weird position.
• 35:13
  It's not as big as the NHL or the NFL or major league baseball.
• 35:18
  But it's not small like the uh PWHL or the C E B L It's this sort of middle ground that's people aren't used to.
• 35:28
  that's a a very valid point.
• 35:30
  And my first thought when afterwards when I was editing and thinking about my first thought was, yes, but the C FL's been around for a hundred years.
• 35:37
  These other leagues have been around for less than a decade, I think.
• 35:41
  I you can correct me on that if I'm wrong.
• 35:43
  It's not
• 35:44
  that long.
• 35:44
  So, you know, maybe thirty, forty years down the road, they'll be the size of the CFL.
• 35:49
  But then my brain did what it does and kept thinking about it and said, Well, whoa, whoa, wait a minute though, because part of the reason maybe that the CFL has so many old fans
• 35:58
  is we got to be fans in our youth when the only thing to watch if you wanted Canadian sport was hockey or football.
• 36:05
  So football became a natural.
• 36:08
  Now we do have all these new leagues coming in and stuff streaming in from sports in other countries do you think these newer leagues have a chance to grow to where the CFL is at
• 36:17
  least, or is the market just too fragmented for anything other than sort of really big ones and really small leagues?
• 36:24
  Mm-hmm.
• 36:26
  no, I think the I think the PWHL, if it keeps if it keeps on, I only worry about it in that it seems to be expanding, in my opinion, a little too quickly.
• 36:35
  that can dilute the player talent uh and then it does a dip before it catches up to itself.
• 36:42
  I even the NFL, the s uh the NHL and NBA went through that when they went through their rapid expansions.
• 36:48
  major league baseball even had to do some of that too.
• 36:51
  When they went from, sixteen teams to twenty four teams to thirty two teams, all those leagues did in a very quick succession.
• 36:58
  there was a lot of complaints from fans I remember saying that, the quality of the play went down for a few years.
• 37:04
  And hopefully
• 37:05
  it turns around and they come back up.
• 37:07
  But I think, that certainly the PWHL, because it also has the advantage of being an international league.
• 37:12
  So that always gives you extra viewers when you have that international league thing.
• 37:18
  The C EBL, by the mere fact that it is a Canadian only league, like the CFL, I think is that a bit a a bit more of a drawback simply because of the inferiority complex that
• 37:30
  Canadians have.
• 37:31
  Whereas if it's not Americans in the league, or some other country.
• 37:35
  It's not up to stuff.
• 37:36
  It's not international.
• 37:38
  And I think that we, you know, the the Canadian only leagues will always suffer from that So I'm not sure that it will grow to the same same level.
• 37:47
  But basketball is such a growing sport that that that will change as well.
• 37:52
  if anything, I think in thirty years from now, they could be
• 37:55
  major miners as we you know, once said in the other business I was in.
• 37:58
  So yeah, they'll be uh they they'll be a pretty big leagues.
• 38:02
  Right, so for a long time you could watch MLB baseball, NHL hockey, and CFL football on CBC anywhere in Canada for free.
• 38:13
  Every single person in Canada has access to CBC TV.
• 38:18
  as of next hockey season, none of those will be on C B C anymore.
• 38:22
  And this is it's not just sports that has this issue, like how many people had survivor parties at their houses on Thursday nights?
• 38:30
  You talk already you like if you didn't see a show on Wednesday night you just didn't get to see it and everyone would talk about it the next day at work.
• 38:37
  And sports is one of the last live events that people will talk about, but
• 38:44
  as we talked about with the broadcasting deal, it's so fragmented across different platforms and attention.
• 38:50
  I was thinking about I keep I keep somewhat track of like baseball, hockey, PWHL hockey, basketball, football.
• 38:58
  Like I have like there's just it's it's a lot.
• 39:02
  It's a lot.
• 39:03
  And
• 39:04
  I think the CBL is trying to find a niche area.
• 39:08
  PWHL is interesting.
• 39:09
  a lot of people are very disillusioned with NHL hockey and their antics and people love hockey but they've had enough of like the establishment and a lot of people are moving
• 39:22
  over to PWHL to
• 39:24
  still love hockey in a way that makes them like feel okay because a lot of what's happening in the NHL is not okay.
• 39:31
  So that that's interesting and and women's sports like the tempo in in Toronto, they're pulling good numbers.
• 39:38
  Like women's sports is having such a moment.
• 39:41
  There is a women's super league of soccer now.
• 39:44
  So women's sports is on the rise.
• 39:47
  And it's not a takeaway from anyone else.
• 39:49
  I think that if if you can't pull viewership, that's on you.
• 39:53
  there are ways to grow games and there is ways to have viewership and the people who are doing trjecting high are people who are doing things in a like a kind and equitable and I
• 40:05
  don't even know the words for it, but they're not being jerks.
• 40:07
  And
• 40:09
  The C F L's fumbled the ball so hard on this so many times, so many times, and we talk about it all the time, but it's been
• 40:17
  They're actually lucky they even have the viewership that they do, to be quite honest.
• 40:21
  And they're gonna have to I I hope it it improves.
• 40:25
  but yeah, CBL and PWHL, fantastic leagues and a lot of it's about being fun.
• 40:30
  And I wish that the CFL would go back to like more about focusing on like we all wanna be serious and like be professional, but it's also fun.
• 40:39
  And I think that's what's missing a lot of the time when you try to be super professional.
• 40:44
  as an aside, C E B L fans, just quick shout out.
• 40:47
  Um if you're a Vancouver Bandits fan, Mitch Creek just re signed and he put up twenty nine points in his first game back,
• 40:52
  gonna take your word for you that that's good news 'cause don't know at all.
• 40:59
  Oh,
• 41:00
  so I'm curious as to why you say that the CFL is not fun.
• 41:03
  Well, I just think they aren't f the
• 41:06
  I looked at that Montreal Alouettes game on Saturday and that looked like a lot of fun.
• 41:12
  And I feel like I don't know, the marketing's been weird.
• 41:16
  I f like I go to games and they haven't been super I have a lot more fun at basketball.
• 41:21
  I feel like I'm hoping like I think the 35 second clock is actually helping with the flow of the game because it was re getting really stilted and there was a lot of commercials
• 41:29
  and like watching it wasn't as fun.
• 41:32
  And I want more
• 41:35
  I don't know.
• 41:35
  I don't know.
• 41:36
  I just
• 41:37
  So yeah, because basketball's full on all the time.
• 41:40
  I mean they're playing music during the game while the play is on.
• 41:43
  They don't even stop at that stage anymore.
• 41:46
  They used to stop in between now they don't even stop when the game is going on.
• 41:51
  It's on in the stadium around you at the same time.
• 41:54
  I don't know if I would agree with you that CFL is not fun.
• 41:58
  I think it's just a different game.
• 41:59
  It's like saying baseball's not
• 42:01
  Fun.
• 42:02
  Well there's fun.
• 42:03
  the fun part of baseball is being the stoppage in between every play.
• 42:07
  So then you can have your chat and your beer and not miss a darn thing.
• 42:10
  And then you go back to the game.
• 42:12
  That's sort of what's fun about football for me and has always been.
• 42:16
  Um I love basketball.
• 42:18
  I go to games here, the the nine five games on a regular basis.
• 42:22
  I'm not a hockey person anymore.
• 42:23
  I haven't been for years, so I don't know how fun.
• 42:25
  the entertainment is on at the ice.
• 42:27
  but I think it's I think it's also about who you're going with and the entertainment around you as well as the entertainment on the field.
• 42:35
  I don't have a problem with the fun at a CFL game.
• 42:38
  when I go to the when I go to Toronto, which is you know much maligned, I always find the game fun.
• 42:43
  They have a great
• 42:44
  They do lots of things to keep the crowd engaged.
• 42:47
  The crowd is engaged.
• 42:49
  it's always more fun when it's full.
• 42:51
  There's no doubt about it.
• 42:53
  Every stadium is more fun when it's full.
• 42:55
  But I don't I don't have a particular problem with the fun aspect of the game.
• 43:00
  I have a particular problem with the stoppage that you mentioned, MJ for all the commercials and stuff.
• 43:05
  Makes me crazy.
• 43:07
  But that's a fact of life.
• 43:08
  There's nothing we can do about that.
• 43:10
  I was just curious as to your why you were concerned about the fun aspect of it.
• 43:15
  I guess maybe it's more about fan engagement.
• 43:18
  Everything's on social media now and I feel like they've dropped the ball and they're a little behind on a lot of things.
• 43:24
  Sure, hunt they've been behind for years.
• 43:26
  Yeah, hundred percent.
• 43:28
  Hundred percent.
• 43:29
  translates to I know you know what maybe it's just because I've been at Elk's Games for the last like ten years.
• 43:36
  Maybe this is cloudy because I was looking at that Montreal game, I'm like, I wish I was there.
• 43:41
  you just need to get to another city.
• 43:43
  Just get out and get to another city and then you might change your whole perspective.
• 43:47
  Because people say that about Toronto too.
• 43:49
  and as I say, Toronto is a pretty good experience when you get to a game there.
• 43:54
  honestly I think you might be
• 43:56
  you know, that might be part of the problem is that you've been watching a pretty bad team in a pretty small crowd in a pretty big stadium for more than two or three years and it
• 44:06
  loses its fun.
• 44:07
  I can see that.
• 44:08
  Absolutely.
• 44:09
  even necessarily mind like if my team is going like my team fine too.
• 44:14
  But if they're going through a bad streak, because I go to sports games all the time where they lose.
• 44:18
  All the time.
• 44:19
  But I just s there's some I just find that the CFL tends to, in my opinion, this is how I feel, like that they're just like, well you're the problem fan.
