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Best of the season to everyone, and especially to Rich, Mike, and the mod team for giving us such a great forum!

Reed > Etcheverry > Marshall Watching Marshall's soft-serve defence was so frustrating. At least Etcheverry attacks with his D. Reed's D wasn't super good but it kept us in a lot of close games in 2010.

C'mon, enough with the hyperbole. Creehan has had the worst D in the league by a wide margin for two years running. At least Etcheverry has some mediocre defenses to his credit; the one in Saskatchewan in 2009 was fourth in points allowed.

What I remember from his D in Saskatchewan was that it was super nutty, huge risk, high reward, about a 40/60 mix between the good kind of WTF and the bad kind. He sure kept the TSN crews entertained.

Sandro was no hell at kickoffs either. He managed just 7/10 of a yard better than Palardy. Both lagged the rest of the league by a good five yards. And Palardy's longest FG of the year was a yard longer than Sandro's. We shoulda kept Palardy.

Why would Edmonton protect Willis over Sherritt?

I'll always remember the great Lobendahn-style strip from behind play he made on Durant in the Banjo Bowl.

iso, that's fair enough. Everyone working for the BBs now got promoted into their current job in 2013, most of them within the last two weeks. Man, if you lose a game for every rookie you start, how many games do you lose with a rookie HC, a rookie GM / front office staff, and a rookie president? I think we're gonna need to be patient here...

I think our performance in that game was more about Jones starting an out-of-shape Adriano Belli at DT and less about Crowton's offensive wizardry.

Hmm, I thought Dan LeFevour would have been on this list, given that he signed in 2012. Wonder if he was extended, or if he was originally on a three-year deal.

It's almost a given that the Bombers will have a better QB next year. The real question is, will they fix the OL? I don't care who's behind center, we're not going anywhere until our OL is patched up.

The best GC tweet I read yesterday was something like "That snowmobile guy has more yards through the air than Burris does."

If he's not in the league at the start of TC, I bet he's back by midseason as an emergency replacement somewhere.

There's a Canadian bar in Seattle? Where-abouts? The Angry Beaver, in Greenwood: http://www.yelp.com/biz/the-angry-beaver-seattle They have peameal bacon sandwiches!

Snowmobile guy = Grey Cup MVP. Biggest cheer of the night from our table.

At the hockey bar here in Seattle, there's like four tables of rider fans here. Nice to be around cfl fans again.

Oh man, I missed that the Stamps announced that Glenn was not a free agent after this season. My bad.

Why is Glenn to Ottawa such a sure thing? He's a free agent next year so if the Redblacks take him in the expansion draft, all they win is an extra few weeks to "exclusively" negotiate with him. The only QB with starting experience who is signed for 2013 and likely to be exposed is Tate. Everyone else is a free agent. Ottawa's QB1 is going to come through free agency. Anything can happen in free agency. Sometime after the Grey Cup we need to have a QB carousel prediction thread.

You really think so? You think it's not just about Collaros wanting to find out what the market will bear? Ottawa and Winnipeg need starting QBs in 2014. Hamilton, too -- Burris and LeFevour are both free agents.

A huge PI call on Anderson would be cool, but I find his trademark 20-yard double-objectional-conduct meltdowns more entertaining to watch.

I love this crazy league of ours and this is the final game for six months. Plus it's my birthday and a bunch of people are taking me out to the Canadian bar here to watch the game. Plus I'm entitled to an entertaining Grey Cup after a year of shitty Bomber football.

People who don't want Tom Higgins: why not? He's got the exact track record we want. He's a Grey Cup winner (2003) and he cleaned up Matt Dunigan's mess in Calgary in 2005, going from 4-14 to 11-7 in one year.

Re: Cortez: imagine how good his TiCats could have been if his DC wasn't Casey Creehan. It's not often that the top-scoring team in any league also has the worst record in that league. I prefer Higgins but I'm definitely intrigued by Cortez' offensive skills.

Really? What would you have changed about how Austin called the game? Would they have won by more than 12 points if you had been in charge?

Finally saw the games on TSN video on demand tonight.