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This regime could be the one to turn things around with NI's. Goveia has put together several stellar drafts for the Argos, and as stupid as it sounds, having several Canadians in the front office probably makes the non-imports more of a priority and less of a "oh, we have to play how many Canadians" type of issue. Taman kind of goes against that, but he views draft picks more as currency to spend than investments.

We got Doug Brown's rights from Calgary for a third round pick in 2003. The Stamps weren't complaining too much (though I'm sure they'd have preferred to have Doug playing for them) as that pick turned out to be Mike Labinjo. I looked back at the years 2001-2007 and what is even more amazing to me is from the years 2001 - 2006 we not only didn't have any first round picks, we had no seconds either. We ended up getting our first pick in the third round almost every year, and some years we didn't even have a third rounder (like in 2003). In 2007, we had a second rounder, and we took Corey Mace, who never played a down for us. And 2002 1st rounder, who ended up being Oosterhuis, cut by Calgary and ended up playing 9 years for the Bombers.

Imagine what our NI crew would look like if we just drafted Calgary Dinos in the first round instead of who Mack picked... Coehoorn, Fabien, Edem. 3 starters instead of 3 guys who aren't on our roster.

I feel like Lawless got a lot of this info direct from the Bombers. Grigsby might be great in practice, but he was horrible in the game. He showed no ability to read zone blocking and find the gaps, make a quick cut, hit the gap and get yards. Other than one big run where he got around the edge, he did squat. Cotton was consistently grabbing 6 yards, finding the gaps and fighting through contact behind the same OL in the 2nd quarter. Cotton showed the ability to grind out yards, as well as hit big runs.

For the most part, I don't think Etcheverry thinks in those terms, what the defense is willing to give or bend but not break. IMO, his scheme is all about throwing the offence off-balance and making them guess, basically having few tendencies that a QB can read pre-snap. That's basically the opposite of Burke's D, which relies heavily on players to win 1 on 1 battles and really doesn't break tendency or engage in psychological warfare too much. Etcheverry also has a lot of reads built into his scheme, so he's relying on his players to see certain things and react properly according to what he wants, anyone anywhere can basically end up doing anything, blitzing, dropping into coverage. If Etcheverry was a hitter in baseball, he's looking to slug an extra base hit or a home run every pitch, whereas a guy like Burke is going to take a couple pitches and just try to make contact or get on base. He has some other core beliefs too, smaller and faster is better than bigger, slower and stronger being a huge one, and he applies that to every position on the field.

The expectation that athletes in their early 20's are supposed to behave like Mother Teresa just because they happen to be athletes is bound to disappoint. More often than not they will behave just like any other 21 year old male. Unless they have more disposable income, then they may behave worse. Nothing on his rap sheet raises my eyebrows. Been there, done that. The 3 knee surgeries might be a concern if I hadn't seen him running at practise. Powerful, smooth strides, quite an effortless runner actually. It's a concern because he's never lasted a full season. The knees are ticking time bombs. He's healthy now, but for how long?

I know it's preseason and I know Etch doesn't want to tip his hand .. but honestly .. watching the Argos run on us (at will) on Monday night made me cringe .. Thing that bothers me is all the "everyone rally to the ball" stuff, but then you watch them on Monday and most runs right up the gut became 1 on 1 in open field, when you should have more guys in the middle of the field when the offense attacks there. If Wild misses one tackle, it's an easy TD. They rallied pretty well when the ball was outside the tackles, but the middle of the field was gaping. I guess we can take solace in the fact that no one will step out of bounds without being hit, but they can just take 10 yards right up the middle if they wish. The scheme was likely very vanilla, but that core principle of everyone rallying to the ball was missing for the most part.

I guess he could get a pass for being a veteran and dogging it a bit last night, but he's also supposed to be the tone setter, a big reason why he was added. He was either not going 100% or always a step behind, and whiffed on a few tackles that should have been routine.

I've only reviewed the 1st quarter so far, but Wild looks pretty damn good. He made a couple great open field tackles where backs/receivers would have had a lot of space if he didn't get them down, and he didn't get carried for extra yards either. I think you gotta figure out a way to use him, whether it's where he played yesterday or somewhere else. Suber got picked on pretty badly in the 1st quarter by mostly rookie CFL receivers, he couldn't seem to disrupt their routes. To the point I've gone over the game again, Suber and Banks have both looked like crap, Banks covering turf not men and not really involved in any plays positively.

Yes he played. He is number 8. He had his corner on lockdown the whole time, not sure they ever even looked his way. He played contain on kickoffs and punts too while he was in, very well.

