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playoffs. A couple of weeks of
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we sit. So every hunt joining
today was with us for the exit the

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UFL kickoff show for you know,
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that Emory Hunt coming on the show, sharing his thoughts of the season,

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what worked, what didn't work,
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succeeded, exceeded his expectations, Which
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in the store for next year standout
players? Is the UFL working all that

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sort of stuff, And then a
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and between the you know, the
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and the Panthers. So really appreciate
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in a CFL season here, pregate. You know, preseason games happened earlier

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this week and then this weekend.
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here coming on. Ted's got some
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the time to come on. We
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playing this weekend. And then we
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not an old friend, but you
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show, Dave Campbell coming on.
We're talking to Edmonton malk So lots of

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We'll see how this episode performs and
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talking CFL. I'll let you get
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well here. I didn't realize that, but yeah, Emory Hunt here talking

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and Anthony Miller is involved in that. With the season four here come up.

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We have Emory Hunt back here again. Had you on for the pregame

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show before the kickoff and now we're
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We're going into week nine here.
How are you doing serve the ulf UFL

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season? So I got my hack. I'm doing fine. Man. It's

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always a pleasure, big fan of
the show. Listen every week multiple times

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a week with a different show that
you do, and I'm glad to be

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on again. Well, I appreciate
it. So we did our big expansion

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talk last week. We had John
Lewis on for that. This week we're

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gonna do a little bit more football
stuff. Is always great for that and

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Emory watches all the games, like
general thoughts here, you know, we're

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going into week nine. What do
you think about the UFL season? You

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know, I love the fact that
we are now focusing on the football part

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of it, you know, and
that's the that's the biggest key, because

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that means it's going to be sustained. Obviously, all the other stuff matters,

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but the football has to be good. And the football isn't good,

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then nobody's watching, nobody's going,
nobody cares, uh. And I do

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feel like I tweeted this out last
week where you know, even though you

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kind of like how they've sold,
we consolidated the teams so it's tougher to

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meet the rosters. It's not quite
w nb A tough, but it is.

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You know, they kind of got
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then you lose some of those,
uh, those little idiosyncrasies that are involved

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with different teams, Like how you
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the reason why they would be in
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You knew new Jersey was going to
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and be the only team running that
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air it out and just kind of
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with their passing game. And in
the XFL you knew how DC had their

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two quarterback system and it kind of
worked. When one was struggling, Okay,

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we'll take him, I'll put the
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The offense jump started again, So
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think that's why I always want more
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get more players opportunities and more jobs, but also kind of build that uniqueness

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that is in the you know that
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in the NFL game when some teams
are zigging, other teams are zagging,

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and it makes for fun you know, brands so people can tune in.

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Oh yeah, you know, it's
because I think what happens people get kind

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of stale in terms of, Man, we watched this team already like three

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times. I kind of want to
see somebody else play. But when you

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only have eight teams, you kind
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only had that at your disposal.
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that, like the consolidation of talent
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all going to be all stars,
super teams and all that stuff. But

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then you know, like the Rennegades
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Conference has a couple really weak.
You know, the show the show Botes,

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right. Are you surprised with that
that there wasn't more parody this season?

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I mean we're approaching we have two
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I know, like home field advantage
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guess the Panthers couldn't even play at
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playoffs I found out. But like, except for that, everything's kind of

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locked up. Were you surprised that
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Yes, because you kind of thought
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know, three and three and three
right now? You know what I'm saying,

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A four and four with two weeks
agos like, man, who's gonna

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end? But but like we talked
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twenty twenty one or twenties on last
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really comes down a quarterback play and
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and not saying that you know,
the guy can't play. But sometimes it's

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just hey, man, if you're
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focus will be on can we protect
the quarterback, you better have a mobile

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quarterback back there uh to kind of
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you kind of get left in the
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I thought, hey, if if
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chart, a quarterback is probably gonna
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a one to seventeam going into week
nine, we'd see a team that's four

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and four. So I felt that's
the that's the biggest shock. And then

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when you notice, you know,
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you know, some teams are explosive, some teams lack speed. And he

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like, man, you know,
why are we you know, traveling down

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the road of the uh you know, the thirty year old running back or

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the you know, thirty three year
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want a place for guys that still
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you got this is supposed to be
the League of Opportunity, which to

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me sounds like a league of twenty
two to twenty seven year olds, you

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know what I'm saying, But it's
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it really boils down to teams hitching
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above the ex's and o's. Uh
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you're an advocate for getting the younger
town than these and you don't want to

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see you know, year seven and
whoever are you some of these? I

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know obviously you know mccaren has done
well with the battle Hawks. We've seen

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Tayamu struggle like not. You know, it hasn't been a hit for all

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these quarterbacks coming in. I know
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been phenomenal, and they really you
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an plug in whoever they're and kind
of make it work. But I used

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to rise, I guess specifically with
the defenders in Tama, specifically that they

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really haven't reached. And I know
they had injuries and people moving on and

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stuff going then, but uh,
kind of a Shallo of its former team

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that looks like yeah, it's I
mean, you really start to realize,

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like how much they missed Derek King
in terms of what he brought to the

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change of pace, like he was
the one that kind of helped get the

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run game started, you know,
and that's when you start to see Abram

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Smith have his success. Then they
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to play action passing game, and
you know, he's able to make some

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throws deeper down the field. Like
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like a quartet of receivers. They
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in the preseason, and they don't
have Dereck King, and I was surprised

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they didn't go back to that model
that worked for them, that bade them

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such a you know, such a
formidable offense. But man, a lot

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of their defensive pieces are still there, and they stink defensively, to be

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completely fair and honest, like they
can't stop anybody. And that was the

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hallmark last year. Their defense was
strong and tough, and they turned the

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ball over the high clip. I
know that's a high variance where you can't

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depend on turnovers and count on that
week in week out, but man,

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they to see DC's defense look like
it looked this season has been has been

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a big problem. And I also
feel like with Arlington. Yeah, we

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love the Luis Perez story and and
you know, I'm glad they've leaned off

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the bowling part of it during the
broadcast. I think we got that part,

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but you know, you got Lindsay
Scott. Oh, like, this

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is somebody that everybody wants to see
and it's I like, I would like

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to compare that situation to what we
will potentially see with Pittsburgh the Steelers,

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where you should have the you know, you should have the freedom to start

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the young guy, the guy that's
still ascending, because you know, if

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he doesn't do right or if he
fails, you can lean back on the

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Russell Wilson the veteran or the Luis
Perez the veteran to stabilize the offense.

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But give those young guys that that
that run to go out there and try

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to perform. Because if Arlington had
Lindsay Scott, they could have recreated what

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we saw the Houston Roughnecks do with
PJ. Walker with it made it exciting

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to watch, you know what I'm
saying, And that's why people tuned in

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for Roughnecks games in XFL twenty twenty, Like man PJ. Walker balling,

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you know, and so nobody's tuned
into Arlington to watch Louis Perez, you

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know, one, two, three, get the ball out, Like nobody

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wants to see that man. And
you know, I just feel like that's

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where some teams have faltered well.
And there was there's something even on I

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think it was the third thing that
Holton Aylers or whatever, where he was

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talking like, yeah, they're all
in on you know, they're all in

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on Louise and it doesn't matter and
all that. It is funny you talk

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to bowling because it's like, you
know, and in the broadcast have been

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hit or mess kind of across the
board, but there is like, you

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know, Louise present the bowling.
They're like, you know, DC's got

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the beer snake Ballahawks. They have
a lot of fans, like the every

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team, you know, they have
like there's like one or two crutches for

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every single one of these types.
It's funny how I can't run. And

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I don't know if you guys brought
this up, but it's funny because you

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say that, think about it.
I want to say it maybe got to

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like week four, will we stop
seeing that damn map? What the teams

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are located? Like you if you
if you're born in the United States and

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you know what Memphis or Saint Louis
or DC is. We got a whole

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nother conversation. Well, I also
when they post that map and I had

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said that over the Sam Schwartz team. We'll talk every once in a while,

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like I had drone during the rest
of the United States there and they're

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like, well, I'm over here, so I'm not. That's where I'm

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ready from. It's not even and
god forbid, you don't have any international

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viewers as well, Like it's only
if you live in you know, Birmingham,

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Texas. That's all we care about. We don't want to do any

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of that stuff. Some of these
like you talk boring football, some of

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these coaches Arlington, I feel like
Bob Steeps is kind of on his way

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out. I'm curious here when we
get the pay structures next year with some

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of these XFL coaches, like are
they going to take a pick up?

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Like Curtis Johnson feels like moving on, like any of these guys that even

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kind of disappointed in from a head
coaching perspective, you know, it's it's

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fascinating because if you look at what
we had with Kirby Wilson in USFL twenty

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twenty one. Right, for all
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became part of the brand, right
in terms of like I got to tune

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in to see what they do,
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and then they bring in you know, Horton and you're like, all right,

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well, this team kind of plays, you know, they have an

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identity. I feel like we haven't
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him being a college coach, and
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coach as well. The identities aren't
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Birmingham game, you've seen an identity. Even with Mike Nolan, who has

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taken another step forward in his second
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has to use he had to use
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two you haven't really seen the identity. Now with the to your comment toward

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pay structure, wouldn't this be the
perfect time to kind of lean in on

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younger coaches like Aj Smith, right, the coordinator for the San Antonio Brahmas.

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Wouldn't he be primed for a head
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or you know Anthony Blevins, who
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of the Vegas Vipers. Wouldn't he
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it's the League of opportunity, you
know, let's get these younger up and

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coming coaches opportunities to lead a football
team and also give these young up and

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coming players to you know, have
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there. And I know that kind
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AJ mccerren's and the Wave philps,
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have recognizable names for the lay person. But man, I would go aggressive

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this offseason, starting with the draft. And we talked about this before,

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where you have like a future's draft, Like listen, if I'm if I'm

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Who's who DJ late Bro, Listen, you're like your seventh year in college,

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your third program like NFL is gonna
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would have. I would have gone
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Leah Tunguebalowa. I said this,
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have gone heavily after Stetson Bennett before
he had that last year where they won

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a national championship. That would have
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that league would be like, yeah, he's only five nine, five ten,

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whatever, we don't need that,
right, So you find you you

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earmark some of these guys that you
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if you're really competing with Day three
late Day three. So if I can,

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if I can get the guy like
a Lindsay Scott and say, hey,

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man, you know, once you're
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whatnot, Uh, how about you
just come play for us for a season

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or at least four games and let
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games, you still can get drafted. We've seen this before. Happened with

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a you know, we just saw
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he played a full eighteen game season
plus playoffs. But we saw with Kenny

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Robinson in the XFL, like you
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But man, like, I think
that needs to be the aggressive approach.

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Get some young stars, both coaches
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you know, an interest from the
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the pro football fan for some FL
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twenty twenty two. I also lost
that year because the come and it was

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twenty twenty three, and then I
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football Spring League era? That's right, that's right, that's right. That

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was adulgrinds of the show we were
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sure in terms of standouts. Obviously, special teams have been, you know,

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across the board anything else because like
that, and that's always great and

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you want to see you know,
the Brandon Aubreyes of the world and all

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that, but like anyone from a
you know, I don't even know quarterback,

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anyone else that your non special teams
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worth a shot in the NFL here, because I do think they've strayed a

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little bit away from like every single
comment is this guy's trying to get back

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to the NFL. Like this guy's
trying, but obviously that's kind of the

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goal. So what do you think
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But it's funny because you see that, you see the guys that that you

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think that the league would be attracted
to. But then they then when they

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you know, do the sideline interview
and they show up the lower third,

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You're like, wow, he is
twenty eight, Like geez, I forgot

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you know, like the Derek Roverson's
you know what I'm saying, Uh,

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the number seven for Temipino, the
pass rusher for the BattleHawks, like those

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guys get after the quarterback on a
consistent basis, Like, man, the

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league wants pass rushers. But then
you know, the age may age some

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of these guys out, Like you
look at a Jace Sternberger who had that

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opportunity but didn't really get the opportunity. And I hate that We're now seeing

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Alex Magoo move the receiver resks,
like what are we doing? You know

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what I'm saying. So, but
you look at like I say, Surat

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and how he's played at tight end. But then when you start to see

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the age and the time, and
if you're the NFL, you're kind of

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like, hey, man, we
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talent. Why would we want you
know, a twenty eight year old number

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three, you know, tight end
or a twenty eight year old situational edge

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guy when we can just get a
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and pay him next to nothing.
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haven't seen a lot of these guys
make that jump or they'll get an opportunity

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in training camp, but they won't
stick because of that. So to answer

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your long window way to answer your
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are performing really well, Like I
thought we was gonna get one last year

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with the kid from Arlington that I
think is Harvey or whoever had the lot

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a lot of the sacks. He
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of twenty twenty three class and bypassed, you know, the whole process to

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go and play in the XFL.
Was a killer on defense and didn't get

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a sniff in the NFL draft despite
producing at a high level on a team

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that won a championship. So that
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maybe maybe this is what is going
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Is that I last, I want
to get to the playoffs? I have

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here? Read mean? Is that
sustainable? Is that for a viewership for

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people with the wanting to participate,
like, hey, I want to play

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football? Team know two months at
three months out of the year and make

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you a fifty grand I mean,
it's out a sustainable thing here. That

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therein lies the rub, right because
in order for that to happen, the

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salaries are going to have to increase. But in order for the salaries to

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increase viewership and all, you know, you got to the for the productst

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to increase, right, Because if
you can get to one hundred k people

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might people might just be like,
you know what, man like this ain't

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bad, man like I can do
this, and then you may have to

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cap your you know, as much
as we love to talk about expansion,

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ten teams may be the max.
If you're gonna pay everybody one hundred k,

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you know what I'm saying, and
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that ideally that should be the goal. Increase the salary somewhere. It's a

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I hate to say Liverpool ways because
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people may seem it may be a
lot of fifty thousand dollars in some areas

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may just seem like lunch money right
based off where you live. But I

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do feel like that's where it kind
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create a second league where people can
earn a living just playing ball. Because

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we know the NFL based off how
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have the luxury of, you know, bypassing you know what they've already bypassed.

