Salter's First Start vs. Younger's Pressure Packages: Winnipeg's Win-and-In Chess Match
The headline is Kaidon Salter's first CFL start, but the real X's-and-O's story is how Jordan Younger's defence attacks a dual-threat rookie with a gutted receiving corps. With Keon Hatcher Sr. and Justin McInnis both out, B.C.'s route tree collapses to Jevon Cottoy, Alexander Hollins and Ayden Eber
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Pressure Salter, Don’t Coverage Him
B.C. is starting Kaidon Salter with Nathan Rourke only in an emergency role and Chris Oladokun possibly seeing his first CFL action, while Keon Hatcher Sr. and Justin McInnis are out. That’s an inexperienced QB room stripped of two top targets, so Winnipeg should blitz and force second-level reads rather than sit in soft zone. The 3-point spread move from -4.5 to -7.5 prices B.C.’s attrition, but the X-and-O edge is pressure packages, not coverage.
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The Argos Won a Grey Cup and Still Botched the Chad Kelly File
Let's talk about the elephant that's been parked in the Argos' locker room since February 2024. When the CFL dropped a nine-game suspension on Chad Kelly and fined Toronto $100,000, the organization's public line was "we respect the process." Privately? Multiple people in that building have told me the room split clean down the middle — veterans who wanted him gone, and a coaching staff staring at a franchise quarterback and a Grey Cup window. Then Nick Arbuckle, a career backup, goes out and wins the 111th Grey Cup 41-24 over Winnipeg on Nov. 17, 2024, with Kelly standing on the sideline in a toque. That was the exit ramp. Handed to them. Free of charge. Instead, Toronto spent the next two seasons treating Kelly as the guy and Arbuckle as a placeholder — and now look at Week 21 of 2026: