Mike

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Kenny Stafford tweeting he has made the Alouettes. Stafford, Green, Carter, Richardson (I know he's hurt) ... does that mean Ochocinco didn't make it? Or is London a surprise cut? If they cut Brandon London, I'd go after him.

Palardy cut.

http://cflfantasy.ts...ew_group=979677 Password is "milton" Originally, we were going to run a similar contest on the forum. Same general concept, no salary cap (because what individual has time to be setting values for players, etc) but now that TSN has created essentially the same thing, it seems like a mutually beneficial decision for everyone if we use their platform. You guys get real time updates instead of waiting for us to update it, we get more free time and the salary cap feature makes it a little more difficult for all of us. It's easy to register. Just follow the link, join our group and you're in. You can pick your week 1 team immediately or wait until later in the week if you choose. Make sure to play every week, because the winner of our group at the end of the year will win a $50 Bomber Store gift card. For those who want to know the rules before clicking on the link: Pick a QB, RB, 2 REC, a flex (RB/REC), K and a defense. Fit them under the $100,000 salary cap (each player has a value listed) and confirm your team. You will receive points based on their weekly performance and you can pick a new team each week. Good luck!

And how do you suggest we go about obtaining EXPERIENCE at an entry level position? Football is no different. If there is an experienced guy available for an entry level job, that likely means he's not very good.

I would say that Collaros, Reilly and Willy are the next three. They're all exciting players and that's what this league needs. I don't want to say any of them are the next Calvillo, but we need eventual successors to the trio of Ray, Burris and Calvillo. Durant has stepped up to the plate, but this league needs more QB talent and these three are it.

Starters Bo Levi Mitchell (CAL) - 18/31, 176 yards, 2 INT Drew Tate (CAL) - 8/17, 114 yards, 1 TD, 2 INT Henry Burris (OTT) - 22/28, 287 yards, 1 TD Zach Collaros (HAM) - 18/26, 248 yards, 1 TD Darian Durant (SSK) - 14/19, 189 yards, 3 TD Troy Smith (MTL) - 11/22, 141 yards Mike Reilly (EDM) - 20/27, 177 yards, 1 TD Kevin Glenn (BC) - 22/29, 245 yards, 1 TD Ricky Ray (TOR) - 7/9, 90 yards, 1 TD Drew Willy (WPG) - 20/35, 280 yards, 1 TD I listed Mitchell, Tate and Glenn as starters. Don't know who will start in Calgary, Glenn is the starter for now in BC. I would say Willy's numbers are pretty exciting if you're a Bomber fan, especially factoring in things that don't show up on the stat sheet - for example, after watching all the preseason games, it's easy to say that no QB was let down by his receivers more than Drew. I'd say the veterans clearly outplayed him (Burris, Ray, Glenn, Durant) but you can lump him right in there with Collaros and Reilly, which is really what we should be hoping for at this point. The yardage total is impressive to me as well, over 100 yards more than Reilly on the same amount of completions. The completion percentage is not exactly where I'd like it, but again ... preseason receivers letting him down makes that look worse than it actually was. Everyone has to deal with it as a QB, so it's not like Willy is exclusive, but he certainly dealt with it more than any other starting QB. For those who want to keep count of this sort of thing, Willy was the victim of six drops by my count. Three by Donavon Kemp, one by Aaron Kelly, one by Jaymar Johnson and one by Rory Kohlert. Mitchell Gale (TOR) - 21/27, 249 yards, 1 TD Trevor Harris (TOR) - 16/28, 167 yards, 1 TD, 1 INT Casey Pachall (TOR) - 5/8, 104 yards, 1 TD, 1 INT Robert Marve (WPG) - 5/8, 90 yards, 1 TD Brian Brohm (WPG) - 7/16, 91 yards, 1 TD Max Hall (WPG) - 6/14, 53 yards, 1 INT John Beck (BC) - 12/27, 161 yards, 2 INT Travis Partridge (BC) - 8/13, 116 yards, 1 TD, 1 INT Matt Nichols (EDM) - 17/23, 262 yards, 1 TD Pat White (EDM) - 5/11, 37 yards, 1 INT Jonathan Crompton (EDM) - 3/8, 19 yards Jacory Harris (EDM) - 0/2 Alex Brink (MTL) - 11/17, 108 yards, 1 TD, 1 INT Collin Klein (MTL) - 4/10, 57 yards, 1 INT Tanner Marsh (MTL) - 13/25, 137 yards, 1 INT Jeremiah Masoli (HAM) - 9/12, 137 yards, 3 TD Dan Lefevour (HAM) - 4/12, 45 yards, 2 INT Stephen McGee (HAM) - 4/7, 49 yards Corey Robinson (HAM) - 0/2 Adam Weber (SSK) - 2/6, 39 yards, 1 TD, 1 INT Tino Sunseri (SSK) - 4/8, 39 yards, 1 int Thomas Demarco (OTT) - 4/12, 97 yards, 1 TD, 1 INT Danny O'Brien (OTT) - 5/16, 57 yards Bryant Moniz (CAL) - 3/9, 3 yards Included the list of numbers for the backups as well, if anyone likes that kind of thing.

