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The Ottawa game is on October 2. I would say odds are better that we will have fans in the stands than not by that time.

Best part of the Guardian article is the last two sentences of this snippet. A delicious middle finger to the grifter . ”And yet, in less than five minutes, USFL joy was replaced by USFL horror, and NFL horror was replaced by NFL joy. After confirming that, yes, the NFL had violated the law, the jury awarded damages of … $1. Yes, one dollar. “Actually, $3,” said David Cataneo, who covered the trial for the Boston Herald. “Damages in antitrust laws are tripled.” Rozelle had the car turn around again and speed to the courthouse. Trump, already there, was sitting alongside John Mara, the son of New York Giants’ owner Wellington Mara. When the words “one dollar” emerged from Leisure’s lips, the younger Mara pulled out a $1 bill from his wallet and handed it to the Generals’ owner. Trump’s sunken expression was worth the price.”

So I thought this was just a trend for the last 2 years, but this is telling. Charleston Hughes sacks the last 7 seasons: 2019 - 16 total in 17 games (10 in first 7 games, 5 in next 5, 1 in final 5), 1 sack in 1 playoff game 2018 - 15 total in 17 games(13 in first 10 games, 2 in final 7 games), 0 sacks in 1 playoff game 2017 - 11 total in 14 games played (6 in first 5 games, 5 in final 9), 1 sack in 2 playoff games 2016 - 16 total in 18 games (7 in first 8, 3 in next 6, 6 in final 4) , 0 sacks in 2 playoff games 2015 - 10 sacks total in 15 games (9 in first 9, 1 in final 6) 2014 - 8 total in 11 games (6 in first 6, 2 in last 5), 0 sacks in 1 playoff game 2013 - 18 sacks total in 16 games (13 in first 10, 5 in last 6), 0 sacks in 1 playoff game Toronto may be wise to cut him before Labour Day when veterans’ salaries are then guaranteed for the remainder of the year.

Hustler and Rick Ralph were on this afternoon expressing surprise at why fans are jumping all over Wheeler, conveniently ignoring that is was a media session and the media were the ones broaching the subject of him slowing down and throwing out analytics to bash his performance. The media say that they are only parroting what fans are saying to dodge their own accountability in creating drama, but when the majority of fans disagree with them on something, they chafe at that criticism too. I am getting a little tired of the media creating the news and stirring the pot instead of just reporting it, and then getting all defensive any denying that they are doing just that and blaming the fans for calling their integrity into question. Jakob Voracek was bang on.

I don’t think he said “Hmm, Milt Stegall better fit into my short pass scheme or he has to go for a better fit”. But yes, his schemes would probably highlight some players more than others, and in some cases individual production would either exceed expectations or suffer. Still, I don’t think Drew Wolitarsky and Julian Feoli-Gudino are 1,500 yard receivers that got wasted by Lapo’s short pass offence. Maybe with Mike Reilly they hit 800 yards or scrape to 1,000 in a career year.

A lot of that probably depends on where Harris is at after 18 months of inactivity, and the evolution of both our offence around Collaros and other teams’ defences. Hopefully we adapt as others teams will have tape on what we already did.

I don’t think LaPo was the “scheme over talent” guy many would claim. The talent on this offence was a big o-line, a bull at running back who was a great receiver out of the backfield, one deep threat who had OK but not world class speed, and a QB with good accuracy and could run through progressions but a middling arm and was not a risk taker. LaPo crated a ball control offence that would not light it up but could control the time of possession and limit turnovers, and took advantage of a robot at kicker to get points on the board more often than risking turnovers that kept points off the board. Not as flashy as a high risk/reward quick strike offence, but took the tools he had and maximized its effectiveness and working around its shortcomings. When he had Milt, Khari, and Roberts in his first go-round he loaded up the playbook to use them. When Streveler came in he adapted to incorporate a strong running pivot with much less accuracy and made him a viable weapon that could throw just enough to keep defences off balance. When Collaros came in, the longer pass plays were then incorporated to work to his strengths. People knocked LaPo for a “predictable, boring” offence but it played to the ball control grind it out strengths we had and it won us a Grey Cup. At least that’s how I saw it. Many would chafe at the lack of excitement and non-sexiness of the “not a gun-slinger” style of offence, but you can’t argue with the ultimate result, and it for with the strengths of the talent we had.

One good thing about the Nichols move to Ottawa for me: we were not supposed to play the Argos at home this year due to the imbalanced schedule. At least now when the RedBlacks show up Oct. 2 the club can give Nichols a proper video tribute (which he deserves) and the fans can applaud him (which he even more so deserves) for all he did to bring the Bombers back from the dead into the playoffs and ultimately into a Grey Cup champion in his time here, not to mention all his community work and charitable donations.

I think there was interference on the play......and I am pretty sure the refs would still have upheld the goal. Great save but he almost blew it by failing to freeze the puck and letting it squirt out by his stick. He had buried his head and had no clue the puck was still loose. Good on Lowry for picking up the puck and dumping it out. Overall a really nice game from Brossoit, and Forbert had been playing it simple and steady for the most part.

Blue lives matter, FOX?

Lose a challenge, give them a power play right after a goal.

If Elon Musk wants to pioneer a new age of commercial passenger air and space travel for civilians, these videos are not helping consumer confidence. I mean, would you willingly board one of his rockets right now?

Still having trouble sticking the landing.

Worked last time for the GOP.

Jets have trailed 3-1 at some point in 5 of their 8 games this year. In 2 of the other 3, they were trailing by a goal after 2 periods. Given the historical difficulty in winning games when trailing after 2 periods, it is kind of remarkable that they are 5-3 overall. But they cannot sustain success with these in-game deficits. Want to see Heinola back in the lineup, but who should be benched for him? The obvious answer based on talent is Stanley, but based on play, is the real (and very uncomfortable to say out loud) answer Josh Morrissey?

