Well, happy Tuesday here a special time today Tuesday afternoon, Happy Apple iPhone
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Night football, but we have made a commitment every week we're going to do
this. We have Jesus and Hussy here and Evan, how are we doing?
Guys? Doing great rate, exciting weeknd of football with the CFL triple
header on Saturday, and of course the NFL starting up this weekend, so
I think we have a lot to talk about CFL wise this week. Yeah,
Evan, how are you doing to spend the roller coaster of emotions for
sports and football fans? Who allows twenty four hours? Yeah? Absolutely?
I mean, you know, we we're recording late this week, and obviously
the CFL slate ended early with the NFL coming in, so you're we're gonna
have to refresh our memory I think on a couple of things. But just
looking at CFL specifically, I mean, it was a pretty good slate.
There was some blowouts, some revenge games, you know, some some there
was a mix like the Hamilton Ottawa game we'll get into. Thought that one
was definitely interesting. And yeah, I mean, overall, another good week
of football, especially when you incorporate the NFL into it. Yeah, it's
crazy now a lot of football. It definitely feels like a distant memory.
We've had a lot of you know, the Jets need to sign Nathan Rourke
right now. The Jests need to call Nathan Work. I guarantee you,
Justin Dunk and Ryan Ballent friends of the podcast. He is probably the furthest
thing from the Jets mind right now. I think Colin Kavern there because of
other chance of getting back on the Jets roster here the Nathan Work does.
But we'll see, We'll see. Stranger things have happened. Jason. You
know, the Labor Day weekend was pretty good. We were hoping for some
good rematches this weekend, maybe not as exciting as we maybe had hopes and
blow outs here. What did you make of a kind of the weekend slate?
Overall? I thought it was very diconomous because I think that we had
two really good games. I mean, one game didn't start off very good,
but it ended up very good. On Friday Night with Hamilton Ottawa.
But Calgary and Edmonton was a pretty good game throughout with you know, the
crazy comeback of the ELSA we're able to come up with in this one.
And then obviously those first two games of the Saturday triple header were kind of
disappointing, but I didn't really like I don't think that was unexpected. Yeah,
really kind of disappointing. Saskatchewan, you know, they kind of had
their big stand and we're coming in. We're doing the Banja Bowl and we
don't want to call it the Banja Bowl, but everyone knows what it is,
and they really kind of stunk up the place there. We'll kind of
dissect that, but I mean fifty burger by by Winnipeg here going on Sascatch
with Evan. Why did you make over all the weekend? Yeah, definitely
a mixed bag. Like I pointed out, you know, there was some
revenge games you look at obviously Winnipeg and Saskatchewan, which movie wasn't entertaining,
especially if you were a Rough Riders fan. But I think the people there
in Winnipeg enjoyed that. Obviously the best one. You know, Calgary had
a big fourth quarter comeback last week against Edmonton and pulled that one out at
home in the Labor Day Classic, and then this week it flipped. You
know, Edmonton I think had eighteen points in the fourth quarter and rallied all
the way to beat Calgary at the end. So both of those games,
you know, back to back weekend's coming down at the end of the fourth
quarter. I thought that was very entertaining. And then, as I pointed
out too before Hamilton Ottawa, as Jason said, you know, a slow
start, It definitely wasn't. It didn't look to be an entertaining game,
and I almost, you know, switched the channel off at halftime. But
you know, then things started heating up and it ended up being a kind
of back and forth shootout match at the end, and eventually Hamilton pulled away,
which was the expected result, at least in my opinion. So I
think that's that. Yeah, Lunnon here is ready checking in. I'm ready
to hear how good the Bombers are. Thanks. The rum Hut was slowing
by halftime. Yeah, I have to imagine that not did you guys see
the story and I think we shared in the group chat. The bar attendant
that was going to buy drinks for the bar if the Jets lost last night,
and then the Jets came back and won, and everyone realized they had
to pay their attacks. And then we have jayde and James arre wih I
care about the NFL. I've been watching the safled football for thirty five years.
We xfled dealt with it. This is the time of year the real
football has been back the I tweet all that stuff too, but excited to
here talking at CFL today. Let's get into this. So Mayor here one
twenty nine, kind of similar stat line for him. I know we've talked
a lot about this kind of throughout the last hour of many weeks. Jason,
what did you make of our boy Jake Mayor here and the loss?
I didn't think he played that poorly. I thought you saw a lot of
good from him. And I thought at times during this game, I was
like, this was the Stampeders team we saw for large portions of last year
where they were a twelve and six team. You know, maybe they couldn't
compete with the big dogs, but I mean they were a very good team
at least record wise last season. And I thought that, you know,
in this game, they had some really good stretches. They had a really
good drive in the second quarter. They capped that off with a touchdown.
To think it was William Longley, the fullback of all people, and then
they got another touchdown before the half the Reggie Bagleton sol Jake Mayer was very
good in the first half of this game, but I think the Elks made
some adjustments defensively in the second half and really this Stampeders offense while he stalled
out the rest of the game. Yeah, look at here Tree four that
night, maybe his weakest game thus far in terms of stats and everything.
Evan, what did you make of this? Well, I think from the
Calgary perspective, I mean you look at Jake Mayor. He had a very
I guess admirable performance, you know, nothing too over the top. But
I was really more impressed with, I think the balance on the Calgary offense
between their run game in the past game. Unfortunately they didn't come out of
victorious, but I really liked what they were able to do with Cadem Carey
and then they had enough receivers step up to where I feel like again it
was a very balanced outing and we haven't seen a lot of that from them
this year. I think we've described their offense many times as being one dimensional
in a way where they can only They're only doing certain things, and a
lot of those things don't involve you know, big plays or chunk yardage or
anything like that. But then, if you want to talk about Emonton and
trey Ford, it was very interesting because I didn't watch a lot of this
game, and initially, when I saw the final score, I thought,
you know, trey Ford would have had a better outing, But then I
looked at the stat line and I was a bit confused. I mean,
again, great day rushing, which is normal from him, eight carries for
eighty two yards, which somehow gets lost because Kevin Brown had such a good
game and what We'll get into that a bit later, but just specifically about
trey Ford, I expected him, you know, to do maybe a bit
more in this game from the passing department, and I've said that about him
many times, and you know, maybe I don't know if this would be
bringing up a weird analogy, but I'm at LSU and we have a quarterback,
Jade Daniels. I've said the same thing about on some occasions where you
know, he might. We always praise him for his rushing ability and you
know, his ability to get through defenders. He's very shifty, but sometimes,
you know, when it comes to passing, there's a bit that needs
to improve. And again, both of these guys are still very good quarterbacks.
That's what's most important. You know, we make jokes about you know,
the Lamar running back joke was a thing for years and we've moved on
from that. But my point here being, you know, ultimately the quarterback's
job, more than anything is to throw the ball effectively. Even though there
are a lot of great two way players, like I've just mentioned Trey Ford
here and then who I compared him to Jade and Daniels here at LSU.
