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Well, happy mark ast Monday here
following the Labor Day Classic, Labor Day

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weekend here. You know, when
we had the commissioner on the podcast last

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week, he always talks about your
fun, fast anxiety. I can't get

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three asks whatever, Randy Brother,
this was a really good weekend. This

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was a hot weekend here, I, Jason, and I think it's feeling

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it to a little bit. Evans
here, we're early today, Jason,

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how are we doing? I felt
better, honestly because I did a lot

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of partying yesterday with the doubleheader.
But it was a great weekend. And

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let's talk some football. Yeah,
Mariners loss, it's terrible. We're struggling

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here in the aos, but this
was a good BC Lions winning on what

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was that Friday? Now? Just
when the heck was that? Evan,

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how are you doing doing well?
Yeah? It was a great weekend of

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football, one of the more important
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just giving you know, it's Labor
Day Classic, obviously, but yeah,

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I was really impressed with with a
lot of those games. Some of

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them really surprised me. And yeah, just excited to dive into it.

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Yeah, I was trying to explain
to Dorothy the whole, like, well,

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it's like the divisional stuff. I
don't know why BC played this weekend,

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and I know normally that's Ottawa spot
BC getting an Automa doing that,

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but that worked out well for us
here that the Saturday meet in Montreal.

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I have a lot of funny tweets
and stuff to get into today, but

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I guess we'll start exciting game.
Last night, come from behind. We

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had headed out to dinner and we
were, you know, like Tray kind

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of was putting the game to bed, and you know, I tweeted,

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and why does it take ten weeks
to start trade four? And then kind

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of everything else. The next thing, you know, Calgary comes back.

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It kind of incredible come from behind
victory. We pulled it up. We

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were having a beer down the street, we're watching They were watching the game

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on our phone. Jason, what
did you make of this? I know

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you were catching up, you know, laying on data after the fact,

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trying to kind of catch up on
this game. I would not expect this

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from Calgary. Yeah, it was
totally unexpected because there was very little time

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left in the game. I think
it was on five minutes to go when

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they kicked the field goal Edmonton did
to go up eleven points and then uh

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yeah, just the surprising rally from
Calgary. I was like, wow,

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they scored a touchdown quickly because I
turned off my data for a minute,

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and then like a few minutes later, I'm like, oh, they're coming

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back. So it was. It
was a pretty crazy game and good to

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see that from from Jake Maren the
Stampeders. They've come out on the wrong

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end of a lot of these close
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good to see that from them.
Yeah, Evan, I know we were

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kind of watching this in the chat
as well. Andy was going crazy the

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professor. I guess Reggie Bagelton is
the professor now I heard was it from

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Smith or whatever? You calling that? What did you? Because I Calgary

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has just struggled there. Their offense
was booed, you know, leaving the

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field. I guess at halftime people
were tweeting out. I know, Ryan,

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one of our listeners, was tweeting
out to see this turnaround. I

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don't know Jake yelled at him at
halftime or what was going on. Yeah,

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I mean, I know at the
end of the game, they interviewed

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Jake Mayor and he said something along
the lines of, you know, we

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just have to learn to put things
in the past, like I think a

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light bulb or something switched off at
some point there, and they were just

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like, you know what, like
we just have to go do this,

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like don't worry about you know,
everything that's happened, Like we just have

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to go now because this is our
opportunity. And twenty two fourth quarter points

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for Calgary I think tells most of
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I mean I I had the game
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getting some work done, so I
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attention. I had it on in
the background, and I didn't really look

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at the score. I mean,
and I got up from my chair to

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go, you know, get something. I looked and I'm like, oh

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jeez, like, you know,
Calgaries right back in this. That was

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when they scored. They scored a
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and then I watched that you know, final drive, which was I mean

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probably one of the better, you
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me, like that was like almost
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like from Calgary, just because they've
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this year to see them put together
that drive, like Jake Mayer had a

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big third and six conversion. I
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c. Leonard was off sides anyway, but you know, I think it

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was to Reggie down the field,
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that was great, you know,
And again that was kind of like I

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mean, if if Calgary were to
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was it was gonna be all over. You know. That was then it

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was time to start focusing on next
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You know, I don't know how
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you know the fact that they,
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together in front of you know,
a strong home crowd again on Labor Day

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weekend, with everything at stake,
it was just really good for Calgary.

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I think they definitely needed that confidence
boost. Yeah. I have the tweet

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here from Hodge shocking is the Mpter
Sailor season. I mean, I was

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watching this game. You Mayor had
the interception and he had a big sack

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and I think he had the fumble
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I said, like, I mean, this is kind of the season for

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Jake here at this point, I
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next year here where and I got
to pull up the standings and the records,

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but you know, if they drop
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about the importance of that last week
where they had the home and home and

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you know, if they go here
and they're they're three and nine going into

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that, Like, I just don't
know what that season looks like going into

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next year. Jason, were you, I mean, this was kind of

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make or break I think for Jake
maryl last night. Yeah. Absolutely,

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And I think that on the other
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these two games, they're right back
in the thick of things. So I

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think it's interesting because they also have
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If they win that, they'll have
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mean, they're still in the mix
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of these opportunities. But they were
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So one check mark off the board
there. Yeah, I have this,

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And Ryan was tweeting, just offense
is gotta bleed out the field here at

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mcmah and Derek Dons. Wow.
I like seeing Derek, you know,

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former at Calistaan Peter there really remarkable. The other thing that note too,

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is just kind of how lopsided this
game was. And I wanted to talk

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tray Forward of it all Edmonton zero
passing yards and thus far in the first

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half, and kind of all this
came down Trey running crazy because I don't

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want his performance, you know,
to kind of be overshadowed here with the

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comeback at Trey was something else,
Evan, I know, Andy was going

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crazy and the chat what did you
make of tray Forward here? You know,

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fourth week in the run now,
I guess starting Yeah, I mean

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another another day, another complete performance
from trey Ford. You know, I

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would have liked to see, I
think a bit more when it came to

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throwing the ball. I think they
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there. But ultimately, I mean, you know, again his running ability

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like that, you know, even
in the NFL or college football or you

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know, a more broad platform here
like in the US. I don't know

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if I'm seeing a lot of quarterbacks
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You know, when it comes to
to running the football, I know

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we have a couple of guys in
the NFL that you know, Lamar Jackson

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would probably be the best comparison,
and before that Cam Newton and Michael Vick.

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But I mean this is, uh, you know, this was something

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else. I'll say that much.
He you know, I have not seen

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scrambling ability like that, you know, in a while. And again,

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I'm really glad it's all coming together
because like he's flashed this before. You

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know, he's had opportunities to go
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and you know, there were a
lot of things you know that people liked

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about that, but now just at
a whole new level and it's it's really

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coming together. And I think this
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can do with his feet, because
I mean it was he had so many

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plays in that game where you're just
like, that shouldn't be possible. I

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think you keep looking at it,
You're like, that's not right, that's

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not possible, and I mean you
can't even I mean, yeah, like

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you could make the argument like,
well, Calgary's defense, you know,

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should just be tackling him, but
uh, I don't know. I mean,

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he's he's pretty evasive, and I
think it would be difficult for any

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even one of the better defenses in
the league to go tackle that, and

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I do think Calgary's defense is pretty
good in some aspects. So yeah,

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I think they were talking on the
broadcast. I think Done Again had said

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the week before, you know,
when you get into the league, until

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you can kind of figure it out, just keep running. And I thought

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that that was very indicative of Trey. Where you know, you have the

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athletics, you know, the great, the great, elusive athletic Taylor Cornelius

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is not doing this and not rushing
for a hundrew thirty five hours don't had

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this tweet, you know, talking
about Canadian football. I said, the

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funny a meme kind of flooding around
the weekend with one of the routes that

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jessing his pants and one of the
college games. I thought that was like

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getting very off, getting very excited
here watching this, Jason, what did

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you make? I mean, this
is kind of historic stuff Trey is doing

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right now. Yeah, he's played
incredible since taking over this starting job in

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Edmonton, and I think the thing
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awareness he has when he's running the
ball. He doesn't take many big hits

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and I think that's obviously got injured
last year, so I think that's something

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trying to avoid, but he's doing
it in a smart way. And I

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mean just the speed that he has
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It's clear that, you know,
with this big field, big guys,

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these guys really struggle to you know, chase him down. So I

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think at the end of the day, that's been game changing for the Elk's

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offense. And I think that at
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of the whole rest of the season, it actually gives us a reason to

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watch Elks games going forward because he's
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that's the thing. I mean,
even they lost here and I really thought,

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I mean, like I said,
Dorothy and I kind of headed out.

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I'm like, man, like,
Edmonton's really putting it together and they've

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got three wins in a row here, you still feel like they have a

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lot of momentum here. I don't
know if it's was the defense to kind

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of let let Edmonton down here.
What do you make of that. Did

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Calgary win the game, Evan,
or did Edmonton did their defense kind of

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give up here near the end?
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I don't know, like it's it's
a tale of two halves, I

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think, or it even comes down
the quarters. But I feel like this

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was more Calgary winning the game and
just taking a stance to saying, like,

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you know what, we're not going
to let this opportunity slip away from

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us. I mean again, that
fourth quarter was just you don't see a

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fourth quarter like that very often.
I mean, we've had a couple games

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in the CFL, like this isn't
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You go back to that that Winnipeg
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to be their first home win and
like everything looked right and then you know

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they just couldn't put it together at
the end, and unfortunately that's the same

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thing here. And I mean again, at this point, you know,

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I think Edmonton, either way,
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not, is heading towards you know, some sort of change again at the

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end of the season and into the
offseason. But you know, it always

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looks nice to win. And again
taking down a rival on Labor Day at

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their at their stadium, you know, that would have been a really good

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opportunity I think for them to capitalize
and they didn't again, which is okay

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because we know that this team isn't
complete. Yes it sucks, and yes,

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this was a winnable game for them. They've been in a lot more

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winnable games since trey Ford took over
as the starter than they were before,

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like a lot more. But yeah, ultimately, you know, I feel

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like Edmonton just kind of, you
know, this one slipped out of their

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hands a bit, and uh,
you know they could have done They definitely

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could have done more to prevent that, but you know it didn't happen.

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So yeah, you want to see
Edmonton kind of maybe get the bounce back

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here. He hates to see them
lose the momentum here next week with Calgary

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coming in to play, and obviously
we got the monkey off the back with

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all the home losing stick and all
that. But you'd like, you know,

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you don't want to see Emonton kind
of totally fall apart. It does

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make it makes you feel better to
be an Edmonton LKS fan right now and

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kind of feeling excited for the future. Jason other thoughts on this game,

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Uh, not too much. I
mean, I'll just highlight some player performances

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I thought were impressive Steve and Dunbar
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over the past couple of weeks.
Good to see that from him because he's

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one of the highest paid receivers.
I do believe in the CFL this season.

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I thought that the Elks defensive line
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Jake Serezna Cony e Lee Acy Leonard
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And you talked about those two turnovers
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it was in the third quarter,
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well, So some guys really stepping
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I thought the receivers played very well
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Markith Ambel's was a former Stamp.
Peter came back this season. It's done

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a pretty good job since coming back
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has been you know, just be
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I see a numb our friend of
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you know, kind of what makes
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But he was the funniest guy.
He just know you're getting very early tied.

