Mike

The one thing worth pointing out is that while he won't immediately face a CFL suspension, he's got CIS eligibility left and that likely went out the window. I'm pretty sure the suspension will be 2 years in the CIS.

Strike one against him, he won't be suspended but he's now subject to mandatory testing. It automatically carries over from the CIS and if he's caught a second time, he's suspended for three games. I'm curious to see how he handles it, because trying to say he wasn't sure that he took it would be a red flag for me. You're not likely to find trace amounts of Winstrol in anything you'd take regularly. Chances are if he was found with it in his system, he KNEW he was taking it.

He apparently did really well but they also took him out of the game and replaced him with an import on roughly half the snaps. We don't have the luxury of doing that unless we're rotating Canucks all over the place, which I suppose we'll have to do anyways. I'd personally rather see us use a rotation of guys like Newman, Muamba and Thomas and stick with an every down work horse MLB

Well okay then. a 34 year old who has never played full time? Maybe as a rotational guy who can rotate to fill a spot in the ratio with some of our other Canadians, but if we're going to give him his first full time gig in his 11 year career as our starting MLB, we may as well just start talking about who we want first overall in the 2015 draft. EDIT: misread some stats

I think there's a lot of misconceptions about what a private workout entails. They're going to go over his stance, they're going to go over his footwork and they're going to get him up on the whiteboard to see how he calls protection for their scheme. They're not going to have him line up against Zach Anderson and take reps. At the combine, you get 15 minutes to speak to a guy. In a private workout, you get what, 4 or 6 hours? You can learn a LOT.

FIRE MIKE O'SHEA HE'S BEEN HERE TWO MONTHS AND WE HAVEN'T WON A SINGLE GAME!

What the Jets managed to acquire in two drafts is not normal.

What I'm starting to get bothered by is that the Bombers are slowly veering from "we're always looking to upgrade" territory into "we have no clue what our plan is" territory. Releasing a guy before you let him try out for you in camp because you think you found someone better is one thing, doing it to like a dozen of them is another.

As was Cyhl Quarles ... McRath is especially surprising.

CFL Hard Knocks? more Grey Cup classics? 30 for 30 documentaries?

TSN 8: LE HUIT

Point Douglas would have been interesting. Just to see what they could do with the area. To be honest, when I walk from my hotel to the stadium in Regina on Labour Day, I don't get the sense of it being the nicest area around either.

That was the thing with DiCroce last year. On fire one day, absolute garbage the next.

They cut Setta a while ago.

Which ones do you suggest? Who is out there? We have the most connected CIS guy in the league... they can find a couple more guys. I mean I suggest Brett Carter and Anthony Coombs but its not up to me. I just want more than three guys competing for two backup spots... especially when one of our starters gets injured almost every year. You'll rarely see teams add Canadians this close to the draft.

Except that the stats show Etienne had more yards per game than Kelly did.... Mike isn't trying to pimp Etienne here, simply saying that Kelly was less productive yet people ran Etienne out of town on a rail so why does Kelly as an import survive?Once again... Kelly came in cold and outperformed Etienne. Kelly: 9 games 321 yards = 35.7 y/gmEtienne: 7 games 265 yards = 37.9 y/gm How come Kelly played more games? Wouldn't you think a guy three years with the club and who is a ni would see the field much more then a guy they called up out of the blue. Injury? Face it Kelly out performed him hence why he saw the fields more. That's a rather simplistic view of it. Especially when you consider the fact that the numbers don't support what you're saying. The 2 yards per game is much inferior then a guy coming in cold and instantly being more productive. This sentence just doesn't even make sense. But since you want to talk about it only being 2 yards more a game (I think?) let me also point out that Etienne was injured in the first quarter of one of those games, so while he appeared in 7 games, he didn't exactly get an opportunity to do anything in the 7th. If Etienne was the better player he would of seen the field much more. Face it he was a bust. This is such bizarre logic. But I'll reiterate: he was injured. Kelly would be a C level player while Etienne would be a D. They both are the suck. Okay. If Etienne was good the Blue would of kept him. Unless you are suggesting the current regime doesn't know what they are doing? He's so good that his trade value netted us a starting QB. See? I can be stubborn with my logic too.

I don't know what all this is about, it's too early, but if he wanted to apply, he'd qualify as a non-import easily.

you sound like someone from the other Bombers forum site. Do i? I don't have an account there. What did i say though that wasn't true? why should i trust fans opinions over bob wylies? Everyone knows you're "theedge204" from over at the other forum. It's pretty obvious.

I'm like 99.99% sure they don't mean they're going to stand by their car afterwards and answer questions that fans may have as they walk through the parking lot. It would be during a post game presser for media only.

All the single ladies.

The 2009 Banjo Bowl was the worst thing I've ever seen as a Bomber fan. The Boltus game would be #2. As least with the Boltus game we didn't have to watch thousands of the other teams fans mock us in our own stadium. Labour day 2012 wins. ugh. I remember leaving that game in the early 4th quarter and walking through the mall on the way back to the hotel. It's a good thing I was too hammered to feel pain.

The Boltus game was pure entertainment. How did it go again? Fumbled snap, sack, interception, fumbled snap, sack, sack ... didn't he throw it backwards at one point?

One guy I still wish we had was Wallace Miles. I'll be interested to see how he does with Ottawa.

Off the streets meaning he wasn't with the team during training camp and pretty much came out of not playing to out perform a guy who was 3 years in with the club! The fact that Etienne couldn't make the club over this guy is a sign that either our coaching staff was / is incompetent or that Etienne simply sucked the big one. ... but Etienne did outperform him. ... and make the club over this guy? Why would they ever have been competing against eachother for a roster spot? One is American, one is Canadian. Literally no idea where you're going here.