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Talk of "western separation" simply makes me angry. It's juvenile and is nothing more than a populist talking point with no foundation in reality. A little reading: https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/why-alberta-separatism-is-the-dumbest-political-movement-in-canada-today I'm usually more thoughtful when I choose to post in these threads but this nonsense just irritates the **** out of me. I'll gladly sit down with anyone and talk about my view, over a beer, where we can agree to disagree like intelligent .. thoughtful folk.

That is such a ridiculous comment. You say that LaPo did well only because he had great players in 2002 (I believe you said even you could have crafted a great offensive game plan with that talent). So when he does well (like 14 club records on offence in 2002) all the credit goes to the player, not him. But if a player does not do well, it's because LaPo has not "elevated" them, so he gets all the blame. Maybe, just maybe, the "talent" right now is not as earth shattering as some think. But for the sake of argument, let's look at the talent LaPo has had in the past and now. In 2002, he took an MVP QB and that QB produced even better numbers than the year before and according to Milt Stegall should have won MOP that year too. He took an all-star receiver and got him to the greatest receiving season of that receiver's career and lifted him to MOP status and league records. He took a part-time running back and made him a star in the backfield, and the next year got him his first league rushing title. Also the 2 best receiving years of Roberts' career those 2 seasons. He went to Saskatchewan and turned Darian Durant into an all-star and got them to the Grey Cup. He came to Winnipeg and found a way in 2011 to keep Buck Pierce healthy long enough for Buck to have his most productive season ever and get to a Grey Cup. Like with Khari before him, once he lost his effective starting QB due to injury, the lesser talent at back-up hindered him. Now that he is back, he has "elevated" Andrew Harris into bar none the best running back in the CFL. Harris had zero rushing titles and two 1,000 yard seasons before coming here, will get his 3rd consecutive 1,000 yard year (and second 1,300+ yard year), and his 3rd rushing title, on top of becoming the best receiving running back in CFL history in 2017. He took Matt Nichols and devised a system that minimized his weaknesses (average arm strength, low mobility) and fed off his strengths (passing accuracy, "game manager", low turnover risk) to create the most efficient QB in the CFL this year who had the team #1 in the CFL standings before he got hurt. But you expect the entire playbook to be thrown out to cater to a new QB who does little else but run the ball and hasn't shown he can pass very well rather than expect management to have as a back-up someone who can step into the existing system and execute it to relatively the same degree, like Calgary, Sask, and Hamilton did. And LaPo to a great extent has tweaked that playbook to incorporate more runs and option/pass from his QB. But having a QB who can't throw very well or get into his second or third progressions efficeiently does not seem to have gotten us very far. So how about you tell us who has suffocated under LaPo only to have their obvious underdeveloped talents shine elsewhere? It is possible, but no one obvious springs to mind for me.

Get fired? Probably.

They are "conservatives" in name only. Nothing could be further from the truth. These are anti-science, regressive taxes, big government social righties. They are no conservative parties left in Canada.

Yes, but it's all bluster without any basis in reality.

Wow, it's not often I'm glad to be 64 but after what you just posted I feel fortunate to have been around long enough to see some helluva great teams in the past.

You can keep Judge and I'll keep Gray.

So PaMo has moved Wheeler to the 2nd line and Scheif, Ehlers, Laine are 1.... Who is this t that's been whining like a baby for years about breaking up 55/26? Goalie? Whoever it was... Quitcherbitchin plz...

Whines erroneously in another thread about being attacked... Then proceeds to attack others. What pitiful, idiotic behaviour. And of course you quote NoTricksZone. Again. That site is trash and you damn well know it is. Could you at least put a modicum of effort into this thread for once? It's like having a discussion with a potato. But that'd be an insult to potatoes.

I’m 2016, he went 26/40, 390 yards and 2 tds, 0 int. Lose the game 32-31. In 2017 he goes 35/48 for 371 yards with 3 tds and 0 int. Lose the game 39-32. To me that seems like pretty good numbers and indicate he was not at all the reason they lost.

A+B=C

You are hearing what you want to hear in a very strange way. No one is saying we're all dead in 12 years as been previously stated and yet that's the part you hear because it's the easiest to discount. That's some second-level cognitive dissonance.

