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Is James Franklin even the next James Franklin? Dude is not successful or proven or anything, he could be the next Trevor Harris, he could be the next Don McPherson, no one knows yet.

speaking of the TSN broadcast, some day I want to make a supercut of that road warrior fan with the little #85 stickers on his shoulder pads, the TSN cameras find him game after game...

2018-06-15 Edmonton at Winnipeg Sacking Mike Reilly Like catching flies with chopsticks need Coach Miyagi

Lankford accumulates a few more MBB likes...

he's no Johnny Football tho.

I do agree that the Rider rage here gets a little out of hand sometimes, but you can't say that Glenn isn't a proven QB. Granted, he's a proven .500 QB, but the Riders were about .500, so it all checks out. Looking forward to this year -- the rule of the CFL is that the team with the better QB and the better Canadians wins, and both those areas are huge question marks for the Roughies. Maybe it all turns out ok, maybe Collaros gets time to do his work and maybe Messam keeps Messaming for another year and LaBatte plays like it's 2007 and Edem bounces back and they can scheme successfully around Hurl .. but that's a lot of maybes. (looking at their roster today, it does look like they have a practice roster OL ... an import named Takoby Cofield ... someone mentioned they didn't have one)

bad line, bad Canadians. NBD. Linked article is just trolling -- but I do like that Justin Dunk term "Strevelation"

Especially since a lot of the passes in Lapo's offense will only travel five or so yards downfield.

stoked for tomorrow! I know very little about scouting QBs, but a thing I noticed in this video is that he's got kinda bouncy-castle footwork going on in the pocket. Is that a big deal for a QB?

Edmonton 13-5 Calgary 12-6 Winnipeg 10-8 BC 6-12 Saskatchewan 4-14 Toronto 13-5 Ottawa 10-8 Hamilton 10-8 Montreal 3-15

Trudeau's stance defending Canada's protectionist policies in its dairy market is somehow virtue signaling to the globalist open-borders elite? You must be talking about those other kind of globalists, the ones who love tariffs...

The board software tracks what you've read and you can jump to the last thing you read on a thread by clicking on the little star or circle to the left of the thread title. Really makes those long threads more readable, for me anyway.

That's the standard thing for a DC to do to a rookie QB, isn't it? Blitz until the rook makes you pay for it?

okay, I've complained about thread proliferation, and I was probably a little irritable about it, and I regret that. This site is my primary source for Bomber news and analysis, so I like to read that stuff instead of the editorial / opinion stuff that I could get from Friesen if I wanted it. If I were God-Emperor of MBB, here's the thread creation rhythm I'd want: Around The League 2018 Season -- all non-Bomber news for the whole season. (There was a super great week in review/preview thing we had last year, I can't remember who posted it, but they used the word balloon emoji a lot. Tweets and news bits with embedded reactions that were usually apt or funny. Would love to see that return. Was it called In Case You Missed It?) Bomber Game Week / Bye Week Thread -- opens on Monday on game week, tracks all the Bomber news for that week (Streveler starting, etc) Game Day Thread obvs numerous free-for-all post-game analysis threads -- there are trusted names in this business, I know to look for the good ones. Legit large developments (Jones fired, Nichols gets bionic legs, Dickenson appoints himself short-yardage QB for Stamps) get their own threads. But really, I'm gonna chill out on this topic from here on out.

yeah, FMB not getting cut caught my eye too. Wonder if they're trying to trade him?

How would we get Bond on the field? Some rotation of Thomas/Corney/Briggs/Jones on D?

ah, not the same Brandon Stewart.

Dude, when your prime source is AKAChip... If you're gonna make a thread that's just wild assed guessing, please just call it that, instead of giving it a title that looks like it's gonna have legit news in it

Gonna go back and look at that Calgary finale from last year, the one where Lapo had the Fever run the most conservative game plan I've ever seen in the CFL. Not a pass over five yards. Bet that's what we see while we're waiting for Nicholls.

man, I really wish I knew what happened to make them give up on Davis in the space of two quarters. I have no idea whether Davis is a legit CFL QB or not, but the Bombers saw something in him for a couple years ... and then, bam, gone after thirty minutes.

speaking of cfl.yaretv.com, they are broadcasting tomorrow's BC / Winnipeg game for free, perfect opportunity to check em out.

ExpressVPN.

I used a Netherlands VPN. Streams maxed out at 720p. Don't know how much bandwidth that translates into. Didn't have outages that I remember .... the main hassle was waiting for games to show up in the on-demand archive. There was at least one game that didn't show up in the archive. Yaretv tech support was not super good. At $80 for the season plus ~$10/mo for the VPN, you're looking at $140ish for the season .. not a huge savings over TSN streaming if you've got the option of using either one. But if you just want to stream Bomber games or the odd single game, yaretv is way better.

Maybe a futures move ... Reilly is high mileage and Glenn is a guy who changes teams annually. Maybe they don't believe in Cline or any other of the camp QBs as Reilly's successor. Wonder how long Adams is signed for...

I was pretty stoked when we signed Durant, I'd always been a fan of his, at his best he made plays that no other CFL QB could. But yeah as of today I'd rather start the season 0-6 than see him signed as an emergency starter.