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I could see them using a returner by committee approach. Dressler is a hell of a punt returner and efficient about it too. I thought Stoudermire was a pretty good DB when we got to see him a few times, never really understood why they wouldn't use him there more and tried to shoehorn him into the offense.

Fixed into the ground the goalposts move quite a lot in any kind of wind. You really think it would be ok to have a set just sitting there with all the people on the field and 30000 in the stands? People would die...like every season, get crushed by uprights. The uprights are exponentially larger (height and weight) than a basketball hoop and support.

Way too soon to read anything into where guys are lining up or "first team, second team." Barely worth mentioning until the 2nd preseason game, and even then the team is far from set.

I'm not sure why they'd move Adams. The boundary corner spot requires a pretty solid skill set for a DB. You need a guy who can play the ball/make the tackle under 10 on pretty much the entire route tree, and be able to do that with minimal support on most downs, not much margin for error. There aren't many guys who do it well. If you have one, why play around? The only more important spot is SAM for pretty much the same reasons with an added layer of intelligence required.

How much do you think Demski is worth? I don't think money will be a problem at all if they want him.

“This historic partnership gives officials in both leagues an opportunity to hone their craft and get better through shared development activities and more snaps at the pro level,” said CFL Senior Vice-President of Football Glen Johnson. “We’re excited that a group of our officials will actively participate in the NFL Development Program and now have a formal path forward to be considered as prospects in their league.” This part is a downside to me. They are developing NFL officials. This has effectively created an opportunity for any good refs we have or develop in this program to jump the border, and much like the players, it's pretty much a no-brainer to make that jump.

Nichols makes horrible decisions far too often to ever keep himself on the field. He's a good option relative to many other horrible ones like Marve etc, but if he's starting half our games or more we are far below .500 after 18 games.

See the responses in this thread. Media outlets cater to the lowest common denominator, the gut feels, the pitchforks. No scheme is going to cover Patty Neufeld or Dominic Picard getting their asses handed to them play after play on the interior. We can necro some of the love from the Lapolice thread from when he was hired 4 weeks into the season when the same people have the same complaints and thought the coach would fix it.

Didn't find it that negative myself. Our OL is relying on at least one bad player and two young guys as it stands, haven't heard any talk about going to 3 imports. Our boundary WR (Adams) is not the sharpest knife in the drawer even if he has all the physical tools, and that's one of the guys who can bail out the QB when he needs it. Our DL on the whole is average to weak until we see someone step up and take that end opposite Westerman. Shologan and Thomas give adequate play, but aren't difference makers. Hopefully Cummings can be one inside. Still a lot of questions in important spots and Lapolice isn't a saviour for the offence.

You haven't seen a kicker intentionally avoid attempting to make a tackle? Seriously? Watch almost any long return and you'll see it. There are a handful of kickers in pro football with any tackling instincts. Usually the best you can hope for is that they'll force the returner to cut inside. Westwood would literally run at a 45 degree angle to the returner and just run with him until the guy went past. That's a common one, run but not with any intent, run to the sideline.

They are essentially voting yay or nay on his ideas. So far they've pretty much gone along with his ideas to the detriment of the game.

Looks like they are loading up on receivers for mini-camp. Bet a bunch don't make it to main camp.

What he said.^ For one, stop adding rules every off-season. Hand in hand with that, focus on the basics. I honestly don't understand what Glen Johnson's job is. To come up with random ideas that he can put out there every off-season to remind everyone that he still exists and works for the CFL? Product has suffered under him.

Do you forget that there are 4 downs when you're watching American football? I honestly don't believe it could be much worse. There are dozens of basic rule application mistakes made by guys who have been officiating Canadian football forever. Might be good to have some fresh eyes and people who aren't over confident in their knowledge of the game. Unless there is a path to high NCAA or NFL I don't see many good refs being interested in working in Canada though.

Don't really see the value. Most of the guys you'd trade up to #1 for are going to be kicking around the NFL for a few years. Bombers need players now. More likely to trade picks for players than vice-versa. Would like to trade up to 3-4-5 for Timmis with picks though.

Disagree. Coaches have the same amount of challenges. Pretty much everything that can be seen on video should be able to be challenged. Otherwise get rid of it entirely. Just need to apply a commonsense rule to get the call right from the command centre.

He'd have almost no chance of seeing the field on offence for the Argos. They are fulfilling the ratio almost entirely on defence and OL, with Coombs and Durie too.

No it doesn't. Teams could dress an entire team of Canadians if they wanted to. The restriction is on the imports, not the Canadians. It's reversed. If the current ratio was in on play on an American team, they couldn't dress a team full of Americans. That's why it violates anti-trust. It has to be a open market (lots of hockey teams in America with few Americans on them) or the restriction has to favour Americans.

Canadians are foreigners in America. Forget it's football for a second. You're starting a business in America with a mandate to employ a certain number of foreign workers without making those jobs available to Americans. That's not going to fly in any developed country.

Supply and demand is a cruel reality, especially for imports. If you don't like the way your contract is structured, blame your agent.

It's a proven fact that no CFL team has ever cut a good player.

Is there a CFL field that doesn't have soccer markings now? I think every CFL stadium has either a pro team or CIS team playing soccer in it.

The Canadians left are awful, and a lot of awful guys have already been signed out of desperation like Keeping. Basically every Canadian OL who hit the market this year is a centre, generally guys who can't block well enough to play any other position on the line. Keeping is at least a reasonable athlete although we'll be in big trouble if he has to play anywhere but centre. A guy like Norman is a total slob who has basically rode his couch right out of the CFL. You're going to see a lot more teams going with 3 imports on the OL.

Is he six years old?

He also had Ken Miller telling him to sack up and call a play from a different part of the chart from time to time. I don't know if O'Shea will have any influence on the offence or if they are planning to fully turn it over to Lapolice. I think Lapolice as a play caller needs someone to give him a kick in the pants towards trusting his players and being a little more aggressive from time to time. Otherwise he calls an offence that is not very diverse and struggles to adjust in game.