00:00Power Rankings in the Canadian Football League have been very difficult to put together,
00:16but now we got a new number one.
00:19We do not have a new number nine, and it's going to be tough to usurp the Stampeders
00:24from the number nine spot.
00:25It is Calgary as the worst team in the Canadian Football League, eliminated from the playoffs
00:31for the first time in a very long time.
00:33There is no aspect of this game that looks like it is going well for the Stampeders right
00:38now.
00:39And it just, it feels like beating a dead horse, that like every week, it's like, yeah,
00:43team sucks.
00:44There isn't a whole lot that we can really go with that.
00:47At eight, it is Hamilton.
00:49The clock striking midnight and all of those sorts of things on the Hamilton Tiger Cats.
00:55And now, it gets, the hole that they dug for themselves early in the year gets much
00:59more difficult to dig out of as the last three weeks of the season pick up.
01:04At seven, it's Ottawa.
01:06It has fallen, and it has fallen very quickly for the Ottawa Red Blacks.
01:09I had said coming into the year, I think this is an improved football team.
01:13But it wasn't as improved as we saw at the early part of the season.
01:17And I kind of warned people, as we were going through the season, they, I know that this
01:22was used as something in our NFL talk yesterday, they aren't beating anybody.
01:27Like, the wins that they have are not as impressive as you think.
01:31And they have a couple impressive wins in there, but a lot of the wins that they had
01:35kind of made the record seem a little bit fraudulent, and I think that is catching up
01:39to them very, very quickly.
01:40At six, it's the Edmonton Elks.
01:42Again, the playoff push falls short for the Edmonton Elks, but I do think that there is
01:47a little bit of optimism for the future, and I don't know why McLeod Bethel-Thompson would
01:51play another snap for this football team.
01:53Honestly, ever.
01:54But, um, for the rest of this season, no.
01:57At five, it's the BC Lions.
01:59As I have said before, I think that there is a very talented football team in there,
02:03they just have a tough time dragging it out every single week.
02:06But I think now that, you know, it's another week of getting ready and getting used to
02:09everything and all of these things, I do still, they are a I-can't-quit-you team.
02:14And odds are, they're going to be playing the Saskatchewan Roughriders in the West Semi-Final,
02:18whether that be out in BC or over in Regina.
02:23And I do not feel comfortable with that at all.
02:26At four, it is the Toronto Argonauts.
02:31They are another one where I just kept waiting and waiting and waiting and waiting for the
02:35defense to get better, and it was kind of like, there's probably a more recent reference
02:40than this, but back in 04, in WWE, when Randy Orton and Mick Foley were doing their Legend
02:48Killer thing, and Mick Foley, like, he, I think it was when Randy Orton spit in his
02:54face, and Foley, like, backs up, and he keeps backing up, and he keeps backing up, and they
02:58kept being like, oh, he's going to take a running charge at Randy Orton, he's setting
03:00him into whatever, and then he just backs up, and he just leaves.
03:03That's kind of what my thought is on Toronto, and how my opinion on them has gone.
03:07It's like, alright, here it comes.
03:09Here it comes.
03:10It's going to go.
03:11It's going to get you.
03:12No, you know what?
03:13I think it's just bad, as they, it just, it doesn't, nothing there has really clicked
03:17in the way that I thought it would this season.
03:19At three, it's Saskatchewan, they have won three in a row, um, I think the defense is
03:24still obviously the star of the show with this team, and if the offensive line could
03:29have stayed healthy this year, I think that this would have been a really, really dangerous
03:33football team.
03:34As it is, they are kind of peaking at the right time, and the defense is good enough
03:38that they can, I think, steal a game, or maybe even two, in the postseason, which gets you
03:43to a championship and then anything can happen.
03:46I do think that, um, some predictable play-calling, and offensive line injuries, and just some
03:52relative inconsistency have held this offense back, but I do think there's a lot of talented
03:56pieces on the offensive side of the football for Saskatchewan, it's just not executing
04:00still, but, like, three feels very high for them, I will admit that, and there's probably
04:05some bias in this, but, like, the way Toronto is playing right now, do you take Toronto
04:08over Saskatchewan?
04:09I don't.
04:10Same thing goes with B.C.
04:11Edmonton.
04:12Like, Saskatchewan just beat Edmonton.
04:13So, I have a tough time putting Saskatchewan lower than three.
04:17At two, it's Montreal.
04:19And it's more what number one has done than what Montreal hasn't done, but, since Cody
04:24Fitzgerald came back, and honestly, since they clinched a playoff spot, this team has
04:28not clicked in the same way.
04:30Even when they win, it still doesn't look as impressive as you would want it to.
04:35And I think the Philpott injury really is hindering this offense in more ways than we
04:40want to give credit to, and I do think that that is kind of holding them up a little bit.
04:45So, we will see if they can flip the switch, because this was kind of the thing they benefited
04:49from with Toronto in the previous year, right?
04:53Where the Argos kind of were able to take their foot off the gas and kind of cruise,
04:58and then they played a meaningful game, and eight picks, sixes later, all of a sudden,
05:02the Alouettes are going to the Grey Cup, and then they're winning the thing.
05:05So, can the Alouettes avoid the same pitfalls that they took advantage of last season?
05:11But at number one, it is Winnipeg.
05:13This defense went from being underrated to very much appreciated, and now the offense,
05:17which kind of went from being overrated, is now appropriately rated, because they're BALLIN.
05:22And they are lighting it up.
05:23And so this is an offensive football team that I think scares people.
05:28And it is now looking like the most complete team in the Canadian Football League.
05:32That would be the Winnipeg Blue Bombers.
05:35So I do think they are the number one team in the league for, and rightfully so, I would say.
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