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Friesen was inducted into the media section of the Canadian Football Hall of Fame. He apparently asked no other than Mike (handled internally) Kelly to induct him. There is a video of Mike Kelly's induction speech. Probably not worth the minutes of commercials The Sun will make you watch to see it, but it is the off season. https://winnipegsun.com/sports/video-mike-kelly-introduces-paul-friesen-into-hall-of-fame-2025 In one of Kelly's job interviews after the Bombers, they looked him up online and apparently asked him who Friesen was, as a bunch of his articles came up. Kelly said his response was "someone who did their job better than I did."

Creates too much tension. Better to make a clean break.

Yeah I rag on them as much as anybody but they do a better job of covering the CFL than the "real" media. They are great for news but their opinion pieces are not usually worth reading.

It’s weird but the first part of your sentence where it ends at sister automatically gets me thinking of Roughrider fans for some reason.

Yep. We had go to plays, the problem is, it's the same go to play that lapo installed in 2019. Smash and drive passing concept, with a play action and a half roll out. Without Lawler, we don't have the wideout who can run the shallow corner well enough. Lawler could beat his man with his get off and break. That meant he was open and still had a ton of room on the sideline. Guys like Wheatfall might get open, but by the time they do with just speed and not the polished route running, they are too close to the sideline. With Lawler, Zach could either throw a very safe pass to the sideline and let him run it down, or if the DB is cheating or trailing, he could lob it and let Kenny run under it. Very similar to the Dagger variation we ran, where Schoen would go on a deep in route, and Lawler would go on a deep out route (Instead of a post). Where even if we didn't get guys open, zach would roll out the rest of the way, drawing the D to him, then hitting the come back from schoen or lawler. We used to have lots of go-to plays. Slip screens, bubble screens, Fake bubble jet sweep, etc. The whole play action jet sweep used to be our bread and buter as much as the run was. Most of that stuff has been gone for 2 seasons. Everything our offence has done since 21 has been continually devolving. Buck took the training wheels off our offence, let zach go wild with deep shots, and showed great promise in game plan development with some tremendous screen pack based games, pa, layering, and route developement. But since then, we've only lost what we succeeded at.

"So that's it? So long and good luck?" "I don't recall saying good luck"

That's actually crazy. I'm not sure I've ever been part of any team in any sport that didn't have a go to play.

I'm much smarter if the wife ain't around.

Willie and Yosh were riders? GTFOH! Never happened. no way. nah huh. you high.

His old position isn't vacant though - Andre Bolduc was hired as his replacement so what do you say to him? Sorry, you're out of a job because Hogan sucked at his?

Then quite frankly they should. There'd be hardly an CFL news, without that site.

Oh, damn- one less mediocre restauant to not patronize. My absolute favourite breakfast place is The Original Pancake House. The giant apple pancake is a good excuse to sleep the rest of the morning, but my 16 year old son ate TWO of them in a single sitting on a dare. We didn't see him again until well after lunch.

I'm curious how much it impacted things that Jarious was gone all through camp with family matters and didn't get into town until the season had started. Maybe if he gets a full TC and calls his own playbook.....?

definitely a lot of interesting players on this list... but I won't get too excited about anyone until we see what the actual list is going to look like in Feb... 75% of these guys will be resigned or have NFL opportunities...

I heard his sister is getting him rims for Xmas lol

Fyp.

New solution for Hogan... throw him over the fence let Arby's deal with it

Hogan sleeps in a race car bed, do you?

There isn't a lot of CFL opinion that's worth reading. Tait is good, although only for one team. Costabile on cfl.ca is decent, but the rest of that site is slim pickings. The only other writer who comes to mind is Zurkowsky in Montreal.

Respected? We have a dozen posters here who would do as good or better than the guys at 3DN. The 2 real idiots over there are Ryan who covers the Stamps & Joel Gasson covering the Riders.

This is Mike O'Shea we're talking about. How many times in the past did he give a big F U to fans & media because he was stubborn? Until it actually happens, nothiung has changed.

So Harvard Media, which owns several media outlets in Sask and AB (including Riders broadcast partner 620 CKRM) has purchased 3 Down Nation. Not sure exactly what this means, but the press release talking about how well respected 3DNs writers are made me LOL...

I'm sure a bantam or pee wee team could use him. There's a lot of Dad coaches he can learn from.

How is it apparent? Until an official announcement comes down the pike, nothing has changed.

Not silly at all, I would think it will certainly make the transition easier for imp rookies. They aren’t the biggest differences, but they are odd for americans. I wonder how big the transition will be for established guys though. No joke. Ufl Ds really struggle not having the cohesion of units that have been together for a time. A lot of the good D in the spring leagues looks like that. Tbh it starts out like that here, but our season is long and we have enough hold overs to get past it. The spring leagues never reach that point imo. Farhan now reporting he’d be shocked if hogan was back as oc for us next year. Day keeps getting better.

