Banjo Bowl

I'll bring it up probably for the last time.

And Trevor Harris' post-game comments after the Banjo Bowl to me were the best, you know, this team's best five games are going to be its last five games.

That clearly was not the case.

They do not go in to the playoffs with any degree of momentum or fear instilled in other teams as the defending Grey Cup champions.

How could I forget that?

The year I went to the Banjo Bowl and it took us almost two hours to get from Regent to Princess Auto Stadium.

No,

wait.

It's

not like the Banjo Bowl trophy.

Yeah.

Well, but in this sense, it kind of became the banjo bowl.

That's true, yeah.

Because the Hilltops are like, if we don't win, you guys don't get it.

When the CFL starts on DAZN next year, if you don't think DAZN knows that the most passionate fan base in the CFL or the Saskatchewan Rough Riders, If you don't think in week one or week two of the season that that first Saturday night game is going to involve the Saskatchewan Rough Riders.

If you don't think the Banjo Bowl is going to involve the Saskatchewan Rough Riders on DAZN, then you're in for a big surprise.

Because I'm going to guess, Roddy, that the Saskatchewan Rough Riders will have more DAZN games than anyone else because of their fan base.

Well, I love it.

You know, I look at Saskatchewan.

I think there's certainly something to play for, right? Again, like I'm, I'll bring it up for the, probably the fifth time or fourth time now since Trevor Harris told me this after the, after that, that loss in the Banjo Bowl, about how, seeing the best the Riders have here in these last five games.

There's something to be pl- there's something to be said playing at home.

There's something to be said wanting to put together back-to-back, you know, at least winning weeks, if not solid weeks.

And if you think about it, the Plaza is usually later in the season.

In the past three or four seasons outside of last year, the Riders lost every game after Banjo Bowl.

So...

Yeah, it was like my niece says in the chat, it was a very boring game.

On the hit on Deontay McMahon.

I mean, the only way you would've topped that hit, Coach, is if, if it had been the Banjo Bowl and the guy in that uniform was in green.

[laughs]

But I wanna leave you with-

Uh, the second half of the season, they have been probably the fifth-best team in the West.

Yeah, like, I mean, this is [laughs] we said it off mic, but Trevor Harris, when he was here for that, you know, that post-game, he was fired up, seething after the Banjo Bowl loss to the Bombers, said, "You're gonna see our best in these final five games," and I don't think we've seen even close.

And what's unique about this team, I mean, clearly they're not as built, they're not as deep as the Grey Cup-winning team last season, and I think, you know, we talked about this leading into the year, maybe even a couple weeks after the, you know, after the season started, that y- big part of the Blue Bombers' success was keeping a lot of guys, like a lot of guys.

And, like, to keep guys, that requires taking, in some cases, team-friendly contracts, you know, or maybe not as much as you could get on the market at the very least, and knowing what you have here, and that just didn't happen in Saskatchewan.