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Special teams specialists. All apples. Woods is a receiver too. Have we used any DI's on offence? Didn't see Cotton out there last night. Is Unamba playing defense anymore? He was terrible in the first two games when he saw some snaps. He's basically a specialist now too. There are 4 DI's. A guy who does all returns should be pretty easy to fit on the roster, especially if special teams are a priority, which they should be. First and foremost, we need somebody who is going to make positive plays for us, first step in that regard is to secure the ball. It's too important to play around with. Calling Woods a one-trick pony was ignorant, completely disregarding the importance of special teams. Especially ignorant the day after a 1 point game in which 6 opposition points (which could have pretty easily been 14 given where the drives started) came directly as a result of flubbed punt returns.

That's actually a pretty good idea, if the coaching staff is set on getting Cotton into the game. I still really like Woods, but he is a bit of a one trick pony and that might limit his chances of staying in the lineup on a consistent basis. We should take the kickers off the roster too...one-trick ponies.

10 plus at least 2 dropped passes.They needed to get Cotton involved IMO, don't really care about how they used Grigsby. Benched a great returner (which almost cost us the game) to put Cotton on just to return kickoffs? Absurd...

Lavarias playing MLB? Bet he'll be rushing the passer 90% of the snaps.

Similarly inaccurate and reliant on scrambling.

Popp's twitter account is hugely embarrassing if he's actually sending out those tweets. If Kyle Walters was tweeting like that, I'd be embarrassed.

I wish they'd get rid of everyone on the panel but Dunigan and Lapolice and actually talk about the football game they are covering.

Second in the league on punt returns (total yards) .. and averaging almost 10 yards a clip on his returns .. he's also fielded more punts than any other returner to this point (15, next closest is 11) Fourth in kickoff returns (total yards) .. middle of the pack with respect to kickoff return average .. What's nice to see is that Hajrullahu is leading the league in yards per kickoff .. 66.8 yards .. it's nice to see teams working with a bit longer field this season. 3rd in punt returns among regulars, 4th in kickoff return average among regulars. I'm not a fan of removing Woods. Cotton did not catch a punt in pre-season, let them all hit the turf, had one nice return off one he let bounce and roll. Washington is either going to make a big play for the Bombers or one for their opponent when he's returning. Risky move IMO when we have a guy who is not only safe but a consistent threat. I could see Denmark or Feoli-Gudino end up returning punts after a few hit the turf.

Draft the best football players (obviously need to put some thought into whether their NFL chances) and sort it out. Don't mind stocking up on traditional NI positions (OL, receiver, DL) after the third round, but you're handicapping your team if you draft for position earlier.

Aaron Woods? Ya, I'm thinking Canadians.

Sounds like Kelly is playing so Carter will continue to back up. How is Cotton getting on the roster then? Everyone in the media seems pretty sure he's going to play, I'm starting to wonder if he's just being added to the 46 in place of Anderson going on the 1 game IR.

Ahh...I was wondering how so many CIS guys were rated that high, kind of wondering where Boyko was too. This is going to be a tough draft to navigate with NFL interest.

He'll be playing receiver if anyone gets injured in Montreal.

Unless one of the guys on defence gets hurt. Then what? Alexander and Louie Richardson get to play more than they will anyways. Dan West and Derek Jones are also options. If Thomas goes down, it'll be exclusively 30 fronts I'm assuming. I'd really like to see the Bombers auditioning some NI DL on the practice roster, interior ones specifically.

The 2010 CBA says nothing about being able to appeal a fine - just the procedure for appealing a suspension. I don't think that's changed but I'm not certain. Doesn't say a lot of things in the CBA or league by-laws that are league convention, such as the maximum fine being half a game cheque. Doesn't say anything about third party arbitration for suspensions or fines either, just that a player can appeal the penalty back to the commissioner and the commissioner has the power to remit any penalty. Traditionally, the appeals have gone to a 3rd party. The league has tried to move away from this the last 2 CBA negotiations, but haven't been able to get the players to agree to any alternative to this point.

The players can appeal fines using the same process used to appeal suspensions, third party arbitration. Just not as blatantly obvious as when you have a "suspended" player who plays 1 or 2 games during the arbitration process, falls off the media radar.

From a Free Press article on Johnny Sears 2011 suspension: http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/sports/football/bombers/sears-takes-hit-from-cfl-133058303.html

Incidental head contact is still head contact. Plenty of options for how Willis could have taken down Collaros on that play. Football is partly about making the right decisions. He made the decision to aim above the chest the way he did. To me, if Willis runs at Collaros the same way but secures him using his hands in some way, maybe the league doesn't fine him. This is absolutely on target IMO. A tackle is a hit and a wrap. That was a hit and a launch through the player, not a tackle. If you rise up in your wrap and make head to head contact, that's incidental, when you rise through with your head tucked and crown launching up and forward, that's an attempted kill shot. You just don't tackle with the crown of your helmet forward like that and your chin tucked, that's extremely dangerous for the defensive player too.

Surprised to see Demski that high to be honest. Still really raw as a receiver, and might end up playing some tailback again this year.

High caliber National talent wouldn't sit idle for a month and get essentially cut by 3 different teams. Messam had a great run in 2011, but he brings nothing to a football team when he's not carrying the ball, and he's not quite good enough to be an every down back. Pontbriand is a more valuable player. I don't think the Bombers are struggling with the ratio when they are about to play 3 IMP OL.

Throw a ball 65 yards under no pressure with no target? Yes, I'd expect a pro QB to be able to do that.

Suspended players are not paid. That's why Korey Banks came back to Winnipeg last week to force the Bombers to release him or shuffle him onto the roster in some capacity, cause he wasn't going to get paid on the suspended list.

Anyone who ranks the Eskimos above Calgary, Winnipeg, Toronto and maybe Saskatchewan at this point doesn't know what they are watching. Even if you are factoring in how teams finished 2013 it makes zero sense, and truly power rankings should not look back into a past season. It should be, if team x played team y this week, who would I expect to win? This is particularly true for teams who have not played each other yet. I'd expect Calgary to beat anyone right now. They are an easy number 1. Edmonton snuck out two games where they played completely inept teams that literally handed them a bunch of points. Their offence looks like garbage. Winnipeg and Calgary have played relatively complete games, with Ottawa taking advantage of the Bombers in the first quarter. Edmonton is 5, and that is generous IMO, cause it would basically be a pick em for me if they were playing Montreal, Ottawa or BC (easily beat them week 1 without 4 INT's). I'd go: Calgary Winnipeg Toronto Saskatchewan Edmonton Montreal BC Ottawa Hamilton Hamilton can't get out of the basement until they demonstrate any kind of functional offense with any of their QB's, like even to get to Troy Smith level.

I'd rather have him than Kierre or Chad Johnson. He didn't look too hot in the AFL game though. They must pay those guys in buffets or something, they all look real heavy to me.

The not-good thing about Grigsby on that play was that it sure looked like Grigsby didn't even try, and that could have put Willy right out of the game. Grigsby gave the rusher a complete free shot- hope it doesn't happen too often. If you watch that play again it looks like Grigsby is focused on the inside rusher which was probably his designated block. It was a matter of choosing between two pass rushers and unfortunately Grigsby chose the wrong one. It would be very odd for them to designate blocks in a play design like that because they have no idea who is rushing other than assuming the DL will. Ottawa was sending that halfback on delayed blitzes quite a bit, I think that's what tripped Grigsby up. He went to double up with Pontbriand after he saw nothing else coming off the edge and missed the delayed halfback blitz. Now why he watched Ottawa recover Willy's fumble...no explanation for that.