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I pray that Jones is planning to go the Kevin Glenn route for his starting QB. If he does, i hope he schedules practice time to work on tackling drills with his receivers.

I understand he's expecting nothing less that a regular season record 18-1, but hopefully 19-0.

It looks like Andre Durie posted a farewell tweet to Bluto and the other guy. Don't know why he couldn't have just named them personally instead of call the both of them "Toronto Fans" http://www.cfl.ca/2017/02/16/argos-durie-pens-emotional-goodbye-letter/

I stand corrected on the fact that he does indeed play special teams. Should have checked a bit more before I posted that.

I think if you go back and check, he's not the only guy on teams, so they do rely on other good players too. Having said that, paying a Canadian guy who's good at special teams mainstay and can spot fill a position like linebacker is a better use of dollars that spending that money and maybe more on a backup running back that doesn't play teams (as far as I know) and will rarely see the field.

You're still struggling with this "special teams is really a thing" concept, aren't you.

Is that using real math or Rider math cause... numbers are hard. If it's real numbers, then Jones must get a bulk discount for the dozens and dozens of 2016 training camp fodder

The way the time lines play out for Hurl, I suspect that he most definitely did take a pay cut. He came on board initially penciled in as a starter. Didn't work out. Now he's coming in as depth - special teams. You don't get starter money for that. I'm thinking he thought he could do better than what the Bombers were offering, so he dipped his toe into the free agent waters and when offers didn't come pouring in, he decided that maybe the Bombers deal wasn't so bad after all.

Meh. If he's signed for backup/special teams dollars, we could do worse.

Well, you'd be wrong, but you'll never acknowledge it so there we are.

Funner fact. First Nations folks did not immigrate here because the definition of immigration is: "the international movement of people into a destination country of which they are not natives or where they do not possess citizenship in order to settle or reside there." There was no nation or country to immigrate to because that concept did not yet exist, therefore, they migrated. That's why it is inaccurate to say that they are immigrants too.

You are absolutely right. I was just going to edit my post, but instead I'll just leave it there as a monument to my boneheadedness.

Very very pleased by this. I'm thinking that of all our potential free agents, Walters managed to snag the biggest one at the last second. Nicely done!

Your logic works only if Bennett thought to himself "I need to be a starting QB in the worst way"

While it is true that there can be guys that look good in practice but meh on the field, it is not that often that a guy will look meh in practice but then go out there and tear it up on the field. If day after day, the Bombers were watching Bennett and decided that he wasn't, for whatever reason, what they were looking for, I'd tend to go with that.

Yes our situation is very similar to Toronto's...

To be fair, there is a theory among some managers in the CFL that it's better to trade draft picks for "proven veterans". Of course, those who espouse that technique are unemployed, but it's still a theory.

Yes we did benefit from immigration, but at the same time, I'm pretty sure there's some sort of international treaty concerning cruel and unusual punishment that prohibits immigrants and refugees from being situated in Saskatchewan.

I don't recall reading anywhere where the Bombers suggested that this wouldn't happen. And as for the experts believing what they did about Willy and Brohm, I'm willing to bet that every team in the league and every expert has done the same sort of thing. They fix it and move on, just like we did. But if all you every do is sign guys like Glenn, then that's all you're ever going to get. If you want to get yourself the next BLM or Reilly, he's likely not going to be any of those guys that are soon to be free agents.

Sigh... the flatbilly troll returns. Come on admins, put him out of our misery, please?

At one point, every single starter that has ever played in the CFL had neither won a game nor thrown more than 170 yards. The people who make their livelihood as coaches think he might just be ready to step up into the backup spot. Will there likely be a drop off if Nichols get hurt? Very likely. Would there be a drop off if Glenn was backup? Oh hell, yea. I'm not thinking that we've taken all that big a risk. Time will tell.

Bringing in a bunch of quality people and letting them fight it out for starting spots. Sure beats the old "I guess we'll start Brock Ralph" days.

Can't it be both?

Did the Riders do this? Likely. Can anyone prove it? Not likely. I'm assuming that this was on on behalf of the Riders by a "friend". So, most likely, there would be no one on the Riders payroll there, even if film of the workout did show up. Orridge probably knows that it likely happened but there is bo diddly squat he can do about it. Jones being Jones. Eventually, he'll outhink himself and end up running afoul of the rules (again). But next time, he's not going to just get a fine. He'll get a fine AND a stern look from the commissioner. That'll fix him.