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I understand why the Als would want Chapedelaine. He's got years of experience & has had success at the Offensive Coordinator position. He's Francophone which would appeal to fans in Quebec. But Reed as GM? I think that's a quite a stretch & a huge mistake.
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1 hour ago, Floyd said:
Harris is due over $400k next season... I think he was around 250k this season - I'm not saying they want to trade him... but I think the right deal makes it happen.
After Hank won the Grey Cup, hard to ditch him and now he's started talking about playing five more years... something's gonna give.
No team is ever going to favour a 42 year old qb over a 30 year old. If Burris was smart he'd take the GC win & ride off into the sunset. However, Burris has a huge ego & he wants the spotlight as either a Grey Cup winner or as a "Poor Me" tragedy if he's benched next year. So, I think he continues to play. I don't think he can actually retire with grace. He'll hang around until he is no longer is wanted & then cry the blues.
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Why would Ottawa trade Harris? Burris will be 42 & their contracts are structured that Harris gets a big raise & will be the starter while Burris takes a pay cut & will be the backup. Burris is a freak as an athlete but at his age one hit will be all it takes to finish his career. It's just too risky to turn the team over to Burris with no one behind him to be a quality backup or long term starter. I think that the RedBlacks would trade Burris before they trade Harris.
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I thought Richards was a free agent but he's not on the list. I guess he's been signed for 3 years. I know so little about the guy. Could he take Kohlert's spot?
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The Bombers couldn't go forward as an organization if Michael O'Shea wasn't the Head Coach. The signing of free agents is important & if a coaching change occurred most of the players on the list may not have been as willing to sign as they wouldn't know who'd take over. This is one time that I agree continuity was the most important consideration so this signing is so very big. Also having the GM here long term will help immensely.
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This is great news. Now the work begins bringing back the coaching staff (with hopefully a new DC) & signing all of our key free agents. As well as planning for free agency.
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On 12/6/2016 at 9:39 PM, wbbfan said:
we will never know how he'd have faired behind the good OL with bond hardrick and no neufeld. In skill set he could make all the passed nichols could, and also hit deep balls. But he may have been too mentally and physically damaged at that point to know. We were a deep ball holding up and the wr having to wait from winning against bc.
Even harris couldnt run behind that junk line. Sub 3 yards per carry. If we had this line all of last year I think we would have made the play offs last year.
I never want to find out. Drew Willy is gone & (hopefully) never coming back.
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On 12/7/2016 at 10:43 AM, Mike said:
I think that they really need to dedicate one LB spot to a SAM, but they don't and until they do, it's somewhat hard to argue Leggett should be there over the other 3. I guess.
Agree. I think they should do that for every position. If a player is a right tackle then he can't be slotted in at guard or tackle, for example.
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Montreal is going to be a hot mess again & of course that'll mean attendance issues. Their problem started with GM & head coach. It'll end at the qb position as they don't have anything with the qbs they have now. This is obviously all centered on ownership. If Wettenhall likes Jacques Chapdelaine so much then he should make Chapdelaine GM & Head coach.
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John Lennon was shot dead in New York City thirty six years ago today in 1980. As well, John Glenn who in 1962, was the fist American astronaut in space who later became the oldest Astronaut to orbit Earth in space on the Space Shuttle at 77 years of age died today. Just to make it a Grand Slam kind of a day, Greg Lake of Emerson, Lake & Palmer also passed away today. John Lennon was 40 years of age. John Glenn was 95. Greg Lake was 68.
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10 hours ago, The Unknown Poster said:
Vince was incredibly lucky. And ballsy. And hired the right people along the way. In some ways he's a genius. In others, he's the emperor with no clothes.
Vince Sr's WWWF was bigger than a regional and was on its way to going national already. The WWE narrative is that Sr would never have sold to Jr if he knew his plans but that isnt true. Sr knew. And if Jr hadnt attacked the other regions, someone else would have. Both Crockett in Atlanta and Watts in Texas would have gone national and Crockett had Turner behind him. Watts had the best TV show in the country but ran out of money trying to compete when the oil business busted and took his promotion with it.
Vince bought WWF from his dad for $1 million, far less than the company actually grossed at the time. And he made the partners payments on the purchase fee but took ownership immediately. Again, WWE's narrative is Jr was so ballsy he accepted a deal whereby had he missed one payment, he would have defaulted and lost everything back to the partners. But that was impossible. He made the payments out of revenue generated by the company. So it was a sweetheart deal.
Jr DID risk everything on WrestleMania. And that was not a safe bet. He previously nearly lost it all by producing an Evel Knievel jump that flopped. WrestleMania was looking bad until the last few days when they did incredible marketing including Mr T and Hogan on SNL. From that point forward they were golden...until the mid 90's decline when WCW began kicking their ass. It was a lot more brief than the narrative. They were not good, not good, not good, horrible, great. In fact, the time they went to Bret Hart and asked out of the contract to the time he actually left, they went from near bankruptcy to on fire. Very short period. 97 turned it all around. Mid 97 they were rough. By fall they were going to be fine.
So the Linda Narrative is that she built this business and was partners with Vince and negotiated all the deals. But the real story is that Vince made all the decisions, creative & business. I have no doubt she helped manage the operations. But she wasn't the secret business genius. In fact, when Vince & Linda created Titan Sports and bought Sr's WWF, they hired a guy named Jim Barnett as Director of Operations.
