Well, happy Monday morning here, Welcome to the marcast. It's cottage season,
cabbage cabin season. As I said on Twitter, on vacation like mini
CFL fans and not watching you know, I can't watch the games and we're
out at the cottage whatever. We are here at no days off. We
have Jason Hussey here, Evans on vacation as well. Have you five issues?
We'll see how that goes. We have Jason here, Jason, how
are you. I'm doing great? Rate um a great weekend of football and
the web there's great, so no complaints for me. We had a discussion
a few weeks ago. Is you know, is Chad Kelly the most important
player in the CFLs Dustin Crum the most important player in the CFL right now?
I mean if Chad Kelly didn't exist, I think yes, he would
be for sure. I mean, just an incredible couple of weeks for Dustin
Crumb. Haven't really seen anything like it. Who you know how they you
know they have Dustin have the Automa Red Blacks as a whole. But you
kind of must watch CFL TV right now. It's pretty insane. The Sunday
of that game really has leuked out with that. General thoughts just coming into
today, what did you make of the weekend? Well, I thought that
the weekend on the whole was pretty disappointing up until the Sunday game, but
last day's game made up for it and then some I thought this was one
of the most entertaining seat all games that I've seen in many years. And
just seeing both quarterbacks at the top of their game, just going back and
forth, trading belows. It was just such a fun game to watch,
and um really the highlight of the week because we've had planes right about Mayor
and everything, and I watched early on he had to pick six and everything
coming off, like you think Mayor kind of stepped up last night. Yeah,
absolutely. I mean obviously he had the you know, the three turnovers,
the two interceptions, and then I think he also had a fumble.
But honestly, I think overall he played really well. Four hundred and fifty
yards, four touchdown passes, had his team in position with the lead late
to win the game. The defense just got one more stop that would have
won the game. So I definitely don't fault him for the loss at all.
I thought he played his best game of the season by far so far,
and I think that's a good trend that we've seen the last couple of
weeks. I thought his best game of the year was last week before last
week, and then this week was even better. So it's good to see
that from Mayor and any quarterback in the CFL. I mean, this really
feels fifty yards passing and four and TD really feels like this is what was
promised when we kind of got into the CFL, and that's okay, what's
the deal? Like, is this crazy football league? And you get Matt
down again strowing for however many hundreds of yards and you do it feels it
felt a little bit more high octane that way than maybe we've seen in the
last couple of years. Yeah. Absolutely, I feel like, you know,
the last couple of years, it has kind of been like a feeling
out period. I mean, we had a period about like five to ten
years ago where we had a bunch of Hall of Fame level quarterbacks and it
was kind of similar to this. We saw games like this all the time,
and hopefully we're getting back into that era with a couple of these young
quarterbacks emerging here and hopefully the two quarterbacks we saw in last night's game are
a part of that. We'll bring Evan on here again. Evan's fighting WI
Fi issues just at the hotel, not his own, so we'll see,
we'll see how it holds up. Evan, How are you doing, sir,
good? Yeah, having been a network problems, as you've probably already
said. But I've got my personal hotspot going and that seems to be all
right. So we're going to test this, see how it turns out.
We do our best year. I wanted to say, and I was going
to see off the top of comments last week on the show, because Jason
posts a video of his channel. Oh, like, what's the deal with
you guys not watching all the games? Like, all the games are watched,
All the games are watched between all three of us were on vacation.
I've worked the last five days. I'm on vacation with my family. Evans
on vacation, IM Palm Spring on this personal WiFi. You know, Jason's
watching the games on demand. Like, I don't want to hear any of
this. We're doing the best weekend, hear what you know? Trying to
bring this coverage on here. Jason, do you have any comments to add
to that, because I know it was on your channel. No, just
that we do our best to watch every second of football that we possibly can.
And um, like you said, we all work jobs, so um
yeah, we just do our best around here to dave you guys the best
analysis we can. Yeah, the comment was I'm going to go back to
three damn Nation to watch it. And then John Hodge was at the wedding
last weekend miss some of the games. Now that works out, evan Dustin
Crumb effect here really in spectacular fashion. What did you make of our guy?
Yeah, I mean Dustin m You know, I think the Dustin Crumb
era has officially arrived, and um, you know, it's it's been great
to see him really hit his stride. And you never want to speak too
soon with these type of things, but I really think that, you know,
this could be the beginning of something special and maybe Ottawa now has the
ability to go on a run that they didn't have before. And I will
say this, you know, even if things, you know, maybe are
still a bit rocky here and there, with Crumb's performance, like you know,
he could easily go out next week and throw three interceptions. I certainly
hope he doesn't do that, but it's a possibility. I think, you
know, this is the most hope Ottawa fans have had in a long time.
Right now. There's a lot of excitement around the Red Blacks, and
using the term excitement and Red Blacks together has not been used again in a
very long time. And that's not a shot at the Red Blacks or their
fans, but it's just the truth. I mean, they haven't been winning
many games. There hasn't been much to write home about there. So to
see Dustin kind of finally lift this organization up and make them competitive in the
East here early in the season, it definitely shakes some things up. I
mean, if you look at the standings right now, you know they're ahead
of Montreal, they're ahead of Hamilton. Now. I know Montreal is on
the by this week they played one less game, but still, I mean
they're making a lot of progress here. Like it from you know, Ottawa
being kind of at the bottom, at the bottom with no way you know,
to go up. So now it's like they're, you know, just
behind Toronto. I really did think that Crum was kind of this one trick
pony and we had seen the scrambling and all of that, and we had
talked last week on the show and how was when they picking that ready but
kind of being able to do it on the air, you know, with
his feet and on the air like it feels a little bit more well rounded.
Where I thought that this was they were going to be able to figure
it out. They're like, Okay, you can only scramble so much,
Jason, I mean, what do you make now to be able to do
you know, kind of that half game whatever, and then the two full
games now of him being able to replicate this. Yeah, So I thought
the same thing as you read. I thought that, you know, in
the first half of this game, it was much like we saw against Winnipeg,
where I did most of his damage with his legs, and obviously he's
a gifted runner, like six foot four, long strides, very tough guy
to bring down in the pocket. But I thought in the second half Calgary
really adjusted, slowed down his ability to run, really put a spy on
them. I think it was Cameron Judge. They used to kind of shadow
him and he's still beat them with his arms. So I think that was
very encouraging. Um just being a true du dual threat quarterback. And you
know, I think that was very encouraging to see. Yeah, I had
your tweet here are you talking and biggest story coming out Dustin Crumb. We
also had here Gary Stern watching the games on weekend. YEA, not a
great game, you know, live tweeting along with Gary on here. And
then we had this the mild steagel friends rather Red Blacks the most exciting team
in the CFL. I'll present that first, Evan and then you Jason.
Um, Yeah, I mean I think you know, Emory Hunt put out
a tweet and he said, this is starting to look like that Broncos season
with Tim Tebow, you know, where it's the team might not be essentially
on paper, one of the better teams, but they keep finding ways to
win at the very end, and you know, having these exciting, you
know, back and forth, a thriller type of games. But really,
I think the reason Ottawa won this game, you know, just again on
paper, is they had you know, more rushing yards. They were able
to run the ball more effectively. And we'll get into this, um,
you know, with the other games, but a lot of teams this week
couldn't run the ball It was a shame. And I had mentioned last week,
you know, the reason Winnipeg lost to Ottawa in that you know overtime
game where Ottawa came all the way with back was because Winnipeg you know,
couldn't run the ball, They couldn't run the clock. It was just really
unfortunate on that part. And I mean several other teams struggle with that.
