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CFL Week 4 Results + Reactions! Winners and Losers From CFL 2024 Week 4!!

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CFL Week 4 Results + Reactions! Winner and Losers From CFL Week 4! We went LIVE on Monday, July 1st to recap and react to CFL week 4! Join Hussey's Huddle and me as we react to the 4th week of CFL gameplay and take your comments and questions live!

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Well here we are, Happy Monday, Happy Canada Day. Happy read from the Marquess birthday here Jason, normally I try, you know, I got my shirt here. It's hot out. It's my birthday at suns Out guns Out today, so we are rocking and rolling. How are you doing, sir? Doing good man? A happy birthday to you. And I'm an exciting group of games to talk about. Yeah, it's funny here, I

got stuff all over my screen. It's funny. I always joked that, especially when Paul and I were going through all the CFL versus XFL stuff. Yeah, it's amazing that Canada Dan my birthday is so important that they made it the national holiday. So that's great. Jason. You enjoyed the day off? Oh? Always nice to you know, get the extra day off and then you know, have a short week, you know, the week after. Is it odd that there is no CFL game on Canada Day?

You would think that they would make that be kind of like Canadian thingsgiving whatever, we would have a game. Yeah. Absolutely, I mean like in years past, I believe as as soon as a couple of years ago. Recently, as a couple of years ago, we did see some games on Canada Day, and so I thought it was weird that we didn't get it this year. I know they're trying to stick to that whole Thursday to Sunday through the summer kind of schedule, but I think it was kind of odd

to see it like that. And for me who's on the East Coast staying up to watch that Thursday night ten pm Eastern time start on, I appreciate that it wasn't a game today, Yeah, I will say, because I caught up and well, I think he got a little bit of delay. But it seems to be going all right here Internet, We'll work through it. I was at the kailn Car game here on Saturday, was tracking. Yeah, we were at the game. I'm like, oh my god, like the game's starting now. I mean it was. It was a really

late Thursday night there, especially, and even if you're in BC. I mean I saw the Spars crowds kind of coming off the homecoming game there with you know, ice or what was it fifty cent and all that, but like, yeah, that's even tough if you're in BC getting down there on a Thursday at seven o'clock for that, Yeah, for sure. I mean like when you look at it. I think even if like I think that,

like obviously it's hard for Thursday night games, regardless for tenants. I think especially when it's a West Coast game, because you can't really have it. If it's a weekday earlier than the seven o'clock local start, that's the most realistic time for people to be able to get to the game usual nine to five jobs. So I think that's difficult. I'm let's get Jason, Jason, you on the reset your internet. Let's get Jason hop off, hop back, gum, I'll plug. We got coming up tomorrow. Maybe

we'll just get that real quick. It's fine. I mean then, you know, we make do with what we have here. I appreciate it. If you've been living under a rock here today over the last week, just to plug. Tomorrow July second, if you're listening to this, we will have our big Oliver Luck Interview. XFL twenty twenty commissioner joining the program,

recorded that over the weekend for about fifty plus minutes. You know, the whole episode's almost an hour talking with Oliver Lot getting his thoughts on spring football, on the UFL merger, on kind of the future of spring football, current landscape, all of that. Oliver is obviously close with Brandy and Brosie. We talked CFL and all of that as well. So if you are interested in that, A lot of excitement today when I posted it teasing kind

of for a week about that about a big name guest on there. So Oliver Luck posted today the teaser for tomorrow. But that should be exciting seventy m Pacific. So if you are involved in that, if you're interested in that, like it subscribed, it should be good. Like I said, Oliver Luck, a deep dive, long ranging interview, you know, and we haven't heard a lot from Oliver kind of since and obviously with everything with Vince McMann and the lawsuit and kind of all that stuff. So I saw

Oliver on the Front Office Sports gave them a quote. I think he was talking with Ben Fisher as well, and so it seemed to be a good time to reach out that was willing to talk about that. So we'll see Hussey's Internet all that, yeat, Oliver Luck. Tomorrow should be a big time interview. People seem really excited about that. Yeah, I thought I was, you know, like what a great get for your show and I'm excited to listen to it myself, even as primarily a CFL fan. Yeah,

it should be good. Like I said, even if you're involved in the Canadian side of anything, should be interested for that. Let's get to some of the CFL stuff. Caught up on everything today. Was not watching the Ti Cats game last night, and I'm not sure if that's better or worse. Caught up on that today was at the marinerd game for my birthday at Jason. I really didn't know what happened in that game. Because I'm going on the ty Cats radio show tomorrow with Bubba and all of that.

I think a j Jackiebacks is going to be a part of that. They asked me to come on and one of the questions was you know which owen for a team? And I was kind of prepping this morning. I hadn't hadn't watched the games yet. I got, Oh my god, like, is this is Hamilton in the drop it again? It'd been twenty eighteen or whatever. Talk me through this one. Hamilton Owen four? Now other way getting another win? This was I don't know, ty Cats can't team to

get anythink going right? Oh gosh, where to start? I mean, I think the most shocking thing about how this season has gone so far for the ty Cats is that, I mean, going into the year, I thought that, you know, this team was gonna be bad. I predicted there'd probably be one of the worst teams in the CFL. But I thought it was gonna be because that bowlie by Mitchell was cooked and their quarterback play would not be up to the level you need to win games in the CFL.

But it's been kind of completely the opposite. I thought bo Is again had a pretty good game in this one, led a drive to take the lead in the last minute and then the defense blows it aget again. They decided to swibkick on the drive that led to the game winning field goal for

Ottawa. That was an interesting decision and controversial decision because Oudawa was able to get the ball near midfield and still had her own twenty five seconds left, and they just had to make a couple of plays to get into field goal rains for Lewis Ward and sure enough he cashed it. And by the way, all I want to say, three of the four games this week came down to, you know, a game winning kick, so some exciting football we're seeing this year in the CFL. But yeah, ultimately from a Hamleton

perspective, so disappointing. I don't think that there's much hope for this team, even though you know, bo is playing well. He's really the big bright spot for this team so far this year. But I think at the end of the day, you know, they're not doing enough, especially on the defensive side of the ball. I think this defense is just really struggling. They're not putting much pressure on the quarterback, They're not you know,

covering receivers very well. They're making bad mistakes at bad times or not being able to hold leads when they've had them the few times they've had them this season. So I think at the end of the day, you know, I'm not much hope for the ty Cats going forward, especially with BC and Toronto coming up in the next couple of games. Here. Yeah, well look ahead, that's interesting. Yeah, I gotta I gotta start planning what

