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I agree. Not so much because of Simmons, more because of keeping guys like Nate Collins off the roster and dressing a guy like Jhomo Gordon who is lost. I'd rather have all our NI receivers playing and use that import spot on someone who can make a difference. Stoudermire's gotta be close to making his way off the roster if he doesn't start producing with Veltung healthy.

Using an import makes a lot of sense with 4 DI's if the NI can't do the job. Hajrullahu's punting needs to get much more consistent directionally and in terms of how long it takes him to get the ball out. Sean Whyte is a terrible punter and he's not going to beat out Hajrullahu as place kicker ever, probably a worse punter than Hajrullahu is now too. Hajrullahu is young and getting better at punting no doubt, just comes to a point where it's costing the team games and patience runs thin.

This is true, but a QB can have a big impact on that out side of the OL. release, a qb thats more prone to scrambling, those numbers could be skewed as a pure reference to the OL. But are certainly very important to the over all pefomance of the OL. QB has more impact on sacks, hurries are entirely on the OL. It's a much better measure to compare by for pass blocking.

Hurries and QB hits are just as important as sacks. I'd imagine if you quantified the number of times that the quarterback was hurried along with outright sacks, Edmonton and BC would slide down, Toronto and Calgary would move up.

Except the 4 games our QB started and finished where our offence was not a problem at all, other than some redzone issues vs Montreal.

I know the saying but I don't know how it can be relevant to this discussion. In the past 25 years, the Stamps have never had an OL as bad as the Bombers. Since 1990, the team's OL has always been a strength year in & year out. they always had a veteran group playing up front. So, they could bring in young players & groom them to start for 2 1/2 decades with the veterans playing ahead of them. The Stamps the past two years have lost impact players on their offensive line like Dmitri Tsoumpas, Brent Jones, Jon Gott & Stanley Bryant & had backup players ready to replace them. Winnipeg has never had that luxury. They never had the talent or the depth teams like Calgary have had. The Bombers have to find players who can play now. Having a player developing is nice but it's hard for the Bombers to do that. Hence the signing of Stanley Bryant & paying a premium to get him. So again, you can't compare Winnipeg's OL to Calgary & how the Stamps built theirs. It's completely different. The point is that to have the depth, you have to build the depth. And that takes time, both for the whole unit to come together and for individual players to develop. The only irrelevant point here is the one about Bryant, because imports aren't given time to develop. There's no premium on them, there's literally 5000 offensive linemen coming out of NCAA each year. They can play or they aren't pros.

You remind of the Chinese student in Tiananmen Square that stared down a tank. That guy also really hated Mike O'Shea.

Garrett was great to end 2011 as well. 576 yards in 6 games for a 6.3 yard avg with 4 TD. Not to mention the 190+ yard performance in the East Final. Both Garrett and Simpson were great for one small segment of time and then completely dropped off. It takes a pretty well glued together small running back to survive the pounding if he is giving it his flat-out best every down. Charlie Roberts was the exception but it seems to be the 210 lb George Reed type who lasts long enough to be remembered. Like 211 lb Da'Rel Scott...5 touches done for the season. Size is meaningless when it comes to injury. If anything the bigger guys are more injury prone because they have more pressure on their joints.

No. I'd rather use more imports on the OL, even if it's someone who is inexperienced because our issue is at least as much physical as mental on the OL. People somehow magically think Gordon is going to transform into a better player than JFG this week, but he's been useless when the lights have been on in pre-season and regular season.

Teams "starting" the minimum 7 NI's are the exception, not the norm. There's not really a point to be made, just allows for your roster on one side of the ball to not get shredded if you suffer an in-game injury.

Even makes more sense to split his reps though right? Doesn't matter who the starter is they'd split reps on day 1 of a long week (4 or 5 full practices). Sure if your talking about a Vet Qb yeah or a backup that can actually move the offense but that ain't the case here is it? But but but here we go.Brohm should be gone period. Wouldn't it make even more sense to spread the reps around then early in the week? Anyways, I'm done feeding this trolling garbage. If you want to talk football, join in anytime.

Even makes more sense to split his reps though right? Doesn't matter who the starter is they'd split reps on day 1 of a long week (4 or 5 full practices).

Greaves, Neufeld and Picard don't have the capability to be 'dominant' as individuals, never have, never will. Bryant and Chungh better play real well to form a 'dominant' OL with those guys. I think 'adequate' would be setting the bar fairly high for this crew.

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.