Speaker 1: CFL Betting Blueprint Week six Live on X and posted
of course as always to the wager Talk YouTube channel.
Thank you for all of you guys watching throughout the
season so far. For all of you guys that are
new to us, we hop on every single Tuesday live
on X usually posted Tuesday night to Wednesday morning on
the wager Talk YouTube channel. Myself, Andrew and Bobby and
we look at the CFL opening lines, give you guys
some tips on where we think these numbers are going
to go. I had kind of a rough back to
back weeks and having much needed five and one bounce back.
And it always sounds funny to say there's four games
and I had a five and fun a week in
the CFL. But I told myself this year, Bobby, I
wasn't gonna hesitate. I was gonna fire. And well, for
two weeks didn't look great, but I finally had that
big weekend I needed.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's I find in we're doing. There's a lot
more action, at least this year in the CFL. I
think after years of realizing how easy it is to
beat you, kind of we've kind of let down our
guard a bit and fired on a bit more so
like I'm eleven and nine to start the year here,
but almost tu and off units mainly for well, if
you're betting on the Red Blacks, limit your bets and
sprinkle on those dogs because two more came in this weekend,
and a big one in Calgary. So I've taken some
risks as well, three attempts to middle games that hasn't
hit yet, but overall, I'm pretty happy with where I'm
att won't see as many middle opportunities with fewer questions
at quarterback. But when news breaks, you got you got
an hour to attack, and I've got a printer going here.
I don't know if you can hear that perfect timing
to start printing stuff and the.
Speaker 1: Bad timings for me to have my mic mess up
on the first intro there? Does this sound much better Bobby?
Speaker 3: To you?
Speaker 2: It sounds the same to me. So we'll find out
the hard way.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it should sound a bit better. I was
using my webcam mic. But regardless, guys, usually it's a
three it's a four game slate in the CFL, but no,
this week we've got a three game slate to look
at here. So this is not an error. This is
not the sportsbooks being late to post. Here, guys, three
games Stampeders, Rough Riders, Red Blacks, Tie Cats, b C
Lions and the Edmonton Elks will go head to head here.
Highest total on the board fifty three and a half.
Lowest total on the board fifty and a half. As
we saw some high scoring games and as Ian Cameron
was telling us in our group chat, we have the
three of us. The overs are dominating so far. You're
making money if you've bet the over in every game
so far. We'll see if the law of averages kind
of settled down a little bit. Bobby I was going
to do some updating based on what we talked about
last Tuesday, but there's no need to because well it
remains the same. Every single team that has won a
game has covered the points. Very interesting to see when
that will start to break, and then once it does,
you know it'll break for good and we can start
making some money on it. But some of these games,
including the first one that we have here to to
waste very little time. There will have to be a
trend broken because sketchwan four and oh ats four, oh
straight up four and oh or two and oh ahts
at home and looking at this Calgary team, well they
are a perfect three and oh ats as an underdog.
Speaker 3: So uh, I.
Speaker 1: Will admit when I'm right, admit when I'm wrong, And
I was wrong about this Calgary team. I was happy
to have a two and o performance with them in
Week five. But Calgary has been better than we we thought.
Speaker 3: They might have been.
Speaker 1: And I'll speak for myself, but I was kind of
down on Calgary. So when you look at this game
here and you see Calgary off that win that they
had against Winnipeg, not only do they win like they
won in strong fashion, how do you feel about this
one's a sketch one coming off their buy?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think these writers got this by just in time.
And like, looking at this practice report, like it still
doesn't look like they're getting there. Any receivers back, the
old line's still concerned. There's a few other injuries kind
of scattered throughout that shouldn't hinder them too much, but
it's always something like they're one injury away from having
more clusters. But it's yeah, it's a good time for
them to have that buy. And I don't want to
call you out as being a liar this early in
the show, but I would argue that nobody's been higher
on the Stamps than us. I was driving home from
Vancouver Curling Club on a Tuesday night in November and
I hear you talking with Gabe thirty to one on
the Stamps, and we both had that in our pocket
for about nine months. Now. I think it's should be
past its due date, but we still got four more
to go. Now they're down to eight to one. There's
no real value there. But I've been happy with the
Stamps so far. Are back them every game. Like you said, uh,
they were three three and one against the spread, they
were underdogs. At least they opened as an underdog in
that rain game against Ottawa and that was a crazy
game to lose. Anyway, when the passing game is basically eliminated, uh,
the then Ottawa's got a chance to win, I guess right.
