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Sometimes people just want to take a swing at an athlete. Hell I remember hearing stories in Brandon about people trying to take a swing at the tough guys on the Wheat Kings just to try and prove a point. Kane has a reputation as a tough hockey player, maybe this guy figured he either gets to brag about how he took a swing at Kane and Kane pussed out, or he gets his ass kicked and he sues this prick of a hockey player for assault.

I have not found this to be true. Examples? His Bomber coverage last year per and post firings. He didn't like Mack and everything was over the top mud slinging, he likes Kyle Walters and it's all sunshine and roses. Guy is a self important media douchebag there is no question about that. If he wouldn't make things personal I'd have a lot more respect for him.

Serious question... how many runningbacks can actually carve out long careers? Seems to me that if you get 3 years out of a runningback you're ahead of the game already and it doesn't much matter about their size. They are simply put the easiest position to recruit players for because there's so damned many of them kicking around. All I really care about from that position is who is the best guy? Size be damned put the best player there and worry about longevity in the future. If the guy can't last more than a couple seasons just go down to the pound and pick up a new running back. very true. but then, having one that is more likely to break on you mid-season can have dire consequences. (like Kack did to us last year then came back from injury and broke again finishing his career and taking away our running attack and chance to ice our lead in the 2nd half of the EDF). you gotta stop talking about Kackert like he was that good though, man you argo fans over rated that guy.

Not really, there's a pretty good difference in my mind between 4 and 8 when a team is trading down.

arm strength is the most over rated things people talk about when it comes to qbs. It's a nice tool to have but it is far from the most important thing to worry about with a qb. Brains and accuracy are far far more important than being able to throw the ball really hard.

I hear you Iso but to be fair, last year he looked like he was starting to make a contribution until he got walloped in the head and was essentially done for the year. Worst first rounder ever? I don't know...there's been some real stinkers, and for a lot of draft years, we never even had a first round pick. I think Pencer is more of a bust then Jade, as at least Jade saw the field. Here's a walk down memory lane of some of our first round picks over the years: 2000 (second overall): Daaron McField, DL -- Lasted one season, never started and traded away in his second season. 1996 (fourth): Andrew Henry, DB: role player for two seasons. 1995 (sixth): Sean Graham, SB: Lasted three injury-plagued seasons. 1994 (fourth): Ryan Carey, DB: Special teams specialist. 1993 (fifth): Alan Wetmore, LB: Another special-teams guy. 1989 (eighth): John O'Brien, LB: Never played a single game in Blue and Gold. 1988 (third): Dan Wicklum, LB: Lasted one season before getting picked up by Calgary. 1987 (sixth): Andrew McConnell, DL: Never played for Bombers. 1986 (seventh): Brian Bellway, DL: Never played for Bombers. http://www.thecarillon.com/sports/winnipeg-blue-bombers/bombers-draft----first-round-busts-256301471.html The most amazing thing to me from that list is that we didn't have a single first round pick from 2001 through 2007!?!? Did we trade them all for starting Canadians? Please tell me we at least got Doug Brown for one of those. Doug Brown was one of them, another was for Pat Barnes, another was for Gauthier, I forget what the others were, maybe one was involved in the clusterfuck when Tom Canada was traded but couldn't be traded for that MLB...

The problem Lawless has is that he's really the stereotypical media douchebag. If he likes someone then it's great but if he's got an axe to grind with someone being an objective reporter is out the window and he's dragging people through the mud. I really have a dislike for media people with personal vendettas.

Serious question... how many runningbacks can actually carve out long careers? Seems to me that if you get 3 years out of a runningback you're ahead of the game already and it doesn't much matter about their size. They are simply put the easiest position to recruit players for because there's so damned many of them kicking around. All I really care about from that position is who is the best guy? Size be damned put the best player there and worry about longevity in the future. If the guy can't last more than a couple seasons just go down to the pound and pick up a new running back.

He just seemed to get it. Knew where to go with the ball and how to get it there. I hope he gets more time in the next game (though that's probably not too likely as I expect they'll give willy a ton of time) so we can see if he's actually got it or just looked good against another teams training camp fodder.

