Yeah I wouldn't get my hopes up that we'll be seeing a lot of Roberts' talk during the TSN game coverage that weekend.  It's definitely going to be an Alouettes event through and through...

 

Oh well, at least Don Matthews won't be involved. Does anyone remember his first game back when the Argos hired him mid-season a few years ago? First game was against Winnipeg, but you wouldn't have known it was anything other than Don Matthews standing on the sidelines for 3 hours while Rod Black said "Don Matthews" over and over again.  Good times.

TSN thinks the CFL is too boring to watch if there's not a good side story to beat into the ground. Annoys the hell out of me. 

that computerized scouting system..well again I see the benefits of a standardized grading of players seeing as it was developed for the CFL, and why not take advantage of it…

 

See I have a hard time getting so jonesed up of a switch in what system a GM uses to grade players. Here's a relevant example from my job, I use a specific program to do my work in, the guy I am reporting to now though has forced me to switch to a new system because in his mind it's far superior and makes more sense for everyone. It's not, it makes more sense to him, to me it's just a giant pain in the ass when I can get a better picture in the program I was using before. The point? Different people see things differently, doesn't make one way better or worse than the other just that for different people different approaches work. Of all the things wrong with the Bombers the last couple years finding prospects from the states was absolutely not one of the problems. 

I am completely serious though, would Kane take nearly the **** he does if he was a white kid? If he was a 30 goal scorer from some rural town in Manitoba and acted exactly the same way people would absolutely LOVE the kid. Guys like Carter and Richards were the poster boys for being stupid immature kids and no one gave them half as much crap as Kane gets. 

Well if you want to keep the power supply centralized then yes nuclear is the clear cut best option. I just think a better solution is to de-centralize everyones power as much as possible. It's a lot of upfront costs on individuals though so it's not an easy sell. 

With Mack and Moll you were basically paying for their connections. I seem to recall Moll talking about the process and I was left with the impression that they basically talk to people they know to get leads on players then Mack and Moll would look into the tapes of these players and work out the ones that impressed them the most. So techincally it's 2 guys on staff but they used a lot more eyes indirectly as well. Now I am going to go out on a limb and say that Walters has a hell of a lot less connections so he needs more eyes of his own. Nothing wrong with that and I sure as hell hope it works out, but different systems work for different folks. We never had a problem scouting american players using Macks system so let's not go trying to claim he was short changing us in that aspect. 

Also that didnt answer my question at all.  You said Kane couldnt pull in L.A. the crap he's pulled in Winnipeg.  What crap has he pulled in Winnipeg?  Being injured?  Having multiple line-mates?  Being moved around the line up?  What has Kane done that you object to?

Been dark skinned?

Ate at Hooters last week for the first time she they opened in their old location.  I was there for a charity fundraiser otherwise it wouldnt be my usual hangout.  20 years ago I found the food average at best and the servers were far too aggresive in their flirting.

 

But they were good last week.  Servers were really nice.  Had a Chicken Cesar.  it was good.  Decent atmosphere.

 

They have some kind of chicken burger there, fantastic. The whole premise is kind of ridiculous with the constant flirting and what not but for greasy food it's perfectly fine. Just as long as you understand the whole idea behind the servers and can ignore the ridiculous over the top flirting. 

 

 

I love Chicken Delight. Only because in Calgary we have KFC & that's about it. I miss it.

C'mon, no love for Chicken On The Way?? It's one of the least healthy things I've ever had, but as far as greasy chicken and a mountain of fries goes, it's solid every time...

 

 

 

I love Chicken Delight. Only because in Calgary we have KFC & that's about it. I miss it.

C'mon, no love for Chicken On The Way?? It's one of the least healthy things I've ever had, but as far as greasy chicken and a mountain of fries goes, it's solid every time...

 

Honestly, lived here for 24 years & I never had it... I'll take your word for it, though.  

 

No don't do that, it's nothing special. Had it for the first time a few months ago wasn't overly impressed. The Chicken Chef (was a Chicken Delight before that) in the town I grew up in had better fried chicken than Chicken On The Way. I'd just as soon get KFC to that. 

