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Is it November already? Apparently so, as the Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast closes out our season with a wrap of the 112th Grey Cup.
As had become tradition on the RWB, co-host Joe Pritchard tells us of his Grey Cup Week experience in his well-visited Winnipeg and specifically the efforts he contributed there for CFL Fans Fight Cancer during the festivities.
Joe returned to the ‘States in good time to commiserate with co-host Os Davis on his beloved Montreal Alouettes’ loss to the admittedly unhateable 2025 CFL champion Saskatchewan Roughriders in that final game. In working through the stages of grief, Os is sadly still focused on a nightmarish second quarter, while Joe saliently points out a serious miss by Als HC Jason Maas.
But hey, the RWB’s also accentuating the positive, congratulating the Riders on an excellent – if not exactly ultra-dominant – season, giving Trever Harris possibly career-ending props, and remaining bullish on the Alouettes’ future.
We’ve also got a bit of speculation on 2026 (RWB’ll be the first to say “Is it June yet?”) including a fairly obvious prediction about predictions. Finally, Joe expresses his enthusiasm regarding the trick-or-treat rumors regarding Winnipeg Blue Bombers head coach Mike O’Shea.
The RWB caps the podcasting for now, but we’ll likely be back before you realize – say, sometime after the schedule release in December. Nice season, eh?
The Rouge, White & Blue CFL Podcast: That’s a wrap (for 2025)!
O boy, o boy, o boy, it’s time for the 2025 Grey Cup championship game between the Saskatchewan Roughriders and Montreal Alouettes (one more victory lap: Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast co-host Os Davis’s preseason prediction)!
This week, RWB co-host Joe Pritchard is prepping for his annual pilgrimage for the Big Game, this year in his beloved Winnipeg, and so Os is joined by Scout of the Elks Call podcast/fearless leader of the Shotgun Sports Network.
Scout and Os run through division final games, both with spread-pushing 3-point differentials, and perform brief moratoria on the BC Lions and Hamilton Tiger-Cats.
Then it’s on to what we’ve all been awaiting: That 112th Grey Cup thing. We’ve got picks and predictions on that final game and, spoilers, about the only thing the agree on is that we’re destined for a close one.
Enjoy, all!
The Rouge, White & Blue CFL Podcast: Americans talking Canadian football (most of the time)…
After one heckuva CFL doubleheader (and Canadian sports tripleheader if you count game 7 of the World Series to boot), the Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast is ready to celebrate our bad predictions – um, that is to say, preview the East and West Division Finals games – and yeah, throw in some predictions too.
Co-hosts Joe Pritchard and Os Davis also have moratoria on the 2025 Winnipeg Blue Bombers (plus maybe the whole dynastic run as well) and Calgary Stampeders. They’ve got key matchups, recommended bets and, to be honest, they’ll probably miss by a couple kilometres…
The Rouge, White & Blue CFL Podcast: That’s right, we’re talking about playoffs again!?!?!!
This time, it’s all about Winnipeg Blue Bombers at Montreal Alouettes and Calgary Stampeders at BC Lions. That’s right: It’s playoff time in the Canadian Football League, so what else should the Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast focus on?
Co-hosts Joe Pritchard and Os Davis concentrate solely on the second RWB Bowl in three years (a.k.a. the East Semifinal) and the West Semifinal, which they reckon could be a classic defensive, ground-and-pound struggle and a high-flying scoreboard-spinning shootout, respectively…
RWB’s got picks, predictions and lots of speculation; if this isn’t the greatest time of the year, we don’t know what is.
The Rouge, White & Blue CFL Podcast: That’s right, we’re talking about playoffs!?!?!!
Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast co-host Os Davis is out this week (he must’ve gotten the first-round playoff bye), but co-host Joe Pritchard is here to chair this latest episode, welcoming in Santino Filoso of 3 Down Nation – coming to you live from Brazil!
Santino is on the Ottawa Redblacks beat there at 3 Down, and so the team makes for the focus of discussion as he and Joe take on questions like “What happened this season?”, “What can be done about on-field and roster issues?”, “What can be done about off-field, fandom and front office issues?” and really “Can anything be done at all?”
The RWB may or may not be back this week with a playoff preview, but look for the podcast at its regular time post playoff openers!
The Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast: We love all the teams; well, maybe not the Riders…
It all went by so fast … the Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast digs in with a look at the penultimate week of the 2025 CFL season; co-hosts Os Davis and Joe Pritchard do the usual rundown of games played and days to come, but with the Edmonton Elks’ elimination, taking stock is also in the cards.
The RWB looks back on a seemingly slightly less futile bid by the Elks and the remarkable wire-to-wire run by the Saskatchewan Roughriders, both this show’s and the vogue pick for this year’s Grey Cup back in June.
As for picks and predictions for week 21, welllllll, we’re saying don’t even think about betting these games. Every single game potentially leads to subsequent games in which the second string might be waved in early. However, RWB does believe in the Elks upset this week…
Also, what's up with that whole Grey Cup Team Social Pass thing? In short, it ain't pretty.
The Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast: Enjoying Canadian football while we can…
The Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast this week marvels at the way the league’s standings somehow tightened up further after week 19.
After the Edmonton Elks and Calgary Stampeders topped the Winnipeg Blue Bombers and Hamilton Tiger-Cats, respectively, RWB co-hosts Joe Prtichard and Os Davis marvel at the possibility of a four way, 9-9 tie bottlenecking the West side of the table.
And the RWB also has a requiem of sorts for the Ottawa Redblacks; of course, we’ve been pouring one out for the hapless franchise for years…
All this, plus picks and predictions for week 20 with – incredibly enough – all four games still carrying significance for the 2025 playoffs.
The Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast: Who do you have?
All right, so week 18 in the 2025 CFL season was little more than three blowouts resulting in the elimination of the Ottawa Redblacks and defending champion Toronto Argonauts – nevertheless, the Rouge White & Blue CFL podcast is here looking forward to next week because whoa, does the plot thicken…
As the 2025 CFL regular season reaches its finale, RWB co-hosts Joe Pritchard and Os Davis put a moratorium on the previously mentioned teams’ seasons and, in picking and predicting for next week’s games, ultimately run through just a few of the many (many!) variations we could see in this year’s playoffs.
Plus, the RWB manages to conjure up a Hollywood movie plotline for each of the seven teams remaining in contention, from Cody Fajardo leading his Edmonton Elks through a couple of his former employers to the Hamilton Tiger-Cats ending the CFL’s longest run of futility as Bo Levi Mitchell reasserts himself as the league’s unquestionable MVP – and MOP.
Check out this episode of the RWB for all the plotlines in the CFL…
The Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast: The beginning of a beautiful friendship.
Week 17 of the CFL season was thoroughly enjoyed by Rouge White & Blue podcast co-hosts Joe Pritchard and Os Davis – after all, the Winnipeg Blue Bombers and Montreal Alouettes both won, the Saskatchewan Roughriders and Hamilton Tiger-Cats lost, and the standings table just ratcheted up with excitement.
So what’s not to like? Welllllllllllllllllllllllll…
As fans of the Canadian game surely know, CFL commissioner Stewart Johnston this past week announced a half-dozen rule changes to befall the sport over the next two seasons – and some fans aren’t happy. In fact, the RWB wonders whether we’ll be watching an American football thtat’s Canadian in name only by 2030. This may be, concludes the RWB, all about the money.
Depressing potential reality aside, the RWB nevertheless plows forward with an increasingly interesting playoff picture (and scenarios!) plus a tiny bit of fantasy football speak plus picks and predictions for week 18.
The Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast: “Rouge” is the name, y’all…
On this episode of Rouge White & Blue CFL podcast, co-hosts Joe Pritchard and Os Davis marvel at how much the narrative of an entire league can change in just one week.
Like, for example, how this week after the BC Lions ran up 50-plus points on the Calgary Stampeders, the former suddenly look a lot more plausible to seriously compete for the Grey Cup than the latter.
Not to mention the Montreal Alouettes stealing one from the similarly QB-challenged Toronto Argonauts to put the 2023 CFL champions in suddenly well stronger p;osition that the ’24 champs.
And finally, there are the Hamilton Tiger-Cats, who – ah, nothing’s changing with the Felines, unfortunately…
This rundown plus picks and predictions for week 17 (no way, already?!!?!?) from the RWB!
The Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast: Waiting for next week when everything’s different again…
This week, it’s episode #300 of the Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast – and as MAD magazine would put it on similar occasions: “very big deal.”
Because this is football podcasting, RWB co-hosts Os Davis and Joe Pritchard aren’t so interested in the distant past when the recent past will suffice, like a week 15 in which 258 points were scored and the East division tightened.
And for the Rider haters (hey, we’re sympathetic), the RWB rolls back gloomy thoughts of the 2025 CFL champion Saskatchewan Roughriders – does giving up 48 points to McLeod Bethel-Thompson’s Montreal Alouettes indicate chinks in the armor…?
Per usual, RWB previews the upcoming week’s games and talks early playoff scenarios (or, rather, the lack thereof).
The Rouge, White & Blue: Podcasting since Edmonton were last CFL champions…
Meanwhile in Canada…
Coming into the homestretch, the Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast notes that things are turning, um, south for co-host Joe Pritchard’s Winnipeg Blue Bombers, co-host Os Davis’s Montreal Alouettes, and not-quite-everybody’s vogue pick for the 2025 Grey Cup, BC Lions.
So what’s left for the RWB to do but marvel (some more) at those Saskatchewan Roughriders and Hamilton Tiger-Cats, not to mention the utterly amazing Justin Rankin?
We wrap last week’s games and as usual try valiantly to put forth rational pick and predictions for week 16.
The Rouge, White & Blue CFL Podcast: Just call us the Bethel-Thompson Twins…
(Alternatively: “Two barnburners and a Calgary stampede”)
In an annual tradition, Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast hosts break down the annual traditional slate of the CFL’s Labour Day Classic games. RWB co-hosts Joe Pritchard and Os Davis are wowed by the Calgary Stampeders, accepting of another Saskatchewan Roughriders win and wondering where those Toronto Argonauts and BC Lions’ll finish.
The RWB also couldn’t help but to peek at the remaining schedule, what with the 2025 season entering the homestretch (well, approaching the homestretch) while attempting to pick winners against the spead an din CFL Pick ‘Em…
The Rouge, White & Blue CFL Podcast: Still saying nice things about the Stamps and Riders…
What can the Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast say about week 12 of the 2025 CFL season? Well, it’s a podcast, so you can be sure RWB co-hosts Joe Pritchard and Os Davis fins something to say.
Lots of somethings, in fact. Somethings like:
- Wouldn’t the Winnipeg Blue Bombers really, really like a bye right about now?
- Speaking of weirded-out schedules, how about the Calgary Stampeders now sitting at 5-0 versus the Bombers and Saskatchewan Roughriders?
- Is there anything more disenheartening than watching a star-studded Montreal Alouettes defense go for naught as the offense gets completely crushed in TOP and, you know, points scored?
- How about those Toronto Argonauts, hanging 51 on the BC Lions and suddenly playing themselves into contention?
- And how about those Edmonton Elks, just a half-game out of the playoffs while helmed by the mysteriously underrated Cody Fajardo?
Answers (or at least attempts thereof) to these questions and more – plus picks and predictios for the Labour Day Classics of week 13…
The Rouge, White & Blue CFL Podcast: Sorry, the N-F-what?
After week 11 of the 2025 CFL season, certain things have become quite clear at the Rouge, White & Blue CFL Podcast … things Like the Saskatchewan Roughriders may be even better than advertised; the (defending champion!) Toronto Argonauts might be worse than we thought; and, of course, the seeming inevitability of the West-to-East crossover come playoff time.
The realization leads to some classic CFL-based conversation by RWB co-hosts Os Davis and Joe Pritchard – the RWB questions whether the crossover is in itself fair for the no. 2 and no. 3 West seeds. And while one easy solution might just be to add a 10th team, Joe presents an intriguing case as to why adding the Atlantic Schooners, Halifax Fighting Lobsters or whomever might actually be a bad move for the league.
But beyond the tangents, the RWB guys (attempt to) make sense of the week that was and pick/predict week 12, including an RWB Bowl matchup featuring the Winnipeg Blue Bombers vs the Montreal Alouettes (with quite possibly QB #5 going for the latter) and a marquee Riders-Calgary Stamps game.
The Rouge, White & Blue CFL Podcast: No more 2014, please!
Week 9 of the 2025 CFL season is in the books and thanks to wins, the Saskatchewan Roughriders and Hamilton Tiger-Cats have extended their divisional leads. The Rouge, White and Blue CFL Podcast seesd no end in sight – good news for fans of these two teams, though…
RWB co-hosts Os Davis and Joe Pritchard wouldn’t know. Bombers fan Joe talks some of the shuffling in the Winnipeg Blue Bombers’ secondary after getting repeatedly torched by Damonte Coxie, win notwithstanding. And when Joe points out that the Montreal Concordes Alouettes were celebrating 80s Night, Os can only celebrate José Maltos-Diaz.
As always, the RWB recaps the past week of Canadian football, and we’ve also got another weekly summary of the Crankshaft comic strip’s featured story on the Blue Bombers game (Minneapolis airport! A Zach Collaros namedrop! Poutine!). And of course, picks and predictions for next week (though don’t necessarily go with Joe on his Calgary Stampeders pick)…
The Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast: Wait, we’re halfway through this thing…?
Week 8 in the CFL has the Rouge, White and Blue CFL Podcast a bit divided: co-host Os Davis has aged badly due to a third consecutive last-minute heart-attack special by his Montreal Alouettes, while Joe Pritchard reckons with his Winnipeg Blue Bombers playing some shabby football for the first time since before Covid-19…
As ever, the RWB recaps the past week of football – including those comeback specials by the Als in Calgary and the Hamilton Tiger-Cats in BC. We’ve also got a summary of the Crankshaft comic strip’s featured story on the Blue Bombers game and picks/predictions for next week (told y’all the pick in week 8 was the Hamilton/BC over!)….
The Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast: One more victory like this and…
Sure, the Rouge, White and Blue CFL podcast will do the usual weekly bits: co-hosts Os Davis and Joe Pritchard talk week 7 action, make picks and predictions (for what it’s worth) on the week 8 games – you know the deal.
But first, the RWB chats up a neat informal CFL crossover event that will be going on for a few weeks yet. Get this: The creator of Crankshaft –
No, not the auto part. This Crankshaft is a spinoff of Funky Winkerbean –
Funky Winkerbean? It’s running today but was a particular favorite in the 1980s and 90s. As it turns out the creator of Crankshaft and Funky Winkerbean is a huge Winnipeg Blue Bombers fan, so the next couple dozen Crankshaft comic strips will be devoted to –
“What’s a comic strip?” Ah, never mind, just check out GoComics.com and you’ll get right into the story.
And the RWB promises they’ll be no other old-guy stuff for the remainder of the episode.
The Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast: “We also sat around and watched football, which back then was called baseball…”
This week’s theme on the Rouge, White and Blue CFL podcast That strange feeling when the Calgary Stampeders and Hamilton Tiger-Cats are leading their divisions…
RWB co-hosts Joe Pritchard and Os Davis look back on a week 6, which not only saw the Stamps and Ticats notch wins against division rivals, but wins games by dint of defense rather than ace QBs. Strange times, indeed.
On the other hand, another sad loss by the Edmonton Elks may already be taking this team off the playoff standings board already in what is probably another loooooong season for Elks backers.
This plus a look ahead to picks and predictions for week 7 – Will it be another four games in bizarro world….?
The Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast: Really, though…?
One of the CFL’s unsung traditions – probably due to its sheer randomness – is the annual week’s worth of games whose outcome simply makes no sense in the moment.
And so Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast co-hosts Os Davis and Joe Pritchard rehash the week 5 slate, four games that destroyed any delusions you may harbored of pullilng off a decent year in CFL Pick ‘Em while giving hope (or maybe more hope) to the likes of Hamiltion Tiger-Cats and Calgary Stampeders fans.
Amidst the bafflement around the Winnipeg Blue Bombers’ blowout loss in the first-ever Stampede Bowl and Os’s gnashing of teeth over BC Lions running up 146 penalty yards yet the W in Montreal are kudos for a couple of RBs, quite a few special teams guys and, of course, Bo Levi Mitchell.
Then it’s on to the proverbial next week with some Pick ‘Em picks and predictions on the lines – the RWB might be shaking off these losses for a while…
The Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast: Trying not to get upset about upsets…
“Revenge of the backup quarterbacks?” you may ask. “Revenge on who?”
Well, the Rouge, White & Blue CFL Podcast might posit, how about the entire notion of “No Lead is Safe,” for example. Or how about on any fanbase with high hopes for a team depending on the likes of Davis Alexander, Dru Brown, Nathan Rourke or Trevor Harris? (OK, maybe not that last one.)
So after a week of blowouts across the Canadian league, RWB co-hosts Joe Pritchard and Os Davis are here to reiterate a few reminders all those no. 2 QBs provided in week 4, namely the importance of a solid running game as well as that, you know, throwing a football is difficult.
Along with the recap of a bit of a beyond-disappointing week for four fanbases, the RWB’s also got picks and predictions for the week 5 slate which will hopefully give us a few bangers.
The Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast: Quarterbacking ain’t easy…
Week 3 of the 2025 CFL season is now in the books – not exactly nut-cutting time, but Rouge White & Blue CFL podcast co-hosts Joe Pritchard and Os Davis can’t help but draw some conclusions about the season as a whole based on early results. And there are questions.
Questions like…
- Can the Saskatchewan Roughriders – despite their early 3-0 mark – somehow stop shooting themselves in the foot with the dumb penalties and the occasional egregious mental error? (Concomitantly, are they good enough that such may not matter?)
- How sorry is Joe for dumping on the Montreal Alouettes in his preseason predictions?
- After three mostly lackluster games (including two in a row without a passing touchdown), is the Dave Dickinson Era with the Calgary Stampeders ending?
- Can the Toronto Argonauts pull together a respectable defense before digging too deep a whole even for the perpetual playoff stunners to come back from?
- Would a week 4 victory essentially earmark a spot in the playoffs for the Ottawa Redblacks?
- and more!
Plus, as always, the RWB has predictions and CFL Pick ‘Em picks for next week’s games – tune in now while things are getting interesting!
The Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast: How awesome is this sport, anyway…?
Another week of football, another Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast episode! In this one, RWB co-hosts Joe Pritchard and Os Davis naturally run down all the week 2 action, marveling at the Winnipeg Blue Bombers winning without Zach Collaros or (for most of the game) Brady Olivera, at the Calgary Stampeders winning without Reggie Begelton (for most of the game) or an offensive touchdown, and most of all at the ice-cold kickers of this league in general – WTF happened this week?
We’ve also got CFL Pick ‘Em picks and predictions for week 3, and a bit of a lament followed by indecision about last week’s and this week’s fantasy football gaming. It’s all, as they say, here.
The Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast: Kicking it weekly in audio format…
It’s here! It’s finally here! The Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast talke some week 1 of the 2025 CFL season, reckoning that, if the openers are any indication, quite a few high-flying offenses – like the Saskatchewan Roughriders, Calgary Stampeders, BC Lions, plus possibly the Ottawa Redblacks and Montreal Alouettes – should wow football fans through Novemeber.
And speaking about these Alouettes, whoa, does RWB co-host Os Davis have raves like Montreal just won the 2023 Grey Cup…he can’t help gushing over Davis Alexander, Darrell Sankey, Tyson Philpot and the rest while his poor co-host Joe Pritchard awaits the ’25 debut of his Winnipeg Blue Bombers.
For all the RWB hot takes, lukewarm calls and fantasy football braggadocio, check out this episode.
The Rouge White & Blue Podcast: We’re just glad the CFL’s back…
Welcome to another madcap #cfl season! Os and Joe go through the rituals of predicting the future, be it full season predictions, pick'em for week 1, or a quick dive into fantasy. Come back next week to see us overreact to everything we got wrong!
