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RWB CFL podcast #243: The seven-tenths point

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…

 

Rouge White and Blue #242: We Hear Banjos

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. 

Rouge White and Blue CFL Podcast #241: Recent Developments

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. 

Rouge White and Blue CFL Podcast 240: Turf District South

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. 

RWB CFL podcast #239: Bonus episode – the temporary return of Os Davis

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.

Rouge White and Blue CFL Podcast #238: Countdown with Trey Colbeck

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. 

Rouge White and Blue CFL Podcast #237: Go for It?

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? 

RWB CFL Podcast #236: Os is Still Playing Hooky

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. 

RWB CFL Podcast #235

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. 

RWB CFL podcast #234: Lots of scoring, lots of QBs, one big upset

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!