It's real, alright. Real stupid and poorly thought out. Nothing more than sore loser syndrome from a province that chose to bankrupt its future and is now feeling the effects. And instead of pointing the blame at its previous and current provincial leadership, the actual ones responsible, it's all "let's play victim and act like Ottawa let us down" or "it's all because Quebec keeps stealing from us." What a piss-poor attitude. Peter Lougheed must be spinning in his grave.

It's a damning statement about our offense that Harris is far and away the leading receiver in terms of catches.

Pig doesn’t know difference between climate, and weather.

But what is there for us to "suck up" exactly? It's hilarious to see the bLuE wAvE turn so quickly into blue tears. Who are the snowflakes now? Wexit… Give me a ******* break.

Oops...misread the original post. My bad. Apologies.

Nobody said anything about the world ending or humanity going extinct. That kind of fearmongering is exactly what's not needed. The scientific community's consensus is 2030 is the tipping point for when it'll be too late to make meaningful changes if we continue to just go on as we are with our current rates of consumption of fossil fuels. The UN merely supports that assertion, along with the other science-backed findings showing human-influenced climate change is a real issue as far as our collective future is concerned. By your logic, you might as well deny physics, chemistry, and biology, and support the domed flat earth movement. Because in all likelihood, the boogeymen at the UN support all that proven science, too.

"I didn't extort cause the victim didn't know I was using extortion. addle brained idiot.

All the QB injuries this year have more to do with the rule changes than anything else. DBs are not pretty much not allowed to cover (by the rules) so the best pass D is the pass rush.

https://www.cosmopolitan.com/politics/a29514931/trump-groped-models-backstage-all-the-presidents-women-excerpts/

No, this group of conservatives is not associated with the name "Torie" and they have nothing much in common with the old Progressive Conservative party. They're the Satanic offspring of Preston Manning's old Reform Party and they share many similar values and motives with the Republican Party.

Not super impressed that this person is insisting on remaining anonymous. Tons of insiders are running to Congress to testify; what's this one got to lose?

What do you think Fajardo, Evans, Arbuckle, Streveler, MBT and Adams are? Even Harris and Masoli, who are more established, have growing to do and will be better. Given the lack of experience and young age of so many QBs now (remember, all pressed into emergency duty due to injury) I'd say they for the most part have acquitted themselves well. This argument about lousy QBing comes up every so often when the old guard goes down. Brock, Moon, Wilkinson, Holloway all leave and then it's "there are no good QBs other than Clements - Dunigan, Ham and Allen are too raw, Dewalt is a flash in the pan", then they mature into great QBs, some get injured and replaced by rookies, and then McManus is no good, Calvillo is no good, Khari Jones is a third stringer, Kevin Glenn is below average, once Flutie (then Garcia, Dickenson, Burris, Mitchell, etc.) is gone there will be no one in Calgary, other than Ricky Ray there is no one good, then Ray is no good, Lulay is washed up, Pierce is a waste, ad nauseum. I'd say the fact that we had back-ups step up in every single CFL city this year, and right now 3 of those back-ups (Evans, Fajardo, and Adams) are the new unquestioned starters going forward, with a 4th (Arbuckle) being able to likely start on any team needing help, and 2 more (Streveler and MBT) being young enough and with enough upside that they are worth keeping around to see if they can morph into a #1, that the league is in OK shape. Add the remaining old guard of top tier Reilly, Mitchell, Masoli, and - if they can overcome their health issues - a competant middle tier of Nichols and Collaros as starters, and that is a decent load of talent. And who knows if one-time "next big things" Jennings and Franklin can re-discover magic like Calvillo did after starting big in Vegas and then crashing and burning in Hamilton?

But not all life and not even all human life. Extinction of species is already accelerating. Without unprecedented spending in mitigation (sea walls, raised roads, reintroduction of wetlands, replanting of forests and grasslands) things will get worse. There will be massive migrations of people which almost always leads to some kind of war or genocide. And I do think Greta Thunberg is a reliable source when she says "listen to scientists". Anyways, Speedflex doesn't seem to understand why 2030 is important (unfortunately he will assume that means January 1, 2030 because that's easier to argue against). “Global emissions could peak within the next five years ― and it is extremely important that, indeed, they peak earlier than that,” he told HuffPost. This is important not just for investment decisions but for bending the curve of humanity’s emissions downward. Climate scientists say that we can only emit another 800 gigatonnes of carbon ― or 20 years of business-as-usual pollution ― if we are to keep global warming below 2 degrees Celsius. Anything more could trigger domino effects set off by rising temperatures that reinforce further warming as escalating feedback loops push the Earth into a “hothouse” state, according to a terrifying report by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) published last month. This could involve melting Arctic sea ice creating areas of dark water that absorb more heat, or thawing permafrost releasing methane hydrates that in turn speed up the global warming process. https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/runaway-climate-change-2030-report_n_5b8ecba3e4b0162f4727a09f?ri18n=true

