25/26 CFL (Non Bombers) Off Season Thread

[bearpants]

4 hours ago, Brandon said:

 

what a weird statement by Dunk... I'm pretty sure 7 other teams have also wanted McManis playing for them for years...

2 hours ago, GCn20 said:

Ceresna is 10x the DE that Vaughters is. I can't believe Migs is even trying to compare Vaughters to Carney or Ceresna, they are on a completely different level compared to Vaughters. Vaughters might be the worst starting DE in the CFL.

Ceresna is a better DE... and he's not even a DE, lol... I have no hate for Vaughters, he was OK last year... he would probably benefit from playing across from a star... and I'm not sure he'll have that in his new home

6 minutes ago, SpeedFlex27 said:

Do you remember just how bad & undisciplined the Riders were under Craig Dickenson? He stood up for Garrett Marino who was a thug on the field & run out of the league. Duke Williams spit on an Argo & while injured off the Rider roster that same season took a swing at a Blue Bomber who ran out of bounds at the Rider bench right beside Dickenson. I don't recall much of a controversy at Mace's media conference when he was hired as Rider HC. Or if he even said that.

Players should have to make the team on merit. Not entitlement. We've seen that going on here for 12 years. We lost our fair share of players over the past 3 off seasons leading up to this one. The flip side is if you keep playing OTH veterans like Thomas & Kolankowski it creates a log jam & younger players who deserve it can't get on the field. They end up leaving at the end of their contract anyway. The older players keep signing because they want to keep playing & know that anywhere else they'd be cut. So, they re-sign these loyalty "cap friendly" deals.

I don't get your criticism of Mace. He's just doing his job. 

remember not that long ago you were saying Mace should be fired for taking responsibility for a loss??

[SpeedFlex27]

1 minute ago, bearpants said:

 

remember not that long ago you were saying Mace should be fired for taking responsibility for a loss??

Uhh, no. Sorry. I post a lot here. So, unless you can give me better context than that I have no idea what you're talking about. 

5 minutes ago, bearpants said:

what a weird statement by Dunk... I'm pretty sure 7 other teams have also wanted McManis playing for them for years...

 

To me, Dunk is a Ti Cat fan. As a fan that's who he wants them to sign more than anthing. Remember when Dunk used to call the Ti Cats the CFL's "Super Team" & then we'd hand their asses back to them in the 2019 & 21 Grey Cups? 

[bearpants]

9 minutes ago, SpeedFlex27 said:

Uhh, no. Sorry. I post a lot here. So, unless you can give me better context than that I have no idea what you're talking about. 

To me, Dunk is a Ti Cat fan. As a fan that's who he wants them to sign more than anthing. Remember when Dunk used to call the Ti Cats the CFL's "Super Team" & then we'd hand their asses back to them in the 2019 & 21 Grey Cups? 

you're right, you do post a lot and it would be almost impossible for me to find something from over a year ago... but the context was basically that he took responsibility for not having the team ready prior to a loss... you (and others) said just taking responsibility wasn't good enough and that he should resign if he really meant it... I'll admit, I can't remember if it was resign or be fired

And yes, we all took great pleasure in beating the piss out of Dunk's super team, lol... that's one thing we'll never disagree about 😄

[17to85]

1 hour ago, JGD said:

as our personal department is very good at identifying talent.

Agree to disagree. They're not different than any other group in the league. Every front office in the CFL can identify talent. 

A lot of things went right for the riders last year, odds of it happening again after losing a bunch of players? Remains to be seen. Ultimately cfl basically comes down to quarterbacking and the riders are relying on a 40 year old dude there....

[Noeller]

 

 

[3rdand1.5]

Who has Ottawa not signed....they will be making some interesting cuts around TC I'm thinking....

[Bigblue204]

1 hour ago, 17to85 said:

Agree to disagree. They're not different than any other group in the league. Every front office in the CFL can identify talent. 

Wrong! Theyre special. I mean look at their championships. 5! Thats right, you can barely count them on 1 hand. You think that happens easily? You think 5 championships just appear out of nowhere?

When we all look at the Riders in 20 years, we will all say wow....5 championships. Thats something else!!

Edited 6 minutes ago by Bigblue204

[Booch]

2 hours ago, JGD said:

No I am not overly concerned about our losses yesterday as our personal department is very good at identifying talent.  Heck we have already gotten rid of 2 of our biggest weaknesses last year, Lauther and Alford.  This time last year nobody knew who Tom Nield, Joe Robistelli, and Baldonado were.  Heck many were laughing when we re-signed Carney last offseason.  

Neild had success in t.o before..hardly unknown

Carney was a solid signing and wanted us to sign him...so maybe u toothless crew werre laughing...I dunno

And your yrs of success under JOD says otherwise about talent finding

2 hours ago, JGD said:

All receiving are inconsistent when they are very young.   Ajou got an NFL contract for a reason and DDB has all the potential in the world.   Wiebe will be interesting as well, hope he's not too small.

Ajou got a look on ..how he looked...like KSB and lenious 

Ajou is far from great