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It was either Winnipeg or us winning this year - Paul Maurice Bettman’s Law 3 decades running.

Oilers gave up.

I wonder if PM will yet again wish us a Stanley Cup in his post game winning interview.

What do you do for a living? I’m a Mic Monkey. I’m going to try this answer out next time someone asks me this question instead of my usual answer that I’m in the adult entertainment business.

Your last sentence is soooo frustrating yet true.

It really depends on the athletes personality, Simoni Lawrence makes player interviews pretty funny for the Ti-Cats and Micah Awe did it quite well for the RedBlacks a few years back when LaPo was the GM/HC.

The Bombers GC defensive game plan was to give Arbuckle all kinds time to hopefully confuse him and let him eff it up himself. Zero pressure and coverage seemed off even when the game was still within reach. Guy was coached perfectly to just take what was given… and the Bombers obliged.

Coaching decisions lost us that game, especially putting an injured Zach Collaros in just to throw 2 pick sixes to put the game out of reach.

Why couldn't this ******* floor drop out sayyyyyyyyyyyy in last years Grey Cup?!?!?

In the GC, Arbuckle looked like the next break out star & now KABOOM!!!! The floor had just dropped out & his stock as a viable CFL qb is falling fast.

Yeah we exposed and then ruined him...he was most mentally fragile player i have ever seen

Dane Evans had all the tools physically but his toolbox (head) was empty. He couldn't handle the pressure of being "The Guy". I don't think I ever saw a pro qb just melt into a huge blob as a player in front of our eyes. It was sad to watch. Arbuckle should be playing much better & not make such bonehead throwing errors but he still does. If he hasn't got it by now then he never will. How the **** did we ever lose to that sack of ****? How embarassing.

For my generation, Ed is the Gold Standard of CFL beat writers and a wildly underrated contributor to the CJOB Pre Game Show. Randy Turner is the all time best print columnist. With respect to everyone out there doing the job right now, it all pales to the level of writing we were spoiled with in the late 90s and early 00s...

Yup, also Dane Evans. Also, the fact arbuckle never had that success speaks volumes.

The CFL does not market itself at a league level. It doesn't care about its players. It never has. It expects teams to market themselves. Some, like the Bombers do very well. Others like Calgary & Toronto couldn't care less. They won't spend a penny marketing its players. Vernon Adams should be all over Calgary hyping the next game & season making appearances to sell tickets but nope.

Good point that’s why the pbp plus color commentator is such an iconic combination across all sports. The ones who also converse well are the gold standard. like pti on Epsn is peak sports conversation. Tait is fantastic at writing articles that really get to the heart of a persons story. His piece on hardrick years back was incredible, parts of it are still vivid in my mind. It’s different still in conversation.

I never saw it if he did.

yeah, being a good interview / conversation host is a whole skillset. you can't just plug in an athlete into that spot like you can plug an RB in at WR.

RB Dedrick Mills

You still need to have someone that actually knows how to talk and host a conversation. Have DT or someone else from OB act as the host of it, but THEN you can have your former players or whatever... But at least someone needs to be able to facilitate a conversation.

Very Fetch Look at Maier as example

Yeah that was bad...should be 2 former players doing it Good job for Walby and Duniggan Or let Biggie and BA do it

Ok...bonus points!

I enjoyed that Handled Internally.... Most of those pods are solid. It's just them BSing over beers, which is what I want. Darren is very careful about what kind of info gets out there, but I like when the players are loose (the beer helps) and give us a bit of an inside view of the room.

Oh you dont get it. I am basically cursing him