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Chris puts it succinctly: Pay the players, get back to the table and set things straight. This would go a long way towards a new agreement..

Drew's rancorous opinion toward the League has softened since he was expelled from the safety of the Ecuadorian embassy.

Bullllllllllll shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit.

There was plenty of talk by fans and media alike that Jones was on the heels of Loffler last TC and that the coaches would have a hard choice to make. Obviously once Loffler left Walters would make those kinds of statements. But it wasnt the first or only time it had come up. And before you say it, I know the fans talking or the media talking aren't the same as the coaches....but youd be ignorant to think the coaches would say something like that, about an allstar during the TC. Further more....many I'm sure including yourself thought the loss of Bond was going to be a set back. We all saw how that played out. Yes he wasnt replaced by a rookie or a unproven player....but the sentiment was still there that his backup wouldn't suffice. We've seen over the course of the past 2 years how back ups have come in to replace starters due to injury without a drastic drop in quality, with the exception of Receiver's. There is reason to be optimistic. I dont think anyone is saying there is no potential for a drop in quality. We're just choosing to be optimistic based on a fairly large body of evidence. Optimism...you should try it sometime.

And now for something completely ridiculous..

TBurg Rule

LeBron James Opened a School That Was Considered an Experiment. It’s Showing Promise. The inaugural class of third and fourth graders at the school have posted extraordinary results on its first set of test scores. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/12/education/lebron-james-school-ohio.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

Jets win by more than 1 goal tonight.

i dont think he started until into the season year two..supplanted Picard mid season I believe

For brevity's sake, in the future, can we just invoke this by saying "TBurg rule"?

No way they start Samberg in the bigs. He's headed to the Moose for seasoning. He needs to learn how to play at the professional level.

I have no idea who FrostyWinnipeg is. Sounds dodgy. Best start a new thread.

I think the Dems are distancing themselves from universal health care so as to limit its use as a weapon of Trump in 2020. Too easy for him to call them all socialists or say they're the Bernie party. But I think should they win, you'll see them move pretty quickly to a much better health care system. Maybe not like Canada, but a lot better than they have.

7 million x 6. I do it. If he wants more... I move him. He's a good Defensive D man but hes awful on the PP and lacks the IQ a guy like 44 has. 7 is good. 8? Nope.

This is just trolling now. You must be losing the argument...

Eleven Ignored Issues that Albertans Should Think about Before They Vote Most critically it must decide: will its future be sticker or boomer? "Between 2000 and 2017, annual revenue from royalties collapsed by 59 per cent — $9.5 billion — while oil production rose by 112 per cent during the same period." "Louisiana, a major U.S. oil-dependent state, has done such a poor job of collecting and saving revenue from oil production that it introduced a sales tax rate of 4.45 per cent in 2016 to avoid a “fiscal cliff.”" "Alberta has no real plan for addressing a hidden fiscal crisis: unfunded oil and gas liabilities worth at least $260 billion. The province, for example, has only $200 million in security deposits to cover the abandonment and reclamation of hundreds of thousands of wells." "The recent Canada’s Changing Climate Report mentions Alberta more than 60 times. In 2013, extreme rainfall caused a flood that cost the province billions. In 2016, extreme drought caused a massive wildfire in Fort McMurray costing the province billions more." "According to the International Energy Agency (IEA), a conservative group, almost every major oil-producing state faces a tempestuous future. Last year the IEA estimated that if low oil prices continued, net income from oil and gas would never recover to its 2010-15 levels, “leading to a cumulative $7-trillion reduction over the period to 2040” in government revenues for the world’s petro states. The IEA recommended that oil-exporting states invest heavily in renewables, end all fossil fuel consumption subsidies and invest in adding value to hydrocarbons." https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2019/04/12/Eleven-Ignored-Issues-Albertans-Should-Think-About/

I hope nobody is suggesting that I don’t think that Chung is a good guard. What he lacks in physical ability makes up in fight and tenacity. But he struggles against physically dominant defensive tackles like Mica Johnson. Chungs got a real mean streak out there.

He's The Mandarin!!

A lot will depend on Trouba. Stay or leave and finding the right return if he is leaving.

