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  4. Free Agency Frenzy

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    Being as how we are talking about Hurl, why would it be unrealistic to think he would be on a reduced contract? Two prominent Bombers took pay cuts, so why not a linebacker who has about the same value as Briggs or Waggoner? I'm sure he did not volunteer to take the hit, but his option was to leave, and he may not get another equal or better offer plus having to uproot. He just might like it here.

  8. CFL Combine

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    26 minutes ago, Tehedra said:

    I agree with Taunted, if the draft is poor it might have been wise for them to make the move they made.  It doesn't make it any worse for Winnipeg, because well we got TJ Heath and a Draft pick while giving up a player we honestly no longer wanted.  It just means that perhaps Montreal didn't get burnt as hard as people initially thought, nothing wrong with that idea it was still a great trade for Winnipeg.

    The nice thing is we could pick a future with one of our first rounders because of this trade, and this years draft choices the futures might be the only picks worth choosing.

    Now you're just making fun of Taynted.....

  10. Migration (To the General Forum)

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    5 hours ago, WBBFanWest said:

    Yes we did benefit from immigration, but at the same time, I'm pretty sure there's some sort of international treaty concerning cruel and unusual punishment that prohibits immigrants and refugees from being situated in Saskatchewan.

    That, and the mandatory prefrontal lobotomy so they wouldn't stand out.

  11. Around The League Off Season Discussion

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    1 hour ago, Mr Dee said:

    The consensus out of Edmonton is the Esks have a balanced schedule, with five games over the summer months and four in the fall (Edmonton Sun)
    One of the most thought of OL - Derek Dennis, appears likely to hit the open market as he and the Stamps reportedly remain far apart in talks (Gary Lawless, TSN).
    – Abdul Kanneh, one of the league’s top shutdown halfbacks, is expected to garner plenty of interest if he isn’t signed before free agency (CFL.ca).
    -DB Abdul Kanneh among 19 unsigned Redblacks as CFL free agency looms
    Als quarterback coach Anthony Calvillo says he’s really looking forward to working with Darian Durant (Murray McCormick, Regina Leader Post).
    CFL News    - #BCLions have signed CB Buddy Jackson to a 1-year deal. Played with #Riders for a spell last season. #CFL via @FarhanLaljiTSN
    In case you missed it last night: @TToliver80 re-signed with the #Ticats. #CFL #CFLFA #HamOnt
    CFL News
    .@JDunk12 assures me there was never an actual date issued in his report. So somewhere, someone associated Senior Bowl Day w/ this. #CFL
    Wide receiver Natey Adjei and linebacker Blair Smith both signed with the Eskimos through the 2018 CFL season. - Edmonton Journal
    #Bombers add two International @CFL rookies; 6'3" 210lb receiver Xavier Rush, and 6'0 205lb defensive back Josh Celerin.
     

    It's the way of the new CFL - A number of #Eskimos players were asked to take pay cuts, in order to free up salary cap space. #CFLFA #CFL 

    @Wpg_BlueBombers Weston Dressler drew DPI/Illegal contact every 11 targets last season ?    -     CFL avg. 1 every 32.     #Details #Bombers
    The Canadian Football League continues to expand its coverage of Free Agency with its first ever live update show. Beginning at 11:30am ET on Tuesday, February 14th, Free Agency Live will stream on both CFL.ca and the League’s official Facebook page every hour on the half hour (11:30am, 12:30pm, 1:30pm, etc.)  Host Brodie Lawson and former all-star defensive back and CFL.ca contributor Davis Sanchez will lead the charge with up-to-the minute analysis, updates and extensive breakdowns of the annual sweepstakes.
    From montrealgazette.com: Alouettes trade linebacker Nic Shortill to Tiger-Cats for Frédéric Plesius

    2017 Free Agency Positional Breakdown - A good read, once again, by Ed Tait
    https://twitter.com/cfl_headlines/status/830785985013280769

    This year over 220 players are scheduled to become free agents on Feb. 14.

    MEANWHILE in Saskatchewan....
    Rider fans are doing their damnedest to debunk Dunk. Everything from slipshod reporting to erroneous dates to, once again, trying to discredit a fine organization such as the Riders. 'Somebody is leading Dunk down the garden path with bad info.' And so far, no confirmed sightings of Johnny Football in Regina.
    MEANWHILE in Toronto....
    Rumour is, because the Argos have no GM, players in Free Agency will be given a special twitter account and a text message number to apply for a roster spot...? - Jest the Facts.