• 44:29
  You're the problem.
• 44:31
  It's you.
• 44:32
  And I'm like, actually, what are you doing?
• 44:35
  You can't just rely on what was fun, like what was working twenty years ago.
• 44:39
  That doesn't that doesn't fly.
• 44:41
  Like it's not me that's the problem and it's not the person that's not going anymore's problem.
• 44:46
  your job as a a team that's trying to make money and a league that's trying to make money is to bring me and other people in for a good entertainment value.
• 44:54
  Yes.
• 44:55
  And see when when you first said less fun, what I thought of immediately is the fact that to me the CFL has always been known for the fact that there are characters in the league
• 45:09
  you could always count on if they got an interview they would say things entertaining.
• 45:13
  And it wasn't necessarily controversial, but it would be entertaining.
• 45:16
  There were always people like that.
• 45:17
  And now the league is
• 45:19
  has clamped down, in my opinion at least, has clamped down on them.
• 45:22
  If you say something that the league figures is out of turn on social media, you get a fine.
• 45:27
  If you get this, and it just it's pushing all the fan facing interface with the players into that professional, mid game or postgame interview.
• 45:36
  We're giving 110%.
• 45:38
  We just gotta execute better they've lost an awful lot of the spontaneity and just the fun that used to be there.
• 45:44
  that just maybe
• 45:45
  This this old man with rose colored nostalgia glasses on, I'm trying to think of the
• 45:51
  Yeah, they don't even do postgame stuff anymore, really.
• 45:55
  It just goes right to s like the Sports Center.
• 45:57
  But you're right, who was that guy?
• 45:58
  Who was it that came up in the during the halftime interview and like yelled at the the oh who was it?
• 46:03
  But yeah, there used to be a lot more antics and maybe they don't seem professional, but I enjoyed them.
• 46:09
  You're right.
• 46:10
  like Adriano Bella used to be the kissing bandit and and I'm trying to think of the the D end the for Saskatchewan for a while.
• 46:16
  James can't remember anyway, he always said he wanted to be commissioner.
• 46:19
  He was the one that said the CFL had the best anti drug policy in pro sports.
• 46:24
  It's it's called the salary.
• 46:26
  All right.
• 46:27
  I just noticed, by the way, apparently when I set up tonight I got my camera leaning a little bit.
• 46:32
  So anyone watching, don't worry, I'm not stroking out and fading over.
• 46:35
  It's just my my aspect is off or my my vertical's off a little bit.
• 46:41
  Let's see.
• 46:42
  Okay, so move moving along.
• 46:44
  Fa fantasy results.
• 46:47
  Well, first of all, a big shout out to MJ, whose team MJ and the Kid is in the CFL.
• 46:54
  Podcast uh fantasy league.
• 46:57
  Top of the league this week.
• 46:59
  Number one score, and she needed it because she was fighting off a heavy challenge from Sheldon of the two and out crew.
• 47:06
  So I'll just I'll let you talk about it, MJ.
• 47:11
  Tell us what you did and how you got there.
• 47:14
  Well, I almost didn't get this team, and I'll tell you why.
• 47:17
  If you're playing CFL Weekly Fantasy, you may have noticed that people such as Keaton Birkling and Mario Alford and Dante McMahon are available for you to put on your fantasy
• 47:29
  team.
• 47:30
  Not in the league though.
• 47:31
  I had put a whole thing together and I had Brown as my running back for Toronto because it was the only thing math that mathed.
• 47:38
  And I was like, that's fine.
• 47:39
  Okay, great.
• 47:40
  And then thankfully, what do we call friend people on like apps that we talk to all the time that we don't know in real life?
• 47:46
  Anyway, my blue sky acquaintance, Vince, I was talking about yeah, I was like,
• 47:52
  Man, like why do they have Keaton, all these like players who are free agents and practice roctors people available to put on your weekly fantasy?
• 47:59
  He's like, yeah, they put this like Argo running back on there that's not even on the depth chart.
• 48:03
  And I like, What?
• 48:04
  I was like Brown?
• 48:06
  He's yeah, that's a guy.
• 48:07
  I'm like, my gosh, I had to go redo my entire fantasy lineup.
• 48:11
  Well, it certainly worked.
• 48:13
  it worked!
• 48:14
  I was like, I think that the the last minute panic vibes really paid off for me.
• 48:19
  I ended up with 150.8 points for the yeah.
• 48:24
  and top of the league, like I said.
• 48:26
  So congratulations there.
• 48:28
  I
• 48:29
  I uh well you know, I started in fourteenth coming in so I had work to do.
• 48:33
  Yes.
• 48:34
  And I was thirteenth with seventy point one points.
• 48:37
  So I was I had some stuff to do too.
• 48:39
  I figured I took a slightly different approach this week.
• 48:43
  I'll I talked about it on uh old man plays CFL weekly fantasy and I'll I'll do that again this Thursday but basically I ended up with my big money guys, most of them did okay.
• 48:56
  I had Davis at quarterback Davis Alexander and I
• 48:58
  But unfortunately I teamed him up with Sneed, who literally dropped three touchdown passes.
• 49:04
  So could have had a whole bunch more points there.
• 49:06
  But I did I locked in on my low price guys.
• 49:10
  I had Wheatfall from Hamilton and Neeld from Winnipeg, and they both balled out for me.
• 49:16
  So I did much better.
• 49:18
  More than 50 points better.
• 49:20
  I had 121 point five.
• 49:23
  No, 121.5 points.
• 49:25
  That's right.
• 49:26
  So I was feeling pretty good.
• 49:27
  That should be enough to get me at the top of the league and win.
• 49:29
  I was up against the Hamilton Sports Channel, who came in with a hundred and twenty one point eight points.
• 49:36
  I lost by point three points.
• 49:39
  Out.
• 49:39
  that hurts.
• 49:42
  I was praying for corrections, but no.
• 49:44
  So so great job, Hamilton Sports Channel.
• 49:47
  and I'm on to next week, hopefully for my first win against Cooper Trooper.
• 49:52
  the from the Canadian football countdown.
• 49:55
  So that was that was our week.
• 49:57
  I'm 0 and two.
• 49:58
  MJ's one and one.
• 49:59
  no, let me tell you my fantasy lineup and in case you want to steal it for next week.
• 50:04
  Alright, so I had the Aloet I had the Aloettes defense.
• 50:08
  I had uh Alexander as my captain.
• 50:10
  I had my running backs I had Brady, I won't pick him again.
• 50:13
  That was a pointless.
• 50:14
  I had Horvath, and then uh
• 50:18
  I had my wide receivers are Barry Hill and Philpot, and my flex was Neld So thanks to Alexander and Philpot, I did quite well.
• 50:27
  And the Alouettes defense.
• 50:29
  Yes.
• 50:29
  And I had Brady who let me down too.
• 50:31
  I won't be tak I won't be taking I can tell you two things that I won't be doing at running back.
• 50:35
  I won't be taking Brady for a while until I see something else.
• 50:38
  And I won't be taking anyone who's playing against the riders.
• 50:40
  So even though Mills is as good as he is and will probably run for a hundred yards this week, I'm not gonna take 'cause they look like they're back with that same run defense
• 50:48
  that's on there.
• 50:48
  But yeah, it was it's all fun.
• 50:50
  It's all in fun, but uh
• 50:53
  It can can be nerve wracking as well.
• 50:56
  I know you're not in the league, GT, did you do a team this week or you were you still traveling too much?
• 51:01
  I was still away too much as I said.
• 51:03
  I hadn't even got chance to watch all the games, let alone pick a team.
• 51:06
  So I will be more involved this week and maybe get a team entered into it this week.
• 51:11
  So yeah.
• 51:12
  Things will settle down a bit now.
• 51:15
  how many games how many games was there this past week?
• 51:18
  Three.
• 51:19
  Only three again.
• 51:20
  Okay.
• 51:20
  Same as the first week.
• 51:21
  Okay.
• 51:22
  Yeah, we're back to four this week, which will make the fantasy easier or harder depending on how you look at it.
• 51:27
  There's gonna be more to to choose from.
• 51:30
  that's why I asked at that point.
• 51:32
  Yeah.
• 51:33
  Yes.
• 51:33
  Well well the other thing you were saying about that about players that aren't even on the roster and then the with me I was looking for a cheap, cheap running back.
• 51:41
  So I thought, well Montreal Scott is out anyway and I can go with the I can never pronounce his name right.
• 51:45
  Tease, I think it is.
• 51:46
  Anyway, I can go with him, but they also tend to go with their backups at least one out of three series.
• 51:52
  So I'll go and look if they got Lawrence at twenty five hundred bucks and be able to get some better people.
• 51:57
  He's played two weeks now.
• 51:58
  They don't have him on the fantasy yet.
• 52:00
  It's
• 52:00
  I don't think the Argos running backs were available.
• 52:04
  Like they didn't have their top two running backs available on fantasy.
• 52:07
  I haven't looked at it uh been being away.
• 52:10
  Is it just because they've have they're not prioritizing the weekly fantasy and only care about the new one?
• 52:17
  So that is this part of the issue or and maybe they're gonna phase it out or something?
• 52:22
  I don't know.
• 52:23
  B just curious.
• 52:24
  uh, maybe.
• 52:25
  There were issues last year, but it sounds like there's even more this year.
• 52:31
  Well like let me tell you, like I swear they have AI running this because so the Aloet's defense on Saturday when I looked after the game, Alouettes defense had two points.
• 52:38
  Then yesterday the Alouettes defense had ten points.
• 52:42
  Now today the Alouettes defense had got eighteen points.
• 52:46
  So my s my score kept going up.
• 52:49
  Which is fine by me, but I was like, this doesn't make sense.
