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I agree with your post, largely, but had to add: We yanked MacBeth for Kelly because his hand connected with a Bomber player's helmet (I want to say Jeffcoat?) and as you know, having to rely on a QB with an injured throwing hand is bad... luckily we had 12 ready to go.

Bombers were a club with a winning record in '18 and '19. Behave.

I confess that I may be way off base here since I haven't bothered to go look it up, but I'd bet you a coke that Dukes has a better W-L than Streveler.

I don't think I'm overrating him. I only said that he's a better option to put in to lead your team than Streveler, Wilson or Patterson. At this point that's what the evidence has showed me. I suppose the jury will be out on it unless and until any/all/none of them end up being a #1 somewhere.

Dukes has a limitation that defences around the league found after he started the season on fire. Once they schemed to take his slant routes away, he simply didn't adapt by showing that he could make them pay for it down the sidelines or over the top. Can he add that to his game? I don't think it's a tendency thing (where he looks short and mid first) I think it's more of a Zip thing, or a lack thereof. He's still 26 so I won't say it couldn't happen but there isn't all that much that a professional QB can do to give himself a better fastball... Having said that, he's still a better QB2 than what you have. Father Time is undefeated and Collaros doesn't appear young for his (advanced) age. It is within the realm of the likely-to-happen that your QB2 is leading your team this season.

i) We aren't totally sure. ii) I suppose we're good with what we've brought in to replace (yet another, seemingly annual) mass exodus.

Bro... tell me about it.

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No, they weren't doing well before the finger happened... Except that after it did, the entire margin of victory was given away by Zach and the gimp finger. I stand by the assertion, that I think is self evident based on the above stated fact, that if MOS had a backup worth beans (and yes, if he trusted him), the Bombers win 111.

I think his spouse and her family is from Edmonchuk?

Maybe I imagined Collaros with a messed up finger getting picked 3 times leading to 17 Argo points (the margin of victory), and robbing Winnipeg of any points they may have gotten?

Fair enough in that I do believe it to be a fact. I know that the meme about MOS not trusting backups to the point of playing clearly unfit players over fit ones has a lot of truth in it, but it doesn't answer the obvious question of "what if he had a backup that he did trust?". Full disclosure, I wouldn't have trusted either BB backup QB either. I think they suck. But if Nick Arbuckle was available as your backup when Zach got his boo-boo, I think MOS would've put him in and that you'd have sealed it. Edit to add: I also think that Cameron Dukes is better than your backups and could've won it for you.

https://cflpa.com/cflpa-shares-historic-salary-cap-increase-for-2025-season Can't be seen as anything but great news, imo.

We have a guy with the mental toughness to come back from the brink of being out of the game to be our #3 when our QB1 was out. He very quickly rose to the point of contending to be starter in camp but the decision was made for Dukes. Dukes had two good games to start with and Arbuckle accepted his spot at #2. Dukes floundered and Arbuckle came in as our guy. Kelly returns, plays like we knew he could and Arbuckle quietly goes back to his support role. Kelly gets broken at the end of the East final and icewater-in-his-veins Arbuckle comes in to seal the win. He then becomes the entire focus of the 111th and goes out and executes to the point of being the game MOP. You wouldn't want him? Really?? If you'd have had him instead of us, you'd be champions.

😂No? https://www.cfl.ca/2024/11/17/storybook-ending-nick-arbuckle-named-mvp-of-the-111th-grey-cup/