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He had to come here because Saskatchewan had nothing worth shitting on. It's the same reason geese fly over Saskatchewan upside down

The point is being missed here. The point Im making is we have a long history of either giving up on kickers or losing them through other means.. Kicker's we didn't value highly at the time and then those kickers went on to have significant success with other teams. Leggs showed more than enough for a first year place kicker to warrant being the guy next season.

I've always thought that China could end the war whenever they wanted to, perhaps even India. If Russia lost one of those two markets, they would really feel the economic consequences. If Russia could be stopped through economic means, they wouldn't need billions in military support and lives would be saved.

Never said he was. He didn't impress with the bombers. At least not enough to give him a chance. The point im making is that we gave up on all these kickers only to have them excel on other teams. Let's not make the same mistake again.

The CIS career leader in FG%.... and again this fan base wants immediate results and not letting a kid grow. This is how we end up with great kickers who started with us and ended up on other teams.

I work from the question "Was the QB able to get off his normal throw in his normal rhythm?" If not, then he's under pressure. There's other adjustments and situations. But that's where it starts for me. One minor beef I've had with QB hits as a proxy for pressure is: if the QB didn't see the hit coming and it happens after he releases the ball, was he really under pressure? That said I wish I'd tracked QB hits all along the way. There'd be some interesting stories in there.

He may of been a one term President but he will be remember as one of the United States greatest humanitarian and will be a great loss for that country

Nobody can stay on the point so im not going to continue on the subject.

This piece of trash will probably run for President someday.

https://beta.ctvnews.ca/local/toronto/2022/2/6/1_5770126.amp.html TORONTO News Man arrested after allegedly throwing feces at another person during Toronto convoy protest

Like who? Willing to go on record that in hindsight you think MOS should have coddled Hajrullahu and not pursued Medlock? Seems to be who/what you're hinting at. Or are you talking about Rob Pikula? 🤣 Liegghio will be the option until there's a better one, and if he remains inconsistent he forces their hand to look at other options like they did with Castillo in 2021. There's no time to "grow" now. It's year 3 for Liegghio and he's on a team that expects to win. We know what Liegghio is capable of (especially as a punter) but like all positions on the field if he can't consistently meet the basic expectations and meet the standard he sets for himself too his career will be abbreviated.

And he failed us repeatedly in the biggest moments

I prefer Breasts but whatever floats your 🚢

Kwaku Boateng who looked washed in 2021 and didn’t play in 2022? No thanks

Kicking is the least of our worries IMO. As has been stated almost ad neauseam ,we need a large punishing nose tackle.

Allow me to rephrase. We've brought several good placekickers into the CFL over the past few decades. We have not brought in and kept a decent placekicker since 1989. I hope Leggs is not another kicker to add to the list who we brought into the league and excelled elsewhere.

I can understand that. If the cfl tracked hits and pressures it would certainly be ideal. I love to track it during the games, it’s such a critical impact on the game. You can really see the flow of the game alter as the qb gets hit 5 times and more.

SCIENCE!

Biden makes it to Ukraine on President's Day

Give me the long list of kickers we gave up on other than Hirim. And we gave up on him & signed Medlock so don't tell us it was a mistake.

So frustrating to watch and cheer for this team. I'm a sucker for punishment though....

Not good at all.

We have no idea what the club thought of him but there was zero chance they were going to cut Palardy in favour of a rookie. Palardy was coming off a club record breaking season in 2010 (a record he would match in 2012) so it was the right move at the time. Nobody, Calgary included, knew how Paredes would turn out.

You seem to think there's some magic way to evaluate talent & always make the right decision. It doesn't work that way. Too many intangibles. We could try to develop Leggs for 5 years & if he doesn't have it well, it was a huge waste of time. But that's how it always works. Some other kicker comes in & nails it right from the start. You see it at every position. There's no right or wrong. As far as the Bombers giving up on Paredes, we had Justin Palardy who was kicking well so he wouldn't have had a good evaluation from the team at the time. I'm not trying to argue with you here. We never gave up on him. We didn't need him. At the time, no one knew he would become an elite kicker.

Crap....probably a stoolie....

Yeah...they fail to mention that it was one of their own when the chirp about that

He’s a kicker. It isn’t Iike he is learning a playbook.