games are coming up. Kyle here checking in Happy Birthday, the professor checking in put the knife down, Jason. Yeah, Because like I said, I hadn't really paid attention and I was just sitting there. I'm like, God, because that's the thing, like you said, and I'm pulling up, I'm pulling up that I got the game here, you know. Yeah, like you said, Bo's not playing terrible. We saw Tim White finally get on the board. He kind of had a slow start, you know,

really laying out for that. We kind of it's a fifty to fifty with Ottawa right now. We saw them play decent and we saw them kind of get steamrolled last week by Winnipeg or excuse me, by Montreal with all of that stuff and Cody and everything for that, you know, they're great Cup band are raising? How big a deal is this? Like I I wasn't really tracking the two thousand day whatever that Ottawa's hasn't beat was Is that

really a trend here we have going on? Well, they haven't beat Hamilton in you know, in any capacity since the twenty eighteen touchdown passes against they gat Audawa to the Great Cup Game when they eventually lost to Calgary. Yeah, they haven't beat Hamilton since. And they were able to finally snap that

this time. And really, when you look at the last couple of seasons, the reason why Hambleton was is because they got three wins against Oudawa each season, and you know, Otdawa's just not able to take any games off of them. So I think at the end of the day, this is a huge win for Audiwall. Even though I didn't think they looked all too impressive in this one, they made some good defensive plays when it mattered the most. They had a dropped interception on that last drive for Hamilton that could

have stealed the game then and there. But I think at the end of the day, they got enough plays, made enough places to get the win in this one. And starting off two and one for a team that's had four wins in most of the last two seasons, I think that's huge for them. Yeah, you gotta feel good here, crazy to see Ottawa here, second, you know, second in the East, and obviously bye weeks and all that stuff coming into play here Toronto and two and one as well,

we'll talk to that game. But yeah, it's certainly by no lack of bow trying here. I mean, two touchdowns decently clean. You know, we're still asking Bo to throw a lot. Greg Bell running, was was Butler hurt? Was Butler out on this one? Concussion concussion? Yeah, So see, you know you can't get too many runs going on that. Yeah, really came down to the end. You were talking about that and talking about the last couple of minutes, because that's one of the questions

too. I got a prep It's like, what do they say, Jason, No lead is safe from the CFL. It'll all come down to the final there. But it's exciting. I mean, we had a bunch of walk offs, we had overtime overtime game right with with Winnipeg and Calgary. Is exciting. Season done for Hamilton here? I mean, what's like, do we blow up and move on? I don't know what you do if you're Hamilton, because it's really been the big swing the last couple of seasons.

Well, I mean they were zero and four last year and they were able to make the playoffs. But I mean making the playoffs in the CFL, as you've said, with you know, Calgary making the playoffs last year, making the playoffs, you know, it's not really a huge goal.

It's not a huge bar to reach. So when I was saying, I think a couple of weeks ago on the show that you know, a slow start to the season doesn't necessarily eliminate you from the playoff race in the CFL, but it does eliminate you from being, you know, a first second seed if you have a slow start as much as Hamilton's had the last couple of seasons. And uh, you know, it's gonna be very tough for

them. They have a very very tough schedule coming up. I believe it's a you know, BC at home and then Toronto at home and then back to back against Montreal. Edmonton's in there somewhere, so it's a tough stretch of ahead. Like I was looking at them, like, where is this team going to get the first win? I thought it was gonna be this

week, But unfortunately for me, they blew it again. Yeah, like he's excuse me, Like you said, yeah, BC coming in week five, than the by coming in, you have facing Toronto at home and stuff. Maybe wek ate week ate there at at Edmonton circle it there, that'll be where they get that. But you know, like looking here at the stats, it's just and like I said, I recapped the game this you know today watching it, Uh, it's just so weird to me that it

doesn't really seem like ottiway did anything much at all. And so I ended up coming down ahead. You know, Lewis Warre going four for four with the field goals and all that. I don't know it you seem seemed to me that I don't know if it's a defensive struggles with Hamilton or whatnot. You really seemed like all they had to do a lot. Yeah, I mean, I think a lot of it came down to Ottawa just not making

mistakes. They thought that they you know, actually did make some mistakes Drew Brown that is because he you know, threw a couple passes that were almost intercepted, should have been intercepted by Tiger Kats defensive backs. But ultimately, other than that, they played a very clean game. They made some plays when they needed to in the second half, and you know, put the ball in the end zone when they really needed to with like three minutes left

to give them the lead. Then Hamilton answered back surprisingly and then you know Audible was able to get that last minute drive to to get the field goal and win it. So, I mean, they didn't have a perfect game, like I said, but this team is looking much more competent than they did a year ago, and a lot of that has to do with how Drew Brown's looking at quarterback, and most important thing, like I said, he's not making the mistakes, or at least the mistakes aren't costing them yet.

So I think at the end of the day, you know they have some weapons on that offense. It looks like Dominic Rymes could be a player for that offense, even though he's been pretty quiet so far this season. I think just having him out there as a deep threat, that's a type of player they haven't had in recent years. Jaleen Acklan being very productive in this one, justin Harder being a guy that's been really impressive to start the season, looks like kind of their go to guy in that offense. So

I think they have some players for this team. And Tommy Condell, we must say this is the uh they he won the battle between the former tiger Cats defensive coordinators, I should say, of Dominic Condell being the offensive coordinator previously in Hamilton and Mark Washington being the defensive coordinator still in Hamilton going up against each other in this game, you have to say Tommy Condell won that

matchup for the most part. And I think at the end of the day, you know, Ottawa was looking pretty good Yeah, so did Drew Brown think because I was that was gonna be my follow up because obviously last week against Montreal and that's tough, right, Montreal's d and all that round looking better here. The weird thing, yeah, this Dominic Grimes, Like it just feels like he's just like I said, I kind of forgot that he was even with Ottawa at last week and they were showing the huts, like,

oh, yeah, that's where he's at. Like, it just is that weird. Do you how underutilized he feels right now with Ottawa? Yeah, it is weird that he hasn't had you know, he hasn't popped off and had that big game yet, but I'm sure it's coming. I think that, you know, he's still trying to be reworked into this offense even though he played in audible before. It's a completely different team than it was back in twenty nineteen where he had a thousand yards there. So I think,

you know, that's kind of the nature of the CFL. You have an extra receiver on the field. Sometimes a guy gets squeezed out of the offense from week to week. So I think, you know, he's been very quiet to start the season, but it's only a matter of time before we start seeing some big games and big plays from Dominic Rymes, because I think they do have a quite assembly of veteran receivers in that receiving corps.