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Something's kinda like god like and that's
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time, Evan, any other thoughts. I want to see if I have

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anything else the funny to pull up
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to see. There's probably a couple
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Yeah, i'd say, uh,
you know Calgaries receiving corps as a

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whole in this game. You know, I know that they they were able

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to throw the ball more and kind
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the game. I still wouldn't call
this flawless, but you know, they

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probably had I think between Mark and
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Reggie Bagels, and you can even
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I feel like they really had a
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don't know. I'm not looking back
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know if this is the most complete
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but I really liked kind of the
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it really reminded me of sort of
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the ball a bit. I mean, you've got four catches, seven catches,

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six catches, three catches, different
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places on the field. So that's
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the Edmonton side of the ball,
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he really it's good to see him
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one of my favorite receivers in the
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game, but you know, he
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to do. And Manny Arsenal again
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on the team and catches and yards
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mean, he just came back from
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yards now. I think I might
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but anyway, you know, just
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that age. And you know,
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around in the in the CFL,
now up there with you know, the

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Trevor Harrison's of the world and things
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couple of comments here checking in Coach
Craik Sports Fund of the Show, Dunbar

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and the Mark Hascros tdd TDS the
same week. Coincidence, I think not

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Alsa Lewis is checking in here and
we had someone oh yeah al Max Matthew

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Knadier finally able to make it live. Yeah, doing it a little early

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today. I appreciate Evan getting up
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working here with the Tuesday schedule.
James checking in BTS Dance Studio. The

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games are awesome. The other thing
I was attendance, like the Danny Austen

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of the World was like going crazy
because the game and the Battle of Our

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Burtha like it was later than it
normally was. It looked like the crowd

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was fine. I mean, I
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kind of hazy. They canceled the
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military appreciation, but it seemed fine. I had the Bagelton the professor I

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said that comment, Tommy Lee Lewis
looking huge. Yeah. They had said

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Calgary hadn't lost four in the rows
since two thousand and four, so they

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were kind of getting into that historic
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one, but I really thought that
it just looked to me like Trey was

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having a lot of fun on the
sidelines. Mayor was not in the first

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half, and then obviously he was
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the game. But it just seemed
like it's been kind of a painful process

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for Jake this season. Doesn't seem
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Trey, you know, he's just
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They had him doing one of the
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You're watching the everyday classic here,
Like I kind of thought all that was

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good, like it, let's highlight
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these young guys and Canadian guys.
But yeah, I was once told in

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the CFL that no lead was safe, and that's what everyone tells me every

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time. And so there you go, Jason, anything else with this,

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We'll get to the next game.
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for me with this game. So
you were at this game in the Hammer,

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supposedly really hot game. They're right
warm temperature wise. It gotta be

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a little embarrassing here Toronto coming in
and just kind of kicking you guys in

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the face. I'll give Jason the
four first since he was there. Yeah,

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honestly, I don't have that many
notes about this one because the same

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game, it seems like, has
been played three times between these two teams

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this season. I think where Toronto's
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half and Hambleton just hasn't been able
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hanging out underneath the concourse and the
shade the sun's side. You were really

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just cooking out there in the sun. So that was not very joyable from

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that perspective. But I mean the
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I mean Toronto just a much much
more explosive offense than Hamilton, and

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I think that Hamilton just didn't do
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I think that Toronto, on the
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So I mean Toronto is really just
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right now, especially with Winnipeg's lost
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proved it this week. Yeah,
they posted out Hamilton, they said Today's

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Labor Day, our highest attendance for
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history, which is wild to me. I think that's wild that they haven't

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I actuated simhere and they all went
home sad. I thought that, Jason,

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did you be honest? Did you
stay or did you leave early?

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When this when this game got out
of hand. I actually stayed till like

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two minutes left in the fourth quarter, actually, so I stayed longer than

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some of the games I've stayed this
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left at halftime a couple of weeks
ago. So, Evan, what did

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you make of this? I know
we were talking in the chat, and

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of course Mike Mits was going crazy. I have comments about a j and

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all this, but I'll give you
the flour first. Yeah, I mean

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I felt the same way. You
know. I think when I turned the

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game on it was seventeen nothing Toronto
was up, so you know that was

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I don't I don't know. It
was obviously surprising. I think, you

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know, I expected Hamilton, maybe
because it was Labor Day, you know,

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to kind of maybe maybe put a
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Toronto really is just that good of
a team. And you have to

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keep in mind, like you know
that they were playing in such extreme heat,

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like what the temperature was. I
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no wonder, you know, certain
people are struggling out there, like no

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kidding. But yeah, just like
Jason said, I mean I feel the

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same exact way. You know,
we've seen this before when it comes to

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h the Toronto and Hamilton matchup,
specifically from this season. I feel like

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every time they play, Toronto just
gets the early jump and you know,

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yeah, Hamilton will make a late
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They can still score, they can
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too little, too late, you
know. And when you're when the opponent

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is scoring forty one points, it's
it's gonna be really hard to you know,

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match that or you know, let
alone top that. So yeah,

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ultimately, you know, this game, I expected Toronto to win and they

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did so. Again pretty uh,
pretty routine performance. Chad Kelly, you

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know, he had two picks.
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but if you look at I mean, if you look at the stat sheet,

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Toronto's offense looks just about the same
as they normally do. I think

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a j. O Lett had his
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whatever, which seems regular now for
him, and again very healthy average.

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Uh you know, receiving corps definitely
well broken up. They've got I mean

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they have what they have three guys
catch receiving touchdowns, three different guys.

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That was definitely a surprise and it
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can recall. Yes, I mean
it was a pretty decent pass too.

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thing right at the goal line, you

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know, the red zone iim and
he threw that thing right down there.

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It was a pretty pretty decent games
So, you know, good good for

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a j Yeah, twenty six yards. You know, wouldn't say that's easy

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for a running back. But yeah, that was definitely a highlight player from

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this game. I forgot to mention
too, like even in that Calgary Edmonton

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game that there was a bit of
trickery. I think teams wanted to,

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you know, open up some some
interesting plays this weekend you know, in

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front of a big audience, and
when you definitely saw that here with with

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Toronto, although they were the away
team technically. But anyway, going back

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to Hamilton, I'll touch on them
briefly, even though yeah, I don't

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have many notes on them either.
Taylor Powell. I like Taylor Powell's continued

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progress. You know, it's a
shame he has. Feel like he's had

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a lot of you know, decent
stat lines this season. But again,

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Hamilton hasn't been winning a bunch.
He he nearly threw for three hundred yards

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in this game, so I was
a bit surprised by that initially, given

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again Felly, Hamilton's offense was pretty
slow there until you know the second half

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and then you know, just going
down the going down the sheet. Here,

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Tim White, I'm very impressed with
Tim you know, he again Hamilton

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has a nice rotation of receivers that
I think can can come in and do

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things like I've talked about Terry Godwin
in the past, and he had two

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touchdowns in this game. You know, a couple other guys. Again,

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I'm still waiting for a big Duke
Williams game. I know he might have

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had one a couple of weeks ago. But really I thought, you know,

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he would just be doing one hundred
yards every week, but clearly that

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has been the case, and maybe
some of that has to do with quarterback

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play. But ultimately, yeah,
I think that's all I have on this

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game. You know, pretty pretty
straightforward. I mean, this game kind

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of stood out is the one that
you know, maybe wasn't as enjoyable as

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the other three games on the slate
this weekend, just because it kind of

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felt over so quickly. Yeah,
I had here, uh you, and

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I want to get Jason thoughts on
this. You know, it really felt

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like Hamilton was turning the you know
around, and they had the big win

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last week against BC, and it
just looked absolutely nimick. How are you

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feeling right now? Because I know, Jason, you said, like,

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what's kind of the same game I've
seen, like are you? Are you?

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How? What is your welfare check
right now? Well? They're gonna

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win in Ottawa next week, so
you know they'll bounce back from this.

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But I think that I've seen this
before from the tie Cats. They looked

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like great Cup contenders one game every
year where they just beat a quality opponent.

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They did that last week against BC. Last year was when they beat

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Winnipeg at home. So I mean, I've seen this before where they have

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this big performance and then they have
that classic tie Cats let down. So

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I was expecting them to lose this
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a little bit more competitive, like
it was like because it was on Labor

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Day, like Evans said, it
felt like, and it seemed like they

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were mounting a little bit to come
back. And they had the touchdown and

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then they had that horrendous kind of
offsides kick trying to do the short kick

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and they cut to jeff Ryan Bold
on the sidelines here, their special teams

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coach hesus like, well, like
that's the game. I mean, you

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can't spot Toronto. You know what
was it? They're starting like the forty

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five and you know they immediately go
down to score. I wanted to say,

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I had a couple of clips here
this AJLT you know, I know

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we talked about his touchdown. This
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front of our eyes. I mean, this is incredible stuff he's doing on

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the field, and now he's got
the off the field stuff I saw him

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doing the they had the panel there
either with Milton never Kate never won doing

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the halftime and at the end of
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and he's kind of talking with them. They even brought it out when he

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scored the touchdown. I thought that
was really excited, Like this is just

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really fun stuff. You know.
Obviously we've talked a lot about Chack Kelly

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this season, but seeing AJLT here, I think it's really great. The

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other comment I had was Jack Kelly
was having the time of his life here

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and I know he got the big
contract extension that we kind of missed the

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episode talking because I think it was
after the thing last week, but then

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it was I had pre whatever taped
stuff, but him getting his big extension,

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and it really looks like he I
did not see this from Chack Kelly

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wanting to be kind of the perennial
lifer here in the CFL. But really

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looks like I'd be dance on the
sidelines too if I was extended to one

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of the highest quarterback contracts here.
What did you make of this with the

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chat Kelly, I know we miss
kind of talking about his contract step.

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Yeah, it was definitely I think
a bit of a surprise. I think

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a lot of us, you know, believe that I don't want to say

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ego is going to get in the
way, but you know, we all

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kind of believe that he was going
to be looking for another NFL shot,

411
00:24:15.960 --> 00:24:18.960
and he still might get one.
You know, I'm I'm personally skeptical that

412
00:24:19.200 --> 00:24:22.160
he will, just because I feel
like, you know, there was so

413
00:24:22.319 --> 00:24:26.039
much I mean, dare I get
into the Nathan Rourke stuff and how all

414
00:24:26.119 --> 00:24:29.759
that's gone over. But you know, I don't know if he's going to

415
00:24:29.839 --> 00:24:32.000
get an NFL shot at this point, just because again, he has a

416
00:24:32.039 --> 00:24:34.599
bit of a different past compared to
guys you know that we've seen go US

417
00:24:34.680 --> 00:24:37.480
CFL to NFL, especially at the
quarterback position. I mean, let's be

418
00:24:37.519 --> 00:24:41.519
honest, there's not a lot of
them, you know, but uh yeah,

419
00:24:41.519 --> 00:24:45.160
I mean I think, you know, it was a well deserved contract,

420
00:24:45.240 --> 00:24:47.359
and you know, some people also
might view this as a bit of

421
00:24:47.400 --> 00:24:49.880
a risk, just because you know, this is Chat's first year starting.