If I'm looking thru my wife's eyes I'm assuming she sees this when looking at me:

Illegal in 9 countries with bits of real panther...so you know it's good

This week on MBB, Posters battle over who hates the Riders the most.

Right? We used basically none of what hogan was running in camp. If jackson was here, maybe we make changes much earlier and have a better play book. It was pretty clear he took over play calling late, not that things got to where they needed to be. But it is really hard to entirely remake the offence mid season. Which makes sense, as we seemingly kept trying to do full installs. My hope is we either keep jackson and bring in a really good oc candidate, or bring in one a good oc, and a great under coach. Like bourgoin and Costanza. Both guys familiar working with the mafia zach etc. If we could keep Jackson as qb coach and some how get bourgoin and costanza that’d be great.

Don't forget it was John Murphy, also, who got into it with the fans at that one Argos/TiCats game. No doubt inebriated fans were as much to blame, but..... ...

Here comes my nice comment about the mafia for the year. I’d rather see us be bad, with jake/kola and the rest of mos old boys club and roster management, than see the likes of kelly or chris jones running a team with a bunch of guys who are dirty on the field and bad off it.

John Murphy. Same dude who was here with Mike Kelly right. Thought the talent that camp was outstanding but thought Murphy was not a good dude.

He’s not under the radar, although 3Down only had him ranked 33rd on their fa list, but I’d love to see Keesean Johnson here. Decent size and is always open. 1,900 yards in 28 CFL games. Clarke Barnes is another receiver I’d like. Would be a big upgrade as our 2nd Cdn rec.

have his cake and eat it too

Hell no…. Maybe he can change out the urinal cakes. Maybe.

Oh the whole thing got me thinking of Ride fans! 😂

Some interesting Olineman on that list (Broxton and Allen for example). Emilus, Philpot and AJ Allen are all exciting but likely pipe dreams. Anybody want to name an under the radar target?

As if he has the talent to be a mascot. I'm thinking popcorn seller.

https://3downnation.com/2025/11/26/3downnations-top-50-pending-2026-cfl-free-agents/ Anyone got KW's email? Need to send him this so he can start a shopping list. 😂

I don't understand the "hate" for people going South for winter and how it is related to domestic flights being expensive. I don't believe airlines are subsidizing flights to Mexico by charging more to folks wanting to travel back and forth from Calgary? The only hate should be Air Canada taking billions from our Gov't and yet still outsourcing most of the jobs and charging customers top dollar for mediocre services. Me thinks you are in a time warp and think that it is the 80's where a family could travel via car for an affordable rate while only the rich and upper class can fly to Mexico. These days it's the opposite, our family road trips that we take are extremely expensive in comparison for the value that we have when we fly to Mexico. I've encountered several people in my life who didn't understand going South for winter.... until they went one time and then realized how great it is and after going once couldn't wait until they could go back again. Many of them regretted waiting so many years until going. Leaving Winnipeg in -30 weather and arriving somewhere tropical and getting that blast of hot +25 humid air as you leave the plane is sublime.

He's always been like that. Stories of him being a shithead in Calgary over a decade. Hufnagel finally got rid of him.

I think if anyone can afford to go on a holiday to a sunny resort anywhere then they should pay for the privelidge. We, the poor Canadians who stay home in the winter, if we want to fly in order to see family in Canada, we pay for it big time. I've never travelled anywhere in the winter. We travel in the summer. Prefer to drive over flying. In 2 years when my wife retires, we're planning a road trip to Halifax. We have family & friends in New Brunswick & Ontario. I've never beem east of Toronto. You're late!! It's mine.

Inflation has hit the States big time over the last few years. It was really expensive for us travelling in Spring where food and lodging was pricier then in Canada.

In this video for the last TD.... can the Blue sign the receiver Malik Turner? That juke and speed was real nice! Perkins in that TD run it was hilarious on how bad those defenders froze and watched him... if that is a representation of the talent in the UFL then yikes.

Until of course we hear JT is coming back, gets a veterans pass on the 2026 TC and his goal is to surpass his incredible nine tackle 2025 season. Yes thank you for your concern I'm seeing a therapist it's all good.

Well except for me.

Winner of two of the last 3 Grey Cups...'seems' to be a dumpster fire.

I'm pretty sure we did. Idk if we used the most Canadians, but we had several games of 9 starters. Yep. Should be in a good position to get the extra pick atleast.

From what I hear they are all gone. MOS, Walters, McManus all leaving. Miller will do one more year as CEO but he is on the way out as well.