Fatty Liver
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1 hour ago, SpeedFlex27 said:
No, never said that. I just looked at the stadiums in Mexico & the US. You have to wonder why we're even involved. Edmonton has a much better venue than TO & CWS hosted World Cup qualifiers before yet politics played a hand in giving Toronto a series of World Cup games. Just because...
Toronto has a multi-cultural population chock full of soccer fanatics from around the world and it's a hub for 15 million people close at hand. Hold games in Edmonton and it'll be a curiosity that draws farmers from Lacombe and Leduc, the vast majority of Calgarians wouldn't bother driving that far to watch a soccer game.
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3 hours ago, bluto said:
Yeah, you may need to workshop some new talking points and subject matter.
Honestly, if you'd just hang on until BMO gets its 45k seat conversion, the jokes will write themselves.
Renting 15,000 seats from the Riders for a season? Win/win, they won't be needing them.
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1 hour ago, HardCoreBlue said:
You lift bruh?
Never miss a day.
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42 minutes ago, Arnold_Palmer said:
As someone who’s been around fitness for my entire adult life, he 100 percent is juiced to the gills.
Can't find any mention of it now, but I believe Ouellette was also a pro wrestler in the off-season, could be he's thinking more about extending that career than football as the end of his playing days draws near.
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2 hours ago, wbbfan said:
For anyone who hasn't seen.
I looked long and hard at it twice in my life and decided it wasn't for me. The risks were just not cutting it. I've trained and worked with a considerable number of guys who juiced. Everything from Micro doses /trt to mega doses, etc.
With that preface, is it possible for AJO to make that cut without gear? Sure. If he's never done an extensive body reconstitution, has done minimal weights in his past, and has been a lazy eater, it could happen. Realistically, he's a 29-year-old running back. I can't imagine he hasn't been dragged through the weight room at least a few times a year for extended periods each year for the past 15 at least. Now he doesn't have the typical RB build. He's got chicken legs, especially for a 200+ lbs short RB.
I don't believe they test in the offseason; that would be way too hard and expensive.
At that age, it wouldn't make sense to add a bunch of dense muscle mass as he's probably done the day he loses a step. But if he was going to reconstitute his physique, he should've focused on leg power, then leaning out. He looks like he's been trying to body build more than build for performance.
If I were the riders/fan base, I'd be worried. This 29-year-old RB looks like he's hit a heavy cycle and cut for an amateur bodybuilding contest. When he's played 43 games over 5 seasons, 15 once under 10 3 times including more than 2/3s of last year. He's often been in a platoon and still had considerable durability issues. Guys who hit a hard cycle for the first time late in their career, reconstitute, then go into a football season are glass cannons. Riders better be ready with back up RBs.
To be fair Ouellette is a gym rat, when he was with the Argos he started the "5 AM Weight Lifting Club" and there are many videos of him on FB and IG lifting enormous weights, such as squatting 700 lbs. Andrew Harris even chided him jokingly for focusing too much on strength and not enough on flexibility.
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1 hour ago, Booch said:
he needs to be more intrusive and not worry about the "nice guy" mystique and take control at times...It's part of the job....Our unwillingness for anyone...be it HC ..GM or even prez step in and if anything just say "why" to some of our decisions has ultimately cost us 3 Cups...and before anyone says "yeah but injuries"...well dressing hurt guys...not pulling guys who got hurt and not replacing them in game....and unwillingness to adjut to the game flow...instead just keep hammering away with a flawed scheme and showing no faith in any back-ups to step in...and step up...killed us...and was a conscious decision by...at end of the day..the HC....It's okay to bench guys...replace hurt guys....tell a co-ord to get his **** together or he gonna take control.....
or ...maybe the wise ones can look at it a different way eh?...Who the eff keeps a coach in place who has failed in 3 straight championships...for reasons that were common in all 3?...there is that angle as well when head is pulled out of sand and blue glass removed
If we were to move on and replace our HC....And due diligence was used in picking one...who is not a moron....an assbag...or Chris Jones...we will be just fine...maybe better...we wouldnt fall off a cliff....
The Bombers are currently the most successful franchise in the CFL, they sellout multiple games in a row, the stands are always full, people are having a fantastic time, food, beverage and merchandise sales are up and they've had a winning record finishing first in the West the last 4 seasons and going to the GC the last 5. I believe Wade Miller is happy with all the measurables.
What are you hoping to accomplish by firing O'Shea, achieve one move victory per season? In what way is he damaging the brand or the franchise?
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21 minutes ago, wbbfan said:
The specifics vary a lot coach to coach but yeah that is generally how it works, situationally. Some spots more than others. Also depending on install the hc will often be the one to call in a niche play. Many hcs want control over trick play timing etc.
