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I didn't see any problems in Suber's game when he lines up with, oh , say Jamel Richardson, a bigger, stronger receiver, who absolutely would get frustrated facing Suber.
And this right there is why people shouldn't worry about his size. Richardson is one of the biggest guys out there and Suber has a history of frustrating the hell out of him.
He'll always be at a disadvantage when it comes to jump balls on taller receivers but thus far it hasn't been much of an issue. Suber knows his strengths and weaknesses as a player and stays within himself and it works. He's not flashy but he is a damned good defensive back.
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I like Suber and all, but no one can say that his height doesn't hinder him. Heck being that short hinders any DB.
We just can't have too many midgets back there.
being tall can also hinder a db because trust me, tall people in general don't have as much quickness as short players in general. It's just physics. I don't care how tall they are if they can cover. Sure all things being equal taller is better but if the short guy can cover then by all means play him. It just blows my mind how many people continually crap on Suber just because he's a shorter player, there have been a ton of great dbs in the CFL who are short.
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I hope to not to have to see Suber in the starting line up ever again.
Yeah! No one likes having good players starting for us.
- Noeller, Jimmy Pop and MOBomberFan
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What do I want the Bombers to do? Quit coming in second with so many free agents. I expected us to be way more aggressive than we have been. In the CFL, it's all about the money because no one makes multi million dollar guaranteed contracts. It's not like the NHL where players sign "Home Discounts" to stay with a team for less money than the open market because their contracts are already very high to begin with.
CFL players will go where the money is because they have such a short career span to play. If one team offers more $$ players usually go. I'm not talking five grand, I mean substantial like $10,000 or $20,000 a year or more. So, this talk about us offering players more money yet they won't sign here, I have a hard time believing it. Maybe the odd one like Burris who got the CFL equivalent of the moon but more than one player like Butler, Collaros & even maybe now McCune? I don't believe it. Like I said, I believe we have an idea of what we'll pay & won't go over that amount one cent. Last year we were substantially under the cap from what I read & where did that get us?
Playoff money my man, it matters to FAs in a lot of cases too. Yeah maybe Winnipeg and Hamilton offered the same money, but if you want to plan on getting some playoff money as well isn't Hamilton playing in a 4 team division with an expansion team more likely to hit the playoffs than Winnipeg in a 5 team and very tough western division? Until this franchise stabilizes itself you gotta expect free agents to be leery of coming here.
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Ford to me is a guy who is better served as a change of pace guy than a full time RB. Just don't really like the speedster rbs. Give me the guy who can do the hard running inside. Someone who has a 5 or 6 yards per carry the honest way rather than having it bumped up by the real big one every now and then.
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**** twitter, there I said it.
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When he says "camp" is he referring to TC or the mini-camp in the spring? The way his tweet was worded makes me wonder if he's been invited to the mini-camp and is hoping to get a contract then.
That's the impression I got, invite to mini camp try to get a contract and an invite to the big camp.
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I'm well aware.
That was also 4-5 years ago. And he wasn't much beyond average at it then.
Did you know that a safety is also a DB? I sure didn't.
- yogi and basslicker
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That'd require our media to actually pay attention and notice.
Just for fun, has anyone actually seen some of the media members at training camp? I get that they are long practices but sometimes I swear they're not even paying attention to the field.
At the training camp sessions I've attended over the years, I notice they mostly watch a few minutes, enough to satisfy the blurbs they need (best catch, scrap of the day etc.) but don't really watch enough to know what is going on beyond what they are told by coaches.
I've been to training camp sessions where a guy literally makes one nice catch but drops everything else, slow out of his breaks, quitting on his routes, basically everything bad a receiver can do, and he's touted as a guy who should be in a battle to make the team because the reporter was watching for the 3 minutes where the guy made a great catch and didn't have any drops.
The one I went to last year when I also picked up my tickets, I saw a number of media guys hanging out around the entrance of IGF and kind of watched for them throughout the practice, they didn't really come in and pay attention until they started scrimmaging, missing all the positional groups and 1 on 1's (2 on 2's and 4 on 5 pass pro) between OL/DL, REC/DB's, and the pass skelly, important stuff if you are going to actually look critically at guys.
