
Dave Naylor
Host, Reporter and Football Insider at The Sports Network (TSN)
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1 week ago |
tsn.ca | Dave Naylor
On the surface, Montreal Alouettes quarterback Davis Alexander may look like an overnight sensation. At this time one year ago, he was still Montreal’s third-string quarterback, playing behind both Cody Fajardo and Caleb Evans in his third CFL season. But when injuries to Montreal’s first and second stringers forced Alexander into action during the first half of last season, a player who’d only attempted 21 passes through his first two seasons looked ready for prime time.
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2 weeks ago |
tsn.ca | Dave Naylor
New Buffalo Bills receiver Joshua Palmer had a simple reason for signing with the team located just a short distance from where he grew up in Brampton, Ont., and where his parents now live in Toronto. It wasn’t so much proximity to his roots or even picking Buffalo because it’s a team knocking on the door to win a Super Bowl.
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3 weeks ago |
tsn.ca | Dave Naylor
As the Canadian Football League gets set to open its 67th season tonight in Regina where the Saskatchewan Roughriders host the Ottawa Redblacks, the league has never been more meaningfully Canadian. Where once the league was a place where Canadians participated but Americans starred and held most of the important off-field titles, that is no longer the case.
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1 month ago |
tsn.ca | Dave Naylor
The strength of any football league is always rooted in the play and depth of its quarterbacks. And while that’s mostly about the starters, if there is one thing Canadian Football League teams have come to understand in recent seasons it’s that almost every team is going to have more than one quarterback start a game. That is why it’s worth noting the quality of QB depth charts across the CFL heading into the 2025 season, which exceeds any in recent memory.
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1 month ago |
tsn.ca | Dave Naylor
Football Canada unveiled two key pieces of its plan to qualify for the Los Angeles 2028 Summer Olympic flag football tournament, naming head coaches for its men’s and women’s teams on Thursday. The men’s squad will be headed by former CFL head coach Paul LaPolice, who currently works as an analyst for TSN, while University of Montreal assistant coach Rachel Lessard will lead the women’s team.
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My Dad’s early attempts to get me interested in sports apparently didn’t go so well haha. On left, in his Toronto Maple Leafs uniform from National Lacrosse Association of late 60s. On right,his recent 87th birthday with framed pages from an NLA Leafs program. Happy Father’s Day! https://t.co/pv1RCT7h0e