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It's hard to remember a training camp where not a single rookie DL really stood out, yet we cut a guy like McAdoo who looked decent in real games last year.

Is he the rush end from Ohio State? That guy made Jarvis Jones look like a Winnipeg Rifle tossed into a pro game in the first pre-season game.

Dumas played most of the second half in Calgary at safety.

I can't wait to see how our secondary (including OLB's) shakes out. Outside of Washington and Randle, I could see almost any combination of the guys left filling the other spots. They might have to one game IR some guys like Bruce Johnson and Mo Leggett to keep them around. Dumas and Unamba seem like PR candidates.

I'm surprised 4 imp OL are on the roster, and 10 imp DB's, while Johnson, Reed, Urrutia (although he's still listed on the roster) were outright cut. There's going to need to be a lot of manoeuvring still.

What about one where you are not trying to push the pocket? That's the defensive equivalent of saying "why would we want a centre who snaps the ball?" Unless the tackles are going to run back and cover receivers every down, you need guys to move the line and fill gaps. If Ted Laurent was interested in being a Blue Bomber, we wouldn't be having this discussion.

Lefty Can anyone recall the last good CFL QB who was a lefty, other than Stefan LeFors of course? I can't.

Some people are saying that is a failure on recruiting…what if it's success by Kelly? The Bombers last successful days, Jamie Stoddard was a mainstay at 5th WR. A sticky hands guy without much flash that just caught whatever was thrown to him as a 5th receiver. Why not Kelly? Kelly is not that type of receiver at all, and he's an import. A WR who doesn't do anything on routes coming into the field just isn't of much value and will limit the offence, unless he was an all-world deep threat, which he isn't despite that being his strength. Kelly is more like a Chad Plummer, if you want a comparable from that era.

LOL. he ain't coming here, if anywhere he's going back to hamilton. I don't disagree that he probably wont come here but why would you say he would go back to Hamilton? Read the tweet.

Lawless makes me laugh. We should record this date and then wait for his first article tearing the regime he loves so much apart. He changes his strong opinions weekly, just look at the Kane column this week.

Barley Bros is cool for the beer. Only problem is they don't have a sampler package. I'm hesitant to pay $8 for a beer that I might not like, and in a place like that I'd like to spread my cash around and taste a few different beers which I haven't tried before. Every other similar craft beer pub I've been to in my travels has at least one, and most have a variety of sampler packages. Food was meh and relatively expensive...the option of frozen mashed potatoes (my choice) or a heap of cabbage with a burger was odd, I remember that more than the beer I drank.

If you want to get the best view of the game, I'd sit anywhere in the upper deck, but be careful cause there are some obstructed seats there, mostly in the first couple rows at the front and around the walkways. If you sit in the lower part of the lower bowl the view is not very good but you will be way closer to the field than you were at the old stadium.

Seems to me that Fords best asset as a runner was his speed.... He wasn't terribly elusive but if he got a hole he had the speed to hit it and run a long way. Yep, close to being his only asset compared other CFL backs, he doesn't break many tackles or make people miss, but if he hits a crease he can go a long way fast.

It's pretty simple, to make it as a DI he had to bring value as a guy who could do all jobs, although if Hajrullahu would have crapped the bed as a placekicker I'm sure you would have seen Maher placekicking and Renaud punting. Hajrullahu has been competing at all three jobs, and Renaud has no idea how to placekick if you have a memory back to 2010 when he had to attempt a convert with the placekicker down, they literally could have picked a random fan from the stands and they probably could have kicked the ball further off a tee.