Something like this topic needs to be sensitively handled in a measured and mature fashion. But what is needed and what one gets..... So I will just start with hockey teams......in this episode Toronto Maple Leafs: Long, long time ago....,I may of been the biggest Leaf fan on the planet. Watched that game, when Armstrong's empty netter clinched the cup for Toronto. Life was good. Then that felonious, loud mouth Harold Ballard came into my life. Stripped the C from Sittler, got rid of MacDonald....and turned the Leafs into a pure joke. I simply could not support that clown show....or continue to suffer with it. Even today..... I hate the Toronto Maple Leafs. Funny thing is that most of their players, would get a pass from me. It's simply the Toronto media, and the fan base. Have listened to one, and had many interactions with the other. Out here in the hinterlands (West of the Golden Triangle), for decades, we have gotten Leafs news shoved down our throats 24/7 - what their 4th liner wears on Thursdays, what another guy eats for breakfast, what still another guy has coming out the other end. As if we could really give a crap. The fan base? Passionate....which is a good thing - but just too many folks indoctrinated with the idea that "world class" Toronto, and their team, that hasn't won anything in 50 years....is somehow a cut above everything and everybody and the ultimate flagship franchise. Reinforced by TSN and Sportsnet, at all times. The football snobbery by the same fans and especially the media in TO, worshiping the NFL and crapping on the CFL....is also to their discredit. Montreal Canadians: Hated them for decades, but always with a twinge of guilt. Not because of the French thing, but simply because they were real, real good - those suckers always won.....like always. Always rooted against them, but it was always like tilting at windmills. Hell, I watched one team that had Lemaire and Cournoyer playing on the 4th line! Even after expansion, GM Pollack fleeced teams for years.....fobbing off spare or aged parts, for prospects and draft picks. I just thought it would never end. More incoming.....

FWIW $47K+ was raised by charging $5 a ticket for the Whiteout street party.

You can be the starter in letting TBurg do his thing. I’ll be the backup. I’ve got plenty of practice. I’m ready.

Further, I can still remember TB whining about starting Chungh and Goosen when they were rookies, saying nearly the same things...that they weren't ready and that we'd suffer. Just let TBurg do TBurg things......ignore it.

We had one of if not the best group of canadians in the CFL. It would benefit the teams with the worst just as much. Also I never implied it would/wouldn't be better for the bombers then anyone else...either did your original statement. I simply said it would be good for every team. Which is true.

Well Kylo is the great-grandson of Shimi Skywalker. So that’s one. Would it surprise anyone that Rey is another? Luke, you're a horrible tutor AND father.

I think everyone struggled against Johnson. The man is a beast. I wouldn't hold that against Chungh.

I think that O’Shea and Walters set their limit on Loffler and followed through with their reasoning. They would have signed him at their price but not at a price that stretched their limit. Especially if they feel they had the next man up. That’s Free Agency. I almost feel they expected it. As for Chungh, money is not always the issue, especially for BC born Chungh. Were the Bombers willing to pay Chungh and compete with the home province. Doubtful. Sukhs, but that’s Free Agency too.

Be a shame not to include tight ends in this as we had some good ones in Ernie Pitts & Paul Markle. Just because tight ends aren't used anymore they deserve o be recognized as well. I suggest we vote for 3 receivers. Wideout, slot & tight end.

Goossen didn't start full time until year 3, 2016.

move those post shots on Billington five mm to the inside. Jets win!

You might be right, it's beyond me, but I know that a majority of Americans want it, and a large majority of Democrats want it. But they are fed a pile of lies about universal health care. Pretty funny that Zontar doesn't understand your point.... lol.

We had season tickets on he east side and bought 2 more in the east temp seats. My dad and I used the good seats in the first half, and traded off with my brother and his friend for the second. The wind came right through the back of the bleachers and feet were exposed to the elements, the second half was a miserable experience by the end of it.

The charges stem from the Mueller investigation.

Now that there is potentially a viable alternative to WWE, I'm guessing we'll see more people thinking about where they really want to be and how much they want to allow their careers to be dictated by WWE.