422
00:24:51.000 --> 00:24:52.480
But I have no doubts. I
mean, they're the best team in the

423
00:24:52.519 --> 00:24:56.720
CFL right now. You know,
this doesn't look like some sort of fluke.

424
00:24:56.799 --> 00:25:00.640
I mean, he's been performing well
now through you know, eighteen weeks

425
00:25:00.759 --> 00:25:03.039
and uh, you know, hats
off to him. I mean again,

426
00:25:03.119 --> 00:25:07.200
well earned and you know, excited
to see you know him, hopefully stay

427
00:25:07.240 --> 00:25:11.440
in Toronto and kind of build a
culture there because like right now, I

428
00:25:11.480 --> 00:25:14.880
mean they're very well. It looks
like they're well on their way back to

429
00:25:14.960 --> 00:25:18.480
another Great Cup. And that's where
all kind of started for Chad last year,

430
00:25:18.559 --> 00:25:21.480
you know, when he came in
and that's when everyone started talking about

431
00:25:21.559 --> 00:25:23.799
him. Again. I think we've
talked about it before, but like you

432
00:25:23.839 --> 00:25:26.680
know, he had played a game
before that, but uh, you know,

433
00:25:26.839 --> 00:25:30.759
not exactly a memorable one, and
I think it was only one game.

434
00:25:30.359 --> 00:25:33.319
So you know, for him to
come into the Great Cup and make

435
00:25:33.400 --> 00:25:37.440
that impression, like I honestly think
that's probably where they realized, like we

436
00:25:37.519 --> 00:25:40.640
need to extend this guy one way
or another. And then he's you know,

437
00:25:40.720 --> 00:25:44.000
the play has definitely spoken for him
the season on that front. So

438
00:25:44.640 --> 00:25:48.319
yeah, really happy for Chad.
It's great. You know again, Chad

439
00:25:48.400 --> 00:25:49.960
Kelly is one of those guys where
you really thought his career was kind of

440
00:25:51.000 --> 00:25:52.119
over and he didn't know what was
going to happen to him, and I

441
00:25:52.160 --> 00:25:56.359
mean he was I felt like a
couple of steps away from retirement at one

442
00:25:56.400 --> 00:25:57.880
point, but want a turnaround.
I mean, here he is, you

443
00:25:57.960 --> 00:26:03.440
know, just slinging it in Canada
every week, and you know, I

444
00:26:03.480 --> 00:26:07.200
don't think that's exactly what everyone expected, but working out pretty well for him.

445
00:26:07.240 --> 00:26:08.880
And he said, you know,
he's gone on record saying, you

446
00:26:08.920 --> 00:26:11.720
know how much he loves being up
there in Toronto and it feels like a

447
00:26:11.799 --> 00:26:15.319
home and you know, he can
really build something there. And again,

448
00:26:15.400 --> 00:26:17.519
like I feel like he wants to
be there. It's not a fluke,

449
00:26:17.920 --> 00:26:19.640
it's not you know, just saying
that because we're winning and I can go

450
00:26:19.799 --> 00:26:23.359
get another championship ring. I really
feel like, you know, it's it's

451
00:26:23.440 --> 00:26:27.400
important to him, the city of
Toronto and the culture and everything. And

452
00:26:29.000 --> 00:26:30.839
again, just just couldn't be happier
for him. It's been a rough I

453
00:26:30.920 --> 00:26:33.359
think it's been a rough maybe a
couple of years for him in the past.

454
00:26:33.440 --> 00:26:37.079
You know, he's done with some
some legal problems, and I know

455
00:26:37.240 --> 00:26:41.240
he's had I think his character maybe
you know, I don't want to say

456
00:26:41.319 --> 00:26:44.319
torn, but uh, you know, his character has been I think looked

457
00:26:44.359 --> 00:26:47.119
at in a couple of different ways. A lot of people, I don't

458
00:26:47.200 --> 00:26:49.359
know had the best image of him, but he's definitely cleared that he's cleared

459
00:26:49.400 --> 00:26:52.519
that all up now and uh and
that's really good to see, you know,

460
00:26:52.640 --> 00:26:56.680
guys really making making something out of
what originally was nothing. In a

461
00:26:56.759 --> 00:27:00.799
way, Yeah, it's you know
to me, it speaks to And it's

462
00:27:00.880 --> 00:27:03.799
the same thing with the XFL and
the USVEL like trying to get to this

463
00:27:03.920 --> 00:27:07.200
point of you know, be in
the spot where people can land and be

464
00:27:07.279 --> 00:27:10.759
comfortable there, you know, even
if it isn't your first choice. And

465
00:27:10.839 --> 00:27:14.119
obviously Chad and you know, the
Nathan thing, I think really kind of

466
00:27:14.599 --> 00:27:17.519
hurt. And you can still see
what the CFL media trying to kind of

467
00:27:17.559 --> 00:27:21.240
rebound from that. Oh look like
he's still doing it. Like, you

468
00:27:21.319 --> 00:27:22.960
know, you want the CFL to
be a place where at Chad Kelly can

469
00:27:23.039 --> 00:27:26.279
come in and I can make whatever
what's his contract, six hundred thousand a

470
00:27:26.319 --> 00:27:30.319
year whatever, Like I can make
great money. I'm a superstar. I

471
00:27:30.440 --> 00:27:33.200
have a great team. You know, the staff here is awesome, the

472
00:27:33.240 --> 00:27:37.599
coaching is great. I'm a superstar
in Toronto. Like, I think you

473
00:27:37.680 --> 00:27:40.039
got to get to that point,
and I think it's exciting. You need

474
00:27:40.119 --> 00:27:41.559
to have Chack Kelly is like that. And the XFL and the USFL.

475
00:27:41.640 --> 00:27:45.200
We just saw where you know,
the XFL got a puncher to the NFL

476
00:27:45.279 --> 00:27:48.759
this year. That's awesome, and
I'm glad everyone got opportunities, but you

477
00:27:48.839 --> 00:27:52.240
need to get to the point where
the XFL can be that too, of

478
00:27:52.319 --> 00:27:53.279
like, hey, you can play
in the spring and you can do your

479
00:27:53.319 --> 00:27:56.319
other stuff and you still get on
you know, TV and kind of be

480
00:27:56.440 --> 00:28:02.839
whatever of a superstar. I had
a question here for Jason before we move

481
00:28:02.880 --> 00:28:06.640
off this game. I first off, Andy pointed out this they had like

482
00:28:06.759 --> 00:28:10.559
their alt thing on today where it
was like there the ALLT logo and it

483
00:28:10.640 --> 00:28:12.279
kind of looks like the History Channel
logo. I thought that was funny.

484
00:28:12.839 --> 00:28:15.960
Their uniforms were great though, these
alternative ones. Jason, what did you

485
00:28:17.039 --> 00:28:18.319
make of that? And then what
was this halftime show? Because I know

486
00:28:18.400 --> 00:28:22.000
they had it on I had it
on mute because I was watching the Mirragers

487
00:28:22.039 --> 00:28:25.559
on split screen where the Proclaimers were
they there were they playing? There was

488
00:28:25.640 --> 00:28:30.160
just a cover band. This was
a cover band or a cover band that

489
00:28:30.480 --> 00:28:34.599
just plays cover. So I believe
their name is Dwayne Dretzky. Yeah,

490
00:28:36.599 --> 00:28:41.960
and you know the acoustics. The
sound in tim Orensfield is honestly awful,

491
00:28:41.000 --> 00:28:45.960
I think, And uh yeah,
I couldn't hear any of the halftime show,

492
00:28:45.039 --> 00:28:48.880
to be honest from where I was
standing. But the guys that were

493
00:28:48.960 --> 00:28:52.680
standing down there looked like they were
having fun. I get speaking from experience,

494
00:28:52.680 --> 00:28:56.599
because they had they had the wet
show made up for when they were

495
00:28:56.640 --> 00:28:59.640
there for their for the halftime show
when I was there, or it was

496
00:28:59.720 --> 00:29:02.000
him, then the lumin ear he
did like the opening and then it was

497
00:29:02.039 --> 00:29:03.519
the lumin ears and all of that, and yeah, it all sounded like

498
00:29:03.599 --> 00:29:07.599
we could they just like put all
these speakers and like they just they angled,

499
00:29:07.599 --> 00:29:10.960
they brought it out all these big
speakers and angled them all to the

500
00:29:11.000 --> 00:29:15.440
fans. It just like you can't
hear anything. Jason. Last thing on

501
00:29:15.480 --> 00:29:18.440
this, did you like the all
the all whatever they have is this like

502
00:29:18.519 --> 00:29:22.480
there's is this a throwback jersey?
What is this? Uh? The kind

503
00:29:22.519 --> 00:29:26.359
of black hammer Jersey? I think
they introduced it last year. I think

504
00:29:26.400 --> 00:29:30.480
it's they're called the maid in the
Hammer Jersey or something like that. Yeah,

505
00:29:30.480 --> 00:29:33.920
I liked them as like a third
Jersey. I like the you know,

506
00:29:34.200 --> 00:29:37.799
regular home Jersey's better but it's always
good to have a little change up

507
00:29:37.839 --> 00:29:41.880
in the in the look. Here
we go, moving on here. I

508
00:29:42.160 --> 00:29:45.519
have been excited to talk about this
game until obviously we have a great kind

509
00:29:45.519 --> 00:29:48.839
of game last night with straightforward and
all that listen to this, watch this

510
00:29:49.000 --> 00:29:52.720
every snap the big liber Day or
sorry, Labor Day Classic. I was

511
00:29:52.799 --> 00:29:57.000
filming I do these little Indian festivals, and so I had my little CBS

512
00:29:57.079 --> 00:30:00.160
Sports app and I had my Bluetooth. I was listening and they watched the

513
00:30:00.240 --> 00:30:03.799
game on the way home. This
was great. Saskatchewan has been you know,

514
00:30:03.920 --> 00:30:07.640
lost many a time at home with
winning bait kind of coming in Saskatchewan.

515
00:30:07.720 --> 00:30:11.799
Here we have the penalties and all
of that to talk about everything else.

516
00:30:11.039 --> 00:30:15.200
Evan DF thoughts on this one before
we get into it. Yeah,

517
00:30:15.319 --> 00:30:18.039
I mean this, this game was
great. You know, I unfortunately only

518
00:30:18.119 --> 00:30:21.720
really got to watch the end of
this game, and you know, it

519
00:30:21.920 --> 00:30:25.400
sucks because I really like this game. I think I would have really enjoyed

520
00:30:25.480 --> 00:30:30.480
watching from start to finish live.
Yeah, I man, what a great

521
00:30:30.680 --> 00:30:33.119
like it was just great. Like
that's the best way I can put it.

522
00:30:33.160 --> 00:30:37.519
And I think what's really important here
what I'll really get into before we

523
00:30:37.599 --> 00:30:41.319
start talking about players and you know, flow the game and everything like that

524
00:30:41.920 --> 00:30:45.559
is Saskatchewan. So a couple of
weeks ago I had this debate. It

525
00:30:45.680 --> 00:30:48.240
was kind of like, well,
Calgary Saskatchewan, they are the two teams

526
00:30:48.279 --> 00:30:51.880
in the West where it's like they're
kind of battling for that last spot.