A lot of good two way players, but ultimately from him, I think
Trey Forward this game. It almost brought me back down to earth a bit
where I'm like, Okay, he still has a bit of work to do
in that department. Now again, doesn't mean he's a bad quack, but
you know that might get overshadowed just because the Elks won, But again,
I don't want to take anyway anything away from their win and their ultimate performance.
Yeah, Kevin Brown here having a day, and I think, you
know, it seems to me at least it took him a little bit here
to kind of pick up. And then then we had the Wilder and all
of that last season, and then he got injured and he's done that.
Friend of that, friend of the podcast. He's a funny guy. But
it's good to see. What do you make of that, Jason here,
Kevin Brown really kind of coming. I mean, this was a crazy game.
I think probably his most impressive game to date. Yeah, I think
the best thing to happen to Kevin Brown was tray four being inserted into this
lineup because now the defense has to account for tray Ford and that's opened up
running lanes, especially inside for Kevin Brown. That first touchdown of the game,
he went right up the middle for you know, I think a forty
five yard touchdown. So, I mean, I think Kevin Brown, I
think has arguably the best home run hitting ability of any running back in the
CF album. We've seen that, especially the last couple of weeks, or
even dating back a couple of weeks more to that game against Winnipeg where he
had that they'd run to open that game. So I mean, he's been
incredibly impressive, and the Elks just incredibly impressive how far they've came from just
a few short weeks. I mean, they've gone from a team that lost
twenty two consecutive games at home with several browne leads in those losses, mind
you, to a team that just overcame a sixteen point fourth quarter deficit twin
consecutive home games. So there has to be some positive momentum, even though
the Elks are probably pretty far out of the playoff breaks at this point.
Yeah, it's interesting, and I don't know, like, yeah, here
we were calling for Chris Jones's head, you know, for weeks here,
and now it kind of looks like they've turned it around. And I don't
know if that was you know, obviously putting trade foward in and kind of
I will still never understand that entire scenario where you know, Chris Jones was
the one that you know, scouted it and signed trade foward. He was
the one that moved to draft him and they didn't want to play him.
And you know, I've heard like, oh the Victor Queen and there was
different sides forever. Evan, what are you grading, like, Coach Jones?
Performance on now because you know, if they come around here and at
least are respectable, you know, I don't hear people calling for Chris Jones's
head right now. Yeah, well, I mean Chris Jones obviously, you
know, since Trey Ford has been inserted into the line of this team looks
a lot more prepared and obviously a lot more competitive. I think that goes
without saying. But you know, for me personally, I even though even
during the period where the Elks were losing games and it looked like there was
no hope, I mean from the player personnel standpoint, I always thought they
had a lot of talent. And we just talked about a guy Kevin Brown.
We've mentioned him a couple of times on the show, but I feel
like he is continuously one of the most underrated running backs in the CFL.
And again, part of that might just be because the team wasn't winning,
there weren't a lot of people watching. But it's clear that this guy,
you know, has some serious, maybe all star level capability nearly definitely was
showing it in this game. And then obviously, like Gina Lewis, you
know, that was one of the big storylines, like him coming over to
Edmonton. We all thought that was kind of the big deal, especially because
you know, they didn't have Kenny Lawler anymore. They moved on from that
at and you know, Gino Lewis was kind of a big acquisition again coming
over from Montreal, and I'm in this game. You know, he showed
why you know, he's still important and why he's still one of the best
receivers in the league. Obviously, he's dealt with some injuries this year.
It's ultimately been a bit slower with the quarterback change and just an overall I
think slower offense at times. But I mean they're turning it around, you
know. And again I think Chris Jones and the rest of that ELX team
are extremely respectable right now. And it's been good. I mean, they
really did again, they have saved their season, I would say, because
right now I look at the Elex as a team that can win games and
that can compete with I wouldn't say the top teams in the league, but
they can certainly compete against, you know, teams I guess somewhat at their
level and maybe a bit above that. You know. I just I'm really
glad to see that because again, a couple of weeks ago, it was
almost like an apocalyptic scenario where the whole thing was gonna blow up. Everyone
was gonna get fired, no one was going to have a job. But
but now that's changed a bit, and I think that's really important, especially
for this team moving forward. A lot of what I look at is twenty
twenty four. You know, where is this team going to go after this
season? Because as much as there's been improvement, I mean, you can't
forget about, you know, what's happened before that and the victor Que departure.
You cannot overlook that. So I look at twenty twenty four and I
see there will still be some change, I think, but ultimately they have
some pieces there that I think they really need to keep and they can build
something off of. So ultimately, very happy with the direction things are heading
compared to again, what it was. I think we're all a bit happy
that it's just that ship has sailed and there's at least decent football that we
can watch from Edmonton. Now. I just yeah to me, and I
agree with you, like to me, I can see Edmonton. I can
see them progressing here and growing. I don't know, what to make of
Calgary and I have in this entire season and one week they're good and one
week they're bad. I mean, you know, we were hoping for a
little bit more separation here in the standings obviously, you know, with them
splitting the home at home, like Jason, you know what I'm saying,
Like I don't, I still don't know who Calgary is here. We're week
fourteen. Yeah, I think they're the most baffling team in the CFIL so
far of this season. And I think that the best way that I could
put it is that they lack composure out there, especially Layton games. They've
been in a lot of close games this year where they've just kind of lost
their composure and they haven't been able to close games out, whether that be
offensively and many times defensively as well. So I think back, if they
just win one or two of those games, I think back to that game
they played Dust and Crumb against Ottawall earlier this year. They win one of
those games or one or two of those games this season, They're in a
completely different different situation right now, and I feel like their season could be
in a different place. So I think it's quite baffling how they've been so
far this season. Yeah, we had a comment here and you know,
Evonton showing up and I had a tweet to pull up here to Evanton.
Crowd and oppressive through two thousand shows that they were a good team. They
would leave the league in attendance, and I had that. I had a
tweet from Dan bar and talking about that. You can just feel momentum going
right now in their direction. So I guess that's good. I mean,
they're probably gonna miss the playoffs and end up whatever, but at least,
like Evan said, looking forward to twenty twenty four, maybe we have some
hope any other players you want to highlight here, Evan, and then we
can give Jason his thoughts as well. I don't think so. Maybe if
I go back to Calgary, I mean Mark and Michelle and Reggie Bagelton.
I mean, those are definitely two players I think in Calgary that have stood
out all years, especially Bagelton because I mean, well he's been there for
a long time. Michelle obviously coming back later from the NFL. But you
know, those two guys I think are really holding a lot together right now.