The returning vet I am most excited to watch this season is Denmark. Guy has always had some good hands to him and I think he really was helped with the change at OC last year. Expecting to see a bounce back year for him.

because receivers helped him out more. Seriously what more can Hall do if he hits a receiver and the guy drops it? Or he hits a guy on 2nd down and the guy should be able to stroll for a first down but he's got his head up his ass and runs into the sideline short? You are not looking big picture only at whether the ball was moved or not.

And the emergence of that Calgary mayor as super-hero. Nenshi, I believe. When is he poised to run for premier, Al? are you kidding? Nenshi was super popular from the word go. There's lots of talk that he doesn't really have any ambitions provincially or federally, he likes municipal politics and feels party labels are too limiting.

So would we look at Drew Willy differently if Denmark hadn't made that dandy catch with the ball between the defender and himself? Cause Willy had a lot of the same problems Hall had (missed some guys on throws that should have been better) the difference came in mostly in that the receivers helped Willy out more than they did Hall. It wasn't a red letter performance by Hall, but it certainly wasn't as bad as some people are trying to make it seem.

I don't know how good he is but man he's huge out there. Just dwarfed the dbs for the most part. Seems like there's some good potential there.

actually being at the game live just gives a so much better perspective on the game, why oh why is Calgary so far from Winnipeg?

I still say he won't get bought out, I think there will be a team willing to take that contract in trade if the Kings are willing to make a deal.

Hall was better than some of you are thinking. The offense bogged down but I don't think it was all on him. Only qb that left me with the impression that he doesn't have a clue what he's doing out there was Brohm.

And the Jaymar Johnson go-out-of-bounds-2-yards-before-the-first-down debacle. I his defense, he was off-balance and tried to tip-toe as far down the line as possible but he lost his balance too early.... assuming we're thinking of the same play... he was off balance cause he had his head up his ass and didn't know where he was on the field. He suddenly realized he was close to the side line and tripped himself up trying not to run straight out of bounds. Just terrible awareness of the field.

As far as the qbs go I thought Willy looks pretty comfortable, just had a few issues putting the ball in exactly the right spot, but it's the first preseason game, I'll just chalk that up to rust and maybe not having that instant chemistry with the receivers. I expect that will improve a lot which is a good sign. Marve played well, yeah it was all the scrapings of each roster he was out there with but the guy showed some moxy and made plays, all you can ask of a guy. Hall I think is getting a bit of a bad rap. He had a few accuracy issues similar to Willy at times but there were also some plays where he threw a ball and the receiver didn't even know it was being thrown too. The only guy that to me looked absolutely useless at qb was Brohm. Man he didn't do anything out there. There was a lot to be encouraged about in that game I thought, still don't like the D but the special teams and offense look like they might be worthwhile this year so baby steps.

I dunno, just looking at the way the defense was lining up it seems to me that it puts a hell of a lot of pressure on the linebackers. I don't like it.

All I know is the offense was really bogged down until he came in during the 4th quarter and all of a sudden they were moving the ball. Showed a lot more accuracy then Brohm did.

I think Star Treks biggest enemy right now is the canon and the fans who scream bloody murder when it's not adhered to. I think they had a great opportunity to take an existing franchise and modernize it for a new generation because let's face it all of the star trek series are incredibly dated. Hell even going back to watch the first seasons of TNG is a painful experience. In my mind they had the chance to re-invent the franchise for today and dropped the ball trying to plug as many fan service moments or "hey remember that scene in Wrath of Kahn?" moments that it took away from the movie. The way I envisioned them handling it there was still plenty of opportunity for those little fan service moments but you were free to change the entire universe around which in my mind is what the franchise needed very badly.

well not turning 30 and having Bomber football might be better in my estimation.... but why nitpick? Get good and drunk and enjoy the ball.

I absolutely loved the idea of just doing away with all the established canon, I think it was so convoluted by the time that all the series had run their course it really limited what they could do with the franchise going forward. Re-booting it all to me was a great idea for that franchise, but then they decided to re-make wrath of khan except it wasn't really wrath of Khan because they'd never encountered Kahn before and it didn't have the same impact.

I did enjoy the first star trek movie they did even with all it's flaws, and when I watched the 2nd one in theatres I did enjoy it but mostly from a standpoint of all the callbacks they did... but then I watched it again afterwards and the writing just made me cringe. So nonsensical. Those two clowns who wrote it are terrible writers yet somehow keep getting to write every big budget movie out there.