So as high as we've been on these Stamps, I
think this might be the time to pump the brakes.
And I don't want to go against them, Like I
think this line is kind of right where it should be.
Saskatchewan off of bye bye weeks do mean something in
the CFL, and and it's like this home field is
only going to get better as the as the summer
rolls on and Saskatchewan has their traditional hot start and
then lose every game after Labor Day.
Speaker 1: Well, Bobby, you want to talk about, you know, scheduling spots,
because the thing is about a small league like the CFL.
You know, I always hear people analyzing the NFL schedule
when it gets like people are already like setting up
sandwich spots and situational betting spots. But in the CFL,
with just nine teams, you can look at it as
well of certain spots, whether it be let down or
travel or what have you. Now we're getting to that
spot here week six. Calgary had Winnipeg last week outright,
wins Saskatchewan now off a bye, they play them on
the road, and then next week they're playing Winnipeg again
and Winnipeg will be off a bye.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they've got a bad stretch here. I think they're
playing Winnipeg three out of four weeks or something. And
Winnipeg's got this like back to back teams happening a
few times this year, and I think both of the
times they at least BC in Calgary's case, they get
a buy before these back to backs, so it's a
super weird schedule. I'm the last guy in the world
who's going to criticize a schedule maker in the CFL,
just because I was able to take advantage of it
and show vote for one summer. But yeah, I don't
know if there's that many spots, Like the short week
kind of doesn't exist this week, and like as long
as you're accounting for the buye, which usually like next
week we're going to be looking at two teams off
of by playing each other, it's kind of eliminated too.
So I don't know if the situational spots are as
severe as as they are in the NFL.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think that.
Speaker 1: Again, it's an example of two streaks going head to head,
Like you know, a great ats underdog team versus just
a team that's been a covering machine.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 1: Aj Lett's been a guy that I've talked up quite
a bit over the years, and Saskatchewan with having them
seven to seven to one in my pocket, I feel
like I haven't been on them enough this season. That's
always the worst feeling. But you know, there's times where
you want to be a contrarian. There's times where you
kind of want to just go with the hot team.
And you know, I do think that the bye week
in the CFL matters because with how many injuries take
place in this league overall. I know you were talking
about an update on the injury report and stuff, but
how many injuries go on in this league with I
would argue on the top of my head, Saskatchewan's got
to be one of the more veteran built teams. So
just looking at that bye week, how that can help them,
you know? And I think back to a couple of
years ago the Boston Bruins in the NHL.
Speaker 3: They had like they broke the record for.
Speaker 1: Like regular season points, and Bobby I barely was on them,
you know, because I kept on thinking I missed the train, right.
Speaker 3: I kept on thinking that. I was like, oh, it's
too late now.
Speaker 1: Like you know, the Bruins were laying like a buck
eighty five every single game, no matter who they were playing.
Speaker 3: They were so pricey.
Speaker 1: And when I look at this big win the Stamps
are off against the Winnipeg Blue Bombers, the fact that
I was able to cash not one but two tickets
on them, Saskatchewan at home off the by the four
and a half number. They've scored thirty one on twenty eight,
thirty nine and thirty seven in their four games so far.
The team totals have treated me well so far. Hell,
I got lucky with a late game drive. I was
actually working on editing a video before we came on
live today talking about that last minute drive the Red
Blacks put together for me to hit that team total.
I feel like Saskatchewan's team total might be in play here.
You know, if we're asking them to get to twenty six,
twenty seven to twenty eight, that twenty seven numbers seem
to be a key number for these team totals. With
the minus four and a half, with the fifty one
and a half is the total, That's probably what I'll
be looking at here. Calgary's been a great ats underdog team.
