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He wouldn't have hit the field either way. Mulumba was a starter for most of his career there. Not just rostered but actually playing a lot, He wasn't a PR guy, but I think the OP was speaking in general terms not specifically about Mulumba.

Maybe...but if that's the mindset why wait and flush another season down the toilet, Take your football ops lumps for the season but get the ball rolling with the next guys. I guess it depends how much they are paying O'Daisy and Dickie though....knowing the RIders their salaries might be out of whack thus further handcuffing them.

The list is a **** show really. Rose, Grant, Rutledge are all pretty iffy picks in comparison to other players in the division. Calgary getting no love on the OL is criminal. However, Riderfans are bent out of shape over Sankey being snubbed and I don't think that is accurate. Biggie didn't have his best season for sure, but what he enables our defence to do and how his presence limits offences in what they can do is overlooked a lot. That being said he probably wasn't all star material this year but he's definitely not as controversial a pick as many on the list. Some of them for sure. Harris being selected is an absolute joke until you look around at the competition and realize no RB had more than a handful of decent games in the East. That being said, I still would have picked someone else in the East.

If he was with the Riders that would have been his season total. Wouldn't have been his fault...but just saying.

In Regina if you want any kind of media access to the team you better be sunshine and lollipops on every decision they make, so I can kind of understand them kissing butt. The franchise won't have it any other way. However, John Hodge also thinks this is the correct decision....makes me wonder what he is on.

When your team runs like a Swiss watch in every aspect both on and off the field you deserve the nod. When your team stands in the parking lot looking to jump the opposition as they leave like a bunch of hood rats....not so much. It was those same veterans that were causing some of the problems. After years of futility they just didn't know how to handle the success they had that season. It went to their heads and they ran with it.

Yes, it appears you are correct. Games spent on the 53 are pensionable games even if you are inactive.

No doubt about that. Not the same at all, but I see no chance for BC to win with Vernon Adams.

Mauldin was a beast for Ottawa this year, and deserves MODP imo.

Rourke will be in the NFL in about 3 months. Me neither, not sure Campbell is of the same opinion though.

Maggie the Monkey would be happy to spin the wheel and guide their franchise. Couldn't be worse.

They cannot ask Rourke to run the ball, that's for sure. However, they might try him for a few series and alternate with VA and hope someone catches fire. Farhan and Arash wish they were having Rourke's baby.

Absolutely not an ideal situation to platoon unless you have a guy with a unique skillset like Strev brought to the table. However, I am not sure that Rourke's foot lasts a full game if they don't, and VA isn't good enough to advance his team. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.

I think they are thinking they better keep their offence on the field. All I know is that Biggie has never failed to rise to the occasion before when we needed a game of good run stopping.

Streveler platooned in that game and had a total of 11 snaps behind centre. Not sure even Strev could have lasted if he was the starter and took every offensive snap. In fact, I would have bet heavily against it happening and that is probably the main reason we went out and got ZC. However, if BC were to platoon Rourke and VA maybe that could be effective if done right.

The 2001 Bombers didn't show up for the game, that won't happen with this crew.

Yea...I think it was Joe Mack's buddy Dom Capers that signed Mulumba and led him to believe he was TCF and would be available to the Bombers. Even still we did have a chance to sign him in 2018. Mulumba wanted to play, wanted to come to the CFL, but Walters was restrained by SMS and lowballed him and couldn't offer him the one year deal he wanted (no option year at that time). His agent then went goofy nuts and crapped all over the CFL and demanded a trade, and I would assume no other team would touch him with a 10 foot pole after realizing his agent was goofy nuts and was demanding big salary if he was to sign for more than a year.

That being said it is the NFL. Roster churn and shiny draft picks are common there.

Did Walters tell him that? I haven't heard anything to that effect. Mulumba talked a great game when he was drafted..how honored he was and how he would be up in Winnipeg in a New York minute if the NFL didn't work out. Bilikudi was simply a 3rd round BPA. A gamble that didn't pay off. Mack drafted piss poor for sure but all GMs screw some picks up. Mack was Mulumba, Walter's had Ekakitie...it is what it is. Mulumba would have been a beast in the CFL but he wouldn't play on an entry level contract...so be it.

Some QB have early success and then are figured out, others have the talent to have long successful careers because they don't have glaring weaknesses to exploit.

Amazing that any fan base would think a member of the opposition should help their player up.

I can't blame any of these guys for chasing it, PR makes more money than they can make up here as a general rule. WIth the state of our dollar factored in they are making good money and if activated for a few games it becomes significantly higher. However, once you are booted from one team's PR you should just give up the ghost and cash in over here. Your chances of sticking somewhere else even on their PR becomes remote.

There is a crap load of collusion amongst the owners to blackball fringe NFLers who are just a few games shy of pension. This is a well known fact. Many guys career prospects dry up suddenly as they approach that number even if they are still useful players.

I wasn't that big on Bilikudi but I always thought Mulumba would be up here. Didn't realize he would hold us hostage for a huge contract and make us walk away.

True,,,but I remember a few other phenoms in their first few starts tearing the league up in the recent past., Jon Jennings, Casey Printers, and Cody Fajardo are all cautionary tales about appointing young QBs as future MOPs too early. Jon Jennings, in particular, looked like he could do no wrong his first season. Something like 5500 yds passing with 30 TDs passing. He looked like he was on his way. He crashed and burned when DCs figured him out. Same with Printers, same with Fajardo....just saying.