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Good on rourke, agree with him. Madanis article is putrid. https://3downnation.com/2025/09/22/opinion-the-cfl-finally-delivers-big-with-changes-that-will-make-the-game-pop/ Wade supporting it isn’t a surprise but still a disappointment. But it sounds like they didn’t consult usports at all which is criminal. https://3downnation.com/2025/09/22/blue-bombers-president-wade-miller-calls-cfl-changes-positive-step-insists-they-will-not-impact-bisons/ This is what we get for having a tsn cronie run the league.

I think joint agreement or merger with the ufl in the off season is far more likely. ah yes time to punt from the opponent 30 yard line.

I wonder how the league, and half the teams are scheming up ways to pay for all the surface changes for franchises that are already hemoraghing money.

I bet the difference is modest for us, but very impactful for teams. Some teams, like us, really struggle to get the calls in quick enough. Other teams run tempo very well. This will yield an advantage, but how much and for who is tough to gauge. I think the teams that run tempo well will always benefit though. It's one of the better scenarios we could have ended up with when they talked vaugely about drastic changes. That said, I don't think the changes are going to have the impact they for see. I don't think the game will be any more exciting, we wont see more TDs, and we will see significantly more FG attempts. They thought long and hard about the hash mark move. And really believed it would juice up scoring a lot. It did very briefly, then Defenses adjusted and it only made O vs D more stale. I also think that this will only lead into further changes after 27.

was he one of the people who said it was a done deal with the xfl too? It’s honestly been too long. Mid season announcement, I expect any changes put in place to kick in next year. this could be the last grey cup under proper rules if people are right. I sure hope not.

league needs to make drastic strides to be more profitable. but short of selling out fixing that is a long hard road. Teams need to take action to grow their market. not many are doing a good job of that. But hamilton, ottawa, montreal and bc should all be able to turn a profit as well. edmonton needs work, calgary needs intervention, toronto needs a miracle.

same calls he made all night though. izr/main line option, followed by draw.

That would make sense, but tsn mails it in a lot with the cfl. Sponsorship, streaming and gambling etc doesn’t make sense with significant changes to the cfl game. nailed it. I think the UFL is far more likely. they are in bad shape and desperate. They could always go back, but it would be catastrophic.

yep. might break 100 passing yards! yeah that’s the biggest fear for me. Realistically, I don’t think it can be field size changes. too many teams on bad turf as it is. Next to that, 4 downs would be criminal especially on our field. it’d be un watchable. True minor league agreement with the nfl? Nfl return and scoring rules? I’m worried but maybe it won’t be some thing awful like that. Could also be the previously rumoured ufl/xfl merger deal. Streaming and gambling crap doesn’t fit the sound of this.

I got a baaaaaad feeling about this news. small chance it’s gonna be some thing tiny and pointless. but i kind of doubt it.

https://3downnation.com/2025/09/21/commissioner-stewart-johnston-to-announce-significant-changes-to-cfl-game/ But i can’t find how you’re supposed to watch it etc

not seeing any thing, wondering if they meant it’ll start in 20 minutes. any one got twitter to check? probably break the news first

I’m not sure that we still have zach. maybe we will get real lucky for the stretch run but the amount of high hits thatve caused him to miss time this year is as serious as a heart attack

so the commish called a press conference for 1 eastern regarding a major announcement on significant game changes for the cfl

yep. did it with an incredible D and supporting cast.

no games over 250 since 19 either. And none of his games or 250 or more have even the same number of tds as ints. Since the end of 18, he’s had 2 games with more tds than picks. he was talking about strev though yeah? Maybe that’s what he was confusing. i mean that is 4 years ago and a hell of a lot has happened in that time lol.

yes, but that’s not nearly 11 completion or attempts. divisional all star is not close to the same as perennial mop, and 1/3 of a season does not an mop or all star make. 2/3 of a year is not the start to a year. Let’s look further at his season last week 11. 3 games under 202 yards. 4 games with as many or more picks than tds 2 games over 250 yards passing 6 tds in 7 games then 1 game with 6 tds and 430 yards passing. The second half of last year is massively padded by the 1 game against edmonton. Take that out and in the final stretch of the year he had 1900 yards 7 TDS 6 ints. 3 good games, 3 ok games, 11 bad games. Unfortunately, Zach isn’t a game manager. If he could be a strong game manager getting the ball out quickly that would help off set issues a lot. but he just isn’t that guy.

did dru brown get more than the bomber qbs have gotten this year? No run game to speak of, poor ol with a ni G at tackle, sub par coaching etc. No one is getting what zach got in 21. not even blm. Our qbs are getting a bad system, meh ol at times bad wr but average ish over all and the best back in the game. lots of guys are playing with this or worse.

Zach is very far from being a perennial mop candidate. he was brutal all year last year too. he struggled down the stretch in 23 due to injury and has never been the same. 2 bad years starting as a qb is a whole career length for most guys at that position especially playing at that level. Not with zach, chris, or nichols from 18 forward. And none of the low completion games are high percentage so they weren’t according to plan.

lapo must’ve been confused. neither 18 or 19. he didn’t have a game with 11 attempts or completions. 10/20 in the bjb with 2 picks in 19, but i think that was in relief. clearly not on purpose to only complete 10 either way. 9/15 in the finale but he didn’t play the whole game. 7/17 when he came in in relief in 19 and started his stretch. The 19 stretch chris played he was attempting 25-40 passes a game. think lapo forgot that.

imo, he had one good call all game. the qb counter. The 4th Q time killing drive was brady and the ol out working the cats front.

fire hogan, promote jackson. cut kola, replace with eli or wallace and put in vanterpool. hell see if vanterpool can snap to pistol. if zach isn’t gonna be close to 100%, and I don’t think he will be, trade for another back up. Start cycling wrs. shake em up a bit. That might not get the O to where you would hope, certainly not to where you’d hope it would’ve been in the off season. But I think you see massive improvements. better than middle of the pack imo. oc then qb, then ol then wr. and they all need to improve

ahh yes the road map of how we went from an all time dynasty to the worst win in modern history over the worst team in the league 😂 Don’t get used to it!

games 20 minutes over… MoVe On AlReAdY!

1 vaval, no win with out him. 2 Allen, no win with out him either. monster performance 3 brady. some how guts out 100 rushing in a game with 3 completions hh ayers forced fumble just before half to get us a fg Turds, mos, hogan, lil chris, and jake.