The Rouge White & Blue CFL podcast

Is it November already? Apparently so, as the Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast closes out our season with a wrap of the 112th Grey Cup. As had become tradition on the RWB, co-host Joe Pritchard tells us of his Grey Cup Week experience in his well-visited Winnipeg and specifically the efforts he contributed there for CFL Fans Fight Cancer during the festivities. Joe returned to the ‘States in goo...

O boy, o boy, o boy, it’s time for the 2025 Grey Cup championship game between the Saskatchewan Roughriders and Montreal Alouettes (one more victory lap: Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast co-host Os Davis’s preseason prediction)! This week, RWB co-host Joe Pritchard is prepping for his annual pilgrimage for the Big Game, this year in his beloved Winnipeg, and so Os is joined by Scout of the Elks...

After one heckuva CFL doubleheader (and Canadian sports tripleheader if you count game 7 of the World Series to boot), the Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast is ready to celebrate our bad predictions – um, that is to say, preview the East and West Division Finals games – and yeah, throw in some predictions too. Co-hosts Joe Pritchard and Os Davis also have moratoria on the 2025 Winnipeg Blue Bombe...

This time, it’s all about Winnipeg Blue Bombers at Montreal Alouettes and Calgary Stampeders at BC Lions. That’s right: It’s playoff time in the Canadian Football League, so what else should the Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast focus on?   Co-hosts Joe Pritchard and Os Davis concentrate solely on the second RWB Bowl in three years (a.k.a. the East Semifinal) and the West Semifinal, which they re...

Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast co-host Os Davis is out this week (he must’ve gotten the first-round playoff bye), but co-host Joe Pritchard is here to chair this latest episode, welcoming in Santino Filoso of 3 Down Nation – coming to you live from Brazil! Santino is on the Ottawa Redblacks beat there at 3 Down, and so the team makes for the focus of discussion as he and Joe take on questions...

It all went by so fast … the Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast digs in with a look at the penultimate week of the 2025 CFL season; co-hosts Os Davis and Joe Pritchard do the usual rundown of games played and days to come, but with the Edmonton Elks’ elimination, taking stock is also in the cards. The RWB looks back on a seemingly slightly less futile bid by the Elks and the remarkable wire-to-wir...

The Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast this week marvels at the way the league’s standings somehow tightened up further after week 19. After the Edmonton Elks and Calgary Stampeders topped the Winnipeg Blue Bombers and Hamilton Tiger-Cats, respectively, RWB co-hosts Joe Prtichard and Os Davis marvel at the possibility of a four way, 9-9 tie bottlenecking the West side of the table. And the RWB als...

All right, so week 18 in the 2025 CFL season was little more than three blowouts resulting in the elimination of the Ottawa Redblacks and defending champion Toronto Argonauts – nevertheless, the Rouge White & Blue CFL podcast is here looking forward to next week because whoa, does the plot thicken… As the 2025 CFL regular season reaches its finale, RWB co-hosts Joe Pritchard and Os Davis put a...

Week 17 of the CFL season was thoroughly enjoyed by Rouge White & Blue podcast co-hosts Joe Pritchard and Os Davis – after all, the Winnipeg Blue Bombers and Montreal Alouettes both won, the Saskatchewan Roughriders and Hamilton Tiger-Cats lost, and the standings table just ratcheted up with excitement. So what’s not to like? Welllllllllllllllllllllllll… As fans of the Canadian game surely kno...

On this episode of Rouge White & Blue CFL podcast, co-hosts Joe Pritchard and Os Davis marvel at how much the narrative of an entire league can change in just one week. Like, for example, how this week after the BC Lions ran up 50-plus points on the Calgary Stampeders, the former suddenly look a lot more plausible to seriously compete for the Grey Cup than the latter. Not to mention the Montre...

This week, it’s episode #300 of the Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast – and as MAD magazine would put it on similar occasions: “very big deal.” Because this is football podcasting, RWB co-hosts Os Davis and Joe Pritchard aren’t so interested in the distant past when the recent past will suffice, like a week 15 in which 258 points were scored and the East division tightened. And for the Rider hate...

