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  13. CFL Supplemental Draft

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    His play drew the attention of the B.C. Lions, who put him on their negotiation list – a method by which CFL teams commonly lock down American players. He was getting ready to sign his first contract with the team last month when his mom received a message from TSN’s Duane Forde.

    “I remember I was sitting on the couch and my mom said, ‘Garrett this CFL analyst just Tweeted me and said to follow him and ‘DM’ him. What’s a DM and how do I follow him?’” Waggoner said. “That was funny.”

    Forde, who does colour commentary for CFL games and is the broadcaster’s resident draft expert, had been talking to a scout about Waggoner.

    “He mentioned how much he liked this kid and that he was Hal Waggoner’s grandson. I recognized the grandfather’s name just from being around the CFL,” Forde said.

    It also got Forde thinking: could Waggoner possibly qualify as a national player, something that would dramatically increase his value to teams around the league?

    Though Waggoner was born in the United States, he’s entitled to Canadian citizenship because his father Scott was born here, a practice commonly known as citizenship by first generation descent. In addition, the CFL changed its rules last year to consider any player with Canadian citizenship as a national.

    So Waggoner showed his mom how to direct message Forde. Then he called his agent, Fred Weinrauch.

    “I told him, ‘Duane Forde said I might be able to qualify for national status, does this mean anything?’” And he said, ‘Definitely, let’s look into it,’” Waggoner said.

    Sounds like Kyle owes Duane Forde a doughnut. Also - how pissed off is Wally right now? He had this kid in the bag and Forde totally screwed it up for him.

    If he had signed a contract as an import would he have been able to change his designation? I doubt it. So I'm not sure it's a huge loss for the lions but a big gain for us in that respect

  20. Chris Greaves on the Move?

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    How about this trade:

     

    Greaves and Richards (or Bastien if Walters could pull it off) for Demski and a Riders 2016 2nd rounder. 

     

    BC, Hamilton and maybe Edmonton are likely trade partners as well. 

     

    In this scenario we would be giving Sask their future NI receiver and an NI offensive lineman in his prime for our future NI receiver and a big fat question mark for next draft. I would hope that we'd get more back in return if we made a trade like this. I don't think this quite makes sense from our side.

  22. CFL Supplemental Draft

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    Interesting... We're second at the table this year...anybody of interest?

    2nd to the last I believe. So we can outbid the other teams except Ottawa.

    Someone said we should be interested in Waggoner. He play S/DB but his size is prototypical CFL MLB. - 5.11 230ish.

    Yep so even if we bid a 1st rounder there's no guarantee.

  24. How happy are you with Walters' Draft work?

    in Blue Bomber Discussion

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    Chungh is a fine pick

    Richards over Waud is baffling

    Morgan seems like a Mack pick - hope it works

    Normand is a decent pick

    Lattanzio is a nice fourth round steal

    Surprised we went with LB instead of a DL/OL project in the 6th\

    Hope someone can longsnap

    Excited about Yantz

    My vote - skeptical but at least we didn't screw up #2 overall

    "Richards over Waud is baffling" ... its about where help is needed most

    We don't need help on DL? I know we're all excited about Westerman but he's got only two or three years left really

    We have way more flexibility for NI on defence. At this point we could put one at DE DT, two linebacker spots, wide side corner and safety. And we only need 2 of those at any given time, and we have a lot of pieces to do that. I can see why it is more important to bolster our NI receiving content as we are not very deep there.

  25. Who is your surprise training camp cut?

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    It's starting to look more and more like we could see a "surprise" cut at DB. Looks like we're going to run at least one NI there. It'll be a numbers game.

    I feel like some guys who could be a surprise cut could end up being a surprise trade because of guys stepping up and making someone expendable

    We started a NI at DB last year too; Matt Bucknor.

    With more NI DBs on the roster they could choose to use a DI at a different spot. If an American DB goes down they could put Sherman, Newman or Morgan at safety and move Leggett into that spot

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