From 3DN about TSN broadcasts this year....

 

"The CFL on TSN is taking a renewed approach to its broadcasts for 2025.

 

The network’s panel will travel to all nine stadiums over the course of the upcoming season, sources told 3DownNation, including visits to Regina and Montreal in Week 1. Kate Beirness is returning to host the panel with Henoc Muamba and Davis Sanchez filling the main roles alongside her.

 

Paul LaPolice will also frequently appear on the panel, though he will also perform colour commentary for one game per week. As previously reported, longtime panelist and Hall of Fame quarterback Matt Dunigan is no longer with the network.

 

As for Milt Stegall, who has been with the network since 2009, there is no timeline for his return after the death of his eldest son, Chase. The 20-year-old died unexpectedly at DePaul University on Monday where he was a member of the school’s soccer team.

 

“Our CFL on TSN family is absolutely devastated over Chase’s passing. If you know Milt, you know that his family is everything to him, and we cannot imagine the pain he is going through right now,” said producer Chris Edwards in a statement to 3DownNation. “Milt is our brother and we are going to give him our love and support him in any way we can, and in whatever way he needs.”

 

During a broadcast teeing up the 2025 season on Tuesday, TSN dedicated its coverage this year to Chase’s memory.

 

TSN plans to flesh out the panel by rotating in active players, though it doesn’t appear as though this will happen every week. Players will generally make panel appearances during bye weeks, though there may also be opportunities for in-studio appearances when players are in town to play the Argonauts or Tiger-Cats.

 

Friday Night Football, a longtime network staple, will have a brand new presentation featuring fresh animations, graphics, and music. One source called the scope of the production “bigger.”

 

The play-by-play personnel at the network has remained unchanged for 2025, featuring Rod Smith, Dustin Nielson, Marshall Ferguson, and occasionally Farhan Lalji. Colour commentary will be performed by Glen Suitor, Duane Forde, and LaPolice."

33 minutes ago, HardCoreBlue said:

And show the same small section that is full of people over and over again.

yup....with nary a full set of teeth on any of them

41 minutes ago, Bomber_fanaddict said:

I was just about to say I wonder what the excuses will be for not selling out. It’s a Saturday night like they all asked for. 

it is musical cuzzin night tho at the agriplex...so there is that

All these injured QBs is hurting my fantasy team this week. Should have played Zach. Its like Bo or MBT?

MBT gonna go off I think. 

Just now, Goalie said:

MBT gonna go off I think. 

Yup gonna go off deep into a world none of us know about or want to know about.

1 hour ago, Goalie said:

MBT gonna go off I think. 

And join a cult?

1 hour ago, Brandon said:

And join a cult?

Only if directed to by his ancestors.

If I am the commissioner I am paying a bunch of influencers (barf) from the struggling cities and flying them to games in Saskatchewan and Winnipeg for them to post about and stream from.

41 minutes ago, Super Duper Negatron said:

If I am the commissioner I am paying a bunch of influencers (barf) from the struggling cities and flying them to games in Saskatchewan and Winnipeg for them to post about and stream from.

Yup make CFL football enticing for the hipsters.

1 hour ago, Super Duper Negatron said:

If I am the commissioner I am paying a bunch of influencers (barf) from the struggling cities and flying them to games in Saskatchewan and Winnipeg for them to post about and stream from.

Idk what I’d do for popularity. But if I was the commish, I’d increase the coaching cap by atleast 40-50% at nearly any cost. Coaching cap is strangling the crap out of this league.  

6 hours ago, rebusrankin said:

All these injured QBs is hurting my fantasy team this week. Should have played Zach. Its like Bo or MBT?

Zach was my captain. 

16 hours ago, Goalie said:

MBT gonna go off I think. 

So where did he go off to?  It certainly wasn't to the game...

On 2025-06-27 at 8:18 AM, Atomic said:

I don't know why it has to be so "fun". The best panel ever was Randorf, Dunigan, Climie and Schultz and they took it seriously and gave great commentary. Why can't we have that again?

Schultz was the glue on that panel. He wasn't a character. He just knew the game.  That little skit they did last night prepping the audience for the half time discussion? WTF was that? Something about being cool? Both McManus & Naylor must have felt buck naked as they had nowhere to hide. If you remember the look on Naylor's face, that said it all.

13 hours ago, wbbfan said:

Idk what I’d do for popularity. But if I was the commish, I’d increase the coaching cap by atleast 40-50% at nearly any cost. Coaching cap is strangling the crap out of this league.  

Hiring these coaches with no prior head coaching experience... That has to stop. A guy like Mark Killam rose to the level of STC & then stayed there for 20 years in Calgary being passed over for HC jobs year after year. There was good reason for that as he's not qualified to be a HC. Instead, strangely the Elks hired him (probably as he came cheap) & now he's enrolled his qb in the Edmonton Elks Quarterback Academy... where improvement is more important than wins. Where, "We almost won" is considered a moral victory. Meanwhile, the team expects fans to shell out money for a qb in Tre Ford who can make some great plays with his legs & arm (at times). Just not when he has to, to win a game. While the Elks say "Improvement!!, the fans in Edmonton on social media are saying, "Why should I spend my money on this ****??" As well as, "Same old, same old!" I can see the Elks going 4-14 this season missing the playoffs due to the stupid philosophy of the team. 

