Rich

The Jets have to factor in. There is a lot of disposable income flowing their way. The Jets will come first for a lot of people in the city

First, I'm in favour of bringing back O'Shea. For a lot of what your write, don't think it really applies. A new coach wouldn't necessarily be a complete rebuild like we've seen, especially if Walters stays. A lot of good players in place, under contract. It would be more tweaking for what the new coach wants, not a complete tear down and rebuild. Some players may bolt for sure. It doesn't mean whoever is hired is a blackhole no one wants to play for.

It was reported that Hurl signed for "well north of 100k" when he signed here. I wouldn't be opposed to bringing Hurl back, but if he isn't a regular starter, I don't think we can afford to pay him what we have been.

A few interesting tidbits in this TSN article. http://www.tsn.ca/concerns-about-nhl-expansion-draft-emerge-1.609388 There is concerns on both sides (existing teams and Vegas) about "side deals" for pending UFAs, where a team will have a contract ready to go on a UFA but not submit it to the league until after the expansion draft to avoid having to protect that player, and on the Vegas side, them doing similar things in their 48 hour window to talk to UFAs prior to free agency opening as apparently if they sign a UFA in that 48 hour window, that counts as their pick of a player from that team. The penalty if a team gets caught circumventing the expansion draft rules … a first round draft pick. Pretty steep penalty if they can prove it. Would a GM risk it? Debates continue with GMs on Rule 48 on blindside hits…. This is likely the rule that triggered the penalty for Morrissey’s hit as the player he hit had his head down and could be considered “vulnerable”. And … possible changes to the shootout, changing the rule that after the first 3 players, you can recycle players who have already taken a shot. Theory being, the fans want to see the best players shoot, not be forced to play your 3rd / 4th line players or 3rd pairing D-Men. I like this rule change.

Why do you want this group of people to tell you why Thorbs dresses when they don't make that decision? Everyone is just saying what is likely to happen given Maurice's history. Then you want to argue about it. I appreciate the discussion and everything, but why do we have to have the same argument and same trade proposals every single day? It is basically trade Petan, trade Myers, trade Stafford, trade anything for RNH. Bring up Lemieux, bring up Roslovic, Bring up <flavour of the day>. **** on the same Jets who you don't want to see play everyday. People don't want to argue and discuss the same thing everyday.

As I recall he came to the CFL to be a head coach, not save his career. He just didn't want to be a coordinator anymore, and the CFL gave him his shot at that. He spun that CFL gig into an NFL head coaching gig and it didn't work out. He is now 60 years of age and has to be eyeing retirement at this point. Coming back to Canada isn't going to get him another head coaching gig in the NFL. At his age, I wouldn't call a guy not wanting to come work in a foreign country stupid.

Lets see if we can keep this thread a little more civil. I found this interview very interesting. A lot of soft balls thrown at Trump, he explained his back pedalling on his more extreme issues as a lot of his claims as opening bids for negotiation purposes. Which .. whatever .. I still think that those are insincere claims he used to get elected. He does now come across way more presidential then he did prior to the election. A lot of his noise, yelling, and rhetoric has been scaled back. Do respect this one though: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/60-minutes-donald-trump-family-melania-ivanka-lesley-stahl/

Picks need to be in by Sunday @ 12PM

Because it doesn't have to be proven to me or you. O'Shea makes the decision. O'Shea sees what Medlock can do in practice. We don't. He has an immense amount of information at his disposal to make the decision that we as fans don't. If Medlock says he can hit 1 out of 3 (and I don't even know where that claim came from) and O'Shea has seen that in practice, then the decision making is sound. And I'm not even convinced the kick was the right decision. But after hearing Westwood's thoughts on it this morning ... a retired kicker who has played the game ... I put more weight into his opinion than mine or yours.

Skeptical on this event. Saskatchewan a good choice for the inaugural or test run of the event. If it can't fly there... Good to see Orridge trying new things to grow the brand. Hopefully reach out to the younger generation. Time will tell what this turns in to.

I think I would give Medlock the benefit of the doubt on his own stat based on what he has been able to do in practice and messing around Just because it is not an official CFL stat, it doesn't mean Medlock doesn't know what he is capable of. Interesting perspective on TSN1290 this morning. Westwood said as a kicker he wouldn't lie when asked whether or not he thought he could make a kick. He wouldn't want to be the one who lost the game if he missed They questioned the decision to use a tee on the kick. But all felt he didn't get a full kick on the ball and that it was well within his usual range.

I'd actually be shocked if the Jets traded Thorburn. Not because of his play on the ice or anything like that, but because of his involvement with the community and the role he plays on the team for the younger guys. What really is his worth in todays NHL? A 5th draft pick at best? Just the way True North operates, I think they would rather hang on to him, reward him for his years of service, offer him a job with the organization if he chooses to hang them up after this season.

Election is over, thread locked. I'm sure this will get picked up in a new thread at some point Have let a lot go in this thread, probably more than we should have. Politics can be a rather passionate and volatile subject for some people, but that is no excuse for insults and behaving like children. Going to be cracking down on the crap that has been going on in these parts, need to put a stop to it. Locking this thread was easier then cleaning most of it up.

At the game?

Myers out in the third with a "lower body injury".

Something goofy with the way they embedded / linked the first pic. The 2nd one works fine.

As of right now, we are in a wild card spot.

An interesting article to see the Tweets going back and forth between John Cornish and Jeff Hecht. Lots of other CFL players chiming in to the election as well.

You've been gone from Winnipeg for too long

It has nothing to do with any small syndrome. Imagine the **** storm if a Toronto player had held out for the reasons Trouba stated. It would be the same **** storm if not bigger. No one is missing anything. This was Trouba's fall back plan all along, he wasn't going to miss a full year of play. They were playing chicken to see if Chevy would blink. He didn't, they moved on to part B of the plan. Part C of the plan will be to keep going to arbitration or re-sign for 2 years to get to UFA as quickly as possible. It would be nice if he suddenly decides to sign long term in Winnipeg, I wouldn't hold my breath on it. Chevy now has 4 years to decide if he wants to move an asset who won't sign long term and will probably walk for nothing.