Os and Joe get in some preseason reps without technical difficulties, and touch on the Argos QB situation, glimmers of hope in Calgary, CFL+ and US TV distribution, and AIRHORNS. #cfl #cflpodcast
Despite some technical difficulties, the Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast pushed through to produce yet another preseason episode packed with speculation.
And this time, the madness is streamlined along the lines of the awesome CFL.ca Gamezone 2025 Preseason Futures contest. Hosts Joe Pritchard and Os Davis offer picks and preditions on 10 scintillating questions heading into the ’25 season, namely:
- Which team will win the East?
- Which team will win the West?
- Will any CFL quarterback throw for 5,000 or more?
- Which player will win the season MOP award?
- Will any CFL player have more than 12 sacks?
- Brady Olivera: over/under 2,000 total yards?
- Which team will have the best regular season record?
- Which player will score the first touchdown of the season?
- Will any kicker make a field goal of more than 60 yards? and of course…
- Which team will win the 2025 Grey Cup?
The RWB’s got your predictions right here. (Remember: We’re not claiming they’re good predictions per se…)
The Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast: Betting on fun in 2025…
This week, Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast hosts Joe Pritchard and Os Davis have a guest – none other than Alex Dormuth of the Piffles Podcast.
As Piffles is a Saskatchewan Roughriders-centric podcast, the RWB talks a lot of Riders offseason, including the free-agent moves, cutdowns, draft picks and that punter controversy faced by the team. Nevertheless, at least two of us begrudgingly agree that this just might be the Riders’ year…
One fun discussion bumpered by the RWB’s amazement that another CFL season is nearly upon us – nice!
The Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast: It’s already May; whoa…
With the 2025 CFL Draft (and the awesome concomitant Global Draft) behind us, Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast hosts Os Davis and Joe Pritchard have thoughts, reactions, and overreactions.
This week, the RWB talks some no. 1 picks, wonder if the Toronto Argonauts had the best draft, consider the interesting Winnipeg Blue Bombers-Hamilton Tiger-Cats Draft Day trade, discuss the possible outcomes for QB Kurtis Rourke, and do a bit more way-too-early speculation.
And that thing about a beer sponsorship for the league. Bud Light? Seriously, guys…?
The Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast: Is there a draft in here?
Aaaand the Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast is back after a five-month hibernation period – what else is there to say? Lots, actually!
RWB co-hosts Joe Pritchard & Os Davis have the entire free-agency season – during which a few interesting players moved around, as we understand it – to recap and lots of speculation to indulge in. Then there’s one not-quite-prediction regarding the 2025 Grey Cup that just about breaks Joe’s Bombers-blue heart.
Also: A warm welcome to new CFL Commissioner Stuart Johnston goes out from the RWB and an adios to the Randy Ambrosie Era.
Next up: The draft! It’s good to be awake…
The Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast: It’s almost June already!
No, no, Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast Joe Pritchard wasn’t hiding out due to his Winnipeg Blue Bombers fandom in the aftermath of said Bombers’ loss to the Toronto Argonauts in the 11th Grey Cup championship game – we swear.
In fact, Joe is even up for recapping a disappointing (for him) Grey Cup and discussing an enlivening (for just about everyone, reportedly) Grey Cup week in Vancouver with RWB co-host Os Davis in a, let’s say, thorough fashion.
And just like the CFL itself, pretty much immediately after the Grey Cup talk does the RWB dive into the earliest of early moves in the 2025 season including the lightning-qucik acquisition of Vernon Admas Jr. by the Calgary Stampeders and the front-office and/or head coach hiring machinations of the Edmonton Elks, Hamilton Tiger-Cats and BC Lions.
So who wants to keep talking CFL football? We do!
The Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast: It’s becoming a 12-month-per-year sport!
The time is upon us: The divisional finals games are in the books and this week plays the 110th Grey Cup between those dynastic Winnipeg Blue Bombers and the Toronto Argonauts, champs of two years back.
Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast previews the championship game, of course, but only after co-host Joe Prtichard consoles Os Davis about his Montreal Alouettes’ elimination, while Joe gets to lord it over the Saskatchewan Roughriders one more time in 2024.
And before Joe heads north of the border for Grey Cup Week, the RWB breaks down the Bombers-Argos matchup with special regard to pointspread and over/under. (Note to listeners: As the podcast was recorded, the ‘spread was listed at Bombers -7; one day later, that line is already up to Bombers -10 at most sportsbooks…)
So this is it. How about one more episode (or two) of the RWB…?
The Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast: A happy Grey Cup to all, and to all a good ‘Cup!
All right, CFL fans – You know what time of year it is, you know the drill. Rouge White & Blue CFL podcast co-hosts Joe Pritchard and Os Davis talk the two semifinalslayoff games and next weekend’s two divisional finals games. (Spoilers: When reviewing and previewing, the same feeling pervades, i.e. damn, both the Toronto Argonauts and Saskatchewan Roughriders are straight-up scary.)
Also, some hot and not-so-hot takes on recent front office moves involving three first three eliminated in Calgary, Edmonton and Hamilton. Plus, a brief addressing of the literal elephant in the American room from Os.
Now who’s ready for the championship round?
The Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast: We love this game (PS #USFLforever)
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That’s right: The 2024 CFL playoffs are upon us, and the Rouge White & Blue is forecasting the round 1 games, and wrapping the CFL regular season. Who do RWB co-hosts Os Davis and Joe Pritchard like to meet their favored Montreal Alouettes and Winnipeg Blue Bombers (respectively)? Tune in to this episode to find out…
The Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast: Postseason blues and ecstasy all in one…
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…we are the champions /
We are the champions /
No time for losers /
Cuz we are the champions…
OK, so the Grey Cup trophy is still a few weeks away from being awarded – but Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast co-host Os Davis was in fact crowned the champion of the 2024 Canadian Football Podcast Network Fantasy League and so the song.
And in all seriousness do Os and RWB co-host Joe Pritchard look back at the week 20 games in the CFL, look ahead to the final week of the regular season – or at least the games that matter in the bigger picture.
Just one more week and we’re into the playoffs, folks. (Already??!?!)
The Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast: We are the champions … of the Canadian Podcast Fantasy Leeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeague…
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As the man south of the border once said, “Playoffs?!?!?!” For CFL postseason, the postseason hasn’t yet arrived, but with few highly relevant games remaining and the matchups just about set for those playoffs, what else can be discussed on the Rouge, White & Blue CFL Podcast?
Co-hosts Os Davis and Joe Pritchard briefly touch on the week 19 games which included a lackluster performance from the Winnipeg Blue Bombers and Montreal Alouettes offenses plus an abysmal all-around showing by BC Lions. And Os even avoids bragging too much about his upset victory over Joe in the CFL Podcast Network fantasy football league.
And of course, despite the mostly irrelevant short slate of week 20 games, Joe and Os have a go at picking and predicting the highly unpredictable.
The Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast: We’re trying to win a game here!
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Well, it certainly felt like the Saskatchewan Roughriders eliminated three teams from the 2024 CFL playoffs with a 28-24 win that should haven’t been that close, though the Hamilton Tiger-Cats still kinda sorta technically mathematically could still sneak in to the postseason. And so, given the results of week 18, the Rouge, White & Blue CFL Podcast has one eye on the playoffs and another on the playoffs.
Specifically speaking, RWB co-hosts Joe Pritchard and Os Davis discuss, alongside the actual results of week 18’s games, how radical the changes coming to the Calgary Stampeders might be, are the Riders a serious Grey Cup threat and can the Winnipeg Blue Bombers be stopped?
All this plus picks and predictions for next week’s games and maybe a tiny bit of trashtalking from the world of fantasy…
The Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast: Is it October already?
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Risin' up, back on the stream /
Did our time, did our podcast…
After week 17 sent Hamilton’s CFL fans on one serious rollercoaster ride, the Rouge, White & Blue podcast takes a look at the happinngs of last week with the viewpoint of the Tiger-Cats’ fans – the eye of the Ticat, if you will…
Through Winnipeg’s blue-bombing of the juuuuuuuuuuuust about eliminated Edmonton Elks, though the Ticats’ own “upset” win over the floundering BC Lions, thorough the Ottawa Redblacks disappointing in snapping the Saskatchewan Roughriders’ losing streak, though to the Toronot Argonauts beating up on the East-clinching Montreal Alouettes goes the RWB, with brief analysis of each game in hopes of that ever-elusive East playoff crossover.
Beyond this altered state, RWB co-hosts Joe Prtichard and Os Davis have picks and predictions for week 18, plus playoff scenarios and lots of schedule-gazing. Meanwhile…
the last known survivor stalks his prey in the night /
And he's watching us all with the eye of the Ticat…
The Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast: Recorded in memory of Clubber Lang
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After week 16 of CFL play, Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast co-hosts Os Davis and Joe Pritchard have questions – questions mostly of the “What’s up with all the” variety. As in…
- What’s up with all the high-octane RB play and short-yardage passing in the Canadian league right now?
- What’s up with Chad Kelly – not to mention Chad Kelly’s teammates on the Toronto Argonauts?
- What’s up with all the hype on the Hamilton Tiger-Cats (and even the possibility of the illusory East croosover) when they’ve now run up five wins, three against the Argos?
- What’s up with BC Lions? (It may have been their bye week, but so many questions)
- What’s up with all the awesome defense being played by the Winnpeg Blue Bombers and Montreal Alouettes?
Answers (or at least futile attempts at such) on this week’s edition of the RWB, plus picks and predictions for week 17…
The Rouge White and Blue CFL Podcast: And what’s up with that whole Atlantic Schooners thing, anyway…?
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A short slate of games in week 15 of the 2024 CFL season proved unkind for the great majority of Pick ‘Em players and football bettors – not to mention the BC Lions and Calgary Stampeders. On this episode of the Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast, we’re again taking stock of standings and playoff picture, mostly through the angst of the fans.
Without angst is RWB co-host Joe Pritchard, whose Winnipeg Blue Bombers mercifully got a bye and in so doing increased or maintained their lead over all others in the West division. But what of the Lions, now on a 2-6 run and again seemingly reverting to a zipless offense? And what of Montreal Alouettes fandom and RWB co-host Os Davis, who cheer on the defending champions suddenly saddled with a mediocre offense.
And as per usual, along with a wrap of week 15 games, we look ahead to week 16; for what it’s worth, we’ve got picks and predictions on the upcoming games.
The Rouge White and Blue CFL Podcast: Heading down the homefront with anticipation and (sometimes) trepidation…
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The 2024 CFL season experienced week to week has felt somewhat odd: Stuff like the crashes-and-burns of the BC Lions and Saskatchewan Roughriders, the defending West champion Winnipeg Blue Bombers digging themselves out of a hole to rise to first place, essentially every team except the Calgary Stampeders forced to give #2 and/or #3 QBs quality minutes…
This week, the , Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast considers the standings from the perspective of the preseason and things aren’t that far off from what RWB co-hosts Joe Pritchard and Os Davis dreamed up at the beginning of the season.
And so overlays the theme of this week’s show, which again brings you a wrap of last week’s games, picks and predictions for the upcoming week (including Joe’s annual pilgrimage to the Banjo Bowl), plus the usual assortment of commentary and tangents.
The Rouge White and Blue CFL Podcast: As weird as they wanna be…
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(alternative title: Argos win on missed FG; Football fandom freaks out)
After week 12, Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast co-hosts could talk about how all four games came down to a touchdown or less, about another fantastic showing by the East, about how the top three teams by win-loss record are now in the East, about how the Winnipeg Blue Bombers are suddenly in second place thanks to the freefalls of the Saskatchewan Rough Riders and BC Lions…
And RWB co-hosts Joe Pritchard and Os Davis do discuss such topics in breaking down and (slightly) hot-taking week 12 in CFL football – but it’s that rouge giving the Toronto Argonauts the literal last-second victory over the Riders that once again captured the collective imagination, indignation and, from south of the US-Canada border, confusion and derision. So RWB talks rouge (spoiler: Nooooooooooo! Never eliminate the rouge! Though some improvement could be made.)
The rouge, the games, the picks and predictions for Labour Day Weekend – all in this episode!
The Rouge White and Blue CFL Podcast: Rouge rouge rouge, yeah / It’s gonna get ya…
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Once again, Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast co-hosts talk an anomalous sweep in the Canadian Football League – Just three weeks after an exceptionally rare 4-0 showing by the four East division teams, week 11 saw the visitors sweep the homedogs. RWB co-hosts Joe Pritchard and Os Davis can’t decide which is more amazing: The visitors sweeping or Os going 4-0 in CFL Pick ‘Em.
Or maybe it’s the way the West has become the East, not to mention how suddenly the 3rd-place Winnipeg Blue Bombers and 5th-place Edmonton Elks look more like playoff contenders than the BC Lions and Saskatchewan Roughriders.
Adding intrigue to the league outside the lines were moves like the Hamilton Tiger-Cats hiring of Chris Jones (!) to the position of defensive coordinator; public appearances by brand new Edmonton Elks owner Larry Thompson and the concomitant will-he-won’t-he speculation surrounding the brand; and the imminent return of Chad Kelly for the Toronto Argonauts.
Otherwise, week 11 of the 2024 season was one of quarterback comebacks: Some quite good, some not so good, some quite amazing but not enough to overcome their own special teams…
Plus predictions for CFL Pick ‘Em (Did we mention Os went 4-0 last week? That means you’ll be fading this week, most likely…) and certainly something else.
The Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast: Sweeping it up weekly.
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OK, so the Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast ins’t quite covering 1,001 news items, hot (or lukewarm) takes and predictions but hoo boy, is this league generating some serious fodder for chatter at the halfway point of the season.
First and foremost is the round of quarterback roulette in which most CFL teams are currently embroiled; more intrigue was added with the news that Nathan Rourke was released by the Atlanta Falcons and immediately re-signed by the BC Lions. Can Rourke’s reentry stop BC’s skid and reaffirm the Lions’ top-dog status in the West?
Also on the horizon is the expected return of Chard Kelly to the Toronto Argonauts, a morally dubious situation for team and league. Even more morally questionable is the rumour that new Edmonton Elks ownership will be reverting the team name utterly against the grain of the wider culture.
Some football actually happened up there in the Great White North, too, begging lots of questions going into the season’s second half, including:
- Trevor Harris or no, how far can the Saskatchewan Roughriders go with little-to-no running game?
- Similarly: Nathan Rourke or no, how far can BC go letting passing offenses move the ball at will?
- How long with the Calgary Stampeders, 4-0 at home and 0-5 on the road, maintain such an insane split?
- Are the Stamps and Toronto Argonauts better or worse than their win-loss records?
- What will become of Bo Levi Mitchell?
- Finally, could the 3-6 Winnipeg Blue Bombers actually crawl back into West contention?
All this plus picks and predictions for CFL Pick ‘Em, talk of this week’s (very scintillating) point spreads, and a few words on the importance of Kate Bierness.
The Rouge White & Bllue CFL Podcast: Ready for those second-half adjustments.
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You read that right: the Rouge, White & Blue Podcast affirms that the CFL right now is absolutely nuts, bananas and any more idiomatic expressions with food you want to use.
Seriously, RWB co-hosts Joe Pritchard and Os Davis can only gawk in confusion at some of these teams, barely sputtering a “WTF” when asking stuff like: How did this BC Lions offense get shut out? How highly should we esteem the Winnipeg Blue Bombers, low-watt and banged-up offense notwithstanding? Do the Edmonton Elks still have time to compete? What can Ryan Dinwiddie do with his Toronto Argonauts and one desperate QB situation? And finally, ,what is up with the insane home/away split the Calgary Stampeders are sporting?
These questions (attempted to be) answered, plus picks and predictions for week 10 games.
The Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast: Almost as crazy and baffling as the league itself…
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As the dust settles on a historic East division sweep in week 8, the Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast remarks on this year’s crop of backup quarterbacks; marvels at the Montreal Alouettes’ defense and the Ottawa Redblacks in general; and remains baffled by the unbettable Calgary Stampeders.
RWB co-hosts Joe Pritchard and Os Davis answer questions like: Are the Toronto Argonauts really a third-place team? Are the Saskatchewan Roughriders essentially a .500 team? Why do these Winnipeg Blue Bombers continually succumb to mistakes this season? How seriously should we take these Hamilton Tiger-Cats?
And, most scintillatingly, could we finally get an East team crossing over…? Hamilton at Saskatchewan in the West semi-finals, anyone…?
All this musing plus picks and predictions for week 9’s games.
The Rouge White & Blue Podcast: Covering the ever-fascinating CFL.
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At the top of this week’s Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast, the discussion naturally begins with a wrap of week 7 games – while meandering through some grousing about what was seemingly a poor fantasy week for everyone. (Jake Maier the top QB? A touchdown from rookie FB Clint Ratkovich? Dude.)
Light on fantasy football points the slate of games may have been, but some fascinating points of discussion emerged for co-hosts Joe Pritchard and Os Davis to kick around. Questions like: Are the Calgary Stampeders (and Maier) this good? Are the Saskatchewan Roughriders this bad? Why are the Edmonton Elks like this? (Joe swears it’s not McLeod Bethel-Thompson…)
The RWB goes on to offer CFL Pick ‘Em picks and predictions on another interesting quartet of games next week: Saskatchewan at the likely Cody Fajardo-less Montreal Alouettes; the underdog (?) Stamps at the Ottawa RedBlacks; those frustrating Winnipeg Blue Bombers at the Toronto Argonauts; and (hoo boy) the one-win Hamilton Tiger-Cats coming to Edmonton.
The RWB CFL Podcast: Always decided by a touchdown or less…
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RWB CFL podcast #263: Chris Jones out, end of an era
The Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast began when head coach Chris Jones was on the way to winning his first (and, as it turns out, likely his only) Grey Cup. Thiw week, the key CFL-centric story is the firing from the Edmonton Elks of Coach Jones.
Yet, RWB co-hosts Joe Pritchard and Os Davis somehow manage to discuss other topics involving week 6 of the 2024 CFL season with all its interesting developments – just don’t talk to Os the Alouette fan about Cody Fajardo.
Following the recap, how about some takes on week 7’s games? Some of the point spreads are wacky (Toronto Argonauts just 3-point favorites at the Hamilton Tiger-Cats? Calgary Stampeders 4½-point underdogs at home against BC Lions?) and essentially disagree on everything except the Winnipeg Blue Bombers...
Rouge White & Blue: We’re on to next week.
We’re about one-quarter of the way through the 2024 CFL season and even though two teams remain undefeated and one is still winless, some annual signs of the season progressing are staring to show. This week, the Rouge White and Blue CFL Podcast co-hosts Os Davis and Joe Pritchard take stock of week 5 to weight in on topics such as:
- What to make of the backstepping Toronto Argonauts losing to the Saskatchewan Roughriders?
- How competitive can the Calgary Stampeders get before season’s end?
- Is any team in the league besides the Montreal Alouettes really complete?
- Can anyone give the BC Lions a game right now?
And more, including a look at the week 6 pointspreads and CFL Pick ‘Em possibilities. A few intriguing lines for the bettors this week – like Toronto +7 at Montreal and Calgary +4½ at Winnipage – require some analysis.
The Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast: First string, second string – we love ’em all!
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For Rouge White and Blue CFL Podcast co-host Os Davis it was just one of those weeks – namely, a total washout in CFL fantasy football and a clean 0-4 showing in the league’s Pick ‘Em contest. Yeesh.
Nevertheless, Os, together with RWB co-host Joe Pritchard, attempt to make sense of last week’s results – though truth be told, Joe doesn’t really need to after his own 4-0 Pick ‘Em run. What can be said about a slte of four games with three going down to the game’s final pay. And just how many bounces separate, say the 3-0 Saskatchewan Roughriders from the 0-4 Winnipeg Blue Bombers…?
