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3 guys picked in top 15 who are 26 or older. Bizarre. Might be 28 by the time football is played again.

When it comes down to it, do we take a gamer or a winner?

"He's a gamer." In-depth analysis.

Christ BC is going to pick a QB at 15 overall with that roster?

I want that receiver from Guelph. If not him, Hallett or the Greek UBC DB.

Just making **** up now...Czech guy who played one year at UOttawa 3 years ago...now Canadian!

Drafting a guy turning 26 when you're probably drafting for 2021 if things go well....

The vast majority of their operating costs won’t happen if the league doesn’t operate. So really what they need is cash to service debt, maintain facilities and pay a few staff like maybe President-GM-Head Coach. I’m left wondering if the CFL explored any kind of deal with Bell (TSN) to get an advance on future rights payments to get through the crisis. TSN is hugely vested in the existence of the league, plus owns one team. Maybe they can get $100 million and pay it back over 10 years once operations start again at a few percent interest. Also in the case of several teams you’d think they could work out deals with their provincial governments to cover debt payments on the stadiums until events are going again.

Not with 7 stadiums that exist solely to field professional football, 3 of them with hundreds of millions of government debt owing.

The math doesn't work. They have nowhere near $150 million in costs if they don't play. If they don't play the players don't get paid. Is the league going to try to pay all the players with government money?

The local employees are taken care of in two different ways. This ask would be outside of that. It's extra complicated because local and provincial governments are tied into the CFL operating to pay off debt they've taken on to build and renovate stadiums.

Self-entitlement is part of it, not grasping the situation. The other part that we're all going to feel is that staying inside is not a reasonable thing to do for a period of time. I was very mad watching the news to see people going for walks in Vancouver being berated by politicians. PEOPLE NEED TO GO OUTSIDE! Yes they need to take precautions and not congregate, but this whole idea of limiting interactions will not work over any significant period if the leaders in our society are heavy-handed on people being completely reasonable...going for a walk in a park FFS.

Bizarre odds when you consider just on the face there's a 3/4 chance that the bottom 3 teams in the list get into the Grey Cup. You'd think a second East team would at least have better odds of winning the cup than the lowest ranked team from the West.

The good and bad news is that this situation is just starting on our continent. Good...we have some control over the speed of the spread still aside from a few spots (Seattle, Vancouver, Northern California, NYC area). Bad...if we do good the peak of this virus will likely hit in September or October continent wide....meaning we'll have to maintain our sanity in social isolation for that time period and could have some issues with this virus having another wider outbreak just as our normal flu season hits....and our flu seasons have rarely been "normal" of late. Two years ago the vaccines were total duds and this past flu season we had a strain of A and a strain of B hit at the same time which is extremely rare. I have significant doubt that the upcoming CFL season will occur in any fashion we are used to related to length, crowds etc. I don't believe we'll be back to normal until the fall.

Welp...looks like they need to come up with something for tiebreaks. Crazy to force a team to win 3 games in a day. In the new format this will happen more often. Could adjust the draw schedule/format so there’s time to have one tiebreaker round on Friday.

Why is that? No matter where the teams are it’s a TV product. The were actually really smart to get a team in St. Louis and Seattle. Seattle is a great sports TV market for some reason. St. Louis obviously didn’t have a pro team at all. The only places I might or avoided are LA and NY. San Diego might have been a better option.

It's a fundamental part of Canadian Football. It's not a minor rule change. What I don't get are CFL or Canadian Football fans who want to rip something like the XFL to shreds but then also want to bastardize the sport into that shitty game. The XFL has done everything they can to remove special teams and predictably the product is mediocre. Special teams is a huge part of the sport. The American game is moving further and further away from that fundamental piece and suffering for it. Why would we want to entertain doing the same?

Yep. Vancouver is kind of getting to be like Toronto. The fans are in the donut and the stadium is in the donut hole.

At least he actually lives in BC.

Season ends before NBA playoffs. The NCAA has enormous ratings on the first two days of the tournament (Thursday-Friday) and then they crater until the Final Four. The current TV deal is for 3 years with the networks not paying for rights but sharing advertising revenue.

The only thing worse than the QB's are the coaches. A bunch of geriatrics would have basically been banished from all other leagues. Continuity will help the QB issue as guys get time to develop as pros and within systems. They should have allowed unlimited backfield motion for the 3 eligibles who are not on the line. The two forward pass rule is basically useless.

The scoring rules are the same. They've evolved a bit 5 points to 6 for a "touch" and a convert going from 2 points to 1. That happened 90 years ago. The FG miss is also only a point if the defending team does not get the ball out of the the endzone. Those kicking decisions happen all the time because of the rouge and the game is way more entertaining for it. A FG is a skill play and making rules to favour punts through the endzone over FG attempts would just be horrific really. I see the craving for changing the scoring rules to just draw right down to wanting to bastardize the game in the name of some inferiority complex to American football.

The people who constantly want to mess with scoring have no respect for the rugby code and it’s influence on Canadian football rules. Kicking is part of the game. Kicking the ball into touch is worth a point. The trade off is where the next scrimmage begins. The point is hardly a reward most often and it also forces the defending team to play the ball if it is.

I would take none of the gameplay rules from the XFL. Special teams are a significant part of the Canadian game and should remain so, including PAT’s. I do like the officiating transparency and having more players mic’d up with the play caller to speed up the game and offer teams a better opportunity to use tempo.

Gunnlaugson (3rd), McEwen (4th) and Carruthers (2nd/skip) should all team up with Samagalski as lead. That team might be competitive with Gushue, Jacobs, Koe etc. Gunnlaugson doesn't have the repertoire to throw last rock IMO, but he'd be a hell of a third in the 5 rock rule era. He'd almost exclusively be playing hits. Gunnlaugson could probably keep McEwen loose enough to stay consistent. Carruthers is good at telling McEwen when to shut up and get in the hack too, don't let him ice himself.