Well here we are, Happy Monday, Happy Canada Day. Happy read from
the Marquess birthday here Jason, normally I try, you know, I got
my shirt here. It's hot out. It's my birthday at suns Out guns
Out today, so we are rocking and rolling. How are you doing,
sir? Doing good man? A happy birthday to you. And I'm an
exciting group of games to talk about. Yeah, it's funny here, I
got stuff all over my screen. It's funny. I always joked that,
especially when Paul and I were going through all the CFL versus XFL stuff.
Yeah, it's amazing that Canada Dan my birthday is so important that they made
it the national holiday. So that's great. Jason. You enjoyed the day
off? Oh? Always nice to you know, get the extra day off
and then you know, have a short week, you know, the week
after. Is it odd that there is no CFL game on Canada Day?
You would think that they would make that be kind of like Canadian thingsgiving whatever,
we would have a game. Yeah. Absolutely, I mean like in
years past, I believe as as soon as a couple of years ago.
Recently, as a couple of years ago, we did see some games on
Canada Day, and so I thought it was weird that we didn't get it
this year. I know they're trying to stick to that whole Thursday to Sunday
through the summer kind of schedule, but I think it was kind of odd
to see it like that. And for me who's on the East Coast staying
up to watch that Thursday night ten pm Eastern time start on, I appreciate
that it wasn't a game today, Yeah, I will say, because I
caught up and well, I think he got a little bit of delay.
But it seems to be going all right here Internet, We'll work through it.
I was at the kailn Car game here on Saturday, was tracking.
Yeah, we were at the game. I'm like, oh my god,
like the game's starting now. I mean it was. It was a really
late Thursday night there, especially, and even if you're in BC. I
mean I saw the Spars crowds kind of coming off the homecoming game there with
you know, ice or what was it fifty cent and all that, but
like, yeah, that's even tough if you're in BC getting down there on
a Thursday at seven o'clock for that, Yeah, for sure. I mean
like when you look at it. I think even if like I think that,
like obviously it's hard for Thursday night games, regardless for tenants. I
think especially when it's a West Coast game, because you can't really have it.
If it's a weekday earlier than the seven o'clock local start, that's the
most realistic time for people to be able to get to the game usual nine
to five jobs. So I think that's difficult. I'm let's get Jason,
Jason, you on the reset your internet. Let's get Jason hop off,
hop back, gum, I'll plug. We got coming up tomorrow. Maybe
we'll just get that real quick. It's fine. I mean then, you
know, we make do with what we have here. I appreciate it.
If you've been living under a rock here today over the last week, just
to plug. Tomorrow July second, if you're listening to this, we will
have our big Oliver Luck Interview. XFL twenty twenty commissioner joining the program,
recorded that over the weekend for about fifty plus minutes. You know, the
whole episode's almost an hour talking with Oliver Lot getting his thoughts on spring football,
on the UFL merger, on kind of the future of spring football,
current landscape, all of that. Oliver is obviously close with Brandy and Brosie.
We talked CFL and all of that as well. So if you are
interested in that, A lot of excitement today when I posted it teasing kind
of for a week about that about a big name guest on there. So
Oliver Luck posted today the teaser for tomorrow. But that should be exciting seventy
m Pacific. So if you are involved in that, if you're interested in
that, like it subscribed, it should be good. Like I said,
Oliver Luck, a deep dive, long ranging interview, you know, and
we haven't heard a lot from Oliver kind of since and obviously with everything with
Vince McMann and the lawsuit and kind of all that stuff. So I saw
Oliver on the Front Office Sports gave them a quote. I think he was
talking with Ben Fisher as well, and so it seemed to be a good
time to reach out that was willing to talk about that. So we'll see
Hussey's Internet all that, yeat, Oliver Luck. Tomorrow should be a big
time interview. People seem really excited about that. Yeah, I thought I
was, you know, like what a great get for your show and I'm
excited to listen to it myself, even as primarily a CFL fan. Yeah,
it should be good. Like I said, even if you're involved in
the Canadian side of anything, should be interested for that. Let's get to
some of the CFL stuff. Caught up on everything today. Was not watching
the Ti Cats game last night, and I'm not sure if that's better or
worse. Caught up on that today was at the marinerd game for my birthday
at Jason. I really didn't know what happened in that game. Because I'm
going on the ty Cats radio show tomorrow with Bubba and all of that.
I think a j Jackiebacks is going to be a part of that. They
asked me to come on and one of the questions was you know which owen
for a team? And I was kind of prepping this morning. I hadn't
hadn't watched the games yet. I got, Oh my god, like,
is this is Hamilton in the drop it again? It'd been twenty eighteen or
whatever. Talk me through this one. Hamilton Owen four? Now other way
getting another win? This was I don't know, ty Cats can't team to
get anythink going right? Oh gosh, where to start? I mean,
I think the most shocking thing about how this season has gone so far for
the ty Cats is that, I mean, going into the year, I
thought that, you know, this team was gonna be bad. I predicted
there'd probably be one of the worst teams in the CFL. But I thought
it was gonna be because that bowlie by Mitchell was cooked and their quarterback play
would not be up to the level you need to win games in the CFL.
But it's been kind of completely the opposite. I thought bo Is again
had a pretty good game in this one, led a drive to take the
lead in the last minute and then the defense blows it aget again. They
decided to swibkick on the drive that led to the game winning field goal for
Ottawa. That was an interesting decision and controversial decision because Oudawa was able to
get the ball near midfield and still had her own twenty five seconds left,
and they just had to make a couple of plays to get into field goal
rains for Lewis Ward and sure enough he cashed it. And by the way,
all I want to say, three of the four games this week came
down to, you know, a game winning kick, so some exciting football
we're seeing this year in the CFL. But yeah, ultimately from a Hamleton
perspective, so disappointing. I don't think that there's much hope for this team,
even though you know, bo is playing well. He's really the big
bright spot for this team so far this year. But I think at the
end of the day, you know, they're not doing enough, especially on
the defensive side of the ball. I think this defense is just really struggling.
