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On 23/07/2018 at 11:37 AM, bearpants said:
the most amazing stat here is that Calgary points against... seriously, 9 points per game allowed?? that's incredible...
I prefer Winnipeg with the most points for. We've suffered through some anemic offensive outputs. A few years ago 353 points in 18 games, we're already at 199 through 6 this year. Not to take anything away from Calgary, I'm just happy to see a Winnipeg team that can put points on the board.
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30 minutes ago, Mark F said:
Wouldn't It be interesting to hear the actual , no B.S. explanations and reasons why players are kept, or released, or played, not played, traded etc.
interesting yes, although in the CFL I don't necessarily want to hear. If it's the NHL/NBA/MLB/NFL then sure, even if it make them look bad, they're getting paid well enough to deal with the publicity stuff. In the CFL I think they deserve a bit more of their privacy. If I get fired from my job, the reason is between me and my company, and I make more than some CFL players. So I'm ok with respecting players privacy.
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11 minutes ago, Brandon said:
I wouldn't say that... he did more good then bad with us. I'd say someone like Odell Willis in his prime was more of a penalties outweigh the performance....
just personal opinion, I wasn't upset when he left.
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6 hours ago, Zontar said:
Tell me about Jammal Westerman.
stupid penalties outweigh his talent. Good player, but I don't miss him.
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1 minute ago, Bigblue204 said:
CONGRATULATIONS - YOU WIN DUMBEST POST OF THE DAY, AND IT'S ONLY 10:17AM!!! THAT'S GOTTA BE A RECORD FOLKS!
apparently my point wasn't clear. He said they have some responsibility not to be because they play football, implying the rest of us don't, which obviously we all should be expected to not be rapists and wife beaters
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3 hours ago, WBBFanWest said:
Why do they have to wait for a trial? You can cut a guy for any reason. This is a reason.
the league also said they won't approve any contract if someone else tries to sign him. So he's been blackballed without any due process
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20 minutes ago, Throw Long Bannatyne said:
Edem?
Matt Elam
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13 hours ago, Yourface said:
We have certainly come a long way in Canadian receiving talent since the days of Aaron Hargreaves.
It wasn't that long ago many here were complaining about us using taking multiple receivers in this last draft.....
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It can be tough to find the middle ground between what's going to be a decent discussion, and what's a waste of time. I do find that almost anytime I open a thread and wonder why does this thread exist, that yes it's opened by BigBlue. On the flip side, I tend to come on to see what's being discussed, and not starting discussion myself.
It may come down to visiting habits. I find when I have time to check daily, new small threads tend to be an annoyance because I'm caught up on everything in the big threads.
When I can't get on daily and I come on after a week 20 new pages in a big thread can seem daunting and I'd prefer there were more specific threads so I could decide what to get caught up on.
With that said, I'll read the content regardless of format. I get liberal with the block button for the people whose thoughts I don't want (and sometimes that ends up in an entire page being redacted. My guess would be the casual readers prefer smaller threads, and the every day guys prefer the big threads.
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4 hours ago, SpeedFlex27 said:
Booch, when my son played at SFU his final season he developed what could have become a very serious health issue. For obvious reasons, I'm not going to get into what it was as that is personal but it was serious. All I know is because of the NCAA's stupid list of banned substances, his doctor had to go through that list & pick a treatment based on what would be safe from suspension not what was best for his health. As a result, he never felt very well from a health perspective his entire senior year. He had a much better junior year as a player than as a senior. I'm sure not feeling well had a lot to do with it although to his credit he never used that as an excuse. He'd have applied for an exemption from that banned NCAA list for health reasons but the steps it would have taken weren't worth it as the NCAA could have ended up denying his request. Then if he had some of those banned substances in his system he may have been suspended if he was randomly tested which I think would have happened. So, he & his doctor along with the team physician came up with a treatment that wasn't ideal but it was the best that could be done under the circumstances using drugs that weren't banned. I felt that the NCAA put my son's long term health at risk with their holier than thou rules. The NCAA are run by bureaucratic morons putting players health at risk. As soon as he finished playing he went on the meds he should have been on in the first place & felt a lot better.
Maybe I'm a ****, but you put your sons long term health at risk by not deciding his health mattered more than football and picking a treatment option that was better for football than for his health.
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5 minutes ago, Dirty30 said:
Is anyone else wondering if Leggett plays for the Bombers this year?
Are you implying he might play for another team? If he's healthy enough to play he's way too good to not have a place for him. Or are you implying he won't be healthy enough to play or play like has has in the past?
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I think it's ok to be happy with Montreals' QB situation. How many times did we run into Calvillo in the playoffs
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12 hours ago, 17to85 said:
and we're still going to see them throwing for 6 yards when they need 8.
the PLOP formula is required yards/2 = play call yards. So when we need 8 he'll actually call a 4 yard play not a 6 yard play.
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8 hours ago, wbbfan said:
Bond is going to be moved over to tackle. We know there isnt a better guard in the cfl, tackle is a whole other game. Its like the green twilight zone of cfl fa.
didn't bond tweet something like he wasn't going anywhere to play tackle?
