GDT Ssk at Edm, Sat Aug 1, 6:00PM

Tecno · August 02, 2026, 10:50:11 AM

Quote from: Austin85 on August 01, 2026, 11:30:01 PMThese are real football teams not like Winnipeg this year. Both teams recruited well in the off season. I bleed bomber blue but our football ops is terrible and needs big changes so they don't fall into the abys.

You said it. The energy and physicality and seriousness and focus of these guys (and MTL) is not 1, not 2, but 100 levels above what we are doing. That's coaches. That's culture. That's morale & mindset.

We've been missing much of this for at least 3 seasons. Yes, even seasons when we were making GCs.

And the braintrusts and chess match -- miles better with these teams. Just every facet is better. There isn't a single thing we do better than either team -- and that covers like 100 distinct things you could point to.

It's sad.

P.S. Just near the end of the 1st Q, and all I want to see is both teams seroiusly beat the snot out of each other -- we do face each team 2 times later this season.

Tecno · August 02, 2026, 11:04:00 AM

When we face SSK @PAS, I want to see massive chirping by Donny C & co on their new NAT REC D.Weibe.

D.Weibe.

Take out the dot... sound it out.

Tecno · August 02, 2026, 11:10:12 AM

If we want to beat SSK (ya right; a guy can dream), gotta find a way to stop Stevens. He won't be throwing. Load the whole box, contain the edges. Man coverage on any wide out decoys.

Hint: 75% of the time he goes behind Yoshi

Tecno · August 02, 2026, 11:14:48 AM

Quote from: Throw Long Bannatyne on August 01, 2026, 11:22:35 PMFinally, 30k in attendance in Edmonton, hope the Elks don't crap the bed! If the CFL is fixing games thru the refs, this one needs to be tilted in the Elks favour.

I'm at the DQ on Taylor and it would appear the league wants SSK to win. Not calling holds on max-hold SSK, and calling IBs and DQs and the almost-never seen "embellishment" on EDM... that's rough.

And I would have predicted that anyhow, because the league wants the underdog team to win, and no team to run away with it. A team wildly running away with a division means less eyeballs on TV. Everything being even keeps more fans invested.

Tecno · August 02, 2026, 11:20:42 AM

The DQ of Taylor is just nuts. I get the 2-misconduct thing, but being ejected on an embellishing? Let's keep in mind the guy was legit pushed by a 350lb hoggie (see the 1st replay for the obvious push, not the 2nd replay that shows only the other hoggie touching him from behind). He was going to fall anyhow.

I guess Taylor was watching too much FIFA last month?

Keep in mind Taylor is their star starting DE. Not some ST nobody or 3rd backup.

I'm not sure I'm good with a player being kicked out for embellishment. Maybe call it only a half point towards the ejection?? I'd put OC name calling in there too. I want ejections for REAL, mostly VIOLENT things. You think the fans in the stadium have any idea why he was DQ'd?? I know at PAS we'd have zero clue -- no one ever announces anything. Have to do the hamster balls dontchaknow.

Tecno · August 02, 2026, 11:28:50 AM

I must say, I totally hate the break at the 3min warning even after the play has been whistled in. Totally disrupts the game. Totally NFLizes it.

Ya, I totally understand the need to shift to the 20s clock rules... but I still hate it. Surely someone here can think up a better solution?

Tecno · August 02, 2026, 11:49:05 AM

3Q14:04 Should have found a way to keep Ty Ford -- INT master. Wow. And ratio buster. Crazy.

Tre picked the wrong line of work to go into. Let that be a lesson to the young Canadians going into U -- if you're good, don't opt to be a QB. Opt to be anything else, and preferably at positions with few NATs -- like DB (ex-FS), DL, LB, RB. (REC are a dime a dozen.) Guaranteed huge CFL payday if you do that.

dd · Reply #22 - Re: GDT Ssk at Edm, Sat Aug 1, 6:00PM

Quote from: Tecno on August 02, 2026, 11:20:42 AMThe DQ of Taylor is just nuts. I get the 2-misconduct thing, but being ejected on an embellishing? Let's keep in mind the guy was legit pushed by a 350lb hoggie (see the 1st replay for the obvious push, not the 2nd replay that shows only the other hoggie touching him from behind). He was going to fall anyhow.

I guess Taylor was watching too much FIFA last month?

Keep in mind Taylor is their star starting DE. Not some ST nobody or 3rd backup.

I'm not sure I'm good with a player being kicked out for embellishment. Maybe call it only a half point towards the ejection?? I'd put OC name calling in there too. I want ejections for REAL, mostly VIOLENT things. You think the fans in the stadium have any idea why he was DQ'd?? I know at PAS we'd have zero clue -- no one ever announces anything. Have to do the hamster balls dontchaknow.