They're not putting much pressure on the quarterback, They're not you know,
covering receivers very well. They're making bad mistakes at bad times or not being
able to hold leads when they've had them the few times they've had them this
season. So I think at the end of the day, you know,
I'm not much hope for the ty Cats going forward, especially with BC and
Toronto coming up in the next couple of games. Here. Yeah, well
look ahead, that's interesting. Yeah, I gotta I gotta start planning what
games are coming up. Kyle here checking in Happy Birthday, the professor checking
in put the knife down, Jason. Yeah, Because like I said,
I hadn't really paid attention and I was just sitting there. I'm like,
God, because that's the thing, like you said, and I'm pulling up,
I'm pulling up that I got the game here, you know. Yeah,
like you said, Bo's not playing terrible. We saw Tim White finally
get on the board. He kind of had a slow start, you know,
really laying out for that. We kind of it's a fifty to fifty
with Ottawa right now. We saw them play decent and we saw them kind
of get steamrolled last week by Winnipeg or excuse me, by Montreal with all
of that stuff and Cody and everything for that, you know, they're great
Cup band are raising? How big a deal is this? Like I I
wasn't really tracking the two thousand day whatever that Ottawa's hasn't beat was Is that
really a trend here we have going on? Well, they haven't beat Hamilton
in you know, in any capacity since the twenty eighteen touchdown passes against they
gat Audawa to the Great Cup Game when they eventually lost to Calgary. Yeah,
they haven't beat Hamilton since. And they were able to finally snap that
this time. And really, when you look at the last couple of seasons,
the reason why Hambleton was is because they got three wins against Oudawa each
season, and you know, Otdawa's just not able to take any games off
of them. So I think at the end of the day, this is
a huge win for Audiwall. Even though I didn't think they looked all too
impressive in this one, they made some good defensive plays when it mattered the
most. They had a dropped interception on that last drive for Hamilton that could
have stealed the game then and there. But I think at the end of
the day, they got enough plays, made enough places to get the win
in this one. And starting off two and one for a team that's had
four wins in most of the last two seasons, I think that's huge for
them. Yeah, you gotta feel good here, crazy to see Ottawa here,
second, you know, second in the East, and obviously bye weeks
and all that stuff coming into play here Toronto and two and one as well,
we'll talk to that game. But yeah, it's certainly by no lack
of bow trying here. I mean, two touchdowns decently clean. You know,
we're still asking Bo to throw a lot. Greg Bell running, was
was Butler hurt? Was Butler out on this one? Concussion concussion? Yeah,
So see, you know you can't get too many runs going on that.
Yeah, really came down to the end. You were talking about that
and talking about the last couple of minutes, because that's one of the questions
too. I got a prep It's like, what do they say, Jason,
No lead is safe from the CFL. It'll all come down to the
final there. But it's exciting. I mean, we had a bunch of
walk offs, we had overtime overtime game right with with Winnipeg and Calgary.
Is exciting. Season done for Hamilton here? I mean, what's like,
do we blow up and move on? I don't know what you do if
you're Hamilton, because it's really been the big swing the last couple of seasons.
Well, I mean they were zero and four last year and they were
able to make the playoffs. But I mean making the playoffs in the CFL,
as you've said, with you know, Calgary making the playoffs last year,
making the playoffs, you know, it's not really a huge goal.
It's not a huge bar to reach. So when I was saying, I
think a couple of weeks ago on the show that you know, a slow
start to the season doesn't necessarily eliminate you from the playoff race in the CFL,
but it does eliminate you from being, you know, a first second
seed if you have a slow start as much as Hamilton's had the last couple
of seasons. And uh, you know, it's gonna be very tough for
them. They have a very very tough schedule coming up. I believe it's
a you know, BC at home and then Toronto at home and then back
to back against Montreal. Edmonton's in there somewhere, so it's a tough stretch
of ahead. Like I was looking at them, like, where is this
team going to get the first win? I thought it was gonna be this
week, But unfortunately for me, they blew it again. Yeah, like
he's excuse me, Like you said, yeah, BC coming in week five,
than the by coming in, you have facing Toronto at home and stuff.
Maybe wek ate week ate there at at Edmonton circle it there, that'll
be where they get that. But you know, like looking here at the
stats, it's just and like I said, I recapped the game this you
know today watching it, Uh, it's just so weird to me that it
doesn't really seem like ottiway did anything much at all. And so I ended
up coming down ahead. You know, Lewis Warre going four for four with
the field goals and all that. I don't know it you seem seemed to
me that I don't know if it's a defensive struggles with Hamilton or whatnot.
You really seemed like all they had to do a lot. Yeah, I
mean, I think a lot of it came down to Ottawa just not making
mistakes. They thought that they you know, actually did make some mistakes Drew
Brown that is because he you know, threw a couple passes that were almost
intercepted, should have been intercepted by Tiger Kats defensive backs. But ultimately,
other than that, they played a very clean game. They made some plays
when they needed to in the second half, and you know, put the
ball in the end zone when they really needed to with like three minutes left
to give them the lead. Then Hamilton answered back surprisingly and then you know
Audible was able to get that last minute drive to to get the field goal
and win it. So, I mean, they didn't have a perfect game,
like I said, but this team is looking much more competent than they
did a year ago, and a lot of that has to do with how
Drew Brown's looking at quarterback, and most important thing, like I said,
he's not making the mistakes, or at least the mistakes aren't costing them yet.
So I think at the end of the day, you know they have
some weapons on that offense. It looks like Dominic Rymes could be a player
for that offense, even though he's been pretty quiet so far this season.
I think just having him out there as a deep threat, that's a type
of player they haven't had in recent years. Jaleen Acklan being very productive in
this one, justin Harder being a guy that's been really impressive to start the
season, looks like kind of their go to guy in that offense. So
I think they have some players for this team. And Tommy Condell, we
must say this is the uh they he won the battle between the former tiger
Cats defensive coordinators, I should say, of Dominic Condell being the offensive coordinator
previously in Hamilton and Mark Washington being the defensive coordinator still in Hamilton going up
against each other in this game, you have to say Tommy Condell won that
matchup for the most part. And I think at the end of the day,
you know, Ottawa was looking pretty good Yeah, so did Drew Brown
think because I was that was gonna be my follow up because obviously last week
against Montreal and that's tough, right, Montreal's d and all that round looking
better here. The weird thing, yeah, this Dominic Grimes, Like it
just feels like he's just like I said, I kind of forgot that he
was even with Ottawa at last week and they were showing the huts, like,
oh, yeah, that's where he's at. Like, it just is
that weird. Do you how underutilized he feels right now with Ottawa? Yeah,
it is weird that he hasn't had you know, he hasn't popped off
and had that big game yet, but I'm sure it's coming. I think
that, you know, he's still trying to be reworked into this offense even
though he played in audible before. It's a completely different team than it was
back in twenty nineteen where he had a thousand yards there. So I think,
you know, that's kind of the nature of the CFL. You have
an extra receiver on the field. Sometimes a guy gets squeezed out of the
offense from week to week. So I think, you know, he's been
very quiet to start the season, but it's only a matter of time before
we start seeing some big games and big plays from Dominic Rymes, because I
think they do have a quite assembly of veteran receivers in that receiving corps.
I didn't even mention Braylen Addison, who hasn't had some explosive plays this season,
but has been a pretty featured part of that offense, being a guy
that they've used in the backfield on a number of occasions as well. So
I think, you know, they have some talent on that audible offense.