We’ll also take a look at next week’s matches and some interesting-looking pointspreads, including the Toronto Argonauts giving just 3½ (at recording time; two hours later, up to 4½) points at the aforementioned Roughriders with little used QB Sean Patterson starting at QB for the injured Trevor Harris, not to mention BC Lions giving just 5 to the hapless Hamilton Tiger-Cats….
The Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast: Safe lead or no, we’re here for the football!
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RWB CFL podcast #260: What’s up with all the scoring?So maybe three weeks of a single CFL season is too small a sample size for relevant discussion, by the Rouge White & Blue Podcast is a bit taken aback with the 1990s-style scoring exhibited by most teams early on. And so in this episode, RWB co-hosts Joe Pritchard and Os Davis marvel at some barnburners to wonder why offenses are so far ahead of defenses early on in the 2024 season.Meanwhile, the RWB goggles at the continued domination of the league by the Montreal Alouettes, wonders about the 0-3 Winnipeg Blue Bombers, rubbernecks another disaster from the Edmonton Elks, and celebrates Joe’s 4-0 week in the CFL Pick ‘Em game.And then it’s onto week 4 in the CFL and the RWB co-hosts set a new precedent in finidn no common ground in picking the next slate of four games. Ready for some more scoreboard spinning…?The Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast: It’s OK, we dig the 90s…The Rouge, White and Blue is now part of the Shotgun Sports Network. Watch this episode – and those of other Shotgun shows on YouTube – or listen from wherever you get your podcasts!
We’re totally jinxing the Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast here but whoa, do co-hosts Joe Pritchard and Os Davis have some bragging rights after week 2…To wit, Joe maxed out in fantasy football while Os went 4-0 in the CFL Pick ‘Em contest and gave out at least one profitable bet last week (after missing Calgary Stampeders +9 by a single point).
But hey, the RWB isn’t here to talk about the past – not much anyway, because there are week 3 games to prognosticate! After admiring a nice performance by Bo Levi Mitchell and the Montreal Alouettes offense while lamenting the good luck blessing the Saskatchewan Roughriders and the dumb luck befalling the Edmonton Elks’, the RWB take a confident shot at predicting the week ahead.
The Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast: Come for the tangents, stary for the awesome predictions.
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RWB CFL podcast #258: After week 1, (almost) everything is awesome
It happens every time to The Rouge, White & Blue CFL podcast as well as to fans, bettors and pundits: The realization that, during the propounding of preseason predictions, we all knew next
to nothing about many teams – or at least far less than we’d let on…
So how are RWB co-hosts Joe Pritchard and Os Davis feeling about one week’s worth of priceless information and CFL viewing? Listen in for their not-quite-so-hot takes from the rustiness of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers to the audacity of the small-balling Calgary Stampeders, from the Saskatchewan Roughriders’ recurring battles with awful penalties to the Edmonton Elks’ struggles against the fourth quarter…
Naturally, the RWB talks CFL Pick ‘Em in week 2 (hey, Joe might’ve gone 4-0 were it not for loyalty) and fantasy football (and hey, Os pulled off quite the showing, ranking #31 overall on a monster week).
The Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast: So glad proper football is back!
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Happy Opening Week to Canadian Football League enthusiasts! The Rouge, White & Blue gets our game on in the episode to (admittedly futilely) forecast the upcoming season.
First off, RWB co-hosts Os Davis and Joe Pritchard go long(-term) in picking division standing as well as win-loss records for each of the teams. Unlike previous seasons, there is much dissension between the two, who can really only agree on a vision for two of the CFL’s nine teams.
Not only that, everyone’s favourite Sisyphean task during the regular season, i.e. making weekly selections in the league’s official “CFL Pick ‘Em” contest, has returned. Joe and Os get in their picks for week 1 and again mostly disagree on winners and losers. RWB’s got a passing look at the point spreads for opening week, particularly that insulting touchdown-plus’s worth of points the (defending champion) Montreal Alouettes are getting in Winnipeg, and the inexplicable positioning of the Saskatchewan Roughriders as an underdog at Edmonton.
CFL kickoff: It’s the most wonderful time of the year…
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The 2024 Canadian Football League season has begun! Well, sort of … as of this recording of the Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast, one preseason game has been held – but that’s more than enough for RWB co-hosts Joe Pritchard and Os Davis to speculate about the upcoming season, specifically within the framework of the league’s “Futures” competition.
Joe and Os take their shots at guessing the outcomes of ten futures – really player propositions and team props – including:
- Which team will win the East?
- Which team will win the West?
- Who will lead the reg. season in interceptions?
- Will a quarterback throw for 5,000 or more passing yards during the regular season?
- Who will lead the league ein receiving TDs during the regular season?
- Which team will have the most QB sacks during the regular season?
- Over/under: Will Brady Oliveira rush for 1,299.5 yards during the regular season?
- Which team will finish with the best regular season record?
- How many kick/punt return TDs will be scored in total during the regular season?
- And, of course, which team will win the Grey Cup?
Yes, the RWB does realize the futility, but it’s all in good fun until the games begin for real…
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Happy New Year -- or rather, Happy New CFL Season! With preseason games about to start in the Canadian Football League, the Rouge White & Blue returns for another year of podcasting our favorite gridiron game.
Co-hosts Joe Pritchard and Os Davis talk a whole lot of offseason football, from Chad Kelly's suspension to the reshuffling of the coaching deck in Saskatchewan to the un(?)-retirement of Shawn Lemon, and all points in0between.
The RWB's kicking off the 2024 season, so join us!
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After the110th Grey Cup, after co-host Joe Pritchard’s return from Cup-hosting Hamilton, after US Thanksgiving Weekend, the Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast has finally reassembled the team of two to wrap the 2023 CFL season, take a tiny peek ahead to 2024, and, oh yes, discuss the actual Grey Cup game itself.
Said Grey Cup of course resulted in a stunning victory by RWB co-host Os Davis’s favored Montreal Alouettes over Joe’s Winnipeg Blue Bombers – but Os manages to keep the trashtalk to an absolute minimum as the RWB just generally marvelous over the solid football action that was the 110th Grey Cup championship.
And what CFL fan this time of year could resist idly speculating about next year? (After all, it’s what we’ll be doing for a good six months, anyway.) Joe cautions Os about fretting over the semi-offiical “potential CFL free agents list,” and explains with a single word the motivation behind the investigation into the Edmonton Elks’ club management structure.
Join the RWB as we take one final look back at the 2023 season – at least as far as Joe and the Bomber backers are concerned…
The Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast: Touchdown, Tyson Philpot!
Usual Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast co-host Joe Pritchard is up in Hamilton this week to enjoy the Grey Cup week festivities, our man across the Pacific, Greg St. James of Gridiron Japan subs in as co-host.
Greg joins Os Davis to discuss once again what else but the 110th Grey Cup in which the surprising Montreal Alouettes look to keep the Winnipeg Blue Bombers from winning a third ’Cup in four seasons. Really, though, Greg is aboard to convince Os that (a) his Als have a fighting chance in this game, and (b) that his betting on the game (Monteal now +8, over/under 47 points) isn’t completely bananas.
And with two sports history junkies podcasting, the RWB puts the 2023 season in perspective and some time is spent on spring football and all that stuff about a CFL/XFL merger. (Ancient times now, it seems…)
Enjoy this last bit of speculation from the RWB and have a great Grey Cup!
The Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast: It’s time.
For the Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast, this Grey Cup feels like the culmination of years’ worth of our tit-for-tat chatting. This edition of what we’re calling the RWB Cup pits co-host Joe Pritchard’s dominating Winnipeg Blue Bombers in their fourth consecutive championship game against Os Davis’s plucky Montreal Alouettes for all the marbles.
Like most of CFL fandom, Os is still a bit gobsmacked by the Alouettes’ upset victory over the mighty Toronto Argonauts and he’s trying to find a way to financially justify backing the awesome defense of the Alouettes as 7½-point underdogs in the big game. Meanwhile, Joe’s feeling some shoe-on-other-foot sentiment, as he harkened back to 2019 back when the Bombers were the unheralded team in the ‘Cup looking for the big upset.
Between the two, the RWB recaps the divisional finals, sum up the seasons of the vanquished Argos and BC Lions, and make picks ‘n’ predictions for the 2023 Grey Cup.
The Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast: Looking to the brilliant finish for a fascinating 2023 season…
This has got to be some sort of record: On this episode of the Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast co-hosts Joe Pritchard and Os Davis are joined by Greg St. James, co-host of the Gridiron Japan podcast. Could this be the first-ever podcast recorded from three countries – none of which are Canada, and all three on different continents, no less – across 15 time zones.
This epic collaboration spans a global breadth of topics: At front and center are epitaphs to the Hamilton Tiger-Cats and Calgary Stampeders and kudos to the victorious Montral Alouettes and BC Lions led by Superman Vernon Davis. The RWB chases this with a preview of the conference final games in Winnipeg and Toronto, while Os considers the betting options. (The Als are really 11-point underdogs? Really?!?!?)
Finally, Greg expounds upon other topics such as the mania of Japanese baseball, the XFL and the X-League, Japan’s own professional league (since 1971 – no joke). It’s epic stuff!
The Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast: Spanning the wide world of, uh, Canadian football…
Welcome to the 2023 CFL playoffs! Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast co-hosts Joe Pritchard and Os Davis again experience the paradoxical simultaneous feeling that this Canadian football season started eons again, yet is ending far too quickly.
The beginning of the end of said 2023 CFL season kicks off on Saturday with the semifinal round of the playoffs, with the no.2-seeded home teams each favourites: the Montreal Alouettes are giving 3 points versus the Hamilton Tiger-Cats, while the Calgary Stampeders get (a possibly too meager) 6½ points at BC Lions.
RWB makes the case for each of the four teams, what will be required for an upset in either game and, for what it’s worth, suggestions on betting the two games. Chalk or ‘dogs? The RWB’s got answers. OK, educated guesses, anyway.
The Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast: Playoffs?!?!??!
With one more week to play in the 2023 CFL season, the week 20 results in and shakeups already gone down in Roughriders land, the Rouge White & Blue Podcast assesses some final trends going into the playoffs.
For example, the suddenly much clearer path for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers to come out of the West, the reasons why BC Lions are ripe for an upset at the hands of the Calgary Stampeders in round one, the Toronto Argonauts on the verge of football history and whether there’s hope for the future of the Ottawa Redblacks.
And as piqued as RWB co-hosts Joe Pritchard and Os Davis are for the playoffs, damned if they’re not gonna miss this Canadian football thing in a few weeks…
The Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast: On Canadian football past, present and future
The Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast certainly hopes those football fans who love high-scoring wild rides were tuned into the Canadian game in week 19 because the points mostly came in bunches and no lead was safe.
With the 2023 CFL playoffs just about concretized into shape, RWB co-hosts Joe Pritchard and Os Davis consider if maybe the season isn’t a tad too long (heresy, we know) but nevertheless find some intrigue remaining in the season. As we all await some potentially dandy matchups in those playoffs, the RWB wonders about what’s happening with those Saskatchewan Roughriders and their baffling 6-game losing streak, in what historical context we should be viewing the Toronto Argonauts and whether the Montreal Alouettes can give the Argos a game in the postseason.
RWB then goes on to pick ‘n’ predict the week 20 games and try to provide the waning of attention a few reasons to tune into a lighter slate of games – aside from rubbernecking the Regina trainwreck, that is…
The Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast: Drawing a historical season to a close…
Despite the season winding to a close with most playoff spots settled, the Rouge White & Blue Podcast remains fascinated. RWB co-hosts were knocked out this week by the dominance of the historically (in both sense of the word) mind-blowing Toronto Argonauts, the edge-of-seat thrills in week 18’s Winnipeg Blue Bombers vs. BC Lions game and the surprisingly slick play of both the Montreal Alouettes and Hamilton Tiger-Cats.
Week 18 may have solidified the CFL playoff picture even further, but the RWB still has lots of enthusiasm and lots of reasons to watch the 2023 season’s three remaining weeks of play – which is not to say we’re not looking forward to what should be some dandy playoff games. The RWB analyzes week 18, looks to the future of a hapless Canadian franchise or two, and picks the week 19 games with an eye on the still-evolving playoff picture.
The Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast: Talking playoffs?!?!?!
The Rouge White & Blue Podcast finds itself, along with the rest of CFL fandom, in a very strange bit of the season indeed.
In general, co-hosts Os Davis and Joe Pritchard look back on a week 17 in which the Montreal Alouettes and Hamilton Tiger-Cats clinched playoff spots while the Ottawa Redblacks and Calgary Stampeders juuuuuuuust about got eliminated after losses – thereby leaving us all with five of six spots taken (and the Saskatchewan Roughriders barely able to avoid snagging the last available slot.
So where does this leave the league and its fans for four more weeks of football? The RWB takes a look forward at what to look forward to in those remaining games while wondering what we should take from week 17, particularly a somewhat lackluster win for Joe’s Winnipeg Blue Bombers over essentially the Toronto Argonauts second string.
What’s left to the 2023 season? The RWB’ll tell ya!
The Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast: Wishing everyone a happy (Canadian) Thanksgiving!
The Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast retains both co-hosts, i.e. Joe Pritchard and Os Davis, yet still manage to host a guest as well – and not just any guest but already-legendary CFL-themed video maestro Coach Phil.
Phil joins the RWB for a few biographical notes, but mostly to talk the 2023 CFL season, speculate on the 2023 CFL postseason, plus break down the games of week past and attempt to pick ‘em for the next in the RWB style.
But hey, have we mentioned Coach Phil is our guest? He brings plenty of what’s made him a name in CFL-centric social media: Optimism for Tre Ford and his Elks, contagious enthusiasm for this year’s final weeks of games, his concern for the fate of his Saskatchewan Roughriders and one most excellent rant about the Hamilton Tiger-Cats and their … uh … you’ll just have to hear it for yourselves.
The Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast: Wondering how good this 2023 Grey Cup’ll be…
To no one’s great surprise, the Rouge White & Blue Podcast loves CFL football – but after a particularly intriguing week which saw the unquestionable return of “No Lead Is Safe” gameplay (hopefully permanently), even co-host Joe Pritchard after a stunning loss by his Winnipeg Blue Bombers has to dig on the Canadian league.
Along with the raves come the rants – well, one rant at least. Specifically, co-host Os Davis venting about his Montreal Alouettes’ pitiable play on the offensive line which cost the Als another win and handed the East division’s top seed to the mighty Toronto Argonauts.
The RWB also runs down all the week 15 games and attempts to forecast week 16 in this seemingly increasingly unpredictable league (we thought this was supposed to get easier as the season grinds down), but mercifully no betting angles from the ever-colder Os – but hey, it’s not about the money; it’s about the fun, right? Right?!?!!?
The Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast: We love this game.
As that professional football league south of the border kicks off this week, the Canadian Football League heads into the homestretch, with 70% of the 2023 season in the books – just in time for the return of co-host Os Davis back into the Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast booth.
Meanwhile, co-host Joe Pritchard comes to us live from Winnipeg, where his beloved Blue Bombers scorched the Saskatchewan Roughriders for the fourth consecutive year in the Banjo Bowl game. Joe’s ventures to Winnipeg are already a set tradition for the game; could a Bombers blowout become the new tradition?
Joe and Os take stock of the 2023 season to the seven-tenths point, wonder how hot the Edmonton Els (no, really) can get with Tre Ford at the helm, consider the sparse playoff scenarios, and probably futilely attempt to pick and predict next week’s games.
The Rouge White & Blue Podcast: Always attempting to avoid the trap game…
Once again, you're stuck with Joe Pritchard running the show (don't worry, with Sunday games being off the schedule going forward, it'll be easier to get Os Davis back in the game), and Josh Smith joined him to discuss the Labour Day weekend games, this week's rematch games, and Joe's travel plans for this weekend and beyond.
Andrew Bucholtz from Awful Announcing and The Comeback is Os Davis's fill in this week, and beyond the usual reviews and previews, the conversation drifted towards quarterback development at all levels of football, of course, with an emphasis on how it affects the Canadian game.
Joe Pritchard is still without Os Davis, but the Turf District offered up Superfan Mike and 3 Down Nation's Andrew Hoskins, and the timing couldn't have been better after Edmonton's first win. We cover that plus our normal reviews and previews, with a lot of laughs in between.
Traditional Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast co-host Os Davis has been traveling the ‘States and jumping the pond, but he’s not completely out of touch. To prove it, he pops in for an extra episode of the RWB joining co-host Joe Pritchard to catch up on August in the Canadian Football League.
So the RWB talks stuff like how virtually every team aside from the Toronto Argonauts has had a chance of QB in the past month; what in Buono’s name is up with the massive separation between the dominance of the big three and the questionable competence of the bottom five plus the mysterious Montreal Alouettes; and just how much of the Saskatchewn Roughriders are a juggernaut waiting to jugger – or naut.
And even in Europe can a CFL fan suffer the torments of CFL football and enjoy the benefits of properly betting games – so Os weighs in on his week 11 picks in response to Joe ‘n’ Dalts’s of episode 238. And yes, for the record: this episode was indeed recorded before the Edmonton-Hamilton game.
The RWB Podcast: The best Canadian football podcast from two countries that are not Canada.
Trey Colbeck from Canadian Football Countdown joined Joe Pritchard this week, and the two Bombers fans recapped last week, previewed the upcoming week, and discussed various other CFL topics, including how passion is a double-edged sword in the Prairies.
Os Davis continues to be on the injured list, so Joe Pritchard brought in Robert Dalton from the Rouge Radio show on the Canadian Football Podcast Network to do the usual weekly roundup. We get to Ottawa's questionable decision making a little later than expected, but we do get there. Meanwhile, two of the league's titans have an off week, and is Saskatchewan's receiving corps underrated?
Once again, Joe Pritchard reached into the bag of Canadian Football Podcast Network hosts, and this week brought Travis Currah of the 2 and Out Podcast. Travis and Joe recap week 8 and set up week 9.
Os Davis is on assignment, but Josh Smith from 3 Down Nation stepped in to assist Joe Pritchard in breaking down Week 7, preview Week 8, and along the way, enjoyed the usual podcast diversions, deep dives, and failed once again to provide the answers to all of life's burning questions, except where the CFL is concerned, of course.
Lots of scoring, lots of QBs, one big upset: That sums up week 6 of the Canadian Football League’s 2023 season in a nutshell. The Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast co-hosts Joe Pritchard and Os Davis expound upon all the intrigue and developments of the week gone by, digging deep by way of a few rabbitholes into questions like:
- Aside from the Toronto Argonauts, were BC Lions the big winner of week 6?
- How amazing was that Ottawa Redblacks win and does it mean that No Lead Is Safe has finally recovered from Covid?
- Might the Winnipeg Blue Bombers have been better off if the Saskatchewan Roughriders had pulled off the win in Calgary?
- And speaking of those Calgary Stampeders, where has the passing game been?
We’ve also got picks and predictions for next week’s games for CFL Pick ‘Em contest and betting alike, including that insane 15½-point spread on Edmonton Elks at Winnipeg Blue Bombers.
The Rouge White & Blue Podcast: Keep this brand of football coming, CFL!
Well, all right then – that was bizarre. The Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast takes on the wild, weird and wacky week 5 of the 2023 season, and we’re going long to do so.
RWB co-hosts Os Davis and Joe Pritchard are amazed and illuminated by the happenings, commenting on the Rouge Bowl contested between the Edmonton Elks and Saskatchewan Roughriders (and just accountable should Chris Jones and T.J. Sims be vis-à-vis that final minute mental lapse?), the problem with the Calgary Stampeders (dude, it’s your quarterback), those snakebitten Ottawa Redblacks and the problem with the Montreal Alouettes – other than the special teams, that is.
Os also has a simple stat that all football leagues should track, and Joe’s got a superlative for his beloved Winnipeg Blue Bombers.
And this plus previews, picks and betting tips for the games of week 6 which, though likely to be interesting, have a challenge in topping this past one.
