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Well, happy Thursday here Special Thursday
Live episode that I have a wedding in

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the film tomorrow and Saturday, so
I appreciate our guests making time today.

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Exciting day anyway, football is back. Apparently we had a little rant about

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that at Crudos Andrew Murray for coming
up with this meme, and I retweeted

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that here though if I see,
I don't know what we've been podcasting about

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in here for since February here,
you know, eighteen weeks in a row

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or whatever with Pat and Andy and
Evan Jason and everything else that we are

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talking CFL today. We have a
special guest. I'm excited for this.

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So we have Bryson best neighbor here
from PFF. How are you doing,

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sir, I'm good. Thanks for
having me. This is good. Are

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you? Are you glad that football
is back? Yeah, I've heard that

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too. I know I've been watching
football for the last what nine weeks now,

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so it's been back for a while
for me. But I'm excited for

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the NFL to kick off too.
It'll be good. Yeah, I feel

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like that's how Canadians feel like,
you know, and now it's like I'm

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welcomed into that outside here today,
normally quiet in our backyard. We have

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seafair this weekend, so the hydroplanes
and everyone's practicing, so they've rerouted all

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of air travel over my house this
weekend. So we will meet muting here

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as we need be. But Bryson, how are you? Are you enjoying

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the season when you make eight weeks
into the CFL. Yeah, I've been

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enjoying a lot. I think this
has been an interesting season. I think

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some things have gone the way I
thought they would, other things haven't.

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But I think it's been excited to
see some of the teams. I've been

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pretty excited watching Chad Kelly in Toronto
and that whole team, and it's been

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a surprise for me for sure.
But it's been fun. Yeah. Yeah,

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we kind of had, you know, we got into this with the

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XFL and we had, you know, the canceled season and come back.

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It felt like that was was that
twenty twenty one was a little rough,

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right, it felt like last year. Do you feel like the CFL is

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getting back up to speed now?
Kind of We've had some more exciting games.

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I mean, obviously the quarterback injuries
and all of that, but you

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feel like it's getting back up to
what you expected, I think. So,

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Yeah, I think the last couple
of years since since the cancelation has

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been a little rough. You know, the year off was hard for everybody.

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The CFL. It's not the same
quite as the NFL, where they

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can trade all the time and do
the same kind of level of still playing

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if the NFL is canceled. But
yeah, I think I think this year,

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you know, again, what the
third year since the cancelation, I

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think it's starting to ramp back up
into the old levels of play. So

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I'm hoping that will continue. So
the exciting thing this year obviously was PFF

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getting involved with the CFL, and
I know, I think even with the

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XFL and stuff this year and it
was kind of like, you know,

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how many resources are we voting into
this? Can you talk about kind of

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you guys and getting involved with the
CFL this year? Sure, So it's

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actually only been a multi year process. I've been I want to say since

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like twenty eighteen maybe that we've been
working on this um. It started out

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with CFL teams wanting our college data
so that they could use it for scouting

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and forgetting guys from the states that
were making the NFL to come play up

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here, and then as they found
our data they've been they were like,

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hey, maybe this would be good
for our league, and we were good.

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I think it was. It was
good to happen, and then COVID

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hit and so twenty twenty years we
were going to have it, and then

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they couldn't do it because the cancelation
season, and then the last couple of

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years they've just been focused on getting
back into the actual season and running the

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league itself. So that was and
this year's finally they were like, all

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right, we could. We're settled
it enough, we could get you guys

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to coming here and partner with us. Does it strike you as the CFL

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a little slow moving when it comes
to some of that stuff and getting everything

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on board. Yeah, I mean, I think just look at the live

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stats issue right now. It's as
proof. But I think I'm glad they're

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doing it, and I think and
they've been very, very great, Like

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obviously it took them a while,
but I think once they got in they've

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been super I usually been very gracious
for us and wanting us and partner with

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us. So it's been a great
partnership so far. Yeah, what kind

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of reaction has it been for them
having you guys on board, and what

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kind of feedback are you getting?
Lots of positive you know, I think

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I don't know what it is,
but I think we've just been getting a

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lot of positive reviews. They love
the word we're putting in. We love

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what they're doing with us and using
our info and put it out there.

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And then they love the content we're
doing and a lot of the fans are

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loving it too. So I've gotten
pretty much all positive reviews from it so

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far, which has been fantastic to
see. Well, I like, you

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know, CFL, and I've gotten
back. I've gone back and forth with

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them a little bit here in the
last couple of weeks, like you know,

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staying with the XIT foul and the
USFL, Like I just wish some

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of these and we call CFL all
football, and I know that they get

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all you know in their engrothers about
that, but you know anything, and

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we're here, we're talking you know, BC Lions at Winnipeg here before the

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Hall of Fame game. But you
know, these alternative leagues, like let's

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work with some of these creators and
like what you guys are doing and like

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you're not you know, whin it
cnfall. It's okay, We're gonna go

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kind of walk wherever we want and
do whatever we want. But I just

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I like that and them kind of
religing on that. What do you make

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of the whole stats issue this year
anyway with them? And it's like the

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Genius Sports and they were trying to
do it and it worked before and it

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doesn't work now. Yeah, I
don't know. I mean, like I

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don't want to criticize to many people
for this, but I mean, obviously

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it's an issue. Right, Like
it's almost half with the season now,

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and they don't have live stats,
they don't have old stats of the site.

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It's trying to get those stats as
an issue. I don't I should

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have download pdf to I've seen the
stats every week and we do that.

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So, I mean, I hope
that what's coming is great, but I

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wish it was happening how I wish
they had figured this out through the offseason

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and then had a working week one. Well, it's interesting to me because

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like I even and obviously we do
the XFL seve. I was reached out

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to by some of the CF people
like, Hey, whether they giving you

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guys what is their weekly you know, whether what is your media poor?

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The look like, what are the
things they're providing seemingly to me that hey,

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we're let's try to figure you know, let's incorporate if there's any good

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ideas, and so yeah, I
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for you know, it had faults
with ever this year, and so the

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US have like getting you know,
game summaries out and stats out and getting

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all of that stuff and the app
worth like you know, if the XFL

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is they able to do that,
you know a season? And I mean

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I know we've had we've gone back
and forth with FIXI and the CFL from

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the XFL standpoint, but in terms
of major storylines you're tracking right now.

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You mentioned Chad Kelly, Like what
are you what do you have your site

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set on the season so far?
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even started, especially, it was
all about Colaros for me and could he

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do three straight LPs? Right Like
he's won two in a row. He's

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been the best quarterback in the CFL
for a couple of years now. So

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watching that that, Chad Kelly came
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storm. It has been playing very
well, so kind of watching him,

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I've heard it out of two obviously, it's been plays for well before the

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injury, So like seeing him kind
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after being the CFL so many years
and having issues. I mean, injuries

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have always been kind of his issues. But if you get at healthy,

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it's good, you know. I
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drive in the league that it's gonna
always be a lot of quarterback story lines

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on defense. I think the Matthew
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like the what I'm looking at to
see if he can do it or not,

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because he's kind of right on track
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how and obviously you know, we'll
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kind of everything else, you know, for the weekend, and I got

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the schedule pulled up here, we
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terms of BC and this defense,
how dominant of a defense is this that

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we're seeing here with Ryan Phillips coming
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season now, it's great. I
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there. I know, they're leading
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For defense, they got a wicked
pass rush right obviously Bets is good,

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but they ot other guys too,
and the secondary is good. Gary

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Peters at corner. It's been fantastic. So I think like having guys that

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are the outside had on the inside
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been great for them. So they're
the real deal. Well, it's weird

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because we've you know, we've tracked
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far Han with saying earlier in the
season. You know, the CFL is

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such a kind of a win now
league and that BC and you know,

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you know, Phillips was like the
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ago, and now we're building up
and it just seems like the depth that

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BC has kind of on both sides
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goes down, we've got Dane comes
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the wide receivers ready to go.
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team building behind BC in general and
kind of how they're it just seems like

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they have a wealth of resources where
some of these teams are struggling right now.

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I think they kind of look at

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the league and said, you know, like with the CFL, especially,

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top guys are good, but you
need depth because it's how guys go down

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if you know what to replace them
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pretty steep for some positions, right
if you lose like a starting left tackle,

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like if they lost Broxton for example, right, they'd be kind of

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screwed, or right tackle. And
like, I think having the depth has

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been the key for them, and
they've been doing a good job of building

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that up and making sure that't they
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they need to start up, they
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an example of that, right,
Like he's the backup. He's going to

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be the backup when Vernon comes back, but right now he's one of the

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best quarterbacks in the league the way
he's playing. Are you scared about Dan

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here tonight with Winnipeg's defense a little
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he's had a good few games,
but he's played some not so great teams

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kind of taken advantage of some lesser
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and has a good pass rush so
I a little scared of it, but

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I think he could do okay.
I think it's the worries that he tries

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to do too much. A start
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too he plays himself and and that's
where we'll go. It'll get bad for

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him. I mean, we saw
even last week where you know, not

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having and I don't know if Vernon. I mean they always say like Vernon's

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is like, you know, more
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Dan always seems like he's as athletic, but but I guess not in

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terms of him being able to get
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last week and it seems like BC
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upright all the time against you know, Edmonton. So I'm kind of worried

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with that's going to look like tonight
with Winnipeg and they've talked you know,

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Winnipeg's defense not you know, it's
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in a couple of years, you
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was maybe two years ago. Do
you do you worry about that? Seeing

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how Edmonton and like Seresna, everyone
who was able to get to dam last

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week. Yeah, absolutely, you
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Obviously, Winnipeg's defense, like it's
the same defense from two three years

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ago. It's getting older, say, with their whole team is kind of

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getting older and sol down. But
I mean, Willy Jefferson is still one

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of the best pass ushers in the
league, better than anyone I've admitted.

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So I think that is a worry
for if your BC of and I think,

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you know, I think I think
Evans is under is underrated for his

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like athleticism. I think he can
he can move. I mean not quite

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like Verdon Addo's kin, but not
that far off. But I do worry

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just about Winnipeg the defense being able
to get to a little more than an

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admitted could have been. They did
pretty well admitted, So definitely a worry.

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So we're not seeing Adams tonight riding. Rick said that it was you

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know, short week was part of
it and obviously kind of given him that

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break. What we've seen with Vernon
so far, I was really scared him.

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I mean the end of the season
and we lever and in and friend

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of the show and everything, but
you know, he gets a little panicky

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and we saw obviously the six interceptions
against. You know, it's try to

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like whether you made the VA so
far here and what you've seen. Yeah,

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I mean, like, if you
take out that game, he's been

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playing phenomenally. Obviously that was a
tough game, but I think that was

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just a case of sort of him
getting in his own head and a little

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bit of trying to force it way
too much. I think noticing what he's

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done this is he's definitely like,
again I take it out that game,

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he's toned down the force passes,
like the into double coverage kind of looks,

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and like his turnover throws are way
down compared to what they were last

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year even when we graded them.
It is time when he played last year.

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So I think like just sort of
he's become more of a passer,

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which has been nice little more and
he's always been accurate, right, I

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think just keeping that up and not
forcing too many bad throws and it's any

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boneheaded decisions. Again, if you
take out that one game, yeah,

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I feel like with him, um, what was it and it was I

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think the first Edmonton game before it
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there, but they him trying to
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he needs to still be able to
utilize his mobility right where he like you

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said, even if it's ten percent
with ever better than than Dan Evans,

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but him kind of forcing more of
that. But like to me, it

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was kind of like watching Russell Wilson
in Denver last year, and like,

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you know, I've lived in Seattle
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Russell's not the pocket pass or like
ye got a round the round and scramble

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and all that. Uh you think
they're hitting a good balance with that.

