WildPath

This is some bullsh!t by the CFL.  They’re swapping out the Hip for Nickelback… easy does it and next thing you know we’re all stuck with an elevator jingle version of Beyonce.

I don't mourn the loss of the 55 yard line. I mourn the loss of wide FG return like we saw on saturday. Those returnds will never happen once the rules & field changes occur. The ST play we enjoy will be gone.

I was a lot more pragmatic this afternoon but the more I think about it, the more I hate it. No clue what was threatened behind the scenes to get the other owners on board but I suspect it was something like "tow the line or MLSE walks".
 

A recipe for a slow death to the CFL by a thousand cuts. I would like to know who TF asked for this, because it looks fully hatched.

Yeah this is just going to make more punts to pin a team deep. Will be a slog. You basically will need to hit the 35 yard like for a long field goal try. Going to make games less exciting. 

I really don't see the case for increased scoring.
As someone who has made the decisions to go for it on 3rd down or not, the new rules incentivize field position more than the current ones.  Nobody is trying to score a Rouge unless it's the last play in a tied or 1 point game.

Agreed, for a team to be able to kill the clock with 1:40 left in the game, it will ruin some of the most exciting finishes in the CFL.  When the team that is up  by less than a score has to punt the ball away with 30 seconds left, it keeps fans engaged right until the clock hits 0:00 and is one of the best parts of the CFL as far as I'm concerned.

Taking a Quick Look at the first 3 weeks of the NFL 44 times a team failed to score more than 20pts. I’d say that’s pretty low scoring. In contrast all season in the CFL 31 times a team failed to score more than 20. 

Did they specify if the change would apply inside 3:00 as well? If it does that’s monumentally stupid. The clock stopping after the 3min warning is one of the best features of our league. 

Longer play clock is stupid as well. Using American rules is going to piss off diehards like us while doing nothing to attract new fans. Of course, the new Commish is a long time Bell employee, so stupidity is to be expected.

Honestly I want Osh's take, about half way through a bottle of Crown...

Good on rourke, agree with him. 
Madanis article is putrid. 
 
https://3downnation.com/2025/09/22/opinion-the-cfl-finally-delivers-big-with-changes-that-will-make-the-game-pop/
Wade supporting it isn’t a surprise but still a disappointment. But it sounds like they didn’t consult usports at all which is criminal. 
https://3downnation.com/2025/09/22/blue-bombers-president-wade-miller-calls-cfl-changes-positive-step-insists-they-will-not-impact-bisons/
 
This is what we get for having a tsn cronie run the league. 
 

God bless him for saying it.

I'm with Rourke. Good on him for speaking out! 

Things to improve the game/viewership:

Remove or increase Coaching cap
Invest heavily in amatuer sport/family engagment/youth participation etc etc

I can't wait for all those people who don't watch the CFL because it's boring/has a 100yrd field/has the rouge to come pouring in next year!!

Read Ed Willes's incredible "End zones and Border Wars" book about the failed US Expansion of the 90s. Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it. 

The changes are stupid and won't improve the game. The overall effect is to tone down all the cool and quirky rules that make the league unique. It's a shame, and will probably be followed by more of the same. Can't believe we're seriously nerfing the rouge like this...

He’s got a similar disregard for outsiders, and a similar stubborn arrogance. He hasn’t gone full kelly though and I don’t think he ever would. he’s also earned far more as a hc than kelly up here. 

i think we peaked in terms of how out of touch we are with the rest of our league. we’ve been used to over paying role guys and promoting them after paying them. thing is, teams aren’t coming for those guys any more. We are wasting our best talent on the bench and pr, and not retaining our top free agents like lawler. over paying our mid tier guys, and losing/not replacing our top guys, has left us in deep trouble. 
We need change at this point. pick some guys and send them packing. and i’m not just talking players. 
 
The season is about to slip away or we don’t turn things around drastically. 

My thoughts were keep brown and let he and streveler figure out who the man was. Trade collaros for assets (and let's be honest Ottawa was desperate and probably would have loved to get collaros at the time). You save money on qb position and can bolster other areas of the team. Would brown have been injured here? Who knows. Different team different circumstances.  

Here's what I have:

Vs Toronto (63 defensive snaps)
Jefferson 58
Vaughters 54
Thomas 35
Lawson 34
Adams 26
Person 25
Kornelson 6

16 snaps with Vaughters as a stand-up player rushing from the interior. 20 snaps of him, Jefferson and Person on at the same time.

Season to date (6 games)
Vaughters 290
Jefferson 281
Lawson 205
Thomas 198
Adams 1768
Kornelson 45
Person 29

Still zero D snaps for both rookies.

It just blows me away that they can get curb stomped like the 2 calgary games, including coming off a bye where historically this team has done tremendously well, and make absolutely no changes... 

Whenever I get asked about why Mitchell isn't playing I say it's because he's an X wide receiver. And to get him in would require he or Wheatfall changes position. Based on having Case in for Schoen on Sunday I have to believe the Bombers have reservations too. The first day of camp this year they had Mitchell at slot next to Wheatfall. The next day Mitchell was at X with the 2s. And since the end of camp that's where he's stayed.
Mitchell has played some slot in his career but the Elks clearly felt he was a WR. For his career I've got him with 151 targets at WR and 55 in the slot--73% WR is pretty high. When they signed Geno Lewis in 2023 they tried Mitchell in the slot but eventually bumped him out to Z.

Watching his '24 and '23 Sunday night Mitchell had some real struggles with the waggle...more hesitant than most guys. How much was him and how much was the bad QB situations in Edmonton...who knows.