CFL 2026

[PositiveCashFlow]

1. Give the ball to 5
2. Block properly
3. Profit

 

[ConnorNova0929]

Nice that the Elks won. Went for food and drinks this afternoon and hilariously none of the TV's had the Elks game on lol. Multiple TV's showing soccer, baseball and golf (lol).

No idea if there is an agreement to not show home games in Edmonton to entice folks to actually go to the games. If not, the CFL seems to be a dying league. Also, Stamps game attendance looks bad. I guess they changed their name recently too!

 

[nerevarine]

I cant think of any reason why you would want to go first in overtime. Big mistake by the stamps.

 

[PositiveCashFlow]

Korte was snapping field goals?

 

[Arty Spooners Bsmnt]

Virtue sellers?
You actually think “Redskins” was a ok?
Btw , what’s woke? Giving a shit about the world, the less fortunate,the environment, the disenfranchised? Not being in to racisisim? Not giving a shit about one’s sexuality?
Help me out here.

Btw this field looks awesome on TV

Woke

 

[Cloned]

Elks 2-0

Stamps and Lions 0-2

 

[Bret Larson]

The EE played well in both games and deserved the wins. They are definitely an improved team.

Yes I only had 4 heart attacks.

 

[Kyle McMahon]

Yeah, having attended countless games in the rain and cold I just felt that the timelines and dragging out was just clueless. As if the officials and TSN commercial breks etc have no idea what its like to just be sitting around there.

The game took forever to play. 3.5hrs in total. Just ridiculous.

I thought Luther was plain awful. How did he get a spot? Didn't impress me much.

He had a good camp, beat out sorta-incumbents Victor and Hilaire. Killed 2 drives in quick succession today though, that has to get cleaned up in a hurry if he wants to stick around.

Even before OT this game had taken up a full 3 hour timeslot, which was complete nonsense. There weren't very many injury breaks, only a couple measurements, no reviews until the very end that I recall. Not a huge amount of penalties. It wasn't particularly high scoring, and both teams ran a lot keeping the clock moving. The league had to go out of their way to stretch this game to 3 hours in length, and why they felt the need to do this in monsoon conditions is anyone's guess.

 

[bellagiobob]

The most pleasant surprise today was the lack of penalties, can’t remember the last time I watched an EE game where there were less than 10 penalties in total, usually we are over that amount ourselves.

 

[Drivesaitl]

Malik Carney shouldn't be a captain.

They should have drug tested him. What an absolute ridiculous sequence. "We'll defend, no wait, offence, no, defense"

The official has to ask him. "look just tell me what you want, you won the toss"

That said Killam is so bizarre I'm not sure the player even knew or was told.

 

[Drivesaitl]

He had a good camp, beat out sorta-incumbents Victor and Hilaire. Killed 2 drives in quick succession today though, that has to get cleaned up in a hurry if he wants to stick around.

Even before OT this game had taken up a full 3 hour timeslot, which was complete nonsense. There weren't very many injury breaks, only a couple measurements, no reviews until the very end that I recall. Not a huge amount of penalties. It wasn't particularly high scoring, and both teams ran a lot keeping the clock moving. The league had to go out of their way to stretch this game to 3 hours in length, and why they felt the need to do this in monsoon conditions is anyone's guess.

Camp should not overrule fairly solid play during seasons in real games. Victor and Hilaire actually looked like players and were cheap. For a guy to be beat incumbents he should be lights out. Luther has been awful.

 

[ThreeOfAPerfectPair]

They need to open the upper deck and lower ticket prices. It should not be that expensive when the stadium is at 10% capacity. $65 to sit on the 10 yard line and $10 beer, f*** off.

 

[abootzky]

Without hesitation (& by myself for a myriad of others' reasons/excuses) I went to the game yesterday, marking the start of my 46th season as an EE season ticket holder. Our seats are under the upper deck overhang in Sec P and the walking distance from where I park my vehicle to Gate 9 is relatively short. At no point did I need to take out my new vinyl rain poncho. The wind was chilly but, to me, the only truly negative effect of the crappy weather was the number of no-shows it understandsbly led to.
Seeing that I was there to watch my favourite team try to win their home opener for the first time in several seasons (which they did), I will deem the experience a success.