There's on a couple of CFL free agents I could see the Bombers having interest in, but will be heavily dependent on their willingness to play and play cheap/incentive laden. Bouka, DB national, you'll mostly know him from Sask. Has been a reasonable safety, played every position in Sask in that mess of a defense, would basically be here to cover kicks and provide depth, guy has a nose for the ball too, could see Richie Hall enjoying him being a ballhawk and a guy who can play all over. Coleman, American DL, veteran, has been one of the most disruptive guys in the league in his prime pre 2020, but appears to be well past it. Would be looking at him to be a rotational guy, play both inside spots, and play cheap with no guarantees. At this point he might be retired or looking into US spring leagues. Otherwise it'll be guys coming up from the US and draft picks.

I understand with new kickers that there will be growing pains but it has cost us games. I'm very excited for him if he can make a jump like he did from the year previous to last year this year but if not then he needs to be challenged in training camp.

Palardy seems to be hinting directly to the Bombers as his picture is him in the old Jerseys and he knows we need to challenge Legghio at the spot, could see him here fighting for started if Walters gives em a shout.

Agreed...when healthy I'd say Jeffcoat is the best all around end...let's see how this yr pans out...but I bet if he is out for extended time again this yr we let him walk in 2024 I also still think we see a kongbo reappearance this summer too ..which would be huge

More like Kwaku Notang. For what that guy can do now, we may as well just give Thomas reps at end. I thought Nevis might be useful as a rotation guy, but I get what you’re saying @JuranBoldenRules It’s rookies or bust on the interior DL now.

Cheers mate, but i simply don't see our kicking as a weakness ,per se. Legs WILL get better.

Tackle is a way bigger issue than kicker... i feel like I'm taking crazy pills. Legs is fine and still developing. ******* hard gig following medlock.

Every team has a weakness. With the Bombers right now it’s at kicker. Every other area of our team (including nose tackle which I’m sure they’ll fill adequately) is the top of, or near the top of the league. 10 years ago most of us who were on here then, would have been ecstatic with the team Walters has assembled for 2023. Even with an inconsistent kicking game. Heck, with our receiving core we may never have to kick FG’s anyway 😁

Boateng is garbage. Sure situational rusher, but to have his name in the same sentence as a guy like Jeffcoat who is the top TFL guy in his era, as well as top pass rusher, as well as a guy who drops out and covers as well as any LB in this league...silly. Embrace the fact that you'll get to learn some new names. Not sure why so many people lack confidence in the exact same group of personnel people who have rebuilt this roster year after year with great players.

My WWII vet Grandfather is rolling in his grave every time these fuckers are causing problems.

He's putting way too much faith in the premiers. You just have to look at Stefanson silently requesting federal help for the convoy situation while publicly criticizing the Feds for shutting down the convoy. They are having a little playdate weekend at a farm "Camp Hope" in Dugald. World Unity rally 🙄, so watch out, you're about to be unified... by a population backed by Russian attempts to destroy Canadian democracy.

A last small reminder about my tailgate party with the Grey Cup on Monday for anyone in the GTA East. It's gotten a bit out of control. Up to 140 people, 5 cooks and Molson has donated 8 cases and a local microbrewery another 6 cases. If you're interested, please PM me. (And if you come, you're very welcome to wear your team colours)

Absolutely. They can state that 'the judge is just another Liberal' and keep fueling the fire

Maybe, but Moore plays the 3 technique spot which has never been an issue. There's no shortage of guys coming from the US who can pass rush well from that position, I wouldn't spend money there. The weak spot has been the nose without Richardson. The nose spot in Canadian football basically doesn't exist in American football. Their nose tackles are required to have basically no mobility so you're converting a 3 technique guy who's played that his whole life or if you're really lucky you find an extra athletic nose who is a bit smaller like Richardson.

There’s a group of around 20 freedom convoy Nazis at the corner of Plesis and Kildare today. Faaaar too close to home for my liking. I immaturely did a very slow flip off while passing them. чортів Russian assets. Smfh.

Nevis has played one football game since the 2019 Grey Cup. I get that people know his name but it boggles the mind that anyone thinks he could shore up a DL spot at this point in his career. If you bring him in you're hoping he can contribute in a small way. You're not counting on him even playing half a season, it would be a depth move.

They will be all-in as long as Collaros is playing. That's what having a QB is like...I know we don't really know the feeling.

Stove was a rookie at one point. Just have to find another stove.

Republicans think wind turbines cause cancer, climate change is a hoax. block efforts to move to renewables. even try to punish those that do. meanwhile Democrat/ Biden inflation reduction act is a very big step towards getting off fossil fuel. And states controlled by Democrats are taking steps. but beyond that, Republicans are at this point a party that has nothing beyond destroying democratic government, and installing a right, white, christian dictarorship. ie. to turn America into sixties Brazil, or Argentina. cant reasonably say they are the same anymore.

