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Vann was with the team in training camp was he not?

Hey the QBs and RBs on the team were more scared than anyone

I was watching Bob McCown the other day and one of the guys on the show was saying that once the Jays came to town it hurt the Argos because now Torontonians think they are too good for the CFL. "Who wants to see Toronto play a team from Saskatchewan when I can watch Toronto play the New York Yankees". Different sports of course, but the guy sounded like a typical Toronto putz and exactly the kind of person that makes sure Canada stays united in its universal hatred of Toronto. And it's so funny because, to me, the reason I love the CFL as much as I do, is for the regional rivalries. I don't give two shits about a team from New York, but I care a whole hell of a lot about the province next door. Maybe I'm not a good sports fan because I don't care as much about Best On Best and maybe I'm too patriotic, but for me, the real beauty of the CFL is how strictly CANADIAN it is... It's the same for me. The big draw of the CFL is that it's local. Who gives a **** about New York or California or where ever else in the States? Give me a team I can be invested in because it's regional. I actually think the bad sports fans are the ones who only care about the biggest most over hyped teams/sports. NFL has this problem and it's also why I refuse to follow it despite loving football. The amount of hype is disproportionate to the actual excitement of the game. ******* Americans, gotta ruin everything by trying to make every game the greatest game in the history of our sport!

Yep it makes the OLs job easier if the defensive linemen are worried about the kind of **** someone like Picard might do than actually doing their jobs. Let's hope it rubs off on all of them.

The we get an injury and have to use a defensive lineman as the backup OL and god forbid we have 2 injuries and we're using that DL as an actual OL. Why are some people simply terrified of having depth?

I knew there was something fishy about that guy. His card was also a sponge. Works on a contingency? No! Money down.

More important question, is the show any good?

people just give the stupidest contracts to centres. 5 years ago sure that deal looks great for Kessler but he's got a lot of city miles on him and he ain't even close to the same player. No way that deal works into his mid-late 30s. Ducks are going to regret that one big time.

Maybe I'm missing something here, but why in the world would Hervey have to prove anything. A contract was offered and accepted. If the player wants a 1+1 then the player should demand it and refuse to accept the offer on the table. Yeah I don't understand that either. Is there anyone who can explain the reasoning behind that? If Edmonton only offers 2+1 shouldn't it be up to the player and his representation to say "I want a 1+1 contract?

Sounds to me like moore and denmark are the first reads and they're good at getting open, when not theball is going to other places. Honestly apart from a few quibbles about going away from the running game too quickly I do like a lot of what the offense has been doing this year and that includes using a variety of weapons.

You don't pay players like Moore and Denmark the big bucks and not build an offense around getting them the ball, that's just the way it works.

Cornish. Still don't trust the Bomber D.

Paul Friesen hasn't cared about understanding the rules of football once in his career, he's not going to start now,

Keep him away from Watson during practice. do tell? He injured Watson at practice once (in 2013 I believe)... Watson was out 4 weeks or so... and holy **** did Burke ever throw West under the bus immediately after it happened The one thing Burke was good at was throwing people under the bus.

Well in that case it could be "well he was close to the goal line and even kicked the corner marker over, probably good enough to call it in and review it to be sure" I just don't see how a lot of stuff like that isn't just called and left up to replay. It's just one way for the refs to be lazier.

No one asked you Tim Burke.

Agreed. I mean they have it in curling with Hog line infractions. How someone hasn't figured out how to put the technology into other sports yet it strange. The only thing with something like a laser is you can break it with your foot and not the ball (See the reply ) I can see in hockey, them installing the same technology into the puck as they have in curling and once it crosses a certain line it lights up. Would take a lot of guess work off the refs. Not sure how they would do that with a football. But if there are any inventors out there that want my idea I want a 30% royalty The technology for curling is a bit different as it simply records if the players hand is still on the handle of the rock as it crosses the hog line. Where do you put the sensor in the football? The ball only needs to touch the goal line for it to be in, you would have to make the entire football able to become a sensor and that seems like a near impossible task. The solution to me is to accept that there will be human error in the officiating and just deal with it. Ditch all the reviews and just let the refs do their job and hold them to a standard FIFA has a few different "approved" goal line systems and I'm sure they'd be easily (relatively speak) adopted to football .. that said, you'd likely see it in the NFL long before it was adopted by the CFL .. interesting little overview of how that stuff works: http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jun/16/world-cup-goalline-technology-football-brazil-2014 Most of those are still camera based and won't work as well in football, and one of the magnetic ones requires the frame of the goal to use it. I suspect the cost for the one that might work for football is prohibitively expensive for a league such as the CFL. We just need to stop pretending that there is a solution to take human error out of the officiating and accept that mistakes will be made. I have no evidence to back it up but I would suggest that the quality of officiating is lower since replay was introduced simply because the refs are using replay as a crutch. Doesn't matter if they make a poor judgement, replay will catch it.

Agreed. I mean they have it in curling with Hog line infractions. How someone hasn't figured out how to put the technology into other sports yet it strange. The only thing with something like a laser is you can break it with your foot and not the ball (See the reply ) I can see in hockey, them installing the same technology into the puck as they have in curling and once it crosses a certain line it lights up. Would take a lot of guess work off the refs. Not sure how they would do that with a football. But if there are any inventors out there that want my idea I want a 30% royalty The technology for curling is a bit different as it simply records if the players hand is still on the handle of the rock as it crosses the hog line. Where do you put the sensor in the football? The ball only needs to touch the goal line for it to be in, you would have to make the entire football able to become a sensor and that seems like a near impossible task. The solution to me is to accept that there will be human error in the officiating and just deal with it. Ditch all the reviews and just let the refs do their job and hold them to a standard

Keep in mind it is a Monday game for Calgary and it stormed like hell in parts of Calgary all afternoon and there was a chance of it storming again in the evening (even though it turned out nice) so it's not surprising there was a smaller turnout.

I don't like counting the dead cat bounces from firing coaches.

Let's just ditch the replay already. It's making the refs lazy, they rely on it to catch mistakes and that hurts the over all quality of officiating.

Good. They deserve each other then. Kind of like when Hitler contracted syphilis. It's probably the best site cause it's the only one that still humours him and hasn't given him the boot.

That's irrelevant. Unless it's a passing play, the RB is his responsibility.

God did we ever hear that so many times here in recent years. Not with Tim Burke as coach but with Lapo and last season.