And if you want to talk about Calgary in the big picture, I
can give my two cents on that, very similar thing to Edmonton. I
think there's change coming in twenty twenty four and this and this team for me
in twenty twenty three has been an extremely mixed bag. Some weeks, I
think there's still a playoff caliber team. Other weeks I think they need to
blow it all up and restart, and that I guess their ragin is kind
of overgiven how many years they've been in the playoffs. It's it's a challenging
time and I think there's probably a lot of mixed emotions and a lot of
different ways that this could go. Specifically with Jake Mayor, I feel the
same way. I was really excited, you know, when he came into
this season having full rain because believe I was gone. I had been waiting
on that for a long time. I've always talked about, you know,
Jake Mayor was one of the first guys I really dove deeply into with the
CFL, and he had an opportunity this year to take over the team and
be the quarterback. And so far, yeah, mixed bag. You know,
some weeks, like I saw him live this year in BC and you
know, that game it looked like he could have been benched. And then
there's other weeks where you know, he's dialing it up for three hundred,
three hundred fifty yards whatever, three touchdowns and you think, jeez, there's
lots of work with there. So again, depending on you know, what
happens when it comes to personnel and coaching, that might decide, you know,
where Jake Mayor is moving forward or what happens to him when his position
becomes But you know, Calgary, there's a lot of question marks there too
that they're definitely not They're definitely not safe just because they've been well off in
the past. I mean, football is a business. It only really matters
what you do now. You have great Calgary was in the playoffs for X
many years before this, but you know, one bad season can really change
the tide of things, especially when, as Jason mentioned, had you won
one or two more games, and they've been in so many close games this
year. You know, again, the other part of me feels like this
team could you know, almost have a winning record. They could be you
know, they could be a seven win team as opposed to a four win
team, and that would really I think change that the outlook of things.
So I don't know. Again, it's a complex issue. For the Calgary
Edmonton matchup intrigues me. Both of those have intrigued me the past two weekends,
just because I feel like there's so many different directions in where those teams
could go. I mean, you look at it's such a different scenario compared
to obviously like a Toronto or you know, Winnipeg, where you're not going
to change anything and everything just kind of works out as usual. But anything
can happen. That's that's my bottom that's my that's the bottom one. Yeah,
I mean the CFL seasons long. I think the alex had just stagged
themselves too big of a hole here at this point, Jason, any other
week of players you want to highlight on this before we move on. I
think I'm good for players I want to highlight. But I think that it's
interesting because Edmonton travels to Saskatchewan next week, obviously two really close games between
those two teams earlier this season. I am going to be taking Edmonton to
win that game spoiler alert. And I think for Calgary, their seasons basically
on life support after this loss, mainly because Hamilton's picked up a couple of
I wouldn't say an unexpected victory this week against Ottawa, but a couple of
weeks ago against BC Hamilton has one or two more victories then you know,
you would have expected at this point. I think Calgary was really banking on
that, and I think that the path forward for them to get into the
playoffs is almost impossible at this point, although you know, I think a
lot of things have to happen for them to get back into it well,
and it's certainly going here on the bye week doesn't help next week as well,
you know, in terms of kind of getting momented. I guess either
rework kind of whatever. But yeah, it does feel like they're going to
kind of be the last, the last thing kind of looking out. I
have the standing, sure, but I don't know, we'll see. It's
it's I would like to say we were home for a little bit more separation
there and kind of getting an identity of one of these teams moving on.
This was what was it? Was it last week or the week before.
We're claris through like six interceptions and then two of them were picked sixes and
they still won the game. I mean here to throw throw five touchdowns.
Very impressive day, very impressive, A working day from Blue Bomber. Is
probably the best game, you know, statistically Claris has had in a long
time. We'll go first, Evan here, fifty burger against SA scatchwin at
home. I mean the Riders just didn't show up. Yeah, Saskatchewan looked
shell shocked early, I think is the term I'll use. And Winnipeg,
you know, they're one of those teams where again I always talk about even
if this team has a fluke or a bad day as they did against Saskatchewan
in the Labor Day Classic, you know, they had a tight loss and
it was just I think that, you know, gave them motivation obviously to
go back and play Saskatchewan in Winnipeg. You know, the weekend after the
in the Banjo Bowl. Yeah, I was really impressed with Winnipeg. When
that team comes out firing, I mean they mean business like. It was
an absolute clinic. And I mean if you look at you know, Zach
Calero's eighteen of twenty one passing three hundred nineteen yards five touchdowns, I mean,
you know, the game, the game was over in the first half.
That that's all you really need to know. And I watched the first
half of this game and then I didn't watch anymore of that because obviously you
knew it was going to happen. But yeah, I again extremely impressed with
Winnipeg. But outside of Zach Colaros and their receivers, you know, putting
in a lot of the work, the one guy that I really want to
give credit to more than anybody is Bridy Olivera. We've obviously discussed him on
the show at some point this season, but you know, I feel like
I haven't given him enough credit. He's he's really been carrying the rock.
And again I think maybe we're just kind of used to it now so we're
a bit more quiet about it. But I really have to give some credit
to Brady Olivera. I mean, in this game specifically, he looked like
the best running back in the CFL, and you know, he's I would
definitely say, you know, he's up there when it comes to the a
j Olts and and the James Butler's of the world. I mean, he's
really doing a great job. So shout out to Brady Olivera. You know,
and he's been there now. I think this is his fourth season.
If you don't count the COVID year, I think he's been there since twenty
nineteen, so you know, he was still around when they had Andrew Harris
and he's been a really I guess you'd say developmental piece, but it's certainly
paid off. And you know, obviously in this game. You know,
I can't imagine how much it hurt for Saskatchewan. But the other guy too,
I mean Dalton Shone, you know, who was one of the top
receivers in the league last year. I mean, not not slowing down at
all. You know, five catches hundred four yards, three touched down,
and I think all those were in the first half as well. You know,
you just couldn't stop them. You just couldn't stop them. And Winnipeg,
you know, after they scored the first i'd say maybe two or three
touchdowns, I knew that the game was going to end up like this and
that there was no looking back. I mean, I'm surprised, you know,
Saskatchewan. The fact that that game was three nothing, with the Saskatchewan
lead at one point early in the first was incredible to me. I mean,
Winnipeg really just that they when they get hot, they get really hot,
and I think this was the best reminder of it that we've had in
quite some time. So I'll leave it at that. Yeah, I had
to put up here, Eddie Steel, friend of the show. Yeah great,
great, Alex come back tonight. But this story that he is,
it's when the PEG takes things very personally. They embarrassed rough Riders the way
that's quite possibly hard to do a pro football flab out Jason, when did
you make up those comments? And then the game? Oh well, I
mean, I just think the Bombers are just a team that has that championship
makeup and the ability to respond to, you know, tough games. And
I think that I can't think of the last time that this team's lost consecutive
games. I mean, you have to go back. I think they said
until twenty nineteen, they were saying on the broadcast, when Zach Claris wasn't
even there the last time they lost consecutive games. So, I mean,
they just have such a tough mentality as a team. And I mean this
game is just not unexpected for me. I think that going into this one,
I thought Winnipeg would probably bounce back in a big way. Didn't think
it was going to be fifty one to six. But at the same time,
I thought that Winnipeg would come out and make a statement in this one,
and I thought that, you know, the writer's defense was just overwhelmed
by that matchup against those Winnipeg receivers. Lawlorin shown just such a combination and
then Olivera really doing his thing. We have a really good competition for most
doubt standing Canadian in the CFL this year with Bets and Olivera. I think
it's gonna be really interesting to see what player takes hold of that down the
stretch. But Olivera, he keeps on putting up performances like this. He
could be in the MLP conversation as well. So I think that's basically all
I have to say it for this game. Range just rolled in here.
