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All the hell and torment..... Still hard to fathom its over.

Well at least this aged well. And epic it was.

Means if you change the n to an r

Well clearly the Clintons are SO corrupt that they've managed to bring the entire world population under their thumb and no one will ever find anything. Or something.

Not all these guys will make it. Most will be cut in training camp.

I think that would be the death of the CFL.

So Ryar Bomben then..............................man I hate off seasons

A legit chance? What a bunch of nonsense. If this league starts a welfare program for NAT QBs the league will suffer. Every year teams bring in NAT QBs to compete. After that you have to earn your roster spot. Any deviation from that waters down the product. I want the best QBs available on my team QB is not a position you allow players to develop through undeserved playing time.

Okay, this comment really rubs me the wrong way. How is supporting Canadian qbs getting a chance to play in the CFL all of a sudden about me wanting my son to have more playing time? It's not my kid we're talking about here. He hasn't played since 2015. You don't know me at all or anything about me as a parent. You don't know what my relationship was with his coaches at the junior, JUCO or university level when he played. The way I interpret your words, I must have been obviously a whiney & controlling parent that tried to force coaches to get my son more playing time. Sorry to disappoint. But I wasn't like that. My son had to fight for his playing time with the Rifles, then his JUCO team & at SFU. I never once called his coaches demanding he play more when he didn't. With the Rifles, as an 18 year-old rookie he started the first two games of his PFC career. Opening game of the season against the Hilltoppers in Saskatoon he threw 3 td passes in his very first game at Gordie Howe Bowl but also two pick 6's & lost. The following week in a monsoon at Canad Inns Stadium, his second start was a miserable one as he threw 4 pick 6's vs the Edmonton Wildcats. The Rifles lost something like 66-21. After the game he was demoted to #3 qb & never played again that season. The HC ripped him a new one in the Winnipeg Free Press after the game saying he'd never start for him again. My son wasn't aware of the HC comments until he read them in the paper the next day as the HC never spoke with him. Matter of fact, Coach never spoke to him the rest of the season. Wouldn't even say hello. Just put his head down & always walked by him. At the end of September he called me & asked if he could quit the team as he was homesick. I told him to stick it out. That he never quit anything in his life & he wasn't about to start now. That quitting when the going got tough would mean it would be easier to quit again the second, third & fourth time around when the going got tough in life. Do you have any idea how hard it was for me to tell him that he couldn't quit when he was upset, crying & begging to come home??? Plus having his mother angry with me as well when I said no?? He said okay he'd stay but slammed the receiver in my ear & didn't speak or text me for another month. I never called his Head Coach. I never made waves. I wanted him handle the situation like an adult. He ended up staying that season, going back the next & splitting the starting qb position with a teammate who also had a very good year. He actually was having a decent second season splitting the qb duties until he broke his collarbone in Regina. Making him stay, face adversity & whatever happened all by himself, far away from home for the first time in his life helped him grow up & develop a much tougher skin. The HC never spoke to him again that season. Turned out he didn't speak to half the team, alienated most of the players & was fired when the season ended. The moral of the story is I never interfered as a parent with any coaches. I never whined to his HC or complained to the Rifles President about being demoted or being ignored when I easily could have. When he got to California & then SFU it was the same deal. Any problems he told me about, I stayed out of & let him handle things on his own. Besides, had I ever called his coaches he'd have been upset & told me to mind my own business. So, WBBFanWest, this has nothing to do about me as a parent thinking I knew more than his coaches wanting him to play so you're way off base. Oh & you should know based on my son's performance at the CFL Regional Combine in Edmonton in March 2016, he got a tryout with the Lions & threw for both Wally & Khari Jones in early May. He had suffered a severely torn hamstring two months before while training for the Combine & couldn't run in Edmonton & struggled to do so at the Lions practice facility in Surrey. He was timed by the Lions in the 40 at 5.2 seconds when he normally ran a 4.7. He told me that when he did his forty he felt like his hammy was going to explode so he was scared to run any faster. His 40 time was a huge disappointment. He never told the Lions he was injured. That probably led to his not going further with them or any other chances with any CFL team. So, his playing days were over. Things didn't end the way he wanted them to playing wise but now he coaches & he's happy doing that. He's married, living in Seattle & just got his Green Card. Life goes on. I'm just advocating for Canadian qbs. This has nothing to do with my son so please leave him out of the discussion from this point on.

Amazing idea. Based on our average of around 24000 we could definitely afford to get in on a couple thousand youth season tickets. I worry that after a Grey Cup though that they are going to try to squeeze every penny out of us

Hi. This is Joe Critchlow’s son, Joel. Just surfing around this evening. Great to see Dad still remembered! Now...trying to figure out which neighbor you were. :)

#2019

What MOS was supposed to say, one supposes: “I don't think he’ll be ready to play. It’s been well documented that his throwing shoulder is screwed, and since his last lower body injury, Matt has the mobility of a fence post. He may never be able to perform at a high level ever again.”