We can't talk about it enough, but I don't see
why Saskatchewan can't roll on. I was saying to Ian Cameron, like, hey,
you know, it kind of sketches me out a bit,
because obviously this team's not gonna stay undefeated forever. But
at the very same time, if I don't play them here,
I'm gonna be thinking again, Wow, this team is now
five and oh five and oh ats and I've barely
been on them, and that's a tough feeling, right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're definitely, I don't know, if you talk to
the media, they're the best team in the league. Like,
they're definitely a top three team. They're good to tail.
It's a great situation for them. I just think that
Calgary isn't as bad as people have thought. And I've
got to be off this. I think that Calgary defense
is still Maybe it's just because they were so bad
last year that it seems like night and day with
them right now. But I think there was some stat
flown around that they hadn't give up a touchdown in
the first three quarters or something like that. Helps when
you play Ottawa, helps when you play in the in
the sideways ragin. But defense is still a lot better
for the Stamps this year. And I don't know, I'm
not the total guy, but even there's some other games
on this card that I think even I probably would
bite on the total no matter how high it shoots up.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it's interesting. Look call me a but
you know I made money on them last week. But
one thing we can also argue and I guess maybe
the same thing could be said for Suskatchewan this week.
But didn't winn a peg look pretty perfect to start
the season off.
Speaker 2: And yeah, they had plenty of rests, like they've got
to play BC allions back to back, but like even
Chris Traveler look good, and that's that's something you don't see.
So yeah, I think this was just a letdown game
for for the Bombers and they get another buye already
to kind of regroup. So I'm not too worried about them,
considering like the slump they were in at the beginning
of last year. But yeah, it was a very impressive
win if you like I was, we were both on
the stamps and even like I was surprised how well
they played last weekend.
Speaker 1: Well, you know, a bye week can either motivate a
team or disrupt the momentum, and I don't think there's
gonna be any disruption of momentum with the.
Speaker 3: With the Riders.
Speaker 1: But I said last week on the show that because
I was in a small slump, that I was going
to play it kind of game the game and day
to day, and what I was able to do. The
only thing that ended up backfiring for me, out of
the strategy was not jumping in on plus one and
a half Hamilton and I took plus four and a
half Toronto, And that might be the most CFL betting
sentence you could ever say, because you won't see that
in any other pro football league. Right, That's why we
love betting the CFL. But obviously the initial gut lean
was right. But sometimes, and you've talked about it, with
the money coming in on game day or overnight, whether
it's limits or whether it's people just wait until game day. Look,
you know, not a lot of people, let's be real
here are betting CFL games five days out. It's just
not happening, right. They care about it not as much
as us, So they're waiting till the game day. So
we can kind of react because we have two four
and a halfs right this week, you know two was
it two to four and a halfs and a three
and a half, So we're going to see some movement.
Our job is just to figure out a way to
find out how we want to react to it. Red
Blacks at ty cats, I mean, this is giving flashbacks
to red blacks at Elks, where like you know, give
us a sixteen and a half as the total, and
we're still pretty tempted to do so. If any books
let you bet props, you probably want to get involved
in props in this game. But bo Levi three hundred
and thirty two yards, five passing, touchdowns, no interceptions, average
length of a pass thirteen point eight yards, longest seventy
nine yards against the tie Cats. Kenny Lawler three touchdowns,
seven targets, six receptions two hundred and seven yards. Didn't
really need anybody else. Tim White thirty yards, DeAndre Smith
twenty eight. Overall, your thoughts on Hamilton, I mean, clearly
they were the right side.
Speaker 3: They played very, very well.
Speaker 1: The only thing I would say when I was watching
with an Argos ticket in my hand was like, man,
you know, give up. Besides those big plays like if
you look at it, look two oh seven for one
player and then thirty twenty eight, twenty two and nineteen
for the players before the hat. Like, I don't know,
but your thoughts here on Hamilton, is this the Hamilton
that they've been waiting to see as far as the
offensive ability or was that just kind of like they
just you know, just took a beating or they just
beat down Toronto.