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Put it that way, looking for
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most things in stone here as presuming
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conference, is it they're just head
and shoulders. If i've everybody, it

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feels like I know they had the
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that came down to kind of the
wire. But like is it just them

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and the credit to them or are
they doing things so much better than everyone

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else or are teams not catching up
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where they've just it's three years now, I mean, this is kind of

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an incredible run they have going on
with multiple quarterbacks and all sorts of turnover

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and everything else. What it shows, you read is the value of one

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coaching and two continuity, Like they
played together for for the most part three

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years, Like a good portion of
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so that continuity is almost like a
cheet code. Like okay, we

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understand the system. We know what
to expect, and skip Holes has shown

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I know how to coach in this
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you know, we can make it
work. And we've seen it with different

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quarterbacks. We've seen it with different
pass rushers, we've seen it with different

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people in the secondary. But for
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team has been solid. And I'd
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had they had the same offensive line
coach from you know, twenty twenty two

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to now. Yeah, they had
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then he is because he's with Arlington
now it's I don't know who there are.

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He is right because their offensive line
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lot of it. You know,
Matt Casky has been on this team since

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the start, right the tackle out
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a little bit. So the fact
that they have a lot of guys that

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have played together in the spring,
that's that's what we're looking for, you

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know, continuity. If we can
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like every team can be a Birmingham
Stallions. But you know, with so

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much turnover. But that's why you
have what you have in Saint Louis,

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right, even though this is his
year two for them, in this iteration

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of it, they've played together a
lot. So the continuity is there.

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You know, the passing game is
work, the offensive line is better,

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the play callers, you know,
I tweeted this out back. I won't

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to say, maybe about a month
ago. Greg Kowski now just has a

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greater grasp of how to work with
this offense and what he has, and

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so him and mccaren are even more
so on the same page and it were

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last year. So I think the
continuity is what's been king for the two

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teams that are really at the top. It's interesting here just say you bring

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that up. So I'm gonna blencher
this gentleman's last name, John David Diggle

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Gimo. He was with the Giants
back in twenty one, and then he's

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the first season here with that.
So you had Heinbach and then someone else

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last year, and so I see
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Wheveringham. So that's remark. Yeah, he was with the Giants back under

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Joe Judge and then he had COVID
and this scams and stuff. So anyway,

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interesting. That very interesting. But
it shows you Skip Holts once again,

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man like he give him a statue, and you know what, I

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like that Skip Holds, Anthony Beck
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Spring. They like embraced the spring
league coach. So they so they are

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the perfect I feel like champions for
the league. And because they could have

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had, you know, especially Skip
Polts, I wonder if he had an

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opportunity. I remember he uh was
a consult cause yeah he got he get

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calls and yeah, I'm comfortable.
We'll see how comfortable he's going to be

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if they cut salaries for the coaches. But for the most part, if

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we can get continuity with you know, DPPs head coaches and some parts of

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the roster, then I think we'll
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four and four. I do feel
like Skip Holtz is kind of like

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the big jock on campus right now. Like I feel like he is in

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a very comfortable We're like, I'm
the man, this is I got my

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team. I know how to talk
to everybody. Like I think Skip's probably

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living pretty comfortable. I mean,
I know he's got to do the other

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hub now in Arlington and all that. But I think his life's pretty good

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for him if he wants to kind
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I get. Yeah, and these
coaches, listen, man, these these

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former hate coach at the collegiate level, they're not hurting for bread, right,

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especially Stoops like stup probably has like
you know that that that little piece

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of Oklahoma that no one knows what's
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he's done, how long he's coached, how much money he's made. Right,

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So, these dude is a sitting
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terms of that matchup here, Stallions
and Panthers here, you know, and

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they've maintained right, I mean,
it's it's a showbutz everyone else has kind

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of fallen off. But what I
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hate that place? Is it the
one horse race here with the Stallions or

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just the Panthers have any shot here? They do have a shot, man,

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And you know why because fundamentally they're
built the same weight. Their O

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line and D line is pretty dog
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Their defensive front seven in Michigan.
To put it even more specifically, they

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really can slow down the run game, they can get pressure, they impose

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their will when they hit you.
Breelan speaks and all these guys play a

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physical brand of football, so they
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and what's going to come down to, is you know one who's gonna be

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at quarterback for Michigan Because I feel
like every other week somebody's starting new that

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somebody's banged up, but they come
in and play well, right and we

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know they've lost Wes Hills for the
season. Corbyn has done a fantastic job

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running the football. They're gonna need
a secondary back to merge because you can't

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just hand it to him, you
know, thirty times and hope that's going

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to be you know your game plan. But who's going to be quarterback and

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who's gonna help them, you know, make those plays that easy be made

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benefit for them. We know they
only have to cross the fifty to be

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in field goal range, so they
can kind of play nip and tuck that

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way. But I think their defense
and their run game will give them a

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00:27:11.920 --> 00:27:19.079
chance against Birmingham. And it's about
possessions it's almost like you can't. We

409
00:27:19.119 --> 00:27:23.319
saw the Knicks go through this against
the Pacers, like it's in their name.

410
00:27:23.880 --> 00:27:27.640
Pacers, they set the pace.
They are twenty fourth in defense.

411
00:27:29.000 --> 00:27:33.960
Why are you trying to run with
the Pacers like slow it down, expose

412
00:27:33.039 --> 00:27:37.680
their defense and make them play consistent
basketball. But they want to go back

413
00:27:37.759 --> 00:27:41.680
and forth. And now you're out
the playoffs, right, So if you're

414
00:27:41.720 --> 00:27:44.279
Michigan, you got to look at
this like, hey man, if we

415
00:27:44.440 --> 00:27:49.400
just limit the amount of possessions Birmingham
has, we can make this a we

416
00:27:49.440 --> 00:27:53.319
could put we could raise the stakes
on Birmingham to not make a mistakes.

417
00:27:53.319 --> 00:27:57.480
So we've seen this quite honestly.
At times throughout the season for Birmingham,

418
00:27:57.640 --> 00:28:00.960
they get bored. You know,
they're they're dominant, but then they'll go

419
00:28:02.039 --> 00:28:06.119
through a quarter where they just like
they can't complete the pass, or they'll

420
00:28:06.119 --> 00:28:08.799
have a mental drop here, or
you know, somebody will just jump all

421
00:28:08.839 --> 00:28:14.519
sides or just like they'll they'll play
with their food a little bit. And

422
00:28:14.599 --> 00:28:15.960
if you're Michigan, you got to
try to exploit that. The best way

423
00:28:17.000 --> 00:28:19.440
to do that is strength the ball
game and play keep away and forcing them

424
00:28:19.440 --> 00:28:26.160
to be consistently fundamentally sound all throughout
the game. Yeah, I've been tracking

425
00:28:26.200 --> 00:28:30.720
this the East Coast bias with the
Knicks and everything, and then there's been

426
00:28:30.759 --> 00:28:33.480
a lot of the Steven Aber that
and there's been a lot this week about

427
00:28:33.480 --> 00:28:36.480
that the Patriots. I'm not the
NBA guy, but that's been interesting.

428
00:28:36.519 --> 00:28:40.759
We don't know. Maybe we'll get
the songs back here. And then then

429
00:28:40.799 --> 00:28:44.319
the other side here with with the
the BattleHawks here looking really good. You

430
00:28:44.480 --> 00:28:48.640
came down to the wire against the
Stallions. Brahmis is our team coming in

431
00:28:48.680 --> 00:28:52.160
and obviously right now you've got Dormandy
but they're talking, you know, right

432
00:28:52.200 --> 00:28:53.839
garbarous might be coming back here.
What do you make of that? Because

433
00:28:53.839 --> 00:28:56.920
to me that's a little bit I
think Stallions steamroll the Panthers here. What

434
00:28:56.960 --> 00:29:03.079
do you make of the XBL conference
That's another one where it's it's the same

435
00:29:03.519 --> 00:29:07.960
argument I made for the Panthers and
Stallions I will make for the battle Hawks

436
00:29:07.960 --> 00:29:11.160
and and Bramos because fundamentally, like, yeah, the Brahma's defense has done

437
00:29:11.200 --> 00:29:15.839
well, but yeah, you can
run on them a little bit. Uh

438
00:29:15.079 --> 00:29:19.279
Is Saint Louis disciplined enough to run
the ball consistently on them or would they

439
00:29:19.480 --> 00:29:22.240
hey man, we gotta throw here, you know, because you got to

440
00:29:22.400 --> 00:29:26.559
former quarterback as oci talking to a
veteran quarterback and and you know, so

441
00:29:26.640 --> 00:29:27.799
you know that ego is there,
like, hey man, we gotta we

442
00:29:27.839 --> 00:29:30.440
gotta go out there and win with
our arm. Like, bro, you

443
00:29:30.440 --> 00:29:33.359
better run the ball because you can't, you know what I'm saying. And

444
00:29:33.559 --> 00:29:37.759
we know the quarterback situation over there
in Saint San Antonio. You know,

445
00:29:37.799 --> 00:29:41.960
it's funny to see these guys be
be uh, you know, six and

446
00:29:42.000 --> 00:29:48.799
two or whatever their record is,
I believe, and it's like for y'all

447
00:29:48.839 --> 00:29:51.759
should be three and five, you
know what I'm saying. Like they they've

448
00:29:51.920 --> 00:29:57.279
they've eked out some you know what
Houston comes to mind when you're guarding against

449
00:29:57.720 --> 00:30:00.160
you know, they have to get
into the end on a three point play

450
00:30:00.680 --> 00:30:04.880
and you got your heels on the
on the goal line and you backpedal,

451
00:30:04.920 --> 00:30:10.720
like why, like how about you
force them to make a tight window throw.

452
00:30:10.759 --> 00:30:12.799
Don't let them catch at the one
and fall into the end zone.

453
00:30:12.880 --> 00:30:18.279
Right, So they've been getting by, you know, I don't I don't

454
00:30:18.359 --> 00:30:19.960
call it luck because it is you
know, you have to really come back

455
00:30:21.000 --> 00:30:23.200
and scale town all that stuff.
But they be getting lucky man, and

456
00:30:23.279 --> 00:30:29.440
so this will be a game where
they can't make mistakes and you're gonna require

457
00:30:29.480 --> 00:30:32.640
Dormanya to protect the ball because he
tends to be a you know, he

458
00:30:32.680 --> 00:30:37.000
puts the ball in harm's way,
and if it's Garbers wasn't playing particularly well

459
00:30:37.920 --> 00:30:42.240
before he got injured, So there's
some questions about their passing game. We've

460
00:30:42.279 --> 00:30:45.799
seen them drop a lot of passes
a receiver too, so it's not like

461
00:30:45.839 --> 00:30:51.079
they have those receivers that will make
you pay where you kind of this guy

462
00:30:51.079 --> 00:30:53.279
may drop the ball on this play
and then he may catch it on the

463
00:30:53.279 --> 00:30:56.920
next one. That type of inconsistency. You can't have that going into a

464
00:30:56.960 --> 00:31:00.160
game against the battle Hawk. So
if they were gonna have a chance to

465
00:31:00.200 --> 00:31:04.920
win, If they win, that
means they would have played their cleanest,

466
00:31:06.440 --> 00:31:11.680
most consistent, most fundamentally sound game
of the year, and that's hard to

467
00:31:11.759 --> 00:31:18.599
say. I just think that that's
a tougher battle in my opinion than the

468
00:31:18.640 --> 00:31:22.559
Stallions in Panthers. Last thing here, real quick, just call your shot

469
00:31:22.559 --> 00:31:26.160
to hear physician. Stallions and the
BattleHawks after dumb here won't be there.

470
00:31:26.160 --> 00:31:29.880
It should be rockets. You know, presuming the ballot Hawks are there,

471
00:31:29.880 --> 00:31:33.599
but do you think they have enough
of what's your early predictions for a potential

472
00:31:33.680 --> 00:31:37.480
championship game. I think the Stallions
can win that one, you know,

473
00:31:37.559 --> 00:31:41.319
by double digits. Uh you know, we saw them play with their food

474
00:31:41.519 --> 00:31:44.640
in the fourth in the fourth quarter, like what was that play call?

475
00:31:44.759 --> 00:31:47.200
And then you have the block butt
just what we was talking about, right,

476
00:31:47.240 --> 00:31:51.640
like they should have that game should
have been double digits Birmingham easily,

477
00:31:51.960 --> 00:31:56.319
right, but again red zone playing
with their food field goal field goal.

478
00:31:56.480 --> 00:31:57.279
Then at the end of the game, you're trying to run, you get

479
00:31:57.279 --> 00:32:00.440
a block punt of all situation since
you're not ready for a block one.