I'm sitting outside the vie. Hopefully I'm under an umbrellas. Hopefully it doesn't
get too crazy here, but we might have to relocate the bond the mark
house inside here and we'll see what's going on. Our doctors ran in.
Yeah, you know, Winnipeg has, like we said, that running up
ability here and certainly coming in and we know the divisional rivalry and kind of
all of that stuff, but really remarkable. And I don't know, I
can't get to beating up Saskatchewin either. I mean, I know they have
to come back last week and one, you know, the lay every day
game, but it doesn't feel like they're built to, you know, come
back for what is this you know, twenty? I mean this game was
over halftime. I mean they're down you know, what is it thirty?
I can't even do the math here. Craziness, Evan In terms of our
boy della galla, what did you make of him here in the first half
and at least they had a chance. Well, I mean the commentators were
saying, it's kind of hard to get a feel of what joke Jake Dola
galax used me did in that game because he just wasn't on the field that
much. You know, they had a lot of three and outs in Winnipeg
just kept scoring, and you know, there just wasn't really a whole lot
of opportunities for him. So I mean he was able to, you know,
still get the ball out a couple of times and finished with the respectable
completion percentage, but as you could obviously see, barely any yards and didn't
find the end zone. Yeah, really really just not much there. And
I mean you could say that about the entire Saskatchewan team on both sides of
the football. When you're only scoring six points in the game was over by
halftime. I mean, there's really just not a lot to discuss. I
mean just look at that graphic there. I mean, everything you know is
Winnipeg pretty much except for I guess what is that lost? Yeah yeah,
yeah, yeah, So as you can tell, I mean that's what that
graphic pretty much defines what domination means in a football game in terms of the
rivalry here, Jason. I mean, you know we're here, We're fifty
fifty over the weekend, you know, between the two weegands. But I
would certainly say that Winnipeg came out of the home at home. We'll get
a little bit better. What did you make of that? Just the divisional
rivalry of it. Oh. I think Saskatchewan's probably happy that they were even
able to steal one of these games. I mean, I think it's gonna
be interesting to see how they respond going forward, because I think this kind
of reminds me of how audible was earlier this season. They had the two
dramatic victories against Winnipeg and Calgary and then they've slid ever since. Then,
will so Scatchewan have a slump after this game. We'll have to see if
they kind of got exposed by Winnipeg in this one and if they kind of
go on a slide of their own here. Yeah, I was at the
Mariner game last night with Matt Baker or the BC Lions and I we were
talking the alliance here and I said, if VC does not win at home
against Ottawa, like I'm calling the season like this is it? I mean,
you know, like Ottawa has has fallen off a cliff and we'll get
to all of that, but I mean, yeah, you're certainly looking you
look at these scenes differently. I don't know Saskatchewan. I can't get a
beat for either. It feels like kind of like you know, last week
crazy and the big dramatic, you know, they won right in overtime and
everything, and then here I don't know they It's to me, it's still
kind of disabled rough riders. Evan, any other thoughts on this one,
I don't think so. I do agree with the point that Saskatchewan, you
know, they definitely fluctuate a bit too, but fortunately for them, you
know, they're on the winning side of things like that. I've I've brought
this up with so many points during the season, but I viewed Saskatchewan in
Calgary for a long time in similar ways because they were both in a playoff
race and you didn't really know how to feel about him, like on a
week to week basis just changed so much. But ultimately, again Saskatchewan,
there's now a five hundred and they have an opportunity to get back over five
hundred where they were going into this game, So you know, things are
still I think looking upward for them. Jake Dela Gala has really improved in
a short amount of time. I know there was some questions around him too,
but clearly I think he's the better option than Mason Fine, and I
had a hunch that that was always the case even before he really got onto
the field. Told Gal I'm talking about but uh, yeah, I mean,
ultimately, Saskatchewan just you know, I don't know, Yeah, I
mean, when you lose fifty one to six, it's it's kind of hard
to take away positives from that. But I do think that, you know,
this is far from the end of the road for them. Obviously,
it is really right now I'm trying. Wasn't I wasn't prepared for this.
I know I was looking here in the schedule, you know, next week
obviously Saskatchewan going into Ottaway, you know that that should be a win.
You know, we gotta see here BC. I mean, they've got a
couple of easy games with you know, ottawat home, and then here going
into Edmonton. I would like to think the BC Lions will be favored Edmonton.
So we'll kind of see how these standings shake out. But I don't
know. To me, it's still gonna be I don't know. I see
this semifinals, you know, Saskatchewan comes into BC and loses the same way
Calgary did last year. I mean, do you see the division shaking out
differently here? Jason? I think that no. I think I think the
standings as they are are the standings that we're gonna get at the end of
the season. I think that Calgary's not gonna be able to catch Hamilton.
Calgary's not gonna be able to catch the Scotch one. So I think at
the end of the day, you know, unless there's a collapse from both
of those teams and Calgary does something super unexpected because I think Ottawa and Edmonton
I think they're a little bit too far out of it to make a run
at this point. We'll have this conversation later, obviously towards the end of
the season, but Calgary, are we expecting the wholesale changes after the season?
I feel like they got to do something here after coming up short in
the last few years. Jason, Oh, No, I don't think there
will be changed, at least in terms of the GM and head coach position.
I think Dave Dickinson will be given another year to sort things out.
Whether that's right or wrong. I think a lot of it the blame actually
does should be assigned to him because of the poor play calling and misusage of
some of the weapons that they've had on that offense this year. But I
think one movie could see is that he takes hold of the offensive coordinator job
again, So maybe he becomes just like Chris Jones holding three job there in
Calgary. But he was an offensive coordinator with this team before when he was
the head coach at the start, and that's actually how we got the head
head coaching job in Calgary. He was the offensive coordinator and got promoted a
head coach, so I could see him taking hold of the offensive coordinator job
again and you know, trying to get the things back on the rails here.
But I think at the end of the day, maybe Jake Marre gets
ousted as the starter here. But I don't know. I'm really not sure
what to makeup Calgary in terms of what they're going to be doing going into
the offseason, because they've never quite been into this position before since I started
watching the CFL. That's my thing is you said, yeah, do you
move on for Mayor? And I would ask the same thing, but you're
like, well who, I who else do you go with? I don't
I don't even know. I don't you know if if Mayor is not the
guy, Evan any thoughtsand now there's anything else on this game before we move
on? Well, I mean, I think if we want to talk about
Calgary and Jake Mayor again briefly, you know, yeah, I mean the
big question is, like, in my opinion, you don't move on from
Jake because Mayor has been in that system now for its going on. Well
this is year three and you know, yeah, I mean, like you
could replace them if you really felt like that, but that obviously involves,
you know, trading for somebody, and you might be giving up a lot
of additional assets that you're not ready to move on from. You don't want
to take that jump. And like if you're just gonna if your plan is
to just sign a new quarterback, well, I mean we look at the
quarterback pool right now, I mean even at the NFL level when it comes
to free agency, just not a whole lot of guys available that necessarily look
better than you know, what Jake Mayor offers right now up there in Calgary.