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23 hours ago, The Unknown Poster said:
The real scary thing is the test to show CTE when you're still alive. Because who's to say we dont all have signs of CTE? Maybe normal life causes brain trauma over the course of 50-70+ years.
I'm assuming you meant to say there isn't a test to show CTE when you're still alive. I'm not sure of where it sits exactly, but they detected CTE in a living person for the first time 2-3 months ago (confirmed after his death unfortunately). The study was in the Journal of neuroscience at the end of November I think, from the doctor who first discovered CTE (the guy Will Smith played in the movie).
So really there's a lot of work to still do to have a verified reliable way to confirm in the living, but they're making progress with the testing.
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6 hours ago, Bigblue204 said:
So basically Wilder is saying, he has a choice. Stay home take a higher paying job with less risk of injury. Or leave home for less money and serious risk of injury. He's gotta do what he feels is best for his family. And from the sounds of it, the CFL isn't that right now. I can stand behind that. Gotta do what you gotta do.
I can relate, in that I had to leave a job I loved dearly due to lack of pay. It was at a non profit so obviously different situation. But I didn't want to go, my employers didn't want me to go. But at the end of the day I had a child on the way and I have to take care of my family.
Not sure how anyone can fault a guy for that.
I've had employees leave for a variety of reasons. One decided she wanted to go to Denmark. She was one of my best employees. One of my current best is considering a change. I told them both the same thing. If you're going to be happier in a different situation, from a professional standpoint I hate to lose you, but from a personal standpoint I'm happy for you and wish you luck.
So if he can't work it out with the Argo's, I can't fault him for choosing the situation that's better for him or his family, even though it sucks to lose him from the league.
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7 hours ago, The Unknown Poster said:
Very surprised they are using XFL for two reasons. 1) all the bad press associated with it 2) XFL was owned by WWE, which means to use it, Alpha has to license it. That wouldnt matter if WWE was privately owned but they cant just gift the trademarks to Vince because he's the chairman.
Word is the launch would be 2020 so they have given themselves some time to do it right.
quick trademark search shows WWE abandoned the trademark on it in 2003. In December 2017 Alpha trademarked it.
http://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4810:jagwo7.2.2
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I'm torn on who you spend the money on. Randle has been phenomenal since we got him from Calgary. I can't imagine the secondary without him. The O-line really came together when Bond got into the lineup. They've both been incredibly important to where the team is. My gut says if we could only keep 1, I'd keep Randle. With that said, it's been so nice to have an elite O-line after years of watching our QB's get wrecked. We don't have the depth to compete if Nichols goes down.
Randle/Leggett in my eyes have been the critical pieces of our D. The D line has rotated lots, we rely on those two in the secondary every down. I don't want to think about starting the season with Leggett still injured and Randle on another team.
But I have to say, man it's a nice change to say the Bombers have enough elite players to worry about who we can afford to keep, versus thinking about who we can afford to pry away from another team because our cupboard is bare.
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3 hours ago, blueingreenland said:
There is another way to look at this too: Rarely does a CFL QB look good in his 1st start/1st time getting into a game...the exceptions that I can think of were:Kent Austin, Doug Flutie and Jeff Garcia. Most guys need plenty of time. I am not saying Davis will develop into a CFL starter if given more time. I just think he was given limited reps, was hamstrung by poor play calling when in there, and then was leapfrogged by LeFevour which most saw as a real head-stratcher.
I don't recall his first game, but Ricky Ray had a pretty successful first season as well from what I recall.
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9 hours ago, Noeller said:
I was alive for our last 3 cups but don't remember watching any of them. Even 90, I was 10, but don't remember watching the game. I'm certain we did, but damned if I remember. So I honestly don't have a good GC memory. Not a single one. Nothing but heartache.
I don't remember a bomber victory in a grey cup either.
So my fondest memory of a grey cup has to be "too many men on the field" 2009
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15 minutes ago, Bigblue204 said:
Only Rec I'd like to see back at TC are Adams, Dressler, Givens and washington (I know, I think he deserves another shot though). The rest we should be able to find something better.
I assume you're only referring to import receivers?
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Not relevant to game day, but went to the Jets game in Vegas last night. More Jets jerseys than golden knights jerseys, and one assclown in a riders Jersey. They're like cockroaches. Screw Rider fans. That sentiment is always relevant
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14 minutes ago, blue_gold_84 said:
Baffled at Leggett not getting a nod. Although, there are only 2 LB spots shown.
Not exactly shocked about Reilly over Nichols. The latter really struggled the last month or so.
they changed the all star selection this year, at linebacker they made it 2 linebackers and 1 cover linebacker, which is where I assume Leggett would be if he was nominated
Province Portion of IGF Debt written off
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did you read the article? The portion of the loan this is referring to is the portion that was supposed to be paid from property tax from development of the old stadium site. Not the portion the Bombers are paying and will continue to pay.