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I dont. I also dont particularly worry about a deal with the riders. If I was on either side i would not do such a deal. If I was the riders I wouldnt deal bridge in fact id rather go get vernon adams too. 3 deep at qb, a guy to push bridge and back him up eventually. And block us from getting vernon adams. I would not trade a QB or kicker with in the division to a team with out one. A prospect sure. But not a legit 2 or higher qb or a good kicker. Too much direct impact on the out come of games and division seeding.

this wasnt put forth on here it came from rider fans on twitter... In the cfl trades are rare. They happen when they do. Remember when KG was first traded to wpg? When is the last time a league average back up qb was traded for two first round picks and two young starting canadian all stars?

Only way Id wanna give up a starter for bridge is if it was some one who is in a spot thats being pushed by another cheaper player any way. Actually a first and newf. 🤣

No joke. I would not give up either chung or goosen for every qb on the riders roster + every qbs neg list rights they might have. Whats the point in trading for a qb only to blow a hole in the OL? Young good starting NI OL is the highest commodity in the league. I like bridge. I would give up a second rounder next year, maaaybeee a first rounder with incentives. If I was gonna target a QB and spend a lot on getting them (basically if nichols was out for the year) I would go to toronto and get franklin. Or edm and get glenn. If I was gonna open up the veins Id go after manziel. I would not give up loffler, goosen, chung, or harris. If reily was under 30 with out a bunch of mileage on him, and if blm was the same and not a dbag then id consider giving up one of those guys.

you can over come it, just like dan marino. But its harder. You cant say robert horry is better then lebron because of rings. But it does count for some thing that he has soo many. 191 catches 2808 yards 14.7 average 68 long 11 tds over 9 seasons. http://www.justsportsstats.com/footballstatsindex.php?player_id=stoddjam001&recsort=5

They had the money for simon or gordon and went with gordon. Simon seemed like a flight risk to the nfl. Gordon played under milt really well the previous year. But it ended up gordon was a flight risk to the AFL. Cant say arland bruce solo blocked simon, when we had simon and aj3, and milt and gordon previously.

No instead you come on here, bash every thing but the green. very different.... No. The riders are not as good as any team in the league this year. your starting qb was replaced by masoli twice, who is pretty average. whats his record in the last 18 starts? The riders are average in the west. Better then bc. Toss up with edm. A bit behind a healthy wpg team, and we are all still looking up at the stamps and down on the east. During the regular season any way. The sooner bridge becomes starter the better chance the riders have to pass edm.

people werent exactly lining up at plops door remember. we pulled him out of the booth. I could see plop and mos wanting similar money on the next deals though.

Maybe he goes to the PR to start learning to play guard.

I dont doubt some team would give up some thing for him. Though not much. More then any one else he needs a monster performance in bc. Id like to see him start and give him a full quarter. Give him every chance to shine and do some thing. Ir and 2 man in active list we dont have to activate 4 ni wrs. But petermann and demski can play teams right away. Simonise has had some return experience. I cant see using a DI on a return man and carrying 4 ni wrs though. I also dont see all 4 staying healthy all year. Simonise hasnt played a lot of football in the last few years. Demski hasnt been able to stay healthy. Just the jump from cis schedule to cfl with tc and pre season is gonna be hard for ptermann, especially playing teams and wr. No doubt we have to keep all 4 protected.

mmm listed as cut idk if he requested to be released. 🙄 you seem to be the one most interested in peoples arms... He doesnt lack any physical passing tool. Accuracy, touch, strength etc. He had and has a complete lack of experience playing above the HS level. 90% of his action out side of one (partial?) year at college is pre season action in the nfl and cfl. * about one years worth of games spread over 4 seasons and two college teams. looked bad last year in brief action for them. this tc and pre season he has been on fire. too many people think that if a wr can dive fully lay out and touch a ball with the tips of one finger its easily catchable. game of inches. you always lose by small margins at many points through out the game. The big finish after is what people remember, a bad call a missed play but every team that loses had atleast 10 plays earlier in the game where they could have changed the out come.

