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We just have to wait for the Buffalo Bills to move to Los Angeles, then we could have a team in Buffalo.
In the meantime, Quebec City is probably the next best location. If we are looking at smaller cities, why hasn't Saskatoon ever been considered?
Because the Roughriders would never allow it. For whatever reason their provincial pride is tied to the roughriders so people in Saskatoon are fans of the riders, would they all of a sudden start supporting the Saskatoon Berries? I doubt it.
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yeah you can't hold poor performances last year against any player, they all took turns looking poor with such horrendous leadership from the coaching. No plan, no ability to teach players how to be better, just an all around clusterfuck. Really feel bad for the players who got ruined by that set up.
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well I just assume that hype and tsn hype are one and the same. Yeah he played good, but it's also an offense that Ricky Ray played amazing in so what would he do in a different situation? I dunno. Always a risk involved with backup qbs going to a new situation. Collaros showed well but... seen guys in that situation falter before.
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nah I didn't even listen to the interview I just know what the situation is in the CFL with regards to the number of quality qbs and what happens everywhere else in sports when a salary cap rises. Agents really don't care about the big picture, all that matters to them is how much do my clients peers get paid and how much can my client get paid.
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Collaros has that "it" factor
playing in Toronto and getting the most hype because of it?
Maybe, at the same time though you've got to admit out of all the young QB's that started last season Collaros was one of the most exciting to watch. IMO Marsh, Smith and Mitchell were the others and I suppose that's where the Toronto hype factor works in.
Well difference between Collaros and Willy is that Willy didn't get nearly the opportunities to play. Honestly the most impressive of the young qbs to me was Smith
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Collaros has that "it" factor
playing in Toronto and getting the most hype because of it?
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Glad Walters made the deal for Willy - finally we have a young QB who can seriously challenge for the starting QB position. Won't be as good as Reilly , but he has the opportunity to be a good QB.
We shouldn't be satisfied with just this signing though. If Glenn is unavailable and Walters senses that Desjardins won't cut him prior to or during training camp, he needs to get out there and get another QB with some experience - Nichols should be the first choice, followed by Crompton. Heck, I would take Porter over Goltz coming back at this point. He can run and provide first down conversions just as well as Goltz and he has actually had a few decent passing games unlike Goltz.
Glad Etienne is done. It's Possible that he might put up some respectable numbers in Sasky (maybe some 300 yard seasons), but somehow I doubt he lasts more than a couple years before his career is over.
It's interesting that one of the biggest jade supporters over the years is absent from this thread...
Curious who you're talking about because my first thought is that it's me and I haven't been absent.
I'm actually bummed to see Jade go.
I'm curious too cause Noeller and I have been here as well...
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It's basically, a ploy to lower Glenn's price.
I prefer to go with the aforementioned middle finger to Ottawa trying to extort something noteworthy for Glenn.
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The norm in the sense that it will be the standard for starting qbs in the CFL. Not just Burris.
I'm not sure about that. If it was a different GM who gave this contract (ie Buono, Hufnagel, Barker) then I would be inclined to agree.
Jacquie, the salary cap is going to go up. If it goes up to $5 million it stands to reason that the contracts for qbs will be substantially more. And that teams will carry more than just one qb capable of starting. I heard that entire interview. Hank's agent called the new tv contract "A brave new world". And he said that some GMs see it coming & are preparing while others are not. This is a player agent talking, a guy whose clients include Burris & Ricky Ray. Not some fan talking out of his hat. He knows what will be happening. You can listen to the entire interview on CHQR in their audio vault. Just check the date & time I started this thread as the interview was just about to begin. Jacquie listen for yourself & decide. Matter of fact, I'd encourage everyone to listen. Just remember the time difference.
