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Well, happy Marcust Friday here,
welcome back back in the studio here,

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revamped studio. Don't don't just your
sets. I can talk through that.

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But did some adult team that got
somethings framed? And I cleaned out a

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lot of the other office here kind
of during the off season. But we're

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coming back here today. Yeah,
new revamp. Guys. Do you like

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to look here a little different?
Got rid of the clutter. Yeah,

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it looks fantastic to me, and
it's like, I don't care, let's

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get clean. It's clean. I
like it. Well, it was one

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of those things that kind of rocked
it for a couple of years. And

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then Dorothy's like, you know,
you know that really looks messy, and

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like my friend Michael's like, you
know that really looks messy, and all

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the I'm like, you just just
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up. So we have our defend
the Deep here. I got framed cracking

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went through the entire losing streak I
eight game while I was waiting for that

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to come in. And then this
is from I have my media badges.

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And then when we did our pit
Bull Cruise many years ago, we meet

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met pit Bull and did shots with
pit Bull and everything else. So they

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put together all the kind of schmorgas
sport of all that. So I thought

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that was fun. A couple of
programming notes. So we're here today.

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We're going to talk CFL schedule,
We're going to talk negotiations, list all

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of that stuff. Amazingly, we
have a CFL schedule to talk about while

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still waiting on an XFL twenty twenty
four schedules, and that's always fun.

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We had similar feelings last year for
that. But we'll talk through all that

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today. I don't know how,
in the interest of avoiding burnout, this

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might be a little bit more how
the podcast is, you know, things

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happen, we'll do it. I
don't know if this will read as a

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Friday every week kind of guy right
now with everything. You know, we

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took a couple of weeks off obviously, kind of after the CFL and I

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don't know, I posted on the
YouTube the other week. You know,

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I just don't feel good right now
like posting well, people are kind of

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waiting to find out about their jobs
and lives and careers, so kind of

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waiting that out. But you know, it's one hundred and seventy whatever weeks

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of this now and if we want
to get to two hundred and fifty whatever,

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I think we need to go through
this. So we'll kind of wagh

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through all of that. And then
if you are trying to get a hold

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of like I have a lot of
people that message me on Facebook. I've

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been locked out of Facebook. Happened
last year as well. My business pages

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get like play. It's a whole
thing. So if you like Fran,

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all these people that message me,
Brad, all these people that message me

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on Facebook, LinkedIn message me on
LinkedIn, or my best made videos Instagram

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works, but my mark cast Instagram
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Facebook down. So it's kind of
a whole lot pain in the but that

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way, So I, Jason,
I have you deal with that, Steven

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Canada, But it really is kind
of a pain in the butt. Yeah,

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I think I'm actually locked out of
my like Facebook thing for Hussey's Huddle,

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So yeah, I'm dealing with the
same thing. I'm glad I take

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you on that all the time.
I do tang you what, but yeah,

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like this one, I'm not able
to post online. So Evan,

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I'm going to open my window here
Evan, how have you been since kind

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of the CFL buy that we've been
going on. Yeah, I've been good.

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I mean, you know, still
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on the XFL and USFL side of
things, but at this point I'm not

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holding my breath. So, you
know, just been looking at some CFL

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stuff. There's been some transactions,
the netlist came out. We can talk

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about that for a bit, along
with some of the coaching changes. So

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yeah, I've just been looking at
that, you know, taking care of

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business, and I guess life's been
good. It's good. Yeah, So

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we'll do the I figured we'll kind
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week by week. That'll give us
a good excuse to kind of talk about

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you know, the Toronto Argonauts,
you know, coaching, you know higher

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you know moving around and the Corey
mass of the world and you know BC

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Lions bringing everyone back Seela here to
chat it in. So that's always good

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to see. So let's, I
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schedule. Let me get pulled up
here. Thank goodness, we have you

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know people, And when I tweeted
this yesterday, I meant this kind of

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tongue in cheek, but it seemed
like the CFL listened. There was the

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big Hubblou last year, and we
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it was like way into the season
and Argonauts already kind of locked everything out.

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Jason, here we go, we
have you know what right Montreal and

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the heck was in the Great coupter
Montreal and Winnipeg. Here, what did

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you make of this year at kicking
off the season. I think it's great

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that we have a Great Cup rematch. I mean, it's only been a

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couple of years since we've you know, previously done this. I think Hamblton

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and Winnipeg played a couple of years
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in the Great Cups, so they
have done this before. But my one

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critique would be that I think the
team that wins the Great Cup should have

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the home game to host this.
I think that this beag in Winnipeg.

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I think it should really be in
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I'm not really going to complain about
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of the season. Well, I
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have my bookmarks here. I got
to pull up as well, because I

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know that the Tim Kapper with the
Alwitz flight deck like he was upset because

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they have a bunch I got some
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because there's all these complaints and then
complaints and everything about everything. But

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yeah, Montreal has a bunch of
Thursday games and they're you know, more

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than they've ever had, and they've
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it is a good point. Yeah. I feel like, especially where the

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Gray Cup is a neutral site,
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should be able to host that.
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game back here at least getting the
rematch out of the way. Yeah,

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I agree with Jason. I think
it's good that, you know, we

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finally are getting a rematch, and
that was one of the things that people

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were talking a lot about, you
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the Great Cup rematch last year in
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then when that game did happen,
it was pretty much meaningless because Toronto sitting

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a lot of their guys really just
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But I agree with Jason, I
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is a significant you know, critique
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negate not negate the matchup right,
because I feel like it'll still be a

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good game. There'll still be a
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I think it was Darnel Sanki who
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you know, typically I think if
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they're the one who gets to host
you know, the game in the in

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the following season. But you know, the CFL schedule, right when it's

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twenty one week season with only nine
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have to, you know, make
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in this case, you know,
that's one of them. I'm just glad

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that we're getting the rematch. I
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you know. I know that maybe
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but I think this will be a
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Definitely. Well, is someone that
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go live for for the you know
kickoff at least feels like a really

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hot game. To me. It
was like BC at Calgary last year or

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something. It was a really innoculous
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have and I think they tried to
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whatever and historically, but I think
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I mean, we have graphics built
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Cup fallout, Jason anything from this, I know Cody's been talking a lot

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and he was on Rogero anything else
following out with Winnipeg, and it seems

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like the band is ready to kind
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going to be you know, we're
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all that, but feels like this
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again next year. Yeah. I
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most part, the core of that
team is still intact. But there are

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a few guys that, I think
Mike O'Shea, the head coach said that

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are still considering retirement. So I'm
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O, JaMarcus Hardrick, guys that
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So still waiting on those guys.
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know, the quarterback, the receivers, those kind of guys will be back

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and if those guys are intact,
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team again. So the other highlights
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this, I think when Ambrosi had
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and the fan or either or.
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schedule. Jason, we've kind of
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through all this kind of COVID world
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the differentiation, this was the norm, and then COVID and we're cutting down

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costs and stuff. But going back
to a balance schedule, is that the

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thought process here? We're cutting back
money for a few years, we're not

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flying people from BC to Montreal or
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that some people kind of complain that, you know, the East Division teams

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would play more games against the West
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So I think people like said that
was the reason why the CFL did that.

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But I think at the end of
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I think it's about cost and why
they you know, cut out some of

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those you know, long distance cross
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The last couple of years when the
CFL is little lean in that regard,

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So good to see them go back
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biggest thing, you know, we're
what I'm looking at is do we get

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a crossover team this year because the
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schedule back in twenty nineteen, we
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the last time a team's crossed over
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to seeing if that's the case this
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that. They always It's like I
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and they're like Chicago Bear are still
alive. Like we always talk about it,

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but like I would like to actually
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the cross I talk about consistency is
key. I like the CFL summer schedule

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this Thursday through Sunday. It seems
like that worked a lot of Sunday night

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games and then obviously going back into
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and we're you know, have have
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CFL Plus or the CBS Sports Network
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Evan, in terms of that,
you know, obviously shifting things away from

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the NFL where we hit the fall, but there's ay through Sunday that all

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works. Yeah, I mean I
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summer, you know, over those
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see it continue that way, and
the CFL here, you know, has

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clearly stated that. Yeah, I
think that works out well. Just you

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know, because there's not as much
going on in the summer in terms of

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sports, you're probably going to get
more us it's viewers during that time period,

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because I mean it was the NFL, but really college football kind of

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started that shift, you know,
And I noticed that because the second that

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the college football season started, you
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CFL games on CBS Sports Net anymore, just because they had to take those

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slots for college games, right.
And then obviously, you know, once

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the NFL you know, gets into
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of weeks later whatever, you know, that also takes away. So yeah,

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the schedule changes pretty quickly in the
fall. But I like the summer

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one. I like having you know, those couple of days, and I

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know not everybody likes having you know, four days of games or whatever,

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even three days. But you know, I don't mind. I think if

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you you know, distribute it equally, it's just a longer week football in

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general, and it feels like you
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you know, maybe if you're doing
a recap or something, then you

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know you're doing it on Monday.
It's harder to remember what happened, you

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know on Thursday, there, Friday. We've obviously dealt with that before.

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But you know, other than that, I think it's good. Yeah,

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it keeps it, you know.
To me, it keeps the CFL and

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they don't have as much a problem. I mean, this is something with

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the XFL and the USNL have them
existing during the week outside of their games.

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I mean obviously, you know with
Naylor and far Han and you know

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all the Kate and kind of everyone
involved in you know, the TSN and

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Sportsnet and everything else, and uh, by the way, uh the sports

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Net people. I would have loved
to have been in those board rooms with

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all the show heyo, Tawny talks
we're taking down the CFL here and then

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uh, you know the flight that
was wild, Like if we had been

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podcasting, what was that two weeks
ago? That would have been wild,

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but keeps the CFL more in this
guys, I like it. I agree

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with Evan. Sometimes on Monday you're
like, what the heck happened on Thursday.

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But it was so weird to me
that when they announced this shift back

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last year, We're gonna have more
Sunday games. You know, all these

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like Saskatchewan people complaining and I'm never
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because you know, we got to
get up in the morning to drive.

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I mean just Monday here we were
watching what was it, the Titans,

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Titans and Giants and Green Bay and
all that, and like, we mean

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it's eleven thirty here in New York. You're watching these games, like you

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it's good to have them like kind
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consistent seven o'clock Eastern time slots to
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that's really important because you look at
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help drive some viewership by itself,
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ten, am I have a game? So let me log on, you

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what game I have? So,
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and if we have time, we'll
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the schedule reveals with the Lions and
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all that out, and I THOWT
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forward with that. Evan, any
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seems like they're at least for the
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the Saturday playoffs. Yeah, I
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window kind of narrows when you're doing
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this year obviously with you guys,
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whatever party after the game. But
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and I'm always somebody who focused is
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for the host city to be able
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festival aspect of it. You think
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the later start time of the Great
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the NFL side of things. It's
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kickoff. So I think at the
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cups on Sunday are here to stay. Yeah, and I especially like that.

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just enjoy Sundays. That to me
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just wide ranging here and then we'll
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guess at Alwin's Flight Tech al WEF's
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Bamber's first time opening season in Winnipig
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Thursday games a Sunday, Monday,
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one I thought was interesting here I
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because I love Eric for all this
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Piers of the Red Blacks have the
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fourteen days more rest in their opponents
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six with LASTI elks On only have
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you figure all this stuff out,
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red Blacks here, Let's give him
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give them more. I even tweeted
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gotta get time the round, all
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how Derek Taylor calculated this, but
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the Red Blacks make a joke about
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get in this scenario. Yeah,
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there and you know Edmonton, you
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maintains all that. So let's get
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this would be a good opportunity to
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that kind of stuff. But what
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tie Cats traveling into Calgary. Well, I mean, I'm very curious to

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see the outcome for bow leave Mitchell
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people complained last year that they didn't
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get the return game. Who knows
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that game. But that's just another
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end of the day, you know, Calgary and Hamilton playing in the first

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game of the season, I think
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the same group as last year in
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and the head coach and whatnot.
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how it plays out. I think
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likes to get those you know,
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in the season so they don't have
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on in the season. So I
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know, three or four West teams
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what did you make I'm talking to
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that. It was really weird.
It was like last week and they had

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a press release like Steinhauer has a
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way, we're going to have a
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of weird how they did that.
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did well? I actually think it
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of people I understand, you know, the structure was strange. I think

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they could have just made the announcement
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to see that they were able to
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mind, but maybe that team,
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at the Helm. After you go
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not able to win those games,
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overtime and was ultimately a heartbreaker.
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but you know, especially the second
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that was very difficult. So,
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you know, still in the building
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over certain decisions, I think that's
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don't think you needed to just get
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same time, you know, having
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it was pretty clear that maybe that
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moving forward. And you know,
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you know, got the job there
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unclear where he was going to go. There was some rumblings of him going

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to Saskatchewan, but that ultimately didn't
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clear away pretty quickly. I know
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but really the two finalists for the
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and then Corey Mays from Toronto.
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you know, I think he'll do
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game that we're talking about here between
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know, Bo Levi's return to the
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or even if he's there, is
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A lot of questions around that.
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somebody else. You know, I
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season, but I'll keep saying it
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twenty four run. You know what
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I think that's why he got the
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that immediate turnaround. I think that
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from you know, maybe a situation
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to hey, we can just do
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the coach, you know, move
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who I believe is the new general
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again just being able to retain those
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not having you know, some form
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that it might be a bit interesting. You don't see that very often where

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a coach is removed from you know, his duty but is still with the

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team. You don't see that very
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it's a really good thing for the
Tycats. Yeah, it's like you

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said, and Jason, it seems
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they're like we're gonna do We're gonna
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one. We're gonna fix it.
We're gonna get bow Levi in the Calgary,

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Trump. I just look at it
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even at this BC Toronto game closing
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see you got it CFL. CFL
season is a marathon here talking Saskatchwan Edmonton

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a good point to talk about Corey
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after we kind of logged out everything
for the season. We joked a lot

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online like the the you know,
the ass kiss scene that went in and

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I'm sure Corey Mace is a tremendous
gentleman and phenomenal football coach. I My

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Twitter for about three days was like
Corey Mays is crazy and he saved eighteen

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children in the war and he did
and you're like, guys, like I

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understand that anyway, but Corey Mays
couldn't be worse here in Saskatchewan. Jason,

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what do you make of this?
Them going on the road to going

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to Edmonton here, but you know, we get the new look Rough Riders

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here and he's still saying they want
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his opening press conference with the Riders. And I think it was a good

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hire. I think that in general, I prefer an offensive head coach if

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I was running a football team,
but I think there's still his value in

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having these up and coming defensive mind
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a defensive led team can make a
big difference. So I think it's

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gonna be very interesting to see how
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the about all the hooplaw that was
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Corey Mason, all the you know, the cheerleading. I think that,

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you know, that just goes to
show you, like, there aren't

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that many new faces that get into
head coaching jobs in the CFL. So

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I think whenever that happens, you
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you know, and I'm excited.