527
00:30:52.160 --> 00:30:55.559
And I think with this game,
and I mean it was trending a certain

528
00:30:55.640 --> 00:30:59.160
wave and before this game, but
with this game, I think Saskatchewan has

529
00:30:59.160 --> 00:31:02.559
officially you know, put themselves in
that spot. They've separated. You know,

530
00:31:02.680 --> 00:31:03.640
Calgary, Yeah, I get it, they won, they had to

531
00:31:03.680 --> 00:31:07.640
come back. Whatever. They're maybe
not out of it entirely, but I

532
00:31:07.680 --> 00:31:10.880
don't know, it's like Saskatchewan,
I think, with Jake del Galla at

533
00:31:10.880 --> 00:31:14.799
the Helm, has been doing some
really cool things and you know that they're

534
00:31:14.799 --> 00:31:17.599
definitely making a lot of progress.
You know. Yeah, they're above five

535
00:31:17.720 --> 00:31:21.279
hundred right now, so they're over
that hump. I just really like what

536
00:31:21.359 --> 00:31:22.680
I've seen from them, and I
feel like, you know, I'm not

537
00:31:22.759 --> 00:31:26.559
gonna say that, you know,
they're gonna go into the playoffs and make

538
00:31:26.599 --> 00:31:29.279
a statement because I still feel like
there's a couple of things that we have

539
00:31:29.400 --> 00:31:33.960
to see before that but man like
I wouldn't you know, I wouldn't just

540
00:31:33.039 --> 00:31:36.839
immediately count this team out, you
know, the playoffs. I mean,

541
00:31:37.000 --> 00:31:40.440
if they can beat BC, if
they can beat Winnipeg, you know,

542
00:31:40.519 --> 00:31:42.319
there might be something there. And
I know that's what a lot of people

543
00:31:42.400 --> 00:31:47.079
might not want to hear. But
I know Saskatchewan fans, like they're probably

544
00:31:47.119 --> 00:31:49.200
sitting there, you know, hopefully
we're thinking the same way, because you

545
00:31:49.279 --> 00:31:52.000
know, I do feel like there
is something now with that team. I

546
00:31:52.079 --> 00:31:56.640
feel like they are better now than
they were even with Trevor Harris. Maybe,

547
00:31:56.720 --> 00:31:59.559
you know, I don't know if
that's a bold statement or not,

548
00:31:59.720 --> 00:32:01.480
but uh like there's just a lot
of things that I feel like, are

549
00:32:01.680 --> 00:32:06.079
you know, coming full circle over
there, and it's it's good to see.

550
00:32:06.559 --> 00:32:09.160
And you know, given how much
change they've had over the past you

551
00:32:09.240 --> 00:32:13.440
know year, they're kind of a
rebuilding team in a way, but they've

552
00:32:13.480 --> 00:32:15.759
they've already made a quick impression and
uh you know, clearly they have the

553
00:32:15.880 --> 00:32:20.480
right personnel I think to get it
done. And right now I see them

554
00:32:20.519 --> 00:32:22.319
in the playoffs and I see them, you know, still being competitive there.

555
00:32:23.519 --> 00:32:28.759
Yeah, so obviously the big kind
of highlight not highlight, but The

556
00:32:28.839 --> 00:32:31.680
big talking point of this game is
is the hit here we had on Claris

557
00:32:31.759 --> 00:32:37.519
after the play Pete Robertson and I
tweeted that yesterday and then sending out he'll

558
00:32:37.559 --> 00:32:39.799
be suspended for the Banjo Bowls so
he won't be in the game here on

559
00:32:39.880 --> 00:32:44.319
the ninth Jason kind of initial thoughts
on this because this was kind of the

560
00:32:44.400 --> 00:32:47.759
big thing and we had Claros.
I saw Jeff Hamilton interviewing him after the

561
00:32:47.839 --> 00:32:52.559
game, talking where I have the
clip here I can get to look up

562
00:32:52.960 --> 00:32:53.960
friend of the jow Jeff Hamilton,
and he's like, you know, what

563
00:32:54.039 --> 00:32:57.000
do you think they're gonna do?
And Claris, It's like, quite,

564
00:32:57.599 --> 00:32:59.480
what do you think they're gonna do? They're not gonna do anything. He

565
00:32:59.599 --> 00:33:01.880
was visible upset about this. He
had to quote like, with his history

566
00:33:01.920 --> 00:33:06.559
and concussions, he was surprised that
they kind of didn't immediately do whatever.

567
00:33:06.640 --> 00:33:08.079
And I know they pulled him off
the sidelines to kind of do some checks.

568
00:33:08.119 --> 00:33:12.119
What did you make of this?
Kind of real controversial and almost caused

569
00:33:12.160 --> 00:33:15.359
the Riders the game obviously until they
came back. Yeah, I think this

570
00:33:15.519 --> 00:33:20.119
was one of the stupidest things I've
ever seen on a professional football field or

571
00:33:20.119 --> 00:33:23.319
even professional sports in general, honestly, And that's saying a lot because I

572
00:33:23.359 --> 00:33:27.519
watched watch the NHL as well,
so I mean there's some dumb things that

573
00:33:27.599 --> 00:33:30.839
go on there as well. But
I mean, just it didn't make any

574
00:33:30.920 --> 00:33:35.440
sense to me why it was so
late after the play too, Like I

575
00:33:35.599 --> 00:33:37.039
just it didn't make any sense to
me. I mean, I don't think

576
00:33:37.039 --> 00:33:42.160
Pete Robertson is a guy that has
a reputation as a dirty player either,

577
00:33:42.319 --> 00:33:44.680
So I mean, I don't know
what was going through his head there,

578
00:33:44.759 --> 00:33:47.920
but he's rightfully suspended for next week. Yeah they said here, Yeah he

579
00:33:49.079 --> 00:33:52.119
was claris was couldn't believe that they
failed to even throw the flag, and

580
00:33:52.160 --> 00:33:53.880
then they needed the command sat to
get the call. A lot going down

581
00:33:53.880 --> 00:33:58.039
there, because he was incredible there, because you're sitting there, I'm driving

582
00:33:58.079 --> 00:34:00.440
home watching the game, and they
get the stop and they're they're we're going

583
00:34:00.480 --> 00:34:04.039
to force Winnipeg to kick the field
goal, and I think it would have

584
00:34:04.119 --> 00:34:07.079
tied the game at that point.
And then then they go and he does

585
00:34:07.160 --> 00:34:09.320
this. It completely gives him a
whole new stand downs plus everything else.

586
00:34:09.400 --> 00:34:13.800
You know, Pipkin came in and
what I thought was kind of cool was

587
00:34:14.039 --> 00:34:15.920
you saw Claris on the sidelines like
mad, because they gotta, okay,

588
00:34:15.920 --> 00:34:19.480
we gotta you gotta sit out at
least three plays and we gotta go through

589
00:34:19.519 --> 00:34:22.119
the protocol here, and you know
he wants to get back in and he's

590
00:34:22.199 --> 00:34:23.480
fired up, and you know there, you know, you think, God,

591
00:34:23.519 --> 00:34:25.400
I just drove the whole way down
the field, like we want to

592
00:34:25.440 --> 00:34:29.039
score, we want to take the
lead. Really kind of hot there going

593
00:34:29.119 --> 00:34:34.079
into overtime. I guess it was
the first overtime victory here in labor Day

594
00:34:34.159 --> 00:34:36.880
closet history, which is crazy,
Rob Vanstone, friend of the show that

595
00:34:36.960 --> 00:34:42.159
now it's with the writers, Evan. And then we talked like Saskatchewan kind

596
00:34:42.199 --> 00:34:45.559
of training the corner here a Winnipeg
a third loss for the season. What

597
00:34:45.599 --> 00:34:49.960
do you make of that. I'm
still not worried, but I think it's

598
00:34:50.000 --> 00:34:52.840
still a reminder that, you know, I can't say this team is regressed

599
00:34:52.880 --> 00:34:55.760
either. It's just still a reminder
that, you know, things might be

600
00:34:55.880 --> 00:35:00.360
more tight now, you know,
not just in the West, but really

601
00:35:00.400 --> 00:35:02.320
across the entire CFL than they were
before. I mean, for a while,

602
00:35:02.400 --> 00:35:07.079
it just felt like, you know, Winnipeg, they were the standard,

603
00:35:07.119 --> 00:35:08.679
and I think they still are,
you know, because every time you

604
00:35:08.760 --> 00:35:12.360
think Winnipeg's out of it, you
know, they'll turn things around and they'll

605
00:35:12.400 --> 00:35:14.639
get you. I mean, if
they go out, I don't know who

606
00:35:14.639 --> 00:35:16.199
they're playing next week. I haven't
looked at the schedule yet, but I

607
00:35:16.280 --> 00:35:20.599
mean they could go out and you
know, do demand a ball back?

608
00:35:20.639 --> 00:35:23.679
It's the back and back. It's
yeah, that's right. Okay, Yeah,

609
00:35:23.679 --> 00:35:27.440
they're they're playing Saskatchewan again. That's
right. Okay, Banjo Bowl.

610
00:35:27.920 --> 00:35:31.639
It's gonna be hot, that's right
now. Yeah, I mean you know

611
00:35:31.719 --> 00:35:35.920
they like look when Winnipeg could easily
go out there. I mean they're back

612
00:35:35.960 --> 00:35:38.440
at home Banjo Bowl. Like they
could go dominate next week against Saskatchewan.

613
00:35:38.440 --> 00:35:42.239
I wouldn't be surprised because again,
I think they still set a standard.

614
00:35:42.599 --> 00:35:45.599
But you know the reality is like
they're not. I think they were what

615
00:35:45.840 --> 00:35:51.760
fifteen and three at one point last
season or was that I think they were

616
00:35:51.840 --> 00:35:54.639
fifty three? Yeah, I mean
see now they're already nine and three.

617
00:35:54.679 --> 00:35:58.760
You've got six games left. I
don't know if they're gonna go undefeated,

618
00:35:59.599 --> 00:36:01.000
you know, the rest of the
way. So I don't know. I

619
00:36:01.079 --> 00:36:05.119
mean again, record is one thing. I'm not really gonna get it into

620
00:36:05.159 --> 00:36:07.239
record, but I think my overall
point here is just, you know,

621
00:36:07.599 --> 00:36:15.199
like even though Winnipeg may still be
the standard, you can't guarantee things with

622
00:36:15.400 --> 00:36:19.000
them the same way. I mean, they've had some games this year where

623
00:36:19.000 --> 00:36:22.360
you're really just scratching your head,
and even games that they've won, you

624
00:36:22.400 --> 00:36:24.000
know, there's been a couple of
times where you know, I'm like,

625
00:36:24.079 --> 00:36:27.719
what's going on here? Like this
isn't the Winnipeg that we know and love

626
00:36:27.800 --> 00:36:30.920
and that we've gotten the custom too. I still think they have all the

627
00:36:30.000 --> 00:36:32.920
right pieces in place. It's not
something that needs to be changed. It's

628
00:36:32.960 --> 00:36:37.239
just I don't know. I feel
like sometimes you know, when you win

629
00:36:37.440 --> 00:36:40.039
for so long, we used the
term too comfortable. You know what.