I didn't even mention Braylen Addison, who hasn't had some explosive plays this season, but has been a pretty featured part of that offense, being a guy that they've used in the backfield on a number of occasions as well. So I think, you know, they have some talent on that audible offense. Like I said, uh, looking here back at the standings, Like we said, second right now and early in the bye weeks and kind of all this stuff coming into play, but uh is it. I don't think you

can expect more if you're out of it at this point. I mean, if you're if you're a are you feeling decently good about the season, what do you think? Uh? Yeah, it's early, definitely, you know, things can turn into a tailspin, as we've seen in previous years, most notably saskatchwon the past couple of years. So nothing is guaranteed with a good start to the season. But I think when you look at their schedule going into the year. They had Winnipeg, who nobody would have expected to

be zero to four at this point. You probably had that Pennsylvan as a loss. Then you had Montreal, which they did lose, but you know, they really weren't very competitive in that game, but still you were probably expecting a loss there. And then you know, so a two in one start to the season. It's really not the worst thing in the world for Ottawa, and a lot to see how they do in upcoming games against Eastern

opponents, because against the West last year they were pretty good. I believe they were something like four and four or something like that against the West last year, but they did not win a single game against the East last year, which changed this week with a win against Hamilton. In terms of an I'll probably steal your homework here at tomorrow, like what I got to do because I have one of the questions worst and four. I guess best owing

four team. So let's go best and worst owing for a team here, because yeah, obviously got Winnipeg and Edmonton here. Really weird right now just with the nine teams we got three of they don't have anything. Uh, I thought Hamilton's looked pretty decent all the way across your best and worst owing four team. What do you think. I'm gonna sound like a homer here, but I'm gonna say Hamilton is the best owing four team. And I

just think it's because I like what now I think. But of you know, when you look at Claris, who got knocked up, will get up out of the game, just against I, he hasn't looked very good when he's been in there. You have to throw a touchdown pass. This season, McLeod, He's looked good at times. They definitely moved the ball better than they have in previous years in Edmonton with the past, but I think

ultimately the turnover have really hurt him at inopportune times. So if I'm ranking those quarterbacks, and so often in this league it comes down to quarterback play, I'm gonna rank Hamilton as the number one out of those oh to four teams. And not to mention, I think that, you know, Winnipeg's dealing with a lot more injuries right now. Edmonton you really can't trust, you know, just given their recent history. At least Hamilton, we've seen

them go on some wild runs to end the season. Usually has been a second half of the season type team. I remember there was one year that they almost made the playoffs after starting OH to seven, So I mean, I've seen some wild second half runs from this team in my lifetime. So I'm gonna stick with Hamilton as the best OH and four team so far. Let's go on here, we can circle back. I guess any other thoughts, any other thoughts on Ottawa or Hamilton. At this point you will move

on to the next game. Uh No, I just wanted to point out maybe Bob Dice. I think, you know, he has looked a lot more competent in that role. I feel like, you know, just getting Condell in there, I think that was a really good higher for that coaching staff. I think there hasn't been as many noticeable blunders like bad challenges or bad situational decisions from him so far. So that's a good sign for Audible because I had a lot of questions marks about him going into the season.

Well, and I think you want to see Saskatchewan or excuse me, someone just coming and the chat guys, you want to see all the way I do good here just because of like the whole like ten year ride anniversary, and we're kind of making this be a temple season and we've got new patches and uniforms, like you know, you know, you don't want to be like Edmonton with the seventy fifth anniversary or whatever, just playing like complete dog duty right now, so you know, at least for all the way,

Like I said in the past, I don't really know what it would be like to be a you know, to be an Ottawa Red Blacks fan. So you like to see that one thing here and this was music to my ears, my eyes here Winnipeg continuing. They were losing ways here and it was weird to me. So far Han came out and said, you know, it looks like look like you why he's getting ready to come back, get ready to sign again. And I'm like, oh, is he? Like is he going to BC's he going back to BCRE Like what's going on

here? And Walt Farhat like, well, he's probably gonna go back to Winnipeg, that seems to be. And I tweeted out that Adam Silver is like, you'll get ready to learn oh and four buddy, because I don't. I mean, they've had so many injuries. I think Winnipeg has to do something here. I guess, first off, that is a great signing because they need to have something. Thoughts on I guess Lucky going there is not enough to offset because Kolaro's and I know, getting banged up here and

we have quite the Chris Treveler stat line. We'll get to his play, but I mean it seems like Zach Kallearo's is just out out to the moon right now. Yeah, well, you're right about the Lucky Whitehead signing. They had to do something, and Lucky Whitehead, you know, like him or not. I think that he is a guy that was the most proven, you know, veteran receiver that was still out there on the free agent

market. So even he took a step back last year in BC where he kind of lost his spot in the pecking order to guys like Hats or in Rhymes, I think that, you know, he's a guy that still can help them and is familiar with that team and that atmosphere from playing there, I believe in twenty nineteen. So I think, you know, he's a guy that is gonna really help with that offense, especially because they have so

many young receivers right now that they're trying to work in. But unfortunately, when Zach's been in there, I think, you know, he's been really off his game, and I think a huge reason why is he doesn't really trust these young receivers that they have there, Like it seems like whenever they're moving the chains is to guys like Demski and Walla Tarski. Obviously, Lawler's on the shelf and then shown on the shelf for the rest of the season.

We've found out this week, so I mean it's gonna be very tough for them to overcome that, especially with Brady olivera not a one hundred percent clearly Yeah. I actually I took his this week and it's just been really kind of crazy with everything with birthdays, Loty I totally forgot shown was out as well, and I like, well, that's I mean, rip the season at that point, I think you got to make a move. I

don't know. I mean, it's fine, you Winnipeg's had so much success here and obviously that we joked last week about them walking out on the the the BC Lions were there, and right was that and they were walking out when they were losing all that, But uh, I don't know, I mean I don't know if Lucky Whitehead I was looking here at age thirty two

is enough to come in and really spark that. I mean, like he said, Lucky, it felt like two years ago was really good, right, was that the year after he got paid when BC was able to kind of make him the highest paid receiver two years ago, and then felt like last year was really up to snuff if I remember, if I'm remembering that correctly, Yeah, he had that year when Mike Riley had his last year with BC, and then he had another year with Nathan Rourke when he had

that breakthrough season, and then last year he was kind of a little bit over underwhelming and you know, starting to get up there been an age obviously into his early thirties now has a lot of tread on those tires. And you know also was you know, a kick returner for a number of years, which obviously would take a toll physically on your body. Yeah, So, what's showing out here? Broken? I'm trying that I got ad blockers on here. What's what's the injury proagnosis on showing that for the season?