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I think he's similar Russell where he
doesn't want to move out of the pocket

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to run, but he needs to
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Right, get out, get up
moving, get on a poll, get

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on the roll, get outside the
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than scrambling. But I think they
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always said with like a lot of
these CFL quarterbacks, if you can design

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your offense around them, you'll be
better, right if you try to force

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them into a different offense, Like
he's not gonna he's not gonna be good

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in a straight out like drop that
system right, like, but if you

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get to move it, and it's
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had a success so far that he's
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coming in it was rough, a
rough spot for him with Rourke and everything,

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and obviously they you know, they
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do. Now, are you seeing
anything different this year? Like he said,

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is it more of the offense now
that he's had a year with it

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and they kind of know that he's
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he has similar traits right to Nathan
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And he said, what do you
what do you attribute him having more?

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Because like they won some games last
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with Vernon in their last year.
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yeah, like he didn't play terribly
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was a step down from how Work
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think, yeah, a whole year, the system knowing that he's the guy,

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right, they had the whole offseason
with him and they do that all

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right, he's going to be the
guy Asletius he proves it, and he

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did so. I think just getting
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familiar with the guys and the system
and playing out he wants to play,

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I think it's been helpful. That's
why I sort of he's been so good

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in terms of you know, we
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at Winnipeg. Are you obviously you
know, Winnipeg making adjustments. What are

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you expecting tonight coming in? Yeah, I definitely don't expect the Winnipeg to

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score six points. It will be
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they'll make some adjustments. I think
obviously that week was just the past rush

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of BC got to the got to
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they're gonna adjust with that. I think

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I think it'll be better. That
old line is getting older, but they're

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still good Winnipeg old line, So
I think I think they'll be okay.

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I think I think, you know, there'll be some pressure, but not

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nearly as much as there was.
I don't think it'll be a blowing the

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way. I think it'll be a
close game in terms of Clara's here,

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you know a few years in now, what are you seeing of him now?

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And is he still playing at that
elite level like he said expecting you

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know, were you looking for another
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Honestly, I think he's been playing
better this year than he has in

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the past. He had a rough
stretch, but I've always like watching him

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last year, in the last couple
of years, he's all he has been

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like a just chuck it down field, right, and no Bill throws a

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bad throw for him. So he
had a lot of these like high but

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these big time throws where he was
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he also had a lot of interceptions
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he was just forcing it like into
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This year, his turnoverthrows are way
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ever had, and but his big
time throws are still way up. So

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I think he's sort of figuring out
like way to take the big shots that

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went to not take them, and
he's been playing super well. He had

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a rough stretch after that BC game, obviously, but then since that he's

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been lights out again, So I
think this is I think he's had one

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of his best seasons. You know, in the limited time that we even

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following the CFL and covering it,
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Seeing BC at the top of you
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and the standings isn't new and very
welcome you I might BC had on I

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call them American's CFL team, so
excited for that. But were you surprised

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at the at the leave that BC
took this year. I mean, obviously

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they had a lot of momentum last
year and the Rourk and everything else,

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but I didn't really know what to
expect this year. Are you surprised that

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they've been as dominant as they are. I'm not surprised. I think I

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guess surprised that their first I didn't
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I thought Whinnipeg would still be the
class of the West. But I thought

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bc'd be good. I thought that
Verdon Adams would have a was good enough

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that he might not be at the
level that Athan work was last year,

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but he's still good enough that that's
he was so staffed around him that he

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could play and do well. So
the defense was so good as well,

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So I don't I wouldn't say I'm
surprised they're that they're good. I might

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be surprised that they're this good early
on if they went to night, I'd

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i'd i'd be surprised, just because
you know, early on, when I

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gets a good team twice, it's
pretty tough to do. I saw.

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I think Winnipeg they just tweeted and
they've sold like thirty thousand plus tickets tonight,

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which is, you know, I
think tremendous for a Thursday game here

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is at a good number. Are
you impressed with that? Yeah? Yeah,

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you know, I think. I
mean yeah, I think it's a

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anywhere you go. He Saskatchewan,
that's a high number, right, Like

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the Scatch was always going to sell
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even Winnipeg too, but BC.
Yeah, everyone getting those numbers is good

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in terms of are you expecting when
they peg to bounce back tonight, like

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you said, beating a good opponent
like that twice in a row. Yeah,

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if I had to prick, I'd
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that you know, this early the
season trying to beat the team twice and

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they Whitnipeg will will have their number. But I mean it wouldn't be shocking

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if BC won again. They're playing
that well. What adjustments do you expect

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from Winnipeg tonight, just knowing how
dominant BC was before. I think a

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lot more quick passing, a lot
more. I think that was an issue

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was getting It was rush are too
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pass rush and quick passing. I
mean, they got Kenny lawlerback, that's

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big acas he don't show it as
great, and they got the weapons to

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do it. So a little more
quick hitters, not so much long developing

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place. That'll take the pressure off
the old line a little bit. We

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mentioned before Matthew Betts and just even
watching him last week, Chase was it

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Cornelius kind of around the playground like
just yeah sis him he has Are you

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impressed with how good he's been performing
this season? Yeah? I didn't see

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it coming, right, I didn't. I don't think I had him a

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top five edge rushers. I didn't
think I thought he was good, But

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would not like that. Not this
great. And he's been probably the best

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pass rusher all season obviously aside like
he's getting the sass, but he's also

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just getting other pressure. It's getting
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phenomenal and it's it's been awesome to

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watch him. Yeah, I mean, because it's it's been a couple where

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even you know, even if he's
not going in here getting him the sack,

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he's kind of able to stand there
and target and then if Cornelius or

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whatever is running really kind of multi
use I guess for him there. In

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terms of Edmonton obviously having the buyoweek
right now, which is probably a good

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thing for them to have. You
know, we've seen offensive coordinator change come

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out. I think that was Monday
as we went live for the show.

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I used to surprised or not with
how poor Edmonton's been this year, kind

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of similar to PC the depposite.
I thought to be bad. Didn't think

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to be this bad, you know, I thought they I do they struggle

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to be like, oh at eight
that's tough. I didn't think they'd be

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winless at this point, right.
I think it's just I just watched them.

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I don't think they really have any
identity. They don't know what they're

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doing, what they want to be, And you're not gonna win games if

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you play like that. We've had
a lot of you know, the coaching

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salary cap, and I had posted
last week, you know, let's let's

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fix this salary cap issue before we
add a ten team, Like, let's,

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you know, let's try to get
some of this stuff. Like do

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you blame it on that? Do
you blame it all on Jones? Is

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it like the culture that was there
before? I mean, because it was

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bad with you know him before,
you know, when he before he came

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back to the XFL, Like what
do you attribute just it just seem really

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kind of seems like it's a dumpster
fire right now. Yeah, I don't

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know if there's any like sort of
one person to blame or one thing to

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blame, right I don't think it's
a combo of all of it, right

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I don't. I think, like, obviously the coaching cap is stupid and

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it hurts the league, I think, and I think you're right. I

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would I would rather take that out
before getting a tenth team in there,

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just because it's it's hindering the league. And but I also think Jones has

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not been coaching well. And then
I think the whole and the team itself

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doesn't have a ton of talent.
Again, it's a quarterback league and you've

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got Cordelius and whether or not he
could be good, he's not good right

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now. His confidence is shot.
I just I don't think started him is

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useful at this point. I think
I don't think he's I like Cordios,

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I don't. I don't think he's
great, but I think he can be

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effective in a certain offense. But
I think he used to just sit for

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a bit and just get himself back
into it. Because right now, like

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you watch them out there, it
looks like he doesn't want to even be

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there sometimes. Well it really fell
apart that the second half in the last

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game where it felt like they came
back from halftime. Now, I guess

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right he's going to be short yardage. We've got Daggie coming in and then

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trade forward. Are you surprised we
haven't seen more trade forward this year,

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especially after I mean he had success
last year before the injury. Yeah,

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you know, I think I don't. I just don't see why not,

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right, I think you're oh at
eight obviously, if Cordials isn't working,

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I mean, I know, I
know they say, like, well,

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in practice, Cordials is looking the
best and that's why we keep playing him,

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and I get that, but at
some point it's like it's not working

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in the game, So maybe just
put Forward out there for a couple of

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series and see what he does.
Right, Like, I don't know what

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what the worst thing that could happen
is you lose again, right, Like,

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I just I just don't see why
they're not even at least trying to

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chase something up. But I like, go with Deggie's fine, Dakie's been

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playing okay, But I don't see
why not just try to try Forward for

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a game and just see what happens
in terms of you know, you've found

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the league a lot longer than we
have at how his historically? How poor

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are the Elks performing right now?
Very I have I've never seen it with

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this bad. I mean, to
get shut out like this twice already the

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year, and just the way they've
played like to be in these games,

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and barely ever are they even close
to being in the games. Like I

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watch the games, and I'm like, oh, they've already lost this,

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right, Like there's been maybe two
games all the year where they've even kind

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of been in it. So I
it's been a struggle to watch them play

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and it just like I don't see
any any positivity. I think they'll win

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a game this year because I don't
think you can go at eighteen. But

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it's hard to imagine them with your
game right now the way they're playing.

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Uh, this is a stupid question, but hasn't the team ever gone though

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in the eighteen No, not that
I do love. Okay, all right,

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well yeah we're the new um,
you know, because it was last

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game. I mean they weren't didn't
even test your red zone, I mean

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the entire game. Like it's remarkable
to think. I know they have that

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one like long field goal attempt that
went you know, they went poor,

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but um, to not even be
in the situation where you could score lot,

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Like I'm trying to explain to my
wife, like how challenging it is.

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You can shout out on that once
but twice, But I mean do

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you attribute that? I mean I
know it's probably both, but what do

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you attribute it? More to BC's
dominant defense or them just being you know,

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in that offensively. Yeah, I
think it's definitely both. I would

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probably go sixty forty on it just
being Edmonton. M leaning that right,

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I think, like obviously they're bad
at BC's good, so that's why there's

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zero points and not like seven or
ten um, but like Edmonton's just they're

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not scoring anybody really and they're not
moving the ball well. And if they

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do move the ball well, that's
gonna end with a bad turnover at the

408
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goal, right at the goal.
I sting like that did a couple weeks

409
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ago. So just things like that, I just didn't. I did just

410
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up play well. And I think
this bye week is coming out a good

411
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time and hopefully they can figure at
least something out. How bad do you

412
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feel, you know, for Victor
Quee and kind of the rest of the

413
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staff there where you know, here
we've seen in the mark come in and

414
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I mean even Gary Sterning back when
he was involved in this, Like you

415
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know, it helps to have a
team win and you can run promotions and

416
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have on field suites with TVs and
couches and was it I think I saw

417
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that some of the BC players you
know, jumped in them and they were

418
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sitting in there and there for the
win of the celebrations. But like,

419
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you can do all the things in
the world, where if you're not winning,

420
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Like, how do you feel about
the rest of the staff there in

421
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Edmonton? I feel awful, right
Like I think, I mean, the

422
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twenty one wins in a row or
lost in a row at home, but

423
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that's that's so bad, And I
think for the staff and for even the

424
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people working for the organization, right
like, you can't how do you sell

425
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tickets when you haven't won it three
years at home? Like, and you're

426
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not showing any signs of it,
of it possibly happening. That's kind of

427
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the thing, like if they were
close to these games and lose it close

428
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games because they be okay, like
they're just they're right there, there's a

429
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few things here and there, but
they're not they're just not getting they're not

430
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getting close to these games. And
so I just don't know what you do

431
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when I feel bad for the staff
because you're right, like, even just

432
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one win with changes the morale and
do not have any is tough. We

433
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got a couple of comments here Tim
the nineteen forty nine Tiger cast when oh

434
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and twelve okay, and then Max
of course is our fact checker here worse

435
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with Hamilton going one in seventeen three
Modern era. Also we got our co

436
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host here, Jason has he checking
in from our Monday show and the sauspos

437
00:24:30.559 --> 00:24:33.880
asking where's Jason Evan? That's the
Monday Show where in the special, I

438
00:24:33.920 --> 00:24:37.960
guess said, I have a wedding
tomorrow, so Bryson is happy enough to

439
00:24:37.960 --> 00:24:40.160
come on today and kind of do
this. I don't have to give up

440
00:24:40.400 --> 00:24:44.640
at seven tomorrow and posts all this
stuff for ful filming all day. How

441
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do you feel about the health of
the CFL right now in general? Because

442
00:24:47.759 --> 00:24:49.599
we have some high heights and I
wanted to we'll talk Toronto and all this.

