Jesse

No doubt it’ll be a downgrade. But you got to have a limit on what you’re willing to pay guys. Especially when we’ve invested so much draft capital in the OL. We have to be able to replace guys when other teams sign them away in FA. I tell you though, between Goosen, Corney, and potentially Chungh, this is a lot of high draft picks (who should be hitting their prime years) that are no longer helping our team.

These are all issues. That they want to be discussed in the new CBA. They need to be started first.

What?

I know I’d rather him part ways amicably (he handled this professionally), and that this is a better move for him in the long term (especially if he’s fallen out of love with the game), but darn, this was a second overall pick who just hit his prime. this is pretty awful news from a team perspective.

Nailed it.

Coaching limitations - Esks might not have a spot?

I agree with this take.

That would suck. He’s a guy we really had to devote time to and has finally come into his own.

Hardrick is also the best RT in the league.

His twitter feed definitely said offensive coordinator in the Canadian Football League when I checked earlier. I'm not sure if that was a change from what he'd had it as.

If we have a tie, is there a re-vote with just two options?

Oh God. He sounds like he thinks he’s going to be in such demand he’ll get to choose where he goes. I hope booch is correct about his rights. He needs a reality check.

Well, the RUMOUR is that during the hot Mike fiasco, he was talking about Reynolds. "incompetent" was about the nicest thing he mentioned. The feeling is that, under the previous management, Rod was a lot more in the loop and he was unhappy with being held at an arms length. The real kicker was when he was gossiping about Reynolds having an affair with a junior staff member in the organization. Again, this coming from someone who says he knows someone - so huge grain of salt.

We need more receivers, no question. We've been relying on Dressler and Adams (which wasn't enough) and Dressler is likely out. Thank god for the young Canadians.

Who here is a MOD? Are we allowed to talk about it? It's all hearsay.

And then after it happened (mid-season last year) he apparently lost the right to travel with the team. Riders basically put pressure on the radio station to kick him out.

That would certainly be a worst case scenario.

I agree. The single most important factor is a stadium, and nothing has been built or promised. Until that happens, they're no closer to a team than 5 years ago.

easy picks

I’m wafflingbetween Rauhaus and Flagel.

Congrats!

Even if one of these leagues were to make a go of it for a couple of years, there's no way multiple leagues survive.

Every team is in that 500k range. Seems solid to me.

I think we're just talking general opinions of the players in and around 2011 at this point.

Probably a good idea to get these deals out of the way now. I'm sure they're content with a modest raise and then Walters is free to focus on the bigger contracts once the CBA is finalized.