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Longer posts are ok if they have substance and a purpose..and aren't just a delusional rant I had no issue with the post in question.. agreed pretty much with it for most part and it was factual and well thought out..unlike some nonsense we see on forums Thanks for the props by the way..sometimes I tend to rant and get long winded but usually comes from a place I've been or seen..or still have some connections with/to And some are in response to posts that irk and piss me off which come from places people have no clue about..no experience in..and generally are thier own agenda...

I scored the winning touchdown during the 1982 RRC intramural flag football championship game on a 5 yard pass & run catch from our qb Harry "Hot Streets" Hannigan. (He was big Chicago fan back in the day). We had aspirations of playing in the NFL but there was no NFL interest back in those days. Then things changed over the years, RRC players attended NFL Combines, scouts started watching our games, some had FA tryouts with teams down south. A couple of guys almost got drafted the past few seasons. Then the scandal hit & changed everything. Tragic.

Per CFL.ca transaction page, looks like Demski reconstructed his contract.

Man, why are we criticizing someone who gave a legit take on Strevler?.What, it's better to read a 2 sentence response from Skunk talking about his gay man crush on Big Chris. Give me TrueBlue4ever's take than the **** we get from Skunk every ******* day.

I read it and deeply regret it.

Wow, are you bucking to be Streveler's agent? So much "fact" spinning here. As much as some say the NFL game is evolving, the traditional approach is to have a QB who is "pass first, run if necessary". NFL may want athletes with multiple skills at other positions, but for a QB they want someone who can throw the ball. Look at the all-time greats in the NFL since the 1980's and the introduction of the more dynamic ("west coast" offence): Fouts, Marino, Montana, Moon, Kelly, Manning, Brady, Brees, Aikman, Roethlisberger, Rodgers, Warner. All those with staying power were pocket passers who could scramble if needed but by and large were good because of their arm and ability to read the field, not because of their legs. Even the most mobile of them - Favre and Elway, were recognized more for their passing stats than their running stats. And the best of the "running" QBs, Steve Young, only became top tier after he learned to be a pinpoint pocket passer and utilize the weapons around him (cough, Jerry Rice) rather than do it on his own. Russell Wilson seems to be evolving into this as well, and Patrick Mahomes is successful because he can throw with the best of them. QBs who have lived mainly off the run are typically flash in the pan types, who burst on the scene with a lot of hype and promise to "change the game" with never before seen skills, only to fade away once teams learn to defend their running and force them to pass, proving they can't do it well enough to last. Steve McNair, Randall Cunningham (who may have been the best passer of this group), Michael Vick, Tim Tebow, Colin Kaepernick, and now Lamar Jackson are the flavour of the month, but how many of them (the best of the best of the running QBs) lasted playing that style once teams caught on to how to defend them? Look what Tennessee did to Jackson this past week by simply spying him with an extra safety. As for this year's final 4 in the NFL, where is the running QB (as opposed to the QB who can put up 350 yards passing) in that mix? Not in San Fran (where the tailback is their best receiver, hmmm, lots of check down passes in a successful offence, imagine that), definitely not in Green Bay, not even in KC (Mahomes can scramble better than most, but he is winning with his arm and his reads more than by running an option style offence). Tennessee is winning on the back of a running back playing out of his mind right now and a defence creating huge turnovers in the playoffs. As for your second paragraph, lots of BS hyperbole to unpack here: Dime a dozen QB's who athletically are at the top of their draft class? Really? Top of the draft class? Streveler was a division 2 (now called 1AA) QB, let's not overlook that little nugget. Given the 100+ division 1A QB's out there, I'd be comfortable calling him a dime a dozen. You're going to be hard pressed to find a QB with anywhere near the passing success Streveler had in NCAA (again, division 2. That's like comparing the MJHL scoring leader to the CHL scoring leader) as well as the measurables, then add on what he's done here. His completion percentage was 66.6%, which sounds good until you look at the other starters who averaged 3-5% better than him for the most part - he was 9th out of 12 QBs with 175 or more attempts. He threw 8 TDs to 14 INTs. Intercepted on 6% of his passes, last for QBs with 175 or more attempts, and 1.5% worse than the next guy, Dominique Davis. His interception % was 39th of the 43 CFL QBs who threw any passes at all last year. His QB rating was 72.0, 11th out of 12 for 175+ attempts and 30th overall - only Davis was behind him at 71.7 for high throwing QBs, the average for the 12 was 96.8, and the 10 ahead of Streveler and Davis averaged 101.8. Passing-wise, Streveler was sub-par at the CFL level. And once teams here figured out how to spy him, the Bombers started losing games. 4-8 as a starter over 2 years. So you want him to become a running back in the NFL? At 6'1 and 217 lbs? Dude is a long way off from having the skills to compete at the NFL level IMO. There are some pure option/RPO guys that might run as fast, but not a single one like him as a total package. See my earlier stats about his passing ability - hardly "the whole package". A football player who is willing to be a football player and has trained his whole life as a QB, huge football IQ. Football IQ based on his out-of-college scouting report? The eye test this year in how he read defences and didn't go past his first read often would suggest his IQ needs work. A team is going to roster him to run certain packages. Hill is the blueprint. Again, this is not really what NFL teams build their QB position around historically, and their are QBs with better college pedigrees in Division 1A than him. Average NFL linebackers come in at 6'2" and 245 lbs. DEs are 6'4", 279 lbs. DTs at 6'3", 309 lbs. (source: https://webpages.uidaho.edu/~renaes/251/HON/Student PPTs/Avg NFL ht wt.pdf) Average CFL LBs are 6'1", 224 lbs. DEs are 6'3", 250 lbs. DTs are 6'3", 289 lbs. DLs (not specified) are 6'3", 267 lbs. (source: www.cfl.ca) Streveler won't bowl over defensive players of that size quite as easily. Hey, good luck to the guy, but's let's not go overboard selling him as this phenom who is the next big thing in the NFL who all teams are clamoring for.

