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If I had to guess? 3 things: -salary pinch is real and we're still likely to see a lot of guys get thanked for their service... -Jones was getting NFL looks not long ago but wasn't that guy as the year went on -Isaac Darkangelo Concert Hall!

I've looked at it enough now that even with my level of paranoia and persecution complex, I think we got the Best Schedule Ever. I don't know which CFL official got the sneaky brown envelope from MLSE and I don't care. Now we just need to rebuild/reload/re-sign and get ready to roll. Sorry about the Bombers getting the **** end of the stick schedule-wise. Really am.

I may be missing something obvious in the schedule that is bad for the Argos, but I can't see it. This looks very favorable for us. Been a long time since getting the season's schedule didn't spike my blood pressure.

Don't put that out there! Dog-gone-it. He seems to be a bit under the radar for what passes for CFL press/commentariat types. I have Brink as very high priority because I see him as a one-off in our league. Nobody does what he does. Ceresna may be the best at what he does, but can we find another 3-tech? Yes. Can we find a purer Nose than Brink? I genuinely don't think such a player existed in the league last season.

EDIT (didn't see you'd given Kelly his due before I'd commented. Mea Culpa) And Kelly. 3 in a row. And as for the Glenn/MBT debate, for me it isn't close. I'd never want Glenn. He is the average'est QB we've ever witnessed. Game manager? Sure. But if he is behind in the game that he was managing, can he strap his team on his back and will his team to a victory? Nope. MBT could though.

I thought Liam Dobson was still a young'un... Was surprised when I browsed your team roster page. (and don't get me started about child labour laws and Jason Person)

I've come to embrace it as how the Good Ship Argo sails these past few years. We do it throughout camp, the season and still churn it year round. The brain-trust (which I guess is just Murphy now? IDK?) in conjunction with the coaches review the guys on the bottom half of our roster and if they have the chance to be a frontline starter we keep them if we can (we get poached a lot) and if they are just OK or for whatever reason they aren't a fit or up to standard, they're wished all the best in their future endeavors. Sometimes it looks weird like when we drop our leading receiver during a QB suspension. Other times you go through enough players that you get a big hit like a Holley or a Stiggers. From a fan perspective you can never get too attached, but boy howdy it keeps your interest level up in every name on the team sheet.

Pretty much an annual event around here. You do well -> Players deserve a raise for it -> They can't all get one here -> Churn that roster Sad about Adeboboye. He and his family are big favorites here. Local boy who plays a big role on Teams and subs in at Runningback to great effect. Goes to every GTA area football fundraiser/school/tournament. Delightful people. But Holley is in the NFL, Brinkman and Ceresna are FAs so we needed more D-Linemen on the roster. I hope Andre Carter comes up here and does a job for us. And with the makeup of our RB rotation being American, it just doesn't seem like a place we can have a National. To everything churn, churn, churn, There is a season churn, churn, churn...

Just to put a different spin on the discussion, imagine if going into this game that the teams had each others' QB2 & QB3. So you'd have had Collaros backed up by Arbuckle and Dukes. The Argos would've had Wilson backed up by Dolegala and Scott. That would've been a masacre.

Thank Flutie for that. Sick of losing a home game every year

He was endearingly self deprecating in that article. He'd have made a lot more friends in the online CFL community if he'd have mixed some of that in.

That wasn't intended as a slight against Varga. More of an indication that I don't know if we're going National or American there. Sopik played well there and then got dinged so Darkangelo came in and was noteworthy. But Sopik is a FA and Darkangelo got a look down south, so who knows?

Well my first and most obvious question would be to ask who it is in Toronto who is calling the shots right now? Word on the street is that Murphy was on the outs, so I actually don't know who is steering the Good Ship Argonaut right now. Allen was effective but expensive. We have lots of good O-Line guys including a few who just got here and can do a job (Doxtater, Moore) so with the number of guys who are top FAs, the deck was always going to get shuffled. Dejon is about 30 so he'll have a few nice productive years, he's a west coast guy and BC can tell their star at QB that they're doing what they can to get him an O-line. Likely has nothing to do with anything, but Allen did almost get Kelly killed in the playoffs against Ottawa. And, Isaiah Cage is a free agent too... Not sure if Varga is a starter or not, but most of our National linebackers got played as a starter at some point last season. As it stands we have Cassar, Sopik(FA), Adeleke (FA), & Varga. So maybe Varga is a hedge against possibly losing Sopik if someone pulls out their chequebook? Ceresna, Brinkman, Smith, McManis, Amos, Metchie, McFadden, Priester... some our FAs on D Grant, Haggerty... on Teams Arbuckle, Cage, Rice, Mackellar, Carey, Coxie... on O Freeing up salary and churning the roster happens. And the last few years we haven't done a lot of our signings until later on, so I'll try not to let it bug me as I watch good players get poached one by one.

Yeah that tracks. It looks like there are 5 or more teams who may be in the market for one. Makes me think that unless McManis really wants to come back to the Double Blue that he will be setting the market somewhere. Head says that he's gone, heart says that he'll stay... but this is likely better discussed in the non-Bomber offseason thread.

Why wouldn't we just presume that with O'Shea being in Toronto's sports scene from 96-13, he'd have had many opportunities to mingle with the likes of Wendel and Dougie?