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Not any Catholic who knows a thing about their religion. Or are you confusing Catholics with Christians? Here's the thing, the church absorbed all the pagan holidays because it was easier to convert the heathens if they could say "hey look! all our holidays are the same as yours!" Halloween is All Hallows eve, ie. the night before all saints day. No one with a brain has a problem with the dressing up aspect because it's a harmless throw back to the pagan origins of the holiday.

there is still an appeal process before that's officially a thing.

i was there for the first time this preseason, I don't think it looks like there's a bad seat in the house, really impressed with the place.

i still say they keep all 4 qbs around. given this teams history they'll be using all of them at some point this season anyway.

the IR was one of the only ways to protect your draft picks who weren't quite ready to play yet though.... I think the CFL really does need to come up with some way to let teams retain players rights.

except that he really doesn't serve a purpose on the roster... we don't need a NI rb who can play rb so Messam doesn't help the ratio much at all. Volny may not be a great special teamer but seems to me he actually plays them unlike Messam so what value does that guy actually hold? not like he's going to be a starter for us and allow us to use an import at another position or anything. This is all about some of you seeing a name you recognize and figuring it's a great idea to bring him in.

I am reading what you're typing. I'm trying to connect the dots to where it makes us better.So you are suggesting that we have a game day roster that features only 2 running backs (Cotton/Messam) and use the DI elsewhere? Please correct this if I'm still not understanding you. I will then explain why that doesn't really make us better. expecting tburgess to justify his opinions in a way that makes sense is asking for too much. He prefers to get an idea in his head and stick with it no matter how your pick it apart.hmmm...that sounds very familiar.......... are you getting a little hot under the collar?

it's a mistake to have to take the ratio into consideration when deciding on your roster?

Some people are saying that is a failure on recruiting…what if it's success by Kelly? Kelly gets way too much flack here (beating a dead horse), being a guy that came in midway through the season last year and looked pretty decent (in bursts, of course). I say let the chips fall where they may. He will likely be the starting WR come the first game of the season. What I like about this management team is that they are constantly looking to get better, and that is for every position. except he really didn't... he made like 3 really impressive looking catches and disappeared. He did about as much on a per game basis as Etienne did and you all couldn't wait to run Etienne out of town. Kelly making the team means the scouts failed to bring in anyone better and that is not a good thing. Not liking what he did last year should not entirely invalidate all the good things he has done this year. what a couple catches in preseason? Not like this guy is a rookie, he's a known CFL commodity and what the CFL knows about him is that he's not anything more than a roster spot filler.

the concern for BC is Lulays shoulder. Riders and stamps should be fighting for 1 and 2 but I think I give the riders the edge just because Durant is a safer bet than Tate and Mitchell. (we have no idea what BLM can do and Tate is as likely to get hurt as he is to finish a game) As for Edmonton and WInnipeg who the **** knows.

yeah he was really looking dangerous as a returner last year then he got hurt. If he can be a Keith Stokes type that'd be huge given how much Bellefeuille seems to love that type of player in his offenses.

What this all boils down to, is **** Bell (and Rogers too really)

I am reading what you're typing. I'm trying to connect the dots to where it makes us better. So you are suggesting that we have a game day roster that features only 2 running backs (Cotton/Messam) and use the DI elsewhere? Please correct this if I'm still not understanding you. I will then explain why that doesn't really make us better. expecting tburgess to justify his opinions in a way that makes sense is asking for too much. He prefers to get an idea in his head and stick with it no matter how your pick it apart.

Some people are saying that is a failure on recruiting…what if it's success by Kelly? Kelly gets way too much flack here (beating a dead horse), being a guy that came in midway through the season last year and looked pretty decent (in bursts, of course). I say let the chips fall where they may. He will likely be the starting WR come the first game of the season. What I like about this management team is that they are constantly looking to get better, and that is for every position. except he really didn't... he made like 3 really impressive looking catches and disappeared. He did about as much on a per game basis as Etienne did and you all couldn't wait to run Etienne out of town. Kelly making the team means the scouts failed to bring in anyone better and that is not a good thing.

Are Hall and Brohm not pretty much the same age with similar experiences in other leagues except that Hall has started more games in the CFL? That's why we're having these discussions because we have 2 backups at a similar point in their careers only one is slightly more experienced than the other. He may not be good enough to start, but I haven't seen any of the qbs behind Willy stand out more than Hall has yet. Marve looks promising but again the guy has only had a couple series haven't seen nearly enough of him in real situations to make any kind of statement on him.

awwww that's so cute that you're pretending not to be a raging rider homer on this site.

stop with the bloody preseason injuries already! good lord what an ominous start to the year

It's not even US beers, there's like 2 companies that own pretty much every major brand globally. It's really sad. It's a big reason why I tend to buy beers mainly from small independent craft breweries. They care more about the flavour of their beer than the taste. The big labels have started trying to trick people too by trying to give the appearance of being a craft beer but still putting their fizzy watery tasting beer in the bottle.

if Kelly is on the roster it's a failure of the scouting staff. You can do better than that player.

Kemp and Johnson both looked like they had a clue what they were doing.... but they both put a lot of balls on the turf over the course of the 2 games. I am always concerned about guys who drop passes because your #1 job as a receiver is to catch the ball when it comes to you.

it's not the players that hurt against the run, the main thing is the alignment.

There is no way Ian Wild wouldn't be on the game day roster, guy is too good, especially in comparison to our other linebackers.

Practice...I think Hall lost it based on Brohm showing something decent in his second preseason game. He didn't show any better than Hall in that game though, and he was clearly worse in game 1 as well. Difference is simply that Hall made the mistake with the int in Calgary. I honestly don't know where you are getting this idea that Brohm was showing much. Willy in that game was so far ahead of the other 3 it wasn't even funny.

did they not say they'd be giving both guys a chance to earn the job in practise? Is it possible that Penton is just jumping the gun here based on one practise?

If you are hit while throwing, how do you eat the ball. You can only really eat the ball if you are setting up to throw... Looks to me like he was throwing when he was hit and the ball did reach the back of the endzone. you recognize that you don't have time to throw the ball and protect it.