443
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We'll move through the rest of the
games. But you know, we

444
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have some high heights, but then
obviously you have Edmonton and kind of even

445
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you know, Hamilton's kind of a
dumpster fire a little bit right now,

446
00:24:57.799 --> 00:25:00.599
even coming off a win. So
how do you feel about the CFL as

447
00:25:00.599 --> 00:25:07.160
a whole? You know, I
optimistic, cautiously, I think it's tough

448
00:25:07.279 --> 00:25:10.039
now and I think they'd eat because
I think now with the XFL, do

449
00:25:10.160 --> 00:25:12.599
still stick it around that's a lot
of talent from that South that's going to

450
00:25:12.640 --> 00:25:17.039
stick around they are right and not
come to Canada. So I think like

451
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that's gonna be an issue for them
if they don't sort of figure out the

452
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game. And I think, you
know, I think it's it's going well,

453
00:25:22.759 --> 00:25:25.359
I think, but I do think
it's tough when you got teams like

454
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Hamilton, calgaryest looks so good.
Obviously image is bad, and like the

455
00:25:29.359 --> 00:25:32.519
top teams aren't good. But if
it's the safe teams every year, it's

456
00:25:32.559 --> 00:25:36.599
hard to establish anything, right if
you just got Winnipeg BC in Toronto every

457
00:25:36.680 --> 00:25:41.319
year. How do you feel about
Commission Ambrosi right now? Because obviously,

458
00:25:41.480 --> 00:25:44.880
you know, stats aside, it
seems like the CFL season is going pretty

459
00:25:44.880 --> 00:25:47.880
well. I mean, I see
dunk reporting and you know, demographics are

460
00:25:47.960 --> 00:25:49.880
up and radians are up, and
you know, we've got I have my

461
00:25:49.880 --> 00:25:52.839
own thoughts about the CFL plus and
everything here in America, but you know,

462
00:25:52.960 --> 00:25:57.240
it seems like it's been a pretty
um not you know, a controversy

463
00:25:57.279 --> 00:26:00.480
free whatever. Not that there's a
lot of ever kinds of seeming to see

464
00:26:00.480 --> 00:26:02.519
ABU, but it feels like it's
how do you feel about the state and

465
00:26:03.119 --> 00:26:04.880
Ambrosi and everything else. Yeah,
you know, I think obviously the stats

466
00:26:04.960 --> 00:26:07.839
thing is an issue and we've touched
on that and back. He needs to

467
00:26:07.880 --> 00:26:11.400
figure that out. But other than
that, like I mean, they had

468
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to touchdown of Ding last week.
That was a by all accounts a huge

469
00:26:14.079 --> 00:26:17.599
success going down to East. So
I think it's good. I think,

470
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you know, I think part of
it is that the game is kind of

471
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trending back up to what it was
like it used to have. The whole

472
00:26:22.759 --> 00:26:25.599
point of CFL is like exciting games
that come down to the wire. It's

473
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kind of like it could be anyone's
game in the last three minutes, and

474
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they're getting that point where these games
are exciting leading up to that, and

475
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then at that point, right you
don't you don't want to get his boring

476
00:26:33.559 --> 00:26:36.079
into the last three minutes. You
want to give us exciting all the way

477
00:26:36.119 --> 00:26:37.759
through it. It's still exciting at
the end. We've had a couple of

478
00:26:37.759 --> 00:26:41.920
those games right now that have been
super exciting, and I think that's just

479
00:26:41.960 --> 00:26:44.799
you know, after the COVID year, the plays picking back up. So

480
00:26:44.839 --> 00:26:47.920
I think having that has been helpful, just like a sell the league as

481
00:26:47.920 --> 00:26:52.519
an exciting league. I don't know
if if like three down just got like

482
00:26:52.599 --> 00:26:53.640
I don't know if they're bored this
week, and I man, I know

483
00:26:53.680 --> 00:26:57.119
we're coming off in the touchdown.
I've seen a lot of articles posted about

484
00:26:57.160 --> 00:27:00.799
the expansion, like Hodges talking about
there's a couple of different sites, and

485
00:27:00.839 --> 00:27:04.319
I just saw like Rod Peterson was
talking with a J Jackie back about how

486
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like there's certain ownership that's more interested. Like one of our friends, Toddy

487
00:27:08.559 --> 00:27:12.039
had just posted over in our CFL
Chatter Facebook group that you know, the

488
00:27:12.119 --> 00:27:15.880
toensdown in Atlantic sold out took like
seventy two odd days. You had six

489
00:27:15.960 --> 00:27:19.240
thousand tourists coming in, so it
wasn't like it was this overwhelming the local

490
00:27:19.920 --> 00:27:22.119
you know response for that. What
do you what do you make of this

491
00:27:22.200 --> 00:27:26.279
ten team nonsense here? Because it
really I think it must just be because

492
00:27:26.319 --> 00:27:27.799
the game was last week. It's
really picked up here at my feed.

493
00:27:29.039 --> 00:27:30.559
Yeah, I think I think it's
it's picked up because of the game last

494
00:27:30.559 --> 00:27:34.839
week and obviously doesn't talk of that
for years now. And I do think

495
00:27:34.920 --> 00:27:40.279
that the ten team it's kind of
ridiculous that we have nine teams an odd

496
00:27:40.319 --> 00:27:42.880
number, and there's a crossover,
like just get a ten team. But

497
00:27:44.039 --> 00:27:45.680
yeah, I mean it's you got
to find a place that that watch it.

498
00:27:45.680 --> 00:27:48.559
And like you said, like the
Atlantic was a success, but I

499
00:27:48.559 --> 00:27:51.440
don't know how much of it was
local and how much of it was just

500
00:27:51.480 --> 00:27:53.680
anybody in that sort of area.
I would East and the Eastern Quebec that

501
00:27:53.720 --> 00:27:56.480
just came up for it, that
would go to a game every game if

502
00:27:56.480 --> 00:27:59.359
they had a team there. Right, they just went for the on the

503
00:27:59.400 --> 00:28:02.480
once in the seas a game.
So you know, yeah, I mean

504
00:28:02.480 --> 00:28:04.519
because even like Saskatchewan, I mean, you know, they're a big travel

505
00:28:04.599 --> 00:28:07.880
here coming out. I mean they're
of anyone. You know. It's like,

506
00:28:07.920 --> 00:28:10.119
hey, well we'll travel, we'll
come out for our team. Right.

507
00:28:10.359 --> 00:28:11.240
Well, that's that's kind of a
thing, right. You you put

508
00:28:11.240 --> 00:28:15.240
Saskatchewan it, they're gonna have the
fans are gonna be them traveling because they

509
00:28:15.279 --> 00:28:18.440
do it every week to every game. So it's a good look for them.

510
00:28:18.440 --> 00:28:21.599
But it's an easy look if you
put Saskatchwe in that game. Because

511
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another I had they put Toronto in
the game, right, so Toronto has

512
00:28:23.440 --> 00:28:27.039
no fans. So wow, hey, now hey so it's not here.

513
00:28:27.759 --> 00:28:30.559
I wanted to talk and we can
touch on to any more BC seve at

514
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the end if we want. But
this Toronto Calgary game, this feels like

515
00:28:34.039 --> 00:28:37.920
it's going to be a blood bath. I think Mike Mitchell took the upset

516
00:28:37.960 --> 00:28:40.599
and said that he thinks Calgary is
coming in here. I mean, Toronto

517
00:28:40.960 --> 00:28:45.160
historically great and Jason had just supposed
to the video on his YouTube channel about

518
00:28:45.640 --> 00:28:48.839
you know how good they are in
the history of either kind of the CFL

519
00:28:48.920 --> 00:28:52.000
and the Argonauts franchise. What do
you what your thoughts on this game coming

520
00:28:52.039 --> 00:28:55.119
in? Yeah, you know,
I mean, like it's CFL, anyone

521
00:28:55.160 --> 00:28:56.559
could win, but it would It's
hard for me to find a way to

522
00:28:56.599 --> 00:29:00.720
see Calgary within this game. Um. I just think that they're struggling pretty

523
00:29:00.759 --> 00:29:06.200
badly and Toronto really has no witnesses
right now. Like I think Toronto they're

524
00:29:06.200 --> 00:29:07.960
gonna lose. It's gonna be having
an off game. I guess a good

525
00:29:07.960 --> 00:29:11.319
team. I don't know if they're
if. I don't know if even the

526
00:29:11.359 --> 00:29:15.160
worst game is enough to lose to
a bad team. You know, I

527
00:29:15.160 --> 00:29:17.960
think that with the way the way
they're playing right and the depth they have

528
00:29:18.039 --> 00:29:21.359
all around. Um, and I
don't think Calgary is a great team.

529
00:29:21.359 --> 00:29:25.079
I think Jake Meyer's been struggling the
run game and they just give it up

530
00:29:25.079 --> 00:29:29.720
on that. The last two weeks
defense has been hit or miss. So

531
00:29:30.559 --> 00:29:33.680
you know, I just I don't
know if they could do it. In

532
00:29:33.759 --> 00:29:37.839
terms of last week Toronto, Kelly
didn't have his best game, probably his

533
00:29:37.880 --> 00:29:40.240
worst game of the season. I
mean do you attribute that, Like is

534
00:29:40.279 --> 00:29:42.359
that just jet leg coming in?
I mean, because you know they they

535
00:29:42.400 --> 00:29:45.240
were off, you know, played
their worst game. Here we're only scoring

536
00:29:45.279 --> 00:29:48.359
thirty one points, but it still
wasn't even the close. I mean,

537
00:29:48.359 --> 00:29:52.480
why do you attribute kind of that
the weak performance of Toronto last week?

538
00:29:52.920 --> 00:29:53.880
Yeah? When I was, I
was, I got tweeted that like it's

539
00:29:53.880 --> 00:29:56.680
crazy that they had, by all
counts, their worst offensive game and they

540
00:29:56.720 --> 00:30:00.839
won thirty one to thirteam, Right, Like that's how good dude playing?

541
00:30:00.400 --> 00:30:04.680
Um? Yeah, you know,
I think it could just be travel off

542
00:30:04.759 --> 00:30:08.400
week. You know, Kelly is
like he's still new to the game,

543
00:30:08.599 --> 00:30:11.440
like to the CFL, so as
well as he's been playing like he's gonna

544
00:30:11.440 --> 00:30:15.240
have gage where he's not just gonna
be honest game totally because he is very

545
00:30:15.279 --> 00:30:19.160
new to the CFL. So I
think it could just be a couple of

546
00:30:19.200 --> 00:30:23.880
that and Saskatchewan showed up to play
and played well. But I'm not I'm

547
00:30:23.880 --> 00:30:26.400
not concerned for it any long term
ornything. I think I think he bounced

548
00:30:26.440 --> 00:30:32.319
back this week. Are you surprised
with how quickly it feels like Chack Kelly's

549
00:30:32.359 --> 00:30:33.400
being able to pick this up?
And you know, I mean we saw

550
00:30:33.400 --> 00:30:37.200
a little bit last year, but
you know, we talk him with this

551
00:30:37.319 --> 00:30:41.240
talent struggling now with the XFL and
the USFL, and you know, like

552
00:30:41.319 --> 00:30:44.480
Naylor saying, you know, it
takes three to four years to really come

553
00:30:44.519 --> 00:30:47.599
in and be a CFL quarterback.
I mean, Cornelius Gutt knows we've kind

554
00:30:47.599 --> 00:30:49.359
of he's had multiple years here to
figure out. But are you surprised that

555
00:30:49.480 --> 00:30:52.960
Kelly's exceeded as well as he has
so far? Yeah? For sure.