480
00:32:01.240 --> 00:32:06.880
So I feel like they, I
hate to use the cliche they've been there

481
00:32:06.920 --> 00:32:10.480
before, but they have been there
before and so they kind of understand the

482
00:32:10.480 --> 00:32:15.599
stakes are high at that at that
game, and so I could say they

483
00:32:15.599 --> 00:32:19.319
could win that one by ten.
I will say, I am I'm close

484
00:32:19.359 --> 00:32:22.160
to making a poll, but I
don't want to destroy Twitter, like who

485
00:32:22.200 --> 00:32:24.160
is the most annoying cham base?
The Stallions are the battle Hawks because it

486
00:32:24.200 --> 00:32:28.359
is getting to that point. But
at least the Stallions have won, right,

487
00:32:28.400 --> 00:32:30.839
I mean at least the Thallions have
won, so that's to me,

488
00:32:30.000 --> 00:32:32.599
they at least okay, get y
up and buck up and all like,

489
00:32:32.640 --> 00:32:36.839
at least you guys have won,
where the BattleHawks are screaming like beat the

490
00:32:36.839 --> 00:32:38.720
Sea Dragons last year at home and
you're in the playoffs and it's not even

491
00:32:38.759 --> 00:32:43.319
We're not even going to point spreads
and point differentials and all that stuff.

492
00:32:43.359 --> 00:32:45.440
So I should be exciting, Emory. I appreciate it. I will look

493
00:32:45.480 --> 00:32:49.799
forward to your ELF and you know, involvement and everything else. It should

494
00:32:49.839 --> 00:32:52.680
be fun here. Listen, I'm
looking forward to it, man, I

495
00:32:52.759 --> 00:32:58.680
expect My first game is June fifteenth. I had the Barcelona Dragons at the

496
00:32:58.680 --> 00:33:04.480
hell Vectic Mercenaries. They changed their
name this season, so that's a great

497
00:33:04.599 --> 00:33:09.039
name for a football team. But
the Barcelona Dragons has the best quarterback in

498
00:33:09.079 --> 00:33:14.680
the ELF and he had even taken
a snap yet in the ELF and is

499
00:33:14.720 --> 00:33:19.279
yours truly from the University of Louisiana
and Levi Lewis, So I'm already calling

500
00:33:19.359 --> 00:33:21.960
him as the best quarterback in the
game. He should be playing in the

501
00:33:22.039 --> 00:33:25.000
UFL, but we'll see him in
the ELF and dominate for the Barcelona dragons.

502
00:33:25.000 --> 00:33:28.359
I'm excited for that one. Well, I appreciate I tell you,

503
00:33:28.359 --> 00:33:30.240
we years ago we hitched our ragon
to the wrong. I'm like, oh,

504
00:33:30.279 --> 00:33:34.319
this USFL thing is gonna you know, in the accident, Like here

505
00:33:34.359 --> 00:33:37.319
elf going into year four here and
they're crushing it and selling good and everything

506
00:33:37.359 --> 00:33:42.440
else. I yeah, we hitched
our right wrong. So I appreciate it.

507
00:33:42.480 --> 00:33:50.160
Busy guy is always thanks so much, appreciate your reed. Well,

508
00:33:50.200 --> 00:33:52.920
we have Ted here today. Ted's
a little on the men, but he's

509
00:33:52.960 --> 00:33:55.480
taking the time to come on here. I appreciate it. Ted Wyman here,

510
00:33:55.480 --> 00:33:59.799
Winnipegson. How are you doing,
sir. I'm doing great, buddy.

511
00:34:00.240 --> 00:34:02.359
You know, I always like it
when the CFL season gets going.

512
00:34:02.400 --> 00:34:07.880
It's just that's my time of year. I love training camp. I love

513
00:34:07.039 --> 00:34:12.199
doing a job that you're sitting outside
for most of the time, getting to

514
00:34:12.280 --> 00:34:17.440
know people, hearing great stories from
guys that have great stories from all parts

515
00:34:17.480 --> 00:34:22.039
of this continent and even overseas.
So that's a lot of fun. And

516
00:34:23.320 --> 00:34:29.719
and we've bombers had a very early
preseason game already this year too, which

517
00:34:29.760 --> 00:34:34.880
is a little strange, but I
guess I think it's good to get started

518
00:34:34.880 --> 00:34:38.280
a little earlier because the league really
wants to move up the Great Cup and

519
00:34:38.599 --> 00:34:44.960
rightly so, the better chance of
every game played without a lot of snow

520
00:34:45.000 --> 00:34:49.480
and cold is the best plan you
can have. And this year NBC anyway,

521
00:34:49.519 --> 00:34:52.760
so I guess it doesn't matter.
Well, I was surprised, yeah,

522
00:34:52.760 --> 00:34:53.639
because I looked and I'm like,
oh God, okay, because I

523
00:34:53.679 --> 00:34:57.039
was like, are there more do
I got to hit up some more people

524
00:34:57.079 --> 00:34:59.239
this week. I'm like one of
the rest of the games for this weekend,

525
00:34:59.280 --> 00:35:01.000
they had their early game. Any
indication why, just kind of getting

526
00:35:01.000 --> 00:35:06.320
things rolling. Well, the Bombers
start on the sixth, so if you're

527
00:35:06.320 --> 00:35:09.920
going to get in two games,
you have to do it over three weeks

528
00:35:12.360 --> 00:35:15.679
for two week two games for each
team. So someone had to start,

529
00:35:15.840 --> 00:35:22.360
you know, just one game on
the Victoria Day holiday here and the Riders

530
00:35:22.440 --> 00:35:27.519
like to have that game because they
think it's a good day to have a

531
00:35:27.519 --> 00:35:32.639
football game on a holiday in Reagina. And so that started out pretty early,

532
00:35:32.679 --> 00:35:37.360
and a lot of backup players played
for the Bombers and we learned a

533
00:35:37.360 --> 00:35:39.920
bit about them. So I think
that was really good. But you know,

534
00:35:39.920 --> 00:35:43.639
when they get out there for their
second preseason game, which is on

535
00:35:43.719 --> 00:35:46.559
May thirty. First, we're going
to see a lot more what the real

536
00:35:46.719 --> 00:35:52.400
real Bombers will look like. Yeah, preseason always especially the CFL and kind

537
00:35:52.400 --> 00:35:53.679
of working a lot of guys.
And yet what, I guess what what

538
00:35:53.840 --> 00:35:57.800
major takeaways did you have from the
preseason game? They won, right against

539
00:35:57.800 --> 00:36:01.480
the scotchwan Man. No, it's
preseason, but they didn't win. And

540
00:36:01.599 --> 00:36:07.280
really after the so they didn't even
start Kolaros, They didn't start a lot

541
00:36:07.320 --> 00:36:10.320
of guys that you would deem as
regular starters. So the guys that were

542
00:36:10.320 --> 00:36:15.320
out there as starters, even those
players really only played at quarter and they

543
00:36:15.360 --> 00:36:19.760
were in pretty good shape. Then, you know, Chris Streveler was doing

544
00:36:19.760 --> 00:36:22.239
a good job. He was doing
everything that he did the last time he

545
00:36:22.280 --> 00:36:28.000
was here running the football. He
was seven for eight passing for I think

546
00:36:28.159 --> 00:36:32.960
sixty five yards, three runs for
twenty five. This typical Chris Streveler,

547
00:36:34.559 --> 00:36:37.760
And so I think people are happy
to see that he still looks like a

548
00:36:37.800 --> 00:36:39.760
guy who was a good CFL quarterback. You know, he gave it a

549
00:36:39.760 --> 00:36:44.440
pretty good run in the NFL too, but just didn't quite get there.

550
00:36:45.320 --> 00:36:52.800
And then when they're second and third
quarterbacks came in for that game. It

551
00:36:52.960 --> 00:36:55.760
was a little uglier and when you
know, a lot of lower on the

552
00:36:55.760 --> 00:37:00.480
depth chart guys as well, guys
who'd never been in a game together,

553
00:37:00.519 --> 00:37:05.519
communicating, et cetera, it didn't
go so well. Eric Barrier came in

554
00:37:05.559 --> 00:37:08.119
as a backup, the first choice
at backup, because I think that's the

555
00:37:08.119 --> 00:37:12.719
player they want to see most.
I really think he's the most likely to

556
00:37:12.760 --> 00:37:15.840
be heading out of town soon anyway. But he had a horrible game,

557
00:37:15.280 --> 00:37:21.960
which to help, two terrible interceptions, barely got any offensive yards at all,

558
00:37:22.599 --> 00:37:28.360
and you know, just nothing went
well for him. But Trey Wilson

559
00:37:28.440 --> 00:37:32.840
or Terry Wilson, the other quarterback
who has a nice pedigree, looked really

560
00:37:32.880 --> 00:37:36.719
good. You know, he played
well. He threw for over one hundred

561
00:37:36.800 --> 00:37:40.320
yards, threw a touchdown pass.
It was late, but nonetheless it was

562
00:37:42.039 --> 00:37:45.800
and he looked pretty calm and cool
in there. So that's probably going to

563
00:37:45.840 --> 00:37:51.280
be your third stream quarterback here in
Winnipeg. And you know a guy that

564
00:37:51.360 --> 00:37:54.280
I think it looks like could probably
step in and help them if any of

565
00:37:54.320 --> 00:38:00.519
the one or two get hurt in
terms of streveler, Is us a bit

566
00:38:00.599 --> 00:38:01.920
I mean, is this a fan
move? Is this that. Do you

567
00:38:01.920 --> 00:38:05.199
think he still got a lot of
juice in his tank here. I mean,

568
00:38:05.199 --> 00:38:07.920
I know people were really excited when
they posted all that stuff kind of

569
00:38:07.960 --> 00:38:10.360
in the offseason. Well, he
came to them, man, you know,

570
00:38:10.639 --> 00:38:15.519
like he decided he wanted to keep
his journey going forward in the CFL.

571
00:38:17.000 --> 00:38:21.559
Still got lots of years in him
for the game, and he loved

572
00:38:21.599 --> 00:38:24.400
his time here in Winnipeg. So
he came to them, and you know,

573
00:38:24.559 --> 00:38:30.719
they did show interest right away.
But then when word got out in

574
00:38:30.760 --> 00:38:35.320
the league that Strebler was definitely coming
back, there was a few other teams

575
00:38:35.320 --> 00:38:38.199
that started to throw their hat in
the ring, and you know, basically

576
00:38:38.239 --> 00:38:44.000
what they served to do is get
the salary bumped up. You know,

577
00:38:44.239 --> 00:38:46.519
the Bombers thought it was a pretty
good deal for them because they're going to

578
00:38:46.599 --> 00:38:52.639
pay this guy non starter money and
he was willing to do it. He

579
00:38:52.800 --> 00:38:55.400
made a lot of money during his
time in the NFL, so that's kind

580
00:38:55.400 --> 00:39:00.880
of good on him. And eventually
they got the deal done and he's a

581
00:39:01.199 --> 00:39:06.199
he's sure enthusiastic. I'll tell you, he's a you know, you're losing

582
00:39:06.280 --> 00:39:10.559
leaders from this team, right like
you're losing JaMarcus Hardrick. He's one of

583
00:39:10.559 --> 00:39:13.880
the biggest leaders this team has had
in a long time. He's a long

584
00:39:13.920 --> 00:39:17.719
time defensive captain. Adam big Hill's
going on the six game injury list,

585
00:39:17.800 --> 00:39:21.239
which you know, I don't know
how long he's going to be out,

586
00:39:21.280 --> 00:39:25.920
but really starting without the veteran presence
that's been in the middle since twenty eighteen,

587
00:39:27.559 --> 00:39:30.480
they're going to have to find some
leadership in this group for sure,

588
00:39:30.079 --> 00:39:36.880
and I think you know that Mike
O'Shea would tell you that Chris Treveler is

589
00:39:36.920 --> 00:39:40.679
the best bet to make up for
what they're lacking because he's just a great

590
00:39:40.719 --> 00:39:45.840
leader, a great motivator. In
terms of kind of I guess wad on

591
00:39:45.880 --> 00:39:49.960
the chip on the shoulder here coming
into the season, Winnipeg, Are you

592
00:39:50.000 --> 00:39:52.159
sensing a lot of that, I
mean just after last season or what's what's

593
00:39:52.239 --> 00:39:57.159
kind of the mindset of the locker
room? Oh, chip on the shoulder

594
00:39:57.239 --> 00:40:01.679
for sure, you know they it's
pretty tough. Man like this team could

595
00:40:01.960 --> 00:40:07.960
legitimately before time in a row Great
Cup champions. I think anyone who watched

596
00:40:07.000 --> 00:40:12.840
the last two Great Cups could say
Winnipeg absolutely could have or should have won

597
00:40:12.880 --> 00:40:19.760
those games. And so to lose
last year to Montreal was heartbreaking. They

598
00:40:19.760 --> 00:40:22.840
felt they were the much better team
and they blew it, you know,

599
00:40:23.000 --> 00:40:29.119
basically, and so obviously they come
in with that chip on the shoulder that

600
00:40:29.159 --> 00:40:32.280
they want to get back there one
more time and prove it, and that

601
00:40:32.280 --> 00:40:36.760
that that you know, you know, if you can get three out of

602
00:40:36.800 --> 00:40:40.679
the last five, you know,
that's still in the dynasty territory, isn't

603
00:40:40.719 --> 00:40:45.119
it. Yeah, you're kind of
stretching out the definition. But I agree,

604
00:40:45.119 --> 00:40:51.599
I agree on the territory. So
there's a chance there. But I

605
00:40:51.639 --> 00:41:00.000
don't see the same level of quality
of team right now that they had last

606
00:41:00.039 --> 00:41:04.880
year or the year before. As
as it goes. You know, they've

607
00:41:04.920 --> 00:41:09.719
lost some really good players and they're
replacing them in camp. That's what you're

608
00:41:09.760 --> 00:41:15.519
supposed to do. You can't just
assume that a rookie is going to be

609
00:41:15.559 --> 00:41:19.159
bad. You know, there's a
good chance that that rookie's going to be

610
00:41:19.159 --> 00:41:23.079
good. Not long ago, the
Bombers brought in Dalton shown as a you

611
00:41:23.079 --> 00:41:28.239
know, number twenty three on the
depth chart guy, and he ended up

612
00:41:28.280 --> 00:41:30.320
making the team, became Rookie of
the Year. It's been one of the

613
00:41:30.360 --> 00:41:34.119
best receivers in the league for two
years and they managed to get him back.