630
00:36:40.079 --> 00:36:44.440
I'm not gonna say Winnipeg's too comfortable
either, but you know, I feel

631
00:36:44.440 --> 00:36:46.760
like they might be trending in that
direction and sometimes where they just have the

632
00:36:46.840 --> 00:36:51.400
mentality that regardless of what happens,
we can get it fixed. But you

633
00:36:51.480 --> 00:36:53.800
know, sometimes the opponent might be
looking at that differently and they might be

634
00:36:53.880 --> 00:36:58.320
coming out too hungry, and you
know, so so we'll see. It'll

635
00:36:58.320 --> 00:37:00.920
be interesting to see you know what
happens. I can't wait for the playoffs.

636
00:37:00.960 --> 00:37:04.440
You know, there's a lot of
intriguing things here. I just mentioned

637
00:37:04.480 --> 00:37:07.800
before. Saskatchewan I think really has
some momentum building. And boy, if

638
00:37:07.840 --> 00:37:12.199
they go into Winnipeg in the Banjo
Bowl next week and they go take that

639
00:37:12.360 --> 00:37:15.280
game, yeah, I'm really starting
to get sold on them, because at

640
00:37:15.360 --> 00:37:17.960
that point there's seven and five,
and I don't know that that's a team

641
00:37:19.000 --> 00:37:22.000
I would not count out because I've
always said, you know, rough Riders

642
00:37:22.039 --> 00:37:23.719
have a lot of pieces on that
team that I like, And again,

643
00:37:23.760 --> 00:37:28.760
I like a lot of pieces on
other teams, but Saskatchewan in particular has

644
00:37:28.840 --> 00:37:30.039
some that I feel like, you
know, guys that could be you know,

645
00:37:30.159 --> 00:37:34.800
true superstars. Maybe not all of
them have hit that status yet,

646
00:37:35.079 --> 00:37:37.880
but they're certainly working towards it.
And this weekend was a great example of

647
00:37:37.960 --> 00:37:40.360
that. So, yeah, Winnipeg, going back to your point, read,

648
00:37:42.440 --> 00:37:44.559
I don't know that this game for
them, I think, you know,

649
00:37:44.639 --> 00:37:46.360
part of it might have been I
was really impressed with the crowd in

650
00:37:46.400 --> 00:37:50.039
Saskatchewan. You know, part of
it might have just been pure intimidation,

651
00:37:50.519 --> 00:37:52.760
and you know, maybe they haven't
experienced that in a long time. I

652
00:37:52.760 --> 00:37:55.239
mean, I know they have good
home crowds themselves, but you know,

653
00:37:55.239 --> 00:37:59.960
a bit different when it's when it's
the Labor Day Classic and it's a great

654
00:38:00.199 --> 00:38:01.679
rivalry on the line. And again, you know, Banjo Bull next week,

655
00:38:01.719 --> 00:38:05.840
so there's another opportunity for them to
you know, they're going to go

656
00:38:05.920 --> 00:38:08.079
back to their home and and try
and you know, avenge this loss,

657
00:38:08.119 --> 00:38:12.719
I guess. But yeah, ultimately, I think Winnipeg is just you know,

658
00:38:12.840 --> 00:38:15.320
they have these games now where they
just uh, there's a couple more

659
00:38:15.360 --> 00:38:19.559
miscues and it ultimately ends up costing
them. I think every game that they

660
00:38:20.320 --> 00:38:22.199
lose or you know that isn't good
for them. I feel like it's still

661
00:38:22.239 --> 00:38:25.400
close. So that's again why you
we're not right and Winnipeg off at all.

662
00:38:25.440 --> 00:38:29.039
There's no way we could do that. They are the most talented team

663
00:38:29.079 --> 00:38:32.079
in the league. But you know, sometimes there's moments like this where you

664
00:38:32.119 --> 00:38:35.920
know, things just don't work out. And that was a prime example of

665
00:38:36.000 --> 00:38:37.480
it. You know, Saskatchewan,
I think it was just too much.

666
00:38:37.519 --> 00:38:40.320
And again it was it was like
Calgary they just had that you know,

667
00:38:40.360 --> 00:38:43.239
like we need to go out and
win this game, where at home,

668
00:38:43.320 --> 00:38:45.599
you know, it's a great rivalry. There's so much on the line.

669
00:38:45.920 --> 00:38:47.880
You know, if we don't win
now, like you know, it puts

670
00:38:47.960 --> 00:38:52.199
us in a I guess worst position, Like you know now that Saskatchewan won

671
00:38:52.239 --> 00:38:53.960
this game again and over five hundred, which to me is a pretty big

672
00:38:54.000 --> 00:38:57.880
deal, you know, with playoffs
coming up in a only a couple of

673
00:38:57.920 --> 00:39:00.639
weeks. Really, so yeah,
I don't know, that's my that's my

674
00:39:00.800 --> 00:39:02.880
bit about that. I feel like
there's uh, maybe got carried away a

675
00:39:02.920 --> 00:39:06.440
bit, but you know, there's
there's a lot of talking about there.

676
00:39:06.480 --> 00:39:10.440
It's it's interesting because I you know, yeah, no, you need this

677
00:39:10.679 --> 00:39:15.559
rivalry to be hot, because Saskatchewan
had got blanked at home for many,

678
00:39:15.599 --> 00:39:17.760
many years. I mean, Jason, that's what I liked about it was

679
00:39:19.280 --> 00:39:22.360
this this you know you call these
rival recent times and when the pig comes

680
00:39:22.400 --> 00:39:24.360
in and kicks your teeth and there, you know, it's like Toronto here

681
00:39:24.400 --> 00:39:28.639
with Hamilton. I mean, this
was a great show, like how how

682
00:39:28.760 --> 00:39:31.599
bulletsh are you on? Jake Della
Gallan kind of everything else here with Saskatchewan

683
00:39:31.719 --> 00:39:37.199
Jason, Well, I mean,
I think Dalla Gallas looked really good since

684
00:39:37.559 --> 00:39:39.480
taking over the starting role. I
think that one thing that stands out to

685
00:39:39.599 --> 00:39:44.039
me with him is the arm strength. I mean, there are several tight

686
00:39:44.119 --> 00:39:46.440
window throws he made in this one. I think on the two point conversion

687
00:39:46.480 --> 00:39:50.639
to win the game, he had
a really nice throw on that one as

688
00:39:50.679 --> 00:39:53.599
well. So I think that it's
good that he's playing well and as long

689
00:39:53.679 --> 00:39:58.119
as they can have competent quarterback play, I think the rest of the roster

690
00:39:58.320 --> 00:40:00.480
is pretty good. Like their defense. I know they gave up thirty points,

691
00:40:00.559 --> 00:40:06.039
but ultimately they frustrated Winnipeg for large
portions of this game. Look at

692
00:40:06.239 --> 00:40:08.679
Zach clariss completion percent. It's pretty
poor in this game, and I think

693
00:40:08.719 --> 00:40:14.280
he had a really rough first half
especially, So I think Saskatchewan's team overall

694
00:40:14.639 --> 00:40:17.880
is pretty good and I think that
maybe they even get Trevor Harris back down

695
00:40:17.960 --> 00:40:22.360
the stretch and there can make some
noise in the playoffs. Yeah, Bombers

696
00:40:22.400 --> 00:40:27.400
had no passing yards in the first
quarter, which is insane. It's insane

697
00:40:27.480 --> 00:40:30.079
to think that when you when you
like just visualize in your head, like

698
00:40:30.239 --> 00:40:34.639
Hay like Winnipeg to be held to
no passing yards. I had the other

699
00:40:34.719 --> 00:40:37.039
things here. Oh and then we
just had a couple like we're Winnipeg.

700
00:40:37.519 --> 00:40:43.400
They had the kickoff and they decline
the no yards or they gave up like

701
00:40:43.519 --> 00:40:45.440
they had. There was a couple
of rouges back and forth the Winnipeg gave

702
00:40:45.519 --> 00:40:50.159
up, the kind of you know
you kind of they kind of exist in

703
00:40:50.199 --> 00:40:52.199
the vacuum. But then when it
comes down to the end of the game

704
00:40:52.239 --> 00:40:53.039
and you go to overtime, which
is just cool. Like I know,

705
00:40:53.119 --> 00:40:55.360
people pooh pooh the rouge and all
of that, but then when you get

706
00:40:55.400 --> 00:40:59.760
down to this tie ball game,
it's kind of crazy that way to see

707
00:41:00.199 --> 00:41:04.199
how everything comes together. I also
thought, oh it was the game was

708
00:41:04.320 --> 00:41:08.519
delayed on the CBS Sports here in
the States because there were soccer going on

709
00:41:08.599 --> 00:41:12.920
at Audi Field, which I just
thought was interesting because Howdy Field is obviously

710
00:41:12.960 --> 00:41:15.159
the home of the DC Defenders for
the XFL, So I thought that was

711
00:41:15.280 --> 00:41:20.880
interesting. That weird timing there.
Uh you super Mario Alfred? They call

712
00:41:20.920 --> 00:41:22.559
on Mario Alfred doing really good?
Do we like that? Do you like

713
00:41:22.719 --> 00:41:27.719
the super Mario and Evan? Are
you high on the super Mario Alfred nickname?

714
00:41:28.079 --> 00:41:30.039
Oh? I don't, I don't
know, but I don't know about

715
00:41:30.159 --> 00:41:31.960
nicknames, man. I mean,
last time I think we talked about nicknames.

716
00:41:32.000 --> 00:41:35.840
It was the Donut Boys in BC, and uh, I don't know.

717
00:41:36.199 --> 00:41:39.199
We think it's been a bit far
from that in recent weeks unfortunately.

718
00:41:39.320 --> 00:41:42.599
But I mean sure, you know, I mean, I'll tell you,

719
00:41:42.760 --> 00:41:45.000
like Mario Alford is a player,
these are really I mean again, one

720
00:41:45.039 --> 00:41:49.800
of the guys that I feel like, you know, maybe maybe he doesn't

721
00:41:49.840 --> 00:41:53.559
get enough credit still because he's you
know, a returner, just like guys

722
00:41:53.599 --> 00:41:57.679
like Chandler Worthy. I don't think
I had enough credit either, But yeah,

723
00:41:57.719 --> 00:42:00.199
I mean, you can have fun
with it. A couple of comments

724
00:42:00.280 --> 00:42:05.119
here at Scott for the show Big
Argos fan cats that go argos, Jason,

725
00:42:05.159 --> 00:42:07.840
anything else on the Labor Day Classic, we'll get int the BC here.

726
00:42:07.599 --> 00:42:09.920
Oh no, it was just a
great game. Honestly, it really

727
00:42:10.000 --> 00:42:15.280
lived up to the name of being
a classic and just a classic great football

728
00:42:15.320 --> 00:42:17.079
game. Well, it's cool.
I mean, you know, we were

729
00:42:17.119 --> 00:42:21.400
in the Gray Cup last year and
it was not a very good crowd.

