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It’s a good thing this draft has plenty of high level and ncaa talent. The athletic performance really wasn’t stellar for a lot of guys at the combine. Hladik fb who stands 6’4 230 and rb Anthony soles 6’2 220 ran best times of 5.0 and 5.19 in the 40. A lot of db/wr/lbers in the 4.8 and slower range. Many of those guys filling out with 26-30” verts and single digit 225 reps. I wonder how much of it is these guys not being polished in the track skills, and how much is just low athleticism. It’d be interesting to average out the positions or take the highest drafted lowest athletic outlier and chart the numbers vs the ras and nfl averages. Maybe the cfl should invest money in a program that helps provide strength and conditioning coaching to cis and junior players. If the league managed to half the athletic difference from the average player at the nfl and cfl combine respectively, we would see a whole lot more value return from drafts and better calibre of play in the league.

Yes, because every other team and the league thought he was out of football and done. He wasn’t ranked because of it and no one considered him. Otherwise he’s a been in the top couple of picks. I think people really miss how prolific he was in college. If he never got hurt and sat out he would’ve been a top 3 round nfl pick with ease. Loffler out performed his draft position but he was always a high upside guy. Injuries derailed his draft stock and his career. Not a hoodwink, but a damn good bargain for sure.

That does make sense but yeah idk why he’d be all worked up about it.

Crying about the likes and comments on his posts I guess?

Eli is the greatest modern cfl draft hoodwink. Every team in the league looked at their scout department who went oh $&@%

Of course you can find those outliers. But you can’t rely on finding that soo far down. That’s why we generally see a run on long term nfl talent right around that point in the draft. It goes from a trying to win on a scratched to a lottery ticket to keno. Off the top of my head our best late late pick under walters has been exhume a career teams guy. Albeit a damn good one.

I’d be happy if that was the extent of the change. Maybe not giving the option of kick offs on fgs any more would be ok too. You’re probably right. But I don’t think it’s fair to compare apples to orange league to league. If that’s the case it’s just lazy on the cfls part.

Agree. And tbh a lot of guys will use injury time outs on kick cover if they don’t play the next drive.

I love doman/ringmaiden and I’m really happy to see the cfl in bc making a come back. But damn they got some whiners between the franchise and media. I have no idea of the nature of their partnership on the draft, free agency etc. but I’m sure both had a say, and were probably reasonably happy with the hauls on draft day. And I’m sure both would love to have a better couple of drafts in retrospect. But I do get drafting for need on a dynasty with limited picks in low quality drafts. I don’t believe any one would be making ego picks disregarding what the rest of the brain trust thinks. I’m also sure we will be looking to restock the cupboards and pick high upside guys. This is a too heavy draft and we have lots of picks. Weve made a lot of hard moves this off season that scream of an end to the old boys club. The drafts will be a big litmus test for camp and the season.

Man I don’t like the auto scrimmage from the 40 after a td. Maybe if it’s a none offensive td and make it automatic after a fg. I’d rather move the teams closer and make it slower speed for td kick offs. And or the no one can move until the ball is caught. Kr is a pivotal part of the Canadian football identity.

Yep. Cept neither is even good at teams lol. with this strong a top portion of a draft and soo many picks I’m sure walters will have his best draft in years.

Except that hasn’t happened the last couple of drafts. Picking our type of guy is great, as long as they are an actual viable contributor at a position and not sts guy who doesn’t have the potential or ability to play a position.

https://www.nfl.com/prospects/larnel-coleman/3200434f-4c29-6981-8da0-eb2a705b0aa8 https://nflcombineresults.com/playerpage.php?i=30686 Looks like a really good athlete, and excellent T prospect.

A deep top heavy draft could see higher than usual trade activity too. Maybe cam Lawson type deals

Shouldn’t we have the posts going for the count down with player numbers then? even better, we get training camp crazy. It’s extra special crazy cus we’re all shaking off the football withdrawals.

Honestly that runs all the way up to the early 2ks. Some of the most baffling calls ever back then. I remember a rtp call for ac in a late season must win type game in 99/2000. Montreal got like 6 cracks at it from the one yard line and got shut down each time. They got an off side call which might’ve been a bit soft but probably fine. But the rtp was egregious. The fans threw stuff on the Field for like 10 minutes and eventually we got a crowd penalty. Mtl scored and won, but I always remember that as a culture defining moment. Ritchies team expected to win and fought like one was against them. It was the light at the end of the dark ages. And as much as it was hating to lose, it was hating to get jobbed. The stuff defences got away with on milt up till 2001 ish was insane too. A lot of guys got mugged back then, but WRs on bad teams got it like linemen in the 50s. the blown onside punt call with time running out in dunigans year with Calgary as a hc. All the insane cheap shots on khari by ed Philion. and I saw soo many guys take runs at blinks ankles especially when he had that turf toe injury. reffing is bad now. But it used to be a serious problem. The deal with the nfl for the option year etc that started the joint ref stuff helped a lot.

Agreed. Also the top players by position and dark horses / sleepers post. I think it’d be fun to have a bunch of media types do their own mock draft. Say barker picks for Toronto, farhan for bc etc. wouldnt be much out side of entertainment but I think it would be fun for 3ish rounds.

It would be hilarious if victor cui bought the elks and fired every one.

Boy idk about that onside kick alternative.

I’m not sure about Ottawa. Maybe they go ol. I think gio goes to ssk though. He should any way. I’d love to get that guy here. Even if he gets a udfa deal.

The cfl is the hardest league to make a mock draft in, some teams are going to take gambles on nfl guys while others aren’t and some ones gonna do some thing way off board in the first two rounds and you aren’t really sure till late who will actually be available. personally I expect the run in ol to happen early. Off set by the ncaa defensive players. I don’t expect to see many WRs or any FBs in the first two rounds. I suspect most of ssk, us, bc, ham and the stamps to go linemen.

NFL useage of FBs is actually at a 20 year peak and has been rising. Montreal used the fb the most in the cfl last year.

Or Montreal

Not in year one or two. But big athletic under skilled tes are pretty common each year down south. Cheerleaders are fb horny? Damn no wonder wade is always working. On a side note, I think we’ve got lbers that could fill the fb role as well. Id love a big running tweener rb/hback to free up a Canadian spot, but I don’t think any of the guys this year are that. A te/fb hybrid would be good over a wr, but not worth a high pick.

Theo will for sure. Tanner will get a decent look for a year maybe two. It’s possible that a coach will fall in love with his work ethic and intangibles alone. But he’s a pretty good investment for a mid draft pick or later. His chances of falling out after a year then two is pretty high. And his floor up here is pretty high as well. Geoff gray? Idr when the timing changes with respect to the nfls draft. But we did in that period of time take a few nfl risk guys. I don’t think any one other than hodge thinks we will or should go fb in the top half of the draft. If the right guy is available sure, but I don’t see that happening this year. Stranger things have happened down the road we could see a first round fb at some point. But I mean both tes and maybe both FBs probably better than kalinec was.