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Well, happy Monday morning, number
one, Happy marcast day here back normal,

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now back on Mondays. I think
for the duration of the season,

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we'll figure out. You have Jason
Van have things going on. My schedule

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is pretty easy during the summer here, coming off three weddings in five days.

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I think still watch the games here
driving on my phone everything. The

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only won the winning pag Calgary game. Have limited notes on that, but

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hopefully Jason and Evan will hop on
a little bit on that. But weekend

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here we'll bring in the crew.
This it's really starting to feel real here.

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I don't know if that is any
difference here with all of the stakes

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and kind of horrific weekend for Ottawa
and Mizzoli and kind of all that stuff,

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but it feels a little bit grander
than even the XFELA, the USFL

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stuff that we kind of cover.
Evan, Does that make sense, Yeah,

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definitely. I mean this is what
week five now, so we've done

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a month of the season. I
definitely think. You know, things are

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starting to formulate, I guess,
and you sort of we talk about the

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cream of the crop rising. You
know, the teams are really starting to

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separate themselves, and of course there's
still a lot of time left. I

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keep saying, you know, eighteen
game season, twenty one weeks, it's

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a really long time, right,
So you can't you know, we're not

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at a point where we can say
everything is finalized. But yeah, I

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mean this weekend slay the games definitely, I think gave us a better idea

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of where some teams are at.
Jason, you were there. I will

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start Normally we kind of go reverse
chronological order, but obviously I think the

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biggest game of the weekend here was
the Ottaway Hamilton game. You were there.

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I'll kind of give it to you
first and foremost thoughts. And obviously

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James check Din here already, that's
from Missoli Ottawa. What do you have

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to say? You can start with
the weekend, you can start with the

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game. How are you up?
Yeah? So I was there in attendance.

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It was, you know, just
such a heart wrenching moment, just

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the silence that was in the stadium. Obviously, he has a Missoli himself,

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has a very special relationship with Tigercats
fans. He was there for a

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long time, not just as a
starter, but he was there for a

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number of years as a backup.
So he was really viewed as one of

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our own, and to see him
go down, even as a player playing

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for the other team, it was
just, you know, completely heart wrenching.

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I mean I was there when he
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That was you know, completely devastating
because that looked like the year he

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could have won CFL MOP And then
you know, last year was just we

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all know what happened last year with
the Marinos stuff, So I mean,

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to see it happen again third career, you know, season ending injury,

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so I mean, it's gonna be
very hard for him to bounce back from

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that. I mean, at the
end of the day, I don't think

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that we know exactly what the injury
is at this point, like if he's

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out for the season for sure,
but it did not look good, and

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especially when the team rules him out
as quickly as they did, it's not

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a good sign. Yeah. I
was setting up. We had a wedding

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on Saturday, and I was setting
up and Andy Murray send in the group

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chat to win here is picking up
with Andy Murray send in the group chat

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and said, you know, Missolee's
legs look leg looks at And I thought

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oh, maybe he came you know, came back slow or you know,

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because we've kind of delayed him coming
on. And then I said, we

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always this knew goes. Oh,
they're like he just went down again.

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And I obviously went back and watched
the game yesterday and it was really weird

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watching it, like, Okay,
when's you know, because you kind of

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know what's going to happen. Okay, what's going on here? Yeah,

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we have a no, it's just
coming in cef im on ts and Crumb

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is going to start and we can
talk about Crumb and all of that.

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The ex sent of Minoa's injuries,
Like Jason said, still unknown here Evan

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thoughts on this because you guys kind
of lived through a real time and then

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I kind of went back and kind
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He asked you that. Yeah,
I mean, I'm glad we're addressing the

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elephant in the room first. You
know, extremely unfortunate to see Jeremiahassoli get

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injured on what should have been a
very you know, special day, a

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very happy day, you know,
him coming back literally a year or two

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the day since his last injury,
which I think just makes this even more

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cursed and terrible. It's it's really
hard to believe. And again we don't

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really know the extent of his injury
yet. The fact that he was ruled

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out, you know, right after
he went down in the game, was

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extremely alarming. And I'm at a
point now where this to me at least

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seems you know, I mean,
he's going to go on the six game

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injured list at least minimum, um, I think. And you know,

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to me, if a lot of
people were saying it was as achilles,

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and if that's true, obviously that's
going to be a season ending injury.

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So at this point, you know, he turns thirty five in August,

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and that means, you know,
if he plays another CFL season after this,

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he'll be thirty six next year at
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you're really starting to look at,
you know, a possibly career ending situation

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and there's it's a very real chance
that we might have just seen Jeremiah Massoli

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play his last snaps in the Canadian
Football League. So that's a pretty devastating

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to say. And you know,
especially for me, Jeremiah Massoli was one

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of the first guys that I really
knew in the CFL because he was with

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Hamilton for such a long time,
and you know, just such a great

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guy, you know, great player, but of course even better man.

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And you know, he went through
so much mental hardship. I think through

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this past injury that he had dealt
with this year and had some surgeries and

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I think there might have been a
setback of some sort. Reminded me a

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lot of Alex Smith, uh,
you know, on the on the Commanders,

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And I know obviously this wasn't as
extreme and he wasn't going to lose

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a leg or anything like that.
But again, there was a lot of

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discussion around the mental aspect and the
video went up on the Red Blacks um,

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you know, social media stuff,
and they you know, you could

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see Jeremiah. He was visibly you
know, emotional talking to the team,

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you know, before he went back
to that game, especially going back to

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Hamilton again. There was just so
much there to unpack. So yeah,

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I mean, bottom one here is
the injury was incredibly unfortunate and wasn't fair

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at all. It's just so heartbreaking, really is the is the bottom one?

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Yeah? I said out that was
working. I did send that my

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tweet. I said that Gay Marino
here if anyone, you send him the

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double bird salute for me because he's
obviously blocked at me. And I don't

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think it's a non zero where you
rehab one leg the entire season, you

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know, come off not playing everything, come back into the game, and

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then have an injury in your other
leg. That's that, And we've got

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there was discussions that went into that
below here. But I do attribute that,

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you know, and being out for
the season, you know, and

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that was a dirty hit last year, and obviously we've seen that this year

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was Resna and everything else, and
there's certain I think there was a certain

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attitude that came along with the Marino
one. I think that rub people more

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the wrong way that just a dirty
hit. It was kind of the flippant

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kind of w W E attitude of
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But I do I attribute these two
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if that happens last year, I
don't think that, you know, clearly

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this isn't happening now. But anything
else on the actual injury Jason there,

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I mean, we can talk at
the game and everything else and crume,

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but did anything else on his only
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it was more like almost a non
contact kind of injury, kind of just

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slipped there. And then that's the
scary part about it. When that kind

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of happens, like it's usually a
pretty serious injury. Yeah, no,

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really bad. Non contact is obviously
the worst. It was like that what

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was it a couple of years ago
and the Rough Riders when they came back

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from like the delayed start and everyone
was popping their their achilles heels and that,

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whether it was like that one practice
game or like the three Riders robbed

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the achilles is like, Okay,
let's save this, so we have the

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game here. I guess we can
start with that, you know, thirteen

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twenty one kind of a weird game. You know, Crum comes in.

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I think he kind of gets the
backup quarterback kind of bump, right,

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Like, Okay, this guy comes
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Oh, I didn't want to mention
too. I was texting with Dwayne

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Ford, who was on the show
obviously the Friday Show, kind of previewing

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all this, and Dwayne echoed,
kind of, Jason, what you said

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as well, just really gary moment
and probably one of the emotional that he's

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seen kind of taking part in that. But Crumb comes in here plays decently.

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Evan, I know that you were
high on his performance. Like I

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said, I feel like it might
be a little bit more of it.

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Was like when BJ Daniels came into
that ex Dragon's game when Silver's got pulled,

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Like Okay, we're not expecting this. He's kind of running around the

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field, but what did you make
a crime? Yeah, I was.

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I was impressed by Crumb. I
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he had a very great performance,
you know, especially in his first

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CFL game where he really saw you
know, action like that where he could

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control the offense and you know,
especially on the ground. To think he

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had six carries for ninety one yards
and unfortunately, you know, he wasn't

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able to run it into the end
zone at the very end when it mattered

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most, but you know, other
like again, I thought it was pretty

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impressive and he still managed a rushing
touchdown. And that's good because it was

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just announced this morning that he was
going to start next week. And I

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think if you want to talk about
Ottawa's current quarterback situation in general, I

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think we're pretty much out Arbuckle at
this point, just given his performances prior

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to Tyree Adams coming in. You
know, my personal opinion, I think

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you just have Crumb as the guy
from now on. I think he showed

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enough potential in this game, and
maybe I'm sure they're going to bring in

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someone behind that. I think the
two top options right now Three Down put

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out an article this morning or last
night sometime recently the two top options,

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at least in my opinion, and
both of them were in this article.

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Jake Dunaway, the quarterback from Sacramento
State who I interviewed last year. He

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was someone that was in training camp
with the Red Blacks, played a bit

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in the preseason. And then Tyrell
Pigrom, who was with Winnipeg for a

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couple of games earlier in the season, who got released because of the Dakota

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preu coop situation. I think he
could come in, and you know,

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both of those guys could be a
backup to Dustin Crumb down the stretch,

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assuming you know, Crumb performs well
and can sort of maintain a starting job.

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I think what's most impressive about his
performance is he was signed like September

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of last season, you know,
somewhat late and the fact that he's coming

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in and doing this, you know, at the beginning of year two,

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like he doesn't even really have a
full you know, sort of CFL season

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under his belt because he came in
at the end of last year or so.

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To see him come in and you
know, really put on a show

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and make things close at the end, I thought that was great. If

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you're you know, a Red Blacks
fan, I think that's all you can

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really ask court this point, just
given you know how much hardship your team

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has had and just seeing all the
struggles continue, you have to find positives

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and I really do think Dustin Krumb
was one of them. Well that's the

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thing is, you know, and
we just had the Tyree Adams injury here

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where you're like, you know,
a worst case like, okay, you

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know, it was always you know, this is horrific and okay, at

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least we can go back and obviously
I think it was a surres and they

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hit that kind of took him out. Jason, what do you make of

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this, because I think there's a
lot of different ways I mean, obviously

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that we could go here in terms
of the quarterback situation. Yeah, So

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I mean I think it's going to
be kind of a wait and see thing

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with the quarterback position in Ottawa.
I think they're probably gonna give Krome a

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couple of weeks to see if he
can follow up that pretty strong performance from

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how played in Hamilton. I thought
the first thing I noticed about him is,

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man, this guy's got some wheels, and I think that it really

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presented a lot of challenges to the
Tirects defense. Now, was that the

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Crum playing well or was that the
Tirects defense continuing to struggle like they have

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so far this season. We'll have
to wait and see. But I think

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Crum did very well, placed in
a very difficult position to come and hold

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off the bench like that. But
he didn't expect to see any action in

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this game other than maybe short yardage, So at the end of the day,

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I think he played well. I
agree with Evan it was crazy because

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obviously it's one of those things where
he's coming in and it's almost like a

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war, right, like you come
in like, okay, I just gotta

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go, like we gotta give ball
downfield. He had the run and the

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touchdown at the end of the first
half, or I think it put them

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up by one. After which he
was like insane after everything, the thing

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that they could come back and do
that, and then obviously trying to kind

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of have this run at the end
here, and it's just so poetic how

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you imagine in his mind as he's
running, It's like, I'm going to

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be the hero here, right,
I'm going to save the day. And

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they had just cut to the shot
of Mizzola here on the sidelines, and

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you know just how close it could
have been, and it's so poetic,

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and obviously you can't if this was
you know, the movie version, right,

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he makes that touchdown and wins the
game and gets carried off and it's

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the hero, but it's it's not. It's real life. And I just

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thought it was really crazy that it
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I said, play where you got
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two yards short, and then it's
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and I think a lot of courage
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from him, I have some more
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Dustin here, Evan Evan or I
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behind Dustin Crum. But like Jason
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him a couple of weeks. You
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just in this experimental phase. I
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much of a shame it is that
they lost Tyree Adams to that injury on

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that shot from Jake Serezna, and
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I never really talked about that play
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Jake Sarezna fan. But you know, too many times now we've seen,

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you know, these injuries to quarterbacks
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and it's just it's a real shame. It's what, you know, ended

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Missoli's season last year, and now
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much less proven than Missoli but was
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you know, for Ottawa after our
buckles. So I think that's where we're

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at with up. Yeah, I
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think I said last year, he
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were honor and I believe it was
his father said with his ham where they

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were doing an event with the Elks. So here we get on the w

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side here, Jason with your tie
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want to hear from you because obviously
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we're kind of doing a different offense
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James Bell, are utilizing him.
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rest of the team. Well,
for Shell, I think he has definitely

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been an improvement over what we've seen
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the season, So I think that's
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they're still having a lot of problems
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the one touchdown that they had was
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so I think they still need to
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still baby steps for this team.
It's almost like Dejahbou last year.