730
00:42:21.480 --> 00:42:23.320
I think a lot of Saskatchewan fans
were upset, you know, because of

731
00:42:23.360 --> 00:42:27.440
the team missed the playoffs and they
either like they didn't want to give a

732
00:42:27.519 --> 00:42:30.199
Winnipeg like there was all this controversy. They didn't want to go and they

733
00:42:30.239 --> 00:42:32.239
didn't want to sell the tickets.
So it was cool to see mosaic like

734
00:42:32.679 --> 00:42:36.159
big, you know, like kind
of full, because it just when I

735
00:42:36.360 --> 00:42:37.840
was there, I was kind of
looking around. This is really not a

736
00:42:37.880 --> 00:42:42.320
good crowd for the Gray Cups.
So good to see kind of mosaic showing

737
00:42:42.360 --> 00:42:45.719
that they can draw for that last
game here. You know, at one

738
00:42:45.800 --> 00:42:51.119
point in time, this would have
been maybe a little bit more. I

739
00:42:51.119 --> 00:42:53.800
wouldn't worried about this game, but
ABC has not played great here in the

740
00:42:53.880 --> 00:42:59.199
last couple of weeks. Felt really
bad had Cody on the show. Cody

741
00:42:59.519 --> 00:43:01.519
really did not have a good game
here. I felt really bad for that.

742
00:43:01.719 --> 00:43:06.360
He had a couple that end zone
interception at the end. We'll go

743
00:43:06.519 --> 00:43:08.440
first, Jason, what did you
make of this BC winning? But I

744
00:43:08.719 --> 00:43:13.840
found the storyline here was Cody maybe
faltering a little bit. Yeah, it

745
00:43:13.960 --> 00:43:16.239
was a must needed win for BC, But yeah, I think the bigger

746
00:43:16.280 --> 00:43:21.480
takeaway is monfre All and I think
that they still had a chance to come

747
00:43:21.559 --> 00:43:25.199
back in this game late. But
there was a key roughing the passer call

748
00:43:25.320 --> 00:43:29.880
that was challenged, and I think
it was Almando Sewell that had a big

749
00:43:30.079 --> 00:43:34.360
sack that would have knocked BC at
a field goal range when BC was only

750
00:43:34.480 --> 00:43:37.000
up to at that point of the
game, and upon review, they gave

751
00:43:37.079 --> 00:43:40.920
them that roughing the passer call and
BC was able to get the insurance touchdown.

752
00:43:40.960 --> 00:43:45.000
So this game was a little bit
closer than the score would indicate.

753
00:43:45.119 --> 00:43:46.880
But I think at the end of
the day, the Alouettes have proven once

754
00:43:46.920 --> 00:43:51.519
again that they cannot beat any of
the big three teams in the CFL,

755
00:43:51.719 --> 00:43:54.639
the BC, Toronto or Winnipeg.
And you know, they're o and five

756
00:43:54.679 --> 00:43:59.679
against them, and I think they're
six no against everybody else. Yeah,

757
00:43:59.719 --> 00:44:02.480
this was I was watching. I
had my my CFL Plus on my laptop.

758
00:44:02.639 --> 00:44:06.079
I had the Mariners on because they
you know, I can't because this

759
00:44:06.239 --> 00:44:09.599
was the this you know, this
was the online game. And Mariners came

760
00:44:09.679 --> 00:44:14.280
down. They had the nail byither
rebeat the Mets. JP had a home

761
00:44:14.360 --> 00:44:16.119
run at the top of the ninth
and then I'm watching the BC and Montreal

762
00:44:16.280 --> 00:44:20.079
is making it. I'm like sweating
through my socks. I was really I

763
00:44:20.239 --> 00:44:22.719
really couldn't handle it was too much
stress. Here, Evan, what did

764
00:44:22.800 --> 00:44:25.159
what did you make of this?
You know, Vernon finally come about.

765
00:44:25.280 --> 00:44:28.800
BC really needed this. I mean
this kind of would have been a disaster

766
00:44:29.039 --> 00:44:32.039
for BC season to drop another one, right, I mean, BC definitely

767
00:44:32.079 --> 00:44:35.519
needed it, But I feel like
the storyline, I mean, you can't.

768
00:44:36.000 --> 00:44:37.960
I just look at Montreal and I
felt like that was start a winnable

769
00:44:38.000 --> 00:44:42.159
game for me. It I really
thought they were going to win, you

770
00:44:42.199 --> 00:44:45.320
know, not not to I mean, not not to discredit BC or anything

771
00:44:45.400 --> 00:44:47.320
like that. We all know they
have the potential, and they ended up

772
00:44:47.360 --> 00:44:50.800
you know, putting the game away
and that was all fine and well,

773
00:44:50.960 --> 00:44:53.880
but I don't know, I just
looked at Montreal and I'm like, it

774
00:44:54.039 --> 00:45:00.760
must feel it must just suck flat
out because you know, you've got I

775
00:45:00.880 --> 00:45:02.480
look at that game, and I'm
like, they had a chance to win

776
00:45:02.719 --> 00:45:06.800
despite Cody Fajardo, you know,
playing one of his worst games of the

777
00:45:06.840 --> 00:45:10.480
season, and you know, I
don't know, I just I when BC

778
00:45:10.719 --> 00:45:15.480
kind of a you know, overpowered
them there at the end. But yeah,

779
00:45:15.559 --> 00:45:17.639
definitely a much needed win for BC. I guess I'll start on that

780
00:45:17.920 --> 00:45:23.079
side since it's a bit more positive. You know, Vernon Adams once again,

781
00:45:23.440 --> 00:45:27.239
uh, you know, three hundred
yards three touchdowns, Like what's new?

782
00:45:27.920 --> 00:45:30.880
Just continues to do that every week, and you know, we shouldn't

783
00:45:30.880 --> 00:45:37.079
be surprised at all to Kuan Mizzelle, Mizelle whatever it is. You know,

784
00:45:37.599 --> 00:45:40.920
he had a i'd say, you
know, somewhat quiet game, especially

785
00:45:40.960 --> 00:45:44.880
because you know Montreal you know,
will stand back, ripped off a big

786
00:45:44.960 --> 00:45:47.000
run and I'd say he was probably
the more impressive running back between the two.

787
00:45:47.159 --> 00:45:51.000
But like you know, i'd give
some credits to to Kuan Mazza.

788
00:45:51.039 --> 00:45:52.800
I mean, he scored a touchdown
on nearly five yards to carry. I'd

789
00:45:52.800 --> 00:45:57.320
say pretty underrated performance from him,
and not a player that we've talked about

790
00:45:58.039 --> 00:46:00.719
it nauseum this season, just because
I've feel like, you know, BC

791
00:46:00.920 --> 00:46:02.199
hasn't been running the ball a lot. They like this, you know,

792
00:46:02.320 --> 00:46:07.360
wide open offense where Vernon can throw
you know, three hundred yards no problem,

793
00:46:07.440 --> 00:46:09.800
and they've got six different receivers you
know, working with whatever. There's

794
00:46:09.840 --> 00:46:14.000
just not really a need for a
guy like Mazella to do much. But

795
00:46:14.079 --> 00:46:15.280
he did in this game. You
know, he stepped up and it made

796
00:46:15.320 --> 00:46:19.000
something happen. So that was good
to see. And even Vernon. You

797
00:46:19.039 --> 00:46:22.760
look there at the statute, eight
carries fifty four yards, six point eight

798
00:46:22.800 --> 00:46:24.079
average. I mean he was working
there too, you know, he was

799
00:46:24.159 --> 00:46:29.519
moving around and I know the the
announcers we're talking a bit about, you

800
00:46:29.559 --> 00:46:32.320
know, Vernon. Just to see
him confident in his running abilities again,

801
00:46:32.400 --> 00:46:35.320
you know, we're good. He
kind of, I think, continues to

802
00:46:35.360 --> 00:46:38.320
build on that. You know,
Ever since his injury, I think you

803
00:46:38.360 --> 00:46:43.159
know, there's been an increased level
of from him when it comes to you

804
00:46:43.239 --> 00:46:49.960
know, running the football, you
know, and then again receiving go down

805
00:46:50.000 --> 00:46:53.440
there. Like Alex Hollins, what's
new, He's really he's almost taken over

806
00:46:53.519 --> 00:46:57.400
that number one role in recent weeks. I know he was just on your

807
00:46:57.440 --> 00:47:00.159
show. Yep, he was just
doing that. I mean he was.

808
00:47:00.280 --> 00:47:04.960
He was a really big player when
I went to that game against Calgary and

809
00:47:05.320 --> 00:47:07.159
you know, Keian Hatcher. It's
that's been the one two punch really lately.

810
00:47:07.280 --> 00:47:12.199
Was is Alex Hollins and Keian Hatcher. Those guys I think have really

811
00:47:12.280 --> 00:47:16.119
stepped up more than than anybody else. And that's good to see more than

812
00:47:16.159 --> 00:47:20.960
anything. And then yeah, I
you know, going back to Montreal now,

813
00:47:22.440 --> 00:47:23.800
Cody Fajarda, well, I think
we've already talked you know about that.

814
00:47:24.000 --> 00:47:28.519
It was just not not his best
day he's had, you know,

815
00:47:28.639 --> 00:47:31.000
as much as I've seen, you
know, some surprising things from him this

816
00:47:31.079 --> 00:47:36.079
season and overall a bit of improvement. And again, he's playing better than

817
00:47:36.119 --> 00:47:39.920
I thought he would coming over from
Saskatchewan. But you know, he's as

818
00:47:40.000 --> 00:47:44.840
much as there's been those games,
there's also been these games where it's like,

819
00:47:45.480 --> 00:47:46.800
you know, it just feels like
there's nothing going and yeah, he

820
00:47:46.920 --> 00:47:51.480
throws for three hundred yards whatever,
but sure didn't feel like that watching the

821
00:47:51.559 --> 00:47:53.039
game. You know, I was
like, uh, you know, I

822
00:47:53.119 --> 00:47:55.239
just feel like there was a lot
of a lot of struggles there, which

823
00:47:55.280 --> 00:47:59.400
is unfortunate because again, you know, I do root for Cody at the

824
00:47:59.480 --> 00:48:01.239
end of the day, and I
feel like he does kind of have I

825
00:48:01.280 --> 00:48:04.760
don't want to say he has an
underdog mentality, but I feel like in

826
00:48:04.840 --> 00:48:07.000
some ways he is the underdog in
a lot of situations. Montreal is in

827
00:48:07.039 --> 00:48:12.880
this weird spot now where you know, uh that they can beat the bad

828
00:48:12.960 --> 00:48:15.199
teams, but they can't win against
the good teams. So they're kind of

829
00:48:15.280 --> 00:48:19.239
in this weird middle spot and uh, you know, kind of waiting for

830
00:48:19.320 --> 00:48:22.880
them to really separate themselves here In
the last couple of weeks. So I'm

831
00:48:22.960 --> 00:48:27.079
sure they understand that, and I
do believe that Cody can can lead that

832
00:48:27.280 --> 00:48:30.559
charge here down the stretch again in
his final couple of weeks. But I

833
00:48:30.639 --> 00:48:35.840
think that the main storyline in the
game for me here, well outside of

834
00:48:35.880 --> 00:48:37.840
Austin Mac you know, who had
a great game on the receiving end.

835
00:48:37.880 --> 00:48:42.480
But we already talked about him so
much. You know, I don't want

836
00:48:42.480 --> 00:48:45.880
to recycle that too much, but
we'll stand back. You know, stand

837
00:48:45.920 --> 00:48:49.559
Back had that slow start to the
season and he's been improving slowly since then.