I’m sure mos is generally one of the less intrusive hcs. Not like maas, dicky, etc who either coordinate fully or every thing but in name.
I recall O'Shea saying a number of years ago how he no longer suggests plays after making an error overriding a defensive formation onetime and now trusts his coordinators to call all plays. After that he focused on managing the clock and general game time decisions such as when to punt and when to gamble. Probably not normal but than not very normal for a STC to become a HC.
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25 minutes ago, wbbfan said:
I really got a lot of the same feeling. Some of zachs comments seemed guarded in a way that hinted at things with buck previously not being great. And that he just wants to be on the same page as hogan.
Overall I thought it was heavy on fluff. And to be fair it is likely that is what people tune into these things for.
Some highlights:
Vaughters was careful in his wording of why things in calgary fell off, a lot of it sounded applicable to us though as well. Loved his comments about guys putting in all the little bits of hard work in order to win and his move here being based on wanting to win.
Wallace talking about his recovery sounds very promising, as well as his continued improvements to his conditioning. Love that buffalo moved him side to side and out to tackle from early on in his days in practice.
Hogan didn't give much for specifics, which is no surprise. Sounds like hes been going down the rabbit hole a bit in terms of what is in vogue down south these days. Said he likes simple concepts but has a special interest in trick plays and stuff that has higher engagement. Honestly he sounded a lot like lapo, but it is a very brief conversation.
Hogan mentioned keeping his offence simple, which probably reflects how much trouble they had with rookie receivers not understanding the playbook well last season.
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2 hours ago, blue85gold said:
Anybody listen to the OB special?
Anything interesting of note?
Haven't listened to it yet but here is the spotify link
The commercials were top shelf, put the Super Bowl ads to shame.
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NFL Canada awards youth football programs $75,000 through inaugural Forward Pass contribution
Notta lotta money, can't see why the CFL can't do things like this. $75k split 3 ways, one of the teams that received a $25k donation was the North Winnipeg Nomads Football Club.
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16 minutes ago, SpeedFlex27 said:
That's why they become gym teachers. they study sports movement & performance called Kinesiology.
Be honest, most of em can't even spell that word.
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30 minutes ago, Goalie said:
How big should the story about the 2 Regina rams charged with fentanyl possession and intent to distribute be?
Got a link?
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50 minutes ago, 17to85 said:
Is this really true? Cause there's lots of people have been inserted mid season over his tenure... now yes he is reluctant to sit then incumbent when they are healthy... but I don't think there is as much resistance to new people as you're implying here. Basically Oshea has a weakness for veterans who have proven themselves in the past.
Please list them, the only one I can recall from last season is Lucky coming in to fill a need. They bring players in later in the season for a tryout for next season but rarely give them any playing time.
Edit: Add Tony Jones who they picked up when the Elks cut him in early June. I didn't realize Tony came into the CFL with the Argos in 2022 and he's already 29, may be a placeholder for a couple of seasons and he's already peaked as adequate but not exceptional.
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4 hours ago, bigg jay said:
Yeah he's an anomaly - skipping the positional coach role to become a coordinator and then skipping OC or DC to become HC. Can't recall any other HC in recent memory that has had a career path like that.
Keep your eye on Mike Miller, he may not know it, but he's being groomed.
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1 hour ago, GCn20 said:
Yep. Even when it's undeserved, coaches wear their record for good or for bad, that's how they are judged. The GM gets the talent assembled. That's his job, he gets the praise/fault for it. The HC doesn't sign the players. The HC is then responsible for taking the assembled talent, evaluating them, and then putting out a winning lineup and putting the talent in a position to win. Anyone suggesting otherwise is talking out their ass. Does the GM and HC talk to each other. Absolutely. At the end of the day though KW decides who stays, who goes, and who to sign and MOS decides how to use them. That is their respective job.
KW has an SMS in which HE has to decide the best use of the dollars. MOS has input but the person deciding any players fate is KW in the offseason, and MOS during the season.
O'Shea's MO is to hold onto the guys that make it through TC and dance with them all the way through to the end of the season, only if desperate will he request extra bodies be brought in mid-season to help out. Air-lift is not in his vocabulary and he doesn't like to upset his apple cart by giving late arrivals a fair shot at stealing somebody else's job. Which begs the question what is Walters going to do with the $450k bonus he received during free agency?
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4 hours ago, Noeller said:
Some can't make up their mind who's to blame and when (except MOS to blame for everything bad). But Costello gets credit for being the best OL coach in the league.
From everything that's revealed publicly, we can determine that most decisions are made as a group. MOS, Walters and Miller oversee things as a group. The offense is worked on as a group with the QB Room all having input (based on what we've seen/heard publicly).