556
00:30:53.000 --> 00:30:56.799
I think. You know. I
think that I say about him is the

557
00:30:56.799 --> 00:31:00.039
tools that he has are is built
for the CFL, right, the strong

558
00:31:00.160 --> 00:31:03.079
arm, the mobile feet, like
that's what you need for a wide field

559
00:31:03.079 --> 00:31:07.640
and the three down system. But
it's I was always a mental game.

560
00:31:07.680 --> 00:31:11.240
It's getting those passes off and fining
and the twelfth defender and getting to the

561
00:31:11.279 --> 00:31:15.319
coverage but definitely surprised at how he's
been playing. I thought he'd be good.

562
00:31:15.359 --> 00:31:18.160
I didn't think he'd be this good, right, I thought he'd you

563
00:31:18.160 --> 00:31:19.799
know, he'd have some more issues, but I do. I credit a

564
00:31:19.799 --> 00:31:23.480
lot of it is that Toronto's offense
is designed very well around him, and

565
00:31:23.519 --> 00:31:26.759
they run the ball a lot on
the ball very well, and it puts

566
00:31:26.839 --> 00:31:30.279
him in like for two of his
situations, which helps him. He runs

567
00:31:30.279 --> 00:31:33.519
the ball well. So just like
Happy, an offense that designed what did.

568
00:31:33.519 --> 00:31:37.000
What he's done with that offense has
been fantastic, and it's it's really

569
00:31:37.039 --> 00:31:38.839
helped him transition a little easier than
he would have been if he got just

570
00:31:38.880 --> 00:31:44.000
throwed into like the Wolves in terms
of someone here, and it's not even

571
00:31:44.039 --> 00:31:45.799
really a sophomore slamp. I mean, he played, you know, kind

572
00:31:45.799 --> 00:31:48.759
of whatever when when Bo got her
back two years ago and the Mayor last

573
00:31:48.839 --> 00:31:52.759
year taken over. I don't know
if it like the moments too big for

574
00:31:52.839 --> 00:31:56.119
him. I mean, what do
you attribute Jig Mayer's kind of struggles this

575
00:31:56.160 --> 00:31:59.240
season? Yeah, you know,
it's it's similar what I saw last year

576
00:31:59.240 --> 00:32:04.200
with him. I think he's an
accurate quarterback, but he doesn't like to

577
00:32:04.200 --> 00:32:06.400
push the ball down the field,
and then when he does, he can

578
00:32:06.480 --> 00:32:09.440
make some questionable choices with it,
and accuracy wise is not always there.

579
00:32:10.039 --> 00:32:13.759
Doesn't the field super well. I
think like it was tough, like I

580
00:32:15.079 --> 00:32:17.279
two weeks, I guess the last
two weeks before last week, he had

581
00:32:17.279 --> 00:32:20.279
a good stretch of two games.
He looked good, like he was making

582
00:32:20.319 --> 00:32:22.799
throws. He was looking pretty good. At the last week, he had

583
00:32:22.839 --> 00:32:25.960
his worst game of the year,
like just chucking it up to everybody had

584
00:32:27.279 --> 00:32:30.920
the worst grade of a season and
our games had they four turned overthrows.

585
00:32:30.000 --> 00:32:32.759
So I don't know. I mean, I don't know if it's a mental

586
00:32:32.759 --> 00:32:37.160
thing or it's just like he can't
quite figure it out. But it's been

587
00:32:37.200 --> 00:32:38.559
like I wish he was. I
wanted to be good. I wanted to

588
00:32:38.599 --> 00:32:43.680
quarter would be good because this best
one who got a bunch of good quarterbacks.

589
00:32:45.279 --> 00:32:50.880
So yeah, I don't know in
terms of him. We were talking

590
00:32:50.960 --> 00:32:53.319
on the show on Monday, kind
of where Calgary has rested a lot on

591
00:32:53.359 --> 00:32:57.920
their wurels the last few seasons and
they really haven't been an elite team since

592
00:32:58.000 --> 00:33:00.519
he pre kind of pre panned Mac
even kind of I think it was twenty

593
00:33:00.559 --> 00:33:04.920
eighteen, twenty nineteen. How do
you feel like Calgary is standing right now

594
00:33:04.960 --> 00:33:07.599
in the world of the CFL.
Yeah, I know, I think you're

595
00:33:07.680 --> 00:33:10.720
right. I think there are a
team that people if you mentioned Calgary the

596
00:33:10.759 --> 00:33:14.559
CFLs, they're yeah Calgary, like
they're pretty good, because they're always pretty

597
00:33:14.559 --> 00:33:16.319
good. But you're right, they
haven't been good for a few years now,

598
00:33:16.359 --> 00:33:19.359
and and they don't look very good
at all this year, Like they're

599
00:33:19.359 --> 00:33:22.599
two and five, right, They're
not good, and I think the perception

600
00:33:22.720 --> 00:33:27.279
is there, but the play on
the field isn't. Which is I mean,

601
00:33:27.279 --> 00:33:30.720
I don't know if they're gonna if
that helps them or if it makes

602
00:33:30.720 --> 00:33:31.680
them worse, because I kind of
feel content like, oh, we're like

603
00:33:32.480 --> 00:33:37.240
right there, but then they're not
well, especially here, you know,

604
00:33:37.720 --> 00:33:42.279
I mean the West this season.
Obviously Edmonton's kind of the freebe here,

605
00:33:42.319 --> 00:33:44.759
but you know, the rough Riders, and I want to talk about them

606
00:33:44.759 --> 00:33:46.319
as well because certainly issues with the
quarterback and all of that. But yeah,

607
00:33:46.319 --> 00:33:50.640
it just feels like they've continued to
slip here for years, and I

608
00:33:50.640 --> 00:33:52.480
really I don't know. I thought
they were poised this year mayor coming in

609
00:33:52.559 --> 00:33:55.359
Like I said, I don't know
if the moments too big. You know,

610
00:33:55.440 --> 00:34:00.519
injuries you attribute that and it's kind
of as me people as they've had

611
00:34:00.519 --> 00:34:02.559
to go through. In terms of
for the Calgary side, yeah, you

612
00:34:02.599 --> 00:34:06.079
know a lot of injuries, which
is definitely not helped. I think I

613
00:34:06.160 --> 00:34:09.199
sent for the year. Like Kneve
Carry at running back was like Calgary the

614
00:34:09.239 --> 00:34:13.599
last couple of years has been they
run the ball like nobody else, Right,

615
00:34:13.599 --> 00:34:15.599
That's the that's their bread and butter
is run the ball, run the

616
00:34:15.639 --> 00:34:19.719
ball. And Candeve Carry was so
good last year and then losing him was

617
00:34:19.760 --> 00:34:22.199
tough. And like DJ Mills played
well the first few weeks and then the

618
00:34:22.239 --> 00:34:25.800
last couple weeks he's not played so
well and and teams kind of sort of

619
00:34:25.800 --> 00:34:30.000
loaded the box on him and forcing
by her to beat them and he hasn't

620
00:34:30.000 --> 00:34:32.360
really been doing it. I do
think if they all get healthy, they

621
00:34:32.360 --> 00:34:36.239
could be they will be better than
the two and five team, But I

622
00:34:36.280 --> 00:34:38.599
don't think they're They're at that level
of the BC or Winnipeg side yet.

623
00:34:39.920 --> 00:34:44.639
So in terms of the Toronto Calgary, are you taking Toronto with that?

624
00:34:45.159 --> 00:34:50.119
I'm taking Toronto by a fair bit. Jason here has a comment the last

625
00:34:50.119 --> 00:34:52.079
two years to stams. Couldn't be
couldn't be the top teams, it could

626
00:34:52.079 --> 00:34:54.840
be almost anyone else this year,
it feels like they can't close games against

627
00:34:54.880 --> 00:34:59.239
anyone. Yeah, really kind of
clutch. I think it was Ryan,

628
00:34:59.320 --> 00:35:01.719
one of our Calgar Grey fan listeners
saying that, you know, a mayor

629
00:35:01.719 --> 00:35:07.039
not clutched, Calgary can't close kind
of any of that going into overtime knowing

630
00:35:07.039 --> 00:35:08.639
that they're not going to do that. Yeah, it just it feels weird.

631
00:35:08.840 --> 00:35:13.199
I don't know if there's coaching staff
issues. They're hot seat coming in

632
00:35:13.239 --> 00:35:15.840
at the end of the season,
and why are you anticipating any change over

633
00:35:15.880 --> 00:35:17.079
there if they don't get it turned
around? Well, I think yeah,

634
00:35:17.079 --> 00:35:20.000
I think they don't turn it around. Right. It's been a couple of

635
00:35:20.079 --> 00:35:22.320
years of this, and I think
that is right. I think they've been

636
00:35:22.400 --> 00:35:25.360
in the past like good enough to
beat the bad teams, but not good

637
00:35:25.400 --> 00:35:28.800
up to beat the good teams,
And now they're just not good enough to

638
00:35:28.800 --> 00:35:30.719
confidently beat anybody, like like you
said, it could be they could lose

639
00:35:30.800 --> 00:35:35.159
Edmonton right like though that they're playing
that kind of that kind of way right

640
00:35:35.159 --> 00:35:38.159
now. So I think if if
it stays is bad and they finished with

641
00:35:38.159 --> 00:35:42.679
like five wins easily. Coaching change
could be the cards. Well, yeah,

642
00:35:42.719 --> 00:35:45.320
yes, you wonder how long they're
Digginson can kind of rite off that

643
00:35:45.440 --> 00:35:46.440
because, like you said, you
in your mind you think, okay,

644
00:35:46.440 --> 00:35:51.119
Calgary whatever, powerhouse And it was
just so weird because I remember, you

645
00:35:51.159 --> 00:35:52.960
know, because we had Mayor on
preseason I think it was last year,

646
00:35:52.960 --> 00:35:55.519
and like you think, God,
how for two of this? Is it

647
00:35:55.639 --> 00:36:00.199
the Calgary you know they've had both
forever and they got this backup right to

648
00:36:00.239 --> 00:36:01.679
go. We have all these different
you know teams and you know, like

649
00:36:01.679 --> 00:36:06.559
the Edmonton and they can't get anything, and then Mayor comes in and has

650
00:36:06.559 --> 00:36:07.960
not played great, you know,
certainly not up to even when he was

651
00:36:08.039 --> 00:36:12.239
last year. It just seems weird. It feels like something's missy with him.

652
00:36:12.239 --> 00:36:14.880
I said at the moments, too
big or whatever. Um. In

653
00:36:15.000 --> 00:36:20.360
terms of this Montreal Hamilton game,
and we'll talk Hamilton here more in depth,

654
00:36:20.840 --> 00:36:22.719
how how impressed are you he's a
new friend of the show here,

655
00:36:22.800 --> 00:36:25.480
Cody Fjardough here in Montreal, the
new look Cody, how do you feel

656
00:36:25.519 --> 00:36:29.639
like he's been now? He's been
great? You know, I've been surprised.

657
00:36:29.679 --> 00:36:31.719
I think he greaded well. Last
year for US, I had a

658
00:36:31.840 --> 00:36:35.239
pretty high my quarterback rank it's up
to here. I got a little bit

659
00:36:35.280 --> 00:36:38.159
of flack for that because everyone said
that Cody sucks and he's stopped going to

660
00:36:38.239 --> 00:36:42.920
be more and hum. But I
think he's gonna think he's still got his

661
00:36:42.960 --> 00:36:45.039
issues. I think he takes a
lot of sacks that he doesn't need to

662
00:36:45.079 --> 00:36:49.360
take. And that was a big
thing I had early out the year when

663
00:36:49.400 --> 00:36:52.079
Mud shows great, super well and
everyone's like, but they're on pace for

664
00:36:52.079 --> 00:36:54.159
a hundred sacks, and I said, well, some of those sacks are

665
00:36:54.159 --> 00:36:58.360
on Cody for sure. So but
no, he's like, he's great,

666
00:36:58.400 --> 00:37:00.599
He's been accurate, he's been throwing
the ball deep, which has been big.

