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Friggin Timbits soccer is starting tonight!!! I'm coaching so I HAVE to go....so says the wife. 🙄

Friggin Timbits soccer is starting tonight!!! I'm coaching so I HAVE to go....so says the wife. 🙄

Bombers signed Canadian punter Dante Mastrogiuseppe.
 

That's not bad. I'd be ok with us taking 2 OL and a WR but would prefer OL and DL.

This was too good not to share:
 
 

Mullinder is an idiot.

Stiggers is good for the league imo. Should increase the flow of blue chip jc kids to the league. 

It's been said already, but it really is a shame that Brady got robbed of the MOP award. The League could have had a guy who at least appears to be a proud Canadian, playing for his home team and literally rescues puppies, as the face of the league....instead they have a Chad...

Agreed. With Bandy retiring I think ssk goes OL with their 1st.

Agreed. With Bandy retiring I think ssk goes OL with their 1st.

I think the run on online will Happen earlier, but this is easily the best of the mock drafts I’ve seen. 

With teams struggling financially coming out of Covid, new owners, teams for sale, and some depleted facilities, I do NOT see the CFL adding more salaried positions. You can't just keep adding more roster spots without spreading the money around. So, CFLPA is not going to take less for more spots. 
CFLPA should to focus on player safety and getting as much money for the existing roster spots as possible. 

In theory, what you are saying is sound. In practice clubs will not and cannot devote enough of their time away from the main roster to slowly develop anyone. Practice time is limited in our league. Actual players need every rep they can get and giving them up to half timers. they will not be in pads for all but a couple practices a year. Rubbing shoulders with vets, and practicing on their own is not development. Being token rostered players that don't play won't help anything. Sure the odd guy might break through to a full time job but making peanuts on a PR for a shot a couple years down the line is not going to be appealing to many. You are thinking these guys coming out of CIS don't know how to weight train or how to play the game? They know. There are very few late bloomers that come along and break out after a couple of years. If you wanna add 3 spots to the roster for NATs you might be able to fine tune a few guys to specialist roles on teams. That's about as good as it will probably get for guys of the developmental level you are talking about. I really don't feel that 1 or 2 out of 6 would ever develop into a starting role in this scenario. 1 in 20 maybe. Take a look at the drafts, how many drafted guys end up as starters and these are the guys that have demonstrated an ability to potentially play pro ball either thru their game tape or their physical attributes. Maybe 1 in 10 draft picks end up as a starter another 2 out of 10 as teamers or specialists and that is in a couple of good draft years.  Thinking that with some extra time that undrafted guys will attain the same success is pretty wishful thinking. By the time each team gets into the 7th round of the draft there isn't much hope for that draft pick let alone picking up the scraps after that.

Another option would be adding one or two practice roster spots for Canadians.

Add a spot for a Canadian QB that doesn't count against the cap. Maybe make it a Canadian trained university spot.

If they suspend him then he can’t pull a Tom Brady.

They should allow players to bet on CFL games. #TooSoon

I have nothing to add other than I have been laughing about Kelly being referred to as "Chode" all day.

Yeah but how many FBs?

Yeah but how many FBs?

So apparently Lemon is suspended indefintely for betting on CFL games. Explains the abrupt retirement.

LB preview https://www.bluebombers.com/2024/04/24/positional-preview-3-the-linebackers-2/
Not a lot of fresh talent here. Hope the couple guys brought in are good because Biggie is on the downslope. 
 
DB preview from yesterday too https://www.bluebombers.com/2024/04/23/positional-preview-2-the-defensive-backs/
Offense lost but the D still allowed Cody @$%!ing Fajardo to put up 3 TDs on them.  Almost like it is a team game or something and not all the blame can be put on one player.

Ended the season on the pr (unless he was cut before idr) which makes him a fa, who we haven’t signed. 
 
Offence lost. You don’t win gcs in the modern era scoring in the low 20s with less tds than the other team. 2 games, 419 passsing yards 2 picks 0 passing tds. That’s how you lose gc games. Fajardo put up 290 3 tds and 1 pick. 
 
It’s an offensive, passing league. The two loses blame starts and ends at qb. Other players and positions could’ve won the game for us. But we lost it on offence. 

If Chode doesn’t like the CFL money, I could get him a job with me destroying his body with manual labour for about the CFL minimum.. 

It's been said already, but it really is a shame that Brady got robbed of the MOP award. The League could have had a guy who at least appears to be a proud Canadian, playing for his home team and literally rescues puppies, as the face of the league....instead they have a Chad...