So yeah, I don't know. Again, this is a complex issue,
right. I think it all comes down to the people who are making
those decisions, and they'll obviously make the decisions that they feel are right,
and they have a lot more knowledge of those situations than we do just sitting
here talking about it. But will be an interesting storyline to follow with Calgary
more than anybody, because, as Jason has pointed out, they just they
don't lose, you know, not a losing team. They don't have a
losing culture. Yes, they're not necessarily Winnipeg or Toronto becoming a perennial championship
caliber team, but they're always in the playoffs and they're always competing, and
this year, I mean, it just really hasn't felt like that for a
majority of it. Let's move on here. We have in Montreal and Toronto.
I don't know, I'm really curious here with Montreal back to five hundred,
they had stacks and wins earlier in the season, felt like they were
getting momentum. Obviously, coming into Toronto is a difficult task and they're kind
of on a different level this year. We had Mike Hogan on the podcast
talking about that and just kind of historically how they are right now. Jason,
what do you make of Montreal and it seems like they're season I mean,
okay, we're still second in the East, but it doesn't feel like
they have a lot of juice right now. Yeah. I think I sound
like a broken record here every time I talk about the Alouettes, But I
mean like they're just kind of stuck in the middle. They can beat every
other team in the CFL other than Toronto, BC and Winnipeg. So after
next week they played Toronto again, so they're going to probably be six and
seven after next week, but then the schedule lightens up after that and they
don't play any of those big three teams. Again, I don't believe.
So, I mean, do they run the table and go to eleven and
seven this year. That's quite possible given what we've seen from them so far
this season. But I also think their offense has really regressed. I think
that one quote from the broadcast that really stout to me was Paul Appolie saying
that he was looking at Montreal during the week. He was saying that the
explosive plays from Montreal the first five weeks of the season, they were one
of the best teams in the CFL at creating explosive place but that's dropped off
dramatically since the first five weeks of the season. So, I mean,
I think that kind of tells a lot of the story. With the Alouette's
offense, it's really been poor the last month or so. Yeah, this
is what kills. I mean, this is I know, sports in general,
and you know, we're living through this right now with the Mariners and
we're you know, we're in the Al West and trying to kind of compete
for one of those playoff spots and yeah, we went into Tampa over the
weekend and then just got completely host right, and you're like, well,
yeah, but if we win, I like, yeah, but even then,
if you get to the playoffs, you're not gonna win any of these
games, right, You're not gonna win, you know, Like you're saying,
Okay, Montreal can win except you know, any good teams. Okay,
well you know, so then okay, we make it to the first
round of the playoffs and then kind of but what and what you know,
at what point? Right? You know, with some of these players.
I remember on Good Morning Football they were saying, like, you know,
some of these players like I don't want to make the playoffs, Like if
we're not gonna like, I'd rather take vacation early. Like what's the point
of making it to the first round of the playoffs just to get blown out?
I mean the Seahawks did that last year against the forty nine ers.
I don't know, Evan, what do you make Montreal here? It really
seems like they're kind of faltering. Well, it's Jason pointed out. The
biggest problem all season has been their their failure to separate themselves. You don't
know what exactly they are and you don't know what they aren't because they are
spack dab in the middle. Like it is the hardest definition of being in
the middle that I've seen in a long time. You cannot beat the teams
above you, but you'll beat every buddy below you. And until that changes
that, Like, I just I really can't define an identity for that team
right now. I will say I do agree. I think the offense is
there's definitely some questions there. You know, started off the season started off
and it looked like they were they were looking pretty good on offense. They
were rolling again. They still have a lot of pieces. I like,
I feel like their offense has one of the higher ceilings in the league,
but they necessary they don't. I wouldn't say they haven't tapped into that exactly.
So yeah, you know, down the stretch, like if I mean
they play they play Toronto next week, is Jason pointed out, you go
to six and seven and then maybe you're at eleven and seven at the end
of the season if everything goes right, I'd say realistically, more like ten
and eight, you know, but then yeah, like they're gonna get into
the playoffs, and it's just gonna be I mean, I don't want to
say pointless, because those players are still playing for something and they're still motivated
and they're still very talented. But it's gonna be really difficult, and everyone
already knows, you know, what's like to happen. So I don't know,
like at ten and eight, did you accomplish something in the season,
Yes, but you didn't win in the playoffs, So it just kind of
feels like like the year isn't wasted, but it's also like you left a
lot on the table. Again, just a very interesting position. But I
feel like the Alouettes in the playoffs will certainly look better than say Hamilton's,
you know, the whole Hamilton's situation might take away from some of what Montreal
has going on in terms of their struggles, just because you know, people
are gonna look at the tie Cats and think, geez, I mean,
that's gonna be one of the worst, you know, playoff teams maybe ever
or certainly in the last couple of years like that. Just not a very
good looking team in multiple facets of the game. So again, it's it's
been that all has to do with just how the season is played out in
the standings, some very unique things going on, and you know, it
looks like we're gonna have a well, just given how just described Montreal,
it looks like we're gonn have, like, you know, two teams in
the playoffs that wouldn't be considered competitive and you know, ultimately swayed in many
different directions during the regular season. But anything could happen. You know,
I'm still confident to a team like Montreal, you know, even with their
struggles and even with their you know, inability to separate, could still go
out and stun somebody and surprise somebody, just because again they have enough talent
and the personnel to get it done. And Hamilton, I mean, dare
I say it? I don't know. I really don't know. I don't
have a good feeling, but it could certainly happen. We will get into
the Hamilton Ottawa game. But there was a lot of things that I liked
in that game from Hamilton, even though it was really slow and there was
still a lot of sloppy play, and a lot of people, you know,
weren't gravitating towards that. I try and I always try and look at
the positives I think people you know, know that for me best, I
really don't try and be negative. So the best way I can look at
this is, uh, you know, Montreal, they might not necessarily have
a clear path or direction, but they have enough to where you know you
could never rule them out. And even with Hamilton, like, it's not
a good look for the league when you have a team that you know hasn't
performed very well in the regular season and had to make a significant coaching change
at least with one of their coordinators, you know, maybe that's not the
best look either. But you know, playoffs, in my opinion, is
a separate like yeah, like we just had this discussion of is making it
to the playoffs and knowing you're most likely to lose in the first round even
worth it. Well, I view the playoffs is a completely different season.
I mean, your playoff wins are not counted towards your win loss total for
the regular season. Same you know, same goes like preseason in the NFL,
and CFL has that as well, So I don't know, I just
view it as like a fresh start. You know, you kind of have
to look at it as every team in the playoffs who makes it is O
and O and we'll just go from there. Obviously, we know we have
an idea in our heads about how things will pay out. But I remember
last year, like, you know, everyone thought Winnipeg was gonna smoke Toronto
in the Gray Cup, and you know, Toronto ended up putting up a
very good fight even after losing their quarterback, and ended up, you know,
surprising Winnipeg in one of the better games that I think we've seen in
a while in that regard. So yeah, I don't know, I know
that's that goes a bit beyond just Montreal, but you definitely you can't talk
about that team without you know, like where are they going, like if
you know, even if they get into the playoffs, like what does the
future look like? There's still a lot of questions there. But again,
the number one thing is they're still winning to some degree. Yes they're not
beating the good teams, but you are still winning and it looks like they're
going to finish their season with a positive record, and I'd say that's a
win just because again, there were so many people before the season saying Montreal
was going to suck and they were going to be at the bottom of the
East and miss playoffs entirely. So when you look at it like that,
it's like, okay, well they you know, managed to defy expectations in
some regards. So yeah, I think that's where I'm at on that.
