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If Manny's knee is okay then he'd be a great addition to our offense.

Harris convinced him to go to Edmonton. That's something Walters can't control.

Pretty serious thing he did. You know the inside of the business more than I do but I can see Vince & Hunter coming down hard on him. And was Naomi drinking?

He probably wouldn't take that so why say it? That's like saying Sidney Crosby is seriously on the Jets radar but only if he signs for a million. Wouldn't happen.

I lived in Thompson for a little over a year in 1989-90. I was an Independent Adjuster for Kernaghan Adjusters. I handled claims all over Northern Manitoba based out of Thompson. Went fishing a couple of times on Paint Lake. I remember there used to be a really nice restaurant close to the dock on the lake but can't remember its name.

End of the line for the Uso's? This isn't the first time something like this has happened. He's lucky he wasn't shot

Never will I feel sorry for Rider fans. They sure as hell would never feel sorry for us. Too much water under the bridge to have any sympathy for that fanbase. A perfect Rider season for me is 0-18.

With his familiarity with Bo Levi Mitchell & the Calgary offense I would think he'd sign with the Stamps over us even though he has said he loved the Bomber organization.

He was smoking a lot of nights. He used to play with his glasses & a wristwatch.

There's a reason why kicking percentages were as low as they were back 40-60 years ago. Most kickers played a different position. Rosters were small so there was no room for specialists. All kickers played somewhere. They didn't spend the time needed to perfect their craft. That changed in the late 60's with the Gogolak's in the NFL as well as Ted Gerela (BC Lions) & his brother Roy (Pittsburgh). Teams saw that using kicking specialists helped the bottom line on the field & soon the NFL & CFL expanded their rosters so kicking & punting specialists could play. Colleges began recruiting kickers out of high school. High school players that had strong legs became punters & kickers. Instead of linebackers or receivers. It took a generation for the straight on kicker to become extinct in favour of the soccer style kicker. It also took a generation or 2 for qualified coaches to come along to be able to teach kids the proper kicking techniques. Today we have kickers routinely kicking FG's at an 80-85% clip year in & year out in both Canada & the US. In 1970, Gene Lakusiak was one of our 2 starting cornerbacks. As a corner he was a CFL All Star in 71 & 72 so he was a pretty decent player. The problem was in 1970 he was our kicker. He was good on 14 of 18 converts. He made only 4 of 26 field goals for a percentage of 15.4% which was horrendous. Yes, he actually scored 26 points as pour kicker which was a nightmare that I vividly recall. When Jonas came along in 1971, it was like a Godsend. We went from having the worst kicker in all of pro football to the CFL's leading scorer & the CFL's leading passer!! Jonas actually won us games with his leg. What a concept... Instead of watching Lakusiak blow another winnable game. Imagine having a kicker with a 15.4% accuracy record? And he kept his kicking job game in & game out. The interesting thing was that when Lakusiak was our kicker his play at corner suffered. Once he was free just to concentrate on being a corner his play was vastly different. . It was like the chains holding him back were removed & the pressure gone.

Dressler played his ass off for us & LaPo put him in situations where he got hurt like running fly sweeps. The guy was a baller for us every game. I'll never have anything negative to say about Weston.

I expect Ellingson will be a thousand yard receiver again. But to get one they lost two. Wonder what the Ottawa fans think of Harris claiming he stole Ellingson?

Jim Popp said today the Argos offered BLM a half a million dollars more over the lifetime of a 4 year contract to sign him but he turned it down to stay with the Stamps. So close to $900,000 a year. In fricking sane.

When I look at our qb situation compared to Saskatchewan, Toronto, Ottawa & Montreal I'm damned grateful as a fan that we have Matt Nichols. You can't tell me those teams wouldn't be willing to throw cash at him if he was a FA. We're fortunate to have him as our starter.

I know Med is a lock for this award. Get it? Med is a lock???? Okay bad joke. Medlock should win this. Therefore, I'm going to vote for Don Jonas. Any qb who can kick FG's & be the leading passer in the CFL as well as the scoring leader gets my vote. As if a qb hasn't enough on his mind.... now he has to kick the winning FG. Like no pressure. That is not easy so I voted for Jonas.

Paul Williams & Doug Strong as well. Strong was a sure handed punt returner in the days when there was no blocking on punt returns & the poor bastards would get snowed under. There was a reason punt returns back in the day were called the Suicide Squad. Williams was a pretty good kick returner.

Jennings is better than Bridge. Bridge is terrible. I think he worries more about his fashion statement hoodie a la Cam Newton than anything else.

Disagree. Reilly & BLM have the same agent. Both guys knew what the starting & end point was salary wise. It was going to be in the $700-725's. The Riders didn't drive the salary up for Bo anymore than the Bombers did.

Desjardins not looking like the genius GM anymore.

Good luck to the guy. He'll be in chase mode all the time.

Nichols also came back from a serious knee injury. So, hopefully he's healthy & will play better.

Are there still any free agent offensive linemen available?

They lost almost all of their offensive pieces so they needed to address it.

Bernie Ruoff's longest career FG of 58 yards was the first one he ever kicked. At McMahon Stadium vs the Stamps on August 12, 1975. An 18-15 win for the Big Blue.

Betcha Huff & Sunderland are thrilled.