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36 minutes ago, johnzo said:
only 83 days left until the season starts. Then we can replace the offseason lunacy with regular season lunacy.
Off-season, regular season & post-season lunacy:
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24 minutes ago, M.Silverback said:
I'm going to sound like I'm a John Hodge burner account on this forum (I'm not), but the CFL draft is by far the toughest to predict in terms of order, who gets picked. So many factors, but the biggest being the best players aren't ever picked high because of NFL interest. So, you're guessing on how GM's will choose the best "available" player, and then factoring in positions that actually matter in the CFL for ratio. This isn't the NFL, NBA, NHL where a casual fan can probably get 50% accuracy on the first round. I like CFL mock drafts (3downnation and cfl.ca) just to get to know potential players. I know RSEQ players pretty well because I watch every game for one school, but clueless as to anyone else. So if your criteria is you only like mock drafts for their accurate selection order predictions , no debate on CFL draft predictions.
For me it's not so much the accuracy but the logic behind the picks.
For example, you can't convince me that the Bombers will go with 2 FB's in their 1st 3 picks of a fairly deep draft because of a "glaring need" at that position (according to Hodge). That's where he (and their site in general) falls way short. When you look at how the Bombers use a FB, what makes that a glaring need? Mike Miller, over the course of 4 seasons with us had 8 catches (10 targets), and 3 carries. Is that the kind of production you'd want to use a higher draft pick to replace? I get there's more to the FB role than the odd carry or catch but that's easily replaceable without using draft capitol.
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12 hours ago, Goalie said:
I’ll start
with the 1st overall pick the elks select LB Joel Dublanko. Why? Because he’s a projected 1st game starter and Esks need players who can play now not just in 2 years.
The L's went LB with the 2nd overall pick last year (Michael Brodrique) and he played all 18 games for them last year. If they feel he's ready to step up this year, they may not need Dublanko. It's also Chris Jones so logic doesn't always apply and it's anybody's guess what he'll do.
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54 minutes ago, GCn20 said:
I didn't even know the combine was last week and I'm a diehard CFL fan. If they can't reach me they don't have a snowballs chance of drumming up interest to the casual fan.
Can you really claim that title if you didn't know that it doesn't start for another 5 days?
They've had 14 articles on the combine over the past 7 days (and another 6 the week before) on the CFL website, so it's not like they aren't talking about it. https://www.cfl.ca/category/cfl-combine/
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2 hours ago, Noeller said:
I go back and forth on it, but I can't imagine being with someone who doesn't share the same passions. On the other hand, it might be nice to have something that's just yours and gets you away from them for awhile. S'posin' it depends on how much you enjoy being around your significant other...
Balance is good. We have things we absolutely love to do together (bombers, camping, traveling) but also have stuff that has zero interest for the other.
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2 hours ago, Noeller said:
because it's not much of an event.... there was some talk about it on Twitter from the league and CIS, but there will be a lot more next week at the actual combine in Wpg.
It's also tough to promote since it's a best of the rest kind of deal. IIRC, most of the top prospects will not be participating.
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19 minutes ago, SpeedFlex27 said:
UFC did the same thing in Calgary years ago. They changed the card with so many matches from the original advertised that it was a fiasco. Calgary UFC fans were unhappy. They promised to be back but they never have.
Not completely accurate. Calgary did have a PPV event (UFC 149) back in 2012 that was completely ravaged by injuries (9 fighters out due to injury & a couple fights lost due to contract issues) but they did come back in 2018 (UFC on FOX 30: Alvarez vs. Poirier 2). It wasn't a PPV but it was a good event and they only had 1 undercard fight fall off the card.
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5 minutes ago, SpeedFlex27 said:
Is Tom Wright who was CFL Commissioner two decades ago still heading up UFC Canada?
No, they got rid of his role a while back (2016?) when the UFC shutdown the vast majority of their foreign offices. I think they laid off like 80% of the Canadian office. Not even sure they have one now.
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1 minute ago, Brandon said:
MMA/UFC was hot in Winnipeg but I believe after the incredibly dull UFC 161 it burned the city. The 2nd time they came back the ticket sales were terrible and they had to paper the show to help fill up the place. UFC will never come back to Winnipeg.
Locally we had shows but it is far to expensive to run shows at the Convention Center or the arena. You can still watch amateur fights but it's not quite the same.
Mike Tyson/Jake Paul is more then likely fake/fixed similar to some of Paul other previous fights. I would not watch this without expecting it to be a spectacle.
They were set run another show in Saskatoon in June of 2020 (even though their first show only there had like 7k in the crowd). They aren't (or weren't at least) against returning to a city that wasn't a smash hit the last time.
