The Jason Gregor Show - September 10th, 2026 - Hour 3

0:00Connor Halle, Declan Kruger with you. We got a loaded final few hours of the show. We're going to hear from the Elks. As of course, they get set, take on the stampeders. We've got the round table, fire and logic spec and much, much more. It's always brought to you by play Alberta dots air title sponsor. I'm proud of having back for another year and another opportunity for you today. The daily grand get your tickets play Alberta dots a thousand bucks a day or the next 20 years. Pretty good deal at play Alberta dot C. A. Now let's get to the round table brought to you by go auto. We're looking for a car truck van SUV. They got a lot of options over 17,000 to be specific. 33 different brands at 73 locations. Check it out. Go auto dot C. A. As a Connor Halle begins the

1:02festivities today. All right. Jason and Declan. Now Greg, just kind of want to go off something that you brought up earlier on in the show today and the CFL, the quadruple header. It even's got a sponsor. No free plugs. So we won't mention that one. But I love this for the CFL. I think this is such a good idea for them to do here. Obviously, we know on Sunday, you got the NFL don't go up against that. There's no point in doing so. But to give us a day where you have four straight football games to just stay at home and watch, I think it's a really good move by the league. My only disappointment is that it only happens once this year. I think this is something that you do a couple times a year. And if they're able to, why not line it up on Canada day July 1st? Why not sit down and watch four straight CFL games? They could do it next year in 2027. It's going to be on a Thursday. I don't think too many teams would be upset if you know you played a Friday Saturday. Then you play four games on the Thursday. Take advantage of it. Make it a day long thing. Now there will be some pushbacks. I know people want to get out to the lake or do things like that sort of things. So I understand it. But you know, then the teams after that would have an extended weekend. You get a chance

2:06to recoup a little bit. It'll only be like week five or six of the CFL season. So I think you'd be okay there. I really like what they're doing with this. I think they should do it more. What do you guys think? Connor, once again, I don't like this take. I love it. I'm so in with this. Part of the reason I think in large part that the NFL or college football are so special and I was such a dedicated fan base is because it's an entire day built around that sport. And I love the idea of watching my games in this case back to back to back to back. I think it should happen more exactly as you said. I think it turns the league into a point of viewing when it has a day set aside for itself. And I understand with you know, TV scheduling and obviously this fall comes around. You want to stay away from the Thursdays and Sunday. I get all that. But I think a dedicated day for CFL football, especially throughout the summer where there's no hockey, there's no NBA, there's no NFL. I think it would be something the league should lean into and I can't agree more because like you know me, there's nothing more that I love than getting on the couch and watching football from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. So if the CFL can build something around a schedule like that,

3:09I'm completely in on it. It's like anything twice maybe. I think you look at TV numbers and everything will be a factor into it for sure, right? Because hey, your TV partner is a pretty big partner now. So I think that comes into it now. You do have two broadcast partners next year. So I wonder how that potentially impacts it, maybe more positively to do it. I agree with Declan that you know, you have something like this where you say, hey man, I'm a diehard CFL fan. This is just going to be awesome. And away you go. Now I can always argue that, you know, I still think there's a lot of regional fans that, you know, they cheer for their team more. They'll watch the league a bit. Maybe a quarter here. They're going to sit down. Like it's hard to hunker down depending on to say, hey, it's a C at 11 a.m. and I'll be done watching TV at 11 p.m. Like awesome, but very few people. It's a small percentage. You can do all of it. So I still think at times you could have, you know, a little bit of overlapping between the

4:12games and it wouldn't be a bad thing. You're like, hey, you know what I'm going to watch your, you know, the first quarter, the first half and then Mike teams game starts. I don't get terrible. The NFL has eight games on at once sometimes, right? So I like the idea of all the games in one day, but I don't know if it has to be spread out over 12 hours. Yeah, you know, in about 100 percent like the NFL, I guess you obviously couldn't do it, right? There's too many games we can play at the same time. A little overlap wouldn't be the worst thing for sure. And I'm not saying if to do this, you know, five, six times a year, but you know, a couple times, I think would be kind of cool just to have that day celebrate the game, especially if you were to do it on Canada Day, tie that whole thing in there. Heck, you're at a party. You're out at the wherever it is. Throw the game on in the background. Have some flip-ball to watch for the people inside. I'm really looking forward to this Saturday. All right. I want to take you guys back to the NHL, and this is something this is take I think I've kind of had. And I was thinking about things that just, you know, exist in the back of my mind, but I don't always bring to the table. David Pasternack, most underrated player of his generation, the Connor McDavid, Nathan McKinnon,