838
00:48:50.119 --> 00:48:52.239
But man, I mean he ripped
off that run, you know,

839
00:48:52.320 --> 00:48:57.000
went over one hundred yards on the
day. That was great. You know

840
00:48:57.280 --> 00:49:00.239
that to me, for the first
time in a long time, that felt

841
00:49:00.280 --> 00:49:02.480
like old will stand Back because he
used to do that all the time.

842
00:49:02.559 --> 00:49:06.280
You know, I feel like people
who maybe are new to the game don't

843
00:49:06.320 --> 00:49:07.920
realize, but this used to be
a normal thing. You know, this

844
00:49:08.079 --> 00:49:12.239
used to be something that happened every
week. You didn't think much of it,

845
00:49:12.320 --> 00:49:14.599
but now it's more of a rarity. So to see him do that,

846
00:49:15.119 --> 00:49:16.960
you know, felt extremely special.
Again, we talk about everything that's

847
00:49:16.960 --> 00:49:21.400
happened with him, everything that's gone
on you know, it hasn't exactly been

848
00:49:21.639 --> 00:49:23.079
I think, you know, the
best season for him, although he has

849
00:49:23.119 --> 00:49:27.000
started to improve again in the past
couple of weeks. I think he will

850
00:49:27.079 --> 00:49:30.440
finish, you know, at a
very respectable spot here. But you know,

851
00:49:30.519 --> 00:49:32.599
again, just one hell of a
play and you know, seeing that

852
00:49:32.719 --> 00:49:35.639
live, you know, it just
made me feel good. You know,

853
00:49:35.719 --> 00:49:38.599
I was like and at that point
in the game like to take the league.

854
00:49:38.840 --> 00:49:42.719
Just just felt like, again,
that was exactly what Montreal needed.

855
00:49:42.760 --> 00:49:45.559
And I really hope we can see
more of that again from Will down the

856
00:49:45.599 --> 00:49:50.480
stretch here in these next or last
couple of games, you know, just

857
00:49:50.559 --> 00:49:53.039
because I really feel like, you
know, he could honestly be the key

858
00:49:53.119 --> 00:49:58.320
piece of this team if for whatever
reason, you know, Cody keeps struggling.

859
00:49:58.360 --> 00:50:00.079
You know, they only have maybe
on one or two guys on the

860
00:50:00.159 --> 00:50:02.880
receiving front, they can get it
done all the way. I did have

861
00:50:04.000 --> 00:50:06.679
some receivers come back too, and
I know they've been depleted there, but

862
00:50:06.719 --> 00:50:07.960
I'm I don't know. I look
at Will stand back and I'm like,

863
00:50:08.000 --> 00:50:13.039
this could be the guy that again
really you know, allows Montrel to separate

864
00:50:13.119 --> 00:50:15.480
a bit and get that big win
that I think they've been lacking for a

865
00:50:15.559 --> 00:50:19.320
while now, so I don't know. That's my take on that. That

866
00:50:19.519 --> 00:50:22.800
was probably one of the most impressive
parts for me. Yeah, oh and

867
00:50:22.920 --> 00:50:24.519
totally. Now Lewis has a question, you're about the banjabol. We'll talk

868
00:50:24.559 --> 00:50:28.480
about that at the end. Here
we'll finish this game. The question I

869
00:50:28.599 --> 00:50:30.960
have for Jason is, you know, when we saw it, Cody go

870
00:50:31.079 --> 00:50:36.440
out, Caleb Evans performed really well, right, I mean, they they

871
00:50:36.480 --> 00:50:37.800
win both the games, and they
won at least one of them with him.

872
00:50:39.000 --> 00:50:43.440
You know, there was calls we
maybe don't want Cody to be at

873
00:50:43.480 --> 00:50:45.719
the starting quarterback. Cody came back. They were on the short week coming

874
00:50:45.760 --> 00:50:50.599
back from injury. Last week they
lost here, losing the BC with a

875
00:50:50.679 --> 00:50:52.400
full week, and that was kind
of what Cody talked about in our interview.

876
00:50:52.440 --> 00:50:54.679
And if you guys missed that,
you know, the episode we had

877
00:50:54.760 --> 00:51:00.559
Randy and Cody and who we had
seven numbar on really good last week.

878
00:51:00.599 --> 00:51:04.039
But here, you know, now, there's not a lot of excuses.

879
00:51:04.079 --> 00:51:07.280
I guess. I guess I'm concerned
for that. Tim and Cliff here tweeting

880
00:51:07.280 --> 00:51:10.880
now with the Outlets fight deck,
you know, Cody's looking overwhelmed and it

881
00:51:12.000 --> 00:51:15.880
shows very boring football, Like how
long do we stay with Cody here?

882
00:51:15.960 --> 00:51:19.199
Jason, I guess is my question? Well, I think he still has

883
00:51:19.280 --> 00:51:22.719
a relatively long leash, but it
could get interesting because their next two games

884
00:51:23.000 --> 00:51:27.400
back to back against Toronto, so
those could be two losses. They could

885
00:51:27.400 --> 00:51:30.400
be sitting at six and seven after
being six and three, So that could

886
00:51:30.400 --> 00:51:35.719
be a very realistic scenario. And
I think at that point maybe you consider

887
00:51:36.119 --> 00:51:39.239
if Jardo was really the reason for
them losing those games. I think maybe

888
00:51:39.280 --> 00:51:43.920
you consider a switch there. But
I don't have much belief in Caleb Evans

889
00:51:43.960 --> 00:51:45.840
as a starting quarterback in the CFL. I mean, yeah, he won

890
00:51:45.920 --> 00:51:51.159
those two games, but I don't
think he can show that with any consistency,

891
00:51:51.360 --> 00:51:53.760
and I think we saw that over
his time in Ottawa the past couple

892
00:51:53.760 --> 00:51:57.880
of seasons. So I think the
better off just riding it out with Cody

893
00:51:58.079 --> 00:52:04.320
unless it completely goes off the rail
here. Jason, are you what did

894
00:52:04.360 --> 00:52:07.239
you make here in the Montarlots because
they've they've looked hot, right, I

895
00:52:07.320 --> 00:52:09.039
mean, we you know, I'm
cheering for BC, but I obviously I

896
00:52:09.239 --> 00:52:12.719
care about Montreal and they're well being
as well. But like, uh,

897
00:52:13.280 --> 00:52:15.920
what is the storyline now for Montreal
season, because, like you said,

898
00:52:15.960 --> 00:52:17.880
these two games, they could you
know, Toronto could come in and just

899
00:52:17.960 --> 00:52:22.480
completely kind of knock the wheels off
this season. Like what do you make

900
00:52:22.519 --> 00:52:25.159
of their welfare going forward? Well, I mean it's hard to say,

901
00:52:25.239 --> 00:52:29.440
because going into the season, I
thought this was arguably going to be the

902
00:52:29.480 --> 00:52:31.559
worst team in the CFL, and
there's certainly not that. But I think

903
00:52:31.599 --> 00:52:37.320
there's somewhere in that mushy middle of
the CFL where they're they're nowhere close to

904
00:52:37.440 --> 00:52:40.079
those top teams and they're just nowhere
close to being one of the worst teams.

905
00:52:40.159 --> 00:52:44.159
So they're just kind of in the
middle there. They'll probably still finished

906
00:52:44.159 --> 00:52:47.199
second in the East just because of
the status of the rest of the teams.

907
00:52:47.280 --> 00:52:52.000
Hamilton doesn't look like they have their
stuff together. Odda was very far

908
00:52:52.119 --> 00:52:54.320
from that as well, so I
think Montroll still finished the second. But

909
00:52:54.880 --> 00:52:58.159
I mean, I don't have any
faith in them, even if they win

910
00:52:58.320 --> 00:53:01.960
the East Division semifinal, to go
into Toronto and put up a fight.

911
00:53:02.079 --> 00:53:05.679
So I think at the end of
the day, yeah, they're just kind

912
00:53:05.719 --> 00:53:07.639
of caught in the middle, and
I don't think that they have a weight

913
00:53:07.679 --> 00:53:12.360
out of it at this point.
Yeah, just looking at my notes here.

914
00:53:12.480 --> 00:53:15.599
Yeah, the run we should from
stand back. That was his first

915
00:53:15.880 --> 00:53:21.480
TV of the season, rushing TV, which is just crazy I think where

916
00:53:21.519 --> 00:53:23.000
he was such a part of that. Yeah, Like I said, Cody

917
00:53:23.119 --> 00:53:25.599
just really that terrible pick at the
end. It was trying to kind of

918
00:53:25.599 --> 00:53:29.679
play hero ball there throwing the I
think there was three BC guys there with

919
00:53:29.760 --> 00:53:34.119
the receiver Austin mac looking good.
Oh yeah, and then we had that

920
00:53:34.199 --> 00:53:37.920
Tyler sneed like trick playing for Montreal. I think I have that pulled up

921
00:53:37.920 --> 00:53:39.360
at one point to show like,
you know, Montreal trying. I mean

922
00:53:39.400 --> 00:53:43.840
they're pulling out some stuff. Evan. Any other final thought, like what

923
00:53:43.880 --> 00:53:45.360
do you know, final thoughts on
this one before we kind of put this

924
00:53:45.440 --> 00:53:50.559
to bed. Yeah, I don't, I don't know. I mean I

925
00:53:50.719 --> 00:53:52.960
guess, you know, still just
looking like down the stretch. I mean,

926
00:53:53.079 --> 00:53:55.880
Jason brought up you know, Montreal's
next two games. I mean,

927
00:53:55.960 --> 00:54:00.519
you know, we'll see what happens. Like even if they do lose both

928
00:54:00.559 --> 00:54:02.519
of those though, I mean,
there's still gonna be in a pretty decent

929
00:54:02.559 --> 00:54:06.440
position, like it doesn't really affect
them that much. I feel like you

930
00:54:06.519 --> 00:54:08.119
know Montreal as a whole, Like, yeah, you know, we talked

931
00:54:08.159 --> 00:54:10.599
about Cody, but you look at
the Alouettes as a whole. I mean,

932
00:54:10.639 --> 00:54:14.239
they have a pretty long leash,
you know when it comes to you

933
00:54:14.320 --> 00:54:15.519
know, playoffs and things like that, just with the way the East has

934
00:54:15.559 --> 00:54:20.519
panned out. So I don't know, I think ultimately, like I like,

935
00:54:20.599 --> 00:54:23.079
there's still time to improve for Montreal, but you know, right now,

936
00:54:23.320 --> 00:54:27.159
do they have the personnel to get
that done? I don't know.

