Mike

Curious what your thoughts of what would have been a fair draft?I also have a problem with making an expansion team stronger then the teams they are plucking from. I thought the expansion draft was quite fair. Sure Ottawa sucked this year but they got some good pieces to build with and now get to add with another draft drafting first overall "I also have a problem with making an expansion team stronger then the teams they are plucking from." Why? Why not set up the draft so they have a middle of the pack team and are immediately competitive? Why punish a newbie? Because it punishes a fan base who has supported their team over the long haul. It would be a slap in the face to fans who have invested time and money into their teams only to have it dismantled for the "new" guys. There is usually a honeymoon period with a new expansion team to get over the first few years of losing. And if the fan base can't accept that they don't really deserve to have a new team, because all teams will have to eventually weather those periods. You still didn't answer what you thought would have been a fair draft. "Because it punishes a fan base who has supported their team over the long haul. It would be a slap in the face to fans who have invested time and money into their teams only to have it dismantled for the "new" guys." It punishes no one ... and according to the longsuffering reasoning it asks to subsidize incompetency .... this assumption that you have to "punish" a new team is idiocy and entitlement reasoning I thought we weren't allowed to call other opinions "idiocy"

If you ask me, they got too much. What you're discounting way too much is that football is a team sport. Ottawa got a pretty talented roster in the expansion draft. They did pretty well in the draft and with a lot of their import recruiting. But that all takes time to gel. The staff needs to get to understand their players. The players need to understand eachother. You give them a competitive team right out of the gate and you're basically handing them a powerhouse once they gain chemistry. That's way too much. Think about it ... what'd they get handed to them by the expansion draft? A Canadian rush end who had 11 sacks this year, a 700 yard receiver, their top 3 special teams tacklers, a 500 yard Canadian receiver ... effectively their starting Canadian LB (by trading Glenn for him) They got unbelievable pieces. Way too much, considering how much they got out of the last two CFL drafts as well.

I'll tell you right now, the Bombers would be prepared to give Milanovich a HC salary to be their OC. He'll consider $$$ offers to escape the dumpster fire in Toronto.

These are the guys I'd like to see back next year. The rest, I could take them or leave them. I'm sure not interested in letting a 6'1' DB that we invested an entire year of development into walk away so quickly. I hope Dumas is back next year.

Technically they are not, but many of them will re-up (or already have)

Keeping him in a shitty system just to keep it consistent isn't the best plan either.

Yeah no.

Not saying Wild isn't a damn good LB. But the market hasn't established itself at that price point for just damn good. Maybe it will. But it hasn't yet.

Key point. Goodrich is as good of a prospect as Demski in terms of talent. He could be a very good CFL player. I like JFG and Kohlert, I don't think Watson has enough good plays left in him to be a main target. Probably the best territorial exemption we've had a chance at since I can remember. Equivalent of an additional first rounder in the CFL Draft, in my opinion.

Ian Wild as a $150,000 LB? The salary landscape has changed a little bit but I doubt it has room for an above average yet not elite American linebacker to be making a buck and a half.

Ian Wild as a $150,000 LB? The salary landscape has changed a little bit but I doubt it has room for an above average yet not elite American linebacker to be making a buck and a half.

Plenty of reasons for our ticket prices to be higher. I'm cool with it.

Consensus top 3 talent

Assistant coaches rarely have guaranteed deals

http://www.tsn.ca/duthie-canadian-varga-enjoying-dream-season-at-yale-1.125420 There was some doubt Varga would turn pro because of his prospects in the medical field but Varga himself has confirmed he will play pro ball - whether it's NFL or CFL. This guy is the best RB prospect since Cornish, hands down. 2015 draft eligible. Very interesting.

Don't count out Goodrich either.

If they could gather the depth, it could work. They'd need three more though.

Montreal has a very simple gameplan. Stop the other team. Throw it to Duron Carter.

If you want to get on your soap box and gloat when you are right, you're more than welcome to do so. Many of us are guilty of it. But you have to be prepared for the alternative ... wearing the horns when you're wrong. The one theme that seems to be constant around here is that the more animated you are, the more animated the responses to you will be.

Where did we make progress? The head coaching spot ... the approach to the way we deal with free agency ... the approach to the way we deal with Canadian talent ... the willingness to look within the league to fill holes on our roster ... the quarterback position ... the running back position ... the secondary ... the placekicker position ... the top end of our receiving group Where did we fail? Arguably with our coordinator jobs ... the offensive line ... the defensive line ... the linebacking group ... the bottom end of our receiving group ... We won in a lot of the areas that mattered the most. We saw progress in the standings. We're trending upwards. I'm happy. Unsatisfied, but happy.

You think Rich as the site owner disrespects this community? His mantra is a giant middle finger to the community that visits this place? And the rest of the guys who volunteer their time to this place? You should be embarrassed for even suggesting such a thing. Do you know what Rich gets out of fronting the money for this place? How much of the revenue he takes for himself in exchange for the late nights when he has to do site updates or for the money that he puts up to pay for server fees, etc? Not a single dime. It all goes to you guys. The shirts we made, the contests we run, the season tickets we donated to charity on behalf of all of our members here. All of it is for our members, not for the people who own and operate this site. There's ONE guy on our moderation team that pushes the envelope. Me. You want to suggest I'm a bad site administrator? Go right ahead. While you're at it, maybe find me some examples of how I've used my admin privileges in an abusive fashion because there's a difference between "mod abuse" and you just not liking my attitude sometimes. But it has nothing to do with the entire team that works on this place and I find it quite unbelievable that you would even suggest it does.

So you think this is a 14-3 team with a MLB, Cotton and a new DC?

He may not have straight away speed that would contribute to a strong 40 time but his in game speed is very impressive. Long smooth strides combined with strong route running and a quick break = separation. I watched Tuinei play in college every week. He has all the tools to be great.

That sucks, he played well for us.

32 rushing yards. Not 64