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Well, happy Monday morning here on
the Mark Cast. Football is back this

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week, I guess, according to
the NFL tweeting out the Hall of Fame

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game kicking off this week Thursday.
But you know, we've been talking football

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all the time here on the Mark
Cast. I thought an exciting weekend here

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Jason was saying, maybe not the
most exciting football, but I think we

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have a time to talk about including
breaking news here. Jason, how are

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you doing today? I'm doing good. Raid pretty laid back weekend for me,

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So I got to watch a lot
of the football this weekend. Yeah,

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we'll get into that as well.
Evan, how are you doing good?

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Yeah, you know, splay the
games this weekend wasn't exactly you know,

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amazing. Um, I don't really
have many notes, so a lot

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of what you're gonna hear today from
me is off the top of my head.

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But excited to talk about it.
Nonetheless, well we'll get into all

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that here. So first and foremost, and I'm losing my notes here,

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we have breaking news coming out from
a friend of the show, David Campbell.

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I had reached out to Dave.
I said, do you want to

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come on this week morning? He
goes well, I gotta catch up on

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some stuff. Well here we have
breaking news coming out. We can talk

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about this game now or later,
but we have Edmonton making the change here,

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promoting Jerius Jackson to the OC here
getting rid of McAdoo Jason. Initial

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thoughts on this, what do you
make Well, they had to do something

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right. I think that's that's the
ultimate thing here is that. I mean

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there's just so hamstrung by that football
operations cap that I mean, they couldn't

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move on from Jones. So I
mean, I guess this is almost the

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best thing they could do in season
here, and they just had to do

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something too. You know, two
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I don't even remember the last time
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the same season. I think that
would be something interesting to look up.

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But yeah, I think they didn't
do something, And I think Jerry's Jackson

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brings a little bit of experience to
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guy there as well, but I
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he is a guy that does have
some experience being an offensive coordinator in this

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league, So you don't worry about
it. From that perspective, but hopefully

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a new voice will provide a spark
for the team. Yeah. I just

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can't figure out here. You know, obviously there's problems with you know,

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Cornelius, and there's problems with the
penalties, and there's problems with Jones,

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Like Evan, is this enough?
Is this kind of a band aid here?

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Like we had to we have to
do something here on the Buyer Week,

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Locy you're going out with it?
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don't necessarily think this is what Elks
fans wanted, but I mean at this

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point in the season, you know, given where you are, I mean,

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you have to make some sort of
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it's going to be, I mean, this is probably the best thing that

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they can do. So yeah,
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before this he was holding both you
know, quarterback coach and pass game

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coordinator Roles Um those always kind of
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the Elks just said that he's going
to retain his job his quarterbacks coach,

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So this is doubling up to with
the OC role. But yeah, ultimately

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I don't really see this as a
very impressive move. Maybe it will help

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things. I don't know, like, you know, we're gonna have to

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test it, right, But I
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lot of elks fans, um,
this isn't exactly what they wanted to see.

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We all know what they wanted to
see, and that involves Chris Jones,

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not Jerius Jackson. So yeah,
well, and even I saw this

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week justin Dunk. You know,
I don't know if he's a friend of

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the show yet. We're working on
it, but you know he was on

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a sports set er. You know, I'm starting the free trade for the

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hashtag. I said, welcome to
the party, Evan, those Flora we've

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been We've been doing a hashtag free
trade for it. So excited to see

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that. We'll get into I think
we'll get the end of this game.

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We'll go, you know, kind
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Jason, you said you didn't think
this was the greatest slave of games this

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weekend. Why did you make overall
thoughts of the weekend. I just think

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that, you know, the defense
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mean, like, I know there's
people out there that like defensive football,

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but honestly, I just prefer when
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Especially the game last night just drove
me in same. We'll get into

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it, but zero offensive touchdowns,
like each team at six field goals just

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not a very watchable game from that
perspective. And I thought that the execution

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from the offenses was way off this
week pretty much from every team. It

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looks like here we're having our illustrious
CFL dot CIA stats issues here all these

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games in pre game here Evan Evan
thoughts for the weekend. I though you

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had your what was it Leonard Skinner
concert as well. Was that more exciting

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than some of the CFL football?
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from some of the games for me. But I still, you know,

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got in a bit of you know
watching I guess of the games here and

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there. Yeah, ultimately, like
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weekend. We've become more accustomed in
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in the CFL that we haven't seen
in a long time. But now this

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week definitely marked a shift I think
where you know, teams were scoring less.

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You saw a lot of scores like
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So it was definitely slower. But
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I think this was a good weekend
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Sunday night game here, we had
Calgary at Montreal. I'm, you know,

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listening through and I had tweeted out
I was filming. It was I

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do this filming for an Indian temple
hereover in some Amosh on the East Side,

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and they host a bunch of like
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of like, you know, hey, come, you know, enjoy our

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culture, kind of see what we
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to this is how I listened to
the Mariners game, and I was listening

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to Marshall Ferguson all the way through
the rain delay, which I do one

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hundred percent blame Marshall Ferguson. I
think there's something cursed for that, gentleman.

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I just you know, the XFL
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this early end of the season.
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I heard the game. I don't
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Jason, because I know it came
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close, and we got you paired, is kicking all the kind of stuff

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was this a good game? Well, hot take, I think this is

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the worst game that was a one
score game that I think I've ever seen,

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like honestly, like it's very misleading. Came down to like the final

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play, Calgary stold a chance to
get it in the end zone to tie

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the game on the last play,
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yeah, zero offensive touchdowns as I
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goals apiece for every teach team.
The only touchdown in this game was a

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pick six in this one. So
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They both could move the ball a
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punch it in when it came down
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that's a big problem in the CFL
right now. The red zone execution is

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very off around the league right now. I think, Well, I think

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Edvant with Lighten any sort of their
bands, rents and the moment lest these

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guys getting because that was the thing
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mayor we see these stat lines,
you know, twenty four or forty four,

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two fifty six, I mean getting
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was last week he had like the
really high stat line they were talking with

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his passing on there, but Evan
with this, yeah, because it came

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down like not all of these one
score games were built equal. We saw

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this a lot in the USFL,
like ninety eight percent of our games were

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decided in the last minute. Yeah, well but it was you know,

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twelve to eight or I don't know, like, I mean, what did

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you make of this? And the
thoughts like Calgary, Yes, I agree

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with everything that was said before.
Extremely misleading is what I'm going to go

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on with this one. Um.
I mean, yeah, you look at

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the score and you think, geez, like you know, kind of a

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back and forth, like Montreal gets
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wise, but ultimately yeah, I
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in this game, and yeah,
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pick six on the Montreal side,
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know, unwatchable game nearly from some
aspects, and I just think, yeah,

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I mean, it's such a that
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from again, everything that we've been
seeing this game specifically, now, there

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were a couple other games like you
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offense against you know, well the
elks of all teams will get into that

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later. Not looking forward to talking
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oh, I'm sure you are read, but man, it's I just feel

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so bad every week. Anyway,
We're not on that yet, um right

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now? Yeah, just looking at
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good thing from this game offensively,
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the ball. I know, Tradeam's
dukes had a good game for Calgary,

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so did Riggie Bagelson receiving. But
the one point I really want to talk

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about here from this game on the
offensive side of the ball is William Standback

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getting worked in for Montreal. Fifteen
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averaging. Yeah, what is that? Five point seven yards per carry?

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Finally, you know, William Standback
in week eight of the season, two

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months in, is finally getting you
know, his work, and I mean

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we've been waiting so long to kind
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going because if you know, obviously
stand Back, you know, I think

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it was last season that he missed
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chunk of that, and then he
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twenty one, you know, him
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league. So I was kind of
excited to see that this year, but

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we haven't seen it really until now. He's finally you know, starting to

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get some reps. And he did
have a game I remember, I don't

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forget which week it is, but
you know, he had a couple of

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catches. You know, he was
getting worked in on that side of the

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offense. But to see him,
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as a pure runner, I think
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that really is going to benefit Montreal
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know, carry the rock like that, especially because you know Cody Fajardo did

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not have the best day passing here
too. Yeah, it was like the

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Mark cast Curis last year because I
think I had standback on preseason and he

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was doing like he was in Georgia
or something, and he was like,

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I've been working out here on the
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I'm like this, like this guy's
going to come in and go. We

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we're doing a lot of like Alouette's
interviews. Yeah, and then he came

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in was it that first game.
Jason the standback got hurt last ye yep,

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and then he came back for the
last month of the season and yeah,

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like Evan said, didn't look the
same until we saw that yesterday.

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I have some hot take tweets here. First off, you might know this

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Shiman has he talking here. One
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sequences I've ever seen five year penalty. You know, lots of just you

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know, bizarre kind of play calling
everything Ryan here checking in too many men

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followed by a time count violation.
What is calgaries kind of I don't have

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a beat on what they want to
be as a team right now. Yeah,

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I don't know what's going on with
them either. I think that it's

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very uncharacteristic of them, the mistakes
that they're making. I mean, they

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just looked confused on offense. They'll
look like they have no composure. I

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think that, you know, like
you said, the gold to ghost sequence

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was what drew me insane in this
game. But there are also several moments

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where they were kind of late coming
out of the huddle, and you know,

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they take a time count violation or
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violation. A lot of guys standing
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is. So I think that's just
uncharacteristic of what we've seen from the stamp

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Peters over the last ten to fifteen
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this is very new and I think
that Yeah, the stamp Peters started two

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and five in twenty twenty one,
I do believe, and then they ultimately

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ended up eight and six. But
I think this is a different feel for

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this team. They don't seem like
they have that veteran core leadership that they've

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had in recent years to really rebound
from this. So it's not going to

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get easier with them having a tough
schedule up ahead. Yeah, tell you

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about that and we can look at
the schedule are coming up. Yeah,

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because I saw I can't remember who
was tweeting out, Yeah, there's you

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see in Toronto twice and BC and
there Evan. I have the last play

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here. Let me get this up. I have the last play of the

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game que up here, and the
show there was sound, you know with

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with Mayor. I want to talk
about it as well on here, But

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should Mayor have run for the run
for it? Here? Gotten the first

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down that we're throwing the long into
the end zone. It seems like he

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kind of you know, he missed
judge here. Whatever, great, this

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is what do you make of Mayors? That thoughts are on the final drive.

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Yeah, I mean on that play
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have run a bit more, you
know, before at least throwing it.

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Obviously you know, well a line
of scrimmage whatever. But you know,

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I think ultimately, yeah, I
see that as more of a a play

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where you need to because if you
look, I mean right there, he's

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throwing it. Guy's not even open. It's like a lot of reaction right

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here pretty much. But no,
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think he could have definitely run there. And you know that's the I mean,

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I think Jake Mayor I want to
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he had forty four pass attempts in
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days where I think they're throwing the
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being a bit too excessive in that
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of you know, those forty four
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I think I brought it up last
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quarterbacks that you know are throwing over
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any touchdowns. It doesn't even really
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mean, if you're not scoring that
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And in this case, that's what
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side of the ball, Cody Fajardo
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exactly much better, but at least
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fact that you know, Fajardo's arm
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game, if you know what I
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I heard them talking a lot about
that going in a half Jason, does

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he seem fine? I could,
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not what they were speaking of him, kind of like waving his hand

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off. Whether you is fagarda going
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about that? Well, I think
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because it looked like after that happened, every time he had to push the

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ball down the field at all,
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him at all, going forward.
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that langered for him. So I
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he's looked very healthy so far this
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his overall body of work this year. Not the best game in this one,

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but ultimately didn't need to with the
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do you think Matt Mayor do you
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it. But I will say that, as I said, I was communicating

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with Marty York on Twitter last night
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that he's not a very mobile quarterback. But you know, I think the

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biggest problem with him is, yes, he's not a great athlete, but

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he doesn't take off and run when
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take those opportunities. And um,
he's had several opportunities this year where he

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could have just taken off and ran
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ends up incomplete anyway. Um and
UM, I think that he passes that

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up way too often, including that
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I had the tweet here and key
that that's what you called for Duc

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here no like Marianna on this day, I like and I'm not going to

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play the sound, but I had
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the game, and I do at
least like how he kind of carries himself,

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you know. And we've gone back
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year, you know, when when
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of Cody and well, I need
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a COODI Pajarada the Man in Black
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like, you know, it's on
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credit. They played as well.
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what we were going to do.
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is saying the right things. I
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translate him off the field, but
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fan aspect, like I feel,
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Calgary fan, at least with kind
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on the game, Mayor, Cody
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Second pot two. Yeah, I
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just going off with Jason said,
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most mobile quarterback either, but you
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when you're you know, when the
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to run, you're gonna take that, you know, really like Tom Brady

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did that many times, you know, in his career, and he wasn't

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necessarily a mobile quarterback. You know, he can at least scramble for a

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couple of yards here and there,
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you know, they're the ten yard
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Jake Mayer, if he really needed
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I've been meant he was gonna,
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know, win or tie the football
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ultimately where I sit on it.
I had a couple of tweets here.

