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He wasn't given a week off, or he would have been back on Monday. Back on Wednesday means 1 practice or just the walk through before Friday's game. Practice spots aren't that valuable or they would have suspended Bighill etc. which they didn't. MOS said he needed some extra time. That's more likely to mean to heal than to go home to his family. It certainly doesn't say here are your choices. Any vet on any team who gets suspended day 1 is likely to have physical problems, that includes Bombers. They could have suspended him after day 1 when they found out he 'wasn't ready yet'. That's similar, but not the same as not passing the physical, but not similar or even close to the same as here are your choices. For the above reasons, your story, although not impossible, is very much improbable. One might even go as far as to call it out to lunch.

Source for this 'story' you are making up? Ok. Glad to have him back on the roster. Best guess is he didn't pass his physical. Given the option to go home for an extra week to be with his family is pure blue glasses combined with chugging the blue kool aid, singing kumbaya, best story that could be made up, etc etc etc.

Does "Just needed some time" = "Didn't pass the physical"? That's what most folks would assume when a player comes to camp and gets suspended.

Not how I read it, but if that's what you mean, fair enough. Personal reasons could mean, a death in the family, a new baby, health issues, family issues, legal issues, or any of a hundred different things. Even the good things can affect the players ability on the field and the bad things could stop them from being on the field altogether. When the team doesn't tell us what is going on, we have to guess & assuming it means everything is wonderful with everyone just isn't realistic. Jeffcoat (Practiced then out), Bighill (Coaching, not practicing) and Grant (Suspended after showing up) were all banged up at the end of the season, if they are still banged up that's a problem. Brady O practiced, out, then we brought in a new RB. That's 4 stars with question marks & Hansen and Wilson are already on the 6 game. IIRC there are more non-participants. One of the reason's that this has been a very quiet camp is because some folks call it spewing conspiracy theory's when anyone doesn't toe the 'Everything's Hunky Dorey' line.

Media doesn't cover anything up? Where did you get that nugget from? The Media is chock a block full of fake news.

Not reptiles or aliens. Injuries is a much more likely scenario. If they're all back on the field in week 2 of TC, I'll be happily surprised. In the meantime... move along, nothing to see here.

I can't remember a training camp where so many starters got the first week off. I think there is more to this than the team is letting on.

A couple of weeks back... "It's terrible that all the pre-season games aren't on TV, can't we at least get streams of them?". Today... Pre-season games will be streamed. Is this seriously the big announcement they promised yesterday? I'll be one of the few thousand watching the streams.

Reporters learned day 1 not to ask MOS questions he didn't want to answer. Remember that angry stare down? They learned week 1 not to use words that MOS didn't like. Remember the 'we don't use that word around here'. 8 years in fans are still complaining about how the reporters aren't doing their jobs because we aren't getting any information. If it's OK for MOS not to tell us what's going on then stop complaining about not knowing what's going on.

FIFY

Folks really think that we're going to spend $120+K more on our kickers this year?

We didn't 'fail to show up'. Toronto had a great game plan and beat us fair and square.

Heron & Ruoff were sent away because the team had a zero tolerance rule on drugs. You're Heron story is wrong. It wasn't just someone at a party with pot. The Ruoff story that I heard at the time from someone 'close to the club' was that the cops caught Bernie's wife with pot and she told them, it's not mine, it's Bernie's thinking he'd just get off because of who he was.

I make an statement. Dipshit complains about something I didn't say. I point that out. Dipshit calls that an accuasation. I restate my opinion. Dipshit calls it arguing in bad faith. I correct him. Dipshit says I'm lying (That's what I'm sorry I don't believe you means). I say that makes you wrong and point out that he in fact is the one who is arguing in bad faith. I let Dipshit have the last word. Dipshit 2 tries to bring me back in with 'Why are you appologizing to that guy'. I ignore it. You come in the next day or is it the day after to try and start it back up again. Assuming that what you believe are facts is different than basing what you believe on facts. There are less than a 100 active posters on this forum especially in the off season. We are the uber fans. We are the one's who would watch a pre-season game that our team isn't in. Assuming that all teams have similar groups of uber fans & that all of them would watch, that's less than 1000 fans across the country. Add in those who would watch their own team's away pre-season game and we're at a few thousand. TSN isn't making money on pre-season games & likely losing money. While not a fact, it's based on the above. TSN can just put on something they already own and make more money in the timeslot. Fact. When I had seasons tickets in Wpg, BC and Cgy, I couldn't give away the pre-season tickets because no one wanted them. Playing pre-season games on TV won't do anything to increase the CFL fan base. Based on the the above fact. Defn: "A bad faith argument is an inauthentic argument. By this, we don’t necessarily mean a factually incorrect argument. Rather, an argument that the arguer doesn’t believe in themselves. Common Bad Faith Arguements: "Ad hominem attacks Straw man claims, Red herring arguments, Appeals to ignorance, Appeals to authority, Slippery slope arguments".

That makes you wrong and arguing in bad faith.

Nope that ain't it. I am a contrarion on this point and several others. That's not the same a a bad faith arguement. Bad faith arguments are based in deception & hypocrisy. My argument is based on facts that I believe. It doesn't hide a hidden agenda or mean something that I didn't say. That's where some of you consistantly get it wrong. I say A you complain about B that you think I'm really talking about. That's a bad faith arguement.

I don't think you know what arguing in bad faith means. It doesn't mean 'disagrees with you'.

This actually has the possibility of growing the CFL fan base.

You actually think that showing meaningless pre-season games (open practices) is an 'investment into the product' that will 'improve TSN's return'?

Typical. Compaining about what I'm not saying then whining about it. Add in that it's my defacto position for good measure. I'm saying losing a couple of PRE-SEASON games from the tube isn't a problem for most CFL fans. Who Cares? Maybe a couple of thousand of fans accross the league. It isn't a money maker for TSN. They can fill the time with much cheaper crap that they've already paid for. It's a simple business decision. I'm not saying that I'm happy with TSN's coverage or lack there of. I'm not saying that other TV partners are better or worse than TSN. I'm not apologizing for TSN. I'm not saying less CFL is something to celebrate.

No one has to watch poker stars. Just watch something else or go out and do something. I can't imagine that anyone around here will go to their internet radio to listen to these games. Very few eyes on the product, and don't kid yourselves there aren't a lot of eyes on pre-season games, means very little ad revenue. It might even be less than it costs TSN to put the show on. Quite frankly, I'm surprised that TSN shows any pre-season games at all. I've watched every CFL game that's televised for as long as I can remember. I've had seasons tickets in Winnipeg, BC and Calgary. Don't question my fandom becuase I don't whine about glorified practices not being televised.

We're talking pre-season games. They are just practices for the public. I'd say who cares, but the answer is wbbfan & Noeller.

It's also interesting that most if not all of our top paid players are being paid 100% hard money.

Fodder - A consumable, often inferior item or resource that is in demand and usually abundant supply. Seems like the correct term to me.