Go Inside the Hullough with Sky Sports, Neil Reynolds and Jeff Rynbole.

Hello everybody, welcome to Inside the Huddle.

I'm your host, Neil Reynolds, joined as ever by my partner, Jeff Ryan Bold, whose CFL season is up and running, right, Jeff?

Well, we're one game in. We didn't have a very good, as they say, an auspicious debut.

We got beat 19 to 6. And, you know, when you look around the league, Neil, it's just like the NFL

was last year, a lot of bad football in the first week, no training camp, preseason games, all that stuff,

contributed to it.

But it's great to be back on the field and the fans are back.

You know, we had sold out stadium in Winnipeg, and it was really a really fantastic environment.

I know you and Brian Boulding are

talked to him. We'll switch it over to the NFL. You've talked to in recent years that

September is kind of when you play yourself into shape now as as teams. I guess maybe you're

seeing that in the CFL and that's something we might see more of in the NFL as as teams.

I mean, Matt LaFleur said this week that Aaron Rogers won't play in the preseason. So, you know, maybe see that bit more that teams

won't really hit the ground until October. Yeah, I think it's, you know, you look at the season

because it's so long now, the NFL season 17, you know, you really divide the season into basically

into thirds. And your first third

is just getting, as you said, into shape, into playing shape, into, you know, the routine of playing

every week, because there's nothing like football to prepare you for football. And you can do all

the lift all the weights and run all the sprints and do all that other stuff. But you got to play football to be in football shape. I think the Rogers news, Jeff, just

kind of reinforces those who see the preseason as not valuable, the fact that he's not going to play.

And maybe it's just the way teams are going to approach it now. You know, you look at the Colts.

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