Well, happy Marcus, Monday here back inside home studio here. Well,
we'll get back in the in the home office with the lights and everything here
eventually. But I always liked the casual nature of the Monday morning once.
Here have Jason Sandy bye. I think Evan's getting logged in here. We'll
get it going early Monday. Jason, I don't like you very much today
because your your Buffalo bills to the slacking of my Washington commanders. How are
you? I'm doing good rate. A little bit of a mixed weekend obviously,
with the Bills beating your commanders yesterday, but the Tiecats giving Clawberd on
Saturday, So a bit of a mixed weekend for me, But overall I'm
doing good. Yeah. I like Mariners got swept in Texas. We're going
to see them tonight. Houston's coming here. Obviously, BC Lions one commander's
law. Seahawks are barely hanging in there. They got over the Panthers or
the Andy Dalton, which it says. I don't know if that says more
or less than you want to know about the Seahawks, but yeah, it
was a mixed bag. And then obviously I got my crack and had on
preseason. Starting tonight, we're doing the split squad. I think half the
guys are going to Calgary. I'm not quite sure how that works. But
a lot of other news here. Obviously, we've been talking to XFL stuff
and the NSFL and the hubbs and all that. We're gonna leave that all
on the table today. We're gonna talk to CFL. Overall a little bit
of a sleepy weekend. It's hard with these NFL games that compete. Why
did you make overall the sleep Yeah, I would say it was one of
the weaker weekends of the season. I think that, you know, I
thought the BC and Edmonton game. I watched that one. It was pretty
entertaining I think throughout, but at the end of the day it wasn't really
that great of a finish either. So I mean, just one of the
weaker weekends of the season, and hopefully we get better enough in the coming
weeks. You see here this CFL I was still not working on. This
is zero's across the bore an exciting times here. Let's start here. Let's
start with the one that you were at Bebo Field. Tikat's going in.
This is weird and like I talked with whoever the heck was on the show
this last week, Derrek Taylor, kind of everyone else, Like Toronto's in
a weird spot. Now we don't need to play, we want to play,
we don't want to be you know, it's like that rest first for
us, it's just weird where it's not a week or two out where,
you know, we're five six weeks out here. What did you make of
the effort tront to put on I know Cam Phillips did not play. He
was on the show this last week as well. What did you make of
Toronto's roster? Well, I think the major difference between the roster compared to
normal was Ajo Alette. They rested him for this game. Andrew Harris was
put on the six game injured list, I think trying to get him ready
for the playoffs. So those are just the main differences from the roster.
And they just really kind of hit the ground running and this one and we're
able to really just take it to the tie Cats once again. It's like
I was saying before after Labor Day, I've seen this game like three times
this year, Like it's the exact same game. The Argos pull away in
the first quarter and Hamilton tries to play catch up the rest of the game,
and they just simply cannot do it against this team. They're just such
a talent gap, it seems between these two organizations right now. Are you
surprised that we're not seeing that Chad's still running out there? I mean,
he did not have the cleanest game. He had the two picks and it
was almost two picks sixes, right if I was kind of watching like we're
not seeing Brian Scott, we're not seeing Ben Holmes, we're not seeing anyone
else. Yeah, I'm kind of surprised that he stayed as latentto the game
as he did, actually stayed the entire game for the Argos. So I
was surprised that they didn't pull him out in the fourth quarter. But I
guess it was still two score game at that point, not that they needed
to win the game like you said. But I think there's some incentives in
Chad Kelly's contract about I think if he wins MLP, so I think that's
also a motivating factor down the stretch. And the fact, like you said,
that there's six games you can't rest everybody for six weeks in a row,
so it's gonna be very interesting to see how the coming weeks play out
for the art goes. Yeah, it's like, I mean, it's a
good problem. It's a first row problem. They're kind of having to navigate
that. I mean, certainly, you know, I think you would take
the first first week, you know, first vision by kind of all that
stuff just surprising to me. It felt very much like Patrick Mahomes running around
yesterday against the Bears and you know their Europe forty to three and Taylor Swifts
in the suite and like, okay, if Patrick's got his ankle rolled up,
like what are we doing here? Do you think that Chad Kelly at
this point is the MP. I know we've batted that around in our group
chat, and obviously that Claros and he's kind of always perennially there as well.
What do you make of Chack Kelly's chances? Well, a few weeks
ago, I would have said Chad Kelly over Claris even though there was a
statistical gap, like Clariss's numbers are better, I think, just plainly stated.
But I think you know what I was gonna say is that Chad Kelly
is really the story of the CFL season, and the narrative we see time
and time again in sports plays into these awards, and the fact that claris
has won the last two years. I think there would be a little bit
of fatigue. But Clariss is just kind of separating from the pack at this
point just because of some mediocre performances from Kelly and the fact that the Argos
don't only have anything to play for down the stretch here, whereas Winnipeg is
probably gonna have to play you know, out the spring here the rest of
the season. So I think it's Clariss's award to lose right now. Yeah,
it's kind of the interesting part about it. Winnipeg and I've got here,
you know, this tab up, you know, tight division, and
we'll obviously we'll talk to West Blue Bombers. Being on the by this week
certainly kind of at least gives them a chance to rest up it. I
mean, Va, you don't think Vernon's got any chance. You think he's
played too sloppy. Yeah, I think the turnovers have just just piled up
too much. Like it's one thing to say you just had those six turnovers
against Toronto, earlier in the year, but there's been a couple of games
like that the last couple of weeks. I think two interceptions in this past
week, and then last week against Ottawa, I think he had three.
So they're piling up in a hurry here in terms of tie Cats, here
six and eight Red Blacks seemingly out of it. How are you feeling the
welfare chet kind of tie Cats fan right now resigned to be playing the outlets
in the East semis Well, I think you can look at it two ways.
I mean, you can look at how they play against the Argos,
which they're o and four on the season, they've looked completely uncompetitive. But
you look at the other side of their season, there's six and four the
rest of their games. They're six and four this season, so I mean,
they've proven that they can beat a lot of the good teams in the
CFL other than Toronto obviously, Winnipeg and BC they beat. So we'll have
to see how they do down the stretch this year. I'm not overly concerned
that they're gonna miss the playoffs or anything, but this loss, combined with
Montreal's win on Saturday, makes it very hard for the tie Cats to potentially
finished second, and I think they really need to have that game at home,
given how the Alouettes have kind of dominated them recently. I know the
Alouettes won both of the games in Hamilton this year, but I think in
a playoff environment, Hamilton would have a better chance to win that game if
they had that game at too Mourns Field. So I think the chances of
that are pretty slim at this point, given the results of this weekend in
Montreal owning the tiebreaker, I mean, I know obviously geographically there close tie
Cat fans travel pretty well that Toronto, was it when you were there on
Sunday? Yeah? Absolutely, yeah, absolutely almost every time, like the
tie Cats really, you know, boost the attendance there for the Argos.
