NorthernSkunk

Daniels probably going to TO. Why any player would want to play there is mind boggling. 

It's the dead zone of the offseason and we're all starved for something to debate. Dissecting the smallest minutiae is what we do here... 

I'm great, thanks, and the Nichols whining has been performed by lots of others long before now. I haven't really said much about him at all. My post wasn't whining about Nichols. It was a playful jab at the person that made the silly statement that Nichols was twice the QB MBT is. You didn't get that?
Completion % - Nichols, 71.3     - MBT, 68 
Efficiency - Nichols, 107.2     MBT, 99.3
Interception % - Nichols, 2.1     MBT, 2.6
Remarkably close and consider that Nichols played on the best team in the league and MBT played on arguably the worst. It could also be argued that Nichols only played in 9 games due to injury and mostly against the weaker teams whereas MBT played 16 games and faced all the tougher teams in the league, including us and Matt Nichols, against whom he won!

I'm glad to come to a forum with such original thinking.

I would have agreed a year ago. But I saw enough in MBT last season to advocate that the Argos make signing him their top priority this off-season. I think he's going to surprise a lot of people who consider him just a run-of-the-mill backup type. But that's why they play the games.

MBT is not going to be happy being Nichol's short-yardage QB. Nichols has CFL experience, and little else, on MBT.
Nichols doesn't have Andrew Harris and/or our O-line any more. He can't run the ball himself, isn't fast enough or nimble enough to evade pressure, and doesn't have the arm to put the ball into tight spots consistently.
Pinball isn't going to be happy paying Nichol's 350K/yr for 3 years to throw the ball away and/or turtle.

I wonder why SJ Green requested his release?   The thought of Nichols throwing no balls his way scared him away?
 

I'm actually not sure MBT couldn't be a long term answer - Just getting the same performance they got out of him last season would have him on track for a 5000 Yard season and a 2:1 td/int ratio with 68% completion and a pretty decent QB rating.
 
MBT played well last year on a pretty bad team.... 

Nichols' contract length is irrelevant as he can be released any time up to Labour Day, and neither he nor MBT are the long-term answer for the Double Blue. Its gonna be interesting to see who emerges as the starter and I expect that there will be a lot of tag-teaming behind center this year.

Hes got no reason to be. Nichols is twice the QB he is... 

If he plays well, he could generate a lot of buzz in TO and bring tens of new fans!

Its a slow off-season. Have mercy.

Lol @ people riled up about this having its own thread. who cares. 😅 
Anybody know his cap hit?

https://www.tsn.ca/toronto-argonauts-sign-qb-matt-nichols-to-three-year-deal-1.1437772

Pretty lengthy contract. No mention of remuneration...but best of luck to him

Not as grumpy as you. You sound pissed off every time someone responds to one of your comments.

You of all people calling me the "resident grouch".😄

Yes, I wonder why Nichols keeps turning down those NFL opportunities.

Nichols had games where he looked like an all-star, and he also had games where he looked like Brian Brohm's twin. He was a mixed bag. I was never sold on him being "the answer" at QB for us but I thank him for his service. I have no doubt he always gave his all. 

Key word tho is last year, who's to say that Buck will base his offence around that, especially with Zack showing he can make the long throws, and the fact that McGuire can stretch a field with the best of them...

The important thing is we've moved on from the Lapo/#15 era. It served it's purpose but man, I couldn't have stood another season of dump offs and 3 yard passes on second and 8.

God forbid someone has a different opinion than the peanut gallery on our mediocre underachieving former QB. 
Nichols is a fine backup but he’s a walking glass ceiling and his limitations became even more obvious when we put Collaros in the lineup. 

He has Skunk (Roadgriller) on his side. That tells you all you need to know. 

Except we beat nothing but garbage teams with Nichols. We got a win over Calgary that was due to Janarion Grant and a timely interception, aside from that we beat horrible teams and pissed away a huge lead against Toronto. 
Collaros (2x), Streveler and Nichols all started against Calgary and Nichols had BY FAR the worst game of the bunch. Let’s stop pretending that Nichols had anything to do with our wins. We won a Grey Cup without Nichols, which is something we never came close to achieving with him. 

My guess is they went in there thinking the Argos were going to throw gobs of money at them, and instead got a base offer + performance bonus targets.  Balked, and they said "fine, MBT has more upside anyways".  He definitely has a better arm, and is more mobile.  Not surprised they'd roll the dice on him over Nichols!

I think it's more of a case of the city having a much larger amount of casual fair weather fans then true NHL/Jets fans.  Same thing happens with the Blue Bombers....