5:15Nikita Kutrov, Leon Dryasadil, he is not as good as those guys, but you look at what this guy's done with the four consecutive hundred point seasons now, five 40 goals seasons, I believe it is. And that 22 23 season, when McDavid had 153 points and obviously won the hard going away, no one's arguing with that. He had 61 tucks on a 65 win team. And I just think so often he's the forgotten guy. And in large part, because those other four players I mentioned, those are just forwards, by the way, those four guys I mentioned, he is not as good as those guys, but the most underrated player of his generation, I believe is David Pasternack. Interesting point. Like, well, you look at over the last four years, he has eight points less than Dryasadil. Now Dryasadil played 26 for your games, because the last year he got injured, but it's probably fair that, you know, everybody talks about McDavid, Kutrov, McDavid and Dryasadil and they've won hearts and they've won scoring titles. So that's probably why and I get it. But the Pasternack,

6:15like, he doesn't really have a line mate or even a teammate that's in the same category. McKinnon had Rantonen for a lot of that time, right? And now he has K. Almacar, right? McDavid and Dryasadil have each other. Kutrov had point and some others, but Pasternack, Morgan Geeky, so he might be getting the most with the least. He's never really had a great center iceman, right? Like a dominant offense. Obviously, Bergeron was good player, but that's not lately. Bergeron's being retired. And you do wonder if you could ever get a really good center iceman in Boston. What could Pasternack do then? Yeah, when Werenzky won the Norris this year, and a lot of the deservedly so, by the way, and a lot of the discourse was, look at who he's doing with. I was kind of in the back of my mind thinking like, this is a little bit been David Pasternack his whole career, albeit playing forward instead of defenseman, but still. Yeah, it's no, it's a valid point. Like, it's hard to say he's under right.

7:16Because I guess my other thing is like, if not him, who else, right? Like if we are putting a stamp on it, who else? Like who else would be like, he just go like by point production, like, Mark Schifleys 11th in the last 10 years. I feel like maybe he could be in the conversation, because the whole thing, well, I have an issue with the overrated underrated, or that's the bad thing I'd bring up all the time with the friends. He like, if you're underrated, like, by who, you know, if you're a fantasy hockey player, Pasternack's going like top in every year, right? Like you know his point production is always there. If you, but you would agree though, when we talk about the great forwards of this era, we don't really talk about him in that ilk. And I think that's deserved though, because I don't think he's as good as those guys. I think he'd be like a step below probably also fair. Yeah, but I don't know if the step is that big. No, I think it's close. Yeah, like he's not McDavid. He's not dry. I said, he's not Kutraver McKinney. No, is he the next guy? Yeah, like I think so. Three of those four are our center, Iceman, right? And that does play a factor for sure. But Kutraff is a winger compared to him.

8:19Now Kutraff does have point, but sometimes he doesn't and he still is dynamic. So and you know, it's funny because he was on like the greatest regular season team of all time. But they did nothing in the playoffs and that probably heard him a little bit. If it's not him, it's a fair question because if you look at, do you know over the last decade, who's the high scoring defense when the angel? Because this is the one guy I think that might get close consideration if it's not past. Roman Yosey. That's the yeah, right? Now now, now Kail McCarr, obviously has only played 470 games. So he hasn't, you know, he's only played I think six of those those 10 years. So obviously he would be first. His points for game is definitely the highest and then Quinn Hughes. But you know, Roman Yosey's been pretty good for a long time. But in Nashville and no, 2017, they had their run to the cup. But since then, he's kind of being that Nashville hasn't really been a contender for the last decade. Right? So that probably hurts him a little bit. But

9:22past or not, I think is definitely underappreciated for how good he is. Because I like, if he would have had a Nicholas backstrum, how many more goals could he score? I just wonder. Like Nick Backstrum's pretty damn good set now. Always a leading scored without Nick Backstrum because when he's being hurt. But I just, you know, Bergeron was good, but Bergeron was a two way center. I said, he was never a dominant offensive center. I said, right? Never. Good player. Not great offensively. But past or not, he is, he's pretty dynamic. Right? And he is like, well, the thing that's unique about past or not is if you look at, you know, that last decade and he's right up there. He's got 880 points. He's fifth, just ahead of Penaer. And so that's the other guy who maybe could get who could get a nod there. But it's his, he's got more goals than McDavid in that time. He's got more goals than Kutcheroff. He's got more goals than McKinnen. So past or not, the only guys who have

