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  4. Monday Morning Musings - we're 4 and 0 edition

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    57 minutes ago, Mark H. said:

    Our best man in the secondary is still Markus Sayles - more ‘sayles scouting’ please. 

    My only issue with Sayles is that he seems to sell out attempting to get the 'big hit' too often and doesn't wrap the ball carrier up.  He's good for at least 1 or 2 every game where he can stop a guy for no YAC yards if he just puts his arms out, but he tries to knock guys off balance or out of bounds instead and usually just glances off of them.

  7. Next Up - Toronto Comes To Town For Friday Night Football - Sellout IGF

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    20 minutes ago, M.O.A.B. said:

    Biggie is expected to be back - per Eddy.

    The big question is Nichols, let wait and see if he practice tom. 

    I'm guessing Matthews will be out for a week. 

    Also, how about Briggs? If Biggie is back, Wilson will slide back to WIL but we need another Canadian on the roster as replacement for Briggs if he's not good to go. The only Cdn on the PR are Tui (OL) and Griffiths (DL). 

    I thought we had 8 Canadian starters in Ottawa.  If that was the case, no worries. 

     

  9. GDT: Edmonton @ Winnipeg June 27, 2019

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    1 hour ago, wbbfan said:

    It came up in another thread (or this one maybe) last night. I dont recall the moes even taking a shot to the end zone last night. When I re watch the game Im gonna dig into those redzone attempts. Between their attempts and our D the red zone was a no fly zone last night for the moes. 

    In the past when weve seen qbs wrack up yards and not be able to finish drives (not far back) Ive felt that we could have done better with play call and design. But ive always given more blame to offense then credit to a defense in the cfl for redzone struggle. With the width of the field, depth of the endzone, and number of targets and options I feel like you should be able to convert at a high rate even against a superior D. 

    I think I remember one throw into the endzone by Edmonton, but it was at least 5 yards away from the receiver so no chance to catch it.  I could be recalling incorrectly though.  Either way, the Bomber D did a great job of taking that option away all night.

  10. 3 stars + HH week3 eskynogo

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    1 hour ago, TBURGESS said:
    1. Lucky - The two biggest plays of the game
    2. Demski - Big play #3
    3. Jeffcoat - Had to go with someone on the DL.

    HH - The Challenge refs back at head office for getting the PI right after the challenge and getting the catch and fumble wrong after Edmonton's challenge.

    How do you figure they got the catch and fumble wrong?  In slow-mo, it may have looked like he had the ball in his possession for quite a while, but in real-time he barely touched the ground and was hit immediately after that and lost the ball.  That's an incomplete pass every day of the week.

  17. Around the League: 2019 Off Season

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    1 minute ago, wbbfan said:

    🤣

     

    This seems crazy to me. Jones was just coming into his own as a coach in the cfl, took a step back to open up a job for steinhauer, now he leaves to the XFL? Are they going to play a game before the cfl season ends?

    Mind blowing to me.

     

    I wonder if the league should have punitive measures in contracts for coaches that do this stuff. I feel like if you quit on your team after the draft/FA you've caused them to harm by not leaving in the normal offseason window.  This is what the 3rd time weve seen this this off season?

    I've seen some comments on twitter complaining about the coach's salary cap being the reason for this.  I seem to remember seeing a story in the off season that said June Jones refused a salary for some reason or other, or maybe donated it all to charity, so I don't think the amount he was being paid really mattered to him.

     

    Agreed that it sucks for the league to be losing coaches, especially this late in the off-season.

  20. Bomber News: 2019 Off Season

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    1 hour ago, TBURGESS said:

    You're getting it wrong. It's going to take 10 years so it shouldn't be the number 1 priority is the mindset.

    But that's kindof the point, it will never be a priority, so it will never get done and the payoff in 5 to 10 years will never happen.

    At some point someone has to take a step back and say, despite the fires that I have to put out today, I need to do something to prevent them from happening in the future.  Agree with it or not, it is a bigger picture view of the situation that someone had to take eventually, and it just happens to have been taken now.

  21. Bomber News: 2019 Off Season

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    12 minutes ago, TBURGESS said:

    The constant rule changes have increased under Ambrosie and I don't give him a pass because it happened before he took the job.

    More foreign players isn't a fix for any of the big CFL problems. Certainly won't fix Toronto, Montreal or get them closer to signing a deal with the CFLPA. CFL 2.0 has the POSSIBILITY of increasing audiences and revenue, but that's a ways off in the future, if ever. If Ambroise wants to work on it as his 4th priority, then I've got no problems with it, but he's put it as his top priority and I'm against that.

    I would wonder if getting international players into the league actually would help in TO.  There is a rather large immigrant population there, so if the CFL becomes more popular internationally and with international players, it may catch the interest of some immigrants who could become fans that attend games.

    Probably a bit of a stretch, and would definitely take a while to get legs, but could be part of the thought process.

  24. Around the League: 2019 Off Season

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    1 minute ago, JCon said:

    I'm no Manziel fan, although I liked watching him play at T A&M, but he seemed to keep his nose clean since he arrived in the CFL a year ago. I'm surprised he missed these meetings and, I guess, the CFL does have a reason to permanently suspend him. 

     

    I wonder if Montreal wanted him gone and got the league to do the dirty work? That seems like a bit of a stretch. 

    I will echo what others have implied... Manziel wants to play in the AAF and took the easiest out available to him.  I'm not surprised he missed the meetings at all, he likely did it on purpose so that he could have his way and be able to go play in the other league.  I guess time will tell weather he actually signs down there, but it seems awfully convenient for him that things went down the way they did.

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