johnzo

Awesome.

JBR, I think your inside football writing is terrific so I'm pumped to hear you're going to do more of it. Will you do any Q&A type stuff? I know I have two or three questions after every game.

Upload them to Youtube then? Hosting is just one of the expenses. The CFL would have to pay to get the old games digitized, cataloged, etc. I have to wonder if there even is a CFL video archive and who owns it. Especially from the nineties when the league was in such crap shape. There's this awesome guy on youtube called cflvideo1964 who posts excerpts from his collection -- he has hundreds of CFL games since the 1970s on tape. I'd love to get my hands on his collection and get the whole thing onto youtube. It'd be a hell of an undertaking but then the games would be out there forever.

As much as I hate making excuses for people, you've gotta realize that those kind of archives would cost a bunch of money and I don't know where the corresponding revenue stream would be. Same with a CFL Season Pass kinda thing, I don't know if the market is there for it, given that the CFL is on basic cable in Canada and doesn't have much of a following internationally aside from weird Canadian expats like me.

TSN moved to a new VOD system near the end of the last CFL season. Previously they'd have the entire season available for viewing, now it's just games from the previous week. The new system wasn't very fast making the recent games available, either -- on the old system, they'd be up a couple hours after the games were finished, but now it can take days. HELL YES. In the US, you're supposed to use ESPN3 to get your CFL, but ESPN3 is bullshit. It's only available through certain ISPs, which is Not The Way The Internet Is Supposed To Work.

Yeah, if he had somehow magically transformed into Dieter Brock, he would have had to switch positions.

The only reason I remember Matt Dubuc at all is that when I watched the 98 Bombers, I would wish that #5 jersey would somehow magically transform Matt Dubuc into Dieter Brock.

I think Matt Dubuc wore #5.

Robert McCune: hell yeah. Guy is an assassin out there. Wil Ford: Sure, bring him back, but I think he's a DI-type specialist, not an every-down back.

The Riders will be just fine. Their O-line is still one of the best if not the best in the league, they have and they have a good QB. Running backs are a dime a dozen as well. Yes they need to replace Butler but they still have a very good football team for 2014. It will be very interesting to see how they do without Dressler. I think he was the best receiver in the league last year.

Toronto has one of those crappy 3-games-in-two weeks stretches, those are much more LOLCFL than starting and ending on bye weeks. Bet it's the Skydome scheduling that's to blame.

Mccune and Watkins are still out there, and we need an MLB.

I don't know if he has really great hands -- I remember at least a couple sure interceptions clanking off of them.

I saw Troy Kopp 2.0. Big crazy inspiring horseshoe win, followed by .... nothing.

Denmark turned the corner last year when he was moved to slot, didn't he?

Someone notify Pilsbury because we got a DOUGH ALERT!

I don't see why, if there are three teams after him, there's still a strong market for him...

I think his Plan A was to improve his football team. His "real plan?" What is this, Scooby-doo? Do you think Marcel Desjardins has some kind of personal grudge against Glenn? Do you think the entire Ottawa team is an elaborate scheme that is solely designed to hurt Kevin Glenn's feelings? Do you think Kevin Glenn shouldn't have to face competition for his job? It's football. It's a shitty business.

What do you think he should do? Lend us one of his quarterbacks? The guy has a team to build and is starting from pretty close to zero. You can't fault him for playing the game hard. Besides, if the Bombers panic and overpay for Glenn, that is not Desjardins' fault.

It'll be nice to kick the RedBlack's ass as soon as possible. They're going to have an older team that initially will probably be competitive so we may not be able to do it in 2015. But as that team ages & they're handicapped by bloated contracts, I can't wait. Eff you Desjardins. Why the hate for Desjardins? All the guy did was overpay for Burris.

Cvetty is my wife's favorite Bomber because of all the animal shelter stuff he does. She's gonna be bummed to hear this.

I think Willy looks like TBURGESS.

This is excellent. Extra bye week = healthier players.

I think Brandon has it -- Collaros had that gunslinging swashbucking fancy-footwork improvisational thing going on. He's an exciting player to watch, more exciting than Willy has shown. Of course more exciting =/= more effective.

So Taman is saying that the Bombers really weren't high on re-signing Etienne. Seems weird given how we're really hooped for non-imports this year.