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One thing I'll say about Ambrosie is that our GC record is pretty good under his watch so he's got that going for him.

I don't understand this bull **** about lack of scoring and boring play. Ambrosie is a tool, the CFL games are exciting even if scoring is a bit lower. He needs to watch xfl 2.0 and the other fly by league and see just how terrible 4 down football can be. It's not like the CFL is full of 2 and outs and punts and nothing else.

Fine with moving the hash marks. Also fine with a 5 yard holding penalty. Shortening the field seems pointless, and would seemingly bring the rouge into play on kickoffs a lot more, which would detract from the return game. NFL kickoffs are the most pointless play in sports.

I've had the St James location a few times. It's as good as Fat Burger, definitely much better then 5 guys. The Milkshakes are a tad pricey but they can be a meal on their own.

People who participate in "Freedom" rallies....

Every burger joint in existence, is capable of giving you the occasional 'bad burger' Having relatives in the potato business (North Dakota) who have direct contracts with McDonald's - I know that their quality control is second to none

All the provincial Conservative governments are trash.

That's Cameron Friesen, our former health minister. The one that questioned Doctors Manitoba and accused them of trying to cause chaos in the system when they asked for emergency funding to deal with one of our big Covid waves. "Manitobans need most to understand that the people in charge have got this." Manitoba health minister accuses doctors of 'causing chaos' for criticizing pandemic response | CBC News

Not just thoughtless but plain stupid. What politician has no ability to address an issue or question with a bit of " political double talk " and not make a target of yourself. She is way, way over her head .

The offensive issue is soo multi faceted it will require a multi pronged attack. For the DI, I think rosters are too small already. But you could tweak DI in other ways. Limit DI's on D, give them less offensive/defensive reps, only allow them to sub in if an imp goes down and is out for the game etc. That said I think the meat of the problem is lack of creativity in offense. In the past 5 - 10 years the NFL and ncaa have stormed past the cfl in terms of developing offensive strategy. The roots of the systems we see flourishing today are old, but they were long relegated to desperate junk college programs with low talent and athleticism. Spread to run, RPO, QB option run, and Flex offenses that run tight stacks and spread with motion / post snap run football south of the border now. Mean while up here every one is doing the old 49ers offense as seen through the lense of paul lapolice. Mtl has tried to institute RPO under khari jones but has not been very good with it. The CFL has lost touch with the ncaa as a venue for coaching talent. All we see now is former cfl players, who have cfl coaching lineages. No one breaks the mold. This applies to defense too. CFL coaching has become inbred past the point of The Hills Have Eyes. Each team should be carrying a none CFL coach like the global player we carry. Back when Michael vick entered the NFL the majority of his runs were adlib. The designed run calls were extremely uninspired and not creative. If you watch what the ravens do now it's like a student who failed gr5 science compared to a physics doctoral candidate. You could force defenses to have a certain amount of players on the line of scrimmage at the snap of the ball to make deep cover harder, or limit the men on the line to reduce qb pressure. You could greatly increase the penalty for punting out of bounds between the 20s, and change rules for alignment on blocking for punts so that it's much riskier and more worth while to go for it on 3rd down. More PI calls made the passing game much worse, but you could take out the ability to jam wrs. Lots of options exist to tweak the offensive rule set to enable offenses. At the end of the day, CFL teams are doing a poor job of investing in and developing OL, especially imp ol. Teams aren't following the trends and making good use of the plethora of athletic qbs, and coaching is stagnant. The teams created this situation and now want every one else to suffer in order to fix it for them rather than doing the work and dealing with specific issues on their own.

No love for 5 Guys? Great burgers, lots of toppings, great fries. Happy happy joy joy for any burger efficienado.

I'm just truly embarrassed for our species. To paraphrase Walter Cronkite , we're really good at finding ways to kill each each other mentally, spiritually and physically but suck at finding ways to build unity across the board. Usually no matter how one packages it, humans will find a way to take good and make it bad. However the comforting news is when surrounding yourself with diverse group of sane people it does help keep one going and hoping.

My guess is that it's the owners in Toronto and Montreal pushing for it.

The international price for sweet crude returned to pre-Ukrainian war levels. Lets see if/when out pump prices return to the old prices.

My guess is that it's Ambrosie himself that wants the change to 4 downs and he's the one pushing it.

The thing is ANY open pit mine is a butt ugly affair. It is the cost of our modern world. The real trick is getting mining companies to do proper reclamation. I'm not sure if they pay the same government levy for reclaiming that gravel and shale pits do. In those pits the fee is charged as it is sold and the Gov is responsible for the reclamation. I'm not sure about open pit mines. I know if companies are responsible for reclaiming it will be like pulling hens teeth. The other big risk is retention ponds that work and don't leak. The last mine I worked at (lead and Zinq ) still resembles a lunar landscape the last I heard. And I worked there in 1992 when it closed. I just took a peek on Google Earth and it really doesn't look like it's been reclaimed. You would think 30 years would be enough time. Edit : But I agree , I don't see a whole lot of reason to start mining our Parks

Logan Stanley can't clear the net either tho. Josh does. Toby did. Technique not size. Demelo is technically our best defensive d man. Size is irrelevant. Boston doesn't take periods off and they all help out defensively. Our forwards don't help much. We were on avg bigger and heavier than Boston D even without Stanley on avg.

