SpeedFlex27

Agree, I think people wanted us to move on from Thomas, Briggs, Schmekel & other players. Not players like Hardrick & other starters. More of a rearranging of the deck chairs & not a massive rebuild.

When you compare Winnipeg to QC is there a big difference?

We have to sign Gray first. Though, Yoshi's signing in Regina may hasten that now. Good luck to him with the Riders. He's going to need it.

There are still lots of issues across the league. Remember Randy Amrosie told a Commons Committee in 2020 when he was trying to secure funding from the feds to have a season that the league was losing $20 million dollars a season pre pandemic as of 2019. I don't see any growth by the league financially or in the stands. The league is stagnant & looks lost with no real plan for growth. How long will these owners stay around if their team;s don't start turning a profit within a reasonable amount of time?

I don't agree. Where the Marquis Player Rul;e becomes a problem is in a non salary cap league as then the $600,000 you talked about can be used to up salaries as you said. In a hard cap era, the reality is any new money left over won't cause an inflationary explosion of increased salaries as there is a check in place to prevent it & there are penalties for going over the cap. And next season, the cap only goes up by $100,000.

Jean Drapeau? Behar would fit in nicely here.

No, no, no, no. You & some here are saying that the universe will explode if we add a marquis player rule. There will be a hard salary cap in place. One GM won't spend to $5.5 million if the cap is set at $5 million. All you'll get is ONE player per team not included in the cap. Teams will have some manoeuvering room to sign some of their star players that may leave for elsewhere or give them the financial room to sign a key free agent or three. Whatever they want to do. It won't be financial armageddon. As far as, "We tried this in the 90's", the CFL is a much more disciplined league now financially. We have better & more responsible owners than we did thirty years ago. No Murray Pezim's or Nelson Skalbania's in today's group. Yes, we have some **** GM's like Chris Jones but again he still has the hard cap to deal with if he wants to go nuts signing free agents.

No, it's not. You can think that but it's not true. Montreal even with a new owner is still not making money. Ottawa is losing money as they can't even get 17000 to a agme anymore. Hamilton is lucky to break even. Toronto is not making money. Regina has never recovered from the pandemic. Edmonto is broke & seriously considering private ownership. Calgary claims to have 13,000 season tickets but I went to a number of games last season & if there was 10,000 fans at McMahon Stadium that was a good day. Vancouver is still in trouble & can't fill the stadium more than 25,000. If Doman gets tired of losing money then the team is in trouble.

If the salary cap goes up $100,000 a year & you have one player per team who is a Marquis player geting paid outside the cap how is that going to make everyone want $25,000 more as per your example? The salary cap isn't drastically going up but money is being circumvented to help create financial flexibility on the roster. To retain top end players like Dalton Schoen while paying one elite player like a Zach Collaros on every team not included in the cap.

The league is almost under now. Nothing has changed.

I don't get how you're equating a Marquis Player Rule to inflating an already tight salary cap. The MPR is outside the salary cap so it's a separate entity. One has nothing to do with the other. The salary cap can remain the same from one year to the next but adding the MPR suddenly opens up over $500,000 for the Bombers in the case of Zach Collaros. It won't inflate the salary cap per se but it gives teams that have what they consider an elite player more wiggle room to sign players inside the cap.

Yeah, Luigi, Vinnie, Marco, Sammy, Giuseppe, Gioavanni, Carlo, Tommasso, etc.

That ediface has always been a waste of taxpayer's money with all of it going to Mafia run construction companies for money laundering. What Montreal really needs is a 35,000 seat baseball stadium downtown to attract either expansion or relocation of a MLB team. That's what should be built.

He started out strong after he was drafted by the Flames & put up some very good numbers goals & points wise. As he got older his production went down. His last few years in Calgary were brutal.. I think that his career has bounced back a bit.

Well put, Booch. Nailed it.

You circumvent the cap, that's how. Right now, Zach is costing us roughly 10% of the cap & with Schoen going from a rookie cap to perhaps a $300,000 deal suddenly 15% of the cap is spent on two players rather than just one. Why do you think players like Ken Lawler are restructuring their deals? There's not enough money to go around.

What are your thoughts on a Marquis Player Rule. Okay, sorry. You already answered.

Every team could do it so it wouldn't be just the Argos. It wouldn't be a personal services contract. The team a oplayer signed with would still be paying that player.

Like Schoen who goes from a rookie deal under $100,000 to probably over $300,000. How can a team plan for that? Question: Serious responses, please. What do you think of a Marquis Player Rule? One designated player per team is paid outside the cap? In this example for the Bombers, Zach Collaros salary wouldn't count giving us some flexibility to sign other key players.

If the Canadiens Monahan shows up then he'll be a legit 2md line centre. If the Flames Monahan shows up, he'll be a waste of a roster spot.

They'll probably make a play for Castillo. He ain't coming back.

The salary cap is hampering teams with their small one hundred thousand dollar incrememental increases. It's just not enough. Whatever happened to single game betting as thew saviour for the CFL & each team making an extra million dollars off of it?

Average running ability? He extended plays by evading the rush. He didn't take off with the ball a lot but he could run around behind the LOS making tacklers miss all over the place & extending plays then finding an open receiver downfield. He was actually an above average runner.

Quebec City as well.

Yeah, He was a great qb. Clements made every team he played on better except the Riders. Lol. I always hoped Tom would come back to the CFL as a HC but he was too busy over the years coaching some of the NFL greats as qb.