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Seems that the League responded quickly (not too surprisingly) http://www.cbc.ca/sports/football/cfl/khalif-mitchell-alouettes-lineman-fined-for-anti-semitic-tweets-1.3074814

Something something dark side... something something draft

gotta be fullback... 6'2 240 is not a RB in the CFL, usually not anyway... I remember someone saying in the draft chat that he could be a Rob Cote or Rolly Lumbala type player... which we need... About the same size of Patrick Lavoie 6.02 640 and Jerome Messam. 6.03 245. I have to say, a 640 lb running back must take a while to get up a full head of steam, but once he does...

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A very good quote..worth repeating. There is absolutely no reason to worry about "what might have been"...when in fact, we should be thinking "what can be". Ask not what your draft can do for you, but what you can do for your draft. He who drafts last drafts best. A draft in the hand is worth two in the bush

Got to broaden his horizons a bit. We'll just introduce him to the concept of dating girls that you're not related to. Sure, there's that awkward "getting to know them" stage that you don't have with cousins, but on the plus side, if you decide to have kids, there no "What in the world...?" from the doctor during delivery.

A very good quote..worth repeating. There is absolutely no reason to worry about "what might have been"...when in fact, we should be thinking "what can be". Ask not what your draft can do for you, but what you can do for your draft.

does...not...compute...

You would think that when the big red circle pops up on him right before the snap that the D might key on him a bit.

Who let Darren Cameron sign up in here...? Looked more Aardvarkian to me, but maybe you're right. As for me, colour me sceptical. Not for the first pick of course, that was pretty much a no brainer, With Demski gone and Durant's issues, I can maybe see why Richards got picked. As for Morgan, wth? Never heard of him and when you consider who was available at that pick, I just don't see it. Looks like a flyer to me and there was no need to take a flyer. As for the rest of the picks, they are at the "maybe they work out, maybe they don't" level of interest for me.

Any draft that doesn't have Eric Tillman running around high fiving people is a good draft.

We're on our third GM since Taman was here and I'd argue we are in worse shape now with regards to NIs than when Taman left. At least Taman left the team with 2 top end Canadian players on the roster, now we've got a bunch of servicable guys but no real Canadian stars. Not exactly fair because the team we have now also bears the effects of Kelly and Mack. It's pretty clear that Taman gives a lot less weight to the draft that most of the other GMs. It's also clear (to me at least) that he's not had the same sort of success at building teams at the Buonos, Popps and Hufnagels have enjoyed so I'm happy that thus far, Walters seems to be more of them and less of Taman.

I think that the days of a guy being drafted and moving right into a starter's role are over. If a guy has that level of talent, he's NFL bound.

Unless you're a quadruped, most are.

And be sure to remind her of that old saying, "Good things come in very small packages." or something like that.

Meh, just another impact Canadian starter, nothing to see here. Come on Walters, do something big to impress.

Yeah! Thats him! Safety/WIL, I believe.....do you seriously not remember Graig Newman? Was a really huge deal that we picked him up last off season and was projecting to be our starting Safety (??) and was a fairly significant blow when he got hurt.... I do remember him and his importance, thats why I was asking. For some reason I have a hard time remembering his name. He came up in another thread months ago and I had to ask what his name was then too. Easy enough name. Just doesnt stick in my mind,. Too many chairshots. Being from Saskatchewan Newman's parents expected twins and had already chosen the names Gregg and Craig, when only one came out they had to compromise on his name. Poor kid. Being from Saskatchewan, there's a good chance that his parents were twins...

Southern Football Academy?

Actually, if you can hold off until late September or early October, I bet your accuracy goes way up!

West: 1. Calgary 2. Edmonton 3. Winnipeg 4. Saskatchewan 5. BC East: 1. Hamilton 2. Montreal 3. Toronto 4. Ottawa ​I think it will be close between us and Saskatchewan, but I'm hoping that with our new and improved D (getting rid of Etch was a perfect example of addition by subtraction) and a more stable O line, we'll might actually win 2 of 3 against them.

Interesting. Did I see you today at the reception? A glass of wine in your hand?

No, Walters said this year's cap number isn't affected. He got $150k of his $250k salary upfront. That's the only difference. Which is awesome... Thanks for pointing that out. I stand corrected.

So, it appears that Willy will be making 400k this year. Good on Walters for playing the small (and obvious to most) gamble of spending the dollars needed to make sure that we lock him up for the foreseeable future. I have to say that I was very nervous about his hiring, but as time continues, Walters seems to be doing the things that need to get done in order to finally turn this franchise around.

He clearly didn't have the size to play guard. No wonder he's hurt all the time.