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."

Bob Dyce is reaching Jim Daley echelon unfortunately.

3 minutes ago, JuranBoldenRules said:

Bob Dyce is reaching Jim Daley echelon unfortunately.

Dru Brown starting to look like Trevor  Harris -- plays well enough to keep his team competitive but can't get em over the top.

Wouldn't surprise me if Dyce got pink slipped after tonight's game

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Edited July 7, 2025Jul 7 by FrostyWinnipeg

9 hours ago, johnzo said:

Dru Brown starting to look like Trevor  Harris -- plays well enough to keep his team competitive but can't get em over the top.

Ottawas D isn’t very good. 

13 hours ago, SectionKBlackout said:

Andre Proulx being allowed to ref in this league still is something...

he gets a lot of greif....but he's the head ref who for most part is relaying the call from his other ref's....not necessarily his lame calls...for most part he is pretty good on flags he throws....and he cant say "nah...we not gonna call that" on flags his minions toss...

12 hours ago, johnzo said:

Dru Brown starting to look like Trevor  Harris -- plays well enough to keep his team competitive but can't get em over the top.

Brown was more than good enough to win. The RB defence soiled the linens.

Brown would look great in Blue and Gold.

1 hour ago, Booch said:

he gets a lot of greif....but he's the head ref who for most part is relaying the call from his other ref's....not necessarily his lame calls...for most part he is pretty good on flags he throws....and he cant say "nah...we not gonna call that" on flags his minions toss...

It's not just the calls, it's the delivery as well. He seems past his time.

1 hour ago, rebusrankin said:

Brown would look great in Blue and Gold.

We have hope for Brown in 2027.... unless they extend Zach for another year during this off season.

13 hours ago, Booch said:

he gets a lot of greif....but he's the head ref who for most part is relaying the call from his other ref's....not necessarily his lame calls...for most part he is pretty good on flags he throws....and he cant say "nah...we not gonna call that" on flags his minions toss...

The head ref can overrule his assistants in soccer - methinks football should be the same.

Alexander expected back after the Als bye.

https://3downnation.com/2025/07/08/jason-maas-expects-davis-alexander-to-return-for-montreal-alouettes-after-bye-week/

1 hour ago, rebusrankin said:

Alexander expected back after the Als bye.

https://3downnation.com/2025/07/08/jason-maas-expects-davis-alexander-to-return-for-montreal-alouettes-after-bye-week/

Great news for the league. Hopefully we see more qb health around the league. 

On 2025-07-06 at 8:33 PM, HardCoreBlue said:

Turd down is an icon!

Even more iconic when a player wears turdy tree.

On 2025-07-06 at 7:54 PM, johnzo said:

Dru Brown starting to look like Trevor  Harris -- plays well enough to keep his team competitive but can't get em over the top.

He plays the same all the time, No sense of urgency. He does put up big yards in a losing cause, like Harris.

Just a quick comment regarding the postponed game last night. The CFL & CFLPA said it was too dangerous to play due to smoke. Yet, the league made 27000 people sit outside in that same noxious smoke for over 4 hours while TSN, the CFL & CFLPA couldn't get their **** together to make a call to postpone the game so people could get out of the smoke. 

How refreshing it is having Laura Diakun as guest host in the absence of Kate Bierness? She's a pro who keeps the panel on task & guess what?? They actually can have an interesting football discussion with Diakun.  Unlike Bierness, who is all over the place with her comments, jokes, wild laughter & skits. The panel just follows her lead & gets goofy. Bierness is not a host. She lacks the discipline that Diakun has, She seems perfectly suited to be the full time host of TSN football. I wish TSN would make a change. 

I was done after the **** overalls thingy with BLM last year.

On 2025-07-12 at 6:02 AM, SpeedFlex27 said:

Just a quick comment regarding the postponed game last night. The CFL & CFLPA said it was too dangerous to play due to smoke. Yet, the league made 27000 people sit outside in that same noxious smoke for over 4 hours while TSN, the CFL & CFLPA couldn't get their **** together to make a call to postpone the game so people could get out of the smoke. 

The policies the league has for this are pretty easy to find and make the protocols explicitly clear. If AQHI+ as deemed by Environment Canada (you can actually see these values in pretty much all stadiums via the Purple Air map) is 8 or above, players aren't allowed on the field. The policies also state that there will attempt to make things work for up to 3 hours (I think they let it go to 4 in this case). Regina was also under a special air quality warning at the time.

Should the league have been more proactive in maybe rescheduling based on the forecast? Maybe, but they were hoping that winds would come and mitigate the issue.

Should they have left everyone sit in the stands without much updates within the stadium? Probably not, but in an open air stadium what else can you really do. Everyone has their own risk profile and were expecting to be there for at least 3 hours anyways. And it is indeed a safety issue for the players more-so than the fans in the stands... it is an order of magnitude more dangerous doing wind sprints up and down the field in that kind of conditions than it is hanging out in the stands.

The problem is with something like lightning, you know there is some timing involved and you can actually see it. Of course there are people that are going to dip as soon as the delay happens, and then you make the decision as time goes on as you see more or less lightning. With the smoke its just kind of... there and you can almost get acclimated to it but as soon as you hit fresh air its clear what was going on, but you have morons on Facebook and X going "hurr-durr back in my day I'd run marathons sucking back a pack of darts players these days are babies."

