Jamie Nye's blog

The season continues and the Premier of Saskatchewan, Brad Wall, continues to lead the pack for Premier's Picks (heard every Wednesday at 6:05 on Sports Night).

Here are the picks for Week 5.

Premier Brad Wall (10-6) - Montreal - Edmonton - Saskatchewan - Calgary

Drew Remenda (8-8) - Montreal - B.C. - Saskatchewan - Calgary

Jamie Nye (8-8) - Montreal - Edmonton - Saskatchewan - Winnipeg

Last week's winner was Tom, who picked Montreal, Toronto and Winnipeg correctly but 3/4 was enough to lead the pack.

The Saskatchewan Roughriders Jim Hopson would have never pulled a stunt like his counterpart in Edmonton did, yesterday.

Rick LeLacheur was made available to the media and before taking a question called his team embarrassing, a failure, and called the performance of the Eskimo coaches, management and players unacceptable.

The role of a president and CEO is to keep a calm head in good times and in bad.

Well the Canadian Football League has a race in the East and a race in the West for first place and is power starting to shift out East?

Team Power Rankings

1. Montreal Alouettes (Last Week - 2) - The Montreal Alouettes went 2-1 on a three game road trip in Western Canada and when they get back home they lay the boots to the Hamilton Tiger-Cats. Anthony Calvillo is starting to find a groove and is spreading the ball around. This week, they have the Toronto Argonauts at home in a battle for first in the East. Montreal's defence looked much better in Week 4.

Premier's Picks

Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall is showing off his football knowledge after his third straight week picking three of four CFL games correctly and leads the way going into four weeks. By the way, I suck at this.

Premier Brad Wall (9-3) - HAM - BC - WPG - SSK

Drew Remenda (8-4) - HAM - BC - EDM - SSK

Jamie Nye (4-8) - MTL - TOR - EDM - SSK

Games this week: Thurs. Hamilton (1-2) @ Montreal (2-1), Fri. B.C. (1-2) @ Toronto (2-1), Sat. Edmonton (0-3) @ Winnipeg (1-2), Sat. Saskatchewan (3-0) @ Calgary (2-1)

Team Power Rankings

1. Saskatchewan Roughriders (Last Week - 1) - The Roughriders struggled in week three but pulled out a 24-20 win with 11 unanswered points in the fourth quarter against the Edmonton Eskimos. Not as impressive an outing for the offense after putting up 91 points in two weeks but the defense of the Roughriders have allowed only 38 points over the last two games, which shows they've got two of three phases of the game going. Now the special teams needs to complete the trifecta.

CHARLES IN CHARGE

Hugh Charles got to strut his stuff in week two and showed the burst he did through training camp and practice, combining for nearly 60 yards on five touches against B.C. But there is now a tiny squabble brewing between the media and the coaches about the ratio heading into week three.

Let's take a look at the CFL following Week Two!

Team Power Rankings

1. Saskatchewan Roughriders: 37-18 easily could have been 37-11 as the Roughrider defense stepped up in a big fashion to shut down B.C.'s offense. Brent Hawkins and Luc Mullinder combine for three sacks and Hawkins showed the reasons why the coaches have been so up on the first-year CFLer. Offensively, Darian Durant had another great game without an interception for the second straight game and Wes Cates nearly cracked 100 yards in two straight. (Last Week - 1)

Premier's Picks Week Two

Well here's the tally and yes, I deserve all the pot shots for picking against Saskatchewan.

But I have bad news. I'm picking the Roughriders in Week two.

Premier Brad Wall (3-1) - picking the Bombers for the second week in a row, the Stamps over Hamilton, Riders (like every week) and the Alouettes to get one on the road in Edmonton.

Drew Remenda (1-3) - TOR (because no one else is picking them) - CAL - SSK - MTL

Jamie Nye (1-3) - WPG (I said I will never pick Toronto this season) - HAM - SSK - MTL

Every week I will give you my thoughts on who the best teams and players are in the CFL. As always, I'd love to get some of your top players of the week in the CFL.

Team Power Rankings

1. Saskatchewan Roughriders: They beat the defending champion Montreal Alouettes in a shootout that may go down as the best CFL game all year and it was the first one. Quarterback Darian Durant threw for five touchdowns and added one on the ground and they persevered after an ugly start to the game.

It's here. Finally, the snow is gone, the Stanley Cup is handed out, two-a-days are over, let's play football.

Here are my predictions for the West Division.