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I doubt the CFLPA can do much. The offer, although really low IMO, is over the minimum contract. Foucault could sit out, but that doesn't pay the rent and then he's another year out of football and back in the same situation... His rights are still owned by Montreal. He could sign a 1 year deal to get out from under his Montreal commitment. He could demand a trade and I'm sure a lot of teams would want to make that trade, but there has to be something good to great in it for Montreal, like a first rounder in the draft. (Most likely situation IMO)

Lions sign Swaze Waters: http://www.bclions.com/2017/02/07/lions-add-kicker-swayze-waters/ Big signing for them.

Other than the preseason schedule, the week 1 bye and having to play Regina 4 times this year, I like the schedule much better than last year's. No really short weeks or 3 games in 2 weeks. Only 1 back to back. No waiting until the end of the year to play any team. The second bye comes at a good time for us. No playing all the bad teams in a row. I'm guessing that it's the Bombers who want the Thursday games, which are no problem for me cuz I'm not in Winnipeg anyway.

You give the edge to the player with almost no stats because he 'knows the system' and you discount the player who actually has stats over his 2 year CFL career. You choose to ignore both players careers up to this point because that comparison doesn't work in favor of Davis. Everyone in Bomberland should understand what happens when you have an inexperienced backup QB. I won't like the names of all the inexperienced QB's we've had over the last decade who 'might be the next one', 'knew the system', 'can't compare the stats', 'looked good in practice', 'had one good game' and failed miserably. That's the situation we are in right now.

Experience isn't ridiculous. Practice time isn't the same as playing time, especially at the #3 spot where you don't get many reps. Davis knows our system. Cato doesn't. That's a fact, but that doesn't help much, if at all, in comparing the two QB's. So you're saying that we can only compare two players on the same team with the same chances? That's crazy talk. Cato benefited from injuries and he didn't beat anyone out of camp. That's how he got the CFL experience that he has. Davis stayed at #3 and Walters said he wouldn't have made the Willy trade unless he could get an experienced #2 guy. That kinda says management didn't even see Davis as the #2 guy last year. Davis hasn't even had the 1 great game that Cato has. Other teams haven't had a chance to figure him out yet. College careers do matter when comparing the two, mostly untested, QB's. It comes back to playing time and success. Cato wins hands down. If Davis had more pro stats, then I wouldn't need to go back to college, but as we all know he doesn't. Look... I'm not suggesting that Cato will come in and take Nichols job away from him. I'm even saying that he's a good CFL QB yet. I'm saying he's better than Davis at this point of their careers. The only way anyone will know for sure is if we bring Cato in and they go head to head.

I find it funny that people call Carter and Cato idiots, but Stafford is just fine cuz we signed him. FTR...I don't excuse Cato any more than I excuse the other 2. He's the third stooge. Cato has way more experience and success in both college and in the CFL. In fact, the only reason to like Davis over Cato is that Davis is a Bomber. Cato isn't an old beat up car. He's younger than Davis with CFL starts and wins under his belt. Cato's college career was hugely more successful than Davis' with several MVP awards. Davis flunked out of Boston College, went to Fort Scott Community College, then for a couple of years in East Carolina University. No MVP's. LeFevour? 29. injury history, more Int's than TD's. Matthews? 25, more Int's than TD's. My 2nd choice behind Cato.

Cato - Games Played:22 Passing; 296 of 432 for 3570 Yards TD/INT: 17/11 Davis - Games Played:1 Passing; 16 of 25 for 169 Yards TD/INT: 0/0 It's not even close and it has nothing to do with Cato not being a Bomber.

Cato is better, younger and more experienced than Davis. He might be a good backup QB for us and we need to bring in a couple of QB's anyway. Maybe being cut will help him mature. Maybe the altercation(s) in practice were Stafford's and Carter's fault. Pickings are kind of slim. Would you rather have, Gale or DeMarco or O'Brien or LeFevour or Harris (Jacory) or Mathews?

The baseball analogy isn't any good unless you change it to if the team at the top of the inning scores 3 or under the game goes on, if they score 6 the game is over. That would make it closer to the NFL rules.