Speaker 2: I think this is kind of the Hamilton that we've
thought should be there for at least the last year.
And like their season was kind of over early last season,
so we didn't really pay too much attention to their
run at the end of the year. But like it's
like they even got better at in Kenny Lawler, Like
those are Kenny Lawler plays right, so those are Like
this Hamilton team is kind of what we exp what
everybody expected them to be, and they're finally kind of
living up to it. Defense still terrible, but like now
they got the Red Blacks. I think this is this
is another one, Like basically every matchup in the East
is a coaching mismatch for the Red Blacks. Milanovitch isn't
likely to make bad decisions. We've seen a Autowa goes
up against Montreal Toronto, Like it's just not even close.
So like you said that that number on Hamilton last
week was just the wrong number, Like they shouldn't have
been a slight dog or even a money line against
against a backup Nick Arbuckle. Like I was quick to
jump on Hamilton last week, but I think now we've
kind of overreacted a little bit too, So unfortunately for me,
that means like this is likely going to be Ottawa
or nothing, and if it is Autawa, it's going to
be like a half limit. I still have faith in
Drew Brown. I just don't have faith in anybody else,
anybody else around them. We're in red and black on
that field. So I think the more important thing is
what you've touched on already, is is this total? Like
is it fifty fifty three and a half?
Speaker 3: Like?
Speaker 2: Is this the biggest opener we've seen this season? Is this?
Like the total go this hot? Usually you've got like
a tie Cats defense that that is almost as bad
as their offense is good. And then you've got Attawa
that just goes out and plays, doesn't look at the scoreboard,
doesn't look at the clock. They can put up points,
they can give up points. So I think this seems
like I was joking with you and Ian, like does
this open at like seventy eight or something like that?
So even though this number is juiced up, but I
don't want to go against it. I'd be happy to
be on a fifty three and a half. So I
think that'd be like a little side bet for me.
Nothing too serious. I'll leave that to the pros. But
it's it's hard to ignore when you when you look
at these teams and you see how these totals have
gone over even even Edmonton and Ottawa can put up
put up a ton of points as we just saw.
Speaker 1: Well, look we're going to talk about them in a second.
But whenever we were smack talking our guy trade Ford,
I was always telling and hey, we can't always go
at this guy if the defense is given up thirty plus.
Speaker 3: Points a game.
Speaker 1: And then now they were just able to play a
Red Blacks team that gives up you know, x amount
of points themselves, thirty nine points that it didn't even
matter how many they gave up. You know, I had
that garbage time TD thirty three points for Ottawa wasn't enough.
And in the CFL, I don't care what it is.
If you told me the Red Blacks scored thirty three,
you know, I was like, okay, yeah, cool, I'll take
the money line on the Red Blacks. So hats off
to you for hitting the Elks. And then in the
same game, I was able to hit the Red Blacks
team total.
Speaker 3: So you gotta love that.
Speaker 1: But you know, looking at just being a scoreboard watcher
here being a box score guy. There were a lot
of guys that caught the ball. And I'm a big
fan of distribution, especially when it comes to the CFL.
We got ten targets six, four, four, ten, five and three.
So justin Hardy with ten targets. The fact that he
only came down with five of those little bit concerning.
But I mean a lot of targets, a lot of
guys Eugen and Lewis he got utilized.
Speaker 3: I would have.
Speaker 1: I mean, you talk about the OC, you talk about
Bob Dice going into halftime with a timeout to his
name and just didn't use it. I mean, we can
talk about so many different things, but at the end
of the day, Ottawa loses to the worst team in
the league. Hamilton beats the shit out of Toronto, puts
up a fifty burger. Now they're back at home laying
four and a half. That four and a half number
is kind of a respectful number towards Hamilton. It's like,
because if it was three and a half, then who knows.
But I got to play Red Blacks or pass from
where I'm sitting right now, I you know, from where
I'm sitting. I respect how Hamilton plays at home, and
I get it. And man, their offense look good. Their
their offense looked like nobody could stop them. You know,
Toronto looked frustrated out there. But we're talking about an interception.
