”The Jacksonville Jaguars’ newest quarterback joined the Super Bowl-winning tight end turned TSN analyst on the latest episode of his podcast All Time with Luke Willson, fending off a few light-hearted jabs about whether the CFL was “trash.
I haven't listened in full so can't speak to the context of Willson's comments on the CFL but the article suggests it might be a bit in jest.
The article based on the youtube interview has little of Rourke but one quote and more about Bighill.
3 Down article gets into some good details.‘How was he not starting in the NFL?’: Nathan Rourke, Luke Willson bond over Adam Bighill’s ‘dominance’
https://3downnation.com/2023/04/13/how- ... dominance/
Willson speaks of training with Rob Williams and Adam Bighill.
Seeing Adam Bighill in the Port Moody Gym working out after a day with Rob Williams pre-covid, I can attest to what Luke Willson says when he was shocked at Bighill's work effort. I noticed on the nights that Solomon Eliminian turned up with Bighill, the latter's work rate shot up significantly! He pushes harder when pushed in workouts.
“There’s a guy that I trained with in the offseason one year, you played against him: Adam Bighill,” Willson admitted. “Oh, man, this dude was dominant. Dominant.”
“He’s like, ‘Hey, do you want to do some one-on-ones?'” he recalled. “He’s a linebacker and I could run pretty good, so I remember looking at him like, ‘Bro, get the f*** out of here.’ You want to do one-on-ones? I’m about to roast you, my guy. You’re a linebacker, no one on the planet Earth would want to do this.”
Rourke:“This guy was glued to me! And then I’m like, okay, I’m just gonna run by him but he was fast as f***. I’m like, ‘This guy does it all’ and it was very confusing to me how not only he wasn’t in the NFL, he was not starting in the NFL,” Willson recounted.
“I’m a huge Adam Bighill fan. He’s the man and I tell you what, there’s not a tougher guy in the CFL that we’ve had to prepare for over the last two years,” Rourke said. “Just watching him on film, he’s making every play, he’s around the pile if he’s not making the tackle. They’ve got him playing safety on second down.”