Was the Elks' coaching and play anywhere near perfect? Of course not. The offensive play calling took too much of the first half to get out of its own way. Eventually it did, however. Cody Fajardo overcame a poor start and rookie TJ Luther made some positive plays that didn't mitigate his glaring miscues. I'm sure that his starting spot isn't carved in stone. Along with Justin Rankin's fabulousness, the defence & special teams came through when needed vs a talented Alouettes team. The biggest difference between the Elks yesterday and the 2021-25 squads is that I went into OT pretty confident that they would find a way to win instead of an old or new way to blow it. There's tons of stuff to be worked on and fixed, but they are off to a decent start for a change which is really nice to see.

 

[MoontoScott]

Without hesitation (& by myself for a myriad of others' reasons/excuses) I went to the game yesterday, marking the start of my 46th season as an EE season ticket holder. Our seats are under the upper deck overhang in Sec P and the walking distance from where I park my vehicle to Gate 9 is relatively short. At no point did I need to take out my new vinyl rain poncho. The wind was chilly but, to me, the only truly negative effect of the crappy weather was the number of no-shows it understandsbly led to.
Seeing that I was there to watch my favourite team try to win their home opener for the first time in several seasons (which they did), I will deem the experience a success.

Was the Elks' coaching and play anywhere near perfect? Of course not. The offensive play calling took too much of the first half to get out of its own way. Eventually it did, however. Cody Fajardo overcame a poor start and rookie TJ Luther made some positive plays that didn't mitigate his glaring miscues. I'm sure that his starting spot isn't carved in stone. Along with Justin Rankin's fabulousness, the defence & special teams came through when needed vs a talented Alouettes team. The biggest difference between the Elks yesterday and the 2021-25 squads is that I went into OT pretty confident that they would find a way to win instead of an old or new way to blow it. There's tons of stuff to be worked on and fixed, but they are off to a decent start for a change which is really nice to see.

Thank you so much for your positive analyses of what happened yesterday. Yes, they are improved and there is room for optimism.

I have great respect for the people who are trying to keep pro football alive in Edmonton. It isn't easy with all the negative junk and pessimism.

 

[TopShelfGloveSide]

Virtue sellers?
You actually think “Redskins” was a ok?
Btw , what’s woke? Giving a shit about the world, the less fortunate,the environment, the disenfranchised? Not being in to racisisim? Not giving a shit about one’s sexuality?
Help me out here.

Btw this field looks awesome on TV

I knew a lot of indigenous people at that time through work and as they put it “Redskins was our team.” Of course that doesn’t represent all of them.

Surveys supported that the majority of indigenous people were not offended by the name as well.

If there are any indigenous people here feel free to say if I’m over stepping but seems like the only thing achieved was indigenous people losing their team so some rich white people could feel good about themselves.

 

[DoubleEFan]

Camp should not overrule fairly solid play during seasons in real games. Victor and Hilaire actually looked like players and were cheap. For a guy to be beat incumbents he should be lights out. Luther has been awful.

I had been thinking the same thing when they ended up cutting Victor and moving Hilaire to the practice roster. Victor was picked up by the Red Blacks quickly. I know Luther had a good camp, but sometimes past play should have been considered. Hilaire wasn’t brought in until last August I think. He had good chemistry with Cody Fajardo and Cody spoke highly of him and the fact Hilaire was able to learn a play book so quickly. I hope they activate him from the practice roster for the Winnipeg game. Plus I liked an interview I heard with Hilaire one time. He really does not want to end up back in the dregs of Florida in one of the most violent areas. He seemed very motivated to do well and aware this is his chance for something better. I hope he gets another shot.

 

[Arty Spooners Bsmnt]

I knew a lot of indigenous people at that time through work and as they put it “Redskins was our team.” Of course that doesn’t represent all of them.