• 52:52
  Like it was weird.
• 52:55
  I didn't realize the Aloettes kept playing after the game was over.
• 52:58
  Yeah, they just kept running.
• 52:59
  They just stayed after the game and kept blocking punts.
• 53:02
  Like it just
• 53:03
  We gave up last less points in the last twenty-four hours than we did in that whole game.
• 53:08
  Yeah.
• 53:09
  But I yeah, I don't know, but then they capped like leagues at six people, so that doesn't make sense either.
• 53:14
  And then people are having a no, 'cause it's not just that GT everyone is having trouble with their their fantasy.
• 53:20
  People like they can't take players off the bench.
• 53:22
  It's like moving players.
• 53:23
  Um the people can't pick, like it's not calculating proper it's it's a big mess.
• 53:29
  It's a big mess.
• 53:30
  It's embarrassing.
• 53:32
  Yeah, again.
• 53:32
  be better with the new uh website and app, yes.
• 53:36
  yeah, well.
• 53:37
  Coming some September.
• 53:39
  Anyway, that's enough snarkiness.
• 53:40
  Let's let's talk about the the games that actually happened.
• 53:44
  So MJ and I will talk about this a lot and GT will s sit and nod and say, Yeah, sounds good, because he didn't get to see any.
• 53:52
  did get to see the first half of the first game.
• 53:54
  That's the only that's the only that I got to see.
• 53:57
  So and it was a heck of a half.
• 54:00
  I would feel sorry for you missing all the games, but you were in friggin' Europe, man, so I don't feel sorry for you at all.
• 54:06
  Okay.
• 54:07
  couple of things just right off the top that I that I did notice this week that were distinctly different from last week.
• 54:13
  We talked about the quarterbacks and the fact that just everybody blew up and was throwing for lots of yardage.
• 54:18
  The other thing that was really nice to see, it was a much better weekend for penalties.
• 54:24
  Nobody was over a hundred yards in penalties.
• 54:27
  The highest was Saskatchewan with seven for ninety-five.
• 54:30
  And then the next highest was Hamilton took five for sixty-eight.
• 54:35
  And the other four teams were all under 50 yards of penalties.
• 54:38
  it wasn't sloppy football.
• 54:40
  It was very good football.
• 54:41
  It was well played, and that's nice to see.
• 54:45
  it started out the Thursday night as w with Hamilton going into Winnipeg and walking away.
• 54:52
  3727.
• 54:54
  And to me, this might have been the the least enjoyable game of the week.
• 54:59
  Uh not only of the week, but of the year, because it was great quarterback play.
• 55:03
  Bo put on an absolute clinic.
• 55:05
  And Colaros didn't play bad at all either.
• 55:09
  But it's just all the way through once you got into the second half, Hamilton had a two score lead through the whole second half, and it just never really felt in doubt to me.
• 55:19
  Whereas at least with the game last week between Ottawa and uh Edmonton in that monsoon, that was some ugly football, but you felt like it could go either way.
• 55:28
  So there's that.
• 55:29
  GT if you want to jump in, if you saw the first half of it.
• 55:33
  it was a shootout.
• 55:34
  That's the first half was just a t complete shootout.
• 55:37
  I mean 'cause because um Bo came out throwing like he does.
• 55:42
  He loves to do the deep ball early in the game and he looked terrific they had that wonderful drive to score and then it was Zach was like, Okay, my turn.
• 55:51
  And then it was by Bo, okay, my turn.
• 55:53
  it was just back and forth.
• 55:54
  And they and until that interception in the end zone, it looked like Winnipeg was gonna get right back into that game and that kind of I guess
• 56:01
  kind of change things around, the challenge to the challenge.
• 56:05
  And why is it always the same and why and why is it always the referee, right?
• 56:10
  He's the same guy.
• 56:12
  Yeah.
• 56:13
  It's just hilarious.
• 56:14
  And again, he was laughing as he was making the call.
• 56:16
  He's like, why me?
• 56:17
  Why do I have to do this challenge to a challenge?
• 56:21
  It was hilarious.
• 56:22
  Uh I couldn't believe it.
• 56:23
  that first half was terrific and it sounds like
• 56:26
  by the scores and and the yardage and stuff, it sounds like it was a pretty good overall weekend in football,
• 56:31
  the C FL needs to have a Ben Major just have a TikTok account of just him.
• 56:36
  Just him.
• 56:39
  like the yeah, well there's like, you what it's interesting because there's a rugby um
• 56:44
  Instagram account I follow and it has like the how the had th the refs and all the interactions with the players with all the referees like in different games and different
• 56:53
  leagues and it is super interesting.
• 56:55
  Like why can't the CFL do this?
• 56:57
  And Ben Major and Andre Pru would be the perfect the perfect I would love to hear what those players are saying and how those referees handle some of those players during the
• 57:09
  game.
• 57:09
  I think that would be super interesting but of course it was Ben Major.
• 57:12
  was.
• 57:13
  Yeah.
• 57:13
  Of course.
• 57:14
  And of course it was O'Shea with this challenge to the challenge.
• 57:17
  Yes, of
• 57:17
  say I don't blame him because watching it live, as soon as they went up together, the two guys, I said that's interference.
• 57:24
  And then and then it was and then my goodness, that's an interception.
• 57:28
  at first I thought he was out of bounds, and then they showed he wasn't out of bounds, so it was a legitimate interception.
• 57:33
  So I I don't blame him for for throwing the flag and challenging the challenge.
• 57:37
  I mean, why not?
• 57:39
  It made sense because it looked like interference.
• 57:42
  It did in this.
• 57:43
  it was hand fighting.
• 57:45
  Yeah, but it was a pretty good push.
• 57:47
  It was a pretty good push.
• 57:51
  I'm kind of more towards MJ.
• 57:52
  I I I I don't yeah, yeah.
• 57:55
  I Okay.
• 57:56
  Yeah.
• 57:57
  I don't think it was a terrible challenge, but I didn't think he had a lot of chance of getting it.
• 58:00
  There it might have been there, you know, but not the worst challenge of the week.
• 58:05
  We'll we'll talk about that later.
• 58:07
  I mentioned in the quarterback section when we were talking about it about Colaros and
• 58:11
  Like I said, he played well as some of the best that I've seen him play in a well in a while.
• 58:15
  But there were a couple that I saw that that I thought were maybe not big impact plays, but took them off the field anyway.
• 58:23
  And there was one where he ended up scrambling and burst through the front of the pocket and you could see uh easily on the television
• 58:33
  When he came through up towards the line of scrimmage, Brady was sitting there eight yards out with with nobody else in the picture.
• 58:40
  So there might have been a defender like ten yards away from him, but it was an easy check down and Zach just missed it, took off and ran, didn't get the first down, they were off
• 58:49
  on two and out.
• 58:51
  And then again later in the game there was another series where it was basically the the ride and decide, the run pass option and
• 59:00
  Zach just took too long to decide and in the end he gave Brady the ball, but what was a fantastic opening had closed by then.
• 59:08
  So just little things like that.
• 59:09
  And yeah, that's being awfully picky about a quarterback.
• 59:12
  But when you look at the play from people like Bo and Trevor and Davis you can't afford to be making those mistakes.
• 59:19
  You know what, Brady had fourteen t no, you know what?
• 59:22
  Brady Brady had fourteen touches that entire game.
• 59:26
  He had eight carries and six passing reception.
• 59:30
  That's ridiculous.
• 59:31
  Round Tree had over a hundred and twenty-four yards rushing.
• 59:35
  And to me that's the Condell influence.
• 59:38
  He's got in a close game and Hamilton starts to score.
• 59:42
  And instead of doing Winnipeg's usual methodical we're gonna mix up a good balance of runs and we're gonna take long drives and keep the o other team off the field, he wants to get
• 59:52
  down the field in a hurry and it's all passing.
• 59:56
  Like you said, half almost half of Brady's touches were passes.
• 59:59
  they played they they did the exact opposite against Calgary and was so confusing and I was like, maybe Tommy Condell has changed and then this week I was like, No, this is
• 1:00:08
  exactly what I was expecting.
• 1:00:11
  there was an article on three down this week talking to a bunch of the bombers defenders and they were all saying about how disgusted they were in their performance, now they have
• 1:00:19
  to execute better, and I get all that.
• 1:00:21
  But they really did not look good on uh Bo carved them up.
• 1:00:24
  it was kind of surgical.
• 1:00:25
  And when they did get a chance to tackle, they were not wrapping up.
• 1:00:28
  They were throwing shoulders in.
• 1:00:30
  There was there was one play that was a little dump pass out to the to the flat where they they got to him two yards behind the line of scrimmage and I think there were four of them
• 1:00:39
  around the ball carrier all coming in, throwing shoulders at him, and he just pinballed off and I believe got the first down.
• 1:00:45
  You know, so not impressive.
• 1:00:47
  Bo came in like he is the most petty man and I love him.
• 1:00:54
  He after the game he posted like there was like a prediction chart I can't remember if it's the CFL writers or if it's the CFL content people or something, but it would had
• 1:01:02
  picked like Winnipeg the whole way down and after the game he circled it and he and it was like sorry to disappoint you.
• 1:01:11
  So you just know that he was like mm mm mm He was mad.
• 1:01:18
  He was mad and I wish he would play like that more often 'cause it was brilliant.
• 1:01:22
  oh He plays like that all the time.
• 1:01:25
  He knows no other way to play.
• 1:01:27
  Uh he's on a mission this year.
• 1:01:28
  There's no doubt about it.
• 1:01:29
  he looked really good the week before against Montreal.
• 1:01:32
  They just lost.
• 1:01:33
  But I mean it wasn't like he was had one a bad game.