So I always making a joke to my buddy on the weekend. I was
saying, I'm gonna go out to the game because I'm gonna boost the Argos
attendance numbers. You know, we usually do that, like me and my
me and my friends usually go to Toronto every time they're in town. So
you know, just didn't end up on our way this time. Yeah,
don't get it wasn't that they had the big fights there a couple of years
ago with they got a lot of hand a little rady out there in terms
of your quarterback here at Taylor Powell, Hey, you know, I mean
aggressive here in twenty seven forty two obviously had a couple of picks on that
butler getting a little bit of work. What did you make a cut of
the offense Tiats put together? Honestly, they played terrible in this game.
I mean, you know, fourteen points obviously not a very good output,
but I think they looked even worse than that. I think they really were
only able to move the ball in the fourth quarter when the Argo's defense backed
off a little bit. Very few big plays, They were a lot of
two and outs. There were a lot of pre snap penalties. Taylor Powell
through one of the worst passes you'll see in the CFL this season. Interception
on a fleet flicker play. So usually when you want a fleefliquor play,
you're looking to throw it deep, but he decided to throw it right back
over the middle, got picked picked off by Wenton McManus. I went and
McManus had a great game in this one with two interceptions. So, I
mean, you know, the tide Cats offense just did not look very good
in this one. Taylor Powell also had an intentional rounding penalty in the end
zone that led to a safety for the Argos, So did not have a
very good game in this one. But like I said, it's just it's
weird because he plays so poorly against the Argos, but recently against the other
teams in the CFL he's looked pretty good. So it's hard to get a
read on Taylor Powell. At this point. You're gonna say, you see
one of the worst passes of the weekend. I said to Shawn Watson,
throw probably a worst pass now for the Cleveland rounds, but now in the
CFL, that's fine. I know we've been talking with this and like I
don't know. I mean, we're still talking Bow comes back. I don't
know, if you know, if sixteen weeks of rested Bow does anything.
At this point, I don't know what the tie Cats do next year.
This feels like it said kind of going into the slaughterhouse. It is the
Alouettes, just you know, and I know it was it handl to beat
Toronto in the Semis. Was it two years ago when they went to the
Gray Cup. Like, I get it, it can happen and all that.
I just I don't know what what do you make of the long term
play here following the season for hand with him, Well, it's worth noting
that bow was reportedly back at practice last week doing individual drills, not with
the team, but like working out in his own section of the field.
So it's worth noting if he gets back on the practice field this week,
we could potentially see him on the field as soon as this week against the
Stampeders, which would be you know, obviously a revenge game for him,
So that would be very interesting to see what happens with that. But I
think at the end of the day, I mean, it's not really an
inspiring option given what we've seen from bow leave by this season. Powell has
shown some signs, but also some signs that are like that raised red flags
for you. I think he holds the ball way too long. Sometimes he
just have the best decision making, you know. I was having a discussion
with somebody on Twitter, another Tycats, and he was saying that, you
know, he's kind of afraid of basing contact a lot of the time,
kind of shies away from it. So you know, it's it's very interesting
to see what the tie Cads do with their their quarterback room next season,
because you know, they could go the young and cheap route with Powell who's
still under that rookie contract. They could bring back Bow if they if they're
insane, or they could go and bring in someone from someone from somewhere else
in the league. So it'll be interesting to see what they do this offseason
and how this season ultimately ends with the tie Cats. I just so bad,
like obviously in wee Times preseason. I mean we've talked a lot here
and you know, tie Cats making the big move and doing all this and
we're hosting I know, when we were there two years ago, they're like,
this isn't the real Gray Cup and COVID and kind of all that stuff.
Okay, now we're gonna give it to them again, and there was
all that controversy people how can handle and gets it again? Whatever we're doing
it. I mean, it does sound like the events around everything are going
to be great. I know we have someone from the Gray Cup Festival going
to be coming on here at some point. The kind of view a lot
of that stuff, but it does feel like kind of this wasted year of
we're doing it again, and you know, tie Cats just last year was
really forgettable and it feels like this year is going to be pretty forgettable as
well. Yeah, I just felt like they never really got off the ground
this year. Obviously with the oen three start. You know, that doesn't
help matters when you think yourself that big of a hole and they're still haven't
got back to five hundred. If they won this game, they would have
got back to five hundred for the first time this season. So, I
mean, really tough season to watch as a tie Cats fan. But I
mean, honestly, when you look at it from a year ago, it
actually I think they actually have a better record at this point of the season
than they did last year, which is saying something. Yeah, last year
was kind of burned, the tape that was in Dane kind of going crazy
and all that. In terms of how long term, you know, has
he succeeded well in this I mean, we got Shilts footing around as well,
like you do. You feel like he's whether it's with the tie Cats
or elsewhere, has has kind of proven himself through all this this year.
Well, it's worth noting that he is a through rookie in the CFL.
He's not one of these guys that sat on the bench for a year,
and this is his true rookie season, So I mean he's been asked to
do, you know, an awful lot for a guy that's in his true
rookie season the CFL, just like dust and Crumb. And I would say
between the two of those guys, I would I have more confidence in Taylor
Powell's passing ability than Dustin Crumb's passing ability. But Dustin Crumb brings that,
you know, athleticism to the table that you know you really can't teach.
So I mean it's tough to say who I would choose between those two guys.
You know, if I had to pick a team, pick a guy
going forward between those two guys. But in terms of Powell going forward,
I think I would ride with him the rest of the season. If bow
is even you know, like if bo doesn't look good in practice, I
wouldn't throw him out there to start, because I mean, I think Powell's
shown enough to continue to start. And I think the thing with Matthew Schiltz
is I like Matthew Schiltz, but it seems like every time he gets a
chance to, you know, be the guy, he gets injured after like
two or three games. So that's just the sad reality of his career.
He's a great backup quarterback for a couple of games, but it doesn't seem
like he's anything more. Yeah, I think people are high on Pal.
I know Derek Taylor is really high. I mean people people seem to think
he has a lot of promise, and like you said, being thrown in
there, it's so hard and learning on the job, and you know,
you got all the heading into the season, like you got everything built around
and you've got this megastar coming in and all this, you know, world
kind of falls apart. I think Dustin's done as about as well as he
can this well. James has it come here crumbs on his first year as
sorry, but next year he's the top four quarterback in the league. And
Tim Kapper checking in here. I guess talking excited. Hamilton and Ottawa or
excuse me, Aulettes and Hamilton will be playing back to back in weeks twenty
one in the East semi, so we'll be excited here coming down the stretch.
Any other comments, anything you want to make about this game, Hamilton,
you know, just I'm going into the bus out here again. Hamilton's
yeah, I mean, it'll be interesting to see how the rest of you
know, the tie cat season goes from here. Like I said, they
have Calgary at home next week, which could be a massive game. Obviously
for the Stampeders. It's basically do or die next week, so that will
be a huge game for both of these teams. And then I think they
have BC at home, Saskatch one on the road, and then Montreal on
the road to finish out the season. So it'll be interesting to see,
you know, how many wins they get out of that last four games stretch.
