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Being the asst GM to joe mack is about as much decision making power as a secretary at goldman sachs. Ekakitie was for sure the worst pick of the mafia era though. But to be fair, the first 3 rounds may have produced 3 starters and like a single all star nomination. But atleast ekakitie and etienne had the physical tools to excel in the cfl game, and had decent heads on their shoulders. Pencer is maybe the worst pick in club history.

Where did you get that? I clearly said that Leadership is the issue, and the leadership has to be passionate and progressive. A marketer who doesnt care about your product cant help you more than you can help your self. The xfl/redbird only cares for how much the cfl can do for them. They have a massive pile of their own problems to deal with in respect to the XFL. Expecting redbird/the rock to fix the CFLs issues are like expecting some one to put out your kitchen fire, while their house is burning to the ground. Like I said, the CFLs future and repairs could involve the XFL in some fashion. As ive mentioned before in multiple threads, keeping both games unique and independent. But it isnt the path to saving the CFL at all. It could be a brick on the path, or it could not be. The path to fixing the CFL starts and ends in the cfl league office / bog. American tv revenue now is a worse idea than american expansion in the 90s. They have to try and sell their product, and develop it, to their own market. They arent in any better position to sell our product to our country than we are. We have seen great marketing minds fail to build and strengthen markets in football. The aafl, afl, nfle, xfl 1 and 2 had no lack of great marketing people.

Thats awesome, hes probably played more football than any bomber during the stoppage.

Im gonna sell my car so i have a bunch of money to spend on rims for my car. Partnership at some level could be useful of course. However its pretty simple to put together a dvd with the games and some background info on a season. Almost any college has a class of kids that does this many times a year. It doesnt take a bunch of MIT grads to see this is a good idea and profitable, especially when several other leagues already do it. The fact that our brain trust cant see even these simple streams of revenue and capitalize wont be fixed by any partnership that doesnt destroy what we have. The league needs fresh blood with new creative ideas and ways to market to a younger audience. The rock, redbird, and the XFL can only offer money. Money, is a symptom of the bigger problem in the cfl. All the money in the world wont change that problem. Our league leadership has been complacent for a long time. Hockey has taped into the national resources very well for my entire life. (the us is another thing, but hockey has always been well monetized here.) But in my life time ive seen hockey day in canada, and the WJHC explode. The WJHC went from a pretty small thing when I was a kid, to a march madness level event that taps into parts of the national market that dont follow the NHL. That happened because people who are passionate about hockey in canada were allowed to take leadership/ownership of events and grow them organically. People who arent passionate about Canadian football cant save Canadian football.

I would do awful things for a DVD release of the season like they do for superbowl champions.

I got the exuded confidence from the bomber brass, from dobson more than the basic platitudes that we saw from the likes of the mulumba picks. As I said I dont think any thing crazy is going on, and I dont think hes going to forego the NFL. It just seems different from the usual futures pick, especially the vybe from bomber brass.

Imo just the guys we will have in camp from the last two years of drafting is a grade A batch. We have a bunch of very athletic canadian mafia guys coming in to scrap for spots. If we get one futures guy its gonna be a big win fall. And honestly Dobson and the mafia sound very confident that he will end up in blue and gold. Usually they talk about guys very tentatively. Stuff like, the can do this and they can bring that. They have opportunities down south but we think they'd fit in really well if that doesnt pan out etc. Both groups have been saying when he gets here, he is gonna be a road grader etc etc. And instead of talking about potential to make and impact they talk about him like hes a vet and you know what to expect. I dont think any shenanigan's are a foot, I suspect hes the surest thing, highest graded guy theyve picked thus far.

He was an awesome person, and easily the best of the 3 wrs. Its too bad injuries derailed his career.

But hey he could really run. He lacked the hair of addison richards though. That hair wouldve maid up for the missing 70lbs.