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It's something to take away, but
it was you. I mean, you

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would have thought that they you know, I mean, like now they influenced

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Gene Jones up here out haven't gotten
him involved in all that. I think

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Evan and I probably would have been
leading the cheerleading bandwagon. And so I

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haven't any thoughts hereon Corey Mays because
he missed talking about all that. Yeah.

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cool part about Corey Mace is,

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you know, he's the definition of
a player's coach. You could tell people

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immediately gravitated towards him, you know
when he was hired. And you know,

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I'm not gonna I'm not going to
carry on whatever you're talking about in

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terms of the you know, Twitter
parade for Corey. I'll be a bit

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more reserved with my thoughts, but
there is no denying he's a good coach.

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you know, like I said,

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he's a players coach, really cares
about those guys. And he's young,

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right, he's only thirty seven,
believe it or not. Him and Trevor

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Harris are the same age. And
Trevor Harris is probably gonna be his starting

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quarterback next season, which is fascinating
to me. You don't see that very

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often. But again, he's a
young coach. He brings a fresh philosophy

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to the team, one that I
think they really need. I don't want

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to say that things got stale over
there in Regina, but you know,

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I feel like he's a guy that
can come in and really just you know,

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almost rebrand the team in a way. You look, look at what

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you know Antonio Pearce is doing with
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like that where you really see a
significant culture change. So yeah, really

408
00:24:45.799 --> 00:24:48.960
happy for Mace. I think that's
a good hire. I was honestly surprised

409
00:24:49.000 --> 00:24:52.519
that they didn't go in the direction
of an offensive guy like Buck Pierce,

410
00:24:53.680 --> 00:24:56.880
but I think you know, the
money was right in Winnipeg for him to

411
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stay. And again, Corey just
I think brings a bit more. I

412
00:25:00.920 --> 00:25:03.680
keep using the term culture, but
I think he brings more of that in.

413
00:25:03.880 --> 00:25:07.079
And then in terms of you know, who's gonna run the offense,

414
00:25:07.119 --> 00:25:10.799
well, they just brought in Mark
Mueller from Calgary, you know, to

415
00:25:11.079 --> 00:25:14.119
uh to lead the offense there in
Saskatchewan, and I think that was a

416
00:25:14.160 --> 00:25:18.240
pretty good hire. Obviously, you
know, Calgary's offense struggled a bit last

417
00:25:18.279 --> 00:25:21.000
year, very up and down.
Uh you know, only a few games

418
00:25:21.039 --> 00:25:23.680
where they really seemed complete. But
uh, you know, I think I

419
00:25:23.720 --> 00:25:27.359
think that there's some potential there.
You know, I think Mark Mueller again,

420
00:25:27.480 --> 00:25:30.839
you know, he worked with Jake
Mayer. He's worked with a lot

421
00:25:30.839 --> 00:25:34.519
of these guys you know who have
been successful, Mark and Michelle. I

422
00:25:34.519 --> 00:25:38.079
mean again, list of names,
Reggie Bagelton. So even if that offense

423
00:25:38.160 --> 00:25:41.720
wasn't complete, you know, the
players again that he had to work with

424
00:25:41.799 --> 00:25:45.440
there in Calgary were we're you know, some of the better in the league,

425
00:25:45.480 --> 00:25:48.400
no doubt. Yeah. And I
think, like you were saying,

426
00:25:48.519 --> 00:25:52.519
in terms of just that players coach
more the leader of man at that point

427
00:25:52.559 --> 00:25:56.599
of like there had been and it
was so weird, like once Dickinson went

428
00:25:56.640 --> 00:26:00.480
out and it was like the players
didn't respect him and he had totally room

429
00:26:00.480 --> 00:26:03.079
when you're like, okay, I
mean you know clearly there was a lot

430
00:26:03.119 --> 00:26:07.160
of like ill seated kind of things
going on there. So I made a

431
00:26:07.160 --> 00:26:10.400
fresh start there. This would be
exciting. Yeah, crazy to think that

432
00:26:10.440 --> 00:26:15.200
Trevor Harris is my age and it's
still playing football in Mcadian football league is

433
00:26:15.279 --> 00:26:18.839
reually remarkable. Uh do Jasey anything
else on Saskatchewan. Well, I think

434
00:26:18.839 --> 00:26:22.599
it's gonna be very interesting to see, you know, with this Mark Muller

435
00:26:22.759 --> 00:26:26.400
hiring, the effects that it has
on not only Saskatchwe but Calgary. Next

436
00:26:26.480 --> 00:26:30.960
year, this Calgary's offense all of
a sudden get better, because I've heard

437
00:26:30.960 --> 00:26:34.279
people you know around the CFL,
you know, tweet out saying that they

438
00:26:34.279 --> 00:26:38.079
were kind of blaming Mark Muller a
little bit for calgary struggles last year.

439
00:26:38.160 --> 00:26:42.400
So maybe it could be like an
addition by subtraction, not saying he's a

440
00:26:42.400 --> 00:26:45.799
bad coach or anything, but maybe
uh, you know, Calgary's offense does

441
00:26:45.839 --> 00:26:49.920
take another step next year, and
you know, maybe Saskatchwan's you know,

442
00:26:51.000 --> 00:26:53.160
offense, you know, struggles a
little bit. So I'm very interested to

443
00:26:53.160 --> 00:26:56.079
see how it works out. Well, I mean, especially you know with

444
00:26:56.200 --> 00:27:00.559
may or whatever like this might be. You know, this this is contract

445
00:27:00.640 --> 00:27:02.680
year here, right, like we
got to kind of figure out what we're

446
00:27:02.720 --> 00:27:06.119
doing. Uh not like last year, you know we were easy. You

447
00:27:06.119 --> 00:27:07.920
know, we went into Calgary kind
of kicked the snot out of them BC

448
00:27:08.160 --> 00:27:12.759
here uh in Toronto, uh people
you know, and all the complaints about

449
00:27:12.799 --> 00:27:17.079
you know, Toronto home games and
everything. You get one opening weekend here,

450
00:27:17.480 --> 00:27:21.880
uh BC going in. Uh I
had the the the article here,

451
00:27:22.000 --> 00:27:23.759
you know, retaining their whole staff, which I think is I mean,

452
00:27:23.759 --> 00:27:29.799
obviously tremendously exciting. But Jason,
are you surprised that, you know,

453
00:27:29.880 --> 00:27:33.160
we had talked about the Ryan Phillips
and the Scotts and everything in the world

454
00:27:33.240 --> 00:27:37.359
like that, they're not that BC
was able to retain everyone. Is that

455
00:27:37.359 --> 00:27:38.960
that we paying up? Is that
a lack of it? I can't imagine

456
00:27:38.960 --> 00:27:42.160
it would be a lack of interest
in any of the BC staff. Well,

457
00:27:42.200 --> 00:27:45.440
I think it came down to the
fact that there weren't that many openings

458
00:27:45.480 --> 00:27:49.160
around the league this year. You
had saskatchwe which is obviously you know,

459
00:27:49.440 --> 00:27:52.279
you know, a full search and
everything like that. They interviewed a bunch

460
00:27:52.319 --> 00:27:56.599
of candidates, but Hamilton really wasn't
an open you know, head coaching job

461
00:27:56.640 --> 00:28:00.559
where you didn't really know that that
job was open, and so until they

462
00:28:00.880 --> 00:28:04.759
officially announced Milanovich as the head coach
there. So I think it comes down

463
00:28:04.799 --> 00:28:08.920
to the fact that there weren't that
many open jobs this particular offseason, and

464
00:28:10.160 --> 00:28:12.160
they'll have to wait another year in
terms of you know, Ryan Phillips and

465
00:28:12.279 --> 00:28:17.519
Jordan Maximmok becoming potential head coaches in
the CFL. Yeah, and they made

466
00:28:17.559 --> 00:28:23.000
Jordan Scotty too many and rosters.
Yeah, Evan, I mean this is

467
00:28:23.079 --> 00:28:27.119
exciting b C. You know,
full on Gray Cup hosting here. I

468
00:28:27.160 --> 00:28:30.160
mean, I think this is kind
of the window and with Vernon and everything

469
00:28:30.160 --> 00:28:33.799
else, are you are you thrilled
as I am to have them kind of

470
00:28:33.880 --> 00:28:37.559
keep all their staff together. Absolutely. I mean, both the coordinators,

471
00:28:37.640 --> 00:28:41.039
Ryan Phillips and Jordan Maximik, Both
of those guys, I think, you

472
00:28:41.039 --> 00:28:44.640
know, we're head coaching candidates in
a variety of places. But again,

473
00:28:44.680 --> 00:28:48.759
you just don't know the direction in
which franchises want to move in and what

474
00:28:48.839 --> 00:28:52.440
openings are going to be available,
Like Jason pointed out, So all those

475
00:28:52.440 --> 00:28:56.480
guys I think would have been finalists
for you know, any openings like there

476
00:28:56.480 --> 00:29:00.559
would have been interviewed, things of
that nature, but that didn't happen,

477
00:29:00.599 --> 00:29:03.519
and BC gets to keep them.
And I think that's really significant because I

478
00:29:03.559 --> 00:29:07.920
think those two guys you know,
did a fantastic job in twenty twenty three,

479
00:29:08.359 --> 00:29:14.240
and it's very rare to have you
know, two coordinators on your staff,

480
00:29:14.519 --> 00:29:18.680
who again would both be head coaching
candidates. You know, that could

481
00:29:18.960 --> 00:29:22.960
create some significant losses if they were
to take other jobs, but again they

482
00:29:22.000 --> 00:29:26.359
didn't. Those opportunities were not available, and therefore, you know, BC

483
00:29:26.400 --> 00:29:30.599
has taken that to their advantage keeping
both of those guys. I think that

484
00:29:30.720 --> 00:29:33.920
makes them, you know, an
incredibly strong team next year. Yeah,

485
00:29:33.960 --> 00:29:37.200
I mean, what else do you
say, right? I mean, it's

486
00:29:37.279 --> 00:29:41.559
just that the work there has already
spoken for itself. So I'm excited to

487
00:29:41.559 --> 00:29:42.599
see, you know, what they
can do next year. And really,

488
00:29:42.759 --> 00:29:45.480
I mean, if we want to
talk about BC here for a minute briefly,

489
00:29:47.640 --> 00:29:49.200
I don't want to say. I
mean, I really don't want to

490
00:29:49.240 --> 00:29:52.759
say next year's make or break.
I could have said that this year,

491
00:29:52.880 --> 00:29:56.720
you know, right, I mean
being in the West Final with Winnipeg again,

492
00:29:56.759 --> 00:30:00.240
which we literally predicted probably six months
before it actually happened. It just

493
00:30:00.240 --> 00:30:04.640
seemed like all signs reporting in that
direction very well could happen again next year.