This week. You know, Calgary was a juggernaut on offense, who had
Jake Mayer, you know, throwing for four hundred and fifty yards you know,
finding Mark and Michelle Treadam's dukes. Will get into more of those guys
here in a minute. But they couldn't run the ball either. And Ottawa,
you know, just had such an effective ground game that they were churning
out, you know, so many yards on you know, both aspects of
the offense again, on the ground, through the air. You know,
Calgary, even if you're throwing for four hundred and fifty yards, which is
an insane number by a way, for a single game, even if it
goes in overtime, I just think they were no match at the end of
the day with the way Ottawa was running that ball. Jason, Yeah,
is Altaway the most exciting team right now. Uh, it's they're close.
They're getting up there obviously. These these back to back exciting games really puts
them up there. But I gotta go to Toronto. I think Toronto is
still the story of the seas and I just love watching what Chad Kelly's doing,
even as a tire Cats fan, just removing the bias from it.
Just a very exciting player to watch. They look like a fine oiled machine
and I think they're the most exciting team in the SEAFFL right now. Yeah,
we had a tweet here as well, Dave war though he's a friend
on Twitter here and also today, I don't know if they're tweets anymore.
We see the X now Twitter rebranded, like oh we gotta pull up this
X whatever. I wish I could finally tweet. But our man far Han
said earlier this season red Blacks are a good team. Waging on the quarterback.
I think they found their carterback. I had been against send the rest
of the year. I mean, we talked about this with Mozzoli coming back
in that horrific nous and hey, they're just ready to go, and we
didn't know right when they come back. Is he going to make a difference,
Evan, what do you make of that? And just through you know,
however, it wasn't been four quarterbacks now kind of finally figuring out and
maybe we have a landing spot here with Dustin Crumb. Yeah, definitely.
I mean I think again Crumb and I had mentioned this before. You know,
has had now over a year to develop in that system. He signed
with the team last season, so I think he's finally sort of adjusting and
it looks like he's definitely been prepared for this opportunity. There's a lot of
quarterbacks that come into this league and they're not prepared. It takes a long
time to develop the quarterback position, especially in the CFL. But Dustin Crumb
is kind of proving that wrong. And you know, he's been one of
the better all around players I think in the league over the past two weeks.
Again, at first, we kind of just thought he was more of
a mobile quarterback. You know, could have been I think, you know,
had this scenario not played out, I mean, he could have been
one of the better short yardage quarterbacks in the CFL, just given you know,
his rushing ability. But clearly you know, he is a true dual
threat, and this game was the perfect display of that. There's been a
couple even in that Winnipeg Ottawa game again where Ottawa came all the way back.
You know, Crum did a lot more with his legs in that game,
I think they did with his arm. But in this one he finally
kind of opened up the offense, you know, passing and really got the
ball out and was just really efficient all around. So yeah, I think
you know, right now, Utin Crumb is definitely sort of the biggest up
and comer in the league. There's a couple other guys. It really does
go to show though, you know how I mean, And this is across
all football, you know, any league, whatever college. You know how
much the quarterback position really does affect your play because I feel like a lot
of these teams are one quarterback away or they lost a Crumb. I mean,
look at Saskatchewan. You know, we'll get him to them later.
Mason Fine had one of the weirdest games I'd ever seen where he completed over
thirty passes but didn't throw for three hundred yards stud two turnovers. I mean,
just such a wild kind of event. So it's a very kind of
complex thing. You open it up, you say, well, yeah,
Dustin Crum, you know right now is the guy that he was their missing
piece for Ottawa. But I feel like you could say that about so many
other teams in their situations as well. Jason, you know, looking ahead
here next week, Hamilton at Ottawa, Are you scared now? I mean
you might not have been too scared about this game a couple weeks ago.
Well, if this is Taylor Powell versus Dustin Krum, it would be interesting
because these are two quarterbacks coming out of them MAC Conference. I'm not mistaken,
so it would be an interesting thing. I think Taylor Powell actually did
look pretty good this week. We'll get to that when we talk about the
tie Cats game, but you know, I think that would be a very
interesting matchup. Just reading before I went on here that Bodie by Mitchell is
back at practice for the Tye Cats as well, So maybe he's back this
week. You know, we'll see what happens. But huge game for the
Tyecats. If they win that game, they'll be three and four and jump
the Red Blacks and the standings and win the season series already over them.
But if they lose, they're really putting themselves behind the eight ball this first
third of the season. Just Ryan, I just wanted to show this,
Ryan checking in has stamps everyone in the THT game not clutch not clutching there.
I feel that way about talking about the Mariners sometimes here and watching the
game yesterday and then the CFL news here either hey, buy your tickets,
two exciting games, garyster and predicting to sell. I mean this is you
know who knew this was must watch all the way here. Let's get into
the actual game here thoughts. I guess we'll go. Let me pull up
the standings or whatever. Go to Jason first thoughts on the Godson the game
itself. Yeah, so I thought the game was just your classic back and
forth. There were a lot of lead changes in this game. I thought
that, you know, Ottawa jumped out to a pretty big lead in the
first half. I believe it was eleven points or so after a couple of
turnovers by Calgary's offense. But Calgary made several big plays in this one,
and I think that's the most encouraging thing coming out of this game if your
Calgary is that. The big criticism was that they couldn't throw the ball deep
down the field. It was a bunch of slant routes and the running game
that was really the driving force of that offense. But they hit a lot
of big plays in this one and it was very encouraging to see. But
as you saw at the end of the game, I think, you know,
Ottawa just matched them punch for punch. Dustin Crum was up for every
challenge. The Red Blacks just kind of have a little bit of a feel
about them right now. Rookie head coach and Bob Dice bring a lot more
energy to that organization. So I thought this was one of the most exciting
games I've seen to the CFL in a long time. Like I said a
few minutes ago, and um, you know, I thought it was a
great game. Yeah, I mean, we had the last weekend and then
we had our big you know, it's the quarterback what's happening here as CFL
quarterback crisis. Yeah, not all the games I must watch this weekend,
but certainly this one that kind of living up. And you know, we've
talked about this in the four When you have four games a weekend, you're
gonna have some scariously the NFL, we can put you know, Panthers,
you know, Browns or whatever on and the more in the inten the am
no one's gonna watch it. Like Evan, what did you make of this?
Really kind of the standard game of the weekend. Yeah, I mean,
well, I thought it was nice that it was the last game of
the weekend because, to be entirely honest, you know, the three games
before that, we're pretty pretty hit or miss at times. I think especially
you know, I just felt the other ones felt so slow, and then
you have this one where both teams are scoring forty plus points and it's going
in overtime and everything like that. I've already talked a decent amount about the
Ottawasside and kind of what it means for them, so I'll focus on Calgary
a bit more here. I was impressed ultimately with Jake Mayer. I think
again, like Jason said, you know, Calgary's big playability is been pretty
limited, and to be honest, a lot of their offense for the entire
year I think has been centering more around the run game, more or less
outside of a couple you know, bigger games from Reggie Bagelton and maybe Luther
Hakunavanu last week. But then I mean, man, the floodgates opened this
time. It was just you know, boom boom boom, like big play
here, big play there, Mark and Michelle Legacy game. It was my
big takeaway from this one. And I had mentioned on the show a week
or two ago. You know, I really thought Mark and Michelle could be
the wide receiver one in this offense, you know, now that he's back.
