ShyGuy

In this fantasy land all non-NFL/NCAA leagues are playing under a unified Canadian Rules football system The biggest problem logistically is when the teams are active I think. The way Soccer works is you quality for in-season champions tournaments the season before, so 2024-25 qualifies you for 2025-26 You could let the UFL/FAM-YOX season play out and have their champions immediately turn around and play the latest Grey Cup champions with the lead-in to the season (read: 1 preseason game or a scheduled week 1 bye) Or just go full carnie and find 9 non-Canadian teams, right after pre-season match every team up with an opponent, bill it as CFL vs the World and declare a winner based on aggregate.

If you bump up the UFL a month you would have that and FAM-YOX running until July I think... maybe the reigning Grey Cup champ sacrifices a preseason game and has a scheduled week 1 or 2 bye. It's messy but you can probably make it work

I always thought it would be neat if they could convince some of these other leagues to adopt 3 down football. Like... don't merge with the UFL but have them adopt CFL rules and that opens up for some exhibition games or some sort of tournament like Soccer does.

How did Mauldin end up playing for the Stamps? Saw he was a starter did he didn't record any stats at least

So interesting to think about, if Hamilton beats Calgary on the 11th, the Bombers control their destiny for the 2nd spot in the West, and that result locks in Saskatchewan to 1st in the west and Hamilton to 1st in the East... so the Week 20 game is a home against a Riders team with nothing to play for but not get injured, and Week 21 is a home game against the Als who have nothing to play for but not getting injured.

If the Bombers lose out and the Elks win out the Elks would be in 4th. If the Elks lose one but one of the games they win is against the Bombers, the Elks would have to win by at least 14

So the lead-in to the double header today is bull riding? Can't find enough content for a 30 minute lead-in to preview the games today or recap last game TSN?

Last year at least he seemed very feast and famine. He'd end up with 70 yards but how did he get there? a bunch of 2 yard carries, a couple decent runs in the 5-7 range and then something in the 30+ range. So you get one good drive out of him but the rest of the time he is stalling your offense. He seems to be a bit more consistent this year, but in this game... 18 carries for 53 yards and a long of 8 is rough... yeah he was running the QB Short Yardage package but that is still not great. No doubt in my mind Brady ends up in front at the end of the season, his average is right around the other leaders but he's only been below that number once in the last 6 games, the LDC where he inexplicably only got 5 carries. I wouldn't be surprised if he ends up at 1400 yards on the year.

So that is the end of the Bombers hopes for the West Division isn't it? Can only get to 11 wins and the Riders are already there... could conceivably make it to 11 but the Riders have the tie breaker. If it's the Riders, Bombers and Lions at 11 wins, Riders would get the tiebreaker because they would be 4-2 vs 3-3 and 2-4. If its all 4 I think the Stamps actually come up on top.

There are 4 teams that haven't won a Grey Cup since Ottawa did (2016) (BC, Edmonton, Hamilton, Saskatchewan). Of those, since Ottawa last appeared in a Grey Cup (2018) only Hamilton has even appeared in one. That play was really only between two people at that point... It's almost impressive that a 250 LB Defensive Lineman was able to hold off a 200 LB RB as long as he did running with the ball... looking at the replay it looked like he only had a 3 or 4 yard head start and actually stretched it a bit before he started to gas.

Wonder if Sayles actually plays. Works better with my fantasy with Brown as captain and Addison as a WR if he doesn't for sure.

At least we don't have to deal with another Milligan for MOP campaign because he played special teams as well as defense

His best game (5 catches for 127 yards and a TD) came in the first week with Streveler. 2 of his best games and half of his TDs have actually come when Streveler was playing.

This is 2025 we don't do media literacy anymore

Depth charts out for tomorrow and the Riders have 7 changes with Sayles as GTD. That seems like... Alot at this point in the season

Its a bit of a meme at this point because this game was such an outlier. FWIW Collaros specifically called out Hogans game plan in his post game availability

I mean... His top 5 list already has 6 people. McInnis and Smith both stick out to me. Two WR2 playing with an MOP candidate who have been healthy most of the year.