Like I said, uh, looking here back at the standings, Like we
said, second right now and early in the bye weeks and kind of all
this stuff coming into play, but uh is it. I don't think you
can expect more if you're out of it at this point. I mean,
if you're if you're a are you feeling decently good about the season, what
do you think? Uh? Yeah, it's early, definitely, you know,
things can turn into a tailspin, as we've seen in previous years,
most notably saskatchwon the past couple of years. So nothing is guaranteed with a
good start to the season. But I think when you look at their schedule
going into the year. They had Winnipeg, who nobody would have expected to
be zero to four at this point. You probably had that Pennsylvan as a
loss. Then you had Montreal, which they did lose, but you know,
they really weren't very competitive in that game, but still you were probably
expecting a loss there. And then you know, so a two in one
start to the season. It's really not the worst thing in the world for
Ottawa, and a lot to see how they do in upcoming games against Eastern
opponents, because against the West last year they were pretty good. I believe
they were something like four and four or something like that against the West last
year, but they did not win a single game against the East last year,
which changed this week with a win against Hamilton. In terms of an
I'll probably steal your homework here at tomorrow, like what I got to do
because I have one of the questions worst and four. I guess best owing
four team. So let's go best and worst owing for a team here,
because yeah, obviously got Winnipeg and Edmonton here. Really weird right now just
with the nine teams we got three of they don't have anything. Uh,
I thought Hamilton's looked pretty decent all the way across your best and worst owing
four team. What do you think. I'm gonna sound like a homer here,
but I'm gonna say Hamilton is the best owing four team. And I
just think it's because I like what now I think. But of you know,
when you look at Claris, who got knocked up, will get up
out of the game, just against I, he hasn't looked very good when
he's been in there. You have to throw a touchdown pass. This season,
McLeod, He's looked good at times. They definitely moved the ball better
than they have in previous years in Edmonton with the past, but I think
ultimately the turnover have really hurt him at inopportune times. So if I'm ranking
those quarterbacks, and so often in this league it comes down to quarterback play,
I'm gonna rank Hamilton as the number one out of those oh to four
teams. And not to mention, I think that, you know, Winnipeg's
dealing with a lot more injuries right now. Edmonton you really can't trust,
you know, just given their recent history. At least Hamilton, we've seen
them go on some wild runs to end the season. Usually has been a
second half of the season type team. I remember there was one year that
they almost made the playoffs after starting OH to seven, So I mean,
I've seen some wild second half runs from this team in my lifetime. So
I'm gonna stick with Hamilton as the best OH and four team so far.
Let's go on here, we can circle back. I guess any other thoughts,
any other thoughts on Ottawa or Hamilton. At this point you will move
on to the next game. Uh No, I just wanted to point out
maybe Bob Dice. I think, you know, he has looked a lot
more competent in that role. I feel like, you know, just getting
Condell in there, I think that was a really good higher for that coaching
staff. I think there hasn't been as many noticeable blunders like bad challenges or
bad situational decisions from him so far. So that's a good sign for Audible
because I had a lot of questions marks about him going into the season.
Well, and I think you want to see Saskatchewan or excuse me, someone
just coming and the chat guys, you want to see all the way I
do good here just because of like the whole like ten year ride anniversary,
and we're kind of making this be a temple season and we've got new patches
and uniforms, like you know, you know, you don't want to be
like Edmonton with the seventy fifth anniversary or whatever, just playing like complete dog
duty right now, so you know, at least for all the way,
Like I said in the past, I don't really know what it would be
like to be a you know, to be an Ottawa Red Blacks fan.
So you like to see that one thing here and this was music to my
ears, my eyes here Winnipeg continuing. They were losing ways here and it
was weird to me. So far Han came out and said, you know,
it looks like look like you why he's getting ready to come back,
get ready to sign again. And I'm like, oh, is he?
Like is he going to BC's he going back to BCRE Like what's going on
here? And Walt Farhat like, well, he's probably gonna go back to
Winnipeg, that seems to be. And I tweeted out that Adam Silver is
like, you'll get ready to learn oh and four buddy, because I don't.
I mean, they've had so many injuries. I think Winnipeg has to
do something here. I guess, first off, that is a great signing
because they need to have something. Thoughts on I guess Lucky going there is
not enough to offset because Kolaro's and I know, getting banged up here and
we have quite the Chris Treveler stat line. We'll get to his play,
but I mean it seems like Zach Kallearo's is just out out to the moon
right now. Yeah, well, you're right about the Lucky Whitehead signing.
They had to do something, and Lucky Whitehead, you know, like him
or not. I think that he is a guy that was the most proven,
you know, veteran receiver that was still out there on the free agent
market. So even he took a step back last year in BC where he
kind of lost his spot in the pecking order to guys like Hats or in
Rhymes, I think that, you know, he's a guy that still can
help them and is familiar with that team and that atmosphere from playing there,
I believe in twenty nineteen. So I think, you know, he's a
guy that is gonna really help with that offense, especially because they have so
many young receivers right now that they're trying to work in. But unfortunately,
when Zach's been in there, I think, you know, he's been really
off his game, and I think a huge reason why is he doesn't really
trust these young receivers that they have there, Like it seems like whenever they're
moving the chains is to guys like Demski and Walla Tarski. Obviously, Lawler's
on the shelf and then shown on the shelf for the rest of the season.
We've found out this week, so I mean it's gonna be very tough
for them to overcome that, especially with Brady olivera not a one hundred percent
clearly Yeah. I actually I took his this week and it's just been really
kind of crazy with everything with birthdays, Loty I totally forgot shown was out
as well, and I like, well, that's I mean, rip the
season at that point, I think you got to make a move. I
don't know. I mean, it's fine, you Winnipeg's had so much success
here and obviously that we joked last week about them walking out on the the
the BC Lions were there, and right was that and they were walking out
when they were losing all that, But uh, I don't know, I
mean I don't know if Lucky Whitehead I was looking here at age thirty two
is enough to come in and really spark that. I mean, like he
said, Lucky, it felt like two years ago was really good, right,
was that the year after he got paid when BC was able to kind
of make him the highest paid receiver two years ago, and then felt like
last year was really up to snuff if I remember, if I'm remembering that
correctly, Yeah, he had that year when Mike Riley had his last year
with BC, and then he had another year with Nathan Rourke when he had
that breakthrough season, and then last year he was kind of a little bit
over underwhelming and you know, starting to get up there been an age obviously
into his early thirties now has a lot of tread on those tires. And
you know also was you know, a kick returner for a number of years,
which obviously would take a toll physically on your body. Yeah, So,
what's showing out here? Broken? I'm trying that I got ad blockers
on here. What's what's the injury proagnosis on showing that for the season?
Like you said, I believe I know what's out. He's out for the
season. I believe it was a knee injury that they said, and it
happened away from the a couple of weeks. Played a fortunate injury for them
because he's just been a rock star, jes. So let's see if we
can get your internet still really cutting the ow out here. Let's see if
maybe you can you can reboot one more time, and that time you want
to give a shot too, Yeah, yeah, talking him through all this,
and like I said, just you know, I don't know, it's
weird to see Winnipeg fall off at this point. It's certainly exciting if you're
a fan of the CFL West Division here and just looking at the standings.
