Mike

I don't know why it never occurred to me before, but the idea of Ian Wild at MLB really appeals to me.

I'm not sure why a journalist's opinion of prospects would influence professional talent scouts. He's not Mike Mayock or Mel Kiper, Ottawa will form their opinion based on what their scouts see, not what Duane Forde writes.

I'm still not a huge fan of Forde's rankings but I'll give him credit where credit is due, he's done a good job of forecasting offensive linemen lately. He more or less nailed his rankings of the 2012 OL

He's not really wrong, to be honest.

I don't know why you are all so hard on Kory Sheets, how could anyone with this smile be anything less than an incredibly reputable gentleman?

There was. Darren Cameron released it.

Oh God don't be so naive. University educated man intent on playing in the CFL & he claims he didn't know that what he was taking (Stanozolol) was a steroid? Who is being naive here? I think it's you Atomic. I don't think you understood what he was implying.

This doesn't make any sense. I don't like Etcheverry either, but if you're asking the guy to put a good defense on the field, he sure as hell should be able to make sure he gets the players he wants to do that. And you said yourself you're not assuming McRath was going to be anything special, so this just sounds to me like a reach in order to cast more doubt on Etcheverry.

I don't think any professional league distinguishes between guilt and guilt with intent. It is not up to them to determine intent. I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure that even if he showed them a picture of a needle in his butt, he'd be penalized the same. To be honest, all this "I didn't know" stuff is just window dressing anyways. If you're taking stanozolol, the chances that you didn't know it are incredibly slim and anyone in professional sports would know that. They'll deflect and claim ignorance, but the reality of the situation is that if he tested positive, it's not because he didn't know he was taking it, it's because he ****** up his cycle.

Impossible to say. It's going to be all about how much credit executives give the steroids for his combine showing. Without knowing the levels found in his sample, it's impossible to tell. What I will say is that it's not going to UP his draft stock, that's for sure. He'll certainly get drafted and for the sake of squashing any speculation, I would definitely not count on him suddenly being available with our 3rd rounder.

The one thing worth pointing out is that while he won't immediately face a CFL suspension, he's got CIS eligibility left and that likely went out the window. I'm pretty sure the suspension will be 2 years in the CIS.

Strike one against him, he won't be suspended but he's now subject to mandatory testing. It automatically carries over from the CIS and if he's caught a second time, he's suspended for three games. I'm curious to see how he handles it, because trying to say he wasn't sure that he took it would be a red flag for me. You're not likely to find trace amounts of Winstrol in anything you'd take regularly. Chances are if he was found with it in his system, he KNEW he was taking it.

He apparently did really well but they also took him out of the game and replaced him with an import on roughly half the snaps. We don't have the luxury of doing that unless we're rotating Canucks all over the place, which I suppose we'll have to do anyways. I'd personally rather see us use a rotation of guys like Newman, Muamba and Thomas and stick with an every down work horse MLB

Well okay then. a 34 year old who has never played full time? Maybe as a rotational guy who can rotate to fill a spot in the ratio with some of our other Canadians, but if we're going to give him his first full time gig in his 11 year career as our starting MLB, we may as well just start talking about who we want first overall in the 2015 draft. EDIT: misread some stats

I think there's a lot of misconceptions about what a private workout entails. They're going to go over his stance, they're going to go over his footwork and they're going to get him up on the whiteboard to see how he calls protection for their scheme. They're not going to have him line up against Zach Anderson and take reps. At the combine, you get 15 minutes to speak to a guy. In a private workout, you get what, 4 or 6 hours? You can learn a LOT.

FIRE MIKE O'SHEA HE'S BEEN HERE TWO MONTHS AND WE HAVEN'T WON A SINGLE GAME!

What the Jets managed to acquire in two drafts is not normal.

What I'm starting to get bothered by is that the Bombers are slowly veering from "we're always looking to upgrade" territory into "we have no clue what our plan is" territory. Releasing a guy before you let him try out for you in camp because you think you found someone better is one thing, doing it to like a dozen of them is another.

As was Cyhl Quarles ... McRath is especially surprising.

CFL Hard Knocks? more Grey Cup classics? 30 for 30 documentaries?

TSN 8: LE HUIT

Point Douglas would have been interesting. Just to see what they could do with the area. To be honest, when I walk from my hotel to the stadium in Regina on Labour Day, I don't get the sense of it being the nicest area around either.

That was the thing with DiCroce last year. On fire one day, absolute garbage the next.

They cut Setta a while ago.