Barnett was the last wrestling promoter before Linda to serve in a Presidential Administration, serving for Carter. Barnett was a very highly respected promoter who previously worked for George Championship Wrestling (precursor, in a way, to WCW). Barnett was forced out by Ole Anderson who accused Barnett of embezzling. And since Barnett was in Carter's administration, Barnett left quietly to avoid the negative PR. But he negotiated a lot of the TV deals that helped WWE expand. In those days, there was little or no national TV. So to create a national TV presence you had to negotiate deals with regional stations.
What Vince did in a widespread way is attacked those regional deals. Where a regional promotion would get paid X amount for their content, Vince went in and offered their content for free. It would be the same TV show he taped in the North East so it cost him nothing and squeezed out the regional. He then inserted region-specific interviews with his top stars to promote upcoming live events. He didnt invent that concept either but used it the best. Sometimes this backfired.
Turner was loyal to Georgia Championship Wrestling and wouldnt let Vince on his station. So Vince bought GCW to get the timeslot but the fans were incensed about seeing WWF instead of GCW. Turner turned around and gave Ole another timeslot, pissing Vince off and he eventually sold the slot to Crockett (which Crockett claims was the money Vince used to finance WrestleMania).
So Barnett was really part of the brains in the early expansion. In the Saturday Nights Main Event years which was probably the glory years of the expansion, it was **** Ebersol who helped Vince upgrade all the production. The story is Vince and Linda walked into the NBC studios and couldnt believe wrestling could look that way.
Coming out of the 90's near-bankruptcy, it was Russo who helped him immensely. It should be noted, when Vince was on trial and had to make plans to run WWE because he thought he was going to jail, it was Patterson who was running things (I think Jerry Jarrett was there too) and Jim Ross was there also, not Linda.
Just can't say D i c k. Even in a name. That's funny.
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And not Sunderland either? I've no idea what Wettenhall is doing. Macciocia would have been a disaster. Sunderland has connections in the US & CIS. After winning a Grey Cup he should be Next Man Up for GM.
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It's hard to believe that Montreal is actually considering Macciocia. He won a Grey Cup but that was Tom Higgin's team. The longer he coached & managed the Eskimos the worse they got. He hasn't a great track as GM or Head coach other than winning the Grey Cup. If this move is designed to find a billingual GM then it's a big mistake.
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Any word on Scheifle?
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I don't watch the Simpsons so....
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3 hours ago, 17to85 said:
If you don't have a gun then the King of England can just waltz into your house and start pushing you around, do you want that?
I really don't understand what you're trying to say. I'm just commenting on the fact we don't hear or see gun commercials on radio & tv. That's all I was alluding to.
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I was in Northern Nevada a few years on vacation just driving thru. We were listening to the local radio station in this town we were in. A commercial came on from a local gun shop. The commercial was about personal safety & how owning & carrying a handgun would save not only your life but your family from hoodlums & thieves. Then they went on to describe the sale they had on different guns. Being Canadian, it was the most bizarre commercial I ever heard.
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Especially in the US where some States have legalized the carrying of guns & self defense laws. Back here, if there's someone acting irrationally aggressive towards you on the road then stay in your car, use your smart phone & call 911. Don't challenge them. If the other driver speeds off then get the license plate before calling police.
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1 hour ago, J5V said:
It's so embarrassing to think this guy is a Winnipeger.
That's kind of harsh. There's more than a few crappy sportscasters from all around the country working in front of the camera or behind the mic on radio. He's a bad football pbp announcer but that shouldn't be a reason to hate he's from Winnipeg.
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On 12/1/2016 at 4:58 PM, FrostyWinnipeg said:
You wanna protest, do it at the Ledg. Leave the streets alone...fockers!
The police allow it. They could say no but they have some twisted view that "peaceful protests" trump every other person's rights. Maybe Bowman is telling them not to stop the continuing protests that we see during rush hour. It would be easy to stop it yet they don't lest they be called racists. Yes, do it at the legislature not at Portage & Main. People would probably respect them more if the protestors did.
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It's extremely hard to like Henry Burris when he complains about every team who has cut or traded him. He had a great game but he tarnishes his reputation every time he opens his mouth. As far as Bo Levi Mitchell goes, I hope he learns a bit of humility from that loss while still early in his career. Eating some humble pie might be the best thing long term for him.
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On 11/30/2016 at 9:11 AM, Noeller said:
Here's a "What If...": What if Franklin says "I want to be a starter..." and they really believe in him......and they deal Reilly instead? The guy hasn't exactly been the picture of health....if they really believe Franklin is going to be a superstar, it's not the craziest thought ever....
Reilly is a franchise qb. He had had a few injuries but seemed fairly healthy this past season. I think he is the face of the Eskimos. That would be a shocking event if he was traded to another team. Speaking of teams, when will the Argos make the move at head coach &/or GM? They've had nearly a month to figure out what they should do. I thought Milanovich would have been gone by Wednesday.
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You sound like a broken record. Okay, we get it. You don't like Maurice. Why do you have to keep repeating yourself on every thread here?