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First, I guess we can do
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tweeting out Calgary Stampere's I haven't had
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two and five after the twenty five
and eighteen lost in Montreal, and then

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that we have a friend of me. This show here a rash and this

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is always interesting to me, and
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we're, you know, coming into
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I've been saying this since to see
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The Stamps are disreputation team taken seriously
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what they are now, the reality
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Three three seas into that playoff wins
and this bunchlicks lost. Jason reactions to

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that, Yeah, I think I'm
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this whole idea of believing in the
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that is what allowed me to pick
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the season started. But I think
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picture, yes, they have been
declining over the last few years. They

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had a pretty good season last year, but when you looked at how they

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played against the best teams in the
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like mcdanny says, they really struggled
and they just cannot find the plays

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that they need in these big time
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no composure, which is a far
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Like mdanny said, yeah, it
was checking and you really thought Calgary

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is gonna be taken a lot better
in the season. They record reflects Evandys

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I'm to say, I mean,
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reality is, I think a lot
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about the way Calgary has been performing. Me personally, you know, I

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think there has been a definite ship
since you know, the team returned from

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COVID and even before that they won
the Great Cup and what twenty eighteen,

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So you know, over the past
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know, been a shift towards I
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rebuild maybe right, like you're bringing
it like it's the end of an era,

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right, like the you know,
consistent playoff appearances and things like that.

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mean, you know, we're looking
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like Jason said, they started two
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they turned things around, but you
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I just don't get the same vibe
right now. Again, they don't have

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the same personnel. Two years is
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I'm interested to see where Calgary goes
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think this team has potential. Every
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it's less about I mean, it's
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but you know, I at least
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they have some pieces, they have
the right idea. It just hasn't all

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come together. So I could see
this version of the team. Yeah,

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maybe no play offs this year,
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I mean, I do see Jake
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a starting quarterback in this league for
many years to come, and somebody that

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can lead this team. I have
a lot more belief in him than say

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somebody like Taylor Cornelius. Now,
you know, maybe that goes without saying

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I don't know, but I just
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one that will definitely need to be
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like it really shouldn't come as a
surprise, you know. I think this

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has been something you know, that
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years, and we'll see where they
go, right, I mean, there's

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a lot of ways this could branch
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know, we're in week going on
to week nine of a twenty one week

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season, so you know, we're
we're not even halfway. But yeah,

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interesting, interesting discussion for sure.
Any of the thoughts. I just want

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to shout Jenna checking in here in
the chat as well. Jenna has been

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absent on social media, so I'm
glad to see Jenna's back. Hope she's

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doing good. Coutch Craig checking in
at Jason. Anything else from this,

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we'll get to the obviously the game
of the weekend here, but something Yeah,

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out of it. I mean,
sascatch one's doing everything possible to leave the

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door open for that third spot in
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Calgary definitely just needs to spring a
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point I'm losing hope for them,
all right, so let's get in here.

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I guess this is a good way
to start off. I had this

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little tweet. I was proud of
us. I said, this is uh,

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Lisa Purefoy watching all is all of
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and this is when they were getting
like the DPI against I think it

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was Whitehead near the end of the
game. This tremendous game here. I

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have many reactionary tweets about this.
We'll toss it first, I guess to

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Evan just because Jason just spoke,
what you know. Second, shout out

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here BC of Edmonton. We talked
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the show. Thoughts here on this
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you know, every week, I'm
like, how low can we go?

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And I want to say we've hit
the lowest of lows now with a

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second shutout, and you know,
I don't know, but like something tells

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me next week, you know,
something worse will happen. I can't.

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I just it's one of those things
where you know, you have to see

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it to believe it. You have
to watch the Elks to really understand,

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you know, what this season has
been for them, and it really is

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just a disaster. Again, I
have been I've tried to be reserved around

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this subject, you know, for
the course of the season, but now

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it's at a point where I mean, you look at not even just Elks

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fans, but you know, anyone
that looks at the CFL as a whole,

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whether it's just fans in general media, I think there is a level

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of you know, um criticalness or
whatever surrounding this team, just because I

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think people expected at least some improvement
by this point. You know, you

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at least win a game, you
at least score some points. But uh,

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you know that. I mean,
it's like this team just doesn't try.

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you know who care, because there's
a lot of people who care, and

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there's a lot of people on that
team who I know are frustrated. Again,

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it's a difficult sport, difficult business, whatever, But I mean,

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come on, man, like you
know again, like every every week well

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that they've been at home, they've
had an opportunity to break this streak and

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at least get a bit of momentum
going. But each time it becomes something

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worse. It's like, well,
not only did you you know, lose

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this game to set you know,
the all time record or whatever it is.

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history for home losses, you did

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it by being shut out for the
second time in the season by the same

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team that had shut you out before. Like it's just I mean, how

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many times, It's how many things
can happen before I can just sit here

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and just laugh and not say anything. And that's really sad more than it

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is funny. But it's just the
reality. I mean, this is I

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can't I can't wait to see what
this team does in the offseason. I

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mean I think, you know,
yeah, they've just had the OC switch,

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but in my opinion, that's really
minor in the grand scheme of things.

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I really want to see, you
know, the direction of this team,

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you know, once the season is
officially over. I mean we've already

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talked about, like again, they're
kind of stuck, you know, where

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they are now with what they have, and I mean it's very again disheartening.

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I can only use so many of
these negative terms, saturning terms,

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but disheartening because in week one or
week two, I was saying, well,

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the Elks are already, you know, this is already a rebuilding year,

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you know, and for a team
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not even a month into the season, is like you're already waving the

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white flag. You've given up.
And there's been no change in that philosophy

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really through two months. I mean
we just you know, wrapped up with

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Week eate and I have seen no
improvement from Edmonton and really any aspect of

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the game. I do like.
I do like their defense, I think

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a bit more. Not that they
really played well this game, giving up

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twenty seven points, but you know, like a c Leonard, couple of

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those guys again, like there are
pieces on this team, and I have

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the cussed up before, you know, try and find the positives in this

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in this terrible situation. But ultimately, yeah, I think you know,

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the Elks at this point, it's
just like now it's like I don't even

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care at this point if they win
at home. I just want them to

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win a game to just save them
from it, some of this despair,

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like it has to stop. I
mean, you know, it's like,

410
00:24:21.160 --> 00:24:22.559
well, what's the phrase they use. It's like, you know, don't

411
00:24:22.960 --> 00:24:26.720
you know, poke the bear when
it's already dead or whatever. I mean

412
00:24:26.799 --> 00:24:30.279
that that's what this feels like.
Yeah, I'm trying to I got Jen

413
00:24:30.440 --> 00:24:33.119
Roberts here, a friend of the
show. You know, rock Bottom is

414
00:24:33.160 --> 00:24:37.119
beyond even this. Yeah, surege
it Fordy with disaster defense may win championships

415
00:24:37.160 --> 00:24:40.759
with offense, sales tickets. Zero
points scored equals no fans, and no

416
00:24:40.880 --> 00:24:42.759
fans equals no money, no money
again, driven league equals no team,

417
00:24:42.880 --> 00:24:45.680
dangerous game of chicken. I just
I think it's interesting, and we'll go

418
00:24:45.759 --> 00:24:49.319
to Jason here. Like we talked
these losing streaks, you know, like

419
00:24:49.680 --> 00:24:52.720
losing losing nineteen games at home in
the row of basketball. It's a little

420
00:24:52.759 --> 00:24:56.759
different than four years here of football
of Loizie, you know, since twenty

421
00:24:56.839 --> 00:24:59.680
nineteen like that, you know,
and these aren't all equal in terms of

422
00:24:59.759 --> 00:25:02.559
like games played at home games all
that. What do you make of this

423
00:25:02.960 --> 00:25:07.319
really kind of a disaster. It
just defies belief at this point. I

424
00:25:07.400 --> 00:25:11.880
mean, I just cannot understand how
it's gone on for this long and how

425
00:25:11.960 --> 00:25:15.599
they have not won a home game
under the new name, and it's just

426
00:25:15.799 --> 00:25:18.039
I mean, like I said earlier
this year, I think it's starting to

427
00:25:18.079 --> 00:25:21.519
feel like a legitimate curse. And
I'm not like an overly spiritual person,

428
00:25:21.640 --> 00:25:25.839
but like it really starts to feel
like there's something wrong with this I feel

429
00:25:25.880 --> 00:25:29.480
like there's just some kind of curse
over this organization, some kind of dark

430
00:25:29.559 --> 00:25:33.400
cloud. And I think for everything
that they do, it's one step forward

431
00:25:33.440 --> 00:25:37.240
and two steps back. Every time
they have something positive happen within a game,

432
00:25:37.519 --> 00:25:40.359
they make a couple of more mistakes
to dig themselves a bigger hole.

433
00:25:40.440 --> 00:25:44.400
And I think, you know,
the quarterback play is a big culprit of

434
00:25:44.480 --> 00:25:48.480
it. Obviously, getting that position
right will be a priority going forward for

435
00:25:48.559 --> 00:25:49.920
this team, and it's gonna be
interesting, like Evan said, to see

436
00:25:49.960 --> 00:25:53.240
what they do in the off season
with that. But I think in terms

437
00:25:53.279 --> 00:25:56.839
of what they're gonna do the rest
of the season, I mean, like

438
00:25:56.039 --> 00:25:59.880
I just don't see any hope for
this team. Even if they do put

439
00:26:00.079 --> 00:26:03.200
tray Forward out there, I think
that it would be more exciting. I

440
00:26:03.240 --> 00:26:06.319
think it would be more interesting to
watch but I think that ultimately, I

441
00:26:06.319 --> 00:26:07.599
don't know if they're gonna win a
game with him either. So it's gonna

442
00:26:07.599 --> 00:26:11.039
be interesting to see them play the
rest of the season. And I think

443
00:26:11.119 --> 00:26:15.920
I'm gonna do a video on this
this week rank the teams that I enjoyed

444
00:26:15.000 --> 00:26:18.359
watching in the CFL, and Edmonton
would be an easy last right now.

