SpeedFlex27

I'd be thrilled if we signed Ceresna.

I haven't had great sleep habits for awhile, either.

The Stamps did all of their hiring in house for years until there were so many coaching offspring as GM's, Head Coaches & Coordinators that they started looking & making coaching decisions like they were from the isolated mountains from Arkansas or Tennessee. Hiring from within just decreases the coaching gene pool & precludes any new ideas or breath of fresh air when it comes to everything from new ideas to team culture.

I want to wish everyone here salutations & feliciatons. Merry Xmas & Happy New Year to one & all. Just wondering what your plans are over Christmas & New Year's? A quiet Xmas or one dilled with family & turkey? Or whatever you may have for dinner. We're flying to Seattle on the 24th to spend Xmas with our son, his wife & our 5 month old Grand Daughter. My daughter in law's family are coming up from Portland. Their family are all over the US. So, they've all pitched in to stay at a Bed n Breakfast close to where Tyler's place is. We're all going to do a pot luck this Xmas. As they just had a turkey three weeks ago for Thanksgiving it's not on the menu, Yours truly will be cooking a beef roast & a ham as our contribution. Should be a lot of fun & a bit crazy. I used to have huge family dinners & get togethers for Easter, Xmas & birthdays. Or we'd all gather at my brother's cottage at Hillside Beach on Lake Winnipeg. Then over the years, my parents & older family members passed away. Or moved for jobs whatever. Now, 55 years later, we live a quiet life in YYC. I have an older son & his wife here but unfortunately we don't talk anymore. So, this get together will be a throwback to another time for me & I am looking forward to it. Usually at Xmas, I get depressed thinking about the people I loved no longer here. Xmas can be a difficult time for me but by NYE, I've usually shaken it off. That week between the two helps. Anyway, everyone have a great Xmas.

Think he'll play half the games? I don't. The guy is made of glass.

Other teams are moving forward fast. I'm not panicking but teams are making moves to stock their coaching staffs. Monson in Hamilton. Fields in Ottawa. Benevides in BC. Sherritt to Edmonton. We need an OC but just seem to be sitting by watching.

By God's good graces he didn't lose a team. His going cap in hand to the government in 2020 was an epic fail. What a grifter. No plan. No nothing. Just give us $20 million & we won't tell you how we plan to spend it. Just about everything else he did was a fail. He thinks they're still looking for a team in the Maritimes. Yeah, right. He sucked. The worst Commissioner. Worse than Crump. Worse than Lysko. Worse than Orridge. That's saying a lot. Dude was a liar. Anything he said you could never trust to be true. He just said what people wanted to hear.

All these series on streaming tv channels like Paramount + or Hulu, Netflix whatever are just throwaways with just 10 episodes. None of them last & are cancelled at the whim of the executives on these channels. You can't even get really invested in them because their seasons are too short. Then you wait a year or more for the next season. Quality or quantity with 10 episodes, you say? Well ****, quality doesn't matter. They cancel them anyway. Hard to really care for any of them than other than just a few shows.

The delay in signing an OC is a bit worrisome.

Why would they go "hard" after Maier? There are no more starting qb spots open. He's just a backup & no better than some of them already signed for less to other teams. But sure, knowing how the Riders always love other team's "sloppy seconds", I'm sure they'll make him the highest #2 qb in the CFL.

No idea why guys like Alexander & Adams were in such a hurry to sign. Alexander could have got more in free agency than he did signing that new Als contract. In Adams case, he wasn't a free agent but like every other team he's been on, his agent has allowed them to walk all over him. Taking a bit less to sign with the Stamps??? Like WTF dude, after what the Lions did to you & the desperate way the Stamps needed you, you should have held out for more. Instead, the same thing that happened to him with every team he played for will happen again at some point. I just hope we sign a decent OC. Not sure if hiring from within is the answer.

He took advantage of the upheaval in the US under Trump's first administration as well as the situation with NFL players refusing to stand for the National Anthem to sell a few cheap Diversity Is Strength Tee Shirts when he first became Commissioner. I thought it was always just a cheap shot at America. After selling those shirts, it was all downhill from there.