20 hours ago, blue85gold said:

So this week Brown, Kelly, Harris, Alexander and maybe Rourke are all out. That's 5/9 starting QBs in the league.

 

The ratio & putting Canadians on the OL. 

1 hour ago, SpeedFlex27 said:

Hiring these coaches with no prior head coaching experience... That has to stop.

I definitely agree. Once the existing head coaches retire or die, we should just fold the league. 

1 hour ago, SpeedFlex27 said:

Hiring these coaches with no prior head coaching experience... That has to stop. A guy like Mark Killam rose to the level of STC & then stayed there for 20 years in Calgary being passed over for HC jobs year after year. There was good reason for that as he's not qualified to be a HC. Instead, strangely the Elks hired him (probably as he came cheap) & now he's enrolled his qb in the Edmonton Elks Quarterback Academy... where improvement is more important than wins. Where, "We almost won" is considered a moral victory. Meanwhile, the team expects fans to shell out money for a qb in Tre Ford who can make some great plays with his legs & arm (at times). Just not when he has to, to win a game. While the Elks say "Improvement!!, the fans in Edmonton on social media are saying, "Why should I spend my money on this ****??" As well as, "Same old, same old!" I can see the Elks going 4-14 this season missing the playoffs due to the stupid philosophy of the team. 

The ratio & putting Canadians on the OL. 

Our coach was a ST coordinator with no prior head coaching experience.

 

33 minutes ago, JohnnyAbonny said:

Our coach was a ST coordinator with no prior head coaching experience.

 

Son of a *****!

2 hours ago, SpeedFlex27 said:

Hiring these coaches with no prior head coaching experience... That has to stop. 

Context? Would you hire guys who were HCs at lower levels? NCAA? CIS?

7 minutes ago, Mark H. said:

Context? Would you hire guys who were HCs at lower levels? NCAA? CIS?

I think we do need more coaches from out side the cfl ecosystem. 
 I’d particularly look at cos and position coaches to fill the same roles up here. I would also give more chances to cis guys and try to strengthen the coaching pipeline up here. Instead of mostly relying on ex players to join current cfl coaches and maintain the status quo. 
 

in general, we need larger coaching staffs though. More scouting in league and down south, more position coaches, more quality control, film, and analytics/stats roles. 

33 minutes ago, wbbfan said:

I think we do need more coaches from out side the cfl ecosystem. 
 I’d particularly look at cos and position coaches to fill the same roles up here. I would also give more chances to cis guys and try to strengthen the coaching pipeline up here. Instead of mostly relying on ex players to join current cfl coaches and maintain the status quo. 
 

in general, we need larger coaching staffs though. More scouting in league and down south, more position coaches, more quality control, film, and analytics/stats roles. 

I like how the CFL coaching staff has been evolving, players become assistants, than coordinators before moving on to HC roles and most are fairly young, done with the stodgy old NFL retreads of decades past.

Gary Crowton is available.  Leader of men with a humdinger offense.

21 minutes ago, Fatty Liver said:

I like how the CFL coaching staff has been evolving, players become assistants, than coordinators before moving on to HC roles and most are fairly young, done with the stodgy old NFL retreads of decades past.

I’m not talking nfl retreads, realistically that isn’t likely no matter what with the cap even if it went up.  
 I’m talking young minds from down south. The cfl is so far behind the 3/4 levels of us football in innovation now it’s really sad. 

The systems flat lining of innovation up here is going to exacerbate the leagues demographic problem. 

 

1 hour ago, JuranBoldenRules said:

Gary Crowton is available.  Leader of men with a humdinger offense.

How was the game?

I hit two humdingers and a triple.

Love that word.

2 hours ago, JuranBoldenRules said:

Gary Crowton is available.  Leader of men with a humdinger offense.

"The Professor". Or was it "the Factor".  Or was that bellfool?  I can't keep up with all the failures we had as OC's in those horrible stinker years.  Still think no one could ever be a bigger flame out in the CFL than this guy:

Aka Count Chocula.

1 hour ago, kelownabomberfan said:

"The Professor". Or was it "the Factor".  Or was that bellfool?  I can't keep up with all the failures we had as OC's in those horrible stinker years.  Still think no one could ever be a bigger flame out in the CFL than this guy:

Aka Count Chocula.

Elvich.

7 hours ago, Mike said:

I definitely agree. Once the existing head coaches retire or die, we should just fold the league. 

Yeah, well to me bringing in someone who has been rejected time & time again is a real ballsy move by Hervey as it could blow up in his face. The culture of losing is even worse in Edmonton than it was here before Mike O'Shea was hired. When Osh was hired by the Bombers he had time to rebuild the culture. The team wasn't going to fold. They were loing money but the fans still showed up. We'd still get 21-24000 per game despite the losing. Princess Auto Stadium was never as empty as CWS is now. These are dire times. The  Elks have to win now. Killam can't afford to go 0-5 or 1-6. The new owner wanss to see results. As far as coaches dying, hardly. There's always talent coming up. I'd look to hire  a successful coach from USports & give him a shot over a career STC who has been trying to get a HC gig for a minimum of a decade or more. That's just me. You may have a different perspective, Mike.