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So basically...the Bombers won't be paying for the stadium, as anyone with a working calculator knew when the financing was announced. Guess the NDP thought it would be political suicide to fund a stadium publicly, but they basically just kicked the can down the road as long as they could, at some point it's going to be trouble for them, blatantly lying to make a stadium more politically palatable. I don't understand why Lawless thinks that the current Bomber board and administration shouldn't be accountable for the Bombers debt. If life worked that way, it would be a lot easier, just imagine, "I'm not responsible for these car payments, my wife and some car dealer who doesn't even work at the dealership anymore negotiated the financing."

LDT not picked through 5 rounds of the NFL Draft. Wonder if the fact that he's a medical doctor scares teams off. John Urschel picked by Baltimore, TJ Jones by the Lions.

I don't believe that's a cliche... There's a reason the guy can't keep a job for long. Trying to re-invent the wheel is a giant red flag. If those ideas were so good other teams would copy them, the CFL is a copy cat league. If something works everyone does it, I don't see anyone copying Etchevary Is any CFL DC keeping a job? Hall is the longest tenured one heading into his 4th season back in Regina, after that you're looking at Steinhauer and Thorpe who joined their teams in 2013. Not sure if that's a good barometer, although I suspect Etcheverry's somewhat pompous attitude has contributed to a few mid-season firings on his resume. In terms of copycatting, just look at Chris Jones. He's a genius, apparently he invented the zone blitz. If you watched his D and Etcheverry's without knowing who is who, there is a lot of similarity. Noel Thorpe's D too is quite similar, with guys lining up all over the place and giving multiple looks in terms of who's dropping into coverage and who is blitzing.

Etcheverry's defense won't be built to handle the inside run, let alone stop it. But even when teams can't stop the run, nobody runs except Calgary recently and Saskatchewan in 2013 with Sheets. Suber could end up as MLB for all we know. It's all zone blitzes, not much gap control, so that will be a big difference from Burke, Muamba would just sit in an inside gap most of the time, and then attack the ball through his gap. Doubt any LB spot in Etchverry's D will be anywhere near the LOS pre-snap as often as Muamba was.

He likely was on last year and beat the test, either by timing it better or using different gear. Just doing sprint training will shave a load of time off a big guys 40. OL and DL generally don't know how to sprint, they aren't the type to run track. So they run a 40 just based on instinct and put up whatever time, train specifically on how to run the 40 and shave a bunch of time off, combined with them getting in better all-around shape for the combine. Going from 5.11 to 4.82 under the circumstances isn't necessarily due to PED's IMO. I've seen lots of big guys shave time off their 40's just by learning how to run properly.

Isaac is good at blitzing...that's about it. When you're a 200 pound LB/DB you gotta be a little more useful. I'm not a big fan of Husband, he's a notch below Swiston and Pencer, more in the Kowalczuk range. Onrea Jones is the interesting one to me, but he'd probably be redundant with Denmark. They are very similar.

Forde is the only person I've read/communicated with who is relatively high on Player, basically putting him at the top of the 2nd tier of OL. Other than him all I've heard is that people are unsure if he really wants to play in the CFL, and unimpressed by his body and lack of ability to move when he was in Toronto. But my sources could be biased by their relationships with other draftees.

Which is the total wrong angle to take IMO. I think it is more likely that teams don't really care, maybe view it as a mistake, but I don't think you can spin it positively as the bolded could suggest, that he'd do anything to do well. Why didn't Evan Gill or David Menard have to resort to old-school steriods to show well at the combine and be great CIS players?

Yep. Could also put Concordia under a microscope from CIS and CCES. Hopefully the other Concordia guys in the draft aren't using the same trainer.

I wonder who the test was administered by and when. Honestly don't see it affecting his draft stock hugely unless he faces a CFL suspension.

Shomari played rush end in CIS, and was great. The Riders tried to convert him into a linebacker.

It is a low income area, but not a slum. Doesn't need to be nuked. People who make less than average need somewhere to live too. Not everyone can buy a $175,000 800 sq ft condo that overlooks a backlane and 7-11 dumpster. The vacant industrial lots and old factories that haven't been operated in 30 years could use some investment though.