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They got their first win over Ottawa
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think it was like a missed field
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would have won. So at the
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at the gun against Ottawa for their
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think, you know, going forward
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still some positive signs you can build
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about this team still going forward because
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I think, given the situation Outawa
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you look at both sides of that, where would have been this heroic either

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rise for this in crime here writing
then? But yeah, you look from

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Hamilton's had like our team loss their
starting quarterback to this, you know,

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horrific could be career ending injury here, and then they're able to rally and

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come back. I mean we beat
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had notes on here. Yeah,
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we're so we're finally moving away from
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of that and getting they said that
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we're figuring all this out. I
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this season. I guess they thought
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more on that. Penalties penalties from
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rhyme Bold issue? Is that a
Is that a player issue? Jason?

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What do you make of that?
Because they have like two different time count

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on the onlike kick and field goals
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they also got one on offense on
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think, um yeah, penalties in
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the tire Cats to begin this season. I believe they're one of, if

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not the most penalized team in the
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that's a great point. But at
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think that, um, you know, it's that big of a deal.

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I think they're they'll they'll sort those
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specifically, when you're talking about special
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really good job with that unit,
has a great track record, So I'm

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not too overly concerned with that.
But the penalties in general, yeah,

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it's pretty bad. Well, and
even with Hamilton's because you know, I'm

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watching the game and when they Aitherway
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it was like a minute fifteen you've
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hell, does Ottaway even get the
ball back here? And it's like Hamilton's

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so ineffective of even keeping the ball
to give Like to me, that shouldn't

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even happen. It's like BC gets
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the game on ice, like you
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Scott's checking it could MBT be an
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about it. I mean, I
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tweets about it and Okay, what's
the USFL contract situation all that kind of

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stuff. I mean, MBT just
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I mean, Evan, do you
think that's a realistic expectation or probability?

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rule it out. I don't think you

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can ruled out because you know,
MBT had great success in CFL and you

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know, I'm not, like,
to be honest, I'm not sure how

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he feels about the USFL. I
never really heard much from him on that

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end or about it. But you
know, I don't see why you could

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leave the door open, I guess, is what I'm trying to say.

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Personally, I don't see it.
I think he's gonna stay in the US.

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I mean, he moved there,
you know, to be with his

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family and everything like that, So
it would be hard for me to picture

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him coming back to a team like
Ottawa where they're rebuilding. I understand,

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you can get some money, you
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season, but like, I don't
know. I mean, he's thirty four,

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you know, going on thirty five
or whatever. He might be at

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a point where he's just ready to
settle down. So again, personally,

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I don't see it, but you
can never rule anything out. I mean,

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I'm sure they've probably reached out to
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well, it wasn't it. Mike
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he feels like those communications that started, and McLeod's close with Mizzoli and Sean

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Burke wants to be kind of aggressive
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I just I get these messages a
lot of okay, like well can

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this guy Like well, why didn't
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Why. I'm like, I would
like to normalize treating football players as

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humans, and like McLeod just imagine
like just getting done, you know,

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plenty of a professional football season.
Oh yeah, let's just okay, move

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back up to Canada, Like,
you know, maybe he can do it

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later in the season, right,
maybe you kind of see like condestin kind

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of can we keep the ship afloat
here? Kind of how Vernon did would

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bec last year? Like can we
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maybe McLeod comes in after Labor Day
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Like I could see that where Okay, maybe we don't need you the whole

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season. And they say that the
CFL season doesn't really matter to Labor Day

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anyway, which I would say is
an odd marketing ployt. But you know,

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maybe you bring him in after Labor
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the summer with his family and Atlanta
and then come up after that. Jason,

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anything else? Tie Cats Red Blacks. I'm looking here and they are

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they got Winnipeg. They're at home
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going to keep that winning streak alive
here? Anything else station on the tie

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Cats? Um? Yeah, I
wanted to mention that Tyreek McCalister, playing

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in his first career CFL game,
had a prod of really big spark for

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the team both on the return game
and then obviously he had that long catch

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and run. So I think he's
a guy that's gonna be featured in that

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offense going forward. Brings a lot
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I was pretty impressed by him.
And one other guy I want to

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mention is Mark Leggio. He's off
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cats kicking the ball. I think
he made all of his field goals so

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far except for that one. Um, you know, extra point doesn't really

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count as a field goal. But
I think Leggio has had a pretty strong

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start for being a pretty maligned player
with his time with the Bombers. We

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will have lots of kicking to talk
about here when we get the the venting

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game, I think will be funny. It is crazy to me though,

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the you know, Mark Leggio,
We've got the faithful guy. We've got

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Chrissy Blewett over the USFL Like,
we have a lot of really weird,

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weird kicker dames. Mark Leggio is
certainly one of them. One. Yeah,

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I love that all right, So
let's move on here. I guess

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we can. You know, if
we're winning, we'll go all through this.

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I watched most of this game on
mute. We were top golfie with

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my brother for his thirtieth birthday.
We wanted to keep an eye on my

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boy. Burned in here against Cody
at home at BC Place. I know

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there was a lot of issues about, like the attendance, and I saw

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my baker tweeting that out. But
twenty thousand and change attendance there at BC

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Place. Evan bounced back burnon only
the one interception, didn't throw six,

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so obviously better than last week.
What did you make a burnon here?

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Evan? Yeah, I you know
what. I thought this was a great

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sort of bounce back from his six
interception game in Toronto, although I will

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say, you know, I think
it might have been the second or third

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play of the game. He had
a pick six that was called back,

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and I really wonder, you know, had that not been called back,

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what the outcome of that game would
have looked like, because you know,

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to be honest, I didn't really
see the need for the penalty there.

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I forget specifically what it was,
but I don't know that one could have

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gone either way, so he might
have got bailed out there and all love

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for Vernon. But you know,
it was interesting how the commentators were like,

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oh, you know, he's he's
shaking it all off from last week,

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and then third play of the game, it's like, up, there's

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another one going back again. Fortunately
it was you know, it didn't count.

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solid performance. And I will say, just staying on the topic of BC's

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offense as a whole for a minute, Sean Shivers, the running back,

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I thought, you know, him
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especially in his you know, first
real CFL game. So you know

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what that tells me is that BC
has extremely good running back depth despite losing

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James Butler to Hamilton, which was
considered a really big loss for that team

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offensively and for good reason. And
then looking at the receiving department again,

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we've talked at nauseam just about how
diverse this receiving corps is. Personally,

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I think Kean Hatcher is making a
case now to be like the most valuable

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receiver on this team next to Dominic
Ry was personally, you know, dominic

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is probably my favorite. And then
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guy there too. What Lucky Whitehead. I'd say, honestly, Keion might

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have you know, taken over Lucky
Whitehead in terms of value. And I

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know Whitehead was the guy that was
talked a lot about last year. You

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know, I had an opportunity to
see him. He was sort of a

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breakout player. But this year,
you know, I feel like there's just

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so many receivers now, and you
have guys like Justin mckinnis, you know,

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coming and Javan Katoy and whatever.
There's just so many targets that it's

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kind of hard to you know,
there's no real number one receiver. And

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that's why I say, you know, yeah, this guy might be the

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best, but it's next to this
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you know what I mean. But
um, overall, again, another great

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performance from BC. They're right on, right back on track, you know,

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four and one. That's probably the
best start you could ask for,

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especially with all the questions that they
had going into this season BC, and

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I said for it, like piggybagging
on with Evan said with kind of this,

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you know, you have this cold
cast and wide receivers, and I

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just think when BC's running, they
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And I don't know if it's like
the x MFL thing with a lot

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of these guys, but you know, like a toy is going into the

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end zone and he's like it.
Just it feels I like that energy.

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It feels very marketable to me and
cool just in the way like when BC's

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rolling and if they're putting up points. And I know last week, but

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you know, when we had what
forty five against whoever week before, I

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was like, when we're rolling against
Winnipeg, like when they're rolling, it

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just it feels very cool. Jason
thoughts on BC's offense here or anything else

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with BC. Yeah, so I
had the same point as Evan. I

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was gonna say, it's just you
can't really slow this offense down because they

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have so many playmakers. I mean, if somebody has an off game,

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then there's somebody else to step up
and has take his place. I mean,

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Javon Katy was huge in this game. I mean they said it on

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the broadcast, but he's the closest
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a tight end type body. And
I think that's very accurate, and I

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think he presents a lot of matchup
nightmares. I think they said he's caught

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every single target he's been thrown his
way so far this season, which is

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pretty remarkable here in Week five.
So, I mean, this offense is

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just so dynamic. I mean,
Verdon Adams doesn't have to play perfect with

408
00:24:11.759 --> 00:24:17.240
the way that these receivers are playing. I think that specifically with this game,

409
00:24:17.279 --> 00:24:21.200
there's a couple of plays that really
swung this game in BC's favor.

410
00:24:21.480 --> 00:24:23.920
Obviously that interception that you alluded to, Evan on the you know, the

411
00:24:23.960 --> 00:24:26.960
first play of the game, first
series of the game that was called back,

412
00:24:27.200 --> 00:24:32.720
but also a blocked field goal that
when it was a one possession game,

413
00:24:32.839 --> 00:24:36.720
BC blocks the field goal returns of
her touchdown that really blew the game

414
00:24:36.720 --> 00:24:40.240
wide open. And I think that's
what BC was able to come away with

415
00:24:40.240 --> 00:24:42.039
the victory here. Well, yeah, because he had the trading right where

416
00:24:42.079 --> 00:24:45.799
he had the blocked it was a
blocked punt to go in and then the

417
00:24:45.920 --> 00:24:48.960
BC and be able to run it
back for the pick six, like even

418
00:24:48.000 --> 00:24:51.759
if we do make that mistake,
like we're good enough here the week and

419
00:24:51.839 --> 00:24:55.160
go back. I thought it was
funny too, the Sean Shivers, which

420
00:24:55.960 --> 00:24:59.440
there was all the computer game if
anyone ever played The Shivers, that was

421
00:24:59.440 --> 00:25:02.759
a little the computer like a miss
kind of did you ever play any of

422
00:25:02.759 --> 00:25:04.519
that where you were going through like
the Haunted Museum or whatever. It was

423
00:25:04.880 --> 00:25:08.000
kind of like miss back in the
day. But he had that fumble even

424
00:25:08.000 --> 00:25:11.519
that, like, okay, we
fumble at the way at the one yard

425
00:25:11.640 --> 00:25:15.119
line, you know, mon Charles
running the back and they had to quote

426
00:25:15.119 --> 00:25:18.000
here, I just hadn't pulled up, but he said, my mom is

427
00:25:18.000 --> 00:25:19.839
going to be mad. I thought
that was funny him talking to a far

428
00:25:19.960 --> 00:25:23.519
haun about that. But he was
good, you know, just getting elevated