More of the same shell game. Group cleaning up old oil wells says Alberta government rules inadequate https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/alberta-orphan-wells-1.5427559 Shell Canada has agreed to sell 284 sour gas wells, 66 facilities and 82 pipelines in the southern Alberta foothills to Pieridae Energy, a Calgary-based company with a market value less than the price of the assets and a stock price under $1. Observe as Shell seeks and receives provincial permission to dump liabilities after sucking off accrued profits. Meanwhile Kenney is whining to Trudeau to step in and clean up the mess at tax-payer expense,

When do we announce our staff? Its mid January! #Itsallover #panic

Both sides!

For me it’s like watching an awards show. Doesn’t matter what kind. Go up, accept your award, and give your short speech. Short, and to the point. Nobody likes a long-winded speech, no matter how much the speaker thinks it’s important. Here, on the board, when I open a thread and see it’s longer than Rider fans capacity for exaggeration, I make a decision whether to bother to read it, or move on. Usually, I move on. There. Short and to the point. 🤭🙄🥴

Birth control, Ho Chi Minh, Richard Nixon back againMoonshot, Woodstock, Watergate, punk rockBegin, Reagan, Palestine, Terror on the airlineAyatollah's in Iran, Russians in AfghanistanWheel of Fortune, Sally Ride, heavy metal, suicideForeign debts, homeless Vets, AIDS, Crack, Bernie GoetzHypodermics on the shores, China's under martial lawRock and Roller, Cola wars, I can't take it anymore

Racism and Greed. The Republican values.

We know why they support Trump. They'll let the rich get richer cause it's the brown and black people that are really causing the problems.

The guy whose choosing to play back home? Julius Honka?

Yeah its popular for certain alt right supporters to pretend to be anti trump because its really embarrassing to admit you're a trump fan. But he's totally their dream. You see it in how many GOP fell in line behind him and you start to realize that any sense of moderation or centrist-ness was a sham. If Trump put on a white hood in the Oval office, the GOP would cheer him on.

So you hate being inclusive and treating people fairly? You hate protecting employees and the environment from employers who want to make the quickest buck? Why is that? Because those are the things progressives are on about. So why do you favour things that benefit the ultra rich? I assume you aren't one of them. Do you imagine they will share with you?

The HOF seems to be for everything now. It's not just hip hop that doesn't seem to belong. Donna Summer is in there...