The futures picks like mulumba werent what sunk mack, its that the none futures guys were awful picks. We have a lotto ticket on a ni ol who is a generational athlete and would want to be here mulumba never wanted to be here imo. We have a better shot at the db Rene who is also a big ratio breaking blue chipper, and a bunch of useful pieces. Also with the stocked offensive line depth we have we can afford the risk.

Doesnt matter when you move like he does. See larry allen running down a db on what shouldve been a pick 6. But if he does drop a bit say good night. 320-325 range would probably make a big difference for him.

Idk the last time we saw an OL prospect in the draft with his size and athleticism, little on his pedigree. Its a risk, but this is the type of guy who could start day 1 as a guard imo. Worst case scenario, both our long shot picks never come north and we dont move their rights, but we still end up with a boost to our back up lb/dbs and immediate special teams play as well as an extremely versatile athletic back who can back up and contribute at the same time. If either (little on both) of rene and dobson come north its an A+ draft imo. Unless this year is a disaster for him in college he will be in the nfl in 22. Even then, if hes healthy at next years combine he is the type of guy who can move up very far very fast.

all of them lol. I think kramdi is that guy this year. Not saying he will replicate his success as a year 1 guy, but they are cut from the same cloth. His physicality reminds me of loffler, but he looks like a much better tackler and blitzer. And a turn key teams guy like exume was. I would bet if healthy hes on our gameday roster this year.

I love this get, a demski 2.0. Elite NI athlete. Can be a wr/hb tweener allowing us to dress a back up to harris and still get good use out of them. 4.38-4,40 speed 6.95 cone 4.19 shuttle, 10'3" broad jump, 35" vert, 22 reps of 225 at 6'0 200lbs. Rb, return man, wr, if he was a holder / back up P/K he'd be the perfect ni depth man. Always nice to get a local guy, and we are going after NI dbs hard in this draft.

And another canadian mafia type. Smart, tough, hard nosed guy who can contribute on teams.

This is another deep futures pick. Probably a late round NFL pick next year if healthy and he returns to form. If he is healthy and improves he could move up. Another low risk high reward. If he ever comes to the CFL hes probably the steal of the draft. Kramdi looks like an attempt to replace exume and re stock on db/sts depth. Adding another body at WR would be nice.

Imagine him in 2022, maybe he drops 25 pounds and goes through the tour of nfl combine preparation camps...

As far as futures picks go, hes a future futures pick. And allegedly he can dunk a basketball. I wanna see that. Reminds me alot of larry allen. Dude flies when hes pulling, crazy speed for an ol of any weight. And that strength is insane too. Watching him 1 hand a lineman then punch move pancake a rushing backer is nuts. Edit. Allegedly a 30" inch vert, 4.84 shuttle, 8 sec 3 cone and 8'10" range broad jump. Probably does all the reps of 225 too. Pretty crazy athleticism. https://www.nfldraftdiamonds.com/2020/05/liam-dobson/

Ya me too. I was hoping for defense out of this draft or a futures wr, the bet was kind of a hedge on that. Liam dobson from maine.

Ive been wondering about that. IDk how tight we are. Since our prized off season pick up retired we didnt re spend that money. But we might be hoarding that cash as we like to do for mid season pick ups. I think any starter would be a reach and a cheaper guy to sign. Not surprised, we will see how he looks covering imp wrs.

Jake burt, the TE goes first over all to hammertown. Im a bit shocked but damned if he isnt a great fit for how often they run heavy formation.

Just signed up too. I think we are going defense or maybe even wr. I don't see us going ol with a high pick. Worth it to risk it for the biscuit. Hladik to ssk is the same odds and tempting but i don't think they'd take him over the local boy.

Walters says our 6th round pick lber kyle rodger, and 8th rounder db Bleska Kambamba have moved on from football and arent expected to be signed.

Thats true, forde is pretty good.

This. I only made it a couple minutes. Why couldnt we have a pre draft show with bob, brown, tait etc.