429
00:25:23.519 --> 00:25:27.400
with Mozzelle going down. But like
Evan said, kind of the depth on

430
00:25:27.480 --> 00:25:30.640
that, I wanted to say,
Evan had his while we're bringing that famous

431
00:25:30.640 --> 00:25:36.240
people tweeting here, Evan high on
Fjardo here eleven, you know, perfect

432
00:25:36.240 --> 00:25:40.079
at half. Evan thoughts on your
boy, Cody Fejardo here as we are

433
00:25:40.079 --> 00:25:42.440
in the Sazanda. Cody Fjardo.
Yeah, I mean, you know,

434
00:25:42.559 --> 00:25:47.480
look, this was not a great
game. If you're Montreal. They haven't

435
00:25:47.519 --> 00:25:51.680
had much success playing INBC for a
long time. Um, but yeah,

436
00:25:51.720 --> 00:25:55.000
Cody Fejardo again, I still thought
he played a nice game, Um,

437
00:25:55.039 --> 00:25:56.640
you know, didn't throw any interceptions, you know, nearly through for three

438
00:25:56.720 --> 00:26:00.680
hundred yards, was effective on the
ground ding seven point one yards per carry,

439
00:26:02.119 --> 00:26:03.480
So I thought that was you know, worth pointing out. And then

440
00:26:04.279 --> 00:26:08.480
just as set that whole Luetz offense
as a whole. How many times we

441
00:26:08.519 --> 00:26:12.079
mentioned Austin Mack you know in the
past five weeks, Um, he's continued

442
00:26:12.119 --> 00:26:15.519
to shine um. And then there
were a couple new guys in that receiving

443
00:26:15.559 --> 00:26:19.599
corps that stepped up this week,
specifically Tyler Snead and Courtney Davis, who

444
00:26:19.599 --> 00:26:22.720
I believe played at Texas A and
M. He's in his first year in

445
00:26:22.759 --> 00:26:26.440
the CFL, and he had a
really big, impressive catch kind of down

446
00:26:26.440 --> 00:26:30.000
the sideline over one of the BC
defenders. So good to see him get

447
00:26:30.039 --> 00:26:34.519
some work in. And then there's
one player that I've never properly um given

448
00:26:34.519 --> 00:26:37.640
a shout out to on Montreal,
but just wanted to take a minute to

449
00:26:37.680 --> 00:26:44.400
say, you know about Chandler Worthy. We talk a lot about, you

450
00:26:44.440 --> 00:26:48.079
know, sort of CFL returners,
and Generian Grant from Winnipeg always comes up,

451
00:26:48.119 --> 00:26:52.160
but personally, I think, you
know, Chandler Worthy is someone where

452
00:26:52.160 --> 00:26:53.839
it's like, every time I'm looking
at him on the TV, I can't

453
00:26:53.839 --> 00:26:56.640
look away, you know, every
time Montreal you know, is about to

454
00:26:56.640 --> 00:27:00.079
return and he's there. I mean, I just you know, he he

455
00:27:00.160 --> 00:27:03.119
had some explosive runs in this game. You know, didn't run any back

456
00:27:03.160 --> 00:27:04.839
for touchdowns, but he's done that, you know, plenty of times before.

457
00:27:04.880 --> 00:27:08.319
I think he had two in one
game last season. So, um,

458
00:27:08.640 --> 00:27:11.960
just wanted to, you know,
take a minute to you know,

459
00:27:11.240 --> 00:27:15.000
say thanks to him for his you
know, efforts and everything. Not that

460
00:27:15.079 --> 00:27:18.400
I'm a Alliotts fan, but just
super fun player to watch and it makes

461
00:27:18.400 --> 00:27:22.880
the league more dynamic. I think, thoughts on the Alolettes, and then

462
00:27:22.920 --> 00:27:26.640
I have a followup question for you, Jason. Yeah, so I'm glad

463
00:27:26.640 --> 00:27:30.839
you brought up Chandler Worthy because I
wanted to talk about the Alouette special teams.

464
00:27:30.839 --> 00:27:33.480
They had so many penalties on special
teams in this game. I thought

465
00:27:33.559 --> 00:27:37.640
that was really crucial for them.
And they had a couple of big returns

466
00:27:37.640 --> 00:27:40.920
by Worthy that were wiped out.
So Worthy actually had a much better game

467
00:27:40.960 --> 00:27:42.279
than the stats show. But I
mean, at the end of the day,

468
00:27:42.319 --> 00:27:47.519
if you're just taking you know,
holding penalties on every punt return that's

469
00:27:47.519 --> 00:27:51.359
going to set you back because,
as Paul Lappalie actually pointed out on the

470
00:27:51.640 --> 00:27:56.319
halftime for TSN, if you're taking
a penalty there, you're not just losing

471
00:27:56.319 --> 00:28:00.200
the yards that you gain, but
you're losing those yards plus you're loose in

472
00:28:00.240 --> 00:28:03.039
ten from where you caught the ball. So, I mean, the really

473
00:28:03.079 --> 00:28:07.240
crucial penalties in the seaff all game
field position just so crucial. And then

474
00:28:07.279 --> 00:28:11.039
the other thing I wanted to talk
about was when it comes to Cody Fajardo,

475
00:28:11.079 --> 00:28:14.279
I think the biggest thing is that
he looks very healthy right now,

476
00:28:14.559 --> 00:28:17.680
and I think at the end of
the day, mobility is a big part

477
00:28:17.720 --> 00:28:21.599
of his game, and it's it's
good to see him healthy because he has

478
00:28:21.640 --> 00:28:25.640
a completely different quarterback when he has
his legs available to him. Well,

479
00:28:25.640 --> 00:28:27.519
that was going to be my fallow
up question here and watching because I and

480
00:28:27.599 --> 00:28:30.079
I love Cody. I love the
Outlets. You know, that's that's my

481
00:28:30.119 --> 00:28:33.920
team of the East. I'm sorry
for the you know, Hamilton tiecats here,

482
00:28:33.960 --> 00:28:38.480
but seeing him play here now four
week or five five weeks now going

483
00:28:38.559 --> 00:28:45.039
in UM I compared to Trevor Harris
would like they always say okay, like

484
00:28:45.039 --> 00:28:48.960
Trevor Harris is the most accurate and
he's a quick think or whatever. I

485
00:28:48.039 --> 00:28:52.480
think Cody is maybe not as accurate
as good as a passer, but his

486
00:28:52.559 --> 00:28:56.920
legs and mobility, like where he
was such a terrible situation last year for

487
00:28:57.000 --> 00:29:02.880
him in Regina, Like, would
you take Cody over Harris if you had,

488
00:29:03.799 --> 00:29:04.799
you know, if he had more
protection than more time? Like it

489
00:29:04.799 --> 00:29:08.720
feels like Cody's a better quarterback riding
right now than Trevor Harris, even though

490
00:29:08.720 --> 00:29:11.799
obviously Saskatchewan has a better record.
Like Jason, who would you take there?

491
00:29:12.400 --> 00:29:15.319
I would still take Trevor. I
think he has more of a track

492
00:29:15.400 --> 00:29:18.200
record. I mean, maybe he
doesn't have as high as a ceiling as

493
00:29:18.480 --> 00:29:22.640
uh Cody Fajardo did it back in
twenty nineteen one West West MP, But

494
00:29:23.160 --> 00:29:26.039
at the end of the day,
I do trust Trevor Harris more going forward.

495
00:29:26.079 --> 00:29:30.519
Still Evan thoughts on that, would
you take Trevor Or Cody? Yeah,

496
00:29:30.519 --> 00:29:33.720
you know, that's a difficult question. You know, I'm glad you

497
00:29:33.799 --> 00:29:36.559
brought that up. That's a that's
a fun one. Um. I'm gonna

498
00:29:36.559 --> 00:29:40.680
go Cody Fajardo here, gonna go
against the grain. I agree with Jason

499
00:29:40.960 --> 00:29:42.359
I think, you know, Trevor
is like the proven vet, you know,

500
00:29:42.400 --> 00:29:45.680
someone you can count on. I
just think Cody, again, when

501
00:29:45.680 --> 00:29:51.039
he's healthy and when he's hit in
the right situation with the right people,

502
00:29:51.480 --> 00:29:53.039
I think, you know, he
really can't produce. And I'm not saying

503
00:29:53.039 --> 00:29:56.240
that necessarily happened this game, because
there were a couple of things I thought

504
00:29:56.240 --> 00:29:59.880
he could have done better, and
I could probably say that about the pre

505
00:30:00.200 --> 00:30:03.359
just four weeks too. But I
still have belief in Montreal and a lot

506
00:30:03.359 --> 00:30:07.680
of that is from Cody Fajardo.
A lot of it, too, again

507
00:30:07.759 --> 00:30:10.359
is from the receiving corps. We've
talked about that already, but if we're

508
00:30:10.400 --> 00:30:12.799
just looking at Cody Fajardo specifically,
I think he does bring a lot to

509
00:30:12.839 --> 00:30:17.920
this team and it definitely gives them
sort of a refreshed look. And what

510
00:30:18.000 --> 00:30:22.440
I think I mean by that is
I feel like Cody will last longer in

511
00:30:22.559 --> 00:30:26.319
Montreal than Trevor will and Saskatchewan.
Maybe I'll be wrong, you know,

512
00:30:26.400 --> 00:30:27.799
maybe you know I'll be proven.
I'm sure now that I've said that,

513
00:30:29.480 --> 00:30:32.839
of course you know it won't happen. But you know that that's just my

514
00:30:32.960 --> 00:30:37.599
take on it. I'm not I
like both. I just think Cody has

515
00:30:37.640 --> 00:30:40.720
a tiny bit more upside, But
ultimately they are both, you know,

516
00:30:40.880 --> 00:30:45.000
very i'd say upper tier quarterbacks above
average. You know, they're not Vernon

517
00:30:45.039 --> 00:30:48.359
Adams or Chad Kelly, but they
can you know, guide a team,

518
00:30:48.400 --> 00:30:52.799
you know, when when needed.
I like Cody. I think, like

519
00:30:52.839 --> 00:30:55.680
I said before, he feels a
little more smull this year. It feels

520
00:30:55.720 --> 00:31:00.480
like when when Colby came back on
Survivor and it was a little where I'm

521
00:31:00.480 --> 00:31:03.920
a little older, a little more
swollen here. I'm talking Vernon just the

522
00:31:03.200 --> 00:31:07.119
kind of getting back to you know, obviously not doing six interceptions is going

523
00:31:07.160 --> 00:31:11.839
to do better anytime, but it
scrambling more, running more, like Vernon

524
00:31:12.039 --> 00:31:15.839
is not that pocket passer. And
I think that, you know, last

525
00:31:15.839 --> 00:31:18.200
game against Argos, you know,
trying to do that and kind of you

526
00:31:18.200 --> 00:31:22.680
know, dice down the field there
with the ball. Obviously, I don't

527
00:31:22.680 --> 00:31:26.359
know if it's his mental whatever or
kind of reading everything, but him him

528
00:31:26.440 --> 00:31:29.880
running more is going to I think
improved that quality of that. Jason.