494
00:30:04.640 --> 00:30:08.119
To be honest, we'll see you
know who Winnipeg retains and you know

495
00:30:08.160 --> 00:30:12.039
who goes that. There's still some
uncertainty there, but you know, next

496
00:30:12.119 --> 00:30:17.160
year with BC hosting the Gray Cup
in Vancouver, which I think is going

497
00:30:17.200 --> 00:30:21.559
to be fantastic by itself, regardless
of who's playing in that game. But

498
00:30:21.640 --> 00:30:26.680
you know the fact that BC's hosting
next year, and you know the fact

499
00:30:26.680 --> 00:30:30.920
again that they were able to retain
both of their coordinators, which something tells

500
00:30:30.960 --> 00:30:33.640
me that one of those guys is
probably gonna leave after next year for a

501
00:30:33.720 --> 00:30:37.400
job i'd have to imagine, or
again at least be interviewed. You're going

502
00:30:37.480 --> 00:30:41.359
to go through that cycle of uncertainty, you know next year. I mean,

503
00:30:41.599 --> 00:30:45.759
you really have a chance to make
a statement. Things are, you

504
00:30:45.759 --> 00:30:48.440
know, lined up in the right
direction. You know, Vernon, you

505
00:30:48.480 --> 00:30:52.920
know clearly is your franchise guy again. Very good pick up there. I

506
00:30:52.960 --> 00:30:56.680
can't underestimate, you know how good
it was that they brought him over from

507
00:30:56.720 --> 00:31:00.119
Montreal, you know that season and
twenty two when Rourke got hurt, they

508
00:31:00.119 --> 00:31:03.119
brought him in his insurance and that's
paid off, I think more than anybody

509
00:31:03.119 --> 00:31:08.920
could have ever imagined, you know. But we'll see. I really hope

510
00:31:08.920 --> 00:31:11.440
that they can pull it off next
year. I think we'd all, you

511
00:31:11.480 --> 00:31:15.359
know, love to see BC at
home. I know I'd love to see

512
00:31:15.359 --> 00:31:18.440
that. That would make the experience
just a little bit more special for me.

513
00:31:19.480 --> 00:31:23.440
But yeah, man, I mean, who knows. Just really I

514
00:31:25.000 --> 00:31:27.160
hope BC is reading the room in
that regard. I think I'll leave it

515
00:31:27.200 --> 00:31:33.559
at that well, And I think
that Rick had said already and there was

516
00:31:33.599 --> 00:31:36.279
the other quote coming out that you
know, they're already working to retain a

517
00:31:36.279 --> 00:31:38.599
lot of the players and everything,
you know, I don't know. I

518
00:31:38.599 --> 00:31:42.160
think it was a really stack Dak
and to the point where you had that

519
00:31:42.240 --> 00:31:48.240
incredible depth, Like I don't know
if like if like Lucky Whitehead isn't back

520
00:31:48.319 --> 00:31:51.640
this year, if I'm going to
have like a you know, a heartbreak

521
00:31:51.680 --> 00:31:53.599
at this point just because of kind
of the use of a lot of these

522
00:31:53.640 --> 00:31:56.720
players during the year, and obviously
you had that death where people got hurt

523
00:31:56.759 --> 00:32:00.799
and you could cycle through. But
to men though, it almost feels like

524
00:32:00.839 --> 00:32:02.759
there's a couple of names that maybe
are more expendable than it felt like they

525
00:32:02.759 --> 00:32:07.759
were going into last season. I
Jason thoughts on BC and then kind of

526
00:32:07.799 --> 00:32:10.640
any of the coaching of the player
stuff. Yeah, I think Lucky Whitehead

527
00:32:10.640 --> 00:32:15.079
will be one guy that I don't
see being back, just because of how

528
00:32:15.119 --> 00:32:17.680
much he was getting paid previously.
I think they're probably gonna want to spend

529
00:32:17.680 --> 00:32:23.160
that money elsewhere to retain other guys. I think Hollins and Hatcher are both

530
00:32:23.200 --> 00:32:27.599
free agents as well, so I
think they'll want to retain those guys above

531
00:32:27.640 --> 00:32:30.519
Whitehead. So I think it's going
to be really important for them to do

532
00:32:30.559 --> 00:32:32.480
that. But I will say this, I think I'm more confident. We'll

533
00:32:32.480 --> 00:32:36.960
see what happens in the offseason.
I think I'm more confident BC going into

534
00:32:37.039 --> 00:32:40.559
next year than I was going into
this year, because I think at the

535
00:32:40.559 --> 00:32:45.079
beginning of this year, I didn't
think that Vernon Adams are Like I think

536
00:32:45.119 --> 00:32:49.759
it was a question that Vernon Adams
was a starting caliber, franchise level quarterback

537
00:32:49.759 --> 00:32:52.000
in this league. And I don't
have that question anymore. So I think

538
00:32:52.039 --> 00:32:57.000
that's really important. And obviously the
fact that they've been able to retain a

539
00:32:57.000 --> 00:33:00.319
lot of their coaching staff, the
entire coaching staff, and the probably retain

540
00:33:00.359 --> 00:33:02.359
a lot of their players. I
think I'm pretty confident in BC going into

541
00:33:02.359 --> 00:33:07.559
next year. And then in terms
of Toronto Evan Corey Mays and all of

542
00:33:07.559 --> 00:33:12.400
that, and then right they're still
working to replace him in Toronto. Kind

543
00:33:12.400 --> 00:33:15.920
of any any thoughts on that,
And I know Mike Mitchell's them the deep

544
00:33:15.920 --> 00:33:19.119
guys. We'll get into some negotiation
list here if anyone has any comments and

545
00:33:19.200 --> 00:33:22.240
any of those players, but evan
any thoughts on Toronto here coming back after

546
00:33:22.319 --> 00:33:28.960
obviously losing and uh it was that
the CFL like super Late News twitter account

547
00:33:28.960 --> 00:33:32.319
tweeted the other day like Chack Kelly
got picked off again by the mantra Alwitt

548
00:33:32.440 --> 00:33:37.400
But I thought it was incredibly funny. But thoughts here on on Toronto hosting

549
00:33:37.480 --> 00:33:42.079
BC and anything with their staff.
Yeah, I mean, you know,

550
00:33:42.759 --> 00:33:45.759
Toronto, I really don't have any
doubts about either. I mean that team

551
00:33:45.839 --> 00:33:50.960
was so complete this year. Again, you know what we'll see, Uh,

552
00:33:51.079 --> 00:33:52.400
I'm sure Mike would know. I
don't know how many free agents they

553
00:33:52.440 --> 00:33:54.880
have to resign, and I don't
have a number on that. You know,

554
00:33:54.920 --> 00:33:58.000
we'll see who they're able to retain, you know, maybe bring in

555
00:33:58.039 --> 00:34:00.480
a couple of new guys. But
you wouldn't I mean, even if you

556
00:34:00.559 --> 00:34:02.559
lose some guys, I really don't
need. I really don't think you need

557
00:34:02.599 --> 00:34:06.519
to bring in a whole lot there
to uh, you know, to make

558
00:34:06.640 --> 00:34:10.920
up for anything. I think what
happened against Montreal and that uh, you

559
00:34:10.960 --> 00:34:16.360
know that that game, the playoff
game. Yeah, I think that was

560
00:34:16.440 --> 00:34:22.199
just a whiff simply, you know, I think again just one of those

561
00:34:22.239 --> 00:34:25.000
games you weren't ready. It sucked, you know again, really sucked to

562
00:34:25.039 --> 00:34:30.159
see that because again that's not a
game that really should define anybody's career,

563
00:34:30.239 --> 00:34:35.599
especially Chad Kelly's. I think Kelly
will come back next year and he'll play

564
00:34:35.639 --> 00:34:38.280
just as he played this season.
Again, he has shown just like guys

565
00:34:38.320 --> 00:34:44.119
like Vernon Adams have and Zach Kalaro's
and even Cody Fajardo now who just got

566
00:34:44.119 --> 00:34:47.679
extended. And uh, these guys
are franchise quarterbacks. They found a home.

567
00:34:47.960 --> 00:34:52.880
They can be successful. And you
know, Isual Toronto being right back

568
00:34:52.920 --> 00:34:54.840
in the in the Great Cup race
without a doubt. Yeah. I think

569
00:34:54.880 --> 00:34:59.880
in terms of Cody as well,
you know, and we've talked about this,

570
00:35:00.079 --> 00:35:02.159
having Naylor commented it out it as
well during the season, like it

571
00:35:02.199 --> 00:35:06.880
should be a lesson you know,
quarterbacks in the CFL or a commodity.

572
00:35:06.920 --> 00:35:09.039
I like it might be worth same
with like Jake Mayer here, it might

573
00:35:09.079 --> 00:35:13.559
be worth Okay, let's work through
a couple of seasons of this versus you

574
00:35:13.599 --> 00:35:15.159
know, and the next thing you
know you send up, yeah, you

575
00:35:15.199 --> 00:35:19.039
know, talking about the al Wes
Montreal like sports are weird. You know,

576
00:35:19.800 --> 00:35:24.280
the Kraken just went into Chicago two
weeks ago and absolutely got rocked kind

577
00:35:24.280 --> 00:35:28.000
of by a team that they should
have beaten, and it spiraled this whole

578
00:35:28.079 --> 00:35:30.519
kind of losing streak and all that
stuff. And then they just beat the

579
00:35:30.519 --> 00:35:32.360
same team seven to one last night
in Seattle. Like, you know,

580
00:35:32.400 --> 00:35:37.400
sports are kind of weird that way. Anything else here I guess stack and

581
00:35:37.480 --> 00:35:39.320
we won't do is deep obviously deep
dive here with all the other weeks,

582
00:35:39.320 --> 00:35:43.760
but really stacked a week one here, Jason. Anything else on that,

583
00:35:44.639 --> 00:35:47.679
well, all just build on a
point about Toronto. I think that one

584
00:35:47.719 --> 00:35:52.960
thing to watch this offseason is that
Chad Kelly goes from making basically nothing to

585
00:35:53.079 --> 00:35:58.679
making six hundred and fifty thousand dollars
a year. So there probably will be

586
00:35:58.880 --> 00:36:04.079
some loss to this roster this offseason. It just depends where those losses tend

587
00:36:04.159 --> 00:36:09.519
to fall. Yeah, and that
was talking about the show hey contract and

588
00:36:09.559 --> 00:36:14.360
the seven hundred million and it would
be like a billion dollars. Can you

589
00:36:14.400 --> 00:36:20.639
imagine the billion dollars on that?
So coming in here. My only big

590
00:36:20.679 --> 00:36:22.599
takeaway with this a kind of glance
in the head and if anyone has any

591
00:36:22.679 --> 00:36:24.920
kind of standout thoughts for all this, you know, we'll kind of scroll

592
00:36:24.960 --> 00:36:29.239
through all that. But yeah,
Ottawa gets their first you know, the

593
00:36:29.320 --> 00:36:32.239
first game. It's the first home
game we're hosting on a Thursday against Winnipeg.

594
00:36:32.280 --> 00:36:36.000
To me, that is kind of
a bummer and snooze. And at

595
00:36:36.000 --> 00:36:38.000
that point here, we already have
the week one by and then we're coming

596
00:36:38.039 --> 00:36:43.840
in and that's probably getting there.
I can't imagine against Winnipeg. Jacent thoughts

597
00:36:43.880 --> 00:36:46.079
on that, Well, it's it's
worth to say it's worth pointing out that

598
00:36:46.159 --> 00:36:50.880
Ottawa beat Winnipeg last year and that
one of the games of the year.

599
00:36:51.000 --> 00:36:53.000
So I mean, I think that's
kind of the angle that they're trying to

600
00:36:53.039 --> 00:36:57.360
play here. But uh, yeah, it sucks for anybody that gets that

601
00:36:57.440 --> 00:37:00.599
first week by. I really feel
bad for any fan that has to go

602
00:37:00.679 --> 00:37:02.559
through that, Like you're excited for
the season to start, Oh my team

603
00:37:02.599 --> 00:37:07.480
doesn't play this week. Yeah,
it's and like even with the NFL,

604
00:37:07.599 --> 00:37:10.719
like it's so weird that like the
Commanders didn't have their buy till last week.

605
00:37:10.920 --> 00:37:14.119
It was like I didn't even know, like you're kind of living through

606
00:37:14.159 --> 00:37:15.840
and then you're like, what is
like, what is happening here? What's

607
00:37:15.880 --> 00:37:21.599
going on? You know, Montreal
going in Scotsman Hamilton, who's getting the

608
00:37:21.639 --> 00:37:23.519
Toronto's got the Week two buy?
Here to kind of figure out stuff with

609
00:37:23.559 --> 00:37:28.719
that, Evan, did you have
and I have the negotiation list here pulled

610
00:37:28.760 --> 00:37:30.199
up? Did you have any names? I know you tweeted out some of

611
00:37:30.239 --> 00:37:35.039
the names, anyone you wanted to
talk about in particular on the winner necklace

612
00:37:35.079 --> 00:37:37.760
that came out. Yeah, I
mean I think if we just go,

613
00:37:38.400 --> 00:37:42.679
you know, team by team,
I didn't write anybody down in particular,

614
00:37:42.719 --> 00:37:45.199
but there's certainly a couple of guys
I can talk about. I mean,

615
00:37:45.239 --> 00:37:49.440
starting with the BC Lions here first, I got the list pulled up.