Yeah, just look at ahead here. Yeah, if you got Calgary,
you know, if you had Bo coming in at least to play a
little bit there, Calgary at Hamilton, that would be exciting on here.
We you know, we talked about this and we can talk more, you
know later, But this Toronto Winnipeg could be interesting, could be not just
because of the way that kind of Torontos are playing their guys right now.
But let me get out of here, all right, So let's move ahead
here. The other game. Speaking of Alolettes. Autolettes at Calgary here.
You know, we say every week these are kind of do or die games
for Calgary. Calgary doesn't come up. What did you make of this?
The Outlets, uh, you know, the Outlets showing here against Calgary.
I think it was more so the Calgary Stampeders losing this game than the Alouttes
winning. It's had to say. I think them, you know, the
Alottes played pretty well in this one. Uh they you know, Fajardo had
the one mistake, but I think over the overall they had a very clean
game, whereas Calgary on the other side, it was just full of blown
opportunities. They had, you know, a couple of picks. Jake Mayer
had a really awful pick in the second half where they were down by I
think it was eleven to eight at that point. Early in the third quarter,
they have the ball inside the Alotts ten yard line, throws a pick
in the end zone. So that was a huge play in the game.
And then the Alouettes the next drive drive down to extend their lead with another
touchdown. So I mean, just so many blown mistakes, mistakes this year
by the Stampeders, and I think that it's starting to look like a lost
season for them. I feel like, you know, this clinches their first
losing season in a long time now ten losses, So I mean they're not
completely out of it because the Scatch One, we'll get to it. They
lost to Ottawa on Friday night, So I mean, this was just a
great opportunity for Calgary to get themselves right back into it because if they had
won, they'd only be one game behind saskatchwe and then Calgary would have but
they have a head to head against the Scatch One in a couple of weeks,
so they had an opportunity to pass them in a couple of weeks here,
but they didn't take advantage of it. And we'll have to see how
the rest of the season plays out. But do not have any faith in
them at this point. I feel like they just something's missing and something's off
with that team right now, and they just have no ability to win games.
They don't have that composure latent games, even though they've been in a
lot of close games this year, even though this wasn't one of them.
Yeah, I don't know. To me, We've obviously talked about this a
lot. Kind of the elks in it all and just how different I think
the season would feel if Edmonton, you know, even losing to BC here
over the weekend, like played really well, right, and I've that I
you know, I have no faith in BC at all, but to have
you know, Calgary play as poor as they are, if the Elex had
even had the semblance of a game plan going into the season, I think
Calgary would look even far worse than they do it, you know, and
they look terrible in the standings anyway, four and ten, but god knows
without it is. It's just it's so weird to me, like this,
Jake Mayor, and you know, it feels kind of like Mac Jones sometimes,
like Okay, we get a bunch of completions, we're moving the like
you're never really moving the ball. You're kind of just you know, check
down, checkdown, check down the hall way down the field. You know,
you've talked about that kind of the lack of aggressiveness that you think that
Jake Mayor has. I just don't know what the game plan is for them
as well. I think, you know, like we were talking Taylor Powell,
you get to this point in the season, like what do they do
next year, And I don't know what Calgary does if there's enough there not
to kind of blow it up, or you know, do you just ride
with Mayor again? Yeah, exactly. And to build on our point earlier
about Dustin Crumb and Taylor Powell, it's you know, it's easy to say,
oh, these guys could grow into something next year, and you know,
you see their trajectory. But the thing with Jake Mayre is we thought
he was fantastic. You know, it's first ten or so starts in the
CFL, and then the next ten starts, the next fifteen starts. I
mean, the once the defense gets film on you, he looks like a
completely different guy. And I mean you just never know. In the CFL,
there's been a lot of one year wonders. So I mean, hopefully
he can rebound from this and have a better season next year, wherever that
may be, if it's in Calgary or somewhere else. But I don't think
that his starting days are over. In the CFL, We've seen guys get
multiple chances. Look at Nick Arbuckle, how many chances he got to be
a starting quarterback in this league. So I mean, I don't think it's
over for mayor necessarily, but at the end of the day, just a
god awful season from him and just the Stampeders overall. It's so weird.
And I remember those those first couple of games when he came in and played.
When Bo went down was three three seasons ago now and right they lost,
right the buzzer against the al Letts, but he came in and threw
was a three hundred, three hundred plass. It's for that, like the
promise there, and I know we had them on and like Calgary sigh.
It's just so weird that like, yeah, you're right, this is someone
like we thought this is the next star and Calgary's got their guy for the
next decade here and now it's so unsure with that. And I don't know
if it's it's game planning there what he just like you said, you get
tape on it. But just feels like he's a different quarterback now. And
this to me was always like the sure thing, like oh Calgary, you
know, likes kind of like when the Patriots drafted mac Jone's like okay,
man, like they're set here, like man, they have this and they're
set like Yahbo Now you're gonna have Jake for that. I just I want
I think he's a really good guy. I want them to figure this out
because I think the CFL is obviously in a better position when all the teams
are successful, but especially Calgary. I mean, it's just a shame.
And you see these kind of empty stands right now, and I just seems
like they're in a little bit of a loose footing if that makes sense,
Yeah, for sure. And just to add another player to that, you
know, comparison, another guy that hit the wall was Dane Evans last year,
right, like again, looked great that first season as a starter back
in twenty nineteen when Jeremiah Azzoli went down and then looks pretty good in twenty
twenty one, got them to the Great Cup again, and then last Judas
completely hit the wall once. You know, he made those first ten or
so starts, and you know, after that, just the defense figured them
out. So I mean, like I said, it's very tough to tell
with these quarterbacks. Well and yeah, and you tik Dane and you know,
even with all the injuries this year, they were talking, oh BC,
like are they gonna trade for Dane or what's going on, Like,
I mean, he didn't look phenomenal, you know, was it in the
one star he played when Verna was out, Like, I mean, it's
it's I would take Dane over a lot of guys, but it wasn't like
he was set in the world on fire. Up. Oh, BC's got
you know, like we kind of thought hypothetically before we kind of saw Dane
play. Yeah exactly. It'll be interesting to see if one of these teams
this offseason makes Dane they're starting quarterback in free agency. Like I wouldn't rule
it out, I'll tell you. And I know, you know there's all
this going on with the XFL and the USFL, Like I would start looking
at some of these guys like we gotta move on from this carousel. Yeah,
I think you're right. I'm not I'm not saying you're wrong, but
like, uh, you know, the Arbuncles of the world and like the
data, like we let's I don't know, let's expand the pool here,
Let's get some of these guys up. Yeah, let's like I said tront
To, like, let's see what Brian Scott has. Maybe then he maybe
you could go trade him for something or do whatever. Like some of these
guys, I don't know. I don't I don't know what they're hard.