667
00:37:00.639 --> 00:37:02.880
He's he's I mean, he does
scramble still, he still got the

668
00:37:02.880 --> 00:37:07.360
mobility, not quite as much as
he used to have. But I think

669
00:37:07.119 --> 00:37:09.320
he's played very well. So I
think he's the reason they're three and three

670
00:37:09.360 --> 00:37:14.679
and the reason it could be the
second best team in the East. Yeah,

671
00:37:14.719 --> 00:37:16.480
you know here three and three coming
in. I mean, has him

672
00:37:16.480 --> 00:37:20.639
been outstanding? And I don't think
you have to be you know, obviously

673
00:37:20.679 --> 00:37:23.599
here to win the East or be
competitive but certainly looking better than Hamilton with

674
00:37:23.639 --> 00:37:27.639
all of their stuff going on.
I mean, do you Montreal was what

675
00:37:27.800 --> 00:37:30.679
the field goal kick away or whatever
it was last year? Right from getting

676
00:37:30.719 --> 00:37:32.639
in, I was Gary Star was
going to be on our show there and

677
00:37:34.000 --> 00:37:37.239
in Regina if they had got you
know, I had had verbal promises from

678
00:37:37.280 --> 00:37:39.719
Gary. Very sad about that,
but I mean, obviously right now,

679
00:37:39.760 --> 00:37:43.400
but you see them me they contend
you're here going through to the Great Cup.

680
00:37:44.000 --> 00:37:45.159
Yeah, you know, I think
I saw it. Asked me last

681
00:37:45.159 --> 00:37:47.239
week and I said, I think
Montreal is the second best team in the

682
00:37:47.239 --> 00:37:51.679
East behind the Argos. Obviously,
I think it could be hard to beat

683
00:37:51.679 --> 00:37:54.480
the Argos this year for anybody.
But I do think the Yellowts are a

684
00:37:54.519 --> 00:37:57.760
good team and I think they can
they can contend. I think they've got

685
00:37:57.760 --> 00:38:00.719
a great defense. Their old White
is very good at the Jarnals, playing

686
00:38:00.719 --> 00:38:04.400
really well. So I think they've
got like the pieces there to compete.

687
00:38:05.719 --> 00:38:08.199
In terms of Hamilton's here, obviously
we kind of had the bow Levi of

688
00:38:08.280 --> 00:38:12.519
it all and coming in when did
you first off thoughts on that last play

689
00:38:12.559 --> 00:38:15.400
and him coming in it was supposed
to be a Neil and healing just like

690
00:38:15.440 --> 00:38:16.800
you're shaking your hell around. Yeah, I don't know. I mean,

691
00:38:16.880 --> 00:38:21.519
like you gotta someone's gotta say just
take a knee, right, like you've

692
00:38:21.559 --> 00:38:24.679
got here on the one age side, you've got a yard despair going for

693
00:38:24.760 --> 00:38:28.719
the seat like that? Or why
didn't put him in the game like at

694
00:38:28.760 --> 00:38:30.239
that point, right, Like he's
just come back from injury, he's a

695
00:38:30.239 --> 00:38:34.280
guy. Just take him out,
put someone else in for the deal down

696
00:38:34.360 --> 00:38:37.519
right. I don't know. It's
been an issue with the CFL and put

697
00:38:37.519 --> 00:38:42.079
these quarterbacks in too long? Just
risking a lot of injury right in any

698
00:38:42.159 --> 00:38:45.800
league? Like why why bother?
That is what I think in terms of

699
00:38:45.960 --> 00:38:50.480
we taught hot seats with coaching,
I think Hamilton absolutely here and coming with

700
00:38:50.679 --> 00:38:52.480
you know at the end of the
season. What do you make of that

701
00:38:52.599 --> 00:38:55.440
and kind of their coaching staff and
any changes that you would see. Yeah,

702
00:38:55.480 --> 00:39:00.239
you know, I I think they
gotta figure it out, and I

703
00:39:00.280 --> 00:39:01.559
think that that they haven't. Right, they got these injuries, and the

704
00:39:01.559 --> 00:39:05.800
injuries are part of it. If
you're not ready to manage achieve past the

705
00:39:05.840 --> 00:39:09.519
injuries, if you lose the back
up, what's shilts as well? Right?

706
00:39:09.599 --> 00:39:15.760
And and believe now you're playing with
the third stringer and it's not great.

707
00:39:15.400 --> 00:39:21.039
So I don't know, I think, like could be fine. I

708
00:39:21.039 --> 00:39:22.199
think I think they're still gonna be
okay. Like I think that they're gonna

709
00:39:22.199 --> 00:39:27.119
win some games, but so they
might be okay for saving the coaching staff

710
00:39:27.119 --> 00:39:30.559
there. But I don't know,
I'm just like they're not great. Well,

711
00:39:30.559 --> 00:39:32.719
it felt like it was really kind
of an all in season this year.

712
00:39:32.760 --> 00:39:36.679
Here we're bringing them bow, we're
hosting, and obviously they were you

713
00:39:36.719 --> 00:39:38.480
know, a rouge and a weird
overtime away you know, was it two

714
00:39:38.559 --> 00:39:40.800
years ago? And they kind of
had all that there at the Grade Cup.

715
00:39:40.880 --> 00:39:45.039
Like it feel it felt like they're
the drop off last year was huge,

716
00:39:45.119 --> 00:39:47.559
right from going from being the you
know in the Grade Cup and all

717
00:39:47.639 --> 00:39:51.360
that, you know, missing out
and you know, Dame playing terrible and

718
00:39:51.400 --> 00:39:54.519
everything else, like now now that
he would this season, I don't know,

719
00:39:54.559 --> 00:39:57.559
I mean, it doesn't even feel
like they're on the radar or anywhere

720
00:39:57.559 --> 00:40:00.159
close. Man, knowing the standings, you know, we're here in the

721
00:40:00.159 --> 00:40:02.039
East, you're never that far out. But are you just surprised with how

722
00:40:02.119 --> 00:40:05.920
much they've struggled this season? Yeah, you know, I think And also

723
00:40:06.000 --> 00:40:07.639
like I think I'm surprised at like
when Bob, when he's been playing,

724
00:40:07.639 --> 00:40:12.280
he's been bad, and that's been
been tough because like I think, you

725
00:40:12.280 --> 00:40:14.719
know, I think people wrote it
off last year and I thought he played

726
00:40:14.760 --> 00:40:17.559
pretty okay, like not great,
but I thought he could still be a

727
00:40:17.559 --> 00:40:22.039
starter and play well. But like
with hidden snaps, he's been pretty bad

728
00:40:22.000 --> 00:40:24.599
with the football, like he's like
a lowest been a quarterback by a latch

729
00:40:24.719 --> 00:40:29.719
because he's chucking it to anybody.
And that's been tough. But that now

730
00:40:29.760 --> 00:40:32.840
without without shields as well, like
you've got Powell in their Powell it was

731
00:40:32.880 --> 00:40:36.480
fine, but like I checked out, that's all he does. Right the

732
00:40:36.519 --> 00:40:39.519
last game he played, his average
depth talk was like five yards well and

733
00:40:40.000 --> 00:40:44.159
Bo had right five interceptions here before
the injury of that week. I mean

734
00:40:44.159 --> 00:40:45.599
that's the thing is you know he
comes back and I mean I know you

735
00:40:45.639 --> 00:40:49.679
can't go to shields. Do you
think Powell is I mean, obviously they

736
00:40:49.719 --> 00:40:52.280
don't have a lot of options right
now, But is that is sustainable long

737
00:40:52.400 --> 00:40:55.159
term play here for Hamilton? I
don't think so unless he shows something that

738
00:40:55.239 --> 00:40:59.119
he didn't show in his one start. But I watched that watch start and

739
00:40:59.159 --> 00:41:01.920
you know, I thought he was
fo'm but he's not gonna win you games.

740
00:41:01.920 --> 00:41:05.039
Like the way he's played right now, he's so due to the league,

741
00:41:05.440 --> 00:41:07.199
right, like he said, taste
a couple of years to get into

742
00:41:07.199 --> 00:41:08.760
it. I think he could be
okay, But the way he played in

743
00:41:08.840 --> 00:41:12.559
that game, it was just a
lot of checkdowns, didn't push the ball

744
00:41:12.599 --> 00:41:15.719
at all after it enough, but
like it was never really a threat.

745
00:41:15.280 --> 00:41:20.199
And so I think he's just gonna
bload the box on him and stop the

746
00:41:20.280 --> 00:41:22.280
run and forced them to row it. And I don't know he's gonna do

747
00:41:22.320 --> 00:41:25.280
it. So I think it's gonna
be a rough stretch for them now without

748
00:41:25.360 --> 00:41:30.039
Cholke's or bowl Levi. It's just
so weird to me. It just feels

749
00:41:30.079 --> 00:41:34.280
like Hamilton doesn't have an identity here
where you know, they came out and

750
00:41:34.320 --> 00:41:37.599
it's like the old June Jones,
like we gotta pass it and we acquired

751
00:41:37.679 --> 00:41:39.239
James Butler, but we don't want
to run the ball. And then we

752
00:41:39.320 --> 00:41:42.960
decided to run the ball. And
it felt like two weeks ago he really

753
00:41:43.039 --> 00:41:45.960
kind of okay, we're giving James
like we're moving the rock. And then

754
00:41:45.079 --> 00:41:47.719
I guess it was last week and
they just fell behind too much and then

755
00:41:47.719 --> 00:41:50.840
they're you know, we're chucking the
ball all over the place again. It

756
00:41:50.880 --> 00:41:53.440
just doesn't feel like they're I guess, disciplined to whatever approach they want and

757
00:41:53.440 --> 00:41:55.519
then when the game's getting out of
hand, you kind of got to do

758
00:41:55.559 --> 00:42:00.880
whatever to win. But they're not
gonna win with Taylor Powell throwing the ball.

759
00:42:00.880 --> 00:42:02.639
I didn't think he had forty five
or whatever. It was a crazy

760
00:42:02.679 --> 00:42:06.559
amount of the Thames last game.
Yeah, it just doesn't feel like that's

761
00:42:06.559 --> 00:42:10.679
sustainable. No, it's not.
And I think I thought that like going

762
00:42:10.679 --> 00:42:14.159
to Butler's good, I think,
like what Butlers doing this year is crazy.

763
00:42:14.159 --> 00:42:15.800
I think he has something like eighty
percent of its yards after contact,

764
00:42:16.280 --> 00:42:20.400
Like he's getting hit early and he's
making the mess and he's and he still

765
00:42:20.400 --> 00:42:22.760
played well. He's the best hunting
back I think right now in the league,

766
00:42:22.880 --> 00:42:25.039
and they're just not feeding him what
they should. Like they have a

767
00:42:25.039 --> 00:42:28.760
couple of games there what they do
and they and he looks good and they

768
00:42:28.760 --> 00:42:30.760
look good. But I think,
especially with Powell quarterback, like you have

769
00:42:30.840 --> 00:42:34.400
to run the ball. With a
young quarterback, you have to get into

770
00:42:34.400 --> 00:42:37.440
good situations for him, Like if
you make him pass it forty five times

771
00:42:37.079 --> 00:42:40.840
like bow LEVI can do it because
he's a veteran. Like you know,

772
00:42:40.880 --> 00:42:45.239
he wasn't great last week, but
like at least he's a threat and defenses

773
00:42:45.280 --> 00:42:47.880
are scared of him and they know
that they have to play good pass defense.

