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24 minutes ago, 3rdand1.5 said:
Winnipeg/Manitoba has many, many good and great features and things about it, but to say our downtown is anything but bad would simply be a lie.
Our downtown has nice pockets during the day and maybe one could argue very small circumferences around a few select businesses into the evening, but for the most part as soon as work ends, the concert ends, the Jets game finishes etc. it's hold your wallet in your pocket and get back to the suburbs as quickly as you can.
This is fairly accurate but there are still pockets at night that are good.
I have never felt more uncomfortable than being in downtown Hamilton and it is run down literally everywhere.
Regina is terrible but too small to even register.
Toronto’s downtown definitely has some absolutely awful spots but it is also gigantic. Moss Park is scarier during the day than during the night somehow.
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1 hour ago, bryan35 said:
Only if they underperform.
Not really.
Lawler will be 30 in June and is making $285k this year. I doubt he is going to make $285k at 31 outside of truly insane numbers. I think the more realistic number is closer to what Schoen makes now., something like $220k.
Schoen will be 28 in October and is making $230k this year. It is looking more around $250k is what teams are looking to pay the best WRs. So let’s say Schoen gets $260k.
2024: $515k
2025: $ 480k
It isn’t like $100k less but I could see it being closer to $50k pretty realistically.
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54 minutes ago, Mike said:
I’m very much thinking the Bombers wanted a one year deal just as much as Schoen did.
I think Schoen said they started talking about a 2 year deal but didn’t want to derail the progress on getting the one year deal done so the two sides put it on the back burner.
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1 hour ago, JohnnyAbonny said:
Agreed. I’ve smoked cigs and joints with Charlie Roberts.
The way he played, with that lifestyle earns a completely different level of respect for me than anything else I’ve seen watching pro sports of any kind.I mean going out and getting **** faced the night before a Grey Cup game where we had a guy making his first start ever at QB was frustrating.
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52 minutes ago, SpeedFlex27 said:
Now you're back pedalling.
1. One, you do consider Alford the best or you wouldn't have said "in league history".
2. How can you say a corner like Hill wasn't physical? He was a shut down corner playing against guys like Mervyn Fernandez, david Williams, Darrell K. Smith, Allen Pitts, earl Winfield, Tony Champion & Geroy Simon. He didn't do that by playing powder puff football. He battled with them downfield. The guy could lay a hit on a receiver if he had to & also play finesse as well.
3. The numbers for Hill's interception numbers are even more eye popping considering teams were afraid to throw to his side of the field so he was a guy who was resourceful when the ball came his way. He only had Less Browne on the other corner for 2 seasons.
4. Interceptions, fumble recoveries, blocking punts & field goals means Hill had a nose for the ball & turnovers win games so you should care. Hill was a game changer.
5. No one intercepted 47 passes in 92 games. That's an incredible stat. Even mentioning a player who was here one season would be on his ways to "perhaps" the best DB in history. Alford was a very good DB, I agree but lots of guys had seasons like him as rookies. My point here? Longevity has to count for something before annointing a player the greatest ever after just one season. Even saying "perhaps".
And, please don't take this personally, this is just a discussion. I'm not going after you. You're entitled to your opinion.
I’m not back pedalling Al.
I am leaving a subjective opinion open to debate.
I meant I think he would have been in the conversation had he stayed. Yes, it is speculation based on one season.
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13 minutes ago, SpeedFlex27 said:
He'd have to go a long way to beat what Hill did. Just saying. Alford played great but he was only a Bomber for a season. You can't make assumptions that he'd be the best DB to ever play. He had 47 interceptions for 482 yards in 90 regular season games, including a CFL record 5 in one game against Hamilton in 1990. He had 77 tackles, 5 fumble recoveries for 82 yards & scored 3 touchdowns. As well as being adept at blocking punts & field goals including the Eastern Final in 1988 vs the Argos. As good as Alford was for one season, this man was spectacular for five. Oh yeah, then there's Less Browne, the other corner on the other side during that 1990 season, He was another great one. I won't get into his stats. And there's a few other guys who had some great years.
Alford had a helluva year in the NFL. I'm not disputing that he's a talented DB. Only here a year. But who knows would he be the best? Maybe but that would spark quite a debate.
I said “maybe the best”.
Rod Hill was a first round pick in the NFL and played down there for years before coming up here. Alford came in as a pure rookie and was the best DB in the league playing the toughest spot in the secondary.
