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he was also listed as limited reps on the injury report all week with an elbow. we were talking about it here a bunch. it wasn't like it was a secret he was banged up.

RBs depth chart for tonight. Nichols listed as the starter but they've also listed a third QB which I think under the new roster rules means they can scratch him (Nichols) at game time, right?

oh hey! just discovered that yaretv, the weird little streaming provider that has carried the CFL in markets where they don't have a broadcast agreement, is doing the CFL again in 2021. It's region-locked but that's been easy to circumvent with a VPN in the past. US$85 gets you the whole season both live and VOD. @aalgernon I've used this service for a few years and it's not perfect but it's pretty good. https://cfl.yaretv.com/

here's a Mike Jones play I noticed. Ticats run a pretty-looking play with a lead blocker out in front of the receiver, the blocker has good positioning ... but Jones just goes thru the blocker Thiadric style, gets a little bit of body on the rec and slows him up so the bomber D can rally to the tackle. it was true in 2019 and is still true in 2021: the best way to club a Ticat is to use another Ticat.

I can't believe that after all the crazy **** in this game, it comes down to a shaky rookie kicker.

Nathan Rourke!

Durant having a rough time on the scramble drill there.

there's a dead ringer for Andrew Harris in a State Farm insurance commercial on ESPN. that is the most entertaining thing I've seen tonight. C'mon BC, show some damn pride.

98 BC trying to cost his team more yards, tossing fists after the play.

Elbow problem: https://www.bclions.com/injuryreport/

Riders gonna win this one, book it. Every year they stink on paper and every year they make some chicken salad.

same here, for all people piss and moan about NIchols he was the guy who got the winning started here and Lapo gets some serious credit from me for the Grey Cup win. won't celebrate if they crap the bed, but man that Ottawa situation could get embarrassing quick. remember back in 2017 when Dom Davis spent the year as the backup only for Lapo'shea to roll out the Fever when Nichols was hurt and the chips were down?

oof, the Redblacks look Rough Riders bad. Nichols banged up already and Dom Davis (!) is the backup ... Lapo needs to turn water into wine here.

Here in Seattle, I sucked it up and got Hulu + Live TV. It's US$64/mo for a ton of crappy local stations I'll never watch, but it has ESPN2 and ESPN+ so watching CFL is trouble free. You get DVR fast forward and rewind but can't skip the ******* ads. Haven't yet figured out how to VOD old games, or if that's even a thing,

gotta rewatch the 1st quarter but my impression was that he wasn't getting much in the way of holes to run through early on.

damn!, you add in Demski as an emergency RB and we're rolling four hosers deep at tailback.

hoping Petermann does well with the redblacks, that guy has grit for miles but we're so stacked for Canadians on O he wasn't going to get his chance here. Exume is another ex-bomber I'm rooting for. Guy was an exocet missile on the special teams, love to see it.

the crazy thing is that we roll three canucks deep at running back and we can win with any of them. Has there been a team since the late eighties Eskimos that did that? Gonna need 'em all, it's a long season.

Spotted them an early touchdown and then NOTHING. Nice Grey Cup sequel, 620 days in the making.

Lock of the Week holds its breath...

I think you can go a long way when Jeff Hecht isn't your safety. Our two epic collapses in 2019 that got made into CFL-in-40 games in 2020 were necessary medicine to get Brandon Alexander into the right spot.

playing that field wideout position, he's never going to get a ton of throws, just enough to keep the D honest.

not the body language you want to see when you're down by two scores in the fourth. Ticats looking gassed.

swell blitz pickup there.

yeah! give those hogs a chance to run block, they're feastin.