445
00:26:18.440 --> 00:26:22.960
I mean it's been a long season. I really don't look forward to watching

446
00:26:22.000 --> 00:26:27.000
their games each week. Yeah,
the interesting you were saying it because they

447
00:26:27.119 --> 00:26:30.279
kind of do it both ways where
the penalties and I don't know, I

448
00:26:30.359 --> 00:26:33.279
mean Dane played good, right and
what was what was his he was like

449
00:26:36.119 --> 00:26:37.599
twenty five or three two, Like
he played good, played clean. But

450
00:26:37.680 --> 00:26:42.599
like even the BC, their defense
they give up. You know, Cornelius

451
00:26:42.680 --> 00:26:45.160
got that one huge long shot near
the end of the game, right,

452
00:26:45.200 --> 00:26:48.519
it was like a couple of minutes
left, and then he immediately gets an

453
00:26:48.559 --> 00:26:51.680
interception and they're like, you know, the defense like it bends, it

454
00:26:51.759 --> 00:26:53.319
doesn't break, like oh okay,
Like we got beat that one play,

455
00:26:53.440 --> 00:26:56.640
Like okay, now we're gonna come
back, Like now we're kind of really

456
00:26:56.680 --> 00:27:00.799
angry on that. I want to
talk about the I have the tweet here

457
00:27:00.039 --> 00:27:03.119
and this. I didn't know that
this was the thing. And I saw

458
00:27:03.200 --> 00:27:07.200
this yesterday, the Donut Boys calling
the defense the Donut Boys because they're putting

459
00:27:07.279 --> 00:27:11.279
up ohs, and I thought that
that is tremendous. And Rick co signed

460
00:27:11.319 --> 00:27:12.759
it. He said he's okay with
them calling it that. Jason, do

461
00:27:12.839 --> 00:27:17.079
we like the Donut Boys? I
said, this is what the CFL needs.

462
00:27:17.119 --> 00:27:18.279
It's like, you know, the
Steel Curtain or whatever, like the

463
00:27:18.400 --> 00:27:22.759
NFL. Like, do you like
the Donut Boys? Yeah? I mean

464
00:27:22.960 --> 00:27:25.759
I think you call yourselves whatever you
want. When you have two shutouts in

465
00:27:25.839 --> 00:27:27.839
the CFL, I mean that's pretty
hard to do defensively. I mean,

466
00:27:27.920 --> 00:27:32.279
I'll be really really impressed if they
do it against someone other than Edmonton.

467
00:27:32.880 --> 00:27:36.920
But yeah, two shoutouts in one
CFL season, that's pretty impressive. Yeah.

468
00:27:36.960 --> 00:27:41.000
We had Terry Jones here getting shut
out the CFLs aretually impossible, and

469
00:27:41.119 --> 00:27:45.920
he shut out in this league twice
by the VC Lion in the same season.

470
00:27:45.240 --> 00:27:49.200
Said the North American Pro Sports record
twenty one consecutive losses fire. The

471
00:27:49.279 --> 00:27:53.000
GM head coach OC released the quarterback. Something that has to happen. Yeah,

472
00:27:53.039 --> 00:27:56.960
we talked about that. I don't
know if doing the OC is kind

473
00:27:56.000 --> 00:28:00.000
of enough to do all that.
Like I said, Dave here at talking

474
00:28:00.119 --> 00:28:07.880
rock Bottom, embarrassing Evan positives here
from BC. How did our boy Dan

475
00:28:07.960 --> 00:28:11.440
look? Oh yeah, well there
were plenty of positives on the BC end.

476
00:28:11.440 --> 00:28:14.440
I mean, yeah, starting with
the Donut Boys. I do think

477
00:28:14.480 --> 00:28:15.920
that nickname is earned. I think, you know, yeah, pitching two

478
00:28:15.920 --> 00:28:19.319
shutouts in the league like this,
you definitely deserve a nickname. And um

479
00:28:19.359 --> 00:28:22.720
again, you know, hopefully they
can do that again. I'm really interested

480
00:28:22.720 --> 00:28:26.480
to see, you know, what
BC's defense can do over the course of

481
00:28:26.440 --> 00:28:30.200
the rest of the season. You
know, are they going to pitch another

482
00:28:30.240 --> 00:28:33.359
shutout? Yeah? Hard to say. I don't know about that one,

483
00:28:33.480 --> 00:28:36.640
but I mean you never know.
Like I think they definitely have the capability

484
00:28:36.680 --> 00:28:38.599
to do it, the personnel.
But yeah, going back to you know,

485
00:28:38.759 --> 00:28:41.599
Dan Evans in that offense, Um, Dan had a great game.

486
00:28:41.720 --> 00:28:44.920
You know, this was one of
the better games I've seen from Dan Evans

487
00:28:44.960 --> 00:28:47.319
in a long time. And that
goes back in all the way to Hamilton

488
00:28:47.559 --> 00:28:51.079
when he was starting there. I
was very impressed and this, you know,

489
00:28:51.240 --> 00:28:55.079
to me, like again, I
think I brought it up last week

490
00:28:55.160 --> 00:28:57.640
or the week before. You know
Vernon should keep his job when he gets

491
00:28:57.680 --> 00:29:00.319
back. But you know, to
have a guy like that, you know,

492
00:29:00.440 --> 00:29:03.000
just ready to go all the time. Um, it really is,

493
00:29:03.119 --> 00:29:07.160
you know, valuable and this has
been proven here. Um, even if

494
00:29:07.160 --> 00:29:11.119
it's in against you know, an
opponent that you know maybe isn't exactly of

495
00:29:11.279 --> 00:29:14.400
the strongest variety. Um. But
anyway, no, I mean, look

496
00:29:14.440 --> 00:29:18.079
a Dane Evans is definitely finding his
stride here, you know, in place

497
00:29:18.119 --> 00:29:19.359
of Vernon, and it's good to
see him, you know, get some

498
00:29:19.480 --> 00:29:22.799
reps in this season because to be
honest, like if Vernon doesn't get hurt,

499
00:29:22.839 --> 00:29:26.480
I mean he was you know,
playing so well. I don't know,

500
00:29:26.599 --> 00:29:27.720
you know, Dan might have just
been sitting there hanging out with the

501
00:29:27.759 --> 00:29:30.880
clipboard. Um. But all love
for Dane, you know, great game

502
00:29:32.000 --> 00:29:36.319
from him. Um. I was
really impressed with Taquan Mizzelle. Mizelle in

503
00:29:36.440 --> 00:29:40.160
this game, however you say it, Um, you know really had a

504
00:29:40.359 --> 00:29:41.680
nice Um. I mean this was
you know, we had you know,

505
00:29:41.759 --> 00:29:45.440
sung his praises back. Um a
couple of weeks ago. But I think

506
00:29:45.480 --> 00:29:51.359
he's been injured, Um, hasn't
really played. I mean yeah, it

507
00:29:51.519 --> 00:29:53.839
was for a while a couple of
weeks. Yeah, right, right,

508
00:29:53.920 --> 00:29:56.720
So it was Shiver's in and you
know he did a good job too.

509
00:29:56.880 --> 00:30:00.480
But you know, Taquan was always
kind of a guy that you know,

510
00:30:00.559 --> 00:30:03.480
I was hoping, you know,
would break out, and this was I

511
00:30:03.599 --> 00:30:06.480
think somewhat of a breakout game.
You know, one hundred and seventeen rushing

512
00:30:06.559 --> 00:30:11.319
yards, had a receiving touchdown on
two catches for thirty yards. All around,

513
00:30:11.359 --> 00:30:14.920
a great game from him. And
then I mean, do I even

514
00:30:15.079 --> 00:30:17.680
do I even need to say anything
about the receivers at this point. I

515
00:30:17.799 --> 00:30:18.759
mean, I feel like every week
we're just talking about, you know,

516
00:30:18.839 --> 00:30:22.720
how strong that receiving corps is,
and it just speaks for itself, the

517
00:30:22.799 --> 00:30:26.039
production, not only the production,
but again spreading the ball around to different

518
00:30:26.039 --> 00:30:30.039
guys. I mean, everybody gets
you know, four or five six catches.

519
00:30:30.079 --> 00:30:32.920
You don't have one receiver that ends
up, you know, catching ten

520
00:30:33.000 --> 00:30:34.839
balls in the game. I think
that is one of the best things you

521
00:30:34.880 --> 00:30:38.640
could see in football right there,
that little you know, receiving box score.

522
00:30:40.359 --> 00:30:42.839
That is extremely impressive. And again
they do this week after week.

523
00:30:42.880 --> 00:30:45.000
You know, why do you think
this offense has been you know, so

524
00:30:45.200 --> 00:30:49.160
successful over the course of these two
months, Because they just have so many

525
00:30:49.279 --> 00:30:53.200
playmakers, and it's obviously going to
be hard hard to retain all those guys

526
00:30:53.799 --> 00:30:56.759
going into next year. You know, they're definitely gonna lose some in free

527
00:30:56.799 --> 00:31:00.440
agency. But right now, I
don't think that's a concern because again,

528
00:31:00.839 --> 00:31:03.559
and maybe I've said this before too, I do think BC has the personnel

529
00:31:03.640 --> 00:31:07.480
to to you know, make a
great Cup run this time around. Well,

530
00:31:07.519 --> 00:31:08.839
that's I wanted to talk with Jason
about. And I had my notes

531
00:31:08.880 --> 00:31:11.279
and I had some funny things I
want to pull up to here. But

532
00:31:11.720 --> 00:31:15.960
like we look at the depth that
BC has, and I've been watching the

533
00:31:17.000 --> 00:31:18.599
Crack on a lot right in the
last year and the offseason, the kind

534
00:31:18.599 --> 00:31:22.599
of depth ability and looking at the
minor league and how deeps our roster,

535
00:31:22.759 --> 00:31:25.440
and like the Crack had always kind
of had a different roster or they didn't

536
00:31:25.440 --> 00:31:29.240
have a lot of superstars this year, Like BC has all these huge names.

537
00:31:29.440 --> 00:31:32.039
Last year, right, we got
Nathan Wark, he's on this Penny

538
00:31:32.119 --> 00:31:33.839
deal. We're able to resign Lucky, We're able to bring on Key on

539
00:31:33.960 --> 00:31:37.480
kind of all this stuff here,
and now you know, we get Va.

540
00:31:37.240 --> 00:31:41.519
We have we have such like this
backup here, like Dominique Rhymes has

541
00:31:41.559 --> 00:31:44.839
been out lucky, he's been out
key out like all these guys. You

542
00:31:44.880 --> 00:31:48.160
know, McGuinness is stepping up.
You know, my Zell's even taking passes,

543
00:31:48.279 --> 00:31:49.000
you know, Like that's why they
wanted to, I guess to bring

544
00:31:49.119 --> 00:31:52.640
him back versus Shivers because he could
catch us a running back, like you

545
00:31:52.720 --> 00:31:56.680
know, Verndian goes down. We
have Dane Evans. Like the depth that

546
00:31:56.759 --> 00:31:59.920
this team has I just can't figure
out, Like, is that just Neil

547
00:32:00.000 --> 00:32:02.839
acivoy credit, Like, like what
do you attribute it to? The BC?

548
00:32:04.079 --> 00:32:07.000
Like it just it seems to have
no lack of depth here kind of

549
00:32:07.039 --> 00:32:10.559
in any position and where that all
these other teams just seemed to be strung,

550
00:32:10.720 --> 00:32:14.039
Like, you know, Evans,
he can't get a quarterback here.

551
00:32:14.079 --> 00:32:15.920
We have two quarterbacks that they're playing, you know, phenomenally well right now.

552
00:32:16.759 --> 00:32:20.440
Yeah, I think you gotta give
a lot of credit to Neil McAvoy

553
00:32:20.519 --> 00:32:22.920
the GM. I think he was
very proactive in bringing in Dane Evans.

554
00:32:22.960 --> 00:32:28.599
I think that was such a good
move this offseason, bringing in Dominic Davis

555
00:32:28.640 --> 00:32:31.279
as the third string guy. I
think he's an excellent short yardage quarterback.

556
00:32:31.359 --> 00:32:36.000
That quarterback room is just so solid
all around. And then I mean any

557
00:32:36.079 --> 00:32:39.160
quarterback could succeed with the wide receivers
they have. I mean the offensive line

558
00:32:39.200 --> 00:32:43.000
I think has shown a lot of
improvement over the last couple of years.