The unfortunately thing for the rest of Canadians in the league is that as long as Rourke plays average at QB he is probably going to suck up all the oxygen in the room for MOC. To his credit, after an incredibly rough 2024 and not the best start of this year he has turned it around, although last game for him was a stinker. I think whoever finishes stronger between him and Bo will end up MOP. I don't think Arbuckle will have the stats to pull a Bo from last year and insert himself into the discussion... although if Rourke falters a bit the Lions might end up nominating Hatcher. There really isn't anyone compelling from Calgary or Edmonton or Saskatchwan in the west. I think the Bombers MOP is for sure Brady but I can see how the media might pretzel Demski in there.

I develop software and I found these articles really hit home my issue with AI https://hbr.org/2025/09/ai-generated-workslop-is-destroying-productivity https://locusmag.com/feature/commentary-cory-doctorow-reverse-centaurs/ I am good at my job... so I can effectively use AI to be even better. I can guide it down the path to scaffold out code, if I am stuck as to where to go I can ask it questions about best practices, if I need an example it can give me something that is close enough to where I need to go. When people are lazy or don't know what they are doing, they go into ChatGPT or Cursor or Replit or whatever and are like give me a thing. And then I am provided that thing, or the concept of the thing and am told to make it a reality, but the reality is it is so far away from being production code it would be easier just to write it from scratch! And then it would have documentation, and there would be a process... and someone would know exactly what it does

For some reason some moron left Brady off the MOC watch article on CFL.ca https://www.cfl.ca/2025/10/01/most-outstanding-canadian-watch-whos-the-front-runner/ He is only 13 yards back from leading the league in Yards from Scrimmage on a team that is middle of the road in net offense despite missing 2 full games and all but a single drive of another NBD.

J Jones and D Mitchell is a perfect example of the duality of fans. D Mitchell was a dud signing that O'Shea didn't want to use and was a mark against Walters J Jones was a great signing that O'Shea didn't want to use and that is a mark against O'Shea Pretty much pick your horse and ride or die with them🤣 Neither player could crack the roster out of training camp... it just happened that there was an apocalyptic amount of WRs that went down and more or less forced O'Shea's hand and now Mitchell is on the AR and Jones is on the scrap heap. Not outside the realm of possibility that if there was a significant run of injuries at LB Jones would probably still be around. TBF there definitely seemed to be a bit more noise about why Mitchell wasn't on the AR as opposed to Jones so who knows what really was going on there.

https://www.cfl.ca/2025/09/29/kpmg-playoff-probability-which-team-is-the-grey-cup-favourite/ Bombers favoured to win the cup in this model for some reason. Also better than even chance to host a playoff game. Looks like they expect Calgary to be the cross over team

Get Wab on the call and trade for her as well

Is anyone super familiar with the nuances of CFL Scoring. From the teams stat package, this is how the final play of the second half was scored (00:03) Shotgun #19 B.Mitchell pass incomplete short middle to #89 K.Lawler thrown to WPG-03 broken up by #1 D.Nichols, TURNOVER ON DOWNS. On that play, it was tipped at the line of scrimmage (by WJ I think) and then Lawler was tackled and initially a flag was thrown but was picked up due to it being tipped. Does a tipped at the LOS ball not get counted as a knockdown? It looks like the KD was awarded to Nichols. It also looks like because this happened at the end of the half, the Bombers didn't get credited with a turnover generated? The team stats package again has Hamilton at 1 turnover (on downs), which again happened in the 4th. The League Stats aggregation has the Bombers TO ratio moving from -9 to -8, so they think only 1 turnover happened as well. The 'result' of the drive is also listed as 'End Half'

It's too bad as long as Rourke is a top 4 QB he is going to suck up all the MOC talk as well. Brady is on a 2000 yards from scrimmage pace again. He is 13 yards back from the YOS lead and he's played 2.9 less games than Rankin. BC and Edmonton defenses were a mess in those games he missed as well. Only thing he is really missing is the touchdowns that Streveler loves to vulture