Leo Lewis and Charles Roberts are deservedly running away (no pun intended) with the poll, so it is time to move on to the receiving corps. I will split up the candidates into slotback and wide receiver categories, but as some were referred to as wingbacks (which morphed in to the slotback position) and flankers (which as best as I can tell was the original wide receiver position), I may inadvertently have put a receiver in the wrong category, so please alert me to any errors. Also, the CFL listed every all-star as a wide receiver (even Stegall, a career slotback), so my slotback list is pretty much from my memory, and wide receiver is my default where I wasn't sure. Regarding the list - to keep the candidate list from spinning out of control, I was going to limit the number of candidates in each category to 10. In fact, I came up with 9 slotbacks and 12 wide receivers, and chose not to include a further 7 receivers (all wideouts) due to the constraints of the list. I will tell you who I have omitted, and why (in my rationale anyway), so if you feel that one of the receivers on the omitted list (or someone else I have not mentioned at all) deserves to be on the final list, tell me, BUT tell me also who they should replace, because I am not making the candidates' pool bigger. And singular big moments do not equate to an all-time career, so Alfred Jackson and his 307 yard receiving game do not warrant inclusion on the candidate list My basis for initial inclusion was any receiver who is in the club's hall of fame, or had at least one CFL all-star nod in their career. I have left off a few receivers who did win the club's rookie of the year award - in those cases I felt their one good season was not enough to establish them as an all-time great. I hope no one will begrudge me leaving the likes of Mitch Running and Eric Guliford off the list because of that. So the ones I left off the list despite meeting the baseline criteria in some instances are: Derick Armstrong - only 2 seasons here, only one 1000+ season, and an acrimonious departure David Williams - chemistry with Dunigan, but only one decent year here, and did a lot more with the BC Lions, so not enough career mileage to warrant a nom Geroy Simon - accomplishments with other teams do not factor in, so his Hall of Fame career with BC is a moot point. He only topped 700 yards once in his 2 seasons here. Chris Matthews - rookie of the year, but his 1 & 1/3 seasons in Winnipeg were too brief compared to other candidates. NFL success not a factor to consider Albert Johnson III - his receiving numbers were pretty pedestrian and his time here limited, he was more of a return specialist (which already earned him a spot on the all-time team) Eugene Goodlow - hard to keep him off this list, but his phenomenal 1981 year (100 catches - first ever to do that, and 1494 yards with 15 TDs is brilliant) on its own does not get him into the conversation of all-time great based on lack of longevity. He basically had only that one year of stats (injured 5 games into the next season, had he finished out that year on the pace he was at, I probably would have added him to the list). Arland Bruce III - "Runako Reth" only had one 1000+ yard season and 2 years in Bomber colours, and his achievements elsewhere do not count. NOW, BEFORE YOU TELL ME STEGALL AND POPLAWSKI ARE WINNING THIS, SO DON'T BOTHER DEBATING - YOU WILL PICK THREE FROM EACH GROUP. With the advent of the 5 receiver set, I will take the top 2 slotbacks and top 2 wide receivers and place them on the team. The #3 choice at each position will go head-to-head in a subsequent run-off vote to be placed in the "5th receiver" spot. The slotbacks: Gerald Alphin, Terrance Edwards, Rick House, Gord Paterson, Joe Poplawski, Tom Scott, Milt Stegall, Jim Thorpe, Gerald Wilcox The wide receivers: Darvin Adams, Jeff Boyd, Clarence Denmark, Farrell Funston, Robert Gordon, Bud Grant, Mike Holmes, Bob LaRose, James Murphy, Ken Nielson, Ernie Pitts, Perry Tuttle

Ridiculous to bench roslovic

The entire point of stability was to have a regime that would have players in the system for when guys move on - bombers have shown they can do that with every position except receiver ha we can always sign dressier after training camp if there’s an issue...

Im gonna laugh when the CFL announced that only 5 canadian starters are required starting this season

I'm not saying that these players aren't good players and that I wouldn't rather have had them coming back. However, I felt the same way about TJ Heath and Jamal Westerman. Loffler is a good safety still however his style of play has been significantly impacted by all the new rule changes that have come out in the last few seasons where he's no longer able to light receivers up once their fingers touch the ball. Safety is simple not the impact position it used to be. In his first two seasons he had 7 forced fumbles and 0 last season. Calgary played great defense and won the Grey Cup with Adam Berger playing at safety. It's one thing to have to replace 3 ratio breakers who are all-stars. However, in these cases, we are talking about a guard, a center, and a safety. Not a right tackle, linebacker, and defensive end. The bombers have been drafting and developing replacement players in these positions. Positions that have largely been considered non-ratio breaker. Meaning that there is a steady supply of Canadian who can play these positions. You just gotta keep drafting and developing them. Which Winnipeg has. We didn't look that bad defensively even when Hect was in at safety. With an improved pass rush this season we should be just fine. The defense is not something I'm worried about. In the CFL you're always going to have turnover. At any other time, I would be worried about our offensive line after losing players of this caliber. But at this juncture, we will be fine because we have players in the system who can fill those roles. When Walters took over we were 5 starters short of an offensive line and nothing in the system. Now we lost 2 guys and have several options already in the system who can fill those roles and 2 picks in the first round. There's a reason why Winnipeg made no attempt to sign a veteran offensive lineman in free agency despite having the cap space to do so. These 3 Canadians keep being brought up however I'm not worried about it. I'm more concerned over whether or not our quarterbacking and receiving will be improved over last season.

I think their worst mistake in Alberta in retrospect, is going to be not having used some of their oil money to transition to the next energy economy. They have everything needed there to do so, finance, energy expertise, skilled labour force, and just haven't done it. Bad combination of poor governance / planning, Oil company greed, and citizen complacency.

Guess we’ll find out soon enough

So much to unpack. Are they spoilers if they happen in the teaser? Can we talk openly?

Trouba has already given Chevy an indication of his intentions.. He will either sign 5 or 6 years or be dealt at the draft. Him getting pp1 minutes over Buff makes me kind of confused as Maurice has said many times he will only give opportunities to guys who want to be here.

https://tvline.com/2019/04/12/blue-bloods-renewed-for-season-10-tom-selleck/

Thanks Debbie. There goes my Friday.

So the one on Kenaston will eventually be Route 90 Roadhouse

wow, somethings are just wrong.