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Make sure you buy lots of beer so we get the tax revenue to pay for your shot. 🙂

Curious why this should piss fans off? The whole point of free agency was to give more players autonomy in where they live and play. I say this as a huge Jets fan knowing this is a big disadvantage for the team, but if he wants to sign somewhere for less money, its his choice. If I were to make an argument on why he might sign in Florida for significantly less Warm climate Competitive team Can sign for less but still make the same on net salary because of lower taxes, which also lets the team remain more competitive Should the tax advantage Florida has piss me off as a fan? Maybe. But life ain't fair in any capacity. Not worth getting pissed off about in my mind.

We are a .500 team right now with 2/3 of the season gone. Best guess on the remaining schedule: At Hamilton loss (especially of Collaros is still out) At Ottawa win Hamilton at home loss At Edmonton win Saskatchewan at home loss (This is the 2nd last week of the season, could be a win if SK has a playoff spot wrapped up already) Montreal at home win Don't really see us finishing above .500 either. Could be worse of Collaros is out long term.

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Its a tough thing to navigate. Is AI taking the same creative freedom that another artist does or is it copied and should the original artist be compensated. The other interesting aspect is the more content that is generated by AI, the more AI learns from AI generated content (there are various articles out there on the potential dangers on this... here and here are a couple, but there is a lot of theories on this) Can AI learn to have "creative leaps" or will this always have to come from humans. And if humans start relying on AI, do we lose the ability to really think and make those leaps. Studies are starting to come out on how people who use AI to write vs people who write themselves use very different portions of the brain. You really aren't learning critical thinking when using AI.

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It will replace a lot. Things like movie scores, commercials and places where the song isn’t front and center. For some pop music, this has almost already been happening with the formulaic writers. Just won’t need those humans. I think what this does do is put a premium on authentic musicians and live performances. I haven’t yet seen AI put emotion and lived experience into songs. And the more it generates and can flood the market, I think the more people will crave human created content.

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https://3downnation.com/2025/08/12/winnipeg-blue-bombers-release-veteran-long-snapper-mike-benson/ 3 Down Nation implies that since Ian Leroux took over long snapping after Benson was injured, Benson has been a healthy scratch since coming back. 38 years old, get injured, lose your job to the 26 year old.

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We've had great success in signing players who have played here either through being drafted or traded for. Its free agency with guys who have never played here that we struggle.

O'Shea has been head coach since 2014. Closest to that would be Dickenson who has been head coach since 2016. Calgary missed the playoffs last year before being 3rd in the West the prior 3 years, losing the semi final each year. Though their record the last three years was 12 - 6, 6 - 12, 5 -12-1. So one of those playoff years was just because everyone else in the West was bad. Calgary seems to have revitalized itself this year. Can O'Shea do that if we are entering a downward trend? Do we need to go through 2 years of mediocrity before that happens?

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Not the poll. But you can still send me your picks if you haven’t got them in, including the Calgary / Saskatchewan game.

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You don't have to vote at the beginning of the week.

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Ehlers was a top 10 draft pick. Anything is possible, but if he showed the same talent as Ehlers, size wouldn't have mattered.

Personal leave. They didn’t go into details.

I let people change their picks for the following reasons: I lock voting at the start of the first game of the week to make administering / tracking easier. This way I know no one made a pick after a game started. Since voting does get locked at the start of the first game, if someone is late, I don't want to penalize them for all 4 games of the week. If you miss a full week of picks, very hard to remain competitive. I'd rather more people continue to play than not. Since I let people who forgot to get their picks in still vote after voting is locked, it only makes sense to let people change a pick with the same rules. If I didn't allow this, more people may wait until later in the week to make their picks, then forget, then miss completely, this again can lead to a decrease in participation. This option is open to everybody, so I don't see how it is unfair. Unrelated stat, but I find it interesting. Most years there are a lot of people who play the first couple of weeks, then trail off. This is for any number of reasons. People forget, fall behind, get busy with summer, who knows why. This is the first year we had 41 people in week 1, and while a. few people missed a week here or there, we still have 41 people playing this week. Good to see.