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He freakin headbutted her. You think this is nothing?!?!

It's Canada, he'll have to be Quatre-Vingt Cinq-o.

cuz it would be great to have a reliable NI starting safety!
 
I just want a good football team, don't care about vengeance on the fan forums 

I find it hilarious even though it was a terrible trade. MD is asking for more than Ricky Ray asking price.

Something that leads to the sewer - definitely a manhole. 

Yeah so far they've respected Kevin Glenn completely and never lied to him once.

I can report that Friesen doesn't have a clue about anything. Sources say.

While I could care less about stats... just once... I want a starting QB with more TD's than INTs....

While I could care less about stats... just once... I want a starting QB with more TD's than INTs....

I'm sure he was asked nicely by BC to retire , specially after they signed that new guy.
We can pretty much guarantee Glenn will be in BC now.
Good for him on retiring, it wasn't nice seeing him being crushed and looking spaced out.
I don't want him as a coach but he can sure take over for Doug Brown on the radio.

to be perfectly honest I think it was as level headed a discussion on a controversial topic as you are likely to see on the internet. 

Sorry I came back after the weekend - but obviously you can't GUARANTEE that nothing will ever happen again.  There SO MANY people committing violent acts (murder, rape, etc) who are released "after doing their time". You cannot guarantee sexual predators will not reoffend - yet so many are released (as an example).  Murderers are released every day.  Karla Homolka assisted in violent serial killings, but was "abused" and as such was offered a plea bargain and was released after only 12 years. Comments like this - 'I don't trust Li.' - that's fine.  YOU are not a mental health professional in any way, shape, or form.   If you trust him or not - it does. not. matter.  I don't trust a single person who has raped, murdered, driven drunk, beat the **** out of someone on drugs, etc - doesn't mean our society will release them back into the general population.
 
The WFP article about NCR's was a good one.  It is very clear that if there was any strong history of violent crimes committed by those found NCR, it would not even exist.
 
You seem to be "offended" by the actual act - the beheading and "eating" -  when he was clearly very disturbed.  Would you be as disturbed if he'd instead, say, shot someone?  Someone is still dead.  The offender is still mentally disturbed.  Here are other cases where a legal system and PROFESSIONALS (not you, remember?) deemed them NCR.  Is this ok because they didn't behead someone and eat them?
 
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/not-criminally-responsible-6-cases-1.2500574
 
As to people saying that he was right-****** in jail/remand center afterwards... how would you feel if you realized while you were completely unaware, you had brutally murdered someone?  That would absolutely mess you up (in addition to being mentally ill).  
 
Our country's mental health system is very troubling, and as seen in the case of Li, serious illnesses often take years to properly diagnose, and doctors are overwhelmed - in MANY cases it takes drastic events to get help.  Patients check themselves in and out, there are extremely long wait lists, there is the inherent difficulty of getting the right medication - the issues go on and on. 

- Do NCRs (Not Criminally Responsible), once they are released, ever reoffend? The recidivism rate for criminals released from the corrections system is very high -- estimates range from 40 to 50 per cent. For NCRs, the recidivism rate is between 10 to 15 per cent. However, for those NCRs hospitalized for the most violent crimes, the recidivism rate nationally is almost zero. In Manitoba, Mackenzie said he is not aware of any NCR responsible for a killing who committed another violent crime after being released.
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/columnists/making-sense--of-ncr-247992421.html

The truth is we're all Naive about this - but some of us have at least a little trust in the professionals while you clearly don't
 
As for Selkirk, I live 20 minutes from town and go there once or twice a week.  Most people are wondering why there's so much fuss about Lee when plenty of criminally insane individuals roam the city on a regular basis.

Dahlquist can concentrate on their mechanics. I would volunteer to see who is more ripped. 
 
BTW, just be thankful I didn't post a picture in that other thread. 

Same thing every time with you. Why aren't you ripping BC? They struck out on every player they wanted. Rip Saskatchewan for losing Sanders, Butler and Schmitt.
Every time someone signs in this league, another team or more loess out. Get used to it. No team gets everybody they want.

I am not sure I am inspired by this video .. I have seen more fans at our local high school game ... didn't see great speed ... did see his ability to go to open spaces and cut back against the grain .... yawn

Good timing, had the blog pretty much ready to post by bedtime last night, but didn't post it.  Then Edwards retired  ...truthfully it didn't change much, just took out a blurb about Edwards and where he might fit, didn't see him starting for the Bombers in 2014.
 
