SpeedFlex27

Went to Popeyes here in Calgary this evening to get dinner. Totally underwhelmed. Chicken wasn't very tasty. Man, I thought KFC was expensive!

Wouldn't that be something if the shoulder troubles persist for Mitchell & Arbuckle develops into a good qb?

This thread has not aged well.

Make Canadian qbs count against the ratio like other positions. That way another American can start elsewhere. Just like starting a Canadian RB a la Andrew Harris would help. What's it called? Oh yeah, a "ratio breaker".

Okay, this comment really rubs me the wrong way. How is supporting Canadian qbs getting a chance to play in the CFL all of a sudden about me wanting my son to have more playing time? It's not my kid we're talking about here. He hasn't played since 2015. You don't know me at all or anything about me as a parent. You don't know what my relationship was with his coaches at the junior, JUCO or university level when he played. The way I interpret your words, I must have been obviously a whiney & controlling parent that tried to force coaches to get my son more playing time. Sorry to disappoint. But I wasn't like that. My son had to fight for his playing time with the Rifles, then his JUCO team & at SFU. I never once called his coaches demanding he play more when he didn't. With the Rifles, as an 18 year-old rookie he started the first two games of his PFC career. Opening game of the season against the Hilltoppers in Saskatoon he threw 3 td passes in his very first game at Gordie Howe Bowl but also two pick 6's & lost. The following week in a monsoon at Canad Inns Stadium, his second start was a miserable one as he threw 4 pick 6's vs the Edmonton Wildcats. The Rifles lost something like 66-21. After the game he was demoted to #3 qb & never played again that season. The HC ripped him a new one in the Winnipeg Free Press after the game saying he'd never start for him again. My son wasn't aware of the HC comments until he read them in the paper the next day as the HC never spoke with him. Matter of fact, Coach never spoke to him the rest of the season. Wouldn't even say hello. Just put his head down & always walked by him. At the end of September he called me & asked if he could quit the team as he was homesick. I told him to stick it out. That he never quit anything in his life & he wasn't about to start now. That quitting when the going got tough would mean it would be easier to quit again the second, third & fourth time around when the going got tough in life. Do you have any idea how hard it was for me to tell him that he couldn't quit when he was upset, crying & begging to come home??? Plus having his mother angry with me as well when I said no?? He said okay he'd stay but slammed the receiver in my ear & didn't speak or text me for another month. I never called his Head Coach. I never made waves. I wanted him handle the situation like an adult. He ended up staying that season, going back the next & splitting the starting qb position with a teammate who also had a very good year. He actually was having a decent second season splitting the qb duties until he broke his collarbone in Regina. Making him stay, face adversity & whatever happened all by himself, far away from home for the first time in his life helped him grow up & develop a much tougher skin. The HC never spoke to him again that season. Turned out he didn't speak to half the team, alienated most of the players & was fired when the season ended. The moral of the story is I never interfered as a parent with any coaches. I never whined to his HC or complained to the Rifles President about being demoted or being ignored when I easily could have. When he got to California & then SFU it was the same deal. Any problems he told me about, I stayed out of & let him handle things on his own. Besides, had I ever called his coaches he'd have been upset & told me to mind my own business. So, WBBFanWest, this has nothing to do about me as a parent thinking I knew more than his coaches wanting him to play so you're way off base. Oh & you should know based on my son's performance at the CFL Regional Combine in Edmonton in March 2016, he got a tryout with the Lions & threw for both Wally & Khari Jones in early May. He had suffered a severely torn hamstring two months before while training for the Combine & couldn't run in Edmonton & struggled to do so at the Lions practice facility in Surrey. He was timed by the Lions in the 40 at 5.2 seconds when he normally ran a 4.7. He told me that when he did his forty he felt like his hammy was going to explode so he was scared to run any faster. His 40 time was a huge disappointment. He never told the Lions he was injured. That probably led to his not going further with them or any other chances with any CFL team. So, his playing days were over. Things didn't end the way he wanted them to playing wise but now he coaches & he's happy doing that. He's married, living in Seattle & just got his Green Card. Life goes on. I'm just advocating for Canadian qbs. This has nothing to do with my son so please leave him out of the discussion from this point on.

I think I already answered that question. If a kid has legit skills then give him a legit chance

RIP Neil Peart. One of the greatest drummers ever. He died much too young.

Joe Critchlow was a great Blue Bomber.