• 1:01:36
  Hamilton's pretty solid and better than like they're looking bet really good.
• 1:01:42
  They're looking really good.
• 1:01:43
  yeah.
• 1:01:43
  And then um Three Down Nation wrote a post about him and said that him running for fifteen yards was like any basically every other quarterback in the league running sixty yards.
• 1:01:53
  And he posted it up on his Instagram stories and he was just like what's with this backhanded compliment?
• 1:02:00
  He was so and then I said maybe, maybe he's been running win sprints with Trey Ford
• 1:02:06
  Uhhuh.
• 1:02:07
  There we go, yes.
• 1:02:09
  Well, hey, and even Trey they got Trey in at the end of the game with the running package to
• 1:02:13
  perfect use of Trey's abilities.
• 1:02:15
  They need some yardage.
• 1:02:17
  They put him in and run a option package and he runs twenty-two yards.
• 1:02:21
  And they get the first down and then they can grind it out.
• 1:02:24
  Perfect, perfect use of his like um running ability.
• 1:02:28
  And you had to know, they had to know that was gonna happen, and they still didn't do anything about it.
• 1:02:34
  So
• 1:02:35
  Yeah, well, actually, they should know.
• 1:02:37
  It surprised me, and I happily surprised.
• 1:02:40
  That was I thought a great coaching move.
• 1:02:42
  There was one I thought I questioned.
• 1:02:44
  because O'Shea's usually a coach that's a real detailed type guy.
• 1:02:48
  But at the end of the first half, Hamilton had the ball almost to the end of the half and ended up having to kick a field goal with whatever, a few seconds left on the clock.
• 1:02:59
  It ended up they got the field goal, there were two
• 1:03:01
  Two or three seconds left and Winnipeg came out and took the ball at the forty and kneeled down and the half was over.
• 1:03:07
  And they've got they've got Vavel back there.
• 1:03:11
  Unless I'm wrong, I believe it's the receiving team that says, we either want to take the ball at the forty or we want you to kick to us.
• 1:03:19
  So why not in that situation kick to Vavil and see if he breaks one for you?
• 1:03:24
  He was close to it.
• 1:03:26
  other than some injuries, but
• 1:03:28
  if you're afraid of injuries you shouldn't be playing at all really.
• 1:03:32
  So just get out there and give the chance.
• 1:03:34
  But it just they they never even thought of it.
• 1:03:37
  Or decided against it if they did think of it.
• 1:03:40
  That the the other do I will I've got two other things that I can say about the game quick and then we'll move on unless do you have anything else that you wanted to
• 1:03:48
  Um, I just wanna let everyone if you didn't know, if you hadn't heard, Jamal Peters has been released from the hospital and seems to be doing well.
• 1:03:55
  he's obviously on the injured list, but he's doing okay.
• 1:04:00
  'Cause that was scary.
• 1:04:02
  scary looking one you never know.
• 1:04:04
  So I'm glad to hear that.
• 1:04:05
  Yes.
• 1:04:06
  Definitely.
• 1:04:07
  Best wishes, Jamal.
• 1:04:08
  Get get well quick and get back out there.
• 1:04:10
  They need you.
• 1:04:11
  I will finish with a couple of quick points.
• 1:04:13
  I one of the bright spots for me was from the broadcast when they sent Kate in the stands and she did a random fan interview with Sandra Oleski.
• 1:04:22
  And it was so good to see Sandra again and
• 1:04:25
  They just work well together.
• 1:04:26
  I enjo I enjoyed that quite a lot.
• 1:04:29
  And the last thing I have for is to say to the Winnipeg Blue Bomber fans, welcome to the Tim White experience.
• 1:04:37
  Tim looked good in the preseason.
• 1:04:39
  Tim looked good in the first game.
• 1:04:40
  Tim looked good in a lot of this game.
• 1:04:42
  He's catch he's getting open some, he's catching some nice balls.
• 1:04:46
  Four for seven.
• 1:04:47
  Yeah.
• 1:04:47
  You know, then we get down to where it's late in the game and we got a drive, we've got a score on and
• 1:04:53
  Wide open Tim and guess what?
• 1:04:55
  Frying pan hands come back.
• 1:04:57
  It's get used to it, folks.
• 1:05:00
  That's t that's too nasty maybe, but it's the truth too.
• 1:05:03
  Yeah.
• 1:05:05
  Okay, so that's that one in the books.
• 1:05:07
  We'll go on to uh okay.
• 1:05:10
  Wheatfall had like such a nice bounce back game after his little fumble there in OT.
• 1:05:15
  he just played lights out and I was happy to see him really great game.
• 1:05:19
  Yeah, we started that that first quarter with Winnipeg throwing almost exclusively to Neld and Hamilton throwing long ones to Wheatfield.
• 1:05:26
  And I'm just thinking, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 1:05:28
  I like this.
• 1:05:29
  These are my cheap guys.
• 1:05:31
  Anyway, um moving on to the next game, Friday night, Toronto, which everyone I think was well, not everyone was saying it was gonna be a blowout.
• 1:05:40
  We talked last week about this because the kind of game that Toronto could win.
• 1:05:43
  You never know with them, but
• 1:05:44
  It looked like a mismatch with Toronto going into Montreal.
• 1:05:48
  Ended up a closer game than it looked.
• 1:05:50
  It was a one point game in under three minutes and then Toronto kind of self destructed and Montreal took it 37-30.
• 1:05:58
  But it was back and forth.
• 1:06:01
  Both quarterbacks did play well.
• 1:06:03
  Both quarterbacks missed some passes that that they shouldn't have.
• 1:06:06
  I enjoyed the fact that they celebrated the World Cup by one of the Montreal defensive linemen thinking he got held and doing a a flop that was worthy of any soccer field in the
• 1:06:15
  world and still didn't get the call.
• 1:06:19
  Men's soccer.
• 1:06:20
  Okay, women don't do that.
• 1:06:21
  Okay.
• 1:06:23
  the the last thing that I'll I'll say before we talk about it more is of course that like I said, it was that close.
• 1:06:31
  There was about a w I mont
• 1:06:33
  Was up by one point within the close to the three minutes.
• 1:06:36
  they Toronto was in deep in their end zone, had to punt.
• 1:06:38
  Away blocked it, and I believe it was Gagne recovered it in the end zone for a touchdown.
• 1:06:43
  Then the next time they got the ball, it's getting much closer to towards the end.
• 1:06:49
  And they come out from, I believe, about their own thirty in a heavy set that looks like a straight run offense, just let's run out the clock and get out of here.
• 1:06:58
  And everybody stays in.
• 1:07:00
  It was, I believe, max max protection blocking.
• 1:07:03
  I think Philpot was the only one they sent downfield and hit him for about a seventy or eighty yard touchdown pass.
• 1:07:10
  So that was a nice call by Maas And then Toronto came back in garbage time and got one more touchdown to pull it within seven.
• 1:07:18
  That's my quick recap.
• 1:07:21
  Thoughts.
• 1:07:21
  I a question from that because I did watch the highlight package.
• 1:07:25
  And one of the things I noticed in the highlight package was excuse me, there was
• 1:07:29
  a blue line tracking the ball, almost like the T S N extra stuff I don't know if was on during the game or was it just in the highlight package?
• 1:07:38
  Okay, so it was just in the highlight package, okay.
• 1:07:41
  it almost looked like the old Fox when they'd start carrying hockey and it was the line following the puck across the ice.
• 1:07:49
  the glowing puck.
• 1:07:48
  Yeah, that's almost what it looked like.
• 1:07:50
  guys, did you know?
• 1:07:51
  Did you know that Chad Kelly hasn't played for five hundred and eighty days?
• 1:07:55
  I was just I was just making sure you you knew that, in case you didn't.
• 1:08:01
  Yeah.
• 1:08:02
  I just in case you missed it.
• 1:08:04
  In case you missed it.
• 1:08:05
  Yes.
• 1:08:07
  Kelly has had success.
• 1:08:09
  He's shown that he can be a very talented quarterback.
• 1:08:12
  And he has been off for what was the number?
• 1:08:15
  Five hundred and some days.
• 1:08:18
  So of course he's Yeah.
• 1:08:20
  So of course he's gonna be rusty, but
• 1:08:24
  I was just amazed at again how much they're pumping him up as this brilliant, fantastic quarterback, and he looked he looked adequate on the weekend.
• 1:08:35
  they didn't seem to be capable of saying he looks adequate, he needs more time in here.
• 1:08:39
  It was just every time that he made a good throw, and he did make several good reads and throws, it was all over that.
• 1:08:45
  When something went wrong, it was just not mentioned.
• 1:08:48
  Yeah.
• 1:08:50
  I feel like Montreal gave up a deep ball a lot to him.
• 1:08:54
  I was getting mad.
• 1:08:55
  I was like where's Dequa just shut this down?
• 1:08:58
  Yes The Montreal defense did not look great in their first two games.
• 1:09:04
  You know, they've let in more than I would have expected from Montreal.
• 1:09:07
  Now mind you, Beverett went out, he was on the the questionable list here, they started him and he only made it to I think halfway through the second quarter.
• 1:09:17
  So that was part of it too.
• 1:09:18
  The other thing which wasn't on the game but has come out since then, uh RDS apparently caught the tail end of it, but there was a report that Kelly got into a shouting match
• 1:09:30
  with head coach Mike Miller in the middle of that game.
• 1:09:33
  it was initially reported that Kelly had shoved Miller.
• 1:09:36
  Now it's coming back saying no, it was actually Miller the one that shoved him.
• 1:09:40
  But not a great look and
• 1:09:42
  I don't know.
• 1:09:43
  I'm even hesitant to put all of this on Kelly.
• 1:09:45
  I mean, I do think that he hasn't learned the less his lesson.