616
00:37:50.039 --> 00:37:52.960
Like Devron Harper, he's someone you
know who's very close to me. I

617
00:37:52.000 --> 00:37:58.000
interviewed him and I forget the other
guy's name, Ty James. I also

618
00:37:58.239 --> 00:38:01.000
I've also talked to him at Mercer. They been a very good duo in

619
00:38:01.039 --> 00:38:05.079
the FCS, And I think he's
a guy, you know who does have

620
00:38:06.079 --> 00:38:08.199
you know, maybe a realistic chance
of playing in the CFL. Because keep

621
00:38:08.199 --> 00:38:12.360
in mind on the neglist. You
know, some of these guys you know

622
00:38:12.400 --> 00:38:16.440
that are listed probably aren't gonna play
in the CFL. Every now and then

623
00:38:16.480 --> 00:38:21.000
you'll get one of these really cool
stories, like the one last year that

624
00:38:21.039 --> 00:38:23.760
got brought up constantly was Tommy Lee
Lewis, who was on the neglist in

625
00:38:23.800 --> 00:38:29.639
Calgary for like seven years. They
pretty much waited for his entire NFL career,

626
00:38:30.039 --> 00:38:34.039
you know, to be over which
span in multiple teams for him to

627
00:38:34.079 --> 00:38:36.159
finally come up, and he did
play. You know, he did make

628
00:38:36.159 --> 00:38:40.639
an impact. It wasn't anything ridiculous
because he's an older guy. Now again

629
00:38:40.679 --> 00:38:45.280
they waited seven years for him or
something, but you know he was there,

630
00:38:45.320 --> 00:38:47.559
he did sign on and you know, did play a portion of the

631
00:38:47.559 --> 00:38:54.960
season. So yeah, Devron Harper
there from Mercer. Sean Chambers at Montana

632
00:38:55.039 --> 00:39:00.000
State, I mean again one of
the top of CS programs. They always

633
00:39:00.119 --> 00:39:05.280
have a lot of guys going down
to Edmonton. Holton Taylor's I don't know

634
00:39:05.280 --> 00:39:07.480
if he's a free agent right now, but I believe he was with the

635
00:39:07.519 --> 00:39:12.800
Seahawks out of East Carolina. Isaiah
Davis again, another really good running back

636
00:39:12.800 --> 00:39:15.719
from South Dakota State, another top
FCS program. I would expect him to

637
00:39:15.719 --> 00:39:21.360
have some NFL interest. kJ Jefferson
is an interesting one. I'm not really

638
00:39:21.400 --> 00:39:23.800
sure where he stands. I've seen
him play before at LSU, you know,

639
00:39:23.920 --> 00:39:29.519
live, so I've seen his ability
again. You know, kind of

640
00:39:30.519 --> 00:39:32.360
an interesting prospect again, you know, a guy that I'd really have to

641
00:39:32.960 --> 00:39:37.559
dive deeper on. Cam Rising,
a bigger name from Utah, didn't didn't

642
00:39:37.559 --> 00:39:39.119
play this year. I don't think
due to injury. But you know,

643
00:39:39.159 --> 00:39:42.960
we'll see where he's at. He's
going back to school for like a seventh

644
00:39:43.039 --> 00:39:46.039
year. You get all these guys
in college now with COVID eligibility going back

645
00:39:46.119 --> 00:39:51.880
for you know, year seven.
Let's see, BJ Wilson was just picked

646
00:39:51.920 --> 00:39:53.800
up by the Roughnecks in the XFL. You'll see there's a couple of guys

647
00:39:53.840 --> 00:39:58.599
here who do have XFL interest,
you know, who signed letters of intent,

648
00:39:59.119 --> 00:40:02.840
were acquired in the rookie drafts over
the summer. Dresser Win quarterback from

649
00:40:02.880 --> 00:40:07.760
Tennessee Martin. He was actually already
with the Elks this season, you know,

650
00:40:07.920 --> 00:40:10.159
signed and on for a couple of
weeks to their practice roster, got

651
00:40:10.199 --> 00:40:15.440
an extra few game checks. He's
with the Rams now, I believe on

652
00:40:15.480 --> 00:40:17.280
their practice squad or he might have
been released, but he was with the

653
00:40:17.840 --> 00:40:21.800
Rams. He went back, was
like with them in training camp, got

654
00:40:21.840 --> 00:40:24.400
cut signed with Edmonton. Couple you
know, checks sitting there and then went

655
00:40:24.480 --> 00:40:27.960
back to the Rams for a bit, and you know, we'll see where

656
00:40:27.960 --> 00:40:31.239
he's at, you know, going
into twenty twenty four. Also in regards

657
00:40:31.239 --> 00:40:35.599
to Edmonton, shout out to Rick
Sarahtell who's been on here before. Just

658
00:40:35.639 --> 00:40:38.039
took one of the scouting jobs there
with the Elks. So you know,

659
00:40:38.079 --> 00:40:43.920
wow, that's exciting. The other
day, what's that I said, that's

660
00:40:43.960 --> 00:40:47.039
exciting. That's awesome for Rick.
Yeah, no, it's good anyway,

661
00:40:47.119 --> 00:40:52.920
just going down the lift here going
to Calgary. Jerome Capp, that's the

662
00:40:52.000 --> 00:40:55.039
name that rings the bell from Cuttstown
Division two school. Believe he was with

663
00:40:55.079 --> 00:41:00.000
the Jets at one point. Josh
Love, former USFL player with the Michigan

664
00:41:00.079 --> 00:41:04.079
Panthers there and Pittsburgh Mallers, I
believe, quarterback from San Jose State.

665
00:41:04.920 --> 00:41:07.719
Audentate from Florida State. I believe
he was with the Bengals. That was

666
00:41:07.760 --> 00:41:10.840
also a name that I was surprised
to see on there. Well, maybe

667
00:41:10.880 --> 00:41:14.519
not surprised, but one of those
names where you're like, it'd be cool

668
00:41:14.559 --> 00:41:15.519
to see him in this league,
you know, I think Mike had brought

669
00:41:15.599 --> 00:41:21.760
him up at one point in regards
to the XFL. Just going down here

670
00:41:21.840 --> 00:41:27.840
to Saskatchewan. Jerry and Ealy I
believe just signed from Ole, Miss Chase

671
00:41:29.000 --> 00:41:32.280
Scarber's from California. I believe he
could have a CFL future again, another

672
00:41:32.360 --> 00:41:37.679
quarterback. These lists are always pretty
quarterback heavy. The Carrious Keys, that

673
00:41:37.719 --> 00:41:40.320
one rings, the name from Tulane, you know, I've been down there

674
00:41:40.360 --> 00:41:46.639
before to do work. Winnipeg Blue
Bombers. Let's see Michael Ayers, I

675
00:41:46.679 --> 00:41:50.880
believe from Ashland. He signed or
I don't know if he signed a letter

676
00:41:50.880 --> 00:41:53.360
of intent, but he was drafted
by the Roughnecks in the XFL and had

677
00:41:53.400 --> 00:41:59.360
some previous CFL experience before. I
don't think it was with Winnipeg. It

678
00:41:59.519 --> 00:42:02.280
was maybe with Ottawa, but don't
quote me on that. Mark Gronowski another

679
00:42:02.280 --> 00:42:06.159
guy from South Dakota State. You
always see these, uh, you know,

680
00:42:06.199 --> 00:42:08.679
these top FCS schools on there,
the Montanas, the Dakota's, you

681
00:42:08.719 --> 00:42:13.320
know, and again those guys,
I mean geographically those are all pretty close

682
00:42:13.360 --> 00:42:15.440
to Canada already, so it'd be
fun to see some of those guys up

683
00:42:15.440 --> 00:42:23.039
there. Anthony Witherstone from Merrimack I
believe just signed with maybe the BattleHawks in

684
00:42:23.079 --> 00:42:27.159
the XFL as of yesterday, signed
a letter of intent with one of the

685
00:42:27.239 --> 00:42:30.519
XFL teams, and I believe was
in an NFL training camp going down the

686
00:42:30.559 --> 00:42:35.239
Hamilton. Chamar Bridges, a name
that rings a bell, was with the

687
00:42:35.320 --> 00:42:38.920
Ravens at one point at a Division
two Fort Valley State. Thomas Castelianos from

688
00:42:38.920 --> 00:42:43.760
Boston College. Again, another quarterback
by a guy you know who might not

689
00:42:43.840 --> 00:42:47.360
have that NFL interest. He played
at Boston College this year was the starter

690
00:42:47.440 --> 00:42:52.400
for them. De Kwan Finn from
Toledo is a is a guy that's interesting.

691
00:42:52.440 --> 00:42:55.039
He'll go back to college. He's
in the transfer portal right now.

692
00:42:55.079 --> 00:42:59.760
I believe I don't know where he's
supposed to go. But again a guy

693
00:42:59.800 --> 00:43:05.559
that i I'm looking at there,
you know, so again he won't be

694
00:43:05.840 --> 00:43:07.159
he won't even have, you know, a pro future I don't think till

695
00:43:07.199 --> 00:43:09.639
twenty twenty five. But a name
to keep an eye on. He's been

696
00:43:09.679 --> 00:43:13.800
one of my favorite quarterbacks to watch
this year in college and to kind of

697
00:43:13.840 --> 00:43:20.199
follow along. Austin Reid from Western
Kentucky. Probably a guy that will have

698
00:43:20.280 --> 00:43:22.760
NFL interest, I think, but
you know he plays in that uh you

699
00:43:22.800 --> 00:43:25.320
know, one of those wide open, you know, air raid type offenses.

700
00:43:25.960 --> 00:43:29.800
Again, really liked his stuff.
He played at Division two school before

701
00:43:29.840 --> 00:43:32.159
he came to Western Kentucky. I
believe it was West Florida, so you

702
00:43:32.159 --> 00:43:36.880
know, quick rise for him.
Him and again a name that I'm familiar

703
00:43:36.960 --> 00:43:42.199
with, Talia tagovloa brother of Tuitago
Viloa who played at Maryland started for them.

704
00:43:42.440 --> 00:43:47.000
Uh you know what we'll see again
that's these are just names. Nothing

705
00:43:47.079 --> 00:43:54.119
really here that that's concrete. Rajon
Wright I believe was there's a he has

706
00:43:54.159 --> 00:43:58.679
a brother who I think is with
the Cowboys. I always get a mixed

707
00:43:58.760 --> 00:44:00.320
up. But he might have been
the guy that was on last chance to

708
00:44:00.320 --> 00:44:05.519
you. I'm not sure. But
anyway, going down to Toronto, Mike

709
00:44:05.559 --> 00:44:10.559
Mitchell did a deep dive on these
guys, so check out day. Yeah

710
00:44:12.119 --> 00:44:15.800
right. He was very fascinated by
this list. I mean, I won't

711
00:44:15.800 --> 00:44:20.760
talk about too many guys here just
for time time's sake, but John Motocha,

712
00:44:21.239 --> 00:44:23.719
the quarterback from Colorado School of Mines, just passed Tyson Bagent for the

713
00:44:23.760 --> 00:44:28.320
All time passing, don't. I'm
not sure if it's all time passing touchdowns

714
00:44:28.400 --> 00:44:30.719
or just all time career touchdowns in
general at the NC double A level.

715
00:44:31.079 --> 00:44:36.079
Colorado School of Mines is a Division
two school, and he passed Tyson Bagent

716
00:44:36.119 --> 00:44:39.880
who's currently with the Bears and played
it played at Sheppard and MATOCHI will be

717
00:44:39.920 --> 00:44:45.280
in the Division two National Championship coming
up against Harding, so you know,

718
00:44:45.920 --> 00:44:49.159
we'll see what happens with him.
John Ruis plumb Lee, that's a guy

719
00:44:49.159 --> 00:44:52.679
that I've seen before live at UCF. I've actually seen him and Castilianos.