And that's nothing against Reggie, who I think, you know, might
be the best receiver on this team, one of the best. You know,
he's right up there with Mark, and but you know, I think
just Michelle bringing you know, whatever it is, four years of NFL experience
back to the Stampeters from the last time he was there. I think that
can't be overlooked. And it really showed in this game. I mean,
man, he was all over the place, you know, two big plays,
and I mean it's just really good to see that from him. And
it's a very to be honest. I mean, it's quite an uptick in
performance from what it's been and he's kind of had a slow sort of start
getting worked into the offense there. But then obviously in this game, he
was the number one receiver and it wasn't really close. I mean the other
guy, Trey Adams Dukes, you know, who was the other one hundred
yard receiver in this game. I had also talked about him previously as someone
who I thought, you know, could be worked into this offense, like
him and Luther Hakunavan, who I think are you know, in the large
scale of things, you know, probably two of the more most underrated receivers
in the entire CFL, not just on the Stampeter's roster, but you know,
Trey stepped up again big time and again just just good to see him
doing his thing. Jason anything else on this one. Yeah, So I
want to talk a little bit of defense here. So first for Ottawa,
I thought that one of the big keys for them is that they slowed down
Calgaries running game, which is something that Calgary always likes to utilize. A
couple of guys I want to shout out here, Brandon Dandridge, defensive back,
had to pick six in this one. Back to back games with a
pick six for him, also had a punt return touchdown earlier this season,
so he's accounted for a lot of that team scoring so far this season and
is on pace to be a CFL All Star by the end of the year.
Lorenzo Malden who was carted off midway through last week during practice. It
didn't look good, but then he ended up playing in the game and he
had a big bumble recovery in this one. So really impressed for him.
And then for Calgary, I think, you know, a couple of weeks
ago, I would have said it was more concerned about Calgary's offense, but
now I'm more concerned about their defense. This defense cannot close games out to
save their lives. They tried to give away the game last week against the
Scatchwan obviously that big hail mary by Mason Fine, and then they were able
to get it back in the last minute. But they had a couple of
opportunities, like I mentioned before, that they had a lead with a chance
to make a stop late in the game and they just could not do it.
And Dave Dickinson, I think, had said something like that in his
postgame press conference that he is sick of this kind of lack of killer instinct
with this team, and I think that, you know, it's really true
with this team. They're just not closing games effectively. And that's just kind
of a weird thing to see from the stamp Peters because of all the success
they've had over the past decade or so. Yeah, changing times here.
I had a couple of this last tweets before we get out of this game.
You know, he used to go renee, you know, clutch there
getting them in two thousand career points obviously not enough to win the overtime of
getting them in there, you know, I to me, I might,
there's no doubt, Like you know, I'm like, oh, this game's
going to overtime. I had it pulled up here. I just wanted to
shout out Tim Bains for too long, unwatchable other read Bucks can't miss after
winning another overtime thriller beating auDA, and I thought this was funny. Dave
Naylor tweeted from Dustin Crumb's NFL draft bio he lacks the creativity and power to
make defender's miss or break tackles. Someone tell that to the winn to take
Blue Bombers. Really enjoy that, guys. Anything else on this one will
go to that, you know, America's CFL team here, But anything else
on that game. No, all right, let's go here. I we're
pulling into the cabin when this game was going on, and then I got
it pulled up. Vernon already going down before I even had the game up.
The notes today I think was he's fine. They might rest him this
week against the Elks. You know, I'm glad we didn't ship Dan Evans
here kind of when there was a big quarterback, you know, people trying
to hey, trying to you know, find different whatever is and bringing the
dest and crumbs of the world. Thoughts here, I guess we'll go to
Evan first. Thoughts on Saskatchewan BC. Yeah, well, definitely a slower
game. I mean, nineteen to nine. The score kind of indicates that.
Unfortunately. You know, there's been several CFL games, really, I
think over the past I don't know, maybe two seasons that have gone this
way. But but now you're finally seeing the league as a whole kind of
pick up on offense. Um, I think you know, these the games
last week obviously, and then the big shootout between Ottawa and Calgary. CFL
is definitely getting back in their groove and I think I put a tweet out
about that. But Anyway, going back to this game, specifically, the
fact that BC was able to pull away, you know, despite losing Vernon
early, I think is a big testament to their defense. They had a
lot of guys in that unit that really stepped up and m it kind of
made it to where they you know, didn't have to worry about things.
Um. But then yeah, on the Saskatchewan side, just a really weird
game on their end. I mean I talked earlier about Mason Fine just kind
of felt like, you know, short pass here, short passed that.
I mean, he completed thirty one passes in this game, which I find
fascinating, and I mean he did have a you know, a big play
long of forty four yards whatever, but he you know, on the entire
game slate, he only finished with two hundred and seventy eight yards and you
know, through two picks that it was just so weird. Like typically,
if a quarterback completes thirty one passes in a game, I mean they're throwing
for you know, four hundred yards and three touchdowns, it's like a career
evening. But this was kind of the opposite of that. I felt like,
and again, the run game I had talked about how some CFL teams
you know, struggle with that. This week, Saskatchewans was atrocious, unfortunately
abysmal that there was no other word for it. It was just really really
bad. And every time, you know, I look at a team,
you know, where they throw forty times a game, but they are not
able to run the ball effectively, you know that. Typically, I'm like,
you don't even have to show me the score. I know that team
lost, and in this case, you know, Saskatchewan did that. Now,
they did have a couple of bright spots. I think it was Tevin
Jones and Sean Baine junior were kind of a nice receiving duo, and both
of those guys I think, you know, have kind of stepped up this
season, maybe more so than I expected. But yeah, ultimately I think,
you know, this was just a testament really to BC's defense more than
anything. To close this one out. Yeah, I had the tweet here,
Hodgs, and I think Dave Campbell put out something to talking about like,
hey, I think Saskatchewan still Edmonton's playbook and you know these short slam
passes whatever, Yeah, really weird offense. Jason, when did you make
it this one. Ultimately, Mason Fine was fine in this one. I
thought that he was okay, but ultimately the number that tells the whole story
is zero touchdowns, and I thought it was a big missed opportunity for Saskatchwe.