Wild to see here, wild to see you know, b C at the
top three and one Saskatchewan here both with the wins on that. Uh you
know, Calgary holding steady. But yeah, you know, you certainly not
surprised to see Edmonton. You're the bottom of anything standings right now. And
there's certainly something we'll talk about with Jason. But uh, you know,
the Winnipeg in my wildest dreams, Chason, I don't know if I would
have ever expected Winnipeg at this point. People obviously and when I was tweeting
with the lucky white Head BC right started to zero and five and they won
the Great Cup and all that is this. I think this feels different.
This feels like Winnipeg has quite the uphill battle. Yeah, it feels like
there, you know, luck has kind of caught up to them. I
don't everything's not luck from what they've had their success the last couple of years,
but they have had a degree to luck to be able to make it
to four straight Great Cups. They have been a team that's been remarkably healthy,
and that is just not been the case this year. I mean,
they're also pushing their luck with a lot of players that were getting into their
mid thirties. So I think at the end of the day, it just
might be their time to start, you know, falling off. I think
that, you know, it's not always a graceful decline for a lot of
these great teams we see in sports. You know, it's usually just a
big fall off a lot of the time, and you know, it's it's
it's tough to see if you're a Winnipeg Blue Bombers fan, because you figured
they would at least be competitive. A lot of people were picking BC coming
into the year to you know, make it to the Great Cup out West.
But I think a lot of people thought Winnipeg would be you know right
there in that conversation, and so far this year just you know, can't
even just get anything together. The interesting my question for you you talked with
Clara's, because I've seen both sides, right, Oh, well, this
is exposing Klaro's and he was never it was always the tools around them.
And then you're saying, you know that you don't think Clara's can trust the
guys as much and a lot of the vib is that where you place the
blame on that is it's Zach not trusting? Is it Zach falling, you
know, not having their elite receivers round them. Do what do you make
of that? And I want to talk to Streveler as well. Well.
The interesting thing was Zach is that you know, he's had some up and
down years in the CFL, Like we've seen him at his best the last
few years, but you know, for the most part of his CFL career,
like he's had some good seasons and had some you know, very mediocre
seasons. You know, looking back to his time with Saskatchewan Hamilton after a
really hot start in Hamilton really tailed off. So I mean, you know,
if you don't surround him with players, I think that's you know,
he's he's definitely best from what he's shown so far this year. But I
think at the end of the day, you know, he's he's a you
know, definitely does need those, you know, star players around him.
He's definitely not, you know, one of those He's gonna make the Hall
of Fame, but he's not one of those guys i'd put, you know,
in terms of like those all time. You know, just plug him
into any situation and he's gonna have success. I think he's a guy that
really needs those uh star players around him to step up, and he's definitely
had that ever since he arrived in Winnipeg, most notably on the offensive line,
which has taken a big step back so far this year. And that
running game, which they've always had kind of always been the bread and butter.
Since he's gotten there, with Andrew Harris and now with Brady olivera the
last I have not been able to get that run game going, and it's
putting even more pre of the ball with the pass and undertidately with those receiver
injuries that they've had, it's been very tough for them to do. Yeah,
you saw that, you know, you saw Zach get beat up.
You saw him laying down ice closed. I bet he wished he could have
just kind of laid there for the rest of the season. Just kind of
how everything's going weird here to have you know, OLIVERA, you know,
lead not even lead rusher here right obviously Streveler running for some yards on that.
I just he seems like, yeah, they can't get you know,
OLIVERA signed the big deal, he's had the injury stuff we've seen August see
a little bit. I guess thoughts on the Olivera downturn right now, and
I want to get thoughts on Strebler because he actually ended up having to play
a lot in this game. Yeah, I think with OLIVERA, he's just
clearly not one hundred percent. Like he just reminds me of one of these
players in the NHL playoffs that is playing through something like you know, you
just clearly, you know, just because you've seen him at such a high
level the year before, like it's just not possible to see such a huge
drop off from him, and uh, I think he's just has been able
to you know, you know, get anything going like he had the previous
season. And I think, uh, you know, he's a guy that
you know, they definitely need to be a dynamic player. I think he
just sees how much the team's struggling right now and he wants to go out
there and help his team as much as he can. But I mean,
I think he's just the way he looks, he shouldn't even really be out
there. I feel like he should be, you know, given a couple
more weeks to heal and you know, you know, recover from this injury.
But the team struggling so much right now, he definitely wants to be
out there with his guys. And he was even getting a little frustrated.
I saw on the sidelok during this game because I think, you know,
he wanted more touches and unfortunately, you know, just I think the team
seeing is the lack of success he's been having, you know, they've just
didn't want to give him the ball as much. Yeah, it was like
at the end of the Stanley Cup playoffs, like you said, and it
was like, oh, Edmonton, and you know, mcgavid had a torn
whatever and this and something like, you know, you find that man,
oh you know, and part of that might be a little bit overblown,
just like, well we lost being my my knee was barely even hanging on
here and I couldn't even skate down. But you know, I mean,
they're playing through a lot. I agree with that. I agree with that
assessment of them. Weird, Yeah, weird that Olavera would be upset like
that of Want anymore because yeah, clearly had not seen the success thus far
with that with Trevler came in a lot. This game obviously went down the
overtime. We'll talk through the overtime, but how did Strevler look actually taking
meaningful snaps here and you have to throw the ball. Well, I mean
he had that drive at the end to force overtime, but other than that,
he looks at the same old quarterback that we saw back in twenty nineteen
when he started games for the Blue Bombers, a guy that you just don't
trust to win with his arm. He's a great athlete, you know,
you can use him as a gadget type player, but when you ask him
to win games from the pocket with his arm I don't think he can do
it, and I think the jury's still out and whether or not he can
be a full time, you know, starting quarterback in this league if he's
pressed into action for any you know, a decent amount of time. So
I think it's gonna be very interesting to see, you know, if he
gets a game next week if Claris is not back. But I mean,
it looks like it was more precautionary with Claris, That's what they were saying,
I believe Michaelsha was saying after the game. So I think at the
end of the day, you know, Streveler is not a guy you can
trust in this league to start games for you and run at any consistent level
unless you build a specific offense directly around you know, you know his running
ability, but they're not running the ball well right now. So that's a
big problem for Winnipeg. It is weird because, like you said, he
had the one good drive coming down forced overtime, but then in the overtime,
you know, completely airmails and in the end zone right gets the interception,
they're you know, Calgary is able to go and they have that weird
with the penalty, and that got pushed back and all that, but uh,
you know, to me, like that's the difference between Streveler and like
Cody Fajardo last year, great Cup, Like you got it. You know,
there's only you know, in a season in the game, there's a
couple of throws you gotta make and that you know you can go fifty to
fifty on that, And that's the difference between kind of an elite quarterback and
not. Did you like right? First? Is his first overtime game of
this season? Right, I'm trying to track that because we had none in
the UFL and Mike see be planted out. Mike Mitchell, Is this the
first overtime game we've had? Yep, I believe so. Yeah, but
I think you Saskatchewan and Hamilton were close, but uh, you know they
threw the interception right there at the last minute and broke my heart again.