I'm not sure why you have such an issue with this. It is obvious this isn't a position they planned on having for the coaching staff to start the season. They liked what the new guy brought as a guest coach and made the budget work to hire him full time. The way I see it, that is the exact opposite that you are suggesting. They aren't cheaping out, they made room in the budget to bring in someone they liked. I knew I'd get heat for what I said. Why am I not impressed with junior coaches? My son played 2 years of junior football & started but the favouritism & politics these guys inflicted on their players, well. Most of them should stick with high school. That's their competency level. So because your son played for what you viewed as a corrupt staff of junior coaches (and let's be honest, you're not likely the most unbiased person about this ... what parent would be?) you are now willing to typecast EVERY junior coach as incompetent?

Antolin looks good. None of these QBs other than Kevin Glenn look good at all. TJ Lee is a keeper.

Fraser hurt.

He's also predicted about 4 15 yarders that didn't pan out. So awful.

The return of Dropson. I wonder if Lapo will say press man a few more times.

I can't possibly see how this fails.

I remember last year in his second or third game, he strung together a few nice tosses in a row and then out of nowhere he launched a ball that must have gone 60 yards in the air and so high it was out of view on TV. Beautiful spiral. It landed in the hands of the safety, who was about 20 yards away from the nearest receiver.

Troy Smith is not good. Everyone will fawn over him because once every 15 snaps he makes a play where you go "wow" but he's inconsistent, inaccurate and really just not good.

He's been playing almost entirely against the starting D. I'm sorry but Troy Smith sucks.

Good to see you did your research.

I literally don't think you could handpick a more mediocre group.

That's a good point actually. Dunn was one for sure, Was zach anderson another? Outside of those 2 guys though, I don't think there was anyone else and Anderson might not have even started the first game. Markett? nah, he didn't start. Desia Dunn (who admittedly, I wasn't excited about at all) and Zach Anderson right off the bat. Then there was Markett and Wallace Miles was a promising receiver as well (although he was here right at the end of 2012) Hows miles doing out in ottawa? is he gonna make the team or is he a guy that we could possibly pick up? He had 4 catches for 44 yards last week. Most receptions on the team.

Defensive end too. We don't have an import backup defensive end. Those are two of the easiest positions to fill. And we whiffed hard on both. To their credit though, they did an unreal job with the level of talent in the secondary.

That's a good point actually. Dunn was one for sure, Was zach anderson another? Outside of those 2 guys though, I don't think there was anyone else and Anderson might not have even started the first game. Markett? nah, he didn't start. Desia Dunn (who admittedly, I wasn't excited about at all) and Zach Anderson right off the bat. Then there was Markett and Wallace Miles was a promising receiver as well (although he was here right at the end of 2012)

There aren't many things worse than a Rusty Johnson.

I won't say completely devoid. There are a handful of talented rookie imports that I am excited about. Bruce Johnson, Maurice Leggett and Paris Cotton. That being said, one is injured and one probably isn't a starter so where does that leave us? I'm just really, really disappointed at the level of defensive line prospects and receiving prospects we brought in. Look at our rush end depth. The backup is Louie Richardson. No offense to Louie Richardson, but that's sad.

sometimes you find the weirdest things to be upset about. Daivon Dumas has to be the least mentioned guy throughout all of training camp, which generally isn't bad for a DB, and you can't believe we kept him. And then you find it weird that we cut Dell without a chance to get a good look at him, but you're surprised we kept Howard - who also has yet to get much of a chance this TC. And Taylor Renaud? Who cares. sometimes I think you just sit there waiting to find something in my posts to blow out of proportion. Randle wasn't mentioned because he's a shutdown guy, Dumas wasn't mentioned because he was trailing the play and got very limited reps in pre-season Howard was a turnstyle... Peterson had some problems but showed more than Howard. Even with that whiffed tackle, I thought Moseley was impressive on STs. He had more speed than the other DL prospects. Renaud - I will always cheer for Manitobans... would have PRd him until we actually found another better NI prospect I'm not upset at all. In fact, I'm excited that Hall is gone. I do that because you actually explain your opinions. Hence, dialogue.