There isn't trying and I know that there's a lot of legacy in these teams,
and okay, like Calgary and we gotta go with the shut. I
don't know. I would kind of throw it up at this point in terms
of the Alolettes here, Cody a little bit better, you know, the
one pick on this. What did you make of the Alolettes win here?
You said earlier you feel like the Calgary game of the way, So what
did you make of the Auletts efforts? Yeah, I think this was more
of a defensive story for the Alouttes. I think their defense has kind of
been their driving force pretty much the whole season. I mean, I want
to point to two in season editions this year. So earlier this year they
brought in Sean Lemon. He had a big pick on the first drive for
Calgary when the game was still zero zero, so that was huge. That's
his second interception of the season. Had one against Hamilton earlier this year when
I went to that game, and he also had a couple of sacks I
believe in this game as well. So John Lemon making a big impact.
It seems like he puts up numbers no matter where he goes in the CFL.
I think he's played on every CFL team now other than Hamilton's, So
it'll be interesting to see if he plays for Hamilton's before his career is done.
But you know, Lemon's just been huge for them and really been a
missing piece on that defensive line. And then Darnell Sanky, who they brought
in a couple of weeks ago XFL Arlington Renegade. He was the CFL tackles
leader last year and in twenty twenty one with Calvary, so a bit of
a revenge game for him going back to where his CFL career started. So
those two guys, you know, and it was already a strong defense before
they came in. I think it's really the missing piece for this defense.
And you know, but they concerned with the Alouettes is just their offense and
their lack of you know, explosion. I think that they're just not that
high upside of an offense and that they struggle in these you know matchups with
BC or Toronto or Winnipeg because those guys can put points on the board.
Quickly and Montreal just can't keep up. So I think at the end of
the day, that's just kind of where I'm at with the Alouettes. They
improved a seven and oh against all teams that are not Winnipeg BC in Toronto,
so that trend continues with their seasons. So well to see if they
ultimately go eleven and seven this year and that that trend plays out the entire
season because they don't have any games left against those top three teams. So
now the Alotte's very weird team this year, and you know, they're very
well positioned to get second place in the East. Now, I like how
yeah, they said Sean Lemon like revenge game here, It's like it's against
a lot of teams if you're Sean Leon, like you said, except except
for the tie Cats on that. Uh. You know, I've always I've
always liked the Outlets defense. You know, we had Almondo Sea ball on
a couple of weeks ago. Like I just remember the first the first Outlets
game I watched here, you know whatever, it was a few years ago,
and I always felt like they're coming at you and it felt like a
big tough at defense. I like having that, you know, like he
said, Cody, you want him to play better. I do think on
the defensive side, I think Montreal can keep it locked down. I just
they don't seem to have enough points a lot of the time to kind of
keep up on that. I forgot to say. We were gonna say during
your during the Argos recap, you were recognized at the game. But that
was exciting. How was that? Oh? It was awesome. He just
came up and said, oh, I've been watching the Monday recap shows and
that he loves the insight that you know, he said specifically that I give
on the on the show. So you know, it was pretty cool.
Honestly, that's been a thing that's happened about a handful of times now,
mostly at Tiger Cats games. But it was cool to see it happened in
Toronto. Yeah, you get a lot of When I was in Virgina,
I got a lot e mark Mark like, and you know, it's a
very good roble. One time because obviously, like it's very h niche market
there when you're at like the Gray Cup celebration whatever. But one time I
was at the yard house here and someone came up and they're like, hey,
like I'm from BC, I'm down here, and that that was the
most random. Yeah, normally it's like, you know, it's fellow fellow
YouTubers or podcasters. That's awesome, man, Tim's checking in here. Lemon
is one sack away from one hundred career sacks. Well, he's probably gonna
do that before the end of the season. We'll spend a couple more minutes
on this one. Stand back had had a couple of big runs on that,
you know, like we talked before, it feels like he's kind of
getting back up to his form here headed into the end of the season.
I don't know. I mean, I think I think the Outlettes take care
of Hamilton. Do you predict any different than the East semis No. I
think that muntfred All's kind of had Hamilton's number recently. We saw that in
the playoff game last year. I mean, I think Hamilton won one game
in the season series last year. So this so far this year, Montreal
two and all against them, and then the last game of the season.
If it means anything, you know, the Alouettes have already won the season
series against Hamilton, so it'll be interesting to see what happens. But I
think at the end of the day, the Alouettes have the edge and that
that matchup. Speaking of the Auletts, I posted this over the weekend because
we were obviously talking about the merger stuff and playing the Hubs and all that.
Gary Stearns still sticking around here to watch the CFLX how you pass football
USFL evil still have lots to figure out, So Gary always always omni president
and Gary got everywhere and nowhere all at once. Looking in ahead to the
Alottes here going into Ottawa feels like a little bit of a cake walk here
four weeks seventeen. What do you make of that, them traveling them?
Well, it's funny you say that because both of the games between those two
teams, one of the ones I went to in Ottawa, have been very
very close this season, and this is actually a back to back, so
they're actually playing the following week as well. So I mean, I was
doing a playoff scenarios video last week and I was just saying, you know,
this is how Ottawa mathematically can still make the playoffs. And you know
the biggest factor would have been Montreal losing to Calgary on Saturday. Unfortunately that
didn't happen for them. But if Ottawa, you know, if sorry Montreal
had lost that game and Ottawa had, you know, they pick up the
win against Saskatchewan and then they won the last two games here against Montreal,
then they actually would have the tiebreaker over the Alouttes. I think it's because
even though Montreal has won two games in that season series, they've only won
them by a combined nine points or eight points or something like that. And
so whenever it finishes two too, the tiebreaker goes to the team that has
them as the point differential. So the Red Blacks can still win that tiebreaker
technically, but with the Aloutts picking up that seventh win, it makes it
very very difficult for Ottawa. Anything else on this we'll get to be c
in Edmonton. I just want to touch on one thing that it's it's coming
up and a lot of conversations. Is Micah Alway, linebacker for the Calgary
Stampeders, actually leaving the league in tackles this season? I do believe.
And he's been find multiple times for very you know, aggressive hits this season,
and he had a really bad spearing penalty in this one I think it
was a twenty five yard penalty. You don't see that very often. So
I mean, I think that the CFL probably has to suspend this guy at
some point because it's just been such a reckless pattern of behavior from him.
But I mean, he's a great player, but I think at the end
of the day, you can't have that in our league because you know,
at least on a repeated basis like that, you know, well good,
yeah, good there, let me get this up here. So I caught
up on this one, but I this was Friday. We were going in
and we had all the the XFL USFL stuff came out. They really went
crazy, like it was so funny because I anyone's side track and like the
report came out They're going to be in hubs and there it's gonna be twelve
teams, all this kind of stuff. So I was like, oh my
god, because I got the email because I'm probably with ever anyway, I
emailed or I tweeted out, and I'm kind of watching the Mariners, kind
of keeping an eye on because it was the early Friday game before BC came
on. I'm kind of keeping track of everything. And then obviously people saw
it just ended up going crazy because it took it took a little while for
people to kind of figure out what was going on. But I had laughed.
