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I can't imagine being emotionally ready to go play a game 12 hours after you find out your dad died out of nowhere. I'd be worried that he injures himself or does something stupid in the heat of the moment because it is IMPOSSIBLE to be fully engaged in a game, when you're facing this kind of grief.

No thanks... He can stay right where he is for the next decade. *Insert Doc Holliday I'm In My Prime Meme*

Absolutely brutal. He was tremendous on the panel, and even better on Colour. Severely weakens an already weak CFL on TSN production.

I have a coworker (Flyers fan, fwiw) who believes that Scheif has a bad reputation ever since his boarding penalty against Montreal during the bubble playoffs, and that he'll never get the benefit of the doubt ever again. Just pointing it out as an interesting take is all...

Benn fined 5k for his hit on Scheif, according to the Illegal Curve guys....

Ya it looked pretty bad at the time. We thought wrist, in the moment, but hard to say. Was on the opposite side of the field from us. He went up for the ball and came down hard on his hands (to brace himself for impact)...

Brutal... I was just in/on Falcon last Saturday. Hard to comprehend everything that's happened.

Absolutely brutal news about Logan. We are right ****** without a returner....

Hope you guys get endless rain and snow... My backyard is burning to a crisp right now. Prayers for EastMan.

No question... We need a lot more offensive production. Especially on the PP. It was an absolute clown show of errors at times yesterday with odd man rushes. That 4-on-1 was straight up embarrassing...

You can tell when Helle is dialed in and when he's not. He tends to sit way too far back in his net and not be aggressive. In G7 3rd period and into OT, we saw the MOP Helle show up. Through this series he's slowly lost that and gone back into his shell.

There's no way that'll be the case for these games. They won't shut out 99% of their market. I'm curious if the league will simulcast this on their YT channel... But either way, just gimme the goddamned game. Even if it's OB synced with the in house camera... Actually come to think of it, that might be better than the actual game feed....

If I remember right, a lot of that stuff on/near the water is up the west side of Lake Winnipeg. But ya, they shot a ton in the city last year.

Fairweather indeed!! 😂

Love that... MB looking great as usual. Cute play on the original Vacation movie...

Seconded... So many rats. But.... McDavid is incredible, and as a hockey fan, it's so much fun to watch him play. I want to say that McDrai + Bouch cancel out the rats, but......

I knew that was him I saw yesterday! There was a coach out there working with DBs and he was relatively "young" like an injured player or something.... And I swore it was BA... Great to see he's still there!

..and rarely wrong... Just don't ask my wife to back that up.

And I just remembered that today is, indeed, Manitoba Day. God I love this place.

**** the Argos and especially **** sex pests...

Fun to sit and watch practice today... Been about 20 years since I was last able. With respect to the late great Randy Turner, the king of Odds and Sods writing.... here's some thoughts: -All jokes aside, Jake Thomas looks like he's lost at least 30lbs and maybe 10 years. Not sure it'll translate but he gave himself a chance. -There were a number of guys who I thought looked leaner (Adams the DL and Wallace, notably) and I wonder if there's a concerted effort by Brendan the trainer to get guys faster this year -Makonzo got hurt. Wasnt carted off, but he landed awkwardly in coverage and came up favouring his wrist. Didn't look good. -Mitchell looks very smooth and runs good routes. -If Vaughters can stay healthy, he is just an absolute load. He and Willie would be very hard to handle. That said, they were doing a drill to see who could get off the line fastest without being offsides and Jake beat Vaughters and was giving him a hard time. We'll call that a one off. -Both Zach and Strev looked good, tho Strev had a couple brain cramps. One under thrown ball that he was immediately angry about and I think a botched run play that he took the heat for. Patterson definitely has a rifle arm... Accuracy is the question. - I have hopes for Keric Wheatfall to take another step this year. -Our LB corps, as already noted, is very very deep and the coaches have a lot of options. People were shifting around a lot but packages with Kyrie at MACK was interesting. -Watched a lot of OL/DL 1v1... OL wasn't terrible, though it seemed like there would be holding calls on a number of plays. DL are just so much faster and you're trying to not get put on roller skates. Thought Wallace showed very well and some of the Americans like Randolph, Vanterpool and Lofton as well. In the reps we saw, we didn't think Neufeld looked very good. It was a bit concerning watching him get "walked" by a few DL. -Its very impressive what Mike Benson does. He really whips that ball and it is so deadly accurate. -Coaches are all very engaged and animated. Osh was hollering pretty good at one point about a missed tackle "You gotta have that!!" Richie, JY, Costello, among others, very very active and involved. -Stan and Willie are both basically coaches. They do a lot of teaching. That's just a few thoughts. I didn't take notes or anything.. just tried to enjoy the sunshine and being at the barn again. I love the CFL, I love the Bombers, and I love Manitoba summers.... It's great to be home.

This is a thing we haven't talked enough... Younger going in to his second season at th helm. He's only going to get better with experience, so I'm excited to see what our D looks like. Could be really special if a few guys from last year take a step forward....

Interesting about gowanlock.... Wonder if that's an injury thing or what.

Was absolute bedlam in the Hargraves Market last night. What an experience....