There is one game left in the season and it still looks like the Winnipeg Blue Bombers are the most complete team in the CFL. Peter Klein explains why he thinks that as he dissects every team in the league in this week's CFL Power Rankings.
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00:00It is CFL Power Rankings time, going into the last week of the regular season.
00:17Coming in at number 9, they have basically clinched this spot, I don't think I would
00:21move them out of 9 if they scored 100 against Saskatchewan this week.
00:25It is the Calgary Stampeders.
00:29Just an utterly embarrassing and abysmal performance against their former quarterback in Beau Levi
00:34Mitchell last weekend, and it just caps off what has been a horrendous season out in Calgary.
00:42And I think it is very telling when all they had left to play for was pride, and that's
00:47how they showed it.
00:48Just an awful, awful, dreadful, terrible, no good game from the Calgary Stampeders,
00:55and very deserving of being in 9th place in the CFL Power Rankings.
01:00There are probably some eSports teams that should be ahead of them.
01:03At number 8, it is the Ottawa Red Blacks.
01:05The wheels have fallen off in a big time way out in Ottawa, and that is, I think, very
01:10concerning heading into the postseason.
01:12And one of the things we have talked about on this show, and in my 3 Down Nation piece,
01:16is that this is a team that has struggled against playoff caliber teams.
01:20I believe this is now 3-7-1 against teams that are going to the postseason in the Canadian
01:25Football League.
01:26Simply not good enough when they are looking to make a push.
01:30Again, I think they have set themselves up very well for the future, but I do also think
01:34that maybe there is a touch longer to go than they would have initially thought.
01:39At 7, it is the Edmonton Elks.
01:41Kind of came crashing back down to earth a couple of weeks ago following a loss to the
01:45Winnipeg Blue Bombers, but still, seems like there is, again, some hope for the future.
01:51At 6, it's the Hamilton Tiger Cats.
01:53A awful start to the season has really set them back, and put them in a position now
02:00where they are out of the playoffs.
02:03If they could have a couple of bounces go their way in the early part of the year, and
02:07this team is going into the postseason at the right time.
02:09But Beau Levi Mitchell puts a stamp on what could be the East nominee for Most Outstanding
02:15Player, and a lot of people are just locking it into Brady Oliveira, and that's probably
02:20not incorrect, given how well Oliveira has played for the best team in the league, and
02:24if it was MVP, it would be a lock.
02:25But Beau Levi Mitchell, I think given the O in MOP for Outstanding, I think he should
02:33be a guy that gets maybe a little bit more consideration than he is getting right now.
02:37But Hamilton playing some pretty good football.
02:39At 5, it's Montreal.
02:40They have fallen into the trap that they took advantage of a year ago, where they kind of
02:44caught Toronto napping, and were able to come up with a big performance in the East
02:48Final en route to a Grey Cup.
02:50Now, Montreal hasn't played a meaningful game in, like, two months, and they look like
02:55a team that hasn't played a meaningful game in two months.
02:57I would suspect they take this game seriously this week against Winnipeg, given that they
03:02have the bye going into the East Final, but I still think that this is… it's very
03:08difficult to flip that switch, and now I do also think that the last time the switch was
03:13flipped positively, there was still some thought that Philpott might be coming back.
03:17He's not.
03:18And that was such a dynamic part of this offense in Montreal this year, and it just hasn't
03:23been able to get back since, and we will see what they can do here in the final week of
03:27the season.
03:28At 4, it's the BC Lions, as they, I think, put a bit of a scare in the rest of the Canadian
03:34Football League, with Vernon Adams having a big performance over the weekend.
03:37He feels like he's going to be the guy that can lead this team back to the postseason
03:42and put a real threat now on either Saskatchewan or Winnipeg, and probably both, as they get
03:48ready for the West Semi-Final in a couple of weeks.
03:51At 3, it is the Toronto Argonauts, again speaking of peaking at the right time, yes things got
03:56a little bit sideways at the end, and Ottawa made that game closer than it actually was,
04:00but make no mistake about it, Toronto is playing some very good football right now, and they
04:05are not a team I would want to be messing with as we head into the East Playoffs.
04:09At 2, it's Saskatchewan, because I am a little biased, but also, this is a team that
04:14has started to put a lot together.
04:16I still think there is an explosive nature to this offense that could be unlocked a little
04:20bit more, and I do think that there is a predictability in the play-calling at times, but I also think
04:26that this is a team that is defending, like, just absolute, like a dominant unit right
04:32now, and creating a lot of turnovers and creating a lot of pressure, and rallying to the football
04:37in real exciting ways, and so I think this defense is legitimate, and I think this team
04:43right now is legitimate.
04:44They have an outside shot of hosting the West Final coming up in a couple of weeks.
04:49But number one right now, the team who would be hosting the West Final, if the standings
04:52stay the same, that is the Winnipeg Blue Bombers.
04:54They have such a great combination of an offense that has found its explosiveness, and a defense
05:00that has been dominant all season long.
05:02They look like the most complete team in the Canadian Football League, and they've played
05:06like it for the better part of three months now, and so we are in a familiar spot heading
05:10into the postseason with Winnipeg feeling like the favorites.
05:13So those are your CFL Power Rankings for the week.