That being said, unless things change, most smaller cities in Canada are going to be off their list. Now that they've been running their smaller shows in their Apex Center, they don't really have a need to travel for their Fight Night events. it's much cheaper and easier (logistically) to have those shows there. They're only doing the odd smaller event outside of Vegas which pretty much takes places like Saskatoon or Winnipeg out of the running.
There are new laws in place in Manitoba which allows amateur MMA (previously not sanctioned but fights still happened). Hopefully we can get some promoters here to start following the Alberta/BC model that has been very successful out there - a mainly amateur card but headlined with 2-3 pro fights. It helps keeps the costs down for promoters by only having to pay a few fighters and gives fans some higher lever fights to watch.
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Just now, SpeedFlex27 said:
UFC would still be big on the prairies, wouldn't it? I mean. their PPV's are always a huge success. Quick question, does Mike Tyson have a chance against Luke Paul on July 20th? Should any State or Provincial Boxing Association sanction a fight between a 29 year old & a 58 year old?
I was referring to live events, not PPV. There are no active local promotions in Saskatchewan or Manitoba - Alberta does have a few promotions but not at the pre-pandemic levels. The UFC has come back to Canada a couple times now but even that is not the same as before. They were coming up here 2-4 times a year prior to 2020.
Anyone (especially a Mike Tyson) has a punchers chance but Paul is the heavy favorite for a reason. A responsible commission is most likely not sanctioning that fight but too many aren't overly concerned with fighter safety. There's politics involved in that stuff though. A lot of the time, the financial benefits for state/city hosting an event like that will over-ride other issues - it's big business.
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My main hobby/interest is anything related to fighting.
I was a fan of wrestling and boxing as a kid and my favorite hockey players were always the enforcers. Dave Semenko was a cousin so as a kid in the early 80's that was a huge deal and probably influenced a lot of my interests. When the UFC came around in the early 90's, I was obsessed with that and eventually turned it from an interest to a paying side gig.
I started out working behind the scenes for a local MMA promotion before getting hired by our provincial commission. I worked my way up to being a fight judge (mma, boxing, kickboxing), to a level that had me travelling across the country, working for the biggest promotions (UFC, Bellator). The pandemic has really changed the industry though (it's basically dead in the prairies at the moment) so I'm back to being a fan mostly now but hopefully one day things will pick up again.
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18 hours ago, WinnipegGordo said:
Bombers sign receiver Isaiah Coulter. He was a 2020 5th round draft pick.
This one is interesting as it was reported he signed with the UFL 4 days ago.
https://pfnewsroom.com/news/dc-defenders-continue-to-sign-wrs-add-isaiah-coulter/
They also signed DB James Campbell. He tried out for Seattle last year.
And released two days ago.
https://www.si.com/fannation/ufl/news/dc-defenders-release-players-first-wave-ufl-roster-cuts
QuoteD.C. has let go of another five wide receivers just days after releasing Preston Williams, including notable recent pickups like Coulter and Harley. The two pass catchers didn't last very long on the Defenders' roster, despite their recent NFL experience.
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14 hours ago, SpeedFlex27 said:
Once the Bombers knew they could sign Streveler, The Bombers would never have even tried to re-sign Brown. They traded him two weeks before the FA deadline. To me, That means they knew they had both little chance of signing Brown & not really caring as they had other plans. Streveler was the biggest free agent pick up of the off season for the Bombers. Bigger than had they somehow re-signed Brown. Not counting Oliveira & Schoen.
Anyway, that's my take on it. I'm sounding a bit too negative on Brown. I'd like to see him succeed. I knew he was gone anyway after last season & I was hoping beyond hope he signed with any other team other than Ottawa. I don't think much of Bob Dyce or Sean Burke fan as he isn't a very good head coach & that organization Burke runs is one big tire fire.
Walters said they knew that was the case before the season even started. Brown was clear with them after 2022 that he felt he had grown as much as he could here and needed to be on the field more. He knew he was not going to get that chance here so he was leaving. It was not a matter of money or the club not wanting him, they just couldn't give him the one thing he wanted the most - playing time.
The only way things may have played out differently is if Zach had gotten hurt last season. A serious injury could have forced the team to move on from Zach before they were ready but it didn't play out like that so here we are. Getting Strevy back just means things worked out for the best for everyone. Dru gets his playing time & we get to roll with Zach/Strevy while we develop a rookie as our 3rd string QB.
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He didn't have Canadian status before now so he didn't qualify for the draft. He hadn't been neg listed either so I don't see any issue with it. He's still a rookie since he's played no regular season games in the NFL.