This could have been a massive win and it was a winnable game for
the most part for them. Their defense played really well, really dominated the
BC offensive line throughout this game, and I thought that if Saskatchewan just got
one quality drive from their offense where they punched in the end zone, they
definitely could have won this game. So I thought this was a very disappointing
game from their perspective on the offensive side Versaskatchwe. I thought that BC's defense
becoming one of the stories of the CFL season. Just you know, I
don't know how many touchdowns they've allowed now, but I mean they are allowed
like just very few touchdowns the whole season, so I think that is a
big story for them. I think Matthew Betts got a late sack in this
one tenth sack and he's all the way, you know, on his way
towards breaking the Canadian sack record, which is a belief seventeen by Brent Johnson
with the BC Lions, I do believe as well, So I think that
is really impressive. I think that Gary Peters was a guy that I highlighted
in the preview this week. He ended up with the interception late in this
game that really kind of helped close it out for the Lions. So I
thought that their defense played really well and were the driving force for this team
to victory. And I thought that, you know, Dane Evans when I
originally thought that Vernon Adams injury was much more serious. I mean, we
still don't know one hundred percent for sure, but if it was much more
serious, my big concern with Dan Evans coming into this offense was that he's
not the most mobile quarterback in to Vernon. He's not a guy that's gonna,
you know, extend plays. So I think that was a big concern
because of how BC's offensive line has looked like it's regressed over the past couple
of weeks here. But I think it's very good news to hear that Vernon
may be back sooner more rather than later. So um, at the end
of the day, I think that m yeah, defense was the big story
for the Lions in this one, and a missed opportunity for Saskatch one.
Yeah, they Vernon. I mean that was the thing, Like you're coming
into the season. I think we all hide down to Vernon, you know,
wanting him to succeed, but not being sure. And then here he's
really been on fire except for though, you know, the six pick Argo
game and now him going down. You know, we're we're fans if dan
Evan did you feel like he is he is suitable replaced, but was it
worth kind of having him stash here in the back pocket to pull out?
Absolutely? Oh you want to go, Jason, It's all good, you
can go if you want then, all right, Uh yeah, no,
I mean look, I think Dan Evans was definitely worth the weight here.
Um. I kind of had in my notes. It wasn't a spectacular performance.
Um, but I'd take him over Mason fine, um just because you
know he had the touchdown pass was a bit more efficient. I'm still in
over two hundred yards, So like he was definitely ready for the opportunity.
And I had said, you know previously, um, you know this,
would you know dan Evans would be a great trade asset given all these um
quarterback injuries, you know they wouldn't be likely to trade him in a division,
um, so you know, him going to Saskatchewan or something like that
wouldn't be very viable. But ultimately, you know, I thought he was
a good trade piece. But now, I mean again you're looking at you
know, we don't know when Vernon's going to be back. I mean just
the state of the CFL in general right now. You know, to have
two starting quarterbacks that are or at least capable of starting, you know,
multiple games under Auster, that's like unheard of practically. I mean, bc'son
a spot here where they really have that luxury, and it kind of reminds
me of you know, when Hamilton had Dan Evans and Jeremiah Massoli and there
was this kind of you know fight I think sometimes between some of the fans
and you know, back when I covered the team, it was always you
know, who's the better quarterback? Is it Dane or is it Jeremiah?
You know who do you play? And now in BC, it's like,
I mean, I still think Vernon's a better option, and I don't really
think BC fans arguing about that, but I mean, hey, you know,
Dan could come in and you know, play really well and you know
who knows that, then maybe you're starting the question, you know, whether
or not Vernon you know, starts to getting out look. I mean,
that's all hypothetical. I do think Vernon will come back and start the rest
of the season of barring any setbacks, because he has been really good and
I think he's exceeded all of our expectations this year. But ultimately, yeah,
I mean Dan Evans, I think is what was great to keep around
and it was worth it, And it still is the same question e Jason
that it was Dan worth it. Yeah, one hundred percent. I think
he's definitely not a perfect quarterback. He saw that last year in Hamilton.
But I think still at the end of the day, he is still one
of the better quarterbacks in the league. I still think he's in the top
twelve or so quarterbacks in the league. I think he's probably the best backup
in the league right now, at least the most experienced one. So I
think at the end of the day, I mean, you know, he's
going to have some issues. He may turn the ball over more than Vernon
well, I mean I mentioned the play extension abilities. More of a pocket
passing guy, but I think at the end of the day, he's definitely
a suitable backup that BC can still win with because their defense is that good.
We had the thing here Jamie and I friend of the show, I
wanted to talk that we had the roughing the passer that was called back right
was holding or whatever, and then this about like a court do you want
to see a quarterback change, like Jason if where would Saskatchewan go here?
Like, I don't I don't know if if Fine kind of was the backup
guy, Like, what would they do if Fine is not the answer?
Well, I know that they have Jake dla Gala on the roster. He
used to be a backup. I think for one year he dressed for the
Cincinnati Bengals. Didn't get any playing time, but I mean we saw him
start one game last year for them. Didn't look too promising. So I
think they're just better off just rolling with Fine for a few more weeks,
see if he gets a groove going, and then um, you know,
maybe if they're still around in a few weeks, if they're like still in
the playoff mix, I think maybe they look around the league for maybe a
trade option or a free agent pickup. But at the end of the day,
I think I would just stick with fine and and see if it gets
better. Yeah. No, I guess it was a revenue passage. This
was before I sat down to watch God Forbid. Here a couple of drives,
but they refue the past ride. It was called back for the safety
Evan, Did you catch that? Um? I did not. Actually,
that's interesting. Yeah, I only watched a part of this game. I
mean, we're gonna get into the whole You know, how many games did
you watch? Question here? Because that always seems to come up, and
you know, apparently I know nothing about the CFL because I don't spend you
know, sixteen hours or whatever every week watching every game. But no,
no, I did not. I did not see that. It is the
bottom line I watched. I mean, if you really want to hear what
games I watched, I watched half of the Calgary Ottawa game. I watched
like half a quarter of this game, and then I watched most of the
Hamilton Toronto game, and then most of the like ronestly, probably all four
quarters of the Edmonton Winnipeg game, because I was actually intrigued by that one.