I dunno. Saying one's a dung hill and the other one is a bigger one doesn't cut it for me in these times when clarity is so very important. The right is proving itself to be anti-government which is a dangerous thing when you elect them to govern. Ask yourself what are the things you find most important in a functioning society: health? security? crime? environment? workers' rights? inequality? fair taxation? Whether we want to admit it or not, you cannot improve any of the above without a properly functioning government. When one side of the political spectrum is fighting to improve and even maintain past gains and the other side is actively trying to destroy those gains, only one smells like a pile of ****.

Meanwhile in Israel, the far-right nationalists have taken over. What a horrible human being. (Long read) Itamar Ben Gvir: How an extremist settler became a powerful Israeli minister By Shira Rubin February 15, 2023 at 2:00 a.m. EST GIVAT LAHAVA, West Bank — When Tzvi Succot moved to this rocky hilltop outpost near the Palestinian city of Nablus in 2005, he had a clear mission: to thwart the creation of a Palestinian state. Israel had unilaterally withdrawn from the Gaza Strip, and Succot felt betrayed by his government. So he led his neighbors on a reign of terror through Palestinian villages — torching homes, mosques, cars and olive groves. They got into fights with Palestinian landowners and faced off against Israeli security forces. But in every confrontation, he said, they felt confident knowing they had a brilliant, fiercely dedicated advocate in their corner — the attorney Itamar Ben Gvir, now Israel’s national security minister. “Itamar is a very talented lawyer,” said Succot, 32, now a father of five and a lawmaker from Religious Zionism, Israel’s third-largest political bloc. “And he understood something about Israel, which more Israelis are only now beginning to realize, that there’s a very serious problem here with governance. That we can’t allow this monster to flourish and grow.” Ben Gvir, 46, now occupies a position of immense power in the same system he has spent his life defying. His political rise is inextricably linked to the violent vigilante settler movement, and to his own rap sheet of anti-Arab provocations, which have inflamed the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and won him a devoted following. Israel election: A far-right politician moves closer to power His ultranationalist Jewish Power party has called for the expulsion of “disloyal” Palestinians, the annexation of the West Bank — the land Palestinians envision as part of their future state — and for “revenge” against anyone who stands in its way. Until last year, it was a fringe movement, repeatedly failing to muster enough votes to enter the Knesset. But in November, Benjamin Netanyahu, facing potential jail time in a corruption trial and running out of options, won a fifth term as prime minister by orchestrating an alliance between Ben Gvir and another far-right politician, Bezalel Smotrich. Ben Gvir was named minister of national security, with an expanded portfolio that gives him unprecedented control over Israeli police, a flash-point Jerusalem holy site and security forces that operate in the occupied West Bank. Some believe Ben Gvir is merely an opportunist who exploited a moment of political tumult and will, in time, moderate or fade away. Others argue that he is the product of a system lurching quickly and irrevocably to the far right, faithful to his Jewish supremacist roots. Followers and critics alike acknowledge that he is among the few politicians who, with his personal charm and oratory acumen, offers a simple, if dangerous, answer to a question long deferred: As the prospect of peace negotiations recedes by the day, what should Israel do about its military occupation of East Jerusalem and the West Bank, home to more than 3 million Palestinians? With Ben Gvir now at the helm of the security forces, many worry his penchant for “pyromania,” in the words of one former defense minister, could set the region ablaze. On Jan. 26, an Israeli army raid in the West Bank city of Jenin killed 10 Palestinians, the single deadliest operation in two decades, according to Palestinian officials. A day later, a Palestinian gunman opened fire outside a synagogue in East Jerusalem, killing seven people. The violence continues, day after day: An Israeli raid killed five in Jericho last week; on Friday, a Palestinian car-ramming attack killed three, including two young children, in East Jerusalem. At least 7 killed in East Jerusalem synagogue shooting On Thursday, the Israeli military blew up the Hebron home of a Palestinian man who killed one person and wounded three in an October shooting near Ben Gvir’s hard-line settlement of Kiryat Arba. Ben Gvir has pushed to escalate home demolitions in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, part of his scorched-earth campaign to “bring back order.” Israelis and Palestinians fear a return to the brutal days of the second intifada, or Palestinian uprising, that stretched from 2000 to 2005. Many are worried it could be worse this time. There are more guns and more militant groups in Gaza and the West Bank, where the new government has already announced a rapid expansion of settlements, alarming American officials; in Israel, Ben Gvir is helping to call the shots. “A violent criminal who was convicted of supporting