Dornthy and I went out to dinner and we were saying our friends,
I have no faith in BC at all. I like I said, I
predicted Edmonton at home Evan who maybe Evans is sleeping in today, which I
would imagine like Evans, you know, texting me like updates because I'm you
know, and like he's okay. They're driving into that no faith in this.
I went back caught up on this. This was a very exciting game
obviously, you know BC, you know, one by a score doesn't feel
like as dominant to win as I would expect. What did you make of
this one? And then we'll kind of get into the specifics. Well,
even though they gave up twenty nine points in this one, I really thought
it was the return of the Donut Boys. I thought that the BC Lions
defense really set the tone in this one, shut down Trey Board's running ability.
He really didn't get anything going on the ground this entire game. I
think he finished with forty yards, but those all came basically on that last
drive, so they really hemmed him in, made him become a pass or
and he really just couldn't beat the Lions defense with the pass. So,
I mean, I thought the BC Lions defense looked really, really good in
this game, and I thought the only reason this game was close was because
of the turnovers from the BC offense. Vernon had the pick six in the
first quarter. He had a pretty bad pick I think in the third quarter
as well, so there was a fumble along the way somewhere as well.
So a lot of mistakes from BC's offense in this one. But I thought
the defense looked really good in this game, besides maybe a few drives.
But I think the Lions this was one of their better weeks in a while.
I would say, Yeah, Tray looked very, very uncomfortable trying to
have in this scram But like you said, I do think they took away
his rushing ability on that twenty and twenty seven no picks, but the two
you know, the two tds on that in terms of you know, Kevin
Brown pretty shut down as well, not doing a lot. I don't know,
I just it was exciting. I mean, there was a lot of
turnovers and I think there was a fumbled or there was like a punt return
for long. I mean, it seemed it seemed a little more back and
forth and maybe the score would would dictate here at the end. I don't
know. I had predicted Edmonton the other way on this. Do you feel
should I feel more confident now BC headed in now to the kind of final
stretch? Well, I actually picked Edmonton to win this game as well on
my channel, so you're not alone on that. But I mean, I
still have confidence in BC even if they had lost this game Edmonton. I
just had a lot of faith in going into this game. Does the vibes
around that team, But clearly BC is still the better team between these two.
I think the talent really the talent gap really showed in this one,
and I thought that you, like I said, if it wasn't for the
turnovers, this game could have been like a twenty point deficit. You're getting
in Tae Kwon and Mizzell back in here. You know, obviously we had
talked about kind of the lack of rushing the last couple of weeks, and
you're playing from behind. Good to see him there on that. Like,
I just I love Vernon. I just sending Vernon can throw you thirty thirty
five times. I think you need to kind of have a more developed offense
there with that. In terms of oh, I had a comment that was
gonna lose. Oh here I was looking ahead next week Saskatchewan at BC,
I would say, oh, well, that's a that's a k qualk.
I don't I don't feel that way right now. What do you think of
a hungry Saskatchewan going into BC next week? Well, I mean it's it's
it's tough to say given what we saw the last two times. So the
last time these two teams played where Saskatchewan upset BC, and that was one
of the upsets of the season at that point. So you can't count Saskatchewan
out. But I think this time BC is going to remember that game and
they're gonna be able to win that game at home. But you know,
nobody can be counted out in this CFL this year. There's very few like
teams that are just you know that just lay down and uh, you know,
don't put up a fight. So I think that will be a close
game, but I think BC will probably win it. It's so funny when
talking with Derek Taylor, with the Blue Bombers last week on Thereby and you
know, we were talking about because you know, obviously winning PEG had just
lost to Hamilton and that big game, and he said, you know,
it was the same thing last year and hey, you know you're playing Hamilton's
right before the bye that they didn't show up whatever, same thing this year.
Like you know, he's like, it doesn't know if it's human nature
or something like there is something to be said for that, Like you know,
like your BC and now the Saskatchewan like who cares whatever? Playing down?
I mean, look what happened to the Cowboys at the Cardinals here yesterday.
Like I think, you know, certain teams you just think you can
sleep walk through. And then we saw what happened with BC a couple of
those games on that. Do you have any comments on that? And then
I have a question for you. Yeah. I mean that's just the nature
of football really is that you know, any any given Sunday or Saturday or
whenever they're playing in the CFL. So I mean, at the end of
the day, any team could beat any team. And we've seen that this
year. Look at Ottawa beating Winnipeg earlier this year. That was crazy.
In terms of Trey you said, you know, obviously BC kind of keeping
him locked down. Does this give you cause for concern with tray Forward moving
forward? Have teams starting to develop defenses against him? Or is this just
like BC played really well well, this will definitely be something that he has
to work through. I think that, you know, teams are going to
have adjustments, and like I was saying before, like the first handful the
ten starts in the CFL, you may be able to catch defenses off guard.
I mean, you look at dust and Crumb with that running ability.
When he first came in, he was able to really torch teams with his
legs. But I think that, you know, eventually teams adjusted and made
it tougher for him. But I think that tray Forward is a little different.
I think that tray Forward is a much more dynamic athlete and not all
teams have the defensive personnel to kind of slow him down like BC did.
I think BC has a lot of team speed on that defense. The defensive
line for BC such a mismatch against the Edmonton offensive line, and I think,
you know, Matthew Beats, he had a massive game and this one,
so that was really good to see for BC. But I think in
terms of forward going forward, yes, he's gonna have games like this where
he struggles to pass the ball. It's just something that he's going to have
to improve on as we go forward. But he has been blessed with incredible
gifts in terms of his athleticism, So I think that, you know,
with that in mind, I think he'll he'll be able to, you know,
still piece together some good performances down the stretch here and not completely hit
a wall. Yeah, he said Bats had a really good game. Really
came after Trey either kind of friend of the show there on. That so
good to see. I don't know, I think BC I just worry about,
Like I see this again. I see them going in to Winnipeg.
I see the defense giving up a couple of lows, you know, drives
Winnipeg goes down, and then BC's struggling to keep up and Vernon kind of
having to do too much. Like I think the defense has to keep Vernon
kind of calm in that where it's like, okay, I can just kind
of go out. I don't feel like I have to make up all these
points on my own. They need to keep things manageable. I don't know
what do you make of that, like Vernon's headspace going into the kind of
the playoffs there. Yeah, I mean he's just such a frustrating player and
he's always been like this, like ever since he became a starting quarterback in
the CFL. I mean, probably the best version of himself was in twenty
nineteen with Montreal where he was a borderline MLP candidate in the East Division.