We're talking about a huge punt return. We're talking about
two or three, like forty or fifty yard bombs from
bo Levi to Kenny Lawler. I'm not making excuses, but
sure they drove the field without that stuff, But that
fifty spot could easily have been like, you know, thirty
something points if it wasn't just so exaggerated.
Speaker 3: So I don't know.
Speaker 1: Hamilton's a team I like at pick or plus. I
don't really like them laying you know what I mean,
They're just not one of those teams I like laying
four and a half. The only thing is, though I
keep on bringing up those numbers about straight up in ats, Bobby,
if we take the plus four and a half based
on current events, we're asking Ottawa to win this game.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I still don't think have we had a game
where the favorite wins but doesn't cover.
Speaker 1: No, that's what I'm saying, That's what I was reading
out it's it's I think every single team so far.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that the only one that would have
been would have been that Saskatchewan Toronto game that they
lost on the on the last play on the kickoff, right,
But like eventually these are going to happen, like statistically
they're going to come back. So I don't know, I
think this number is Yeah, I think it's kind of
like you can't read into too much to these wins
because like they're against a Nick arbaullul Toronto they or
a loss against a like a trey Ford finally starts playing,
but like Ottawa, they had a lot of bad bounces
go against them in that game too. So yeah, there's
a clear like top and bottom in this league, I think,
and maybe not. I think Hamilton's kind of right in
the middle. You can't really decide. So I don't know.
I like that Red Blacks number. It looks looks big.
You know, Drew Brown is good. The O line is
probably going to get a little healthier, and that was
a big problem for him in Edmonton. Uh, the Edmonton
D line started like they're all pretty much new guys
working together, right, So that Edmonton D line looked good.
Drew Brown was under pressure the whole time. That's only
going to get better. Like they've they've had a pretty
banged up injury report, and they also have a very
well organized injury report. It's the only team that organizes
by position easy to keep track of. So I'll give
them credit for that.
Speaker 3: Credit when credits due for the injury report.
Speaker 1: Twenty six and I've been looking at first half quite
a bit. I like looking at that stuff. I think
sometimes you know, you can kind of use what the
numbers are, what the openers are, and kind of see.
Speaker 3: Where it's going here.
Speaker 1: I almost would prefer this to be a plus, because
I think it's a little more contrariant when it's that way.
But typically with some of these totals we get twenty three,
twenty four and a half for the first half. I'llby
this is twenty six and a half. And I'm not
saying that we haven't had a lot of the first
halfs go over in the full game go under, but
you know, I've I always talk about some of these
first halfs, the numbers being just so different. And Jeff,
who you know, I do shows with, like he'll pick
apart these like MLB totals in the first half and
just be like, when's the last time we saw six
and a half in the first half or just something wild?
Right first five innings kind of reminds me of this one.
But the only thing I don't like is that it's
minus one fifteen to the over. You know, it's not
like they're trying to bait us into playing the under here.
They almost want us to play the over twenty six
and a half. But that's a hell of a lot
of points to get to twenty seven points in the
first half they're asking us to get to.
Speaker 2: Especially when Bob Dice isn't going to use his timeouts
in the first half, or is one time out?
Speaker 1: Yeah, plus two and a half plus one hundred minus
two and a half minus one twenty number As it
stands right now, it's autow or pass for me. Do
you recommend people jump in on auto one now if
they like it? Or probably not too much movement for
the next few days.
Speaker 2: I think you can go another point, like, I don't
think people are going to be I don't think money's
going to be coming in on Ottawa. Like even we're
kind of uneasy talking about it. Too. Even even if
I do bet it, it's only going to be a
half unit because it's Autawa, you have, I still have
no faith in them. We're almost going on a full
year since that Labor Day game where I swore off them,
So I think it's Ottawa Autowa pass And yeah, that
first half total, like, there's so much garbage points that
goes up. That's a bolieve. I like almost one MP
last year because of the garbage time, and those last
three minutes could take forever and you could get twenty
twenty one, twenty four points in those last three minutes
of a CFL game. So the second half three minute
warning is a lot different than the first. Yeah, and
you've got Ottawa that doesn't care in the last three
minutes of the first half.