Yeah, so his thoughts on that, yeo? Then when it right right,
that's what that pack exciting, I mean exciting stuff and Calgary proofs while
you always go second in overtime and see what you need to do. Thoughts
on the overtime win of that, I like you said, Streveler, kind
of you failing that risk and then to Calgary being able to capitalize. One
specific thing, when you look at Alby Stampeders sent to b felt like,
you know, they were sending the heat, especially on that interception on the
last play of over. You know, we didn't you know, see the
field, didn't see the guys coming, didn't have a hot route planned out,
and unfortunately, just like you said, airmail the ball in the end
zone that was pretty easily intercepted. So I pressure, well, I think
the Stamps deserve a lot of job defensively this season. I think, you
know, it's not one of the best defenses in the league, but I
think it's been very you know, confident to start the season. Cameron Judge
has been playing very well for them. Uh. Demario Houston got an interception
in this one, you know, because you know, he was a big
part of their offseason because he was a guy that they brought in from Winnipeg.
He had like nine interceptions last year, seven interceptions, led the league
interceptions last year. So I think that's a good sign for Calgary. The
jury is still out on Jake Mayer and whether or not he can be you
know, I'll say, but I think at the end of the day,
he's looked pretty good so far. The Stamps are two and one. They've
looked competitive in every game, and you know, it was getting a little
bit diceyed down to the end when Winnipeg tied it, because it would have
been really bad at Calgary blew this game, because when are they ever going
to beat Winnipeg if they blew this game. So I think at the end
of the day, you know, huge for them to get a win and
break a huge losing streak against Winnipeg. Yeah, let's talk here a little
Jake Mayer. I think that's one of the talking points this week as well.
We all that we're still you know, Jake's still throwing a million attempts
for all this, you know, decent here to thirty nine had going heavy
interception. How how is he looking? What's your assessment of him? Because
I agree, I think Calgary's looked pretty good this year right there, third
in the third in the West. I wanted to talk through Saskatchewan and the
injury because obviously bye week this week we'll talk Trevor Harris. But yeah,
I mean Jake seems to be doing all right. Yeah, most definitely I
think, you know, especially compared to last year where he got off to
a really rocky start, he's looked very steady to start the season. It
doesn't look like every second throw was going to turn to an interception. So
I think, you know, that's a big provement over last year for Jake.
I think the biggest takeaway from wanting their offense. I think they played
really well so far, but they just don't have that explosive element, and
I think until they get that and unlock that part of their offense, if
it's even there, I think they're not gonna be one of those uprational on
teams or be able to beat those up Rachelan teams in the league like a
BC or Montreal right now. So I think at the end of the day,
that's one thing they really need to work on as an offense. They
really need to get the running game going. Really no help from the running
game in this one average less than four yards for carrying the CFL on the
ground. That's that's pretty rough. So I think, at the end of
the day, pretty good game from Jake, considering that the running game wasn't
there. He had a you know, an interception in this one that wasn't
too great, but I think at the end of the day was you know,
a pretty good game for them, and it's a pretty good start to
the season, similar to Ottawa. Well, and you you know, I
saw interesting And I don't know if this is just my UFL bleeding into my
life here, but a lot of talk right now like CFL attendance and fan
interest. I think ratings him indecent. But I don't even think even Michael
Ball has been posting about attendance. I'm like, okay, maybe we should
get Mike Kalan to do a UFL recap. But you know, but good
to see Calgary getting to win at home, right They have struggled at McMahon
right four attendance and getting the interest in there. Like we said, we
talked, you know, just making the playoffs isn't enough. You need to
actually have success because I don't care. You know, to be the sixth
best team in the league and they get balanced in the you know, the
playoffs isn't anything to say, you know, to be excited about. I
don't know, it feels like arrows up on Calgary right now, as far
as I can tell. Any other excuse me, any other sessments on them
because I want to talk to Saskatchewan here. Odd not too much on Calgary.
I mean, I think they have a really tough schedule coming up,
similar to to Hamilton. They played Winnipeg again in a couple of weeks,
so that'll be a big test for them. I think they have Montreal this
week, so another big test for them. So we're gonna see what this
team's made up. Are they going to be closer to you know, those
to four teams that we talked about, or are they going to be really
one of those teams elves as you know, one of these teams for home
field advantage come playoff time. I'll will find out very shortly for the Stamps.
So we have the news come out. I think I saw Naylor.
I think Britton, Gray and Naylor kind of co signed and tweeted. Trevor
Harris going to be out six weeks at knee injury. Right's his old?
I mean today is my birthday. Trevor Harris had his birthday a couple of
months ago. We were at the same age. No surprise to me at
all. I mean, you don't want to see anyone injured, but I
can't imagine you're putting Trevor Harris at thirty eight in this position. Thoughts on
the injury because, like I said, Saskatchewan's second in the division right now.
But I mean you're going to rite Mason Fine here for the next six
weeks. Thoughts on the injury and then what to Saskatchewan do. They're actually
going to Shaye Patterson because they mas and that's right, that's the preseason.
But thoughts on Shay Yeah, USFL draft number one draft pick. Oh well,
he's a guy that really didn't impress me, you know, from a
Hamilton fan perspective watching them when he came to the game last week. But
it's hard to tell when a guy comes in and didn't get the full week
of prep. So we'll have to see how he does in his first CFL
start this week. I think it's against Toronto on Thursday night, so that'll
be a really interesting matchup. I believe it's into Scats one too, so
maybe he has a chance to pull one out and get the Scats one to
four and ZHO. But it's just tough to see as a Rough Riders if
you're a Rough Riders fan, because it's almost like deja vu from the last
couple of seasons where you know, their quarterbacks suffer some kind of injury.
Even though Cody Fajardo was able to play through a lot of that injury a
couple of years ago, you know, he wasn't the same after getting nicked
up early in the season. And you know, they went on that big
back slide the second half of the year each of the last couple of years.
So you know, it's certainly not surprising, like you said, that
Trevor Harris got injured, a thirty eight year old quarterback that's not very mobile
behind a pretty bad offensive line all things considered. So I think that,
you know, it's gonna be very interesting to see how they do because Trevor
Harris was looking very good out there, and you know, he was just
seemed like a guy that could be in contention for an MLP this season.