I was looking here at the schedule as Jason was saying, Yeah, Montreal
could very much run the table here after their game next week against Toronto,
we have the Evanton Elks hanging out in the chat. Shout out Kevin Brown
here. We already gave him his roses, analyzed all of that, so
shout out if that's Richard or whoever over there, but shout out Edmonton Elks
hanging out in the chat. I had a couple of things here, all
right. So Toronto clinch right their first first first team to clinton the playoffs
this year. We had a tweet from you know, John Hodge, Toronto's
might as well. I started selling their tickets at the East Final. Right
now, the guy between them and the rest of the division is a chasm.
What do you make We've talked to Montreal at Jason, what do you
make Toronto here? Historic run they're having this season, Yeah, I mean
they've just slowly built a juggernaut over the last three seasons. I mean it
started back in twenty twenty one, because back in twenty nineteen they had a
god awful season. They finished I believe it was four and fourteen and then
made wholesale changes. But then the first move was really bringing in Ryan Dinwin
and just developing slowly, you know, having good seasons. I think they
went on eleven and seven the previous two seasons. They're far going to surpass
that this year with already a ten and one record, and I think that,
you know, introducing Chad Kelly to this lineup has turned this team into
a juggernaut. And I mean it's not just that they do everything in all
phases of the game so well. I mean even down to their special teams.
They have excellent, excellent special teams. They have you know, excellent
receivers. I love the way the receiving corps works together, even though they
may not have that true number one star guy they look like look for like
Kenny Lawler or a Dalton shown, but I mean they worked so well together
with their different skill sets to VARs Daniels, Cam Phillips, all those guys
in there. So I think they just have a very well rounded team.
And it feels like, as it pertains that these two teams that met in
the East Final last year, the gap is widening between these two teams,
not getting closer. So I think that's the most concerned thing if you're Montreal,
and it's a great sign if you're the argost. The only reason I
co signed this the Argonauts being good this year is Mike Mitchell just watched this
starting quarterback and the Jets go down two minutes, you know, two minutes
into their drive last night. So that's okay, the Argonauts can be good
this year because I think Mike Mitchell needs that for his part. Yeah,
I'm really crazy. I found, if you guys, good viewership on the
episode. I've thought over the weekend the Banja Bowl show with Mike Hogan and
everyone else, you know, Mike obviously with the organization, but really just
put in the context statistically and kind of historically, how impressive that, you
know, the Toronto has been this season, especially Evan, what do you
make of, you know, Chad Kelly, anything else with the Argos,
because we got your thoughts on the outlets, right, I mean, well,
again, not much to be said with Toronto, just we're getting used
to this now and it's similar to Winnipeg, Like when this team gets hot,
they can get really hot and just roll over somebody and they don't look
back. They just have that. They do have that championship pedigree now fortunately
for them, and Chad Kelly I think continues to exceed everybody's ex dictations.
It cannot be understated how quickly of a rise that he's had. I mean
this time a year ago, Chad Kelly was almost an afterthought. You know,
we were all looking at mclude Bethel Thompson and what his future was going
to look like. But now obviously Chad Kelly has come in and kind of
he's I guess passed the torch on successfully or while McLeod has passed the torch
on successfully to Chad Kelly, and he's carrying that with pride. And yeah,
I mean again, I've said it so many times, but you just
can't understand what a great story Chad Kelly is. And uh, you know,
there's so much football lineage obviously in his family, but on the personal
level, everything that he went, you know through, and he obviously had
some legal issues and I think ultimately his character kind of kept him away from
the NFL. Not the first time we've seen, I guess an All League
player have that scenario where you know they the NFL kind of kicked him out
because they had an attitude or whatever. I mean, you can make that
argument for I don't know, Mark kt King in the XFL, or obviously
Josh Gordon involves some some politics things like that. But Chad Kelly really exceeding,
defying all expectations. And you know, we discussed this on the show
last week too. I think, but just signed a big extension and he
is their quarterback of the future and you can tell he really enjoys playing up
there. And I believe one of the clauses in that contract is, you
know, he might get more money or there's some added incentive if he doesn't
leave and go to an NFL team, you know, to where they have
to you know, let him go into a camp and then bring him back.
So there's definitely a high level of commitment there, and I think,
you know, Toronto really wants him to stay. And despite what a lot
of people also thought, I think Chad Kelly looks like he wants to stay.
You know, he's enjoying slinging the football up north of the border,
and uh, you know, just again good for him, good for the
team. We will probably I have a feeling we'll be seeing them in November
there in Hamilton's Yeah, I you know, even as this Aaron Rodgers situation,
and we were have been talking all day about you know, who can
they go after, and people been tweeting, like you know, obviously we
made the joke about the Nathi the war, but like you know, nath
Wark's not on that conversation. Chack Kelly is not, you know these are
I mean, we're still talking Carson Wentz. He's at there hunting deer in
the woods, and we're still giving carton Carson Lentz, who you know,
I had to survive a year with him last year with the Washington Commanders,
like where other name. I think Jack Kelly is in a phenomenal situation.
Like I said on the show last week, I think he looks like he
is having an absolute blast. He got paid, the guys love him.
It's a great coaching staff. I mean Toronto, like you said, Evan
has this choir whoever was has quietly been putting together a jugger. Not here,
Jason anything else on the argos or aulettes. Here is really rating.
This is I keep sliding over. That's the dog's gone inside waters. I'm
falling off the umbrel here, Jason, anything else from this, Yeah,
I just want to shout out the Argo's offensive line because I think it's an
undertalked part of their team. One specific example I want to bring up because
this guy has become a star for this team, Ryan Hunter. He was
a guy that the argo Is selected in the first round back in twenty eighteen,
So they had to wait four years for this guy to, you know,
go through his NFL opportunities. But he was a Kansas City for a
while and then he was with someone else, but then he signed midway through
last year, gone into the starting lineup by the end of last year,
and then this year has been excellent for them, and it looks like to
be a CFL star fears to come. So I think they've done a really
good job building up that offensive line and I think that's a big part of
what they do offensively. Let's go here. Last game, I'm trying to
shake a water water off the umbrella here. We have a tie Cats going
in to Ottawa. I had Tim Bayans on talking about this game ahead of
time. We'll go first see Jason on this one. Hamilton takes the lea.
You know you got another victory here. How did you make of Hamilton?
