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sure feels like it ya? chances they go to the grey cup are pretty high right now

yup. sam isnt more important then S. Id much rather have a great coverage S, then a great coverage sam. You can hide a poorer coverage guy at either position, its just more commonly done at S.

Depends on the player. If its a Mo leggett type when he was at S, a cover guy sure. An extra in the tackle box type guy? nah.

Might be some credence to this type of strategy. If you arent gonna be one of the top couple winners of the first stretch of FA spending, being the team that wins the most from NFL returnees might be even better.

I feel like his limitations are well-known league-wide and no one wants to pony up serious money to him. Losing suhk sucks. Goosen had easily his best year, and improved each year. A center is more missed positionally then a guard, but its pretty close between those two. I feel like we arent likely to spend similar money and get similar production out of the FA market. Geoff gray is gonna be a monster though.

Every day of the week and twice on game day. That said, I really hope we got both. I feel like we should have plenty of flexibility with a bunch of old vets getting replaced by younger cheaper guys. So long as we dont over pay to keep someone like loffler.

I feel like any of the top tier fa wrs would be a huge gain. I would have loved to see banks in plops offense.

My heart says ritchie and murphy, my brain says grant and murphy.

I might use JR as a kick off specialist but yeah. I love ryan but you cant match cameron. I think thats fair. Return man could be interesting as well. Cameron was the better punter, bad weather, wind, cold, turf, the old moe's grass junk, didnt matter. Type of coverage in front of him didnt matter either, he just adjusted how he did things. Ryan was different, he produced bursts of yardage at a level you dont see from punters. Cameron would be my punter, ryan would be a situational guy. Punting out of our endzone? send in ryan and pin the other team in their end. Any kind of adversity in the weather or surface or temp, send out cameron. Then use ryan on kick offs.

I feel like kicker and punter are pretty straight forward. Gonna do other special teams though, maybe some cover guys?

I wonder if we will go all in on one of them to prevent losing both. Personally, I like chungh a lot more, but consistency at the center position is huge.

How many of their OL would start on the bombers? 1 maybe for nuef? even then id rather develops gray then bring over any of their guys. They dont have the worst OL in the league. But the riders are handily in the bottom tier.

I would say the top tier of quality was better, (when have we seen a showdown of 2 champs on free tv?) and the depth of the card was far better than normal. Hardy should have traded places with cowboy. That was a stupid spot to put the hardy fight. I didn't see that as an early stoppage either. I was pulling for TJ, but he got knocked down didn't defend several ground shots well, got up and got knocked back down. I'd rather see a stoppage like that 100 times out of 100 then see guys taking an extra shot when they are out cold. This isn't boxing, you don't need to maintain a 99% win ratio. climb back up the ladder and do better the next time.

To be honest, Id put the all-time team in a 3-4 alignment. We've got a killer nose tackle, and 3-4 jack pass rusher and a glut at LBer. my 2c. I feel like Fortney is a guy who played at a stellar level but isn't easily quantifiable with stats. I think this is also the nature of DL men. Some guys explode off the stat sheet, while others dominate without stats. Also, averaging over 17 games per year for 11 straight years with 426 tackles and 52 sacks for a dt that mostly played on the nose, and was abnormally tall, lean and athletic is unreal. This was prior to the next generation big athlete being commonplace. As incredible a person as a player, and every bit as smart on and off the field too. Truly one of the most exceptional people and players in history.

I don't think January is too late for an ast to interview for a HC job. I also think its a bad move 99% of the time when you prevent an ast coach from interviewing/taking a HC job. This might be the 1% though. Personally, im not a big fan of plops play calling. I think he is a phenomenal leader and coach of players. He tends to out-think himself but I think he is better as a HC then as an OC. Id be happy in general to see him move on to a HC job any place else in the league, other then sask.

First UFC on ESPN seemed great. Very entertaining card with lots of good quality fighters. On the downside, Stephen A Smith. I don't like him, though he wasn't the worst. I wouldn't bet on this level of quality from ESPN ufc events going forward though. I do hope they are better assembled then the fox stuff. It got to the point the ufc on fox was more miss than hit with events and fights. I love the cowboy fight. If it leads to a mcg fight that'd be fantastic. A great matchup that should be very entertaining and re-qualify one guy for a title shot late this year.

personally id go trestman. idk if he would fit under their cost requirements though.

Tend to agree with this. Id like to see them air one game a week, plus the play offs. Even with out money changing hands, more exposure to the states is great. Especially with the start ups coming.

Or they dump that chump OC, hire plop to HC and oc and hire a dc

Good riddance to bad rubbish. The league is better off right now. This reminds me of nick saban sooo much.

Yep. Its a cruel cruel world. not long ago mo and randle were two of our best, and the leagues best defenders and dbs. Today they are both out of work and could be out of football. Randle was such a monster for us, and he came here at a time that FA vets didnt come to winnipeg. He was here through some awful days. He is a big part of what we have today, both in terms of class and quality. It doesnt last forever, and it never lasts long enough. I wish the best for him in football and in life.

A Jack Lber is more of a DE, then a sam is a LBer though. Kind of a tough call. To me though, the difference between counting a guy as a LBer or a book end, is if he plays off an edge or if he scrapes to the ball. And guys who scrape to the ball get a ton of tackles. Book ends, dont. For me, the sultan of sack, the swac master, is a book end.

A Jack lber, or a 3rd/4th weak side book end maybe. Especially on a team thats got a really good vet but meh depth.

I don't buy viewership. But it does give you the leverage to get nationwide tv. I really can't see that many people watching them on tv in the GTA. Perhaps (more than likely) I am crazy though.

I feel like these start-up leagues, and even the established ones get caught up in this. Trying to hammer in as many Toronto type teams instead of Edmonton, Winnipeg etc. Some tiny cities and areas of the US get 30k or more for high school games. Just makes no sense to me to target a city like Seattle, vs a city that would be invested in keeping a team around. One of the more interesting too. It has such a strong hipster reputation but has a huge now counterculture that predates the hipsters. I believe the small market teams are what keep leagues around through the rough times. I also would bet the combined years of operation for XFL 2.0 and AAAAAFL will max out at 3.