10:27scored more goals in the last decade are Matthews, dry, settle, that's good. So it's a pretty good goal score and a point getter. Right? Like him and dry, settle the only guy. Well, no, McDavid's actually, she don't make David's top five and goals in that decade. I believe it. Yeah. So if you look at his DB, there's a lot of 40 goals. Yeah, there's a lot of 35 north of that. 64. That wasn't bad. And again, just to like that one season, he took 64 is the one David Pastorak also has his 60 goals on a 65 one team. Hey guys, what about Ajo? That's the Sebastian Ajo is, you know what? Compared to Pastorak, no, but Sebastian Ajo's 16th in that decade with points, right? Just under a pointing game player. Really good player, not a great player. Right? Like I think Ajo is definitely like a wrong maybe two below past or neck. Yeah, like I would say the gap between Ajo and Pastorak is wider than the gap between past and the other guys. Yes, for sure. Yeah, I think by a fair margin, I would say not to be disrespectful of Ajo's,

11:31he's good, but he's definitely not not the same. Yeah, we're still talking top 25 players in the world here. It's not, I don't think it's a huge insult. Do you think I was just going to say, I was, I don't know because you got to include defenseman and goals. Yeah, I don't know if I'd put him top 25. That's another good round table topic. Yeah, I don't think he's top 25. 30. It might be the 30 probably, you know, more more realistic for him. Right? Because like, like it's Kyle Conner, a better player than Ajo. I don't think he's a good defense. He's definitely a better shooter, but like, yeah, you could have, because since Conner is being the league, he has, let me look, yeah, Kyle Conner is actually outscored Ajo in the nine years that they've been in the league together. Basically played the same amount of games, but Ajo's obviously being on a better team overall in Carolina. So Conner, a better goalscore,

12:31but I think Ajo's probably a better rounded player. That's, that's how I would look at those two. If I, if I had to pick up my team, well, depend, I guess what's the makeup of my team, but I might take Ajo ahead of Conner just because I think he's better defensively. When we come back, Farhan, Lollady, we'll join us and more. It's Jason Greggershow presented by play Alberta.ca Thursday afternoon, Jason Greggers, Conner, Halley, Decklin, Kougersports 1440, sports1440.ca. And hey, do you want to go to the, Alex, again, we got a four pack of tickets to go to the game. You want to go text in right now, 833 401 1440 833 401 1440 with your name and your email and cons will do a draw and you could take a group of your friends. You could take the family, go on a double date, whatever you like, four seats to the game on Saturday and training right now. It's looking to talk some people there, probably 30,000 and depending on walk up, it could be even more. So should be great. Great day for football, the Labor Day

13:31rematch as we get to our football report brought to you by legacy heating and cooling, whether rates never change, no overtime charges. That's how you build a legacy at legacy heating. Dot C.A. As far in L.A. from the CFL on TSN talk a little CFL and NFL. Farhan, welcome back to the show. My man, how you doing? Hey, buddy, how are you? What's going on? What's the latest besides this big game coming up? Oh, buddy, there is, there's lots happening, man. It's a great time to be a sports fan. There's so much going on. You got baseball playoffs, hockey's kicking up and a fell started CFL. You know, they're in the stretch drive now and I think there's like, there's probably, I would say, I think there's five teams like it look and say, you know, if they won, I wouldn't be shocked. Now, Montreal would be the favorite for sure, but Saskatchewan, Eminton, B.C.'s a wall card to me because when they're good, they're really good. And then when they're bad, they're, and even when it pegged, you know, what the, they handed it to Montreal a few weeks ago. So I wouldn't count them out. So I think it's a it's pretty competitive time, which, which leads me to, of course, the Quadruple Saturday and three of those games are rematches, including the last three are all the rematches,

14:34Auto-Auto, Anno and no offense to Ottawa, but they're not really worth discussing right now because they're seasons over. But Saskatchewan, Winnipeg, would you make it the first game and what do you think has to happen in round two for the bombers? Yeah, look, I think that the way the bombers played for much of that game, they were, you know, they were worthy, right? It was almost like Calgary last week, I think for three quarters, it might have been the better team, but then in the fourth man, was it Edminton, right? And that happens in this league. It's kind of set up for that. And I just think that, you know, when you are Winnipeg, it's always been kind of the catastrophic turnover that turns games around and it did hear as well. And they've got to find a way to also manufacture first downs late in the game when they need it, right? And they weren't able to do that and they were able to get Saskatchewan one final opportunity and they were able to kick the field goal and then eventually get it done in overtime, right? So I got I'm not sure what to make of the riders. I really am not. I can try to wrap my head around them with Winnipeg. I think they're winning a couple of weeks ago against Montreux was very much a one off. I took advantage of a couple of turnovers and then didn't give momentum back, right? Like they were just, you know, it was one