Like you said, I believe I know what's out. He's out for the season. I believe it was a knee injury that they said, and it happened away from the a couple of weeks. Played a fortunate injury for them because he's just been a rock star, jes. So let's see if we

can get your internet still really cutting the ow out here. Let's see if maybe you can you can reboot one more time, and that time you want to give a shot too, Yeah, yeah, talking him through all this, and like I said, just you know, I don't know, it's weird to see Winnipeg fall off at this point. It's certainly exciting if you're a fan of the CFL West Division here and just looking at the standings. Wild to see here, wild to see you know, b C at the

top three and one Saskatchewan here both with the wins on that. Uh you know, Calgary holding steady. But yeah, you know, you certainly not surprised to see Edmonton. You're the bottom of anything standings right now. And there's certainly something we'll talk about with Jason. But uh, you know, the Winnipeg in my wildest dreams, Chason, I don't know if I would

have ever expected Winnipeg at this point. People obviously and when I was tweeting with the lucky white Head BC right started to zero and five and they won the Great Cup and all that is this. I think this feels different. This feels like Winnipeg has quite the uphill battle. Yeah, it feels like there, you know, luck has kind of caught up to them. I don't everything's not luck from what they've had their success the last couple of years, but they have had a degree to luck to be able to make it

to four straight Great Cups. They have been a team that's been remarkably healthy, and that is just not been the case this year. I mean, they're also pushing their luck with a lot of players that were getting into their mid thirties. So I think at the end of the day, it just might be their time to start, you know, falling off. I think that, you know, it's not always a graceful decline for a lot of

these great teams we see in sports. You know, it's usually just a big fall off a lot of the time, and you know, it's it's it's tough to see if you're a Winnipeg Blue Bombers fan, because you figured they would at least be competitive. A lot of people were picking BC coming into the year to you know, make it to the Great Cup out West. But I think a lot of people thought Winnipeg would be you know right there in that conversation, and so far this year just you know, can't

even just get anything together. The interesting my question for you you talked with Clara's, because I've seen both sides, right, Oh, well, this is exposing Klaro's and he was never it was always the tools around them. And then you're saying, you know that you don't think Clara's can trust the guys as much and a lot of the vib is that where you place the blame on that is it's Zach not trusting? Is it Zach falling, you know, not having their elite receivers round them. Do what do you make

of that? And I want to talk to Streveler as well. Well. The interesting thing was Zach is that you know, he's had some up and down years in the CFL, Like we've seen him at his best the last few years, but you know, for the most part of his CFL career, like he's had some good seasons and had some you know, very mediocre seasons. You know, looking back to his time with Saskatchewan Hamilton after a

really hot start in Hamilton really tailed off. So I mean, you know, if you don't surround him with players, I think that's you know, he's he's definitely best from what he's shown so far this year. But I think at the end of the day, you know, he's he's a you know, definitely does need those, you know, star players around him. He's definitely not, you know, one of those He's gonna make the Hall of Fame, but he's not one of those guys i'd put, you know,

in terms of like those all time. You know, just plug him into any situation and he's gonna have success. I think he's a guy that really needs those uh star players around him to step up, and he's definitely had that ever since he arrived in Winnipeg, most notably on the offensive line, which has taken a big step back so far this year. And that running game, which they've always had kind of always been the bread and butter.

Since he's gotten there, with Andrew Harris and now with Brady olivera the last I have not been able to get that run game going, and it's putting even more pre of the ball with the pass and undertidately with those receiver injuries that they've had, it's been very tough for them to do. Yeah, you saw that, you know, you saw Zach get beat up. You saw him laying down ice closed. I bet he wished he could have

just kind of laid there for the rest of the season. Just kind of how everything's going weird here to have you know, OLIVERA, you know, lead not even lead rusher here right obviously Streveler running for some yards on that. I just he seems like, yeah, they can't get you know, OLIVERA signed the big deal, he's had the injury stuff we've seen August see

a little bit. I guess thoughts on the Olivera downturn right now, and I want to get thoughts on Strebler because he actually ended up having to play a lot in this game. Yeah, I think with OLIVERA, he's just

clearly not one hundred percent. Like he just reminds me of one of these players in the NHL playoffs that is playing through something like you know, you just clearly, you know, just because you've seen him at such a high level the year before, like it's just not possible to see such a huge drop off from him, and uh, I think he's just has been able to you know, you know, get anything going like he had the previous season. And I think, uh, you know, he's a guy that

you know, they definitely need to be a dynamic player. I think he just sees how much the team's struggling right now and he wants to go out there and help his team as much as he can. But I mean, I think he's just the way he looks, he shouldn't even really be out there. I feel like he should be, you know, given a couple more weeks to heal and you know, you know, recover from this injury. But the team struggling so much right now, he definitely wants to be

out there with his guys. And he was even getting a little frustrated. I saw on the sidelok during this game because I think, you know, he wanted more touches and unfortunately, you know, just I think the team seeing is the lack of success he's been having, you know, they've just

didn't want to give him the ball as much. Yeah, it was like at the end of the Stanley Cup playoffs, like you said, and it was like, oh, Edmonton, and you know, mcgavid had a torn whatever and this and something like, you know, you find that man, oh you know, and part of that might be a little bit overblown, just like, well we lost being my my knee was barely even hanging on here and I couldn't even skate down. But you know, I mean,

they're playing through a lot. I agree with that. I agree with that assessment of them. Weird, Yeah, weird that Olavera would be upset like that of Want anymore because yeah, clearly had not seen the success thus far with that with Trevler came in a lot. This game obviously went down the overtime. We'll talk through the overtime, but how did Strevler look actually taking

meaningful snaps here and you have to throw the ball. Well, I mean he had that drive at the end to force overtime, but other than that, he looks at the same old quarterback that we saw back in twenty nineteen when he started games for the Blue Bombers, a guy that you just don't

trust to win with his arm. He's a great athlete, you know, you can use him as a gadget type player, but when you ask him to win games from the pocket with his arm I don't think he can do it, and I think the jury's still out and whether or not he can be a full time, you know, starting quarterback in this league if he's pressed into action for any you know, a decent amount of time. So I think it's gonna be very interesting to see, you know, if he

gets a game next week if Claris is not back. But I mean, it looks like it was more precautionary with Claris, That's what they were saying, I believe Michaelsha was saying after the game. So I think at the end of the day, you know, Streveler is not a guy you can trust in this league to start games for you and run at any consistent level unless you build a specific offense directly around you know, you know his running ability, but they're not running the ball well right now. So that's a

big problem for Winnipeg. It is weird because, like you said, he had the one good drive coming down forced overtime, but then in the overtime, you know, completely airmails and in the end zone right gets the interception, they're you know, Calgary is able to go and they have that weird with the penalty, and that got pushed back and all that, but uh, you know, to me, like that's the difference between Streveler and like