• 1:09:48
  He keeps saying I'm a new man and I'm so much better.
• 1:09:51
  I don't think that's true.
• 1:09:52
  But it also just seems to be the culture that was there.
• 1:09:55
  I mean, I remember last year Dinwiddie trailing off behind a couple of I think it was O linemen just screaming and yelling at them.
• 1:10:02
  And I th thought I remembered one from a couple of years back with McLeod Bethel Thompson and Dinwiddie getting into it on the sidelines.
• 1:10:10
  hundred percent.
• 1:10:11
  of that team doesn't
• 1:10:13
  Kelly was yelling at receivers on the field.
• 1:10:17
  Like, wait till you're on the bench to do that.
• 1:10:20
  But just like yelling at them and pointing on the field, that is bad vibes.
• 1:10:25
  bo Bo's been doing that for years.
• 1:10:28
  Bo's been throwing guys under the bus for years.
• 1:10:30
  That's not new for quarterbacks.
• 1:10:32
  Um so so yeah, I don't like it either particularly.
• 1:10:37
  and not seeing this particular game to know all the instances.
• 1:10:40
  But it is what it is.
• 1:10:42
  it's Kelly and he Chad Kelly is not in
• 1:10:46
  in my humble opinion, the sharpest tool in the box.
• 1:10:49
  He's a very good quarterback, but he's got anger issues.
• 1:10:53
  And that's all there is to it.
• 1:10:54
  The only way you can put it.
• 1:10:55
  And he doesn't he can't control his emotions.
• 1:10:58
  that's immaturity.
• 1:10:59
  And he's until he's and until he's able to do that, he's always gonna be this guy.
• 1:11:06
  And unfortunately that's just the way it is.
• 1:11:08
  I don't know why the league pumps him as much as they do, considering he is a lightning rod for controversy.
• 1:11:15
  So you think they would stay away from it, when they have other guys that they could be working as hard that aren't lightning rods for controversy, I'm a little surprised at that
• 1:11:24
  at this stage.
• 1:11:25
  as I said last week when we were talking about quarterback rooms, he's in my in my opinion, he's still one of the top quarterbacks in the league.
• 1:11:32
  you gotta give him some s some kind of credibility and some kind of sales job by the league and by the broadcaster you can't ignore him entirely, unfortunately.
• 1:11:42
  Kelly didn't answer and apparently didn't answer questions really at the pr at the postgame press conference at all on it.
• 1:11:49
  Coach Miller did, and him and other players all seem to be towing this line that, that's just Chad Kelly, he's ultra competitive.
• 1:11:58
  You have to understand he is so ultra competitive and that's just how our relationship works around here.
• 1:12:04
  that's how we do things.
• 1:12:05
  Well, I'm sorry, that's to me that's well, I'll shorten it to BS.
• 1:12:10
  Because you don't become a professional athlete if you're not ultra competitive.
• 1:12:15
  And yet ninety-nine probably better than ninety-nine percent of them manage to do it without being an arsehole.
• 1:12:21
  And you get these few like and there's a few others.
• 1:12:24
  And I'm sorry, if that's your relationship, if that's how your relationship has to work.
• 1:12:28
  shouting and yelling and shoving each other to get to anywhere, you've got a dysfunctional relationship.
• 1:12:33
  My opinion.
• 1:12:35
  Hundred percent.
• 1:12:36
  Hundred percent.
• 1:12:37
  That I mean again I'm not defending the man by any means.
• 1:12:40
  I am not uh to be clear here, I am not defending him as a person.
• 1:12:46
  I am only saying that yes, as an athlete he's he's a talented individual.
• 1:12:50
  That's all I will say.
• 1:12:51
  You're you're separating, you're differentiating between the person and the athlete.
• 1:12:55
  Yeah.
• 1:12:56
  Sorry, go ahead, MJ.
• 1:12:58
  My alternative he my alternative headline for that news article was Grown Man Throws Temper Tantrum.
• 1:13:03
  Yeah, a hundred percent.
• 1:13:05
  Um, there was some awesome things that happened in this game that were not temper tantrum related.
• 1:13:10
  yes, there were.
• 1:13:11
  There there was a lot of them.
• 1:13:12
  What have you got for them?
• 1:13:14
  Anything in particular to mention or?
• 1:13:15
  first of all they put Dusty and Luke in the in the booth together.
• 1:13:20
  So I was like, boy.
• 1:13:22
  They were like each other's like ultimate hype, man.
• 1:13:25
  It was actually kinda cute.
• 1:13:26
  And I was like, it's like kinda like that.
• 1:13:28
  Like the Luke listening to Luke, some of it, you know this there's this meme going on as like heartbreaking, the worst person you may know made a great point.
• 1:13:35
  And I was like,
• 1:13:35
  Yeah.
• 1:13:36
  Yeah.
• 1:13:37
  You did make some good valid points, Luke.
• 1:13:40
  Alright.
• 1:13:41
  Just stick to talking about football.
• 1:13:42
  Just don't just just stay in your lane, bro.
• 1:13:45
  So that's I was surprised they put those two together after they made Luke do three man booths with all the vets and then just sent him off with Dusty.
• 1:13:53
  But there you go.
• 1:13:54
  Does is uh Philpot have another catch of the year?
• 1:13:59
  To contend with his catch of the year from last week?
• 1:14:02
  I
• 1:14:03
  This one I think was even crazier.
• 1:14:06
  Did you see this one, GT?
• 1:14:08
  No, I saw it something in the highlights but I didn't see it Uh
• 1:14:12
  you see if I do this correctly.
• 1:14:14
  The ball the defender was in front of him and he reached around the defender's head and knocked the ball out from the defender as he was going to catch it and then bobbled it on
• 1:14:24
  the sideline and pulled it in.
• 1:14:27
  Yes.
• 1:14:28
  I think he's saying to Davis now, just throw it straight at the middle of the defender's back 'cause that's my sweet spot.
• 1:14:35
  just I will just reach around and pop it out and catch it and
• 1:14:40
  Unbelievable.
• 1:14:41
  And two weeks in a row.
• 1:14:43
  And I think he's already at something like two hundred and almost three hundred yards in two weeks.
• 1:14:48
  And if he doesn't get injured, he's gonna just gonna blow up this season.
• 1:14:53
  and you know what?
• 1:14:53
  They started off this game with a flea flicker.
• 1:14:56
  And nothing, and nothing gets your crowd, home crowd, going like a good flea flicker that pans out and is spectacular.
• 1:15:05
  So nice.
• 1:15:07
  Love it.
• 1:15:07
  Thank you, Anthony Calvill, for your play-calling this game.
• 1:15:11
  I quite enjoyed it.
• 1:15:12
  Sneat continued his like one-man wrecking crew of like all DBs.
• 1:15:17
  Well he did, he made some good but he couldn't catch the big one.
• 1:15:20
  So like I said, I was paying specific attention and there were literally there were there were two in the end zone that should have been caught and he and he missed them and they
• 1:15:29
  weren't they weren't thrown perfectly but normally he'd catch them and then there was another one where he was streaking down the sideline and looked like it probably would
• 1:15:36
  have gone for a touchdown and just got overthrown by about six inches.
• 1:15:40
  he had a good game, but not as good as his first week.
• 1:15:44
  I will say that.
• 1:15:45
  But Phil Pot made up for it with
• 1:15:48
  Yeah Don't be salty
• 1:15:50
  Haha Hey, point three points.
• 1:15:52
  I'm bitter, of course I am.
• 1:15:54
  Don't be salty.
• 1:15:56
  He he needed three more yards.
• 1:15:58
  He didn't even have to catch those touchdowns.
• 1:16:00
  He needed four more yards.
• 1:16:01
  He if he'd caught one and fallen forward for four yards, I would have won.
• 1:16:05
  Sorry, I'm I'm gonna quit.
• 1:16:06
  my kid cat look at the you need to implant my rule of fantasy.
• 1:16:10
  We're only allowed to check at half time at the end of the game, you're not allowed to think about it in between.
• 1:16:14
  It'll in 'cause otherwise you're just ruining your own fun.
• 1:16:17
  That's right.
• 1:16:19
  Argos missed two field goals.
• 1:16:20
  Is there an issue there?
• 1:16:23
  Or is that a blip?
• 1:16:25
  Still hear a lahu in there and he doesn't normally miss but
• 1:16:29
  Missed two.
• 1:16:30
  How far were they?
• 1:16:30
  the and
• 1:16:32
  well the the field goals weren't from like the fifty.
• 1:16:34
  Like they were they were like decently average field goal attempts.
• 1:16:40
  He just yeah.
• 1:16:41
  Yeah, and the one was a bad miss.
• 1:16:44
  It it wasn't even close.
• 1:16:45
  Yeah.
• 1:16:46
  no.
• 1:16:47
  Is that it's does he have a new holder?
• 1:16:49
  Does he
• 1:16:50
  yeah, I think they do.
• 1:16:51
  I was gonna say I believe they do have a new holder.
• 1:16:53
  Yeah.
• 1:16:55
  That may be par part of it then.
• 1:16:57
  It's
• 1:16:57
  of it.
• 1:16:58
  Stay after practice time boys and practice.
• 1:17:01
  Yes.
• 1:17:02
  my last point is like I how will I know there's a time count violation if the thirty-five second clock is not on the on the scoreboard again this week?
• 1:17:11
  Still sometimes.
• 1:17:12
  It's sometimes there.
• 1:17:14
  Sometimes not.
• 1:17:16
  Mostly not.
• 1:17:17
  Mostly not.
• 1:17:18
  And they sometimes pull it up as thirty five and then flash it to twenty in the last three minutes.
• 1:17:22
  Not I would I'm with you guys.