Believe it or not, We're gonna get canceled, Jason tied to me
about the refer in the pastor call here. Yeah, So, I mean
this was a huge turning point early in this game. It looked like,
like I can't recall the place specifically. I think it wasn't like the most
dirty hit that I've ever seen, But I think that you know, at
the end of the day, they're gonna call any hit that's up high on
the quarterback. Really, that's just the way football is going, even if
it's unfair to defenses. I think that's just the way. You know that
the leagues are protecting their quarterbacks nowadays. But yeah, it was a huge
turning point early in this game. I mean would have obviously given Saskatch one
two points and then given them the ball back as well. So I mean
it could have been a big swing in this football game, and it was
tough for Saskatchewan. Speaking of you know who probably watched all of the games
here, I had a couple of tweets and then cef I put it out
together. Yo, Yeah, Chado, did you know a friend of the
show, Chad was on I believe episode two of the Mark Ass If you
want to go back talking about it. We actually broke the news to him
that the CFL season was canceled. So if you want to go back,
but go back into the record books for the mark ass. But Chad watching
the show here talking cham White was clutched and I was in montral He's still
clutched later. If that's the same, Sean, And then CFL without this
thing, POV, you're watching the games last night with Chado Evan anything on
that. I mean, I think that's good pub. I think when you
have someone like Chad that has as much you know, kind of cloud in
the Twitter space and obviously he spent time in the league and everything else,
Oh it's great. I mean, yeah, Chad, I remember, I
mean I was really young when he you know, kind of had his stop
in the CFL. I think it was after he was with the Dolphins and
all that kind of fell apart. But yeah, no, I mean Chad
looked. Man. I mean, if you're getting publicity from Chado, sink,
you're doing something right. I Mean, that guy is always been very
vocal, you know, very Um. I've always liked him in the media
space just because he's very you know, honest, straightforward. Um, you
know, tell it to you like it is, um no bs type of
guy. Um. And I've always appreciated that, and I think it's cool
to see him, you know, constantly promoting the league and he's not one
of these guys where it feels forced right, like he's actually just sitting there
in front of his TV like us enjoining the games on a weekend or you
know, at least the games that we're able to watch, um, you
know on any given weekend. Um. But yeah, no, I mean,
look, I think Chad is um. You know, he's great publicity
for the league. Ultimately, we had another just last tweet here on this
I posted on Twitter. You know, we're going live. What did we
learn? Far Hans checking and we learned it's great when you're so focuses the
CFL. Hey now hey, now I far Hans not liking the USFL put
down now on here? What are we talking about? And the man Jason
thoughts on that? Anything else? I mean the wide game here, uh
you know BC, you know a wins way in here. It was kind
of ugly. I think that's what I tweeted out. Any other thoughts on
this one, not really. I think that Craig Dickinson had a very controversial
decision in this game. I think that he went forward on a third and
two inside the twenty yard line. He actually got that one, and then
a couple of plays later they had a third goal and then decided to kick
a field goal. So I mean, some of these in game decisions by
these coaches I think are quite confusing. I think Dave Dickinson Calgary had a
couple of of those this week. So starting to question some of the in
game coaching decisions for some of these coaches. Orlando Steinauer will get too with
the tie Cats as well. So I mean that's another takeaway I had from
this game. Yeah, I like it was it last week when it was
like did they call it like the Brothers Bowl or whatever? When you got
the Dickinson's facing off against each other and Evan anything else on this one.
We'll move on now, is all right? Let's go back here. Let
me pull this up Toronto coming in, you know, I mean this one
would be a little bit closer. I'm sure if you're a Jason I here,
Jason, were you at this game? No? Actually, I was
on vacation on Thursday and Friday, had to watch those games on demand after
the fact, I was what you call it. I actually was on my
way back from vacation when this game was going on, so it caught a
bit of bit on the radio. But ultimately when I went back and watched,
I think that this game was pretty much over in the second quarter because
the Tyecats defense, I thought, really needed to play well in the first
half to give their rookie quarterback making his first career of CFLs start a chance.
They ultimately battled back, made it a one score game in the fourth
quarter, but then that's when their defense kind of fell apart again. So
I thought that it was very disappointing how the tie Cats started this game.
It's been all too common of a theme so far this season for them.
But the argos, like I said earlier, are fine oiled machine and Chad
Kelly really is the story of the CFL so far this season. I thought
we were getting We've had, obviously the quarterback change. I thought the tie
Cats were getting back to running the ball. Here all we have forty one
attempts by rookie Court, you know, rookie coming out here, only eight
carries by Butler Jason. What do you make of that the game script,
I think that's what happened, is they fell behind twenty to nothing in the
second quarter. Yes, one of those uh plays was, you know,
interception by a bad decision by Powell. But I think that the defense gave
up a couple of long drives early in the game, and you know,
we're down fourteen nothing and then twenty nothing, and then that really dictated how
their play calling was the rest of the game. They they really had to
drop back and pass and see what they could do. And I think that
Powell did pretty good considering Evan thoughts. You know, Chad Kelly still Chad
Kelly in Toronto, certainly being able to put up points here, you know,
thirty one. I think that's the lowest they've had right in terms of
average game score. But what did you make of Chad? Yeah, so
we'll talk about Toronto first. Chad Kelly. At this point, I mean,
it's just kind of textbook, right, I've said it with Winnipeg and
Zach Colaros and their crew. You kind of just know what to expect after
a certain point. And now it's kind of like every week, if Chad
Kelly doesn't throw for two hundred and fifty plus yards and two touchdowns and complete
seventy percent of his passes. I'm like, well, what happened, you
know, But now it's just like this kind of automatic thing. I mean,
bottom line, is he really is that good? And this question keeps
coming up, like is Chad Kelly the most valuable I'm pretty sure he's the
most valuable quarterback, but valuable player in the CFL as a hole right now,
you can definitely make that argument still, and I think he has the
most hype around him, Like there was a lot there was still now keep
in mind, like Chad Kelly, you know, finished that great Cup game
off and we always talk about that, but there were still some questions about
him heading into this season, like whether or not you can actually hold that
momentum. I don't think everyone in Toronto was just sitting there like, yeah,
like Chad will be fine, you know, like he's like he's a
bona fide starter. Like to be honest, he was really unproven. You
know, he was coming in, you know from the NFL where he you
know, really only played in the preseason. I think he appeared in like
one game with the Broncos but didn't throw a pass. So he was very
you know, unproven going into the CFL and really outside of that you know,
great Cup game, he hadn't done much. And you know, now
this season it looks like, you know that the development is finally starting to
show. And maybe it's happening a bit quicker than some of the other quarterbacks
in this league. But yeah, man, Chad still got it. You
know. It's it's the swag Kelly era, just like it's the Dustin KRUMMERA.
I guess, yeah, two outstanding Krmactually, Jason, what did you
make of Chad Kelly here? We got there? Two zero here for the
quew Revelrie. Well, for NFL fans that maybe watching this, one guy
that he kind of reminds me of is a young Ben Roethlisberger. He seems
like a guy that, you know, he's a big guy, hard guy
to bring down in the pocket, has a big arm, has a bit
of a you know, ability to extend plays. You know, not the
fastest guy in the world, but can get out there and run if he
needs to. And I think that the deep ball passing, the arm strength
is just so apparent when you see him, just doesn't look normal. For
a CFL quarterback. He had a couple of throws in this game that were
absolute lasers. I think he had the one touchdown to Curly Geitton's junior that
I was like, Wow, there wasn't much room to throw that ball into
at all, and he got it in there. So I think it's been
incredibly impressive for U Chad Kelly so far this season with the argos. Let's
talk a little at Hamilton here. I had Todd gets anger on Twitter,
but I thought this was good. How does this I learned the stein Howard
still go on question as the head coach and to see al level job.
Evan, what did you make of the tie Cat's approach to this game?
Yeah, well, I mean if you want to talk about Steinauer first before
you know the tie Cats overall. M I do think there is questions about
that, um, you know, I mean, yeah, we don't really
talk about it. Not often that we talk about coaches on this show.
I think it's more player focused, but you know, yeah, I mean
Orlando Steinauer, the tie Cats are clearly entering this phase where it's it's a
bit of a rebuild. I mean you've moved on, you know, from
your two sort of bona fide quarterbacks. Um, you know, Brandon Banks,
who was there for a long time like that air is kind of long
gone already, so you know, it's it's definitely kind of entering a new
phase, and you know, is he the one to lead this team through
the new phase. Well, you know, I think you'll stick around for
this season, but if you're looking ahead at twenty twenty four, I mean,
yeah, you're you're definitely gonna hear more questions about this later on.
I think. But overall, just this game and kind of the approach again,
you know, inability to run the ball I think really hurt Hamilton.
