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The biggest knock on Streveler is that he's inexperienced. I for one am glad he's getting some this year. He's way ahead of schedule in his QB maturation IMO. These games will go a long way towards knowing if he's a guy you can build a team around or not. I think you can.

And's matter. There are several letters in Article 4 with and's in them. The first one is: a. Piling by a player who, in an unnecessarily rough manner, falls upon the ball carrier after the play has been terminated. Any player in possession of the ball, who falls to the ground without contact and is not attempting to advance the ball, may only be touched down and may not be contacted in any other manner... If the 'and' doesn't matter then there is no reason to add the is not attempting to advance the ball. The and changes the meaning from it's always UR to hit a player who is down to it's UR to hit a player and not trying to advance the ball. If 'and' means something in case a, it means something in case h. If the rule is supposed to mean this or that or the other thing, then they'd use OR instead of AND. They could also change it to multiple cases like: h. Delivering a forcible blow to the long snapper while their head is down i. Delivering a forcible blow to the long snapper while they they are in a vulnerable position j. Delivering a forcible blow to the long snapper while they are unable to protect them self That would match with g. Delivering a blow to an opponent in the neck or head including the long snapper on kicks from scrimmage and convert attempts which is another case that specifically mentions long snappers. How to you even define what a vulnerable position and what unable to protect them self, means if it's not attached to having their head down?

It isn't how many steps, so what is it? Can't hit the snapper at all? Nope, that's not the rule. Can't hit him for x seconds? Nope, that's not the rule. Leave them alone until they are completely set up and waiting to block? Nope, that's not the rule either. The rule is "Delivering a forcible blow to the long snapper while their head is down and they are in a vulnerable position and unable to protect them self". Head wasn't down, so the and's don't matter. If they were or's then you'd have a good point. Even if the head is up for a 'split second', it's still up. It's not UR just cuz a player de-cleats another player or just cuz a player gets hurt. If you watched the other games this weekend you saw special teams players getting blown up without any penalties. TSN included some in their highlight package going into the second halfs. It doesn't matter if a Bomber, Stamp, Rider or any other teams player got hit that way and it doesn't matter which team hit them. The penalty or lack there of, is the same.

I'm not twisting anything. He isn't being hit in the first 2 steps. Maybe not the 3rd. Don't like my posts? Block me, but for dogs sake stop whining about them.

His head comes up. He takes 2 or 3 steps before getting hit. How many steps does he get to take before he gets hit? 4? 5? 6?

Watch the play again. His head is up and that's what makes it OK to hit him. He got blown up because he was off balance. Not so much an intent to injure as an intent to give an opposing player a big hit, which is the Rider players job. Folks are upset that he got smoked, maybe concussed and didn't return to the game. That doesn't make it an intent to injure or a cheap shot. There's no rule that says you can't hit a guy away from the play. There's no rule that says you can't hit a guy who isn't going to make the play. The rule doesn't need to change. It already gives the long snapper protection as long as he keeps his head down. Want to stop your long snapper from getting hit? Have another player block the middle. Remple was setting up to block.

The rule doesn't say you can't hit the long snapper. It says you can't hit him while his head is down and it wasn't in this case.

Change my mind? Nope. The team is carrying Streveler like they were Nichols. Streveler can get better, but he doesn't really have to to win with this team.

Sure, we should have money to offer, but will we over pay for a receiver or go with the guys we have?

If I were a receiver, I'd rather have BLM, Harris or even Reilly throwing me the ball than Streveler. I'd rather get better personal stats than more games and Calgary, Edmonton or Regina could play as many or more games as we do.

Sure, but these guys will all have multiple offers. If you're a receiver would you want to be in our offence or one that could use your talents and may get you another NFL shot?

I don't see our offence as very attractive to a big play receiver, especially with Streveler throwing the ball.

CFL Headlines @CFL_Headlines Alouettes welcome receiver Chris Matthews: The Montreal Alouettes announced on Friday having agreed to terms with American receiver Chris Matthews. Matthews (6’5”, 230 lbs.) played in six games for the Winnipeg Blue Bomb

Matthews paycheck far outweighed his contribution to the team. Nice to see the Bombers make the decision right before vet cut down day to save the SMS.

You just can't stand me agreeing with you eh?

I understand that it's an unregulated industry. Are you suggesting that the company Harris buys from changed their product and that's why Harris got caught? If that's the case every player who is using that supplement is going to get caught if they're tested.

What a **** show. Will definitely cost Harris the next 2 games. Will likely cost him MOP, because the CFL isn't going to put a guy who got caught up for their biggest award. Where did the 'contamination' come from anyway? Did Harris change what he was taking between his last passed test and his failed test? Did he open a new container that was tainted? Cross contamination from something that contained the banned substance? What would that even be? I'm pretty sure I don't have anything on my shelves that contains the banned substance (I can't even remember it's name). MOS stands by all his players. There's no reason to believe that he'd throw Harris under the bus even if he wanted to. The team stays together, especially in the press. There's no reason to believe that they wouldn't stand behind a teammate who got caught. Management knows that Harris is at least half our offence. No reason to believe they'd say anything against their meal ticket. The story is a 32 year old RB who is not only defying father time, but is actually getting better, getting caught taking a banned substance. I wouldn't wonder if he did it for 1 second if he wasn't a Bomber. Put me on Mike's side of the ledger.

The real reason it's yards is because Canada didn't change to the metric system until 1970 and football fields pre-date that. Why it didn't change since then? Who knows?

I wonder where he even got a T-Shirt like that? Did he print it himself?

Floyd asked a simple question.. why I like Franklin over Bridge. I answered. You and 17 made up stuff then whined about it.

I think Franklin's still got some upside. He's played one more game than Bridge, has 1400+ more yards passing, 8 more TD's and 5 more picks. Franklin's thrown for 3900+ yards in the CFL and has 21 TD's to 13 Int's, so I wouldn't call him a turn over machine. All but 1 of those picks are in the Toronto offence. To me the double clutching comes from not seeing what he expected to see or the receiver not being open. Franklin looked good in Edmonton's offence. Maybe's Toronto's offence is the wrong fit for his skill set or he hasn't fully grasped it yet. In either case, he'll likely get at least 1 more shot because he's had CFL success even after other teams got 'film' on him.

I'd take Franklin over Bridge any day of the week and twice on game day. We really don't need another 2nd rounder unless we lose some NI's in the off season, so I'd be happy to offer a 3rd and settle for a 2nd. Franklin wouldn't be pushing for starting time in the first few weeks anyway, so no QB controversy in the near future. I'd be more comfortable at the end of the season if we only lost 1 of Nichols, Streveler or Franklin. All that being said... I doubt Toronto makes the trade anyway.

It's no surprise that it came out in the week before Ottawa played Edmonton. It was just Pruneau trying to get into Harris' head before the game.

Nope. I'm giving the facts and the facts are that the second half of the season is going to be much tougher than the first half was, even without Streveler at QB.

The 7-2 is in a large part because we played the 3 worst teams in the league twice each. That accounts for 5 of our wins. We also played Calgary with their backup QB and Hamilton with their backup QB for 3/4's of the game. The only + .500 team we played with their starting QB was Edmonton. The back 9 doesn't include any teams that are currently below .500 and we will be playing with our backup QB for the next month or two.