937
00:54:27.599 --> 00:54:30.320
I'm an offensive about it, Like
I feel like they could, you know,

938
00:54:30.440 --> 00:54:32.239
come out and have some you know, I feel they could go out

939
00:54:32.280 --> 00:54:37.199
and beat Toronto in one of these
two you know, have a surprising outing

940
00:54:37.360 --> 00:54:39.199
like you just never know. But
even then, like, is that going

941
00:54:39.239 --> 00:54:43.239
to be an accurate representation of what
they are going to the playoffs? Like,

942
00:54:43.280 --> 00:54:45.199
I don't know, it gets interesting
here. We're gonna we really are

943
00:54:45.239 --> 00:54:47.559
a kind of a turning point in
the season. Again. I talked about,

944
00:54:49.559 --> 00:54:51.519
you know, Saskatchewan, where they're
at now, really you know,

945
00:54:51.599 --> 00:54:53.559
getting over the hump, getting over
five hundred, you know, big statement

946
00:54:53.599 --> 00:54:58.159
win on Labor Day. It feels
like they're making progress. You've got some

947
00:54:58.320 --> 00:55:01.159
teams, you know, Winnipeg,
even BC slowing down a bit in recent

948
00:55:01.239 --> 00:55:06.079
weeks. Winnipeg, you know,
having their game this week, and I

949
00:55:06.119 --> 00:55:07.679
don't know if you can say that's
slowing down, but you know, they

950
00:55:07.880 --> 00:55:10.599
now they have three losses and uh, you know, I mean, yeah,

951
00:55:10.639 --> 00:55:14.320
there's still the top of the West, but still some questions there.

952
00:55:14.760 --> 00:55:15.800
So I don't know, it's it's
a turning point in the season, and

953
00:55:16.320 --> 00:55:20.960
you know, next couple of weeks
are definitely gonna I think define you know,

954
00:55:21.800 --> 00:55:23.800
we had We've had a lot of
questions about certain teams this season,

955
00:55:24.000 --> 00:55:27.000
and we've always asked, you know, oh, are they this or are

956
00:55:27.079 --> 00:55:30.239
they that. I feel like a
lot of that will get answered you within

957
00:55:30.320 --> 00:55:34.519
the next I don't know, next
three or four weeks, maybe next month

958
00:55:34.599 --> 00:55:37.400
of the season. Through September,
i'd say, is when we really start,

959
00:55:37.440 --> 00:55:39.320
you know, figuring out like,
Okay, well were we right about

960
00:55:39.360 --> 00:55:42.440
these guys, were we wrong?
You know, and all the things that

961
00:55:42.480 --> 00:55:45.840
we've said in the past. So
for me, it's kind of like an

962
00:55:45.960 --> 00:55:51.199
evaluation period as a whole. You
get to this and I remember when we

963
00:55:51.280 --> 00:55:54.159
started coming to the CFL, They're
like the games don't matter until after Labor

964
00:55:54.280 --> 00:55:57.960
Day. And I hate that because
like we're trying to sell, like you

965
00:55:58.039 --> 00:56:00.159
know, trying to sell attendance in
TV rating during the summer. But it

966
00:56:00.320 --> 00:56:02.000
is what they say, like,
you know, this is kind of the

967
00:56:02.079 --> 00:56:06.280
second half of the season, and
that's why we had Brandy Ambrosi on the

968
00:56:06.280 --> 00:56:08.360
suite to kind of do the mid
season check up. We had a funny

969
00:56:08.400 --> 00:56:14.760
comment Harold Louise says, was was
coding the Outlett's lost the curse of coming

970
00:56:14.800 --> 00:56:16.719
on the Mark Cast. Well,
so like Stephen Dunbar had a good week,

971
00:56:16.880 --> 00:56:21.000
Alex Hollins is having good I think
it's just quarterbacks. I think it's

972
00:56:21.119 --> 00:56:24.320
quarterbacks because McClay Bethel Thompson came on
when they were undefeated with the Breakers,

973
00:56:24.400 --> 00:56:28.519
and then the Breakers lost. I
don't even think I don't even know the

974
00:56:28.599 --> 00:56:30.199
episode had aired yet, Like I
think I tainted it for like a week

975
00:56:30.199 --> 00:56:34.880
ahead, and I think they lost
after he came on, and then famously

976
00:56:35.280 --> 00:56:38.760
what was his name with Ben Holmes
did not come on the podcast and then

977
00:56:38.800 --> 00:56:42.519
won a Great Cup. So I
think that the curse only worked for quarterbacks.

978
00:56:42.599 --> 00:56:45.119
I think otherwise, if you're any
other skilled position player, you can

979
00:56:45.199 --> 00:56:47.679
come on and you're fine. The
last thing here, Louis had a question

980
00:56:47.760 --> 00:56:52.880
about the Banjo Bowl talking about that
and I think they answered them the chat,

981
00:56:52.960 --> 00:56:55.840
but it was the it was coined
after the Blue MoMA Sprinser Try Westwood

982
00:56:55.880 --> 00:57:01.360
a number of years ago called he
said everyone in Saskatchewan is like banjo picking

983
00:57:01.400 --> 00:57:05.920
in brands or something. Jason,
do I have that quote right? Yeah?

984
00:57:05.960 --> 00:57:12.280
I think so, Jason. Looking
ahead of the schedule here, like

985
00:57:12.400 --> 00:57:15.559
we said, BC much needed by
week and then they'll come in. They'll

986
00:57:15.599 --> 00:57:17.880
host Ottawa at home. Really has
to be a must win I think for

987
00:57:17.960 --> 00:57:22.440
BC there on week fifteen. Any
other thoughts looking at the schedule next week,

988
00:57:22.480 --> 00:57:25.159
I know we talked about Montreal going
into uh, you know was six

989
00:57:25.519 --> 00:57:30.119
six one nine or whatever they call
it there. Yeah, I think it's

990
00:57:30.159 --> 00:57:32.719
an interesting slate next week with all
the rematches, and of course Hamilton and

991
00:57:32.800 --> 00:57:37.639
Ottawa as well. So I think, you know, Hamilton just seems to

992
00:57:37.679 --> 00:57:40.480
have Oddwa's number. I'm interested to
see if that continues. The Red Blacks,

993
00:57:40.519 --> 00:57:44.000
this is really their season. If
they lose this game, they're pretty

994
00:57:44.079 --> 00:57:46.000
much out of it completely. But
if they can win, maybe they can

995
00:57:46.079 --> 00:57:49.920
crawl their way back into it.
They would actually be even with the tie

996
00:57:50.000 --> 00:57:52.559
cats and wins, so I think
they'd be one behind in the lost column.

997
00:57:52.639 --> 00:57:54.840
But I think at the end of
the day, that's a huge game

998
00:57:55.000 --> 00:57:59.039
for both of those teams. And
I think, you know, for the

999
00:57:59.119 --> 00:58:01.840
other games, I think a Calgary
and Edmonton again, if Calgary can win

1000
00:58:01.960 --> 00:58:06.440
that game as well, they'll have
five wins Saskatchwe. If they pick up

1001
00:58:06.440 --> 00:58:09.199
a loss here, I think Winnipeg
probably bounces back and beat s Scatchwe this

1002
00:58:09.280 --> 00:58:13.519
week. I think that's just the
nature of them. I think they rarely

1003
00:58:13.599 --> 00:58:15.079
lose two games in a roll.
I can't really think of the last time

1004
00:58:15.320 --> 00:58:19.719
they've lost two games in a row. So I think that's what I'm looking

1005
00:58:19.760 --> 00:58:22.639
forward to next week. Yeah,
this is is Is it Triple Heather on

1006
00:58:22.760 --> 00:58:29.000
Saturday. That's remarkable here except for
you know, say for this Hamilton game

1007
00:58:29.119 --> 00:58:30.639
the Friday, and that's kind of
I don't know about that. This is

1008
00:58:30.800 --> 00:58:35.599
a tremendous slating games here, especially
coming off of I think this Banja Bowl

1009
00:58:35.719 --> 00:58:37.400
is going to be very hot,
like we talked about with kind of theo

1010
00:58:37.519 --> 00:58:42.159
obviously, the penalties and all that
stuff seeing here with Edmonton and tray Forward,

1011
00:58:42.199 --> 00:58:44.800
and then I'm really curious, like
we've said with montral and all of

1012
00:58:44.840 --> 00:58:49.199
that. Very excited Evan. Any
other thoughts on week fourteen looking ahead?

1013
00:58:50.000 --> 00:58:52.559
Yeah, I mean, definitely some
interesting games on the slate here. I

1014
00:58:52.679 --> 00:58:54.719
know we talked about, you know, Saskatchewan and Winnipeg kind of the revenge

1015
00:58:54.840 --> 00:58:58.760
game, and same with Calgary and
Emonton. You know both those teams.

1016
00:58:58.760 --> 00:59:01.400
Well, Calgary already one, so
really it's Edmonton, you know, revenging

1017
00:59:01.480 --> 00:59:06.119
their sort of slip up in the
fourth quarter and giving up twenty two points.

1018
00:59:06.960 --> 00:59:08.960
But you know, the Saskatchewan Winnipeg
game, I think really could be

1019
00:59:09.920 --> 00:59:13.920
if Saskatchewan wins again, like I
said, and there're seven and five,

1020
00:59:14.000 --> 00:59:15.960
they go back to back, you
know, beating Winnipeg first, you know

1021
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at home and then away, I
mean that would be that would be great

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for them. Then I would really
feel confident about them, you know,

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heading into this last couple games stretch
of the season. Yeah, I guess

1024
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right. We got NFL, so
now we got we're gonna have that because

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no, I prefer the doubleheader Friday
and then the douvileheader Saturday, three on.

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That's a tough sells in the wife
have the three games starting on that

1027
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bet. Yeah, I guess goofy
scheduling now with the NFL and all of

1028
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that, we'll do our best.
I need to figure out Friday's schedule.

1029
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I'm not quite sure what we're going
to do, but go back and forth

1030
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with Jeff Hamilton. But I gotta
work. We have this like Indian festival

1031
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that goes like through the night Wednesday
and the Thursday, and they kind of

1032
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it's like their New Year's and it
counts out at midnight and then they all

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go crazy. So we'll see.
I'm not sure. I'm a I'm gonna

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beater Court like five guest interviews on
Thursday coming off of that, but we'll

1035
01:00:04.840 --> 01:00:08.719
see. Check out Jason your channel
obviously like and subscribe here as well.

1036
01:00:08.840 --> 01:00:12.599
Thumbs up the video if we can. We got, like you know,

1037
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we're peeking here viewership here at the
end of the show, which is good.

1038
01:00:15.760 --> 01:00:17.199
Jason, anything else from you,
anything you have coming down the pike?

1039
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Not too much. I actually recently
just started an NFL show over on

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01:00:22.559 --> 01:00:27.000
my channel as well, so go
check that out in addition to all the

1041
01:00:27.119 --> 01:00:30.840
CFL stuff I have over there.
Yeah, I'm I was saying last night,

1042
01:00:30.840 --> 01:00:32.880
I can't wait for Commanders Football because
the Mariners have just kind of broken

1043
01:00:32.920 --> 01:00:36.679
my heart in the last couple of
days. So no BC this week,

1044
01:00:36.760 --> 01:00:38.760
so little cheering on the Commanders.
We are playing the Cardinals, I believe

1045
01:00:38.840 --> 01:00:43.079
at home. If we don't win
against the Cardinals, who have yet to

1046
01:00:43.159 --> 01:00:45.840
name their starting quarterback, I think
it's going to be a long season.

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So God blessed there Evans. You
know, Cooper cups out and hamstring injuries,

1048
01:00:50.639 --> 01:00:53.559
and Evans got its own or rational
problems over there. So I appreciate

1049
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everyone, Like I said, you
like I subscribe, check it out.

1050
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We'll be back here next week and
next everyone. Then in nine nine shift