I'm surprised they aren't talking about reducing the ratio. More talent for less money sounds like one way to better CFL football. Turns out it's not Genius that's pushing for 4 downs... https://3downnation.com/2022/03/18/genius-sports-denies-pushing-cfl-to-play-four-down-football/

Haha! Saw the news about Dunstone and immediately thought about Noeller.

Sweet burn!

Me too. Haven't tried their stuff yet but this location will be close to home so I'm looking forward to it.

Winnipeg and Lviv are sister cities. I did not know that

Is he still doing rallies? Those in attendance should import Russian rations the soldiers eat that expired 5 years ago.

To add a note of levity (and politics), a couple of weeks ago, Trump held a rally with attendees paying several hundred dollars to be in The Presence. They were fed......McDonald's hamburgers, fries and cola. That summed up Trump's GOP perfectly.

I want to know who are these 25 - 30 percent because no matter what sane stripe you where c’mon. Are they their handlers and their family members? Beneficiaries of their stupidity and crap ideologies? Knuckle Draggers? Combination of all?

If we all have high scoring games then fans will say the league has no defense & is unwatchable. 49-49 games aren't the answer either.

We all pay to see an exciting win from the home team. 50 0 Is fantastic entertainment for the home side but ppl likely tuning out.

Certainly teams like the riders have been forcing none pro quality ni ol into starting jobs. But teams aren't doing good now. But teams aren't developing well either. Ni or imp. Nfl teams used to stick to their mold and we used to get high quality spread qbs. Now the highest caliber qbs available are athletic dual threats that no team uses well here. Mostly we don't even go after the next tier down guys. We get failed transfer guys who were big in hs busted at a big d1 school transfered and was ok for a year at a small school.

I don't mind moving the hash marks in, but I don't expect that will result in anything more than higher FG %.

If they want higher scores then why not merge the league with Arena football?

https://winnipeg.ctvnews.ca/ubisoft-to-invest-139-million-in-winnipeg-studio-create-200-jobs-1.5825149

Why not reduce the number of players on the filed by one as well and rename the CFL to "NFL Tier Two"?

all this talk about improving the offense....Ambrosie said he wants to see 49-49 games be a regular thing.........really? Do people not like seeing good defense? I love seeing great coverage by DBs...I love seeing a great pass rush from the line. I love seeing a great blitz from the LB corps. All this changing to make it easier on the O seems really artificial and dumb.

When you do, order Curly fries to go with it (yes they have curly fries)

Ali Mourtada right now:

Like clockwork these two... "Now, I'm not saying..." I thought the leagues only way forward was the XFL, Farhan and Dave?

man this guy did some great things for us. Comes back after being cut in 2016 and gets 100% dialed in with Nichols on that lethal endzone corner route in 2016 and 2017 -- for awhile those two were like Ricky Ray and Jason Tucker. Will always be a fan. He was a giant part of the 2016 breakthrough season that proved out the Canadian Mafia and gave them time to build the current juggernaut. Real pivotal player in a pivotal point in Bomber history. Wish we could've won him a ring. I think there's a dark timeline where we don't have Clarence Denmark waiting in the wings in 2016 ... Dressler can't do it alone ... the team doesn't break through ... Walters runs out of runway ... and now, in 2022 Mike O'Shea is back selling pharma and Jim Barker is the coach and GM of the Bombers.

Automatic ban to anyone that posts a pic of a player wearing #85 pre-Milt era...

Anyone follow Max Bernier on twitter? His posts are becoming more unhinged. The Ukraine should be left to the Russians. The War isn't real. Everything is a conspiracy. Every politician in Canada but him is a member of the World Economic Forum & Klaus Schwab is Enemy Number 1. The man is dangerous & I see more & more people seemingly agreeing with his hatred & rhetoric everyday on Twitter. The man to me, is a threat to our security as a nation. He's also a nutbar. A dangerous nutbar. His wwords are working up his base into a frenzy as far as I can see. To think this guy was Canada's Foreign Affairs Minister & then wanted to be leader of the CPC is chilling. He's becoming more & more radicalized.

I hope they gave him a signing bonus. https://globalnews.ca/news/8684209/edmonton-elks-adarius-bowman-retiring/

He and our former mayor are as crooked as used nails. Nice to see justice meted out.

Yes of course. But Russia (along with most powerful countries) also have agencies where their only job is to implant misinformation and create division. Russia has been real good at it in North America. Just google Russian Troll farms for some examples. I would bet a lot of money the majority of profiles in those convoy forums aren't actually real people.

This makes me wonder how much funding Putin's people funneled into the "trucker" protests as a way of destabilizing Canadian governments and sowing discord, much as they have (with Trump's participation) done in the US.

It's almost like they're Russian themselves...

I will take every chance I can get to post this. In the words of Larry the Cable Guy, I don't care who you are, that's funny.