Rod Hill was never as physical as Alford from what I remember, and I don’t really care about fumble recoveries TBH. Alford was a great cover guy just like Rod Hill.
Juran Bolden would be in my conversation as well.
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3 minutes ago, Bigblue204 said:
To be fair, Collaros was a legitimate CFL star for multiple years before his play declined initially.
Wieneke has followed his one successful season with 2 consecutive down years. I'm not saying he's not a CFLer anymore. I'm saying league min would be fair and not a bargain.
There are an endless amount of guys who can do what he does.
He doesn’t bring anything special.
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1 hour ago, Bigblue204 said:
The guy has been garbage the past two years. They're not getting a bargain.
He has got a lot of run out of one good year.
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4 hours ago, Mike said:
Great like I’d probably put him top 12 in the league.
Schoen, Lawler, Begelton, White, Hatcher, Hollins, Lewis, Demski, Bane, Rhymes …
Then you get into the next tier of guys like Hardy, Emilus, Acklin, Snead, Coxie, Gittens, Julien-Grant, Godwin … probably forgetting a few but I’d say Emilus/Coxie/Godwin/Snead at the top of that list.
Easy for us to not notice, but the league is pretty receiver poor right now.
Thats fair I guess if that’s your grouping.
I think Lawler, Scheon and Lewis are significantly better than the rest of those guys. So my personal tier would end there.
edit: I’m really on the fence as to whether I think White belongs with the other guys. I’d side with “no” because I’m on the fence.
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26 minutes ago, Mike said:
Are we really pretending Emilus isn’t a great receiver? Better season numbers wise than Demski, catching passes from Rainbow Jake. If we had a 2nd year Canadian breaking 1000 yards with a backup QB throwing the majority of the passes, we’d be going nuts over him.
I know a lot of the Riders numbers were garbage time numbers, but Emilus had a lot of early game impact. Real big fan of his.
Great? Like upper tier?
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1/4 of those guys can actually stay healthy
They had all these guys last year. They still sucked.
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41 minutes ago, JCon said:
They didn't lose on the last play. They were losing the whole time. They are losers.
Again , people seem to forget that would have tied the game. That and I still think the pass would have been broken up.
Plus, had Sayles just knocked the ball down like he should have it was drive over a few plays earlier.
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36 minutes ago, wbbfan said:
No, he had a stronger arm than either. It’s not even close. They weren’t throwing 60-70 yards with ease while falling on their ass or from their knees. Bishop did in game for and against us in fact.
The very few guys who could legitimately claim a spot above him in all of pro sports are nfl outliers like Jamarcus Russell.
At the bishop level you are talking about QBs who break WRs fingers with max velocity.
I’m not talking about Michael Bishop.
Im talking about Dolegala.
1 hour ago, GCn20 said:Don't mistake throwing style for throwing strength. The guy has a cannon. Yep he put a lot of air on deep throws but that's more a function of not being able to throw accurately on a rope so he intentionally gives it air so the receiver can adjust.
I’m not mistaking anything. His arm strength is not exceptional. There have been plenty of guys who are said to have strong arms, they get up here and they don’t.
IDGAF what some random scouting report online said. Most of them have stuff that contradicts itself within the same report.
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It is funny how MTL’s OL was getting destroyed the first half of the season. Then they basically stopped throwing the ball and things got better.
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Just now, GCn20 said:
His NFL scouting reports, Bengals TC reports, and pretty much every article written about him all suggest otherwise. The guy has a very good arm. Just doesn't know how to use it.
Well quite honestly IDGAF about those — I’ve seen it live and on TV enough to not have my hair blown back by it.
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14 minutes ago, wbbfan said:
Bishop had worlds more arm strength than any of those guys.
He did , but the point was to expand the criteria of exceptional outside of a “11/10” and he isn’t in their group either.
I am the one who brought up Bishop as having an exceptional arm.
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3 minutes ago, wbbfan said:
Bishop had an 11 out of 10 arm though. Every one in the league today has less arm then him.
He doesn’t have Mike Reilly arm strength or Henry Burris arm strength or maybe even Jason Maas arm strength from anything I saw.
Exceptional means a lot better not a little over average to me.
Winnipeg, Urban Decay, and Other Cities
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It isn’t. Downtown Winnipeg has major problems that need to be fixed.
It has gotten worse since the pandemic started.
Asking a bunch of millionaires who spend a lot of time in the biggest cities in North America which downtown they like least is a stupid bench mark though.
It is cold, dark, and empty basically any time they’re here.