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The Rouge White & Blue CFL podcastRWB podcast #289: Alouettes, Bombers, Redblacks win impressively – and yeah, the Riders, too…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 presea...2025-06-2455 min

The Rouge White & Blue CFL podcastRWB podcast #288: Um, what’s up with these kickers?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...2025-06-1852 min

The Rouge White & Blue CFL podcastRWB podcast #287: It is June yet! (and Os says Alouettes are awesome)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 debu...2025-06-1156 min

The Rouge White & Blue CFL podcastRouge White and Blue 286: Fearless Prediction time!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! 2025-06-0459 min

The Rouge White & Blue CFL podcastRouge White and Blue, May 26th, 2025Os 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 2025-05-2734 min

The Rouge White & Blue CFL podcastRWB podcast #284: CFL preseason futures!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: ov...2025-05-2252 min

The Rouge White & Blue CFL podcastRWB podcast #283: Riders offseason plus some classic preseason speculationThis 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 Podcas...2025-05-1440 min

The Rouge White & Blue CFL podcastRWB podcast #282: Talking CFL Draft and beer (not necessarily in that order)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 dr...2025-05-0626 min

The Rouge White & Blue CFL podcastRWB podcast #281: The 2025 CFL season begins and/or RWB comes out of hibernationAaaand 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...2025-04-2255 min

The Rouge White & Blue CFL podcastRWB podcast #280: The 2024 CFL season is over; long live 2025!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...2024-11-3056 min

The Rouge White & Blue CFL podcastRWB CFL podcast #279: Here comes the Grey CupThe 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 sp...2024-11-1241 min

The Rouge White & Blue CFL podcastRWB CFL podcast #278: Semifinals wrap, Divisionals previewsAll 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. 2024-11-041h 13

The Rouge White & Blue CFL podcastRWB CFL podcast #277: Playoffs?!?!?! That’s right playoffsThat’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… The Rouge, White and Blue is part of the Shotgun Sports Network. Watch this episode – and those of other Shotgun shows on YouTube – or listen from wherever you get your p...2024-10-3053 min

The Rouge White & Blue CFL podcastRWB CFL podcast #276: All apologies to Queen…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 le...2024-10-2232 min

The Rouge White & Blue CFL podcastRWB CFL podcast #275: Playoff scenario, playoff narrativesAs 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 Podcas...2024-10-1844 min

The Rouge White & Blue CFL podcastRWB CFL podcast #274: The Riders eliminate everybodyWell, 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 Ride...2024-10-0755 min

The Rouge White & Blue CFL podcastRWB CFL podcast #273: The eye of the TicatRisin' 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-clinchin...2024-09-3051 min

The Rouge White & Blue CFL podcastRWB CFL podcast #272: What’s up with all the…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 Lion...2024-09-2655 min

The Rouge White & Blue CFL podcastRWB CFL podcast #271: Three byes, two upsets, one tieA 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...2024-09-1643 min

The Rouge White & Blue CFL podcastRWB CFL podcast #270: Not so strange after all…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. An...2024-09-0652 min

The Rouge White & Blue CFL podcastRWB CFL podcast #269: Rouge Rouge Rouge, yeah!(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 we...2024-08-301h 01

The Rouge White & Blue CFL podcastRWB CFL podcast #268: Sweep! Sweeeeeeeeep!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...2024-08-211h 17

The Rouge White & Blue CFL podcastRWB CFL podcast #266: This league is crazyYou 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...2024-08-0854 min

The Rouge White & Blue CFL podcastRWB CFL podcast #265: From the land of backup quarterbacksAs 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, coul...2024-08-011h 06

The Rouge White & Blue CFL podcastRWB CFL podcast #264: More close games, not much fantasy helpAt 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...2024-07-2344 min

The Rouge White & Blue CFL podcastRWB CFL Podcast #263" Chris Jones is out (and other stories)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. Foll...2024-07-1857 min

The Rouge White & Blue CFL podcastRWB CFL podcast #262: Backup quarterback time beginsWe’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...2024-07-111h 12

The Rouge White & Blue CFL podcastRWB CFL podcast #261: Os takes a beatingFor 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 th...2024-07-041h 03

The Rouge White & Blue CFL podcastRWB CFL podcast #260 -- What’s up with all the scoringRWB 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 Bl...2024-06-271h 01

The Rouge White & Blue CFL podcastRWB CFL podcast #259: We got your predictions right hereWe’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 wh...2024-06-201h 08

The Rouge White & Blue CFL podcastRWB CFL podcast #258: After week 1, (almost) everything is awesomeRWB 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...2024-06-1357 min

The Rouge White & Blue CFL podcastRWB CFL podcast #257: The season predictions bonanza!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 th...2024-06-061h 11

The Rouge White & Blue CFL podcastRWB CFL Podcast #256: Forecasting the future(s)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? W...2024-05-241h 04