• 1:17:24
  We said last week, just put it on there as a little widget right on the little score banner and have it there all the time.
• 1:17:30
  It would certainly help us.
• 1:17:31
  actually I was thinking, GT, you were right last week about baseball.
• 1:17:34
  I was watching the Blue Jays and they do have the counter for the but you know what they don't have the they I was thinking about they don't have the clock when the pit batter is
• 1:17:40
  coming into the box, but they have it like for all the pitches they do, but usually there's like there's a top anyway, you were right.
• 1:17:47
  I just didn't I wasn't even noticing because it didn't even matter.
• 1:17:51
  But the the I feel but the thirty five second clock is like an in play between and that's that's I feel important, especially if yeah.
• 1:17:59
  agree.
• 1:18:00
  Yeah, the thirty five you we should see the clock wind down for sure.
• 1:18:04
  Because there was a time count violation, I'm like, is there?
• 1:18:08
  I don't know.
• 1:18:08
  Oh well.
• 1:18:09
  oh
• 1:18:14
  I was impressed actually with the Toronto running game.
• 1:18:17
  Hicks was doing fairly well in the first half.
• 1:18:20
  The line was giving him some space, making some blocks, and I think he got fifty or sixty yards total, they Yeah, they went away from it in the second half quite a bit.
• 1:18:31
  And I
• 1:18:32
  Still haven't had a chance.
• 1:18:33
  I want to go back and see that and see did they stop calling runs or was it that they were running RPOs and Kelly just wasn't handing it off in the second half?
• 1:18:44
  I'm not sure, but I was a little surprised by that because they had a good balanced attack, it was working well, and then it seemed to shift in the second half.
• 1:18:51
  And it wasn't like Montreal had done anything to stop him to that point.
• 1:18:54
  Have we worn this one into the ground?
• 1:18:56
  Davis is undefeated.
• 1:18:58
  In the regular season.
• 1:19:01
  Yes.
• 1:19:03
  Yes.
• 1:19:03
  okay.
• 1:19:04
  So that brings us to the the last game of the weekend, which everyone was calling the the premier game, and it probably was.
• 1:19:10
  It was a was very exciting.
• 1:19:13
  they did do the well not banner drop.
• 1:19:15
  They di it's a sign and they unveiled it and
• 1:19:18
  It was kinda neat.
• 1:19:19
  By now probably everybody's heard they had Jorgen Hughes back and Dante Myers and Mitch Picton and had the three of them go up and give a little bit of a shout out to the crowd
• 1:19:29
  and thank you for the fans and we've done this for you and all of that and then pulled down the banner and unveiled it and then shotgunned a bunch of beer.
• 1:19:36
  So, you know, a Saskatchewan experience.
• 1:19:39
  but it was
• 1:19:40
  It was a hell of a game.
• 1:19:41
  The difference in the end might have been the fact that the riders did definitely come out at a full sprint, and it took the Lions about the better part of a quarter, it seemed
• 1:19:51
  like, to really get their feet under them.
• 1:19:52
  At least on offense.
• 1:19:53
  The defense never did quite get there.
• 1:19:58
  But Nathan played well enough to make the Saskatchewan defense look a little questionable too.
• 1:20:04
  And in the end.
• 1:20:05
  It was almost
• 1:20:06
  Well, people are calling it the same thing as the Western final.
• 1:20:08
  I'm saying it's a bit of a mirror image because BC dropped behind.
• 1:20:14
  Once they started getting their offense going, they started climbing back into it, chunking away bit by bit by bit.
• 1:20:19
  And with a little over four minutes left, they took the lead to get a three point lead to get ahead.
• 1:20:28
  The riders came back and a very nice march, took it down the field.
• 1:20:32
  scored again, so they had the four point lead now, and this is where I'm saying sort of the mere image.
• 1:20:37
  The last year in the Western final, riders got the ball with sixty two seconds or something left and managed to get down to score the touchdown.
• 1:20:45
  Nathan got the chance with forty eight seconds here to go and unfortunately they fell kind of short.
• 1:20:51
  And I was gonna say, you know, we we've all heard people say before that football games at least, I've heard this about other sports too, but
• 1:20:59
  Football games are decided by three or four plays through the game.
• 1:21:02
  You just never know what those plays are.
• 1:21:05
  And this one you definitely didn't realize what one of the most impactful plays was, because it was BC's first return of the the game on a kickoff after Saskatchewan's first
• 1:21:14
  touchdown.
• 1:21:16
  Didn't go for much yardage, got tackled going out of bounds.
• 1:21:19
  But the returner Sevens McGee got hurt, rolled up his ankle, couldn't play.
• 1:21:25
  They had him booked in to be in the starting offense.
• 1:21:29
  So they were down a receiver.
• 1:21:31
  And then later in the game, Katoy went down and wasn't able to play.
• 1:21:36
  So they were down two receivers and and didn't have another backup in that last drive.
• 1:21:41
  They ended putting in a player called Bond, who's a rookie.
• 1:21:44
  He's a fullback who up until now has played linebacker.
• 1:21:48
  They converted him.
• 1:21:49
  He's never caught a pass in a game, and for some
• 1:21:52
  Inexplicable reason on their last drive they put him in and put him in the position where frankly the the well the first one was a check down, but the second one you could see that
• 1:22:03
  was where the play was meant to go and he dropped both of them which is unfortunate, but there it goes.
• 1:22:09
  Like I said, lots more to talk about, but I'll open it up to any other thoughts here now.
• 1:22:13
  Yeah, I didn't see any of this even in the highlight package.
• 1:22:16
  It seemed like there was longer highlight packages available on T S N before.
• 1:22:20
  There were like ten minutes and they were were almost like the game in eight to ten minutes.
• 1:22:25
  And I didn't see any of those uh for the games this past weekend.
• 1:22:29
  I was at Flag Football, so I didn't watch this game and I tried to find a highlight package that was a ten minute condensed game I just wanna know why Rourke is the B C Lions
• 1:22:37
  top rusher for the week.
• 1:22:39
  Yeah, well that's because they were playing Saskatchewan.
• 1:22:43
  I mean, he was getting open around the edge the way he does and running for yards, but Saskatchewan looked very much like their their defense from last year.
• 1:22:52
  Most of the runs were stopped at the line.
• 1:22:55
  I think uh Butler got one run for well, he got into the end zone, but he also the his only really sort of longer run was one for ten or twelve yards.
• 1:23:05
  And to BC's credit
• 1:23:07
  They pretty much did the same thing.
• 1:23:09
  Saskatchewan wa wasn't playing the the bully ball they want to play with using AJ to run out the game.
• 1:23:15
  people talk about the fact they get into this like the bombers.
• 1:23:17
  They if they have a lead they get into this third quarter lull.
• 1:23:21
  And it's not all that surprising because unless the running game is really working, what they did was they ended up with a situation where they for about three series in a row, I
• 1:23:30
  think, they started out with a run to AJ.
• 1:23:33
  It went for two to three yards.
• 1:23:36
  Then they had and then Harris had to throw.
• 1:23:39
  And there were receivers that were open enough that if he was in a got to go and win this game type drive, he would have been making throws.
• 1:23:48
  But they were also close enough that with a four-point lead, he didn't want to be taking chances.
• 1:23:53
  So he put a couple into the ground or just threw them out on those three series and they had two and outs from it.
• 1:24:00
  So it it was sort of the result of play calling.
• 1:24:03
  And then once BC got close enough,
• 1:24:05
  They kicked it back into gear again and and went down and and got this winning one.
• 1:24:10
  And they there were two challenges in this game.
• 1:24:13
  There was a really bad challenge by Pierce with BC where Del Bunkin' Busb Bell Duncan Busby does be yeah, anyway.
• 1:24:21
  You know who you're gonna talk about, Del.
• 1:24:23
  Sorry, I'm talking about you.
• 1:24:24
  Caught a nice pass, but then fumbled it.
• 1:24:27
  And it bounced out and a couple of riders tried to jump on it and just
• 1:24:30
  just slid it back to him and he wrapped his arms around it.
• 1:24:33
  And that was the last picture you had on the sort of the play and the replay was him there with the ball obviously in his hands.
• 1:24:40
  And Pierce challenged it, saying, it was a fumble and we recovered it.
• 1:24:44
  So I don't know who was telling him what to do, but that was that was a bad one.
• 1:24:50
  On the other side, Mace had a very good challenge because that last drive with like I say, starting just over three minutes to go
• 1:24:59
  They ended up taking a holding penalty right off the bat, and they were down first and twenty back on about their own four.
• 1:25:04
  And they went it would have been two and out on the second down.
• 1:25:08
  They tried to leak AJ out the side and up the seam, and he got basically a linebacker just ran straight into him.
• 1:25:14
  And they made the pass anyway.
• 1:25:17
  No interference called.
• 1:25:18
  Mace challenged it, and they did call the interference, which in some ways was kind of lucky because I believe by the the
• 1:25:28
  wording the ball has to be in the air for it to be pass interference.
• 1:25:31
  And when the linebacker first hit Olet at about ten yards out, Harris hadn't thrown the ball yet.
• 1:25:38
  It looked like when he saw him being hit, he threw the ball then, trying to get the PI.
• 1:25:43
  And it worked.
• 1:25:44
  So they managed to march the field and that was good.
• 1:25:47
  And and again earlier in the game, the the their second touchdown, they we had one of the situations where the ball got punted to the coffin corner and
• 1:25:57
  Letcher of the Saskatchewan receiver was waiting for it to roll into the end zone and roll out, and instead it hit about the one yard line and took a sideways bounce and went out at
• 1:26:05
  the one.
• 1:26:06
  And they marched the hundred and nine yards to got the touchdown out of that.
