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What does that even mean? If a coach/manager thinks a guy can play for his team he'll sign him if it's his first team or his 100th.

If we hire a DC who expects DB's to be able to play man coverage in the CFL, Bucknor won't be a NI starter for long IMO. But gives them options to build the roster.

Sears caused more turnovers than anyone else on our defense to go along with a bunch of tackles for losses, and missed a bunch of games, many being O'Shea's choice to dress Unamba to only chase kicks while leaving guys like Sears and Markett in street clothes. Sears is an elite CFL defender. He'll be playing somewhere next season, wouldn't be surprised if he flees Winnipeg.

It's not about being liked, it's about completely losing control of the room, having zero working relationship with the majority of the players and basically completely giving up. Most normal years that 08 team would have been a 3-15 Tim Burke type disaster. That 08 season was just as embarrassing, Berry was saved by Toronto and Hamilton being awful that year and having enough veterans who basically took over that team on offense themselves.

I don't really see an advantage for any GM's. If anything certain guys who hit the open market will prey on a handful of stupid/desperate/Ottawa GM's with cap space and completely skew the market.

O'Shea has done way more media than he's required to, as have Walters and Miller. For instance, calling into 1290 once a week. For some reason O'Shea's professionalism and unwillingness to stand at the podium and shame his players or coaching staff is a lightning rod for some. Get over it, it's not going to happen. Are we going to have a different version of this thread everyday?

Hopefully fewer snaps for Teague Sherman.

Nebraska in 1985, 1995 or even 2005 wouldn't have considered hiring someone like Mike Riley. That's my point. Back when Nebraska was a top program they would have been poaching one of the top recruiters who have turned awful programs in Mississippi into national championship contenders or someone like those guys. That program has fallen off a cliff into the abyss of mediocrity and I don't think they could even poach someone who is already in a good power conference job, which is almost unbelievable to me given the prestige of that program when I was growing up. Used to be Nebraska and Miami, now they are getting beat by Minnesota and Duke.

Lately everytime I read one of Iso's posts I have a flashback to that South Park episode where Cartman takes over the school announcements, writes a book called What Happened to My School and "asks the tough questions."

As much as Riley is a legend here, it says a lot about how far Nebraska has slipped that he ends up being their next coach. Oregon State haven't posted double digit wins since 2006 and have only been bowl eligible 2 out of the last 5 seasons. Extremely odd hire IMO.

I have a hard time justifying $300 for my Grey Cup seat. Only way would be if the Bombers were in it, but can't plan that in advance.

Here's the deal - Wally will fix his problem, not sure the Bomber Brain Trust can do the same! The offensive line has been a problem for Wally for 3 years, remember how they had to start Kabongo and the pollster for 2 years? Not much progress being made there.

Austin's game management and playcalling is what cost you the game. Highly suspect pass protection ruined much. Austin haters have to go nitpicking and still need the luxury of hindsight . 1st and goal from the 2. He's also the GM, the guy who brought Brandon Stewart in to play boundary half, which loses them both playoff games without a ridiculous effort from Banks.

What did he do? Missed it. Laid on the sideline crying rather than getting out there with the offense to try to win the game.

After that display at the end of the game I wouldn't be surprised if Austin adds Banks' name to the CFL free agent list. Unbelievable.

Grigsby LOL. First down, if he falls forward through contact he's got a TD, second down -3 yards arm tackle.

Handoff to Grigbsy...Austin can't wait to see Imagine Dragons.

Hamilton gonna join this game soon? I don't think special teams is going to win this one for them, Collaros has to make some plays. Calgary is picking on Stewart mercilessly. Pretty much every passing play.

Wouldn't be a crazy move for the Argos. Harris looks ready, Gale is a good prospect, Ray has the worst shoulder injury possible, Desjardins is dumb so he'll overpay for sure.

I don't see Dickenson and Cortez being a good fit. Dickenson will keep control of the offence when he becomes a head coach IMO, don't think Cortez would take a CFL job where he's not calling the plays.

How many NI receivers lead the league in any stat? On the flip side almost all the most outstanding O-Linemen are Canadian. Getting the best player available your way isn't comparing apples to apples. A good NI O-Lineman is almost always going to be a bigger contribution than 99.9% of NI receivers. Let's face it without the NI rule there would be very few NI receiver's. Just my 2 cents, I love the CFL and the content rule I bet there'd be more Canadian receivers than linemen if there was no ratio. Most teams are already pretty equal (2-3 starting NI receivers and 2-3 starting NI OL, same amount on the roster as a whole) and moving consistently towards more Americans on both lines.

Is Yantz draft eligible? Seems to me his eligibility would have passed, but maybe with the new rules.

The Garcia to BC stuff is textbook Lawless/cheap rumour. Garcia played QB for Buono, won Grey Cup with Buono, therefore he is a candidate to be Buono's next head coach. It's a pretty big leap.

Yep, it's an orphan Grey Cup because of Ottawa's stadium delay.