720
00:44:52.760 --> 00:44:57.920
Castilianos was at UCF before he transferred
to Boston College. So good to see

721
00:44:57.960 --> 00:45:02.880
both of those guys here on cflagolist
that they're narrating some interest. Matt Sluca

722
00:45:02.920 --> 00:45:07.960
from Holy Cross is a fascinating one, very mobile guy. I want to

723
00:45:07.960 --> 00:45:09.880
say he has some sort of background
in lacrosse, but I could be wrong,

724
00:45:10.440 --> 00:45:15.360
but I you know, I've watched
him plenty again. Another FCS quarterback,

725
00:45:15.840 --> 00:45:19.079
but a guy that can you know, run and throw really well,

726
00:45:19.639 --> 00:45:22.840
so you know, interested to see
if he latches on. Could definitely see

727
00:45:22.880 --> 00:45:27.320
him, you know, coming out
out and signing a CFL contract, you

728
00:45:27.360 --> 00:45:30.960
know, maybe pretty quickly. Again, some of these guys will have NFL

729
00:45:30.000 --> 00:45:32.800
interests, go to a camp,
some of them won't. You know,

730
00:45:32.840 --> 00:45:36.679
you'll see some of these guys sign
on pretty quickly, just depending on you

731
00:45:36.719 --> 00:45:39.119
know, that they gauge their level
of interest. Going down to Ottawa,

732
00:45:39.760 --> 00:45:44.559
Tim Demarrat from Fordham, I believe
he was in camp with the Commanders,

733
00:45:44.639 --> 00:45:51.480
a very good FCS quarterback last year
in twenty two. Khalil Pimpleton. He

734
00:45:51.599 --> 00:45:53.360
was on hard knocks with the lines, if I remember correctly. This's just

735
00:45:53.440 --> 00:45:57.239
kind of a fun one. He
played a Central Michigan. I don't actually

736
00:45:57.239 --> 00:46:00.480
know a ton about him in terms
of the player. And then you go

737
00:46:00.519 --> 00:46:05.960
down to Montreal. There's some names
here that I think are returning. Davis

738
00:46:06.039 --> 00:46:08.559
Cheek was the USFL guy I believe
with the New Orleans Breakers. The quarterback

739
00:46:09.079 --> 00:46:14.400
Brett Gabert played at Miami. I
think he's coming back Miami of Ohio,

740
00:46:14.480 --> 00:46:16.639
not the school in Florida. Jerray
Jenkins is the guy I'm really hoping to

741
00:46:16.639 --> 00:46:22.679
see up there sign an undrafted contract
with the the Jacksonville Jaguars. I believe,

742
00:46:22.559 --> 00:46:25.239
you know, played at LSU back
in twenty two, so I saw

743
00:46:25.320 --> 00:46:29.320
him, very familiar with him.
He's a he's a great player. Surprised

744
00:46:29.320 --> 00:46:30.760
that he didn't, you know,
latch onto a practice squad or anything like

745
00:46:30.800 --> 00:46:36.639
that. Parker McKinney from Eastern Kentucky, another SCS quarterback. It's incredible how

746
00:46:36.639 --> 00:46:39.159
many of them there are on this
list. Probably a guy that you know

747
00:46:39.199 --> 00:46:43.559
gets an NFL look. And then
you know E. J. Perry from

748
00:46:43.599 --> 00:46:49.239
Brown that's a USFL guy. Also
played with the Michigan Panthers. Lindsay Lindsay

749
00:46:50.360 --> 00:46:53.559
Scoot. It's Lindsay Scott. It's
a type of there but played it incarnate

750
00:46:53.639 --> 00:46:58.480
Ward obviously, you know, planning
on joining the Houston Roughnecks this season if

751
00:46:58.480 --> 00:47:01.840
they're around. Believed he signed the
letter of intent with them, so he's

752
00:47:01.880 --> 00:47:07.079
good to go. And yeah,
Darwin Thompson, I think is the last

753
00:47:07.159 --> 00:47:09.480
guy really worth talking about. Believe
he was in the NFL for a bit,

754
00:47:09.599 --> 00:47:14.199
maybe has some playing experience, so
kind of a veteran in that regard.

755
00:47:15.760 --> 00:47:17.800
But yeah, there's your there's your
negolist guys. So that that shaved

756
00:47:17.840 --> 00:47:22.079
off a couple of minutes of the
stream. No, that's good, Jason,

757
00:47:22.079 --> 00:47:23.920
No, because and I wanted to
at least it's it's good. It's

758
00:47:23.920 --> 00:47:28.039
a little deep diving because and I
god knows how Evan keeps shack kind of

759
00:47:28.079 --> 00:47:30.400
all this stuff, but because it
was you know, I posted the other

760
00:47:30.480 --> 00:47:34.719
day, and you know, they
oh, like these people are like they're

761
00:47:34.719 --> 00:47:37.360
in talks. It's like, no, you know, they're on the list

762
00:47:37.360 --> 00:47:39.119
and they go up to Canada.
Are you a proponent of the negolst here?

763
00:47:39.159 --> 00:47:42.800
What do you make of this,
mister north of the border. I

764
00:47:42.960 --> 00:47:47.760
never get excited about the negotiating negotiation
list personally, because one, they only

765
00:47:47.320 --> 00:47:52.320
reveal like one quarter of it,
so I think it's like forty players long

766
00:47:52.360 --> 00:47:54.719
per team, so they only reveal
or have to reveal ten names, which

767
00:47:54.719 --> 00:47:58.719
I guess is better than nothing.
But I think that the CFL does a

768
00:47:58.760 --> 00:48:02.280
very poor job, and I've said
this before of introducing the American players to

769
00:48:02.320 --> 00:48:06.400
the fans, and I think that
I would like to see some kind of

770
00:48:06.519 --> 00:48:09.559
draft like for American players, you
know, even if it's just some small

771
00:48:09.639 --> 00:48:14.519
thing with you know, just like
like an online live stream or something like

772
00:48:14.559 --> 00:48:16.599
that, just to tell us something
about these players that are coming into the

773
00:48:16.679 --> 00:48:21.079
league, because they just show up
in training camp and it's just like you

774
00:48:21.159 --> 00:48:22.360
just have to figure everything out on
your own. So I think at the

775
00:48:22.440 --> 00:48:25.559
end of the day, not a
huge fan of the negotiation list process in

776
00:48:25.599 --> 00:48:29.239
the CFL. Well, I think
it could be better. It's one of

777
00:48:29.320 --> 00:48:32.199
those things like it takes work right, And we did that with the what

778
00:48:32.320 --> 00:48:36.920
was it the because the USFL did
the college draft and the XFL did the

779
00:48:37.000 --> 00:48:39.760
rookie Draft, and you know,
we did that and we're the same thing,

780
00:48:39.840 --> 00:48:43.920
like they just dump the list and
we're okay, these teams acquired these

781
00:48:43.960 --> 00:48:46.039
people, and we're sitting there and
I need, you know, Evan and

782
00:48:46.159 --> 00:48:49.920
like four or five other guys on
to be able to like, okay,

783
00:48:49.920 --> 00:48:52.320
who knows about this guy or who
can talk about it, Like I know

784
00:48:52.440 --> 00:48:55.519
we had coach Craig on and I
know Ris bean on some of those that

785
00:48:55.599 --> 00:49:00.000
Evan was talking about with the Elks. But you need a lot of people

786
00:49:00.039 --> 00:49:04.239
because some of these guys, you
know, you're not you know, you're

787
00:49:04.239 --> 00:49:07.599
getting a TSM panel together to talk
about some of these guys, they're not

788
00:49:07.639 --> 00:49:09.719
going to know even half of what
Evan is able to spot off even just

789
00:49:09.760 --> 00:49:14.719
here on the stream. So it's
one of those things challenging at least to

790
00:49:14.800 --> 00:49:19.840
me. I like seeing players that
are interested in the XFL and the CFL

791
00:49:19.920 --> 00:49:22.239
is interested in them. I like
seeing these guys, you know, pop

792
00:49:22.320 --> 00:49:25.559
up a couple of different places just
because it means that God knows what's gonna

793
00:49:25.559 --> 00:49:30.119
happen with this UFL or whatever.
But like there are options out there.

794
00:49:30.119 --> 00:49:31.519
But yeah, the whole like secretive
and like, okay, we can have

795
00:49:31.559 --> 00:49:36.719
this many quarterbacks or it's kind of
weird in that way. Yeah, for

796
00:49:36.760 --> 00:49:39.519
sure. I think Naylor brought up
a great point to the thing about quarterbacks

797
00:49:39.559 --> 00:49:45.000
is like I wish teams had to
narrow down like who's their guy, Like

798
00:49:45.039 --> 00:49:49.119
they should have like only a maximum
amount of quarterbacks allowed on these lists that

799
00:49:49.159 --> 00:49:52.719
they have exclusive rights to. Yeah, so let's get in here, we'll

800
00:49:52.800 --> 00:49:55.280
kind of scroll through all this together
out you know, ten minutes are so

801
00:49:55.400 --> 00:49:59.800
left on here. You know,
HiT's keep coming here, right, Okay?

802
00:50:00.000 --> 00:50:06.039
Augar b c BC back in at
Winnipeg here exciting to me? Uh,

803
00:50:06.480 --> 00:50:08.679
what's he here? Ottawa going on
the road against Montreal? Anything stand

804
00:50:08.719 --> 00:50:15.440
out to you here with this one? Evan? Which game did you said?

805
00:50:15.440 --> 00:50:16.880
Sorry? Oh? Just week just
week three? And I mean to

806
00:50:16.920 --> 00:50:20.760
me, the BC Winnipeg is stand
out and BC is it you know,

807
00:50:21.119 --> 00:50:24.000
challenging schedule here, going to you
know in Toronto, hosting Calgary and then

808
00:50:24.039 --> 00:50:29.559
going back into Winnipeg here. Yeah, I mean, i'd say I think

809
00:50:29.599 --> 00:50:34.599
obviously the BC Winnipeg game stands out
there more than anything. You know,

810
00:50:35.719 --> 00:50:37.519
Yeah, I will say b C, you know, going up against Toronto

811
00:50:37.559 --> 00:50:40.360
and Winnipeg, all these heavyweights you
know in the East and West. It's

812
00:50:40.440 --> 00:50:44.719
uh again, they're gonna be tested
early. We just talked about, you

813
00:50:44.719 --> 00:50:46.960
know, it's a big proven year
for BC. Can they really get it

814
00:50:47.000 --> 00:50:52.960
done well. They're gonna have to
open up against some pretty tough competitions that

815
00:50:52.079 --> 00:50:55.760
we might find out you know,
pretty early on whether or not you know,

816
00:50:55.880 --> 00:50:59.960
or well maybe not whether or not, but what the identity of the

817
00:51:00.159 --> 00:51:00.920
team is, I think is what
I'm trying to say. You know,

818
00:51:00.920 --> 00:51:07.800
it's kind of instead of playing the
bottom tier of teams first, you know,

819
00:51:07.840 --> 00:51:08.960
you kind of go out there and
you take on, you know,

820
00:51:09.000 --> 00:51:13.239
all these teams that you had or
that you played very well against, you

821
00:51:13.239 --> 00:51:15.880
know to some degree in the previous
season, or you had some very good

822
00:51:15.920 --> 00:51:20.239
games against, right like BC and
Winnipeg. There were some I guess you'd

823
00:51:20.239 --> 00:51:23.239
say classic matchups there, some blowouts
in both directions, some close games,

824
00:51:23.519 --> 00:51:27.880
and then obviously the Toronto game,
you know, between that and BC,

825
00:51:28.079 --> 00:51:30.800
Like I thought BC in Toronto,
I thought that was gonna be the Great

826
00:51:30.800 --> 00:51:35.000
Cup this year, and I was
obviously mistaken. But you know, both

827
00:51:35.039 --> 00:51:39.719
of those teams, you know,
made it to the final and then lost,

828
00:51:40.280 --> 00:51:43.599
so you know, we'll see.
I mean, I wouldn't mind that,

829
00:51:43.719 --> 00:51:45.960
you know, as the Great Cup
next year either in BC, right,

830
00:51:45.960 --> 00:51:47.719
I think that'd be a great matchup. Not that we needed to talk

831
00:51:47.760 --> 00:51:52.280
about that quite yet, because twenty
twenty four seasons still quite a days away,

832
00:51:52.320 --> 00:51:55.280
but yeah, no, I think
I think it'll be an interesting start

833
00:51:55.280 --> 00:52:00.599
for BC here well, and Jason
to me, like you know, and

834
00:52:00.679 --> 00:52:02.079
obviously we got to go through a
lot of free agency here, but like,

835
00:52:02.360 --> 00:52:06.639
yeah, identities have changed here.
Right, we're maybe like Montreal last

836
00:52:06.719 --> 00:52:08.239
year, we're walking you know,
we're walking in and maybe we didn't do

837
00:52:08.280 --> 00:52:10.920
as because I think I can't remember
how the schedule came out last year in

838
00:52:12.000 --> 00:52:14.360
terms of whatever else we were doing, but like we certainly didn't do this

839
00:52:14.920 --> 00:52:16.719
and you're sitting here in like,
you know, Montreal are looking at is

840
00:52:16.760 --> 00:52:20.559
like one of the you know,
worst teams in the league potentially last year,

841
00:52:20.559 --> 00:52:22.559
we're here like you know, all
us got to go into Montreal like

842
00:52:22.639 --> 00:52:27.360
that's you know, that's really like, you know, any identities of these

843
00:52:27.360 --> 00:52:30.480
teams changed from last year to this
year. I mean, Hamilton, I

844
00:52:30.519 --> 00:52:32.920
still don't really know how to read. Saskatchewan's got a lot of you know,

845
00:52:32.960 --> 00:52:37.840
missing you know, kind of question
marks here. But Montreal feels good.