He's almost never played, so I'm not sure what you're basing that assessment on. I'm not sure if you're confusing him with someone else. He's played 8 games in 2 years, hardly at all on D. He's missed more tackles than he's made this pre-season, that's what I'm basing my assessment on. I'd like to see a little more assertiveness out of a guy with LB after his name in terms of tackling a guy with the ball right in his area.

ehhhhhhhh I dunno. Any extra job security Stephan got from Newman's injury has now been removed. The team needs lots of these types of players during the year. Stephan is still competing with Eisho for a job. If Cornell is still a gamer and Briggs' injury is soon resolved, then the numbers will start to work against him. Or Eisho. Unlikely they cut both. Stephan will be hurt in the first half of the first game and be gone for the year. So it really doesn't matter. More reason to cut him now before he can get on the injured list and claim a paycheque. O'shea spoke highly of stephan on the coaches show,, wouldn't be so quick to write him off even though i would sort of agree with you in thinking he should be on the bubble. This week? I can't recall hearing that.

Didn't see any practices, but in the games Hajrullahu and Maher were dead even, Maher obviously has a bigger leg in terms of punting, but didn't place them well leading to big returns, and Renaud is a fairly reliable veteran punter who will have Hajrullahu around to push him too. Over 18 games I expect that Maher's placekicking would be a little more consistent, but Hajrullahu hasn't blinked to this point when the lights have been on. Tie goes to the Canadian.

So the Riders are going to improve from last year, or the Stamps are going to fall back, despite Saskatchewan losing a bunch of key players, and BC is going to be worse with the quarterbacking of the guy who was the primary QB for the 14 win Stampeders last season versus rolling with bum shouldered Lulay and Demarco as they did in 2013? Got it.

Because they sold off all the digital rights to TSN in the last TV deal. Which is great for the league because TSN limits access to the content (it's basically impossible for most of western Canada to access TSNGO at this point) and uses the CFL as collateral to attempt to squeeze cable providers into giving them more money. Oh I know, I just think the CFL should really consider doing the smart thing for a change and try to put a package together that wouldn't run primarily through cable. Any CFL streaming package would divert some money to TSN anyways since they're the rights holder, plus it means more eyeballs for their ads. The CFL doesn't have any control over it though. Cohon has stated that to people complaining about this TSNGO stuff. They'd have to prod TSN to do anything like that, but TSN is owned by a cable conglomerate which will only share content with others if they get paid handsomely for it. They are primarily interested at this moment in diverting people to pay for cable or to keep their cable it seems, and sticking it to other cable companies because apparently the carriage fees aren't enough.

Dorzon probably still tells the story about how he made a CFL team that he had no business making, and started 3 games.

Nick Moore and Korey Banks aren't that impactful. BC still has a buttload of Canadians and added several more from previous drafts this year, which allows them to actually put their best roster on the field. They've got a very good regular season QB, and they play in a division with Edmonton and Winnipeg. Something pretty catastrophic would have to happen for them to not break 9 wins. They were neck and neck with Saskatchewan last year, and Saskatchewan lost their two best playmakers, along with some Canadian depth. They also added the most dominant interior DL in the league to an already decent DL. They will also likely have better QBing on the whole, unless you think Thomas Demarco or Buck Pierce are currently better CFL QBs than Kevin Glenn, Demarco being the only notable loss from the Lions to Ottawa.

Because they sold off all the digital rights to TSN in the last TV deal. Which is great for the league because TSN limits access to the content (it's basically impossible for most of western Canada to access TSNGO at this point) and uses the CFL as collateral to attempt to squeeze cable providers into giving them more money.

New person running the CJOB twitter account?

Ford wasn't here yet. It was Garrett, Simpson and Dorzon.

I actually think Saskatchewan has way more question marks than BC. They lost a huge chunk of their offence in Sheets and Dressler, and I'm not exactly sold on a guy like Taj Smith to be the go-to guy for Durant. Calgary 13-5 BC 12-6 Sask 10-8 Edm 5-13 Wpg 5-13 (hoping Edmonton wins the tiebreaker) Toronto 13-5 Hamilton 11-7 Montreal 8-10 Ottawa 4-14 Saskatchewan doesn't have question marks in incredibly important areas. BC has problems at QB and problems on the OL. Could blow up in their face. They just lost a 1600 yard rusher and a guaranteed 1000 yard a season receiver. Their offence is going to be completely different without 7-8 yards on first down from Sheets. Pretty huge question mark there. BC will be fine with Glenn in the regular season.