Windsor Lancers

Let's go to the final matchup in this weekend's slate of OUA football.

The Windsor Lancers with a 54-point shutout win over the Toronto Varsity Blues.

Kareem Cotton near perfect.

Wade, 24 of 26 for 370 and 6 points.

Windsor did win 54-0 today against Toronto.

But this is not the Windsor Lancer broadcast.

But, man, bro, I am curious.

I'm curious.

And I think you are going to need to be really buttoned up in the back end of your defense if you want to contain the damage that Ryan Hughes is able to inflict.

But Wade, let's go to the other end of the 401, the other end of Ontario here as the Windsor Lancers are hosting your Toronto Varsity Blues.

And for the Windsor Lancers in this one, dare I say it, don't start the game with a pick six not that it mattered but i think that's uh that's a pretty good key to the game here let's not start this one off with a pick six uh but in all seriousness though i think windsor has played a really really dominant brand of football so far through 2026 Kareem Cotton.

We talked about him on the recap show about being a sneaky dark horse for OUA MVP, for potential head Creighton candidate.

The things that he's done this season have just been super, super impressive.

Receivers making plays all over the place.

Running backs going for good chunks as they started to truck guys into second level.

And you run into a very similar build in the Windsor Lancers.

When they get those turnovers, they tend to come when the defense needs them most.

And as we've seen, this is an Ottawa offense that is prone to making mistakes Costly mistakes at important times, whether it was the late fourth quarter interception last week or casting our minds back to 2025, they had back-to-back games against the Windsor Lancers where they lost on the final possession due to a costly Josh Jansen interception.

He's a tremendous quarterback.

This is an offense that loves to spread the ball out.

I am the host, Luke Balch.

Warriors coming off a 44-18 loss at the homecoming versus the Windsor Lancers.

And you know what? The game was a bit closer than the score indicates.

You know, we started off with a pick six, seven, nothing.

Had a chance to make it close, and it was close for a while.

And then Windsor pumped a couple in at the fourth quarter to increase the score.

But pretty valiant effort from the fellas, considering the time of possession was really skewed to the Windsor Lancers.

That's a good team over there, so kudos to them.

But defensively, You know, there's a lot of new starters and guys that are still getting their feet wet here in the OUA.

And I think you saw that a little last week with some of the big explosives they gave up against the Windsor Lancers.

But they rebounded really well in the second half.

And I think if you're Coach Gleason and Coach Faults, that's some of the stuff you hang your hat on.

Yeah, absolutely, Wade.

Let's move on to the final game of the weekend here.

The Windsor Lancers going to the KW region to take on the Waterloo Warriors at home.

Talking about tough football teams, gritty football teams.

Yeah, when watching the game, you did notice that they did, you know, come out and play really well in that first half, especially with a couple right at the end of the second half, obviously wasn't ideal.

But as we move past that game, coach, and we go on to next week and we look for hosting, we're one and two, we're hosting the one and two Windsor Lancers who are coming off a big game in their own right.

You know, when you look at their offense, they're averaging 37 points a game.

When you watch that film, what would you say the biggest strength of their offense is and what are we going to have to do to counter that on defense?

Connor, we had some really good games, some really high-scoring games, and certainly, I guess, the game of the week that we're going to start with here, the Western Mustangs.

coming all the way back in that second half to take down the Windsor Lancers, Connor, a game that felt like, you know, Western was not really in good football to start and turned it all the way around.

They somehow found a way to keep themselves close.

And sure enough, that third quarter, they just opened the floodgates.

it's a brand new group.

And the big test now is how do you match the physicality of the Windsor Lancers? Because as big as Western's O-line traditionally is, I don't think there's a bigger offensive line than the Windsor Lancers.

And when they decide they want to run the ball downhill and grind out yardage, they're a tough bill to stop.

Now you add in the mix with Kareem Cotton and his athletic ability of making second-level plays and kind of moving around and extending and being a factor in the run game.

Western put up almost 1,000.

They were like 820-some-odd yards in their matchup against York.

So I think it's going to be an equally tough challenge for the Windsor Lancers in this one, starting with Jerome Rancourt, who clearly led the charge last week.

Yeah.