Official Game Day Thread - Winnipeg @ Toronto, October 31, 2026

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Interesting... TOR struggling to meet 7 NATs.  So they put Ready (??) at WR and Coxie as the 25-snap guy.  I guess with their sling-it O they may not have a ton of O snaps... but if we can force them to go possession we can knock Coxie out of the game after his 25!

Their 11-IMP-starters D should be pretty stout.  However, if Kongbo gets injured they might be in some doodoo.  Lemon will be the DNA so he can get 25 snaps in for Kongbo.

Because they are heavily using the DNA cheat code, they will effectively be 12 IMP on D most of the game, and likewise 3 IMP REC.

Remember... we could have been using that same cheat code the first half of the season to get Singer on the field "for free"!  But then we wouldn't get the extra 2RDP...

[Tecno]

No explanations are offered when it comes to financial arrangements, none of our business.  Empty stadiums across the league and 7 out of 9 teams losing money equates to the salary cap going up, can't quite figure how that one works. I am beginning to suspect Russian gambling consortium and money laundering are involved and I ain't even joking.

No Russians required.  One word: DAZN

As for TOR, they are betting either the DAZN cap increase happens in FA27 and thus they don't care what they paid Kelly.  OR at worst the cap increase is delayed a season (technically CBA can't get their cut until the money is actualized?), in which case TOR has a year of complete suckage as they won't have any money leftover; but THEN they will be in the pound seats in '28 as everyone scrambles to get a good QB.

Once the DAZN money is here, EVERY top QB who is up for re-signing is going to get $1M.  I said this months ago in the DAZN thread.  No one believed me....

[Tecno]

Not sure how revenue sharing works. Does this imply that revenues from the Bombers and Riders are shared throughout the league. Is there any site that explains how this works? I was wondering how the Argos could afford paying Kelly what they will be paying him given their low attendance etc. Guess the league as a whole is paying the bill!

Basically yes.  I think of it like the Canada fed-gov equalization payments to provinces.  Take from the "haves", send to the "have nots".  And just like with fedgov/Canada, there's very few "haves" in the CFL.  It's basically just us.  Hopefully SSK did better$$ than last year so they can chip in again.

As for Kelly, you're conflating 2 issues... In the CFL there's "real" money and "cap money".  No one really cares about real money.  The equalization payments help out, the TSN/DAZN money helps out, and if there's still shortfalls the rich owners pay for it.  They all have the option to spend way less than the cap -- but they NEVER do.  Never believe CFL teams when they cry "poor".

The real question about Kelly is not "where do they get the real money" that goes into Kelly's pocket -- no one cares about that.  Nope, the real question is "how are they affording this within the cap"?  And the answer to that is: DAZN wildly increasing the cap very shortly.

[Tecno]

I have to ask given I do not gamble! What does -150 to -225 mean?

-/+ odds are so confusing.  Most sites (especially Canadian ones) allow you to use "decimal odds".  These are so much easier for noobs to grok.  With decimal you just take the decimal shown and multiply it by your bet and that's what you'll have if you win... INCLUDING your original bet.

So if WPG is 2.25 then 100 gets you 225: 125 win plus 100 original bet.

With the WPG/TOR example above the numbers would math out to 2.25 WPG, 1.50 TOR.  (I haven't checked what the current odds are.)

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Interesting... TOR struggling to meet 7 NATs.  So they put Ready (??) at WR and Coxie as the 25-snap guy.  I guess with their sling-it O they may not have a ton of O snaps... but if we can force them to go possession we can knock Coxie out of the game after his 25!

Their 11-IMP-starters D should be pretty stout.  However, if Kongbo gets injured they might be in some doodoo.  Lemon will be the DNA so he can get 25 snaps in for Kongbo.

Because they are heavily using the DNA cheat code, they will effectively be 12 IMP on D most of the game, and likewise 3 IMP REC.

Remember... we could have been using that same cheat code the first half of the season to get Singer on the field "for free"!  But then we wouldn't get the extra 2RDP...

Does the league still have the rule where a Nationalized American can replace a injured starting Canadian?

Ready could go down with an "injury" so that Coxie could play unlimited snaps.

[Tecno]

I think TOR will come out with a heavy ground game.  This would throw us for a loop, just like Salter's all-pass first drive did.  We aren't very good at instant adjustment.

Add in the fact we're notoriously bad against the run.  Just attack our edges.  And throw hitch screens on us all night.  We suck at stopping those.

The question is, will Kelly & their OC be patient enough to dink & dunk us?  If it's a big air show I think our DBs will nab a couple.  I would assign a spy to Kelly just like we do Ford et al... not to stop him running past the LoS, but to keep him harangued when he scrambles sideline to sideline.

[Tecno]

Does the league still have the rule where a Nationalized American can replace a injured starting Canadian?

Ready could go down with an "injury" so that Coxie could play unlimited snaps.

No?  Pretty sure no matter what he can only get the 25 snaps.  Now, he could also come in after that for Kahmann or Polk... but they couldn't be +1 IMPs anymore.

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[Tecno]

Well, for the first time in a long time I'm not following the team on the road in the playoffs.  Still have a bad taste from the MTL ESF last year.

Maybe it'll be good luck me not going this time!  I was at all of those cup losses...

If we make it to the EDF maybe I'll go to that.  However, PTSD in Molson... not sure I want that smoke again.  Still, would be epic to stick it to Alexander in his home stadium!