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Hughes had 2 sacks after Labour Day and was basically a non-factor.

One guy who never gets mentioned but is one of the most dominant CFL QB's in my lifetime is Dave Dickenson. Unfortunately he left in his prime for the NFL and came back injury-prone. He was better than Ray or Calvillo. His career QB Rating is off the charts. Dickenson 110.4 2421 passes Ray 98.2 7301 passes Calvillo 95.5 9437 passes Flutie 94.1 4844 passes Moon 93.8 2382 passes Allen 83.8 9138 passes

He’d only played parts of two seasons of football as anything but a kicker too. For a fourth round pick would have been reasonable, not 4th overall when there were some really good receivers on the board.

That was Etienne.

Johnson moves to boundary corner in 2009 and becomes a top defensive player. Hefney plays boundary HB and becomes a top defensive player. Arguably in 2011 those two are the best players in the league.

It’s the same model. AAF partnered with CBS and NFL Network. The league had central ownership. The issue becomes how much capital can people lose/are they willing to lose in these ventures. Because it is basically a guarantee they will lose money. The overhead to get into the size of stadiums, insure the league and players, pay the players something etc is huge. I’m sure the tag line about more concussions is helping to lower the health premiums. If it can’t be covered by gate the league is immediately in the red because the TV deal is not bringing in any revenue and sponsors are going to hang back to see if they get traction.

Incorrect opinion. Taman traded picks but for the most part got something useful, like Doug Brown, Kevin Glenn, Alex Gauthier etc. He was a one man personnel department in a different era here. Mack didn’t really build anything here. 2011 team was carried by the defense Mike Kelly built in 2009. Other than that season we were pretty much the worst team in the league and a complete embarrassment. Mack thought Tim Burke as head coach was a good idea. Mack found some decent imports but couldn’t put together a team, a bunch of guys who had a few good games.

The biggest problem with the Etienne pick was that it was such a gamble on upside for a team that didn't have the depth to make that kind of pick. Coehoorn was such an obvious pick, but they took Etienne because he'd eventually turn into something and have a long career. Can't think that way in the CFL Draft. Draft for the next 2-3 seasons.

And Greaves.

Won't be his cap hit if he wants to keep playing. Whitlock is an interesting player. Not many DT's that impact the game on Special Teams like he does.

The whole Mack era was a bust. Watson, Muamba and Volny are the only guys they picked that had decent careers in the CFL.

In one game the offense went conservative with a lead and couldn’t get a first down, in the other game the offense struggled and fell behind in the middle and fought back in the 4th. Numbers were ok, but not great overall, some on Lapo some on Nichols.

Even Nichols good performance last year wasn’t good enough. Playoffs were ridiculous with locking in on one-read. Lapo can help him out sometimes with misdirection but if the defense reads it Nichols is screwed. The most impressive thing about Streveler is his ability to protect the ball but still make plays. Lapo is a constraint on him though, I hope having the off-season has allowed him to develop concepts better suited to Streveler and that when he plays this year substantially we aren’t going to see him running Nichols’ offense.

The Canadian artillery on offense. Wolitarsky, Demski, Simonise, Petermann Harris, Oliviera That's as deep as I can ever remember for a Bomber team in Canadians who are legit playmakers. Most of my life as a Bomber fan we'd be tossing someone out there to fill a Canadian spot hoping they could catch a pass if the defense left them open. These guys can all make plays. Gives the Bombers a lot of options in terms of who slots in where, whether 3 imports start on OL etc. Excited to see what Lapo builds and how they use Streveler. See if Nichols can find consistency again.

Thanks. Noticed mine was reset or something.

I mean if you don't want to be part of the conversation on the players or have nothing to add you don't have to post. Also what happened to the ignore feature?

Good to see Oliviera excited. Lots of potential for him to be a useful player from day 1. Can do everything, not shy about blocking.

Run through bags and have people throw things at you...that’s a new drill.

CFL.ca erred on Desjarlais height and weight last night. So now he’ll be 6’5 325 for the rest of his life!

Bombers take Tariq Lachance. Bet they turn him into a fullback.

A ton of honourary Canadians in this draft.

43rd overall...Malik Richards receiver from Mount A.

Bombers 4th round pick is Tavita Eli, C from Hawaii.

Interesting answer to final question to Kongbo....never played Canadian football. BC plays American rules in high school.

Bombers took about 5 seconds to make their pick. Connor Griffiths. He'll have a chance to make the team this year, DL rotation.