614
00:41:35.960 --> 00:41:39.800
You know, that's going to be
really helpful. And they've still got

615
00:41:39.880 --> 00:41:44.800
veterans in the right places, you
know, like Willie Jefferson, Big Hill

616
00:41:44.840 --> 00:41:47.280
when he comes back, Brandon Alexander
at safety when he comes back. He

617
00:41:47.320 --> 00:41:53.480
hasn't practiced yet. And then of
course you've got arguably the best quarterback in

618
00:41:53.480 --> 00:41:59.239
the league in Zach Klarows and I'd
say definitely the best running back in the

619
00:41:59.280 --> 00:42:04.159
league Brady oli Era. And they
love their receiving corps that's still pretty consistent.

620
00:42:04.159 --> 00:42:07.800
They're just basically looking for one guy
and as I already mentioned, you

621
00:42:07.840 --> 00:42:13.400
know, you only have to look
so far as Dalton's shown to realize that

622
00:42:13.840 --> 00:42:19.119
sometimes you can find a jam and
have somebody that really impacts your team.

623
00:42:19.920 --> 00:42:22.719
And that's what happened, was shown, and of course they'll look hope that

624
00:42:22.719 --> 00:42:27.719
that'll happen again with the ol Era
thing. And I know because he was

625
00:42:27.800 --> 00:42:30.719
kind of testing the market, right
And I think, BC, I'm trying

626
00:42:30.719 --> 00:42:32.679
to because this was like ages ago, I got a whole UFL season here,

627
00:42:32.719 --> 00:42:37.400
I'm trying to like remember back to
but because that to me would have

628
00:42:37.440 --> 00:42:39.400
been a really game changing signing for
a lot of teams. I mean,

629
00:42:39.559 --> 00:42:43.679
I thought, with him being back
now and happy with that, do you

630
00:42:43.760 --> 00:42:45.480
do you sense that like that that
if you got to BC, I mean,

631
00:42:45.519 --> 00:42:51.559
that's like turning the tides in a
big way. Dude, I would

632
00:42:51.559 --> 00:42:53.719
not even be able to remember which
league I were covering if I were you.

633
00:42:54.000 --> 00:43:01.760
So there's been so many evolutions there. But Grady loves Winnipeg. He

634
00:43:01.840 --> 00:43:07.480
loves representing Winnipeg, he loves being
a huge part of the Blue Bomber organization,

635
00:43:07.599 --> 00:43:10.320
and it is what he wanted all
along. But he wasn't going to

636
00:43:10.440 --> 00:43:15.000
let them walk all over him.
He wasn't going to let them just say,

637
00:43:15.400 --> 00:43:19.599
well, you love Winnipeg, we
love you, so you know,

638
00:43:19.840 --> 00:43:23.280
why don't you just take two hundred
grand or whatever? He wanted more?

639
00:43:23.880 --> 00:43:27.239
You know, he wanted to get
two fifty. That was his target.

640
00:43:28.039 --> 00:43:30.559
He got offered more than that.
He got offered two fifty from one team

641
00:43:30.599 --> 00:43:36.079
I think, and two seventy five
from another, and he chose to come

642
00:43:36.119 --> 00:43:39.159
back here for I think it was
something like two thirty six. You know,

643
00:43:39.320 --> 00:43:44.159
still the highest paid running back in
the league, and rightly show so

644
00:43:44.440 --> 00:43:49.239
when you're the you know, most
outstanding Canadian. You were the runner up

645
00:43:49.280 --> 00:43:52.639
to the most outstanding player in the
league. You deserve that. And now

646
00:43:52.679 --> 00:43:55.599
he's just in his happy place.
But he hasn't even practiced yet. He's

647
00:43:55.639 --> 00:43:59.519
been injured, so they didn't put
him on the six games. So I'm

648
00:43:59.559 --> 00:44:02.679
assuming that's okay. They got a
little time, right, like they really

649
00:44:02.719 --> 00:44:07.440
need to evaluate players this year that
they don't know. So they had a

650
00:44:07.440 --> 00:44:12.119
full week before their first game.
Now they have a full week before a

651
00:44:12.199 --> 00:44:15.559
day off, and then they have
a full week to prepare for their last

652
00:44:15.000 --> 00:44:20.320
exhibition game or preseason game. And
I imagine we're going to see Brady back

653
00:44:20.719 --> 00:44:24.800
next week. Demski two, probably, but it's hard to say for sure

654
00:44:24.840 --> 00:44:30.440
because we just haven't gotten much of
an update on their health situations. In

655
00:44:30.519 --> 00:44:34.119
terms of the West here, you
know, I know that we're Edmonton's making

656
00:44:34.119 --> 00:44:36.760
the big swing with McLeod and everything
else, and you know, I mean,

657
00:44:36.800 --> 00:44:38.920
Calgary vade the playoffs and the kind
of everything. But to me,

658
00:44:39.000 --> 00:44:42.960
the road kind of goes through BC, right, And obviously there's a lot

659
00:44:42.960 --> 00:44:45.440
of pressure on them this year with
the Gray Cup and everything else. Do

660
00:44:45.559 --> 00:44:47.519
you sense that what do you send
them just the rest of the West year.

661
00:44:47.599 --> 00:44:51.840
Generally speaking, I don't know about
pressure. I mean, it's interesting

662
00:44:51.840 --> 00:44:54.079
because it is a home Great Cup
for the Lions, and man, won't

663
00:44:54.159 --> 00:45:00.519
that be fun? You can wear
your Lion shirt everywhere. Yeah, And

664
00:45:00.199 --> 00:45:07.320
and you know, you you have
a situation there where you've got a chance

665
00:45:07.360 --> 00:45:09.920
to win at home and you really
want to do that. The Bombers want

666
00:45:09.920 --> 00:45:14.320
to do it next year, you
know, they really really want to do

667
00:45:14.400 --> 00:45:17.199
that. They want to keep building
this momentum that's gone really well in BC

668
00:45:17.400 --> 00:45:24.000
in terms of of attendance last year
and the great atmosphere outside the stadium and

669
00:45:24.039 --> 00:45:29.079
all that kind of stuff. So
you know, they've loaded up a lot.

670
00:45:29.119 --> 00:45:34.039
They lost a couple of guys too, but they've you know, I

671
00:45:34.039 --> 00:45:38.159
think they I would pretty much peg
them as first place in the division,

672
00:45:38.199 --> 00:45:44.199
to be honest, I'm not sure
there's pressure there. I just think there's

673
00:45:44.239 --> 00:45:47.559
a lot of desire there to make
sure they finished first in the West and

674
00:45:49.039 --> 00:45:51.559
get through to the Great Cup.
But second in the West would be good

675
00:45:51.599 --> 00:45:57.880
too. And then you know,
Winnipeg I think is right in the mix.

676
00:45:58.840 --> 00:46:00.519
I feel like they're going to be
a drop off there, but I

677
00:46:00.519 --> 00:46:04.559
think you know, they've been they
haven't lost very many games the last two

678
00:46:04.599 --> 00:46:07.239
years. So if it was a
drop off, is that twelve and six,

679
00:46:08.159 --> 00:46:12.440
you know, is that eleven and
seven? Those are both gonna be

680
00:46:12.440 --> 00:46:15.400
good enough to make the playoffs.
And I think they're going to recognize that

681
00:46:15.599 --> 00:46:19.280
just because you know, one of
the one of the two times they did

682
00:46:19.320 --> 00:46:22.400
win the Great Cup they did,
they came from third place. So it's

683
00:46:22.440 --> 00:46:30.599
not that necessary to completely kill yourself
trying to win the division and UH and

684
00:46:30.599 --> 00:46:35.360
when you when you end up not
winning the Great Cup. Saskatchewan I think

685
00:46:35.480 --> 00:46:38.599
is my third favorite in UH in
the West. I think they've got a

686
00:46:38.599 --> 00:46:46.519
pretty good team, good depth at
quarterback. Man, like we saw tiny

687
00:46:46.519 --> 00:46:52.519
bit of Trevor Harris and Mason Fine
Fine. Shape Patterson was outstanding. He

688
00:46:52.599 --> 00:46:55.880
had a tremendous game. And they
threw Jack Cohane in there as well,

689
00:46:55.920 --> 00:47:00.760
So they had four different guys in
there, but they all handled themselves pretty

690
00:47:00.760 --> 00:47:04.760
well. And I really was impressed
with what Shape Atterson did. So I

691
00:47:04.760 --> 00:47:08.760
could see it being you know,
Harris, Oh, they also had Antonio

692
00:47:08.840 --> 00:47:16.079
Pipkin in there. I would thank
him and Harris, Like the original idea

693
00:47:16.119 --> 00:47:23.239
would have been maybe Harris and Mason
Fine and Antonio Pipkin. But I think

694
00:47:23.519 --> 00:47:28.480
Shape Patterson has made a great case
to be one of the three guys on

695
00:47:28.519 --> 00:47:32.760
that team. Former number one USFL
twenty twenty two draft pick there, Shape

696
00:47:32.800 --> 00:47:38.760
Patterson came in. It was not
huh you pull those numbers out? Yes,

697
00:47:40.199 --> 00:47:44.599
So there you go. Last question
here. I won't keep you too

698
00:47:44.599 --> 00:47:45.599
long on it. Like I said, you're on the men here. Biggest

699
00:47:45.679 --> 00:47:49.679
questions you have here for the winning
for the Bombers to figure out here in

700
00:47:49.719 --> 00:47:52.440
the next what two and a half
weeks here before the season kickoff? Uh

701
00:47:54.199 --> 00:48:00.320
yeah, who's gonna who's going to
be the fifth receiver? I've it was

702
00:48:00.320 --> 00:48:02.960
going to be kJ Hill, but
apparently he just wasn't very healthy and so

703
00:48:04.079 --> 00:48:08.920
they let him go. I like
Myron Mitchell this week. I liked Aaron

704
00:48:09.000 --> 00:48:14.719
Crookshank this week. I think they
really want to get a guy in there

705
00:48:14.800 --> 00:48:17.920
that can, like maybe there's room
for two receivers because one of them is

706
00:48:17.960 --> 00:48:22.679
going to be the primary kick returner
and the other one's going to be the

707
00:48:22.880 --> 00:48:27.599
you know, the number five receiver
in that lineup. So that's a pretty

708
00:48:27.639 --> 00:48:32.960
good battle spot the defensive line there, you know, Doug Brown said before

709
00:48:34.000 --> 00:48:37.239
the broadcast the other day that that
was the biggest area of concern for him.

710
00:48:37.280 --> 00:48:42.519
And he's an All Star Hall of
Fame defensive lineman, so I think

711
00:48:42.519 --> 00:48:49.400
he knows. But they've got Willie
Jefferson and then they got Cam Lawson and

712
00:48:49.800 --> 00:48:54.920
Jake Thomas there as veterans. But
then who's going to handle the inside and

713
00:48:54.960 --> 00:48:59.920
who and that'll probably be an American, And who's going to handle the outside

714
00:49:00.360 --> 00:49:05.920
opposed to Jefferson. That is up
in the air, and I think the

715
00:49:05.960 --> 00:49:15.679
candidates are celestein Haba who was here
last year, and Chauncey Rivers. He's

716
00:49:15.719 --> 00:49:19.639
got some NFL experience and he looked
really good in his first game, and

717
00:49:19.800 --> 00:49:22.159
Taiwan Garbett who was here last year
as well a bit and he got a

718
00:49:22.199 --> 00:49:25.800
sack last game. He looked really
good, And so that's pretty important.

719
00:49:25.840 --> 00:49:30.920
Who's going to start at a linebacker? If Adam big Hull can't go,

720
00:49:30.079 --> 00:49:36.159
like nothing jumps off the page for
me completely there. But they're going to

721
00:49:36.280 --> 00:49:39.079
have to make sure they get somebody
confident in there because that's they really rely

722
00:49:39.239 --> 00:49:44.679
on him. So that's going to
be an interesting one. Defensive back,

723
00:49:44.719 --> 00:49:49.039
will Tyrrell Ford get a chance to
start in the CFL is a big question

724
00:49:49.119 --> 00:49:53.519
for me. I think he's got
a really good shot of playing at field

725
00:49:53.599 --> 00:49:59.880
halfback, so or maybe not field
halfback but field corner, I should say.

