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Derek Dennis is such a loser. How does he call someone out for "talk like men face to face" when all he does is tweet?

Do Mexican coaches count against the football operations cap?

The Bombers and other teams will not let the Riders near their coaches at this point in the off-season. So much of the planning for 2019 is already on the go. The Riders will have to draw from unemployed coaches, and there aren't that many at this time of year. They literally have no one to choose from to fill their staff. Will likely have to promote someone to HC. Can't see any of the big free agent QB's risking their career on that situation.

If they want to go. There's a really good semi-pro league in Ontario that draws a lot of guys from all over Canada but especially the GTA, and the CFL grabs players out of there fairly regularly. Who is going to pay talented coaches to run the Mexican league and develop our players? The NFL had and has money to burn. They also largely backed out of Europe because it was a money pit to run NFLE. The only country that supported it was Germany. The CFL is one Braley or Wetenhall dying from having to pay the bills for a team.

The comparison was Yao Ming and the NBA with China. Yao Ming was a celebrity before he was drafted by the NBA and was also a good enough player to be the #1 overall pick among all basketball players in his draft year. Apples and oranges. Maybe they should have a draft of famous soccer players and see if any of them will try to make a CFL team as a kicker. That’s more likely to get the sideshow attention.

Perception is very important and eventually costs dollars. Here’s another aspect. The league just forced teams to cap their spending on football operations. There is no CBA. It’s a league with limited resources, yet the commissioner and some of the scarce league office staff have time to grab ass with Mexican football and now German football? Actual attendance at games in BC, Toronto and Montreal isn’t even hitting 5 digits. Look at the officiating, which is another area that needs resources. If it’s minus 30 and you don’t have a front door you don’t start drywalling the basement...you get a door and hang it! If you were a conspiracy theorist you might think the league is actually looking for a source replacement players to hang over the CBA talks. That actually makes way more sense than thinking there’s any revenue to gain from Mexican television.

I’m considering taking a sick day to watch the Mexican Draft. Riveting.

Our 2007 Grey Cup QB's are all high level coaches. Dinwiddie in the CFL, Kingsbury already been head coach in NCAA and now NFL, Zac Taylor has been an OC and QB coach in the NCAA and NFL and was interviewed for NFL head coaching jobs this year.

Gordon can’t play in the CFL unless he is reinstated by the NFL...so basically no chance he ends up in Canada.

There are usually 2 coaches who get paid on U Sports staffs. The rest of the guys work a full-time job and then come on campus and coach at night. I know a few guys who have been doing that for decades.

If keeping him wasn’t worth 10% of his salary he clearly wasn’t wanted.

In a defense designed to generate turnovers Fogg year after year is among the best at generating turnovers. Fogg would be a great replacement for Loffler. To me Alexander, Fogg, Gaitor, Sayles are a pretty good core of a secondary. The way those four play you can slot them in anywhere. Randle is declining but if he takes a paycut I'd keep him around.

Corney is the name you pick out of that list? LMFAO. Alexander, Fogg, Jeffcoat, Medlock and Nevis are absolutely huge ones. I’ve made peace that Bighill and Chungs are extremely likely to be headed home.

The good ones cost the same. Someone like Stanley Bryant wouldn’t cost any more at his peak if he’s Canadian, he’d just have a longer career because he’s Canadian and harder to replace. The mediocre Canadian guys who can stick on rosters are the guys who are overpaid.

That's the hill Ambrosie is going to die on if the players don't sign the CBA fast. Teams will start working around his decree, the BOG will lose confidence in him and he'll quietly be pushed out like Orridge. Heard from a friend that does legal work locally for a player agent that lots of jokes being made at Ambrosie's expense during Grey Cup week and level of respect for him dropping rapidly. Comparisons of Ambrosie to Trump in terms of ignorance and another joke about the irony of him being the guy having to deny the link between football and CTE.

Dickenson made sure to get that cowboy hat on quick so everyone knew for sure he's a ****** from Calgary.

No TD's in the 2nd half.

Harris trying for 6 INT's this week.

Ellingson and Sinopoli both with big drops in this game, Ellingson with a couple.

Hard to believe BLM could play in the NFL tbh. When he stays in the pocket he doesn't move off his first read. He's lucky all his receivers are 6'5. He's a decent scrambler, you almost want to get him out of the pocket to keep him from just chucking the ball. Easy TD on that last 2nd down if he works through is progressions but he's dead set on that outside shoulder corner route which is a tough catch for the receiver.

Disagree. Bombers weren't down 2 possessions until the very end.

If they go to all teams in a league, no divisions, we'll be talking about streaks of how long an Eastern team hasn't made the Grey Cup or hosted a playoff game. That'll be good for the league.

Just getting the guys prepped for playing on Mexican turf.

And he's not a guy who is going to age well with his previous knee and hip issues. He clearly has lost at least a step in coverage from 2016 to now. That's not going to get better. He had loads of games this season where he didn't make a single positive play and barely even registered on the stat sheet. His play picked up in the last third of the season, but he's not generating turnovers (FF and INT) like he did as a rookie. We have a lot of opportunity to add Canadians (4th and 5th overall picks) and we have a few on our roster who will be developing and working into roles I'd assume (Gray, Petermann, Simonise). I'm not worried about losing Loffler, but of course I would have benched him in July and gone all import on D.

Ambrosie is going to do himself in rapidly. The league is in a lot of trouble with basic issues and he’s trying to play games in Mexico.