Cody Fajardo last year, great Cup, Like you got it. You know, there's only you know, in a season in the game, there's a couple of throws you gotta make and that you know you can go fifty to fifty on that, And that's the difference between kind of an elite quarterback and not. Did you like right? First? Is his first overtime game of this season? Right, I'm trying to track that because we had none in the UFL and Mike see be planted out. Mike Mitchell, Is this the

first overtime game we've had? Yep, I believe so. Yeah, but I think you Saskatchewan and Hamilton were close, but uh, you know they threw the interception right there at the last minute and broke my heart again. Yeah, so his thoughts on that, yeo? Then when it right right, that's what that pack exciting, I mean exciting stuff and Calgary proofs while you always go second in overtime and see what you need to do. Thoughts on the overtime win of that, I like you said, Streveler, kind

of you failing that risk and then to Calgary being able to capitalize. One specific thing, when you look at Alby Stampeders sent to b felt like, you know, they were sending the heat, especially on that interception on the last play of over. You know, we didn't you know, see the field, didn't see the guys coming, didn't have a hot route planned out, and unfortunately, just like you said, airmail the ball in the end zone that was pretty easily intercepted. So I pressure, well, I think

the Stamps deserve a lot of job defensively this season. I think, you know, it's not one of the best defenses in the league, but I think it's been very you know, confident to start the season. Cameron Judge has been playing very well for them. Uh. Demario Houston got an interception in this one, you know, because you know, he was a big part of their offseason because he was a guy that they brought in from Winnipeg. He had like nine interceptions last year, seven interceptions, led the league

interceptions last year. So I think that's a good sign for Calgary. The jury is still out on Jake Mayer and whether or not he can be you know, I'll say, but I think at the end of the day, he's looked pretty good so far. The Stamps are two and one. They've looked competitive in every game, and you know, it was getting a little bit diceyed down to the end when Winnipeg tied it, because it would have been really bad at Calgary blew this game, because when are they ever going

to beat Winnipeg if they blew this game. So I think at the end of the day, you know, huge for them to get a win and break a huge losing streak against Winnipeg. Yeah, let's talk here a little Jake Mayer. I think that's one of the talking points this week as well. We all that we're still you know, Jake's still throwing a million attempts for all this, you know, decent here to thirty nine had going heavy

interception. How how is he looking? What's your assessment of him? Because I agree, I think Calgary's looked pretty good this year right there, third in the third in the West. I wanted to talk through Saskatchewan and the injury because obviously bye week this week we'll talk Trevor Harris. But yeah, I mean Jake seems to be doing all right. Yeah, most definitely I think, you know, especially compared to last year where he got off to

a really rocky start, he's looked very steady to start the season. It doesn't look like every second throw was going to turn to an interception. So I think, you know, that's a big provement over last year for Jake.

I think the biggest takeaway from wanting their offense. I think they played really well so far, but they just don't have that explosive element, and I think until they get that and unlock that part of their offense, if it's even there, I think they're not gonna be one of those uprational on teams or be able to beat those up Rachelan teams in the league like a BC or Montreal right now. So I think at the end of the day, that's one thing they really need to work on as an offense. They

really need to get the running game going. Really no help from the running game in this one average less than four yards for carrying the CFL on the ground. That's that's pretty rough. So I think, at the end of the day, pretty good game from Jake, considering that the running game wasn't

there. He had a you know, an interception in this one that wasn't too great, but I think at the end of the day was you know, a pretty good game for them, and it's a pretty good start to the season, similar to Ottawa. Well, and you you know, I saw interesting And I don't know if this is just my UFL bleeding into my life here, but a lot of talk right now like CFL attendance and fan interest. I think ratings him indecent. But I don't even think even Michael

Ball has been posting about attendance. I'm like, okay, maybe we should get Mike Kalan to do a UFL recap. But you know, but good to see Calgary getting to win at home, right They have struggled at McMahon right four attendance and getting the interest in there. Like we said, we talked, you know, just making the playoffs isn't enough. You need to actually have success because I don't care. You know, to be the sixth best team in the league and they get balanced in the you know, the

playoffs isn't anything to say, you know, to be excited about. I don't know, it feels like arrows up on Calgary right now, as far as I can tell. Any other excuse me, any other sessments on them because I want to talk to Saskatchewan here. Odd not too much on Calgary. I mean, I think they have a really tough schedule coming up, similar to to Hamilton. They played Winnipeg again in a couple of weeks, so that'll be a big test for them. I think they have Montreal this

week, so another big test for them. So we're gonna see what this team's made up. Are they going to be closer to you know, those to four teams that we talked about, or are they going to be really one of those teams elves as you know, one of these teams for home field advantage come playoff time. I'll will find out very shortly for the Stamps. So we have the news come out. I think I saw Naylor. I think Britton, Gray and Naylor kind of co signed and tweeted. Trevor

Harris going to be out six weeks at knee injury. Right's his old? I mean today is my birthday. Trevor Harris had his birthday a couple of months ago. We were at the same age. No surprise to me at all. I mean, you don't want to see anyone injured, but I can't imagine you're putting Trevor Harris at thirty eight in this position. Thoughts on the injury because, like I said, Saskatchewan's second in the division right now. But I mean you're going to rite Mason Fine here for the next six

weeks. Thoughts on the injury and then what to Saskatchewan do. They're actually going to Shaye Patterson because they mas and that's right, that's the preseason. But thoughts on Shay Yeah, USFL draft number one draft pick. Oh well, he's a guy that really didn't impress me, you know, from a Hamilton fan perspective watching them when he came to the game last week. But it's hard to tell when a guy comes in and didn't get the full week of prep. So we'll have to see how he does in his first CFL

start this week. I think it's against Toronto on Thursday night, so that'll be a really interesting matchup. I believe it's into Scats one too, so maybe he has a chance to pull one out and get the Scats one to four and ZHO. But it's just tough to see as a Rough Riders if you're a Rough Riders fan, because it's almost like deja vu from the last couple of seasons where you know, their quarterbacks suffer some kind of injury.