Meanwhile in Canada… Coming into the homestretch, the Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast notes that things are turning, um, south for co-host Joe Pritchard’s Winnipeg Blue Bombers, co-host Os Davis’s Montreal Alouettes, and not-quite-everybody’s vogue pick for the 2025 Grey Cup, BC Lions. So what’s left for the RWB to do but marvel (some more) at those Saskatchewan Roughriders and Hamilton Tiger-C...

(Alternatively: “Two barnburners and a Calgary stampede”) In an annual tradition, Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast hosts break down the annual traditional slate of the CFL’s Labour Day Classic games. RWB co-hosts Joe Pritchard and Os Davis are wowed by the Calgary Stampeders, accepting of another Saskatchewan Roughriders win and wondering where those Toronto Argonauts and BC Lions’ll finish. The...

What can the Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast say about week 12 of the 2025 CFL season? Well, it’s a podcast, so you can be sure RWB co-hosts Joe Pritchard and Os Davis fins something to say. Lots of somethings, in fact. Somethings like: Wouldn’t the Winnipeg Blue Bombers really, *really* like a bye right about now? Speaking of weirded-out schedules, how about the Calgary Stampeders now sitting...

After week 11 of the 2025 CFL season, certain things have become quite clear at the Rouge, White & Blue CFL Podcast … things Like the Saskatchewan Roughriders may be even better than advertised; the (defending champion!) Toronto Argonauts might be worse than we thought; and, of course, the seeming inevitability of the West-to-East crossover come playoff time. The realization leads to some clas...

Week 9 of the 2025 CFL season is in the books and thanks to wins, the Saskatchewan Roughriders and Hamilton Tiger-Cats have extended their divisional leads. The Rouge, White and Blue CFL Podcast seesd no end in sight – good news for fans of these two teams, though… RWB co-hosts Os Davis and Joe Pritchard wouldn’t know. Bombers fan Joe talks some of the shuffling in the Winnipeg Blue Bombers’ secon...

Week 8 in the CFL has the Rouge, White and Blue CFL Podcast a bit divided: co-host Os Davis has aged badly due to a third consecutive last-minute heart-attack special by his Montreal Alouettes, while Joe Pritchard reckons with his Winnipeg Blue Bombers playing some shabby football for the first time since before Covid-19… As ever, the RWB recaps the past week of football – including those comeback...

Sure, the Rouge, White and Blue CFL podcast will do the usual weekly bits: co-hosts Os Davis and Joe Pritchard talk week 7 action, make picks and predictions (for what it’s worth) on the week 8 games – you know the deal. But first, the RWB chats up a neat informal CFL crossover event that will be going on for a few weeks yet. Get this: The creator of Crankshaft – No, not the auto part. This Cranks...

This week’s theme on the Rouge, White and Blue CFL podcast That strange feeling when the Calgary Stampeders and Hamilton Tiger-Cats are leading their divisions… RWB co-hosts Joe Pritchard and Os Davis look back on a week 6, which not only saw the Stamps and Ticats notch wins against division rivals, but wins games by dint of defense rather than ace QBs. Strange times, indeed. On the other hand, an...

One of the CFL’s unsung traditions – probably due to its sheer randomness – is the annual week’s worth of games whose outcome simply makes no sense in the moment. And so Rouge White & Blue CFL Podcast co-hosts Os Davis and Joe Pritchard rehash the week 5 slate, four games that destroyed any delusions you may harbored of pullilng off a decent year in CFL Pick ‘Em while giving hope (or maybe mor...

“Revenge of the backup quarterbacks?” you may ask. “Revenge on who?” Well, the Rouge, White & Blue CFL Podcast might posit, how about the entire notion of “No Lead is Safe,” for example. Or how about on any fanbase with high hopes for a team depending on the likes of Davis Alexander, Dru Brown, Nathan Rourke or Trevor Harris? (OK, maybe not that last one.) So after a week of blowouts across th...

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 wi...

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...

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...

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!