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Jeff Reinbold, Lyle Bauer cheaping out, Joe Mack.....that's not bullshit. That really happened whether you like it or not. You find me some positives to spin in any of that. For clarity, I was talking about on field performance and you would have to be homerific to suggest that we have been successful as an aggregate over the past 25 years. In fact, you would have to be stupid to suggest that but you keep riding the good ship lollipop if you want to Noeller. I am not TBurg that just makes negative comments at every turn, save your indignation for him.

For the vast majority of the past 25 years it's hard to argue we have done things right. Just saying...

Hubris thy name is Chris Jones. I LOVE IT!! The guy is as big a car wreck as Mike Kelly. Get the popcorn and watch as Chris Jones stands on the roof with a fiddle as the Riders burn below him. Every time I think that Jones couldn't make any less sense with his roster moves, he just comes right out and sets the bar of stupidity even higher. Quarterback....we don't need no steenking quarterback.

I think you guys got a little too enamored by one or two games by these guys and put the blinders on in regards to the vast majority of games where they were invisible. That is bound to happen when a team has such a small sample size of good individual performances to choose from. Fans start inflating the average to give themselves hope. Trust an unbiased observer...your team looks awful so far.

Your top end is very good (Carter/Roosevelt) after that it is pretty average. You guys grossly over rate Holley/Collins/Bagg. I definitely think that as a whole our receiving corps is better. You guys have a couple better players but we have the definitive edge overall.

Oh Migs....sometimes you can be so stupid.

Just to get back to the Stafford signing for a minute, there was a report by Dunk yesterday that has been flying under the radar a bit. He stated yesterday that the quartet of Adams, Stafford, Dressler and Smith will make a combined 565k this year. That is an average of 142k per receiver in that group. Let's do the math based on believed current contract values.... Dressler - 170k Smith - 150k Adams - 170k Total: 490k Therefore, if Dunk's 565k number is accurate, we are paying Kenny Stafford 75k this year for his services. If that is correct, I retract my objection to us signing him. He's worth the 75k gamble.

Pretty straight forward. Would be very interested in knowing what the upfront, base, and roster date bonuses are. A contract like that is imperative that Nichols performs or he will be released, so I like that structure better than it all being base. I just hope a high percentage of each year's totals are based on roster dates and that there is not much up front. That way if Nichols regresses this year, we can release him with significant savings.

I don't know about that....Lefors was awful. Kelly's plan was too....but Lefors put an exclamation point on it by skipping balls and throwing passes into row 15.

Why do I picture Jones in a sombrero right now saying " QBS we don't need no stinking QBs"

Yes, Jones doesn't fart around when he build his excuse train. WE HAD NO QB!! DAMN DARIAN!!

That will all depend on cap space. Does Wally hold some SMS back in hopes of his return? Probably, unless theirs a LBer out there in FA he really likes and just decides to move on.

Losing players only hurts a team if you can't replace them. I would imagine all these guys freed up some serious coin to throw at potential replacements. That being said losing them still sucks. Keeping them would have been much easier on old Wally's heart methinks.

Yikes.....the BC Lions are taking a terrible beat down from the NFL this offseason. Wally better have some magic in that old silk hat.

For sure...lots of time to solidify our QB position. Who knows...we could end up with Durant/Franklin/Davis yet,

No, he needs another 3 games. Will never get them. Sad. He is TCF...they have zero intention of keeping his almost pensionable career past that point no matter what he does. I am hoping that brutal reality settles on him a little better than it did on Bilukidi, who left football altogether after coming to the realization that no one REALLY wanted him.

Yep the reason was a complete lack of NAT talent, crap QBing, and the worst coaching to hit the CFL since Bart Andrus.

Name them smart guy. I call BS.

According to Taylor Reed himself, he was added to our neg list in May of 2013, and then signed by the Bombers in October of 2013 and finished the year on our PR and was not re-signed by us. You are right about Stewart, he came to us via Calgary.

In principle the subsidizing of pro sport with tax dollars is not to my liking. In practical, knowing the buffoons and bloated bureaucracy would just waste this money on something to prop up their own weight makes me not care. When our governments at the different levels fix their epic mismanagement of funds then I will be more adverse to them not getting more.

Probably right. However, the wildcard is Wettenhall. He does not make decisions that are par for the course.

Based on your pretty jaded attitude about Mack, I will take that as a victory for my argument. A few posts ago you were suggesting the cream of his crop to be guys like Dorzon or Doneff. Now he has moved up to 'decent" recruiter.

Brandon Stewart, Johnny Sears, Chris Garrett, Greg Carr, Alex Suber, TJ Harris, Kelly Butler, Andre Douglas, Moton Hopkins, Marcellus Bowman, Deon Beasley, Demond Washington, Alex Hall, Chad Simpson, Zach Anderson, JT Gilmore, Ian Wild, Taylor Reed, Jamayel Smith, Michel PontBriand, Bryant Turner, Jason Vega, Chris Matthews, Clarence Denmark, Wallace Miles All of the above were Mack recruits, the highlighted all had or are having very good careers.

Not sure if it was Vega...but I seem to recall something like that. TJ Harris...I think.

Not entirely true. They are given the NFL workout window, however, they still must be released by their respective teams in order to sign a contract. If the Lions wanted they could tell Bighill he has a workout window but we have changed our mind and will not release you if you are offered a contract. However, I doubt any team would bargain in such poor faith so as to do that.