Surveys supported that the majority of indigenous people were not offended by the name as well.

If there are any indigenous people here feel free to say if I’m over stepping but seems like the only thing achieved was indigenous people losing their team so some rich white people could feel good about themselves.

Offended by everything, ashamed of nothing.

 

[Arty Spooners Bsmnt]

As usual (since 1975, excluding the year they wanted me to pay for a bogus test to enter the stadium) I was at the game. Like everyone else I wasn't a fan of of the offences first quarter where the had a total of three yards of offence until the last play of the quarter. Play calling was too conservative in the fourth when they needed to protect a lead.

Considering how the offence played for nearly half the game the defence played quite well. Montreal had to settle for a lot of field goals. They played well enough for Alexander to get his first regular season loss.

 

[Stoneman89]

Dont want to get carried away with some excitement but…….this sure beats starting 0-7!!!

 

[JustNapamIt]

I knew a lot of indigenous people at that time through work and as they put it “Redskins was our team.” Of course that doesn’t represent all of them.

Surveys supported that the majority of indigenous people were not offended by the name as well.

If there are any indigenous people here feel free to say if I’m over stepping but seems like the only thing achieved was indigenous people losing their team so some rich white people could feel good about themselves.

Esks is a hell of a lot more nuanced discussion than Redskins. I can get both sides of the Esks issue. I personally was against the change of name.
But to suggest anything like the Redskins decision was woke ( whatever that means, or virtue signalling ) kinda speaks for the guy (not you) going down that road.
Of course I’m here in Alberta where many conflate weather with environment, so there’s that.

 

[PositiveCashFlow]

if we can beat the lions on the road I’ll be interested to see what the attendance will be like at the next home game

 

[Stoneman89]

Chris Morris is a gutless turd. He calls the name change a "disaster" that they still haven't recovered from, and concedes it pissed off a whole bunch of loyal people. But then says there are no plans to change it back. And then says, they're still instituting some of the old stuff back into the org, including bringing back the "Once an Eskimo always an Eskimo" sign, and referring to the team as "the double E" or the "Green and Gold" and not having the Elk monogram on centrefield.

If you're going to nip around the edges here and there and put little scraps of the old name throughout, why are they tip toeing around? Either have the guts to do it fully or back right off and dive in the other way. Because you just know, eventually, the woke crowd is going to lose their shit over the small stuff here and there with the thought that it hasn't been completely scrubbed, which was their wish all along. There will be no pleasing those people, so quit f***ing around and just do it.

 

[MoontoScott]

Chris Morris is a gutless turd. He calls the name change a "disaster" that they still haven't recovered from, and concedes it pissed off a whole bunch of loyal people. But then says there are no plans to change it back. And then says, they're still instituting some of the old stuff back into the org, including bringing back the "Once an Eskimo always an Eskimo" sign, and referring to the team as "the double E" or the "Green and Gold" and not having the Elk monogram on centrefield.

If you're going to nip around the edges here and there and put little scraps of the old name throughout, why are they tip toeing around? Either have the guts to do it fully or back right off and dive in the other way. Because you just know, eventually, the woke crowd is going to lose their shit over the small stuff here and there with the thought that it hasn't been completely scrubbed, which was their wish all along. There will be no pleasing those people, so quit f***ing around and just do it.

It's not that simple. Ultimately, the Thompson family has to ok a change back to the "Eskimos" and that won't happen because of the backlash that they would receive. They are already grieving the loss of their family member.

I guarantee you that the House of Commons, the PM, the Mayor, the mainstream media and a whole lot of others are going to immediately get involved so why subject your family to that? I wouldn't.

I hated the name change and the false accusations made against the club (Lisa LaFlamme on the CTV national news openly calling the club "racist") but ultimately, why bring a tornado down on your family for the sake of a football team's name? It isn't a life or death matter. I'm sure that Morris hates it too but at some point you have to move on.

My solution (as I have stated many times) is take that Elks junk and throw it in the garbage and just call the team the double E. That's what many people called them for all those years so it really isn't a change.