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There's your helmet solution

I can\'t see any player wearing one in game to be honest...it one thing with no contact these days in practice...game is totally different, and in scrums...big collisions etc....do they come flying off?...get re-arranged on a guys helmet and block his sight?...will they be litterd all over field much like a helmet now...and need to be put back on..delaying a game or having a guy have to come off?....

I hope thats a tongue in cheek joke/sarcasm.....lets call it less talented then

No such thing as an inferior Canadian.

Yeah. safety over aesthetics is understandable. I worry that better helmets and guardian helmets are not the answer to the problem. Plenty of offensive players already use their helmet like a weapon. Is a defensive player going to be called if that thing is the first point of contact? How hard would it be to tackle a qb with one on legally?

You dont get it....due to ratio to fill out the roster....many many inferior Canadians get role jobs as oppsoed to Americans...so if say an LB has a opp to compete for a job....but doesn't get it say due to another American they go with...he has no hope to make the roster on teams and try and earn a spot in practice.... the ST lb's filling out the roster will be inferior Canadians...who aren't good enough to be a Canadian starter...so guys won't come due to that...a lot of times as well they may be better than a projected Canadian Starter....but again.....won't get the job because there just isnt enough starter quality Canadians on some rosters to change your ratio...Guys careers are short as it is, and for a U.S guy to come up here, already behind the 8-ball due to ratio and risk catastrophic injury with really next to no chance to make it...they decline the offer....doubt me if you wish....but these are facts...and has happened a ton

I get it....but gross.

It's weird to say that the Bombers have missed out on players because of ratio concerns because it's balanced out by playing an import somewhere else. So it's not even that you are better than the incumbent Canadian you are trying to displace, you have to better than the Canadian than another import is better than the typical Canadian at their position. You can argue that the Bombers have not really taken advantage of some of the new rules surrounding imports, but the players filling those spots likely aren't going to be higher level imports.

I think I did but who has time to read 12 years of posts?

Did you post this 12 years ago?

Yep, they definitely should but we've heard about that kind of thing before. Off-field preparation like that doesn't always rank too highly for some of these guys. One of our camp QB's (Terry Wilson) just admitted he was supposed to come up to the CFL 2 years ago but didn't have his passport in order so it didn't happen & now he wishes he had gotten it done back then.

It would be interesting to see who doesn’t have a clue. Perhaps the cuts indicate that.

Somehow Ottawa will lose their 1st rd pick

They should though. They are likely repped by a CFLPA approved agent. You'd think you would do a little digging on your career prospects, how the league works, the team they are going to etc.

Yup. Wouldn’t be the cfl without a Brady or a fn schmekel as a Canadian. I’m cool with that. That’s what makes the cfl the cfl.

I know for a fact we have had guys not come up here....so yeah we lost out...

I wouldn't say we missed out. We got great Canadians in their place to play in the Canadian Football League.

Hope dudes like Ronnie brown and bugsy Siegel get another shot. Elks.

Oh you just watched it for the erection didnt you?

Watched a great short 6 episode series "A Man in Full" with Jeff Daniels playing a Southern real-estate mogul in financial difficulty, short and sweet and don't have to worry about waiting for season two, it's over in 6.

true....and on the flipside we lose out on a ton of really good talent too for those same reasons....Players agents will fill them in on thE situation, and what they up against, also players talk and have conveyed to buddies that they got cut as an inferior player was used (ratio reason) , and to not waste their time, or risk injury....

I'm sure some probably have no clue about the ratio or why it matters that the starter/back-up are Canadian.

I'm sure it will fare better there's one at Polo already and one coming to seasons

Has anyone else been watching hockey with all the BET365 commercials? I was surprised (/s) by the one I saw last night detailing how you can see the app to restrict your access or to force you to take time away from it, I believe they called it a "holiday"...