559
00:32:43.119 --> 00:32:45.920
I think that's allowed them to be
a pretty good team as well, because

560
00:32:45.960 --> 00:32:50.359
it was just a disaster a couple
of years ago. But I think that's

561
00:32:50.480 --> 00:32:53.920
probably still the weakness on that offense, but it's no longer a huge deficiency.

562
00:32:54.119 --> 00:32:58.000
And then I mean they just have
depth, like you said, all

563
00:32:58.039 --> 00:33:00.440
throughout the defense, I think defensive
line, and they rotate heavily. And

564
00:33:00.559 --> 00:33:05.319
I think that in this game,
Ryan Phillips, the defensive coordinator, who

565
00:33:05.599 --> 00:33:07.480
I think it's going to be head
coach in the CFL next year, he

566
00:33:07.799 --> 00:33:12.279
was really just toying with the Edmonton
Elks offense. I think they were just

567
00:33:12.400 --> 00:33:16.000
dialing up Blitz after Blitz and Cornelius
had no answer for him. It does

568
00:33:16.119 --> 00:33:20.599
feel that way. It feels like, and I think it was it was

569
00:33:20.720 --> 00:33:22.680
last year, and they're talking like
their wide receiver by committee, like they

570
00:33:22.759 --> 00:33:25.920
don't care, like no one needs
to be which you know is big words.

571
00:33:25.960 --> 00:33:30.119
And you have like all these former
NFL guys coming up right like I

572
00:33:30.200 --> 00:33:31.960
think that says a lot like the
lucky is like I don't care, Like

573
00:33:32.039 --> 00:33:35.119
I don't need to be the star
here. You know, he kind of

574
00:33:35.160 --> 00:33:37.799
does his own thing. But yeah, the defense and kind of the where

575
00:33:37.839 --> 00:33:42.319
it's been kind of three years now
of us covering this team and covering the

576
00:33:42.440 --> 00:33:45.880
league and seeing them, you know, in Brian Phillips and where he was

577
00:33:45.960 --> 00:33:49.359
like the co defensive whatever it was, and then getting promoted here and building

578
00:33:49.480 --> 00:33:52.839
up, and it does feel like
they're poised right now, you know.

579
00:33:52.880 --> 00:33:54.400
I mean I felt last year with
Rourke and we kind of saw everything to

580
00:33:54.400 --> 00:33:59.720
fall apart without him. But it
does feel like expectations are pretty high right

581
00:33:59.759 --> 00:34:01.279
now. I don't you know,
our tickets are booked already. They hamilt

582
00:34:01.359 --> 00:34:06.039
him, But it does feel like
BC this game this Thursday is I think

583
00:34:06.119 --> 00:34:07.719
going to be a real testament to
see if they can do the Winnipeg again.

584
00:34:08.119 --> 00:34:10.320
Evan thoughts on that, and I
got some other funny stuff I want

585
00:34:10.320 --> 00:34:13.679
to pull up. Yeah, I
mean, right now, you know,

586
00:34:14.159 --> 00:34:16.440
I see them. I mean,
if there's a you know, a West

587
00:34:16.559 --> 00:34:21.559
Final between them and Winnipeg, I
personally see right now BC taking that in

588
00:34:21.639 --> 00:34:24.960
the revenge game, and you know, I think. I mean it was

589
00:34:25.039 --> 00:34:30.840
just so you know, I mean, you talk about Ryan Phillips like you

590
00:34:30.920 --> 00:34:35.039
know I personally, I mean,
we don't really talk about many coaches on

591
00:34:35.119 --> 00:34:37.599
this show, but I've really enjoyed, you know, watching him and seeing

592
00:34:37.639 --> 00:34:40.519
what he's done, you know,
personally. I mean, look, I'm

593
00:34:40.559 --> 00:34:45.039
not going to start making like connections
here, but let's say, well,

594
00:34:45.400 --> 00:34:49.519
I would imagine that the Elks move
on from Chris Jones in the offseason.

595
00:34:49.880 --> 00:34:52.480
And if you're gonna do that,
or at least maybe you know, you

596
00:34:52.639 --> 00:34:55.679
take Chris Jones away from a certain
role, you know, give him one

597
00:34:55.719 --> 00:35:00.239
hat to where as opposed to three, then maybe you bring in a younger

598
00:35:00.280 --> 00:35:05.199
guy like Ryan Phillips who used to
play in the CFL Ryan Phillips, you

599
00:35:05.239 --> 00:35:07.079
know, bring him in kind of
a younger, you know, guy with

600
00:35:07.320 --> 00:35:12.000
a different mentality, different philosophy,
because personally, yeah, I definitely see

601
00:35:12.119 --> 00:35:16.639
him as a head coaching candidate for
sure. For twenty twenty four, I

602
00:35:16.719 --> 00:35:21.000
had a couple other funny things here. We were talking the salary cap and

603
00:35:21.039 --> 00:35:23.880
all of that. I said,
let's fix the salary cap issue for coaching

604
00:35:23.920 --> 00:35:28.400
stap before we add a tempt team
like let's go let's put the cart before

605
00:35:28.400 --> 00:35:31.519
the horse here. And then I
did think this was funny because I kind

606
00:35:31.519 --> 00:35:36.679
of thought about this. They were
talking or on the broadcast how Jones took

607
00:35:36.719 --> 00:35:37.960
the whole team to go see Mission
Impossible, and I thought, well,

608
00:35:38.000 --> 00:35:42.079
that's like I don't want to poop
poo on that, because like, well,

609
00:35:42.480 --> 00:35:44.800
okay, let them have a little
bit of levity here. They're living

610
00:35:44.840 --> 00:35:46.000
through all this. But I thought
they could have went and seen Barbie,

611
00:35:46.239 --> 00:35:50.280
Barbie or Oppenheimer, and they chose
to go see Mission Impossible. And so

612
00:35:50.320 --> 00:35:52.559
I said, if you want everything
you need to know about the alexistoric LOUSI

613
00:35:52.559 --> 00:35:55.039
in the street, I didn't know
this. I don't have you guys did

614
00:35:55.119 --> 00:36:00.199
I put You know, obviously fog
jerseys fire BC, and my god,

615
00:36:00.239 --> 00:36:02.440
those jerseys just look really good.
But if you guys know this, Jones,

616
00:36:04.239 --> 00:36:07.079
he's normally been wearing that really high
button polo. Right, it's kind

617
00:36:07.079 --> 00:36:09.559
of a look. Right. I
got my thing up and he was in

618
00:36:09.679 --> 00:36:13.840
like a quarter zip and to me, I'm like, he is, that's

619
00:36:14.000 --> 00:36:16.079
that's jujuus. Well he's sitting there, He's like, we haven't won this

620
00:36:16.159 --> 00:36:20.079
season. I'm switching up my outfit. I don't love you guys saw any

621
00:36:20.119 --> 00:36:22.800
of that, but but I do
think one hundred and thirty nine penalty yards

622
00:36:22.880 --> 00:36:27.719
by the Alex at half Kate burnest
it was even so high that she didn't

623
00:36:27.760 --> 00:36:30.920
even have it calculated correctly. And
then they were talking at the end of

624
00:36:30.920 --> 00:36:34.000
the broadcast. You have to go
to trade four. It can't be any

625
00:36:34.039 --> 00:36:37.400
worse than four and twenty three.
It's insane. On that Jason and their

626
00:36:37.440 --> 00:36:42.519
thoughts on this will get to the
touchdown Atlantic. No, I think I'm

627
00:36:42.559 --> 00:36:45.039
pretty tired about talking about the Elks
for this week, so let's go on.

628
00:36:45.679 --> 00:36:49.800
All right, So this was the
game I probably have the least amount

629
00:36:49.840 --> 00:36:52.800
of notes on, so hopefully Jason's
got a little bit on that. We

630
00:36:52.880 --> 00:36:55.239
have the touchdown Atlantic here, what
did we make of this? I guess

631
00:36:55.320 --> 00:37:00.320
we'll start. I'll go back to
Jason. I'm I'm watching I'm on the

632
00:37:00.320 --> 00:37:02.320
wedding at this time. I'm watching
the notifications on my phone come up.

633
00:37:02.360 --> 00:37:06.320
I'm like this, this this feels
like a very safe game for Toronto.

634
00:37:06.440 --> 00:37:09.039
Was this ever really in doubt?
No, not really at all. And

635
00:37:09.159 --> 00:37:12.599
I think that, um, you
know, tadd Onto. What I said

636
00:37:12.639 --> 00:37:15.719
earlier, I think the offenses just
didn't look very good in this one.

637
00:37:15.760 --> 00:37:17.960
This is the first time that Chad
Kelly kind of got you know, he

638
00:37:19.039 --> 00:37:21.639
kind of struggled a little bit.
He think he threw for like one hundred

639
00:37:21.639 --> 00:37:24.039
and twenty two yards and he really
didn't have to do much. I think

640
00:37:24.119 --> 00:37:29.639
the big turning point this one was
really early in the game when Javon Leek

641
00:37:29.679 --> 00:37:32.079
had a punt return touchdown for Toronto
and that was really all they needed.

642
00:37:32.119 --> 00:37:37.119
Saskatchewan just once again could knock into
the end zone with Mason Fine at quarterback,

643
00:37:37.199 --> 00:37:40.199
and then he gets hurt late in
the game, and then Jake delac

644
00:37:40.239 --> 00:37:45.760
Alac comes in and when garbage time
was in there and you know, uh

645
00:37:45.119 --> 00:37:49.039
led them for a touchdown drive there
and finally got in the end zone.

646
00:37:49.079 --> 00:37:52.639
So, I mean, just a
disappointing, you know, game for Saskatchewan.

647
00:37:52.679 --> 00:37:55.880
And I think they're honestly one of
the toughest watches right now in the

648
00:37:57.000 --> 00:38:00.280
CFL. I mean, right up
there. Not close to the ED ten,

649
00:38:00.320 --> 00:38:04.159
but I think they're probably the second
least watchable team in the CFL right

650
00:38:04.199 --> 00:38:07.280
now, just based on how their
quarterback play has looked post Trevor Harris.

651
00:38:07.400 --> 00:38:10.800
Here and I think at the end
of the day, Toronto just once again

652
00:38:10.880 --> 00:38:14.679
looks like the best team in the
CFL. I mean, when your offense

653
00:38:14.760 --> 00:38:17.960
plays like crap, honestly and you
still win thirty one to thirteen, I

654
00:38:19.000 --> 00:38:22.400
think that's still pretty good. Yeah. This isn't another team like Calgary.

655
00:38:22.559 --> 00:38:25.400
I just don't really kind of know
what their identity is. And we've talked

656
00:38:25.480 --> 00:38:30.280
and you're Mason Fine, And I
have the quote here from Where's Where's Dickinson

657
00:38:30.400 --> 00:38:34.599
here? Talking like, Yeah,
I feel like Mason, it did play

658
00:38:34.920 --> 00:38:37.039
played enough to continue to start.
Yeah. Yeah, twenty seven to thirty

659
00:38:37.119 --> 00:38:39.760
nine for three h two, but
obviously with the two picks in there and

660
00:38:39.840 --> 00:38:44.519
no interceptions. Like, I just
don't know if you're Saskatchewan here coming off

661
00:38:44.559 --> 00:38:45.480
of last year, I don't.
I don't know what you do here,

662
00:38:45.519 --> 00:38:50.039
Evan, You have thoughts on Saskatchewan
or Toronto. Yeah, I mean I'll

663
00:38:50.079 --> 00:38:52.320
start with the Saskatchewan side first,
and I don't get to Toronto. They're

664
00:38:52.360 --> 00:38:57.480
definitely an interesting point, right,
Mason Fine, Like, is he the

665
00:38:57.599 --> 00:39:00.679
quarterback to take over? Because personally, like, you know, he had

666
00:39:00.719 --> 00:39:04.800
another kind of weird game where you
know, he was close to you know,

667
00:39:04.920 --> 00:39:07.960
throwing forty passes and still had a
ton of yards but no touchdowns.