Interesting details, reasonable cost $102,500-$230,000, Ti-Cats have two very good QB's for less than the price of one Reilly. Evans earned approximately $170,000 last season, during which he helped the Ticats reach the 107th Grey Cup. It was the first year of a three-year extension he inked in April 2019. The length of his new deal remains the same, but includes some extra guaranteed money. Evans was set to make a maximum of $213,000 in 2020 on a contract that was heavily incentive-laden. The deal included just $80,000 of hard money in the form of base salary and a housing allowance. His new contract includes a $25,500 signing bonus, though his housing bonus has been lowered to $12,000. This means Evans will make $102,500 in hard money in 2020 plus incentives that could carry the deal to a maximum of $230,000.

His stats and use though as either were pretty much non-existent...was worked in practice as a TE/FB/WR and QB but a lot of that was him wanting to get reps and help on scout teams as much as possible...to try and get some field time...I think his Minnesota years accounted for 1 reception..and 2 or 3 rushes....and coming from a point of being there done that...the drop off in talent and skill in most NCAA programs from starters, to back ups in most spots is generally quite big...to the point many are there as bodies to fill out rosters, but rarely touch the field..and some never dress...sure back-ups get used but they are not top shelf talents by any stretch

What moron on 1290 suggested that? Toth? Kevin O? Cuz aint no way.. That's so dumb. Why are we trading forwards for forwards when we need D? Roslo for Pulju? Is Edmonton adding anything cuz right now.. I don't think I'd do Ryan White from the Moose for Pulju.

Maybe its as simple as McCrimmon didn't hire him.

ocean warming is accelerating. http://seavoicenews.com/2019/01/11/ocean-warming-is-accelerating-40-faster-than-originally-thought/ the ipcc was always lowballing predictions.

Its like cars- its not the year, its the mileage on the chassis that counts.

Feel like he had one good year in Montreal and has mediocre defense since.

Noel Thorpe is the most overrated coordinator in the league.

Lamar is what 23 years old only.... that guy is legit. He CAN throw the ball.

Yeah but at least corporations got a tax break! Can you imagine if they didn't?

Of course. Marxism is inherently violent. The mask always slips off. Will Bernie condemn the statements or nah ?

Wait, you think murdering political opponents is bad, wait til you hear about Bernie wanting universal health care! wow! Progressives!

No wonder the gop wanted the impeachment trial ASAP. what?? Is this real?

So Trump and Rudy were conspiring to murder someone? Actually, not surprising. Where's this going?

This is incredible. One of rudy’s henchmen provided texts. the guy offering to take out the ambassador, trump knows him. Remember trump said the ambassador was “going to go through some things”.

I for one am happy to read a longer take. Besides we just won the Grey Cup. Finally

Certainly we need GMs that are much more professional. Not guys like Jones who make up the rules as they go along & cheat. Guys that are qualified to do the job.

Countries start wars with fewer words

amen....long winded posts are almost masturbatory in their nature. Get over yourself...... unless it's Booch expounding on what actually goes on.....I've got all day for that.

Jesus Christ....gimme a TL/DR for that ****.....

"Zontar" : "three-eyed, bat-winged alien from Venus , a skeletal black creature that has a hidden agenda." "it begins causing local power outages that stop telephones, automobiles and even running water from working, and it starts taking control of people's minds using flying lobster-like "injecto-pods" that sprout from its wings." At least he got his choice of moniker right!

Yuck.

....and Kavis Reeds...

I can't see how it has nothing to do with Maurice. Are we thin on D? Absolutely, but there are issues with this team that have been around long before our defense was depleted. I don't have the time or energy to get into them now, but they've been well documented on this site and others.

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

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

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. :)

Nice vitrue signalling, Hamilton.

Did you know... The Bombers were involved in 4 of the best games ranked in the CFL in 2019 https://www.cfl.ca/2019/12/29/ranking-10-best-games-2019/?fbclid=IwAR2B0C9TRb6wXvW-6TMBicQSci-mvdeVuVQFLtsewsoFvZM2-f5zsebMtrY And 3 of the top 10 plays in 2019.. https://www.cfl.ca/2019/12/30/timber-mart-top-10-plays-of-2019/?hootPostID=adb2a056e8c4638f70ca87fce262c4b9 Justin Medlock retrieving his own puntSayles int vs Calgary in the end zoneCollaros scramble TD pass to Adams I personally think there were more, but what do I know. I’m only a fan of the GREY CUP CHAMPIONS.