Jim's butler had this incredible game against Edmonton last week. Now, now keep
in mind that's against the Elks, I get it, but still had a
really nice game. And then this game you wouldn't have even known he was
playing really. I mean, yeah, he had a couple of catches and
things like that. I love James, nothing against him, but when you're
you know, averaging one point eight yards per carry on eight touches, I
mean that's just so forgettable. And it's really like if your quarterback is the
leading rusher, you know in the game. That's typically not a great side.
Now it worked for Ottawa. I believe Dustin Crumb was their leading and
perhaps most efficient rusher, but in this case, like, yeah, Taylor
Powell, who was in his first CFL start, had to throw the ball
forty one times and you know that's just not now. I think he did
a pretty good job given that it was his first start, completed twenty seven
passes, you know, could have averaged a bit more here and there.
I think there was still some things lacking, but ultimately, yeah, like
the one stat category I guess that really stands out to me from him is
that two hundred and eighty three yards there. I mean he was really getting
the ball around to two different receivers and moving on to that category. I
think it was really nice to see Terry Godwin step up in this game.
Now, for people who don't know who Terry Godwin is, it was a
former seventh round pick of the Carolina Panthers in twenty nineteen, then went on
with the Jaguars, and I think he was with another team before coming up
to Hamilton, But that was someone I think I had my radar on,
like preseason and then I kind of forgot about him, and then you know,
I was watching this game and I'm like, oh, that's right,
Hamilton has Terry Godwin and I think him, and you know, Duke Williams
again finally kind of got going in this game. I don't think last week
he had a target, let alone a catch or anything like that. So
yeah, I think him. I think Terry Godwin and Duke Williams if they
can kind of be a one two punch in the receiving corps moving forward,
regardless of who the quarterback is, you know, whether it's Bolivia or Taylor
Powell or maybe Matt Schultz comes, you know, back in down later in
the season. I think those two guys right now are probably the best options
for Hamilton on offense. Jason, how are you feeling this season? I
think the biggest concern with me and I always when I look at head coaches
specifically and how I judge them, I always look at what side of the
ball are they specialized in? Are they a defensive guy or they special teams
or the offense. Steinauer is a defensive head coach, and the defense has
gotten worse every single year under his tenure. And I mean they made a
big gamble. And keep in mind that Steinauer is now the president of football
Operations, so he makes a lot of the personnel decisions as well for this
team, and and what you call it. He decided to go really young
in the secondary. They were had a lot of experience veterans back there in
the secondary last year, and they had pretty thin depth on the defensive line
last year. This year it's flipped. They decided to invest a lot of
money in the defensive line. It is not paid off, and the secondary
has looked very poor. They look young and an experience just like they are
going into the season on paper. So I think at the end of the
day, you know, it's very disappointed to see what's happened at this defense
that used to be something that Hamilton could hang their hat on. And I
think in terms of their offense, it really just comes down to offensive red
zone efficiency and I think they just have not scored enough touchdowns. If they
scored two touchdowns more in this game, it's a brand new game, So
I think at the end of the day, that's something they need to fix.
But I don't know what the answer is because the three quarterbacks that we've
seen out there none of them have really been able to find much success in
the red zone. And then we've talked about this, but just laying there
this eight carres for Butler, it's just insane to me. I get you
say, you know we're falling behind, we have to do that. What's
the timeline on Schiltz coming back? Do we know anything? I know he
was kind of TVD is he on the sixth game? He's on the sixth
game injured list, and he was up in the press box for this game.
I don't know if that was just you know, trying to get them
in a different view of the field or whatnot. But you know, it
doesn't look like he's coming back anytime soon. But like I said earlier in
the show that bow Lee by Mitchell is back at practice this week for Hamilton's
so maybe they get a boost if he comes back. But I think at
the end of the day, I think there's bigger problems besides the quarterback position
on this team right now, Well that's my concern. Then we'll go to
Evan. Like you know, bow didn't look good when he played and got
hurt, and now he's back. I mean, I don't know what Hamilton
does here because we've talked they're hosting the Grade Cup this year. We're all
going, it's like it's kind of like Saskatchewan last year. We want to
do everything we can to be in it. I mean they were talking last
year like break the salary cap, you know, get everyone, you know,
get do whatever you can to get to the Grade Cup. Here.
Edmonton's or Hamilton's going to do that, and you know, I bow comes
back. I don't know if this makes a difference. What do you think
this team should do or could possibly do. I just think they need to
get more from the guys they brought in this offseason. I don't know how
they make that happen. I think that, like I mentioned, I think
the coaching has kind of you know, they've kind of been outcoached in a
lot of these games this year. One narrative I think we could put to
bed is that I think over the last couple of years, Tigercats fans have
thought that we definitely had that coaching advantage when they played against the Argos,
that Orlando Steinauer was a better head coach and we had a better coaching staff
than the Toronto Argonauts. But I think at the end of the day.
Now it's just quite clear to me that Ryan did what he always has his
team ready, better, ready prepared to play against Hamilton. I think Steinauer
are just they don't look prepared at all to start the games. You look
at the first half this season, it's been brutal. Evan thoughts for you.
Yeah, I mean, look, you know, I hate to be
critical of any team, and I you know, everything that I say his
constructive criticism, right, it's not you know, a dislike towards anybody or
anything like that. But I think Hamilton is in a serious period of regression.
You just look at you know, I mean, yeah, Steinauer is
one thing, but like Jason said, I mean that defense used to be,
you know, one of the top in the CFL, led by Simony
Lawrence and others, and now you kind of look at their defense and it's
just like okay, like you know, there's nothing really to write home about
there. I mean, hell, you could look at some of the other
bottom tier I guess you'd say teams in the CFL, and they probably have
better defenses at that point. I think that's just because Hamilton's lost again so
many players since they're great Cup runs to free agency. I mean, they've
retained a couple pieces, but you know, the team definitely looks a lot
different than what I was really invested in it, even just like two years
ago. So yeah, I mean it's definitely a period of change, right,
And you know, I'm I expected this from Hamilton again, like if
you're talking about this game in general, I mean I expected Toronto to win,
and they did, and they did just how I thought they would.
Nothing really out of the ordinary there. But in the bigger picture, I
mean, you know, Hamilton is definitely kind of looking at another sort of
you know, restructure, and it sucks because they were so close. I
mean, they went to back to back, you know, great cups.
I mean it was a great run and you know, that was the best
that they've had really in a long time. But you know, if you
can't get the job done, I mean, it's that's football, right,
It's a it's a winning business, and you know, unfortunately, if that
aspect doesn't get completed, then you have to bring new people into try and
you know, accomplish the same goal. So yeah, moving forward here,
Jason, Wait, what do you what do you want? I mean,
you're you're the tie Cats fan here, what do you want, Oh,
Jason, you're a mute? Sorry? Yeah, So I just want more
from the guys they brought in this offseason. Some guys they paid big money
too, that just have not made a big impact for this team this year.
I think the offensive line, um, they bade a couple of big
additions late last season, guys like David Beard, who's a center. I
had several high snaps in this one that kind of threw off the timing.