668
00:39:08.000 --> 00:39:10.480
You know, turnovers were a problem. So I just don't really know what

669
00:39:10.559 --> 00:39:14.519
to make of this so far.
And then you have Jake Delagala, who

670
00:39:14.599 --> 00:39:16.440
comes in someone I had kind of
written off, you know, not someone

671
00:39:16.519 --> 00:39:21.920
I had really thought about. He
comes in and he actually looks pretty impressive,

672
00:39:22.000 --> 00:39:25.360
you know, I mean compared to
what Mason Fine did. So you

673
00:39:25.440 --> 00:39:29.920
know, maybe like Jake, dolegal
gets more reps moving forward? Um,

674
00:39:29.960 --> 00:39:32.920
I think Craig said, yeah,
he I mean you got to tweet pulled

675
00:39:34.000 --> 00:39:35.920
up here? What am I saying? Um? Yeah, he said that

676
00:39:36.079 --> 00:39:37.719
Fine will remain the starter, but
yeah, he wanted to put Jake in

677
00:39:37.840 --> 00:39:40.840
because the game was out of reach
by that point. I don't know,

678
00:39:42.039 --> 00:39:45.320
personally, I would like to see
more of Jake after that, you know,

679
00:39:45.400 --> 00:39:46.840
again, not someone I had really
thought about immediately, but yeah,

680
00:39:46.840 --> 00:39:52.840
he comes in and you know,
probably I mean, just exceeds Mason Fine

681
00:39:52.920 --> 00:39:57.679
really in that time. I mean, he completed four passes to Mason's twenty

682
00:39:57.760 --> 00:40:00.480
seven, but was so much more
efficient and actually got a touchdown out of

683
00:40:00.519 --> 00:40:05.079
it that you kind of have to, you know, point that out once

684
00:40:05.119 --> 00:40:07.800
again. I mean it's very similar
to last week. You know, Sean

685
00:40:07.920 --> 00:40:12.400
Baine and Tevin Jones great, you
know, receiving duo there. I mean,

686
00:40:12.480 --> 00:40:16.559
they had a phenomenal day. They're
catching the football, but no run

687
00:40:16.639 --> 00:40:20.519
game. I mean still like,
yeah, Jamal Moore was a tiny bit

688
00:40:20.559 --> 00:40:22.960
better, but everyone else, I
mean, you know, they're barely you

689
00:40:23.079 --> 00:40:27.079
know, they're what just over fifty
rushing yard. It's like, it's not

690
00:40:28.320 --> 00:40:30.880
it's not great, and that's been
a problem. I think that's what's really

691
00:40:30.960 --> 00:40:36.760
limiting this team's ability on offense.
You're asking again, the more you throw,

692
00:40:37.000 --> 00:40:39.159
you know, with a quarterback who
maybe doesn't have as much experience,

693
00:40:39.440 --> 00:40:42.760
you know, this is the result. If you can't run the football,

694
00:40:43.280 --> 00:40:46.000
you're still not going to score many
points in this specific situation. So yeah,

695
00:40:46.079 --> 00:40:50.000
I mean Saskatchewan, it's just hard
right now. I don't know what

696
00:40:50.079 --> 00:40:52.159
to really make of them either.
They're kind of at this impass sort of

697
00:40:52.199 --> 00:40:55.599
like Calgary is. Again, they're
much farther ahead of a team like Edmonton.

698
00:40:55.800 --> 00:40:59.199
I think that goes without saying at
this point, but you know,

699
00:40:59.280 --> 00:41:01.440
Saskatchewan Calgary are really these two teams. It's like, Okay, who's gonna

700
00:41:01.480 --> 00:41:05.920
start you know, winning and really
pulling away from the other. Um,

701
00:41:06.360 --> 00:41:08.000
you know, right now, it's
still hard to tell. But then on

702
00:41:08.119 --> 00:41:12.559
the Toronto side, you know,
this wasn't exactly a traditional game for the

703
00:41:12.639 --> 00:41:15.559
Argonauts either. You know, Chad
Kelly really slowed down, and I mean

704
00:41:15.119 --> 00:41:19.280
really slowed down from what it's been
before. Um, you know, one

705
00:41:19.360 --> 00:41:22.719
hundred twenty two yards, one touchdown, one interception, you know, I

706
00:41:22.800 --> 00:41:25.639
mean he had probably one of the
you know, more poor I think quarterback

707
00:41:25.719 --> 00:41:30.559
performances you know across the CFL this
week. Maybe not. I mean again,

708
00:41:30.639 --> 00:41:32.559
if you threw a touchdown, I
think you had ponus points. But

709
00:41:34.480 --> 00:41:38.239
you know, um no that's guy. Maybe I'm being a bit too harsh,

710
00:41:38.320 --> 00:41:42.599
but still, ultimately, Chad really
didn't have He didn't have to do

711
00:41:42.760 --> 00:41:45.320
a lot, you know, And
I think Jason already brought that up,

712
00:41:45.400 --> 00:41:47.639
like, you know, his offense, you know, compared to a situation

713
00:41:47.679 --> 00:41:51.679
like Mason Fines, you know,
did more of the work for him.

714
00:41:51.719 --> 00:41:53.360
They had a better ground game,
you know, the receivers, I mean

715
00:41:53.400 --> 00:41:57.360
they didn't really have to you know, just go directly to one or two

716
00:41:57.440 --> 00:42:00.239
guys. I mean Cam Phillips in
this one, you know, was the

717
00:42:00.320 --> 00:42:04.360
top target. But I think you
know, Davars Daniels and even aj Willlett,

718
00:42:04.360 --> 00:42:06.639
the running back you know, getting
worked in there, um, were

719
00:42:06.679 --> 00:42:08.960
equally as important. Um. But
yeah, ultimately, I just think it

720
00:42:09.000 --> 00:42:13.039
goes to show like Toronto is more
of a complete team in hell, Like

721
00:42:14.159 --> 00:42:16.320
Chad Kelly threw for one hundred and
twenty two yards and turned the ball over

722
00:42:16.440 --> 00:42:20.599
and they still scored thirty one points, you know, and I think a

723
00:42:20.679 --> 00:42:23.679
large part of that was because you
know, their defense was highly successful in

724
00:42:23.760 --> 00:42:28.280
this game, you know, just
allowing you know, the offense to you

725
00:42:28.360 --> 00:42:30.000
know, to go with such ease. I mean, Wynton McManus, you

726
00:42:30.039 --> 00:42:34.480
know, had one of the better
defensive games for the argos that I've seen

727
00:42:34.559 --> 00:42:38.119
really from a lot of defensive players
this season across the CFL UM, So,

728
00:42:38.440 --> 00:42:40.599
you know, wanted to give him
a shout out there. And then,

729
00:42:42.159 --> 00:42:44.880
um, you know, a couple
other guys, you know, Quantez

730
00:42:44.960 --> 00:42:47.440
Stiggers, the guy that we had
talked about, you know so much coming

731
00:42:47.519 --> 00:42:51.639
from you know, FCF, and
he's kind of having a I don't,

732
00:42:51.639 --> 00:42:53.400
I don't want to say breakout season, but he's definitely had you know a

733
00:42:53.440 --> 00:42:55.599
bit of a hot start, you
know, more impressive and I would have

734
00:42:55.679 --> 00:43:00.000
imagined for you know, a guy
jumping up to this level so immediately.

735
00:43:00.960 --> 00:43:02.360
But yeah, ultimately, all around, you know, just a great day

736
00:43:02.440 --> 00:43:07.079
I think for Toronto and more importantly, you know, I just personally,

737
00:43:07.159 --> 00:43:10.639
I really like the Touchdown Atlantic series. Um, I'm glad that it's kind

738
00:43:10.639 --> 00:43:14.400
of back and it seems like it'll
be, you know, here to stay

739
00:43:15.400 --> 00:43:16.760
at least, you know, for
well, I don't know for how long,

740
00:43:17.000 --> 00:43:21.559
but I you know, I did
an article on that Touchdown Atlantic stuff,

741
00:43:21.679 --> 00:43:23.199
probably a little over a year ago, and I talked about, you

742
00:43:23.280 --> 00:43:29.960
know, every time someone brings up
Touchdown Atlantic, it's automatically brought into expansion

743
00:43:30.039 --> 00:43:31.800
talks, right because they want you
know, the tenth team has been connected

744
00:43:31.800 --> 00:43:37.320
to Halifax for so long. I
don't know. I mean you could say

745
00:43:37.400 --> 00:43:39.760
that they're you know, testing the
venues and things like that, but ultimately,

746
00:43:39.800 --> 00:43:44.119
I mean every time they play this
Touchdown Atlantic series, I think it's

747
00:43:44.159 --> 00:43:46.199
a pretty good turnout. You know, clearly there is a hunger for football

748
00:43:46.239 --> 00:43:49.320
there. And I mean, look, I don't know, you know,

749
00:43:49.440 --> 00:43:53.599
how many fans in those stands are
actually from Nova Scotia or if it's just

750
00:43:53.719 --> 00:43:57.519
people you know, flying in from
Toronto or whatever. Again, not that

751
00:43:57.639 --> 00:43:59.920
I had that stat but if you
know we did have that, you know,

752
00:44:00.119 --> 00:44:02.199
maybe I would be saying different things. But ultimately, yeah, I

753
00:44:02.239 --> 00:44:05.880
mean, look, I really like
the series. I hope it sticks around,

754
00:44:05.960 --> 00:44:09.119
and ultimately I hope that you know, as much of a complex discussion

755
00:44:09.159 --> 00:44:12.840
it is as it is, and
maybe it's not something we should be worrying

756
00:44:12.880 --> 00:44:16.199
about right now. You know,
whenever you're talking about Halifax and touchdown Atlantic,

757
00:44:16.320 --> 00:44:19.920
that tenth team is always going to
come to mind. Yeah, we

758
00:44:20.000 --> 00:44:22.239
got here, the sign of that
best signs, best sign for them,

759
00:44:22.280 --> 00:44:27.800
whatever Halifax wants you and I go
back to this, that's fix it happen.

760
00:44:28.440 --> 00:44:31.119
Jason, what do you make of
the Argo's poor performance? I saw

761
00:44:31.199 --> 00:44:35.440
a tweet put out like they flew
in the night before, and I guess

762
00:44:35.480 --> 00:44:37.840
a lot of the teams usually go
out there the week of like, do

763
00:44:37.920 --> 00:44:40.199
you blame Jet leg on this?
What do you blame their slow sluggish game?

764
00:44:42.000 --> 00:44:44.440
Well, I just think it was
bound to happen. I think that,

765
00:44:44.960 --> 00:44:47.360
you know, they can't be firing
on all cylinders every week of the

766
00:44:47.440 --> 00:44:52.519
season. I think Toronto up intil
this week was firing on all cylinders.