     

     

    Thanks once again for the work to create the synopsis.

  15. Around The League Off Season Discussion

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    2 hours ago, Ripper said:

    I responded to a post about Walters, why are you changing the subject?  I also never said Walters didn't do a good job either. I said don't get carried away. Shologan was a miss and had a poor year. Smith did nothing either, Dressler didn't light the world on fire in between injuries but had a ok year. Cummings was a flop.  Nichols was a good move, Harris was a good move. I think Walters has done a decent job overall. As far as the Riders go, I'm not here to defend some of the moves we have made, in fact I have made better choices drunk on who to take home from the bar, LOL

    And here I would have thought that Regina pickups would have been found at the Humane Society.

  20. Bombers Off-Season Transactions

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    7 minutes ago, Booch said:

    no knock on Jake but that would be a serious step backwards. He works well in rotation but even then we can do better.

    As a fulltime starter he would wear down fast, also if yiu watch game film he is the slowest guy to react and get out of his stance at the snap...very slow as guys are already up and moving while he still in 3 or 4 point...go watch some pvr'd game if you have it.

    Also as a game goes on he gets washed out on plays a lot..great motor..i sure great guy but not starter material

    Yup. Getting a sack every now and again is great, but the D-lineman has to be involved in every play, at least gumming things up rather than being a speed bump 9 of 10 plays.

  21. Around The League Off Season Discussion

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    5 hours ago, Taynted_Fayth said:

    feb 14th at noon

     

    as far as Cummings I don't expect him to stick anywhere in the NFL, he could definitely come back at some point,  just a matter of when, and so long as the riders don't make him part of their 100 man try out throughout the season

    Cummings was supposed to be a force up the middle of the D-line but for one reason or another, wasn't. His contribution can be easily replaced. The same goes for our tag-team Import defensive ends,

  23. US Politics

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    About two weeks before Trump was sworn into office, a bipartisan committee met for a CIA briefing regarding Trump and Putin/Russia involvement in the election and possible influence over Trump's presidency. The meeting was "sub rosa" and all the attendees had to swear to keep secret the content. One Democratic congressman came out and said that he could not discuss the infromation but he was "shaken" and wanted an investigation but was voted down by the Republican members of the committee.

  25. US Politics

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    Robert Reich Has a Chilling Theory About Those Berkeley Protesters

    "I saw these people. They all looked almost paramilitary. They were not from the campus."
    February 3, 2017
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    In the wake of a University of California Berkeley protest that saw demonstrators burn campus lights and a sign for Breitbart News editor Milo Yiannopoulos in effigy, Donald Trump has threatened to cut federal funding from public colleges infringing on free speech. 

    If U.C. Berkeley does not allow free speech and practices violence on innocent people with a different point of view - NO FEDERAL FUNDS?

     
     

    But at least one Berkeley professor believes the so-called alt-right may have instigated the violence. 

    "I was there for part of last night and I know what I saw. Those people were not Berkeley students," former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich told CNN's Don Lemon, reiterating the statement issued by the university regarding the incident. "Those people were outsiders, agitators. I’ve never seen them before. There’s rumors that they actually were right-wingers. They were a part of a group that were organized and ready to create the kind of tumult and danger you saw that forced the police to cancel the event."

    Turning to Trump's remarks, Reich highlighted Berkeley's history as the "home of free speech."

    "Donald Trump, when he says Berkeley doesn’t respect free speech rights, that’s a complete distortion of the truth. I mean, Berkeley opened its biggest auditorium to this right-wing Breitbart News character, this hateful, odious person. They said, ‘Free speech is the most important thing we stand for,’ and it was these outsiders who caused the police to finally come in and have to cancel it," Reich pointed out. 

    “You think it’s a strategy by Yiannopoulos, or right-wingers?" asked Lemon. "They put this on in an effort to show there’s no free speech on a college campus like UC Berkeley?”

    “I wouldn’t bet against it, Don," Reich told him. "Again, I saw these people. They all looked almost paramilitary. They were not from the campus. And I’ve heard — again, I don’t want to say factually, but I’ve heard there was some relationship here between these people and the right wing and the right-wing movement that is affiliated with Breitbart News."

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