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Me and my friends still talk about the kid who crapped his pants in class in grade 4 too.

Regardless of whether a guy is a drop back and pass kind of QB or a guy who improvises more often, they gotta be able to move the chains with their arm/reads when the defense forces them to stay in the pocket. That is fundamental in this era of football. Flutie could, a guy like Damon Allen often struggled to when he played against teams that defended him well, and thus he played on many awful to average teams. A scrambling QB is the easiest thing for DC's to game plan against, but a guy who can burn teams from the pocket when he's contained is unstoppable, like Flutie. But talking about QB's from the 90s back is somewhat irrelevant too because the way defenses are scheming is completely different.

I don't think he'd fit on our regular season roster unless we have a few injuries. I think that's what he might have to wait for around the league, someone to get hurt.

I think Marve is going to have to show some pretty significant steps in terms of being able to pass and not just scramble to stay on the roster. If you can't pass from the pocket you can't play. Real easy with everyone playing gap control to contain and disrupt a scrambling QB. Portis is in a similar spot as a guy who isn't a good passer but might bring more as a #3 with his option abilities.

All CFL teams are putting up with it. Look at the suspended lists and guys watching from the sideline on day 1. Guys get tweaks, and generally you need to rest them so that they don't pop a hamstring or groin and end up out for months.

Montreal cut Nick Boyd. He's got a huge leg, natural punter, right passport, played a bunch of games in IGF, wouldn't be opposed to picking him up.

I'm leery of brokers. Most of them have deep ties to certain insurance companies and they don't really do all that much "shopping." I fell into that situation not knowing any better with MIG and Red River Mutual when I first bought a home. Haven't used a broker since.

Shaq Richardson. But so much competition and solid incumbents at DB.

I'd hope they keep Cronk around just in case. We gave up a lot of points last year on long snapping errors once Wild got injured. They can just keep his agents number too. There are a lot of guys around who can long snap. The Bombers made a choice last season to not use a roster spot on a guy who exclusively long snaps. They don't need to pay a long snapper to not play.

I haven't listened to music on radio in years, and probably won't again. Talk radio I will listen to though, but I often listen to stations from outside of the city.

Denmark, Moore and Kohlert are all move the chains, sure hands type guys. We're really missing a boundary WR. Moore and Denmark are both ok there, but better suited to the slot. Based on Adams, Tuinei, Childs, Gettis, Clemons being in camp, that's the spot they are looking to fill. Having a run game that can break a tackle will open up some space for everyone too. Maybe my memory is flawed but I remember many big plays from Denmark. Yep, he can do it all.

Corus has basically committed ratings suicide in Winnipeg. Fire all the popular hosts, flip to a format that is already saturated in the city, and create shows that are grating to listen to (CJOB from 9 am to 3 PM). Every one of their stations is last place in its category and losing ground.

I can't believe they got Richardson to come north so soon. Lots of DB's and receivers to compete. Wish they had a couple more rush ends to push Peach, Gibson and Brown are legit prospects though.

Denmark, Moore and Kohlert are all move the chains, sure hands type guys. We're really missing a boundary WR. Moore and Denmark are both ok there, but better suited to the slot. Based on Adams, Tuinei, Childs, Gettis, Clemons being in camp, that's the spot they are looking to fill. Having a run game that can break a tackle will open up some space for everyone too.

Will be interesting to see how Richards adapts and how he ends up being used. Sounds like they want him to be a slot eventually, so he's going to have a steep learning curve as he was a guy who ran a lot of isolation routes at Regina, run by someone, get up and get the ball over someone, kind of routes that left him 1 on 1 with someone on the outside that he could beat physically. Now he's going to be running a lot more routes in conjunction with the other receivers, clearing space for other guys and learning how to find space cleared for him and he's not going to be able to beat guys with just size and speed. I'm not expecting much from him this season, he's in the Anthony Parker, Jade Etienne mold.

Bryant literally had no ability to get himself open running any kind of route last season. If Willy made a couple perfect throws he would have looked better, sure. Poblah would be a decent addition with no expectations. He's struggled to stay healthy and establish any consistency, but he has a lot of ability.

Number of "starters" in brackets after position. DL (1) - Westerman, Thomas, Brown LB (1)- Hurl, Waggoner, Briggs DB (1)- Bucknor, Jones, Sherman, West OL (3)- Picard, Greaves, Chungh, Goossen REC (1)- Kohlert, Feoli-Gudino, Bastien RB- Pontbriand LS- Cronk K- Hajrullahu Everyone else is battling for the 21st spot on the game roster.

I don't see anything wrong with that. It was unsafe to encourage people to be in the streets/congregate, both teams were there, they'd already missed two games that they have to make up in a pretty tight schedule. Is it dumb for a NHL game to happen in a snowstorm when both teams are there? Happened several times this season.

Are you talking about when they played at the Mistake by the Lake? Toronto is extremely different compared to that era too. Unless they get the condo dwellers out to the games the problems won't be much different. Should get some better dates though.

Thing is that guys don't have to play the same position every snap either. Hall has a pretty long history of interchanging his safety and two outside LB's, think Butler and Brackenridge.

Given next years draft class, about average, the length of the draft and Chapman's NCAA pedigree, it's somewhat baffling that no one thought he was worth a 7th rounder.

Sherman is borderline, Hurl is borderline, Bucknor is 30 (old for a CB), none of the rest have shown they can start. And you forgot Westerman and Thomas. Sherman and Hurl can probably play a role at least. Bucknor is a guy I don't trust, particularly if they crack down on contact by DB's as they have pledged to. He can't cover. IMO, you have a spot for Hurl/Waggoner/Briggs at LB. You have a DB spot, most likely Bucknor or Jones, maybe a little Sherman/Newman (health being a massive question mark) on passing downs as a second safety/blitzer, allowing an all import DL. You have a DL spot for Westerman and Thomas. 3 defensive NI spots with probably at least 5 or 6 guys getting a decent amount of reps if everyone is healthy. I'd love it if we could add a decent DL, Ivan Brown isn't horrible either for a handful of snaps. 4 starters on offence, 3 OL and Kohlert, fair amount of JFG and fullbacks too. Reasonable amount of depth and a fair amount of high ceiling guys.

The fact that good hitters outnumber good pitchers about 10 to 1 is ruining baseball for me.

If I had made travel plans based on coming to a few days of TC (and I've done it before) I'd be pretty cheesed. I think this just shows that the Bombers aren't very connected with their fanbase. BC can get away with holding training camp in Kamloops because no one in Vancouver cares. Winnipeg is different. People care. The fans are passionate. The Bombers seem to just not get that. Even the media doesn't get it. What would you like them to do? Spend a bunch of money for a couple dozen fans? That's usually the amount of people who aren't Bomber employees or people who are supposedly covering the team for local media at the TC practices I've been to other than the opening full practice which they've made into an event in recent years. Let's apply some logic and rational thinking here. Personally, I thought they should have dropped the field turf into University Stadium and used that for local football as there is a huge shortage of adequate facilities. That would have worked out perfectly for Bomber training camp when they can't be in IGF.

Everyone knew he was heading to the Redskins mini-camp. Thing is Waud is pretty low risk to stick long-term in the NFL unless they are going to wait for him to add 50 lbs to play nose. He's not athletic enough to play anywhere else. At 11 Waud would have been a good pick regardless of if he got signed by the Redskins this weekend. With 3 picks in the top 15 a mild risk wouldn't have been a bad move.