15:38of those games where Montreux just needed a match and they couldn't and Winnipeg was able to be comfortable and play with the two score lead all the time. That never happened. Usually Winnipeg gives that moment back in games and they did it Saskatchewan. So, you know, we'll see what happens in the rematch here. I'm picking the riders, but, you know, generally games you don't get a sweep, right? One team wins one. One team wins the other. So we'll see if we'll see if I'm wrong on this one. Emton goes into Calgary and, you know, it's kind of a sluggish start for them off. The first down efficiency was awful. They were second and long way too often. 16 times. In fact, in 11 of them, they were 10 yards or more, which is not the key to success. But then when they got to the red zone, they're perfect. Four for four. And I think they're 14 for the last 16 trips in the red zone, scoring a touchdown. So they figured out the red zone. They do need to have better first down efficiency. And it's like they didn't come close to playing their best game, but they absolutely dominated Calgary when it matters. And, you know, Cody Fijardo, I don't think he loves throwing on on on McMahon when you don't get to practice there. The crown seems to bug them a little bit,

16:40but because his completion percentage at McMahon compared to any other stadium is much lower. I just look at Emton and I look at Calgary and Calgary's front four is unreal. But after that, I just don't think they match up against the Elks very well. Yeah, you know, and what you said earlier about how they didn't play the best football. How many times do we said that with Edmondson that they've started slow? They haven't looked good. You think, okay, here's that moment where they kind of, you know, turn into a pumpkin and it just doesn't happen. I like to just keep fighting. And, you know, there's a time that sometimes you can look at that and say, that's bleeding and it's not sustainable. I actually think with Edmondson it is. And when you look at Mark Killam in the country's built in that building, along with that, it heard me obviously like, it's amazing what they've done there and how quickly they've turned it around in just two years. And it's going to put a lot of pressure on any new GM and coach anywhere else. People are going to say, look at Edmondson, they did it, right? Like auto loads just as bad two years ago and three years ago. Well, Edmondson did it, right? So why it's doable. And you know, you talk to the players around that

17:41team and you know, we had some conversations today with players as part of our prep because I'm calling the game on Saturday. And there's a real belief there. You know, players will tell me that I've been on teams before, including Edmondson before where we get down and like we get down on the school board and we get down on the sidelines and, you know, players lose belief. That doesn't happen in Edmondson. They just they continue to find ways. And I think they believe that, you know, once we get into the playoffs, we can't play 15, 20 minutes and win games, right? We're going to have to start better. And honestly, there's a lot of games where Edmondson's first drive is really good and then it falls apart, right? And then they then they've got to come back in a second half and and create some magic and they're able to get it done, but just to believe in that room is pretty wild right now. Yeah, it's interesting how many teams this year, Farhan, have when they win the coin toss are taking the ball. They used to defer way more. It's like this is this is the year of offense in the CFL. And a lot of teams I find are taking the ball. They want to score right away and try to get up on teams. And it's kind of fascinating to me because we usually it would

18:47always defer if you won the coin toss. And this year there seems to be a bigger trend lately of team like Emanton started it. We had Austin Macon. He said their team did it in Winnipeg and now every time they win the coin toss, they want to get the ball right away. Yeah, you know, I think offensive coordinators are so comfortable with their scripts, right? And on those first drives, you can stay on script. And then later on as game situation dictates your script changes. Yeah, right? And then you kind of get into these situations where you know every coordinators got a grid like these are the plays I want on first and long. These are the plays I want on second and medium. These are the you know, like and you go through that and you know, you pick the right place or you don't. But everybody's really comfortable in that early stage. So you can play the first drive without any kind of situational hiccup, right? Even Calgary was surprised that they gave the ball to start the second half because there is kind of a trend in football south of the border where teams want to double get right where they want to be able to get the late points in the first half and then get the early points in the second half, right? And Calgary was able to get a late

19:48score. You thought they had momentum, but then they couldn't really, you know, compound that to start the third quarter. But it is kind of a you're right. Like we see that trend, which seems worth the ball in the CFL, but in the NFL team still want the ball in the second half, not because they're conservative, not because they want to start on D, but because they want to have the ability to double dip and win the middle of the game late second quarter, early third quarter. Yeah, well, Emmington that was a bad turnover laid in the first half because otherwise, you know, you get down and you're only down 11 sevenths much different than 18 seventh, but obviously it didn't come back to to haunt them very much. The NFL kicked off last night and was not a dynamic game by an extension of imagination. It was there was not a whole lot going on. Sam Darnel gets hurt early on and you know, Drake made three interceptions. He admitted afterwards, he goes, you know what, I let when I got frustrated, he made some bad throws. Obviously, everybody knows the interception. The end zone was that was the killer, but I saw a stat that said in the regular season, his record against teams with the winning record is Owen 12. And it like last night's loss