529
00:31:30.559 --> 00:31:33.599
I felt watching the game this time, it felt like they were trying to

530
00:31:33.599 --> 00:31:36.200
rely more on his legs. Did
I imagine that or are we getting back

531
00:31:36.240 --> 00:31:40.319
to that. No, I think
the big thing is it's not necessarily running

532
00:31:40.359 --> 00:31:44.519
to run, it's running around in
order to make a big pass down the

533
00:31:44.519 --> 00:31:47.359
field. He does that so well, and I think that's something that needs

534
00:31:47.400 --> 00:31:49.359
to utilize in his game. It's
one of the best players in the CFL

535
00:31:49.400 --> 00:31:53.680
at doing that. Yeah, I
just think I don't know. It feels

536
00:31:53.680 --> 00:31:57.519
to me an entirely different situations.
But like we brought Russell Wilson into the

537
00:31:57.519 --> 00:32:00.920
Broncos and like, Okay, we're
gonna have and like stand in the pocket

538
00:32:00.920 --> 00:32:02.480
of pends. Like that's not Russell
Wilson. That was never if you watch

539
00:32:02.599 --> 00:32:06.640
him in Seattle, that's not his
gameplay. I don't know why we were

540
00:32:06.680 --> 00:32:07.759
trying to do that, And it
feels the same here. Like, let's

541
00:32:07.759 --> 00:32:10.839
see we have Vernon, he's athletic, let's let him run around. Evan,

542
00:32:10.920 --> 00:32:15.119
any other thoughts on that? And
I had Matthew Bets as well,

543
00:32:15.200 --> 00:32:19.400
continuing. I think he's broken his
own personal record last year of sacks in

544
00:32:19.759 --> 00:32:22.759
five games right now, really looking
crazy on that. Anything else about the

545
00:32:22.799 --> 00:32:25.039
Lions here, Evan, Yeah,
I was going to touch on their defense

546
00:32:25.079 --> 00:32:29.359
a bit too, obviously. Yeah, Matthew Bets was someone they talked about

547
00:32:30.720 --> 00:32:34.599
at nauseum kind of on the broadcast, just because of how dominant he's been

548
00:32:34.680 --> 00:32:37.519
this season. I believe he had
seven sacks in eighteen games last year and

549
00:32:37.559 --> 00:32:40.599
now he's up to eight through five
games, which I mean this rate,

550
00:32:40.640 --> 00:32:45.960
it looks like he's going to be
the CFL sack leader. I don't I

551
00:32:45.000 --> 00:32:47.640
don't have the stats in front of
me to see who else is coming close,

552
00:32:49.160 --> 00:32:52.119
because I do typically look at more
offense than defense. That's just who

553
00:32:52.160 --> 00:32:55.359
I am. But the other guy
too, Jaylen Edwards Cooper, although he

554
00:32:55.400 --> 00:33:00.440
made you know, his big play
on special teams, he had six tackles

555
00:33:00.480 --> 00:33:02.400
for loss. I thought that stood
out. And the fun fact about him,

556
00:33:02.799 --> 00:33:06.920
I noticed he played at Texas A
and m Commerce, which was a

557
00:33:06.960 --> 00:33:10.319
Division two school, and that's also
where um Kator Coohu of the Miami Dolphins

558
00:33:10.319 --> 00:33:15.359
played, who was one of the
top undrafted free agents last season, had

559
00:33:15.400 --> 00:33:17.400
a really good rookie year with them. So I thought that was kind of,

560
00:33:17.680 --> 00:33:21.759
you know, just an interesting connection
to see those guys, you know,

561
00:33:21.839 --> 00:33:23.720
doing cool things in two different leagues. So yeah, shout out to

562
00:33:23.799 --> 00:33:28.279
Joe Edwards Cooper. You know,
that was a very electric play. I

563
00:33:28.319 --> 00:33:30.400
think we can all agree on that. When he returned the blockfield goal for

564
00:33:30.400 --> 00:33:35.960
the touchdown and definitely put BC I
think again sort of in that position to

565
00:33:36.119 --> 00:33:38.200
you know, take over in the
second half because that was I think it

566
00:33:38.359 --> 00:33:43.640
was only about three minutes left in
the second quarter when that happened. Jason,

567
00:33:43.680 --> 00:33:45.039
anything else on this one and then
I have a funny convent before we

568
00:33:45.079 --> 00:33:49.640
move on to the next game.
Nothing more for me, really, I

569
00:33:49.640 --> 00:33:52.319
think we got our bases covered with
this one. I thought it was funny

570
00:33:52.359 --> 00:33:54.720
they had. I saw a couple
of videos and the always so we had

571
00:33:54.839 --> 00:34:00.119
we had the Rourkan family here coming
back and they're like, see Nathan still

572
00:34:00.200 --> 00:34:05.799
loves us, Like you know,
we were an unexpected detour. He didn't

573
00:34:05.839 --> 00:34:07.000
want to be here, but if
Nathan still loves us. But I did

574
00:34:07.119 --> 00:34:10.679
love that they posted as lots of
videos and Nathan tweeted out you cropped out

575
00:34:10.679 --> 00:34:15.360
of his wife, so he and
Nathan was there with miss Rourke here getting

576
00:34:15.360 --> 00:34:17.920
ready for that. But I didn't
think that was funny, like you know,

577
00:34:20.400 --> 00:34:22.239
like the hometown kid, you know
whatever, returning back to college,

578
00:34:22.239 --> 00:34:27.639
like see, like we still matter. Nathan's here questioning, but you know,

579
00:34:27.800 --> 00:34:30.039
that was good. I'm glad.
I'm glad. Let's get out.

580
00:34:30.039 --> 00:34:32.360
You know, we'll do all that. We'll get to the next game here.

581
00:34:32.400 --> 00:34:37.519
Like I said, I this was
the one that was not available on

582
00:34:37.599 --> 00:34:42.840
CBS Sports Network, so unfortunately my
coverage and this was slightly limited. Jason,

583
00:34:43.000 --> 00:34:46.280
do you want to start with this
Calgary at Winnipeg Here Winnipeg continuing to

584
00:34:46.320 --> 00:34:51.559
go. Yeah. So the story
with this game is that Calgary came out

585
00:34:51.719 --> 00:34:53.760
punch Winnipeg in the mouth in the
first half. I believe they were up

586
00:34:54.000 --> 00:34:58.400
eleven to one at one point.
But at the end of the day,

587
00:34:58.440 --> 00:35:01.880
Winnipeg just responded in the second half
with a really dominant performance, really put

588
00:35:01.880 --> 00:35:07.719
the clamps down defensively. There was
a big clock killing drive when Winnipeg had

589
00:35:07.719 --> 00:35:09.519
the lead in the fourth quarter.
I believe it was like ten minutes or

590
00:35:09.519 --> 00:35:14.360
so. So that really just illustrated
that Winnipeg, you know, just has

591
00:35:14.400 --> 00:35:19.519
the physicality and the mental fortitude to
win these games against Calgary. I think

592
00:35:19.559 --> 00:35:22.159
they've won like ten in a row
against Calgary or something crazy like that.

593
00:35:22.599 --> 00:35:25.880
Calgary usually comes close, they play
Winnipeg well, but at the end of

594
00:35:25.920 --> 00:35:30.880
the day, they just can't close
in these matchups. Yeah, Mayor here,

595
00:35:30.079 --> 00:35:32.760
I wanted to shout out. So
you know, Ryan Valentine, a

596
00:35:32.880 --> 00:35:36.519
friend of the show here came on
and he tags me and all this kind

597
00:35:36.599 --> 00:35:39.679
of stuff now and he had the
articlup in three down talking about kind of

598
00:35:39.719 --> 00:35:45.000
Mayor continuing to struggle. We we
haven't really figured out is it trying to

599
00:35:45.559 --> 00:35:47.079
come into place? And but what
do you make here, Jason? Is

600
00:35:47.119 --> 00:35:51.440
it I saw comments on it is
about play calling? Is it Mayor?

601
00:35:51.480 --> 00:35:54.239
Like what do you attribute that too? Well? I do think the play

602
00:35:54.239 --> 00:36:00.400
calling has declined in Calgary ever since
Ryan did Whitty went over to the head

603
00:36:00.400 --> 00:36:05.039
coaching job in Toronto. So I
do think that's worth mentioning. But at

604
00:36:05.079 --> 00:36:07.000
the end of the day, Jake
Mayor just has to play better. I

605
00:36:07.039 --> 00:36:10.800
think there's just nothing that you know
is down the field. But this passing

606
00:36:10.920 --> 00:36:16.480
game, it's very diac and dunk
and even then he's missing some really easy

607
00:36:16.559 --> 00:36:20.519
throws. I mean, there were
a couple throws in this game where you're

608
00:36:20.519 --> 00:36:22.440
like, Okay, this is what
the stampeter saw in Jake Mayor. The

609
00:36:22.519 --> 00:36:25.760
last couple of years, he threw
with anticipation, just um, you know,

610
00:36:25.760 --> 00:36:29.000
it was under a lot of pressure
in this game. But at the

611
00:36:29.079 --> 00:36:31.519
end of the day, I think
that Mayor did not play well overall.

612
00:36:31.559 --> 00:36:36.719
And I think it's very hard to
win the CFL obviously, you guys know,

613
00:36:36.960 --> 00:36:40.320
if you cannot pick up first downs
passing the ball. I think Calgary

614
00:36:40.400 --> 00:36:44.039
is great running the ball. We
saw that in the first half, but

615
00:36:44.159 --> 00:36:46.480
at a certain point a team is
going to take that away from you and

616
00:36:46.519 --> 00:36:50.280
you're gonna have to throw for it, and um, I don't think Calgary

617
00:36:50.320 --> 00:36:53.239
has been able to prove that so
far this season. Yeah, I mean,

618
00:36:53.280 --> 00:36:58.760
fourteen to twenty five here, like
not setting it in the world on

619
00:36:58.760 --> 00:37:01.320
fire. Dedrich Mills had had a
day here fourteen and carries for ninety seven

620
00:37:01.440 --> 00:37:05.679
yards. That was good. Evan
thoughts. I mean, it's just so

621
00:37:05.760 --> 00:37:08.119
weird. We really kind of annoyed
that Jake as the air apparent here even

622
00:37:08.559 --> 00:37:12.519
was it two seasons ago, kind
of coming into relief and then last year

623
00:37:12.599 --> 00:37:14.800
taken over, Like what do you
make of Calgary and I don't know what

624
00:37:14.840 --> 00:37:17.960
they do here. Yeah, So
I'll start with the Calgary side of the

625
00:37:17.960 --> 00:37:22.280
ball before we get, you know, into Winnipeg and just sort of the

626
00:37:22.320 --> 00:37:24.480
whole flow of the game. I
had in my notes, I said,

627
00:37:24.559 --> 00:37:28.400
you know, another slow out for
Jake Mayor. And at this point,

628
00:37:28.519 --> 00:37:30.239
if you're a Calgary fan, I
think you do have a right to be

629
00:37:30.320 --> 00:37:34.480
concerned about his play, and you
know what the future looks like, the

630
00:37:34.480 --> 00:37:37.639
next steps. So am I saying
they're gonna make a quarterback switch. No,

631
00:37:37.800 --> 00:37:40.000
I don't think this is a situation
where they need to do that quite

632
00:37:40.079 --> 00:37:44.440
yet. But after this game,
you know, the reality is like,

633
00:37:44.519 --> 00:37:46.480
this was a winnable game for Calgary. You know, if they had kept

634
00:37:47.159 --> 00:37:52.039
on that trajectory sort of from the
first half and they didn't let Winnipeg pull

635
00:37:52.079 --> 00:37:53.760
away, it was very much in
their grasp. And you know, for

636
00:37:53.800 --> 00:37:57.280
a minute there, I really thought
they were going to pull it out.

637
00:37:57.280 --> 00:38:01.199
But obviously that hope went away quickly
as well. So, yeah, Dedrick

638
00:38:01.280 --> 00:38:06.519
Mills, another guy had that you
brought up read easily the best player for

639
00:38:06.559 --> 00:38:09.559
Calgary offense made this game. I
think, really I'm exciting if you eliminate

640
00:38:09.679 --> 00:38:13.400
him from this offense. I think, you know, to be honest,

641
00:38:13.440 --> 00:38:15.159
it would have just been a snows
fest. There's no other real term for

642
00:38:15.239 --> 00:38:19.840
it. And there was a couple
of guys though, you know, in

643
00:38:19.880 --> 00:38:23.079
the Receiving Department. Trey Adam's Dukes
is someone I was really happy to see

644
00:38:23.599 --> 00:38:25.880
get involved, and I sort of
think he's one of these, you know,

645
00:38:25.960 --> 00:38:30.960
more underrated secret weapons, especially given
the state of Calgary's receiving Corps.