726
00:50:00.880 --> 00:50:02.440
So that would be really exciting,
I think. And it would be

727
00:50:02.440 --> 00:50:10.000
even more exciting if Edmonton hadn't kind
of not given tray Ford his opportunity and

728
00:50:10.239 --> 00:50:15.039
signed to McLeod Bethel Thompson. So
I'd love to see those two guys playing

729
00:50:15.039 --> 00:50:17.360
against EETs other in a game and
it would be a lot of fun,

730
00:50:19.599 --> 00:50:22.440
real quick. Last thing, because
I'm Dave Campbell's going to be onto this

731
00:50:22.440 --> 00:50:24.000
weekest, Well, bit, are
you just baffled by this trade forward thing

732
00:50:24.079 --> 00:50:28.719
with McLeod, like we all hear
stateside, just can't get over it.

733
00:50:28.760 --> 00:50:30.039
But I'm just curious your thoughts real
quick, and I'll let you go,

734
00:50:30.000 --> 00:50:32.480
I promise. Well, it just
doesn't make a ton of sense to me,

735
00:50:34.519 --> 00:50:40.480
Like how are you going to develop
tray Ford? But Jones doesn't want

736
00:50:40.480 --> 00:50:44.679
to be in a developing position.
He wants to be a contender for the

737
00:50:44.679 --> 00:50:49.480
playoffs right now, and they might
be. And mbt is is a good

738
00:50:49.559 --> 00:50:52.000
quarterback. He showed what he could
do with Toronto a couple of years ago.

739
00:50:52.039 --> 00:50:58.119
They've got great receivers there that could
make a real difference. But I

740
00:50:58.159 --> 00:51:00.039
hope they give some reps to tray
forord. I think, you know,

741
00:51:00.119 --> 00:51:02.800
like there's a good opportunity to put
him in there to just run the football,

742
00:51:04.559 --> 00:51:08.440
use tray Ford like the Bombers used
Chris Treveler, and then that might

743
00:51:08.480 --> 00:51:15.320
work pretty well. But as long
as nobody's taken away this guy's opportunity,

744
00:51:15.880 --> 00:51:17.800
because I think he looked last year
like he was on the fast track to

745
00:51:17.840 --> 00:51:22.280
becoming a star, and I don't
like that now he's had a little over

746
00:51:22.320 --> 00:51:27.800
that shine taken off. Well there
you go, Ted, go get some

747
00:51:27.880 --> 00:51:30.800
rest. I appreciate you making the
time today means a lot, and we'll

748
00:51:30.840 --> 00:51:32.159
get you on here when you're back
up to full speed. I appreciate it.

749
00:51:32.400 --> 00:51:36.039
You got it, buddy, Thank
you very much. Enjoy the season.

750
00:51:39.920 --> 00:51:45.159
Well, I'm excited here a familiar
face, probably in better spirits,

751
00:51:45.159 --> 00:51:46.880
and I think the last time we
talked he was like a therapy session about

752
00:51:46.920 --> 00:51:50.480
the Alex at the end of last
season here. But we have Dave Campbell

753
00:51:50.559 --> 00:51:52.920
here on the city a buzz,
but probably not with CFL more NHL right

754
00:51:52.960 --> 00:51:55.199
now, but how are you doing, sir. I'm doing great, and

755
00:51:55.320 --> 00:52:00.000
you are correct read and it's just
nice to see you. I know you're

756
00:52:00.039 --> 00:52:05.079
a big Oiler fan. Not no, you're right. I mean, it's

757
00:52:05.199 --> 00:52:08.920
it's it's fever pitch here. Just
a great series against the Vancouver Canucks and

758
00:52:09.400 --> 00:52:14.320
you know, the Dallas Stars.
It's interesting because you know, the last

759
00:52:14.360 --> 00:52:15.599
time these two played, I think
was two thousand and three, so that's

760
00:52:15.599 --> 00:52:19.920
twenty one years ago. There's a
lot of people that are Oiler fans that

761
00:52:20.119 --> 00:52:27.320
wouldn't remember really the oil Oilers and
Stars rivalry, let alone the five Stanley

762
00:52:27.320 --> 00:52:31.159
Cups from eighty four to ninety right, So there's a lot of new for

763
00:52:31.239 --> 00:52:35.000
a lot of Oiler fans, you
know, and someone from like myself,

764
00:52:35.039 --> 00:52:37.679
it's just, you know, kind
of cool to see these two teams meet

765
00:52:37.719 --> 00:52:39.360
again. It's great. Well,
no, and so I mean, first

766
00:52:39.440 --> 00:52:43.599
off, and I was just reading
fights at training camp. We'll talk about

767
00:52:43.599 --> 00:52:45.440
here, but I want it because
you know, the Elks are in the

768
00:52:45.480 --> 00:52:49.880
really tricky situation here were the last
couple of seasons and here, you know,

769
00:52:50.000 --> 00:52:52.119
I mean, even if they do
it even deeper, run here with

770
00:52:52.159 --> 00:52:54.559
the Oilers and then the Elks come
in trying to get those dollars from the

771
00:52:54.599 --> 00:52:58.239
fans, Like do you, I
mean, what's your thoughts on that.

772
00:52:58.280 --> 00:53:00.519
I mean, I know it's good
for the station and every that way,

773
00:53:00.559 --> 00:53:02.039
but it fans, you know,
trying to get these people back onto the

774
00:53:02.119 --> 00:53:07.119
Edmonton Elks band legon. Well,
I think it's just I mean, it's

775
00:53:07.159 --> 00:53:09.599
out of their control. They can't
do anything about it, right, and

776
00:53:10.320 --> 00:53:15.360
I think you have to enjoy the
ride, you know, support the Oilers.

777
00:53:16.079 --> 00:53:19.639
I think there are a lot of
fans that are fans of both the

778
00:53:19.639 --> 00:53:23.440
Oilers and Elks. But no question, does this maybe affect the bottom line

779
00:53:23.559 --> 00:53:28.920
initially for the Elks? It might. I mean we'll see what the attendance

780
00:53:29.000 --> 00:53:32.320
is like on Saturday and how well
the Rider fans travel to a preseason game

781
00:53:32.840 --> 00:53:37.400
in Edmonton. But yeah, I
mean there's nothing they can do about it,

782
00:53:37.559 --> 00:53:42.159
you know. And it's possible that
they're both their preseason games will be

783
00:53:42.400 --> 00:53:45.760
inside the confines of a conference final, because the game on the thirty first

784
00:53:45.760 --> 00:53:51.360
against the Lions in Vancouver is potential
Game five, and there's potential that there's

785
00:53:51.360 --> 00:53:54.599
a Stanley Cup Final that they have
to compete with the Oilers being in it.

786
00:53:57.079 --> 00:53:59.320
But there's nothing they can do about
it, you know, and it's

787
00:54:00.079 --> 00:54:05.719
it's probably just again, it's just
circumstantially, it's not a great situation because

788
00:54:05.760 --> 00:54:09.480
they're coming off of another bad season
with some optimism coming into this year,

789
00:54:09.559 --> 00:54:15.679
but I would say extremely cautious optimism
as well. But I think, you

790
00:54:15.719 --> 00:54:17.400
know, you just be supportive of
the of the team down the street and

791
00:54:17.440 --> 00:54:22.000
they are supportive of them as well. When they'll get going and we just

792
00:54:22.119 --> 00:54:24.519
enjoy the ride, there's nothing else
you can do. Yeah, what's the

793
00:54:24.639 --> 00:54:29.039
vibe right now? I mean,
obviously Eles have their first preseason game this

794
00:54:29.119 --> 00:54:32.159
weekend with Winnipeg and Saskatchewan had their
earlier this week, But like, what,

795
00:54:32.159 --> 00:54:35.800
what's the what's the mood? I
will get into this fight kind of

796
00:54:35.800 --> 00:54:37.280
stuff, but that's always just kind
of funny, sallacious whatever. But what

797
00:54:37.400 --> 00:54:40.880
is the general vibe you're going into
the season. Well, I think there's

798
00:54:40.920 --> 00:54:46.639
a there there's a lot of intrigue
about McLeod Bethel Thompson coming in as a

799
00:54:46.679 --> 00:54:52.719
new starter, tray Ford now the
number two quarterback. You know, there

800
00:54:52.719 --> 00:54:55.159
are a lot of argo flavor on
the team, you know, with Curly

801
00:54:55.159 --> 00:55:00.920
Gitton's coming over and Javon Leak and
you know, Boris Beatty and you know

802
00:55:00.000 --> 00:55:07.239
others, and the ownership situation as
well, the seventy fifth anniversary. I

803
00:55:07.239 --> 00:55:12.000
mean that first week I read,
before the season opener, it's almost like

804
00:55:12.000 --> 00:55:16.719
another home game for this organization because
so many legends and greats are coming back

805
00:55:17.400 --> 00:55:22.159
and they're going to do their annual
dinner again, which is usually in late

806
00:55:22.199 --> 00:55:24.760
September early October, but it's going
to be two days before the home opener,

807
00:55:24.840 --> 00:55:28.079
right, And I think I think
there's a good reason for that,

808
00:55:28.199 --> 00:55:32.000
because you want to have it celebratory
before the season starts instead of okay,

809
00:55:32.039 --> 00:55:36.480
potentially another bad season and oh,
come out to our dinner, you know,

810
00:55:36.599 --> 00:55:39.039
and people are kind of turned off
by the team, right. So

811
00:55:40.480 --> 00:55:43.920
yeah, I mean there's a I
think there's a lot of pressure on Chris

812
00:55:44.039 --> 00:55:47.719
Jones to win this year, and
that doesn't necessarily mean break up, but

813
00:55:47.840 --> 00:55:52.360
to show that this is a team
that is finally ready to win, ready

814
00:55:52.360 --> 00:55:55.800
to take the next step to make
the playoffs, to you know, maybe

815
00:55:55.840 --> 00:56:01.920
get to a division final. But
I think there's a lot of cautious optimism,

816
00:56:02.000 --> 00:56:06.159
and there is some pessimism of course. I mean, this team has

817
00:56:06.239 --> 00:56:08.760
to kind of earn their stripes,
I think, and we'll see. I

818
00:56:08.800 --> 00:56:14.280
mean there's things like the upper bowl
being closed, you know, which is

819
00:56:14.400 --> 00:56:17.559
unfortunate, but I think we all
understand that it probably it was a move

820
00:56:17.599 --> 00:56:21.280
that had to be made, and
hopefully they give, you know, fans

821
00:56:21.280 --> 00:56:24.199
give them a reason, the Elks
to open up that upper deck at certain

822
00:56:24.239 --> 00:56:28.400
points of the season as well.
So yeah, it's a combination of excitement,

823
00:56:28.440 --> 00:56:30.719
but I think there's a lot of
Okay, let's I just don't want

824
00:56:30.719 --> 00:56:34.280
to see more losses again. You
know, we got to see something different.

825
00:56:34.320 --> 00:56:37.960
Now. This has to be and
we've talked this slow bill with Chris

826
00:56:37.039 --> 00:56:38.920
Jones, you know, over the
last few years. I mean, this

827
00:56:38.960 --> 00:56:42.480
has to be right, meg or
break. I mean, this is I

828
00:56:42.480 --> 00:56:45.559
mean right, it's all the cards
on the table here, right. Yeah.

829
00:56:45.599 --> 00:56:50.800
I don't think he's foolish to think
that it's it's not any other way,

830
00:56:50.920 --> 00:56:53.480
right, Like, this is make
or break here, you win or

831
00:56:53.639 --> 00:56:58.760
you're done, right, And I
think he realizes that. And I think,

832
00:56:58.800 --> 00:57:02.599
you know, every foot ball season
you think that way. But at

833
00:57:02.599 --> 00:57:07.360
the same time, when you have
a team that really you go back to

834
00:57:07.440 --> 00:57:09.519
the twenty nineteen season, you know, the middle of the twenty nineteen season,

835
00:57:09.559 --> 00:57:13.440
even though they made an East final
that year, we haven't seen a

836
00:57:13.440 --> 00:57:15.440
lot of wins. You know,
even twenty eighteen was a struggle at nine

837
00:57:15.480 --> 00:57:20.920
to nine. So this is a
fan base that is starving for a winner

838
00:57:21.679 --> 00:57:24.119
from their football teams. And yeah, but I agree, like this is

839
00:57:24.159 --> 00:57:29.719
it for Chris Jones If we have
another season like we have seen the last

840
00:57:29.719 --> 00:57:31.119
two years, He's not going to
be back for a fourth year of that

841
00:57:31.199 --> 00:57:36.559
contract for sure. Well and just
even when we were talking about the Oilers

842
00:57:36.599 --> 00:57:39.119
here and obviously it's a different but
similar fan bases, and I haven't seen

843
00:57:39.239 --> 00:57:44.119
I've seen a lot of screenshots posted
of like when it was the Vancouver their

844
00:57:44.199 --> 00:57:46.039
side of the playoff tickets and how
expensive they were and all of that,

845
00:57:46.079 --> 00:57:50.239
And I have to imagine, Yeah, if I'm an Edmonton person and I've

846
00:57:50.280 --> 00:57:52.880
just spent you know a lot of
money or you know, either go into

847
00:57:52.960 --> 00:57:54.599
the games or watching the game support, and then you roll into the season

848
00:57:54.599 --> 00:57:58.719
like there's only so much and we
deal with this without the spring football all

849
00:57:58.760 --> 00:58:00.119
the time, and my people only
have how much band we have the money