There are qbs in U Sports who can play but need a chance to develop. But simply saying they can't is painting every qb with a wide brush. I don't agree with your assessment. Now when I say develop a Canadian qb I don't mean every one on every team in U Sports. However, if a player shows potential he should get the chance. Maybe that's 1 qb every 3 to 5 years. Like the 2 Canadian qbs on the Argos roster from Laval & UBC. Perhaps Chris Merchant from Western. They should get a legit shot at making a CFL team. As far as producing quick dividends developing Canadian OL that has sure proven to be wrong. Look how long it took Michael Couture to become a starter & Goosen before him. Every team has OL from U Sports that took years to develop. It's not easy nor is it a given these OLwill become CFL starters.

Ha ha. ^This.

The Als play in a one hundred year old 22,000 seat stadium. The amenities suck. I don't know how the team can generate income from a facility like that based upon average attendance of 17,000. How many private boxes does Molsonhave? From what I see on television there isn't much there other than steel bleacher type seats. They need a new stadium.

Yet, these Canadian OL can't play left tackle.

Whatever. Do you really think Canadian OL are as good as Americans when they are drafted? No, because OF THE RATIO & coaches wanting to play Americans at skill positions these overpaid linemen make more money than other positional players on the team. They can go out & start when they shouldn't, get beaten on pass plays repeatedly like a rented mule, get the $400,000 starting qb injured & guess what? They get to do it again next game even though they suck. But that's okay. Let's play these useless pylons so we can play an extra American receiver or linebacker but hey, don't develop a Canadian qb because he probably sucks. Anyone watch Foucault & Chungh pull down huge salaries for the Lions last season while Mike Reilly got mugged every game while they whiffed their blocks. Remember when every Blue Bomber qb needed a paid up in full life insurance policy just to play??? Remember when the Bombers tried to rebuild the OL by drafting or trading for Canadian OL but abandoned it as the process to draft & develop would take too long? Canadian OL can thank the ratio for making them as a group one of the highest paid in the CFL as well as automatic starters while other positional players are only special team players.

No, there is no advantage having a Canadian qb on the roster. They don't count vs the ratio. I don't know if that rule has changed or not.

Probably the Iranians.

Booch, please don't take this the wrong way when I say it. I don't know what CFL team you played for or your real name but could you have been one of those Canadians who would have been kept over an American? You used a pretty broad brush there when you posted your message.

My suspicions are the plane was shot down or a bomb was planted inside.

Your first sentence... Not. A. Chance. Don't tell me a linebacker from Saint Mary's is almost as good as a linebacker from an American FBS or FCS team. My son played in Northern California before he came to SFU. He played against these crazy athletes from America Samoa. These guys were pushing 300 lbs & could run down running backs from behind. Super strong, athletic & lightning fast there is no ******* way any Canadian in U Sports would have played against guys that good. That's just the Samoans. For every one great player U Sports produces there are 10-20 NCAA players as good or better than him. I watched enough college games down south in person to say you're 100% wrong. The Canadians get the chance to develop because they have talent, potential & the ratio to allow it to happen.

Well, he hasn't played since 2015 so his playing days are over & therefore I have no more skin in the game, so to speak. I do feel that if we don't at least TRY to develop these U Sports qbs then why have 7 starters that have to be Canadian? Just get rid of the ratio & let all Americans play. Then watch the interest in the CFL start to wane especially with high school aged players who would probably decide not to play the sport as there'd be no way they could make a CFL team. There has been talk of reducing Canadian starters to 5 with that idea getting a lot of blow back from fans. So, I'd suggest a lot of people actually do care if Canadian qbs do play. So, to answer your question, if my son didn't play qb then no, I'd probably not care. However, having a son playing qb NCAA D2 at SFU, I saw first hand the way the CFL ignores Canadian qbs like they don't even exist. Since that time, the CFL & U Sports have a program where young qbs spend training camp with CFL teams. That wasn't really available back in the days my son played. Had it been, my son would have been ineligible to participate as it would have contravened the rules of the NCAA as he would have been considered a professional & not be allowed to play his senior year back then. U Sports has no such rule. Having said that though, I still think we should be developing young Canadian qbs if they have the potential to eventually start.

Whoops. See below.

Heartbroken or not, it's still 29 years.

Most Canadians when they're drafted aren't good enough to play yet the CFL will spend the time & money to develop positions like on the OL, DL, linebackers, receivers, running back & secondary. Why bother, right? just play all Americans. problem solved. Wipe your hands of it.

CBS has blocked it.

Another kick to the nuts of any Canadian qb out there that think the CFL is finally getting serious about developing them.