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One strange movie is The Island of Dr. Moreau. Apparently Kilmer was tough to work with as he was "going through some things" as he found out during filming that he was getting divorced. If you ever watch it, note the blue arm band Kilmer is wearing. The director begged him to take it off as it made no sense for his character to be wearing it, but he wouldn't take it off.

I think he’s a high level business side guy for this position. I do have concerns though with the fact he has no experience running a league or team, in football, and that his tsn ties could be a conflict of interest with the upcoming tv deal renewal. Maybe for us maybe for them. I don’t know. Jbr summed it up perfectly. In whelmed. I don’t think many people want the commish job.

All the vets need to play half a game in the last pre season game.

I don’t think he got lucky in the wf, if any one was lucky it was buck. I think he’s had two good strong games in the play offs here, and they are similar. He was able to get his deep shots. That’s kind of how it goes with Zach. He could score a td on every drive, or complete barely 10 in a game and toss a bunch to the wrong team. Hes always been that guy. Live by the sword die by the sword. I get rolling with that a few years ago. I don’t think zach is zach any more. I’m not expecting to see 3-4 td passes in a half or score on every drive into the 4th any more. I think his injuries from the past season and a half ish. I think he’s injured and aged to a point where he just isn’t that same guy. At this point, I would take other guys over Zach right now going into the season. Straight up, I’d rather bank this year and the future both on any of Dru/rourke/vaj. I wouldn’t be happy paying rourke that money, and I’m not sold on Adam’s maturity/culture. But I’d still take the risk on those guys. Even just for this year. The fact all 3 should play as good if not better next year is a bonus. Id love to be wrong, and I think the oc/ol changes and wr health will go far to help Zach. But at this point I kind of expect us to finish with another qb as our starter one way or another.

I have no issue with criticism of a QB in the playoffs as long as it comes with praise when he does well also. You were deriding, rightfully so, his play in Grey Cups lately but then suggesting he got lucky in the good games he played. I don't think either of those opinions are a complete story. When his team has played well and executed so has he, when they haven't he hasn't. Is he able to lift a team badly playing up to victory..nope..but I don't see anyone in the CFL right now who can.

His best performance ,and Ive watched it 10 times ,is in Tombstone. Never fails to make me laugh. RIP.

Patrick Neufeld better not be given a month long break only to be given back his starting Guard position the first regular season game. I think a lot of these long term training camp & pre season injuries would be a lot shorter or magically disappear if the veterans who take advantage of this know their jobs are on the line. I remember watching a documentary on Jimmy Johnson his first year as Head Coach in Dallas with the Cowboys. He wanted to change the culture of the team coming off of a couple of dismal losing seasons in Tom Landry's final years as Head Coach there. He noticed a running back struggling on the field. He went over & asked him what was wrong. He told Johnson that he had asthma. He told the running back that the "asthma field" was over there pointing to an empty practice field. He sent the player to the field to stand alone by himself. He cut him after practice. Johnson also cut veteran All Pro Henry Jordan after he complained training camp was too hard for him & that he needed to be a little more laid back. Cruel, perhaps? However, is a running back who can't get thru practice with asthma going to help the Cowboys win? Is a veteran who isn't all in at training camp going to be all in during a game? After all, at the pro level, it's all about winning & then maintaining that winning culture I'd like to see Osh be a lot harder on some of his veterans who may feel that they have it made in the shade. In particular, NG & Center. That includes giving positions to favourites without competition.

The Ghost and the Darkness is also a great under rated movie.

No, you're not crazy for thinking that. I don't think anyone puts out mock drafts worse than Ferguson's. In the past, he's had versions that did not end up with a single correct pick. It gets people talking though so I guess that's the point.

The thing is his bad games have very largely been in the post season with all kinds of teams around him. That kind of consistent struggle is worthy of criticism. Sport performances are biased towards play off success. From Marino to big shot bob. Expectations are higher in the play offs, success and failure are amplified justly. We’ve seen similar loses our self here like with Kelly off the bench. The chances for a qb other than Zach winning that game was real low for us. But the chances of post injury Zach winning it was zero.

Agreed. But the Argos front 7 allows less opportunity to spot the busts.

I think we could potentially look at one of the two who have been in camp with us and are candidates to switch to wr, late late in the draft. A wr who can be a short yardage guy, holder potentially, maybe run option pack etc and be an extra qb as a Canadian offers a lot. 6th round type thing. I see no chance we take a qb that high. We are really well poised to get some depth guys with lots of upside in the exact spots we can use them. Makes no sense to go after a qb, even if we thought rourke was the guy and would be here soon. Which he certainly won’t be here any time soon, and I’m not sold on him.

Kilmer just had that 'something' when he played a role. He had so much charisma in every character he played. He stole the movie Tombstone as Doc Holliday. He stole the first Top Gun movie in his role as Iceman. It was the same in every movie he was in. Kilmer should have been given the lead role in the first Top Gun motion picture instead of Tom Cruise because he owned that movie. Even in Top Gun: Maverick his scene with Cruise knowing that death was coming for his character was charismatic. All Cruise had to do was know his lines, be where he was supposed to be on the set during the scene & watch Kilmer at his best even in poor health. Rest in Peace.

April 2 update: Magic/Tragic # West - Magic # Winnipeg - Clinched playoff spot Dallas - Clinched playoff spot Vegas* - Clinched playoff spot Colorado* - 4 Los Angeles* - 5 Edmonton - 8 St. Louis - 10 Minnesota - 11 ——————— Tragic # Calgary - 10 Vancouver- 9 Utah - 7 Anaheim** - 2 Seattle - Eliminated Nashville - Eliminated Chicago - Eliminated San Jose - Eliminated East - Magic # Washington - Clinched playoff spot Carolina* - 1 Toronto* - 1 Florida* - 3 Tampa Bay* - 2 New Jersey* - 8 Ottawa - 12 Montreal - 17 ——————- Tragic # Columbus - 17 NY Rangers - 15 Detroit - 13 NY Islanders- 12 Buffalo - 8 Pittsburgh - 7 Boston - 5 Philadelphia - 5 *Hold the tiebreaker advantage ** Have a tiebreaker disadvantage Clinching/elimination scenarios tonight: Toronto clinches a playoff spot with a win or OT/SO loss against Florida Carolina clinches a playoff spot with a win or OT/SO loss against Washington

This year might be the best chance we ever have to end the curse.

If it was a one off you got some traction there.... but we're on 3 straight years of making excuses for the top paid qb in the league...

Not losing 4 in the playoffs is the low bar.

No chance. There's way too many good players in this draft. And we have such a lack of depth at Canadian receiver, OL and DL on top of counting on some senior players in football years to carry a heavy load. Like one day Demski will just be done, Neufeld There's still no real upside to rostering a Canadian QB. K Rourke will probably be 28-29 by the time he's even thinking of coming to play in the CFL. And might be physically cooked by then/made enough money that he doesn't really care to come here and try to compete to lead a team. 5th round or below I could see it. But I bet Calgary uses one of their freebie picks on Rourke. Elgersma and Senecal are legit candidates to make a CFL roster as a QB too.

Part 3 where he diddles children and gets addicted to drugs? 😬

Not nearly enough love being shown to Dieter Von Cunth today........ Kilmers most important role....

I just personally don't think a Canadian team will ever win the cup again. It doesn't benefit the league in any way, so I feel like things will be stacked against Canadian teams always. It would be a complete and total fluke against impossible odds.

I can't imagine Kyle Walters has ever been that dumb in his whole life....

We won’t. Because and I quote It’s officially April, and this fool has decided to do his annual top two rounds of mock CFL predictions.