I have a hard time believing Miller would spend much time on player evaluations or roster decisions, he might oversee and drop in once in awhile, but he has enough on his plate to worry about small details. If the subject is hiring a coach or paying Brady to stay, he'd likely get involved because those decisions could have a significant effect on financials and promotion of the product.
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1 hour ago, Mark H. said:
At least Ed Tait is still...Ed Tait.
Judge for yourself, I think Ed has been replaced by a cheap AI construct that spits out 17 words per week.
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37 minutes ago, rebusrankin said:
MCI replaces Augustine. Augustine had the chance to take the starting job in 2021, he didn't.
We'll see what MCI becomes but not the greatest rookie debut, zero touches and they brought in Bailey Feltmate to help out at FB.
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6 minutes ago, Goalie said:
So you haven’t watched any Calgary games the last couple of years.
Change of scenery, less pressure to be the guy, no Dave D to criticize, might have lost his confidence, I wouldn't write Maier off yet.
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57 minutes ago, GCn20 said:
I think Harris was a good QB, not great, but certainly passable. What he is now is 40. I don't care if he's Peyton Manning, running it back with a 40+ QB is not a good idea. Could it work out? Sure. However, there was a ton of QB movement this year and the Riders decided to run it back with an ancient QB. If there were no options whatsover, sure bring him back. However, there were options....many of them.
You're ignoring the move they made to acquire Jake Maier for an 8th round draft pick, which was a great deal I wish Walters would have jumped on. He easily qualifies as the 2nd or 3rd best seasoned backup in the league behind Fajardo and MBT but at only 27 it remains a mystery whether he will emerge as a QB that can lead a team or not. It's fair to say he's a superior backup option than anything the Bombers can roll out this season, and if Harris goes down in game 2, they won't be in a state of panic or despair.
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20 minutes ago, Bigblue204 said:
the only thing that really annoyed me this offseason is SSK getting Mcewen....theyve shored up their OL imo.
Seems like Mace knows what he'd doing, starting to put together a number of solid positional groups.
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38 minutes ago, JuranBoldenRules said:
OL is a major and ongoing problem. Bryant could fall off a cliff anytime, struggled early last year before taking a bit of a break, Neufeld has been pretty bad most of the past 2 seasons. Hope is they always can fire up in October. At this point I'd be looking hard at upgrading all 5 spots and adding depth everyday if I were coaching/managing this team.
That would be a Sask. sized task to accomplish in a short period of time, which could land them in the gutter for 3-5 years until they recover, especially with a QB search on the near horizon. Replacement of the O-line has to be calculated and gradual, Stanley done after this year out of principle, Neuf done after next year, Eli steps up this year and takes a spot or likely remains 6th man for the duration of his career.
The cupboard is now almost bare of upcoming Natl. O-linemen and if they get behind the 8 ball in drafting solid replacements they could end up in a scramble like the Riders have the past 4-5 years. Grabbing every washed up Natl. that gets cut by another team or overpaying in FA to get a year or 2 of adequate performance from a vet. before moving on again. It be a difficult path to tread.
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7 minutes ago, 17to85 said:
So what holes do people see on the roster?
Cause there aren't as many as it might appear... yeah we'd all like an upgrade at centre but obviously they don't see the same pressing need as we do so that's never going to happen... yeah we all want Jake Thomas to retire, but they obviously want a Canadian on the DL so that is what it is. Pretty obvious the DL is going to be daughters, woods, Canadian, Jefferson with Adams as depth #1. That leave is your depth as the pieces to fill and yes they lost some bodies who were that depth, but maybe they want more than those guys brought. We lost Lawler which sucks, but they did add a veteran piece and schoen is back. Receiving corp should be ok, again it's depth that needs padded.
DE, I'd be surprised if Vaughters stays healthy the entire season, if he goes down, don't know who they'll have to plug into his spot. Rotation wise it would be nice to have 4 solid DE's on the roster to start the season.
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2 hours ago, blue85gold said:
I get what you're saying but they locked up Schoen and Brady last year for top $. Two star guys in their prime.
Who has won anything recently making FAs the top paid players?
Seems like they've maybe had a change of philosophy from previous years, almost acting like they got their hands slapped for overspending last season. Playing with analytics maybe they're taking a Moneyball approach, pay less, get more, especially from the receiving corps.
I think they have a belief in paying their core of star players high to initially attract and retain them, and not valuing the grunt workers that play in between anything more than league average salaries. For ex. If a player like Neufeld is being paid $130-$140k, they can't justify paying someone like Dobson anywhere near $200k, which would also be more than Stanley is making, it would throw their salary structure out of whack.
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