• 1:26:09
  So they were they were looking sharp.
• 1:26:11
  But again, once BC got back, they were looking sharp.
• 1:26:14
  And Innis had a hell of a game.
• 1:26:16
  Sha Keon Schaefer Baker for for Saskatchewan had what was it, like nine passes for something around a hundred and sixty yards and
• 1:26:25
  Emless had three touchdown passes.
• 1:26:27
  It was just it was great offensive football and both defenses were working hard to keep up.
• 1:26:35
  See, do I have anything else?
• 1:26:36
  there was a bad call from the officials where it wouldn't have made more than another five yards or I don't think, but uh McInnis caught a ball and got submarine tackled by uh
• 1:26:48
  Millington.
• 1:26:48
  or Milligan, sorry.
• 1:26:50
  Unfortunately, Milligan got hurt and that's got riders fans a little bit worried.
• 1:26:54
  But he rolled off the back of them and popped back up and they whistled it dead and he shouldn't have been.
• 1:26:59
  They were ran to the end zone.
• 1:27:00
  And and Suiter on the broadcast said some weird explanation about the rule is well, if the guy you fall on is already touching the ground and you fall on him, then you're touching
• 1:27:11
  the ground.
• 1:27:12
  And no, it was just a a bad call by the ref.
• 1:27:16
  huh.
• 1:27:16
  Uh but I think that's probably most of what I've got here.
• 1:27:19
  Neither team got a lot of pressure.
• 1:27:21
  Riders got a couple of sacks.
• 1:27:23
  the was I was very impressed with the Saskatchewan line.
• 1:27:26
  BC got one sack and they got it by moving Betts inside and lining them up over the Fry at the guard spot, and Fry is sort of the the weak link on that O line and Betts made a nice
• 1:27:39
  move, slapped his hands down and did a swim over and managed to get the one sack in.
• 1:27:44
  But
• 1:27:45
  Mostly it was just great, great offensive football and a showcase.
• 1:27:49
  All right.
• 1:27:51
  That's about it.
• 1:27:52
  I'm I feel like we're not doing these games credit.
• 1:27:54
  It was a fantastic weekend of football.
• 1:27:56
  I just hope we're the is good this week coming up.
• 1:27:59
  We'll see.
• 1:27:59
  But we'll jump on.
• 1:28:01
  We're gonna do our predictions here, but first we'll do do you have some power rankings for us, GT?
• 1:28:06
  I do.
• 1:28:07
  Power rankings.
• 1:28:09
  This week after week two, I have Saskatchewan at number one.
• 1:28:13
  They're still the defending champions and they won.
• 1:28:16
  Montreal at number two, they're two and and look very good.
• 1:28:21
  Hamilton at number three, they're one and one and uh look very good in both games even though they lost the first one.
• 1:28:27
  I have Winnipeg in number four because uh they're one and one.
• 1:28:33
  have Edmonton in and Winnipeg's looked okay offensively at least I think.
• 1:28:38
  Edmonton in next because they're because they won.
• 1:28:41
  Uh BC because they lost, Calgary because they lost, Toronto because they lost, and Ottawa because they lost.
• 1:28:51
  So that's how I see them.
• 1:28:54
  and maybe that Toronto, Ottawa, maybe the BC Calgary, Edmonton mixture there.
• 1:28:59
  It's so so early, it doesn't matter.
• 1:29:01
  But that's that's how I have them this week.
• 1:29:03
  So feel free to take shots.
• 1:29:07
  Please let us know in the comments what what you think, And um yeah, I have a feeling you may make a get a few shots for putting BC down where you where you have them.
• 1:29:17
  People seem to think better than that.
• 1:29:19
  But what do I know?
• 1:29:21
  What do I know?
• 1:29:22
  I'm just a five dressed up as a nine.
• 1:29:25
  Go ahead.
• 1:29:25
  the I put uh I put BC below that and I did think about it, uh think about that, but I put them down there because they lost at Edmonton won.
• 1:29:35
  So that's why I have them there.
• 1:29:37
  It's as simple as that.
• 1:29:39
  They lost.
• 1:29:40
  Edmonton won.
• 1:29:41
  Hey, and you you don't have to explain it there.
• 1:29:44
  Your power well, there are power rankings, but you're our power ranking guy.
• 1:29:47
  So I'm just saying if if we've got engaged listeners and fans here, you may get some roasting on that one.
• 1:29:54
  That's a that's a a bold call, as they say.
• 1:29:58
  Okay, I'll run through quick here.
• 1:30:00
  Notables on the um injury reports before we talk about the games.
• 1:30:04
  BC receivers is a
• 1:30:07
  Tough spot in BC.
• 1:30:08
  Barry Hill Cattoy and Seven McGee are were all did not participate in the early days, so they may be a tight for receivers on there.
• 1:30:17
  Woodruff at tackle was limited and when he did go out of the game for a little bit and it looked a lot worse when he wasn't in there.
• 1:30:23
  So that could be ugly.
• 1:30:25
  Hamilton, McManus and Peters were on the did not participate, and that was it.
• 1:30:29
  There I mean again, there are others on these lists, but unless they're notable names, I'm not taking the time.
• 1:30:35
  Toronto Dwayne Hendricks was still limited, but Herslow was back at full, so that looks good for them.
• 1:30:41
  Montreal, Beverett and Maltos Diaz were did not participate.
• 1:30:45
  And uh Naj Murray and Stearns who had a hell of a game on this last week, they're both limited.
• 1:30:52
  Scott the third is back practicing full, so that's a good thing.
• 1:30:56
  Edmonton, Robostelli at receiver and Woodmancy on the O line, we did not participate.
• 1:31:01
  Saskatchewan, Dalkey, who he's special teams, but he's also the backup on the the weak side linebacker.
• 1:31:09
  And Hardrick, Lakombo, and Milligan were all did not participate.
• 1:31:14
  So that could hurt, but I think most of them will be back.
• 1:31:17
  Milgen, I don't know.
• 1:31:18
  He had a his shoulder in a sling at the end of the game on the weekend.
• 1:31:22
  Uh
• 1:31:23
  I saw a report t I saw a report today that Milligan's gonna be out at least two to three weeks.
• 1:31:28
  Yeah, that makes sense with what it it looked like.
• 1:31:31
  unfortunately Lakombo did not participate as well and he was who stepped over and took that position.
• 1:31:35
  They put Ford at safety and Lakombo over.
• 1:31:38
  So there may be some juggling there.
• 1:31:39
  See what there might be some new faces in.
• 1:31:42
  Calgary Barnes was limited, so that's hopeful that he'll be back.
• 1:31:45
  Hutchings and Flo were both full participants.
• 1:31:49
  So that looks good for them.
• 1:31:52
  I didn't see Bagleton on the injured list, so I went looking for it, and apparently he's on the sixth game.
• 1:31:58
  And I haven't heard anything about the setback or what happened with that, but they said he was we're good to go.
• 1:32:05
  And Paradise is also Parad Paradise is also on the sixth game list now.
• 1:32:10
  So they'll be going with this other kicker for a while.
• 1:32:14
  So that's what the teams are looking at like right now on a Tuesday heading into a
• 1:32:18
  A weekend where we've got a Friday night game and a triple header on Saturday.
• 1:32:24
  So lots of long football.
• 1:32:27
  I was finally s so far I was so much, you know, I've been away for three weeks and and I'm thinking that finally I get back and I can sit down and actually watch games Thursday,
• 1:32:36
  Friday, Saturday, Sunday, one game a night.
• 1:32:39
  It's perfect.
• 1:32:40
  I could in the basement just sitting relaxing.
• 1:32:43
  Now it's like now I gotta tape all these games and try to juggle them in and fit them all in again and yeah, it's just uh who decided this weekend we needed three games on a
• 1:32:53
  Saturday?
• 1:32:53
  sh yes.
• 1:32:54
  Like it doesn't even make sense.
• 1:32:56
  It doesn't even make sense.
• 1:32:58
  know it's what did it, but you're a week early 'cause the week after this we're back to four nights in a row.
• 1:33:04
  So you just came home a week early.
• 1:33:06
  You should have stayed in Europe a week longer.
• 1:33:07
  Yeah.
• 1:33:10
  back.
• 1:33:11
  Okay, so winding down now, getting close to the two hour mark, we'll see what it edits out to, but anyway, winding down so the game predictions the Friday night one BC at Hamilton.
• 1:33:24
  Why did you go first, MJ?
• 1:33:26
  Ha ha Hamilton.
• 1:33:27
  this is the time of year where my husband and I are m we are mortal enemies for one night only.
• 1:33:33
  And I am gonna pick the Ti Cats.
• 1:33:38
  GT.
• 1:33:38
  Yeah, I'm taking Hamilton as well.
• 1:33:40
  as I said earlier, they're looking sharper than I expected, even and uh it they're at home, so I'm taking Hamilton.
• 1:33:46
  Yeah.
• 1:33:47
  Yeah.
• 1:33:47
  It's it's tough to go against BC with with Nathan in there, but what Hamilton showed, I think it'll be a high scoring game.
• 1:33:56
  But yeah, I think it's we're we're gonna go across the board, Hamilton.
• 1:34:00
  I should point out by the way, we were all two and one last week.
• 1:34:04
  you picked Montreal and or no, you picked uh Hamilton and we both picked Winnipeg and lost that one, and then the flip side was we to both took Saskatchewan and you took BC.
• 1:34:13
  So anyway, for whatever that's worth.
• 1:34:17
  So this is all three of us on Hamilton.
• 1:34:19
  Okay, Toronto and Ottawa before my voice goes away completely here.
• 1:34:23
  We'll let you go first on this one, GT.