In order, agree, don’t agree, and that is another debate altogether. And I’m prepared to move on when others stop telling me to f*ck off for expressing an opinion. Fair enough?

OK, let’s clear up this little spat. Someone started by saying our Speller trade was a good one. My response was that it was useless. Not good, not bad, just useless. That seemed to get a lot of people irked for one reason or another. So let me address each of you directly. MOAB - you are wrong about the trade. We did not get a 6th rounder for Speller. We got a 6th rounder for Speller AND a 6th rounder. We did not gain a pick. We moved up 4 places in a lower round so they could negotiate in private ahead of the deadline. Was he leaving us anyway? Almost certainly. Was he a sure signing in Toronto anyway? Only Speller can say for sure. If Pinball was certain he was signing then no point in swinging the deal, but if he was worried enough about market competition driving up the price to trade for the security of early negotiating rights, I would have figured the Bombers had at least a bit of leverage to work with, at least more than moving up 4 spots in the draft in the 48-52 pick range. Bigblue and Speed - As for what Calgary gained, I didn’t say it was great, which is what you are implying I said. I am saying that Walters didn’t really get anything of value, so I guess you agree with me there if Calgary’s haul doesn’t impress you. As for the 3 players vs. 1, all 3 of Calgary’s guys were headed to free agency just like Speller, so they gave up the same thing we did - early negotiating rights to guys who were gone anyway. They just parlayed their list players into more of a return than we did. Which was the point of my original post. I felt the trade was useless because in my mind we didn’t gain something for nothing, we got nothing for nothing. We were not going to lose a blue chip player at spot number 52 that we would land at spot 48. If the player were that attractive, we would snag them in any of the 5 prior rounds, or the odds were very good that if the guy we were craving was available at 48, he’d still be there at 52. I figured why make that trade at all, unless Toronto felt they needed the extra 3 days on the competition? And since they felt they did need that (and it ultimately paid off for them in a signed contract) then could we have not squeezed more out of them for a young Canadian o-lineman who has started in this league? Calgary’s subsequent trade landing 2 extra picks for their departing players showed me that Walters could have extracted more. Whether Calgary gets anything of value for those picks remains to be seen, so it may be just as useless a trade for them - but they still did better than we did in the same scenario. It is illogical to argue otherwise. Noeller - I have outlined my arguments above. So I won’t beat them to death again for you. I don’t have an axe to grind with “the best GM in the league by a mile” (whom if I recall was on the chopping block for a few posters here as recently as halftime in the West semi-final 3 games ago). But for everyone who falls at his feet, rails against anyone who offers a counter opinion, and says this was a good of great trade since we got something for nothing, I don’t think we really got anything (so it is a useless trade, not bad per se), and I felt that we had some leverage (others disagreed) and did not get all that we could have gotten. Calgary’s subsequent trade on the same circumstances for more than we got would appear to have proven me right on both counts (that we had leverage, and that we could have gotten more). All that aside, your counterpoint is “shut the actual f*ck up”. If you want to debate, then let’s debate it. If all you have is swearing at me to intimidate me off the boards, (a) you’ve made my point for me that I was right, (b) it won’t shut me up, and (c) is just plain offsides. You don’t have to agree with me - so defend your side. You don’t have to like what I say even if you can’t disagree with it, choose a better way to express it please or just ignore me on this one.

Please, everyone tell me again how great the Walters trade to Toronto to move up 4 spots in the 6th round was again for a Canadian o-lineman who we were going to lose? This seems like a better payout than that one by a good bit, and Calgary had the same “no leverage” we supposedly did.

Read the hole MTG thread, and it was word for word a copy of any Trump speech, right down to the wall to wall lies, hyperbolic America first and evil socialist rhetoric, and insults and put downs. So we have Trump 2.0, and she sounds just as moronic as him. I agree that somewhere out there is an intelligent fascist who could do real damage to that country if they got into power.

IOCchas already declared that if Olympics get put off again this summer they will simply be cancelled. Japan would be out billions of dollars with nothing to show for it. Money. Winter Olympics were getting big enough to have their own stage, and so broadcast rights could get split up rather than shared for one calendar year of Olympics per network.

Here is the cellphone video they are referencing. It is embedded in the overall story. For clarity’s sake, the shooting victim was the driver of the stolen vehicle that was involved in a police pursuit after a liquor store in Sage Creek was robbed. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/eishia-hudson-police-shooting-no-charges-1.5891819

There is part of me that wonders why she wants to get into these Twitter spats, she will only galvanize each side more. Having said that, she is fierce and articulate and goes beyond the mere”I know you are but what am I” mud-slinging And although this one borders on the childish retort, the punchline is pretty awesome.

Am I reading too much between the lines to suspect that he got banned from Facebook and Twitter, and had no where to go but back here once Amazon cut off Parler and it went offline?

But as you said, it keeps Toronto from having other teams compete and drive up the price. So they had incentive to make the deal rather than wait. I just thought it would be worth more to get that advantage. 4 spots in the 6th round is essentially nothing IMO. So if Pinball has already worked out a deal, why make this trade now, with only 4 days to the negotiation window? Clearly there was incentive to get a crack at him early. Maybe Walters could have gone to another team to start a modest bidding war. If no other interest or sense of interest, Toronto doesn’t bother with this trade. But since they saw a need to swing a deal for that extra time to themselves, Walters had an opening to leverage something. 4 spots on the 6th round seems like a whole lot of nothing to me, especially for a starting Canadian o-lineman another team is anxious to negotiate with with no other competing interests, that’s all I am saying. Who knows, maybe this is unspoken “future considerations” to complete the Collaros deal from last year, lol.