But unfortunately, you know, thirty eight years old, very hard to stay
healthy in this league. So we had on Darren Ball, I mean last
week, you know, Onfire Sports, and Darren's wealth of football knowledge far
out weigh as you know mine, and I couldn't even hope to have as
much football knowledge as Darren has But when he said that Shape Patterson was the
second best, like the best backup quarterback in the CFI, I almost spit
out my water on the laptop. I mean, Shae Shae is is not
it. I don't care if he came in and was rushed and didn't feel
whatever. I mean, we've seen shit. Yeah, I agree Iran coach
Craig here taking them. They should have kept Dola Gala, they should have
got made some fine. Mean they shouldn't geten in with. I don't see
Shane Patterson being that. I do not see that that's an answer. And
as you said, Toronto here at Saskatchewan, I think Toronto defense is going
to absolutely murder Shape Patterson here. I think we might see I think we
might see him a funeral here at Plazak Stadium. Just thoughts on that this
match up, Yeah, I know we talked about it, but any other
thoughts on that I see this being Toronto in with like a sledgehammer here.
Well, it's weird because I think this history has shown us that there are
guys that are a better fit for the CFL game than they are for the
NFL game at quarterbacks. So maybe who knows, you know, he you
know, you know, have some kind of success as a starter here for
Saskatchewan briefly, but you know, ultimately, like I said, I don't
have much confidence in that happening. He's been around the league for a few
years, you know, been a third stringer somewhere, being like the short
yardage guy for a couple of different places. But I think, you know,
in terms of being a guy you can trust to win games, especially
going up against a very very good Toronto Argonaut's defense. I know they didn't
play too well. We'll we'll get to that in a minute. But I
think at the end of the day, you know, it's gonna be very
tough for them to win the game. But if it could just win a
couple of games games before Trevor Harris gets back, I think that's gonna be
the key. Because you're not gonna win all of these games, or even
a majority of them. But even if they can split these like next four
or five games or whatever it is, until Trevor Harris gets back, I
think that will be a huge win for Saskatchewan. Well, I you know,
thenier said and done here in Toronto, adds Saskatchewe uh, then they're
facing v C. Then their face in Winnipeg that might be maybe, and
then you know at Montreal here it's tough. It's then they get a buy
No, no, they don Edmonton. There you go week nine, pencil
in your first wins. You know, whatever wins is gonna be. Yeah,
I just wild. But like I said, I don't you see this
coming. And we always stay on here and I will say this is the
same thing and we'll talk BC. But something is gonna happen to Vernon Adams
and this is a concern to me. And I know we have Dola Galaza
backup, but like, uh, you gotta just you can't rely on these
guys to stay healthy that long. And to me, it's it's insanity.
You would. I love Corey Mace and we've talked about that. They've been
playing up to him, but it's insandy to me that you would have your
season ty to Trevor Harriser at this point people you know, I don't know,
yeah, And it's you know, it must be said that like almost
the second most important position on a CFL team the last several years has become
the backup quarterback because almost every quarterback misses sometime during the season. We only
had one quarterback start all eighteen games last year and that was Jake Mayer.
So I think, you know, it's a huge part of a CFL,
you know, team building this these days is getting that backup quarterback position solidified.
And like I said, don't have that much confidence in Patterson to get
it done. And I definitely disagreed with Darren Balumer as well when I watched
that show that that interview you had on your show this week. So I
think at the end of the day, you'll have to prove me wrong.
Yeah, we had a hear a question about the American ratio rule and like
being only able to play certain downs, right, that was with the new
CBA that come out. It came out right, and that you're only able
to play so much on this they want is that they should talk about this.
I presume that means we should talk about it. But yeah, I
mean that's that's something that came into effect last season, right going in for
they were talking about that Tim White with the Hamilton game. Uh, yeah,
it came in Maybe it's I'm trying to think of it was implemented last
year or this year because I know, I know the CBA was signed last
year before training camp, right, so yeah, or was it twenty twenty
two? Yeah, I always, I always forget. But anyway, the
rule is basically, it was designed to get veteran American players more playing time
and you know, you know, stick around when they're not going to necessarily
be a starter on a team. Uh. But unfortunately this rule has kind
of been abused and you know, you see, you know, even star
players being that designated American throughout the game, like the tay Cats. Uh.
They were talking about it a lot on the broadcast last night that Tim
White was the designated American for the tai Cats and you know, all simately
like they were talking about, oh, how many plays he's he allowed to
play and whatnot. And to be honest, I don't even fully understand the
role, which really, you know, I think that's the the crux of
the issue right there, is that the average football fan, like diehard football
fan like me, can't even like fully explain it to people. So I
think at the end of the day, it definitely needs some tweaks. I
think the CFL's heart was in the right place when they put in this rule,
but I think at the end of the day they the implementation of it
and trying to track this, you know, fifty percent of snaps kind of
thing for nationalized Americans. I think it's a very complicated thing, and I
think at the other day it definitely needs some tweaking. There's a spider running
across my laptop here. Yeah, let's let's go on here because we got
two more games. We gotta get out of here. I have birthday dinner
plans and I'm very excited for that. Let's get into this Toronto Montreal game.
Kind of bill, this was going to be the game of the weekend.
I think that's we have the thumbnail out for all that stuff. Uh,
Toronto lost. We saw Brian Scott sighting. Was that now I caught
up on this game. Was that injury or was that just like, hey,
we're out of it here. Why did Brian Scott make an appearance?
Did we lose Hussy I then we lost Jason? Uh yeah, and talking
to do this with with the Brian Scott finally had a touchdown for Toronto here
coming near the end, they say it was funny like this is the this
is the the payoff to Toronto fans sticking around for all that stuff. Jason,
did we get you back? Are you still lost? Let's remove him.
Let's see if he gets that. Figure out Jason. Then we got
to get the Canadian internet situation. Figure that out here. Anyway, Montreal
came in, Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know it was interesting.
I'm just curious, like because again I was recapping this, if there's like,
hey, we're we're sitting shutting Dukes down for the game, or having
Brian come in good to see. Talked with Brian. I saw him on
the sidelines of the game. I think it was last week. I got
a screen record of that, said that to him. Always enjoyed talking with
our friend of the show, Brian Scott, m VP of the Spring League
two time share for that. Was excited here. But Montreal coming in really
taking care of business. I did not think this was close. Toronto got
the touchdown near the end to kind of keep it, you know, looking
better at the scoreboard, but yet not to be here. Cody looking you
know, pretty decent here, throw almost three hundred yards. A lot of
attempts on that, you know, Walter Fletcher not really a run game on
this one. We saw James Letcher coming in had a couple of big returns.