20:54without Sam Darnel for the majority of the game just adds fuel to the fire that the Patriots were benefactors of a great schedule last year. Even though in the playoffs, the other beat teams are in the playoffs. I don't think that's going to go away until they start beating some good teams. Well, yeah, and then you know, if she's title game, you wind up beating, you know, a bone nixless Denver team, right, which is kind of attitude. So I think the schedule conversation is fair. I also think that, you know, defensively, this team's got a question marks in their front seven, right, especially with how they're going to rush the pass. And I actually was a pressure with them yesterday. I gave Ackis who was a second round picture them, but got off to a late start in training camp had contract issues, injury issues. So you wasn't supposed to have necessarily been impact guy right away, but did some good things. Dremont Jones, he's just kind of been a guy, you know, since Seattle got him from Denver and then they let him walk after signing him to a three year deal and he goes there and made some plays, but getting back to your point about Drake May, you know, overall, like I said, Mr. Luke Wilson last night on our show with

21:57the Jay that I actually liked so much of Drake May's game. I feel like he did in the first three quarters. The numbers were made, but he was efficient. He was confident. He didn't make those mistakes. On the first touchdown drive, you watched him on on third down, right, and the plays he was able to make on third down. And even in the fourth quarter on that final drive that he eventually ended with an interception, there were two fourths down conversions he made. One on a quick pass and the other on a naked, where it was just him one on one defensive end of the edge and got a first down, right? And was calm about it, but those three picks were awful. And now he has five and two games against the Seahawks. First one, you're throwing in a double coverage of safety. He's got the route caps. It gets deflected and intercepted. The second one, he stares down the route. Julian loved Red Ismail and picked it off. And then the third one just inexcusable. Like if my son did that in a high school game, I would have lost my mind, right? Like you get inside the 20 yard line. You know, field goes there. He had and not take risk doing that, right? So there was a lot of good, but you're only going to judge those plays and it's going to feed to the narrative, right? But

23:00you know, on the flip side of this Jason, what does this tell you about Seattle that they played with their backup quarterback? And they played, you know, pretty mid on offense for three quarters. It took 10 penalties for 98 yards that continuously shocked themselves in the red zone with penalties. Like on their final drive where they keep the field, they had two penalties inside the 20. Yeah, it's crazy. And they won. And they won. So how wide is their margin for error? Yeah, right? Like most teams don't have one. They have one. Well, that's why I said at the start of the air. I'm like, man, a lot of people I thought were sleeping on Seattle. Like there was so much talk about the Rams. And I understand it because they made a lot of big moves and they got some big names, but they were the defending champs and they kind of know how to win. And you know what? Now they had a new offensive court. And there's definitely going to be some changes. But I, I just thought there was a little bit of maybe, you know, kind of disrespect for them because no one was really discussing them. Like they're pretty damn good last year. And obviously, you know, it wasn't a stellar game, but they still won.

24:01No, you're right. And like I said, they have that ability. You look at Edmunds and how they find different ways to win football games and, you know, and in the NFL, I see that with the Seahawks, right? And again, you win it with a backup quarterback. You bring Drew Lock-in. You just wanted to be a game manager. So he doesn't turn the ball over. And eventually your defense puts you in position to get enough points, right? And so they've got that, right? Like their special teams weren't stellar, right? Versus Rishi, she he'd who was such a big impact guy when they acquired him last year from the Saints and going into the playoffs. They didn't get that much out of them necessarily, but they still did just enough in the other phases to win games. And that's what like when you can win like that, when you can have so many things go wrong and you find a way to win a football game, that's a great team. And you talk about the comparison to the Rams. The Rams have great players. We don't know if they're a great team yet. We don't know if it's going to mix despite often in a number of sports, super teams don't work. Now this may work. And we're not really going to know if this works until much later in the season because these two teams don't play