850
00:58:00.119 --> 00:58:04.360
to do all these things. And
if I've just supported the successful hockey team

851
00:58:04.639 --> 00:58:07.039
it is. It just really does
put the pressure on for that way as

852
00:58:07.079 --> 00:58:09.559
well, because there's only so much
money to go around. Yeah, absolutely,

853
00:58:09.599 --> 00:58:14.119
and you know, it's it's tough
right now. And even the Oilers

854
00:58:14.159 --> 00:58:17.519
they had trouble selling out playoff games. It was mostly sold out. It

855
00:58:17.559 --> 00:58:22.000
was, you know, ninety nine
percent sold out. But yeah, there's

856
00:58:22.039 --> 00:58:24.519
only so much money to go around. And I think the Elks have done

857
00:58:24.519 --> 00:58:29.960
a good job of coming up with
the price points to bring people in at

858
00:58:30.000 --> 00:58:34.559
an affordable rate. And I think
they don't have a choice really, and

859
00:58:35.119 --> 00:58:38.119
you know, there's always the debate
of whether you should do that, whether

860
00:58:38.199 --> 00:58:45.079
you should how much you know,
what is is going is too what is

861
00:58:45.119 --> 00:58:51.119
too low? Basically, And again
when I say when I hear people say

862
00:58:51.800 --> 00:58:55.000
the CFL is expensive, I look
at them weirdly and I go go go

863
00:58:55.079 --> 00:58:58.800
find out what an order ticket costs. And nothing against the Oilers. It's

864
00:58:58.800 --> 00:59:01.960
the National Hockey League, I get
it. But you know, you are

865
00:59:02.039 --> 00:59:06.519
right though, you get kind of
you know, consumer fatigued, and well,

866
00:59:06.559 --> 00:59:07.840
how much more money do I need? You know, should I spend

867
00:59:07.840 --> 00:59:13.239
here? Right? But yeah,
so we'll see what happens. I mean

868
00:59:13.639 --> 00:59:16.960
I'm cautiously kind of walking into the
season and kind of waiting to see what

869
00:59:17.039 --> 00:59:22.960
happens, right and so, but
attendance wise, you know, we'll see.

870
00:59:22.199 --> 00:59:25.400
But the Elks have done a lot
of work to try and bring people

871
00:59:25.480 --> 00:59:30.519
in at an affordable rate. Last
question here about kind of non football and

872
00:59:30.559 --> 00:59:34.840
stuff that we'll get to that.
I promise he look in at your article

873
00:59:34.840 --> 00:59:37.159
here with the lost kind of you
know, from the meetings coming out,

874
00:59:37.239 --> 00:59:40.079
and then in terms of like the
ownership and all of that stuff, like

875
00:59:40.440 --> 00:59:45.440
any sense does that heighten there or
damper expectations on any of that stuff or

876
00:59:45.639 --> 00:59:49.000
I know that that's kind of outside
of your purview, but just kind of

877
00:59:49.320 --> 00:59:52.280
thoughts generally on that. No,
I don't think so. I mean,

878
00:59:52.840 --> 00:59:58.559
at one point they had twenty non
disclosure agreements signed with various people or groups.

879
00:59:59.079 --> 01:00:04.639
To me, that's remark arkable that
an organization that has struggled financially and

880
01:00:04.679 --> 01:00:07.280
has struggled, you know, in
the public eye over the last few years,

881
01:00:08.760 --> 01:00:13.760
has garnered that much interest. That's
impressive. So even going through a

882
01:00:13.840 --> 01:00:15.599
name change, that there's some power
in the brand, still a lot of

883
01:00:15.639 --> 01:00:20.360
power. So now they're down to
the to the short straws and you know,

884
01:00:20.400 --> 01:00:22.639
they've really whittled that list down.
You know, there's you know,

885
01:00:22.960 --> 01:00:25.840
mixture of local and not local and
that sort of thing, and that it

886
01:00:25.880 --> 01:00:30.119
should be all wrapped up sometime in
the summer, I believe, you know,

887
01:00:30.199 --> 01:00:34.760
I know that the board board chair
Tom Richards was putting a lot of

888
01:00:34.840 --> 01:00:37.199
runway to this and you know he
said, by the end of the twenty

889
01:00:37.239 --> 01:00:40.719
fourth season, but for sure by
the start of the twenty five season,

890
01:00:40.719 --> 01:00:45.639
we'll see private ownership. So I
don't think the results on the field are

891
01:00:45.639 --> 01:00:51.760
going to affect the ownership, and
I think that they're pretty confident that they're

892
01:00:51.760 --> 01:00:53.239
going to have a good, you
know, good group to come in and

893
01:00:53.760 --> 01:01:00.920
inject some cash and hopefully get this
franchise in the right direction. Yeah football

894
01:01:00.000 --> 01:01:02.679
here now, And this is coming
from a you know, we are all

895
01:01:02.719 --> 01:01:06.960
big mccob Bethel Thompson fans, right, all of us and kind of tracking

896
01:01:07.000 --> 01:01:10.159
his career. But you know,
we got to talk this tray forward and

897
01:01:10.159 --> 01:01:15.199
everything because we saw last year the
spark he gave and not only that,

898
01:01:15.239 --> 01:01:17.760
but we we kind of curtailed at
the end of the Ted Wyman's interview leading

899
01:01:17.800 --> 01:01:22.599
into this and just even just from
a trade Ford developmental standpoint, like,

900
01:01:22.639 --> 01:01:24.679
what does this do? I mean, thoughts an A big fan of McLeod

901
01:01:24.719 --> 01:01:27.679
and I get that this is a
make or break year for the Elks,

902
01:01:27.719 --> 01:01:30.079
but I really curious your thoughts on
this situation. Well, I mean,

903
01:01:30.159 --> 01:01:34.280
let's go back to last year.
He finally, tray Ford finally gets to

904
01:01:34.320 --> 01:01:38.199
start a game in the ninth game
of the season and then starts the rest

905
01:01:38.239 --> 01:01:43.400
of the way, but goes through
a stretch where they went four and two

906
01:01:43.559 --> 01:01:46.360
under him, and if you know, you look at it even further or

907
01:01:46.440 --> 01:01:51.000
deeper they went. They won four
or five games and got themselves kind of

908
01:01:51.039 --> 01:01:54.960
back into a playoff race. Then
the final four games happened and they based

909
01:01:55.000 --> 01:01:59.519
the four best teams in the league, the BC Lions, the Toronto Argonauts,

910
01:01:59.519 --> 01:02:02.280
the Montrealtes, and then the Winnipeg
Blue Bombers, right, And I

911
01:02:02.320 --> 01:02:07.519
thought trey Ford kind of came back
down to earth. And it's not all

912
01:02:07.519 --> 01:02:09.239
his fault, of course, I
mean, they're there are other factors involved

913
01:02:09.239 --> 01:02:16.519
here, but from the quarterback specifically, we saw some really dynamic things from

914
01:02:16.599 --> 01:02:22.400
him, and I think it really
full defenses and they couldn't handle what he

915
01:02:22.519 --> 01:02:25.760
was bringing and then all of a
sudden, they play the BC Lions on

916
01:02:25.920 --> 01:02:30.920
September twenty second, the start of
that four straight losses to end the season.

917
01:02:30.960 --> 01:02:37.119
It's a home game, and the
Lions adjust to trey Ford by sending

918
01:02:37.159 --> 01:02:40.679
defensive backs this way. Okay,
fine, We're just going to get speedy

919
01:02:40.719 --> 01:02:45.239
defensive backs to run right at you
and to trap you and confuse you.

920
01:02:45.400 --> 01:02:51.000
And it worked, right. Look, trey Ford is exciting, dynamic,

921
01:02:51.119 --> 01:02:55.440
athletic, but really raws a starting
quarterback, I believe. Now there's an

922
01:02:55.519 --> 01:03:02.000
argument I've heard this as well.
If trey Ford started earlier or started week

923
01:03:02.039 --> 01:03:06.599
one, which I don't think was
realistic, But what if he started week

924
01:03:06.599 --> 01:03:08.079
one in twenty three, could they
have made the playoffs? Could they have

925
01:03:08.159 --> 01:03:13.360
found a few more wins? And
could they have made the playoffs? Because

926
01:03:13.360 --> 01:03:15.320
remember Calgary made the playoffs with six
wins, so all you needed was seven,

927
01:03:15.360 --> 01:03:19.880
So you got to find three wins
somewhere. Could they have been found?

928
01:03:20.000 --> 01:03:22.920
You know, I think there's a
good argument to that. But you

929
01:03:22.000 --> 01:03:27.360
go into this year where the pressure
to win is so immense. You know,

930
01:03:27.440 --> 01:03:30.079
this is make or break for Chris
Jones and a lot of people within

931
01:03:30.119 --> 01:03:35.679
the organization from a football side of
things. Can you really trust trey Ford

932
01:03:35.719 --> 01:03:37.679
with that at this point? Is
it fair to tray Ford? No,

933
01:03:38.559 --> 01:03:43.800
if circumstances were different, might be
more, you know, a fair for

934
01:03:43.880 --> 01:03:46.239
trey Ford to you know, take
take a flyer on him, but you

935
01:03:46.280 --> 01:03:51.239
bring him McLeod Bethel Thompson, who
is an experienced quarterback who's been part of

936
01:03:51.280 --> 01:03:53.159
two great Cups. You know,
he was behind Ricky Ray for one in

937
01:03:53.239 --> 01:03:57.840
seventeen and then he won in twenty
two. I know he didn't play well

938
01:03:57.880 --> 01:04:00.000
in the greakup game, but he
was very good in that season. You

939
01:04:00.039 --> 01:04:02.800
know, in twenty one he was
a full time starter as well, and

940
01:04:03.239 --> 01:04:06.920
we saw him and you know spots
in you know, eighteen and nineteen as

941
01:04:06.960 --> 01:04:10.239
well. But you know, he
really came into his own in twenty one.

942
01:04:10.800 --> 01:04:14.159
Then he left for the USFL because
his wife is really big up in

943
01:04:14.199 --> 01:04:17.480
Marvel, and you know he plays
in the USFL. And look, it's

944
01:04:17.519 --> 01:04:20.480
the USFL. I know a lot
of people, it's the USFL. It's

945
01:04:20.519 --> 01:04:24.480
the USFL. It's a pro football
league. And he played very well,

946
01:04:24.559 --> 01:04:27.440
okay, and then he got the
itch to come back and I can tell

947
01:04:27.480 --> 01:04:30.239
you, I mean Chris Jones and
ger Roy Simon had their eye on McLeod

948
01:04:30.280 --> 01:04:32.679
after the USFL season, But that's
a lot of football for one man to

949
01:04:32.679 --> 01:04:38.760
play, right, and I think
McLoud comes in and we've seen the leadership

950
01:04:38.800 --> 01:04:43.280
that he brings. We've seen the
the fact that he talks to everyone.

951
01:04:43.360 --> 01:04:45.400
He talks to the other quarterbacks,
he talks to the running backs, receivers,

952
01:04:45.440 --> 01:04:49.039
offensive line, The defense takes notice
of him, and that's good to

953
01:04:49.039 --> 01:04:53.880
see. His mechanics are good.
You know, his decision making is usually

954
01:04:53.920 --> 01:04:57.760
good. He's going to make mistakes. Every quarterback does. For Trey Ford,

955
01:04:58.000 --> 01:05:00.400
I think this is important for him
to take a step back and to

956
01:05:00.480 --> 01:05:03.239
learn from a veteran how to prepare, how to read defenses, how to

957
01:05:03.360 --> 01:05:09.320
lead that all those sort of things. Trey was upset when when McLeod was

958
01:05:09.360 --> 01:05:12.000
signed. I don't blame him.
Of course, when you're told you're going

959
01:05:12.079 --> 01:05:14.599
to be number one going into camp
at the end of the twenty three season

960
01:05:15.239 --> 01:05:19.199
and then you know they changed their
basically change their tune management, does you're

961
01:05:19.199 --> 01:05:23.360
going to be upset? He wants
the football. If he wasn't upset,

962
01:05:23.360 --> 01:05:27.760
I'd have a I had more concerns
about him, but McLeod got on the

963
01:05:27.800 --> 01:05:31.840
phone right away and started building that
relationship with with Trey, and they talked

964
01:05:31.920 --> 01:05:36.719
constantly and you could see it in
camp that Trey and McLeod have a really

965
01:05:36.719 --> 01:05:42.719
good relationship and Trey is learning a
lot and I think his camp has been

966
01:05:43.039 --> 01:05:46.679
pretty solid. McLeod is far and
away the best quarterback there and I think

967
01:05:46.719 --> 01:05:49.519
it gives the Elks more than a
puncher's chance to have a good season.

968
01:05:51.280 --> 01:05:54.599
It's interesting. Yeah, I know
McCloud. I think they were. I

969
01:05:54.599 --> 01:05:59.639
think he was undefeated in the USFL
until he came on the show and it

970
01:05:59.679 --> 01:06:03.719
was you. I think it was
well so so Ben Holmes famously no showed

971
01:06:03.719 --> 01:06:06.199
the show and then went on and
won a great cup in the CFL and

972
01:06:06.599 --> 01:06:11.119
Cloud came on the show and then
so it's it's kind of the inverse relationship

973
01:06:11.159 --> 01:06:14.880
that way. But because I I
just you know, to me and I

974
01:06:15.679 --> 01:06:17.920
absolutely and the way that you phrased
that is really great. Where if if

975
01:06:17.960 --> 01:06:20.840
Trey had started earlier and what if
and all that, and there's certainly no

976
01:06:20.960 --> 01:06:24.599
ill will towards McCloud coming in.
I mean he wants to you know,

977
01:06:24.639 --> 01:06:28.440
everyone wants to play and lookout but
I mean McLeod Thompson is two years younger

978
01:06:28.440 --> 01:06:31.000
than me. I mean, this
isn't like exactly like a spring chicken here.