767
00:44:52.760 --> 00:44:54.639
Every week so far this season,
so I think at the end of the

768
00:44:54.760 --> 00:44:59.039
day, one of these stinker games
was bound to happen, and good thing

769
00:44:59.079 --> 00:45:01.760
for them, They're defense really showed
up. I wanted to highlight some players

770
00:45:01.800 --> 00:45:06.840
on defense for them, Sean Oakman
and for La and Oro Malaute. What

771
00:45:07.119 --> 00:45:10.280
an inside outside pass rush duo.
Those guys are gonna recavoc, They're gonna

772
00:45:10.280 --> 00:45:14.519
stay healthy the rest of the season. They're gonna be a dominant force for

773
00:45:14.559 --> 00:45:19.000
this team going forward. And I
thought the secondaries really gave the Rough Riders

774
00:45:19.079 --> 00:45:22.679
receivers really no space to work with
in this one. The Sean Amos obviously

775
00:45:22.760 --> 00:45:28.239
had to pick six stiggers. Like
Evan mentioned, Royce Metchi had a big

776
00:45:28.840 --> 00:45:31.960
fumble that he forced at the goal
line when Jamal Morrow tried to reach out

777
00:45:32.039 --> 00:45:36.039
for the goal line, and I
thought that was a huge play in this

778
00:45:36.119 --> 00:45:39.719
game where Saskatchewan still could have climbed
back into it. And then Robertson Daniel

779
00:45:39.719 --> 00:45:44.639
also had an interception in this one. He's had four interceptions so far this

780
00:45:44.760 --> 00:45:47.159
season. So I think Toronto's defense
played excellent and I think this is a

781
00:45:47.239 --> 00:45:52.519
really a true team that's playing complimentary
football in all phases they're punting is really

782
00:45:52.639 --> 00:45:58.360
excellent. Josh Haggarty's an excellent punter
for them, and I think that was

783
00:45:58.480 --> 00:46:00.199
another strong suit of them in this
game. And I think at the end

784
00:46:00.199 --> 00:46:04.320
of the day, just a great
effort from Toronto. Yeah, what do

785
00:46:04.400 --> 00:46:07.599
we got here coming up? Here? We're in the pregame next week?

786
00:46:07.679 --> 00:46:12.079
What Toronto at Calgary? You know? I think this is when they were

787
00:46:12.079 --> 00:46:15.760
talking about kind of the Calgary's rough
schedule here coming up. That seems like

788
00:46:15.840 --> 00:46:17.840
a tough game here. We'll talk
Montreal Hamilton's and all of that. But

789
00:46:17.920 --> 00:46:23.239
yeah, Toronto here cruising. I
was so confused and I've never been more

790
00:46:23.280 --> 00:46:28.599
confused in my life. When I
was getting ready to watch the Ottawa Hamilton's

791
00:46:28.719 --> 00:46:31.920
game, right, and they have
the rain delay on there and they're like

792
00:46:32.000 --> 00:46:35.920
cutting to the panel and the panels
like on the field. I'm like,

793
00:46:36.000 --> 00:46:37.000
what is Like, what is happening? I'm like, Oh, they're at

794
00:46:37.039 --> 00:46:39.159
the I was like, just had
it up on my phone. I'm like,

795
00:46:39.199 --> 00:46:42.400
oh, they're at the touchdown Atlantic
Because I'm like, wait, how

796
00:46:42.440 --> 00:46:45.679
aren't they Like what is happening here? Why is the panel in Ottawa wherever

797
00:46:45.920 --> 00:46:51.920
was very confused about that a couple
of just funny comments here at Scott checking

798
00:46:51.960 --> 00:46:55.920
and the Elk season is mission impossible? And then that Chris says isn't to

799
00:46:57.000 --> 00:47:00.320
win one game as mission impossible?
So I thought that was funny. Anything

800
00:47:00.360 --> 00:47:02.679
else on this one we'll get to. We'll do welfare check on Jason here

801
00:47:02.719 --> 00:47:07.679
with the tie Cats. Anything else
from this one, guys? All right?

802
00:47:07.719 --> 00:47:10.039
So I feel bad I probably should
have checked in at the beginning here,

803
00:47:10.360 --> 00:47:14.639
Jason, how are you feeling here? This is? Uh this was

804
00:47:14.760 --> 00:47:17.039
rough? You know, a win. A win is a win that you

805
00:47:17.119 --> 00:47:22.320
know when it's like Thano. So
what did it cost? It costed a

806
00:47:22.400 --> 00:47:25.400
whole lot here? What did you
make of the bow levi? I Mitchell

807
00:47:25.400 --> 00:47:29.159
of it all? Here? With
the Hamilton game, well, I mean

808
00:47:29.360 --> 00:47:32.599
it's just so like unfortunate that he
gets injured right at the end of this

809
00:47:32.800 --> 00:47:37.559
game, I mean, like the
first game back. I mean there's questions

810
00:47:37.559 --> 00:47:40.119
about whether this uh po leave I
should have even been playing in this game,

811
00:47:40.239 --> 00:47:44.760
given that they took him off the
six game injured list a game early,

812
00:47:44.880 --> 00:47:49.519
so they don't even get cap saved
savings from that if I'm remembering how

813
00:47:49.599 --> 00:47:52.320
the rules remember correctly. But I
think at the end of the day,

814
00:47:52.400 --> 00:47:55.760
it was just an ugly win for
the tie Cats. It was good to

815
00:47:55.840 --> 00:48:00.480
see them get back to playing Tiger
Cats football in terms of playing well defensively,

816
00:48:00.840 --> 00:48:06.880
really kept Dustin Crum contained basically the
entire game, and really kept them

817
00:48:06.920 --> 00:48:08.719
out of the end zone the entire
game. So I think that was good

818
00:48:08.760 --> 00:48:13.000
to see from that perspective. But
on offense, when bo was in there,

819
00:48:13.119 --> 00:48:15.199
five interceptions, some of them his
fault, some of them not,

820
00:48:15.800 --> 00:48:20.119
and then obviously he just hate to
see that at the end of the game.

821
00:48:20.320 --> 00:48:22.440
Just a bizarre coaching decision to have
him in there at that point.

822
00:48:22.679 --> 00:48:25.559
I know it was on the two
yard line, so maybe you do want

823
00:48:25.559 --> 00:48:29.559
to, you know, plunge forward
in that situation, make sure you don't

824
00:48:29.599 --> 00:48:32.159
give up the safety. But even
then they were up by four points,

825
00:48:32.239 --> 00:48:36.119
so I don't think a safety would
have cost in the game. Even so,

826
00:48:36.360 --> 00:48:37.800
I think at the end of the
day, any point in the game,

827
00:48:37.920 --> 00:48:42.000
you wouldn't have had bow leave by
running that play, and I think

828
00:48:42.079 --> 00:48:45.719
that, you know, I saw
a report that maybe it was bow Levi

829
00:48:45.880 --> 00:48:47.880
that went ahead and said that he
was going to go and plunge forward on

830
00:48:49.000 --> 00:48:51.760
that one. But regardless. I
mean, as a coaching staff, you

831
00:48:51.800 --> 00:48:54.639
should not have allowed him to do
that, regardless, and it shouldn't have

832
00:48:54.760 --> 00:49:00.559
even been a possibility for that to
happen. So just really unfortunately and just

833
00:49:00.679 --> 00:49:05.239
a nightmare season for bow Levi.
Yeah, this is I don't get because

834
00:49:05.280 --> 00:49:09.840
like bow comes back, comes back
early. You know, we've like said

835
00:49:09.880 --> 00:49:13.400
all this and the Bow comes back, is that going to be the savior

836
00:49:13.760 --> 00:49:17.719
comes back? There's five interceptions and
like so it wasn't even like you know,

837
00:49:17.880 --> 00:49:20.880
and I know, coming back off
injury and all that, but it

838
00:49:20.920 --> 00:49:23.199
wasn't you know, it was a
second worst performance of the season had compared

839
00:49:23.239 --> 00:49:25.559
to you know, our boy burned
it Adams here with you know, against

840
00:49:25.559 --> 00:49:29.760
the Argonauts, but comes back there's
five picks and he gets it. It's

841
00:49:29.840 --> 00:49:31.119
hurt again, Like I mean,
what do you what would you do here?

842
00:49:31.159 --> 00:49:34.960
What do you what are your thoughts? I mean, it's just really

843
00:49:35.039 --> 00:49:37.639
sad, you know again and we've
talked about it before, just you know

844
00:49:37.760 --> 00:49:42.079
how I mean, it's been a
bit of a downfall here for bow Levi

845
00:49:42.480 --> 00:49:45.280
in Hamilton, not just because of
the injuries, but like when he does

846
00:49:45.320 --> 00:49:47.280
play, I mean in this game, you know, he wasn't exactly spectacular,

847
00:49:47.800 --> 00:49:52.440
and you know, it's just like, if this is the way like

848
00:49:52.559 --> 00:49:54.199
that he's going to go out of
the CFF. I mean that's just really

849
00:49:54.280 --> 00:49:58.239
disappointing. And I'm not saying I
mean, he could come back for another

850
00:49:58.360 --> 00:50:00.320
year, you know, given another
show. But when you're you know,

851
00:50:00.480 --> 00:50:04.760
hindered by injuries at this age and
things just aren't going your way, it's

852
00:50:04.800 --> 00:50:08.599
it's so hard to I think,
you know, find and regain confidence that

853
00:50:08.639 --> 00:50:12.480
you can you know, keep doing
this, and um yeah, ultimately,

854
00:50:12.559 --> 00:50:15.000
I mean this this was just really
it's a shame because we had I mean,

855
00:50:15.079 --> 00:50:17.880
well, I don't know, you
talk to somebody like Andy Murray,

856
00:50:17.920 --> 00:50:21.920
I mean he was he was already
saying, oh, you know, Bo's

857
00:50:22.000 --> 00:50:24.719
not gonna you know, do it
in Hamilton. And me personally, I

858
00:50:24.760 --> 00:50:29.159
mean, I you know, I
didn't think he was gonna be you know,

859
00:50:29.920 --> 00:50:31.880
like one of the top quarterbacks in
the league, but I certainly thought

860
00:50:31.880 --> 00:50:36.639
it would be better than you know
whatever this has been. Um just ultimately,

861
00:50:36.719 --> 00:50:39.920
yeah, a very disappointing season for
for Bouleva, and I wish him

862
00:50:39.960 --> 00:50:44.400
the best, really, I mean
I hope he can get off this six

863
00:50:44.480 --> 00:50:47.159
game injured list in whatever week and
come back and finish the season strong.

864
00:50:47.360 --> 00:50:51.280
But you know, who knows where
the team is by that point. I

865
00:50:51.320 --> 00:50:53.039
mean right now, I think they're
three and four. Um, but you

866
00:50:53.119 --> 00:50:58.280
know, right like looks like what's
gonna happen. Is Taylor Powell's gonna come

867
00:50:58.320 --> 00:51:00.760
back in you know, maybe match
ELTs fills in later on, you know,

868
00:51:01.039 --> 00:51:05.320
depending on how Powell plays or what
that situation looks like. I mean,

869
00:51:05.400 --> 00:51:07.960
right now, we don't even know. You know, when Bolivia is

870
00:51:07.000 --> 00:51:10.519
really coming back. To me,
it looked like more I mean I thought

871
00:51:10.559 --> 00:51:14.199
it was you know when I saw
it initially, you know, to me,

872
00:51:14.280 --> 00:51:15.760
it looked like he was going to
be out for the season. And

873
00:51:16.000 --> 00:51:20.280
um, it's the same situation Saskatchewan
with Trevor Harris. Like you know,

874
00:51:20.440 --> 00:51:23.280
rough Riders are saying there's a chance
he comes back in the final few weeks,

875
00:51:23.400 --> 00:51:27.599
but I don't know. I mean
maybe with Bolivia, like if they

876
00:51:27.639 --> 00:51:30.599
put him on a sixth game,
you know that that really does say something.

877
00:51:30.639 --> 00:51:35.960
But like he could easily come back
off the sixth game again and just

878
00:51:36.079 --> 00:51:37.519
get injured and we're right back,
you know, and then that would be

879
00:51:37.679 --> 00:51:42.159
ultimately the end of his season,
So I don't know, it's a tough,

880
00:51:42.719 --> 00:51:45.079
tough scenes over there, is what
I'll say. And I mean,

881
00:51:45.199 --> 00:51:49.639
fortunately, now, look, Hamilton's
quarterback depth ultimately, I think has been

882
00:51:50.440 --> 00:51:53.599
good considering that had to play you
know, three guys or whatever, you

883
00:51:53.639 --> 00:51:57.679
know, bo Leivi, Shiltz,
Powell. I mean, Schiltz and Powell

884
00:51:57.760 --> 00:52:00.639
have actually shown a lot of promise, you know when they've appeared, and

885
00:52:00.960 --> 00:52:05.079
of course it was unfortunate to see
Schultz go down too, And now I

886
00:52:05.199 --> 00:52:10.280
believe they have Antonio Pipkin behind Taylor
Powell moving forward, so we'll see.

