Fatty Liver
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1 hour ago, Stickem said:
Dublanco showing up at the combine...Should be an iteresting watch...This guy will go early in the draft....we may not get a shot unless we can swing a deal....Walters will be on it depending on what he sees from this guy
The CFL Combine is on this weekend in Waterloo, here is a link to the posted results page.
https://www.cfl.ca/combine/2024-invitational-combine/
Top 5
https://www.cfl.ca/2024/03/08/invitational-combine-leaderboard-top-5-from-every-drill/
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1 hour ago, blue85gold said:
Fair enough. He does like to hold on to the ball to make the big play.
Taking more hits can lead to hesitating and taking even more hits.
Led to a fair number of fumbles as well, as a few time he tried to reverse direction and ran right into a defender who stripped him of the ball.
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Just now, Doublezero said:
I really wish Bombers had been able to keep Brown and had somehow dealt Collaros. But I guess Zach is at the point in the life of his contract, with possibly some guarantees, that made that impossible. The problem is that Zach is 35 and has developed happy feet - starts to scramble early and throws with a hint of desperation. Brown looked more poised when he came in last season and definitely throws a more accurate ball. It'll be interesting to see how pass pro goes this season with changes on the Oline. There will be tweaks and adjustments, no doubt. Hoping Collaros can stay healthy but ... I think Strevy could end up starting for us sooner rather than later.
Brown has not been hit yet, that's about to change shortly. We'll see how his game evolves in time after a couple of rounds on the 6 game recuperating from serious injuries like Zach has. One thing to note, Brown and Collaros are right around 6'-0", difference is Zach weighs 218 lbs. and Brown is a slender 191 lbs., the difference is muscle mass which has served him well the past 4 years.
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3 hours ago, MOBomberFan said:
Curious, who does everyone feel we should have selected instead of Bennett at 8th and Kelly at 15th? I'm wondering who the 'big get' that we passed on twice was this year. For the life of me I can't figure it out. Uguak seems like the early hit of 2023 and he was gone at 7. Bemiy taken at 9 might round into a better player by the time he's Bennet's age but til then he's currently statistically trailing Bennett and I don't recall him standing out in any big way. Just curious 🤔
I think year #2 is going to show last years draft class was not all that bad, eager to see what Max Charbonneau, Bret MacDougall, Jeremy Murphy and Jake Kelly bring to TC. I'll predict that 2 of those 4 eventually become impact players.
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On 2024-03-05 at 8:08 AM, Pete said:
Using the nationalized rule, doesnt mean you have more americans on the starting roster it only means you can play them for a limited amt of snaps in place of cdn. Your cdn backups remain the same. The third cdn safety isnt taking starter reps regardless.
Not mentioned in this discussion is that the Natl. American rule did not fulfill it's intended purpose of extending the careers of fan favourite veteran American players who were no longer able to secure starting roles, but were still marketable personnel for their team within their communities. A player like Darvin Adams comes to mind.
What happened within one week of the season starting is a few teams of low character figured out how to subvert the rule intent and twist it to their advantage. Both Calgary and BC demonstrated this in week #1, having established starters such Kadeem Carey and Dominique Rhymes listed as backups to no-name players who they replaced after the first snap and played the rest of the game, thus subverting the ratio as the 23 play count applies only to the designated starter.
Same thing was done on defence as teams were permitted to have a designated nationalized American on offence and defence. Game #1 the Stamps used their defensive designation on veteran defensive back Branden Dozier, who started behind rookie Michael Griffin, the Lions subbed vet. Woody Baron in for Global no-name Tibo Debaillie after one snap.
The blame falls on the league for failing to close an obvious loophole on a rule that may have had good intentions and been worthwhile. As the rule change failed to achieve what is was designed to do, it should be altered to more accurately serve it's purpose, or immediately be eliminated.