646
00:38:31.000 --> 00:38:35.280
But it was good to see Reggie
Begelton back in the fold. I think

647
00:38:35.280 --> 00:38:37.920
he had been out for a couple
of games injured, so you know,

648
00:38:37.960 --> 00:38:40.199
he came back there and had a
couple of catches and then well, one

649
00:38:40.239 --> 00:38:44.880
thing that is really worth pointing out, it was sort of an underrated storyline

650
00:38:44.920 --> 00:38:47.400
that I didn't really hear anyone else
talking about, was the return of Mark

651
00:38:47.480 --> 00:38:52.199
and Michelle to the receiving Corps after
four years away in the NFL. Obviously,

652
00:38:52.599 --> 00:38:55.679
you know, he had been there
in twenty eighteen and a couple years

653
00:38:55.679 --> 00:39:00.679
before that. It was a pretty
quiet day for him. He had one

654
00:39:00.760 --> 00:39:04.159
catch for eleven yards on six targets. Again, got a lot of looks

655
00:39:04.199 --> 00:39:07.400
but didn't really capitalize on a lot
of them. Makes sense, you know,

656
00:39:07.440 --> 00:39:12.320
your first game back in the CFL. But I think, you know,

657
00:39:12.360 --> 00:39:15.559
I said, it was quiet but
but still wholesome and another player that

658
00:39:15.800 --> 00:39:19.519
will hopefully be able to help Mayor
down the line, and this morning there

659
00:39:19.599 --> 00:39:25.840
was just news that the Calbury signed
Julia Billingsley to the tight end from Texas,

660
00:39:25.880 --> 00:39:29.639
who you know, had played at
Alabama and you know he's going to

661
00:39:29.719 --> 00:39:32.760
switch over to receiver hopefully helped them
out. He was an XFL draft pick.

662
00:39:32.880 --> 00:39:37.440
So again, they're really trying to
boost this receiving corps. I think

663
00:39:37.519 --> 00:39:39.199
in hopes that Mayor will sort of, you know, open up. And

664
00:39:39.320 --> 00:39:44.119
I do agree with Jason. The
play calling isn't perfect, right. I

665
00:39:44.159 --> 00:39:45.960
can't sit here and put all this
on Mayor. I still think he is

666
00:39:46.119 --> 00:39:50.840
a very good quarterback with a lot
of upside despite the slower start to the

667
00:39:50.880 --> 00:39:53.280
season. But yeah, I mean
something's got to change soon, right,

668
00:39:53.320 --> 00:39:58.280
I mean this team, I wouldn't
say they're in a dire position, but

669
00:39:58.639 --> 00:40:00.360
just given their history, I mean
there's a lot kind of riding on the

670
00:40:00.400 --> 00:40:04.760
line here. Yeah, well,
you know, one in three here,

671
00:40:04.840 --> 00:40:07.719
a second to last in the West
after the Alex Jason any other thoughts,

672
00:40:07.760 --> 00:40:12.039
and then one can transition to Winnipeg
with the other thoughts on Calgary here.

673
00:40:12.840 --> 00:40:15.679
Yeah, so I agree with Evan, it's the Stampeders have kind of lost

674
00:40:15.760 --> 00:40:20.079
prominence in the West Division over the
past couple of years. I remember a

675
00:40:20.119 --> 00:40:22.599
few years ago, this was a
team that was looked at every single year

676
00:40:22.639 --> 00:40:27.119
as the best team in the West
Division, and it's just simply not the

677
00:40:27.159 --> 00:40:31.079
case anymore. They've been passed over
by obviously Winnipeg, but also BC Saskatchewan's

678
00:40:31.079 --> 00:40:35.320
got their stuff together so far this
year. So at the end of the

679
00:40:35.400 --> 00:40:38.360
day, I mean, the Stampeders, it's kind of a troubling situation for

680
00:40:38.519 --> 00:40:42.320
them. I don't think that,
you know, they're completely out of it

681
00:40:42.400 --> 00:40:45.679
yet. Obviously, this is the
CFL we're talking about. There's still very

682
00:40:45.760 --> 00:40:50.440
much alive for if not a third
place seed in the West crossover position in

683
00:40:50.440 --> 00:40:52.159
the East Division, but I mean, it's not looking good for them so

684
00:40:52.199 --> 00:40:54.719
far. I think the biggest thing, like you said, Evan, is

685
00:40:54.760 --> 00:40:59.320
that the you know, the Stampeters
need to get healthy and the receiving corps

686
00:40:59.760 --> 00:41:02.039
get a lot more, you know, playing time with those guys, get

687
00:41:02.039 --> 00:41:05.639
Mark and Michelle back in the fold. I think that will help them a

688
00:41:05.639 --> 00:41:08.039
lot. Maybe play some easier opponents
might help them a little bit as well.

689
00:41:08.079 --> 00:41:10.800
But at the end of the day, I think the Stampeders could be

690
00:41:10.800 --> 00:41:13.920
in trouble here. And I made
a video about that this week. Go

691
00:41:14.039 --> 00:41:16.360
check it out on my channel.
Yeah, Jason, and I love kind

692
00:41:16.400 --> 00:41:20.480
of the previous stuff and the reactions
Steve Jason does over. They're a great

693
00:41:20.480 --> 00:41:22.199
Steff to check out kind of during
during the week as well. I think

694
00:41:22.199 --> 00:41:27.719
it's good because I get this is
all I can bear. We get this,

695
00:41:27.920 --> 00:41:30.599
we do our Friday show, Jason
a little bit more effectible with that.

696
00:41:30.639 --> 00:41:34.360
I appreciate it switching here because I
wanted to make sure we talk about

697
00:41:34.360 --> 00:41:37.639
the Rouge game before we get out. But you know, Winnipeg, you

698
00:41:37.679 --> 00:41:43.360
know Claros, you know, twenty
something of twenty something throwing two hundred plus

699
00:41:43.440 --> 00:41:46.239
yards, you know, two td
looked like a very kind of typical Claros

700
00:41:46.559 --> 00:41:52.599
clean game. Here stat line Evan
thoughts on Winnipeg continuing to kind of roll

701
00:41:52.679 --> 00:41:54.639
here. Yeah, just going back
to my notes. I mean, I

702
00:41:54.719 --> 00:41:59.079
just said, another well rounded,
kind of textbook performance from Winnipeg. You

703
00:41:59.119 --> 00:42:00.840
really know what to expect from him
at this point. You know, the

704
00:42:00.840 --> 00:42:05.519
only thing I would really point out
is that they maybe haven't been scoring as

705
00:42:05.559 --> 00:42:07.840
many points still as I would have
hoped, and they definitely had a slow

706
00:42:07.880 --> 00:42:12.239
start, but again, like they
got the job done. Claros had like

707
00:42:12.480 --> 00:42:15.400
his typical you know, like you
said, completing twenty twenty something passes,

708
00:42:15.440 --> 00:42:19.679
you know, for two hundred something
yards, two touchdowns, just a typical

709
00:42:19.760 --> 00:42:22.880
normal day. Brady Olivera carrying the
rock, you know, only averaging four

710
00:42:22.920 --> 00:42:25.760
point nine yards per carry, which
is decent. Didn't score, but you

711
00:42:25.800 --> 00:42:30.599
know, I think we've talked before
about how he's kind of a workhorse in

712
00:42:30.599 --> 00:42:34.519
a way. And then yeah,
you know, on defense for them,

713
00:42:35.000 --> 00:42:37.559
the one guy that was nice to
see that had a pretty impressive game was

714
00:42:37.599 --> 00:42:44.119
Dietrich Nichols, the former Houston Roughneck
obviously from the XFL, someone that I'll

715
00:42:44.119 --> 00:42:47.840
never forget. And then along with
Malie Clements too, I think had a

716
00:42:47.880 --> 00:42:52.440
really nice outing there as well.
So yeah, I mean, again,

717
00:42:52.559 --> 00:42:54.800
not much on the Winnipeg side at
this point. You just know, like

718
00:42:54.840 --> 00:42:59.039
once they're on, they're on.
Was it a perfect game for them?

719
00:42:59.039 --> 00:43:02.280
No? Was it their standard?
Probably not? But they won, you

720
00:43:02.320 --> 00:43:07.599
know, by what thirteen points,
So that's that's all right for me.

721
00:43:07.239 --> 00:43:13.280
And you have a famously USFL,
former USL Generals quarterback to kind of prucop

722
00:43:13.400 --> 00:43:15.199
returning back up to the North.
Yea, it was did he play last

723
00:43:15.199 --> 00:43:19.159
week? Or was this his first
game back after the trade m or not

724
00:43:19.199 --> 00:43:21.519
the trade, but you know him
coming back, you know, I don't

725
00:43:21.559 --> 00:43:25.679
know. I read something that said
Tyrrell Pigrom played in or was active for

726
00:43:25.880 --> 00:43:30.440
three games, So I assume Dakota
was active last week. But I could

727
00:43:30.440 --> 00:43:34.599
be wrong. I have a feeling
this is the first action that he's got

728
00:43:34.639 --> 00:43:38.480
because I didn't notice him last week. But I wrong, Jason anything else

729
00:43:38.519 --> 00:43:43.559
here Winnipeg, Yeah, So I
just think the Winnipeg goes just a classic.

730
00:43:43.880 --> 00:43:45.679
They could beat you so many different
ways. They don't have to play

731
00:43:45.760 --> 00:43:50.239
the perfect game like a lot of
teams have to to win games. So

732
00:43:50.280 --> 00:43:52.760
I think at the end of the
day that they played excellent, complimentary football.

733
00:43:52.960 --> 00:43:55.920
The defense is kind of making me
eat crow over what I said a

734
00:43:55.960 --> 00:44:00.199
couple of weeks ago that they were
kind of declining a little bit back there.

735
00:44:00.239 --> 00:44:02.320
But the first last couple of weeks
they played very well. So I

736
00:44:02.360 --> 00:44:06.519
think at the end of the day, Um, things are going pretty well

737
00:44:06.559 --> 00:44:09.280
in Bomberland, and um, you
know, it's interesting to see what happens

738
00:44:09.320 --> 00:44:15.119
going forward with this first place race
with the Lions. Yeah, Winnipeg is

739
00:44:15.159 --> 00:44:17.440
the kind of team where you have
to play perfect to beat them, right,

740
00:44:17.519 --> 00:44:22.079
we saw BC really dismantled them a
couple of weeks ago. But yeah,

741
00:44:22.119 --> 00:44:23.880
they can they can be afforded a
few mistakes here. I think BC

742
00:44:24.119 --> 00:44:28.079
is in that position like we talked
about where hey we can have the one

743
00:44:28.159 --> 00:44:30.079
year one year on line fumble one
kind of all that, you know,

744
00:44:30.199 --> 00:44:34.119
kind of rally a little bit.
Obviously we can't throw six interceptions, but

745
00:44:34.159 --> 00:44:37.400
Winnipeg like we were allowed a little
bit of it. Okay, you came

746
00:44:37.440 --> 00:44:39.800
out hard. Okay, well you
know we can turn this around. Last

747
00:44:39.880 --> 00:44:44.559
note I had three with the three
then or the coln here was what are

748
00:44:44.559 --> 00:44:49.199
we thinking about this comparison the away
the away Calgary jerseys looking like a box

749
00:44:49.239 --> 00:44:52.159
of popcorn. I think they're hot. I think they're really hot jerseys jas

750
00:44:52.159 --> 00:44:55.920
thinking. I know Evan hasn't partake
in any uniform between the think so Jason,

751
00:44:57.000 --> 00:45:00.320
any thoughts on the popcorn? Yeah? So I think that, Um,

752
00:45:00.599 --> 00:45:04.519
you know, I don't really critique
the away uniforms in the CFL has

753
00:45:04.679 --> 00:45:07.039
uh, you know, harshly or
in any sport, because there's not so

754
00:45:07.119 --> 00:45:10.360
much you could do with the white
uniforms. I feel like, so I

755
00:45:10.440 --> 00:45:15.199
think I aworred a little bit of
creativity here by the Stampeters. So I

756
00:45:15.239 --> 00:45:19.679
mean I liked the jerseys all right. So now we are finally here to

757
00:45:19.760 --> 00:45:22.440
the famous rouge game. Now I'm
gonna say this. So I was out

758
00:45:22.559 --> 00:45:24.719
Thursday night. My wife's birthday was
Friday. I had weddings to work both

759
00:45:24.760 --> 00:45:29.039
Friday and Saturday. So I did
my wife out Thursday night. I'm getting

760
00:45:29.079 --> 00:45:30.039
the score as this is going on. I'm like, okay, it's like

761
00:45:30.079 --> 00:45:34.239
it's one zero, Okay, it's
USA. I was. I was sitting

762
00:45:34.239 --> 00:45:36.559
there, like, you know,
this is a USFL game. I might

763
00:45:36.639 --> 00:45:38.400
just have Pat. I might just
let Pat. Okay, you can talk

764
00:45:38.440 --> 00:45:43.039
about this game when we come to
the recap. I went back on demand.