979
01:06:31.000 --> 01:06:35.760
But you know, to me,
the besides like Nathan Wark being Nathan

980
01:06:35.800 --> 01:06:40.159
Worke, what made that BC a
Lions team so cool was we could spend

981
01:06:40.199 --> 01:06:43.960
so much money on everybody else because
Nathan work was making you a penny.

982
01:06:44.079 --> 01:06:45.800
Yeah, and here you could have
had Trey Ford right, his rookie deals

983
01:06:45.880 --> 01:06:48.960
ending up here and so like,
I don't just surround that where they dumped

984
01:06:49.000 --> 01:06:53.199
so much money in McLeod, And
that to me is the concern where it's

985
01:06:53.239 --> 01:06:55.719
not like we're getting them for what
he's like five fifty. I mean it's

986
01:06:55.760 --> 01:07:00.159
a big contract, right, It's
big. Yeah, absolutely, So they

987
01:07:00.199 --> 01:07:02.800
had to make decisions in other areas
that I think it affected. You know,

988
01:07:04.079 --> 01:07:06.760
you know a C. Leonard wanted
a lot of money to come back

989
01:07:06.800 --> 01:07:10.440
and they couldn't do it. They
let him go, They let Ed Gainey

990
01:07:10.519 --> 01:07:15.159
go, they let Adam Conar go. He was making a good coin as

991
01:07:15.199 --> 01:07:18.519
well. Yeah, it does affect
other areas of the football team. But

992
01:07:20.119 --> 01:07:24.760
it's the pressure to win and they
trust him and they've worked with him because

993
01:07:24.920 --> 01:07:28.920
a lot of this coaching staff,
including Chris Jones, including the offensive coordinator,

994
01:07:29.639 --> 01:07:31.880
Jerry's Jackson, and Marcus Howell,
who's the receivers coach, who has

995
01:07:31.880 --> 01:07:36.000
a big hen in the offense as
well. They all know him and McLeod

996
01:07:36.039 --> 01:07:40.480
knows them, and there's a trust
there, So you know, I think

997
01:07:40.480 --> 01:07:43.840
that's why they went out and did
it. Looking here, like I said,

998
01:07:44.119 --> 01:07:46.000
first preseason game coming up this weekend
and then you've got a couple more

999
01:07:46.000 --> 01:07:48.480
weeks in camp. Whether are the
big kind of questions you're looking at here?

1000
01:07:48.519 --> 01:07:51.320
I mean besides obviously McLeod, but
kind of anything else team wise for

1001
01:07:51.360 --> 01:07:55.119
that, or you know, how
they protect him or anything else kind of

1002
01:07:55.119 --> 01:07:57.800
that you're going to have your eye
out for. Yeah, definitely the offensive

1003
01:07:57.800 --> 01:08:00.920
line for sure. Now McLeod gets
the ball out asked what's the old line

1004
01:08:00.960 --> 01:08:04.159
will like? So that's going to
help the old line for sure. But

1005
01:08:04.360 --> 01:08:08.880
beyond that, I mean, mcloud's
limited when you compare him to Tray,

1006
01:08:09.000 --> 01:08:13.360
right, So it'll be interesting to
see how McLeod handles some pressure if if

1007
01:08:13.400 --> 01:08:15.319
the writers you know, are able
to you know, send some blitz and

1008
01:08:15.520 --> 01:08:20.279
and see what McLeod is able to
handle and Mcloud's gonna want to know what

1009
01:08:20.319 --> 01:08:23.640
he can handle. I look at
the D line. The D line has

1010
01:08:23.760 --> 01:08:27.840
all kinds of question marks. Robert
and Dci has come in former first round

1011
01:08:27.840 --> 01:08:30.560
pick in the NFL with the Arizona
Cardinals and has been, you know,

1012
01:08:30.920 --> 01:08:35.199
underwhelming in his pro career, especially
in the NFL. He's come in hungry

1013
01:08:35.359 --> 01:08:41.880
and determined and has been a force
on the inside. Jamion Pelly has had

1014
01:08:41.920 --> 01:08:45.720
an interesting camp where they spent a
lot of time at jam in trying to

1015
01:08:45.039 --> 01:08:49.119
have him more in shape, but
they still see him as a starter and

1016
01:08:49.159 --> 01:08:53.039
we'll see what happens there. Elliott
Brown's coming in to kind of be that

1017
01:08:53.479 --> 01:08:58.880
Ac Lenard replacement. Noah Curtis came
in and he's thirty pounds heavier, you

1018
01:08:58.920 --> 01:09:02.800
know, one of these American Cans, and that's to me, it's it's

1019
01:09:02.840 --> 01:09:09.520
all about the D line, uh. And after that the secondary. You

1020
01:09:09.520 --> 01:09:13.640
know, you've got Kay Gray coming
back West nominee for Most Outstanding Rookie,

1021
01:09:13.680 --> 01:09:17.039
Darius Bratton's back, Marcus Lewis in
a limited time, had foreign receptions before

1022
01:09:17.199 --> 01:09:24.920
being hurt, and they look like
they're more confident, but they've lost leaders

1023
01:09:24.960 --> 01:09:28.319
on that team, like I said, you know, Gainey Conard Resna traded

1024
01:09:29.039 --> 01:09:31.800
lender not brought back. You got
Purefoy and you Gotnles Morgan as your as

1025
01:09:31.800 --> 01:09:38.199
your established leaders on that team.
So it'll be interesting to see what happens

1026
01:09:38.199 --> 01:09:43.319
with this young defense. The return
game Javon Leak is going to be exciting.

1027
01:09:43.359 --> 01:09:46.520
But they got Deontes Alexander who had
that kickoff return for a touchdown in

1028
01:09:46.560 --> 01:09:50.680
the final game for the Elks in
Winnipeg. And you got Malik Flowers back.

1029
01:09:50.760 --> 01:09:55.319
And we're going to see them in
the receiving core too, because Dylan

1030
01:09:55.359 --> 01:10:00.079
Mitchell is not going to play on
Saturday, so can American rece maybe bump

1031
01:10:00.159 --> 01:10:03.800
Dylan Mitchell off the pedestal right,
and he's coming off a tough year too,

1032
01:10:03.880 --> 01:10:08.760
So but for me, that D
line is going to be very interesting

1033
01:10:09.640 --> 01:10:14.119
to see how they performed because that's
probably the biggest question mark for the team.

1034
01:10:14.199 --> 01:10:16.279
I think the whole defense is the
is a big question mark and they

1035
01:10:16.319 --> 01:10:19.199
have to be a lot better than
they were last year. But no doubt

1036
01:10:19.239 --> 01:10:23.199
the D line. It starts up
front, and that'll be very interesting to

1037
01:10:23.239 --> 01:10:27.800
see how they can handle the game
situation. I was just tracking. I

1038
01:10:27.840 --> 01:10:30.560
guess I hadn't realized that stress and
I got traded there over to the Argo.

1039
01:10:30.640 --> 01:10:31.640
So, yeah, that's a big
I mean, he's he I think

1040
01:10:31.680 --> 01:10:34.399
they'd send them on the show here
a couple of seasons ago. But certainly,

1041
01:10:34.479 --> 01:10:38.239
I mean he's right. He had
some kind of injury staff where he

1042
01:10:38.319 --> 01:10:40.439
was hurting people. I mean,
he's played very well. I mean that's

1043
01:10:40.479 --> 01:10:44.479
kind definitely a big standout. Lost
there anything else from you? I know

1044
01:10:44.560 --> 01:10:46.239
you're you're bubbling with excite me here
for the oilers, and I have anything

1045
01:10:46.239 --> 01:10:48.800
else about the Alex before we get
out of here? Yeah, well you

1046
01:10:48.800 --> 01:10:51.800
don't want to talk about the fights? Oh yes, we got to talk

1047
01:10:51.800 --> 01:10:55.920
about the good Yes, well I
kind of because I kind of. Yes.

1048
01:10:56.079 --> 01:10:59.840
So what happened with the big kerfuffle
here? I saw the three down?

1049
01:11:00.960 --> 01:11:03.239
Yeah, it was, you know, altercation wise, it was a

1050
01:11:03.239 --> 01:11:06.760
little it was a little more than
what you normally expect. You know,

1051
01:11:06.880 --> 01:11:11.159
usually it's two guys one on O, one on D. They don't like

1052
01:11:11.199 --> 01:11:15.399
each other, so they tussle for
a few few minutes here or a few

1053
01:11:15.439 --> 01:11:20.239
seconds, and yeah there is love
it great headline, and this was a

1054
01:11:20.279 --> 01:11:24.000
little bit different. You could see
that this was brewing. You know,

1055
01:11:24.039 --> 01:11:27.000
there's a lot of It was a
twelve on twelve a drill. It was

1056
01:11:27.039 --> 01:11:31.439
between the A group offense and defense, and you could tell there was some

1057
01:11:31.520 --> 01:11:35.600
tension there and and then all of
a sudden it just boiled over. And

1058
01:11:36.880 --> 01:11:41.079
yeah, I'm trying to remember who
the principal people were. I can't really

1059
01:11:41.119 --> 01:11:44.920
remember because some everyone just kind of
got in there. But Javon Leak ended

1060
01:11:45.000 --> 01:11:46.800
up throwing a helmet, not at
anyone, but just threw it an open

1061
01:11:46.880 --> 01:11:50.520
field. And you know, pier
Foy was getting at some people and some

1062
01:11:50.640 --> 01:11:55.880
other members of defense and the offense, and you know, Chris Jones put

1063
01:11:55.920 --> 01:12:00.399
them all to the sidelines and made
him run with the field a few times

1064
01:12:00.439 --> 01:12:04.479
and had to change the whole schedule, or he chose to change the whole

1065
01:12:04.960 --> 01:12:10.399
schedule practice schedule, So he wasn't
happy. But at the end of the

1066
01:12:10.520 --> 01:12:15.279
day, I mean it's eleven days
in now it's twelve. They haven't played

1067
01:12:15.319 --> 01:12:18.600
anyone yet but themselves, and they're
sick of each other, right, I

1068
01:12:18.600 --> 01:12:21.239
mean they were sick of each other
by day two or three last week,

1069
01:12:21.560 --> 01:12:27.079
you know, and people got to
realize. I mean in the CFL any

1070
01:12:27.159 --> 01:12:30.159
league, I mean training camp's grueling
at six am to almost ten pm at

1071
01:12:30.239 --> 01:12:35.760
night, it's brutal, it's long
days. It's basically hotel to facility,

1072
01:12:36.199 --> 01:12:40.880
back to the hotel, sleep as
much as you can, and go back

1073
01:12:40.960 --> 01:12:45.600
right and they need to play against
someone else. So I'm not overly concerned

1074
01:12:45.600 --> 01:12:48.279
about it at all. I remember
one year was oh seven or eight,

1075
01:12:48.640 --> 01:12:53.279
when Danny Machoca was the head coach
here in Edmonton. I think in the

1076
01:12:53.279 --> 01:12:59.680
first seven days of camp there were
six fights and there was real Donnybrooks,

1077
01:13:00.119 --> 01:13:03.199
just real concern and there is a
lot of a lot of you know,

1078
01:13:03.239 --> 01:13:06.119
a lot of tension and a lot
of bad feelings, and I don't think

1079
01:13:06.199 --> 01:13:11.079
Danny handled it well. Where you
know, Chris Jones has done a good

1080
01:13:11.159 --> 01:13:14.239
job of handling that stuff. It's
like, you get that out of your

1081
01:13:14.239 --> 01:13:17.720
system now, because in the regular
season you can't do this. In the

1082
01:13:17.720 --> 01:13:20.239
playoffs you can't do this. And
I think that's important to note too.

1083
01:13:21.000 --> 01:13:26.319
When the days are long and your
emotions are afraid, and your body hurts

1084
01:13:26.399 --> 01:13:30.920
and your mind is tired, and
you're all you are is playing against your

1085
01:13:30.960 --> 01:13:34.239
teammate, and that's nothing about campus
your teammates. But during Camp sessions.

1086
01:13:34.279 --> 01:13:39.760
You're not your enemies. Your enemies. It can get to you, right

1087
01:13:40.239 --> 01:13:43.199
and get it out of the way
now because when the regular season comes,

1088
01:13:43.720 --> 01:13:45.119
you know, we don't really see
that. So I think Camp is really

1089
01:13:45.119 --> 01:13:48.319
good at getting all that fleshed out. But you just got to be careful.

1090
01:13:48.560 --> 01:13:53.279
You know, the line has to
be it's a very thin line between

1091
01:13:54.239 --> 01:13:56.880
that's no big deal to a point. We got a problem here. So

1092
01:13:57.359 --> 01:14:01.119
I think Chris Jones knew that and
he dealt with it yesterday. I'll tell

1093
01:14:01.119 --> 01:14:04.239
you, I think that you guys
made a tweak last year. These jerseys

1094
01:14:04.239 --> 01:14:08.439
are fire. I really like these
right, they a little bit I do.