I worked in Point Douglas previously. It's not a slum by any means, it's a neighbourhood with older homes. There's more people drawing their income from the government than the average neighbourhood, but there are also a lot of young working families who have moved into the neighbourhood as some of the housing stock is renovated and rebuilt. Most of the riverfront property off Sutherland was contaminated and destroyed by Hydro and is not suitable for development and honestly most of the eyesores in the area are current or former industrial land. That's what really needs to be addressed, that's what the stadium plan would have addressed.

Posted our mock draft. http://2ndand10.blogspot.ca/ I fully expect some teams to pass on picks in the 6th and 7th rounds...

Yes and as Iso stated earlier the traffic there would have been worse than the U of M site. Based on where they would have built the stadium in the Point Douglas proposal ( the waterfront) there would have been two ways out - Higgins (a crappy winding road which bottlenecks down to two lanes at the Higgins bridge going east) and Waterfront Dr (a two-lane street not exactly conducive to heavy traffic). Not sure why people use the Disraeli as an argument for the Point Douglas stadium as you can't even access it from Point Douglas. It's only accessible from Main St. Disraeli is accessible from Sutherland Ave, but it's an obstacle course of residential streets to get there from where the stadium was proposed to be situated. The Point Douglas thing was pure politics. Asper was just throwing everything at the wall to see what would stick. Eventually the tie-in with the University stuck, the redevelop an old decayed industrial strip toss didn't connect.

If you really want to avoid contaminants, stop breathing.

Kuale. Recently cut by the Riders. O'Shea loves him, he made the Argos as one of O'Shea's special teams guys. The ability to rush the passer and line up all over the box would seem to fit with Etcheverry.

It's going to be one of those seasons. 4-5 wins, probably dress 80 players as they try to find solid pieces going forward.

Probably more panel. Hard to see them actually spending money to produce quality programming for specialty channels.

I'm shocked they haven't closed a few locations, they were forced to sell 4 IIRC by the competition bureau. For instance, at Crossroads they have a Safeway and a Sobey's right across Reenders from each other. Most retail businesses are in love with revenue/retail sq footage as a rating of efficiency, seems that having two full service grocery stores that close to each other would be hugely inefficient, much like the Future Shop/Best Buys right next door to each other which ultimately failed. Co-op jumped in and bought those 4 former Safeway sites, mostly the older, smaller ones. Safeway is a memory now, you paid for service etc. but they were the pricier boys on the block, no doubt. Best buy/Future shop is a different situation as they were owned by the same company. They tried to 'create' competition…fail. Here, in Kelowna, the Safeway does not do a booming business, but it is steady. Its competition is Save-on-Foods, owned by…Overwaitea Foods. Comparable to the close proximity of a few Sobey's and Safeway locations in Winnipeg now, owned by the same company.

I'm shocked they haven't closed a few locations, they were forced to sell 4 IIRC by the competition bureau. For instance, at Crossroads they have a Safeway and a Sobey's right across Reenders from each other. Most retail businesses are in love with revenue/retail sq footage as a rating of efficiency, seems that having two full service grocery stores that close to each other would be hugely inefficient, much like the Future Shop/Best Buys right next door to each other which ultimately failed.

The closest grocery store to my home is a Safeway, was also the closest grocery store to the home I grew up in. I'd be shocked if their sales aren't down 75% (adjusted for inflation) from when I was growing up in the early 90s, at that time it was the only real grocery store in a wide radius, now there's Superstore and Sobey's (most people I know intimately do their grocery shopping at one of the two), plus Wal-Mart selling groceries. I usually go to Safeway 3-4 times a week to pick a couple things up, and it's a ghost town, which is why it's my go to place for a quick pick up of a couple things.

Yes you can. It's in the Video section - highlights and features are there. Under the home section - Scoreboard - Headlines - Videos - Blogs - etc. I just went to Video->CFL and I couldn't play any of the videos. I can't play the latest Videos either. (I'm on Telus) Make sure you're not using Chrome or Firefox. I tried on Chrome and it wouldn't play, but on IE it works fine. Weird. The last 3 days it wouldn't let me access videos on Chrome, today it's back.

It's not the server, you need a cable log in from Bell or Rogers. It's locked up tight.

Me too. I have no idea what that entails though, and I wouldn't necessarily blame Shaw for not paying if that's what it does entail. I mean they carry TSN and TSN 2, I have both channels, why can't I see their content online?