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Lol I love that ending, that was one of the best gcs in modern times imo. I have a lot respect for what Masoli can do. And he gets up to play us. Rourke gets down when he faces us.

Yeah me either. He has played us tough though. Rourke hasn’t ever. Masoli still has that lightning fast release, you can get into a lot of trouble blitzing him, and if he’s still got any thing left he can take what the D gives as well. I’m not sweating Masoli, but I expect us to slap rourke around. I always worry about guys off the bench, if we prep for Masoli that is helpful.

He wasn’t excellent, but he was solid to good till late. He did wear down some late. think I’d rather us play rourke that Masoli.

They did a best bets for every game but ours lol. Either they didn’t care or forgot. it’s not normal to give bet tips and picks on every game but one.

https://3downnation.com/2025/06/18/3downnation-cfl-week-2-predictions-best-bets-for-als-at-elks-riders-at-argos-redblacks-at-stamps/ 3dumbnation doesn't seem to know if it is week 2, or 3 and either way they dont have us playing.

I think that goes for any generation, sport, league, city. I don't think you could find a better duo of news beat guys. You could find as good combos, but not better.

Yeah, a lot of getting past the sophmore struggles is about mental toughness and desire. Evans never had that, or got it. Dru brown made his bones that way, I think thats a big reason why he should have the best year of the 3 if healthy. I didn't think he played that great, I thought we played and executed that poorly. He was in the perfect situation. If we did every thing the same, I think they would've beaten us with just about any qb with starting experience. Truth. Also a stronger OL. If we had the argos level of coaching/execution, we would've won in a blow out with our roster though.

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

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.

Yeah, he has to prove he isn’t printers/jennings etc.

Doug brown would be my pick. I watched the one with zach today, it was soo painful they kept talking about people turning it off and I couldn’t get why they saw that but couldn’t turn it around.

those splits would be ugly lol. For QBs especially, once you have a decent sample of game footage and seen how the guy plays when he’s game planned for, every thing changes. It’s easy for a qb to take defences by surprise, especially if he’s athletic, before they have film and experience with him. That’s a huge part of the sophomore slump and why it generally doesn’t get better late into that 2nd year as a starter. we’ve seen soo many fly by night guys who can’t replicate their early success.

Awesome pick. We aren't going full doman or any thing, but the bands we've got for the game stuff so far are awesome picks.

And a bunch of beating up on weak teams in that too.

I don't know about arrogant for him, but his booster group for sure is. And I 100% agree, among the cfl fans I know across the league, most people don't like rourke. The media has tried to elevate him to messianic levels, but only succeeded in making him unlikable. I think he him self is the usual headspace QB1s live in. Maybe a little less crazy/egotisical. But the hype train is gigantic. Yeah, and I think you don't create excitement, especially league wide, by being a tire biting bandwagon type at the media level. If I wanted to pump up the excitement league wide, I'd be talking about the young guys who are poised to explode onto the scene. For us, guys like Vaval, Adams, and Wheatfall. Guys around the league like Brown, Alexander and yes, Rourke. Instead of pitching Rourke as the next/current Flutie, you pitch the 3 guys as the next generation of top tier QBs. You put them up against each other and consider who will be the top guy. Any 2 of those 3 playing each other should be huge, or 1 playing a guy like Zach, Harris, vaj etc. Thats how you hype up and sell a game.

I hope itll be better than the 2nd half or so of pass pro but yeah. I think it will to, if we keep in vanterpool. CFL hype train. Tbh we see the same thing with a lot of rider players. The national CFL media panders to the largest group it can. And they think Rourke is like every fan's 2nd favorite QB. He isn't. I'll add that a couple of our guys have had their tires pumped here from the media for similar reasons. Kola a bit, Houston, etc. Especially on our OL, though.

100%. Its interesting but we will probably never know more than we do now.

That makes lots of sense. Though I’d think they could’ve been giving him his full salary still.

If Jake or kola happens next we know it’s true

Strevy

BRB gonna call ted in Hamilton and tell him we will pay airfare. I don’t ever dare to dream.

If they couldn't get a bigger draw for half time, I think he'd be playing half time not the friday kick off. Winnipeg loves live music in general. I've seen rock and metal shows live here that make people in much larger cities jealous.

Yeah, those two gotta actually play to grow. And they are worth developing. Lber has one of the lowest barriers for entry (I dont count sam as a lber) Ayers/Jones would be wicked.

Agree, especially if we aren't using him on D. Vaval is basically on to play teams, we use a DI on sergio, and another on ayers. 3 DIs on guys who only play teams is nuts, and we can't afford that with the injuries we have.

I love ayers, but I agree that would be better for the team. Id rather take vaval off and have cobb return then mess with the OL. And I really like vaval too.