 

Joey Elliott reminds me of Drew Tate but with less talent.

And I remind myself of Peyton Manning but with less talent and less money.

 

so just a guy with a goofy face?

To be perfectly honest, the best solution is probably if every house and building was as off the grid as possible, but good luck getting most people to pay the up front costs of conversion. Stuff like solar is a good option for minimal usage, use the grid for heavy use times only otherwise everyone is on their own. That's the future of energy if you ask me. 

 I'm just saying at some point people get angry with the product & get turned off. Look at attendance for a losing team. Are they bad fans for not going to games? I'd bet most aren't.

but this isn't really the point. If those angry fans stop going but come back when the team wins doesn't that hammer home the point that fans just want to see wins? The question is about cheering for losses, no one who is a fan does that. 

It just seems to me that there is a lot of people getting worked up trying to figure out how to put the toothpaste back in the tube. 

like I said, way way too many factors to be as worked up as people are. Worry more about adapting.

Elliott is a lost cause who insults team mates.. ill be amazed if he lands on another squad.

but that has more to do with age than anything else. Qbs that old who haven't established themselves don't get unlimited chances to do it. It's a narrow window and if they miss their opportunity it closes quick. 

 

 

 

6' DBs...have to assume they can't cover for ****, otherwise they'd be in The League......?

Their schools are also likely to be a factor for some teams in the NFL. Juran Bolden and Brandon Browner are two DB's who immediately come to mind that are tall who did quite well for themselves. 

 

I have no idea how Browner managed to become somebody in the NFL, I always felt he was terribly over rated in the CFL and if the refs were at all serious about calling PI he could have been flagged every play. 

 

If you ever watched the Seattle Seahawks play it would be evident very quick why he was somebody in the NFL. Now as it turns out, how much of that was aided by PED's we'll see this coming season with New England.

 

well yeah but I'm not ever going to follow the NFL that closely, all I know is I was never that impressed by him in the CFL, thought he was just a guy who got away with a lot of penalties and got hype for being tall. 

 

 

 but let's not pretend that we have much talent for him to work with.

 

But nobody's pretending anything…we just don't know.

For years we've had these guys who may, or may not be any good, and we've had questions about the coaching.

Now, we have somebody we can trust to evaluate.

That's the whole point of procuring somebody who will know…and do something about it, and that does warrant the optimism behind this hire.

 

No question, I am completely behind Wylie and believe he can improve the line, but realistically there's only so much he can do without the proper horses. 

 

but what if these guys are better than they showed because they didn't get the coaching required? At least now there will be no question about it. If a proven guy can't get them to play better no one can and you get new players, but so many guys seemed to never progress that it calls into question the development.

Olli at a pay cut is a possibility... Who really will pay him 4.5 million anymore? Also doesn't his family live in town?

I'd offer him a longer contract at a pay cut and see if he'd take that

Lots of teams are looking for a veteran middle 6 centre that I don't think 2 million per year is realistic

I think I know what my statement was meant to say... the original question in the thread was cheer for wins or cheer for losses to improve draft picks, I gave an answer to that question. If you cheer for losses then yes you are a bad fan. 

 

 

I'm not a scientist {collective gasp} but it seems to my untrained hippie eyes that the industrial revolution had some sort of clearly measurable impact on global temperatures and sea levels... I can't think it's just a coincidence, or easily dismissed as anecdotal evidence.

 

 

well I am a scientist specializing in the Earth, and I am not proclaiming myself an expert my base knowledge of geology and geologic history of the Earth does give me a good understanding of the processes that go on. We know that the greenhouse effect is real, we know there has been a lot of CO2 released into the atmosphere in that time, the problem of course is that geologically speaking a couple hundred years is an insignificant  time frame and you get into the issue of how reliable is data from 100 years ago compared to the measurements of everything they can take from today? Going back even further is much harder and gives more variables into the numbers they come up with because looking at indirect evidence always has that uncertainty. It is pretty safe to say there has been warming going on, now is it primarily driven by CO2 or are there other factors involved? Are the predictions made accurate? That's a big one and I don't think it is possible to predict what will happen because there are so many things that make a difference. The more factors you have to include the harder it is to accurately predict what will happen. 