Well, like I was saying on last week's show, last week's recap
show, that I was expecting hamilton to bounce back despite being on three days
rest, despite Ottawa coming off a bye week, I still thought Hamilton would
bounce back and beat Ottawa. And this one despite all of that, and
I think that, you know, it was a lot closer than I was
expecting. Very ugly first half of this one, six three in the first
half, but a great second half from both offenses really came alive. I
had to watch this game you on demand after the fact because I was on
a camping trip this weekend, But I thought it was a pretty good game
when I went back and watched it. But like I said, Ottawa just
cannot beat Hamilton's for the life of them. This is their tenth straight lost
Hamilton. They've now Hamilton's now swept the season series four years in a row
against Ottawa, and I think that you're not going to get very far in
the CFL if you're not going to win your divisional games, and I don't
think Ottawa's won a divisional game yet this year. Yeah, a lot was
made about, you know, the Hamilton's playing that they're on rest and they
got to travel and they played on Monday, Like it didn't matter at all.
I mean, this was a must win for both teams, especially Ottawa.
Like he said, I will stay with the now. The NFL,
the triple headers with the CFL makes it really difficult if you're on the CFL
plus train. And then we've had many discussions about how great that is for
everyone, like if you like, if you're out on a Saturday, which
maybe I was, like, you're kind of out of luck to do a
lot of these games. And so I know that this season and we're working
through that, and we had Randy on the podcast talking about it, but
like it's tough, Like Evan, I don't know if you live through that
as well, Like we had a we had a birthday party we had to
go to Saturday, Like it just takes a chunk out of your ability to
kind of watch these games live. Yeah, I mean, you know,
I personally have a good chunk of time on weekends usually, so I don't
mind. I mean, I you know, I'll watch I'll watch games and
chunks, Like if it's a triple header, you know, you watch one
half, go do something else, come back, the next game will be
on or whatever. I don't know. You can schedule it to where,
you know, things where you can cover all the games or at least look
at them. But I understand, I mean, you know, people have
other things to do, and especially on a Saturday. I mean, you
know, I know the CFL wants to avoid NFL fell you know, with
that scheduling conflict, but you're also dealing with like college football, which is
equally as big here in the United States. So if you're looking at looking
at it from an international viewership perspective, you know, you're still competing with
that. And ultimately, yeah, I mean, it is easier to have
like a game, you know, kind of one day of the week starting
on Thursday or Friday, whatever, you know, or maybe maybe two games
max on a certain day. But yeah, tripleheaders could get difficult. I
personally, I don't know, I kind of enjoy them just because when I
have, you know, time to kill, it's like, you know,
you can just kind of sit there all day and kind of you know,
figure out the flow of things, and you know, unfortunately every game probably
isn't going to be close. But staying on this game, I mean,
yeah, I was really impressed in the second half of how both of these
teams kind of got going, especially Hamilton. My main takeaway from this game
above everything else, and besides what Jason's already pointed out, you know how
Ottawa just just can't get past Hamilton. That really is the unfortunate story of
their season. Besides injuries at this point and other things that maybe weren't expected,
the thing that I was really impressed about was just just Taylor Powell.
He has come such a long way since his first started when he first appeared
in a game, has really carried this team through the season and now that
obviously in a point where they can make playoffs, even when a lot of
people said they wouldn't. I said several weeks ago the Hamilton again had the
personnel to get it done, that they had things in their favor even if
they weren't the prettiest team. And you know, Taylor Powell has definitely been
a leader and has gotten him to that point that I projected they would be
again, just it's really cool to see a rookie quarterback come in and again
we can kind of just watch him developed game by game. I mean,
if you go back, you know, to whenever he first started, I
think he's improved in so many areas since then, perhaps more than any other
guy in the league. I mean, I don't know, like Trey Ford,
I guess, but I don't know if that really counts because he played
last year and it was more of a dramatic scenario, whereas no one really
even knew who Taylor Powell was going into this season. I think he was
an afterthought even to the fans in Hamilton's just because is it. You know,
there was so much attention around believe I. And then if that doesn't
work out, well you have Matt Schiltz, who's a proven veteran. But
obviously both of those options went went quickly off the board and now you have
Taylor Powell leading the way. Dustin Crum I guess would be another one too
in Ottawa, obviously a guy that we've been able to see develop a bit.
But I feel like Powell will get more credit because he has ultimately been
able to put this team in a playoff position when to be honest, I
mean again, things a couple of weeks ago look pretty grim for Hamilton too,
Like you, talking about this team and the playoffs together, really didn't
seem like like it was gonna happen. It didn't really seem possible. But
just with the way again things have panned out, Hamilton has been able to
scrape by enough, even if it's not pretty like same thing in this game,
they kind of got into a late shootout, but they got the job
done. They got enough, and now it looks like, you know,
they can make the final push and get in. So yeah, it was
very impressed with that Hamilton. You know, continuing again, Orlando Steinerer,
I would never count that guy out. I really do think he has a
certain pedigree and he can really take a team that on paper, really you
know, was one of the bottom teams in the CFL and propel them to
this position where you know, they can still again, like I've said,
win games being a playoff position, you know, have a decent, decent
program going on both sides of the ball. Really impressive on that front,
and I think that was my main takeaway from this game overall. Remember in
the preseason, our pregame whatever it was, the pre show for the kickoff,
and I said, I bet you both leave. I is going to
come in an old guy not work out in Hamilton, Aaron Rodgers. Old
guy gonn not work out in you know Jets. I mean just just saying,
anyway, Jason, how are you feeling here? Like? I feel
like this is very similar. I'm looking at the games coming up, and
Hamilton does not have an easy stretch. They're playing in Toronto here and what
is it there? Winnipeg at Hamilton next week, then they are at Toronto
and then their schedule item's up a little bit. We got Calgary coming in
and they're going to Saskatchewan. But the same issue here, I mean,
so probably going to be tyecast Outlettes and then them going into the buzz side
that is the Argonauts. Like, what do you make of this playoff picture
here? Well, it's nice to get a win, but when you look
at it, three of their five wins this year have been against Ottawa,
So I don't know how you can be happy with that as a Tycats fan.
I mean I think that you know, there's other things that have gone
on this year unfortunate with the quarterback injuries. But Taylor Powell is playing pretty
well right now and it's good to see him get a lot of reps because
he might actually be this team starting quarterback. Looking forward to next year,
as you were talking about earlier, not too many great options out there if
you're looking for a starting quarterback, so maybe just develop your own and go
the cheap quarterback route and kind of build a good roster around him. So
I mean, at the end of the day, I don't know. I
think Hamilton is going to make the playoffs just based on the poor teams around
them. I think that Calgary is not going to be able to catch the
I think if Calgary had won this week, they would have been in a
much better position to potentially catch Hamilton. But now they're a full game behind.