And I think, you know, even then he had a lot of up
and down games. I mean there's there's games with him that you know,
just the decision making just isn't there. I Mean, I used to say
his biggest week this was his accuracy because he used to be a lot less
accurate of a passer. It used to be like in the fifty percent,
you know range in terms of a passer. But I think, you know,
that's aspect to his game has really improved. And I think it's more
so the decision making. At this point, he just cannot throw the game
away for the Lions, and I think that that's going to be the key
when they go into that match up against Winnipeg, because it's really looking like
that game is going to decide a lot in the CFL. And it's worth
noting that that game is in BC, so it'll be interesting to see what
happens in that game and ultimately who gets the tiebreaker there, because it looks
like whoever wins that game is gonna finish first in the West. Yeah,
and I was looking and I need to talk with Dorothy about this. I
think that that can that could be a doable game here going up to BC,
especially at the seven o'clock start. We'll see about that. I think
we have dinner, dinner party the next day, but I would like to
be there for that. I just you know, looking forward to the playoffs.
Yeah, if this is in ig Field, I just don't I just
think you get frazzled, and I get frazzled as a fan latch and I
couldn't imagine being there and having forty thousand people with ever screaming and yeah,
and then kind of all that stuff. Like I just think it's really easy
to let the game slip out of hand on that And I think Mayor gets
that way sometimes too with Calgary, Like you just you get frustrated and you're
trying to do too much. I mean obviously we've seen Dane Evans kind of
do that in the past as well, but we'll see this would be exciting.
The seven o'clock on the sixth might have to I mean that could be
literally like the playoff preview there for sure. For sure. Anything else on
this one, Vernon defense looking good. My Zella running, we talked about
that. Keyan Hatcher had a day on that. No tds, but obviously
huge targets on that. I saw him running around. Anything else from the
BC or Evanton side, yeah, I mean you mentioned Hatcher, I was
gonna shout him out. Javon Katy had a really nice catch and run in
this one for a touchdown, So that was nice to see from him.
Like I said, I've said this a million times, specs, he just
had so many weapons. I mean, Javon Katy might be the fourth fifth
option in that offense and he could still create some dynamic plays for them.
And then on the Edmonton side, Jake Serezna I thought had a really good
game pressuring Vernon. I thought that the Edmonton defense wasn't that poor in this
game. I thought that in terms of the run defense was probably where it
was the biggest Achilles Heel Mizell had a really good game for BC, So
I mean, I think Serezda had a really good game. And then Dylan
Mitchell, a wide receiver that I was really high on going into the season,
had a pretty good game for Edmonton. So that was good to see
from him. Yeah, sures, It's good to see him kind of.
He's had a tough season. I know he had some injuries, so,
right, wasn't he involved in some of the Missoli whatever? And I think
he was fined a little bit. Like he's a friend of the show he's
been on in the past, Like, good to see him kind of because
I don't know, I think it was probably a kind of a messy first
half of the year for him with a lot of that stuff going on.
So good to see him bounce back from that, because you know, I'm
like, God, what was the guy's face, the Garrett what was the
Garret Marino? Yeah, I don't I don't think Serezda is going in there
like, you know, trying to trying to rough up or do whatever.
I think, you know, I think I think you get caught up in
the moment sometimes. I think there's a lot of that. Yeah, for
sure. And I think the thing with Marino, it was just the way
he acted after he did that, and just the way that you know,
he never really, you know, apologize for it. Look at Pete Robertson
when he did that head butt a few weeks ago to Claris, and we
don't really talk about that now because you know, he was a man he
talked about, accept the responsibility for it, apologize to Claris for it.
So you know, water under the bridge from that point. So I think
the thing with Marino was just yeah he did. He just had that reputation,
that head but still wild. I remember showing Dorothy that, like what
is going on here? So what is this? So Edmonton on the late
bye here week sixteen, right on the bye and then they're going into Toronto
again, we don't know what Toronto looks like here Edmonton? Are they are?
We totally out of it? I mean, do they have any chance
here? You tracked this stuff better than I do. Yeah, I think
they're cooked. I think I think they're I think they're done because now they
picked up an eleventh loss that's even more losses than Calgary has, and I
mean I'm really low on Calgary's chances. At this point, Edmonton doesn't have
the tiebreaker over Saskatchewan or Calgary, so that's not good news for them,
and I don't think there's really much more than a mathematical chance of them making
the playoffs at this point. Well, the good news is we've lived through
this long enough now that I think Chris Jones is going to be there next
year. I think people are going to be happy. I think trade Board
is going to be the quarterback. Like everything that we've lived through this year,
I do think that's probably what I don't see. I'm like, you
know, even just you know, six weeks ago, Like I mean,
I am I wrong in that I see them for trotting this out to get
next year though, Yeah, I mean I bet they might as well,
given how they've kind of turned their their second half of their season around and
like so they don't have to deal with those like football operations penalties as well.
So I think, yeah, Chris Jones is probably pretty safe at this
point going in here, let me get this last game here, the early
Friday night game feels a little bit like the Battle of the Mids. Here.
We got this Saskatchewan going into Ottawa. What did you make of this
one twenty eight two thirty six. Yeah, I think the story in this
game was Saskatchewan played pretty well out of the gates. They had a couple
of nice touchdown drives to begin the game. But right at the end of
the first half, there was a sequence with less than a minute left where
Jake Dalagalla throws a pick six two. I think it's DeAndre lamont As,
the guy's name for Ottawa, and so we got to pick six and then
they get the ball back and then Jake Dalagala fumbles the next play and they
get a field goal out of it. So that's a ten point swing in
the last minute of the first half, and Ottawa was able to carry that
momentum forward and made a ton of big defensive plays in the second half,
got a couple of more takeaways, so they were able to finally break that
losing shriek. Yeah. I mean, if you're a Saskatchewan here, you
know, and you're looking at the standings, where is my standings tab?
Like, I mean this, I don't know if this is more worse than
the ABC drop in some of these games, like how do you drop a
game to Ottaway? Here? Going in when you're still in playoff contention.
It's just it's crazy to me. Yeah, I mean, like this was
a game I had circled when I was doing that playoff Scenarios video last week,
because I was factoring in the possibility of Calgary getting a win and you
know, getting close to the Saskatchewan really making them pay for losing this game,
because I thought that, you know, Sascatch will probably beat Ottawa,
but if they do, they open the door for other teams behind them to
to you know, kind of catch up. But unfortunately, none of those
teams took advantage of it this week, Edmonton included. So I mean,
yeah, just weird week. We're really nothing changed in terms of the standings,
but very disappointing, you know, game for saskatchwe regardless. I just
you know, Ottawa has literally nothing, I mean, they have less than
nothing to play for at this point. I just I just can't figure out
going in crumb. It looks pretty good here, not running, wow,
I guess right, yeah, fifty three yards, I guess kind of screwing
around here. Did you do, Dustin? Or are we are we higher
lower on him than you were a week ago? Probably higher I think that,
you know, I was not totally out on him. I think he's
had some games where he's kept the team in it, and you know,
just the situation around him. Again, like I said, like Taylor Powell,
he's a true rookie, so it's hard to expect too much from him.