887
00:52:10.599 --> 00:52:15.599
Um, you know, it's uh, ultimately, you know, it's just

888
00:52:15.679 --> 00:52:17.880
one of these things that you know, I wish we could avoid it.

889
00:52:17.960 --> 00:52:22.559
There's been so many quarterback injuries in
the league this season, but just bad

890
00:52:22.679 --> 00:52:25.079
luck and bad timing, and I
mean the whole I think, you know,

891
00:52:25.320 --> 00:52:28.440
whether or not he should have been
in the game, that's a whole

892
00:52:28.440 --> 00:52:31.159
different discussion. I'm gonna I'm not
gonna touch on that because I just I

893
00:52:31.239 --> 00:52:34.960
see it happened too many times.
It really is a complex issue, you

894
00:52:35.000 --> 00:52:37.880
know, because it comes down to
a well is it the coaching staff or

895
00:52:37.920 --> 00:52:40.400
the player? And like you know, was it really that big of a

896
00:52:40.480 --> 00:52:43.559
deal in the moment. I don't
know. There's just there's just too much

897
00:52:43.599 --> 00:52:45.199
around that. If I start talking
about that, you know we're gonna go

898
00:52:45.280 --> 00:52:49.199
well over our time. So yeah, they had here, and I had

899
00:52:49.239 --> 00:52:52.679
the quote from Naylor as well,
like you know he always worries about game

900
00:52:52.719 --> 00:52:55.400
of getting in there, uh you
know and with it. So yeah,

901
00:52:55.400 --> 00:53:00.960
someone getting injured here when it's running
out. I didn't I did this feelings

902
00:53:00.320 --> 00:53:06.480
Yes, well, Welliam Mitchell Soo's
five interceptions against interesting Garth. Now I

903
00:53:06.639 --> 00:53:09.400
can't win anyway. We have a
question or mad chatter wants to know how

904
00:53:09.440 --> 00:53:14.000
did Crumb look? Yeah, the
end of crumb sanity here, Jason,

905
00:53:14.079 --> 00:53:16.960
How how did doesn't Crumb look?
Well? I think he still made his

906
00:53:17.079 --> 00:53:22.280
fair share of impressive plays. I
think that it looked like on that final

907
00:53:22.440 --> 00:53:25.280
drive he was going to lead them
to the promised Land and um yet again

908
00:53:25.400 --> 00:53:30.280
with another dramatic victory, but just
cannot close in the red zone. And

909
00:53:30.320 --> 00:53:35.440
I think overall they were the better
team offensively in this game. Hamilton had

910
00:53:35.440 --> 00:53:37.199
a lot of yards, but I
think that a lot of that came on

911
00:53:37.559 --> 00:53:40.960
a few plays. And I think
Ottawa the big palm with them is they're

912
00:53:42.000 --> 00:53:44.760
not getting anything down the field at
this point. They have to be so

913
00:53:44.920 --> 00:53:47.199
methodical with their offense, kind of
like Calgary. We've talked about how they're

914
00:53:47.320 --> 00:53:52.039
you know, not taking any shots
down the field. Ottawa just hasn't been

915
00:53:52.079 --> 00:53:54.639
able to hit those big explosive plays
and that's forced them to really drive the

916
00:53:54.719 --> 00:53:59.440
field methodically and they get um drives
that stall out in the red zone.

917
00:53:59.440 --> 00:54:02.239
And I think that's been their big
problem for this game Specifically. They hadn't

918
00:54:02.239 --> 00:54:06.480
really have that problem in the games
against Calgary or Winnipeg. But I think

919
00:54:06.559 --> 00:54:12.320
that another issue here is that Hamilton
has dominated Ottawa. Ottawa has not beat

920
00:54:12.360 --> 00:54:17.039
in Hamilton since twenty eighteen now,
so Hamilton has won the season series against

921
00:54:17.039 --> 00:54:21.760
Ottawa. That's the big consequence coming
out of this game is that if Ottawa

922
00:54:21.760 --> 00:54:23.920
and Hamilton end up tied at the
end of the season, Hamilton's already won

923
00:54:24.000 --> 00:54:28.199
the season series over the Red Black, so that could come into play later

924
00:54:28.320 --> 00:54:30.400
on. Well that's the thing here. I mean, we talk all of

925
00:54:30.440 --> 00:54:35.519
this everything you wanted, poo poo, you know, the Hamilton's quarterbacks issue

926
00:54:35.559 --> 00:54:37.840
whatever, I mean, they're not
you know, they're They're not that far

927
00:54:37.960 --> 00:54:42.199
out of it here in the East. It's remarkable here with the four teams.

928
00:54:42.239 --> 00:54:45.320
And you know, we had it, Jason, if you live through

929
00:54:45.360 --> 00:54:47.840
the CFL and the XAVL. On
the USFL season, we had lots of

930
00:54:47.880 --> 00:54:52.880
talks about like playoffs and the team's
winning divisions with lucy records and all this

931
00:54:52.920 --> 00:54:54.880
stuff, Like I would I pour
in the CFL to consider that as well,

932
00:54:54.920 --> 00:54:58.679
Like let's get the division winners and
then let's get some other stuff in

933
00:54:58.760 --> 00:55:00.280
here. And now I have to
have a couple three and four teams.

934
00:55:00.320 --> 00:55:05.559
On all of that I did have. I had a quote from Dave which

935
00:55:05.719 --> 00:55:09.280
I thought was interesting. There's a
stat I invented and starting tracking this season.

936
00:55:09.320 --> 00:55:13.239
I called the giveback plays, plays
where a team creates a turnover and

937
00:55:13.280 --> 00:55:15.679
then gives the ball back before the
end of the play. The Red Blacks

938
00:55:15.719 --> 00:55:17.840
had a critical giveback tonight. Yeah, they talk about that with you know,

939
00:55:19.000 --> 00:55:21.639
they have the five interceptions and still
not be able to do that.

940
00:55:21.719 --> 00:55:23.360
I mean, what do you what
do you attribute that to, Jason,

941
00:55:23.400 --> 00:55:28.639
to be able to have that many
turnovers and still come up short. Well,

942
00:55:28.760 --> 00:55:34.679
Dave is actually a trip that that
plays referring to is a play that

943
00:55:35.000 --> 00:55:38.320
I think Hamilton turned the ball over
to Ottawa, but then Outawa fumbled it

944
00:55:38.679 --> 00:55:43.400
and Hamilton recovered. In the next
play, Kayle Locksley gets a seventy five

945
00:55:43.480 --> 00:55:46.480
yard touchdown on a screen pass.
And that was really the difference in this

946
00:55:46.639 --> 00:55:50.320
game when you look at it.
Hamilton got in the end zone two times.

947
00:55:50.559 --> 00:55:52.559
Autowa didn't get in the end zone
at all. And yeah, like

948
00:55:52.599 --> 00:55:55.079
I said, I thought Ottawa was
the better team, but uh yeah,

949
00:55:55.119 --> 00:55:59.159
I think you know, Ottawa a
lot of missed opportunities in this one.

950
00:55:59.280 --> 00:56:02.440
Obviously, time you win the turnover
battle by that much, it's disappointing not

951
00:56:02.519 --> 00:56:06.119
to come away with a victory.
But again, like you, like I

952
00:56:06.199 --> 00:56:08.280
said, I beating a dead horse
here. But I think the biggest thing

953
00:56:08.360 --> 00:56:10.559
is that it could not punch it
into the end zone. A lot of

954
00:56:10.599 --> 00:56:15.920
teams had that struggle this week.
I have a flashed the stat at by

955
00:56:15.960 --> 00:56:19.440
one point, but we had this. But Bo has nine interceptions and twelve

956
00:56:19.480 --> 00:56:22.880
quires that played this season. I
haven't anyway way she had. Not seeing

957
00:56:22.960 --> 00:56:25.519
that stat oh, I'm just gonna
leave that one alone. I can't you

958
00:56:25.599 --> 00:56:29.039
see. I feel too bad for
Bo to be ripping on him here,

959
00:56:29.159 --> 00:56:30.440
Like, you know, the guy's
just I mean, if if I'm in

960
00:56:30.559 --> 00:56:34.480
his shoes, I'm devastating. So
I'm not gonna you know, I mean,

961
00:56:34.559 --> 00:56:37.679
yeah, it's like, well,
obviously it's not great that goes without

962
00:56:37.760 --> 00:56:40.159
saying. But um, you know, I mean you can't. Yeah,

963
00:56:40.320 --> 00:56:43.960
like I said before, you know, don't don't beat the dead horse.

964
00:56:44.000 --> 00:56:46.159
Don't don't poke the bear when it's
already down or dead or whatever the case

965
00:56:46.320 --> 00:56:50.199
is. Um, but yeah,
I mean I will say, um,

966
00:56:50.639 --> 00:56:53.039
just a couple more points from me
here about this game before we move on.

967
00:56:53.800 --> 00:56:57.760
Um. Kyle Locksley, you know, really cool to see him get

968
00:56:57.840 --> 00:57:00.559
involved kind of a receiver. It
was kind of known, you know beforehand,

969
00:57:00.599 --> 00:57:04.760
even when he was with Edmonton.
He was not necessarily just a dual

970
00:57:04.800 --> 00:57:07.519
threat quarterback, but a dual threat
player can kind of play multiple positions.

971
00:57:07.559 --> 00:57:12.639
And in this case, you know, had a seventy five yard touchdown.

972
00:57:12.719 --> 00:57:15.360
And I would like to see um
more of that from him this season.

973
00:57:15.360 --> 00:57:19.960
You know, maybe this is a
better role ultimately than a short yardage type

974
00:57:19.960 --> 00:57:22.760
of deal. So I would like
to see him, you know, have

975
00:57:22.920 --> 00:57:28.119
more opportunities like that in the receiving
department and then on the Ottawa's side.

976
00:57:28.239 --> 00:57:31.440
Yeah, so Dustin Crum reverted.
I wouldn't say he was bad in this

977
00:57:31.599 --> 00:57:36.039
game outright, He just reverted more
to what he looked like in the first

978
00:57:36.079 --> 00:57:38.119
two games, and one of them
was this first start where you know,

979
00:57:38.440 --> 00:57:42.119
there was a lack in passing,
but he ran you know, for eighty

980
00:57:42.159 --> 00:57:45.920
two yards and was very efficient doing
so. So again, extremely mobile,

981
00:57:45.960 --> 00:57:50.199
you know, hasn't stopped flashing that
since he's come in and replaced jeremiaha Soli.

