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Ottawa might want to call timeout here....

Surprised Ottawa is playing such a passive defense at this point. Edmonton isn't looking to hit anything more than a few yards downfield.

Edmonton really doesn't trust Reilly's arm.

Burris couldn't find an OL to lateral to?

No guarantee they go back to the Riders. But I think the Riders only have enough money within the salary cap to sign one not both. If so, I'd take Dressler & let Sheets go to whoever he chooses. Maybe Winnipeg? Shouldn't be too difficult, especially if they don't return until after Labour Day. They'll only get paid for the games they play, so the cap hit won't be too hard to absorb. The tough decisions would come in the off-season.

He was pretty inconsistent in the pre-season for us too. Only issue was his upside because he has a huge leg that is reasonably accurate already. His punt placement is terrible too.

Looks like the kid on the hockey team who had his dad sew the namebar on rather than his mom.

Fraser plays if Vega can't go. Fraser was injured two weeks ago. Is he healthy now? Haven't heard and media haven't really asked about guys who aren't on the active roster, Kemp too who looked to have a serious injury.

I'd like to know about our import depth at DL and LB. For instance, Wild and Kuale both went down in Toronto. It appears Kuale will be out for sure next week, but what if Wild is too? We have Kromah and nobody else at LB. I'm guessing Sears would take some of those snaps at OLB, but he's not healthy either. DL we have one extra import who is injured currently. Vega is hobbled significantly. We have no depth there. Who plays if Vega comes up lame in practice this week? We have enough DB's to fill two secondaries though.

Thought he adjusted ok in Toronto. Willy hasn't played very good the last 2 weeks. Thought Willy was a bit tentative at times in Toronto. Needed to attack that D vertically when Burke kept blitzing the safety and one LB, tried a few times, but not enough. I'm sure those options were there based on what Willy read pre-snap, but he was a little gun-shy. Can't criticize run calls, our back stinks and when you're running zone blocking, you can't have a RB who waits for a 5 yard gap to make a cut. Considering the personnel limitations, our offense is ridiculously good to this point. Liked that they actually scored 7's in the redzone in Toronto too.

Neither has played for Calgary. You might be thinking of Clifton Smith?

They should put "pull up" on the waistband of the pants too.

IMO, Montreal will be a way bigger problem for the league than Toronto in the next few years. There's actually some will to keep and house the Argos, in Montreal it will depend entirely on Wetenhall. Wetenhall has a son who's involved with the Als, so they're good for another 30 years as long as their money doesn't run out. Or once they decide they are tired of burning millions of dollars a year. Hard to bail on a team that's contending perennially for the Grey Cup, we'll see a couple years out of the playoffs and how that affects their enthusiasm to burn money.

His cuts are beautiful when he has a 5 yard halo around him in all directions. Too bad that happens once every 3 weeks in football. A running back who can't fight through contact is useless to me.

Bad news. Hopefully someone can catch a punt. Cotton was terrible handling punts in pre-season. We don't know about Stoudermire, but he wasn't a punt returner in college.

IMO, Montreal will be a way bigger problem for the league than Toronto in the next few years. There's actually some will to keep and house the Argos, in Montreal it will depend entirely on Wetenhall.

Not at all. Higgins has been openly and publicly groveling for interviews for any personnel or coaching job that has come open for years, even when he had a job at the league office. He's been rarely interviewed for these positions and hasn't been considered a serious candidate for any of them. Now every team in the league could be wrong, or there's a reason why Higgins spent nearly a decade in exile against his wishes.

There's a good chance that a bunch of American players were good baseball players growing up too. A lot of guys play high school or NCAA baseball and are drafted by the MLB, but choose to pursue football. Being able to play rookie ball (keep in mind the Goldeyes are compared to high A-AA, and rookie ball is 2 steps below that) wouldn't necessarily separate one guy from the pack, just that he had the opportunity to pursue baseball while being out of football. Andrew Harris was one of the top hockey players in his age group in Manitoba, I'm sure a lot of other guys in the CFL were top basketball and baseball players growing up too.

I guess the game we played them was an anomaly. I would rather play against Brink any day of the week, and twice on Sundays. We got beat by a number of deep balls. Smith is one of the most inaccurate QB's we've seen recently, can't do anything to get the ball to guys who can do lots once they have it, he's also throwing at guys with a gigantic catching radius like Carter, Green, Stafford and still missing. Brink can at least hit some of those intermediate throws and screens. If we had a guy like Carter, Willy would probably be averaging another 50 yard passing per game.

They are both awful. Brink can actually make some throws though. Smith only has the deep ball. Easier to defend Smith.

The mid-2000s golds are probably our best 3rd jerseys. Could have just given those some kind of weird glossy finish and called it new.

Won't it be even more sore after he sits?

yup. Still would like to see us get to four National starters on the O line. Opens up so many other options. "four National starters on the O line" When Goosen is ready to go we can move Neufeld back to his natural position at tackle ... maybe when he has learned a bit more Having Goossen and Neufeld on one side of our OL anytime soon is a scary thought, ratio be damned. Don't think we'll see a whole lot of Goossen at guard when he actually becomes a starter, he'll be a great centre.

Dinwiddie was a pretty good OC for us in the 2nd half of 2008 when Berry took away Kit Cartwright's responsibilities and then gave up himself too. If I were him I'd head back to the states next year and try to work my way up in NCAA. Just look at where his backup from the 07 Grey Cup is. Spent one year coaching Johnny Football and heading into his second year as head coach at Texas Tech, base salary over $2 million a year. Loads of money to be made there.

These ones are for the players who've had to wear some fugly retros in recent years. I bet they don't sell very well at all, with any generation. Many of the NCAA ones don't. They literally dress more and more ridiculous to get mentioned on SportsCenter and other national shows, trying to build program awareness by dressing like fools.