Let's get Jason back in here and see if we can get this going
here, Jason Friend of the show, James Letcher having quite a bunch of
kickoff returns here. What did you make of this with Montreal coming and really
steamrolling Toronto at home? Well, this game is the one I saw the
least of this week, unfortunately, because I was kind of flipping back and
forth with the NHL Draft. I wanted to see who my Red Wings were
going to take, so didn't catch all of this game. But it was
slipping back and forth. I thought, you know, you know, same
old story with Montreal. You know, they're well oil machine, They're dominating
in all phases. They just seem like a team that you know it's gonna
be a team that doesn't beat themselves, and I think that's always very hard
team to to go up against. I think, you know, Cody Fajardo,
same old story with him, and I think the most impressive thing about
him in this game is that the running game was virtually non existent for Montreal
at all in this game, and that they were still able to move the
ball on offense. And that's something that I definitely wouldn't have seen from them
last season. So a lot of the receivers are having, you know,
breakthrough seasons. It looks like having Reggie White back in the receiving court like
really rounds out that receiving corps with another big body Tyson Phil Potts breakout season
continues. Cole Speaker another great game from him, and you know, I
think the dress and Antrey also pulled another one of those on side punt things,
which you know my thoughts on that rule, but you know, all
credit to him for pulling it off once again. So Montreal just a well
oiled miss, like I said, and another very impressive victory from them.
Yeah, we're talking about I forgot to talk about that. So I'm glad
and Tim bring into that beer. Tim all, let's fight deck checking in
here. Tim always seems to chime in a lot when the Alo wentz victory,
so it must be nice living that life. Yeah, I saw a
lot in like the three damn Like if you don't not just pray, you
could just move south, like I think there are plenty of CFL fans that
do not like this play. Jason, would you like to pontificate now if
people that like, I it's fine, Like I don't I'm not like again,
like I'm gonna pull pull what's left of my hair out. I just
think it's like annoying. But to me, it's not so much to play
that's annoying. It's in everyone. It's the aftermath, like we'll just get
the hell out of our country if you don't like this, like this is
Canadian football, Like it's like a weird lou ball And what's your thoughts on
this? I just think it looks stupid, like unfortunately, it doesn't look
like football to me personally. But maybe that's just the fact that I watched
a lot of NFL growing up, and you know, you know, maybe
I'm just to americanize from that perspective of to enjoy the finer nuances of the
CFL game. But I think at the end of the day, yeah,
it just doesn't make sense to me why you would get a first down in
that situation. But we've been over this before. I think that this is,
uh, you know, a very controversial topic. I don't think it's
as big of a deal as a lot of people make it sounded out to
be. I mean, you don't really gain any yardage from doing it.
Uh, But I think at the end of the day, it doesn't look
like a like a football play, and that's why I've never really been in
favor of it. I want to see I want to see just living in
the life that we have with the UFL and them, and they're them using
the NFL kickoff modified now and the NFL using the XFL kickoff and that whole
bit. I would love to see Darryl mouse Johnston's reaction to this punt.
I don't know what. I just have to like, lock Darryl in the
room and we're just gonna we're gonna show you this play this. I mean,
I think Darryl's head would explode because he certainly did like the XFL kickoff
because he wanted it to look like more traditional football. Tim doesn't see the
outrage. Tim, That's fine. A lot of other people do. Tim
is fine. If you don't want to see the outrage, that is fine.
I see outraging a lot of things. People don't be able to see
outraging things that I don't. But back to the game here, when you
were resetting it, you know we did see it. Brian Scott here mop
up duty at the end. How did you know flowing locks Cameron Duke's look
in this before the game was out of him? Well, I mean this
was your classic comeback down to earth kind of game. I don't think he
played that terribly, but you know, compared to how he played the first
couple of games this season where he looked really good, it definitely was a
step up in competition playing against a red hot Alouettes defense. I think,
you know, he's a guy that you know, he's still very early in
his career in terms of starting games. I think this is what his fifth
start in the league. So it's gonna be very interesting to see how he
plays going forward as defenses continue to get more film on him. But I
really don't hold much against Cameron Dukes in this one, given that he was
going up against that buzzsaw of Aloett's defense. I mean, this is and
we'll get to the last game here, we got ten minutes left, we'll
get out. I mean, the outlets around like a different level right now.
I mean, are you We've talked about this every week. We just
surprised and just how much, just how much better they looked at any other
team right now, it's really remarkable. Yeah, absolutely, And and like
I think they kind of remind me of that Green Bay Packers team back in
the day that Aaron Rodgers won his one Super Bowl with. I think that
last six or seven games of the season they won like all the regular season,
and they won four playoff games in a row, and I think they
went fifteen to one. The next year, they went something like a whole
calendar year without losing a game. I think Montreal is kind of on that
same trajectory right now, starting four to zero to this season. But I
will say this, and it's definitely worth pointing out that not often does the
best team in the regular season the CFL win the Great Cup. It's it's
pretty rare, so well, not pretty rare, but like, it doesn't
always happen, and we've seen that in recent memory. Before there's been a
lot of upsets in the big Game and in the playoffs. So I think
at the end of the day, peaking too early it could be a possibility
for the Alouettes, but for right now, just really no complaints from what
I've seen from them so far. Yeah, peak, Yeah, you know,
peaking too early. You know, there's certainly a thing or playing your
best football? Here are you surprised? And side you can't football really did,
But I think it was p K. P Right had our interview this
week, like there's no money to be made in football, or at least
in the short term, and talking about that and get it. I saw
a lot of people correct him of no, there's no money to be made
in CFL for the money be made in American football. But I just thoughts
on that. I thought that was really good. Three Down had the write
up on that. I thought that was a good article just talking about that
and kind of rebuilding the franchise. And I know we've had Tim and Cliffe
on and talking about kind of the resurgens with the Awls and everything. Agree
great for the league with just thoughts on anything coming up from that. I
completely agree with what Pierre Corrapelodo said. I think that ultimately you're not in
this league to make money. Really. I think there's just not the money
to be had, Like he said, I think in certain markets, you
know, you can be profitable, but I think in a small league like
this that's so dependent on you know, gate revenue, I think it's really
impossible to have all the teams kind of like you know, having a lot
of like financial success at the same time, which was what would be required
really for this league to be very profitable. And I think given the certain
situations that certain teams are in stadium wise Montreal, it's a great location for
that stadium, but definitely needs more repairs to that facility or a new facility
altogether for that team. McMahon Calgary, and I think that kind of drags
down what a lot of these teams can make out of, you know,
their bottom line. So I think at the end of the day, I
kind of agree with up here Cola Pelado that there's no money to be made
in CFL football. It's more like, uh, the philanthropy kind of you
know thing for some of these rich owners. So I think at the end
of the day, I think he's the right owner for that team. He
really has no problem. If you read the interview, I thought he was
very comfortable with where the Alloy Whites were at. He says there's no pressure
for them to draw a profit anytime soon or like obviously they want to you
know, be less in the red. But I think at the end of
the day, you need an owner that's willing to sit through the bad time,
so the franchise, even when you know the times are pretty good right
now for the Alouettes on the field. So I think it's a big part
of the CFL game to have ownership that's willing to you know, fund the
team regardless of the bottom line. Yeah, it must be nice by a
team win a great cup. But you know, if only everyone could be
so likey, let's get to the last game here before we get that now
at BC, I was like, I came home from the Kailin Clark game.