Anyways, part two of six taking a deeper look at the Bomber roster...RBs and receivers is up.
 
http://2ndand10.blogspot.ca/
 
Feel free to discuss.

can he play center?

Vega is also going to be one of those leaders on this team.

Hey guys,
 
Had a brainstorm with a friend of mine who is also a football geek this weekend, and we decided to start a new blog on the Bombers and CFL.  We were actually talking with a couple other friends about all the NHL and Jets blogs that we look at, and that there's not much on the Bombers or CFL.  It will be long-form analysis, and will be really good during the season if we stay motivated.  We were talking about it and we think there is a real demand for some in-depth looks at the teams, players and games, and that's what we're going to try to do.  We'll really get going with the grading of players and advanced stuff during the season, but for the off-season we are going to do a critical overview of every teams roster, and we'll do some stuff around the draft.  
 
Our first post is up, part of our "Mid-February roster analysis," it is on the Bombers QB situation.  We're going to look at the Bombers in 6 parts (QB, RB/REC, OL, DL, LB/DB and special teams) plus an overall assessment/discussion.  Then we'll look at the other 8 teams, likely in much less detail.
 
Check it out.
 
http://2ndand10.blogspot.ca/

this is such a weird, random thread...

source: http://www.winnipegsun.com/2014/02/13/bombers-bringing-the-hammer

Very different.  First off, the QB-centre exchange is the most important skill in football.  You can't do anything without it.  You can't just plug anyone in at centre and expect them to be able to get the ball to the QB at a CFL level, which is the problem with guys like Kowalczuk and Parenteau etc.  That is a huge skill in and of itself.  The centre makes some calls to protections, but this is way overrated in Canadian football, most plays have the protections built in and basically what both the centre and QB both do is count how many guys are inside the tackles and which gap the defence is centered on, basically what they are playing as the strong side, which 99% of the time mirrors the offence or the width of the field anyways.  This is different than American football, mostly the strong side of the field down south depends on the strong hand of the QB since the field is not nearly as wide.   This is most of what the calls are, and the protection adjusts based on it, but every guy can see that when they look up, and if you're playing somewhere noisy, there's not a lot you can change at the line.   Everyone is watching for potential blitzers, that mostly falls on the QB to make a call to react to that. adjust a route.  OL have to block from their inside gaps out and do their best to take whoever comes...that's why you'll often see guys coming off the edge free when a defence sends more than 5.  When you see guys come free through the 4 middle gaps, that means someone really screwed up, either took the wrong block or got completely dominated physically.
 
Zone run blocking, it doesn't matter where the defence lines up or how many, they are blocking gaps and chipping upfield.  Zone plays head to a side of the field, not a specific gap, you're basically creating a 3 on 2 situation for your blockers all along the LOS on the play side, allowing at least one of those guys to chip and get to the next level to take a LB or HB.  The RB reacts and finds the opening.  So really a centre doesn't call anything there, every OL needs to read their initial block and come out of their stance properly to get that done.  The first 3 steps are key, can't waste any if you need to get upfield, or get a bit wider.
 
I guess it depends what you think a sub-par lineman is.  IMO, most of the centres in the league lately have all been subpar, meaning they'd really suck if you moved them to another spot where they actually ended up blocking someone 1 on 1 on the majority of snaps.  But that's where the snapping part comes in, a guy who can snap very well and consistently can make a career, even if he struggles to make a block.  Just look at a guy like Dominic Picard.  If I had a dime for everytime he's literally been carried through the pocket by a DT, I could pay for my season tickets this year.  Mostly you're just hoping they can be a good speed bump.  Guards need to be more mobile, presumably you want them to be able to get to the 2nd level (LB's, HB's) in run blocking, although there are enough guys around the league lately that don't really have that ability (Kabongo for one).  They both need to be smart enough to know where their block is and guards need to be patient enough in pass protection to not give up their inside gaps.  Patience in OL is a sign of intelligence and football smarts IMO.  This is really what the blitz is all about, challenging the OL to give up their inside gaps and a more direct route to the QB, the QB can read the outside rush, when it's coming right at him there's not much he can do.

You obviously never saw the turnstiles that Khari had to stand behind most of his time here.  A good QB can make any Oline look half decent, especially if he has a quick release. Even turnstiles require two seconds to get past to the target on the other side.