The Rouge White & Blue CFL podcastRouge White and Blue #255: Welcome to the 2024 CFL season!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! The Rouge, White and Blue is now part of the Shotgun Spor...2024-05-161h 09

The Rouge White & Blue CFL podcastRWB CFL podcast #254: Tales of the Hamiltonian Grey CupAfter 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...2023-11-271h 06

The Rouge White & Blue CFL podcastRWB CFL podcast #253: More Grey Cup previewUsual 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...2023-11-171h 15

The Rouge White & Blue CFL podcastRWB CFL podcast #252: Grey Cup preview (What else…?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 underd...2023-11-1546 min

The Rouge White & Blue CFL podcastRWB #251: The tricontinental CFL divisional preview with guest Greg St. JamesThis 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 Supe...2023-11-091h 20

The Rouge White & Blue CFL podcastRWB podcast #250: Semifinal playoff games preview, picksWelcome 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 f...2023-11-0236 min

The Rouge White & Blue CFL podcastRWB podcast #249: R.I.P. Riders and troubled Lions(?)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...2023-10-2538 min

The Rouge White & Blue CFL podcastRWB podcast #248: Lotsa points, a little intrigue and the mystery of the fading RidersThe 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...2023-10-1857 min

The Rouge White & Blue CFL podcastRWB podcast #247: The Bombers and Argos are awesome (and maybe the Alouettes…?)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 p...2023-10-1258 min

The Rouge White & Blue CFL podcastRWB podcast #246: That strange part of CFL seasonThe 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 mo...2023-10-0341 min

The Rouge White & Blue CFL podcastRWB CFL podcast #245: Coach Phil guests (what more do you need?)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 n...2023-09-2656 min

The Rouge White & Blue CFL podcastRWB CFL podcast #244: Raves and rantsTo 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 Argona...2023-09-1957 min

The Rouge White & Blue CFL podcastRWB CFL podcast #243: The seven-tenths pointAs 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? 2023-09-1136 min

The Rouge White & Blue CFL podcastRouge White and Blue #242: We Hear BanjosOnce 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. 2023-09-071h 21

The Rouge White & Blue CFL podcastRouge White and Blue CFL Podcast #241: Recent DevelopmentsAndrew 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. 2023-08-3150 min

The Rouge White & Blue CFL podcastRouge White and Blue CFL Podcast 240: Turf District SouthJoe 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. 2023-08-2257 min

The Rouge White & Blue CFL podcastRWB CFL podcast #239: Bonus episode – the temporary return of Os DavisTraditional 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 qu...2023-08-1835 min

The Rouge White & Blue CFL podcastRouge White and Blue CFL Podcast #238: Countdown with Trey ColbeckTrey 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. 2023-08-1749 min

The Rouge White & Blue CFL podcastRouge 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? 2023-08-0946 min

The Rouge White & Blue CFL podcastRWB CFL Podcast #236: Os is Still Playing HookyOnce 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. 2023-08-0257 min

The Rouge White & Blue CFL podcastRWB CFL Podcast #235Os 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. 2023-07-261h 11

The Rouge White & Blue CFL podcastRWB CFL podcast #234: Lots of scoring, lots of QBs, one big upsetLots 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 be...2023-07-1958 min

The Rouge White & Blue CFL podcastRWB CFL podcast #233: One weird wild week of Canadian footballWell, 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 Montrea...2023-07-121h 15

The Rouge White & Blue CFL podcastRWB CFL podcast #232: The Argos world that everyone else is living inRouge 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 wee...2023-07-061h 04

The Rouge White & Blue CFL podcastRWB CFL podcast #231: Bon voyage (and a week 3 recap)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...2023-06-291h 14

The Rouge White & Blue CFL podcastRWB CFL podcast #230: Déjà vu – but this time, we’re awesome at fantasy footbal“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 la...2023-06-2148 min

The Rouge White & Blue CFL podcastRWB CFL podcast #229: Overreactions to week 1 (a classic!)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 footba...2023-06-141h 05

The Rouge White & Blue CFL podcastRWB podcast #228: the 2023 CFL season kicks off!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 starti...2023-06-0750 min

The Rouge White & Blue CFL podcastRWB podcast #227: Wait, how is this CFL/CBS broadcast deal going to work…?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 Argo...2023-06-0252 min

The Rouge White & Blue CFL podcastRWB podcast #226: Talking Hamilton Tiger-Cats of 2022, 2023Rouge 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...2023-04-2153 min

The Rouge White & Blue CFL podcastRWB podcast #225: CFL free agency, 2023 edition, opensThe 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 Hamilt...2023-02-1740 min

The Rouge White & Blue CFL podcastRWB podcast #224: Wrapping the Grey Cup and the 2022 seasonThe 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...2022-11-2450 min

The Rouge White & Blue CFL podcastRWB podcast #223: a Grey Cup preview, naturally…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 f...2022-11-181h 02

The Rouge White & Blue CFL podcastRWB CFL podcast #222: Pants are overratedJust 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...2022-11-1141 min