982
00:57:50.360 --> 00:57:52.320
But you know, Ottawa, in
my opinion, should have won this

983
00:57:52.400 --> 00:57:55.320
game, Like this was such a
winnable game for them. Again, having

984
00:57:55.400 --> 00:57:59.960
five turnovers you know, on your
end and not being able to pull through

985
00:58:00.239 --> 00:58:04.920
just sucks. But it ultimately comes
down, like Jason said, two touchdowns

986
00:58:05.039 --> 00:58:07.280
versus none, right, I mean, if you're gonna get in the end

987
00:58:07.320 --> 00:58:09.559
zone twice, doesn't really matter if
you throw five interceptions, because if the

988
00:58:09.599 --> 00:58:13.599
other team isn't getting the end zone
at all, I mean, the chances

989
00:58:13.639 --> 00:58:15.239
of them winning the game or you
know, still slim, regardless of you

990
00:58:15.280 --> 00:58:20.440
know, how poor you perform or
whatever the case is. So it was

991
00:58:20.480 --> 00:58:24.320
an interesting game from that perspective,
you know, definitely an interesting result and

992
00:58:25.079 --> 00:58:29.440
yeah, I didn't expect Hamilton to
win, but Ottawa, you know,

993
00:58:29.559 --> 00:58:31.880
didn't have the last minute heroics in
them this time. And you know,

994
00:58:32.000 --> 00:58:37.000
ultimately, now it's sort of like
how I talked about Calgary and Saskatchewan and

995
00:58:37.079 --> 00:58:40.960
the West. Excuse me, you
know, it's kind of like Ottawa and

996
00:58:42.000 --> 00:58:44.920
Hamilton in the East. It's which
team is going to pull away, you

997
00:58:45.000 --> 00:58:47.960
know, and right now Hamilton has
the automatic advantage with a tiebreaker. That's

998
00:58:49.000 --> 00:58:52.960
a fascinating stat to me that Ottawa
hasn't beaten Hamilton since twenty eighteen. I

999
00:58:52.000 --> 00:58:54.599
mean, I know Hamilton has been
a pretty good team since then, and

1000
00:58:54.639 --> 00:58:58.639
Ottawa has had their fair share of
struggles, to say the least. But

1001
00:58:59.000 --> 00:59:01.199
I mean that's you know, that's
five years is a long time, even

1002
00:59:01.280 --> 00:59:06.079
with that COVID year. Jason,
final thoughts on the tie Cats here,

1003
00:59:06.119 --> 00:59:10.320
how are you coping with all this
now? I'm I really don't know what

1004
00:59:10.400 --> 00:59:14.840
to think at this point. With
the quarterback situation. It's just been a

1005
00:59:14.960 --> 00:59:17.880
whole circus so far this year,
and just how how unfortunate it's been with

1006
00:59:19.000 --> 00:59:22.400
the injuries. So I mean,
I'm just kind of wait and see how

1007
00:59:22.599 --> 00:59:27.559
Taylor Powell's second start goes next week
and then I should have some more thoughts

1008
00:59:27.639 --> 00:59:30.000
on that. Then well, here
we go. We'll kind of put this

1009
00:59:30.119 --> 00:59:32.840
horse to bed or the carton,
I don't even know the same. We'll

1010
00:59:32.840 --> 00:59:35.840
put this show in the bed here, we'll get out of here. Just

1011
00:59:36.000 --> 00:59:39.519
looking forward, I think I think
this week I have a couple of emails

1012
00:59:39.559 --> 00:59:43.480
that's in here, but I have
a feeling this week the show is going

1013
00:59:43.519 --> 00:59:47.519
to be a live preview show on
Thursday with a special guest. I have

1014
00:59:47.599 --> 00:59:51.840
a wedding Friday, so that kind
of gets in the way posting some stuffing.

1015
00:59:51.920 --> 00:59:53.679
So I think if all goes,
I got the email some XFL people,

1016
00:59:53.719 --> 00:59:57.800
but I have a feeling we'll be
doing that previewing that because I'm very

1017
00:59:57.840 --> 01:00:02.400
excited for this BC at Winnipeg having
me clearly the game rematch whatever of the

1018
01:00:02.480 --> 01:00:06.760
season. Evan, you're looking at
the schedule here, the game that peaks

1019
01:00:06.800 --> 01:00:09.519
here interest the most. Yeah,
I mean BC Winnipeg by a country mile.

1020
01:00:10.079 --> 01:00:13.840
I mean, if you think about
it, BC wins this game.

1021
01:00:14.360 --> 01:00:16.719
You know they've already beaten Winnipeg once
this season. I think Winnipeg would move

1022
01:00:16.760 --> 01:00:21.320
to five and three and then BC
would move to seven and one now you're

1023
01:00:21.320 --> 01:00:24.559
talking about real separation. And again
I'm not saying Winnipeg isn't competitive. We've

1024
01:00:24.599 --> 01:00:27.559
been over this. I think Winnipeg
is a great team, even if it

1025
01:00:27.599 --> 01:00:30.159
sounds like I'm always ripping on them, Um, you know, I just

1026
01:00:30.280 --> 01:00:34.400
think again, they might be a
little step behind where they were, you

1027
01:00:34.440 --> 01:00:37.880
know, a year ago, definitely
two years ago, and with the way

1028
01:00:37.960 --> 01:00:40.840
the lines are playing, that could
really hurt them. And you know,

1029
01:00:42.119 --> 01:00:45.519
right now, I'm thinking this is
again that the West Final rematch, that

1030
01:00:45.639 --> 01:00:49.400
that BC is gonna win. That's
my prediction and I've been sticking with that

1031
01:00:49.519 --> 01:00:52.440
for the past couple of weeks.
So you know, looking at that game,

1032
01:00:52.840 --> 01:00:54.800
I mean that could tell a lot, and especially if BC wins it

1033
01:00:54.960 --> 01:01:00.559
at Winnipeg, two I think is
extremely significant. So yeah, that game,

1034
01:01:00.639 --> 01:01:02.199
I think above all, and the
fact that that's the first game,

1035
01:01:02.480 --> 01:01:07.000
you know, kicking off the week
should should be very exciting, Jason,

1036
01:01:07.039 --> 01:01:09.280
and the thoughts on that any of
these other games before we get out Yeah,

1037
01:01:09.400 --> 01:01:13.840
so yeah, that's obviously the game
of the week this week. Everybody's

1038
01:01:13.840 --> 01:01:16.760
gonna be circling the BC Winnipeg game. But I think these other games have

1039
01:01:16.960 --> 01:01:21.320
some intrigue to them. Ottawa Saskatchwe, who's gonna walk away with a victory

1040
01:01:21.360 --> 01:01:23.719
in that one? Someone's got to
win. I think that if Ottawa bounces

1041
01:01:23.760 --> 01:01:28.360
back, they will be interesting because
one trend that we're seeing in the CFL

1042
01:01:28.440 --> 01:01:31.360
so far this season is that the
East teams have been relatively competitive with the

1043
01:01:31.440 --> 01:01:35.599
West so far this year. So
it's gonna be interesting to see if that

1044
01:01:35.800 --> 01:01:39.119
continues the rest of the season.
And Saskatchwe, it's gonna be really hungry

1045
01:01:39.159 --> 01:01:43.760
for victory and that one after dropping
a bunch of games in a row here

1046
01:01:44.039 --> 01:01:46.119
Montreal and Hamilton. I'll be at
that game. I'm excited to see how

1047
01:01:46.400 --> 01:01:51.599
Hamilton plays in that one after Montreal
really kick their ass the first time they

1048
01:01:51.679 --> 01:01:55.519
played for the Tikats home opener.
And then Toronto and Calgary looks like a

1049
01:01:55.559 --> 01:02:00.360
mismatch on paper, but Calgary did
beat Toronto. I think it was thirty

1050
01:02:00.440 --> 01:02:04.760
one to two last year when they
played in Calgary, So I mean that's

1051
01:02:04.800 --> 01:02:07.519
worth noting. I mean McLeod Bethel
Thompson versus Jake Mayor. Now it's gonna

1052
01:02:07.519 --> 01:02:13.400
be Mayor versus Kelly and Toronto just
completely different vibe right now. But I

1053
01:02:13.480 --> 01:02:15.360
think at the end of the day
that could be an interesting game and maybe

1054
01:02:15.400 --> 01:02:21.079
a potential upset there. It's funny. So last year this time, our

1055
01:02:21.159 --> 01:02:24.000
anniversary is August sixth, and so
we went to this There's like this Italian

1056
01:02:24.079 --> 01:02:28.079
restaurant down on Al Kai and they
don't do reservations, so you kind of

1057
01:02:28.119 --> 01:02:30.960
just go down there, like,
oh, they'll be forty five minutes or

1058
01:02:30.960 --> 01:02:32.960
an hour. And I remember watching
it was I think it was like the

1059
01:02:34.079 --> 01:02:37.000
BC Elks game. Evan, you
were there. It was the game whatever

1060
01:02:37.119 --> 01:02:39.039
game when you went up to BC
that you're watching, and it was like

1061
01:02:39.519 --> 01:02:44.840
Rourke just went off and like Evans
Dowe need and I was standing there in

1062
01:02:44.920 --> 01:02:47.559
line on our anniversary and watching the
game on my phone. I don't know

1063
01:02:47.880 --> 01:02:53.760
if ottawas s Scotchewan will hold quite
my attention this year about I'll PVR or

1064
01:02:53.840 --> 01:02:58.239
DVR here and check it out of
you know, on the CBS Sports Network

1065
01:02:58.280 --> 01:03:00.840
of I camp. But yeah,
a little bit of differ stakes is here

1066
01:03:00.920 --> 01:03:02.920
for that. But I remember it
was like one of the BC games to

1067
01:03:04.000 --> 01:03:06.480
the season that Eva was sitting there. I said, how lucky are you

1068
01:03:06.599 --> 01:03:07.920
that you got to go watch that
live? Oh? Man. I mean,

1069
01:03:08.039 --> 01:03:12.400
look, I you know, I've
said it many times. You know

1070
01:03:12.639 --> 01:03:15.840
that game that I went to last
year, you know BC, Um,

1071
01:03:15.760 --> 01:03:21.239
what is it? It was Edmonton? Yeah, it was no because I

1072
01:03:21.280 --> 01:03:27.280
remember because um, uh like Emmanuel
Arsenal was coming up and like signing stuff

1073
01:03:27.519 --> 01:03:30.199
because he was in Edvant obviously been
in BC for many years, was coming

1074
01:03:30.280 --> 01:03:31.639
up and talking to people. I
remember that pretty well. But I also

1075
01:03:31.719 --> 01:03:35.639
remember like, yeah, I mean
you know that it was a Nathan Rourke

1076
01:03:35.679 --> 01:03:37.280
clinic and I went I mean I
was sitting there, like, you know,

1077
01:03:37.360 --> 01:03:39.159
on my phone during the game.
I'm like, this has to be

1078
01:03:39.239 --> 01:03:43.679
one of the best quarterback performances I've
ever seen live at any level. Keep

1079
01:03:43.760 --> 01:03:45.599
in mind, I've seen plenty of
college football games, you know, handful

1080
01:03:45.599 --> 01:03:49.880
of NFL games, but that I
mean just cleared you know anything. And

1081
01:03:50.239 --> 01:03:53.880
it's a bit crazy thinking that I
saw you know that Chris Jones led Edmonton

1082
01:03:53.960 --> 01:03:57.760
team, knowing where they are now, you know, making the wrong kinds

1083
01:03:57.800 --> 01:04:00.519
of history. But this year I
will be um, I think it's uh

1084
01:04:01.280 --> 01:04:04.440
not this weekend, but the weekend
after I'll be up in BC again for

1085
01:04:04.559 --> 01:04:09.880
the um Line Stampeders game. They're
so excited for that. I haven't really

1086
01:04:09.920 --> 01:04:15.000
announced that formally yet, but that'll
be my other CFL I guess event outside

1087
01:04:15.000 --> 01:04:17.039
of the Great Cup this year.
Very nice, said Jason. Anything else

1088
01:04:17.079 --> 01:04:19.960
and you will get out of here. I appreciate everyone's sticking through. No,

1089
01:04:20.199 --> 01:04:25.440
I think that's all that needs to
be said this week. Well we

1090
01:04:25.559 --> 01:04:28.639
did it. Check back Jason,
like you said, doing that some recap

1091
01:04:28.840 --> 01:04:31.559
reaction videos and Jason will have his
preview and I guess I think we'll do

1092
01:04:31.679 --> 01:04:33.440
that. I gotta figure it out. But it's a little, you know,

1093
01:04:33.440 --> 01:04:35.760
a little slow right now in the
XFL and the USFL. But that's

1094
01:04:35.800 --> 01:04:41.079
good that no offseason here, So
I appreciate everyone like and subscribe, get

1095
01:04:41.119 --> 01:04:44.639
on Jason's channel. I'm sure everyone's
on there as well, and we'll see

1096
01:04:44.639 --> 01:04:45.639
you guys next time. Vix