774
00:42:47.880 --> 00:42:51.480
Other ways he's gonna beat them.
I don't think with Powell that they're

775
00:42:51.480 --> 00:42:52.880
gonna think that, right. I
think they're gonna just load the bucks,

776
00:42:52.880 --> 00:42:57.719
play a lot of man or cover
one and just see if you can beat

777
00:42:57.719 --> 00:43:00.039
them at a note if he can. Yeah, it was two weeks ago

778
00:43:00.119 --> 00:43:02.920
last week. We were on vacations
the time we did the recounts, but

779
00:43:02.920 --> 00:43:06.400
the time was a little Yeah,
it was the forty one attempts here against

780
00:43:06.440 --> 00:43:08.039
Toronto, and it's like, you
just can't have Powell do that coming out.

781
00:43:08.079 --> 00:43:12.440
I mean, Butler is only carrying
eight times for fourteen. It's just

782
00:43:12.719 --> 00:43:15.800
insane to me that, you know, I would think, and Mizell's doing

783
00:43:15.800 --> 00:43:19.679
good for bc BC right now coming
back from injury, but you would wonder

784
00:43:19.840 --> 00:43:22.480
if we had still had Butler,
you know what that would even look like?

785
00:43:22.639 --> 00:43:24.559
This has Myzell's been so far?
Yeah, yeah, I mean,

786
00:43:24.639 --> 00:43:28.000
and that's the thing with that,
like, I know, like you said,

787
00:43:28.000 --> 00:43:29.760
if you can you get down big, you want to pass it,

788
00:43:29.800 --> 00:43:31.719
but with a quarterback and young like
that, it's almost better. Just stick

789
00:43:31.760 --> 00:43:35.159
with it, right, like,
run the ball. You did force him,

790
00:43:35.159 --> 00:43:36.800
but pass it four to one time. It's not gonna be good.

791
00:43:36.800 --> 00:43:39.239
You're not gonna win anyway, So
run the ball, run your offense,

792
00:43:39.280 --> 00:43:42.400
like you should, just get him
comfortable with it. And if you lose

793
00:43:42.440 --> 00:43:45.679
the game, I mean you're playing
Toronto, whatever, you lost your defensive

794
00:43:45.679 --> 00:43:49.000
plow anyway, just like get him
comfortable so that if you have to play

795
00:43:49.000 --> 00:43:51.599
again, he sort of gets into
it. You don't have to pass it

796
00:43:51.920 --> 00:43:58.440
a million times and rotas confidence.
So in terms of this game here with

797
00:43:58.679 --> 00:44:00.800
Montreal, here at Hamilton, who
do you have that here? Hamilton's,

798
00:44:00.840 --> 00:44:02.760
like I said, coming off a
win, but it kind of like the

799
00:44:02.760 --> 00:44:06.639
fanos, What did what did that
victory cost a lot? What do you

800
00:44:06.800 --> 00:44:08.440
what do you make Montrell coming in
here? Yeah, I think Montreal's gonna

801
00:44:08.480 --> 00:44:12.519
gonna take this one. I think
They're just defense is gonna shut them down.

802
00:44:12.599 --> 00:44:16.119
The Montreal's defense is good, a
little underrated good, and Hamilton's old

803
00:44:16.119 --> 00:44:20.039
line has been struggled little bit.
So I think the d line of Montreal

804
00:44:20.119 --> 00:44:22.360
is gonna be gonna be going gonna
go off a little bit. And I

805
00:44:22.400 --> 00:44:25.719
think they're just like they're gonna load
the box and they're gonna play a lot

806
00:44:25.719 --> 00:44:29.360
of man corunch, a lot of
like Cover two maybe at the most,

807
00:44:29.719 --> 00:44:32.039
and just force power to beat them. And I think he's gonna checked out

808
00:44:32.039 --> 00:44:36.679
a lot and that's kind of gonna
be it. And then I think Child's

809
00:44:36.679 --> 00:44:38.719
gonna have a good day at offense
and just do enough. Yeah. I

810
00:44:38.719 --> 00:44:42.239
like, I think he looks more
small to me this year. It looks

811
00:44:42.239 --> 00:44:44.800
like swoll Yeah, yeah like that, yeah this Yeah, how does he

812
00:44:44.840 --> 00:44:46.239
said? Yeah they fell behind twenty
zero first half? He had do it

813
00:44:46.320 --> 00:44:50.480
well? Yeah, I know.
I just it's weird to me that we

814
00:44:50.519 --> 00:44:52.400
acquire, you know, whether the
elite running backs in the CFL, and

815
00:44:52.400 --> 00:44:58.159
it's like we're not We're not not
gonna use yeah. Uh so here we

816
00:44:58.199 --> 00:45:00.320
have on the West Skatchewan here as
around out here before the you know,

817
00:45:00.320 --> 00:45:06.280
the bottom of the hour, he
has Crum Sandy the impressed you. Yeah,

818
00:45:06.320 --> 00:45:08.440
it has I think a little bit
back down to earth last week,

819
00:45:09.199 --> 00:45:12.719
but like I think he still played
pretty well. You know, I think

820
00:45:12.800 --> 00:45:15.039
Um I thought, like those first
few weeks, I've one said like he

821
00:45:15.039 --> 00:45:17.079
could be a star. I thought, you know, he's gonna have a

822
00:45:17.199 --> 00:45:20.960
kind of back down to earth game. He is so new to the CFL.

823
00:45:21.000 --> 00:45:22.599
It's you're not gonna be that great
that early, say, with with

824
00:45:22.679 --> 00:45:25.960
the Chata Kelly, right, the
kind of thing that it takes some time.

825
00:45:27.039 --> 00:45:30.760
You're gonna have off games. But
like I think he's a great dual

826
00:45:30.760 --> 00:45:34.960
threat. I mean he has something
like more. I think he has like

827
00:45:34.960 --> 00:45:37.599
moll to double up mis tackles forts
at any other quarterback running the ball,

828
00:45:37.960 --> 00:45:39.639
something like that, he's like seventeen, the next one has four or something

829
00:45:39.679 --> 00:45:43.119
like that. Like he's a threat
on his feet, like even more than

830
00:45:43.159 --> 00:45:47.199
cordioas maybe is um So that's big. And then he's stay has been okay,

831
00:45:47.239 --> 00:45:50.559
and he's been solid. Right,
he's not taking too many risks,

832
00:45:50.960 --> 00:45:52.719
not taking a ton of chances throwing
it, which is he's gonna have to

833
00:45:52.719 --> 00:45:55.320
if he wants to be a great
quarterback. But I think for where he

834
00:45:55.400 --> 00:45:59.920
is right now, he's played well. I used to prize with you know,

835
00:46:00.000 --> 00:46:01.719
and I say this with the spark
you know, as they're here,

836
00:46:01.840 --> 00:46:05.000
you know, at the bottom of
the ease here, but it's close to

837
00:46:05.039 --> 00:46:07.559
me. I mean, are you
surprised the spark that Crumb has had for

838
00:46:07.599 --> 00:46:09.880
them? Because I really felt,
like I remember, I was at a

839
00:46:09.920 --> 00:46:14.079
wedding getting the texts that I was
filming, getting the texts like, oh

840
00:46:14.079 --> 00:46:15.559
my god, miss always down again, and I know, I mean,

841
00:46:15.599 --> 00:46:19.159
this is yeah, you know,
I kind of thought their season was over

842
00:46:19.199 --> 00:46:21.840
and I mean, obviously losing last
week here, but coming in and I

843
00:46:21.880 --> 00:46:25.159
certainly think this is a winnable game
in Saskatchewan. Are you surprised with the

844
00:46:25.159 --> 00:46:29.079
spark that Otto has had with Dust
and Crumb? Absolutely? Yeah. I

845
00:46:29.079 --> 00:46:30.079
thought, like, you know,
I thought the first couple of weeks was

846
00:46:30.119 --> 00:46:34.960
just rough right with Tyree Adams and
whatever played quarterbacks and they looked they looked

847
00:46:34.960 --> 00:46:37.559
bad. It was just like,
let's kill time before Missoli gets back.

848
00:46:37.280 --> 00:46:39.840
And then he gets back and he
goes down right away and he's out right,

849
00:46:39.880 --> 00:46:42.760
and that's you know, a lot
of season would be like that's our

850
00:46:42.760 --> 00:46:45.360
season, Like we're done, We're
all in on Missoli as our quarterback and

851
00:46:45.400 --> 00:46:49.639
now he's out and what do we
do. So the fact that the rallying

852
00:46:49.679 --> 00:46:52.599
around Crumb with this and he's playing
well, has been a huge surprise and

853
00:46:52.679 --> 00:46:57.079
what I definitely didn't see coming.
Does it feel like the Red Blacks have

854
00:46:57.199 --> 00:47:00.719
had a really rough It feels like
the Red Blacks the time that we've been

855
00:47:00.719 --> 00:47:02.679
covering the CFL, which obviously is
not as long as a lot of people,

856
00:47:02.760 --> 00:47:06.280
it feels like the Red Blacks have
been fairly irrelevant. Is that fair

857
00:47:06.320 --> 00:47:07.800
to say? Yeah? For sure? They like they were good when they

858
00:47:07.800 --> 00:47:12.239
first came in. They had like
obviously they expanded when I was in Ottawa

859
00:47:12.280 --> 00:47:15.199
still at university and that was twenty
thirteen or twenty twelve whatever. Um,

860
00:47:15.360 --> 00:47:17.719
they were back start and they got
good. They had a good run there,

861
00:47:19.400 --> 00:47:22.360
um, and then they've kind of
fall fallen back down a bit.

862
00:47:22.719 --> 00:47:24.760
Yeah, just like a lot of
mediocrity. Right. They're not a they're

863
00:47:24.760 --> 00:47:27.920
not an vante. They're so bad
to talk about them, they're just kind

864
00:47:27.920 --> 00:47:30.679
of there. But they're they're just
kind of irrelevant, which has been tough

865
00:47:30.719 --> 00:47:34.400
to see. So it's it's fun
to see them like actually have a team

866
00:47:34.400 --> 00:47:38.440
to talk about. Now, do
you the struggles they've gone through and obviously

867
00:47:38.519 --> 00:47:40.840
you know last year and the big
injury with Missolia, I mean, do

868
00:47:40.880 --> 00:47:44.960
you you know we got rid of
Paula Police and Bob Days coming the end.