terrorism and didn’t serve a single day in the army, isn’t going to send our children into battle,” opposition leader Yair Lapid said at an anti-government rally in December, referring to the Israeli army’s rejection of Ben Gvir from mandatory service. His extremist activism made the future security minister a security risk, the army decided. Ben Gvir refused to be interviewed for this story, a departure from the camera-ready image he cultivated during his campaign. He was the third-most-interviewed politician in Israeli media in the run-up to the election, according to the Israeli research firm Ifat. The “big difference” between his movement and that of Meir Kahane, the terrorist who once inspired him, Ben Gvir said in 2021, is that “they give us a microphone.” Radical roots Ben Gvir got his first 15 minutes of infamy as a teenager in 1995 when he stole the Cadillac ornament off the car of then-Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. “Just as we got to his car, we’ll get to him too,” he said into a camera. Weeks later, Rabin was assassinated by a messianic anarchist who accused him of “treason” for signing a landmark peace deal with the Palestinians. Ben Gvir was not connected to the killing, though he campaigned for the assassin’s release from prison. Ben Gvir now resides in a settlement near the fiercely contested biblical city of Hebron. Like many Israelis living deep inside the West Bank, he was not born there. He grew up in a secular Iraqi Kurdish home in the Jerusalem suburb of Mevaseret Zion. During the first intifada, from 1987 to 1993, frustrated by what he saw as an inadequate Israeli response to Palestinian terrorism, he became a youth coordinator for Kach — the extremist movement led by Kahane that advocated for the forceful expulsion of all Palestinians from Israel and the occupied territories. The movement was outlawed by Israel in 1994 and declared a terrorist organization the next year by the United States, along with Canada, Japan and the European Union. “I found in this movement a lot of love for the Jewish people, a lot of truth and a lot of justice,” Ben Gvir told the Israeli newspaper Haaretz in 2016. Ben Gvir boasts that he has been arrested hundreds of times, indicted 53 times and convicted seven times, including on charges of incitement to racism against Arabs, interfering with a police officer from performing his duty, and support for a terrorist group (Kach). But he has also successfully sued for libel and discrimination. “Israel wants to silence me,” he told the Knesset in 2021. It was his support for Kahanist-style Jewish militancy that informed his legal career, advocating for the next generation of violent religious settlers. Among them were two men charged in the 2015 torching of a family home in a Palestinian village that killed an 18-month-old baby and his parents. Netanyahu called the arson “Jewish terrorism.” Ben Gvir said there was “no such phenomenon.” In 2012, Ben Gvir entered politics, though his party failed to cross the threshold in election after election. He was still seen as a fringe figure, striving for relevance. But he showed in the spring of 2021 that he had power in the streets. As violence broke out between Israel and militants in Gaza, armed Israeli and Palestinian mobs descended on mixed Jewish-Arab cities. Ben Gvir led hundreds of settlers who volunteered to “patrol” the streets, escorting Jewish citizens through neighborhoods that had become conflict zones and clashing with Arab gangs. As rival gangs of Jews and Arabs clash on streets, fears mount of irreparable damage to Israeli society Jews and Arabs set fire to each others’ cars, homes, schools and places of worship. In Lod, at least two residents died — one Jewish, one Arab — and dozens more were injured. Israeli police commissioner Kobi Shabtai said the “internal intifada” was partly the fault of Ben Gvir for goading on the renegade settlers. During his campaign last fall, Ben Gvir’s vowed to “show who’s the landlord around here,” a thinly coded pledge to use a heavy hand to restore law and order in Israeli cities and West Bank settlements. Tomer Persico, a research fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem, said Ben Gvir used his controversial past as a political selling point. “Ben Gvir had something of a [Donald] Trump effect, getting people who never voted, who believed that he was a maverick from outside the system who could shake it up, or break it,” Persico said. Shabtai, the police chief who criticized Ben Gvir, now reports to him. So do the police units that work with Israel’s security services to combat Jewish terrorism, which Ben Gvir claims does not exist. View from the hilltop Raphael Morris first met Ben Gvir when he joined the “hilltop youth” — young radical settlers who have unofficially claimed more than 100 hills across the occupied West Bank since the 1990s. He now lives in Ahiya, an outpost that has grown from 27 to 80 families over the past decade. One-story homes have replaced trailers. No Palestinian day workers are allowed. Morris, 27, said Ben Gvir’s political ascent is a “sign that things might be moving in the right direction here, too.” The relationship between the government and the hilltop youth has always been one of “behind-the-scenes collaboration,” Morris explained in his living room, where a framed photo of Kahane is prominently displayed. “We’ve always had allies in the government.” Israeli