northof60

Good for you. You're quite sure, based on absolutely nothing.

Truth is, nobody knows the truth. But obviously anyone who disagrees with you leads a weak minded life so what is the point in even opening a discussion about it with you, especially on a discussion forum of all places?

watched receivers mostly today:
Richards looks solids and had him running deep a lot. Only dropped one going across the middle. He's already better than bastien.
Tuinei is a big target but didn't impress in the one on ones or scrimmage. Hoping not another Mario urutia.
The only big play of the day was robert marve threw a deep ball to Gordon for 40ish yards, defense was much better than offense today (which seams to be the case in every rookie camp)
Brohm looked alright, Portis looked pretty good-more agile than I thought.
Clemons looked nice during drills but didn't show much during one one ones or scrimmage.
Logan, gettis, millington, veltung all looked good but dropped a pass or two.
Reaves has hands but is still a year away from being a year away (from being a year away?)
Mims is the biggest guy I can remember seeing at camp, but didn't watch the oline practice--too boring.
Morgan got beat a few times but broke up a catch from reaves. Wagoner played well at safety and I think had a pick during scrimmage
Scott had a big run but I don't think it means anything during noncontact drills
Adams is a stud. Lock down during one on ones and scrimmage. No reciever came close to beating him.
Steed looked good too, made some plays.

Waggoner is going to be a huge fan favorite in Winnipeg, guaranteed.
 
Huge smile on his face during his entire media scrum and he even answered the media with "yes sir"
 
Like this guy already.

I love O'Shea's answer about who Addison Richards reminds him of as a receiver.
 
"I want Addison Richards to be Addison Richards"
 
exactly.

Lawless likes Denicos Allen. Ed Tait called him a NFL tweener but perfect fit for CFL.
Biggest need for the O is a guy that can stretch the D - very fair assessment. Wonder who it's going to be. Lots of options.

P.S IM SO EXCITED.  TRAINING CAMP WOO.

Scratch what I said about the roster because apparently I'm hearing we added another receiver to the rookie camp roster.

Darrin Bauming ...
 
Question for Walters / O'Shea - who is going to compete at MLB? Where do you see Briggs/Newman/Hurl fitting in positionally?
 
Khalil Bass, Rodney Lamar will compete at MLB. Excited to see Lamar in pads. Bass was interesting because he can compete at MAC/WIL. Sam Hurl has chance to win MAC job. Briggs will compete at MAC, athletic enough to play WIL. Added a couple guys since Florida that they like at LB. Missed a bit of the answer due to a phone call, but I think I heard them say Waggoner can compete at MAC and WIL too, as well as safety.
 
Sammy Brown will compete as a pass rusher, not a linebacker. (Thanks to Bauming for asking my question this morning)

Glad somebody else said it.
 
My favorite was when, ten minutes after the news that the Bombers were drafting Chungh came out, he tweeted "well, it's taken four months but I'm finally convinced the Bombers must take Chungh over Groulx"
 
Like really? What sold you? The fact that they've said that's what they're doing? And when he was asked why, he said "because I think Chungh is the next Brendon Labatte" ... if you thought that, why would you ever have chosen Groulx in the first place?
 
He gets an A+ for effort but I find myself disagreeing with nearly everything he says.

Personally, I hate teams retiring numbers.  I would rather see teams honouring names/numbers on a wall or ring of honour.  Football only has so many numbers, and the numbers are usually grouped for positions (1-19 for QB's/kickers, 20-39 for RB/FB/DB's,40/50's for LBs, 50/60's for OL,70's & 90's for DL, 80's for WR's)
 
Same goes for Hockey.  Too many lousy players with oddball numbers.  Just look at the Canadiens' roster.
 
Nobody can live up to or wear the numbers of their heroes anymore.

Crisis averted.

Lawn chairs it is...better than nothin'. Let's do 'er up...

Walters has said they want to run 2 import RB's this year in a "thunder and lightning" approach.  He even used the term "thunder and lightning."  I'd be surprised if Cotton isn't one of them.  It looks like Cotton will compete with Bradley Randle and CJ Anderson for one role, and Da'Rel Scott and Cam Marshall will compete for the other one.

Jesus christ ...
 
This guy ranks 22nd all time in NCAA history with 50 tackles for a loss. And he only played two years. The all time leader is Khalil Mack with 75 and he played four full years.
 
Other names with 50? Von Miller. Ndamukong Suh. Phillip Hunt.

30 in one year is actually the second highest single season total since they started recording the stat. The year he did it, the next closest was Cordarro Law with 22.
 
Not knowing anything about this guy I immediately had him pegged as a middle linebacker but I have no idea where he's gonna line up. Rush end?

13.5 sacks and 30 TFL as an OLB in his senior year leads me to believe that Houston ran a lot of 5-2.

He's built like a MLB and he sure as heck sounds like a tackling machine.

Now that the anticipation of draft day is over (and satisfaction never equals anticipation) we have cleared another target date on the way to Training Camp. And that's where the excitement really gets amped up big time.
Sunday May 31st is the official start of TC.
17 more sleeps.
I'll say Tom Petty knows best when it comes to free-falling.Besides, if you free-fell in the forest, would anybody hear?

You would think that when the big red circle pops up on him right before the snap that the D might key on him a bit.

Just heard Walters explaining the Morgan pick.
 
They liked him because they viewed him as the only guy in the draft who can compete at both safety and field corner.

Based on what?  Name recognition?
 
I'll hazard a guess that there wasn't a moment last night where Walters said "Not that guy, his talent level is too high".
 
The problem every year is people form strong opinions on players they know next to nothing about, based almost entirely on a Duane Forde column, and then spend 2 months shaping his thought-farts into fools gold.
 
Did Walters evaluate the players correctly?  We won't know for a while, but I have no problems with his evaluations being different from Forde's.  They'd better be, otherwise anyone could do his job.  Walters did not do what I expected, but I also have enough sense to know my expectations aren't based on much of anything other than being part of a fan site.

One player I'm really interested to see come off the board - Shaq Lawrence
 
If he's there at 11 and Demski is gone, I wouldn't be upset in the least if Walters took him