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Don't feel too bad, Mos still doesn't understand it☠️

we might use the reserve roster for qb4 as well. 4 qbs is the standard carry and perkins has been exceptional in short yardage. I’d eat my hat if he was cut imminently.

imagine if we finish top 3 and ott is the bottom team in the league? (which they look like currently) If we see some thing similar, and the conditional pick down grades it’s a big win. If it doesn’t down grade on the conditional, it likely means brown is our un contested starter next year and the value is still very strong. I’m happy to see us making moves and improving in season. Yep, we have two major lotto tickets that are tons more value than their selection pick. It’s possible both could be available to us this year.

it is a conditional second round pick too. Ott signing mbt though makes me think we probably could’ve gotten brown cheaper, but you pay a premium for young qbs who can start. Especially ones you like and are familiar with.

haven’t seen him do it nearly enough imo, but brown is very good.

maybe zach made a decision about next year? Soo many questions. Normally i’d agree, brown is a very good short yardage qb too though. Doesn’t have the explosive run upside though. I’ll be very interested to see the follow up move. I could see it going either way I think both bryce and te can use pr development, but bryce is a low ceiling high floor guy. And brown is the best guy to step in. Te as qb3 only serves to develop him. bryce on the pr only serves for depth and maybe scout team on walk through.

It’s a big pay day for a guy ott didn’t want to start and with a decent contract for a qb2. I’m very happy brown is a bomber again, even in an over pay. Is this indicative of some thing to do with bryce/te? Or zachs health?

WOW. Bryce gonna be pr bound I wonder?

Good point. I’m not sold on their turn around, but I think they are and will be respectable at least.

they set a record for consecutive home losses, that is what cost thousands of fans. Fans complaining doesn't mean fans don't show up.

You don't limit their reps, thats just how many reps they can play in place of an ni. Cite your own work on 9 snaps per game because pff tracks snaps and the Nat players teams used (Like ham did with lawler vs us) didn't play less reps. We are actually starting an extra NI instead of using the nat rule.

This has been a pretty crazy start to the CFL, Im blaming that. If I come up with a better excuse, I will share it.

You're right about who decided it needed to change. No, every group gets to decide what is offensive as a label to be used upon them. No one gets to blanketly decide a term is not offensive to another group. Extend that logic to black people, and you know what word, does it still apply? I mean, Quebec would argue with the last point lol. You have (or should) a reasonable freedom to be offensive in your own domain. In the public domain, however, that freedom is limited at the point it encroaches on others. As an Atheist my self, we have the right not to have religion forced upon us. As such, the Inuit/Inuk people have the exclusive right to dictate what name they go by. And even to change it or change their minds. None Inuit people do not. While the decision to change the name away to the Elk was made by a different demographic, the only demographic who would be appropriate to OK changing it back is the Inuit people. Land O Lakes and Pearl Milling Company didn't go under from brand changes either. The reality is, the quality is drastically more important than branding minutiae. The company I worked for changed its name about 15 years ago, after almost 200 years of operation under the previous branding. And we will likely be rebranding in a couple of years again. The first didn't have any meaningful change on business, and neither will the second.

that’s true but the riders benefit from a total lack of competition as well. Also, “honky” is not some direct parallel to eskimo or any other radicalized term. (No matter what you think of that term) From the sounds of our demographic, no one here has the right to say eskimo is not an offensive term and is equivalent to X or Y. The name is changed in Edmonton, and for better or worse it will never come back. Did it cause the collapse of washington in the NFL, Cleveland in the MLB, or has a name change ever caused the complete collapse of a sports market? Tradition does not brand in young fans any more. It hasn’t for a long while. The cfl it self, is distancing more and more from its tradition. At that, the push back was minimal when the ball change happened, and when the hash marks moved, when the ratio has been messed with and soo much more. Now next year we see the largest scale changes. Most of us hard core fans are not happy about it. But clearly the cfl sees tradition as an obstacle to acquiring younger fans. The people for whom the tradition is soo important, and who stopped going to edmonton games because of the name change alone, and would’ve stayed through 2 years of 1 home game win are a tin, tiny demographic.

The places with tons of world-class pro facilities for many sports, are far poorer than we are up here. At the end of the day, it's the taxpayers who foot most of the bill for these mega venues, and then get zero monetary value back. It's not sustainable at all, and especially on this slippery road to recession, it's a quick way to ruin. You'd be surprised, actually. Build a cheap place to get in and drink with a ton of built-in atmosphere, and a reason to cheer/boo/react strongly, and young people come in droves. I've got an army of young cousins who didn't grow up CFL fans, but who have been branded into the game day experience. Not just here either, BC too. The reality is that high-level pro sports events in Canada are extremely limited. Hockey is prohibitively expensive and not sustainable at all for the huge majority of young fans. MLB and NBA are Toronto-locked. The Sea Bears have picked up on this, and the Goldeyes have been doing it for ages. You don't even need a physical Rum hut, though it does bring serious scalability. That's with the CEBL and AA being a strong tier below the CFL. Does anyone think that if you changed the name from Sea Bears to Blizzard, you would see an immediate jump in popularity? If you are a bad team in the CFL, you don't draw fans. That is always first and foremost.

no chance. The demographic isn’t what it was 8-10 years ago. The only markets with growth or decent crowds are no longer old people. The old fans are a larger piece of the tv viewership but if you look around any decent market today you see a ton more young people then old. That’s part of the real problem, and the solution to attendance issues isn’t to pander to the boomer generation more. Built a rum hut complete with atmosphere and you’ll see way more fans in edmonton then by changing the name back. Edmonton filled the stadium with young people for a soccer game in bad weather. Branding isn’t the issue. general economic situation isn’t helping, but for rum hut type fans you can have a pretty cheap night out in the cfl. The dip hit before the economy dipped and it didn’t bounce back like much of the live entertainment scene.

the struggles in attendance are far broader than edmontons name change as you can see reflected in calgary, ottawa, hamilton and toronto. It’s a far bigger contributing factor that edmonton has been a dumpster fire of an organization that entire time., Blaming the elk name change is like blaming the old bombers thunderbolt for the dark era in the late 90s. The league, aside from the riders and us, whove been league back bones by a large margin, and bc who has seen massive effort and expense to bring them back, has been a gigantic mess since covid. Changing the name wouldn’t make a damn bit of difference. I’m sure we’ve seen this before too, I just can’t remember when. It’s not impossible to make sprint or early football work, but it’s damn hard. Making early football and such a long season work though, that might be impossible up here. Atleast to do and make a profit.

Don't let reality get in the way of a pithy retort!

As of next year, TV revenue could be the largest piece of the pie for the CFL.

With Rourke, Buck, and Butler, I think that O will still find a way.

Jake Dolegala

Lifetime tackle, Bryant gets the spot for as long as he wants lol. Bryant should've been at best RT in camp, and should've been well behind Randolph. Who starts for the Argos now. How many of the OL here would start on another team if cut, 2, maaaaybe 3 out of 9?

Even if we are a 4-5 win team this year and next, unless we found a good coach working for free, we wouldn't be able to replace em. Assuming the cap stays as is, the future is likely to continue with established HC/GMs with an ast GM. Or an established GM with a low-buck young coaching staff.

100%. With the coaching cap, we are married to this set up for another 2 years.

Hell yeah!