Edmonton Elks excited to advance to Grey Cup for first time in a decade

It's great to come away with the win, go to the Grey Cup. It's a special thing to be able to, you know, play for the team of my youth and to be going to the Grey Cup with them is pretty spectacular. Our defense played great. Huge turnover with the fumble on third down put us in instant scoring position. I felt like... We've got to be better with penalties. The penalties tonight kind of made us kick more field goals than we wish we would. But at the end of the day, the guys found a way to win a football game when nobody expected us to win this game. Nobody expected us to even be here. And that's what our MO is. That's what my MO has been as a quarterback my whole career. And I thrive on when people doubt me. Hats off to the city. They showed up for us. 40,000 is incredible. Like just from where it was to where it is now. For us players, that drove us to wanting to win that game more than anything else. There's a lot of outside motivation, but 40,000 in the stands, they were the difference in the game. I first want to give a shout out to Edmonton because I got emotional when we first took the field. That place was unbelievable. You look at this organization, it's about the strength of the collective. That's what we said day one, and that's what this is. I mean, it's three levels of the organization, everybody working together. I'm so proud of the players because two years ago, it was a negative, negative narrative around every single thing about this football team, and we have fought through that. Those guys in that room are the change, and I couldn't be more proud to go to the Grey Cup with them.