Speaker 1: As we just saw the good news about FanDuel Canada
being one of the big sponsors of the CFL and TSN,
I believe there's a lot of odds out for everything
like player props and all this different stuff early on
at FanDuel. Twenty four and a half is the number
for the team total shaded the under for the Red Blacks.
It I can if I can introduce you to the
world of team totals, Bobby, I think as that be one.
Speaker 3: This is the number, right, because this is the thing.
Speaker 1: And I always give credit to Jeff because he's the
team totals guy and I mostly used to do just
just do them in NHL. But twenty four and a
half right, because they'd love for it to be twenty
three and a half. And then that's a football number, right,
get you over twenty three and a half, good twenty.
Speaker 3: Four when it's twenty four and a half.
Speaker 1: I like those, you know, it's the same thing with
me getting the Red Blacks over twenty seven and a
half last week. A lot of people would be on
those twenty six and a half. I want to get
the lower numbers. So FanDuel current price minus one oh
eight team total over twenty four.
Speaker 3: And a half lock me in. I think I'll be
involved in that.
Speaker 1: That's that's giving me vibes to last week's game against
the Elks. It's like, I'm pretty confident that if the
Red Blacks cover this four and a half number, they
probably get twenty five points for sure.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that's a that's a great number for
the Red Blocks against a Hamilton team that can't stop anything,
can't stop Nick Carbuckle.
Speaker 1: So and you know what, I'll say this to people
that are watching that are interested in in jumping in
on my plays or tailing Bobby or whoever. If you
can't bet team totals, take the full game over, you know,
reach out to me, see what I think. Maybe you'll
go half a unit less or whatever it may be.
But if you can't bet that, or you can take
the side, you know, you can take the side. But
a lot of times, like like, you know, we have
no problem giving credit to different people, Bobby, like Ian
has been smacking the team total on both teams in
the same game.
Speaker 3: In some of these games.
Speaker 1: Right, So if you like the over, you can jump
team totals and all that good stuff.
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opening numbers your lions at the Elks.
Speaker 2: Okay, Well, Edmonton got to beat up on on a
team that doesn't really care about winning. But even then,
like they're playing the Red Blacks at home, lots of optimism.
Well no, there wasn't lots of optimism. I don't know
one fan on either side that was excited or confident
about this game. And even Edmonton themselves like they were
so unsure that they actually scripted two quarterbacks to play
this game. And like I'm the ultimate, like, why is
Trey Ford on the field? Old guy? Those I don't
think either or either time was the time for Cody
Fajardo to get out there. So they actually ran out
Cody Fajardo for two planned series and like I hope
they're planned because like I would never accuse Fajardo of
complaining or anything like that causing a stir well backup
quarterback has his job, not like he did in Saskatchewan
or Montreal, but I'd just be like it was just
such a weird spot and it didn't make any sense.
And if anybody, like, if I was a blind trey
Ford hater, I'd say, well, come on, is any reason
to get him out? But no, there wasn't a reason
to get him out. He wasn't playing that bad at
the time. They were up big, the momentum was in
their way and like he hey, he had a couple,
he had one really good pass. The rest of all
kind of dink and dunks that ran for forty yards
after the catch sort of thing. But hey, like people
are saying trey Ford is good again or good for
the first time, national media back, and I'm saying Edmonton
is back, And if this was serious, then it'd be
something that we could kind of attack the other way.
I would be happy to bet against the worst team
in the league, but the books haven't adjusted for that.
The books still don't believe in Edmonton. I'm not a
really big believer in Edmonton. I still think they're the
worst team in the league. But you're given the Lions
three and a half on the road. Nothing's really interesting
me at that number right now. But if it gets
any higher, like it's gonna be Edmonton again for me,
and these are like the bets that you love to hate,
and those are the ones that are the most satisfying
when they come in, like like yesterday, so BC favored
three and a half on the road. I don't know,
really know why some people were saying this was the
worst team in the league less than a week ago, right,
So you don't need to overreact to this kind of stuff.