The Rouge White & Blue CFL podcastRWB podcast #221: Playoff Time in the CFLIt’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 wi...2022-11-0426 min

The Rouge White & Blue CFL podcastRWB CFL podcast #220: On Pythagorean (and our) ExpectationsThe 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 ho...2022-10-2751 min

The Rouge White & Blue CFL podcastRWB CFL podcast #219: Riders say bye to Cody Fajardo…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 sw...2022-10-2055 min

The Rouge White & Blue CFL podcastRWB CFL podcast #218: Going right down to the wire…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 agains...2022-10-131h 01

The Rouge White & Blue CFL podcastRWB CFL podcast #217: Happy Canadian Thanksgiving!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...2022-10-0654 min

The Rouge White & Blue CFL podcastRWB CFL podcast #216: So you’re saying there’s a chanceIt 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...2022-09-2956 min

The Rouge White & Blue CFL podcastRWB CFL podcast #215: O gods, here come the Ticats..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 he...2022-09-2242 min

The Rouge White & Blue CFL podcastRWB CFL podcast #214: On blowouts and scenariosWhen 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 fan...2022-09-1542 min

The Rouge White & Blue CFL podcastRWB CFL podcast #213: Labour Day hangover (still)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 game...2022-09-0848 min

The Rouge White & Blue CFL podcastRWB CFL podcast #12: “Things are becoming clearer”“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 go...2022-09-0148 min

The Rouge White & Blue CFL podcastRWB CFL podcast #211: Is it over…?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 thei...2022-08-2459 min

The Rouge White & Blue CFL podcastRWB CFL podcast #210 Whatta week of CFL football!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...2022-08-1857 min

The Rouge White & Blue CFL podcastRWB CFL podcast #209: Joe regales with tales of Montreal and OttawaRouge 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 hi...2022-08-1153 min

The Rouge White & Blue CFL podcastRWB CFL podcast #208: History in the makingOs 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 unequ...2022-08-041h 08

The Rouge White & Blue CFL podcastRWB CFL podcast #207: Os hates betting, DFS and everything – but mostly the RidersRouge 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...2022-07-2854 min

The Rouge White & Blue CFL podcastRWB CFL Podcast #206: the Montreal Alouettes’ season in hellThe 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 play...2022-07-2052 min

The Rouge White & Blue CFL podcastRWB CFL podcast #205: Least enjoyable week in CFL history?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...2022-07-141h 03

The Rouge White & Blue CFL podcastRWB CFL podcast #204: Exciting BC Lions, trainwreck Alouettes, steady BombersThe 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 hal...2022-07-071h 04

The Rouge White & Blue CFL podcastRWB CFL podcast #203: How about them Alouettes? And Lions...?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 go...2022-06-3057 min

The Rouge White & Blue CFL podcastRWB CFL podcast #202: No answers, but clearer questionsAs 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 ki...2022-06-231h 06

The Rouge White & Blue CFL podcastRWB CFL Podcast #201: From 2015 to next week in Canadian footballThe 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 th...2022-06-161h 37

The Rouge White & Blue CFL podcastRWB podcast #200: a massive 2022 CFL season previewDamn 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 t...2022-06-081h 20

The Rouge White & Blue CFL podcastRWB CFL Podcast #199: On (averted) player strike & more w/John Hodge of 3 Down NationLike 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...2022-05-1937 min

The Rouge White & Blue CFL podcastRWB CFL Podcast #198: Draft Wrap w/Tim Capper of Alouettes Flight DeckThe 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...2022-05-0637 min

The Rouge White & Blue CFL podcastRWB CFL podcast #197: Milt Stegall interviewedThe 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...2022-04-2848 min

The Rouge White & Blue CFL podcastRWB #196: Interview w/Ricky RayThe 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...2022-04-211h 08

The Rouge White & Blue CFL podcastRWB #198: Interview w/Ricky RayThe 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...2022-04-211h 08

The Rouge White & Blue CFL podcastRWB #195: CFL preseason talk w/Josh Smith of Podskee Wee WeeHappy 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...2022-04-1353 min

The Rouge White & Blue CFL podcastRWB CFL Podcast #194: Remembering the 108th Grey CupWell, 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… 2021-12-2049 min

The Rouge White & Blue CFL podcastRWB CFL Podcast #193: Grey Cup! Blue Bombers! Tiger-Cats! Rematch!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...2021-12-0845 min

The Rouge White & Blue CFL podcastRWB CFL podcast #192: On momentum, placekickers, betting and, inevitably, can anyone beat the Bombers?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-p...2021-12-0235 min

The Rouge White & Blue CFL podcastRWB podcast #191: The 2021 CFL playoffs begin (also, about that USFL thing…)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...2021-11-2529 min

The Rouge White & Blue CFL podcastRWB CFL podcast #190: The Alouettes win! The Alouettes win! (against the Winnipeg second team…)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 c...2021-11-1735 min