The RWB CFL Podcast: The “W” is for “weird”…
Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast co-host Joe Pritchard returns from Montreal feeling energized by his time in that great city – not to mention having enjoyed an emphatic victory by his Winnipeg Blue bombers over the Alouettes.
But hey, this is the CFL in 2023 and certainly no fan can fail to be amazed at the dominating Toronto Argonauts, whom RWB co-host Os Davis is penciling in as Grey Cup favourites already – and not even completely irrationally speaking, either.
As is the standard, the RWB talks last week’s games and looks ahead to the four games of week 5; not the easiest to wager on or pick in CFL Pick ‘Em, but there may be some good choices available for the winning.
The Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast: Argonauts assemble! (or something like that)
By the time you listen to this episode of the Rouge, White & Blue CFL Podcast, show co-host Joe Pritchard may already be in Montreal in advance of his Winnipeg Blue Bombers taking on the Alouettes in that great Canadian city.
(About the best Joe’s RWB co-host Os Davis can do is keep on winning at CFL betting – luckily he doesn’t believe in jinxes…)
But before the literal bon voyage, Os and Joe have thoughts on week 3 of the 2023 CFL season, a week in which Os’s scenario resulting in three winless and three undefeated teams came to fruition as the BC Lions exploded and the Hamilton Tiger-Cats imploded.
The RWB also has suggestions for avoiding the pitfalls of a three-game schedule in CFL fantasy football and Os has a real opportunity for those interested in taking a flier on that Monday night game this week.
All this plus Joe’s Three Easy Steps to Ending Your Career, and lots of rabbitholes coming up Simpsons!
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“Ladies, ladies, I don’t mean to brag, but … I am the greatest.” –Sydney Deane, White Men Can’t Jump
That’s right: For once both hosts of the Rouge, White & Blue CFL Podcast have reason to brag about their prognosticating skills. Joe Pritchard and Os Davis rank #1 and #3, respectively, in the Canadian Football Podcast Network fantasy football league (very tough league) after week 2 point-a-paloozas for both.
But the RWB promises the bragging is kept to a minimum with week 2 games to analyze – and it must be said the feelings of déjà vu are rife, what with last year’s slumping quartet – the Ottawa Redblacks, Saskatchewan Roughriders, Edmonton Elks and Hamilton Tiger-Cats – all taking emphatic Ls.
Then there’s week 3 to consider, a four-game slate which could leave the league in the bizarre situation of simultaneously fielding three undefeated teams and three winless teams. Os and Joe are a combined 7-1 in CFL Pick ‘Em and so quite possibly worth listening to for the nonce…
The Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast: Is early fantasy football dominance sustainable…?
Week 1 of the 2023 CFL season is in the proverbial books and so Rouge, White & Blue CFL Podcast co-hosts Os Davis and Joe Pritchard partake in that classic exercise of football fandoms everywhere, namely overreacting to the opening week results.
And damned if they don’t actually have reason to gushily overreact: Not only did Os and Joe’s favoured Montreal Alouettes and Winnipeg Blue Bombers each notch a W, not only did they go a combined 7-1 in the CFL Pick ‘Em Contest, but both cruised to victory in week 1 of the new-look, new-play official CFL fantasy football game. But the RWB promises the glory-daysing is kept to a minimum.
Instead, the RWB’s got those overreactions to week 1, some lessons learned for the fantasy players and naturally pick ‘em picks and fantasy football tips, which for a week at least may be taken seriously.
Finally, as the CFL takes part in various observances of Pride Month, Os wonders about one aspect of this sort of outreach, i.e. What’s up with the dissonance between North American sports leagues’ outward message and its internal unwritten-rules mentality a good half-century behind greater society…? But the RWB promises no partisan politics or rhetoric included.
The Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast: For every action, a passionate overreaction…
The Rouge, White & Blue CFL Podcast is proverbially ready for some football – CFL football, that is! Show co-hosts Joe Pritchard and Os Davis are back to regular business like making (quite possibly futile) predictions to play in the CFL Pick ‘Em contest. And as a respectable CFL fantasy football player, Joe gives a few hints for playing this year’s edition of the game and its new tweaks. rea
The RWB also considers the breaking news of The League’s partnership with Pro Football Focus and delve into the first of PFF’s publicly posted analyses of CFL starting quarterbacks and its top players.
The Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast: Kickoff can’t come soon enough…
New CFL season, new TV/streaming arrangement – and in the short term, this deal may not exactly be ideal for the US and international audiences.
On this episode of the Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast, co-hosts Joe Pritchard and Os Davis welcome back Andrew Bucholtz of Awful Announcing and The Comeback for insight into accessing the CFL in 2023. In short, Americans and Canadian expats are looking at a no-frills reality of live streams only.
Beyond the business, the RWB chats up Andrew about CFL 2023 and his interest in this year’s edition of the Toronto Argonauts, the expectations for Bo Levi Mitchell with the Hamilton Tiger-Cats and like topics along with a couple of not-so Early Outrageous Predictions™.
And what worthy podcast doesn’t fall prey to a conversational wormhole or two? Andrew talks some about his hobby of board gaming, his hosting of the San Diego Historic Gaming Con, and gives some good recommendations on tabletop sports and sports-themed board games.
The Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast: Life is but a stream…
Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast co-hosts Joe Pritchard and Os Davis welcome back frequently returning guest Josh Smith of the Hamilton Tiger-Cats centered Pod Skee Wee Wee to tak about, well, what else but Hamilton Tiger-Cats football…
It may not be June yet, but the RWB and Josh alike are getting ready for some Canadian football. Josh first takes a look back to assess the damage – perform an autopsy, really – on the, let’s say, subpar and disappointing 2022 version of his beloved Ticats. And looking forward to the 2023 CFL season, Josh takes on the question of what Hamilton can expect from new old QB Bo Levi Mitchell.
The RWB also bookends the upcoming season for the Ticats, with some discussion of the upcoming 2023 CFL Draft and just how great Grey Cup Week should be in Hamilton this November.
And you bet there’s more Way-Too-Early Outrageous Predictions™, too…
The Rouge White & Blue Podcast: covering the Hamilton Tiger-Cats and those other eight teams.
The Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast is back – co-hosts Joe Pritchard and Os Davis return from the post-Grey Cup fallout for another season of talking Canadian Football League on the RWB – and just in time for the opening of the free agency period!
Joining Joe and Os on the RWB for this episode is Brandon C. Williams, the go-to guy for CFL fantasy football on the league’s official website CFL.ca. And after just two days of free agency, the three have much to discuss beginning with the headlining acquisition of Bo Levi Mitchell by the Hamilton Tiger-Cats – not to mention all the other striking moves made by the Ticats, much to the dismay of Os (and really any Alouettes, Argonauts and RedBlacks fan).
The RWB also get impressed and intrigued with the Edmonton Elks and Saskatchewan Roughriders’ prospects for 2023; get Brandon’s opinion on potential fantasy breakouts; and a scattering of Way-Too-Early Outrageous Predictions™…
The Rouge White & Blue Podcast: Huddled ’round the CFL hot stove (not June yet…)
The Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast welcomes back co-host Joe Pritchard from his trip to good ol’ Regina for the 109th Grey Cup last week. While Joe’s beloved Winnipeg Blue Bombers took a loss to the once-again charmed Toronto Argonauts, he’s more than ready to talk about quite the compelling Grey Cup.
So compelling it was in fact, that RWB co-host Os Davis doesn’t wonder if CFL fans are a bit spoiled with the quality of their championship games since the Ottawa Redblacks started crashing the Canadian football title party. Os also has a bit of a bone to pick with TSN, CFL.ca and others who can’t wait to tear down the Bombers with cries of “It ain’t a dynasty!”
Finally, the RWB chats briefly about the Bo Levi Mitchell signing and the immediate future of the Hamilton Tiger-Cats…
the Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast: Yeah we’re saying it – Is it June yet…?”
On Sunday will be played the 109th Grey Cup game, so what else would this episode of the Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast be about? Well…
With RWB co-host Joe Pritchard actually in Regina, site of the Grey Cup as well as concomitant week-long festivities for fans and podcasting types, co-host Os Davis welcomes on our friend of show now based in Japan, international football podcaster Greg James.
Greg and Os put a moratorium on the Montreal Alouettes’ and BC Lions’ seasons and make our picks/prediction for the Grey Cup, including Greg’s solid reason for rooting on the Toronto Argonauts in this one (hint: it’s got to do with The Rock). The RWB does like the chances of a Winnipeg Blue Bombers threepeat, though…
As sports history buffs/geeks, Greg and Os talk some 1950 Grey Cup, a.k.a. The Med Bowl, a.k.a. the last time the Bombers and Argos played for the trophy. And as CFL fans, there’s no stopping some speculation on the immediate short- and medium-term future of the league…
Enjoy the Grey Cup! (And take the Bombers minus the points…)
The Rouge, White & Blue CFL Podcast: talking Grey Cups past, present and future
Just two more games – the division championship games – remain to be played before the Grey Cup is awarded, and the Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast is certainly excited.
But before talk of predictions and Grey Cup game outcome, please allow RWB co-host Os Davis to do something he’s not been able to since RWB began: Take a fan’s verbal victory lap after a Montreal Alouettes playoff win.
Os and co-host Joe Pritchard eventually move on to other matters such as trying not to second-guess certain aspects of the Calgary Stampeders game against BC Lions in round 1 of the playoffs.
The RWB also makes the case for an Argonauts, Alouettes, Lions and Blue Bombers victory this weekend – we’re kinda liking the possibilities of an RWB Bowl of Winnipeg vs Montreal in the 109th Grey Cup…
The Rouge, White & Blue CFL Podcast: Making the case for wearing shorts in November
It’s that bittersweet time of year for the Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast: The CFL playoffs have begun, signaling another season’s end is near – but on the other hand, the Saskatchewan Roughriders are no longer playing.
So RWB co-hosts Joe Pritchard and Os Davis are onto the playoffs! Specifically, round 1 of the 2022 CFL playoffs pitting the Hamilton Tiger-Cats against he Montreal Alouettes on the East side and the Calgary Stampeders at BC Lions in the West. With no more playoff scenarios to be had, the RWB instead gives you the scenarios in which each team can win its respective game. Picks and predictions, too!
The Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast: Playoffs?!?!?
The Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast is saddened that the games in week 21 of the 2022 season are absolutely irrelevant to the postseason picture, but not so much that RWB co-hosts Os Davis and Joe Pritchard can’t put together a solid podcast episode.
After talking the week 20 games, which showed most playoff teams (except possibly the Montreal Alouettes) in good form heading into the postseason, Joe and Os break down the regular season in terms of the Pythagorean Expected (PE) Wins statistic, a neat little statistic that holistically examines each team in a given season and determines how much better/worse they performed against an objective measure of expectation.
The RWB also takes a look at a post on the league’s official website CFL.ca, which applies their in-house simulation engine/algorithm to probabilities for this year’s Grey Cup. Os talks some good value bets in Grey Cup proposition betting, if you’re into that kind of thing.
The Rouge White & Blue podcast: There are no meaningless games, are there…?
Remember way back in early July, when the Saskatchewan Roughriders got off to a quick start and start near the top of the CFL West standings at 4-1? The Rouge, White & Blue Podcast sure does – nevertheless, RWB co-hosts Os Davis and Joe Pritchard were, like, most of CFL fandom, to find out that Riders head coach Craig Dickenson had during the bye week benched Cody Fajardo, who subsequently more or less declared the end of his time in Regina.
The RWB talks the Fajardo/Riders story, with emphasis on the Riders’ short-term franchise morass, as well as a swell 1980s CFL board game before taking week 18 games – and how Os came upon a religious-like revelation regarding the 2022 Montreal Alouettes. We’ve also got picks and predictions for week 19, including just how many week 20 games will be relevant at all.
The Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast: Just keep rolling those dice and everything will be fine.
The Rouge White & Blue Podcast is at the point when we’re shocked that so much of the 2022 CFL season is over; what have we been doing all season…?
On this week’s episode of the RWB, co-hosts Joe Pritchard and Os Davis naturally run down all of last week’s CFL action including all the shenanigans of the Saskatchewan Roughriders-Hamilton Tiger-Cats game, the dominance of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers over the eliminated Edmonton Elks, question good defense by the Toronto Argonauts versus a timid BC Lions offense, and google over the Montreal Alouettes D’s disappearing act against the Ottawa Redblacs.
The RWB naturally also forecasts next week’s games with an eye to closing out the season with three races for playoff positioning – Calgary vs BC, Toronto vs Montreal, Hamilton vs Ottawa vs Saskatchewan – making things verrrrry interesting indeed.
The Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast: Dude, it was just, like, June, man…
The Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast wishes our northerly neighbors a happy Thanksgiving as RWB co-hosts Joe Pritchard and Os Davis simultaneously envy the Canadians for making their Thanksgiving Day weekend a four-day deal through to Monday.
After touching on Paul LaPolice’s dismissal from the Ottawa Redblacks – and Joe reckons he won’t see a head coaching position again in the CFL – and briefly on candidates for the Most Outstanding Player and other fan-voting CFL awards, Joe and Os dive in the week that was in Canadian football: Os is even happier with his Montreal Alouettes, whom he claims are the hottest team in the league; Winnipeg Blue Bombers diehard Joe Pritchard fears not the impressive-looking Calgary Stampeders and interesting BC Lions; and both lament the too-little-too-late coming together of the Edmonton Elks.
Then the RWB takes a look ahead to week 18 CFL games, figuring maybe the ’spread is too high on Edmonton-Winnipeg and that it’s straight-up incorrect on Saskatchewan Roughriders-Hamilton Tiger-cats…
The Rouge White & Blue podcast: Holding out for the RWB Bowl in the Grey Cup…
It all seems like business as usual on the Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast for a while. Co-hosts Joe Pritchard and Os Davis discuss the week that was in Canadian football: Os enthuses about his Montreal Alouettes, both pity the Ottawa Redblacks fanbase and the sad fate of head coach Paul LaPolice, admire the razor-sharp Calgary Stampeders and wonder where BC can go from here.
Then, as Joe recounts playoff scenarios, Os has a revelation that the Saskatchewan Roughriders and Hamilton Tiger-Cats could both miss the CFL playoffs in 2022, which threatens to derail the entire enterprise with Os happily babbling “So you’re saying there’s a chance” for several hours straight.
Luckily Joe manages to coax Os back to reality in time to play CFL Pick ‘Em for week 17 and plan for ways to lose money betting CFL games. All in all, it’s a lot of fun – though maybe not so much if you’re not a Ticats fan…
The Rouge White & Blue podcast: Oddball Americans loving the Canadian game
The CFL might have been slightly short on number of games in week 15, but three games gave us plenty to discuss on the Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast.
So RWB co-hosts Joe Pritchard and Os Davis mull over items like the Edmonton Elks’ late fourth-quarter win over the Saskatchewan Roughriders, and the Riders’ rapidly slipping grip – formerly a stranglehold – on a playoff spot via crossover.
Like just how seriously we should take the Hamilton Tiger-Cats after they ran up the score on the Winnipeg Blue Bombers.
Like why the Calgary Stampeders keep taking these heartbreak losses. And like how good things might get if/when Vernon Adams really gets rolling with the BC Lions.
Plus, Joe’s got playoff scenarios mostly involving West teams but including , Os has some adventures in gambling, and both the RWBs’ve got picks for next week’s games.
The Rouge White & Blue podcast: Always keeping the ratio correct…
When is a blowout not a blowout? Trick question: A blowout is always a blowout, but that doesn’t mean it can’t be fun.
On this episode of the Rouge White & Blue CFL podcast talks about the four emphatic wins of CFL week 14 as co-host Os Davis is relieved former Montreal starting QBs Vernon Adams Jr. and Antonio Pipkin didn’t make his Alouettes look bad while co-host Joe Pritchard enjoyed his beloved Winnipeg Blue Bombers taking yet another one from the increasingly discombobulated-looking Saskatchewan Roughriders.
The RWB also marvels at the incredible trolling of fantasy football players by the Calgary Stampders, who first gave Tommy Stevens 10 carries including four touchdowns in quite possibly the GOAT fantasy vulture performance, then finished with a garbage-time KaDeem Carey TD which flipped many a matchup -- including Os’s.
Then Joe brings us playoff scenarios – playoff scenario, really – and Os crunches the numbers (and schedule) to paint an ugly picture of a CFL with just two teams over .500 at season’s end. We’ve also got picks and predictions for CFL week 14; in short, a couple of these games could get ugly again.
The Rouge White & Blue podcast: What a blowout!
You want your CFL-flavored rants? Rouge White & Blue CFL podcast co-host Os Davis’s got your rants right here. Naturally, he’s got bones to pick with Trevor Harris and his Montreal Alouettes in general, another bad boy Saskatchewan Roughriders player, irrational Riders fans on Twitter and the excruciating inevitably of those Riders crossing over.
Luckily, RWB co-host Joe Pritchard keeps to his wits more solidly and is able to offer some more clearheaded analysis about week 13 in the Canadian Football League, and Os manages to get it together enough for picks and predictions for next week’s games…
The Rouge White & Blue podcast: Ranting about the games is half the fun…
“Things are becoming clearer,” says Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast co-host Joe Pritchard, though co-host Os Davis isn’t so sure after a week 12 slate that surprised him – of course, that could be because he’s truly bloody awful at CFL Pick ‘em, CFL daily fantasy football and betting on CFL football…
In episode 212, the RWB reviews the week 12 games, with an accent on former Montreal Alouettes starting quarterbacks, and takes a look at next week’s games, staying remarkably on the rails the entire time. And Joe even feeds Os’s filthy gambling habit with some more admittedly good ideas for the Labour Day games…
The Rouge White & Blue podcast: Maybe clear, maybe not…
Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast co-host Joe Pritchard is back – for good, this time – just in time to address the cliffhanging, door-slamming, corner-turning and straight-up eventful week 11 in Canadian football. RWB co-host Os Davis has got seemingly endless questions and debate points, all beginning with “Is it over…?” such as…
- Is it over for Paul LaPolice as Ottawa Redblacks head coach?
- Are the Saskatchewan Roughriders’ playoff hopes over, as at least one Regina sportswriter guesses?
- Is it over for Bo Levi Mitchell, Cody Fajardo, Caleb Evans, Dane Evans, and CFL quarterbacks named Evans in general?
- Are Montreal Alouettes fans over their fears of Trevor Harris? and
- Is Joe over his love of Canadian fantasy football?
All this plus picks and predictions for CFL week 12 on the RWB.
The Rouge White & Blue podcast: Loving the second half of CFL season…
The CFL took us back to the high-flying 1990s/2000s of CFL football this week and returned to the mantra “No Lead Is Safe” this week. The Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast’s co-host Os Davis and substitute co-host Greg James take on the week that was by way of a lot of questions, such as…
- Will the Winnipeg Blue Bombers ever break out the all-blue W uniforms again after getting their near-legendary winning streak snapped by the Montreal Alouettes? (And is the Bombers’ loss the real reason Joe sat out this week…?)
- Have the Toronto Argonauts entered a graveyard spiral – and are they really as bad as Greg thinks?
- Could the Edmonton Elks have won, were it not for exorbitant penalties?
- Speaking of penalties, what was up with all the “pyramiding” calls and, tangentially, can we as a fan society admit that makeup calls exist?
- Does it really matter what order the Bombers, Calgary Stampeders and BC Lions finish in? The two West playoff games determine everything, right?
All this plus picks and predictions for CFL week 11 on the RWB.
The Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast: Well, we think the Bombers’ all-blues look superdope…
Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast co-host Joe Pritchard returns this week, after having crossed the final two off his list of CFL cities in which to watch a game.
And so he regales co-host Os Davis and the RWB with tales of Montreal, where he caught live the Winnipeg Blue Bombers-Montreal Alouettes game in good old Molson Memorial, as well as Ottawa, home to last week’s Calgary Stampeders-Ottawa Redblacks tilt in spiffy new(ish) TD Place.
