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Never got how farmer sausage ended up being called Mennonite sausage. The jokes in this thread are freaking gold though. 🤣 Worse yet, blind optimism.

Agree 100%. I generally enjoy rippers contributions to the site. Seems like a good guy, passionate cfl fan. He is a rider fan though and we will all find our selves on opposite sides of the fence some times.

QFT. Not to mention it seems Ambroise wields a fraction of the power that Cohen had. I feel like he is as much an ambassador and the whip used by the owners. Not the guy cracking the whip. And I think its a pretty good situation honestly. I feel like the governance of the league has been progressive, firm and more then fair. From personal experience the support and gear representation for the Pistons and Flyers are phenomenal. Also, the owners of the Pistons (Vielfaures) Sold half of the options in their family company this year, for $500,000,000. How many of the sask minor hockey teams have owners with pockets like that?

Thats true. Though I think montreal will be alright with development. I bet he would be the starter by LD in To as well. Eh Hank was the same was for a long time. Damon allens best passing came waaaay past his prime as well. Im not saying he would be a great option, but a whooole lot better then the alternative.

Sounds about right. But old qbs can be like that. Big gaps in play and still produce a lot better then guys who have never been pro starters. The gap between Experienced starting qbs and ones with minimal pro experience is one of the biggest in sports.

In the modern era, I think the worst was either Kuale or Roc. Roc was burned soo frequently it was insane. Kuale took about the same number of stupid penalties. Especially any time some one else on the D made a big play.

Yeah Idk if there is an advantage for him in retiring, But I would stay sharp if I was him. Hes one injury away from starting in this league still. He could be the qb2/3 for 3/4s of the league if not more.

Still with the rudders. Though he is deeper down the depth chart now. Yeah he was pretty much thrown into the meat grinder every play. An extra body kind of used like a nose tackle to open things up for other guys. I hate that role / usage in general. Idk about that, but the strength of the 5 Dbs around him and Bighill taking up the middle in front of him is going to make its really tough on QBs combined with that pressure.

🤣 Qb can and will always be a prime contender. I think demski is going to have a career year actually. But if he doesnt stay healthy look out. Ol is a big one too. Continuity is a big issue. WR is always a hot pick here. Weve had great camp performances before and seen a lot of scapegoating wrs. Coaching is the biggest one id add. If we dont excel, plops too passive, Halls defense is too soft, mos is too much of a veterans coach etc. As soon as we lose a game this year I fully expect to see a Bump to either the old when is mos time up? / fire hall threads. Of course the biggest one is the front office / walters. You cut Zach!!!!!! Zach for gm! S is a position where a great player has a huge impact, but any thing less has a nominal impact. The last truly great impact saftey I recall is Mo before he moved to sam. I think in this case its also highlighting the overall strength of the roster. It just makes the existing holes seem larger. Ol continuity is worrying me. And the derek jones behind hecht has been confusing, But I have come to suspect that the reason is Jones can back up at DB and hecht cant. And currently we dont have a back DB on the roster. (also a bit of a concern though we have always run rosters with a lot of LBers and thin depth elsewhere) Yeah, I think he also reported gray felt/seemed rusty. I feel like taking our lumps and growing pains with Gray, speller or desjarlais is well worth it. Doing it with both will be really tough. IF couture takes a step forward though that will help a lot. Gray is the one I like most of the three. But I dont think you can go wrong with any of them.

The days pre salary cap / enforcement were crazy and lopsided. And not in the favor of the prairie teams.

And you're the reason why we have a salary cap on coaches now... We've seen what frivolous, over the top spending by teams can do to the cfl in the past. Hense it gets reigned in. Being the only team in such a market with no competition helps, no splitting at all going on. And isn't that based on information that was only released twice in the past 10 years or so? Merchandise sales have diminishing returns over time. Rider fans these days like to complain about limits on spending. But man they do NOT want privately owned teams to be able to unleash hell on the free agent market again. Take the riders highest estimated income for the past 10 years, assume its the average, then double it. Its still peanuts for private owners.

I thought he looked better in the pre season too. He wont be terrible thats for sure. He may or may not be an impact player like JSK was but we wont know for sure for a while.

All good. I agree its a reach. Its one I kinda get though.

Nah that was adr-x. I can see his point, and ive heard they had a great camp and cut some really good players same as us. So I dont blame any one for expecting the stamps to still be the stamps.

No doubt they have. I wouldn't bet on them repeating as west division champs in the regular season. But they have a track record for replacing great talent with young great talent. Cant write them off till they are dead and burried. I would be shocked if they dont take a step back this year. (10-12 wins) If they dont, then every team should start poaching the stamps PR and sniping/acquiring back ups and Nlisters as much as possible.

Lets be real, no one will be worse then saveface reed until he is finally cleansed from the league. Hervey does seem to be the heir apparent. And Maas.

Seems to be right. Did it used to be that you had to start some one you claimed off a PR, or was it always just activate? I feel like the PR system may need revamping a bit in the future, especially with the international stuff that walters talked about in the presser.

Dont claimed PR players have to start or am i crazy?

Agree on the oline. And while Id love to see mathews, Its a great chance for Lucky and Lawler to distinguish them selves. I like the up side of the guys in the middle of the OL, but Im more worried about the level of play on the OL then the Wrs. They dont have a ton of experience or chemistry yet. And in the pre season we struggled run blocking in side. They looked good in pass pro though.

and bill murray. I hope this sequel lives up to all the expectation. I feel like remakes / sequels after a long lay off should be capped each year. Way too much recycling old stuff, and to poor effect.

Love this song, especially the live version. I find that in general with Eric Clapton though. The acoustic/live versions are all fantastic.

Oh dang thats right. Gonna go with our roy being thiadric hansen leading the team in STs tackles then.

This. A guy like simonise is a great luxury to have. But what he gives you on the field on game day as the last guy on the roster is minimal compared to the likes of the rest. In the presser walters said they offered Simonise a PR spot and he declined. I feel like thats more then fair on both sides. You just cant always keep a guy on the active roster who has long term up side but contributes very little now and in the short term. We are no longer desperate for NI wr talent. Far from it.

Great news that every one is getting healthy just in time for week 1. Really hope Hardrick is good to go as well.

No doubt about it. Khari has always been extremely hard working, and professional. Im not sold on him as an OC, but he certainly deserves to coach in this league and he could be even better as a HC then an OC.