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we put paddy at T over the past two years, including atleast two starts. We’ve also seen teams push dts into play at T. Shepley was playing rt in the nfl and will likely be starting at t for the argos this year. In this era, the gap to playing T isn’t huge like it was in the early 2ks. For one, you get away with murder in terms of holding now. For two, teams will pinch a wr or back to force an end into an under performing T and take away the looping rush lane. for 3, ol across the board are far more athletic. Canadian and american, the guys who aren’t on their last leg can move. For 4, we haven’t had any dominant elite edge rushers for a long while. It’s about disruption today not hits and sacks. 3t is a bigger danger to the qb than de most of the time. We just don’t get those fringe nfl edge rushers any more. The majority of the monster size linemen we see (canadians) are raw as hell. So they get slipped in at g. With the guys coming into the league now, we could easily be seeing more canadian Ts. The league is just stagnant in terms of innovation. No one thinks it’s worth the risk to break the mold.

blind side tackle isn’t what it used to be, and was not as big a deal in the cfl with 5 ol and no te. Plus, with the massive prominence of pistol and shotgun up here over the past 20-25 years, you haven’t been able to sneak up on and burry the qb from behind. From the pistol/gun you have equal view of the ends through out the whole play. Down south, especially in the past, they played a massive amount of passing snaps from under the gun, and once you turned to throwing position and took a step back you turned your back to the rusher on the lt side. Because of that, in the nfl, they heavily pressed the end on the offensive left side to be a premier rusher. but that passed down there 10-15 years ago. The Rt side was often the run side and so has the te a lot of the time on his shoulder, which helped as well.

same and I agree with that.

Was excited for Kelly but he's one of those guys I think that needs to take the next step or he'll be on the outside looking in.

Not sure where he ranked last year, just that he was the best Canadian OL available in free agency. Supply and demand. So he picks up a big salary, but is he that good? While Broxton is American, he ranked the best Lineman, period...and plays the most important position on offense outside of the QB. Gotta love it

It's part of my justification that Stan is the greatest OL of all time. He's the blindside... One of the toughest positions to play in pro sports.... And Walby, bless him, was just a RT. I've always said Walby was the best ever, hands down, but with all things considered... I don't know how you say anyone other than Stan The Boy.

I believe Walby also played inside, at some point

I assume Left... But for the longest time I thought Walby was Left and he was not....

Hmmmmmm, what was Gorell then?

Walby was a Right Tackle fwiw...

Huh? Wasnt Walby Canadian?

But would you say a Canadian guard makes as much as a top notch American tackle? I think the good OL would cost about the same

No CFL head coach dares put a Canadian Tackle on the left side of the OL. They aren't strong enough, quick enough or have the technique down to stop a fast American DE. They can't function on an island where'd they'd be out there. They only can play the interior of the OL. Overpaid to say the least.

he is, you can do worse for end of the roster canadians. That said I think it’ll be a battle in camp, they like ball and kelly too. One things for sure, we don’t need teams playing back up canadians. we need rotational guys.

malik carney highest paid none qb imp in the cap era. that’s a yikes

Just watch, it's balancing itself out as we speak. 3 and even 4 Americans on the OL are no longer uncommon I think we'll see more Canadian talents like Brady O, and more quality Americans on the OL Does anyone even start a Canadian OT anymore? I believe the last one for the Big Blue was Gauthier, a good 15 years ago.

Pisses me off that teams continue to pay Canadian OL this much money. Some fatty comes out of Canadian college unable to block at the CFL level & they still get paid or have long careers when they suck year in & year out. Guys like david Foucault come to mind. Koala as well. Finally they begin to figure things out at age 28. That's why I believe their salaries would go way down if there was no ratio. It's artificially inflated because of it.

JBR will be happy.

Scathing!

All I can speculate here is he’s on an intense offseason enhancement regime where his goal is to improve his mobility, accuracy, football IQ and other needed qb intangibles by 30% that Dinwiddie bought into.

Woodmansey got $300k per year from Elks.

James Van Der Beek, ‘Dawson’s Creek’ star, dies at 48

Details are coming out now and its really getting ugly. The single Mom of the shooter seems to be equally as much of a monster. She pressured her kid into becoming a Trans-girl at age 12 because she wanted to have a trans-child and gave him/her hormones to become a girl. Kid grew up with many issues, dropped out of school at 15 and had a firearms license. Police had many calls with the individual. A ticking time bomb that was waiting to go off. Such a massive tragedy.

Don't mind that. Solid foot soldier.

Nick Hallett re signs on a one year deal...