For some teams, the CFL Offseason is here. Rather than lose all the coaching movement discussions to the Regular season thread, I thought we could start putting it here.

Those teams currently lost in the wilderness:

Ottawa

Toronto

BC

Montreal

Calgary

Edmonton

Saskatchewan

Hamilton

The champs are here.. the champs are here... Winnipeg*

 

*Grey Cup Champions

1 hour ago, Bigblue204 said:

Wow, good for him. Hopefully he can get to that 560k

Hope so too. But, MBT is a gamer. He's not going to concede the starter job easily. Hope Nichols shoulder is close to 100%. 

21 minutes ago, Geebrr said:

Nichols wearing #20 in TO is pretty awesome.

Great number for a QB, I cannot remember anyone since Flutie wearing it.

I thought he wore #2.

4 hours ago, Tracker said:

Nichols' contract length is irrelevant as he can be released any time up to Labour Day, and neither he nor MBT are the long-term answer for the Double Blue. Its gonna be interesting to see who emerges as the starter and I expect that there will be a lot of tag-teaming behind center this year.

MBT is not going to be happy being Nichol's short-yardage QB. Nichols has CFL experience, and little else, on MBT.

Nichols doesn't have Andrew Harris and/or our O-line any more. He can't run the ball himself, isn't fast enough or nimble enough to evade pressure, and doesn't have the arm to put the ball into tight spots consistently.

Pinball isn't going to be happy paying Nichol's 350K/yr for 3 years to throw the ball away and/or turtle.

6 minutes ago, Floyd said:

I thought he wore #2.

Flutie wore 20 with Calgary and BC

2 hours ago, WBBFanWest said:

Most of us have seen it, yet our panties, surprisingly, remain completely unknotted.

Most of you want McGuire as the backup. Hoping he's at least as good as Streveler was last year after a few starts under his belt, not like most of the rest of the backup QB's we brought into the league between Brock in the mid 70's and Streveler a couple of years back.

5 minutes ago, Jpan85 said:

Flutie wore 20 with Calgary and BC

Except we're talking about Toronto...

Just now, Jpan85 said:

Flutie wore 20 with Calgary and BC

Wore #22 with Boston College and with the New Jersey Generals in the USFL. Then went to the NFL where QBs must wear a jersey number between 1 and 19, so he wore #2 with Chicago and New England.

Then came to the CFL and resurrected #22 with BC. When he went to Calgary, #22 was retired (Tom Forzani) so he wore #20 there. Once in Toronto he wore #2. Back to the NFL with Buffalo where he wore #7 (kicker Steve Christie wore #2 at that time I believe), and kept #7 when he went to San Diego. Finally, he ended up in New England where he once again wore #2.

And now you know...…… the rest of the story.

#20 is the Flutie number for me.

8 minutes ago, Floyd said:

Except we're talking about Toronto...

I was talking about anybody.I don't remember any QB wearing that number since Flutie did.

How could you forget Mike Winchell?

Edited February 7, 20205 yr by TrueBlue4ever

1 minute ago, TrueBlue4ever said:

How could you forget Mike Winchell?

he looks horrified

Running for his life against Dallas-Carter, with no Boobie Miles to hand the ball off to. You'd be horrified too.

I'm pretty sure they put him in 20 in the video because it is 2020. Bet he wears 16 with Toronto.

Oddball stat: In addition to Flutie wearing 20 and 22, and Ron Lancaster wearing 23, there was at least one other QB to wear a number in the 20s in the modern era. Alvin White wore 26 for Toronto in 1978.

1 minute ago, pw13 said:

I'm pretty sure they put him in 20 in the video because it is 2020. Bet he wears 16 with Toronto.

Could be. I hope he wears #20

1 hour ago, J5V said:

MBT is not going to be happy being Nichol's short-yardage QB. Nichols has CFL experience, and little else, on MBT.

Nichols doesn't have Andrew Harris and/or our O-line any more. He can't run the ball himself, isn't fast enough or nimble enough to evade pressure, and doesn't have the arm to put the ball into tight spots consistently.

Pinball isn't going to be happy paying Nichol's 350K/yr for 3 years to throw the ball away and/or turtle.

I'm both an Argo fan and a fan of MBT. I believe he is going to end up as the No. 1 QB for Argos, despite being guaranteed about $133k less than Nichols (if reports are accurate). If I'm right, and with O'Connor developing nicely, 2020 might be Nichols' only year in Toronto. But I'm happy to have him for now as it's clear you need two viable QBs in this league. Argos had just one the past two years, and it wasn't the guy they handed the job to four times along the way (Franklin). 

If Nichols is healthy he isn't sitting behind MBT

13 minutes ago, pw13 said:

I'm both an Argo fan and a fan of MBT. I believe he is going to end up as the No. 1 QB for Argos, despite being guaranteed about $133k less than Nichols (if reports are accurate). If I'm right, and with O'Connor developing nicely, 2020 might be Nichols' only year in Toronto. But I'm happy to have him for now as it's clear you need two viable QBs in this league. Argos had just one the past two years, and it wasn't the guy they handed the job to four times along the way (Franklin). 

Argo fan??? Wow, didn't see that coming. Welcome :-)

7 minutes ago, Geebrr said:

If Nichols is healthy he isn't sitting behind MBT

I would have agreed a year ago. But I saw enough in MBT last season to advocate that the Argos make signing him their top priority this off-season. I think he's going to surprise a lot of people who consider him just a run-of-the-mill backup type. But that's why they play the games.

17 minutes ago, pw13 said:

I would have agreed a year ago. But I saw enough in MBT last season to advocate that the Argos make signing him their top priority this off-season. I think he's going to surprise a lot of people who consider him just a run-of-the-mill backup type. But that's why they play the games.

I thought MBT looked pretty good in the games I saw. Certainly played well against the Bombers when they beat them. He's not a scrub. He's been in a lot of NFL camps because he has talent. I like Nichols, but, this will be a competition, larger salary or not. 

Shaq Evans re-signed

36 minutes ago, Floyd said:

Shaq Evans re-signed

 

Decent pay for really only 1 yr of productivity...see if he can keep it going

1 hour ago, HardCoreBlue said:

Argo fan??? Wow, didn't see that coming. Welcome 🙂

To the endangered species list?

3 minutes ago, Tracker said:

To the endangered species list?

Looks like we found the other Argo fan! PW13 and Bluto. Two more and they will double their season ticket holders