JuranBoldenRules

My ideal format for the Scotties and Brier would stay at 16 teams and keep Northern Ontario. Ontario is two provinces functionally, you have a winner from the Sudbury-Thunder Bay NW Ontario province and a winner from Southern Ontario. Those two areas basically don't interact, the players from NW Ontario would play small tour events in Manitoba more than they'd play in Southern Ontario. Anyways, my format would be an A pool and a B pool. The A pool would be the top 8 qualified teams by CTRS. The B pool would be the bottom 8 teams by CTRS. The A pool would send 5 teams to the 6 team playoff. The B pool would send 1 team to the 6 team playoff, you'd have to decide what seed they'd end up being, I'd probably make them 4 or 6, if 4 they get hammer and choice of rocks in 4-5 game (see below). The 6 team playoff would be similar format to CFL playoff aside from once it gets to final 4 it's traditional Page playoff. So 1 & 2 seed get bye to Page playoff. 3 plays 6, 4 plays 5, winners are 3 and 4 seed in Page playoff. Even though the playoff is a little more drawn out, there's less games played for all teams. I'd also consider expanding the wildcard to a 3 or 4 team playoff since there will be fewer round-robin games in this format. Overall this format would ensure a more competitive event and excuse those top 8 teams from having to play horrendous teams who are basically rec curlers vs pros.

The point of the show was that he wasn't the boss.

Johnson also played SAM for BC when they still had a pretty good D and that's a lot of what Walters talked about being attracted to in terms of targeting him in free agency. Not a word for word quote but the jist of what he said was he wants veteran guys for the halfback, SAM and safety spots and they'll run with the young guys at corner where the skills are more transferable from the American game to the Canadian game. I guess Hodge wasn't taking good notes. I think in terms of who is where it really will be whatever combo of those vet guys Hall likes heading into the season for both HB spots, safety, SAM between Maston, Taylor, Johnson and Alexander. Pending injury it's definitely a strong spot on the roster IMO, as strong as any secondary can be in a league that is structured to make it extremely difficult to defend the pass.

It's pretty bad when you consider Walters literally spelled out the plan for the secondary in a press conference two weeks ago. If you're hoping to earn an income covering a sport and a team you should know that.

**** I'm kicking myself for even clicking the link on Twitter to read that shitty Hodge article. Try not to enable that shitty garbage.

According to John Hodge the Bombers remaining hole is boundary HB. Guess he missed Walter press conference on free agency day. Taylor and Johnson are our halfbacks. The open spots in the secondary are at corner. Mike Jones is likely to claim one, the other will be determined in camp. Johnson was signed to play inside, maybe even SAM but in that case Maston would move to half.

And the big shot coaches like Marcel Rocque and Jones' coach are up their own asses about playing draws all the time and hitting less. See the downfall of that in all the late-game misses on straighter arena ice in the Scotties. They are trying to turn players like Einarson and Homan into drawers when they are quite good at the up-weight hit game. It's a simple game. Homan has not won anything major since they've tried to change her delivery.

Einarson in the middle of an all-time choke. Knock out one red on her last in 10 and it's game over. Goes for a draw and whiffs, has 2 rocks she could have played a hit on for backing. Brutal, brutal, brutal.

We're talking about 2020....

QB is not the scary part of the Hamilton roster. It's the depth of playmakers all over the D and the never ending ability to integrate and develop playmakers on O.

The players sure have quit on the NY team.

Jones has such little confidence in her draw weight and ability to call sweeping this year that she's panicky and calling lots of weird raises and in-offs that are the kind of thing you mostly see in drunken Tuesday night leagues. I feel like in that game she came out right away thinking she had to try to beat Homan at the high weight hit game...the second end from Lawes shots on down were just bizarre calls that cost them the game.

He left to operate 3DownNation full time and then sold the site to Justin Dunk.

Yeah it wasn't random though. They scouted and drafted. This is a team he picked and now has coached for 2 months.

88 for Tasker, 161 for Dressler.

He's the GM too.

Yeah it will be interesting to see how that plays out and how it is allowed to be manipulated.

Well they'd have 3-4 guys they are comfortable with playing D minimum for the one spot, and they don't have to declare that a NI will be used at a certain position, just that a NI will be on the field at all times on D. So right now there's Thomas, Briggs, Miles, the DB's, Griffiths and whoever we draft, plus Hansen who can't "start" as one of the 7 but unless it changes for this season he can sub in for anyone. Worst case scenario if Thomas and Briggs go down you throw a guy out at field corner if it comes down to it, 2/3 of the QB's in the league can't make a throw out to the field, you just gotta switch to a zone that will make it harder for the O to isolate that guy. **** that used to be the gameplan...remember Matt Bucknor?

Yeah depending how the rest of the offseason goes it will either be 6 NI on O and 1 on D or 5 on O 2 on D. They have to maintain that the entire game so if you list 7 on O and zero on D but then you have a couple injuries to the NI's on O it becomes a scramble. You have one guy who is a starter but not technically a "starter" for ratio purposes. Then you have an import sub who can replace anyone on the field on O.

Tasker- 5 catches 65 yards .39 TD per game 90 catches 1170 yard 7 TD per season Dressler- 4 catches 62 yards .54 TD per game 72 catches 1116 10 TD per season ^ There's the career stats broken down per game and season. Lawler is our star IMO. Already right there and primed for a huge breakout with more usage.

If it was a moral issue they kept him for a full season after the suspension. Doesn't seem that way.

Trestman's Vipers score first offensive TD almost halfway through game 3. #genius

Yeah but it’s win now. There’s a sort of existential crisis people have with “upside.” Why sign guys like Awe or Antigha and not just go with another talented guy who’s $20,000 cheaper but never played in the CFL who might be as good or better? Because we know what we’ll get from them, there’s some reliability. Tasker would be a nice pickup if we don’t land Walker. That’s all I’m saying. Lawler, Adams, Tasker would be a good crew with the NI’s. And we have some nice options with a little experience behind them, plus any standout rookies.

Why do you guys think Tasker’s price point is high? There’s clearly a tiny market for him, he’s probably not going to get more than 90-95k hard money plus some incentives this season. That’s like 15k more than Bailey in hard money and in the ballpark with Whitehead/Nelson. There’s a chance he retires if he feels that’s not worth continuing to play vs his off-field interests.

I wouldn’t mind that lineup if Demski mostly played field WR and worked inside here and there, also take some reps in the backfield with or without Harris in there with him. The versatility in the routes he has success with isn’t there for him to be more than a 4th target IMO. We bogged down a lot the past couple seasons when Lapo got enamored with Demski as more than a role player. Walker would mostly play the boundary...Adams would mostly play inside. We’d have to be prepared to switch the ratio so still need some guys on D who can play. I don’t think we’d go truly all import on D because it would hamstring the team in game if there are injuries.