25:02until Christmas day. So they play week 16 and week 18 of the regular season. So by the time they actually face each other, so much will have happened between now and then the Rams know they're older, they're in a different kind of a window. Aaron Donald is not going to Australia to play in the games tonight, right? And all of that is orchestrated because you know, they know they're getting older and they've got they've got less margin for error because because of their age and the state of the roster that way. So it looks good. Super team looks good, but are you are you a great player? Are you a great team? We know Seattle's a great team. Definitely. Any other matchups in the NFL that you're intrigued to watch this week? Well, I'm totally intrigued to watch this in the Rams. And I say that because I like I think the Rams are sorry, the 49ers I've said this before. I think the NFC West everyone believes it's it's the big two or the big three. I think it's the big two. I don't think San Francisco is going to be a factor at all this because of the injuries that they're dealing with. They are going to get Bosa and Kittle back for this week. So we'll see,

26:04right? Like I don't have any belief that these guys can stay healthy just because of their history. As players all in Prismacanfri made it through last year, healthy. That's a rarity for him. So we'll see how healthy these guys can stay. I think there's holes, you know, both as unbelievable. The rest of that defensive line is really, really average. They've got some injury questions on the offensive side of the ball. The receiving group is pretty average. So we'll see, right? But like that when they play each other, the coaches know each other so well, they know each other system so well. You know, Shanahan and McVey are as good as offensive coaches as there are in the league. So I'm looking forward to that. And then I'm looking forward to Denver and Kansas City. So I'm going I'm doing the Edmonton game Saturday and then I'm going to the Monday night game and to cover that and you know, I want to see what my home's looks like. Like it's been clear since the day one of training camp that he was going to start in week one, right? You got fully cleared to do 11 on 11. And you know, we we talked about you look at the team like the Patriots and you know, they're not going to win 14 games

27:05again. They're going to take a step back. What does Denver do? Right? Like did that everybody back? It's kind of Seattle level continuity. Can Bo Nick's take the next step, which Drake made and look like he could take yesterday. So I want to see those two teams go ahead and just what we're going to see from the homes because I think they had a lot of questions on the receiving side. Yeah, right? Because you know, we're she writes when I was there training camp, he didn't look like that guy. So you know, let's see what Xavier worthy can do that you let's see what drums Kelsey's going to look like. I think I think the homes is poised to do great things in his recovery and become back player of the year. But I have some questions with the pieces around him. Yeah, sure. Farhan, always good to catch up to you. Quickly. I know it's right around the corner. Does Elias Patterson play all year in Vancouver? Oh, it's a great question. Yeah, I just think nobody's interested. I mean, people are interested, but not in what the connoxer wanting for him. I know the Kings are interested, but you know,

28:06like the connoxers are going to get a haul for Lewis Patterson. So if they get frustrated in the first half of the season, they've got it inside. You know, they're trying to, you know, make it nice surround them, right? And make sure it's all warm and fuzzy because everybody else was part on him in previous regimes. We'll see if that works. So are they actually trying to rehabilitate the player for themselves or are they trying to rehabilitate the player for increased market value? Right? Like if they can get him to a place where he's, you know, 40 points in the first 40 games, you know, and I think the point of game is still possible for him. I don't think it'll happen in Vancouver, but if they can get him close to that, does that make him marketable? Or do you think, okay, we got to keep this guy now. So, you know, the Zeeb William contract, it's, I'm so trying to ruminate around that where he's like nine and a half million a year. It just doesn't make Patterson's contract look bad, right? Just in terms of what the new marketplace looks like. So if all of a sudden you get him to, if you get Patterson to a point where it's like, okay, 35 points in 80 games, 40 games, okay, maybe we want to work with them. We want to keep them or do you want to move on from them? I think if they're wise, they try to rehabilitate him to a point and move on

29:09from them. We'll see if they do that. Awesome. Farhan, great to catch up, everybody. We will talk to again soon. Have an awesome day. There you go. That's Farhan, I'll do from TSN and like, it is, does anybody want it? The Rangers were leading three nothing, could have pulled within a tie of the, the blue jays. They gave up four runs in the bottom of the seventh and lose. Seattle scored four runs on four hits. Oh my god, this is, this is an absolute turtle race right now. Cleveland, Toronto, Texas, Baltimore. They're just like, well, who wants to win? I don't want to win, not a win either, but Texas, God, that is, that's wild. So they'll drop to two games back

30:13of Cleveland, one game back of the jays. That is, that's a bad loss for the Rangers, but it is, it's almost comical out. None of them want to win. It's crazy. Take a quick break. We'll return on the Gregor Show, presented by Play Alberta. Not's you. Gregor and Connor Halle, Declan Kruger with you as we roll through the Gregor Show, presented by Play Alberta dot C A. You are having a fantastic Thursday afternoon. Well, if you're a jays fan, you're just like, man, the puzzle pieces, even though the jays can't win, because it's like, honestly, you're probably going to get in with the 500 record. Remember two weeks ago, I was like, oh, you're going to, someone's going to have to get hot. No, no one's going to have to get hot. Cleveland's in right now, and they're one game over 500. One game ahead of the jays, two games ahead of Texas, three games ahead of Baltimore. That's who's left in the race. Minnesota, Seattle, you're out.

