Is this ever a guy we should take a run at? I really like Pokey as a receiver but not sure he's a 1A Superstar guy... Would you ever take a run at Hatcher as your #1 and then have Pokey and Demski as 2/3?

 

 

18 minutes ago, TBURGESS said:

In the current system you might play the same team 3 times in the regular season, 1 in the preseason, and 1 in the playoffs. Now it could be 2 in the playoffs. That's exacerbating an already bad situation.

An 18-game season to eliminate 1 team is dumber than an 18-game season to eliminate 3 teams.

Round 1 doesn't eliminate any teams. Think of it as an extra regular-season game, because playoff games should always be win or go home.

Teams 1-6 get a home playoff game either in the first round or the 2nd.

Teams 7-8 get an away game.

Team 9 is a goner.

Round one eliminates 2 teams. The losers of the 5v8 and 6v7 match ups.

1 hour ago, blue85gold said:

Round one eliminates 2 teams. The losers of the 5v8 and 6v7 match ups.

You're right, 4 games to eliminate 2 teams.

The playoff format, while stupid, will not be as big of an issue as the 18 game season will remain to be.

Any given season quite likely that almost 1/5 of regular season games will basically be meaningless in September and October for playoff positioning.

The league is too small and the season too long to make this format work.

So they can celebrate having more playoff games, but they will be playing a bunch of games with no stakes, lowered TV ratings and struggle to sell tickets depending on the market.

Each market is different. Until teams realize that then nothing changes. I don’t know what other places do to promote the teams to the locals but here in Winnipeg it’s bombers and jets basically 24 7.

CFL can make all the changes they want, some will work, some will fail, people will always complain but in the end, football is gonna be non contact pulling a flag out of a guys ass cheek one day so extra games or play ins like the nba and AFL (Australia) do is fun.

I think weather tho is way more unpredictable in April may than November tho. And competing with Stanley cup playoffs is just dumb. Honestly they play outside in Green Bay and buffalo (rip outside bills games) in January. Why is November a big deal. We are Canada. We should be embracing the weather later in the year.

Bombers were a disaster 15 years ago.. now they making nhl team profits. CFL didn’t help with that. Wade and the local community made it happen. That needs to happen every where else. BC dude is trying. Schedules and gimmicks and whatever else are all fine temporary solutions but how do you fix the Toronto still only drawing 10k people thing. Start with owners who care. Teams owned by big corporations don’t do well it seems. I was a young boy with no chest hair but I vaguely remember John candy owning the Argos. Dude cared and that made the people care. MLSE don’t care. Calgary owner? Doesn’t care.

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