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They've missed the playoffs in 2023 & 24. They got some momentum back last season getting back in but the 2025 season was like A Tale Of Two Cities as they got off to a fast start & then really limped in the second half of the season. Vernon Adams play really tailed off. Season ticket sales are up but now with those 3 stars gone, will that flat line??? Calgary used to be such a great football city. The Stamps were everywhere in the city when we moved here in 1990, especially when Flutie & Garcia here. Now it just sucks. Even the pro soccer team gets more coverage than the Stamps do. The Herald & Sun will send a reporter on the road with Calvary but not the Stamps. The team is invisible all year round. The loss of those players is really gonna hurt.

If NFL teams had to pay CFL teams for the players, they wouldn't bother. They'd just bring in players that they don't need to pay for.

Interesting comments about tc given the opinions of some here that our camp is too soft.

So...yes?

Imo KSB won’t be cheap. If he was willing to take a bargain deal, he’d likely stay with the Riders. Otherwise I expect him to get a healthy deal somewhere. I expect him to be well over $100k.

And we haven't won a championship since. games are won on the LOS. That's something that never changes.

https://www.sportsnet.ca/nhl/article/utah-mammoth-to-host-2027-winter-classic/

Why would they? That makes no sense. Paying a CFL team would be no problem. They look for athletes. If anything, they'd refine their searching & only bring in players who have a chance of making a team. Where have you been the past 5 or 6 years? The Stamps have been horrible. They made the playoffs falling backwards last season after a fast start they totally fell back. . They were barely a playoff team.

Ryan Dinwiddie, Chris Jones, Corey Mace, Marc Trestman, Rick Campbell and Cory Chamblin all won Grey Cups as Head Coaches in the past 20 years and none of them had amazing pro careers. Some didn't even have pro careers.

I do. A player who relies on intelligence rather than pure athleticism would be a good candiate to become a coach, and those Ex-CFL players who are head coaches were good (not necessarily great) are in place in Saskatchewan, BC, Calgary, Montreal and now Ottawa. There will always be the odd anomaly.

It was Darryl Patterson who did a very good job when Osh & Walters gave him decent players to coach. Our DL in 2021 & 22 was excellent. .

Whether or not Willie takes a big pay cut likely depends on what other options he has.

Maybe this is the beginning of the end, i.e., we're all in on getting Gavin McKenna.

I'm thinking that given another shot and what he's learned as a coach he would be a more improved coach. Continous improvement kind of thing.

Khari hasn’t really had much success. Wouldn’t hate to see him here as qb coach tho. Here’s one. Mike Ditka. But there’s more who weren’t.

Reaves has never been tough. He’s a bully and it’s great seeing him humbled now.

They carrying 8 D with fleury. That’s not ideal. Now they down to 7 so they can call up another forward. Zhilkin ain’t top 6. He’s bottom 6. None of the moose guys currently are top 6. I like Yager and Chibrikov but ideally they 3rd line guys with a 4th line shutdown line.

Khari Jones if he gets another shot?

Jason Maas. Debatable on both aspects.

Dave Dickenson, Mike Oshea.... but yeah being a good player isn't a prerequisite for being a good coach.

That seems like a bit of an odd call up. He’s improved, but it’s not like he’s putting up great numbers. Not sure how he is at face offs. Gustafsson would make more sense to me, but maybe he would have to clear waivers, if he was sent back down? Salomonsson would make sense with Fleury hurt.

Oshea was pretty good.

Clercius has been exceptional in his extremely limited role. I've got no concerns with him pencilled in as the last wr and 2nd Canadian for this year. Now we do certainly need to draft some Canadian WRs behind that, preferably guys who can outrun slow offensive linemen. I think we can address this either with quantity picks or a quality pick. We could also take some swings on guys in free agency, bumping Clercius to a rotational role. Guys like Brissett, Gittens, maybe Ungerer, or Nield. We could take a flyer on Baker for depth. He hasn't been healthy, but that means he should be dirt cheap, and as a last wr/back up thats great value. We could bring back Bolo, again a low-cost guy who could slide back and forth between the last wr and the backup. I'd love that. We could also jump into the full-on reclamation mode pile with Bruggeling. He still has a tremendous combination of size and athleticism. Didn't we just go through this discussion, too? Am I crazy? Way more guys succeed in coaching who failed at their positions than all-time greats. Jake also wasn't always some awful mess of a player. He was a very good rotational guy and fringe starter at one point. Being as effective as he was at bullrushing and playing the run, in his prime, requires a lot of technique. The problem has never been his trade craft. It's been that he is so slow for maybe 3 years now; he is lucky to get in contact with an OL on a deep pocket when pass rushing. He's not reggie white or von miller or some thing, but those guys seldom become great coaches at the position.

lol. Name one. Honestly. One. Just one cuz I can name 50 who weren’t. including some of the greatest coaches of all time like bud grant John madden and some dude named Vince Lombardi who played never played pro football. I mean really. Buck. Dinwiddie. Steinhauer millanovich macoica. I mean 90 percent of the coaches In both pro football leagues were just average to below average players or not at all even. Andy Reid sure was a hell of a player eh, I mean really.

Actually yeah, I was thinking of Wheatfall. Point remains on Demski though, and our backup Canadian receivers currently being quite sub-par.