He's still talking out of his ass. There aren't enough qbs in the CFL for teams to carry 2 guys who can start. You know what will happen with more cap room? All contracts will rise, yeah backup qbs will be paid more... but the gap between starting and backup qbs will still be there cause when teams have such issues finding guys who can play a backup on one team will get starting money on another. All you do is shift the current CFL payscale up for everyone and a new equilibrium is reached with things being structured the same.
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cause in my mind, his top-end is higher than Darian Durant.
but you've hated Durant for years. The guy has played in what? 3 Grey Cup games already and won once, that ain't bad. Might be time to take off the rider hating glasses (and no one wants to do that) but Durant is a good quarterback.
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Super optimism powers.Funny feeling, call it a hunch.. Willy will be our #1 with hall and goltz battling it out for #2 (which hall wins) and McManus will have us a 3rd stringer who will be the next Reilly/Collaros/Willy..
I really think McManus will be the guy that landa us back into a good QB pipeline..
Serious question: based on what?
How about the power of super logical thought process? Read the above post, smart ass
But he hasn't proven anything yet so until such time it IS nothing more than optimism. When there's no track record it doesn't matter what it looks like on paper, optimism is the name of the game. Why not just accept and embrace that you're just being an optimist? It's not a bad thing.
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I still don't understand why the team went to Boltus in that role for the last few games, when it was clear that Goltz was better at that role. I can only assume that they have given up on him.
Tim Burke held grudges but didn't have the balls to out right cut a player.
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Funny feeling, call it a hunch.. Willy will be our #1 with hall and goltz battling it out for #2 (which hall wins) and McManus will have us a 3rd stringer who will be the next Reilly/Collaros/Willy..
I really think McManus will be the guy that landa us back into a good QB pipeline..
Serious question: based on what?
Super optimism powers.
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it's FA rights for FA rights correct? so if you don't think you're going to extend Jay Detain that's fine, but man if he goes to the riders and plays well there will be questions asked.
More like questions being asked if we just lost Etienne for nothing and he played well elsewhere, don't you think?
Well no I'm thinking more along the lines of if Etienne plays well somewhere else then why couldn't he do it here? Would raise a hell of a lot of questions about a lot of things don't you think? Like I said I don't mind trading FA for FA if you don't expect to sigh the guy but if the Bombers so totally gave up on/ never gave a chance to Etienne and he winds up working out where he plays next then it raises a lot of serious questions.
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it's FA rights for FA rights correct? so if you don't think you're going to extend Jay Detain that's fine, but man if he goes to the riders and plays well there will be questions asked.
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Now, I realize that Fitzgerald was drafted with the idea of turning him into a FB, but would there a possibility of converting him back to receiver?
FB in the CFL these days is much more like a TE than a FB anyway so I wouldn't worry about that.
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Hall and Willy battling for spots 1 and 2 wouldn't be the worst situation.
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why not stick with Hall? He did show some signs of getting better and he has shown more than Nichols cause every time nichols gets into a game he leaves on a cart. Hell I still say Goltz isn't as useless as people make him out to be. He got the Tim Burke under the bus special.
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6'2 202 is pretty solid size, here's hoping he's worth a damn.
Though I'm starting to think we'll be forced to go with 3 NI receivers simply due to lack of options with the ratio.
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terrible article, but understandable given it is clear that Wiecek has no clue how the CFL and NFL operate. I miss the days when sports writers actually knew something about what they were writing about.
The big problem with weicek is that he openly talks about how he doesn't care for the CFL so right there you know he's not going to put in any effort to understand the league. Guy needs to go back to the track and curling cause he actually cares enough about those to get the story right.
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I haven't watched any of the video from this press conference, but Walters always strikes me as someone who speaks very deliberately. Doesn't just blurt out answers, he always seems to pause and think about his response and try and say the right things. I like the way he answers questions to be honest. I wouldn't blame any of them to be honest if they were frustrated, press conference to introduce the teams new qb and I suspect the media only wanted to talk about the guys who aren't there. That'd piss me off too. Talk about Willy! He's the one that is here and will hopefully be winning games for the team.