settlers attack Palestinians across West Bank as escalation looms When asked if the tacit understanding extended to confronting Palestinians, Morris said sympathetic politicians generally understood that “it was less about kicking the Arabs out than bringing Jews in.” He and his friends expected arrest, Morris recalled, but were confident the state was ultimately on their side. And they always kept Ben Gvir’s advice in mind: If you get arrested, keep quiet, he had told them, unless you’ve been denied your basic rights; if an officer pushes you, put your hands behind your back so you’re not tempted to push back; always make a media spectacle. “He taught us how to get arrested, but not get in trouble,” said Morris, who has been detained at least 50 times and represented by Ben Gvir more times than he can remember. “There’s a lot of gray in the law, but the main rule is not to get to the red line.” Ben Gvir is credited by friends and detractors for his ability to push the limits of Israeli law, to subvert the state from within. While advising vigilante settlers on how to most effectively exercise their civil rights, he has advocated for denying similar rights to Palestinians. Recently, he pushed for a ban on the public display of the Palestinian flag, “an expansion of the two separate law enforcement and policing systems based on racial identity” — one for Palestinians, another for Jewish Israelis — in the words of a recent paper by Adalah, a Palestinian legal rights group. Ben Gvir has also coached Morris’s activist friends on challenging the status quo at a contested Jerusalem holy site, known as the Temple Mount to Jews and the Noble Sanctuary to Muslims. For a decade, in defiance of police ordinances, Morris has attempted to slaughter a lamb atop the Temple Mount — a biblical ritual that he believes would bring Jews closer to the ultimate goal of rebuilding a temple on the plateau. Israeli police have warned it could spark a regional war. With Ben Gvir now in charge of the police, Morris hopes he will be able to perform the rite during Passover in April. In towns across Israel, and in messianic settlements in the West Bank, Ben Gvir’s supporters repeat the same rationale, a blend of magical thinking and manifest destiny — that security can only come through escalation. What is the Temple Mount, and why did Itamar Ben Gvir’s visit stoke tension? Asserting sovereignty over the elevated esplanade, the thinking goes, will allow Israel to mount an effective campaign against Palestinian militants. The idea is adapted from Kahane, said Yossi Klein Halevi, a senior fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute, who worked with Kahane before he “became a raving apocalyptic racist.” “Their argument is that after 2,000 years of praying to return to our holiest site, the Temple Mount, how are we forbidding ourselves from implementing our rights here?” Halevi said. “Of course it ignores the fact that the Temple Mount is the ground zero of the conflict.” Last month, in one of his first acts in office, Ben Gvir toured the Temple Mount, in defiance of Hamas and Netanyahu, who urged him to delay the visit. “Let them understand that times have changed,” Ben Gvir said. Ben Gvir has, so far, exhibited relative restraint in other areas, supporting “anti-terrorism” measures that are in line with actions taken by recent Israeli governments. But he has also pushed for one of his long-held, and most radical, goals: operational, if not official, annexation of the West Bank. On Sunday, Israel’s security cabinet advanced plans for 10,000 new settlement units and decided to retroactively legalize nine unofficial outposts in the West Bank. “We strongly oppose such unilateral measures, which exacerbate tensions and undermine the prospects for a negotiated two-state solution,” U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a statement Monday. Spate of shootings targeting Israelis puts region on high alert At a news conference last month, a Washington Post reporter asked Ben Gvir about his plans to address settler violence in the West Bank. Ben Gvir laughed. “You all need to stop getting things in the wrong order,” he said, still smiling. “There are individual cases of violence from Jewish residents against Arabs and I am aware of them, but there are thousands of cases of Arabs engaging in violence against Jews.” A day after the synagogue shooting last month, nearly 150 settler attacks were reported by Palestinian officials throughout the West Bank: Homes and cars were set alight, and dozens of Israelis established a new outpost, assaulting Palestinians who arrived at the scene. On Saturday, armed settlers from an illegal outpost attacked residents of a nearby Palestinian village, killing a 27-year-old man, according to the Israeli rights watchdog Yesh Din. The irony of Ben Gvir’s meteoric rise is not lost on Succot, his old friend. “Every time I see Ben Gvir in pictures with the head of the police, I remember him lying on the floor with me in police detention,” he said, chuckling. “Now look at us,” Succot marveled. “It’s a blessed achievement.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/02/15/israel-ben-gvir-netanyahu-government/

With the number of satellites in the sky, computer hacking, and wiretap capability, does this balloon really pose a novel security threat?

I doubt it was a spy balloon. You don't make a balloon that big to spy when it's so easy to see it.