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I wish the title of this thread was SHOULD Walters Go All Out At MLB? Instead of Will. How the hell do we know what Walters will do?
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On 2/5/2018 at 10:50 AM, The Unknown Poster said:
I thought so too a bit. More so, I thought it was unnecessary. If you're just going to grow more, dont make a big deal about killing your entire supply.
They also need to knock off the facade of "below decks". I think this was likely a change when Fuller left. originally they said the show would focus more on junior officers like the TNG episode Below Decks. But firstly, that isnt the case. The Captain, First Officer, Admiral are all focuses. We're on the bridge constantly.
The issue is, when deciding that your main Doctor isnt the CMO and your main engineer isnt the Chief Engineer, you create problems. Where the heck are they? This was especially glaring during the briefing room scene. Why assemble all these junior officers but not have the CMO, Chief Engineer and even tactical officer (Ash was but surely he's been replaced).
I wont break the balls over it now. But season 2 needs to reconcile this by casting a CMO and Chief Engineer.
Hopefully Lorca is back.
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9 hours ago, The Unknown Poster said:
Holy ****!! Unfortunately not surprised. Budget may be decent up here but they're a joke in the US. I used them last fall on a trip to Portland for US Thanksgiving. Their rental office is a 15 minute shuttle ride from the airport. All the others are in the Portland Airport. They wouldn't do an inspection with me when I picked up my car. Just, "Oh, don't worry about that scratch. Don't worry about that dent. We won't charge you." Like really? Then they didn't have a proper inspection form so I had to write all the damage down I saw on a piece of paper. My piece of scrap paper that I had. I used my phone to take a picture of every dent & scratch I found when I took the car. It was late evening, dark & raining. The parking lot I picked the car up at didn't have proper lighting so it was extremely dim. I had a hard time seeing any damage. I felt that I was being scammed. That they could accuse me of damaging the rental when the damage was already there. The Budget agent told me to hang on to the rental agreement with my damage report attached FOR A FEW MONTHS. A few months??? Last time I ever use them. Stay away from Budget in the US.
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2 hours ago, Mark H. said:
Well, part of the problem with previous OLs was the lack of receivers who could stretch the field. Teams could keep more defenders in the box when they played the Bombers.
Receivers have nothing to do with the ability to block. Either you can or can't.
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How can the Riders sign all these players & be under the cap? Today I read that now they're in the running to sign Adarius Bowman. How can they sign every expensive veteran player out there??
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2 hours ago, Floyd said:
Funny how quickly we forget how weak our OL was on the blind side... since 2007?
And how crappy our boundary DBs were since... Swaggerville?
Bond and Heath leaving... meh.... right??
Yeah, we have replacements. Who needs Bond, right? #famouslastwords
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14 hours ago, Throw Long Bannatyne said:
Until Couture plays multiple complete games competently at OG I'm not sold on the concept that he is a reliable backup at this point. We've seen too many Natl. O-lineman with better size come and go over the years who did not achieve success in the CFL despite having multiple years to develop as understudies. Forgive me if I'm a deeply scarred cynic with a bad case of Drew Willy happy feet and still haunted by Max Hall's infernal pain but as I recall, there was "what's his name?", "what's his name?" and that other "what's his name?", all Natls. with the size of Goliath that never amounted to the value of an over-ripe hill of beans.
How Colin can make a statement that Couture is somehow ready with virtually no playing time is hard to understand. All I know our OL sucked until Bond started & now it looks like management has made the decision to replace him. If we start an inferior player in his place & Nicholls gets injured then that is on Walters for not managing the salary cap properly.
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2 hours ago, Booch said:
Yeah Huff is no fool. He wasn't an SMS casualty by any means...they have no reason to cut salaries at moment.
It was a salary cap move, Especially trading Hughes for 2 fourth round picks in the next 2 CFL Drafts. Here are two quotes from yesterday's Calgary Herald. The first is Stamps GM John Hufnagel & the second from Charleston Hughes:
"It was a tough day at the office - no question about it. Charleston has been a soldier for 10 years. He's a big part of our winning ways but it's the salary cap era that we're in & I have depth at the defensive end position. A very difficult decision & we just tried to make the right choice. What's the right choice? What's the wrong choice? We couldn't afford as many as we had & one had to go. It could have been one of the other two."
"I knew that there were going to be decisions that were going to have to be made. That was a stress the whole year about cap & stuff. But based on how I play & what I bring to the table, I didn't think I was going to be that player to be traded."
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Just now, Goalie said:
You know what... I would have replaced Hall... But.. Hes going to be back so some of you need to just accept that.. Cuz its not even FA day yet and already this thread is just... Same old ****.
Oh, I accept it but I don't have to like it.
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1 minute ago, Goalie said:
Maybe theres more to being a coach than just X's and O's.
Obviously Walters and Oshea spoke to the players about Hall, they all probably love the guy.
You can sit here and pretend to have all the answers... But reality truly is... None of us have a damn clue what goes on in that locker room and what goes on in there is very important.
I get Hall is the whipping boy cuz we got some former professional defensive coordinators in here who know it all but... Hall is not on the field missing tackles or getting beat by WRs on long throws. Blame the scheme... But reality is... Ppl tend to blame 1 player (Hurl) and 1 DC (Hall) but ignore guys who actually get beat at times.
TJ Heath... Good player... Not great but good... If the rumours are true about him free lancing out there... Well, ****... No wonder hes not gonna be back.
He's the guy who selects the players that miss the tackles.