846
00:52:37.000 --> 00:52:39.400
Edmonton if they can roll, feels
good. And then we know what

847
00:52:39.400 --> 00:52:44.079
Winnipeg and BC in Toronto are.
Yeah, I mean, one thing I

848
00:52:44.119 --> 00:52:46.559
was going to bring up is that
Hamilton and Saskatchwan week two and three,

849
00:52:46.840 --> 00:52:51.719
they actually played back to back here, so that's very early in the season,

850
00:52:51.800 --> 00:52:54.159
both brand new head coaches. So
we always talk about, you know,

851
00:52:54.280 --> 00:52:59.159
it takes time for a new coach
to establish their culture and their systems

852
00:52:59.360 --> 00:53:00.760
and they'll be in to see,
you know, who gets the edge in

853
00:53:00.800 --> 00:53:06.480
those if it goes too well either
way in that early home and home there

854
00:53:06.519 --> 00:53:09.239
between Hamilton Saskatswan. But yeah,
like you said, I think Montreal looks

855
00:53:09.440 --> 00:53:14.079
a lot better than they did at
this time a year ago. And you

856
00:53:14.119 --> 00:53:16.880
know, that game for Ottawa.
I think it would be interesting to see

857
00:53:16.880 --> 00:53:21.840
how they look this year because I
think audawe Edmonton, these are going to

858
00:53:21.880 --> 00:53:25.360
be very crucial years for both of
these teams. I think that it's been

859
00:53:25.440 --> 00:53:30.119
far too long without playoffs. It's
not good for any team in the CFL

860
00:53:30.199 --> 00:53:32.440
to go more than like three years
without playoffs. So I think it's gonna

861
00:53:32.440 --> 00:53:37.199
be very important for odd one Edmonton
to have you know, big seasons next

862
00:53:37.280 --> 00:53:39.280
year. Yeah, I've said already
on here, like I don't I don't

863
00:53:39.280 --> 00:53:42.760
know how Odawa has a fan base
right now, Like I mean, I

864
00:53:42.800 --> 00:53:45.760
understand that they won a great cut
back before we got involved in all this

865
00:53:45.760 --> 00:53:49.559
stuff, but I really just kind
of living through all of this here Hamilton

866
00:53:49.760 --> 00:53:52.280
right here going into Ottawa. You
may you know, if you're looking at

867
00:53:52.280 --> 00:53:57.840
this right just Odawa get their first
win week four right like hosting Hamilton.

868
00:53:57.920 --> 00:54:01.079
I mean they very You're just there. You're asking a lot here at Edmonton

869
00:54:01.159 --> 00:54:06.519
going into BC. That would be
good another So not only are we doubling

870
00:54:06.599 --> 00:54:07.920
down, Well, no, it's
not because I keep in my mind I

871
00:54:08.000 --> 00:54:12.840
keep thinking that Toronto was in the
Great Coupan. Yeah, here the the

872
00:54:12.880 --> 00:54:16.440
East Finals here at Montreal at Toronto, I should be exciting their week for

873
00:54:16.559 --> 00:54:20.880
Evan. You certainly have to have
that one circled. Oh yeah, I

874
00:54:20.880 --> 00:54:23.239
mean, you know, Montreal,
they're already starting to bring back a lot

875
00:54:23.280 --> 00:54:25.719
of their guys. You can tell
that. You know, they're not wasting

876
00:54:25.760 --> 00:54:32.159
any time. And you know,
Phil pot Fajardo got extended, Sankey Lemon,

877
00:54:32.239 --> 00:54:36.360
all those guys are already. You
know, any questions that people had

878
00:54:36.360 --> 00:54:39.280
about the core, I think those
have already been answered. So you know,

879
00:54:39.320 --> 00:54:44.679
now it's just a matter of can
they elevate their game in twenty twenty

880
00:54:44.679 --> 00:54:47.400
four, because again, the whole
storyline with Montreal was they had a pretty

881
00:54:47.719 --> 00:54:52.480
pedestrian I guess you'd say regular season, not that there was anything wrong with

882
00:54:52.519 --> 00:54:54.480
that, but again, no one
saw them as a great Cup contender,

883
00:54:54.519 --> 00:55:00.280
and suddenly playoffs rolled around. In
those those last three games were on nothing

884
00:55:00.320 --> 00:55:04.239
short of incredible. So hopefully they
can carry some of that momentum into the

885
00:55:04.280 --> 00:55:08.400
regular season and make that play more
exciting. And you know, we'll see

886
00:55:08.440 --> 00:55:12.039
whether or not they're able to get
off to that hot start or you know,

887
00:55:12.079 --> 00:55:14.440
maybe they open things up. But
it's a bit slow and it still

888
00:55:14.440 --> 00:55:17.800
takes time to get acclimated again.
But again, when you're bringing back a

889
00:55:17.800 --> 00:55:22.119
lot of the same guys, that's
a good sign in terms of continued success.

890
00:55:22.239 --> 00:55:25.400
So it'd be cool to see them
go into Toronto, you know,

891
00:55:25.440 --> 00:55:29.719
and maybe have more of a back
and forth type of game this time,

892
00:55:29.760 --> 00:55:34.199
as opposed to Montreal just kind of
running away with it early and you know,

893
00:55:34.320 --> 00:55:37.119
Chad Kelly, you know, just
struggling not you know, not seeing

894
00:55:37.119 --> 00:55:40.599
the field correctly. You know,
hopefully all that will be resolved to that

895
00:55:40.679 --> 00:55:44.239
game, because again, yeah,
that would be a very fun one,

896
00:55:44.400 --> 00:55:49.480
a repeat of the East Final that
I guess nobody expected. Yeah, not

897
00:55:49.559 --> 00:55:52.679
to date this podcast too much.
It looks like Brandon Staley was officially let

898
00:55:52.719 --> 00:55:57.480
go from there lah here, So
unless there was a surprise, we'll kind

899
00:55:57.480 --> 00:55:59.639
of go through here. We got
to get out of here pretty see.

900
00:55:59.679 --> 00:56:01.280
But you know, Toronto and Saskatchewan
some of these, you know, we

901
00:56:01.360 --> 00:56:04.559
get to kind of get into the
you know, I say, here by

902
00:56:04.639 --> 00:56:07.320
July or we're getting a little bit
into the to the minushav that you know,

903
00:56:07.400 --> 00:56:10.400
you never know, BC Hamilton,
I mean we had that where Hamilton

904
00:56:10.440 --> 00:56:14.199
came in last year, right,
they kind of rocked BC's world. I'm

905
00:56:14.199 --> 00:56:15.320
going to kind of scroll through.
Jason, do you have anything you want

906
00:56:15.320 --> 00:56:17.719
to pop up on this let me
know here. Yeah, I mean,

907
00:56:17.800 --> 00:56:22.199
like b C Hamilton, the second
game last year that took place in Hamilton,

908
00:56:22.239 --> 00:56:23.079
that was one of the games of
the year. I was there in

909
00:56:23.119 --> 00:56:27.679
attendance. I would say as a
tay Cat season ticket holder, that was

910
00:56:27.719 --> 00:56:30.840
my favorite game that I attended last
year, even though that ty CAATs even

911
00:56:30.920 --> 00:56:35.719
lost. So I mean really excited
for that one for sure. Doublely down

912
00:56:35.760 --> 00:56:37.679
here. So we got Toronto back
at Montreal, so a week apart,

913
00:56:37.800 --> 00:56:40.280
but then they'll be going in here. I don't know, it's just to

914
00:56:40.360 --> 00:56:45.159
me some of these you know,
I know it was predictable last year,

915
00:56:45.159 --> 00:56:46.760
but it felt like it was a
good season here to get some juice behind

916
00:56:46.760 --> 00:56:51.719
some of these teams. I mean, you know this Ottawa Edmonton week six

917
00:56:51.840 --> 00:56:53.840
is a little bit you know,
Thursday night here Toronto at Montreal. I

918
00:56:53.880 --> 00:56:58.159
mean that's like, you know,
if there's nothing going on XFL in the

919
00:56:58.159 --> 00:57:00.280
world, like that's a Thursday night
live show we have going into that game.

920
00:57:00.360 --> 00:57:02.199
I mean, I'm just you know, saying here, like some of

921
00:57:02.199 --> 00:57:05.960
these games to me seem a little
bit more appealing on paper now than they

922
00:57:05.960 --> 00:57:08.760
did maybe a year ago. Evan, any thoughts here, I mean,

923
00:57:08.760 --> 00:57:13.360
it's gonna kind of keep getting through
here. Yeah, I mean, just

924
00:57:13.360 --> 00:57:15.159
going back to the nagelist for a
quick second. I mean, I know

925
00:57:15.199 --> 00:57:19.119
we've kind of moved off that,
but there was actually a player I forgot

926
00:57:19.119 --> 00:57:22.079
to talk about, James Morgan from
Florida International, you know, former NFL

927
00:57:22.159 --> 00:57:27.000
draft pick who also played in the
USFL with the Pittsburgh Mallers. So you're

928
00:57:27.039 --> 00:57:30.679
seeing this common theme again, a
lot of guys that have XFL interest,

929
00:57:30.719 --> 00:57:32.480
a lot of guys that have already
been under contract and maybe played in the

930
00:57:32.559 --> 00:57:38.760
USFL. I know the Argos already
signed a couple of you know, former

931
00:57:38.880 --> 00:57:43.920
USFL players I think from the Philadelphia
Stars. So just something to watch,

932
00:57:44.559 --> 00:57:49.199
you know, as these I guess, merger whatever, I don't even know

933
00:57:49.239 --> 00:57:52.719
if you can call them talks anymore
continue to unfold. You know, CFL

934
00:57:52.760 --> 00:57:53.920
teams I think are keeping an eye
on some of those guys. And I'm

935
00:57:53.920 --> 00:57:57.920
not going to be blowing anybody's cover, but I don't think that's really a

936
00:57:57.920 --> 00:58:01.039
secret at this point that you know, there will be some guys, you

937
00:58:01.039 --> 00:58:05.920
know, even maybe before the mergers
finalized and you know, certain teams are

938
00:58:05.920 --> 00:58:08.159
cut out, as we've been speculating, you know, some of those guys

939
00:58:08.199 --> 00:58:13.599
will probably head up to Canada and
it'll still be an uphill battle for some

940
00:58:13.639 --> 00:58:15.159
of them, I think, right. I mean, they're gonna have to

941
00:58:15.199 --> 00:58:17.760
compete you know, for starting jobs
and things of that nature that they didn't

942
00:58:17.840 --> 00:58:21.880
really not that they didn't have to
compete for them in the XFL, but

943
00:58:21.920 --> 00:58:23.320
it was a bit more of a
clear path. Like you've already got a

944
00:58:23.360 --> 00:58:29.039
lot of established players, you know, up there in the CFL, so

945
00:58:29.199 --> 00:58:30.519
you know, we'll see. It'll
be interesting, you know some of the

946
00:58:30.599 --> 00:58:35.519
names that might you know, head
north, as we like to say,

947
00:58:36.280 --> 00:58:38.760
over the next coming weeks and months, because there's no denying that there will

948
00:58:38.800 --> 00:58:43.239
be a few. There already has
been a few, so you know,

949
00:58:43.760 --> 00:58:47.320
just something to monitor, right.
I don't think that the number of XFL

950
00:58:47.360 --> 00:58:52.800
and USFL names on these lists coincidence. I think it's meant to, you

951
00:58:52.800 --> 00:58:57.880
know, give options to guys that
they can kind of weigh and think about,

952
00:58:57.920 --> 00:59:00.519
you know, because there are some
players you know that would fit well

953
00:59:01.039 --> 00:59:07.480
into both leagues. I I guess
now it's just going to be the CFL,

954
00:59:07.519 --> 00:59:09.840
and we'll call it the UFL for
the time being. But I just

955
00:59:09.840 --> 00:59:13.519
wanted to throw that out there.
I know that's kind of a little random

956
00:59:13.559 --> 00:59:16.039
factor tidbit, but I felt like
it was it was important to bring up,

957
00:59:16.480 --> 00:59:19.960
just with everything going on, and
after all, we are trying to

958
00:59:20.000 --> 00:59:23.199
include every form of football into this, I guess, and you know,

959
00:59:23.239 --> 00:59:29.599
it's been a while since we've actually
done anything uh XFL, USFL UFL related

960
00:59:29.639 --> 00:59:31.519
again, I don't even know what
to call it anymore, but you know,

961
00:59:31.679 --> 00:59:37.360
just to tie that into the you
know that that's something that you know,

962
00:59:37.440 --> 00:59:39.159
whether you're a CFL fan or one
of these American league fans, you

963
00:59:39.199 --> 00:59:42.840
maybe want to keep an eye on
that well. And I think, and

964
00:59:42.880 --> 00:59:45.320
I agree with you, I think, and I've Knailer's been on here,

965
00:59:45.360 --> 00:59:51.440
like I wish this CFL didn't get
so like our league so difficult, like

966
00:59:51.599 --> 00:59:54.639
you got to work your ass to
get in here, Like I I think,

967
00:59:54.760 --> 00:59:58.639
if you know, with these nagas
all this and with these leagues,

968
00:59:58.719 --> 01:00:01.599
like I think, if THEFL did
a better job like fostering getting some of

969
01:00:01.599 --> 01:00:05.440
these like it's like you got to
overcome all this, Like if you got

970
01:00:05.440 --> 01:00:07.760
to be an American quarterback like it's
gonna take you five years, so like

971
01:00:07.800 --> 01:00:10.760
you better put in your time,
and you're like, I just don't know.

