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HH to Zach. 2/2 for 80 yards and a TD. Spent less than a minute of clock time on the field, leaving lots of reps for T Wilson. Veteran preseason gunslinger flex.

62 yard punt from Sheehan! love seeing a whipping boy pop.

Mullinder murmuring "oh no" at the goal line pick is (chef's kiss)

yeah they're bad and they should feel bad but Mullinder's sad little "oh you gotta be kidding" did bring a little glow to my heart, so credit there.

JFC I do not want to hear Luc Mullinder talking about backdooring anyone.

that's a nice veteran flex of a preseason series .... 2/2 for 60ish yards and a TD. like a minute of game time.

yup, would def rather see the RBs get the rugged reps right now. high-risk low-reward call it seems.

here's a direct link to the cfl+ game page. might save someone a couple very slow clicks coming in from cfl.ca. https://www.cfl.ca/2025/05/16/preseason-week-3-winnipeg-blue-bombers-at-saskatchewan-roughriders/ if you're joining us late, the game's streaming on youtube

you can see how CFL+ would fall down .... the CFL's two most popular teams playing with no coverage on TSN, all the fans being forced to use CFL+ -- that's more traffic in a night than CFL+ will get in a year serving international demand for CFL games. CFL+ is usually pretty good. I've been watching it for two years now. Lord Keric! He does not sow!

Lord Keric had a decent PS1. tho it's his second year, he should probably be Baron Keric now.

think the CFL could benefit from a third preseason game? Doesn't seem like two games is enough to vet the newcomers and re-vet the veterans while allowing the undisputed starters to grind the rust off. (though I bet the question isn't "can they benefit from it" I think the question is more "can they afford it?" I can't see pre-season games being big money generators.)

Who's your QB1? Rourke or Ford? Brady starts at RB, naturally. Five Canuck receivers: T Philpot, Demski, Emelius, Gittens Jr, K. Smith from Hamilton. I think Philpot is the best of these. Sad that he got banged up last year, he was on a 1600-yard pace the first half of the year -- with Cody Fajardo throwing him the ball, no less -- and it seemed like he could not be covered. Does anyone even play national offensive tackles anymore?

We really need a "Leafs Suck" reaction emoji round here.

I was watching Aaron Gordon play with a Grade 2 hamstring strain in Game 7 this weekend. And I got curious about what that was, and it turns out that a Grade 2 is actually a partial tear. I know it's Game 7, but the dude could barely move and didn't really help his team. Do football players play with Grade 2 tears? it seems like playing with a bad hamstring is just begging for a full tear.

Amen. thinking back to those brutal games last year when were rolling with Wheatfall, Johnson, Mitchell, and pre-lightbulb O. Wilson. Zero chemistry with Zach. Need that veteran out there.

Scheif!!!

brutal. I hope this was Matty's choice and not some TSN bullshit. Only bright side to this is that maybe we'll get more Lapo in the booth this year. You want to talk about an org that coddles over-the-hill veterans, look at how TSN hangs onto Glenn Suitor... And Barker has a voice that's fit for newspaper work.

Osh comments on the Montreal dribble thing: respectfully disagree. kudos to Montreal for finding a weird gap in the rulebook and exploiting it, but they've had their fun and I would hate to see a game-winning drive in the Grey Cup feature that tactic.

It's training camp, even the veterans need to knock off the rust. But if you're still doing this in week 2 or 3...

hard to win in the playoffs when your goalie is outplayed.

Peak Streveler. Ed Gainey bit so hard on that big exaggerated step forward and then got outrun to the endzone by a backup RB. And Matty with a classic call to top it all off.

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okay, in any playoff run you're gonna have some turkey games, and losing game 3 when you're up 2-0 is hardly a disaster. not time for panic. but then I look at Hellebucyk's save percentage in these playoffs and I think it's hard to picture the Jets going much further unless the dude elevates his game.

Andor is back! Watched the first three episodes last night. Thought they were great.

Sigh. I would be judged harshly in Turkey I know Father Time is undefeated but this baldness thing is like him taking a dump on my centerfield logo. Total Duron Carter move.