The league put in the 2 Misconduct rule to get rid of the crap that goes on, and its working. Taylor had the first one for bumping into an official, and then decided with one misconduct foul, I'm going to flop around like a FIFA soccer player, well, I for one am happy he got tagged with a misconduct for that. It was his decision to do it, pay the price. And to add further insult to injury, Killam gets a bench misconduct for chirping at the refs over the call, so what did Edmonton really learn over this...nothing. A misconduct foul is the most selfish foul you're going to commit, its unfortunate that it got him kicked out, but tough, don't flop around on the field, be a man for pete's sake!!!

Tecno · Reply #23 - Re: GDT Ssk at Edm, Sat Aug 1, 6:00PM

Sure, but losing Taylor may have cost them this super close game. Keep in mind a bunch of CFL players may have impulse control problems.

Still seems chintzy to get DQ over an accidental ref hit and then a FIFA dive. I'm pretty sure that wasn't the spirit of the 2-strikes rule. I'm sure most on the rules committee would have thought it surely would have included 1+ URs.

Tecno · Reply #24 - Re: GDT Ssk at Edm, Sat Aug 1, 6:00PM

Quote from: Throw Long Bannatyne on August 01, 2026, 11:22:35 PMFinally, 30k in attendance in Edmonton, hope the Elks don't crap the bed! If the CFL is fixing games thru the refs, this one needs to be tilted in the Elks favour.

That last drive by SSK was pretty marginal from a legitimacy standpoint for me... I think 3 penalties to save SSK from having to punt or FG? All of them very iffy. The UR one where the SSK guy was teabagging the EDM guy for half an hour was especially egregious. You can't hold the guy down and teabag him for half an hour after the whistle. EDM dude didn't hit him or anything, just got up and said get off me!

The RTP was extremely weak. Mega weak. 90% of the time that goes uncalled. I totally thought Killam should have challenged that. They could have. 1.30 left, taking them into FG range, that was the whole game right there. Too bad Luke wasn't in the booth, he'd tell you how bogus that was. Even Suits knows that's crap.

And the happens-every-SSK-O-snap "holding" called on EDM to kill any hopes of a 3 min drive on the penultimate drive -- don't get me started on that one. That's never called, ever, for any team. Hoggie didn't even pancake and hold down the rusher either, like happens all the time (unflagged of course). Sad that no one told Cody he had to lose this one -- he was giving it his all.

I knew if there was a fix it would be for SSK to even the 2-game score. Can't let EDM run away with it. The fact Killam was so calm and not even talking to anyone about challenging hints he knew he had to take the dive. Of course, if I was into tinfoil, which I'm not. No tinfoil here! So it was all on the up & up just like the Patriots/Falcons Super Bowl!!

Tecno · Reply #25 - Re: GDT Ssk at Edm, Sat Aug 1, 6:00PM

Everyone has figured out Rankin now. Is that 2 or 3 games now he's been held to a tiny fraction of his usual output? His dreams of 1000/1000 are evaporating fast. The panel's Rankestein jokes are disappearing.

Even we held him to "normal good RB" numbers.

BUT stopping Rankin comes at a definite cost. SSK dedicated a spy, and had at least 1-2 other guys cheat to wherever Rankin was moving, until they knew for sure he wasn't getting it -- then they resumed their normal duty. That opened a ton of stuff in the middle where Cody just LOVES to pass (always has). When Leake was on the field all those spies stopped spying and Cody was far less effective.

If Rankin gets hurt, EDM will lose mostly everything -- the team doesn't run through Cody, it runs through Rankin. Without the superman, they're just another team and Cody is just another QB.

Tecno · Reply #26 - Re: GDT Ssk at Edm, Sat Aug 1, 6:00PM

Refs really ruined the end of this game, too. It was setup for a great comeback by EDM and then maybe time for SSK to get a FG or something. 3 mins left when Cody gets the ball, 2 mins left with SSK gets the ball. Plenty of time.

There doesn't have to be any tinfoil to see how the over-reffing ruined it. And no one seems to care? Contrast with the previous week's exciting EDM/SSK game.

Yawn.

The Zipp · Reply #27 - Re: GDT Ssk at Edm, Sat Aug 1, 6:00PM

Quote from: Tecno on August 02, 2026, 11:49:05 AM3Q14:04 Should have found a way to keep Ty Ford -- INT master. Wow. And ratio buster. Crazy.

Tre picked the wrong line of work to go into. Let that be a lesson to the young Canadians going into U -- if you're good, don't opt to be a QB. Opt to be anything else, and preferably at positions with few NATs -- like DB (ex-FS), DL, LB, RB. (REC are a dime a dozen.) Guaranteed huge CFL payday if you do that.

become a really good long snapper