869
00:47:44.960 --> 00:47:46.320
I mean, is coaching? Is
that the problem there? Is it

870
00:47:46.480 --> 00:47:49.960
just the injuries? Is it?
Whether you attribute that. I think it's

871
00:47:49.960 --> 00:47:52.039
a bit of both, right,
I think the injuries, they're the coaching

872
00:47:52.039 --> 00:47:54.679
there, just the players that come
there, and they don't have a ton

873
00:47:54.719 --> 00:47:58.559
of talent, like not a ton
of my top talent. Right, So,

874
00:47:59.719 --> 00:48:00.840
but I think they've been played well
and if they could keep jelling,

875
00:48:00.960 --> 00:48:05.000
I think it would be a good
team. Because I watched like that behind

876
00:48:05.000 --> 00:48:07.719
the r and they're like Sean Burke's
like, you know, I'm I'm assembling

877
00:48:07.760 --> 00:48:09.199
the greatest team here and we're making
all these I'm like, okay, Like

878
00:48:09.239 --> 00:48:12.639
I'm yeah, I'm all in.
And then I turned on the games and

879
00:48:12.719 --> 00:48:17.440
then Jason has a question for you
here. When I watched the Red Blacks

880
00:48:17.480 --> 00:48:21.119
and see a team that needs to
create more big plays, the numbers that

881
00:48:21.199 --> 00:48:22.800
PF have backed that up, Yeah
for sure. And that's kind of what

882
00:48:22.840 --> 00:48:27.000
I said with with crom right,
I think he's he's good scramble, he's

883
00:48:27.000 --> 00:48:30.079
good at it, but he's not
pushing the ball downfield a lot. He's

884
00:48:30.119 --> 00:48:32.119
not sort of and that's partially because
I don't know if they have the receivers

885
00:48:32.239 --> 00:48:35.960
to do it, and that becomes
more of a coaching thing. But if

886
00:48:35.960 --> 00:48:37.559
you don't have the receivers, that
just chuck it too. We just start

887
00:48:37.639 --> 00:48:40.599
scheming up more routes to get him
deep, get them open, and give

888
00:48:40.679 --> 00:48:43.800
sort of a little bit easier time
for the crowd to throw it. But

889
00:48:43.840 --> 00:48:45.880
he's yeah, he's definitely not been
because a ton of big place he's been

890
00:48:45.920 --> 00:48:50.159
doing it kind of picking up first
aus without his feet and then like Kenya

891
00:48:50.280 --> 00:48:52.079
throws here and there never there's not
a lot of big theast like twenty thirty

892
00:48:52.119 --> 00:48:57.440
forty year throws that sell the teams
are doing. It feels like with you

893
00:48:57.559 --> 00:49:00.199
and we saw this with win the
peg and not do it you know where

894
00:49:00.239 --> 00:49:04.000
obviously red blocks one, but it
feels like that would be easy to game

895
00:49:04.440 --> 00:49:07.480
planned against. Right, Okay,
we know Crumb's gonna you know he can't

896
00:49:07.599 --> 00:49:10.599
does not have into the arm like
it feels like you could defense planned against

897
00:49:10.639 --> 00:49:14.199
that. Are you surprised that he's
been able to get away with it as

898
00:49:14.280 --> 00:49:16.400
much as he can. I think
it's I think it's because of his scrambling

899
00:49:16.480 --> 00:49:19.519
that that kind of helps him,
right, like if Gay played against his

900
00:49:19.559 --> 00:49:22.039
passing, but like unless you have
a guy spying him, but you might

901
00:49:22.039 --> 00:49:24.599
still miss the tackle. He's that
good, right, and you're always kind

902
00:49:24.599 --> 00:49:28.039
of scared of him with his feet, which is what I think. Like,

903
00:49:28.159 --> 00:49:30.360
and I've said with that Cornelius,
guys like Dad who can run it,

904
00:49:30.400 --> 00:49:34.039
like lean on that war because that'll
help, right. I think they've

905
00:49:34.039 --> 00:49:36.480
been they've been doing a good job
with that. But I think eventually Teas

906
00:49:36.480 --> 00:49:38.039
will start to figure out, Okay, if we can stop before running,

907
00:49:38.480 --> 00:49:42.400
he can't beat us as wealth of
the era. That's gonna be kind of

908
00:49:42.440 --> 00:49:45.599
the downfall a little bit if they
if they get into that in terms of

909
00:49:45.639 --> 00:49:50.639
Saskatchewan right now, and obviously you
know this can of this team or whatever,

910
00:49:50.760 --> 00:49:52.119
and then kind of all this other
stuff, but really not having a

911
00:49:52.199 --> 00:49:55.280
good go at it right here.
You know, I always friended this show

912
00:49:55.559 --> 00:49:59.079
Jamie Ny, you know, and
I see him tweeting like this, this

913
00:49:59.719 --> 00:50:01.880
guy's would need a new quarterback,
a new quarterback, all righty, like

914
00:50:02.320 --> 00:50:05.400
not going to be good. I
mean, you know, they're they're not

915
00:50:05.719 --> 00:50:07.960
terrible here, you know, third
in the West, But what is going

916
00:50:07.000 --> 00:50:09.719
on with the rough Riders? Yeah, if you know, I think I

917
00:50:09.719 --> 00:50:14.400
think they're I guess the perfectly average
team right now is how I just got

918
00:50:14.639 --> 00:50:16.920
got some fighting, got some good
here, some bad there. Um.

919
00:50:17.679 --> 00:50:21.440
And obviously the quarterback injury issues is
a big thing. I thought, like

920
00:50:21.559 --> 00:50:25.360
Josie Harris is huge because he'd been
playing great and he's such a different quarterback

921
00:50:25.480 --> 00:50:30.480
right Like he's one of those guys
that like you can't blitz because he's so

922
00:50:30.559 --> 00:50:32.360
quick. That we did the field
and getting the ball out that it changes,

923
00:50:32.440 --> 00:50:36.320
Like defense is the way they play
and now they now defenses could play

924
00:50:36.320 --> 00:50:39.159
against these guys like they play against
other other quarterbacks and it makes it a

925
00:50:39.159 --> 00:50:43.679
little easier to defend. And I
think like Mason Finant, he played well

926
00:50:43.800 --> 00:50:46.519
last week, not great. Um, I think started give this week is

927
00:50:46.559 --> 00:50:49.480
fine. I thought, like I
know people want it, don't like Galla

928
00:50:49.559 --> 00:50:52.079
because he had that great drive,
but I mean that was Charta was played

929
00:50:52.119 --> 00:50:55.719
prevent defense basically, and he just
picked it apart. Um. So I

930
00:50:57.280 --> 00:51:00.360
think, like I think find his
issues. I think he's got an arm

931
00:51:00.400 --> 00:51:02.599
strength problem which will which will bite
him, but I think he could.

932
00:51:02.679 --> 00:51:07.360
I think givehim a chance is see
he does this week eating the drop off

933
00:51:07.440 --> 00:51:09.199
is that much from Trevor the Mason? Yeah, I think so. I

934
00:51:09.199 --> 00:51:12.960
think, like I just think that, Like, I mean, the arms

935
00:51:12.960 --> 00:51:15.159
strength for Harris isn't as great as
it used to be, right, he's

936
00:51:15.159 --> 00:51:16.800
not. He's never been a strong
arm deep kind of guy. But he's

937
00:51:16.800 --> 00:51:21.000
so accurate and he's so quick at
reading that. Like I looked at the

938
00:51:21.000 --> 00:51:23.639
stats recently. There was something like
the average quarterback that said against blitzed at

939
00:51:23.639 --> 00:51:27.400
like a forty five percent rate.
He got blitzed like a twenty die percent

940
00:51:27.519 --> 00:51:30.400
rate because teams are so scared of
blitz it because they know if they send

941
00:51:30.440 --> 00:51:32.400
too many, he'll find that one
I want and he'll hit it because he's

942
00:51:32.440 --> 00:51:36.119
so quick at leading it. So
he's so different than other quarterbacks. No

943
00:51:36.119 --> 00:51:38.360
one else doesn't like him that like
if I can't do it like him.

944
00:51:38.760 --> 00:51:43.480
So I think it is a big
drop off in terms of you know,

945
00:51:43.599 --> 00:51:45.679
we talk hot seats and stuff fine
here and you know it's a Skatchewan host

946
00:51:45.679 --> 00:51:50.320
seeing the Gray Cup last year,
missing the playoffs and certainly not a crowny

947
00:51:50.360 --> 00:51:53.280
moment for them. How long can
they kind of wallow in this averageness.

948
00:51:54.199 --> 00:51:58.639
I think not long. I think, like you know, I think the

949
00:51:58.679 --> 00:52:01.960
Harris injury could help do poorly now
and and if Harris comes back and they

950
00:52:02.039 --> 00:52:05.320
do okay after that, but it's
kind of too late because they had a

951
00:52:05.360 --> 00:52:07.119
bad stretch. That's one thing.
I don't know if Harris is gonna come

952
00:52:07.119 --> 00:52:12.559
back. I don't know how long
he's out. But I think the day

953
00:52:12.679 --> 00:52:15.760
like they were like hoping for a
late season. Yeah, then it wasn't

954
00:52:15.760 --> 00:52:17.400
that like we're hoping. Okay,
Yeah, that's what I thought, But

955
00:52:17.440 --> 00:52:20.639
I don't know that could just be
out of the season right. I'm trying

956
00:52:20.679 --> 00:52:23.840
to not write it off yet,
but I think that might help them sort

957
00:52:23.840 --> 00:52:25.960
of buy like they could say,
well, you know, we lost Trevor

958
00:52:25.960 --> 00:52:29.800
Harrison year, that's why we were
were bad, and that'll save them.

959
00:52:29.840 --> 00:52:31.719
But like, if it happens again
next year, that's probably the end of

960
00:52:31.760 --> 00:52:35.559
the end of the line for this
coaching staff. Yeah. That was like

961
00:52:35.639 --> 00:52:37.800
last year when like you know,
and it was horrendous, you know,

962
00:52:37.800 --> 00:52:40.280
when Nathan went down and the injury
and all of that. And I remember

963
00:52:40.559 --> 00:52:43.840
a BC tweeting out like, oh, you know, works that you're respecting

964
00:52:43.840 --> 00:52:45.519
the late season. I wanted to
text map Maker and be like, you're

965
00:52:45.519 --> 00:52:49.599
totally full of it right now,
you know, but then you know well

966
00:52:49.599 --> 00:52:52.480
and behold you know they were throwing
and then coming back with the boot.

967
00:52:52.719 --> 00:52:55.800
But the question, I don't you
know Vernon BC had such a lead,

968
00:52:57.199 --> 00:53:00.400
and Vernon I did not play great
last year. I mean they they like

969
00:53:00.480 --> 00:53:04.199
won some games, but I mean
really just kind of existed until the Nathan

970
00:53:04.239 --> 00:53:07.400
where it came back. And I
never had any confidence going in against Winnipeg

971
00:53:07.440 --> 00:53:10.679
there at the what was it the
semis or whatever either that in the West,

972
00:53:10.840 --> 00:53:15.239
like Saskatchewan is in a much more
rough spot right here where I don't

973
00:53:15.239 --> 00:53:19.400
think Mason Fine can kind of write
the ship along enough for Trevor to get

974
00:53:19.440 --> 00:53:22.679
back. No, I think you're
right. I think the A, the

975
00:53:22.719 --> 00:53:25.400
team itself isn't as talented as BC
was last year. And B I don't

976
00:53:25.440 --> 00:53:29.199
think Fine is as good as Verdonado's
was in verdon Like you said, Vernon

977
00:53:29.320 --> 00:53:31.679
wasn't great, but he was kind
of passable for them last year and the

978
00:53:31.719 --> 00:53:35.679
talent they had was enough to kind
of keep him afloat. But yeah,

979
00:53:35.719 --> 00:53:38.679
I don't I'm not optimistic about Saskatchew
much of chances to see her being anything

980
00:53:38.679 --> 00:53:43.840
more than like an average team with
these quarterbacks. So do you see a

981
00:53:43.960 --> 00:53:45.760
bounced back here for Ottawa? Do
you see Crumb leading in another game,

982
00:53:45.920 --> 00:53:50.320
you know, game winning and final
drive or something? Yeah, I could

983
00:53:50.320 --> 00:53:52.159
see it. I think I think
I would if I had to pick,

984
00:53:52.159 --> 00:53:53.960
I'd pick Crumb in Ottawa. But
I think this was probably the closest game

985
00:53:54.000 --> 00:53:58.119
for me to pick. I could
see skeatchwaw Windy too, just because I

986
00:53:58.159 --> 00:54:00.920
think Ottawa still has some issue us
right if they and if they, if

987
00:54:01.000 --> 00:54:05.480
last week was kind of a blueprint
for Chrome and Saskatchewa can kind of get

988
00:54:05.519 --> 00:54:07.559
to that, then could stop him. But I think Ottawa comes away with

989
00:54:07.599 --> 00:54:10.800
this one. No, I mean
except for tonight. It's exciting. I'm

990
00:54:10.800 --> 00:54:14.639
ready for this. I mean not
the most thrilling games on paper here?

