SpeedFlex27

I find Mitchell's Texas accent makes him mumble a lot & hard to understand. He can sound incoherent at times.

At his age that leg injury was devastating & a career ender. Let's see what he brings to the table as a coach.

Sorta like replacing Sergio Castillo with some random kickers from Hungary, Spain, South Africa, Russia or Venezuela cuz their cheaper, right Goalie?

It would be a start.

Why would they? This is the era of specialists.

Walters better not say he has no money to sign quality CFL free agents.

Nothing wrong with saying that, It wasn't meant to be a negative. He had a wonderful long life that most of us could only imagine.

When someone reaches Glenn Hall's age, his life should be celebrated & not mourned. Most of us won't make it past 85.

I remember a time when Canadian OL were the lowest paid & least appreciated players on the team. I can only imagine what the Bombers paid G Ed Kotowich, T Cornell Piper, C Ray Ash, G Steve Patrick & T Roger Savoie during their 4 Grey Cups in 5 year run. Indeed, most Cnadians in the CFL were underpaid back then. Even thousand yard rusher Gerry James James despised Bud Grant claiming he hated Canadians & if he had his way he would cut all of them. After a contract dispute in the 62-63 offseason, Grant traded James to the Saskatchewan Roughriders in 1964 after James sat out the 1963 season. The Riders were the worst team in the CFL at the time James retired after the 64 season season in Regina. He had hard feelings towards the Bombers even though his name is up on the Wall Of fame at PAS up to the day he died. it wasn't uncommon to pay canadians $150-200,000 a year a few years ago. Most made over $120,000 a decade ago.

The pay scale has changed now so i could be wrong. Up until 2 or 3 seasons ago as a group they were. Some of these Canadian OL couldn't start yet they got paid more than American OL who were better.

It ain't what it used to be. Especially in the Jim Spavital era where they went at it for 2 weeks with two a days full hitting every practice in the hot June & July sun. No days off. Spav was crazy. Screaming & yelling. Never happy. He reached a new level of brutality unmatched since. I was a teen & used to bike to TC at St John's Ravenscourt to watch as my exams were over in school. The hitting went on constantly. Every drill & scrimmage was contact & collision. However, I remember one thing. As TC went on, fewer players were getting hurt. And fewer players quit by sneakimg out during the night. They had to survive that first week. The second week seemed easier & they really toughened up. However, I know every single player there hated the entire camp experience & their HC. Then a 4 game exhibition season after that. TC would start mid June, the exhibition season one game a week & then the regular season the first week of August. Six weeks of hell for the players.

Yeah, I think they still are but bringing in more Americans is lowering the pay scale. These guys had it so easy money wise for thirty years. All becauase coaches didn't want Americans playing on the OL. They wanted them at skill positions. However, it took years to build an All canadian OL. The Bombers never could do it under Osh though they came close. Things started turning around for the line in 2014/5 when they signed that huge American Guard who was 300 lbs plus. Yeah, talking to former players would certainly be sour grapes.

Canadian OL are the highest paid group collectively across the board.

Agreed. they do that with kids today. The practices are soft. Kids go thud in practice learning to tackle which is unrealistic. Which may be safer at practice but games are full speed. I see 11 & 12 year olds all the way to high school age kids getting injured because suddenly they're going full speed when they never did in practice. Injuries happen. The games now are tougherthan practice. I've talked to guys I used to coach with telling me that today some kids don't quit after practice but after a game. They're scared.