The interception was a high snap that kind of threw off the timing of that
play. I think the offensive line has been a unit that's been very disappointing
this year. They've had some injuries there, but I think overall, when
even when they've been healthy, they haven't played very well. I think that
again, the coaching is um something I want to see more from. I
want to see this team start games a lot better. I think a lot
of the times they've really lost games in the first half of games. So
I think if they come out and they're more competitive to begin games, I
think they'll be in better shape. And you know, I think they still
can salvage this season. And I think the CFL season is very long,
but they need to start winning soon because you know, a lot of these
games have come against Eastern opponents, and I think when you look at their
four losses this season, they've been all very convincing losses. I think all
of them by double digits. And it's been very disappointed to see just how,
you know, the lack of competitiveness for this team this year. I
thought that, yeah, maybe they lose some close games and start slow this
year, but I didn't think they'd lose games this convincingly. Evan we have
here, you know, look at the Elks or and some thing, and
we'll get to that game before we get out of here. You know,
Tiecats two and four Stamps two more stam Peters feel like the better two and
four team here? What do you if you had to go with two of
those kind of bottoms here? Yeah, I would definitely take the Stampeters here.
I just think they have a lot more momentum, you know, and
a lot less questions. I mean, this team, you know, historically
has been in the playoffs all the time, and you know, Hamilton again,
I expected regression with Calgary. I mean I had a lot of questions,
but they're kind of I mean, I thought they'd be like at five
hundred by this point. You know, they're right below they can easily get
back in the swing and you know it's like week seven or whatever, but
there's still i mean rolling like a third of the way through this season.
So again, plenty of time here to make amends and make things right.
But the one thing I was going to point out, and really it's between
the Red Blacks and the tie Cats. So this is kind of a random
thought that I had last night when I was going through my notes. You
want to talk about, you know, teams, it sort of feels like,
well, now, obviously it's a bit different with the Red Blacks having
three wins and the Elks having none, but we had this discussion in the
XFL last year between you know, two of the bottom tier teams. It
was Orlando in Vegas, and just kind of how you know, different those
two vibes felt like both of those teams, you know we're struggling early on,
you know, winless whatever, But with Vegas it kind of just felt
like, again they were one step away, like an auto's case. We
keep saying, oh the dust and crumb away or whatever. And then with
the Elks, it's kind of like Orlando the Guardians. It's like, well,
this is such a complex issue. There's so many things wrong here.
You know, you kind of need to break it down and examine, you
know, piece by piece, you know, how to fix this organization really
your team or whatever you want to call it. Um. So that's kind
of I think you can apply that same sort of notion to a couple of
the teams here in the CFL. For me, it was again Viper's Guardians
to you know, Red Blacks and Elks obviously a bit different, you know,
two different leagues, two different times. Whatever, I get it.
But I think it's always kind of interesting to point out, like there's teams
that you watch and um, you're like, oh, like if they just
had this, you know, they'd be fine. But then there's other teams.
And I think Hamilton kind of falls into this category now too that we're
talking about it, where it's it's not just one piece away, you know,
it's not just one thing. It's that there's so many, you know,
pieces, and I mean that's all of football, right. I don't
think there's ever, you know, one glaring thing that really causes a problem.
There's always something deeper that you know, maybe you don't know about if
you're not within the organization. But ultimately, um with Hamilton, I think
there's a lot of components there that are missing in order to win. Jason,
anything else from me on this game, No, I think we've we've
beat the dead horse enough last game here, you know, and I took
my gamble. I say that da Gamble is in Winnipeg for the game.
I'm just gonna laser that Evanton is not going to pull this one out in
remarkable fashion. Here the therapy session continues. Uh, Jason will go to
you first. What do you make of this? Uh? Oh and seven?
And I don't We'll talk about the BC thing here coming up, because
I don't want BC to be the team that allows them to bring But what
did you make of this one? On the road Louisia to Winnipeg. Well,
Edmonton was very competitive for a lot of this game, but again they
just don't have the consistency needed, especially at the quarterback position, but just
on offense in general to win games consistently in the CFL, or even won
one game at this point. It's just it's just a very frustrating team to
watch. I have a very hard time watching this team week after week because
it seems like they get in their own way. You could see they have
some intriguing, interesting individual pieces. I thought that um, you know,
Ac Landard and Jake Serezna made a big impact in this one. I thought
they really kind of pushed around when the PEG's offensive line for a lot of
this game. But they think at the end of the day, this team
can't close in the fourth quarter when the lights get brightest, they just they
just kind of fall apart. So I mean, it's the same old story
for the Elks. Evan, when do you make of this? Yeah,
I mean the game was tied at half, you know, and for a
while there it was like I saw I forget who tweeted it, but there
was something on Twitter it was like Edmonton's not gonna do this, Like come
on, guys, like let's let's get real here. And yeah, I
mean they didn't you know, any kind of hope you had quickly slipped away
in the third quarter. And I think Dave was saying, you know,
on your show this week, like how much of a struggle the second half,
specifically the third quarter has been for the elex and in this game,
it might have been more of the fourth quarter. But like Winnipeg, I
think scored fifteen points or something in the third, so that definitely again els
kind of came out of second half and it's almost like they regress. You
know, he's supposed to make adjustments and get better at halftime. It feels
like Edmonton, you know, constantly this season just goes backwards, like in
the wrong direction if anything. And it happened a bit too in the Hamilton
game, even though that was kind of unraveling a bit before half. But
yeah, ultimately, you know, Edmonton in this game, again, they
really weren't terrible. I like Taylor Cornelius, like you take away the two
picks. I mean, I thought he had an okay outing and you know,
again it was very efficient on the ground, running the ball, you
know, had that big play to Dylan Mitchell. Like it wasn't all bad.
Again, there's strides to be made here, and I know we've you
know kind of I guess, you know, maybe said some things about Cornelius
in the past that weren't the best. And you know, again I wish
him the best. He's a great player. It's just sort of fit and
time. And you know, we're always talking about Trey four and now,
look, I think Taylor Cornelis has made a bit of progress this season.
It's just, again, how many times do I have to say it,
Like, you know, when your record or whatever going in the seat like
four and you know, twenty six or whatever, or maybe that's what it
is now or at one point this season it was that with the losses that
they've accumulated here in twenty twenty three, Like, it's just I mean,
come on, man, Like, I know you want to have faith and
you want to be confident, but you can only give a person so many
shots before you have to make a change. And I feel like there's so
many things here that are just overdue. And again it's this was so expected.
It's like, yeah, Edmonton had I think some confidence that they could
win this game, but ultimately it just it fell apart as quickly as they
built it up. And then you know, Winnipeg just given how you know,
how stout they've been over the past couple of years. Now, obviously
last week was a bit of an odd an oddity for them, I guess
you'd say, but it was back to normal for them this week. Now,
yeah, first half was a bit different, but you know, if
you watch this game old in the second half, I mean, yeah,
Winnipeg, it was that textbook Zach Claro's finding his receivers, Brady olivera kind
of you know, taking the rock with them and being extremely efficient. It
was just back to normal. And uh yeah, I think that's like this
game just felt very normal to me, given all the circumstances. Like yeah,
again, first half maybe not like, but second half, yeah,
I felt like, you know, it was just any other game. Winnipeg
pulls away against their opponent. You know, Edmonton can't get things together unfortunately,
and it just every week my heart sinks a bit more for all the
Elks fans and people like Dave who who spent so much time covering that team.