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1 hour ago, Jpan85 said:
Watched it live one of the more insane things I have seen.
And now he's off to prepare to climb Mt. Everest (legitimately). Just a guess but he maybe the only wrestler to have attempted this.
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Just looked outside and saw no signs of this terrible weather you guys are talking about? 😂
Seems like I picked a good time to head south!
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43 minutes ago, JohnnyAbonny said:
Argos/Bombers imo are neck and neck for best scouting in the league, and as much as I hate to say it, Toronto’s actually done better than us there over the last 2 years.
TBF, some of their players weren't actually scouted by them. Stiggers, for example, was not discovered by their scouts. He happened to play in the Fan Controlled league for an old Argo Assistant (John Jenkins) who told Toronto about him. I'm sure this happens for every team to some extent though - you're not going to be able to see everyone so it pays to have connections.
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28 minutes ago, JCon said:
And, mornings or evenings. It's really like having a second fulltime job. She's done everything, won everything, is the GOAT. Time to enjoy her family.
Yup, she's been doing this, at a high level for such a long time now. It's been 30 years since I first heard about Jennifer Jones - the curler. We went to the same high school (she's a few years older than me so we only overlapped for a year I think) and it was a pretty big deal when she won the junior nationals in 94. Looking at what she's accomplished since then is amazing - definitely the GOAT in my books.
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The worst case scenario for me would have been Sheed signing in Saskatchewan. I did not want to have to hate that guy.
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5 minutes ago, JCon said:
Do consultants count against the cap?
They should. The Stamps also have Huff as a "special advisor".
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55 minutes ago, wbbfan said:
Any synopsis of what he said?
glad Sergio is back. Hope they either let him punt or get a really good punter and kick off guy.
26 minutes ago, ShyGuy said:The only thing I remember Bighill commenting about was when people were suggesting that he shouldn't have been playing because he had coverage on the early 3rd quarter touchdown and he seemed to be throwing someone under the bus by insinuating that of course that wasn't his responsibility... but really isn't that the other team's job to scheme it such as it BECOMES his responsibility?
This. Here's one of his quotes on it. He also tweeted about it so he definitely wanted it out there that it was not his fault.
Quote“If you guys in the media are maybe a little bit more savvy watching football than maybe your average person, you know that we don’t ask linebackers to cover receivers vertically down the field,” Bighill said. “Let’s just say I was trying to cover up and help out. Was that my man in man-to-man coverage? No. But it’s OK, there was a miscommunication that Montreal did a good job of exploiting, coaching-wise. They saw something from the previous game that they went and attacked and made a big play on it. That’s the way it goes, good play by them.”
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10 minutes ago, Wanna-B-Fanboy said:
No one said boys will be boys- where are people getting this from? No one is excusing the behaviour here...
Different workplaces will have different degrees of risk for every facet... its important to
Do they have female guards in male penitentiaries? Honest question.
Was it said verbatim? No but this implies men can't control themselves and it's just in their nature.
"I'd advise taking a job working intimately with 100 football players with no other women in sight was not a good idea, something was bound to happen, and it did."
Yes, they do. I have a few family members (male and female) currently working at the same men's penitentiary in Alberta right now.
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1 hour ago, Wanna-B-Fanboy said:
Sure- but clearly that day ain't here yet.
But, I don't think @Fatty Liver's take is a horrible one.
Suggesting a woman shouldn't take certain jobs because "boys will be boys" is in fact a s****y take. These incidents are not limited to "testosterone filled locker rooms", they happen in all work places, unfortunately. Would you advise your daughter to not take an office job or work at McDonalds because it can happen there too?
38 minutes ago, Tracker said:I wouldn't tell my son to work as prison guard., either. I know enough of them to say that it is a stressful job at best and toxic at worst, and the inmates are not the only problem.
Yup, I have multiple family members who are or have been guards at federal penitentiaries - it's not a safe, healthy environment regardless of who/what you are.
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1 hour ago, GCn20 said:
Simmons on a min contract might be worth a camp look. Would have to due our due diligence on his mental health tho.
We were interested in him before and after he stepped away from the game to work on his issues so it doesn't seem like the team is put off by it. I think it's a good sign that he was aware enough to decline offers last year, knowing he wasn't in the right mind set to be playing. Still something he (and the team) need to be mindful of, but if he feels he's ready to play again, I think he's worth taking a look at.
2023/2024 Blue Bombers Off-Season Thread (BRADY’S BACK! DALTON’S BACK!)
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How about they bring back the closed captions?
I always wonder what guys like Jay Detain or Rory Dough Alert are up to these days.