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[TecnoGenius]

actually turned out to be a miracle comeback for Caleb....why are you so quick to diss other QBs and teams.    We will be playing them next and Montreal beat us last year spoiling our unbeaten record.   We barely eked out a win and were extremely lucky to beat a 3-6 Calgary team.   We also lost to Ottawa who had what, one win at the time.

Sorry, it's my nature.  But understand I also generalize and exaggerate, both to simplify and to inject a modicum of humor (hopefully!).  So when I say a QB is "suckage" I don't mean it literally, I mean he's a bottom of the barrel pro CFL QB 3rd or 4th stringer who in the past hasn't showed us much.  That is (was?) Caleb Evans.  That is a fact.  Before this game he had really done nothing starting-role-worthy in any game for either OTT or MTL.  His previous win he basically threw for almost no yards.  As an OTT QB he wasn an INT and turf-aiming machine.

I notice not a single person took issue with my statements before the game was played.  It's easy to come after Caleb looks like a top 5 QB and the pick apart my prediction.  But no one was predicting Caleb was going to throw for 300+ and TDs!  I'll take a guess that most MTL pickers were going more by OTT's lack of a good QB, MTL's strong R corps, and MTL's very strong D... not by Caleb coming out and looking like Zach.  Just a hunch.  If Caleb had looked like Brohm that night, would anyone be taking issue with my post?  Maybe, I guess, but my prediction would have at least been correct and my "suckage" term would have been apropos.

As for my insults of the teams, OTT is the bottom of the barrel in the E, and MTL was the chosen-dumpster-fire team going into week 1.  MTL has shaped up, but I don't think it'll last; or maybe it's another the-east-is-so-weak season that allows MTL to look good.  I guess I was a little harsh, but for anyone who's seen that South Park episode they'll know it's tongue-in-cheek and "get it".  If you haven't seen it, then I can understand how the joke would miss its mark.

I've watched a lot of CFL in the last decade, and I have a long memory (some of the time!).  I definitely pigeonhole players based on the sum total of what I've seen in the past, for better or for worse.  This is my way of condensing the vast data in my head into heuristics I can use at any moment; it's the way most human brains work because we aren't computers.  Caleb got placed in the "Brohm" hole... and in my world that's where he stays until he shows otherwise.  Maybe for the first time the other night he finally showed that he can move from the Brohm hole to the Dom Davis hole.  And good for him, and I congratulate him on a really great win.  I have nothing against the dude personally, and I'm all for more CFL QBs looking like Tom Brady rather than like Brohm.

Normally I enjoy your posts however sometimes you tend to be a tad disrespectful towards other teams and players.....just sayin....peace bro

You make a good point and I can try to temper that a little bit.  If I'm trying to be quippy or funny in the South Park mode of things and if it's not working with this crowd, then I can inject less of it for sure!  However, maybe there's some readers who find it hilarious?!  (speak up!)

Maybe I'm reading (waaay) too much Ridersfans these days.  Those guys have like zero moderation and are crazy heavy on the funny insults.  I'll have to remember where I am.  Thanks for the nudge.