2 hours ago, WinnipegGordo said:

Look on the bright side, if there is only 1 rookie starter the team so be 17-1. 

That's Dave Ritchie thinkin' right there lol...

8 minutes ago, Fatty Liver said:

He was never listed on the roster and still isn't.

Since when is that a deal-breaker?

3 minutes ago, Super Duper Negatron said:

I don't think it's a stretch to say that the last three cups could have been won if a few key veterans had been jettisoned in favor of fresher blood each year.

Definitely 2022, and 2023 if Bighill had been sat instead of playing.

1 hour ago, Pete said:

I really liked Gowan, but he did seem to come up limping in 4th qtr last game

 

A whole year of Strange Animal jokes down the drain...

14 hours ago, Fatty Liver said:

O'Shea affectionately referred to Kramdi as "a bit of a prick". 

“I love the way Redha plays football, his passion for the game. And he’s got that ability to be a prick, and that’s a good thing on the football field.”

Asked today to expand a bit further on the ‘prick’ component, O’Shea added this: “It’s a term of endearment from me. When that gets that bestowed upon him, that’s very positive. It’s just that edge — not the penalty — just the edge, the desire to win your one-on-one and beat your opponent all the time and no quarter. You just want to beat them.”

 

Unless it's a Grey Cup game....

1 hour ago, Booch said:

'86 is when we went to 18 games I think....and i remeber the 4 pre-sesdon yrs...2 a day....hitting and pads all the time...men were men and way less injuries too

who were you playing for at the time?

Just checked and yes the CFL went to 18 games in 1986.

6 minutes ago, Fatty Liver said:

Prior to the early 80's the CFL played 4 pre-season games plus an 18 game schedule.

I thought that they only played 16 games.  Maybe my memory is failing me.

Well Carolina was controlling the game until they just let it get away, again. Wow is Florida dangerous. 

3 hours ago, HardCoreBlue said:

Wayne Gretzky - hid him from 1979 draft year because of personal contract service with PP.

Leon Draisaitl  - Third Overall pick in 2014 entry draft rewarded for losing.

Connor McDavid - First Overall pick in 2015 entry draft rewarded for losing.

Again, my jealousy and petty exaggerations has no bounds. 

If only Michael Gobuty knew how to play backgammon....argh....

26 minutes ago, bigg jay said:

Leon is great but I don't consider him a generational talen and I don't think anyone expected him to be as good as he's been. 

McDavid has been the promised one since he was a kid while some "experts" (like Button or McKenzie) had Leon rated 4th or lower in his draft year.   We're splitting hairs though - A++ vs A+ is still exceptional.

 

Florida now has 3 of the top 4 players taken in the 2014 draft.  What a draft year that was!  We took Ehlers (which was a great choice) but we could have had Pasternak! Dylan Larkin as well.  That's how deep that draft was.  As for Drai, I got to see him play here in Kelowna in 2015, when the Rockets mortgaged their future and made the trade for Drai and Morrissey for their Memorial Cup run that year.  I was surprised that Drai didn't go first overall.

32 minutes ago, rebusrankin said:

So if I have it correct

@Booch is going to pull a Tonya Harding on Kolo, so we can get Eli at C.

@wbbfan will do the same to K.Wilson, so that Ayers doesn't get cut.

 

So who is taking out Jake?

 

A gift card to Foody Goody?

2 hours ago, CrazyCanuck89 said:

Difference is Walters and O'Shea are patriots and have no problem playing 9-10 Canadians.

Let's just go 100% Canadian already, would just make roster management so much easier.

20 hours ago, wbbfan said:

I don't think it's anything about butting heads. He was excused for family reasons, though I am wondering if he is going to be up here with us this year or at all now too. 

Upper thorax family reasons....

Jets Preparing for Nikolaj Ehlers Exit as Free Agency Looms

On 2025-05-24 at 6:48 PM, JuranBoldenRules said:

Funny thing about the complaining about kick returns as some kind of franchise curse is we have the most total return TD's and fewest return TD's scored on us among CFL teams in the past 10 CFL seasons.

 

On 2025-05-24 at 4:58 PM, Piggy 1 said:

With a moniker like that, I for damn sure thought hes French ....he looked good out there.

Be even cooler if he went to Laval... 

listening to the game on CJOB right now, only option as CFL.ca won't even open.  The entire site has crashed.

oh man this league just can never get their crap figured out - this is 2025 not 2005, online live streaming isn't that hard to figure out.

I can't even get on the CFL website right now - Error 503 Backend is unhealthy

yeah nothing loading on the CFL+ browser for me out here in BC

2 hours ago, Booch said:

Curious as to who and how we ise the linebackers....I dont think either of T.Jones or Wilson should be secure with being handed starter spots....and wanna see whatrecievers step ip when lights are on...Practice isnt best indicator as to who is the best...we seen that pretty obviously last yr

Punter too....I wanna see Evans make a case to punt our punter guy

 

Whats the link for the game btw?

- CFL.ca

1 hour ago, Noeller said:

A curious thing.... At last check, Jarious Jackson still hadn't made it to camp. So it's all on Hogan, with no safety net. Hoping things go well for him. 

55 minutes ago, Sard said:

That doesn't quite make sense considering the Leafs won the cup in 1967

there were only two series in the 1967 playoffs

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1967_Stanley_Cup_playoffs

There were three series in 1932:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1931–32_NHL_season

 

 

1 hour ago, Goalie said:

By all means. Just know that he probably didn’t care. 

which was my point.

We are just going in circles now.