Real game as in the rules of the game stay the same. Kick off then play from the point you return it to and see if you can't score. If you don't score then you have to punt the ball back to the other team. If you manage a FG, the other team gets a chance to match or beat you. If you score a TD, then you win outright, which is the one problem that most folks seem to have with the NFL rules. Both sides getting a turn on offence wouldn't make it more like a real game. Having 2 15 minute halves would. CFL OT rules have no kick off or punts. You start at the 35 either score a FG or a TD then the other team takes over at the 35. You get no advantage for moving the ball better or further than the other team. It's basically a shoot out format, where you eliminate a lot of the games intricacies.

Baseball doesn't have two ways to score, a FG and a TD. If NE could only score a FG, the game would have continued. I like the NFL's 'play a real game of football in OT' over the CFL's start in FG range and see who can score a TD. I wouldn't mind each team getting a shot to play offense, but I don't see that as as big a problem as the NE haters around here do.

It's not the flip of the coin, it's letting NE score a TD on their first set of downs that cost Atlanta the game. Well that and some dumb play calling that resulted in a penalty and a sack that took them out of FG range. Still it was a Super Bowl for the ages and I thought it was over at the half.

IMO Glenn and Shologan were SMS casualties. Still a few more to come.

Talking about black and white. I never said it's GC or nothing. In fact, I said we had a successful team years before we finally won the cup in '84. You're trying to call 'doing things the way you think they should be done' success when the measurable's like the teams record or playoff wins tell a totally different story.

Context? 2-5 with the other team hanging 40+ points on you 3 times in a row isn't just going to be 'turned around'. The point is that DR was never a CFL HC again so there wasn't any other CFL team that thought he was the guy to turn their team around. Berry is the only coach who I think was prematurely fired. At least they did it in the off season when they had options for HC. Hiring an inexperienced HC was the problem. A mistake they'd repeat again and again. I'm simply don't call 1 and done after making the playoffs for the first time in 5 seasons successful. My 'bar' for success is higher than that.

No stats tell the whole story and success can be measured in different ways. Lots of folks on these boards have never seen a truly successful Bomber team, where success is measured in years, not 7 game win streaks. The last time we even had 2 winning seasons in a row was about 15 years ago in '02-03. From 1975 thru to 1996, the Bombers missed the playoffs once. That's what real success looks like and what I grew up with. (I started watching in the 60's got seasons tickets in the mid-70's) They didn't win a GC until '84, but they were still successful. We expected them to win every home game and were bummed if they didn't. You keep saying that we fired Ritchie too soon. He was 2-5 and the last 3 games weren't even close (48-17,41-24,49-27). Change was needed. I can't remember if there was anyone else available other than Daley who kinda turned the team around at 4-5 for the rest of the year. Ritchie is the only previously successful HC we hired to turn the team around since '99. Our mistake has been hiring newbies and crossing our fingers, hoping they can turn the team around. Berry had the best record of that bunch at .509 and Kelly (.389), idiot or not, is still ahead of O'Shea (.333).

We were a plus .500 team 9 times since 1990 (92-94, 2001-03, 07, 11 and 16). I'd call those successful years. We've only made the playoffs once in the last 5 years. That's not a lot of success IMO. The early 90's were a continuation of our success in the '80s, when we were +.500 8 out of 10 years and we never missed the playoffs. Now that was successful time for the Bombers, but it was a very long time ago, before a lot of people around here were even born.

IMO Franklin stays with Edmonton this year then goes to FA where he signs with the best team that offers him the starting job. Riders or Argos are most likely, with an outside chance of Montreal or Winnipeg depending on how this season plays out.

The Argos don't have a GM or HC are they in the worse situation or are the Riders?

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I'm not an animal. Bare feet or flip flops if the sand is too hot. I've got no idea why this interests anyone other than my wife.

When it comes to feet on the beach.... Yup.

FTR: I'm not Tom Burgess and I don't even wear sandals let alone socks and sandals.

I don't see anything negative about the post that you agree with, yet there you go again complaining about negative posting for complaining sake. I'm .

It's funny around here: Riders sign one of the best receivers in the league... Everyone else passed on him. Bombers sign a FA... He chose us because he wanted to be here and he signed for less money than other team(s) offered. Other teams sign a FA that we might have wanted... They overpaid for an overrated player.