Week 7 of the CFL season has come and gone and as my CFL on TSN colleague Rod Smith put so expertly on Sunday night as the credits were rolling on Winnipeg’s overtime win in Ottawa: “we saw some things this weekend we’ve never seen before.”

There was a missed field goal that didn’t result in a rouge on Saturday in Hamilton, followed by an extended final game of the weekend in the nation’s capital that didn’t end in a tie because it couldn’t under the new rules for 2026!

As much as this league changes, it stays the same at its core, which is where I begin with five takeaways from the weekend’s action.

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On Sunday, the CFL released a statement about the passing of Saskatchewan Roughriders linebacker Jayden Dalke. I was sitting........

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