765
00:45:43.079 --> 00:45:45.880
I watched on this entire game driving
to him from my weddings Friday and

766
00:45:45.920 --> 00:45:50.719
Saturday. So I did watch and
it was actually like we'll get anyway.

767
00:45:50.719 --> 00:45:53.039
But I thought it was an actually
really entertaining game because the score and like

768
00:45:53.039 --> 00:45:57.119
we're going in and Rash is tweeting, and I'm like, this is the

769
00:45:57.599 --> 00:46:00.360
definition of excellence, Like a Rash's
just go crazy about all this healing on

770
00:46:00.360 --> 00:46:04.079
this ya about. I didn't think
this was that terrible of a game.

771
00:46:04.159 --> 00:46:06.760
I mean, the ending came down, Jason Am, I am? I

772
00:46:06.800 --> 00:46:08.360
out on the limb here. I
mean I thought this was actually pretty exciting

773
00:46:08.400 --> 00:46:12.679
for eleven to twelve on a Thursday
night. Yeah, I had fun enough

774
00:46:12.719 --> 00:46:15.559
time watching it. I feel like
the fact that it was close definitely helped,

775
00:46:16.079 --> 00:46:21.840
and just the dramatic finish made this
game one of the more memorable games

776
00:46:21.840 --> 00:46:24.840
so far this season. Evan,
did you catch any of this game on

777
00:46:24.840 --> 00:46:29.039
the Thursday? I did. Yeah, I didn't watch the whole thing,

778
00:46:29.079 --> 00:46:32.000
but I watched. I watched the
first half, so I didn't see the

779
00:46:32.280 --> 00:46:36.800
blunder at the end until well,
I obviously went back watched the highlights.

780
00:46:37.000 --> 00:46:39.000
I saw it all over Twitter and
all that conversation. We'll get into that

781
00:46:39.360 --> 00:46:43.119
in a couple of minutes here.
I do want to talk about just the

782
00:46:43.159 --> 00:46:45.920
game itself first, aside from the
rouges and everything else that made it so

783
00:46:46.000 --> 00:46:51.920
interesting and really so close. I
think my first note here we'll talk about

784
00:46:51.960 --> 00:46:54.920
the Elks. Taylor Cornelius. To
me, this was really the first game

785
00:46:54.920 --> 00:46:59.960
where he looked like a starting quarterback. Maybe that's being a bit horror,

786
00:47:00.239 --> 00:47:02.559
but like to be honest, I
mean Prior to this, every performance he's

787
00:47:02.599 --> 00:47:07.920
had was I mean, you can
only say so many good things, right,

788
00:47:07.000 --> 00:47:10.320
and I really hope Taylor can continue
this. I'm not trying to you

789
00:47:10.360 --> 00:47:14.320
know, sit here and you know
just say bad things about and rip on

790
00:47:14.400 --> 00:47:15.920
him all the time. But really
this game stood out. I was like,

791
00:47:15.960 --> 00:47:19.880
okay, like, you know,
it's finally looking like after a little

792
00:47:19.880 --> 00:47:22.400
over a month, you know,
maybe they can have something here. And

793
00:47:22.440 --> 00:47:27.199
again especially it really came into play
on the ground right. You know,

794
00:47:27.239 --> 00:47:30.320
Taylor people talk about him having this
big frame, and to see him be

795
00:47:30.679 --> 00:47:34.920
so mobile in this game, you
know, score average over five yeards a

796
00:47:35.000 --> 00:47:37.320
carry, you know, carried multiple
times, you know, had eleven carries,

797
00:47:37.639 --> 00:47:40.840
you know, to see him do
that I think should at least give

798
00:47:40.920 --> 00:47:45.159
Edmonton fans some confidence. Now keep
in mind, this could all you know,

799
00:47:45.440 --> 00:47:50.360
go like on a landslide next week. Who knows, right, there's

800
00:47:50.400 --> 00:47:53.639
been so much inconsistency, But I
really did like what I saw from Taylor

801
00:47:53.679 --> 00:47:58.159
Cornelius this week. Still had an
interception, still wasn't perfect, you know,

802
00:47:58.559 --> 00:48:00.679
could have gotten a couple more poles, I think, but ultimately,

803
00:48:00.719 --> 00:48:05.079
you know, better stuff from him
than what it's been. And I mean,

804
00:48:05.079 --> 00:48:08.239
because there really wasn't much before that. A couple other things, This

805
00:48:08.320 --> 00:48:12.760
was definitely a revenge game for some
of the players on the Elex, Kyron

806
00:48:12.800 --> 00:48:15.079
Moore who used to play for Saskatchewan
on offense, and then A C.

807
00:48:15.320 --> 00:48:20.320
Leonard obviously who played for Saskatchewan on
defense. Both of them are now with

808
00:48:20.360 --> 00:48:23.280
the Elex, and both of them
had I would say, pretty noteworthy games

809
00:48:23.519 --> 00:48:28.920
this time around, especially a C. Leonard again, one of those guys

810
00:48:28.960 --> 00:48:31.400
that I've known one of the first
names that I was familiar with in the

811
00:48:31.440 --> 00:48:35.920
CFL going back a couple of years, so that was good. And then

812
00:48:36.880 --> 00:48:37.960
the run game too, I think
was the last thing I was going to

813
00:48:38.039 --> 00:48:43.119
point out. But besides the whole
CJ. Sims business, I think it

814
00:48:43.239 --> 00:48:45.880
was Kevin Brown again, him and
Cornelie's kind of, you know, really

815
00:48:46.239 --> 00:48:51.159
combined, and I don't from what
I remember, Edmonton hasn't had much of

816
00:48:51.159 --> 00:48:53.400
a run game up until this point. They've just been trying to force feed

817
00:48:53.440 --> 00:48:58.039
to Gino Lewis and a couple other
guys. They didn't have Gino Lewis in

818
00:48:58.079 --> 00:49:00.960
this game, by the way,
but ultimately there was improvement from Edmonton.

819
00:49:01.239 --> 00:49:07.480
Did they win, No, Could
they have won. Yes, another heartbreaker.

820
00:49:07.960 --> 00:49:09.599
I want the main takeaway from me
from this game, and I know

821
00:49:09.639 --> 00:49:13.719
I haven't talked about Saskatchewan yet or
what happened at the end, but I'll

822
00:49:13.719 --> 00:49:16.199
wait for that. I think my
main takeaway from this game was, you

823
00:49:16.199 --> 00:49:20.119
know, there was so much heartbreak. I thought it couldn't get any worse.

824
00:49:20.360 --> 00:49:22.880
And then we saw that Hamilton Ottawa
game where Massoli went down and it

825
00:49:23.000 --> 00:49:29.239
just kind of put a whole kind
of sombering blanket of sorts on the weekend.

826
00:49:29.280 --> 00:49:30.719
It was still, i'd say,
a good slate. I enjoyed the

827
00:49:31.000 --> 00:49:36.239
BC Montreal game and even the Winnipeg
Calgary game, even though it was pretty

828
00:49:36.239 --> 00:49:38.920
clear like by the third quarter Winnipeg
was going to pull it out. But

829
00:49:38.960 --> 00:49:42.719
again, it was these things like
this where you know, those are the

830
00:49:42.800 --> 00:49:45.840
more sad storylines that you kind of
just have to discuss, unfortunately and accept

831
00:49:46.239 --> 00:49:50.599
if you're a fan of one of
those teams, especially all right, Jason,

832
00:49:50.639 --> 00:49:52.480
good to you. And then I
got some notes here. Yeah,

833
00:49:52.559 --> 00:49:59.840
so I mean I echo your sentiment
Evan that Cornelius played better in this game,

834
00:50:00.199 --> 00:50:01.199
but I think at the end of
the day, I mean, even

835
00:50:01.199 --> 00:50:04.760
if he played better, it still
wasn't good enough. At the end of

836
00:50:04.760 --> 00:50:07.360
the day, you put eleven points
on the board, it's not gonna win

837
00:50:07.400 --> 00:50:09.119
you very many games. And I
mean it could have won you this game,

838
00:50:09.280 --> 00:50:12.400
if very close to winning you this
game, but at the end of

839
00:50:12.440 --> 00:50:15.480
the day, just not good enough. I think what was huge in this

840
00:50:15.519 --> 00:50:20.119
game were the missed field goals by
their kicker, Dean Faithful. Again very

841
00:50:20.599 --> 00:50:23.719
controversial decision to go with him as
their field goal kicker this season, given

842
00:50:23.719 --> 00:50:29.400
that he's a thirty six year old
rookie that had never kicked in like a

843
00:50:30.199 --> 00:50:32.960
college or like a pro game before. I think so, I mean,

844
00:50:34.280 --> 00:50:36.760
you know, those are just missed
points on the board. Those were enough

845
00:50:36.800 --> 00:50:39.440
to win the game right there.
And I think he got three rouges from

846
00:50:39.519 --> 00:50:44.039
three field goals. So at the
end of the day, it was just

847
00:50:44.119 --> 00:50:47.679
a very disappointing effort from the Elks, even though you know, they came

848
00:50:47.719 --> 00:50:52.079
close to winning. I think that
there's still so much to work on here

849
00:50:52.119 --> 00:50:55.760
that I can't be too encouraged by
the performance. And I mean, I

850
00:50:55.800 --> 00:50:59.679
think that a couple of guys,
like you said, Acy Leonard had a

851
00:50:59.719 --> 00:51:04.159
really good game in this one.
Luchz Purifoy is another former Saskatch One rough

852
00:51:04.239 --> 00:51:07.599
Rider that played pretty well for them
in this game. Has been playing pretty

853
00:51:07.639 --> 00:51:09.280
well for the Elk so far this
season. But at the end of the

854
00:51:09.360 --> 00:51:13.960
day, it's the same issues.
They can't move the ball consistently on offense,

855
00:51:14.159 --> 00:51:16.719
they can't stop the run. Saskatch
One was really attacking that in this

856
00:51:16.760 --> 00:51:20.159
game, even though they didn't come
away with a ton of points. So

857
00:51:20.280 --> 00:51:22.480
I think the Elks still have so
much to work on. Yeah, it

858
00:51:22.519 --> 00:51:24.559
was crazy. So I just got
a couple of notes. We'll get to

859
00:51:24.599 --> 00:51:28.039
the rous thing here because I have
a bunch of funny tweets about that.

860
00:51:28.119 --> 00:51:32.719
But so first off, Taylor Cornelius
only has four wins in this CFL.

