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Grant, no question. It's hard to believe that couldn't find the money to sign him this season. 

Iirc he lined up with his hand on the paint on a 3rd down at the 1, I don’t remember him in many games after that. 

Exactly....and when you keep discarding new talent that's superior, over the status quo , for no other reason than loyalty....that's when you start going down the road of being an 'also ran''''

Can never discount what a 5'8" guy did. Few his size dominated the way he did, WD7 was always open. Especially on corner routes into the endzone, essentially uncoverable. Will never forget his TD to seal the 2013 Grey Cup. 
As someone who is also on the smaller side, he was my idol playing high school football. Made it seem achievable to keep playing. 

Interview with Josh Johnson. Obviously not going to give much insight into his skills but he seems pretty excited to be here.

This is football to me, not some patriotic circlejerk. I want my football team to do as well as possible and the last couple years, it hasn’t been. That’s it. 
 
You want to support Canadians over everything? Good for you. That’s not the end all be all for me.

Bauming was pretty pumped about Josh Johnson on the show the other day too 

Bauming was pretty pumped about Josh Johnson on the show the other day too 

Bauming was pretty pumped about Josh Johnson on the show the other day too 

Bauming was pretty pumped about Josh Johnson on the show the other day too 

Yes and no.
Tait said they were planning on moving to younger Canadian d-linemen (Corney & Ekakitie).
It sounds like he was their plan B though since they'd been in constant communication with him throughout FA.  Good plan because Ekakitie was a bust and got cut a week late while Corney played 3 games, got hurt & retired - Plan A was a complete fail.

@DTonOB noted on Twitter that Josh Johnson was working with the 1s yesterday too. That kind of came out of left field for me.

My wild card is Kody Case.

I’ll eat crow with a smile on my face if he turns out to be the every down pocket pusher  we’ve been missing. Just give us a monster DT and I’ll be happily wrong any day. 
 

That's a pretty wide range there.  I hope Brown lights it up all year in every game except against us.  Then we crush Ottawa in the Grey Cup, and see them driven before us, while we listen to the lamentations of their media...

I'm excited to see how the #1 offense looks with ZC next week. Hopefully it allows us to see who the 5th WR is going to be.
Also looking forward to watching how the various pieces on D look.

I’ll eat crow with a smile on my face if he turns out to be the every down pocket pusher  we’ve been missing. Just give us a monster DT and I’ll be happily wrong any day. 
 

It’s preseason. We like to analyze the minute aspects of the year(s) past, and talk about how we may do things differently. 
It’s like a game in itself, what would you do to make the team perfect? 
 
You’ve always got such a great grasp of what others should be discussing, I’m curious, what direction would you steer the conversation? 
 

I’ll eat crow with a smile on my face if he turns out to be the every down pocket pusher  we’ve been missing. Just give us a monster DT and I’ll be happily wrong any day. 
 

Dude .. I’m agreeing with you.

So here's what MBB would look like if we weren't say debating the roster

When the vets are underperforming, loyalty can look like cronyism from an outsiders (new players) perspective.
Totally different line of work, but at my job management catered to a select few senior employees, who in turn performed and got the work done exceptionally well. The culture was very much like “FIFO” when I started there 15 years ago, morale was sky-high pretty much across the board.
As physical work goes, those guys either aged out of being able to do the job well, or got entitled and unhelpful to the guys below them. Management kept catering to “their guys” without opening up the preferential treatment for anyone else coming up. Now it’s a decade later and the place is toxic as hell. 

To me that’s the fine line the club is walking right now and it could go either way yet. It’s the second 6 weeks of the season which will be very telling imo. 

When the vets are underperforming, loyalty can look like cronyism from an outsiders (new players) perspective.
Totally different line of work, but at my job management catered to a select few senior employees, who in turn performed and got the work done exceptionally well. The culture was very much like “FIFO” when I started there 15 years ago, morale was sky-high pretty much across the board.
As physical work goes, those guys either aged out of being able to do the job well, or got entitled and unhelpful to the guys below them. Management kept catering to “their guys” without opening up the preferential treatment for anyone else coming up. Now it’s a decade later and the place is toxic as hell. 

To me that’s the fine line the club is walking right now and it could go either way yet. It’s the second 6 weeks of the season which will be very telling imo. 

It’s preseason. We like to analyze the minute aspects of the year(s) past, and talk about how we may do things differently. 
It’s like a game in itself, what would you do to make the team perfect? 
 
You’ve always got such a great grasp of what others should be discussing, I’m curious, what direction would you steer the conversation? 
 

It’s preseason. We like to analyze the minute aspects of the year(s) past, and talk about how we may do things differently. 
It’s like a game in itself, what would you do to make the team perfect? 
 
You’ve always got such a great grasp of what others should be discussing, I’m curious, what direction would you steer the conversation?