But I think he's learning a bit each week. And I think that
Ottawa could easily have a couple of more wins right now. I mean,
they had the game that I went to against Montreal where they completely collapsed in
the fourth quarter. Obviously that game a couple of weeks ago against BC,
So I mean that's two wins right there. So they could easily have six
seven wins right now and be running the thick of things. But obviously the
season didn't go that way for them last week. People calling for Bob Dyce's
head. Are we feeling they're worse now? I don't think he's the guy.
I just don't. I have just some of the decisions I've seen this
year, I just don't really have faith. I know a lot of the
players like him. He's that classic players coach that you know everybody's kind of
douched for over there. But I mean I'm always skeptical when teams hire.
You know, a lot of people are like the promoting from within, like
in terms of football, like those pro sports, in terms of you know,
hiring their head coach and whatnot. But I've always kind of skeptical of
that because I'm like, is the best person really inside your building? What
are the odds that the best person is really inside your building? And I
think that, you know, Bob Dice is probably one of those guys that's
better suited for a coordinator role in the CFL obviously has done that very successfully
for a long time, especially on Ottawa special teams. But I think,
you know, in terms of being a head coach, the lead guy,
I don't think he has it. It's hard. I like him. I
think he's a really good guy. I think he's a good leader of man.
It's it's just hard. It's like you said, promote you within.
It's kind like you know, Jason Moss kind of getting fired and getting the
promotion and Montreal like, I don't know, we talked. We talked a
lot about this, like in the corporate world that you you know, you
fail up until you or like you get promoted up until the only way to
know, like basically your ceiling is to go there and then kind of fail
or not do a good job at that. But like you know, you
just keep writing that. But okay, like this is you know, this
is where my ceiling is. And so, like you said, maybe that's
where it is. I don't know where Ottawa goes from here. With obviously
we had the lot police stuff. In hindsight, was that good to get
rid of him? I mean, do you feel like that has testimonally changed
anything? Well, I think he was kind of the same thing. I
feel like he was a head coach before he was in Ottawa. He was
with Winnipeg back in the day and then funny enough, actually became Winnipeg's offensive
coordinator later on, I came back to Winnipeg and then obviously got the job
in Ottawa. But I don't think he's really, you know what CFL head
coach either, even though you know he has a bit of experience from that.
So, I mean they had to make a change last year. I
don't think that was the wrong move, moving off of Powell a police as
the head coach in Ottawa. But I think at the end of the day,
the dice higher just wasn't the right one to make. I think they
needed to look outside the organization. But I mean that's a kind of a
general problem the CFL, that the coaching talent pool is pretty low, and
with this football operations caps it kind of limits like how much they can pay
and how much you know, you know, head coaches can assemble like a
proper coaching staff around them. So yeah, I don't know where Ottawa goes
from here. I don't know if they get rid of Dice, they probably
hold onto them for another year just because of that operations cap. But we'll
have to see what they do. Yeah, I think you need to be
able to you know, and I get the players and all that. You
got the seller cap and that. I think you need to be able to
allow some of these teams and you know I have. I mean, like
BC is fined right now through Campbell. But like you know, if Amar
Doman like, yeah, we want to make some moves here to bring it
with whatever, like you should be able to do that. I mean,
you see that down in the NFL, and like you know, like the
Walmart family with the Broncos, Hey let's bring in champagne, Let's do all
the you know, we see, let me see how that worked out.
But what and this is I put you on the side. What's the highest
scoring the CFL ever has been. Obviously we saw the seventy to twenty Broncos
Miami Dolphins game. Well, I remember there was a great Cup. I
don't think this is the highest scoring game ever, but there was a great
Cup in the nineteen nineties. I think it was the last one before twenty
twenty one. That was in Hamilton's and it was Edmonton versus Toronto, and
I believe it was in a full out blizzard. It was like forty to
forty something like it was. It was like a classic game. I think.
You know, the nineties were pretty high scoring if I do recall correctly.
And I mean we did see some really high scoring games in the early
twenty tens when we had you know, these great quarterbacks, you know,
Anthony Calvio, Henry Burros, Ricky Ray all those guys were really at the
height of their powers. So we saw a lot of shootouts. But you
know, that's probably the highest that I can remember the CFL being. All
Right, I got I got it here. One hundred and eleven points BC
sixty eight to forty three against Toronto. Damn, that's really exciting. That
was exciting. But you know, because I saw a lot of like,
you know, the just speaking of this, like the Hodges of the world,
and I'm like, yeah, there's no fun league down in the Maryland.
You know, we got the fun, fast, exciting football up in
Canada. But here you so there you go, sixty eight sixty eight points
in the most teams. Circling back to this before we get out of here,
Saskatchewan, Della Gala. I still hear people talking about Trevor Harris coming
back this year, Like, I don't does that make Does that do anything
for you? Trevor Harris comes back at this point, well, I think
he would be their best option, Like in a playoff scenario. I think
Trevor has been you know that that's a narrative that I think it is completely
false that he's kind of a bad player in playoff games, Like he has
actually had some great playoff performances. I think, you know, looking back
that first year in Edmonton twenty nineteen, he had I think thirty three completions
in a row to start the game or something like that in that playoff game.
One of the best playoff performances I've ever seen. And then the year
before when he was with Ottawa, he beat Hamilton. This is the last
time that Hamilton has lost to Ottawa. He was with Ottawa and he threw
six touchdown passes in the East Final that year to send Ottawa to the Great
Cups. So Trevor Harris has had some big time playoff performances, and if
he's healthy down the stretch, I mean, like, I think the big
thing is like how likely is that? And how likely is he one hundred
percent? But you know, if he's ready to go, I think they
got to throw him out there because I think he stands a better chance of
keeping up with Vernon Adams or Jack Clarence and a potential shootout in the West
semi final. I get what you're saying. I just I fundamentally have a
have a problem with like, you know, if you get to the dance
with whatever guy and then bringing back in Like, I get it. And
it was the same thing last year where we had Burnon Adams played fine,
right kind of we I think BC had such a lead, you know,
it's such a lead in the stand, like he didn't matter right and burning.
You know, it was kind of I think basically like fifty fifty.
But god, you know, did enough got him there? Obviously you're going
to put in even Rourke who wasn't one hundred percent Like okay, we're putting
in the Nathan work here. I just I don't know, you know,
if Della Galla gets here, like I don't know if he gets you there
and you're really gonna pull him and like, I get what you're saying.
And Trevor Harrison just to me, it's it's it's disrespectful in that way.
