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Imagine having 16 OL in camp and only 5 being Canadian. If you told someone 20 years ago the league would shift that drastically toward having Canadians play at LB/DB and receiver/RB vs OL/DL they wouldn't have believed you.

I think really 3 spots. Don't really want Vaval starting even if you are going to give him some D reps, and probably want a DI on offense (receiver) or DL. But I think this team is really built to start 4 American OL if the Canadians at receiver and RB are healthy. Griffin can basically count as a DB too so that gives him a pretty big leg up. I think he's basically on the roster. Kind of fluid in terms of position. Wonder if they might use Allen more at boundary corner and Kramdi/Griffin at safety/SAM as a base.

Hopefully. They only have Taylor down as 17, Singer not even on the roster but listed as 72 in Tait's article.

FWIW every rep they showed in that video was against a Rifles player and he had zero separation on all of them. On one the Rifles LB switched onto him late and caught him. Guess if you're hoping the other team is in man and they send the WIL to follow him out there instead of just adjusting to a corner he'll give that. Every single player on a CFL defense will be more athletic than him other than maybe a nose tackle. Otherwise going to be a little rope and dope if his blocking is up to snuff to hope teams get locked on run and he can leak out and make use of the physicality to get some YAC. Doesn't look like he's going to get away from anyone. Nice clip of Elgersma throwing a INT.

Collaros worst seasons have higher QBR and higher YPA than someone like Khari Jones best years. If you graft Khari Jones into this era hard to know how that would look. Lot more on QB plate. Either way need to protect them. And that's been a big problem for us of late.

Which Bomber QB do you think fits this era better than Collaros? If we could pass protect maybe Brock. Really no one else.

Probably a little slower in a straight line but the kind of guy who has game speed because he's so technically sound that he doesn't waste any movement. Guy pays attention to every detail of his game, so hard to bring down.

People are referencing advertising deals. Don’t think many sane people would place bets on leagues taking “gambling revenue.”

And more cost. Toronto could play 100 games. They will just lose more money.

For the most part big changes like this would usually be investigated by using them in preseason or taking ideas from other leagues/lower levels that are proven to some extent. MLB rule changes spent years being refined in minor league baseball. Think the NFL kickoff rules that were basically lifted from the XFL/UFL. Stew Johnston is basically Frankenstein in this scenario. They gave data on what they think will happen to scoring as a result based on absolutely nothing. They have no idea what the fan tolerance will be. And the fans have no idea what it will even really look like until the games start.

There’s about the same chance of a MLB franchise being awarded to Steinbach. Government won’t support building MLS stadium and is pinching corners on building hospitals. Who is coming up with $2 billion to build a MLB park and about the same for a franchise?

Wiebe is going to be a scary one for them.

Point is the earlier you move the season up the more you're competing with the Jays when people are most likely to be engaged at scale....before they are out of the race and hope is eternal (April-June), or when they are in the playoffs if they are (October). Blue Jays Baseball is the most hyped sports property in this country. The name of the game is GROWTH because 7 of 9 franchises are routinely unprofitable. How does the CFL engage media partners to get close to that level of hype, and not just be scraps? The other issue with the Jays is the engagement of Rogers. Who exactly do we think is interested in producing and broadcasting CFL games? How does the CFL get more revenue for their product? There's two companies that have the infrastructure and potential willingness, Rogers and Bell. This time of year Rogers is flooded with Jays, NHL playoffs and NBA playoffs. Bell only has some NBA. So how could Rogers possibly engage on broadcasting and hyping CFL if it started in 2-3 weeks? Is the CFL looking to be random timeslot filler? There's also a plausible scenario where the Argos could be playing on the same day as the other 3 teams both spring and fall. And TFC too. I don't see how this plan makes them less of an afterthought, and the CFL less of an afterthought in the GTA. League should be working to have as many games between July-end of September as possible. Having the start of the season clashing so much with every other sport is not ideal, even disregarding potential for less than desirable weather in May-June when a slightly cool temp, rain and wind together can be bone chilling far worse than Sept-November.

The issue for the flailing markets is they don't have revenue to meet the expenses of playing a 18 game season. This changes nothing for the in-market revenues. More opportunity for playoff gate....but in the struggling markets they often lose money on playoff games. Road teams lose incredible amounts on playoff games. So coin flip year to year, market to market on those producing positive cash flows. IMO this whole thing (including rule/field changes) is a desperate attempt to position the CFL as a more valuable TV property. But unless they can get Rogers seriously interested and keep Bell/TSN engaged there's a pretty serious cap on that. Canadian broadcasters have been taking a bath on producing pro sports and are getting out of the business of doing so as much as possible. Moving the season up to conflict with NHL/NBA playoffs, and potentially more with Blue Jays early season/late season isn't desirable for Rogers.

The playoff format, while stupid, will not be as big of an issue as the 18 game season will remain to be. Any given season quite likely that almost 1/5 of regular season games will basically be meaningless in September and October for playoff positioning. The league is too small and the season too long to make this format work. So they can celebrate having more playoff games, but they will be playing a bunch of games with no stakes, lowered TV ratings and struggle to sell tickets depending on the market.