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Yes, Wild is very good, but trying to assess last year`s performance of the defensive unit is like trying to judge a track meet during an earthquake. It was such a mess on so many levels that the best thing to do is try to forget it and start with a fresh mindset.

It doesn`t look like there`s a lot of confidence in Etcheverry here, but it all comes down to two things: we`re saddled with him, like it or not, and O`Shea ought to be able to figure out whether his new DC is competent or not. We ought to know within the first month or so if we`re in for another long season.

The article seems to be really promoting Dylan Ainsworth as someone who has the potential to be a sleeper with the comparison to Blugh.

Life is just fulla surprises.

While we're at it, can we blame the worst winter in over a century on Etcheverry as well?

Oh God don't be so naive.University educated man intent on playing in the CFL & he claims he didn't know that what he was taking (Stanozolol) was a steroid? Who is being naive here? I think it's you Atomic.You misunderstood. I don't believe that Quinn Smith didn't know exactly what he was doing. My comment was referring to Duressler47's apparent shock at the fact that some athletes use steroids and other drugs. It is incredibly widespread.Duressler (to me) was stating that it seems like more athletes today are using illegal drugs like marijuana or performance enhancing drugs like Stanozolol. I think his comments are directed towards them either not being very bright or that they are cheaters. Hence the integrity comment. Some will get caught & others won't but why take the chance? Because for every one that gets caught, 99 get away with it. And the rewards are money, glory, beautiful women, and making a career out of playing a game you love. I can't blame guys for trying to get every edge they can. Not likely he's going to be all that popular with the ladies for long- any steroid is essentially synthetic testosterone, and if guys are on it for extended periods, the steroid suppresses the natural production of testosterone. The testes slow down and finally shut down production of testosterone, eventually permanently. While on artificially high levels of the drug, typically male attributes like aggression and sexual attentiveness are heightened, but once back off the steroids, arousal and erection are very difficult to impossible, and estrogen begins to take over. The testes shrink to almond size and the person has to be on daily injected synthetic testosterone permanently to avoid losing male sexual differentiation characteristics. And that doesn't even talk about possible cardiac myopathy and loss of bone density.

The laws may be silly, but this is not about the law. It is about an athlete who has a chance to make a major career advancement and threw it away. His agent and common sense would have told Sheets that he should be on his best behaviour, but his arrogance and/or stupidity overruled that. And your assertion that pot opens up the mind is very questionable. It produces a perception that competence is enhanced but it is actually the opposite. How many times have you heard someone say that a few drinks makes him a better driver?

He may be a stop-gap measure for 1 or 2 seasons. Steady if not spectacular, but its kinda hard for me to visualize some age 34 to be nearly "washed up".

Now that Police, Mack and Burke are all gone, is Etch being set up to be the next whipping boy?

One would think that a CFL player who is trying to get into The Big Show for huge dollars and all that comes with it would be on his best behaviour until at least it was a done deal. Besides, they have urine testing down there and THC stays in your system for a long time. He was playing Russian Roulette.

My nipples are hard.....

Well, we need the CFL experience at MLB, and Lord knows he has the aggressiveness, but if he cannot stick with a talent-poor team like the Esks, what does that say?

And they will.

Better than I had expected, considering the gawdawful name for the team.

It might be an opening for AHL hockey.

And more good news for you- Kelowna has been identified and having the best, purest tap water in Canada, and that probably means the USA as well.

Yeah, that isn't a nice area to be sure. But the new stadium in Regina is going elsewhere & I believe that the Mosaic Stadium site & neighbourhood will be razed for mixed development after that. Considering that this is Regina, how will they know where to stop bulldozing derelict buildings?

I vote for Australian lawn darts championships and international tiddly-winks. What the heck, if they can consider poker as appropriate for TSN, there ought to be nothing wrong with my suggestions.

It confirms my impressions from the highlite video. If this guy isn't brittle or have an NFL yearning, he ought to tear up the league for us. If he runs sloppy routes, it could also mean lack of personal discipline.

AKA: verbal diarrhea.

A puzzlement, to be sure- perhaps he had a change of heart and didn't want to be here.

Good analysis. Thanks.

Lets keep this in perspective, folks. No big project is completed without a problem or two-sometimes big ones in spite of the best efforts of all concerned. Way back in another life, I worked for a major supplier to the construction trade in Winnipeg and from first-hand experience I can tell you that there were problems with the construction of the Concordia hospital, Convention Center and Eaton parkade. Those were the ones I knew of, and I was told of others in Toronto, Edmonton and (ugh) Montreal. About 4-8% of every construction budget is allotted for "contingencies"-unforeseen owies. The current problems are unfortunate but not not unknown in the industry.

Nose guard for Etcheverry. Now, who would make that trade?

The problem might be the media has no idea about the rules also, the refs would have to explain to the friesens of the world what the rules actually are first. But they would have to use small words and lots of pictures.