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3 hours ago, wbbfan said:
Likely both imo. The good OL bodies will be long term gambles. We likely go to the replacement level pile for another guy like kola. At this point, Likely some one worse than gray or gray him self. But I don't think they have interest in moving gray to guard and want to roll with eli/dobson inside.
I don't think Gray is coming back at a bargain price for any team, he's pursuing his engineering career in Wpg. and doesn't need to sell himself short to play football.
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3 hours ago, Goalie said:
Pigrome would be pointless here. Streveler does what he does but better.
Yep, don't see any reason for the Bombers to pick him up, but hope some other team gives him a shot as 3rd string, showed more natural talent than most rookies and would still be cheap.
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4 hours ago, SpeedFlex27 said:
Just for the sake of argument, What if the allegations by this coach are found to be not true & the Argos had already tossed Kelly on heresay to placate the fans of other teams calling for his blood. MLSE would be dragged into court & sued for millions of dollars in damages by Kelly. And while it's true MLSE has hundreds of millions of dollars that any judgement found against it would be but a pittance, the damage to the brand would be far, far worse. Let's see what the CFL does about this.
I'm not taking Kelly's side. I'm just playing Devil's Advocate here for the sake of discussion.
No mention of the incident on CFL.ca at all, I suspect the CFL Board of Governors will determine how the Argos handle their response so it does not detract the CFL brand as a whole. A quick payout for what she's asking would probably be the expedient move to make it go away.
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Too funny. Looking forward to a double Dickenson firing at the end of the season.
Former Riders head coach Craig Dickenson hired by brother Dave as consultant with Stampeders
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15 minutes ago, Wanna-B-Fanboy said:
First of all you can expect more from men- no one here said they expect less. And sometimes those choices are the wrong ones.
Agree, the job of a parent is to protect and guide their children, you can't control the behaviour of other people, some of which have diverse personal experiences and criminal histories, which infers exceeding boundaries is not an obstacle they respect. Hoping for the best doesn't repair damage once done.
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3 minutes ago, JCon said:
And, so instead of expecting more out of men, we make young women bend? F*** that. It is a horrible take because it says that men can't control themselves when the reality is that they make their own choices.
Even worse. Tell your daughter she can't live her life because we make excuses for pathetic men.
Do you not recognize a football locker room as an extremely rarefied environment that is seldom duplicated within the rest of society? I would also advise my daughter not to become a prison guard for her own mental and physical well being. You can wish for a rainbow and unicorn world all you like but that's not yet the current reality, and looking around at the world today, I'm not sure it's even on the distant horizon.
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1 minute ago, HardCoreBlue said:
So you're suggesting no 22 year old woman should be working for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers that requires her to be in close contact with the players because reality dictates that Walters and company have no chance to create a safe working environment?
I was referring to what I would advise my daughter if she was in that situation, other women can do whatever they like. I do not personally see it as a safe work environment filled with really good people with wonderful intentions. Sue me.
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Just now, JCon said:
It's not the reality because **itty people keep making excuses and blaming the victims.
Not at all, but you're naive if you think a testosterone filled locker room is a certified "work safe environment". Maybe part of her job was to shoot players up with pain killers so they can perform their duties for our amusement.
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4 minutes ago, Noeller said:
this is a HORIBLE take..... "boys will be boys"..... no. Society needs to change so that women can feel comfortable working in any situation.....
That may be the ideal, but it's not the reality.
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2 hours ago, Brandon said:
Considering the internet has several public articles about Toronto hiring the first woman assistant strength coach for the team, it was only a 2 second google search to find the answer.
If she was my daughter I'd advise taking a job working intimately with 100 football players with no other women in sight was not a good idea, something was bound to happen, and it did. For cripes sake, her contract only paid $25,000, she could have made more in any other situation.
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4 hours ago, Jesse said:
It's hard to really speak to this. Walters took the high road in his comments. Just said Jackson was 100% right, and it's a very difficult situation.
