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who really effin care's about a Canadian QB....like really....People need to care more about "legit" Canadian stars who are getting it done...for succesive yrs....Guys like BO...Demski...just on the Bombers alone....Skilled position guys...Valuable to a team's success guys...Why do people get fixated on a QB all the time....it's pointless and never gonna happen Rourke is Canadian by birth only not by training and how/where he developed.....Ford...Yeah was all everything in the CIS...And hot assed garbage in the pros' and history and all likelyhood Elgersma will be too...He got the look he did, based soley on his body type as it fit what used to be the dream MFL stereotype, and even that is changing now and U.S trained and born guys like him are not the sure thing they used to be

Unfortunately, our rookie NAT draft scale dictates what we can offer him....and it ain't much. So S27 may have somewhat of a point. He isn't shitting on the CFL per se, but he is definitely not interested in our NAT draft contract. It is a 3 year contract and pays peanuts, one way out is to stick on an NFL roster/PR for one season, after that teams can negotiate their own financial terms and this is a possible reason he is trying so hard to just get an NFL look....to avoid making 80kish a year for the next 3 years. Shitting on the CFL...nope...shitting on what he is forced to play for for a good portion of his career...quite possibly. If I were a betting man, I would wager that if we could negotiate his rookie contract and compensate him even 150k a year to come on board he would be here.

I get it's exciting because there hasn't been a lot of Canadian QBs in this era of the CFL, and then this decade we have Nathan Rourke, and then Tre Ford was looking good for a bit... and then we get Kurtis Rourke who had some Heisman heat, and the Elgersma who did well in CIS and had some scouts thinking he was something but people definitely need to settle down. I think Kurtis Rourke almost has less of a chance to make in the NFL, being 25 years old and having torn each of his ACLs, but you don't hear Rider Fans wondering wtf he is doing up there.

This is what I'm talking about.... dude's trying to land in the NFL... he's deluded probably at this point but by god he's going to try. Doesn't mean he's shitting all over the cfl and christ chances are he never amounts to anything in the cfl either. So why waste all this energy on a guy like that

Detroit becoming mini Winnipeg with Copp, Apples, Chiarot and Myers

I actually heard, he specifically dislikes SpeedFlex27 and that's why he's not in the CFL.

Yea I don’t seeing the Jets being buyers at all more like selling off some tier 2/3 assets unless of course they know something we the fans don’t ie they feel real confident in making the playoffs even with the odds being very stacked high against them.

He's looking for his best pay day. Can't really blame him. I'd imagine Walters gave him a pretty low offer given how much money we threw around so far this off-season. I agree with 17to85. He's not here so whatever.

Jets are also missing the playoffs so it’s definitely not them. It’s Detroit.

Actions speak louder than words. He DOES NOT want to be here. Don't be surprised if we trade his rights to the Argos or Ti Cats for a bag of footballs.

What the hell are you talking about. He hasn't said anything negative about the CFL. He's just trying to land a spot down south.

Elgersma is shitting all over the CFL. He acts like he's too good to play up here. That's becoming obvious to more & more people so hence the negative reaction.

Just trolling. Ridiculous.

Yea, like move over Milt.

Great first season

He never signed in Birmingham, he was drafted by them but according to 3DN he never signed. If he is not there by now it seems to me that there is little chance he will be.

Why are you knocking a future hall of famer?

We need a third thread for sure. That young man needs to be informed even more about what's good for him.

AM-SOIL......yeah pretty much a pile of dirt as the name says.....Whoever or whatever put that together is in overreach territory and went into the abyss.......

Total Trash and Edmonton is a LOL. Hamilton too.

Way-too-Early AMSOIL Power Rankings: Who sits at the top? - CFL.ca Lol. Edmoton? Really?

That's his best case, and that is a long shot.

If you skipped the 2nd intermission you missed a great interview with Vilardi 😛

Yeah but what do people think he should be doing with his life? We should fill a 3rd thread with comments about him just to be sure

By serious, I mean some one will hand him a contract and pay him to show up to their camp, during which he will get 3rd-4th qb reps, play a couple pre season quarters, and if he is the 3rd best qb on the team they will put him on the pr after camp. Not a camp invite, not TCF, but basically what a prio fa signing would get. Thats his best case.