I always put more stock into what the regular posters here say about training camp performances than what the reporters say. Only guy who was worth a damn was Tait and that's mostly because he seemed to just ask either the coach or GM who was standing out. I just don't believe any of the other guys have the actual insight to say anything of consequence.
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Popp's always seems to be casting feelers south with NFL interest every year. Perhaps Wettenhal soured on him for that reason. He always seems to be looking like he's just biding time with the ALs until someone gives him a job. Even if it is the **** show in Cleveland as he'd take it. .Not saying Popp shouldn't be looking but I think after awhile an employer would tire of this every year. MAYBE.... just sayin' here.... (in speculation)... Maybe... Wettenhal feels that Popp only wants loyalty one way. The way it suits him best. I think there's always 2 sides to the story.
I said the same thing to Noeller this afternoon, maybe Popp is more concerned with landing an NFL gig and Wettenhall is pushing him out.
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I don't think it's as bad as it used to be, all the other countries are so well scouted these days that they all lose their best to the NHL too. Except for maybe Russia and sissies like Radulov and Kovalchuk who can't handle the NHL.
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really is. I hate that the NFL has become so big to a lot of Canadians just because it's so massively hyped up.
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I've lived in Calgary for a long time & I think 17's comments are over the top. We like the NFL as much as any other city. But we aren't NFL wannabees.
They really are. I play a bunch of rec league stuff and I always have jokes made at my expense for wearing Bomber gear, not because the Bombers suck, but because the CFL is a joke to these people. Yes there are CFL fans in Calgary, but most of them are rider fans. True Stamps fans are a rare breed because people are either like I said Rider fans or NFL fans because they have to follow what is hyped the most.
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Calgary just has too many douchebags who would rather follow UFC and **** like that or desperately want to be "big time" and only care about the NFL.
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Some of them bend their elbows & push the stone when releasing it.
Lots of the good players in Canada do this too, it's intentional because they need to get more rotation on the swingy arena ice. I guarantee you were taught the same way I was where it's a simple turn of the wrist, and that works well on club ice but on arena ice no chance. I think that will be where the difference is, the euro teams are not used to playing on that kind of ice and the adjustment throws them off whereas a team like Jones has played on that type of ice tons and knows how to do it without screwing up the line.
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Ha, where's Bluto with a response?
i'll withold comment to wait and see what happens to Bomber attendance if they start poorly and the "newness" of IGF wears off a bit...
houses. stones. glass. etc.
Oh please, Bomber fans have seen shitty teams for long stretches before, there's a base of 18000-20000 who show up regardless of how the team plays.
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The one way up high are far away but they're still pretty good seats if you want to be someone not in the endzone.
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I am not going to comment on the positional coaches because I haven't seen enough of them and as a rookie head coach I think we need to give o'shea the benefit of the doubt for now, but the OC and DC? Very underwhelming. Remember these guys were out of the league until the Bombers got desperate and gave them a job. That doesn't inspire a lot of confidence. Really seems like they were digging to the bottom of the barrel to get these guys. I hope they prove me wrong but based on past history I dunno.
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I don't know if Edwards was even protected in the Ottawa draft. He said something at the time that he wanted to retire as a Bomber, which I took to mean he wasn't protected because there would be no reason to bring it up if he was.
This is what I was wondering too. He did talk about not going to play in Ottawa at all so I suspect that was strategic so that they could leave him unprotected.
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I repeat set your standards higher. Is better than recently a good indication of having constructed a good staff? Again this is staff is a reflection of a dismantled organizations inability to attract both FAs and coaches.
Or maybe you shouldn't just talk out of your ass. You said there was a lack of experience, you're completely 100% wrong about that, it's just that the experience isn't great.
What you're doing here is trying to move the goal posts. You'd be better off just admitting that you were wrong on your comment and then move on.
- johnzo, Mr. Perfect, Blue-urns and 1 other
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Bombers re-sign Ford
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To me it's all about how those yards come. I'd rather a guy pick up 60 yards a game with a longest run being 15 yards than a guy picking up 60 yards when there's a 30 or 40 yard run in there. Just a preference on my part. Same reason I was less sold on Fred Reid compared with some people. Preference for someone who can grind it out at the position as opposed to the big play guy.