I do agree with that, but I dont have any data to put the coaching salaries into perspective. For all I know thats double what every team spends. In all likelihood it is a bit low. 11 coaches, 1 HC, 1 CO for O and D, 1 for STs, that leaves 7 spots for positional coaching. Qb, ol, DL, lbers, dbs, wr, and rb. Some teams will have WR/rb, or qb/wr, lb/de etc. So the number of spots makes sense. The average is a shade under 100k. Im sure Hcs, and high profile oc/dc / assistant HCs will make much larger chunks then that. But it seems like a good starting place. Is it strange? yes no doubt. We cant really compare to other sports. The cfl just doesnt fit the mold of other teams. What I expect this will mean is every team will use more cis types at a cheaper salary to fill out some positional/depth spots. If you want to point fingers, look at the coaching staff/management that has spent like drunken sailors, broken abused and battered countless rules and brought this about.

wow not a fan of the end bit of that. More league wide money on scouting means more/better talent in the league which is more money for every one... Might be due in part to a certain teams management indulging soo heavily during the draft combine...

Overall they have improved in terms of talent. However as to position to win with collaros I think they are worse off right now. Atleast until bridge is the starter. The run down of troubled former stars from down south who havent performed is long as well.If you are gonna field a team like the jailblazers, you gotta make it count. Playing carter both ways is maybe a short term improvement but medium term a real detriment.

I would perhaps add MBT to the list of qbs who didnt get a fair shake here. That said I think he is far more likely at this point (despite giving franklin a serious run for his money in tc and pre season) to be a professional hanger oner then a go to starter or even a no2. Weve been fast to bring in and spit out young qbs under this regime. And while it may mean they didnt show us what we wanted or showed a fatal flaw, or it could show a disconnect between the scouting dept and coaching, the fact a few of our young off cuts have bounced around after us with out getting much reps here says some thing about the talent and fact we didnt give em much of a chance. We had one maybe two years ago with a huge pedigree, brought much excitement but was cut a week or two later to bounce around a bit as well. Its not saying these guys are stars, but that we arent giving them much of a chance. I wasnt a D davis fan, but we didnt give him a chance to develop late in blow out games either. We have frequently made questionable talent decisions. Clearly we are not privy to the decision making process. Cases like frederick, thorpe etc are explainable. But kuale, hurl, newf, roc et al are not.

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Yes I think it was baggs. good call.

Possibly a bigger version. Its no secret on D we are all about the athletes. We love the freaks of nature.

Both the new xfl and the what ever they are calling the other one, have some legit american names attached to it. If they went in on it together rather then trying to compete with each other they'd really have some thing.

I think we did. That guy was such an odd duck. Idr his name but we had a DE at one point that was bow legged and pigeon toed too. Nah. Use trent corney. Who is gonna cover a guy that big and that fast, and who is gonna tackle him.

the 'bod? you know he is a shoe in... Mike sellers too. 908/1,020 yards from scrimmage while playing next to blink + 40 teams tackles and some amazing work blocking. If we could have kept that back field combo together blink would have held up longer and so would khari.

The whole DLplayed great. jeffcoat was maybe the most quiet but when every one else is beasting and you only have one QB to rush lol. A return of nevis' best football and poop getting even better is a scary thought.

agree. Like the guy as a person and all, but the last couple years post injury he was a real dud. Really thin era for WRs long term no doubt. Though in the short term we saw the likes of geroy, AJ3, arland bruce3 etc. Id a put mike sellers in before flash gordon. Its a thing crop of wrs, I just wouldnt put in a wr from that era. Tom europe, elfred peyton, harold nash (all time leader in PKDs when he retired) Juran bolden is debatable (parts of 4 seasons here two stints that saw him return to the nfl) etc. Also at some point we either have to dig really deep to try and put some one into the BB HOF, or we have to skip a year or a few. Id rather us skip and hold the honors for truly elite players.

i dont have any worries about elliott. tbh Idk any of those qbs in that era were worth worrying about.

If they wanted an extra arm I think they could have grabbed an aged out NI, or a few try out guys. plus 5 arms is a lot. I think it was a reaction to the level of play mahoney brought. He was well behind at the hop. I hope soo too. Though I kind of feel like he might be a guy who should have taken a college position change. Im a big fan of mobile qbs as your back up. Some truth to that. With rookies / developmental guys for sure. Its not just consistency coaching though, its a chance to get their feet wet. When a game is a blow out in the 4th qt one way or another you need to use that chance to get a guy in. We havent done a good job of that in the mos era. And not just at QB. Great teams develop talent. Good and worse teams have talent slip between their fingers or waste it. We were a bad team, and became a good team. Now we need to take the step up to becoming a great team.