Even though Cody Fajardo was able to play through a lot of that injury a couple of years ago, you know, he wasn't the same after getting nicked up early in the season. And you know, they went on that big back slide the second half of the year each of the last couple of years. So you know, it's certainly not surprising, like you said, that Trevor Harris got injured, a thirty eight year old quarterback that's not very mobile

behind a pretty bad offensive line all things considered. So I think that, you know, it's gonna be very interesting to see how they do because Trevor Harris was looking very good out there, and you know, he was just seemed like a guy that could be in contention for an MLP this season. But unfortunately, you know, thirty eight years old, very hard to stay

healthy in this league. So we had on Darren Ball, I mean last week, you know, Onfire Sports, and Darren's wealth of football knowledge far out weigh as you know mine, and I couldn't even hope to have as much football knowledge as Darren has But when he said that Shape Patterson was the second best, like the best backup quarterback in the CFI, I almost spit out my water on the laptop. I mean, Shae Shae is is not it. I don't care if he came in and was rushed and didn't feel

whatever. I mean, we've seen shit. Yeah, I agree Iran coach Craig here taking them. They should have kept Dola Gala, they should have got made some fine. Mean they shouldn't geten in with. I don't see Shane Patterson being that. I do not see that that's an answer. And as you said, Toronto here at Saskatchewan, I think Toronto defense is going to absolutely murder Shape Patterson here. I think we might see I think we

might see him a funeral here at Plazak Stadium. Just thoughts on that this match up, Yeah, I know we talked about it, but any other thoughts on that I see this being Toronto in with like a sledgehammer here. Well, it's weird because I think this history has shown us that there are guys that are a better fit for the CFL game than they are for the

NFL game at quarterbacks. So maybe who knows, you know, he you know, you know, have some kind of success as a starter here for Saskatchewan briefly, but you know, ultimately, like I said, I don't have much confidence in that happening. He's been around the league for a few years, you know, been a third stringer somewhere, being like the short yardage guy for a couple of different places. But I think, you know, in terms of being a guy you can trust to win games, especially

going up against a very very good Toronto Argonaut's defense. I know they didn't play too well. We'll we'll get to that in a minute. But I think at the end of the day, you know, it's gonna be very tough for them to win the game. But if it could just win a couple of games games before Trevor Harris gets back, I think that's gonna be the key. Because you're not gonna win all of these games, or even

a majority of them. But even if they can split these like next four or five games or whatever it is, until Trevor Harris gets back, I think that will be a huge win for Saskatchewan. Well, I you know, thenier said and done here in Toronto, adds Saskatchewe uh, then they're facing v C. Then their face in Winnipeg that might be maybe, and then you know at Montreal here it's tough. It's then they get a buy No, no, they don Edmonton. There you go week nine, pencil

in your first wins. You know, whatever wins is gonna be. Yeah, I just wild. But like I said, I don't you see this coming. And we always stay on here and I will say this is the same thing and we'll talk BC. But something is gonna happen to Vernon Adams and this is a concern to me. And I know we have Dola Galaza backup, but like, uh, you gotta just you can't rely on these guys to stay healthy that long. And to me, it's it's insanity.

You would. I love Corey Mace and we've talked about that. They've been playing up to him, but it's insandy to me that you would have your season ty to Trevor Harriser at this point people you know, I don't know, yeah, And it's you know, it must be said that like almost the second most important position on a CFL team the last several years has become

the backup quarterback because almost every quarterback misses sometime during the season. We only had one quarterback start all eighteen games last year and that was Jake Mayer. So I think, you know, it's a huge part of a CFL, you know, team building this these days is getting that backup quarterback position solidified. And like I said, don't have that much confidence in Patterson to get it done. And I definitely disagreed with Darren Balumer as well when I watched

that show that that interview you had on your show this week. So I think at the end of the day, you'll have to prove me wrong. Yeah, we had a hear a question about the American ratio rule and like being only able to play certain downs, right, that was with the new CBA that come out. It came out right, and that you're only able to play so much on this they want is that they should talk about this.

I presume that means we should talk about it. But yeah, I mean that's that's something that came into effect last season, right going in for they were talking about that Tim White with the Hamilton game. Uh, yeah, it came in Maybe it's I'm trying to think of it was implemented last year or this year because I know, I know the CBA was signed last year before training camp, right, so yeah, or was it twenty twenty

two? Yeah, I always, I always forget. But anyway, the rule is basically, it was designed to get veteran American players more playing time and you know, you know, stick around when they're not going to necessarily be a starter on a team. Uh. But unfortunately this rule has kind of been abused and you know, you see, you know, even star

players being that designated American throughout the game, like the tay Cats. Uh. They were talking about it a lot on the broadcast last night that Tim White was the designated American for the tai Cats and you know, all simately like they were talking about, oh, how many plays he's he allowed to

play and whatnot. And to be honest, I don't even fully understand the role, which really, you know, I think that's the the crux of the issue right there, is that the average football fan, like diehard football fan like me, can't even like fully explain it to people. So I

think at the end of the day, it definitely needs some tweaks. I think the CFL's heart was in the right place when they put in this rule, but I think at the end of the day they the implementation of it and trying to track this, you know, fifty percent of snaps kind of thing for nationalized Americans. I think it's a very complicated thing, and I think at the other day it definitely needs some tweaking. There's a spider running across my laptop here. Yeah, let's let's go on here because we got

two more games. We gotta get out of here. I have birthday dinner plans and I'm very excited for that. Let's get into this Toronto Montreal game. Kind of bill, this was going to be the game of the weekend. I think that's we have the thumbnail out for all that stuff. Uh, Toronto lost. We saw Brian Scott sighting. Was that now I caught up on this game. Was that injury or was that just like, hey, we're out of it here. Why did Brian Scott make an appearance?

Did we lose Hussy I then we lost Jason? Uh yeah, and talking to do this with with the Brian Scott finally had a touchdown for Toronto here coming near the end, they say it was funny like this is the this is the the payoff to Toronto fans sticking around for all that stuff. Jason, did we get you back? Are you still lost? Let's remove him. Let's see if he gets that. Figure out Jason. Then we got

to get the Canadian internet situation. Figure that out here. Anyway, Montreal came in, Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know it was interesting. I'm just curious, like because again I was recapping this, if there's like, hey, we're we're sitting shutting Dukes down for the game, or having Brian come in good to see. Talked with Brian. I saw him on the sidelines of the game. I think it was last week. I got

a screen record of that, said that to him. Always enjoyed talking with our friend of the show, Brian Scott, m VP of the Spring League two time share for that. Was excited here. But Montreal coming in really taking care of business. I did not think this was close. Toronto got the touchdown near the end to kind of keep it, you know, looking better at the scoreboard, but yet not to be here. Cody looking you

know, pretty decent here, throw almost three hundred yards. A lot of attempts on that, you know, Walter Fletcher not really a run game on this one. We saw James Letcher coming in had a couple of big returns. Let's get Jason back in here and see if we can get this going here, Jason Friend of the show, James Letcher having quite a bunch of kickoff returns here. What did you make of this with Montreal coming and really

steamrolling Toronto at home? Well, this game is the one I saw the least of this week, unfortunately, because I was kind of flipping back and forth with the NHL Draft. I wanted to see who my Red Wings were going to take, so didn't catch all of this game. But it was slipping back and forth. I thought, you know, you know, same old story with Montreal. You know, they're well oil machine, They're dominating

