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  1. I think there's a second tier of all-time running backs for people like Washington, Mimbs and especially Fred Reid. Will always be a Fast Freddy fan, he and Terrance Edwards were two guys worth watching on the terrible Bombers of 2009-2010 and his big game against the Lions is one of my top ten favorite bomber games. I think if Chris Garrett hadn't have torn his Achilles, he would've been a great CFL running back. That dude looked complete to me -- power, speed, and moves.
  2. I don't know about who met with who when, but I do know that it was not Salisbury's decision to leave the Bombers. We cut him in late October, early November -- do QBs really catch onto the NFL in October or November? Plus, hard to imagine any CFL coach, much less Kindly Cal, doing their QB1 a solid and releasing them to chase a better opportunity just two weeks before the playoffs. We lost seven games in a row to end that season, the final two a home-and-home to the 2-14 Rough Riders. The team was dead on the table and needed the crash cart. Salisbury played great in the East Semi that year, winning in a snowstorm. It's fair to say that he didn't really light it up in the Grey Cup (tho what QB plays well in 60km/h winds?) but there's no way in hell that DeWalt or Muecke would've even gotten us to the title game. We would've been smoked by the TiCats in the ESF with either of those guys behind center.
  3. What are the precedents for players being not just penalized by the league, but outright banned? Justin Cox Manziel Marino Nate Holley Arland Bruce the younger Am I missing anyone? All but Marino were off-field bad guys. Cox and Holley were domestic violence doers, Bruce bet on his own games, and Manziel would not comply with whatever conditions the league imposed on him.
  4. only 83 days left until the season starts. Then we can replace the offseason lunacy with regular season lunacy.
  5. The CFL changed its playoff format in the 1986 to allow four teams in from a single division, but it wasn't with a crossover: instead, the two-team division played a two-game total points series and the four-team division played a 1vs4 and 2vs3 semifinal round. This boned the first place finishers, who didn't get a bye. I think I like the modern crossover rule better. Got to make the regular season meaningful; don't take the bye away from the 1st place team.
  6. Another recent CFL upload by youtube hero Calgary Stampeders Classics. This one's interesting for historical reasons, it's the mid/late-dynasty Eskimos against an Als team that was stacked with big-money imports including QB Vince Ferragamo. That Als team went 3-13 and it was the start of the 1980s decline of the CFL in Montreal. Had never seen Ferragamo play before. He threw 7 TD passes vs 25 picks that year. According to a youtube comment, Chris Walby is in there somewhere playing on the DL for Montreal. Haven't spotted him yet. And damn that stained and seemy turf is terrible, and the Big Owe is only five years old at this point. What a boondoggle.
  7. Fellow Fantasia watcher here.
  8. Our OL was just outstanding in this game -- and Clements matadored everyone who leaked through. I think we got a little lucky in this game, facing Tim Cowan instead of Roy Dewalt. Cowan couldn't hit the broad side of a barn -- he was playing with a bad elbow.
  9. Watched this gem last night. Check out Clements' footwork!
  10. I have had lots of creative hobbies over the years but nowadays I mostly play drums and write songs with my hobby band. My band is all gen-x people so we're about rock but some country will creep in now and then. We don't gig for the most part, occasionally we'll play a backyard or a pub but we're mostly about "mom and dad get away from their kids and get loud." This is my favorite of our recordings -- something my band and I threw together during pandemic lockdown. it's a weird electro jazz thing, totally not what we would usually play live.
  11. should've been more clear. I think if a safety leads the team in tackles, like Lysack did in 2005, that safety probably played on a pretty shitty defence.
  12. When it's a safety who leads the team in tackles, that is definitely an indicator of something...
  13. Oh man, the field was so bad in some of those old playoff games. Snow-crusted mud. The turf at CNE stadium must have had brutally bad drainage, some of the rainy games there, skidding players would throw up sheets of water.
  14. nothing to add, I just like seeing this here.
  15. speaking of Ottawa Redblack QBs, I'm curious to see how Tyree Adams does in 2024. He looked like he knew what he was doing in his one game against the Elks last year (although yeah the Elks made a lot of quarterbacks look good last year.) No picks, moved around well, found the open man downfield. He's a beanpole, though. 6'2" and 185lbs.
  16. yeah, the main changes I see are in the formations -- shotgun was very rare back then and most teams were lining up with two backs. Calgary started using five and six receiver sets in 1990 and it was Hufnagel who pioneered that, according to cfl.ca: https://www.cfl.ca/2007/12/02/offences_can_thank__huff__for_six_pack_air_attack/ It's kind of nice to watch the old game without replay reviews. Official makes the call and the game moves on, no delays.
  17. That game was a heartbreaker. I really wanted to see Hufnagel start in a Grey Cup -- he was a good soldier backup all those years.
  18. Kicking was so bad back in the day. Kennard had a couple of seasons of <60% kicking and was always invited back. Bernie Ruoff had a 50% year and a 40% year (!) early in his career but his career survived. I think it was around the turn of the millennium when the top kickers started regularly hitting 80%.
  19. Watching games from back in the day, it's astonishing the big hits that a QB was expected to absorb ... especially a guy like Hufnagel who played from the pocket a lot. Like, check this play out, Huffer gets obliterated after he throws a gorgeous deep pass to Tuttle. No penalty, he bounces right back up. Those guys were tough back then. It's so awesome to have access to these old games, you can really see how the game has changed over the years. It seems like it was around 2004-2005 when the CFL started making rules to try to keep quarterbacks alive.
  20. oh hell yeah, I've been feasting on old CFL during this long stupid offseason. Just watched this one last weekend. Edmonton was the first victim of our 1984 championship run. We absolutely demolished them.
  21. I listened to that game on the radio and I can still hear the Bob Irving call. "He dropped it. He. Just. Dropped. It." edit: found the play on youtube:
  22. edit: it's been said already, no value in piling on further.
  23. Lions signed Dolegala yesterday. https://www.si.com/cfl/fannation/news/bc-lions-sign-contract-former-saskatchewan-roughriders-jake-dolegala?utm_source=reddit.com I'm in the "maybe he's got upside?" camp so I think this is a decent signing for them.
  24. will he wind up anywhere? Is there any money left out there for him? Maybe it'll be a storybook Clarence Denmark kinda thing where he comes back to us midseason as an injury replacement and tears it up. that would be a bummer because it means one of our battleship receivers is on the sidelines but man would I be pumped for a Sheed comeback in blue.
  25. Sean Thomas Erlington to Montreal. Als going national at RB with Antwi and STE?
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