johnzo

several years? pulling colors from their skies? when the sky is obsidian green, you should run for a tornado shelter, not play football...

green on green numbers. jesus, we get it, you like green.

yeah, respect for Masoli -- dude was solid in that game and gave us a scary run. Rooting for him to have a ZC8-like comeback after all his injuries. He's still on the Redblacks roster though he's not been rostered for any preseason action. Only news I can find on him is that he's not fully recovered from his season-ender last year according to a guy on Reddit. I think people here were saying that he was uniquely vulnerable to leg injuries cause he's a thick guy and leverage is a *****. Tyrie Adams might be starting the season on the injured list too, if he doesn't get cut. He looked pretty good in his lone start last year for Ottawa -- hope he gets another shot there or elsewhere. Ottawa has really cornered the market on promising but unproven CFL QBs. Adams, Brown, Crum... poor dude wound up in karma's way -- the Blue had a Boat Game to avenge.

it's a highlight reel, though -- wouldn't a receiver's highlight reel want to show off all the contested catches where he bailed out his QB?

"One morning, when Brady Oliveira woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a horrible cockroach."

that dude takes so much punishment. like a long-striding Buck Pierce.

Four games today. OTT @ HAM BC @ CGY SSK @ EDM TOR @ MTL All games on CFL+ : https://www.cfl.ca/2024/05/09/where-to-watch-2024-cfl-preseason-games/. The Montreal game is also on RDS. Highlights: First look at Dru Brown in a Redblacks jersey and MBT repping the Elks. BLM starts for the TiCats. Hopefully we get the Edmonton radio crew on the Riders/Elks game. That Regina radio crew is brutal.

I wonder if those guys had a spotter working with them? As far as I understand, the spotter is the guy who identifies the players involved in a play. Still, very low quality commentary, esp compared to the gold standard of Knuckles. Knuckles was a home broadcaster but he was never a homer.

Redblacks actually sounds good in French. Rouge et Noir. Kinda classy. In English, I agree, it's garbage.

I'll call 'em the Jetties. Worst team name is the Wild. Sports teams should be nouns, not verbs.

Would you expect the QBs to be behind the curve in blitz recognition since there's zero film on the D to study at this point?

oh, this is interesting. how was he tipping off the play? Always interested to hear about these little details, they make the game much more fun to watch.

Mullinder was bad. everytime I heard him say "second and short opens up the whole playbook!" I thought about replacing him with one of these: Somehow the sideline guy was worse. Is there a shallower take than "everyone's all pumped up and the veterans are leading the way!"

Naw, MLB is an import position, so Ejiro Kuale is next man up.

I did the exact same thing with a leafs fan on a work call right before the playoffs started. Both of us had jerseys on an everything. No one else knew what was going on (the call was with people from Florida and Alabama) Had been avoiding him since the Jets got eliminated but now that the leafs are golfing too I guess I can emerge again.

Size of the audience? The CFL is a tiny league playing in a small country -- the international audience for it can't be that big.

nothing to add, I just like seeing this in print.

Nashville sucks. Those jerseys of theirs look like a pee-filled ashtray. Yellow and grey, what colorblind fuckstick signed off on that ******* garbage? Leafs suck the shitpipe like a Skydome sump pump. Forget the equinox -- Leafs Elimination Day is the real first day of spring. Here's hoping for an early spring this year. Ideally, the Leafs will move to Salt Lake City this offseason. In conclusion, **** the Leafs. Vegas sucks. Hockey in the desert is stupid. Pack that **** up and move it to Quebec City. Plus Vegas stole the Raiders and now they are stealing the A's. **** Vegas. They are a thief city. Speaking of thief cities, the Avalanche suck. Stole a Stanley Cup from Quebec City. Je me souviens. I hope their zamboni crashes. Kings suck because the NHL has been a **** league since Gretzky landed there. Oilers suck because they were so loaded that they could sell Gretzky to the Kings and still win a Cup two years later. I'm still bitter about 1990. You should never win anything after trading the GOAT. Plus, did you know that Peter Pocklington is from Regina? Vancouver sucks because their fans are manbabies who riot win or lose. May they be loser rioters this year and every year following. Dallas sucks. Everything is bigger in Texas. Thus, Dallas sucks bigly. Boston is an interesting edge case in suckage studies. On one hand, it's a **** city, its harbor is made of sewage, its weather is awful and its population is highly contrary. Rooting for the Bruins will put some black mold on your soul. On the other hand, I really truly 100% appreciate how they devise a new heartbreak for the Leafs every year. Go Jets (and Bruins)

I've got my fingers crossed that Calgary Stampeders Classics will upload the September 1983 home game vs. Regina. That was my very first live game and the day I fell in love with the Bombers. I grew up rural and had never seen 25,000 people in one place before! Not only that, it was Tom Clements' first game as a Bomber.

I think there's a second tier of all-time running backs for people like Washington, Mimbs and especially Fred Reid. Will always be a Fast Freddy fan, he and Terrance Edwards were two guys worth watching on the terrible Bombers of 2009-2010 and his big game against the Lions is one of my top ten favorite bomber games. I think if Chris Garrett hadn't have torn his Achilles, he would've been a great CFL running back. That dude looked complete to me -- power, speed, and moves.

I don't know about who met with who when, but I do know that it was not Salisbury's decision to leave the Bombers. We cut him in late October, early November -- do QBs really catch onto the NFL in October or November? Plus, hard to imagine any CFL coach, much less Kindly Cal, doing their QB1 a solid and releasing them to chase a better opportunity just two weeks before the playoffs. We lost seven games in a row to end that season, the final two a home-and-home to the 2-14 Rough Riders. The team was dead on the table and needed the crash cart. Salisbury played great in the East Semi that year, winning in a snowstorm. It's fair to say that he didn't really light it up in the Grey Cup (tho what QB plays well in 60km/h winds?) but there's no way in hell that DeWalt or Muecke would've even gotten us to the title game. We would've been smoked by the TiCats in the ESF with either of those guys behind center.

What are the precedents for players being not just penalized by the league, but outright banned? Justin Cox Manziel Marino Nate Holley Arland Bruce the younger Am I missing anyone? All but Marino were off-field bad guys. Cox and Holley were domestic violence doers, Bruce bet on his own games, and Manziel would not comply with whatever conditions the league imposed on him.

only 83 days left until the season starts. Then we can replace the offseason lunacy with regular season lunacy.

The CFL changed its playoff format in the 1986 to allow four teams in from a single division, but it wasn't with a crossover: instead, the two-team division played a two-game total points series and the four-team division played a 1vs4 and 2vs3 semifinal round. This boned the first place finishers, who didn't get a bye. I think I like the modern crossover rule better. Got to make the regular season meaningful; don't take the bye away from the 1st place team.