I wonder if there was more communication than either will admit but it was exactly along the lines of, "we don't know if we can offer you a contractor how much we will left over for you". And then he also didn't receive much interest in FA (which does surprise me, tbh).
In the full length interview I posted earlier, Jeffcoat revealed the Stamps, Lions and Riders were all interested in him, Sask. made him an offer which the other two plus Walters were not able to match, but within a day or two the Riders also signed Malik Carney and withdrew their offer. Instead of accepting an offer well below his self-worth, his agent convinced him to retire.
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Bighill's comments regarding Jeffcoat from the Wpg. Sun.
"A guy like Jackson is not replaceable," Bighill said in a one-on-one interview Wednesday.
"In my mind, the best all-around defensive end I've played with in the CFL. In terms of first down, second down, his impact on the game has been the best I've seen. You look at his numbers in the playoffs and it's a whole other level. He'll be missed. He's a guy who's not replaceable but hopefully a guy people in the building will be able to learn from."
Bighill, who is on the executive of the CFL Players Association, can't help but be gutted for the players who played such big roles in getting the team to four straight Grey Cups but were not offered contracts this year.
Jeffcoat lamented that there was almost no communication with team management in the lead-up to free agency and Bighill did not like the way things were handled either.
"It sucks," he said. "It's part of the business that everyone understands, but it's the terrible part. For some of those guys, if the club was able to figure out who they were going to be able to offer contracts to and who they weren't and could have come out and provided that information immediately, as opposed to waiting toward the days of free agency starting, it just would have been better for guys ... to have more of a heads up.
"It's just a better way to approach things. More communication is often better than none to little or waiting till the end. But it's part of the business. The most unfortunate part."
https://winnipegsun.com/sports/football/cfl/winnipeg-bluebombers/bighill-thrilled-bombers-were-able-to-sign-big-names-devastated-for-players-let-go -
4 minutes ago, GCn20 said:
Could be they are not ultra confident that they would land him if he does come back. They threw gaudy (650k per) at him to stay last offseason and he walked away without giving it much thought. If he really loved the Lions org he might have mulled that over for a bit.
Toronto would be my bet.
Could be, but Chad Kelly is 6 years younger than Zach, it depends if and when Rourke ever returns.
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7 minutes ago, JCon said:
I guess they're pretty confident Rourke is never coming back.
Never say never, he might be gone for 3 or 4 more years like Strev. but he's still young enough to come back and have a CFL career if he has the desire to. If he ever catches on in the NFL as a #2 QB your assumption is probably right.
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43 minutes ago, Super Duper Negatron said:
Seriously. Why the moneybag?
Lord have mercy, a Bomber player would never be so crass. 😉
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On 2024-02-19 at 2:12 PM, Goalie said:
Wasn’t Mike sellers and Roberts Thunder and lightning?
Roberts tho would make guys miss him in phone booths (look it up millennials)
Speaking of Mike Sellers, looks like his health is failing and his family is asking for help.
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49 minutes ago, bb1 said:
"Sigh" it would not surprise me if there are teams in the CFL that are shooting themselves in the foot. How do you justify a cap to the players if you circumvent it? Will they ever learn?
Expect billionaires like Larry Tanenbaum or Murray Edwards to complain they can't compete with clubs from smaller markets, and this loop-hole will be shut down within a season or two.
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Great in depth interview with Jeffcoat, he lays it all out and moves on with a positive frame of mind.
This is the edited version of the same video, addressing this year's contract negotiation.
Dru Brown
in Blue Bomber Discussion
Posted · Edited by Fatty Liver
I'm not sure what you're trying to infer but it wasn't the Bombers decision to drop Brown, he clearly chose to leave the team for better opportunity and money elsewhere and advised the team of his intentions at the end of last season. If Strev. hadn't agreed to play for almost QB minimum they wouldn't have been able to sign either of them. Strev. is likely to do the same as Brown at the end of this season, if presented a decent opportunity he will leave to pursue it. I don't think he'll stick around long enough to become the Bombers future QB.