I had this on. I was like, Okay, we got the
field goal, Okay they got Okay, we're gonna be able to get this
taken care of here? Did I fever dream? I thought Williams standback have
a rushing touchdown? Did I fever dream that? Oh? Was it in
the oh yet? A receiving touchdown? Yeah? I see it over there.
Yeah yeah, I'm trying to think back all the way to Thursday night,
like fever dream. So BC taking care of business? Uh barely walk
off field goals? I tweeted out, shot White, are you kidding me?
Ah? Thoughts on this one because it's beginning to be at the point
now that spider has crawled up my leg and under my shirts. Uh,
the like, you don't want to be the team that drops to Edmonton,
right it's almost becoming that now. Thoughts on this game, I know it's
been a long time ago here, but you know, b c uh first
in the West obviously with the stands right now. But my thoughts on this
game, I thought it was an overall very entertaining game. Edmonton has definitely
been a more exciting watch this year, which has helped and you know,
uh enjoying some of these games that they've been a part of. But uh,
I think you'll be c. I think I've liked what I've seen from
Vernon Adams so far this season, even though they're not really hitting their full
stride in terms of, you know, the explosiveness of the offense in comparison
to the last two years as of yet, I think that he's been very
steady. You look at it, like every week he's just ends up around
three hundred yards, completing a good percentage of his passes, just really solid
stat line and just looking very comfortable in this DC Lions offense. And you
know, I think they're definitely on track to still be one of the best
teams in this league. You know, they had to really be. You
know, it was really close at the end of this game. But I
think that's more of a result of how Edmonton is really you know, fighting
to get that first win right now. They almost were able to, but
unfortunately for them, BC was able to get that last second field goal and
walk it off there at the end where it was around one am Eastern time
here on Thursday night. So I think at the end of the day,
pretty good stuff from BC and Edmonton just breaking the hearts of their fans yet
again. Yeah, sparse crowd, excuse me following kind of the fifty cent
all that if it was me, and I agree, BC's good. There's
a lot of these teams that aren't great right now. I think BC.
I wish I could take like a shock paddle to Rick Campbell, like I
would just love to kind of like wake him up a little bit, because
it's like every single one of these post games. Because I've told you I
watch all that. I don't watch all of you know, every team,
so but I watch every Rick Campbell the you know, the little thing they
post and sponsored by whatever automotive and all that stuff, and he's like,
well, you know we won. We didn't get it all together. If
we get it all together, like we could be really dangerous. Like it's
just such the like we we got everything we needed. I don't know,
I just want them to like I just wanted to feel like there's some sort
of like urgency at all, Like I don't I don't know. We're trying
to get so, you know, kind of get everything figured out here.
It just to me, it doesn't feel like not that there needs to be
urgency in week four going into five, but like you are hosting the Great
CuPy of this year, there is a lot of that, you know,
this is probably the last window you have with VA and kind of all this
pieces, we're all get this going. Like I don't know, to me,
just like a little bit more umph there are you? Or are you?
Like BC's great, but they're just yeah, they're lacking kind of any
sort of a really sexy excitement right now. It just feels like they're kind
of going through the motions. Yeah. Rick Campbell is certainly not the most
energetic coach. I would say, doesn't you know seem like he galvanizes the
team, at least in terms of like what you hear from him talking to
the media. But I think at the end of the day, it's like
I said before, he's a hard coach to figure out whether or not he
makes such a positive impact on the team or not. Like I said,
I think that BC is looking very good this season. I thought that,
uh, you know, their defense is starting to look good in some areas.
Again, hasn't really hit their full stride on that side of the ball.
And like I was saying with Montreal, maybe BC's not really peaking early
in the season. Maybe their best football is still yet to come later on
this season, they're still dealing with the incorporating a lot of new pieces into
this team. I think, you know, with the injury to Keon Hatcher
and the receiving corps that was definitely you know a difference to their receiving corps
going into this season. And they're still trying to work in some guys like
Aiden Aberheart, who had a big game in this one. So I think,
you know, trying to establish Williams stand back is the new running back.
Tried to run the ball in some key situations in this one. To
some success, but not you know, terrific looking at the three point eight
yards per carry that stand back average. So I think at the end of
the day, BC's still looking pretty good. But like I said, they
haven't really had one game where you're like, wow, this this team is
really a contender for the best team in the league. What do you think
of this David Mackie thing here, Like we're trying to kind of use him
shortyarded she had the fumble there near the end, and I think have the
rushing touchdown for that. But thoughts on that because you know, obviously we've
had the Vernon and we didn't we got rid of prou Cop and kind of
all this have I reading that Rider were kind of using him so we don't
get Vernon beat up. Like thoughts on that. Yes, it's very interesting
because Hamilton's doing a very similar thing with Ante Milanovitch Lee Tray, who's you
know, backup Canadian running back who has been taking the snaps for a lot
of the short yard situations for Hamilton. So it's interesting that both of these
teams are kind of using a similar route, really trying to limit the amount
of hits that they're starting quarterbacks take and you know, when you're running those
short yardage plays, you ideally want a bigger kind of quarterback that you know,
can really move the pile. And not every quarterback room in the league
necessarily has one of those players. So I mean, I guess this is
a better alternative than using Adams as the short yarde quarterback in my opinion.
But it definitely is an interesting experiment because they're not used to, you know,
positioned players like that are not used to, you know, getting the
snap from under center like that. So maybe you get you know, some
mistakes like that with the exchange from this Hamilton Tirecats and the BC Lions.
So yeah, it's gonna be interesting experiment experiment to see going forward. But
I kind of like the thinking from the Lions last thought here, Like,
I mean, is Cornelius around for ten bucks? Can we get him on?
I was looking at them because he's I mean, right, he's a
free agent, Like is that not someone we can just bring into short yard
each year? Like I just I don't love it feels very makeshift to me.
This is the last thing because I gotta get out of here. We
just thought that I know, to me, this is like, this is
one of those things that's gonna come back to like bite BC in the ass,
I think, yeah. I mean, Cornelius is a strange one because
I thought some team was gonna fall in love with the physical you know ability,
the fact that he does have a very strong arm, cam run.
He had you know, several big rushing games when he was with Edmonton,
but obviously he had such a poor record as their starting quarterback that maybe teams
have been like, yeah, we've seen enough film, we rather just go
in a different direction in terms of bringing in a backup. So, you
know, I'm kind of shocked that he's still in the streets right now.
Maybe he gets signed in the middle of the season here, like Lucky Whitehead
just did. But at the end of the day, no bite so far,
it looks like for him, and it'll be interesting to see if he
does get signed by the end of the year. All right, we're gonna
get out of here. Thank you, Jason. We've fought through Internet.
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