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Third Down Gamble

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Join us for lively debates and interesting guest interviews on the topic of Canadian Football. Audio... worth watching!

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  • 25 episodes
  • weekly
  • Avg 54 min
  • English
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  • S7 · E356
    June 3 · 50 min

    Quick Kicks 158: with Steve Daniel (CFL Associate VP, Football and Team Analytics).

    Special Guest Steve Daniel discusses the importance of analytics in terms of assessing game quailty, the importance of understanding the mean and the median, the value of knowing how impactful turnovers, two-and-outs, and third down stalls are to a team's chances at winning, and he relates how working for the CFL has helped maintain his life-long love of analytics. (CFL on CBC theme music used with express permission; podcast recorded Monday, June 1, 2026).

  • S7 · E355
    May 31 · 44 min

    Quick Kicks 157: with Luc Mullinder (Harvard Media Roughriders Radio Network).

    Special Guest Luc Mullinder (colour analyst for Saskatchewan Roughriders radio game-broadcasts) discusses the 2026 Roughriders training camp in Saskatoon, how new quarterback Brayden Schager turned heads, what is required of the defensive line given all its changes, and who is expected to step up to replace departed (to Ottawa) A.J. Allen and C.J. Reavis. Luc also illustrates the importance of leadership in training camp and recounts his first training camp as a rookie with the Roughriders, and life after football. (CFL on CBC theme music used with express permission; podcast recorded May 28. 2026).

  • S4 · E354
    May 27 · 41 min

    Quick Kicks 156: with Jeff Krever (CFL Senior Director, Player & Game Statistics).

    Special guest Jeff Krever (CFL Senior Director, Player & Game Statistics) joins to discuss which players are the ones to watch nearing records or milestones. Jeff also discusses the definition of tackling used by stats crews to be recorded in the game statistics; the efforts in the off-season to help prepare stats crews for the new season; his day in Saskatoon preparing for the Roughriders vs Blue Bombers, and his excitement now that a new 2026 CFL season is upon us. (CFL on CBC theme music used with express permission; podcast recorded May 22, 2026).

  • S7 · E353
    May 20 · 55 min

    Consider this.

    CFL training camps see some players get injured, others released, and other signing with another team. Edmonton quarterback Cody Fajardo believes the Elks can be in the 2026 Grey Cup. Calgary vs Saskatchewan on CFL+ May 18 (2026) gave the first taste of some of the new rules coming to the CFL, the 35 second clock was a hit! Ironically, next season in 2027, not pre-season but regular-season play starts on Victoria Day Weekend. While many starting quartback jobs are secure, who amng the backups will step-up? (CFl on CBC theme used with express permission; podcast recorded May 18, 2026).

  • S7 · E352
    May 13 · 1 hr 9 min

    A lot of different changes: with Andrew Hoskins (Turf District Podcast)

    Andrew Hoskins (Turf District Podcast) co-hosts to help discuss the opening of CFL training camps, what the expectations are for players at camp, the importance of pre-season games, and the new Head Coaches that are trying to mold teams in Ottawa and Toronto. April 28, 2026 the CFL announced new playoff-participation rules and we try to make more sense of them. (CFL on CBC theme used with express permission; podcast recorded May 11, 2026).

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