Jason, how has stray Forward not seen the field? You got me
at this point. It's just, you know, like he codes out with
that big explanation, explanation that why he's not on the field. Oh,
he's not playing that well in practice, But I mean you see what's actually
on the field, and some guys, I mean they're just not that great
in practice. But when the lights come on, you get them on field
in the game. I mean, you know, you look at a guy
like Tim Tebow that one year with the Broncos. I mean, anything could
light a spark for your team when you're just down this badly. And I
think at the end of the day, the elk's just you know, with
Cornelius, he just inspires no hope. And like, on one hand,
you just you want to give the guy a lot of time to develop,
because we've seen in the history of the CFL guys really don't hit their stride
at quarterback for you know, three or four years into their career. But
I think at a certain point you gotta look around the league and say,
Dustin Crum's already shown more than Taylor Cornelius has ever shown us. And I
think Taylor Powell's looked better than that Cornelius has ever looked already in his first
career starts. So at a certain point you need results. And oh and
seven just isn't gonna cut it. Evan, I know you're gonna pop off
here early. Any last thoughts from you before you need to get out of
here? Um, Yeah, you know not, I mean not really like
that. It was a pretty general, i'd say slate of games this week.
I mean that that Ottawa Calgary game I think really made up for anything
that happened before that. But honestly, a lot of the same narratives and
a lot of things that were just expected. So you know this, I
think, I mean, maybe I sound a bit more negative in general this
week because I was so excited about last week's slate of games and how refreshing
that was after just really the past, I mean, a couple of years
have been let's be honest here, So maybe I sound a bit more critical
this week, But ultimately, yeah, I mean, you know, I'm
we officially hit you know, the third way through the season marker, and
I'm enjoying it so far. Ultimately, I mean again, even if I
have to, you know, say certain things about certain people and players,
it's all out of love for the game. And you know, I really
hope that some of these teams here that we've talked about in a negative light,
it can really turn things around. Now, you know, Edmonton,
I don't know, They've got a lot of changes to make there, but
there's you know, Hamilton, I think there's still a salvageable part here and
then Ottawa obviously is already kind of you know, it went from their season
was over to now, oh my goodness, like we're right back in the
fold, you know, possible even playoffs here, which is crazy to think
about, just given where we were, about how low we were, like
when the SOULI got hurt and everything. So I don't know, it's been
a wild season already, but a lot of exciting storylines and there's still some
things I hope would improve, but all around it, Look, man,
I can't complain. It's been fun, awesome. Evan, safe travels,
good luck, and thanks for getting your WiFi hotspot on here. Jason.
I'll get out of here soon, but I do want to talk about in
this narrative here because I am scared about this BC at Edmonton this week.
Talking to Edmonton, you know, I could just see, like Dane plays
you know, Va, we're gonna rest of her and then we have we're
not coming in prepared, right, What do you I listened to me is
like trap game here scenario. Yeah, I mean, I mean every team
is kind of afraid of being the one that gives the Elks that first home
win in forever. But I think that with BC, the comforting thing for
me is the defense, and I think the defense gives them a certain floor
each week. I really don't see any way that Edmuton moves the ball in
any efficient lay against that BC defense. I think that the one scary thing
is, like you mentioned, I think Dane Eva, if he plays in
this one, he has been prone to some big, high turnover games the
last couple of years, So I think that could be one thing that potentially
makes this game a little bit closer. But I mean, I don't really
have too many concerns as an outsider this game for the Lions. Okay,
well, that's good. That's good to hear. That's good to year.
We've tied Hamilton, Ottawa, Saskatchewan going in. I mean, this could
be a scary one too here Saskatchewan. The Mason Fine effect here which Toronto's
defense. Are any fears here for a commander in chief? They're Mason Fine?
Yeah. Well this should be interesting. This is the touchdown Atlantic game,
of course, so this should be yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
So this should be interesting to see. Um, you know, I
think this is the first time the game is actually going to be in the
city of Halifax, So everybody that talks about that team, maybe this is
just a look at what this could potentially look like down the road. But
I think in terms of the game itself, I think that you know,
Toronto will obviously be heavy favorites, but I think Saskatchewan's defense can kind of,
you know, maybe disrupt Chad Kelly a little bit more than he had
the first five weeks of the season. But at the end of the day,
I think Saskatchewan, you know, they moved the ball. Okay last
game, they got a bunch of field goals, but I think if they
can get into the end zone a couple of times, they may have a
fighter's chance. Alilettes here coming off there by Calgary there that's intriguing too.
I want to see Calgary again. I was talking. We had Tim Kapper
on the show talking the Arena Football League. But you know Tim Chair and
his thoughts, and he's really happy with Cody and the Alilettes and everything.
Their thoughts on that woman before we get out, well, I think the
both teams will probably be pretty desperate coming into this game because I think,
you know, Calgary obviously they're two and four, and I think if they
followed two and five. I mean, I think they were two and five
a couple of years ago when they were able to crawl back into it.
But I think this would be a very devastating loss for Calgary if they're gonna
fall to two and five, and I think for Montreal, with Ottawa suddenly
going on a run here to three and three, they would fall behind Ottawa
with a loss and be right in the mix there with Hamilton. So I
think at the end of the day, this is a very important game for
the standings. And I think the two, you know, the games with
Montreal and Calgary and Ottawa Hamilton, those are the two games that have the
most consequence in terms of the standings. Next week, yeah, it should
be exciting. We're, like I said, on vacation this week, so
we're gonna be We're gonna have the XFL combines going on. They're streaming that.
Andy Murray is gonna be with me. I think we're gonna do nine
am live episode on Friday when I get back, we'll do with the XFL
Combine recap, and then we'll do a CFL Week eight previews. I think
that's what we're gonna do this week. Is for me trying to out here
in the woods and scheduling guests and all that. I think we're gonna do
that. That'll be good to look for the live episode Friday nine am coming
off. I think I was just checking during the show. Last week was
our record high for viewership for the stream, at least on our channel.
I know we co share that, but you know we're getting the word out.
I think it's important to do this every week. Jason, any other
thoughts from you about anything before we get out now? Just another week in
the books and looking forward to next week. Yeah, it should be good.
I Winnipeg on the buy here, coming off a dominant win on that.
But yeah, I just I have that circled with BC. I don't
want to see any traps on that. Last things on here, Oh Louis,
I guess we had a comment. Do you think any of the games
are going to be really high scoring? Only Calgary Ottawa broke that BC Elks
game. I don't think it's gonna be high scoring, especially with Dan in
there. Maybe maybe Calary Montreal runs it up. I don't know. It
could be an interest in slightly James here haying great show here comments I don't
like to get to the hour mark. Here were fifty nine thirties where we're
padding the time out here and coach Craig Coach Craig Sports says, tray forward
season. They got to figure that here. What if tray forward comes in
it just lights up the world against BC. Yeah, they're gonna look so
stupid if that happens too, because like, like, why did it take
this long? Yeah, it's kind of a loser at this point. Jason,
Thanks God speed, Evan, safe travels, and everything else that.
We'll see you next time. Eggs