in all phases. They just seem like a team that you know it's gonna be a team that doesn't beat themselves, and I think that's always very hard team to to go up against. I think, you know, Cody Fajardo, same old story with him, and I think the most impressive thing about him in this game is that the running game was virtually non existent for Montreal at all in this game, and that they were still able to move the ball on offense. And that's something that I definitely wouldn't have seen from them

last season. So a lot of the receivers are having, you know, breakthrough seasons. It looks like having Reggie White back in the receiving court like really rounds out that receiving corps with another big body Tyson Phil Potts breakout season continues. Cole Speaker another great game from him, and you know, I think the dress and Antrey also pulled another one of those on side punt things, which you know my thoughts on that rule, but you know, all

credit to him for pulling it off once again. So Montreal just a well oiled miss, like I said, and another very impressive victory from them. Yeah, we're talking about I forgot to talk about that. So I'm glad and Tim bring into that beer. Tim all, let's fight deck checking in here. Tim always seems to chime in a lot when the Alo wentz victory,

so it must be nice living that life. Yeah, I saw a lot in like the three damn Like if you don't not just pray, you could just move south, like I think there are plenty of CFL fans that do not like this play. Jason, would you like to pontificate now if people that like, I it's fine, Like I don't I'm not like again, like I'm gonna pull pull what's left of my hair out. I just think it's like annoying. But to me, it's not so much to play

that's annoying. It's in everyone. It's the aftermath, like we'll just get the hell out of our country if you don't like this, like this is Canadian football, Like it's like a weird lou ball And what's your thoughts on this? I just think it looks stupid, like unfortunately, it doesn't look

like football to me personally. But maybe that's just the fact that I watched a lot of NFL growing up, and you know, you know, maybe I'm just to americanize from that perspective of to enjoy the finer nuances of the CFL game. But I think at the end of the day, yeah, it just doesn't make sense to me why you would get a first down in that situation. But we've been over this before. I think that this is,

uh, you know, a very controversial topic. I don't think it's as big of a deal as a lot of people make it sounded out to be. I mean, you don't really gain any yardage from doing it. Uh, But I think at the end of the day, it doesn't look like a like a football play, and that's why I've never really been in

favor of it. I want to see I want to see just living in the life that we have with the UFL and them, and they're them using the NFL kickoff modified now and the NFL using the XFL kickoff and that whole bit. I would love to see Darryl mouse Johnston's reaction to this punt. I don't know what. I just have to like, lock Darryl in the room and we're just gonna we're gonna show you this play this. I mean, I think Darryl's head would explode because he certainly did like the XFL kickoff

because he wanted it to look like more traditional football. Tim doesn't see the outrage. Tim, That's fine. A lot of other people do. Tim is fine. If you don't want to see the outrage, that is fine. I see outraging a lot of things. People don't be able to see outraging things that I don't. But back to the game here, when you were resetting it, you know we did see it. Brian Scott here mop up duty at the end. How did you know flowing locks Cameron Duke's look

in this before the game was out of him? Well, I mean this was your classic comeback down to earth kind of game. I don't think he played that terribly, but you know, compared to how he played the first couple of games this season where he looked really good, it definitely was a step up in competition playing against a red hot Alouettes defense. I think, you know, he's a guy that you know, he's still very early in his career in terms of starting games. I think this is what his fifth

start in the league. So it's gonna be very interesting to see how he plays going forward as defenses continue to get more film on him. But I really don't hold much against Cameron Dukes in this one, given that he was going up against that buzzsaw of Aloett's defense. I mean, this is and we'll get to the last game here, we got ten minutes left, we'll get out. I mean, the outlets around like a different level right now.

I mean, are you We've talked about this every week. We just surprised and just how much, just how much better they looked at any other team right now, it's really remarkable. Yeah, absolutely, And and like I think they kind of remind me of that Green Bay Packers team back in the day that Aaron Rodgers won his one Super Bowl with. I think that last six or seven games of the season they won like all the regular season, and they won four playoff games in a row, and I think they

went fifteen to one. The next year, they went something like a whole calendar year without losing a game. I think Montreal is kind of on that same trajectory right now, starting four to zero to this season. But I will say this, and it's definitely worth pointing out that not often does the best team in the regular season the CFL win the Great Cup. It's it's pretty rare, so well, not pretty rare, but like, it doesn't always happen, and we've seen that in recent memory. Before there's been a

lot of upsets in the big Game and in the playoffs. So I think at the end of the day, peaking too early it could be a possibility for the Alouettes, but for right now, just really no complaints from what I've seen from them so far. Yeah, peak, Yeah, you know, peaking too early. You know, there's certainly a thing or playing your

best football? Here are you surprised? And side you can't football really did, But I think it was p K. P Right had our interview this week, like there's no money to be made in football, or at least in the short term, and talking about that and get it. I saw a lot of people correct him of no, there's no money to be made in CFL for the money be made in American football. But I just thoughts on that. I thought that was really good. Three Down had the write

up on that. I thought that was a good article just talking about that and kind of rebuilding the franchise. And I know we've had Tim and Cliffe on and talking about kind of the resurgens with the Awls and everything. Agree great for the league with just thoughts on anything coming up from that. I completely agree with what Pierre Corrapelodo said. I think that ultimately you're not in

this league to make money. Really. I think there's just not the money to be had, Like he said, I think in certain markets, you know, you can be profitable, but I think in a small league like this that's so dependent on you know, gate revenue, I think it's really impossible to have all the teams kind of like you know, having a lot of like financial success at the same time, which was what would be required

really for this league to be very profitable. And I think given the certain situations that certain teams are in stadium wise Montreal, it's a great location for that stadium, but definitely needs more repairs to that facility or a new facility altogether for that team. McMahon Calgary, and I think that kind of drags down what a lot of these teams can make out of, you know,

their bottom line. So I think at the end of the day, I kind of agree with up here Cola Pelado that there's no money to be made in CFL football. It's more like, uh, the philanthropy kind of you know thing for some of these rich owners. So I think at the end of the day, I think he's the right owner for that team. He really has no problem. If you read the interview, I thought he was

very comfortable with where the Alloy Whites were at. He says there's no pressure for them to draw a profit anytime soon or like obviously they want to you know, be less in the red. But I think at the end of the day, you need an owner that's willing to sit through the bad time, so the franchise, even when you know the times are pretty good right now for the Alouettes on the field. So I think it's a big part of the CFL game to have ownership that's willing to you know, fund the

team regardless of the bottom line. Yeah, it must be nice by a team win a great cup. But you know, if only everyone could be so likey, let's get to the last game here before we get that now at BC, I was like, I came home from the Kailin Clark game. I had this on. I was like, Okay, we got the field goal, Okay they got Okay, we're gonna be able to get this taken care of here? Did I fever dream? I thought Williams standback have a rushing touchdown? Did I fever dream that? Oh? Was it in

