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Only posted my mock draft yesterday and I'm already starting to doubt it.
It could be a giant smokescreen but the interest Ottawa has in Quinn Smith seems to be very real. Could they take him 1st overall?
Wouldn't be a complete surprise- of the top three, he is the only one who has no NFL interest and his versatility is probably a huge asset. If they do take him it leave the Bombers with a real dilemma- whether to gamble on a player who may never play in the CFL or to do the safe thing.
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Got a feeling that Winston may choose baseball. Was a 15th round pick coming out of college. He has said he going to stay in school during the winter 2015 semester to play baseball. Although he most likely will be a #1 pick in the NFL there is also a chance he could be a 1st round pick in the MLB draft. If you look at during the length of a pro baseball and pro football career he would probably earn more money in baseball even if he was a middle of the road starter or reliever.
Not to mention having a longer career due to not having 300 lb people chasing and jumping on him.
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Maybe this is where Quinn Smith could fit in- he's not 300 lbs, but he is described as strong, very quick, very smart, and very adaptable, so could well be a good right tackle with coaching.
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I predict that CFL teams will have as many wins as they do losses, the league will have some new faces making an impact, there will certainly be a few guys who get hurt and lots of players will either exceed or fail to live up to expectations.
Other than that, I have no idea.
Well, this sorta, kinda sounds vague.....
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From the official BB website:
The Winnipeg Blue Bombers announce today the club has added import defensive back Stephon Morris and import wide receiver Jason Barnes. Both players attended the club’s mini-camp in Florida a couple of weeks ago. -
Goossen's drop in the ratings is a real surprise. If he's still available in the second round, he might be worth trading up for.
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6 and 12 would be at the low end of the probable scale and 8 and 10 is being overly optimistic unless one of the QBs steps forward and really shines. not impossible, but unlikely.
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it was more to do with my supreme faith in Osh. the man is a winner. and even if you guys get taken to the woodshed a time or two, don't lose heart because MO'S is taking the loss >9000 times worse than you are and will never be afraid to change things to try and find a better way forward.
i think Burke is a top DC too and he and Milanovich had some very good times together before but like i said, it isn't just that our D is being reshaped but that it is also being rebuilt (again). losing guys like Mitchell, Ball and Watkins after a year previous losing guys like Armstead, McCulloch, Horne, Caroll... i just start getting an anxiety that we're asking Barks to reach into his bag of tricks too many times.
What?!!? 9000?!?!
I'm expecting a 9-9 record. I have several reasons to be this optimistic.
Do these reasons come in capsule form?
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The one team I'd cringe if I was drafted by them are the Raiders. I spent some time in Oakland a few years ago with my son at a qb camp & all I can say is Holy Crap. You know it's bad when the guy running the camp tells the campers parents that they need to end the camp everyday before it gets dark so it was still safe for us to walk to our cars in the parking lot outside Laney College. Homeless street creatures were living under the football stands being rousted by campus security. The freeway leading to Laney College looked like a war zone. Houses burned down but still standing all over the place.
Welcome to the dark side of the American dream- the American nightmare.
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He looks like a blue-chip prospect, as long as he hasn't had any Pryor convictions........
That is a Terrelle pun ... just the way I like them
So......you like to be pun-ished?
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I think this would be a far more productive discussion after training camp breaks. Right now there are so many ifs and maybes for almost every team in the league that its totally unrealistic to even take a shot.
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He looks like a blue-chip prospect, as long as he hasn't had any Pryor convictions........
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I hope Glenn does not report to Ottawa make them release him.
They could then suspend Glenn and not pay him.
And then Ottawa would hold all the cards until Glenn retires or caves.
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Could all be just a wild Goossen chase.
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Considering how porous the O-line was for the past couple of years, we gotta go with the big horses.
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It all comes down to scouting & doing the things successful teams in the CFL do to win games & championships. Our FA camps & expanding the scouting department were all things that needed to be done by the Bombers & they did that. What we did this past off season would never have been done by Joe Mack. I have every reason to believe that we will find some hidden gems from these camps like we never had before. Hopefully enough to start building a solid team.
Were we really losing because the rookie Americans weren't good enough though? I thought you guys all liked to point to lack of veterans and NIs as the big problem? Too much blind hatred going on.
We were losing because almost every facet of the team wasn't good enough- not the general manager, the coaches, the scouts, the drafting and most of the players. There's enough blame to go around, so line up.
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A note of reality: coaches like Hufnagel and Kent Austin who are immediately successful are very, very rare. With that in mind, as much as we would like to see O'Shea wipe the field with every opposing team, we are probably headed for a up and down season. If we get to 9 and 9, that would be wonderful, and making the playoffs would send fans into ecstatic rapture, but the odds are against us, what with so many changes and new faces.
As a follower of this team for several decades, some seasons, the best we could hope for is to not be humiliated too often, to still be in the game at half-time and have the team be seen as trying hard. Therefore, let us not lose our senses of ha-ha- it will be a long season, and we are going to need all the patience and humour we can get.
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The fact he can't stay anywhere more than 2 seasons tells me that there are a lot of red flags with Etcheverry. He either loses his players, they stop playing for him or he has communications issues with them. I can't believe that he gets that restless & likes to move on so much.
Or, its "jump before you get pushed".
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Come on, folks. Football is a sport and sports are meant to entertain, and this will be entertaining. How well Etcheverry does will also give us an idea of how sharp our new coach's acumen is. Sort of two spectacles for the price of one, besides- compared to last couple of seasons, how could it possibly be worse?
- Mr Dee, blitzmore and BigBlueFanatic
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Total guess based on nothing but bob irving and others opinions but Kenny Tate and the MLB Mcrath for sure
However, if we have a new running back, he might make the most impact.
McGrath seems to have a very positive attitude- not bemoaning missing out on the NFL fantasy at all. And his credentials seem impressive, so I will pick him to come in to camp and blow his competition away.
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More on playbooks:
“When I was in Saskatchewan, we had these sophisticated smart boards where we did our teaching. At the end of every presentation, I would always ask, do you have it? And if every player said yes, I would push a button and it would all be gone,” Etcheverry explains. “And that’s how I’ll work here too. A lot of coaches over the years have prided themselves on stealing ideas from others. The most fundamental way to protect our ideas is to never write anything down.”
That’s right, don’t write anything down, which means there's no defensive playbook either.
http://www.bluebombers.com/article/the-etcheverry-difference
The way I remember it, Etch's defense was fun to watch. Hope that's still true.
If nothing else, it will be interesting to watch.
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The Rover should always be Irish IMO.
Or a substandard British vehicle.
The Rover should always be Irish IMO.
Or a substandard British vehicle.
This prone gentleman looks like a Prisoner.
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The Rover should always be Irish IMO.
Or a substandard British vehicle.
2014 CFL Draft blog
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I suspect that O'Shea will have a strong voice in the choice, being as how he is the one to direct the team on the field.