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He didn’t bring politics into the conversation he said saying negative things about Alberta. You just assume it’s ‘politics’ when sometimes it’s not.

My strategy is make friends with tech geeks and lavish them with praise.

My contribution to a grassroots approach in building our league is hammering our 22 year old son to convert to the CFL from the NFL and hammering our 25 year old daughter just to take interest in CFL football. I’m not having much luck, I need a little more customized help from the league to catch the attention of this generation.

Well TSN on cable has almost 9 million subscribers just in Canada....which doesn't mean people are always on TSN, but they have it. Then add the TSN+ people. TSN+ also has a lot more value than DAZN. They are kind of in active competition over NFL, but either way Bell gets paid. DAZN has 20 million subscribers in the ENTIRE WORLD with almost all of them in Western Europe. It will be a lot of work to get people on DAZN for one CFL game a week. DAZN app itself needs a lot of work. I did one season for NFL on there and switched back to my cable provider for Sunday Ticket/RedZone because there would be weeks that I couldn't get most of the streams on DAZN to work. CFL will just be one stream at least so maybe they can handle that easier.

No, most people aren't tech geeks & won't bother.

For now, the CFL has stability & increased revenues & that's alright.

I’d be curious now what percentage of TSN CFL viewers watch on cable vs stream through the app. For cable cutters TSN is a paywall too

If a league like the CFL is going to stream, they better go all in on it. Playing 3 games a week on cable and 1 game a week behind a paywall is just about the dumbest setup to get uptake. Can't compare to NHL or NFL selling individual games to Amazon or Netflix because those apps are ubiquitous....everyone has them. And they offer a lot. People buy the DAZN to watch one thing. So you need someone to care enough about the CFL's SNF to now download, subscribe, pay and keep finding it. So yeah it will be nice for the families of the players in the US (who actually get ALL the games on DAZN), but that's not a driver of revenue. This actively makes it harder for Canadians, the people who watch the CANADIAN Football League, to watch games. I don't dispute that the CFL is trying to exist in a broadcast environment in Canada that doesn't really support it's operation. There's two main broadcasters in Canada and they are both actively working to get out of producing live sports. Even more of a reason to actually take the gamble in a way that might work with a streaming partner. But I truly don't believe the future board chair of Bell running the league today is working in best interests of the league.

They could get a tv deal for $2 billion & you'd find something to complain about. Like Toronto would lose $35 million instead of $25 mill. There's no way that TSN could be exclusive broadcast rights anymore. Things had to change. Tell me, since you seem to hate this deal so much, what would you have done? What kind of package would you have put together?

Well, have you read the pathetic bitching on social media over this tv deal? As well as all the rule changes?? That is neither hate or age related. It's fact & nothing new. And just how you can bring politics into this conversation is incredible. Oh & guess what? It's called having an opinion without rage baiting like ageism or hating on Alberta.

Well if they are willing to cut their TV ratings in Canada by likely a half to 2/3 on the Saturday game for a few thousand potential US viewers they are even dumber than we think. They got one big cheque. Now Montreal and Toronto will only lose $12 million a year instead of 15. The celebratory self back pats can’t go on too long.

It's pre season. Get a grip.

You guys that ***** & complain about everything. Do you have any idea how much of a pain in the ass it is to watch the CFL on its own streaming service in the US when it's not on CBS Sports? My son has given up watching as it really is annoying. He has no idea when the games are being played. This deal with CBS Sports only gave teams a hundred grand or so each season & is one of the leftovers of the ******* Randy Ambrosie screw up years. The DAZN deal will be easier for fans to subscribe to to find the games.

Fwiw it looks like Dru Brown had a good night for Ottawa. Only one incompletion, and two TDs with 0 INTs. Didn't play a ton of time but looked very good while was in.

