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The news reports out of Ottawa said it came down to money. Arbuckle got a huge signing bonus ($210,000) in 2020, collected salary for a year when the league did not play (although he did take a pay cut), and then would not renegotiate his deal for 2021. Was going to make almost $500,000 and was due a $150,000 bonus three days before he got cut. When Nichols (who was due his own bonus and was cut by Toronto in a cost-cutting measure), Ottawa had an out and jumped to sign him and cut Arbuckle. Toronto, now short a QB, grabbed Arbuckle since all other teams were settled at pivot. It was also mentioned that Nichols veteran status at QB was more roster-beneficial according to CFL rules for Ottawa. The “LaPo forced Marcel’s hand” angle was overblown (he certainly had input and probably ID’d Nichols as a solution once the Arbuckle contract talks broke down) but became the new narrative for some (especially 3Down Ottawa writer and not-so-subtle Desjardins backer Santino Filoso - who apparently writes out of Brazil, by the way) once the move went sour after Nichols showed his injury was more permanent then anyone knew and Marcel was being thrown to the wolves by the fan base. In Toronto, Arbuckle had 2 hamstring injuries that slowed his progress. Again, he was getting starter money, including his $150,000 signing bonus with the Argos, but once MBT emerged as a guy who could win some games, John Murphy was quoted as saying they could not afford to pay two starting QBs and fill the other holes that needed filling,and Ryan Dinwiddie said MBT won the starter’s role. So off to Edmonton he goes. Now, despite not playing a single down in Edmonton, the club has re-upped him for 2022 at a cost of $340,000 but only a $5,000 signing bonus this time), so it would appear they consider him a starter for that kind of dough (if that means anything given the non-guaranteed contracts of the CFL). At least this is what I gleaned from the various newspaper reports of Arbuckle’s last couple of seasons. He may still be very good, but he has been given some pretty big salaries for a guy with 11 career starts, and those salaries seemed to play a role in teams abandoning him, especially with COVID wreaking havoc on CFL finances.

Don’t need to. Hellebuyck had COVID in the summer before training camp.

Anything further reported on the Gainey incident in the WSF?

Here is the full breakdown for the entire playoffs. Winning the Grey Cup is worth an extra $23,000 overall, per cfldb.ca What is the playoff compensation for CFL games? How much are CFL players paid for playoff games? What is the history of CFL playoff compensation? For the five year term of the 2019 CBA, playoff and Grey Cup compensation is as follows: First Place Standing (Bye) $3,400 Semi-Final Participation $3,400 Division Championship Participation $3,600 Grey Cup Runner-up $8,000 Grey Cup Winner $16,000 This was last increased in 2012 by $100 for First Place Standing, Semi-Final Participation and Division Championship Participation over the 2011 amounts. See Article 12 of the Collective Bargaining Agreement for full details. The CBA provides playoff compensation to all active roster and injured list players, but not practice roster players. This payment comes from revenue from the playoff and Grey Cup games and a minimum of $469,200 is paid to 46-man rosters of 3 teams (2 semi-finalists, 1 bye) for each of the division semi-finals ($938,400 total), $331,200 to 2 teams for each of the division finals ($662,400 total) and $1.104 million for the Grey Cup. Practice roster players continue to receive the weekly pay stated in their practice roster agreement paid by their club. Practices for sharing playoff compensation will vary from year-to-year and team-to-team.

And yet in the biggest game of the year both times he was outplayed by the guy he lost to. 2019 Jefferson puts up 3 sacks and 2 forced fumbles to Lawrence’s 4 tackles. 2021 both Bighill and Simoni get 5 tackles, but Lawrence disappeared in the second half and blew downfield coverage on both Demski’s and especially Adams’ TDs as well as the Bailey 2 point convert. Was wildly out of position on the convert and had initial coverage responsibility on the Darvin TD play, left flailing his arms in confusion both times. Bighill meanwhile got stronger and made two huge plays late, first making a TD saving tackle early in the 4th near the goal line to keep the Cats from going up 26-10, then stuffed the screen play in OT on 1st and 20 to force the 2nd and 18 INT throw. And when Stanley Bryant was truly snubbed for lineman in 2019 against Van Zeyl, he didn’t complain, he let his Grey Cup play show how badly the voters had messed up. Just like true winners do.