972
01:00:10.920 --> 01:00:14.440
I just think they could change their
mentality with that. And that's kind

973
01:00:14.480 --> 01:00:17.719
of a conversation for a different day. In terms of this, you know,

974
01:00:17.800 --> 01:00:22.960
here a great cup last year here
Winnipeg Toronto randomly week eight here Saturday,

975
01:00:23.119 --> 01:00:25.880
July twenty seven. That's got to
be exciting, Jason, Yeah,

976
01:00:25.920 --> 01:00:29.119
for sure. I mean, at
least we get it earlier in the season

977
01:00:29.159 --> 01:00:31.920
this year. I still think that
these two teams are the favorites to finish

978
01:00:32.039 --> 01:00:36.920
first place in their respected divisions.
With all due respect to Montreal, I

979
01:00:36.920 --> 01:00:40.440
think that Toronto probably is still the
favorite to have the best regular season next

980
01:00:40.519 --> 01:00:44.800
year. So very much interested to
see how that one plays out, and

981
01:00:45.000 --> 01:00:46.920
the fact that we get it earlier
in that it will actually mean something.

982
01:00:46.960 --> 01:00:51.599
I think that's huge. Yeah,
And like even here like BC at Winnipeg,

983
01:00:51.679 --> 01:00:53.840
you know, that's like another that's
a that's an early and that's what

984
01:00:53.880 --> 01:00:58.519
we're having a beer on the deck. We're doing a pre stro pre show

985
01:00:58.559 --> 01:01:00.719
live stream there going into that Thursday
game. I'm just giving you, I

986
01:01:00.719 --> 01:01:04.440
mean, somebody I don't know.
To me, this is an exciting schedule

987
01:01:04.440 --> 01:01:07.079
here kind of going through all this. Yeah, again, you're always going

988
01:01:07.159 --> 01:01:10.599
to get like, Okay, we're
Saskatchewan and Ottaway here on August eighth is

989
01:01:10.639 --> 01:01:14.079
probably not going to be the peak
of that. This This might be the

990
01:01:14.119 --> 01:01:16.280
worst week I've seen this far.
Hamilton in Montreal. Does that do anything

991
01:01:16.280 --> 01:01:21.440
for Jason? I mean, I'm
always looking forward to seeing the ty Cats.

992
01:01:21.440 --> 01:01:23.519
But that's just the fan and me
talking. Yeah, some of the

993
01:01:23.800 --> 01:01:25.239
you know, it seems like we're
from a little bit. You know,

994
01:01:25.239 --> 01:01:30.679
we got Winnipeg BC here again closing
out Sunday August eighteenth here. You know,

995
01:01:30.800 --> 01:01:34.920
some of these Thursday games are rough
anytime. I don't know why,

996
01:01:35.039 --> 01:01:37.639
like I would get so many of
these Thursday games. Well, I mean

997
01:01:37.679 --> 01:01:40.800
I feel like they I don't know
why they do that. I feel like

998
01:01:40.920 --> 01:01:45.119
maybe the Thursday night games they don't
like, they're not going to do that

999
01:01:45.199 --> 01:01:49.239
well anyway in terms of the rating. Probably so, I mean like they'll

1000
01:01:49.239 --> 01:01:52.960
just throw you know, the shittiest
team for lack of a better word on

1001
01:01:52.039 --> 01:01:54.519
there. But I think at the
end of the day, on the Calgary

1002
01:01:54.760 --> 01:01:58.519
Autawa game, I think it's worth
throwning. That was one of the better

1003
01:01:58.559 --> 01:02:01.519
games of last year too. Despite
the struggles, those two teams had pluck

1004
01:02:01.559 --> 01:02:08.599
at this we got we go one, two, three, four, five,

1005
01:02:09.800 --> 01:02:15.079
six, I mean, you know, we got anyway, it's interesting.

1006
01:02:15.119 --> 01:02:20.800
They're interesting with all that stuff going
through OTWA at BC. So see

1007
01:02:20.800 --> 01:02:22.599
then we're jumping to Salary Day here, so that's when the NFL starts.

1008
01:02:22.599 --> 01:02:27.360
We'll get into all that stuff.
Move in. I can ind of the

1009
01:02:27.440 --> 01:02:32.400
day Labor Day weekend here August twenty. First, this is the touchdown right

1010
01:02:32.559 --> 01:02:37.840
the thirty first thoughts on that a
Jason and not well round out here,

1011
01:02:37.599 --> 01:02:42.000
we're we're almost done with this.
Thoughts on no touchdown Atlantic beginning to touchdown

1012
01:02:42.039 --> 01:02:45.280
Pacific and then Evan you can give
your comments. Well, I don't necessarily

1013
01:02:45.440 --> 01:02:49.480
like the fact that they're not having
a touchdown Atlantic this year, but I

1014
01:02:49.519 --> 01:02:52.800
do like this whole idea of having
you know, another touchdown games or having

1015
01:02:52.800 --> 01:02:58.159
touchdown games at other locations. I
think that it's really great what BC's doing

1016
01:02:58.199 --> 01:03:00.599
in terms of trying to make it
the problems his team, and I think

1017
01:03:00.760 --> 01:03:04.840
this is you know, having a
game in Victoria is uh, you know,

1018
01:03:04.920 --> 01:03:07.320
goes a long way to doing that. So I think at the end

1019
01:03:07.320 --> 01:03:09.000
of the day, I think it's
really cool and I think, you know,

1020
01:03:09.039 --> 01:03:14.000
the game is gonna sell regardless,
so I think putting audible there,

1021
01:03:14.000 --> 01:03:16.039
I think is is fine. Yeah, I have a lot of questions,

1022
01:03:16.039 --> 01:03:21.079
like are you going to go to
that game? Like wedding videographer weekend,

1023
01:03:21.119 --> 01:03:23.920
the Labor Day weekend in Seattle is
is challenging, whether it's with an ou

1024
01:03:24.119 --> 01:03:30.760
R just in the O R so
in ten In terms of I do wish

1025
01:03:30.920 --> 01:03:35.119
that there was both in Atlantic and
the Pacific. It very much feels to

1026
01:03:35.159 --> 01:03:37.960
me like the CFL like whoa,
whoa, whoa, Like Okay, we're

1027
01:03:38.039 --> 01:03:40.960
doing the Pacific this year, like
we can't, God forbid. We try

1028
01:03:42.000 --> 01:03:44.800
to balance both of those. Evan, whether or not we're going through the

1029
01:03:44.840 --> 01:03:52.960
game, you gotta be excited for
that having your life. Yeah, I

1030
01:03:52.960 --> 01:03:57.079
think, you know. I think
the one thing I'll say about the touchdown

1031
01:03:57.119 --> 01:04:01.360
Pacific that no one's really brought up
yet, and it's significantly different from touchdown

1032
01:04:01.360 --> 01:04:04.840
Atlantic. So the touchdown Atlantic game
is typically you know Nova Scotia right,

1033
01:04:06.119 --> 01:04:11.400
see Victoria. You can take the
ferry from Vancouver over to Victoria, so

1034
01:04:11.440 --> 01:04:14.079
you can get a lot of BC
fans there, I mean Halifax, Like

1035
01:04:14.119 --> 01:04:16.639
that's Nova Scotia. That's way,
you know, way over there on the

1036
01:04:16.639 --> 01:04:19.639
other side of the country, pretty
far out of the way, like you'd

1037
01:04:19.639 --> 01:04:24.400
have to fly there. You know, it's a way, I guess,

1038
01:04:24.440 --> 01:04:29.519
bigger deal. And I believe the
matchup last year for Touchdown Atlantic was Toronto

1039
01:04:29.599 --> 01:04:32.480
and Saskatchewan. Yeah, the last
two years. Yeah, last two years,

1040
01:04:32.559 --> 01:04:36.159
right, and not like very many
people from Saskatchewan are going to be

1041
01:04:36.199 --> 01:04:41.480
making the trip over to Halifax.
I don't think that's a very common path.

1042
01:04:42.280 --> 01:04:45.159
But you know, with the Touchdown
Pacific being in Victoria, like,

1043
01:04:45.679 --> 01:04:47.960
you know, Victoria is not that
far from a lot of things, and

1044
01:04:48.000 --> 01:04:53.039
it's you know, again right there
on Vancouver Island. It's not terribly far

1045
01:04:54.320 --> 01:04:57.440
from Vancouver itself, so you can
actually get you know, a lot of

1046
01:04:57.480 --> 01:05:00.599
BC fans there, Ottawa fans again, other side of the country. Probably

1047
01:05:00.639 --> 01:05:04.159
not like maybe if it was a
team in Alberta or something, you'd maybe

1048
01:05:04.199 --> 01:05:09.159
have people fly over and then you
know, go to Victoria from there and

1049
01:05:09.239 --> 01:05:13.079
kind of make it a weekend or
something. But you know, I still

1050
01:05:13.079 --> 01:05:15.880
feel like, again you're gonna have
a better turnout just because of that,

1051
01:05:17.320 --> 01:05:20.039
I guess convenience factor, right,
because again, if you're playing a game

1052
01:05:20.039 --> 01:05:27.519
in Halifax, there's just not you
know, the CFL market again has not

1053
01:05:27.599 --> 01:05:30.760
been establablished over there. I get
it. Look, we were at Great

1054
01:05:30.800 --> 01:05:33.840
Cup the Atlantic Schoooners had a great
setup, but that's he has not been

1055
01:05:33.920 --> 01:05:38.679
established there yet and maybe never will. So dare I get into that discussion.

1056
01:05:38.679 --> 01:05:42.159
I'm not going to talk about that
today, but you know, again

1057
01:05:42.199 --> 01:05:45.039
just something to keep in mind,
right like Victoria there, it does feel

1058
01:05:45.039 --> 01:05:49.599
like again again especially being in the
province too of British Columbia. You know,

1059
01:05:49.679 --> 01:05:54.119
touchdown at lant is a completely separate
thing. It's not really attached to

1060
01:05:54.119 --> 01:05:58.920
any province. This feels this feels
significantly different in my opinion, but again

1061
01:05:59.199 --> 01:06:02.880
in a positive in one that I
hope to see continued in future years.

1062
01:06:03.480 --> 01:06:06.840
Well. And the reason I wish
I we'll see I mean, if I

1063
01:06:06.840 --> 01:06:10.480
I just am presuming I have a
wedding that day. If I don't,

1064
01:06:10.480 --> 01:06:13.119
I'm sure Baker can hook me up
with a you know, just stand on

1065
01:06:13.159 --> 01:06:17.760
the sidelines or something. But we
have a direct ferry from the port of

1066
01:06:17.800 --> 01:06:21.000
Seattle, which is about fifteen minutes
from my house that takes you directly there.

1067
01:06:21.039 --> 01:06:24.400
I'm like, you can drink.
It's like a whole It's a whole

1068
01:06:24.440 --> 01:06:26.840
thing. And funny enough, when
I used to work at Q thirteen,

1069
01:06:26.960 --> 01:06:30.559
I came in, I'd work like
the eight am to five shift on Sunday,

1070
01:06:30.960 --> 01:06:34.400
and I come in and someone had
actually uh because they just more them

1071
01:06:34.440 --> 01:06:38.840
down there and then they take off
and someone had like climbed up over the

1072
01:06:38.880 --> 01:06:43.159
security fence in and then like untied
the boat and floated to the middle of

1073
01:06:43.199 --> 01:06:45.800
Elliott Bay. So then they have
I had to go and like we had

1074
01:06:45.800 --> 01:06:50.000
our cameras with like the super long
lenses and they literally have like kind of

1075
01:06:50.000 --> 01:06:54.360
like a Michael Bay movie, like
they boarded like the ferry and they have

1076
01:06:54.519 --> 01:06:57.679
like the swap boats come out because
you know, they don't know like does

1077
01:06:57.719 --> 01:07:00.880
this guy have bombs like on the
boat or we you know. I mean,

1078
01:07:00.880 --> 01:07:02.679
it's like it gets to be this
whole thing and ended up being like

1079
01:07:03.000 --> 01:07:06.599
drunk woman or something that climbed up
over and then for But but yeah,

1080
01:07:06.639 --> 01:07:12.000
you can directly you go use give
them your a little your passport or we

1081
01:07:12.039 --> 01:07:15.360
have that little the other your passport
card. You can just hop right on

1082
01:07:15.400 --> 01:07:18.480
there and go up. So exciting
that way, getting out of here BC

1083
01:07:18.760 --> 01:07:24.079
Montreal A good Friday game here,
getting into September, this is when we

1084
01:07:24.119 --> 01:07:27.360
started getting you know, the triple
headers, which is always tough for me

1085
01:07:28.079 --> 01:07:31.719
just with you know, if you're
out and all on a Saturday, Jason

1086
01:07:31.760 --> 01:07:34.480
anything here, I'm just kind of
scrolling through here. Well before we get

1087
01:07:34.480 --> 01:07:38.079
out of here, well, I
wanted to bring up something for you guys.

1088
01:07:38.360 --> 01:07:41.079
CFL plus. I think it's gonna
be very interesting to see if they

1089
01:07:41.079 --> 01:07:44.320
add more features to it. To
they add the on demand feature next year,

1090
01:07:44.360 --> 01:07:46.159
I think that would do a lot
to you know, leviating some of

1091
01:07:46.159 --> 01:07:50.400
your strathspur these you know, triple
header double header kind of games so days.