But I told, I mean, I get it, like it's football and
you kind of got to do it. Yeah, I mean, it's it's
just like I mean, it's easy to pull for example, Taylor Powell off
the game that he just had. But we were talking last week, I
mean people were like arguing amongst Tie Cats fans, like who gets the start
when Bow's healthy? Like does Bow go back in there? How do you
take Powell out? At this point? That's what people were saying. But
I think you know, some factors play into this, like how my is
the player getting paid? Like obviously you know Bo was getting paid like five
hundred and fifty thousand this year, So I mean, I think, you
know, Hamilton kind of like they have that motivation to put him back in,
and I think Sa scatch one's kind of the same thing. So yeah,
we'll have to see how it plays out. But I do think there's
something to be said, like you said, for playing the young player or
the player that got you there. So now bitch to see how some of
these teams navigate their quarterback situations as we get towards the playoffs. Like obviously
this is now a moot point and the way that Zach Wilson has played the
last two weeks, but you know when when Rogers went down, there was
all this like you know, if he makes it back for the playoff,
you know, because Rodgers is doing some experimental whatever brace surgery, and whether
it's like if Zach Wilson gets the Jets to the playoff, like Zach Wilson
is going to play them in the player like going to play for them in
the playoffs, like you can't you know if you are even in that position.
It's because of obviously the work that Wilson has done. Anything else on
this we can start looking forward to next week. Anything else from Saskatchewan or
Ottawa. I just I don't know. It's just a weird game here with
Ottaway getting to win. Yeah, just a quick shout out. I want
to shut up Raylan Addison. He is kind of the only CFL jersey I
actually own from his time with the Tie Cats. He scored his first touchdown
in a long time. I think it might have been since twenty nineteen in
this one. He's had terrible luck with injury issues, so it's good to
see him get back on the field the last handful of weeks and got his
first touchdown and this one had at a pretty good game. Yeah, it's
interesting, so high enough on him that you'd buy the jersey. Yeah.
Well, in twenty nineteen he was CFL All Stars, so like he was,
him and Brandon Banks were like the best receiving combo in the CFL.
I think he had like thirteen hundred yards, so he had that one great
year. And I mean he was a big star at Oregon as well,
so I was a big fan of him. And unfortunately in twenty twenty one
when he came back, he actually changed his number two number zero, So
right after I just bought his number eighties sixth Jersey, So you know,
just my luck, but I'm a big fan of his game. You can't
do that. What I can't remember who is it? I think one of
the guys for the Vikings or something Switzer numbers. And then they said if
you if you bring it like I'll give you, you can swap it out
like you can slap it out for the new one. Looking ahead here,
I'm too far ahead time travel Week seventeen. We've talked about this Toronto weird
roster SLF. What do you think? I was talking with Derek Taylor last
like, what does Toronto do here? On paper? You're like, Oh,
this is a huge matchup when you kind of think about it, Winnipeg
has a lot more to gain here. Yeah, I don't really know what
they're going to do because I mean, like, I don't think they want
to go in there and get their doors blasted off by Winnipeg. And I
don't think they're gonna be sitting a whole bunch of players in this one,
considering there are about five weeks out from the end of the regular season,
So I don't think they're gonna be resting a ton of players in this one.
But at the same time, I don't think they want to reveal too
much because of the potential likelihood of a great Cup matchup in the coming months
here, But it will be very interesting to see how that game plays out.
Obviously we're looking, you know, like a handful of weeks ago.
That game was one of the games that we were circling. But I'm not
too sure it's really going to live up to any kind of hype. So
I'll be interesting to see how that one plays out. Yeah, I'm looking
here. If you're if you're BC, you cannot you cannot lose this game,
especially with Winnipeg coming in the next week. Like you're back to back
home. You don't have to travel like this to me because you know,
if you're looking further ahead here right, Okay, we're going in to Hamilton.
Yeah, sorry, you know Calgary is coming in. Uh, this
is a must win. You gotta do this. You gotta pile the wins
and then you got Winnipeg the next week. Like this has to be a
get ride game for BC. Let's shut down, Dala, glad. Do
you have any other opinions on that? Yeah, I think it will be
huge for BC if they could just have the same records as Winnipeg going into
that matchup next week, So and two weeks I should say against Winnipeg,
because then if they win, they'll have the tiebreaker plus be one game ahead
of Winnipeg. Whereas if they lose and then Winnipeg wins this week, then
if they win the following week, they would be tied and they would have
the tiebreaker, but they would be tied in terms of the actual records.
So if they win this game, they keep pace with Winnipeg and they win
next week, they will have a very good path for first place in the
West. They're looking here in Montreal at Ottawa. I got what do you
you know? I mean, you should be a slam dun for the Alulettes.
You have any different opinions? Yeah, I mean, like I was
saying before both of these games last year. This year, they played each
other twice, once in Week one where it was a seven point victory for
the Alolettes. That was a game that Nick Arbuckle started. And then the
other game was the game I went to in Ottawa and Ottwa blue an eleven
point lead with four minutes left in the game. So Ottawa easily, could
you know of split those two games that point? And so I think it's
gonna be very very interesting to see if Ottawa can take a game or two
off of the Alouettes in these this home and home here, and it would
really kind of shake up the East standings, especially for Tiger Cats fans.
Are you going to be going to the Calgary game? Ah, yes,
I will be, I will be. I'll be. It's actually McMaster University
homecoming that week, so that day, I should say, So, it's
gonna be very busy the restaurant that I work at, but I'm we working
during the day and then I'm gonna be a running rate to the game at
seven o'clock Eastern. Well, good, well at no Evan today, maybe
he was in class or asleep. We appreciate it, hopefully. I assume
he's okay. I hope everything's fine with that. Jason and I are kind
of locking this down here for the for the episode. I appreciate that.
Obviously, we have a lot of xfl USFL stuff going on. We talked
about doing kind of a welfare check episode today. I don't know if people's
schedules will accommodate that, but kind of keep track. I do know I
have Rod Smith coming on this week. I think we're going to record Wednesday
preview in the games for the weekend for the CFL, so that should be
good, and I need to send out some emails to see if we can
get some players on. But otherwise I'm sure Andy your Path or someone will
come on to kind of react to the XFL stuff. I Jason, anything
else from you? What are you working on? Not too much. I'm
trying to think what I'm going on this week. Obviously, I have my
NFL show on Tuesday nights with Coast to Coast Gridiron. That's who I collab
with for that. So that is available at nine pm Eastern Tomorrow night on
his channel and then post my channel on Wednesday morning, So check that out.
Been a new podcast over there, and then you'll probably have a couple
of CFL videos sprinkled in this week with obviously the preview for week seventeen.
Yeah, be kind. You know Sam how it was only his fourth career
start, So let's not go too crazy here with you know, marrying the
Commanders yet. I don't know I had that we were talking before we've gone
I'm like that that first couple drives and okay, we're keeping them in check.
And then you know, haw throws the interception. Kind of all that
stuff. I'll win to I'll win to bed. So don't you know,
don't don't kill the commanders too much. But if anyone on here say a
prayer for the Mariners. Here we got we got seven games at home to
wind out the season. Here, we're going tonight against the Astros. I
hate the Astros. I think Berlander is pitching tonight as well against Thedo,
So this this could be a rough one. But just like, say a
prayer, like we're trying to win the AL last year. So anything else
from you, Jason, No, I think that's about it. Let's put
this one to bed. Awesome, thanks guys, appreciate James. You keep
it up best in the MCFL show. Appreciate that, and we'll see you
guys next time. Take care of