Beyond the Canada trip, Joe and Os dig into some minor-unto-major mysteries of the 2022 CFL season as we hit the halfway point such as that of Bo Levi Mitchell’s sloppy showing against the Redblacks, the Alouettes’ missing running game, the imploding Saskatchewan Roughriders and their troubles with fans.
All this, plus picks and predictions for week 10 and a bit on the awesome majesty (not) of running up one of the season’s one-week high scores in fantasy football, only to be matched up with bye…
The Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast: We’re all Canadian wannabes here…
Os Davis has been abandoned by his Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast co-host Joe Pritchard this week, as that lucky bastard is currently north of the border in preparation to attend games in Montreal and Ottawa. So, subbing in for Joe is longtime CFL devotee Greg James of the From The 55 Yard Line podcast.
Greg and Os certainly squeeze quite a bit out of the CFL’s week 8 games while also attempting to keep the podcast on the rails – of course, that’s not what a podcast is for, likesay kicking around questions like
“Must we unequivocally accept Anthony Calvillo as the GOAT CFL QB?” and
“What is the best method for watching CFL games from another continent?” and
“What, if anything, can get Saskatchewan Roughriders fans back to filling those seats in Mosaic?”
All this plus picks and predictions for CFL week 9 on the RWB.
The Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast: Awaiting the triumphant return of Mighty Joe Pritchard
Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast co-host Os Davis is miserable about CFL fantasy football, betting on the CFL and the general state of the CFL East – but mostly he’s just hating the Saskatchewan Roughriders this week after the rescheduled game killed his wagers on the Argos and his DFS team but good.
Os tries to keep his sanity as, along with RWB co-host Joe Pritchard, they break down an exciting week 7 in the Canadian Football League and look ahead to some dandy matchups in week 8. Os also takes a deep-dive into the Toronto Argonauts’ schedule and comes to the realization that not only are the Hamilton Tiger-Cats and Ottawa Redblacks in serious trouble already, but that a West crossover is just about inevitable.
All this and Joe makes the Canadian wannabes jealous with tales of his luxurious two-game trip he’s taking up north next week.
The Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast: We’ll forgive the Riders. Some day. Eveentually…
The Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast is back for another week of Canadian Football League chat and prognostication – peppered with a lot of ranting by co-host Os Davis about the bad-luck Ottawa Redblacks, the dumb-luck Montreal Alouettes and the %^&*%&^^%^ Hamilton Tiger-Cats.
Joe Pritchard actually does get in a few good words edgewise, particularly on the fantastic Winnipeg Blue Bombers-Calgary Stampeders game. The RWB also considers (again) the sorry state of the East, the viability of the Toronto Argonauts as a legitimate championship contender, and Os’s doubling back on preseason predictions of an East crossover for the playoffs to now forecast a West crossover making the Grey Cup.
Finally, no Adventures in Gambling™ this week, but the RWB’s liking a couple of underdogs in week 7 which just might prove profitable. Then again…
The Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast: Always bet responsibly (i.e. don’t listen to us)
Have CFL fans just been through the least enjoyable week in CFL history? Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast co-host Joe Pritchard contends so in this episode.
Joe’s specifically talking about the hit on QB Jeremiah Masoli by DL Garrett Marino of the Saskatchewan Roughriders, the (let’s face it) pretty freakin’ weak four-game suspension given Marino, the league’s ham-handed handling of the subsequent criticism and yet another blow to what seemingly long ago was a promising-looking 2022 Ottawa Redblacks season.
But there’s even more to be bummed out about regarding week 5 of this CFL season. Up-and-coming Canadian quarterback Tre Ford was also knocked out of his game along with any traces of optimism in Edmonton Elks land, the Montreal Alouettes predictably cleaned house among the coaching staff, the gap between East and West grew to historical disproportions, and even an easy Calgary-Edmonton pick turned into a Gambling (Mis)Adventure for RWB co-host Os Davis.
Ah, well. We have fun nevertheless.
The Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast: Things can only get better in week 6…
The 2022 Canadian Football League season proceeds apace – and apparently way too apace for the increasingly sad teams of the CFL East. Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast co-host Joe Pritchard tries to sympathize with East team fans – including co-host Os Davis, Montreal Alouettes supporter – but doesn’t execute brilliantly, exhuming memories of the Montreal Concordes and delusions of the Atlantic Schooners in so doing.
The RWB takes a lot at all facets of the week 4 games, considering the slick-looking BC Lions, the surprising turns of fate by the Edmonton Elks and Hamilton Tiger-Cats, the trainwreck of the Alouettes’ second half at the Saskatchewan Roughriders, and Adventures in Gambling on Winnipeg Blue Bombers -2½ at Toronto Argonauts.
All this plus news of Joe’s first CFL DFS loss in quite some time.
The Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast: Saying go west; life is peaceful there…
Well, that was an interesting week 3 in the Canadian Football League, and Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast co-hosts Os Davis and Joe Pritchard weigh in on the games played and the games coming up, kicking around questions such as:
- How good could the Montreal Alouettes’ offense be once all the RBs and WRs are back?
- Why did the Calgary Stampeders and/or Chris Jones conspire to screw literally everybody that bet the Stamps minus the points?
- What can come of this Hamilton Tiger-Cats season and is there a bigger-picture element to their poor fortunes early on? And
- How good are these BC Lions and should the roll be slowed just a wee bit on Nathan Rourke…?
All this plus a bit of advice from Joe, defending champion of the Canadian Football Podcast Network CFL daily fantasy league and currently undefeated in 2022, and Pick ’Em picks from Os, who’s 10-2 thus far. (See how both just got totally jinxed there…?)
The Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast: We’re al winners here…
As much as Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast co-host/Montreal Alouettes fan Os Davis wants to admit it, there was a full slate of four Canadian Football League games last week, with and RWB co-host Joe Pritchard compelled to breakdown week 2 and make some predictions for week 3 in the CFL.
Two weeks have passed in the CFL and, while the answers regarding the fates of the league’s nine teams remain mostly unanswered, at least the key questions are coming a bit more into focus. Questions the RWB kicks around, like…
- Do the Saskatchewan Roughriders lack a killer instinct?
- What hope, if any, is there for the Ottawa Redblacks offense (one TD vs seven FGS in two games) and the Hamilton Tiger-Cats defense (one QB sack, one turnover generated in two games)?
- Should Winnipeg Blue Bombers fans worry about their team’s inability to gear up on offense?
- Are Vernon Adams Jr. and Nick Arbuckle destined to be no. 2 quarterbacks in the CFL?
- Are the premature dreams of an East team crossing over in 2022 already dead?
All this and the proverbial much more on this edition of the Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast!
The Rouge White & Blue Podcast began during the 2015 CFL season and last week marked production of episode #200. RWB co-hosts Os Davis and Joe Pritchard were too geeked up at the prospect of kicking off CFL Opening Day to mark the milestone and so we do so this week.
For #201, RWB looks back at some of the biggest stories in the CFL over the past six (plus one cancelled) seasons on-field and off-. We also briefly consider some of the more interesting recent team histories, among them the Calgary Stampeders’ (relatively) new tradition of excellence, the rise of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers, the fall of the Edmonton Eskimos/Elks and those rollercoaster Riders.
But hey, the RWB doesn’t live in the past! Joe and Os also consider the implications of week 1 results, make picks for week 2 and indulge in trashtalk in advance of their matchup in the Canadian Football Podcast Network fantasy league…
The Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast: Hot takes on football in the Great White North since 2015.
Damn right the Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast is ready for some (Canadian) football!
To this end, RWB co-hosts Joe Pritchard and Os Davis have on Will Gertler of the Argo Fancast and Andrew Hoskins of the Turf District podcast to talk all aspects of the 2022 Canadian Football League season.
And when we say (write?) “all aspects,” we mean all aspects. Sure, Will and Andrew have analysis and predictions for their own favored teams (wait ’til you hear Hoskins’s forecast for the ’22 Elks), but the RWB also deep-dives into…
- Joe’s trip north and Andrew’s trip west for opening week – both attending games for the first time since pandemic conditions set in;
- why the Hamilton Tiger-Cats are to be feared in the East yet again;
- why the possibility of an East team crossover for the playoffs is so tantalizing in ’22;
- predictions (likely as futile as ever) for week 1 in CFL Pick ’Em;
- a sliver of fear and loathing for defending champion Joe Pritchard and the rest of these guys’ week 1 matchups in the CFL Podcast Network fantasy football league; and
- what’s up with the antipathy to Saskatchewan Roughriders fans?
Enjoy opening week!
The Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast: We love Riders fans; no, really…
Like the better part of the CFL-focused world, the Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast got a bit tunnel-visioned this past week about the possibility of a player strike and the implications for the short-, medium- and long-term of the league.
So RWB host Joe Pritchard brought on John Hodge of the 3 Down Nation to talk about just that as well as other issues at the forefront of this offseason and, inevitably, predictions for the highly-anticipated upcoming season. (We promise the talk of a Winnipeg threepeat is kept to a relatively absolute minimum.)
The Rouge White & Blue Podcast: Dodging a bullet with Canadian Football fans…
The CFL Draft always brings optimism and excitement to Canadian football fans, and in 2022 we got some moving and shaking to make things especially intriguing. Joining co-hosts Joe Pritchard and Os Davis on the Rouge, White & Blue CFL Podcast to talk about what went down (we think) on draft day is Tim Capper of the Alouettes Flight Deck podcast.
Truth be told, given our loyalties and the general headline-grabbing, much of the focus is on how the Montreal Alouettes, Winnipeg Blue Bombers and especially the revolving door of the Edmonton Elks roster getting started by Chris Jones, the man who never met a roster add he didn’t like. The RWB is talking the no. 1 overall pick Tyrell Richards, the Ford Brothers and others.
Plus, a couple of outrageously early predictions for the 2022 CFL season are coaxed out of Tim and he provides travel tips for Montreal to Joe, who’s counting the days until he can see some live football north of the border again…
The Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast: Welcoming Tyrell Richards and all draftees to the league…
The Rouge White & Blue podcast has a good one for Canadian football fans this week (especially for those also into the NBA) as co-hosts Os Davis and Joe Pritchard welcome former Winnipeg Blue Bombers all-star wide receiver, current TSN analyst/commentator and CFL Twitter A-lister Milt Stegall.
Milt discusses a wide range of topics even before going down a classic wormhole in discussing the fates of the Toronto Raptors, Philadelphia 76ers, Boston Celtics, Golden State Warriors, Phoenix Suns and Milwaukee Bucks with Os. Mr. Steagall’s brings great takes (some hot) on:
- the true sports love of his life;
- his possibly unassailable Pop Warner record for TDs;
- his brief run in the NFL and his long run in the CFL, including his participation in the “greatest football play of all-time”;
- making the transition to the other side of the microphone with TSN;
- assessing his former quarterback Khari Jones as head coach of the Montreal Alouettes;
- the possibility of an East team crossing over to the West for the 2022 playoffs;
- the recent rule change regarding hashmarks and the potential effect on CFL offenses;
- CFL fandom in the USA; and of course,
-
PaperPlates.
Joe and Os also weigh in with a few comments on those recently-released rule changes for the 2022 CFL season. Talk to you next week!
The Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast: Keeping the faith from here in the ’States...
The Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast has a good one for you this week, as co-hosts Joe Pritchard and Os Davis welcome as guest four-time Grey Cup-winning quarterback for Edmonton and Toronto, Ricky Ray.
Ricky runs through his whole career in the CFL as well as a couple cups of coffee in the NFL game, through NFL Draft Day to stints with two storied CFL franchises to retirement after a punishing in-game injury in 2018. Lots of great insights into the football player's life in general and specifically certain intricacies of a West Coast-style offense -- it's great stuff!
the Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast: We're making a career of it...
Happy New Year from the Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast! With a couple months to go before the CFL 2022 season kicks off, the RWB emerges from hibernation to talk Canadian football in what promises (cautiously optimistically) to be a full season.
RWB co-hosts Os Davis and Joe Pritchard invite on Josh Smith of Pod Skee Wee Wee to get RWB 2022 started off with some crazy-fearless way-too-early predictions for the season – Josh has quite the doozy about the East while Os tries to save CFL Pick ’Em players some aggravation in advance.
The RWB also talks the chances for a Winnipeg Blue Bombers threepeat; reasons for the Hamilton Tiger-Cats to be looking over their collective shoulder; how much we should believe in the Calgary Stampeders and Edmonton Elks; the amazing self-destructiveness of Vernon Adams Jr.; and how to get some background on draftees before the upcoming CFL Draft.
All this plus what is promised to be the final word on four-down football for the CFL.
The Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast: A return to normalcy, for what that’s worth…
Well, that went by quickly – suppose that happens when you shave four regular-season and all preseason games off the CFL schedule.
Rouge White & Blue CFL co-hosts Os Davis and Joe Pritchard take a look back at a very satisfying Grey Cup (particularly for Winnipeg Blue Bombers fans like Joe) and, incredibly enough, already look forward to the 2022 season with a new schedule peppered with oddities that naturally elicits discussion of the Atlantic Schooners and free agency to speculate about…
The Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast: Ready or not, here comes 2022…
And then, as they say, there were two: More precisely, nearly here is Grey Cup 107 which features a rematch of the still-defending champion Winnipeg Blue Bombers and the Hamilton Tiger-Cats. So, what else could this episode of the Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast be about?
Actually … the RWB has a bit more, including a few verbal notes on the conference championship games of last week among which hope is offered Toronto Argonauts in the face of season-ending debacle on multiple fronts. Plus, coverage of that other championship game happening this weekend: co-host Joe Pritchard’s bid for the title of the DFS CFL podcasters’ league. (Represent, Joe!)
In all seriousness, though, all focus is on the Grey Cup, a rematch two years (plus!) in the making. The RWB talks key players, X-factors, winning conditions and playing conditions – and as ever, there are game predictions based on the thought-provoking lines of Bombers -2½ and an over of 43½.
The Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast: wishing you a Happy Grey Cup Weekend!
The Rouge White & Blue Podcast hopes all those who didn’t sufficiently enjoy the CFL regular season in 2021 were tuned in to last week’s playoffs, scintillating as both games were.
For co-host Os Davis: the Montreal Alouettes-Hamilton Tiger-Cats and Calgary Stampeders-Saskatchewan Roughriders games boiled down to a single question each: “Does momentum actually exist?” and “Can a loss in football be blamed on one individual (particularly in a you-had-one-job scenario)?”, respectively. Naturally, RWB co-host Joe Pritchard deftly supplies answers.
Then, as they say, it’s on to next week and the CFL conference championships: the publicly-perceived coin toss pitting the Ticats against the Toronto Argonauts and the potential blowout of Saskatchewan at those ridiculously good Winnipeg Blue Bombers. Are we destined for the chalk matchup of Argos-Bombers? Could we get the Angleo Mosca Memorial Bowl with the Ticats enacting revenge? And do the Riders have any chance?
All this plus a brief look at the CFL’s year-end award nominees (mostly so Os can declare once again that Adam Bighill was robbed of the MOP) and Joe’s fantasy football progress in the DFS-format CFL podcaster league.
The Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast: R.I.P. 2021 Alouettes, Stampeders…
For Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast co-hosts Os Davis and Joe Pritchard, this part of the season is a bad news/good news situation. The bad news is that the 2021 season is almost over – and with four fewer weeks of games and no preseason, CFL 2021 literally feels like it has just begun. The good news is that it’s playoff time and the games are on Sunday, really the proper day for professional football.
After crawling his way past the .500 mark and coming off a 4-1 week, Joe feels particularly qualified to pick the first round of CFL playoff games, namely Montreal Alouettes at Hamilton Tiger-Cats and Calgary Stampeders at Saskatchewan Roughriders. Os chips in a probably unpopular take on the West game that he’s likely to lose money betting on as well.
Finally, considering that one RWB co-host has a twitter handle named for the original USFL, Joe and Os are briefly diverted by a little speculation on the upcoming USFL 2.0 on FOX launch.
Happy Thanksgiving holidays, USA CFL fans!
The Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast: Who can prevent a Bombers-Argos Grey Cup…?
If you’re still having trouble believing the 2021 CFL season is almost over, you’re not alone. Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast co-hosts Joe Pritchard and OS Davis might still be considered in denial, because they’re still talking fantasy football and playing CFL Pick ‘Em in week 15.
Os also looks to Joe to justify the swaggering overconfidence on display in the Winnipeg Blue Bombers section of CFL Twitterand. How dare they suggest the Montreal Alouettes win in week 14 was meaningless – second-stringers or no! How dare they dismiss every East team as a threat to a repeat Grey Cup championship! (Come to think of it, maybe they have a point…)
And then it’s onto the playoffs.
The Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast: Is it next June yet…?
Full disclosure: Much of this episode of the Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast is devoted to the Winnipeg Blue Bombers but, hey, somebody stop 'em and will change the subject.
RWB co-hosts Os Davis and Joe Pritchard talk the (potentially first) win over the Montreal Alouettes, specifically whether William Stanback should've gotten the call on the last meaningful play of the game for the Als; the possibility of Adam Bighill for 2021 MOP; and which of the East contenders Joe wants his Bombers to play in the Grey Cup.
We've also got picks and predictions for week 14 games, including (spoiler!) Os's insistence on laying money on the Montreal money line...
The Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast: They don't call it "Lose-ipeg"...
The Rouge White & Blue Podcast sees the end of the 2021 CFL season in sight (sadly) as week 13 goes into the books as a relatively unenlightening slate of games if taken individually but drastically clearing up the playoff picture.
No, RWB co-hosts Joe Pritchard and Os Davis can’t stop talking about the glory of Plaay tabletop gaming, but they manage to keep it to a minimum in assessing the postseason chances of teams like the Calgary Stampeders (looking good) and the Montreal Alouettes (of which the same cannot be said).
The RWB then takes a look ahead to week 14, with Joe offering up a very salient tip for would-be CFL bettors about seemingly disrespectful point spreads….
The Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast: Bombers -10½? Dude.
Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast co-host Os Davis avoids labeling contemporary players, teams and seasons with the increasingly thrown-around sobriquet of “Greatest Of All-Time,” but after their 45-0 demolition of BC Lions last weekend, the 2021 Winnipeg Blue Bombers’ possible historical significance is impossible for even curmudgeons like Os to ignore.
And so Os with RWB co-host Joe Pritchard discuss the similarities and differences between the ’21 Bombers and a handful of some great teams of the CFL’s past 40 years.
But wait, as they say, there’s more! We’ve got a wrap of week 12 games, a theory that CFL teams may as well just forget about ever playing for a field goal when inside the opponent’s 10-yard-line, playoff scenarios and who to choose and/or pick in week 13 of CFL Pick ‘Em…
The Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast: Slightly hysterical – I mean, historical – about the Blue Bombers…
The 2021 CFL season gets ever knottier, but the Rouge White & Blue Podcast has even more on the agenda than playoff scenarios – though the RWB’s got those, too.
RWB co-hosts Os Davis and Joe Pritchard touch on any number of topics this week, including the resignation of the incomparable Rod Black from TSN and thus CFL game broadcasts, and the continued building up of Joe’s den at home, which is slowly resembling an informal Winnipeg Blue Bombers Hall of Fame.
Also on tap is a wrap of week 11, followed by forecasts for week 12 and a few playoff scenarios, including one in which five teams end up at 7-7 – well possible with five weeks to go in the season. O, and Joe’s totally stoked on Winnipeg’s acquisition of Sergio Castillo, too…
The Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast: Did know you that Rod Black’s son plays in the Milwaukee Brewers minor league system…?
