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Absolutely. If he has any kind of game left and can play ST he'd be an upgrade over Volny.

Yeah it's a little weird to think that Kenny Tate was supposed to be that ultimate "Gary Etcheverry" type player, but ended up being cut pretty early.

IMO none of these cuts are really surprises. What did Kenny Tate do at all? He was given so many chances to make an impact. Errol Brooks just doesn't have enough size or skill and I feel like we may DI Paris Cotton (looks like he's a good returner and RB). My question is how they feel about Urutia, being that he has been given the same amount of chances as Kenny Tate to make an impact, and hasn't either.

For 3-4 positions...not too bad. Considering Goosen and Morley were doing good jobs snapping the ball, it was pretty easy to conclude Chris Kowalczuk was going to be cut.

How can you say anything about where this team ranks compared to years past without one meaningful game being played? I get your concerns but come on.

White looked absolutely terrible yet Jones kept playing him& playing him. You'd think he'd want to get the rust off Nicholls in the pre season. Or maybe he just thinks Reilly is his guy & doesn't want a qb controversy. Either way, I thought the decision to keep White in was really questionable. Benevides gave Glenn the first quarter which too was a bit surprising. He needs to get his timing down throwing the ball & getting familiar with the new playbook. Not a very good game to watch. That little scatback for BC is going to steal Stephan Logan's job, you watch. Yeah I think they went with Pat White because Jacory Harris was even worse, to the point where he wouldn't even be getting the rest of the players in the offense meaningful reps. Can't believe I forgot Crompton. What a pile of crap outing he had. Clearly he has some skill over the other Edmonton QBs, but man, he was terrible. I've seen him play much better than that.

He's making even Bryant Turner jealous... I'm pretty sure one of them is "Future Brett Carter" 28 year old phenom that's travelled back in time to save our NI depth.

Watched the BC @ Edmonton pre-season game last night. You can tell why Wally Buono needed to go out and get Kevin Glenn. He had no depth behind (a somewhat injured) Lulay in Beck and Partridge. Beck looked pretty bad if you ask me. He throws a weird short armed ball. Partridge looks a bit more promising, but these guys are both new and would be eaten alive in a regular season game. Edmonton is lucky to have Nichols back. If there is one non Bomber QB that I'm rooting for it would be him. Having to go through ACL injuries twice myself, I can relate as to how physically and mentally debilitating it can be. If he can stay healthy he will be seeing the field quite a bit this year. But yeah, they are extremely lucky to have him back because between Pat White and Jacory Harris, they looked just about as bad as you could in a pre-season game.

This would actually be pretty awesome if he has good hands.

Brett Carter playing 2 positions.

Oh well at least it looks like this regime isn't going to be sitting around waiting for these "duds" to realize their "potential". I know it's an oversimplification but: May the best players play.

Cotton broke some tackles in that game despite his "lack of size".

Have to get rid of all the Mack draft picks, apparently.

Ugh. He seemed like he had a nasty side to him which I was excited to see if he ever got his act together. Looks like that's it for him...

My dream job: stay at home husband.

And the Jaymar Johnson go-out-of-bounds-2-yards-before-the-first-down debacle.

Hard to say. Hall came into the game looking poised and had a couple let downs from his receivers. It really sucks that he didn't recover from that though.

I try not to read too much into receivers playing well in the preseason. Our leading receivers the last three preseasons have been Trevor Kennedy, Doug Pierce, Perry Floyd and Josh Bishop. It's just what I've seen from the guy in a couple training camp sessions and then at the game (whatever my insights are worth). It was a great play to read the comeback throw on the TD.

Still nobody mentioning Kemp. He was Marvelous Marve's go-to receiver on his TD drive. Smooth, smart, fast. He's a playmaker.

Very true. I like the guy...he gets excited about the CFL. But honestly sometimes I think he is creating drama for his own sake using his twitter comments.

Ricky Foley...what more can you say.

Not sure what a better lawyer would do. The blame has to fall squarely on Scott Flory and whoever else was pushing the outrageous demands from the beginning. This deal should have been worked out in the off-season, with the players coming in with a more reasonable offer. In my opinion, if they hadn't have played hardball, they could have gotten a little more out of this deal.

Could win a lot of games with a good team around him.

I think O'Shea is just throwing that out there to try to get the NI's to step up. I've seen this as his plan from the beginning. When have we ever brought in import competition at guard and center? There is no way the Bombers can actually afford, ratio wise, to have 3 import olinemen. It's just a matter of which two positions on the line will have imports. Definitely LT, maybe RG, maybe RT.

Kind of sounds like this might be the only pre-season that is not affected by the strike. I read that the players will not be able to strike by then.