 

Climate is still a really new area of study for science, as a result of that you start to see really detailed information from the last couple decades... but you have to make a lot of assumptions about data collected before and then you get into the fact that a couple decades, or even a couple centuries is a blip. This is the standard presentation they use to give some perspective on how old the Earth is. Compare it to a 24 hour clock and humans have only been around for just over a minute. 

 

 

6' DBs...have to assume they can't cover for ****, otherwise they'd be in The League......?

Their schools are also likely to be a factor for some teams in the NFL. Juran Bolden and Brandon Browner are two DB's who immediately come to mind that are tall who did quite well for themselves. 

 

I have no idea how Browner managed to become somebody in the NFL, I always felt he was terribly over rated in the CFL and if the refs were at all serious about calling PI he could have been flagged every play. 

 

you never cheer for anything but wins if you are a fan of the team. 

Nope, I don't agree with that at all. There are reasons why fans boo & cheer. Just saying if you don't drink the kool-aid all the time & cheer the Bombers or Jets on then you aren't a good fan is too simplistic. Just look at the Bombers last 2 disastrous on & off field seasons & what they've been through with all the ups & downs the fans have experienced. Saying any fan that was angered or didn't pull for the team to win because losing meant a guaranteed change in the regime is then a bad fan is wrong.That hasn't happened yet with the Jets. But at some point, say the next 2 seasons, we better see some marked improvement with the on ice product as well as a playoff appearance or the fans will turn. BTW, what do you think Oilers fans are thinking these days? Think they have a lot of love for their team & the people coaching & managing it? 

 

except that's not what I said at all... I said if you're a fan of the team you always want them to win games... None of this "I hope they lose so they can draft higher" crap, you always cheer for the team to win every game. I know exactly what Oiler fans are thinking, win some ******* games! (ie. cheering for the team to win) As per usual you completely missed the point and went off on a tangent. 

If you trade Kane you are unlikely to get equal value for him. There aren't a lot of straight up hockey trades made anymore, usually if players are traded it's because they aren't working out and you're simply trying to recover some assets for him. 

5 years out of 6 billion could not be any less statistically significant.

4.6 billion actually, unless they've gone and changed their estimates again but pretty sure it's 4.6

 

Wasnt he a Francophone folk hero?  Why was that offensive to Francophones?

 

According to the link posted by comedygeek, French Canadians use his actually surname of Montferrand - Mufferaw was originally a spelling used by people who couldn't spell the name properly. Or maybe they had a problem with a real folk hero being used as a mascot. 

 

or maybe french people are just permanently pissed off about everything. 

 

It actually hasn't been getting sketchier. All that is happened is that the media has magnified the severity of any and every storm occurring now and presented each one as a "cause of climate change". It's just pandering to the unproven hypothesis. We're actually going through one of the slowest hurricane periods since 1900 right now. Tornado activity compared to the 1970's are way down. There are now even peer-reviewed papers supporting the hypothesis that more CO2 in the atmosphere leads to less severe weather on earth, but of course, those papers are ignored as they don't support the fear-mongering craziness that is necessary to keep the cash-eating machine of the AGW movement going.

 

So much this. Every storm, ever cold snap, every hot spell it's not weather anymore it's doom and gloom climate change!!!!11!!!! pisses me off. I also completely agree with you how greenhouse gas emissions have usurped the environmental issues so completely and totally. There are plenty of worse things we're dumping into the environment but because it's not the hot topic of the day it doesn't matter. That **** really pisses me off. The weather is always going to be unpredictable and we are always going to have severe weather pop up, that's been going on since day 1, and it's always the poor who get hit hardest that hasn't changed either. Just that there's big business in climate change too and lots of people are making money and not solving any issues. This whole idea that you can buy carbon credits and solve the problem... nonsense. It's a wealth transfer scheme nothing more.