1 hour ago, ShyGuy said:

The policies the league has for this are pretty easy to find and make the protocols explicitly clear. If AQHI+ as deemed by Environment Canada (you can actually see these values in pretty much all stadiums via the Purple Air map) is 8 or above, players aren't allowed on the field. The policies also state that there will attempt to make things work for up to 3 hours (I think they let it go to 4 in this case). Regina was also under a special air quality warning at the time.

Should the league have been more proactive in maybe rescheduling based on the forecast? Maybe, but they were hoping that winds would come and mitigate the issue.

Should they have left everyone sit in the stands without much updates within the stadium? Probably not, but in an open air stadium what else can you really do. Everyone has their own risk profile and were expecting to be there for at least 3 hours anyways. And it is indeed a safety issue for the players more-so than the fans in the stands... it is an order of magnitude more dangerous doing wind sprints up and down the field in that kind of conditions than it is hanging out in the stands.

The problem is with something like lightning, you know there is some timing involved and you can actually see it. Of course there are people that are going to dip as soon as the delay happens, and then you make the decision as time goes on as you see more or less lightning. With the smoke its just kind of... there and you can almost get acclimated to it but as soon as you hit fresh air its clear what was going on, but you have morons on Facebook and X going "hurr-durr back in my day I'd run marathons sucking back a pack of darts players these days are babies."

My 2 cents...

The league got bogged down in logistics for Calgary and completely forgot about the fans.

How they handled this was completely ridiculous.  They've significant shortened how long they will delay games for thunderstorms, but an air quality delay can be indefinite?

Policy should be the call is made based on the numbers 1 hour before the game.  At the latest.  1.5-2 hours would be more reasonable.  If they want, have the decision made in consultation with public health in the city or someone like that.  The CFL can't seem to figure out their own parameters on what is safe or not, or whether it's Labour Day and we can't cancel or not.  Take the decision out of their/TSN's hands then.

Need to have some respect for the health, safety and time of the customers.

Tre Ford is really not that good tonight. Without his running he doesn’t hit his targets very often. 

6 hours ago, ShyGuy said:

The policies the league has for this are pretty easy to find and make the protocols explicitly clear. If AQHI+ as deemed by Environment Canada (you can actually see these values in pretty much all stadiums via the Purple Air map) is 8 or above, players aren't allowed on the field. The policies also state that there will attempt to make things work for up to 3 hours (I think they let it go to 4 in this case). Regina was also under a special air quality warning at the time.

Should the league have been more proactive in maybe rescheduling based on the forecast? Maybe, but they were hoping that winds would come and mitigate the issue.

Should they have left everyone sit in the stands without much updates within the stadium? Probably not, but in an open air stadium what else can you really do. Everyone has their own risk profile and were expecting to be there for at least 3 hours anyways. And it is indeed a safety issue for the players more-so than the fans in the stands... it is an order of magnitude more dangerous doing wind sprints up and down the field in that kind of conditions than it is hanging out in the stands.

The problem is with something like lightning, you know there is some timing involved and you can actually see it. Of course there are people that are going to dip as soon as the delay happens, and then you make the decision as time goes on as you see more or less lightning. With the smoke its just kind of... there and you can almost get acclimated to it but as soon as you hit fresh air its clear what was going on, but you have morons on Facebook and X going "hurr-durr back in my day I'd run marathons sucking back a pack of damrts players these days are babies."

Most fans aren't in the shape of a football player. The average man & woman expend a lot of energy climbing up & down stairs as they're out of shape. Parents brought babies & little kids to the game & their immunity systems haven't developd like that of adults. Is any long term damage being done being exposed to the noxious chemicals in the smoke? I'd bet that never came up in the hours long discussion between the CFL, CFLPA & TSN on rescheduling the game. The only safety issue to those 3 was protecting the players but not the fans. The league doesn't take that into consideration. Decisions need to be made much quicker with a whole set of different parameters neded to speed things up. Making people wait like that for hours in those conditions was absolutely ludicrous. 

Edited July 14, 2025Jul 14 by SpeedFlex27

5 hours ago, JuranBoldenRules said:

My 2 cents...

The league got bogged down in logistics for Calgary and completely forgot about the fans.

How they handled this was completely ridiculous.  They've significant shortened how long they will delay games for thunderstorms, but an air quality delay can be indefinite?

Policy should be the call is made based on the numbers 1 hour before the game.  At the latest.  1.5-2 hours would be more reasonable.  If they want, have the decision made in consultation with public health in the city or someone like that.  The CFL can't seem to figure out their own parameters on what is safe or not, or whether it's Labour Day and we can't cancel or not.  Take the decision out of their/TSN's hands then.

Need to have some respect for the health, safety and time of the customers.

Bang on. The CFL only worrying about the players but not the fans was wrong. If air quality was as bad as they say then get everyone out of that toxic nightmare. Cancel the game & do a make up whether it's the next day or two months from now. People wonder what is up (or down) with attendance. To me, the answer is easy. Disrespect the fans & this is what you get. No one shows up. I wonder how many fans the Riders lost Friday night with the way they & the CFL handled everything?

On 2025-07-13 at 8:37 PM, BaconNBigBlue said:

Tre Ford is really not that good tonight. Without his running he doesn’t hit his targets very often. 

He is not a CFL calibre starting QB and probably will never be one.

55 minutes ago, GCn20 said:

He is not a CFL calibre starting QB and probably will never be one.

I think he can become one in the right system. Whatever they tried against BC isn't it though.