I think the Lions still need to prove them selves.
A lot had to go right for them to get
that win in Montreal. Getting a win in Montreal is
a big deal. But if Montreal had had first and
ten with a minute and twenty left on the BC
twenty yard line, why not just run three plays run
it into the end zone?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 2: That would be the end of the game for the
Lions there. If Pierre Olivier Lestage doesn't punch a guy
after a field goal, Lions probably don't get into field
goal range. If the Lions don't somehow miraculous miraculously make
this two point eight second thirteen yard play, Like what
a That was a Bob Dice level decision there that
they completely got away with. I don't know why they
were running to play with three seconds left on the
clock and then Sean Waite like he had to make
that field goal too, So a lot of things had
to go right for the Lions, and that was just
to beat a Alouette's team with mcclub Bethel Thompson that
did play a little better, but still isn't where he
was last year. Still, plenty of teams would be happy
to have them as their as their number one on
the bench. But a lot of things had to go
right for the Lions, and like even even Ottow was
getting was getting was Laying to three points on the
road last week didn't seem right. And I don't think
the BC Lions are are much better than the Red Blacks.
I think they're kind of a middle of the road
team in this league. And you shouldn't be laying three
and a half on the road against and against anyone,
even if it is the Red Blacks so or sorry,
even if it is against the Elks. So I think
it's gonna be Elks for me if this gets any higher,
But I'm more than happy to stay away from it too.
So h nothing's nicer than not having an Elks ticket
on game day.
Speaker 1: Well, we talked about it. I mean, these numbers are
gonna move, right, The numbers gonna move. We talked about
we're doing this show on Tuesday, gets posted to wager
Talk TV usually at night or Wednesday morning.
Speaker 3: We're live on X right now. But these numbers will move.
Speaker 1: And we said the same thing last Tuesday, and they
definitely moved by game day.
Speaker 3: So we'll see what happens with these.
Speaker 1: Maybe we'll post a screenshot or something later in the
week once all the movement's taken place and things like that.
I gotta shout out Darsh Darsh Singh because he was
protecting his boys. He said, hey, BC, watch out man,
they got a good pass defense. Because I was saying,
have their bottom of the barrel with the run, and
then you chimed in and you're like, yeah, Andrews trying
to get me to talk bad about the coach too.
Speaker 3: I love that shout out to Darsh.
Speaker 1: I appreciate him for watching and everybody else that watches
it every week as well. But I do think I'm
right about how they're just obsessed with deep shots and
now that they have Rourke.
Speaker 3: Back, they're gonna love going deep.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna keep it short and simple over twenty four
and a half first half. The Elks might have found
their offense, but their defense didn't really improve. It looked
the exact same to me. They're still gonna get beat
by deep balls. And the crazy thing is the Red
Blacks put up that many points, Bobby by barely even
having that many long completions. They did a lot of
dink and dunk the whole game, and they still put
up that many points. I think that we're gonna see
BC catch Edmonton sleeping, get their secondary a little bit
early on in the game. But I also think Edmonton
right now the punt return, the run game, and yeah,
sure trade four will give him some credit as well.
So I don't think that there'll be much defense in
this game. And the funny thing is it's the lowest total, right,
fifty three and a half, fifty one and a half
and fifty and a half. I'm gonna go over twenty
four and a half first half. Look for some action
early and we always use that, you know, fat and
sassy claim. Here we'll see how Edmonton's feeling after their
first win. What was that in June or July in
the last like two or three seasons or something, like that.
Speaker 2: So I think the last four seasons, yeah they haven't.
Speaker 1: Ye, they'll be feeling pretty good about themselves. So I'll
look for points from both teams early on. You want
to talk about betting overs and just cheering for both teams.
I think this is a good game to do. So,
so we have three games that could definitely see putting
points on the board, but I'm actually gonna choose the
last game of the week, Week six, Sunday night, seven
pm Eastern, first.
Speaker 3: Half over twenty four and a half. All right, guys,
that will do it for the show.
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