1095
01:14:08.640 --> 01:14:11.479
Do you not like them? Some
people don't like them because of the

1096
01:14:11.479 --> 01:14:14.800
white numbers. Oh, I like
it. I think that's really clean.

1097
01:14:14.920 --> 01:14:18.000
Yeah, I can't invest it.
I have too many jerseys investments. I

1098
01:14:18.000 --> 01:14:21.359
can't get back. I have one
my one VC Lions jersey that someone sent

1099
01:14:21.399 --> 01:14:24.920
me. I can't get in anywhere
leagues. My wife will divorced me.

1100
01:14:26.039 --> 01:14:29.199
Well, Dave, I appreciate it. Like I said, you certainly have

1101
01:14:29.239 --> 01:14:31.359
a fan with me with the oilers
because Stars took us out last year.

1102
01:14:31.399 --> 01:14:34.560
So I have no ready interest in
that and Anthony Miller covers them and he

1103
01:14:34.640 --> 01:14:39.600
can just go the heck, and
so I appreciate it, Like I said,

1104
01:14:39.760 --> 01:14:42.279
taking time to come on. Hopefully
the season starts better. You know

1105
01:14:42.439 --> 01:14:45.600
last year we can get you back
on here doing non therapy sessions. But

1106
01:14:45.640 --> 01:14:46.640
no, I mean, I think
people are excited, at least mcclott,

1107
01:14:46.640 --> 01:14:48.880
at least it's a story. I
mean, it's a big story to track

1108
01:14:48.880 --> 01:14:53.159
in the West, and so I
think if nothing else, they should attracted

1109
01:14:53.199 --> 01:14:57.079
fans for the first few weeks because
of that, no question. Yeah,

1110
01:14:57.119 --> 01:14:59.560
it's good to talk ELX. This
is the best time of the year to

1111
01:14:59.560 --> 01:15:02.800
talk about the football team you cover
because everyone's on it all right, and

1112
01:15:02.840 --> 01:15:09.000
optimism is highest. So hopefully the
next time we talk we're talking about good

1113
01:15:09.039 --> 01:15:11.640
things. That'll be good. Dave
Campbell, thank you so much, appreciate

1114
01:15:11.640 --> 01:15:18.600
it, Thanks read talk you everybody. Huge special thanks to all of our

1115
01:15:18.640 --> 01:15:21.920
guests for coming on today and we
Hunt taking time out of his busy week

1116
01:15:21.960 --> 01:15:26.760
here at covering Giants' training camp,
and then obviously Ted Wyman coming on taking

1117
01:15:26.800 --> 01:15:30.279
time on the man. Dave Campbell
busy with Edmonton, you know, the

1118
01:15:30.319 --> 01:15:33.640
Oilers in the Stanley Cup, playoffs
and everything else. So really appreciate everyone

1119
01:15:33.720 --> 01:15:36.000
coming on this week and that you
know, and like I said, this

1120
01:15:36.119 --> 01:15:40.119
is it is all the collection of
voices and people taking the time out of

1121
01:15:40.159 --> 01:15:42.800
their day to come on. That
as what makes this program with it this

1122
01:15:42.960 --> 01:15:45.199
I really appreciate that. I hope
you guys enjoy. And now drum roll

1123
01:15:45.319 --> 01:15:50.359
please, it is time to announce
the rules here to get involved in the

1124
01:15:50.359 --> 01:15:56.479
thirty five hundred subscriber giveaway two free
tickets to the UFL Championship Game. And

1125
01:15:56.520 --> 01:16:00.319
then I have a cavalcade of Royal
retros custom jerseys here. I'll show them

1126
01:16:00.319 --> 01:16:03.960
all off here. But here's the
rules to enter. Remember big grand prize,

1127
01:16:04.039 --> 01:16:08.880
two free tickets to the UFL Championship
Game. I've already purchased them.

1128
01:16:08.920 --> 01:16:11.920
You'll be sitting with the Professor Andrew
Murray. I'm going to try to be

1129
01:16:11.960 --> 01:16:14.960
in the press box just to kind
of save some cash here on the back

1130
01:16:15.039 --> 01:16:17.039
end, we have fights, some
hotels and all that stuff on my end

1131
01:16:17.079 --> 01:16:20.479
to get to the Championship game.
But two free tickets. It's like row

1132
01:16:20.760 --> 01:16:26.640
m behind the XFL bench here at
the BattleHawks Dome. Basically it was the

1133
01:16:26.640 --> 01:16:30.000
best seats that were available today once
kind of the pre sale because I we

1134
01:16:30.039 --> 01:16:31.920
didn't know if we were going to
hit the thing and all that stuff.

1135
01:16:31.960 --> 01:16:35.039
So two tickets. I think they're
one ten at piece. So it's like

1136
01:16:35.079 --> 01:16:39.560
the best basically the best tickets you
can get at this point based it like

1137
01:16:39.640 --> 01:16:43.359
seats five, six, seven,
whatever, row M you will be like

1138
01:16:43.479 --> 01:16:46.039
so with the Professor Andrew Murray hopefully
he guys, I'll get along. Andy

1139
01:16:46.119 --> 01:16:50.439
was posting funny gifts about that,
him and the Joker makeup. Andy's Andy's

1140
01:16:50.439 --> 01:16:54.319
good to talk to the football game. I think you'll have. But so

1141
01:16:54.399 --> 01:16:58.399
that's the main gift. That's the
main prize. We will announce everything next

1142
01:16:58.399 --> 01:17:00.600
week, so you'll have time to
kind of figure out all that stuff.

1143
01:17:00.600 --> 01:17:02.840
But like I said, make sure
you're subscribed, get involved with all of

1144
01:17:02.840 --> 01:17:06.560
that stuff and get you gotta be
subscribed to win. That's grand prize number

1145
01:17:06.600 --> 01:17:10.000
one, and I'll tell you how
to enter and then all the other ones.

1146
01:17:10.039 --> 01:17:12.840
I have a bunch of these Royal
retro jerseys. I kind of forgot

1147
01:17:12.920 --> 01:17:15.199
Dustin had sent me all of these, and it was like right at the

1148
01:17:15.239 --> 01:17:18.119
start of I think there was like
some jersey merch issues last year with the

1149
01:17:18.239 --> 01:17:20.640
XFL, and I was like,
I better not talk about these right now,

1150
01:17:20.680 --> 01:17:25.720
but that these are all custom,
like they know Dustin doesn't sell XFL

1151
01:17:25.720 --> 01:17:28.640
twenty twenty jerseys. And I have
a USFL one here as well. But

1152
01:17:29.079 --> 01:17:30.560
if you want any of these,
I think they're all sites large. But

1153
01:17:30.920 --> 01:17:36.840
we have a Jordan Tayamu. Look
at this battle Hawks BattleHawks Jersey XFL twenty

1154
01:17:36.880 --> 01:17:40.319
twenty. This is hot. It's
kind of hard to do when I'm sitting,

1155
01:17:40.319 --> 01:17:44.079
but you hopefully you get the IDEA
brand new tag still on Jordan Taomu

1156
01:17:44.119 --> 01:17:49.079
BattleHawks Jersey. We have old reliable. We got Brandon Silver's here, Seattle

1157
01:17:49.319 --> 01:17:55.960
Dragons Jersey number twelve again, Brandon
Silver's here. And I can certainly post

1158
01:17:55.960 --> 01:17:58.239
photos of Indy of these if you
guys want them. I posted one on

1159
01:17:58.279 --> 01:18:04.000
Twitter. We got old PGAs Walker
here, Houston Roughnecks Old School here XFL

1160
01:18:04.079 --> 01:18:09.760
Jersey. Hopefully the Mike's picking all
this stuff up XFL. And then we

1161
01:18:09.880 --> 01:18:14.319
have a USFL. We have a
Kafante Chirpin, New Jersey, General's Jersey.

1162
01:18:14.399 --> 01:18:15.560
This is hot. This is a
hot one. Excuse me, I

1163
01:18:15.640 --> 01:18:18.479
broke my microphone. This is a
hot one as well. Even Mike Mitchell

1164
01:18:18.520 --> 01:18:21.000
said he's interested in that one.
Maybe Mike wants to win, you know,

1165
01:18:21.079 --> 01:18:27.319
certainly, I you know, there's
no rules regulations against that. So

1166
01:18:27.800 --> 01:18:30.560
this is what we're gonna do.
Like I said, make sure you're subscribed,

1167
01:18:30.079 --> 01:18:34.920
and how you enter is comment on
the video. You do one comment

1168
01:18:35.039 --> 01:18:39.039
per each item. So because we're
trying to you know, let's boost the

1169
01:18:39.079 --> 01:18:42.399
algorithm, boost the comment. So
if you want the jersey, comment,

1170
01:18:42.479 --> 01:18:45.760
you know, want the jersey,
which one you want the Brandon Silver jersey?

1171
01:18:45.800 --> 01:18:49.640
PJ Walker, Jointyamu Kvanti Truppin want
the jersey? And if you want

1172
01:18:49.680 --> 01:18:51.840
the ticket, do a comment for
that. So like if you wanted to

1173
01:18:53.039 --> 01:18:56.720
enter into all five, you would
have five comments like that. That what

1174
01:18:57.239 --> 01:19:00.840
And then I'll go through We'll do
kind of a collection of everything here on

1175
01:19:00.960 --> 01:19:03.640
the Thursday night before all all this
will be all legit, Like I'll randomize

1176
01:19:03.680 --> 01:19:06.279
all this because I know it's a
big time gift here, a lot of

1177
01:19:06.319 --> 01:19:10.920
money going into the grand prize and
then all paper shipping for you know,

1178
01:19:11.000 --> 01:19:13.720
for the jerseys for everyone thing else
and then you know we can eat transfer

1179
01:19:13.800 --> 01:19:15.560
the tickets. But comment, like
I said, if you want all five,

1180
01:19:16.159 --> 01:19:18.960
you would have five comments each one
that you want if you only want

1181
01:19:19.000 --> 01:19:21.880
the if you only want the Brandon
Silver's won, you only want to whatever

1182
01:19:23.359 --> 01:19:27.039
comment that, and I'll search through
and be able to kind of filter all

1183
01:19:27.079 --> 01:19:30.199
the comments and keywords that way in
the YouTube. Again, remember we got

1184
01:19:30.239 --> 01:19:33.960
these four awesome jerseys here and then
the two free tickets to the UFL Championship

1185
01:19:33.960 --> 01:19:38.600
game. So I think when we
get to four thousand, hopefully and maybe

1186
01:19:38.640 --> 01:19:41.800
we could do like a season ticket
pack next year, I don't know.

1187
01:19:41.920 --> 01:19:44.000
Let me know also in the comments, like what do you want for that?

1188
01:19:44.159 --> 01:19:45.359
Like what should be the next game? Because it took us spoiler,

1189
01:19:45.399 --> 01:19:48.520
there's supposed to be like the pregame
kickoff last year, we're supposed to give

1190
01:19:48.520 --> 01:19:54.119
these tickets away, So championship game
tickets, the jerseys submit, we should

1191
01:19:54.119 --> 01:19:57.680
be lots of hopefully lots of comments
on this drive the algorithm share. We

1192
01:19:57.800 --> 01:20:00.520
really appreciate that. A lot of
money going into all the given all this

1193
01:20:00.560 --> 01:20:02.319
stuff away, so appreciate that.
But your comment which ones you want?

1194
01:20:02.399 --> 01:20:05.439
And then also then separately let me
know like what should be the next giveaway?

1195
01:20:05.520 --> 01:20:09.880
Happy to do like a two ticket
packed you know, season next year,

1196
01:20:10.119 --> 01:20:13.119
maybe you know, we get four
thousand subscribers or yeah, we'll be

1197
01:20:13.159 --> 01:20:15.840
four thousand subscribers before the next UFL
season. That would be pretty cool.

1198
01:20:15.920 --> 01:20:20.319
CFL stuff is harder to do giveaways
just because like some of the international and

1199
01:20:20.359 --> 01:20:24.199
all that stuff. But we always, you know, we always support our

1200
01:20:24.239 --> 01:20:26.600
CFL friends as well, but it's
a little bit easier to do with the

1201
01:20:26.720 --> 01:20:30.920
UFL, your XFL USFL stuff.
So, like I said, appreciate everyone.

1202
01:20:30.159 --> 01:20:33.439
Lots of time here, energy,
everyone watching and all the guests and

1203
01:20:33.439 --> 01:20:39.359
everything else. If you be subscribed, stay subscribed, get subscribed anyone that's

1204
01:20:39.439 --> 01:20:43.319
subscribed, if I could say that
enough here, by the end of you

1205
01:20:43.359 --> 01:20:45.479
know, this video, by the
end of the week, you're all eligible

1206
01:20:45.520 --> 01:20:47.079
as long as you comment. Just
let me know. There's no restrictions the

1207
01:20:47.159 --> 01:20:50.560
video of that stuff. We'll send
that over Mike Mitchell, Anthony Miller,

1208
01:20:50.680 --> 01:20:54.800
get your comments in everyone else,
you know, even and you could win

1209
01:20:54.840 --> 01:20:57.079
a jersey. And you could win
a jersey. I could bring it in

1210
01:20:57.199 --> 01:21:00.439
if you could be aware to the
championship game. So anyway, we'll see

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you guys next week. I like
to subscribe, but take care and thanks

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again. M hm h