{"id":416327,"date":"2026-01-18T00:09:23","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T00:09:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/416327\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T00:09:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T00:09:23","slug":"3downnation-podcast-assessing-the-cfls-rule-changes-updates-on-expansion-and-tv-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/416327\/","title":{"rendered":"3DownNation Podcast: Assessing the CFL&#8217;s rule changes, updates on expansion and TV deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<br \/>\n        &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n        &#13;<\/p>\n<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.3downnation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/0116-Pod-Thumb.jpg\" data-caption=\"3DownNation\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/0116-Pod-Thumb-696x392.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"Podcast Thumbnail\"\/><\/a>3DownNation<\/p>\n<p>Justin Dunk, John Hodge, and JC Abbott discuss the recommendations made by the CFL rules committee, commissioner Stewart Johnston\u2019s updates regarding expansion and a new television deal, a potential future change to the league\u2019s playoff structure, which remaining free agents should be the top priority for their incumbent teams, and Adarius Pickett signing with the Toronto Argonauts following his release from Ottawa.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 3px; margin-left: 11px; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 10px; color: gray;\">Powered by <a class=\"redcircle-link\" href=\"https:\/\/redcircle.com?utm_source=rc_embedded_player&amp;utm_medium=web&amp;utm_campaign=embedded_v1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">RedCircle<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Please enjoy the show and subscribe on your favourite podcast provider.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>        &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n        &#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<br \/>\n            &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n                                    <a href=\"https:\/\/3downnation.com\/author\/the-hot-read\/\" aria-label=\"author-photo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-del=\"avatar\" alt=\"3Down Staff\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/3Down-Icon-150x150.jpg\" class=\"avatar pp-user-avatar avatar-96 photo \" height=\"96\" width=\"96\"\/><\/a>                    &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; 3DownNation Justin Dunk, John Hodge, and JC Abbott discuss the recommendations made by the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":416328,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[166835,166836,49,48,521,522,520,174854,168754,168755,1404,82],"class_list":["post-416327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cfl","tag-3down","tag-3downnation","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canadian-football-league","tag-canadianfootballleague","tag-cfl","tag-jc-abbott","tag-john-hodge","tag-justin-dunk","tag-podcast","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=416327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416327\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/416328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}