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Or sit tight to become a midseason injury / desperation signing guy like Michael Bishop. The QB supply in the CFL is still thin enough that it's unthinkable that someone with Burris' pedigree will be sidelined for long, even if he doesn't go to training camp. Say Edmonton loses Riley or BC loses Lulay for the season, I bet you'd see an unemployed Hank get employed quick.

Man, this thread is a lot better than an offseason thread about another team naming its stadium ought to be.

I was amazed that any DB could cover anyone on that day. The field was so icy that everyone was running in slow motion. You look at the dome cups like 83 and 87 and 89, they're lightning-fast compared to that game. Our offensive gameplan was perfect, we let the receivers draw everyone deep and then dropped it off to Kehoe or Cantner in the flat. We ran that play over and over and Hamilton couldn't cover it. They were keeping people in the box to defend against Reaves and lateral pursuit was super hard on that terrible field anyway. I think that 68-7 game twelve years later was Commonwealth's revenge for our '84 Grey Cup win. The biggest thing, scheme-wise, that I notice when I watch it is that there were very few (if any?) shotgun formations. Everything was under center with the quarterbacks doing long drops. Lots of QB footwork there you just don't see today.

Speaking of ask-the-coach type stuff, Mike O'Shea gave me an awesome answer on cfl.ca a few years ago. I wanted to know how defences adjusted based on what the offence showed at the line and he broke it all down for me really well. http://www.cfl.ca/article/mike-o-shea-answers-your-questions_42082

I actually applauded Kelly when he stopped doing the call-in show. It's just a stupid bit of fan service. No one comes out of the coach call-in show looking better than they came in, except for maybe Knuckles, who is probably immune to dumb at this point in his career.

Goodbye first pass attempt of the season being intercepted.

Best of the season to everyone, and especially to Rich, Mike, and the mod team for giving us such a great forum!

Reed > Etcheverry > Marshall Watching Marshall's soft-serve defence was so frustrating. At least Etcheverry attacks with his D. Reed's D wasn't super good but it kept us in a lot of close games in 2010.

C'mon, enough with the hyperbole. Creehan has had the worst D in the league by a wide margin for two years running. At least Etcheverry has some mediocre defenses to his credit; the one in Saskatchewan in 2009 was fourth in points allowed.

What I remember from his D in Saskatchewan was that it was super nutty, huge risk, high reward, about a 40/60 mix between the good kind of WTF and the bad kind. He sure kept the TSN crews entertained.

Sandro was no hell at kickoffs either. He managed just 7/10 of a yard better than Palardy. Both lagged the rest of the league by a good five yards. And Palardy's longest FG of the year was a yard longer than Sandro's. We shoulda kept Palardy.

Why would Edmonton protect Willis over Sherritt?

I'll always remember the great Lobendahn-style strip from behind play he made on Durant in the Banjo Bowl.

iso, that's fair enough. Everyone working for the BBs now got promoted into their current job in 2013, most of them within the last two weeks. Man, if you lose a game for every rookie you start, how many games do you lose with a rookie HC, a rookie GM / front office staff, and a rookie president? I think we're gonna need to be patient here...

I think our performance in that game was more about Jones starting an out-of-shape Adriano Belli at DT and less about Crowton's offensive wizardry.

Hmm, I thought Dan LeFevour would have been on this list, given that he signed in 2012. Wonder if he was extended, or if he was originally on a three-year deal.

It's almost a given that the Bombers will have a better QB next year. The real question is, will they fix the OL? I don't care who's behind center, we're not going anywhere until our OL is patched up.

The best GC tweet I read yesterday was something like "That snowmobile guy has more yards through the air than Burris does."

If he's not in the league at the start of TC, I bet he's back by midseason as an emergency replacement somewhere.

There's a Canadian bar in Seattle? Where-abouts? The Angry Beaver, in Greenwood: http://www.yelp.com/biz/the-angry-beaver-seattle They have peameal bacon sandwiches!

Snowmobile guy = Grey Cup MVP. Biggest cheer of the night from our table.

At the hockey bar here in Seattle, there's like four tables of rider fans here. Nice to be around cfl fans again.

Oh man, I missed that the Stamps announced that Glenn was not a free agent after this season. My bad.

Why is Glenn to Ottawa such a sure thing? He's a free agent next year so if the Redblacks take him in the expansion draft, all they win is an extra few weeks to "exclusively" negotiate with him. The only QB with starting experience who is signed for 2013 and likely to be exposed is Tate. Everyone else is a free agent. Ottawa's QB1 is going to come through free agency. Anything can happen in free agency. Sometime after the Grey Cup we need to have a QB carousel prediction thread.

You really think so? You think it's not just about Collaros wanting to find out what the market will bear? Ottawa and Winnipeg need starting QBs in 2014. Hamilton, too -- Burris and LeFevour are both free agents.