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It's made for baseball. Where every seat at IGF is facing midfield more or less, every seat at SkyDome is pitched toward home plate, which is basically the endzone of the end facing the scoreboard. It's terrible for football.

The bigger miss was Waud. I'm not a fan of "projects." Waud immediately would have been a player for us.

He can't pass. Marve looks better as a passer, which would be scary for me if I were a Rider fan. Not only is he struggling with the mental side of it and decision-making, his arm does not look good at all. He needs a lot of space to get a pass off in the pocket and he needs a wide-open target.

I haven't seen any evidence of that this season. Washington is in way over his head. BC's defense is loaded with talent, but they can't get off the field. That's bad play calling, bad intuition and not putting the guys in position to make the big plays when they are needed. Lulay is by far the worst starting QB in the league to this point. BC is giving up 70 more yards per game than they gain on average, the Bombers give up about 45 more on average. About the only spots I'd give BC a significant advantage are offensive line and kicker. Lulay has a track record 4 years ago, but has struggled since and they don't score many points, basically at the same rate as our backup QB's.

Procedurally, what does that exactly mean? Just that it'll be longer that 6 weeks, or that it'll be another 6 weeks? It's like the 9 week IR used to be, but now there's no limit on pulling guys off early, just that their salary for the entire time up to the 6 weeks counts towards the SMS total. Ray could be back at anytime.

We had about 3-3.5 million in profit this past year, no? 25,500 tickets at say $250 is 6.4 million. Lose $, no. Make less than expected, yes. I think they have to front quite a bit just to get the event here, and then all the operations cost of putting it on. If they grossed $6.5 million on ticket sales they'd likely lose a bunch of money. If the game was the only revenue generator yes. But all those other events generate a substantial amount of revenue. as well. Don't forget ticket sales aren't the only revenues for the game. I'm sure there will be millions from merchandise and concession sales especially once you factor in the stadium doors being opened up 2 hours or so prior to game time. It's not called the grand national drunk for nothing. Still it's too bad the poor pricing structure will prevent the expected profits from Grey Cup week. The extra money would have gone a long way to secure the club's future during seasons in which the club might have experienced a shortfall in revenues. Now, there will be less margin for error. I doubt that they gross much above low 7 figures from the rest of the event, including merchandise and concessions. Unless they are selling beers for $100, which is possible considering my tickets are 12x their value for any other game. They are basically on pace to gross $10 million if they can move most of the tickets. If they have 3000-4000 empty seats that knocks $1 million off that number. Once they pay for the event and kick up to the league they are looking at having $3 million on the good side of the ledger from the Grey Cup game based on the number of tickets they are selling.

Let's hope. More likely scenario is that he spends the next decade whining in the CFL media about how he doesn't get consideration for any open head coach or GM job, and then he can retire from groveling.

You have that backwards. He begged for an interview and like every other team in the league for the last 7-8 years the Bombers took a pass.

I found how they handled their QB's very odd last night. A couple times Cato finally got into rhythm and then they'd toss Marsh out there to run option, have one decent play and then one negative play, punt. They should have pummeled BC last night.

We had about 3-3.5 million in profit this past year, no? 25,500 tickets at say $250 is 6.4 million. Lose $, no. Make less than expected, yes. I think they have to front quite a bit just to get the event here, and then all the operations cost of putting it on. If they grossed $6.5 million on ticket sales they'd likely lose a bunch of money.

I'm not sure why people are so against Randle at SAM. He had two bad games, other than that, dominant.

In fairness, Marve is capable base on the small sample size he shows. If not for the penalties, a fumble by Kohlert and a stupid call by Marcel at the end, we should have won that game. Plus he played thru with a stomach flu and just had an abbreviated (6-snaps) 1 day practice. I think Marve's capability is going to be a week-to-week thing. He's really raw.

That's part of it. I could afford it, but I don't have much interest in being at the game unless the Bombers are in it. Now if my seat was $100, I'd probably buy it and think I can flip it if the Bombers aren't in it. When you ask me to pay $300 for a seat that's $25 per game you are effectively killing my ability to resell that seat, even at a small loss, unless the Riders are in the game. No other fanbase travels well enough. Maybe they are trying to kill that resale market, but it's killing their natural market.

The last 3 Grey Cups have been priced ridiculously. Saskatchewan made some sense because they were pushing hard to be in that game and they knew they had a sellout in the bag. The last 2 have made no sense. If you are going to place the value of a Grey Cup seat higher than the value of potentially 11 games between pre-season, reg season and playoffs in any stadium, you are going to have empty seats. If they price the game as they have, there will be empty seats in almost every CFL stadium without the circumstances that happened in Regina in 2013.

Lulay has been struggling for the last 2 seasons he's played. It's more than a blip.

You have to admit, calgarys lb core is much more talented then ours with the exception of bass (if current trends continue) randle really ought to be back in the secondary and hurl, while coming along, is no simpson. It cant be at all shocking that we would want to add a simmons to our group after seeing how well he can ball while in ottawa. SAM or DIME or whatever they are calling it this season is a secondary position. Whoever is playing that spot has to be able to cover slotbacks, often the main target of the offense, on every down.

Randle's "linebacker" spot is essentially a 3rd HB mirroring the fact that on the majority of downs offenses play 3 SB's and 2 WR's. Simmons and Bass don't really fit the profile of guys you want covering SB's all the time.

Ken King has stated that it's this plan or nothing. There is no Plan B...... Maybe Quebec City will build a stadium and they can just move both teams.

Which is a handful of boneheaded plays by players in almost half a season. On the whole special teams have been average to good. Take away a handful of bad kicks by Hajrullahu and Stoudermire being a dummy and they are good. Should we get a punter or be patient with Hajrullahu? I think it would be a great idea to bring in a punter and let Lirim stick to FGs... only if he's Canadian though... no use in DI-ing a guy just to punt... Sean Whyte is looking for work. He's a terrible punter. I'd be willing to use an import punter.

JFG looks like a 5th receiver to me. On pace for about 350 yards.

Picard and Neufeld would be a pick' em. And they'd be in the 'lead' by a wide-margin.

Because then they'll move the team to Albuquerque. The whole model of pro sports on this continent right now is based on teams owning/operating their own facilities and controlling all the "revenue streams," whether they paid for that facility or not. It's absolutely gotten out of hand in many cities and it's not logical in any sense. Miami might be the best recent example with the baseball stadium.

Which is a handful of boneheaded plays by players in almost half a season. On the whole special teams have been average to good. Take away a handful of bad kicks by Hajrullahu and Stoudermire being a dummy and they are good. Should we get a punter or be patient with Hajrullahu?

Only if Marve makes it one. So far not a concern. Tracey has 30 years in CIS and an earlier stint with the Ticats. What you're saying is about the same as saying that a guy like Rich Urbanovich couldn't coach in the CFL, even though he already has and has guest coached at 20 training camps. Just because a guy is Canadian and has experience in Canada doesn't mean he's an idiot.

Well, he wouldn't have stopped the blocked punts, wouldn't have been anywhere near Jefferson last week as a gunner, Banks scored on a field return and he doesn't return kicks...so not likely.