991
00:54:14.719 --> 00:54:16.159
Which game are you? It's say
for tonight? Which game ers like?

992
00:54:16.440 --> 00:54:21.119
You think the standouts the Sunday Night? Yeah, I like that. I

993
00:54:21.199 --> 00:54:24.559
just think that'll be a more exciting
game. I think be fun and and

994
00:54:24.880 --> 00:54:28.599
kind of like a toss up.
I think Toronto will win. I mean

995
00:54:28.679 --> 00:54:30.960
Throntas partly was a scitting team to
play, but I think that that'll be

996
00:54:30.000 --> 00:54:34.480
easy game for them. Well,
and I don't know, man, I

997
00:54:34.480 --> 00:54:37.039
mean McMahon, this struggle kind of
all year with attendance anyway there, and

998
00:54:37.039 --> 00:54:40.000
then you know Calgary coming in if
they get their ass beat here by Toronto.

999
00:54:40.039 --> 00:54:43.360
I'm kind of concerned about what that
does long term. I mean,

1000
00:54:43.400 --> 00:54:46.079
there was already comments coming into the
season where Calgary is down, you know,

1001
00:54:46.159 --> 00:54:49.760
thirty percent on season ten, whatever
it was, the numbers, like

1002
00:54:49.800 --> 00:54:52.800
it seems like they're already kind of
struggling on there. Yeah, for sure,

1003
00:54:52.000 --> 00:54:54.360
you know, I think I got
to figure out what abouts back a

1004
00:54:54.400 --> 00:54:59.000
little bit at least, I joked
to on the more on the On the

1005
00:54:59.039 --> 00:55:02.199
Money recap said, the sixth is
our anniversary. And last year we went

1006
00:55:02.239 --> 00:55:06.119
to this Italian restaurant. We waited
out in line. It was like an

1007
00:55:06.119 --> 00:55:09.079
hour away and I remember watching it
was BC. I think it was Edmonton

1008
00:55:09.159 --> 00:55:12.920
at BC, and it was one
of the games for Nathan work just absolutely

1009
00:55:12.920 --> 00:55:15.480
went off. And I'm sitting there
watching on my phone, waiting in line

1010
00:55:15.760 --> 00:55:19.079
for dinner for our anniversary. And
that's I don't I don't foresee myself doing

1011
00:55:19.079 --> 00:55:21.679
that. Maybe this year with the
Ottomous and Scatchroom game, I don't know.

1012
00:55:21.920 --> 00:55:23.719
And though it'd be as many fireworks
going on and in that game.

1013
00:55:23.920 --> 00:55:27.440
Yeah, probably not as many as
that. You might see a couple of

1014
00:55:27.480 --> 00:55:30.719
nice runs here from from Crumble.
Let's kind of it. We'll start to

1015
00:55:30.719 --> 00:55:35.519
wind up here soon. Any other
thoughts from you in terms of either the

1016
00:55:35.559 --> 00:55:37.960
game to neither anything else CFL No, I think you know what, just

1017
00:55:38.039 --> 00:55:42.239
I'm excited for the season. I
think it's been a good start. I

1018
00:55:42.239 --> 00:55:45.079
think it's been one of the sort
of better starts in recent years that I

1019
00:55:45.079 --> 00:55:47.400
can remember for the CFL. And
I'm glad that it's sort of taken off

1020
00:55:47.400 --> 00:55:51.840
a little bit. I'm seeing more
Americans on Twitter and like talking about it

1021
00:55:51.880 --> 00:55:54.039
and watching the game. So it's
good that we're kind of finding some people

1022
00:55:54.039 --> 00:55:59.679
down there and hopefully it keeps rolling. Kim had the comment here, I

1023
00:55:59.719 --> 00:56:02.039
love the parody of the season,
the potential of an East crossover as wild.

1024
00:56:02.960 --> 00:56:07.400
Yeah, I mean the bottom the
bottom of the West really has kind

1025
00:56:07.400 --> 00:56:09.199
of fallen off this year. I
mean here, we've talked at least since

1026
00:56:09.239 --> 00:56:12.320
I've existed, I'm here, you
know, the East and whatever, but

1027
00:56:12.400 --> 00:56:15.360
here this year everyone relevant. Are
you liking the East being a little more

1028
00:56:15.360 --> 00:56:17.320
relevant in the CFL this season?
Yeah? I love it. You know,

1029
00:56:17.360 --> 00:56:20.719
I think it's funny because I mean, I don't know how true this

1030
00:56:20.760 --> 00:56:22.320
is. There's probably not that true, but like to me, it's been

1031
00:56:22.360 --> 00:56:24.920
the West crossing over and like every
year since I can remember, like it

1032
00:56:24.960 --> 00:56:28.559
always feel. It feels like last
twenty years it's been the West across is

1033
00:56:28.559 --> 00:56:30.840
over just because those teams are stronger. Um, I know it's not the

1034
00:56:30.920 --> 00:56:34.440
that's not the truth. Like I
don't least crossover a few times here and

1035
00:56:34.480 --> 00:56:37.519
there, but I think it's cool
to see the East sort of kind of

1036
00:56:37.679 --> 00:56:39.559
in a chance a crossover and it's
just like kind of different to see and

1037
00:56:39.599 --> 00:56:43.360
again, right, like aside for
the top kind of three teams there,

1038
00:56:43.639 --> 00:56:45.599
everyone else has kind of got a
chance, right, You got like five

1039
00:56:45.639 --> 00:56:51.480
teams sort of right in there.
Obviously, I think Toronto here with the

1040
00:56:51.480 --> 00:56:54.320
bullet in the East at least you
know favorites here going in. Do you

1041
00:56:54.360 --> 00:56:58.719
see tonight is kind of a preview
of who you think is going to win

1042
00:56:58.760 --> 00:57:00.159
the West? Is it's still too
lads, there's still too much of a

1043
00:57:00.239 --> 00:57:05.679
season left with at BC and Winnipeg. No, I mean all the season

1044
00:57:05.719 --> 00:57:07.440
left, But I don't see any
of those teams below them catching those guys.

1045
00:57:07.480 --> 00:57:13.679
I think they're just too good with
the injury with Harris and Amyer playbook

1046
00:57:13.719 --> 00:57:15.519
he is. I don't think they're
gonna catch up. So I think this

1047
00:57:15.599 --> 00:57:20.239
is kind of like a little Western
preview. If people want to kind of

1048
00:57:20.239 --> 00:57:22.559
follow more about your staff and they
kind of what else do you have going

1049
00:57:22.599 --> 00:57:25.559
on? What would they do?
Yeah? Follow me on Twitter at p

1050
00:57:25.679 --> 00:57:30.880
F Underscore Bryson. That's where I
post out my content on the site.

1051
00:57:30.920 --> 00:57:34.079
I'll get links there. So that's
on PF dot com. That's kind of

1052
00:57:34.119 --> 00:57:37.360
the two spots you can find me
at. And you guys, I know

1053
00:57:37.400 --> 00:57:38.960
we talked about the top in terms
of like the league and everything. Have

1054
00:57:39.039 --> 00:57:43.519
you guys seen good traction good numbers
on the site for all the CFL content?

1055
00:57:43.880 --> 00:57:45.760
Yeah, for sure. And that's
one thing I wanted to kind of

1056
00:57:45.800 --> 00:57:47.280
mention. I know, like I'm
getting a lot of people asking me about

1057
00:57:47.280 --> 00:57:50.639
grades, like can they get access? Like we know we have our pretium

1058
00:57:50.679 --> 00:57:53.760
stats from the NFL and college not
for CFL yet, And I know that

1059
00:57:55.000 --> 00:57:58.840
it's been tough for them. They're
building that database has been hard and they've

1060
00:57:58.840 --> 00:58:00.280
been focused on the NFL, so
they have no time for this year.

1061
00:58:00.320 --> 00:58:04.920
But they like I've been told basically
like if if attractions there, they'll work

1062
00:58:04.920 --> 00:58:07.880
out of it. Sounds of attraction
is there, so that we're hopefully going

1063
00:58:07.920 --> 00:58:09.920
to work out it so that by
next year, everyone who subscribes will have

1064
00:58:09.920 --> 00:58:13.960
access to all the grades and all
the stats that they get from the NFL

1065
00:58:14.000 --> 00:58:17.440
and college, which is very exciting. Well, that would be good because,

1066
00:58:17.480 --> 00:58:21.679
like I said, I think,
you know, CFL having that working

1067
00:58:21.719 --> 00:58:23.760
relationship with you guys, kind of
leaning into that, especially if they're not

1068
00:58:23.960 --> 00:58:27.480
going to do a lot of that
soap or be able to do a lot

1069
00:58:27.480 --> 00:58:30.199
of that stuff themselves, I think
will be good. Rising. I appreciate

1070
00:58:30.239 --> 00:58:34.079
it. Today, like I said, kind of a special Thursday live show

1071
00:58:34.159 --> 00:58:38.000
here getting ready. You know XFL
we had I think we're up to forty

1072
00:58:38.079 --> 00:58:42.559
three players signings right now, which
is crazy in terms of going to the

1073
00:58:42.639 --> 00:58:46.079
XFL and USFL. I believe was
it seventeen or eighteen last night checked,

1074
00:58:46.079 --> 00:58:49.760
and those numbers have gone up today. I know maxwill coming on here if

1075
00:58:49.760 --> 00:58:52.320
I'm wrong, but good to see
that, good to see the CFL stuff.

1076
00:58:52.719 --> 00:58:58.280
We'll be back on Monday. We'll
have our recap with Jason and Evan

1077
00:58:58.360 --> 00:59:00.360
and everything. Else on that kind
of talk in CFL Week nine, and

1078
00:59:00.360 --> 00:59:02.880
then we'll figure out next week and
we might do a couple of these CFL

1079
00:59:02.960 --> 00:59:07.400
shows here, XFL News and everything
else a little slow, but you know

1080
00:59:07.440 --> 00:59:13.559
we're getting through here. Jason not
Jason Days, like goes Bryson. If

1081
00:59:13.559 --> 00:59:16.119
you had to give the CFL season
grade thus far, what would you give

1082
00:59:16.119 --> 00:59:20.480
it. I've give it a B
right now. I think it's it's been

1083
00:59:20.559 --> 00:59:22.760
good, but loot a roof for
girls still, so give it a B

1084
00:59:22.880 --> 00:59:24.880
to a B plus. Well that's
good. Yeah, certainly, Like I

1085
00:59:24.880 --> 00:59:28.519
said, the best that we've had
on here. I appreciate everyone checking out.

1086
00:59:28.559 --> 00:59:30.199
Like I said, weird time a
time of day and time evolve this

1087
00:59:30.280 --> 00:59:34.519
on here. Bryson's got stuff to
go to. We got Hall of Fame

1088
00:59:34.559 --> 00:59:36.960
game here at five if you want
to check it out. And then then

1089
00:59:36.960 --> 00:59:37.920
I think this will be one of
the games of the season. I got

1090
00:59:38.000 --> 00:59:42.559
Dorothy, my wife. When we're
making nachos and stuff, it's gonna be

1091
00:59:42.599 --> 00:59:45.440
a whole, a whole big thing. Uh yeah, maybe we'll do an

1092
00:59:45.480 --> 00:59:47.480
IFL recabitate Max, we can,
we can work shop that. But I

1093
00:59:47.800 --> 00:59:52.039
got weddings tomorrow and then this is. This is my busy time of year,

1094
00:59:52.119 --> 00:59:54.360
so Bryson, I appreciate it.
We'll get out of here. Everyone

1095
00:59:54.440 --> 00:59:59.400
enjoyed the game and go go BC
Lions. So hopefully you can do you

1096
00:59:59.400 --> 01:00:01.239
co sign. Yeah, I go
BC. You'll I'll give you that one.

1097
01:00:01.639 --> 01:00:15.559
There you go, all right,
thanks guys,