Earlier than usual does the Rouge White & Blue podcast get to delve into CFL playoff scenarios, and this week co-host Joe Pritchard presents us with such scenarios. Well, scenario (singular), really…
Beyond this, Joe and RWB co-host Os Davis have much to discuss with regard to CFL week 10, the upcoming week 11 and what went down in Edmonton Elks land in-between. The RWB talks the statement(s) delivered by the Toronto Argonauts, the old-school domination of the Elks by the Winnipeg Blue Bombers, the degenerating Saskatchewan Roughriders and Hamilton Tiger-Cats, the resurgent Calgary Stampeders, the suddenly tragic Montreal Alouettes and the incredibly shortsighted, ham-handed firing of Edmonton radio analyst Eddie Steele .
All this and Joe’s forecast for the three week 11 games, which are guaranteed to be predictions or your money back…
The Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast: We just trying to win a game here!
On this episode of the Rouge White & Blue podcast, things begin with a diversion into CFL past, specifically co-host Joe Prtichard’s current task in recreating the 1982 and ’86 CFL seasons for the Plaay.com tabletop format. Fellow tabletop enthusiast, sports history junkie and RWB co-host geeks out with Joe on the intricacies of sports board gaming before snapping back to the realities of the 2021 CFL season…
…namely, the same old/same old focus of ’21, those evermore unstoppable-seeming Winnipeg Blue Bombers. Also: Is the CFL experiencing a crisis of offensive line talent?
Finally, because the RWB can’t go to the well of masochism that is playing CFL Pick ‘Em often enough, Joe and Os attempt to choose winners in the five(!) week 10 games…
The Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast: Just shut up and pick the Bombers…
CFL fans waited so long for resumption of play after Covid-19 settled in worldwide, and now the “new” season of Canadian football is halfway over. And so this week on the Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast, co-hosts Os Davis and Joe Pritchard take stock of whether the CFL playoff picture is essentially already set.
We’ve also got other questions to consider like, What to make of these Ottawa Redblacks? Are the Edmonton Elks done? Could the Calgary Stampeders actually cross over to the East bracket for the playoffs? And can Joe avoid discussing the Winnipeg Blue Bombers after a week in which they didn’t play?
These questions answered (mostly) plus a look at week 9 games plus week 10’s wacky Wednesday night game on this episode of the RWB.
The Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast: Don’t talk to us about playoffs…
Since the 2019 season ended, CFL fans have been concerned with the state of the league financially – but should we have been more worried about the actual quality of play?
Rouge White & Blue Podcast co-hosts Joe Pritchard and Os Davis welcome onto the show Mike Graham of the Hamilton Ticats-centric podcast Pod Skee Wee Wee to discuss the current state of the CFL as to why this seeming downturn in quality is happening and possible answers/solutions to the situation.
The RWB goes on to discuss last week’s games and take another Sisyphean crack at picking next week’s triad of games.
The Rouge White & Blue Podcast: Loving 3-down football through it all…
The Winnipeg Blue Bombers again won decisively last weekend, and Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast co-host Joe Pritchard is freely willing to admit their insufferable awesomeness as long as the Ws keep coming.
Together with RWB co-host Os Davis, Joe offers insight into last week’s games involving the Bombers and those other seven teams who played – though the RWB collectively must admit some confusion about the Toronto Argonauts and somewhat divided takes on the Hamilton Tiger-Cats.
Finally, the RWB takes a shot at picking the week 7 CFL slate, with some reference to point spreads and over/unders…
The Rouge White & Blue Podcast: Covering the CFL throughout the Bomber’s new Golden Age…
When originally uploaded, this episode got hit with some voodoo curse, resulting in some poor audio quality. This is the correct, full version of that episode.
With about one-third of the 2021 Canadian Football League season’s 63 regular-season games completed, Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast co-hosts Os Davis and Joe Pritchard take stock of what the remaining two-thirds left to go. And as far as they can tell, there’s the Winnipeg Blue Bombers at the top, the Ottawa Redblacks at the bottom and the other seven all bucking for positions in the middle.
In rounding up last week’s games, the RWB takes a shot an answering questions like “Can the Toronto Argonauts really still be unsure about their quarterback?” and “How good is the Hamilton Tiger-Cats offense, really?” and “Could the Calgary Stampeders really finish fifth in the West?”
And onto next week as, believe it or not, Joe is again finding CFL Pick ‘Em a serious slog. Interestingly, he disagrees with Os on the outcome of every one of the four Week 6 games…
The Rouge White & Blue Podcast: Celebrating the wonderfully unpredictable CFL…
A shortened week 4 it was, but Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast co-hosts Os Davis and Joe Pritchard have more than enough substance to talk about from the three games played in the Canadian Football League last week.
The RWB discusses the mediocre to disappointing performances of Hamilton Tiger-Cats at Montreal Alouettes, the deficiencies and lotsa kicking in Ottawa Redblacks at BC Lions, and the rollercoaster trip that was Calgary Stampeders at Winnipeg Blue Bombers.
The the RWB looks ahead to week 5, with questions on their minds like “Can the Bombers keep pace with the Riders, and how good are these Riders anyway?” and “Could Hamilton really start 1-3?” and “When might the Redblacks next score a touchdown…?
The Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast: Is it Labour Day yet…?
The Rouge White & Blue flashes back to 1991, the year of an amazing Toronto Argonauts team boasting Rocket Ismail and Pinball Clemons plus new all-star ownership including Wayne “The Great One” Gretzky and John “Planes, Trains & Automobiles” Candy.
RWB co-hosts Joe Pritchard and Os Davis interview Paul Woods, author of the soon-to-be-released book Year of the Rocket, which chronicles that 1991 Toronto Argonauts season on the field and in the front office. Woods talks about his book, his long devotion to the Argos, their checkered past, the craziness of the Ismail contract on many levels and the sheer awesomeness of that ’91 team.
All in all, a great flashback to a wild time in CFL football history.
The Rouge white & Blue CFL Podcast: It was 30 years ago today…
Apologies in advance, but Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast co-hosts Joe Pritchard and Os Davis do a lot of glorying in this episode about the early success of their teams, the Winnipeg Blue Bombers and Montreal Alouettes respectively – not to mention the official RWB CFL fantasy football team captained by Joe and currently tops among the podcasting crowd.
Nevertheless, they try to devote some time to the other seven teams in the league, delving into the mysterious problems plaguing the 2021 Hamilton Tiger-Cats and Edmonton Elks as well as the sheer dangerousness of the Saskatchewan Roughriders.
RWB also looks ahead to week 3, perhaps futilely attempting to predict outcomes of the four upcoming games while wondering if the Elks and Calgary Stampeders will really both being the season 0-3…
The Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast: Go, go, USFL Tecmo!
PWB CFL Podcast #176: Week 1 overreactions, week 2 preview
All right, who’s ready for opening day? Montreal Alouettes fans, that’s who – and so Rouge White & Blue podcast co-hosts Joe Pritchard and Os Davis are joined by Alouettes Flight Deck podcast co-host Tim Capper.
The RWB – for the first time in approximately 520 days – gets to recap a week of CFL football with hot takes, first impressions and some confirmation of preseason suspicions. Questions abound: What was up with the Toronto Argonauts special teams? Which is the real Saskatchewan Roughriders defense – the first half version or the second half? And will Trevor Harris lead to Elks to a touchdown from within the red zone this season?
We also take a shot at previewing the week 2 games (with some emphasis on the Als and their prospects this season), though Joe and Os are pretty sure they did about as well as most CFL Pick ‘em victims players.
The Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast: We’re just glad it’s back…
After far too long a delay, CFL Opening Day 2021 is finally here. Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast hosts Joe Pritchard and Os Davis are back with that bread-and-butter of football fans everywhere: Game predictions.
We've also got some needed information for our US listeners: where to watch, where to play CFL fantasy football and the current situation with betting games online.
Finally, we'll take the quasi-obligatory shot at Grey Cup predictions, more of a mind-muddling challenge than ever before, seemingly – Can either of the RWB go against a very chalky Stampeders vs Tiger-Cats final…? (Spoiler: Sure, Os is crazy enough…)
The Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast: Let’s get out and play some football now!
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Three weeks before the CFL’s loooooongest-ever preseason is over, and Rouge White & Blue CFL podcast co-hosts Os Davis and Joe Pritchard are looking forward to August with this episode’s preview of the five West division teams.
The RWB has transaction roundups, pithy comments and fearless predictions aplenty about the West quintet from the stalwart Calgary Stampeders and defending champion Winnipeg Blue Bombers to the not-exactly confidence-inspiring BC Lions and refabricated Edmonton Elks. Then there are the already injury-ridden Saskatchewan Rough Riders…
The Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast: Forever guessing on the crossover.
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Believe it or not, we’ll be watching real professional Canadian football in less than a month, and Rouge White & Blue CFL podcast co-hosts Os Davis and Joe Pritchard are raring to go.
On this episode of the RWB, Joe and Os pay their respects to the rumors of the proposed XFL/CFL merger, killed ignominiously this week by a short statement from the Canadian league’s headquarters.
But so much for the past and for alternate universes – the RWB’s got a preview of the CFL’s four East division teams from prospective playoff teams the Hamilton Tiger-Cats and Montreal Alouettes to a couple bushels’ worth of question marks called the Toronto Argonauts and Ottawa Redblacks.
The Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast: Looking to go undefeated in 2021…
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So there is Canadian football after Covid, as evidenced by the CFL’s release of the abbreviated, adapted 2021 schedule. Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast co-hosts Joe Pritchard and Os Davis take note of some of the highlights in 16 weeks’ worth of games scheduled for Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Fridays -- essentially any days not occupied with broadcasts of the big bad NFL…
The RWB also takes stock of the long, strange history of the CFL and organized Canadian football itself, an outlier among the world’s sports associations. After over a century, professional Canadian football has become a mishmash of British, European and American ways of doing the business of sport. No matter what happens in the 2021 CFL season, this will be a year of historical significance for the game…
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The Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast: Is it August yet…?
If you’re a CFL fan, you’re thinking and talking about one topic this week, i.e. the announcement from CFL officials that the league was in discussions with the XFL about some sort of expanded partnership, and speculation naturally quickly ran rampant online.
In this episode of the Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast, co-hosts Joe Pritchard and Os Davis, like many, consider the possibilities: Is this much ado about very little or is a revamping of the financially reeling CFL from top to bottom in order? The RWB mulls over everything from the ratio and the schedule to rule changes and expanded TV coverage.
And no matter how you take our hot takes, remember: It beats guessing at how much more football that Covid-19’s gonna kill before it’s over.
The Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast: Eagerly awaiting the Baltimore Stallions 2.0…
“The CFL is back,” they said with cautious optimism, “and so are we.” After a bye year for the Canadian Football League, the Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast is getting back on the metaphorical field in advance of the prospective 2021 season.
RWB co-hosts Joe Pritchard and Os Davis work the podcast-muscle memory in discussing recent and ongoing events in the CFL, including the quarterback “swap” and other key personnel and player acquisitions by the Ottawa Redblacks and Toronto Argonauts, who suddenly frighten Os the Montreal Alouettes fan a bit.
And there’s talk of Edmonton, whose 2021 has already included the abrupt departure of one head coach and the hiring of a replacement – but no word on whether Edmontonians will be backing the “EE Football Team” in five months. Joe and Os debate the merits of 10 (nine, really) possible names which emerged from the team’s suggestion box.
Finally, the RWB gets an update from some of 2019-20’s most interesting (if not necessarily the speediest) CFL action – namely the tabletop game-based Cold Snap Dream Canadian Football League. Well Warren Moon and his 1981 EE Football Team (see, that’s not great…) continue to roll for the title?
The Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast: Back for good – we think…
With no CFL season to be played in 2020, what can the Rouge White & Blue Podcast co-hosts Joe Pritchard and Os Davis find to talk about? How about professional football in Alabama, for starters?
Joining the RWB for this episode is sports journalist/columnist Scott Adamson to talk his new book, The Home Team: My Bromance with Off-Brand Football. Scott talks to us about the nine professional football teams that have (briefly) called Birmingham, Alabama, home, including the Birmingham Barracudas of the CFL USA and the Birmingham Stallions of the good old USFL.
No, the RWB cannot avoid the elephant in the room and so discuss the future of the CFL, Canadian football and other major sports from whom the end may be in sight…
The Rouge, White & Blue CFL Podcast: Ardently wondering what the future holds.
Considering that no manner of professional football is happening on either side of the Canada/US border, this July has been historic. In the NFL, the professional team in Washington, D.C., will finally be ditching its racial slur of a name; meanwhile, the CFL’s Edmonton franchise will no longer be known as the “Eskimos.”
Naturally, Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast co-hosts Joe Pritchard and Os Davis are excited about these needed changes and kick around a few aspects of the move(s) forward, including possible new names – hey, everyone else is doing it! Also, how should white-guy football fans approach backers of such teams who decry the disrespect for history, tradition, etc.?
O, and this other sports thing. Baseball – or something resembling baseball – began this week in 29 MLB markets in the US plus Buffalo, Canada, and RWB weighs in on the general absurdity unto futility. Os, for one, will never be the same after just a few innings of what looks more like Kafka’s romper room.
The Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast: Loving the history, looking to the future…
What do CFL fans talk about when not talking about the CFL during a suspended season?
On their parts, Rouge, White & Blue CFL Podcast co-hosts Os Davis and Joe Pritchard together with CFL Horseman host/3 Down Nation writer Ryan Ballantine chat it up about Christion Jones’s recent job-losing tweet, classic CFL games on the tv, and the relative likelihood of the CFL, MLB, NBA and NFL actually playing out anything meaningful in 2020.
Plus, we’ve got an update on the Cold Snap Dream Canadian Football League and word of Joe’s latest ambitious CFL tabletop football project – which in turn gives Ryan a chance to remind us of how incredibly dominant his Calgary Stampeders have been for the past three decades.
The Rouge, White & Blue CFL Podcast: We gotta put that unused CFL-watching energy somewhere…
We can assure you that this is the correct version of episode 164. The duplication of episode 163 was due only to technical difficulty and was not at all sloppiness on Os's part. Yeah, that's the ticket...
CFL football season may be postponed, but the CFL podcasting game goes on! Rouge, white & Blue podcast co-hosts Joe Pritchard and Os Davis are joined by he of Podskee Wee Wee, Josh Smith, to commiserate on strange times for football, sports and world.
The RWB deep-dives into this week's statement from CFL commissioner Randy Ambrosie, the possibilities for the 2020 season and Josh happily talks Os out of his doomsday scenario for Canadian football.
Plus and update on the going-on in the Cold Snap Dream Canadian Football League, a quite interesting substitute for real football.
The Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast: Wishing fathers a Happy Father's Day and everyone a Happy Juneteenth!
Normally, the Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast would be celebrating that the question “#IsItJuneYet?” is no longer relevant, but of course this is 2020. Thus the only CFL football happening right now is of the sim variety. For example, the Cold Snap Dream Canadian Football League, of which RWB co-host is commissioner.
Joining Joe and co-host Os Davis for analysis of and discussion about the CSDCFL is Greg Smith. Greg is the head coach – but not the owner! – of the Cold Snap 1995 Baltimore Colts/Stallions and a new devotee of tabletop sports gaming; he talks about learning curves and his team’s 0-2 start in the league. Currently atop the standings board are Joe’s real-life 2019 Winnipeg Blue Bombers and between these two are the 1981 Edmonton Eskimos, the 2003 Edmonton Eskimos, the 1991 Toronto Argonauts and the 1994 Sacramento Gold Miners.
Hey, it may only be simulated CFL football, but it’s CFL football nonetheless…
A preview of episode 1 of Truly the GOATs, a sports history podcast by RWB co-host Os Davis. This one focuses on Jim Thorpe, the 20th century's greatest athlete and the NFL's first bonafide superstar...
An introduction to Truly the GOATs, a new sports history podcast by Rouge White & Blue co-host Os Davis.
Happy New Year! (Is it too late for that?)
The Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast returns for the 2020 season, and we're bringing screenwriter, actor and comedian Kenny Stevenson with us! Kenny's aboard the RWB to discuss how free agency has treated his BC Lions after a 2019 they'd certainly like to forget.
After that, it's RWB co-hosts Joe Pritchard and Os Davis left on their own to assess fortunes of the CFL's other eight teams from the Hamilton Tiger-Cats' strong acquisitions to the defending champion Winnipeg Blue Bombers staying mostly pat to the Montreal Alouettes' carousel of an offseason (and not just the mind-blowingly ham-handed attempt of Quan Bray to bring more than 150 pounds of weed over the Texas-Mexico border).
The Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast: Funny as they want to be...
Rouge, White & Blue CFL Podcast host Joe Pritchard would like to remind everyone that his beloved Winnipeg Blue Bombers are the 2019 Grey Cup champions -- and does so on this episode of the RWB.
In what is becoming something of a tradition at the RWB, Joe has returned from Calgary replete with a swell case of the Grey Cup Plague but nevertheless is ready to expound to RWB co-host Os Davis on one jealousy-inducing great time at Grey Cup week.
And yeah, we chat a little about the CFL's so-called "coaching carousel", which this year actually looks a bit more like a game of coaching musical chairs.
The Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast: How can it get better than this...?
What else would the Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast be about this week other than the 10th Grey Cup?
RWB's regular co-host Joe Pritchard was apparently so excited to experience a Grey Cup championship game involving his beloved Winnipeg Blue Bombers that he practically sprinted to Calgary from Wisconsin, leaving podcasting in the dust for the week. So joining RWB co-host Os Davis is our compadre Rod Villagomez of the Wood Cookie Sawcast.
Os and Rod talk ... well, what else but the Grey Cup?!?!? (And a couple of rabbit holes...)
What else would the Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast be focused on this week but round 2 of the CFL playoffs? (After co-host Os Davis put a capper on the vanquished 2019 Montreal Alouettes, that is.) Heck, we only gratuitously mention the so-called "coaching carousel" so as to destroy one specific listener's liver.
As for those conference championship games, RWB co-host Joe Pritchard lays out the case for his Winnipeg Blue Bombers to upset the Saskatchewan Roughriders in Regina, and Os proposes an alternative method. Neither much the chances of the Edmonton Eskimos at the freakin' fearsome Hamilton Tiger-Cats, but Os in particular has been misjudging these things all season long...
The Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast: Two games before the Grey CUp? What?!?!?!
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Incredibly enough, the 2019 CFL playoffs are here already; it seems like just yesterday we were composing tweets ending in #IsItJuneYet and here we are, with three teams eliminated and two more joining them on Sunday.
Rouge White & Blue co-hosts Os Davis and Joe Pritchard are on tenterhooks as they await playoff Sunday for their beloved Montreal Alouettes and Winnipeg Blue Bombers, respectively.
But before diving into rants about point spreads (the Edmonton Eskimos are just 1½-point underdogs?) and hopes for trick plays (could these be the difference for the Bombers against the Calgary Stampders?), Os and Joe register some incredulity at the Ottawa Redblacks’ “parting of ways” with Rick Campbell and BC Lions’ dismissal of DeVone Claybrooks.
As for those playoffs, yes, the RWB’s got theories. And predictions.
The Rouge, White & Blue CFL Podcast: Where playoff time means deep dives…
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O boy, does Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast co-host Joe Pritchard have a beef. The team awards/nominations for league awards have been released by the league, and Joe, like several members of his beloved Winnipeg Blue Bombers is quite steamed at the exclusion of Andrew Harris from said lists. And co-host Os Davis has a hot take on Joe’s hot take.
However, before the RWB totally descends into Pardon the First High Horn-like exclamation and exhortation, Os and Joe manage to talk some Canadian football, with strong emphasis on the upcoming playoffs. The two attempt to give answers to stuff like … How far can a Collaros-led Bombers team go? Who can stop the Tiger-Cats? How much of Shiltz will Alouettes fans get this Saturday? And how bad are the 2019 Redblacks?
The Rouge White & Blue CFL Playoffs: Who needs awards, anyway…?
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Two weeks remain in the regular season and, though three playoff spots in the West have yet to be determined, but Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast co-hosts Joe Pritchard and Os Davis can't help but look forward to the playoffs.