31:15And honestly, there's 15 games remaining. If you go eight and seven, that might be enough. Literally. Health, you go 10 and five punch your ticket. It's crazy. Collins, did you pick a winner for the tickets for the Elk's game? I didn't, but I'll pick one right now. Yeah, why don't you do that? Yeah, because they're patiently waiting. They're going to let you know. Yeah. Good things come with those who wait. Yeah, yeah. We'll do that. But first, let's get to five questions brought to you by the brick. And right now at the brick, you got the, the 10 sale going on. It's going to be massive. You can have a no less sofa for only $4.99 convertible chest freezer fridge combo only $100.99. There's a 43 in QLD smart TV, only $2.49. Check it out in store at the brick.

32:18Our audio is having a little bit of issues here. That's not even real. So why don't we jump into the first one? Matt Leslie is going to be our winner here. So Matt, we'll send you those tickets in just a minute. Question number one, now we know the Elk's can clinch a playoff spot with a win this weekend, which I think at the start of the year, everybody probably said, okay, that would be good. Now with the way this season has gone, expectations change. So right now with what we see in this team do so far, what do you think would be the current expectations for the Elk's this season? Well, they got a host of playoff game. I think, you know what, you come through. There's a third of the season left. You're playing Calgary, Toronto, Hamilton, twice in your next four games. Those are, you should be at minimum three and one in those games. And that should put you very close to securing at least a home playoff game, whether it's the number two seed or the number one seed. But you know, the schedule is in your favor now. You don't really have a tough team until you face Winnipeg in the second last game of the season. Then you got Saskatchewan by then. Who knows if that game's going to mean anything or not. So I would say yes. Right now it's

33:23at minimum second place in the West and cons. You know what? Now first place, you're only two points up on it on Saskatchewan. So it's not like, you know, you lose one game and they win then you're tied. So it's not like they're crazy ahead. So I'll say it has to be home playoff game. I'm just going to say a win. A win in the playoffs, I think is kind of my expectation that we've seen that they can beat every team in this league when they play their game. They found a way to beat the Montreal Alloettes at home and it was close. It was over time, but they still got the job done. So for me, I don't mind if it's on the road. Hey, it's another watch party. I get a host. Those are always a good time. Or if it's at home, I think the playoff win would be my expectation now for this group. We talked Montreal Canadians earlier on in the show. We also know how competitive that division is. Where do you think they finish in the Atlantic next season? Oh, good question. Buffalo, Florida, Tampa, Montreal, Ottawa. I'm not Toronto's got a long way to go to get it into a playoff spot. Like at least 22 points, I would think. So that's a lot. You can do it. Sure, but it's hard.

34:27I will say Montreal finishes second in the Atlantic behind two. I don't know. I just think somebody like it's going to be Florida might be Buffalo, although I don't love the Sabers offseason. Could be Tampa. I just think like it's going to be close. I think the top three or four teams, Gonser's not going to be much separation. Yeah, I'm actually right there with you. I had them second behind the Florida Panthers. I, you know, if they stay healthy and can get decent goal ten, I think they're due to rebound. For sure, the Sabers didn't love the offseason. The lighting, I think they're all going to hang around. I think it's going to be extremely competitive once again. And I wouldn't be surprised if you had another season with four 100 point teams that being said, I got the Canadians finishing second question number three for you. Niners Rams tonight from Melbourne. Who's your pick and throwing a bold prediction as well? Go ahead. I'm going to take the Rams. Sorry, MTR. Take the job done on the road. And I'm going to say both Rams running backs. Find a way to get into the end zone. So maybe your playlbert.ca if you could parlay that Williams and Corrin.