861
00:51:32.880 --> 00:51:36.239
I thought that was remarkable, and
I know, like, because we've talked

862
00:51:36.280 --> 00:51:37.880
and it's only been a couple of
years, I'm like to give the bag

863
00:51:37.920 --> 00:51:42.239
to this guy last year. And
I love Taylor, we watched him in

864
00:51:42.280 --> 00:51:45.840
the XFL and all that, but
they only have four wins. Shout out

865
00:51:45.840 --> 00:51:50.320
Trevor Harris one hundred career starts.
You know, that's pretty remarkable. Also

866
00:51:50.400 --> 00:51:53.400
the fact that the Riders had seven
losses in the row at home before this,

867
00:51:53.519 --> 00:51:57.760
and I can't figure out how in
the nineteen league we could have Ottawa,

868
00:51:57.840 --> 00:52:01.920
who now thankfully as one, but
we had Ottawa, Emton and Saskatchewan

869
00:52:02.000 --> 00:52:06.960
all with home losing streams, Like
I don't really understand how that's possible here

870
00:52:07.119 --> 00:52:09.119
with nine teams. A couple other
things. We're back to country. We

871
00:52:09.159 --> 00:52:13.920
had fallout boy in trowing the shows
last week, and I said, for

872
00:52:13.920 --> 00:52:16.880
all you people saying that the CFL
has demographic problems, we're playing that two

873
00:52:16.880 --> 00:52:21.599
thousand and sixes the sugar. We're
going down. We're back to a country

874
00:52:21.639 --> 00:52:23.800
here and my other note I had, and then we'll get to the ruge

875
00:52:23.880 --> 00:52:28.800
unless anyone else has anything. We
even had a penalty on Chris Jones this

876
00:52:28.840 --> 00:52:31.960
week where it's like the Elks just
we're like, how else can we lose

877
00:52:32.000 --> 00:52:37.039
this game? Jones is on the
white line the raft throwing the flag and

878
00:52:37.079 --> 00:52:39.159
then they show him the next play
and he's still on the line. It's

879
00:52:39.159 --> 00:52:43.800
like, how do you not you
know? We're done penalizing ourselves here.

880
00:52:43.800 --> 00:52:49.039
We're penalizing the coach Evan or we'll
go Evan any other thoughts in this because

881
00:52:49.079 --> 00:52:51.880
I want to get to the rugs
before we get out of here. Yeah,

882
00:52:51.960 --> 00:52:54.920
So two things. One I just
wanted to clarify, is that score

883
00:52:55.400 --> 00:52:59.760
for them, because I think it
said et two touchdowns? But that can't

884
00:52:59.800 --> 00:53:02.039
be right, can't it. No, Yeah, there's mistakes all over this.

885
00:53:02.760 --> 00:53:07.519
Yeah, that's what I thought.
I was sorry. I've been very

886
00:53:07.559 --> 00:53:09.559
weary trusting this the past couple of
weeks because I looked and I'm like,

887
00:53:09.960 --> 00:53:14.400
there's no way Stephen Dunbar and Taylor
Cornelie's both scored in this game. Do

888
00:53:14.440 --> 00:53:20.079
you know which one it was?
Who scored? I'm trying to think.

889
00:53:21.199 --> 00:53:25.000
I can't remember Dunbar had the Dunbar
had Dunbar had the tv dard. Okay,

890
00:53:25.000 --> 00:53:29.400
so Taylor didn't score rushing touchdown.
I mean, still an impressive game

891
00:53:29.480 --> 00:53:31.559
rushing. But yeah, that makes
me wonder too, because I said Joe

892
00:53:31.559 --> 00:53:35.360
and Edwards, Cooper and BC had
six tackles for lost. That seems like

893
00:53:35.400 --> 00:53:37.400
a lot, and they had another
player it might have been on Saskatchewan.

894
00:53:37.559 --> 00:53:42.559
He said he had eight tackles for
loss. Yeah, I have to I

895
00:53:42.559 --> 00:53:45.519
don't know. I'm again, this
is the best thing I have. So

896
00:53:45.679 --> 00:53:49.199
I'm going off this because I only
watched chunks of all the games, So

897
00:53:49.880 --> 00:53:52.400
forgive me, and I think I
think that speaks for all of us,

898
00:53:52.440 --> 00:53:55.039
you know, Um, it's it's
a shame. I mean we you want

899
00:53:55.039 --> 00:53:59.440
to talk about the whole CFL stats
that that's a whole nother debate. But

900
00:53:59.480 --> 00:54:02.400
I will talk about Saskatchewan here for
a minute, even if the stats,

901
00:54:02.480 --> 00:54:07.239
uh might not be exactly up to
date or accurate, not saying they've been

902
00:54:07.239 --> 00:54:12.360
in other weeks either. Let's see. Um, yeah, I didn't have

903
00:54:12.360 --> 00:54:15.840
too many notes here, just yeah, Trevor Harris had a pretty nice game,

904
00:54:15.880 --> 00:54:17.519
still had a turnover, but um, you know, nearly through for

905
00:54:17.639 --> 00:54:22.239
three hundred yards average, you know, ten yards per attempt, which I

906
00:54:22.280 --> 00:54:28.760
thought was pretty good. And then
Mitchell picked in and Tevin Jones stood out

907
00:54:28.800 --> 00:54:31.880
in the receiving corps. Tevin Jones
especially I thought was interesting. He's had

908
00:54:31.920 --> 00:54:37.199
two separate stints with Saskatchewan. He
came in and in twenty twenty one and

909
00:54:37.239 --> 00:54:40.800
then signed with the Jaguars and then
came back last year. Don't really know

910
00:54:40.920 --> 00:54:44.559
what his stats look like from last
year or even this year, but this

911
00:54:44.599 --> 00:54:45.800
was the first time where I was
like, oh, Tevin Jones, you

912
00:54:45.840 --> 00:54:49.480
know, good to see him.
He was kind of a NFL veteran,

913
00:54:49.559 --> 00:54:52.639
spent a couple of years with the
Steelers, and I think he's, you

914
00:54:52.679 --> 00:54:55.079
know, thirty going on thirty one
now something like that, so older guy.

915
00:54:55.119 --> 00:54:59.280
He's kind of, you know,
still riding out in Saskatchewan. And

916
00:54:59.280 --> 00:55:04.320
then Nick Marshall is someone you know
who keeps impressing me. Kind of had

917
00:55:04.360 --> 00:55:07.519
the interception at the end to seal
the win for Saskatchewan. That's always a

918
00:55:07.679 --> 00:55:12.119
name, you know, I've been
hearing about for so long. It feels

919
00:55:12.119 --> 00:55:15.840
like ever since I think he joined
the rough Riders in twenty eighteen. I

920
00:55:15.840 --> 00:55:17.559
feel like ever since I started watching
the CFL around that time, I've been

921
00:55:17.559 --> 00:55:22.360
hearing his name. I will never
get over the fact that he played quarterback

922
00:55:22.440 --> 00:55:25.519
at Auburn instead of corner, and
he was the quarterback for Auburn in that

923
00:55:25.599 --> 00:55:29.960
game in the Iron Bowl where they
had that kick return. So I always

924
00:55:29.960 --> 00:55:34.039
find that fascinating. That's that's how
I remember who Nick Marshall is. All

925
00:55:34.079 --> 00:55:37.599
right, so let's get here to
the Rugs. I got a couple tweets

926
00:55:37.599 --> 00:55:38.880
here to kind of set this up
and then we can talk about it.

927
00:55:39.400 --> 00:55:45.119
We had Dave Campbell here talking Alex
score for four rugs this night and it's

928
00:55:45.119 --> 00:55:47.519
a ruse that sings him in the
end. CJ SAMs with a or epic

929
00:55:47.559 --> 00:55:50.880
gaff at the end of the game. I can't believe this. The team

930
00:55:50.920 --> 00:55:53.800
finds new Lais to lose, you
know, far Han hopping on this the

931
00:55:53.880 --> 00:55:58.480
Elex record. Notwithstanding, when something
that ridiculous happens to determine the game,

932
00:55:58.760 --> 00:56:01.519
it makes the entire league bad.
That type of mental error shouldn't simply shouldn't

933
00:56:01.559 --> 00:56:07.559
happen at any level. The last
thing of a couple other chat OUTSINKO checking

934
00:56:07.599 --> 00:56:12.400
in watching the game. What an
ending to the Evathan Sass game? So

935
00:56:12.480 --> 00:56:16.159
I will play the replay here on
the video and I will I will toss

936
00:56:16.199 --> 00:56:20.400
you Jason and Jason, you know
you're you're the Canadian guy here. What

937
00:56:20.440 --> 00:56:24.159
do we make of this? I
just don't think there's any excuse, Like,

938
00:56:24.719 --> 00:56:28.400
I just think it's really silly to
end a game like this. So

939
00:56:28.440 --> 00:56:31.159
it's like, I hate seeing this. I think BC in Toronto had a

940
00:56:31.159 --> 00:56:36.400
game in twenty nineteen that ended with
a guy accidentally stepping on the back of

941
00:56:36.400 --> 00:56:38.760
the end zone on a missed field
goal to to give up the one point

942
00:56:38.760 --> 00:56:42.519
to win the game. But this
was even more bizarre than that. I

943
00:56:42.559 --> 00:56:45.320
mean, it makes me feel a
little bit better about the Tiecats given up

944
00:56:45.360 --> 00:56:49.039
that one point in the Great Cup
a couple of years ago to Winnipeg that

945
00:56:49.079 --> 00:56:52.000
would have potentially won them the game
with the field goal. But I think

946
00:56:52.039 --> 00:56:55.039
that there's really no excuse for this
happening. I blame the coaches for this

947
00:56:55.320 --> 00:57:00.280
more than anything. I think there
should have been explicit discussions. There's no

948
00:57:00.519 --> 00:57:04.719
way that you let this ball go
into the end zone under any circumstances,

949
00:57:04.800 --> 00:57:07.639
or you absolutely try to get it
out of the end zone if it gets

950
00:57:07.679 --> 00:57:09.639
that far. So I mean,
I just don't think there's any excuse for

951
00:57:09.719 --> 00:57:14.039
it. But it's really, you
know, encapsulation of what the Elks have

952
00:57:14.199 --> 00:57:17.400
become over these past couple of years. Yeah, I have a comments here

953
00:57:17.440 --> 00:57:22.440
across the pond, just talking and
he pointed out it was a Cornelius one

954
00:57:22.519 --> 00:57:24.840
yard rushing touchdown because it was the
dumbar one got called back for holding.

955
00:57:24.920 --> 00:57:29.039
I think as that was my Again, this was Thursday. I've had I've

956
00:57:29.079 --> 00:57:31.760
had twenty two hours for the wedding
filming since Thursday. But yeah, it

957
00:57:31.840 --> 00:57:35.679
was the dumbar one I believe got
called back for holding it. Was a

958
00:57:35.719 --> 00:57:39.039
cornelius one that stood. We had
a comment. Ryan is A is a

959
00:57:39.039 --> 00:57:44.280
Calgary person here, a longtime friend
of the show. He says Edmonton just

960
00:57:44.360 --> 00:57:46.199
made the entire CFL look bad by
allowed the team to win on the long

961
00:57:46.239 --> 00:57:51.360
field goal. Coick, Edmonton football
is amateur hour, Evan, Does this

962
00:57:51.480 --> 00:57:52.960
make the CFL look bad? Because
I see both sides like, we'll see

963
00:57:52.960 --> 00:57:58.199
this like this is why because we
had the Winnipeg had the run back right

964
00:57:58.239 --> 00:58:00.840
where they got. It was like
ran back to the thirty yard line.