You know, there's no tiebreaker with the crossover. They have to have
a better record than Hamilton in order to get into the playoffs. Ottawa's too
far behind now. I think Ottawa's completely out of it. So I think
Hamilton's gonna make the playoffs, but they're gonna be an easy first round exit
again against Montreal, and Montreal has really taken them to school the first couple
of matches they've seen between those two teams this season as well. So I
mean really don't know how to feel as a tie Cats fan. I think
they're going to make the playoffs, but I think they're they're really disappointing season
regardless. Yeah, I don't want to say it's boring, you're predictable,
but it does feel you know, I'm having fun doing all these games,
but it does feel like it's it's going to be kind of a repeated last
year here, you know, Montreal, Toronto, BC, Winnipeg with Saskatchewan
being slipped out there for Calgary kind of losing that home game on that one
more question that Jason, And then we'll go to Evan Pale and Crum like
are both of these teams riding with their quarterbacks next year? And then we
touched Pal but I mean Crum like, you know, if Missoli's done,
and like, I don't know how this auto address this. Yeah, it's
tough. Like I think that, you know, Drew Brown could be an
option for one of these teams because obviously I think both of those guys,
as we talked about with Naylor a couple of weeks ago. I think both
of those guys, you know, with Clarissa now under a contract. I
think Drew Brown's gonna be a guy that prices himself at a Winnipeg with what
he's shown, So maybe he gets a deal somewhere, but I mean,
I think that more likely. I think we see both of these teams stick
with their guy going into next year, unless you know, Bolivia comes back
looks great at the end of this season, or you know, Matthew Scheltz
comes back and shows somewhat of a consistent streak of health. I mean,
I just think that, you know, Taylor Pale is probably your starting quarterback
for the Ambleton Tiger Cats next season, but obviously a long way to go
until then. Are we still waiting by leave I coming back? Is that
still a pipe dream here? Oh? Well, I mean they they seemed
like they were more optimistic about that than you know, the rough Riders were
about you know, Trevor Harris coming back. I think they talked about that.
They were like very affirmative, saying, oh, he will make a
full recovery, is expected to be back this season. That's what they said
in the press release. But yeah, who knows and I think Matthew Schultz
is very close to returning. He actually dressed for this game as the third
quarterback, so maybe he's starting in a couple of weeks. But I think
at this point you should just ride with Powell and get the young guys some
reps. Evan, we saw your boy Kai locksleague and a snap Powell guy
got really hit pretty hard that during the first quarter. What did you make
of the tie cats here coming in? Yeah, like I said, I
mean, you know, ultimately this season there's a lot of questions and you
don't know what the future is going to look like. But I agree.
I mean I've I've said before, you know, just seeing Taylor Powell's development,
he can start for this team. And I agree with Jason, like,
regardless of whatever else was on the table, a lot of times you
just want to roll with what works. I mean, bringing Matt Schiltz back
into the game, I wouldn't be against that, but like he hasn't played
in so long, and you know, I mean that that's a good friend
of mine, but just from the football perspective, like he hasn't played in
a while, and you know, I'm sure the team is looking at it
like Taylor Powell just went out there through for over three hundred yards three touchdowns.
Why would you want to get rid of him? You know, why
would you want to pull him? Like they could really have something here and
looking forward, Yeah, I don't know what Bolivi's future looks like. And
even even Matt Schilts, both of those guys could be gone next year and
you just have Taylor Powell sort of the in house developmental guy, and you
know, someone else behind him, whether they keep Kay Locksley there is kind
of a hybrid or bringing someone else, you know, I think they have
Who else do they have right now at quarterback? Do they have Antonio Pipkin
or is that Scatche? He's in the scatch one now? Okay, Well,
I don't know. I mean they could certainly bring in somebody else behind
Taylor Powell, I think next year, assuming that Shilts and and Believe ire
gone, but the team as a whole. I mean, the guy that
really impressed I think more than anybody outside of Taylor Powell on in the Hamilton's
side was Tim White. You know, they were talking about him at the
start of the game, and I mean he really, you know, turned
up there when it when it mattered most and then Tyreet McAllister had a touchdown
in this game to a name that people should not quickly forget. Even if
he isn't always the most productive, he flashes a lot and he's one of
those pieces where you know, he hasn't done a ton this year. Again,
he's flashed a couple of things, but that to me is one of
those key pieces that Hamilton should stick with moving forward, regardless of how they
you know, move on in the off season and handle some of their situations.
I think Tyreet McAllister is definitely a building block for that offense and what
they want to do. Just a really cool player all around, and you
know, we'll see what happens there, but definitely rooting for him and again
someone that you just shouldn't forget about quickly. I feel like next year could
be a very big year for him, assuming he's a bit more consistent and
he can get some more reps. But ultimately, Hamilton's got things to work
with. Even though again, as we've already discussed, maybe not their best
season, given what's happened well compared to previous years, I'd say, well,
this is good. We'll start to wind up that paid I gotta escape.
I was like, did I hear all tho? I'm out there.
I don't know what's happening in Seattle. Maybe the roof will be closed for
the Mariner game tonight. We'll started to put this to bed. You know,
I appreciate everyone today, and you know, Jason had to work and
I had to work, and Evan that class so kind of doing that.
We're all kind of moving around. But I appreciate everyone kind of doing that.
It should be a good show this Friday. I think we got Jeff
Hamilton coming on in Dan Ralph, and then I believe I will be talking
to a Monzo Seewell over with the Alouettes. And then I think we have
Matthew Betts coming on. So I've been going back and forth. Baker and
I were at the game last night, so I think that Matthew Betts will
be coming on. I was trying to work on They've got like the CFL
Hall of Fame inductions and trying to do some virtual step, but I don't
know if Lucas will be able to accommodate Pat or not. Evan anything else
from you, and then we'll Jason sagabye, No, I don't. I
don't think so. I think I'm just looking forward to Week fifteen, and
well, I think the craziest part that we can end on is, you
know Week fifteen starts here on Friday and three days from when we're recording this,
and I mean, you know, Week twenty one is the last week
of the season, so it really feels like the home stretch. I mean,
we've been talking now a couple past couple of weeks, teams are really
starting to separate themselves, but now it almost feels like crunch time, kind
of like you know on Red Zone, they call it the witching hour,
you know, where we're start separating themselves. That that's what it kind of
feels like right now. I mean, we just went over so many scenarios.
It's like we have a good idea, but there's still a lot of
teams that could you know, surprise and pull through at the end. So
definitely getting into again sort of the the Red Zone here, my my blasphemous
I've never watched Red Zone, and like we have the one now, we
have the YouTube TV plan where we get the games, but I think you
had to even pay more to get the red zone, and so I had
my I had my my quad box up on Sunday, but I did not
have it, and I have the red zone. Jason, anything else from
you? Any other content you have coming out this week before the weekend?
Ah? Well tonight. I actually I'm going to be part of another stream
for my NFL show recapping Week one in the NFL. So tune over to
Coast to Coast Gridiron. That's the guy I collaborate with for that, so
much similar to this show. We just talked about that week that was and
everything like that. I'm much like Evan. I'm just super excited for this
time of year. I mean, the CFL's in its stretch run, the
NFL's back. It's really a glorious time of year if you're a football fan.
So really excited for the coming weeks. But pretty soon, like Evan
said also that football is going to be over pretty soon in terms of the
CFL. We'll make sure you give the Washington Commanders win enough credit here on
the Week one. That was a tough game we play, and I appreciate
that and Sam Howe and everything else I like and subscribe thumbs up the video
go if you're not, obviously. I think everyone here's probably subscribed to Jason,
but make sure you do that. I appreciate it. Like I said,
everyone working schedules this week. I rain's picking up again, so I'm
going to get the heck out of here. We'll see you, Hasteks.