35:31Both scoring touchdowns. All right. Ooh, that is a that's bold. Um, I like it. I, uh, I also have the Rams winning that game. And I will, uh, my bold prediction is, uh, after last night's dud, there'll be a lot of offense over, uh, there'll be over seven combined touchdowns. Oh, I like it. Okay. Question number four for you. Uh, battle of the sleep science experts here. We know the Niners rolled into Australia a few days ago, getting themselves time to get acclimated. The Rams got in yesterday. They're planned to stay or keep their body clocks on Pacific time zone. So when they get back, they'll be ready to hit the ground once again. What do you think is the better approach? Um, I don't know. Um, you know, you get a little bit more climateized, uh, maybe you feel comfortable there, but like I know when I've traveled and you go somewhere,

36:32you don't feel tired right away. So I can understand why, why, uh, the Rams are doing what they're doing. And, um, I honestly, I don't think there's one better. There's just different and it kind of depends like there's a little bit more maybe team bonding away from home learning about a culture of Australia place. It probably a lot of the guys have never been before. So you get to do some different things and, um, you know, after a few days, your body's going to acclimatize to it. So I just think it's two different approaches, but for very different reasons. I just think the 49ers get a little bit more experience of life out of it. And so I would take that option. Yeah, it was pretty cool. And I'm showing some shots right now. The stadium looks awesome. Um, I think for the win for the football purposes, I like what the Rams did. Uh, you know, the, the flight they took was luxurious. I just let me go off the plane yesterday. They looked exhausted, but whatever, that doesn't really matter. Uh, they got lots of time to get ready. They had the lathe down beds and everything like that. Yeah. So they spared no expense for this one. I just, I kind of think it's a good idea because when you play that football game, you know, it's going to be 10 30 art, uh, Australia time, six 30 art times. That's five 30 Pacific time. So just having your body staying

37:37on that kind of clock as long as possible. 10 30 PM to 30 AM. Oh, AM in a, yeah. Yeah. So it's an early game, which kind of sucks for the tailgating, but you know, the Aussies have a good time. I'm sure they'll make it worth it. I just think, you know, as much as you can go without disrupting it, I got to think those first few days in Australia would have been tough for the Niers to get back on track. So we'll see how it plays out. I don't know team will use it as an excuse, but I think it's interesting to see the two teams going into different directions with it. Final question for you on the stay in 1999 fight club with Brad Pitt was released. Give me your top three Brad Pitt movies. Go ahead. Uh, I would probably go in no particular order. Moneyball, uh, really like that movie, even though if I think there's a couple of plot holes in it, uh, Inglorious Bastards was another good one. Tarantino though. So it's probably just a little bit too long and then give me seven Morgan Freeman. Yeah. I don't want to copy you, but that that movie was, uh, was great. Um,

38:39in glorious bastards, um, the curious case of Benjamin Button. I quite like that movie. It was very, very different. And, um, I really liked uh, Durdon. So I'm going to go fight club. Good list. Oh yeah. Brad Pitt, man. Like, you know what? He has had a pretty, uh, he's had a lot of, he's had a lot of good movies. We didn't touch snatch oceans 11. Well, snatch, I like it, but honestly, like it's too hard to understand it. Get this up. Petals going with that one. Yeah. Um, I've been liked bullet train. I don't know if you saw that one. Oh, you know, actually, you know what? I want to add 12 monkeys. How the hell did I not have that in God? Um, yeah, he's, but he's had a lot. And the thing is like a wide array of different characters that he's played over time. Now, do you see his new movie that's coming out about him and his dog? Like, oh, my God, it's going to be awesome. I saw the commercial. I did. I just kind of recognized him. I don't know the premise

39:40or anything behind it. Yeah, he's an army guy and with his dog in the wilderness. And it's just kind of the relationship. Anybody who's had a dog, now obviously this is a different type of dog. But anybody who's had a dog knows that kind of relationship. He get with your dog. So I think it'll be it'll be an emotional one for sure. So and, um, I, uh, and the other one, because I, because I just saw, um, in, in theater. And so they were playing all the previews. But uprising. Now, I, I liked a lot of the Robin Hoods. So the uprising, the rise of Robin Hood, this one, um, you know, looks pretty good. Andrew Garfield's the main guy in it. Like, I just, I love, um, like the, like the stuff around like the peasants revolt. And because I do believe that, you know, history is meant to repeat itself. And I won't be surprised, Connor, Hally and the near future that you see, you know, the, uh, people revolting against the, uh, the elites in our society at some point, maybe not in my lifetime. But I think it's coming again.

40:42I just want to put that out there. I think eventually there'll be enough people that say enough to not, it's, uh, it's too much. So we'll see. Be a different time, of course, right? It's not going to be the Robin Hood time, but not hiding out in the trees, but, you know, I just have a sneak in suspicion. It could happen. So four 54. When we come back, a Mark Specter will join us. We're going to hear from, uh, Nick Anderson coming off his best game of the season. He was dominant in that game in Calgary 12 tackles sack.