1092
01:07:50.440 --> 01:07:56.159
So I'm excited to see what they
do with that, like just yeah,

1093
01:07:56.320 --> 01:08:00.280
just once the game's done, just
and I don't understand because they do

1094
01:08:00.360 --> 01:08:02.239
that with you know, if you're
a TSN person that like just put the

1095
01:08:02.239 --> 01:08:05.360
game on and if you want to
I get this with the ads and all

1096
01:08:05.360 --> 01:08:09.920
that, it just even just screen
record the thing and then if we got

1097
01:08:09.960 --> 01:08:14.800
to fast forward through where they have
the weird you know, ghetto rap instrumental

1098
01:08:14.920 --> 01:08:17.720
music like whatever that is I just
would really go a long way, I

1099
01:08:17.720 --> 01:08:23.359
think to just feeling like I can't
leave the house from ten am, you

1100
01:08:23.399 --> 01:08:26.880
know, Saturday on, you know, trying to explain to my wife like

1101
01:08:26.920 --> 01:08:30.159
well, you know, because we've
established Sunday right, like, hey,

1102
01:08:30.159 --> 01:08:31.720
we understand like this, this is
what we do, but it's really hard

1103
01:08:31.720 --> 01:08:35.279
to get both of the weekend days
that way. Evan anything else here,

1104
01:08:35.319 --> 01:08:40.119
you know, we got another Toronto
at BC. It really feels like BC's

1105
01:08:40.159 --> 01:08:42.840
got a contender schedule here. I
mean, I know at the CFL it's

1106
01:08:42.840 --> 01:08:45.199
pretty balanced around and we're doing all
these you know, you know, the

1107
01:08:45.279 --> 01:08:48.479
competitive balance this year, but it
feels like BC's got a pretty heavy,

1108
01:08:48.600 --> 01:08:53.479
heavy hitter schedule. Well, I
think we're the point in the season now

1109
01:08:53.600 --> 01:08:57.439
just going down this list, you
know, where the schedule's starting to be

1110
01:08:57.479 --> 01:09:00.840
more condensed. You're moving down to
one or two days. You're having teams

1111
01:09:00.840 --> 01:09:02.399
start to you know, go on
buys. As the season wraps up.

1112
01:09:02.880 --> 01:09:06.039
We know from you know, doing
all of our work this season, you

1113
01:09:06.039 --> 01:09:10.840
know, those last couple of weeks
really becomes a marathon at that point,

1114
01:09:10.840 --> 01:09:14.159
you know, when it's like there's
like three games in one day and all

1115
01:09:14.159 --> 01:09:16.159
these other teams are on a buy
and you know, this year, like

1116
01:09:16.199 --> 01:09:18.800
Toronto had the East locked up,
so a lot of it, you know,

1117
01:09:18.880 --> 01:09:23.039
for I don't want to say it
became meetingless because there are players you

1118
01:09:23.079 --> 01:09:25.760
know, who are really making a
statement out there and you know, doing

1119
01:09:25.800 --> 01:09:29.920
their job, you know, and
providing great entertainment for us. But you

1120
01:09:29.960 --> 01:09:31.319
know, it was at a point
where it's just like, you know,

1121
01:09:31.399 --> 01:09:34.560
yeah, we're here in like week
twenty one, and it's like, you

1122
01:09:34.600 --> 01:09:41.239
know, you know who knows,
Like it's just that's that situation where you

1123
01:09:41.279 --> 01:09:45.159
know things might already be already be
again locked up, and you know you're

1124
01:09:45.239 --> 01:09:49.720
just you're just kind of playing games
for guys to get reps at that point.

1125
01:09:49.800 --> 01:09:53.800
That's always one of the things that
I found, you know, interesting

1126
01:09:53.840 --> 01:09:58.359
about the CFL in particular again with
a twenty one week season in pro football

1127
01:09:58.359 --> 01:10:00.760
and only nine teams, I mean
you just see like, I mean,

1128
01:10:00.800 --> 01:10:03.760
obviously there's going to be repetition,
but you know you'll see you know,

1129
01:10:03.840 --> 01:10:08.399
teams playing each other back to back
and like just some of the same matchups,

1130
01:10:08.439 --> 01:10:13.399
and it's hard to have diversity again
with twenty one weeks and only nine

1131
01:10:13.439 --> 01:10:17.640
teams, So I commend you know, the I don't know, this might

1132
01:10:17.720 --> 01:10:20.840
sound bad. I don't know if
there's like a committee who makes the CFL

1133
01:10:20.880 --> 01:10:25.399
schedule. You know, I don't
know how that works, to be honest,

1134
01:10:25.439 --> 01:10:30.000
I'm not a schedule guy really,
but you know, I commend the

1135
01:10:30.079 --> 01:10:33.640
league, I guess, I'll say, you know, for being able to

1136
01:10:33.720 --> 01:10:40.960
make a somewhat diverse schedule and adding
these things like touchdown Pacific to just jazz

1137
01:10:41.000 --> 01:10:45.119
things up a bit, right,
because again, with the amount of repetition,

1138
01:10:45.319 --> 01:10:47.000
it's it's pretty easy I think for
some people to just go, oh,

1139
01:10:47.039 --> 01:10:49.680
well, you know, we saw
this matchup two weeks ago and you

1140
01:10:49.680 --> 01:10:54.800
know, yeah it was in Toronto
and not Ottawa, you know whatever,

1141
01:10:54.840 --> 01:10:59.000
but it's still the same thing.
And you know, but again I say

1142
01:10:59.000 --> 01:11:01.920
that keeping in mind that you know, the CFL changes very quickly and last

1143
01:11:02.000 --> 01:11:04.359
year, like I could have said
that going into the season, but then,

1144
01:11:04.720 --> 01:11:08.279
you know, even if you did
have the same matchup, you know,

1145
01:11:08.279 --> 01:11:11.439
two or three weeks apart from each
other, you know, the games

1146
01:11:11.479 --> 01:11:15.640
could still be very different. And
that's one thing again, just with the

1147
01:11:15.640 --> 01:11:20.119
flow of the season and the length
of it. That's where those those variables

1148
01:11:20.159 --> 01:11:25.119
come into play. So yeah,
ultimately, you know, I think again,

1149
01:11:25.680 --> 01:11:28.600
nine teams twenty one week is going
to be difficult to have a schedule

1150
01:11:28.640 --> 01:11:33.399
that's you know, not interesting but
just captivating on a regular basis. But

1151
01:11:33.760 --> 01:11:40.239
you do get these weekends that are
you know, i'd say more interesting than

1152
01:11:40.319 --> 01:11:43.880
others simply. I think, you
know, anytime there's a rivalry, you

1153
01:11:43.960 --> 01:11:46.960
know, like the banjo boll stuff, Labor Day, all that jazz,

1154
01:11:47.199 --> 01:11:51.279
you know, I think that's great. So yeah, I'll leave it at

1155
01:11:51.279 --> 01:11:55.720
that. Yeah, I actually wanted
to see so, yeah, so we

1156
01:11:55.800 --> 01:12:01.039
have the we have the the Victoria
game, right, and then this will

1157
01:12:01.039 --> 01:12:04.000
be right, this is and then
we go back or so with the labor

1158
01:12:04.159 --> 01:12:06.199
I always get a mixed up,
right, so we got the Labor Day

1159
01:12:06.199 --> 01:12:10.840
classic and then we go back with
the bangible here. So that would be

1160
01:12:10.880 --> 01:12:14.279
exciting kind of that week thirteen fourteen. I always flipped those in my head.

1161
01:12:14.319 --> 01:12:16.439
But yeah, this, you know, I don't know if it was

1162
01:12:16.520 --> 01:12:20.359
me. Do I do this game
a different day to kind of let you

1163
01:12:20.399 --> 01:12:25.079
know, maybe let's bruce up week
ten or something maybe, you know,

1164
01:12:25.119 --> 01:12:28.880
and obviously there's availability in scheduling and
all that. That would be my one

1165
01:12:29.159 --> 01:12:31.560
comment that way, and like we
talked about with the the Week one stuff,

1166
01:12:31.640 --> 01:12:33.960
right, like, let's put a
lot of stuff and that's great,

1167
01:12:34.000 --> 01:12:38.079
and I think Week one should do
tremendous ratings for the CFL. And I

1168
01:12:38.119 --> 01:12:41.680
know some of that stuff, but
I think last year that touchdown Atlanta game

1169
01:12:41.800 --> 01:12:44.960
was kind of used as a prop
game in like the beginning of August,

1170
01:12:45.000 --> 01:12:47.119
right, Jason, it felt like
it was more of a standalone where we

1171
01:12:47.119 --> 01:12:51.880
were building around that versus this is
part of the Labor Day weekend, which

1172
01:12:51.920 --> 01:12:56.319
I think maybe stands on its own, would probably be my own thing.

1173
01:12:56.439 --> 01:12:58.960
And then my last comment will throw
the Jason, and then we'll kind of

1174
01:12:59.000 --> 01:13:02.520
round this out. You look here
this week twenty one, like this might

1175
01:13:02.560 --> 01:13:06.319
be the loser bracket. Again,
Calgary is as catchewan here last game of

1176
01:13:06.359 --> 01:13:10.199
the year, but hey, you
know, the last weekend ended up being

1177
01:13:10.239 --> 01:13:13.840
tremendously exciting more or less with some
of those games coming down the pike.

1178
01:13:13.960 --> 01:13:17.800
So yeah, this Saskatchewan, the
Calgary game four pm on October twenty six

1179
01:13:17.960 --> 01:13:23.039
kind of circled out as potentially the
loser bracket. Yeah, for sure.

1180
01:13:23.079 --> 01:13:26.279
I mean I think I agree with
you guys, and I think that the

1181
01:13:26.359 --> 01:13:29.760
CFL should do more to like,
you know, jazz up some of these

1182
01:13:29.800 --> 01:13:31.960
matchups and do some of these you
know, special event things. And I

1183
01:13:31.960 --> 01:13:34.520
mean, I think it's questionable that
they put it on Labor Day. But

1184
01:13:34.800 --> 01:13:39.039
at the same time, I'm happy
that BC gets to have, you know,

1185
01:13:39.119 --> 01:13:42.399
be a part of Labor Day weekend
for once, because they're usually the

1186
01:13:42.399 --> 01:13:45.159
team that misses out. It's usually
Montreal versus Audiball. It's BC with the

1187
01:13:45.199 --> 01:13:48.439
buye that week, So I'm glad
from that perspective that they get to be

1188
01:13:48.439 --> 01:13:53.640
a part of that. Yeah,
I see, And I just spoiler alert

1189
01:13:53.680 --> 01:13:56.199
like the prep I do, Like
I haven't looked at the schedule until today,

1190
01:13:56.279 --> 01:13:58.520
so I like kind of living through
in the real time. But I

1191
01:13:58.560 --> 01:14:00.000
think that that works out. Yeah, I mean, I think, honestly

1192
01:14:00.039 --> 01:14:02.840
a tremendous job. Like I said, the week one feels heavy, but

1193
01:14:03.439 --> 01:14:08.039
I think there's a lot of moving
pieces there with the schedules and who's available

1194
01:14:08.159 --> 01:14:14.199
what Toronto, I'd say Tim Capper
complaining about the Aulettes Thursday games to talk

1195
01:14:14.239 --> 01:14:18.199
to If any Red Backs flans existed, they would be very upset with you

1196
01:14:18.239 --> 01:14:21.960
complaining about that. So that would
be my last comments with that Evan anything

1197
01:14:21.960 --> 01:14:30.319
else before we get out of here. Evan's good, I think so well,

1198
01:14:30.399 --> 01:14:33.920
Jason. I appreciate that this was
fun and we did Neglas, we

1199
01:14:33.960 --> 01:14:36.680
did coaching hires and all that stuff. We'll get back. Jason and I

1200
01:14:36.720 --> 01:14:42.239
are figuring out some sort of free
agency thing. You keep me posted scheduling

1201
01:14:42.279 --> 01:14:44.920
wise and with all of that when
that makes sense to do. But we'll

1202
01:14:44.920 --> 01:14:46.760
try to get together a panel or
maybe do a live show for that,

1203
01:14:47.279 --> 01:14:50.239
and then yeah, we're kind of
TBD. Like I said, I feel

1204
01:14:50.239 --> 01:14:54.840
pretty strongly about you know, and
and Mark can do and Brandon can do

1205
01:14:54.920 --> 01:14:59.439
kind of what they want with the
XFL stuff. I feel pretty weird doing

1206
01:14:59.479 --> 01:15:03.039
a lot of like trying to get
clicks and views for stuff when it's like

1207
01:15:03.079 --> 01:15:05.560
people's jobs on the line. So
I kind of came to it kind of

1208
01:15:05.600 --> 01:15:09.600
a conscious of crisis about that a
couple of weeks ago. So we'll roll

1209
01:15:09.640 --> 01:15:13.359
through anything else. CFL will come
out. I know Zach was asking about

1210
01:15:13.399 --> 01:15:15.680
like when's the next you know,
we'll see when news breaks, you know

1211
01:15:15.720 --> 01:15:18.600
where to come, stay subscribed.
We'll get everything on there. But I

1212
01:15:18.600 --> 01:15:23.680
appreciate Jason getting all this and Evan
with his knowledge of all the necklace and

1213
01:15:23.720 --> 01:15:27.199
everything else. We'll get out of
here and we'll see everyone next time, next