No one is saying? Lol. That's some cognitive dissonance on your part. Elizabeth May was spreading that fear during the election. We have a Climate Catastrophe.. We need a Climate War Room. We have to get off fossil fuels NOW!!! We're all going to die. No one is saying? Sure.

If I were to name names, the first one I'd submit is Danielle Smith, former leader of the Wild Rose Party. She's been very active in promoting it. Also keep in mind that Kenny's "war room" has no transparency, so he may have used some of that 30 million to fund a social media campaign. The good news is that #rednexit has now overtaken #wexit and is now trending in response.

Bailey and Lawler have been getting the most touches of anyone over the past 3 games.

When we waste player talents & we certainly do that offensively then that is all on LaPo. One hundred & ten percent. Hoping things change this off season.

I don't know about most of you but I'd rather suck it up.

Yeah this doesn't look fishy AF at all....

6’2”. 205lbs. Left shot D. 29 years old. $750,000 one year deal. Another way to describe him is “not good”.

I am trying to figure out why we don't have colonies on Mars by now. What are we waiting for? Arnie just needs to turn on the machine, and they'll have an atmosphere in minutes...

Ummm guys, I think he just admitted he withheld aid.

Jcon wasn't saying Attack was better than Sith. He said Attack was better than TPM and Sith was even better than that. ESB will always be number one for me. Return and Hope are tied for second. The Force Awakens is next. Rogue One I didn't like at first but the more I watched it, the higher it got and I think it places just after TFA. I actually really liked Solo and would put it after RO. Then comes ROTS, TPM and Attack. TLJ...I don't even know where to place this. The acting was really good, but the story and direction were absolutely the worst of all the Star Wars movies. I hate watching the prequels because of the wooden acting, bad direction, crappy script...but the ideas were really on point. Where as with TLJ, the acting was the only good part. The story, ideas and direction were just the worst. And it makes me mad any time I watch it because of how they handled Luke, and that stupid useless casino scene...and the idiotic chase through space. OMG that movie makes me so mad! Anyway...that's what I like.

The fact that this team has such highs and lows both on offense and defense throughout a game speaks more to the way players are used than the talent it possesses IMO.

first off... Who said we would all be dead now? That is bullshit fear mongering and you know it, please stop it- it doesn't help. Just because the science is backed up by the UN doesn't invalidate it- I am sure the UN supports the science behind gravity... or the fact the Earth is a sphere... you refuse to believe in those because it's supported by "the most corrupt & lying organization in the world."? That is silly. The science is settled, climate change is real, humans are causing it and action needs to be taken now.

You can hate losing and still not be a ****.

The science on the greenhouse effect is not something you can really argue with. The debate is really surrounding predictive models and what should be done about it because it has a very real cost. Make no mistake, global warming is a real phenomenon.

I'm a Conservative. I prefer to not trust the science of climate change because most of it is backed by the UN. Probably the most corrupt & lying organization in the world. I don't trust anything that comes from them.

You go numb after a while....

I think we can all agree that Nichols would have never made that throw....take from that what you will.

Just stop feeding the troll. He orgasms every time you get annoyed.

When I see other O & G nations using carbon taxes and other environmental measures in lockstep with their oil industry, which then gives them a better image and better markets world wide - I seriously question whether Albertans are being slighted as much they believe they are.

The CFL is in a sad state of QB'ing. Mitchell and Rielly are the only legitimately good QBs left in the league and Rielly is in his twilight. Fajardo, Nichols, Dane, Masoli, Harris, Streveler, Collaros are all just meh. Maybe Adams could be considered upper-echelon, but he really shouldn't be. MBT and Davis are straight awful. The CFL needs new blood at the position.

Are you suggesting Nichols was taking more shots than the average QB in the CFL. I really don't see it that way.

I just don't see how a West QB will win this year with such outstanding performances by Burnham, Harris, and Begelton. No QB should win by default.