And this despite their favourite teams -- the Winnipeg Blue Bombers and Montreal Alouettes, respectively -- aren't exactly looking like worldbeaters going into the playoffs.
Speaking of playoffs, we've got your playoff scenarios and pick 'em calls for week 20; Joe reveals his CFL Pick 'Em record for 2019, and it's not at all unimpressive. RWB's also got some speculation about possible Grey Cup matchups, none of which do not include the Hamilton Tiger-Cats.
The Rouge, White & Blue CFL Podcast: The playoffs can't come soon enough ... or can they?
Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast co-hosts Joe Pritchard and Os Davis are talking a lot of Toronto Argonauts this eek, namely in terms of the shakeups going down in that franchise's front office and on the field.
The RWB discuss just what Pinball Clemons might bring to the Argos as a first-time general manager, and Joe gives a salient reason or two why Winnipeg Blue Bombers shouldn't be at all pleased with the acquisition of Zach Collaros from Toronto.
Then it's on to playoff scenarios for this weekend's games and (attempts at) picking next week's games.
The Rouge White & Blue: Splattered with Argonauts shrapnel...
Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast co-hosts Os Davis and Joe Pritchard truly enjoy recording episodes every week, but this time out they're a bit sad at the recent performance of and looming fates awaiting their favoured Montreal Alouettes and Winnipeg Blue Bombers, respectively.
No matter -- the proverbial show must go on! This week, the RWB takes a deep dive into the latest odds on winning the Grey Cup with particular reference to the question, "How can the Hamilton Tiger-Cats be considered the odds-on favourite when the Calgary Stampeders might just land home field for both the West division finals and the Grey Cup?"
Also, Os has trivia (How much do you know about the last two teams with such a homefield advantage?), Joe has playoff scenarios based on possible outcomes of the week 17 games and both take shots at forecasting the weekend ahead.
The Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast: Still hoping against hope for that Bombers-Alouettes Grey Cup...
The Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast is pleased as pizza pie to have Travis Currah of the 2 and Out podcast joining us this week – but would you believe he’s not here to talk about football? Instead, Travis tells us about an upcoming event in his second- (or maybe third-) favorite sport, competitive eating.
For the second year running at the Grey Cup, Travis will be taking on Zach Evans in a live event as part of Grey Cup Week; the big boys will be risking their digestive systems for charity – and bragging rights as Travis goes for the back-to-back win.
Meanwhile, in actual football talk, RWB co-hosts Joe Pritchard and Os Davis take a deep dive into what was either a choke job which was definitive proof of no Grey Cup win in 2019 or an epic comeback tainted by a brutish and serious dangerous act on the part of the team’s QB. That’s right, we’re talking Montreal Alouettes 38, Winnipeg Blue Bombers 37.
The RWB’s also got the latest playoff scenarios and picks for next week’s slate of games.
The Rouge White & Blue – A podcast divided by team loyalty, united by devotion to the CFL…
Sure, on this episode of the Rouge White & Blue podcast co-hosts Os Davis and Joe Pritchard talk last week's and the upcoming CFL games, but more interestingly, they're bringing the early (early!) playoff scenarios to be determined this weekend -- with six weeks left to go in the 2019 season, mind you. Crazy!
Playoff implications are on the line for the Calgary Stampeders, Winnipeg Blue Bombers and Hamilton Tiger-Cats, and the BC Lions-Ottawa Redblacks could well be surprisingly significant. Also, how long will it be before the Montreal Alouettes are locked into the no. 2 spot in the East finally mathematically after sitting there since week 5? (Spoilers: Longer than you think.)
And for those interested, the Mora sample is at about 24:30 in.
The Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast: Already looking to the playoffs?!??!?!?!?!?!
On this episode of the Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast, co-host Joe Pritchard tells us of his latest trip to Winnipeg, this time buoyed by his beloved Blue Bombers' domination of the Saskatchewan Roughriders in this year's Banjo Bowl.
Co-host Os Davis, meanwhile, has a rant on some Facebook activity by members of a certain team's fanbase last week -- of course, that's what he gets for taking Facebook too seriously.
Joe and Os also look forward to next week's games and the remaining games on the schedule, with particular reference to the Bombers, Riders and Calgary Stampeders vis-a-vis just how that West division'll shake out.
The Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast: Not quite ready for the playoffs just yet.
Rumour has it that a big professional football league in the home nation of Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast co-hosts Joe Pritchard and Os Davis kicks off this week -- it's called the NFL or something -- but the RWB only (mostly) has eyes for the good ol' Canadian league, especially since the defending champion Calgary Stampeders flipped the switch to return to dominant form last weekend.
Sdaly, Joe must lament last week's Winnipeg Blue Bombers loss and fears another this weekend as he gets set to jet back up north again for the Banjo Bowl game. (Bombers management: If you're listening, take note of the astounding logical reasoning as to why he should become a paid employee of Winnipeg Football Inc...)
The RWB also looks at all the other games playing out around the CFL, with focus on those six teams which already seem to have playoff spots lucked up.
The Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast: Where Kickers and punters are people, too...
As Americans, Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast co-hosts Joe Pritchard and Os Davis feel obliged to, well, tee off a bit on our home country's NFL for the atrocity of a preseason football game last week in Winnipeg. By RWB's reckoning, this not-quite-meaningless moment in time was quite indicative of the big league's attitudes, general outlook, and growing negative reputation.
And though it is fun to pick apart the idiocy's of the US league, Os and Joe also get down to analyzing last week's games -- including more glorious wins by our favoured Montreal Alouettes and Winnipeg Blue Bombers -- and picking (as best we can) the outcomes of hte three Labour Day games playing this weekend.
(Please excuse some sound issues in the first minute of so of this podcast; it's all cleared up by the 2:00 mark...)
The Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast: Two Americans being driven ever deeper into the Canadian football camp...
Whoa, what happened? Half of the 2019 CFL season is already in the books? Yeesh, time flies when you're recording podcasts...
Thus do Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast co-hosts Os Davis and Joe Pritchard take stock of year in Canadian football to this points and banter over key questions such as who takes the no. 3 seed in the East bracket? Whose defense is best primed for the second half? And which of the CFL's by-far worst three will be at bottom come seasons end?
Joe and Os go on to talk last week's games and (though we sometimes wonder why) try to forecast week 11's results. All this in 42 minutes or less!
The Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast: Like Jim Mora, trying not to look ahead to the playoffs.
Usually the CFL is electrifying with its style of play, but this week, an electrical storm caused havoc in the league. Os Davis is on assignment, so Joe is joined by Robert Dalton (@rougedalts) of Rouge Radio (@rougeradio) to cover the week that was and the week that will be. We'll just be over here rooting for no thunderstorms...
Okay, maybe not, but he was lucky enough to be profiled by Carlos Verde over on The Snap on the CFL.CA website (https://www.cfl.ca/2019/07/31/fans-football-wisconsin-joe/). This is briefly touched on (although Joe could have gone on for hours about how great his trip was and how wonderful everyone he met was), and the hosts do the regular spin around last week's games and this week's games.
Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast co-host Joe Pritchard is heading up to Toronto to watch his Winnipeg Blue Bombers trounce those poor Argonauts on Thursday night, so the RWB's got an early-release version of the show this week.
The podcast begins as always with a roundup of last week's games, but since both and RWB co-host Os Davis's repository of adjectives and other descriptors for the Augos and the BC Lions offenses has apparently been exhausted, most of the time is spent on that decision in the Ottawa Redblacks-Calgary Stampeders game and the Hamilton Tiger-Cats' Pyrrhic victory over the Bombers.
And RWB goes on to preview the week 8 games -- Winnipeg at Toronto, Hamilton at Saskatchewan, Ottawa at Montreal, Edmonton at Calgary -- all of which except that one that Joe's attending seem pretty compelling.
The Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast: Admiring the Canadian game from south (and sometimes) north of the border...
With one-quarter of the 2019 CFL season gone (or is that three-quarters left to play?), Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast co-hosts Joe Pritchard and Os Davis take stock of the league thus far. Like most CFL fans, the RWB sees three distinct tiers of team forming and, to be honest, little hope seems in sight for the trio of bottom-feeders (BC Lions, Ottawa Redblacks, Toronto Argonauts).
No longer on the bottom tier are the Montreal Alouettes. Just one week after a whole lot of turmoil shook up the front office, the Als put together a third consecutive win for the first time in … well, long enough. Os gushes about those Alouettes and, thanks to CFL Twitter, now knows exactly how delusional hi is about Montreal’s chances for the 2019 Grey Cup.
And RWB’s got predictions ‘n’ picks for week 7 as well, though three games on the slate appear to be no-brainers, with the vogue pick for this year’s ’Cup final – Winnipeg Blue Bombers at Hamilton Tiger-Cats – at center stage.
The Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast: Allez, allez, allez, allez...
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This week, Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast co-hosts Os Davis and Joe Pritchard thought they'd be talking up the Montreal Alouettes' second consecutive winning, but instead devote time related to the bizarre firing of GM Kavis Reed, the even stranger stories that are cropping up in the aftermath of the dsmissal, and the ensuing totally weird conspiracy-mongering.
Sure, the rest of the CFL gets their due as well, with kudos to (again) the Winnipeg Blue Bombers and Hamilton Tiger-Cats, not to mention the RWB's early choice for surprise of 2019, those 3-1 Edmonton Eskimos. And o yes, there's derision for those totally disappointing BC Lions.
Then, as they say, RWB's onto next week, with picks and forecasts for week 6, particularly the Eskimos-Alouettes game of Saturday afternoon -- a surprisingly important match for both teams and the league.
The Rouge, White & Blue CFL Podcast: Who doesn't love a good conspiracy?
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RWB CFL Podcast episode #143: Joe’s team is good
Things settled down to normal in the CFL last week: Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast co-hosts Joe Pritchard and Os Davis each went 2-2 in picking the games; CFL Twitter blew up irrationally about nothing; the Calgary Stampeders smoked the opposition in scary fashion; and we got one more reminder that Joe’s beloved Winnipeg Blue Bombers are actually really good.
Joe and Os give their rundown of the week 4 games – well, except for the BC Lions-Toronto Argonauts match which infamously ended on a game-winning rouge. For that one, they mostly discuss said rouge and the ridiculous overreaction to the outcome of what will likely be a meaningless game in the final analysis.
The RWB also forecasts next week’s games, particularly with regard to the short-term futures of the Saskatchewan Roughriders and BC Lions; one already seems unlikely to survive through to the postseason…
The Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast: Did we mention the Bombers are good?
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Holiday, schmoliday – nothing can stop the Rouge, White & Blue CFL Podcast from another episode of chatting about Canadian football.
RWB co-hosts Joe Pritchard and Os Davis do the usual rundown and commentary on last week’s games, with probably too much emphasis on the Edmonton Eskimos-Winnipeg Blue Bombers game, but really WTF was up with that? How does a team have the ball for just about 60% of the game, pass the ball 54 times, take 95 snaps and not score a touchdown? Is this some sort of record for offensive inefficiency? How can the Esks win with this game plan? And like that.
Also from last week, Os laments his pitiable Montreal Alouettes, Joe plays up the Hamilton Tiger-Cats and they wonder about the immediate Bo Levi-less future for the Calgary Stampeders.
And what can the RWB guys do to top last week’s excellent 4-0 performance in picking CFL games? Disagree on a couple of this week’s matchups, of course! Have a good laugh at Os’s purely contrarian picks – you can guess who won’t be killing Vegas this weekend…
The Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast: Now things start to get interesting!
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Given the Hamilton Tiger-Cats’ 40-point beatdown of the Toronto Argonauts in week 2, who else should Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast episode 141 feature other than Josh Smith of Pod Skee Wee Wee and 3 Down Nation?
Have you ever heard two CFL fans this confident about their teams’ Grey Cup chances going into week 3? Os Davis can do little but envy the swagger Josh and his RWB co-host Joe Pritchard show based on their Ticats and Winnipeg Blue Bombers, respectively.
The RWB also talks those other games of last week: The mind-blowing statfest between the Ottawa Redblacks and the Saskatchewan Roughriders and the next-to-no-show turned in by BC Lions against the Edmonton Eskimos. Among the questions not necessarily answered but asked: Do the Riders have any pass defense at all? How concerned should BC be and where can the early blame be placed? How good are the Eskimos and how bad are the Toronto Argonauts?
Then it’s on to the futility of picking next week’s games, which in week 3 cannot be nearly as easy as it looks. (Come on, all four home teams winning? Think before you submit that CFL Pick ‘Em ticket, pardner…)
The Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast: Just waiting 20 more weeks ’til that Bombers-Ticats Grey Cup…
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It’s one of the grandest traditions in football: Overreacting to opening week. In this episode, Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast co-hosts Os Davis and Joe Pritchard try not to indulge, however, despite the Ottawa Redblacks’ gift-wrapped win over the sluggish Calgary Stampeders. Topics up for discussion on the RWB this week include:
At 00:40 – HOW ’BOUT THEM BOMBERS?!?!!?
01:01 – the potentially career-ending late hit on Saskatchewan Roughriders QB Zach Collaros by the Hamilton Tiger-Cats’ Simoni Lawrence and the two-game suspension handed down to Lawrence. (Spoilers: More must be done before this gratuitous dangerous nonsense ends.)
13:50 – last week’s games, plus some opinionating on the Montreal Alouettes’ new look.
45:50 – next week’s games: Saskatchewan at Ottawa, BC Lions at Edmonton Eskimos, Hamilton at Toronto Argonauts.
56: 27 – It was funny because.
The Rouge, White & Blue CFL Podcast: Going into week 2 with no expectations. Well, maybe one or two…
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Opening day. Or Opening Day, depending on how you feel about it. –Jim Bouton, Ball Four
It is June yet! Opening day of the 2019 CFL season is upon us, and the Rouge, White & Blue Podcast is stoked to enter our fourth full season of chatting Canadian football from South Of The Border. In RWB episode #139, co-hosts Os Davis and Joe Pritchard discuss…
At 00.00 – the Jonathan Rose non-suspension and the potentially very disturbing precedent this causes.
10.04 – Kevin Glenn’s retirement from the CFL and in what uniform he should be enshrined into a Hall of Fame wearing.
16.59 – Our predictions for the 2019 season through the prism of the annual CFL media poll which the RWB was privileged enough to participate in. Sparing the spoilers, the co-hosts like the chances of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers, BC Lions and Hamilton Tiger-Cats to varying degrees; are down on the Edmonton Eskimos and Saskatchewan Roughriders; and show an interesting divergence of opinion on the Montreal Alouettes. Lots of predictions about individual awards and numbers are made as well.
54.32 – And finally, the old standby: Picking next week’s games. Joe and Os mull over week 1 games, with an eye (Os’s, that is) on betting Saskatchewan +3 at Hamilton, Montreal +10 at Edmonton, Ottawa Redblacks +6 at Calgary Stampeders; and Winnipeg +2 at BC.
The Rouge, White & Blue CFL Podcast: Ready for another season!
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The Rouge, White & Blue Podcast presents something of a minimalist edition of itself this week, as everything CFL seems stuck in past or future: The collective bargaining agreement is behind us, the first preseason game of 2019 is ahead – and so we’re stuck in the middle with sports gaming.
And so the RWB welcomes back to the show Keith AVallone, the creative mastermind behind Plaay.com tabletop sports games. RWB co-host Joe Pritchard is just about the world’s most devoted tabletop gamer and essentially geeks out with Keith about creating games for such diverse sports as CFL football, hockey and lacrosse. Plus, Keith tells how Ricky Ray’s Grey Cup-winning season of 2012 just about broke his system for football game creation.
Next week, Joe and Os will probably actually interact within the RWB podcast – we’ve got to start getting in some predictions soon…
The Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast: Next season is but a dice roll away.
The Rouge White & Blue welcomes back returning guest Kevin Holden to this week. Producer and voice for sports at CBS 58 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin (hey, that’s RWB co-host Joe Pritchard’s neighborhood!), Kevin covers a lot of sports but counts CFL football among his favourites. So naturally, we spend some time talking Milwaukee Bucks basketball.
Kevin has a particular interest in the might-happen preseason game between the Green Bay Packers and “Oakland” Raiders slated for August 24, as he’ll be broadcasting the game – in Spanish! As a bonus, Kevin, Joe and Os present several ways in which that exhibition would be thousands of times more fun.
And yes, there’s actually some talk about CFL football as well, including thoughts on the reported collective bargaining agreement, June Jones’s departure for the XFL and Jon Ryan’s triumphant return to Saskatchewan.
The Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast: The only podcast where Wisconsin is south…
The Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast is back after a one-month hiatus, and we've brought Lee Barette, CEO of CanadaFootballChat.com, with us!
Lee gives us the details on the June 1 CanadaFootballChat.com Prospect Game, Canada's first-ever nationally televised game of its kind. This certainly sounds like an interesting development for Canadian football and certainly helps percolate the excitement for the upcoming CFL season.
And speaking of the big league itself, RWB co-hosts Joe Pritchard and Os Davis talk some recent CFL happenings, including last weekend's draft and the just-announced retirement of the already-legendary Ricky Ray.
The Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast: It's almost June already!
So you may have heard that the grand experiment called the Alliance of American Football crashed hard and is already making the transition into collective memory loss.
Joining Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast co-hosts Joe Pritchard and Os Davis to talk the demise of the latest North American spring football league is Scott Adamson, a sports journalist formerly based in Birmingham and therefore someone who knows a thing or two about defunct football associations -- Could the AAF disaster actually be the best thing that could happen to the CFL...?
Beyond this, Joe and Os talk some more CFL news, including the just-approved rule changes for the 2019 season and the departure of offensive coordinator Jaime Elizondo.
The Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast: Shoveling dirt onto the AAF and once again waiting until June...
Os is on assignment, so Joe has Shawn Heimberger on to talk about his first exposure to the CFL, what made him a fan, his experience as a fan, and his return to CFL fandom this past year. Topics brought up during the show include ESPN's early days, his early fandom of the Ottawa Rough Riders and his conversion into being a Hamilton Tiger-Cats fan, the US expansion, the USFL, a vast collection of CFL odds and ends, the potential of Shawn making his first trip across the border, and a whole lot more!
As an American podcast about Canadian football, the Rouge White & Blue feels compelled to tie a bow on the CFL career of the most infamous of our countrymen to play up north in decades. And so in this episode, the RWB wishes a hearty “Goodbye, Johnny!” with only a maddening amount of non-transparency about the whole situation with Manziel to distract from the overall joy of J. Football’s departure from our favourite football league.
Since Josh Smith of Pod Skee Wee Wee is aboard as guest, the RWB does discuss more than the perpetually disgruntled Manziel. Josh tells us about the excitement of Hamilton hosting Grey Cup 2021, his assessment of the Tiger-Cats’ performance in free agency, and what kind of competition Josh’s beloved Ticats might see in the East (spoilers: Toronto and no one else are in this race with Hamilton).
And sadly, the podcast contains no actual proof that Antonio Pipkin is the answer in Montreal.
The Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast: Convinced Johnny Football’s the heel in Vince McMahon’s new XFL...
(Shout out and thanks to Primal Scream, who generously and unknowingly let Os rip off and distort their stuff for use in this podcast.)
CFL Free Agency 2019 has opened and joining the Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast to lament the picking apart of his Ottawa Redblacks is Rod Villagomez of the Wood Cookie Sawcast and the Alliance Football Podcast.
Along with RWB co-hosts Joe Pritchard and Os Davis, Rod also offers takes on the new-look BC Lions and Edmonton Eskimos, the most important singing of this free-agency period early on, and just how good the odds might be on a Atlantic Schooners team winning the East if the league hurriedly expanded for 2019.
Joe and Os go on to discuss the departure of the RWB's former third co-host, Dr. Rouge, and some hard reality that football fans must deal with in the 21st century.
The Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast: Almost signed by Edmonton earlier this week...
The Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast is back, and joining co-hosts Joe Pritchard, Dr. Rouge and Os Davis this week is returning RWB guest Andrew Bucholtz of Awful Announcing.