965
00:58:00.840 --> 00:58:04.400
There would ever kind of off the
miss field goal. Does this make too,

966
00:58:04.599 --> 00:58:06.599
because I get both sides like,
oh, this is the best thing

967
00:58:06.639 --> 00:58:08.880
about the CFL and this is the
worst thing. Yeah, well, it's

968
00:58:08.880 --> 00:58:13.079
definitely a unique thing, right,
we can start with that. I have

969
00:58:13.199 --> 00:58:16.679
had so much difficulty trying to explain
the rouge to people who I know here

970
00:58:16.920 --> 00:58:20.920
in the United States who don't watch
the CFL. I think it's the weirdest

971
00:58:20.960 --> 00:58:27.800
thing, you know. I personally
like it somewhat because it's another scoring opportunity

972
00:58:28.000 --> 00:58:30.960
on special teams, and I think
special teams is a super kind of important

973
00:58:30.960 --> 00:58:35.320
facet of football, you know,
regardless of league. But you know,

974
00:58:35.320 --> 00:58:38.039
There's been so many times where you
just see these players who aren't, you

975
00:58:38.039 --> 00:58:42.239
know, trained, and they come
in from the United States. And I'm

976
00:58:42.280 --> 00:58:45.199
so glad you brought up the Great
Cup, Jason, because that's the first

977
00:58:45.199 --> 00:58:46.719
thing I thought about when I saw
that play. I said, you know,

978
00:58:46.760 --> 00:58:50.760
why does this look so familiar,
Like I feel like someone blundered like

979
00:58:50.800 --> 00:58:53.079
this before in a much more important
setting. And then I was like,

980
00:58:53.119 --> 00:58:55.239
oh, that's right, Hamilton did
it in the Great Cup. And then

981
00:58:55.480 --> 00:59:00.599
yeah, I've watched highlights of that
BC Toronto game where yeah, they pretty

982
00:59:00.679 --> 00:59:04.599
much lost on the ruge, and
you know, it's such a weird way

983
00:59:04.639 --> 00:59:07.119
to lose or win a game.
I'd like to say it's very anti climactic.

984
00:59:07.239 --> 00:59:09.519
I mean, you look at that
whole game. There were so many

985
00:59:09.599 --> 00:59:13.719
rouges, there's so many weird plays. It was such a weird night and

986
00:59:13.760 --> 00:59:15.559
it just ends like that. And
you know, in the NFL, like

987
00:59:15.880 --> 00:59:19.880
you know, that's nothing, that's
like a touchback, you know, so

988
00:59:20.159 --> 00:59:23.280
you look at that and it's like, Okay, I just it's so weird,

989
00:59:23.480 --> 00:59:27.760
Like even though I've watched the CFL
now for a handful of years,

990
00:59:27.800 --> 00:59:30.960
every time I see something like that, to think that a team essentially wins

991
00:59:31.000 --> 00:59:35.320
a game because of that is I
don't I don't know what to say.

992
00:59:35.519 --> 00:59:38.039
Really, It's just such a you
know, a unique complexation. I've heard

993
00:59:38.119 --> 00:59:43.639
so much debate between whether or not
the ruge just a good thing, or

994
00:59:43.639 --> 00:59:45.840
if it's just too complicated, or
you know, it makes the CFL Canadian.

995
00:59:45.840 --> 00:59:49.840
I don't know, there's there's so
many different takes on it, but

996
00:59:49.920 --> 00:59:52.519
yeah, I was. I was
just stunned, honestly that that happened.

997
00:59:52.559 --> 00:59:57.199
And you know, again it's if
you're Edmonton, it's just it's how many

998
00:59:57.199 --> 01:00:00.039
things can go wrong, you know. I mean, this is just so

999
01:00:00.360 --> 01:00:02.119
embarrassing, is the bottom line.
And I think c J Simms, you

1000
01:00:02.159 --> 01:00:06.079
know, the guy who you know, had that play or let that play

1001
01:00:06.159 --> 01:00:07.159
happen, admitted he said the same
thing. He's like, yeah, I

1002
01:00:07.239 --> 01:00:09.760
was embarrassed. You know, I
can't like, you know, our team

1003
01:00:09.880 --> 01:00:14.960
is, you know, the only
only winless team in the CFL. Now

1004
01:00:14.960 --> 01:00:17.039
that Hamilton, you know, got
a win, and obviously Ottawa got on

1005
01:00:17.079 --> 01:00:21.719
the board against them. So yeah, now Edmonton's still you know, looking

1006
01:00:21.840 --> 01:00:24.159
up and it's like we've had a
couple of these opportunities where if we just

1007
01:00:24.199 --> 01:00:27.800
did these simple things right, you
know, it wouldn't be a problem.

1008
01:00:27.840 --> 01:00:30.039
But obviously that's in the past now, and I don't know, I just

1009
01:00:30.480 --> 01:00:34.159
it's it's so weird to me.
The whole thing is just so bizarre.

1010
01:00:34.760 --> 01:00:37.280
Well, yeah, but if this
doesn't happen, we're not talking about this

1011
01:00:37.320 --> 01:00:40.280
game in the same vein here.
I think it's a prettypore game. Jason

1012
01:00:40.519 --> 01:00:45.480
thoughts on this anything else. Yeah, So I think it's not necessarily a

1013
01:00:45.519 --> 01:00:47.239
reflection on the league. It doesn't
necessarily make the league look bad. I

1014
01:00:47.239 --> 01:00:51.039
think it just makes the Elks look
bad. And again, I think it's

1015
01:00:51.039 --> 01:00:54.079
just an encapsulation of what they've become
over the past couple of years, specifically

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how badly they've begun this season,
just the little things that they're not doing

1017
01:00:59.679 --> 01:01:02.360
right. In terms of the rouge
itself, I think that I like it,

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depending on the situation. I think
the thing is I hate when it

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goes through the back of the end
zone and you get a point on a

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short missed field goal. I think
that is stupid. I think it should

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01:01:13.239 --> 01:01:15.320
be a returnable ball. I think
that is uh, you know, an

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01:01:15.360 --> 01:01:21.559
amend amendment that the type CFAL can
make to make the Rouge a little bit

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more better. But I think situations
like this, I think it's completely fine.

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I just think it was a bone
headed mistake. All right, Well,

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we'll start to wrap up here.
We'll get out of here soon.

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I don't want to, you know, hammer down on t J SAMs anymore.

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But you know, he was kind
of the stand out all season.

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He said, Man, I got
to Alex at least the returner, you

1029
01:01:38.079 --> 01:01:44.719
know, Porfoy and everything else there
going in here, Argos on the their

1030
01:01:44.760 --> 01:01:46.519
back, Who's oh yeah, BCS
on the by this week. That's right,

1031
01:01:46.559 --> 01:01:52.079
okay, Argos on the BUYBC here
Hamilton at Edmonton. H we'll see.

1032
01:01:52.199 --> 01:01:57.360
I don't I don't know is shelf
enough? Is Evanson gonna write that

1033
01:01:57.599 --> 01:02:00.920
we got Toronto here at Montreal?
I think that's a good game here Friday

1034
01:02:00.039 --> 01:02:05.800
Friday night Winnipeg and oiaway, that's
a little scary. Calgary at Saskatchewan that

1035
01:02:05.880 --> 01:02:07.880
might be excited here this I don't
know. This is an interesting week here,

1036
01:02:07.920 --> 01:02:09.480
Evan. What game are you looking
at? And then we'll go to

1037
01:02:09.559 --> 01:02:14.159
Jason. We'll get out of here. Yeah, definitely looking at that Saturday

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01:02:14.159 --> 01:02:17.880
finale Calgary at Saskatchewan. I think
This is a must win game for Calgary

1039
01:02:17.920 --> 01:02:22.719
at this point, especially given the
standings. You know, Saskatchewan is there

1040
01:02:22.960 --> 01:02:27.360
at third in the West and Calgary
really needs to kind of start climbing up

1041
01:02:27.400 --> 01:02:30.920
soon if they want to be in
playoff contention. So getting a win or

1042
01:02:30.920 --> 01:02:35.000
Saskatchewan, who's currently in that third
spot, I think is extremely beneficial for

1043
01:02:35.039 --> 01:02:37.639
them. Jason, what game of
you I in that here, and I

1044
01:02:37.639 --> 01:02:39.960
would like to know your thoughts also
if it's not this game about the Hamilton

1045
01:02:40.000 --> 01:02:45.599
game, Yeah, so I'll start
with that. I am genuinely terrified,

1046
01:02:45.000 --> 01:02:49.280
as Tykats fan that we're going to
be the team that gives the Elks their

1047
01:02:49.280 --> 01:02:52.280
first home victory and what was it
four years? So, I mean it

1048
01:02:52.400 --> 01:02:57.400
kind of scared from that perspective.
But I think I don't think that's the

1049
01:02:57.519 --> 01:03:00.880
number one game this week, as
you guys pointed out, I'm too looking

1050
01:03:00.920 --> 01:03:05.280
forward to Calgary Saskatchewan. I think
those two teams always play really good games

1051
01:03:05.320 --> 01:03:08.159
when they play together. Obviously an
overtime game in Week three, so I

1052
01:03:08.199 --> 01:03:10.800
think that's gonna be an excellent game. Um, it's gonna be interesting to

1053
01:03:10.840 --> 01:03:15.920
see if Montreal can get Toronto that
first l on Friday night. But I

1054
01:03:15.920 --> 01:03:19.199
think this is a pretty good slate
looking forward to next week. Yeah,

1055
01:03:19.199 --> 01:03:22.039
I don't have to worry about BC
here lousy and it's say my internet connections

1056
01:03:22.039 --> 01:03:24.480
on the stable here, so hopefully
I'm coming through all right. The same

1057
01:03:24.559 --> 01:03:28.239
same position is every week, but
I'm getting the airmen there, we go,

1058
01:03:28.000 --> 01:03:30.599
going the way, getting the air
messages here, we'll wrap this up.

1059
01:03:30.719 --> 01:03:34.239
Yeah, I'm excited for that.
I think the Toronto game will be

1060
01:03:34.280 --> 01:03:38.400
good. H this is scary,
this this Ottawa. You're on the ropes.

1061
01:03:38.679 --> 01:03:43.880
You got Dustin Crumb. I don't
know if you know, Winnipeg defense

1062
01:03:44.000 --> 01:03:45.760
is maybe the best thing you want
for your start coming off the bench,

1063
01:03:45.800 --> 01:03:49.360
you know, not coming off the
bench, you want your first official start.

1064
01:03:49.400 --> 01:03:53.119
But it is interesting that that is
his last name is Crumb, and

1065
01:03:53.880 --> 01:03:58.360
like you know, oh Crumb,
you know here we are back, but

1066
01:03:58.760 --> 01:04:01.119
should be good. This was and
like I said, trying to get out

1067
01:04:01.119 --> 01:04:03.400
of the way here to watch these
games as much as possible. So I

1068
01:04:03.440 --> 01:04:08.760
appreciate everyone checking it out. I
appreciate Evan every week for coming on as

1069
01:04:08.760 --> 01:04:12.159
his schedule allows means a lot.
We're excited to do the Gray Cup and

1070
01:04:12.199 --> 01:04:15.159
everything else and then obviously Jason here
every week and then doing all his other

1071
01:04:15.239 --> 01:04:18.280
content and stuff on there. Anything
else from other of you guys before we

1072
01:04:18.280 --> 01:04:24.000
get out of here. We're good, all right, guys, Like and

1073
01:04:24.079 --> 01:04:27.480
subscribe. This was a fun one. I think we're gonna have. He

1074
01:04:27.519 --> 01:04:30.360
was supposed to come on last week. I think Naylor's coming on this week.

1075
01:04:30.440 --> 01:04:32.239
We're gonna talk with Nails on Friday, and then I want to get

1076
01:04:32.679 --> 01:04:35.480
welfare check with Tim Bains as well, and then I have some of my

1077
01:04:35.519 --> 01:04:39.960
emails to write to the XFL office
today as well, So hopefully it should

1078
01:04:39.960 --> 01:04:43.719
be a good show on Friday.
Like and subscribe, and obviously Jason's channel

1079
01:04:43.760 --> 01:04:45.320
as well. Where's my thing?
All right, we'll get out of here.

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01:04:45.320 --> 01:04:46.159
Thanks you guys. See him