Have uncovered an official transcript of what really happened in that 2-point convert conversation:

From these bloopers it was clear who talks for a living vs who writes for a living. All the “mistakes” were Tait’s.

Sometimes I really don’t get the IS legal system. I thought when Roger Stone got pardoned that he was unable to then please the 5th. Or maybe that was for his other crime. If no consequences for pleading the 5th, then why wouldn’t every single person ever compelled to testify before Congress just do it?

Well even a broken clock gets to be right twice a day.

Always. I supply the keg.

And repeated by Glen Suitor. You will now burst into flames.

He literally stole that from Rod Black. Old joke.

According to this site, each player on the winning team for $16,000, the MVP got another $10,000, and the outstanding Canadian got $5,000. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.totalsportal.com/others/grey-cup-prize-money/ No indication that CFL award winners or all star team members get extra cash from the league.

Neither did the Argos. Or apparently the Elks since he did not take one snap once he went there. If you are rejected in favour of a guy with a dead arm, rejected by a team despite being the only QB to beat the best team in the league when they weren’t playing scrubs, and can’t get a start on the worst team in the league , then there must be something severely toxic about you beyond your passing abilities. LaPo clearly bet his season on a healthy Nichols and got burned big time, and the GM had zero back-up plans for all the personnel losses. As an aside, that insider analysis was written by a writer who doesn’t even live in North America, much less Ottawa.

So with 13,000 season ticket holders, wonder how they will do this? And what of those who aren’t season members but have tickets already for individual games?

One of my favourite Maurice speeches: https://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/nhl/jets-maurice-defends-winnipeg-sharks-ripped-city/

Here is Maurice’s presser. The man has more class in his little finger than all of the haters and armchair coaches on Twitter screaming for his head the last 3 years combined. https://www.tsn.ca/paul-maurice-resigns-head-coach-winnipeg-jets-1.1736180

That ties the record for most CFL all-stars from one team.

Wonder if it is one of those “you can resign or we can fire you” things. I guess we will find out now if he was the problem or if it was the players all along.

Well we know it wasn’t Fajardo. He would have missed the TV and hit the bar itself.

Was the training camp guy a pretend Mike Kelly? “See you at the Wave!” 🤣

No, no misunderstanding from me. I compiled all of his claims of grandeur in case it wasn’t clear how ridiculous he was getting. Then I re-compiled them with the not-so-hidden message “Full of ****” acronym since he thought my first post was too subtle. MOBomber then wrote his version of his own accomplishments as satire (I own 9 cars, married Miss Universe) which I think is the post you found good and meant to compliment. For those that asked, if we want to re-live the nuttiness, here is the link to that topic (although I am loathe to resurrect a dead thread most times). https://www.morningbigblue.com/community/topic/12887-tsn-new-look-bomber-banner-issue/

I think it was MOBomberfan’s retort that you liked so much on Polar Bear’s rankings. Made his own list of “achievements”. Brilliant.

Polar bear was that renegade poster (*cough* troll *cough*). If this is the post you mean, I’m glad you liked it, but credit to the whole board for drawing out his lies. It takes a village. On 2021-08-07 at 10:36 PM, PolarBear said: lol my god people here enjoy arguing. As do you apparently. For those scoring at home, in 12 hours we have learned from his own posts on various topics that Polar Bear: 1. Knows how to hack into live feeds of American networks to get free streaming of sports programming 2. Is a 20 year vet of Ebola and SARS research in a virology lab 3. Is connected to many major US broadcasters and therefore has insider rankings of most of not all sports play by play guys and their reputations within the industry 4. Has relatives at HNIC and therefore has access to management hiring memos 5. Spent time in New York in a top secret COVID lab under government control operating under a cone of silence unable to share his findings with the public 6. Is ostensibly a computer graphics specialist who knows how to debug in game productions 7. Has a trusted working relationship with a number of the Blue Bomber players and has the inside track on the injury situation with the club and because of his concern about the amount of arguing on a fan site, I can only assume - 8. Is an ebony pot having a conversation with a kettle 2021-08-08 at 1:56 AM, TrueBlue4eversaid: I’ll add that to the list. - Free streaming via network hacking - Undercover COVID lab tech - Long time Ebola scientist - Linked in with US broadcasters - On top of computer graphics - Family to HNIC staffers - Superior knowledge of US economy - Host of Bomber team parties - Immune or anti-masker - Trusted with neighbour’s injury status