With no new collective bargaining in sight and the opening of free agency about two weeks away, Andrew tells us about the CFL's latest TV deal with ESPN/ESPN+ and the future of Canadian Football broadcasting through the ESPN+ service going forward.
Andrew then gets embroiled in this offseason's hot topic, namely the effects on player movement and signings should the nascent American Alliance of Football (AAF) and/or XFL actually stick around as a viable source of employment for pro football players in North America.
And we've got some wild speculation as to the 2019 Winnipeg Blue Bombers, too.
The Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast: All our free agents are re-signed...
Happy new year from the Rouge, White & Blue CFL Podcast! Now let's get down to talking some CFL -- not to mention CFL USA, AAF, XFL, even a little WFL and USFL -- football.
Joining co-hosts Joe Pritchard and Os Davis for the first RWB Podcast of 2019 is Scott Adamson, a 30-year veteran of American print media who's covered everything from NFL football to PGA golf and who's loved CFL ball since even before the league installed the Birmingham Barracudas in his then-hometown.
As Birmingham has been a favored test market for rogue/alternate professional football leagues since the 1970s, Scott has seen them all come down the pike. His tells us some about his current interest in the up-and-coming American Alliance of Football (including the Birmingham Iron franchise) and its potential effect on the CFL.
All in all, this episode contains a lot of of football geekery.
The Rouge, White & Blue CFL Podcast: Faithfully awaiting the return of CFL USA...
The Rouge, White & Blue CFL Podcast closes out year 2018 by looking forward to the future. First up, RWB co-hosts Joe Pritchard and Os Davis enthuse about the reconstruction of nearly the entire BC Lions staff with a new generation of coaches; no matter what the BC roster looks like in ’19, the playbook’ll certainly be interesting.
The RWB then welcomes Gregory James of the Atlantic Zone Coverage podcast, a show devoted to Canadian football especially for fans in the Maritimes (and New Brunswick!). Greg tells is how fan interest and a franchise 35 years (and counting) in the making are evolving in Halifax and beyond, as CFL fans throughout North America optimistically await the Atlantic Schooners, a much-needed 10th team for Canada.
And beyond this … well, Happy Holidays to everyone!
The Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast: Is it 2019 yet?
Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast co-host is ready to make everyone green with envy with tales of his most excellent trip to Edmonton for last week's Grey Cup festivities there.
Sure, Joe and co-host Os Davis talk a little Grey Cup 2018, admiring a textbook 2010s Calgary Stampeders performance, decrying the often-useless concept of Most Outstanding/Valuable Player in title games, and ranting a bit. (OK, that last one is entirely on Os.)
But the accent in this podcast is all on Edmonton: Joe attended the events, partied with podcasters, talked with the tweeters, sat at a Manitoba social or two and enjoyed a few brushes with greatness -- Hear all about the total freakin' awesomeness in this episode of the RWB.
The Rouge, White & Blue CFL Podcast: First to ask #IsItNovemberYet...
What else is there to talk about in all of North American sports to talk about this weekend besides the 106th Grey Cup, a rematch of the 2016 classic between the Calgary Stampeders and Ottawa Redblacks?
Thus do Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast co-hosts Os Davis and Dr. Rouge discuss, analyze and take wild stabs at forecasting what we'll be seeing on Sunday. Among the variables at play in Edmonton include the re-emergence of that historically awesome Calgary defense, the fireworks display put on by Ottawa in last week's East Division final, the suspension/appeal of Jonathon Rose, the Lewis Ward factor and, of course, the weather.
Finally, you bet (so to speak) we have fearless predictions. And next week, Joe will certainly regale us with tales of fun and beer from the Great White North to stay-at-homers such as Os and the Doctor...
The Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast: Is it November already?
This week on the Rouge, White & Blue CFL Podcast, co-host Os Davis is left alone in the booth. And so with traditional RWB partners Joe Pritchard and Dr. Rouge unavailable for episode 126, a minimalist version results.
Thankfully it's not all Os all the time, though, as Dr. Rouge provides text for our rumination, and all three co-hosts have predictions/analysis for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers-Calgary Stampeders and Hamilton Ticats-Ottawa Redblacks divisional round games -- and best of all, the whole thing clocks in at less than 20 minutes!
The Rouge, White & Blue CFL Podcast: One out of three ain't bad...
"CFL playoffs" is among the very most harmonious and beautiful two-word expressions in the English language, as far as the Rouge, White & Blue Podcast is concerned, so you bet the RWB's talking round one of the postseason this week.
And "bet" may be the operative word here, as co-host Os Davis is still on a rush from a recent trip to Budapest and so speaks of bets you should not make, including his current outrageous Grey Cup prediction which the league itself reckons has less than a 1% chance of happening.
With Dr. Rouge playing the responsible parent and not in attendance, it's up to co-host Joe Pritchard to be the reasonable one -- and even he's geeked about his Winnipeg Blue Bombers' chances.
The Rouge, White & Blue CFL Podcast: Americans loving November playoff football.
It’s a trip down the stream of consciousness with the Rouge, White & Blue CFL Podcast this week, and why not? Just one team – the Calgary Stampeders – is playing their week 21 game for anything other than pride.
There’s nevertheless always something to talk about vis-à-vis Canadian professional football, so RWB co-hosts Joe Pritchard, Os Davis and Dr. Rouge engage in discussion to put an epithet on the 2018 Edmonton Eskimos, to wonder yet again about what’s going on with the Stamps, to marvel about the Saskatchewan Roughriders’ defense, to excoriate the Hamilton Tiger-Cats for continued incapability to finish the job…
And after eliminating most of the other possibilities, the RWB does reach a consensus on the best-positioned teams for the upcoming CFL playoffs. Plus, Os has a suggestion for this season’s Most Outstanding Player which apparently is outrageous. Enjoy!
The Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast: Joycean in our epic takes on Canadian football
You want CFL playoff scenarios? The Rouge White & Blue has got your scenarios right here.
This is always a favoured time of year for the RWB, as co-hosts Joe Pritchard, Dr. Rouge and Os Davis get to breaking down the possibilities for the post-season -- and this year, things are nicely snafued, with all six playoff spots undetermined with two (or fewer in Edmonton and Saskatchewan's cases) games to play.
After this, the trio goes down the rabbit hole of possible solutions for situations in which a 5th-place West Division team has a better record than the East Division runners-up, yet misses the playoffs. Should the CFL go single division? Allow two teams to cross over? Reintroduce an imbalanced schedule? Get the Atlantic Schooners up and running sooner rather than later? Or some combination thereof?
Finally, the RWB gets back on track with looks back at last week's games, handicapping week 20 and justifiably grouse a bit about Johnny Failure.
The Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast: Heading for the playoffs, talking up the wild, wild West...
Rod Villagomez of the Wood Cookie Sawcast and Josh Smith of Podskeeweewee join the RWB gang to go over the upcoming clash between Ottawa and Hamilton, as well as the rest of the CFL action this week.
Now every CFL game matters -- except those involving the Montreal Alouettes or the Toronto Argonauts.
On this week's episode of the Rouge, White & Blue CFL Podcast, co-hosts Os Davis and Joe Prtichard give the eulogy for those two sad teams in the East, particulary the defending champion Argos. What happened?
Meanwhile the Edmonton Eskimos are flailing and trashing about in a race for the final playoff spot. What's happening there?
As for the Eskimos' now primary competition, BC Lions, Os reckons Wally Buono's guys are looking more and more like a team of destiny on its way to a Grey Cup appearance (if not an upset of the West champs). What will happen?
Finally, the RWB takes on the biggest question of all: Who is the 2018 CFL Most Outstanding Player? Os has an alternative pick or two to the chalk.
The Rouge white & Blue CFL Podcast: Canadian football past, present and future weekly.
Time flies when you're steeped in Canadian football ... in episode 120 of the Rouge, White & Blue CFL Podcast, co-hosts Os Davis and Joe Pritchard take stock of the league with just five weeks remaining and the Calgary Stampeders already in the playoffs.
As always, we recap last week's CFL games, but the emphasis is on the future from the immediate questions -- Ottawa Redblacks or Hamilton Tiger-Cats to win the East? Could the Edmonton Eskimos really miss the postseason altogether? -- to philosophical conundra such as "Does it matter if you're the last team in the playoffs, only getting into the postseason to get beaten down in another city?
All this and Joe enthusing about the Winnipeg Blue Bombers again...
The Rouge, White & Blue CFL Podcast: Stunned that it's October already.
Joe and Dr. Rouge discuss the happenings around the CFL, and stumble upon the idea of maximum standings chaos at the end of the show.
Rouge, White & Blue CFL Podcast are taking some stock of the league as the 2018 season enters the homestretch.
"Sustainable" is a solid keyword for this podcast, with RWB co-hosts Os Davis, Joe Pritchard and Dr. Rouge pondering the sustainability of the currently incredible Saskatchewan Roughriders defense, of the Hamilton Tiger-Cats' dearth of "skill players", of the Redblacks going forward with the sort of inconsistency...
After this, the RWB turns to week 14 and (attempts to) pick 'em; Joe happily again goes Costanza on the Ottawa RedBlacks.
Also: Does the CFL twittersphere really believe in the Atlantic Schooners' chances to win the Grey Cup more than the Bombers, Montreal Alouettes and Toronto Argonauts?
Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast co-hosts Joe Prtichard, Os Davis and Dr. Rouge tried to enjoy one heck of an awesome slate of football last week. But Joe was there in Winnipeg, watching the Saskatchewan Roughriders' defense and special teams ring up 32 points on his Blue Bombers.
And Dr. Rouge witnessed a couple of Hamilton Tiger-Cats wide receivers torch his Tornoto Argonauts again for three TDs and around 250 yards.
Os's Montreal Alouettes were on a bye and thus avoided a loss -- unless you count losing Johnny Canadian Manziel to a stomach virus. You get the idea.
On this episode of the RWB, then, we've got lots of love for the CFL while lamenting cruel fate. Enjoy!
To say Rouge, White & Blue CFL Podcast co-hosts Joe Pritchard, Os Davis and Dr. Rouge have much to discuss after an enthralling (well, except for the last 1½ quarters turned in by the Toronto Argonauts) Labour Day weekend slate of games.
The RWB talks how injuries change the Edmonton Eskimos' second half, how long Saskatchewan will continue as momentum Riders, why no team can take control of the East, whether the Hamilton Tiger-Cats are finally for real, and, inevitably, who should start at quarterback for the Montreal Alouettes after their bye week.
We've also got a new rogue-related statistic for your approval, and an argument for Atlantic Schooners' jersey colour. But Joe? He's already mentally gone north of the border to Winipeg, where he'll be attending the Bnajo Bowl live. Bon voyage!
The Rouge, White & Blue: If we podcast to Canada, we're podcasting in real life...
Joe Pritchard and Dr. Rouge go over the pod's answers to the CFL Media Poll, brag just a bit about a few of the predictions from the last poll and other things related to the poll, and do a lightning review and preview of last week and this week.
The Rouge, White & Blue CFL Podcast marks the halfway ponts in the 2018 CFL season by ... well, doing what we always do, namely natter on about the week behind and the week ahead in Canadian football.
RWB co-hosts Joe Pritchard and Os Davis also delve into a couple of other questions, such as "So how about Duron Carter to the Toronto ARgonauts?" and "What's up with Matt Nichols and/or Winnipeg Blue Bombers fandom?"
And before we hit Labour Day games, week 11 presents CFL fans with quite a challenging slate of games, about which Os and Joe disagree on just about everything.
The Rouge, White & Blue: You say you want a Strevolution, well, you know...
Whoa, does the Rouge, White & Blue have some news, views and speculation to disseminate, despite a mere three-game slate in week 9.
Among the topics RWB co-hosts Joe Pritchard, Dr. Rouge and Os Davis dissect are
- the CFL’s reintroduction of the “Diversity is Strength” mission statement/slogan for weeks 9-11;
- the stunning release of Duron Carter, along with the corollary questions “Where is Carter most likely to land?” and “No, seriously, does Chris Jones really know WTF he’s doing with this Riders roster?”;
- the worrisome recent tendency of the 2018 Ottawa RedBlacks to play down (not up) to the level of their competition; and that old chestnut,
- who can beat the Calgary Stampeders? (Spoiler: Quite possibly the Winnipeg Blue Bombers.)
And yes, the RWB talks Johnny Canadian Football’s first touchdown drive in the CFL and an apparent concession that will keep him out of this weekend’s game against the Edmonton Eskimos. Os laments, “Wherefore art thou on yonder bench, former University of New Mexico Lobos QB Austin Apodaca…?”
The Rouge, White & Blue CFL Podcast: Definitely not the Single, White & Blue CFL Podcast…
Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast co-host Dr. Rouge took a DNP this week, but joining Os Davis and Joe Pritchard are two compadres from the Canadian Football Podcast Network: Cliffy D of Alouettes Flight Deck and Ryan Koop of Canadian Football Countdown.
Naturally, the quartet finds lots to success even before Cliffy and Os must face up to the, likesay, auspicious beginning to the Johnny Canadian Football Era in Montreal. Beyond this inevitability, we talk the mastery of Mike Reilly, the continued weirdness in Riderville, the (bright) future of the BC Lions, the (very) underrated qualities of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers, the statue of McLeod Bethel-Thompson going on in Toronto, and the GOAT-ness of that Calgary D.
The Rouge, White & Blue CFL Podcast: Still waiting for Manziel to put the "Football" back into "Johnny Football"...
Joe and Dr. Rouge are joined by Ron Montgomery to talk about CFL fandom in Alabama, Chris Jones, and then we are joined by Ron's friend Paul Brindley, who tells another tale of CFL fandom, and let Joe in on how an Alabama-Auburn game watched over Grey Cup weekend resulted in a surprise citrusy Christmas present! After that, Joe and Dr. Rouge do a speed round of review and preview.
As a CFL podcast produced by Americans, the Rouge White & Blue has awaited this moment all season: Johnny Manziel has been traded to the Montreal Alouettes (in exchange for the medium-term future, it seems), and RWB co-hosts Os Davis, Joe Pritchard and Dr. Rouge apply a healthy dose of skepticism to analyzing just how far the Als can go with Johnny Canadian Football can take them.
The RWB this week also considers the effect of other big names switching CFL locals – we’re talking Adarius Bowman, Shawn Lemon, Jamaal Westerman and Chris Williams among others. There’s also breakdowns of last week, predictions for next week, and gaga-going over the potentially record-setting Calgary Stampeders defence – damn, they’re good…
The Rouge, White & Blue CFL Podcast: Wishing Petit Jean a hearty “Bienvenue à Montréal!”
(Samples included from DJ Steve Porter’s “Johnny Hollywood”, the “O Canada Day 2018 remix” by Brandon Patrick and, as always, “Cloudy” by Anitek.)
Andrew Hoskins from @eskempirepod joins Joe & Dr. Rouge to discuss the Eskimos, and the guys review week 5 and preview week 6.
Now CFL season is rolling! The Rouge, White & Blue welcomes aboard Michaela Schreiterof TSN 1200, the Mouchoir Podcast and espnW among others to talk some Ottawa Redblacks football after her team's stirring win in week 4.
Of course, co-hosts Joe Pritchard, Dr. Rouge and Os Davis get in their commentary on week 4, including the plethora of rouges, a tremendous W from Joe's Blue Bombers and Os's rant on Jeremiah Masoli.
THe RWB CFL Podcast: Waiting for Dexter McCluster...
Joe Pritchard and Dr. Rouge are celebrating their independence by casting another pod about the Canadian Football League! This week, the team reviews week 3 and previews week 4, asks what the heck the Riders are doing with their roster, what the Bombers are doing with their defense, will Toronto snap out of it this week, and more!
The Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast hosts a very special guest for episode 106: TSN reporter and Canadian Football Hall of Famer Dave Naylor. Dave talks the devastating Ricky Ray injury, his current status and expectations for the Toronto Argonauts going forward.
And then RWB co-hosts Joe Prtichard, Os Davis and the returning Dr. Rouge talk the other eight teams in this week, predict next week, needlessly speculate on Johnny Canadian Football and excoriate the league's kickers for the distinct lack of singles in week 2.
The Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast: Still believing Canada is not a security threat.
As we say on the Rouge White & Blue, the most instructional week in any football season in week 1. So RWB CFL podcast co-hosts Joe Pritchard and Os Davis discuss the extent to which they now hate their preseason predictions but press on along with a virtual Dr. Rouge to pick week 2 games anyway.
The RWB's also got a few words on this American player amazingly put the Edmonton Eskimos' negotiation list this week (some dude named Terrell Owens) and levy a few more charges against Rod Black on behalf of the English language.
The Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast: We are not responsible for T.O.'s future actcons.
Rejoice, for today It Is June Yet! For the 2018 CFL season's opening week, the Rouge White & Blue welcomes Kevin O'Neill of CFL Fans in Toronto to talkabout his group's week 1 plans and the outlook for his favoured Hamilton Tiger-Cats.
And you bet we've got predictions for week 1 games and the season; co-hosts Joe Pritchard, Os Davis and Dr. Rouge have surprisingly disparate views on the Ticats, Bombers, Eskimos, Argonauts and, believe it or not, BC Lions. Who's the craziest of us all? You decide!
The Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast: Stoked to kick off 2018.
Darrin Bauming (@DarrinBauming) joined Joe Pritchard and Dr. Rouge on Wednesday night for a first hand description of the Matt Nichols injury, discussion on how the Bombers would go about handling the issue if the worst were to happen (which, thankfully, it didn't), and some talk about who is available to take over the reins in Winnipeg for the next little while. Dr. Rouge also brought some good news about the possible Atlantic franchise to the table to distract Joe from fretting about the Bombers for a few minutes.
Os Davis is on assignment to Vegas, so Josh Smith from Podskeeweewee joined Dr. Rouge and Joe Pritchard for a CFL roundtable. Topics include a lot of Hamilton quarterback talk, for some reason, Hamilton stadium and Grey Cup talk, a brief visit to both divisions, more quarterback talk (which team will crash and burn because they don't have a seasoned backup? If you know, let us in on the secret!), and just why Dr. Rouge claims the Argos as his team. Make sure to catch Josh's work at 3DownNation, and @joshsmith_82 on twitter!
Imagine this: CFL media relations was kind/wacky enough to grant the Rouge, White & Blue a vote in this year's media preseason poll. In this episode of the RWB, Os Davis, Joe Pritchard and Dr. Rouge explain how we voted on categories including, among others, "Team which had the best offseason," "the 2018 leader in receiving yards" and "player set for a breakout season." (No, we didn't go with Johnny Manziel on that one...)
What a wonderful gift the Rouge, White & Blue CFL Podcast got for our landmark 100th epsidoe: An interview wiht all-time great, Canadian football Hall of Fame kicker Dave "Robokicker" Ridgway. You certainly don't have to be a Sasatchewan Roughriders to enjoy this 45 minutes' worth of hilarious stories and tales of the greats.
(Alos, RWB co-hosts Joe Pritchard, Os Davis and Dr. Rouge proffer a few hot takes on the 2018 CFL Draft and tease a few season predictions.)
And onto the next 100!
With less than a month to go before the 2018 CFL (pre)season, even in the 'States we're getting ready for Canadian football. AS evidence, Os Davis, Joe Pritchard and Dr. Rouge welcome Antonio Villagomez of the Wood Cookie Sawcast and Daily Fantasy Insider to talk RedBlacks and CFL fandom in America.
Plus: What do those Draft Day eve shenanigans by the Hamilton Tiger-Cats mean...?
Technical difficulties wiped out our last episode, but Os Davis, Joe Pritchard and Dr. Rouge return with more stream-of-consciousness on CFL happenings. Highlights include Joe's bold prediction about the 2019 Montreal Alouettes, The Doctor's rant on Mike Sherman and Os's lament for OL play of back in the day...