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25 minutes ago, Brandon said:
Ugh Hughes in Saskatchewan makes me dread listening to Suitor this season. Over the last many years the guy can not stop babbling about Hughes non stop whenever Calgary played.... this will only amplify the level of annoying so much greater.
The Riders remind me of ambulance chasers. They sign everyone they can. Why am I not surprised they made a deal for him.
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3 minutes ago, Booch said:
Well from all accounts will be some different personnel in the linebacking spot and I think the coordinator is being mandated to switch his system.
A defensive system for the most part is pretty basic and generic for a good portion of of what you see in Canadian ball..some deviations but generally everyone runs off the same concepts and all add their tweaks....and also things are done to certain players strong points..this is a major area we have been burned lately as our MLB.. coupled with a bad scheme and their skill set giving them no real strong suits..well we seen the results
Halls tweaks have been neutralized and this year is adapt..or die..with Osheas added input...a new mind in Younger and some cohesion/continuity with our dline..and poop and the coat in their second years it is going to be our defensive strong point I think.
I have seen Ekakitie around too this winter and the dude looks like he amped his training up and has conditioned himself for Canadian ball..he looks a lot different and I expecting nice contributions from him this year..may be part of reason there has been no Thomas signing as of yet..maybe he will be back on a value contract beneficial to the team and sms
We need a true middle linebacker. True middle linebacker. We sign someone or recruit a player who can be an actual MLB with impact then I'll believe. I have a hard time believing a Leopard will change his spots.
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3 hours ago, Mark H. said:
Yes I can. CFL teams can cut ties with a player at any time - all they have to do is cut him.
If not, then the Als can also be fined for cutting Darian Durant.
Who gets to decide the difference between the two scenarios?
The League Office & Randy Ambrosie. He's not clueless like Jeff Orridge was. You don't think that when a CFL star is cut after one year he won't know? Then there's social media with guys like Justin Dunk & other media members posting stories that so & so has a tryout with the Bills, Dolphins, Jets or other NFL teams. It'd be hard for teams to hide it. They'll comply.
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On 2/1/2018 at 8:45 AM, Booch said:
I think the D-line is/was fine and will only be better. I think we led the league in pressures last year?...or were top 2??
the last 3rd of season too the d-line really became a force...thats the least of our concerns I think moving forward. The MLB role/philosophy has to change this year....no question about it as the last 3 years has shown to be a failure in what that position has contributed
Same coordinator so why would things change, Booch?
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Dieter Brock.
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10 hours ago, Mark H. said:
It won’t make a shred of difference
You can't say that with any kind of certainty since BC has been fined for letting Awe out of his contract.
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2 hours ago, Eternal optimist said:
The entire purpose of a police force is to enforce the legislation that is currently in effect, they can't speculate on when, or if marijuana legalization will get punched through. Obviously, legalization is likely going to happen, as it stands right now though, it is illegal.
In football, would you get mad if a referee didn't let a team have their 2nd challenge in a game, because he knew that the next week the CFL was going to announce that each team was limited to one challenge? What if he was pretty sure they were going to change the rule say, 5 months from then?
Right. Possession is illegal at the moment. So the law has been broken. Not struck off the books yet.
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18 minutes ago, Bigblue204 said:
Maybe that's why the he "Decided on Regina over the NFL". I'm guessing if the NFL got wiff of that they wouldn't be too keen on him.
Can you imagine the tweet fest Donald Trump would have with this if he signed with an NFL team & it came out? You know the NFL wants no part of a guy like that. They suspend players in the NFL for that. He's now a career CFL receiver if he beats the charges.
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5 hours ago, Floyd said:
'Players should work in the off-season... all it takes is one injury...'
Ambrosie starting to dig a hole.
Why can't we have nice things.
He's right. This is the CFL & not the NFL. The league doesn't pay like that other league. Guys can have exceptional careers with the connections in the community to the business world most CFL teams have. They don't know how good they have it.
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16 minutes ago, Bigblue204 said:
I work in the Cannabis industry, the legal one! I'm not a dealer lol. Anway, has it been confirmed that he was crossing an international border or had? He could have been boarding a plane in Saskatoon to go somewhere else in Canada, is why I'm asking. If he did go international, for sure smuggling charges and he's a dumb ****. If not, for a possession charge to stick he would have to have a decent amount on him. Though that might be different with it being in an airport.
As for his WPG charge, I'm going to go out on a limb and say he had cocaine. Just a guess but I don't know why they wouldn't say it was cannabis if that's what it was. His previous charge could also be playing a role in his most recent arrest.Either way I love it! **** YOU DURON!
Justin Dunk just was interviewed on the Fan 960 here in Calgary. Didn't go into any details but he thinks the charge he faces in Winnipeg is much more serious & will be a problem for him than the weed possession charge in Sakatoon. So, it must be something other than weed. What a fool. You'd think he'd have learned.
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3 hours ago, JCon said:
Pretty sure teams can release players at anytime. It's how the CFL wants the contracts structured.
Can't complain when a team releases a player for their own reasons.
He's talking side deals like signing a 2 year deal with the agreement a player will be let out of his deal aftwe 1 to pursue NFL opportunties when teams aren't supposed to.
2018 Winter Olympics
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Posted · Edited by SpeedFlex27
Hard to get excited when everything is in the middle of the night in Canada. I don't care about the Olympics at all. Like you said, no NHL. Russians still competing. Absolutely brutal time zone. Meh. Is it Feb 26th yet?