Some may even be let go before main camp even starts as well..teams have a long time to adjust rosters and sign and resign guys before camp even starts

I started reading the Toobin (I think it was him) book about the conspiracy to take down Bill Clinton. Hilary famously referred to it as a vast right wing conspiracy and looked bonkers at the time. But the more you look into it, you see the right HATED Bill with a passion (and now Hilary ofcourse). Whatever side anyone falls on politically, facts are facts. Lots of facts show the right desperately witch hunting for dirt on the Clintons for years and facts show us Trump ACTUALLY is a criminal. Fact is, Hilary got robbed and cheated. Should be President right now. and Bill would make a fine First Gentleman...lol

When the CFL floated its idea of 5 Canadian starters before the CBA negotiations last year the negative reaction was huge. Any reduction of Canadian players would be met with negative opposition.

O'shea would be saying the same thing even if they were planning on moving on from him.

So I’m anti Canadian qb bcuz I want the best of the best playing regardless if they are American Canadian global? And ya they should get developed, but that starts with better university programs.

What do you think the reaction would be across the country if the ratio was eliminated? Think about it.

The QB position has got to be the most demanding one on the team. Many an athlete has pronounced him/herself recovered and ready to roll, but the team found out that was not so. I would think that a good athlete does not have to lose high percentage of ability to become a so-so performer. This may be so with Nichols- in the past, when he was injured but still able/willing to play, his performance dropped off a lot. And he is a year older now, so his being able to win and keep a starting role is iffy.

Went to Popeyes here in Calgary this evening to get dinner. Totally underwhelmed. Chicken wasn't very tasty. Man, I thought KFC was expensive!

Wouldn't that be something if the shoulder troubles persist for Mitchell & Arbuckle develops into a good qb?

This thread has not aged well.

Make Canadian qbs count against the ratio like other positions. That way another American can start elsewhere. Just like starting a Canadian RB a la Andrew Harris would help. What's it called? Oh yeah, a "ratio breaker".

May or may not mean anything but seeing this pair together is interesting...

It means, if it's your kid, you know more than the coaches and your kid should get to play.

But what do want the CFL to do, specifically? Teams already invite guys to camp to workout with the team. They use local guys in free agent and rookie camps.

Joe Critchlow was a great Blue Bomber.

There are qbs in U Sports who can play but need a chance to develop. But simply saying they can't is painting every qb with a wide brush. I don't agree with your assessment. Now when I say develop a Canadian qb I don't mean every one on every team in U Sports. However, if a player shows potential he should get the chance. Maybe that's 1 qb every 3 to 5 years. Like the 2 Canadian qbs on the Argos roster from Laval & UBC. Perhaps Chris Merchant from Western. They should get a legit shot at making a CFL team. As far as producing quick dividends developing Canadian OL that has sure proven to be wrong. Look how long it took Michael Couture to become a starter & Goosen before him. Every team has OL from U Sports that took years to develop. It's not easy nor is it a given these OLwill become CFL starters.

Agree completely. and his partner Ms. Maxwell landed in Israel, and will not be extradited from there. barely a blip on the news scene. There's no law for a certain class of people. Not even for murder.

Rask was really off. He didn't play

The rolling stone twitter feed has a lot of really nice articles on Neil. You should check it out.

He led his life to the beat of a different drummer so to speak, this one hits me hard

Back to 0-0

Hes 19 ffs

No kidding. What a dink. Go Blue.

If you’re wondering why Canadian quarterbacks don’t get a chance, it’s because 99.999999999% of the time, it’s a waste of time. Canadians get drafted as OL and DL because it’s so much easier to learn the position than it is to learn how to play QB. Investing in potential at those positions can pay quicker dividends. There’s never going to be a QB version of David Onyemata or Efe Obada, there’s never going to be a QB that converted to football from another sport like Antonio Gates or Jimmy Graham. You need a long period of development and high level coaching to succeed as a professional QB.

"2019 was the year of Cody Fajardo"

"They didn't hoist the Grey Cup."

Joe Critchlow 1970's game worn helmet:

Bought my first seasons in 2006, not knowing what Doug Berry would bring to the table. Couldn't possibly have cared, either, because we were just elated to be able to see the Bombers play live 9x a season. I just keep thinking that we've been through hell and back for this long already, why give up now? Someday we're going to be rewarded, and it's going to be epic.

No matter ...you gotta like BigChris and what he has done for this club. If he goes...let's see what the next guy has if he doesn't go.....