• 1:34:26
  Uh, hardest decision of the week.
• 1:34:28
  I'm gonna take Ottawa.
• 1:34:31
  Yeah, I'm gonna take Ottawa.
• 1:34:33
  I don't know why.
• 1:34:36
  I honestly don't.
• 1:34:37
  No idea.
• 1:34:38
  uh
• 1:34:41
  Montreals beat up Toronto's defense pretty bad, but Ottawa is not the Montreal offense, and the Toronto offense did look, like I said, good, and I'm assuming Kelly will be better
• 1:34:53
  this week with another game under his belt.
• 1:34:55
  So I'm going with Toronto.
• 1:34:57
  You get to round it up.
• 1:34:58
  Make the decision for us, MJ.
• 1:35:01
  This is like Dinwiddie versus old team.
• 1:35:05
  That's why I that's why I kinda went auto.
• 1:35:08
  And it's in Ottawa.
• 1:35:10
  Is it gonna pour rain, I wonder?
• 1:35:12
  Probably.
• 1:35:14
  Probably.
• 1:35:16
  Yeah, yeah, as it does in Ottawa.
• 1:35:19
  Ottawa's already done a ground game in the pouring rain.
• 1:35:22
  Who's Toronto's running back?
• 1:35:23
  Hicks
• 1:35:26
  May or may not have bell in.
• 1:35:27
  He is full.
• 1:35:28
  He's practicing full, but
• 1:35:30
  you know what?
• 1:35:30
  Gonna cheer for my former Ti cat I'll pick Ottawa.
• 1:35:34
  Okay.
• 1:35:35
  So the podcast will also pick Ottawa.
• 1:35:37
  Bold choice again.
• 1:35:38
  a silly pick.
• 1:35:39
  It's a silly pick.
• 1:35:41
  I don't even know what's gonna happen.
• 1:35:42
  Like, this game's so gonna be wild.
• 1:35:45
  will it's the C FL.
• 1:35:47
  Let the chaos reign.
• 1:35:48
  I don't know what's gonna I don't know.
• 1:35:52
  And uh Montreal at Edmonton.
• 1:35:56
  I haven't gone first yet.
• 1:35:58
  As good as Edmonton looks, and as much as the Montreal defense has struggled, and as much as they have to go almost the full way across the country, and at least it's an afternoon
• 1:36:08
  game, I'm gonna go with Montreal.
• 1:36:10
  I guess you get second here, uh MJ.
• 1:36:13
  Alright, so I am hopefully going to this game.
• 1:36:15
  And last year when the Alouettes were in town and I was at the game, Alexander tore his hamstring.
• 1:36:22
  So I hope like knock on wood, it is not me and my kid that are the bad vibes and they play well.
• 1:36:30
  I you know what but all jokes aside he's undefeated and i it's not gonna be Edmonton taking him down.
• 1:36:37
  No.
• 1:36:37
  I will say I during the the game this week there was a point in the I think the first quarter where Alexander came up and looked like he was limping a bit and you could feel
• 1:36:49
  the air just rush out of that stadium they're on pins and needles about it.
• 1:36:54
  Anyway, GT, who do you think got here?
• 1:36:55
  Okay, so we're
• 1:36:59
  Edmonton's got a lo Edmonton's got a few injuries, key injuries too, that I think is gonna impact the game.
• 1:37:05
  So so yeah, I'm taking Montreal.
• 1:37:09
  Okay.
• 1:37:09
  although it is going to be a rainy, rainy day here probably, so the ground game might come into play where Rankin is going to shine, but I still I'm gonna pick Montreal.
• 1:37:19
  Montreal doesn't have Beverett in there, mm, you know, yeah.
• 1:37:23
  Could be.
• 1:37:24
  And then the last one, which is Calgary at Saskatchewan, and since there's both of us have teams we're cheering for here, we're gonna let MJ pick first and then
• 1:37:32
  No, no, no.
• 1:37:34
  You guys go and I'll tie break if I need to.
• 1:37:38
  I rule with an iron fist.
• 1:37:41
  Yeah.
• 1:37:42
  I don't I don't know.
• 1:37:44
  don't know.
• 1:37:45
  It's in Calgary.
• 1:37:47
  It's basically a home game for Saskatchewan.
• 1:37:50
  Is flow back?
• 1:37:52
  Yes.
• 1:37:52
  Or while at least he's practicing full.
• 1:37:55
  Him and Hutchings are both practicing full, it says.
• 1:37:57
  Him and Hutchings are practicing full.
• 1:38:00
  But apparently they still don't have a hundred percent clearance.
• 1:38:04
  According to Dickinson's at post practice comments today, he said uh once the doctors give their full approval, so they're still, even though they're full practice, they still don't
• 1:38:15
  have a hundred percent approval physically from the doctors to be able to play.
• 1:38:20
  So the they're not we won't know that until probably Thursday or Friday, whether they're going to go or not.
• 1:38:26
  I'm going to make my pick assuming they have.
• 1:38:29
  Yeah.
• 1:38:30
  all that, I expect them to both be playing.
• 1:38:33
  Yeah.
• 1:38:33
  It's gonna be really bad for Calgary if they go O and two in their first two home games.
• 1:38:37
  And I think VA's really mad about what happened last time and they've had a weak distu about it.
• 1:38:43
  AJ didn't do anything.
• 1:38:47
  I'm yaw, I'm gonna pick Calgary.
• 1:38:50
  Okay.
• 1:38:51
  How about you, GT?
• 1:38:52
  Do you wanna go next?
• 1:38:53
  I'm gonna pick Calgary.
• 1:38:56
  I'll let you decide do you go next or do I G T.
• 1:38:58
  Uh no, go ahead.
• 1:39:00
  Okay.
• 1:39:01
  Well I'm gonna I'm s sort of with MJ not completely though.
• 1:39:05
  This is a really tough one to to pick because I would say after this Saskatchewan performance this weekend that definitely have to pick them.
• 1:39:15
  But last year they just the matchup was not good.
• 1:39:18
  And they've got back a lot of that same defense now.
• 1:39:21
  I'm not really as concerned about the Calgary offense.
• 1:39:25
  I know what they'll do, but
• 1:39:28
  against a bog standard sort of generic defense, I think S Saskatchewan would outscore them a especially after what I saw this week.
• 1:39:35
  But they seem to have their number, but I'm still going to go back to Saskatchewan, so I'm gonna pick them.
• 1:39:40
  Well, I I was leaning towards Saskatchewan as well, only because they just are sort of rolling, but
• 1:39:49
  But with the Milligan injury and some moving around in the back end, if that comes to fruition, if they do have to move some pieces around, that's gonna open up things I think
• 1:40:00
  what Calgary might be able to exploit.
• 1:40:03
  So I'm I'm going to take Calgary more because of Saskatchewan's issues than Calgary's, than anything else.
• 1:40:11
  So yeah.
• 1:40:12
  Uh yeah.
• 1:40:13
  I'm taking Calgary because of it.
• 1:40:15
  Yeah.
• 1:40:15
  And I and I definitely agree with you on that.
• 1:40:17
  The the thing with with especially with it being Milligan, if it was a corner that went down, I'd say, Well, okay, we've got Bell, the rookie we brought in, and he looked okay in
• 1:40:28
  the preseason.
• 1:40:29
  He might be able to hold down a corner, but neither of their corners to me are players that can come inside to half back and play well.
• 1:40:37
  So like I said, they put Lacumbo over there and put Ford to safety.
• 1:40:39
  I don't know who they're going to put into with a week's practice.
• 1:40:43
  So I am
• 1:40:44
  I'm a little bit concerned about that.
• 1:40:46
  The but on the other hand, like I said, it's I really think it's going to come down to how that Calgary defense, if they do can can do the same thing, because Saskatchewan looked so
• 1:40:56
  good.
• 1:40:56
  I was wrong last week.
• 1:40:57
  I said in the Saskatchewan BC game, if you recall, I said twenty five points is the cutoff.
• 1:41:02
  If the winning score is less than that, Saskatchewan gets it.
• 1:41:05
  If it's higher, BC takes it.
• 1:41:08
  And they were both higher, but Saskatchewan still pulled it out.
• 1:41:10
  So I have a little more faith in the offense right now.
• 1:41:13
  I don't know though I'm this is almost a like I said, a a flip a coin for me.
• 1:41:18
  It's this to me is harder than the Toronto-Ottawa game to pick.
• 1:41:23
  Yeah, well I think the difference here is is that it's two good teams versus two bad teams.
• 1:41:27
  They're it's they're equally hard to pick because because because they're both, you know, the but the difference is between the quality of the teams, I think.
• 1:41:36
  Yeah, exactly.
• 1:41:37
  And you know, and they're none of them are really all that easy.
• 1:41:40
  BC and Hamilton are also two very good teams.
• 1:41:43
  So we've got them.
• 1:41:44
  The only one that the only one that really looks like you should be able to predict it is Montreal at Edmonton.
• 1:41:49
  So of course watch Cody go out and have a field day and them take it by twenty points or something.
• 1:41:56
  I don't know.
• 1:41:56
  I love the CFL.
• 1:41:58
  I just don't try to figure out what what's going on.
• 1:42:02
  So that's it.
• 1:42:03
  Let's close off with uh any closing thoughts in your social media as GT, you get to say goodbye first.
• 1:42:10
  Goodbye.
• 1:42:10
  Okay.
• 1:42:11
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• 1:42:12
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• 1:42:13
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• 1:42:14
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• 1:42:17
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• 1:42:18
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• 1:42:20
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• 1:42:22
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• 1:42:31
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• 1:42:32
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• 1:42:37
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• 1:42:41
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• 1:42:43
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• 1:42:44
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• 1:42:48
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