the oh yet? A receiving touchdown? Yeah? I see it over there. Yeah yeah, I'm trying to think back all the way to Thursday night, like fever dream. So BC taking care of business? Uh barely walk off field goals? I tweeted out, shot White, are you kidding me? Ah? Thoughts on this one because it's beginning to be at the point now that spider has crawled up my leg and under my shirts. Uh, the like, you don't want to be the team that drops to Edmonton,

right it's almost becoming that now. Thoughts on this game, I know it's been a long time ago here, but you know, b c uh first in the West obviously with the stands right now. But my thoughts on this game, I thought it was an overall very entertaining game. Edmonton has definitely been a more exciting watch this year, which has helped and you know,

uh enjoying some of these games that they've been a part of. But uh, I think you'll be c. I think I've liked what I've seen from Vernon Adams so far this season, even though they're not really hitting their full stride in terms of, you know, the explosiveness of the offense in comparison to the last two years as of yet, I think that he's been very steady. You look at it, like every week he's just ends up around three hundred yards, completing a good percentage of his passes, just really solid

stat line and just looking very comfortable in this DC Lions offense. And you know, I think they're definitely on track to still be one of the best teams in this league. You know, they had to really be. You know, it was really close at the end of this game. But I think that's more of a result of how Edmonton is really you know, fighting

to get that first win right now. They almost were able to, but unfortunately for them, BC was able to get that last second field goal and walk it off there at the end where it was around one am Eastern time here on Thursday night. So I think at the end of the day, pretty good stuff from BC and Edmonton just breaking the hearts of their fans yet again. Yeah, sparse crowd, excuse me following kind of the fifty cent all that if it was me, and I agree, BC's good. There's

a lot of these teams that aren't great right now. I think BC. I wish I could take like a shock paddle to Rick Campbell, like I would just love to kind of like wake him up a little bit, because it's like every single one of these post games. Because I've told you I watch all that. I don't watch all of you know, every team, so but I watch every Rick Campbell the you know, the little thing they post and sponsored by whatever automotive and all that stuff, and he's like,

well, you know we won. We didn't get it all together. If we get it all together, like we could be really dangerous. Like it's just such the like we we got everything we needed. I don't know, I just want them to like I just wanted to feel like there's some sort of like urgency at all, Like I don't I don't know. We're trying to get so, you know, kind of get everything figured out here.

It just to me, it doesn't feel like not that there needs to be urgency in week four going into five, but like you are hosting the Great CuPy of this year, there is a lot of that, you know, this is probably the last window you have with VA and kind of all this pieces, we're all get this going. Like I don't know, to me, just like a little bit more umph there are you? Or are you? Like BC's great, but they're just yeah, they're lacking kind of any

sort of a really sexy excitement right now. It just feels like they're kind of going through the motions. Yeah. Rick Campbell is certainly not the most energetic coach. I would say, doesn't you know seem like he galvanizes the team, at least in terms of like what you hear from him talking to the media. But I think at the end of the day, it's like I said before, he's a hard coach to figure out whether or not he makes such a positive impact on the team or not. Like I said,

I think that BC is looking very good this season. I thought that, uh, you know, their defense is starting to look good in some areas. Again, hasn't really hit their full stride on that side of the ball. And like I was saying with Montreal, maybe BC's not really peaking early in the season. Maybe their best football is still yet to come later on this season, they're still dealing with the incorporating a lot of new pieces into

this team. I think, you know, with the injury to Keon Hatcher and the receiving corps that was definitely you know a difference to their receiving corps going into this season. And they're still trying to work in some guys like Aiden Aberheart, who had a big game in this one. So I think, you know, trying to establish Williams stand back is the new running back. Tried to run the ball in some key situations in this one. To some success, but not you know, terrific looking at the three point eight

yards per carry that stand back average. So I think at the end of the day, BC's still looking pretty good. But like I said, they haven't really had one game where you're like, wow, this this team is really a contender for the best team in the league. What do you think of this David Mackie thing here, Like we're trying to kind of use him shortyarded she had the fumble there near the end, and I think have the

rushing touchdown for that. But thoughts on that because you know, obviously we've had the Vernon and we didn't we got rid of prou Cop and kind of all this have I reading that Rider were kind of using him so we don't get Vernon beat up. Like thoughts on that. Yes, it's very interesting because Hamilton's doing a very similar thing with Ante Milanovitch Lee Tray, who's you know, backup Canadian running back who has been taking the snaps for a lot

of the short yard situations for Hamilton. So it's interesting that both of these teams are kind of using a similar route, really trying to limit the amount of hits that they're starting quarterbacks take and you know, when you're running those short yardage plays, you ideally want a bigger kind of quarterback that you know, can really move the pile. And not every quarterback room in the league

necessarily has one of those players. So I mean, I guess this is a better alternative than using Adams as the short yarde quarterback in my opinion. But it definitely is an interesting experiment because they're not used to, you know, positioned players like that are not used to, you know, getting the snap from under center like that. So maybe you get you know, some mistakes like that with the exchange from this Hamilton Tirecats and the BC Lions.

So yeah, it's gonna be interesting experiment experiment to see going forward. But I kind of like the thinking from the Lions last thought here, Like, I mean, is Cornelius around for ten bucks? Can we get him on? I was looking at them because he's I mean, right, he's a free agent, Like is that not someone we can just bring into short yard each year? Like I just I don't love it feels very makeshift to me.

This is the last thing because I gotta get out of here. We just thought that I know, to me, this is like, this is one of those things that's gonna come back to like bite BC in the ass, I think, yeah. I mean, Cornelius is a strange one because I thought some team was gonna fall in love with the physical you know ability, the fact that he does have a very strong arm, cam run.

He had you know, several big rushing games when he was with Edmonton, but obviously he had such a poor record as their starting quarterback that maybe teams have been like, yeah, we've seen enough film, we rather just go in a different direction in terms of bringing in a backup. So, you know, I'm kind of shocked that he's still in the streets right now. Maybe he gets signed in the middle of the season here, like Lucky Whitehead

just did. But at the end of the day, no bite so far, it looks like for him, and it'll be interesting to see if he does get signed by the end of the year. All right, we're gonna get out of here. Thank you, Jason. We've fought through Internet. I appreciate that. Thanks to everyone. Check it out, like to subscribe, thumbs up the video. Hopefully give a thumbs up. You're watching a big interview tomorrow. All over, Luck I guess said. I'll be on

the CFL I think at CFL this week on the tie Cats Radio. It's awesome. I don't even know where that is, so Jason, I'm sure we'll let me know and how we can find that and share it everything else, but I appreciate it. We'll see everyone next time. Thanks to everyone.

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