I guess I watched a different game, I thought their was a lot of positives in tonights game. The score really didn't tell the full story, the secondary for which I assume none of these guys are going to start was the reason for it being lopsided. I really liked the pressure of our d-line and the solid tackling from most of the guys. On O , the makeshift o-line did a great job protecting both QB's. Singer looked like he belongs. TE made the right decisions and good throws. Perkins didn't help his cause but looked much better after trying to not force things. I wish that they had given him the 3rd quarter, that was a big mistake from the team. Clearly he needs to be moving around and won't succeed as a drop back passer. Special Teams looked good. Overall we looked good against Rourke and company and outside of some crappy play by **** players like Stuart, things look good. Now the fact that so many of our vets basically didn't play at all during pre season... that might be another story.

Yeah that one handed pick six by a LB right off the line was a pile of ****. I think it's right to be excited about Elgersma. There's a lot to work with there. His numbers look like **** but we're talking like 8 drops in 2 games, a couple walk in touchdowns on big plays if the receiver finishes his route. Singer seems to be the guy getting the most raves, he made a lot of drops and struggles on the vertical routes.

I think the overall showing from "new talent" this year is pretty poor. It's been bad for a few years now. I wouldn't expect a lineup of rookies to be competitive but you're always looking for the wow moment from a rookie and I can't say I saw a single one in either preseason game.

Yeah, the calibre of video we got was only acceptable if the guys doing it were volunteers.

I swear this game was recorded by the same guy who captured Bigfoot but with a newer camera.

Poncius deserves a pr spot imo. He made a couple mistakes but looks to have a lot of potential. I think there’s a good chance one of Randolph or Vanterpool gets cut. I thought KMB was disappointing in both games, but likely still makes the ar as a backup and st’er.

Thanks for clarification. I get the QB rating, but wasn't sure how that looked in UFL and wasn't sure what you meant by "clowning on Maier" but I guess that just means mocking or saying he's not very good for that rating. But the rest I didn't know, that a lot of qb's in UFL really aren't very good. I guess the take home point is that MVP or best qb of UFL doesn't translate to being a star in CFL. So again, thanks for the information and the observation to inform on the topic.

Fletcher is an American. Singer had a lot of drops in two games. But him and Fredricksen had a lot of targets. Have to think they are both sticking around. But not sure they'll be active. Womack is another receiver I think they might keep. Harrison is a steady returner, didn't really strike fear that he'd break one though. I liked the OL Williams at C. Ellsbury was good there too. Mazzccua had a lot of hype in camp, didn't see much in the games to separate. I honestly can't judge the OL blocking for Peterson because he's so slow to hit the line. Chris-Ike gave us some idea of what the OL is accomplishing, too bad Rocker didn't get any reps, hope he liked the food provided because he was up here for a month to get zero reps on film. Randolph was really bad at LT. Munier-Bailey and Gatkuoth look like decent situational guys, not sure what the ceilings are there. Don't seem to want to mix it up at all, not a lot of burst, like to get to their leverage and read. I think Reese easily could have passed Dixon in the games, but Dixon does have the versatility. Both should stick here. Could see Kelly getting clipped if we use 3 DI's on D which is possible IMO (Vaval/DB, Woodbey, DL) and with all the Canadian guys here looking a lot better on special teams and D (Stuart, Bouliane, Ball).

I thought he was from Toronto, but that makes sense. He seemed pretty good for a Canadian we picked up halfway through training camp lol

This is scaring the **** out of me. Demski and Vaval have missed virtually all of camp. Ceresna (bad history of injuries) also missed significant time. I feel like it's going to be a rough start to the year. I'm at the game in Calgary next week... Last year I had to leave at half time because I couldn't stomach anymore. Hoping it's not more of the same... This would make sense if they were playing BC starters. But it's back ups vs back ups.... No concern about our current crop of recruits that we got pantsed out there by other back ups in front of the home crowd...?

Some common sense. Finally. Holy F! Aside from Sergio, who of relevance played today? Almost nobody. Take a pill, relax. If you saw the depth chart and expected a different result tonight, you can't be helped lol.