Ambrosie was a joke. I think the new Commish will let last season ride out like Ambrosie would have but I'm hoping the next Commish will look at opening the CBA to increase the cap.

Our training camp mark in that report card just isn't good enough. It irks me to no end the way O'Shea handles it. We need our players to be there at every practice if they are legitimately able to practice. O'Shea has to stop letting players like Neufeld & other miss the entire camp because it's supposedly too hard on them. If players don't want to practice then they should retire or be cut. It's not a football resort. It's important prep for the season. That's on O'Shea for making it way too easy. Enough of the "He doesn't need to practice anyway". That has to stop. It should be, "Get on the field & practice". No way anyone who misses all of training camp & two exhibition games should be in the starting lineup on Opening Day. I don't care who he is. Another 0-4 start may turn into a 4-14 season.

Betts is a one dimensional DE. He can sack the qb but he's small so guys like Brady just run him over. He bites hard on fakes & misdirection so he isn't great on contain either. If the Lions wanted to upgrade their defense then they should have let him flee to Montreal as a FA. His choice to leave. I don't wish him well nor do I wish he fails. Don't care anymore. It's his baby now. He's just another coach on another team to me.

Some players need to be shown the door come free agency. Like, "We've moved on. Thanks again but please close the door when you leave". Then get aggressive with the money we spend on CFL free agents. We know there's a handful of them as it's been discussed before.

Ford's all smoke & mirrors. Phenomenal athletic ability is what gets him by & not any great knowjedge of reading defenses. He's a phenomenal runner but then so are 95% with his skill set in the CFL. They never last.

i really don't care about other teams. I care about the Bombers. Am I supposed to be impressed by this? That Dinwiddie followed O'Shea's roster decisions by playing more Canadians than he could have? Not really. I didn't see a Canadian starter on the Argos even remotely close to the ineffectiveness of Jake Thomas. The Argos roster of Canadians were better than ours. It gave them flexibility. Our starting Canadians (in certain positions) hurt us.

When you arrive at the outskirts of Edmonton from any direction.

We'd have to trade for Powell as (I believe) he's still under contract to the Ti Cats. I can't see the Ti Cats dealing him as BLM is one year older & the injury bug could come back or his on field performance may diminish. Powell could step in. Love to have him here, though.

I used to watch his tv show back in the late 60's & early 70's. He was great but geeky.

Gino Lewis???

Who is saying that? No one. Don't twist things around to suit your narrative.

https://calgarysun.com/sports/cavalry-forced-to-play-concacaf-home-leg-elsewhere-against-mexican-giant-pumas So, we have two billionaire owners in Calgary. Oil Baron Murray Edwards for the Stamps & the Southern family (ATCO) for Calvary FC. We have no facilities in Alberta to play this game here in February as the ground is frozen & it's minus 25. We can't move the game indoors. You'd thnk these two owners with their financial clout would get together, find a parcel of land & start planning a domed or retractable roof 40,000 seat facility for Calgary that is soccer friendly for Calvary FC & football oientated for the Stamps. But no. As usual, this city of nearly 2 million continues to have absolutely the worst sports facilities in North America for a city of it's size as tese owners just go about their business with no desire to build a facility that Calgary would be proud of. Calvary FC plays in a 5,000 seat facility in the deep south of Calgary that is 40 kms from someone who lives in the far NW or NE. It's not the easiest place to access at Spruce Meadows. Their stadium reminds me of old Osborne Stadium with it's peaked roof. Then there's the dump the Stamps play in. McMahon Stadium should have been torn down 20 years ago. There just isn't any long term, outside the box thinking here unlike other cities. I've been here for 34 years. When we moved here in 1990, there were 700,000 residents living in Calgary & there was this "can do" attitude. Now, years later that attitude is gone. We Calgarians like to smugly think of ourselves as "world class" city. We aren'r even close to that. This city is bloated at 1.7 million people. Winnipeg managed to get a new football stadium, arena & baseballl stadium. Here? Nothing like that ever gets done anymore unless it's a hockey arena. Even that took a decade to get done.

Captain Obvious says that the CFL would be happy with 10% of that amount. The Stamps will somehow screw this whole thing up. The way the team is coached. It's inevitable. The Lons did Adams no favours by trading him to Calgary.