I'd expect Willy to play the entire first half and a series or 2 in the second half in the final pre-season game, along with most of the starters on both sides of the ball. It stinks that we play 2 pre-season games in 5 days, with basically a week of practice leading up to the first pre-season game, then have a week off. They likely won't be able to install much more prior to the game on Saturday. We have the crappiest pre-season schedule IMO, hopefully they rotate the short pre-season week through every team and we don't see it again for a few years (assuming Ottawa lasts long enough ).

My initial impression is that Brohm has few redeemable qualities as a CFL QB. But the OL was terrible in front of him. A couple times myself and my buddy looked at each other and wondered why they were blocking like it was a screen pass when Brohm was clearly going downfield, that's how bad it was. Marve has a great arm. That pass he hit on the sideline was a beauty. Every QB tossed that same seam pattern at least once, and Marve was the only one who didn't require the receiver to turn back and fight the DB for the ball, he hit the guy in stride. Willy runs the zone read very well, and that will save him from having to make a bunch of tough throws if we feature it. Hall looks a little more comfortable, but he can't run the zone read if he isn't willing to pull the ball down himself...there was one really bad one where 3 Argos were bearing down on the RB and he didn't take it. Could have run for 20 yards or sucked in a DB and hit a good pass on the rollout.

Well, this sure is showing just how fractured the players are, and how ignorant some like Mo Price are. I can understand the Foley's and Cornish's viewpoints, not so much the Mo Price's who probably won't make it through half of the term of the proposed deal. From a selfish point of view, going to any extreme would not make sense for any import player. The fact that the CFLPA executive is endorsing this mediated deal should be a pretty good indicator to the players that they won't get any better deal.

a. we traded two second rounders to end up with Pencer (our first ratio breaking RT) b. a 2nd round pick (Dylan Ainsworth) would have been rotating/starting this year for the bombers c. Neufeld looked good at RT and very average at RG in Sask d. your post sounds like you're the one who is panicking I'm not in any 'panic' - that's an old ploy on these boards when someone points out a concern on the team. Our team does not look 'great' on paper, panic won't change that. I am hopeful that Pencer or Neufeld will get reps at RT because that's why they were brought here. Why trade our 2nd rounder if we're only starting 3 (or possibly 2) NI on the line. I'd switch that to very average and pretty bad respectively, and call that evaluation fairly generous. For Neufeld it's tackle or nothing IMO.

It will be worse than last year. Really the only spot we added a non-import upgrade for 2014 is DB. It's gonna take a few years of great drafting to really improve. We've got basically nothing out of a lot of high picks recently, and it shows.

Voting to strike doesn't necessarily mean being willing or able to strike. The CFLPA strike vote was like going all-in with a 7-2 off suit. The CFL called the bluff.

I think you forgot "BOOM."

The way we are going through IMP OL and the number of them around makes me think we won't be starting fewer than 2 IMP on the OL.

TBH, I find most of the restaurants in the Osborne/Corydon/River Heights area to be massively overrated just because it is a trendy area. Carlos and Murphy's and Billabong are ok. Luxalune's food is awful, Kawaii Crepe is hipster heaven, but if you don't appreciate staff who don't give a poop about what they are doing and being in that atmosphere for half an hour waiting for a crepe that takes 2 minutes to make, don't bother. Unburger/Nuburger used to be excellent, but there is no quality control there. I've been served ground beef there that was barely heated, let alone cooked. Wildly inconsistent. I've only been to Market Burger once, the wait was long, but the meat was cooked and the burger overall was good. Stella's has been trending down, although the new location at the U of W is pretty good, only been there once though. BDI is meh for me. I'll take one Sweet Tops fresh banana milkshake over a million "googs." I love The Grove though. That is one place that is underrated.

As mentioned it's awful. Major reconstruction both directions on Pembina hwy. To the previous poster, isn't the $2.55 for regular transit use? Park and rides are direct shuttles correct? Ie you'd pay once at the park and ride location and that would be it. I would guess the bombers would have people on site taking money. It does raise the question of safety for a person standing out in a parking lot with a lot of cash on them though. I assume they'll load one bus at a time and have a person outside the bus with a vest similar to the people who collect parking money in lots that charge for event parking. There should be a whole lot of people around so safety shouldn't be too big of an issue.

Cramped, sure. If you're 300+ lbs maybe. $40 a year...enjoy spending that on gas by the 2nd home game. Last 2/3 of the year the P&R was run perfectly, IMO, so same as usual for this guy. Where do you buy gas?

I think it would be Geoff Courier he has done football before and has been the home sideline guy for years. Currier isn't much younger than Irving.

I believe he is healthy when his leg is not broken. That and he started a buncha games for sasktchy did he not? Love misinformed fans ridiculing depth incorrectly.. Cauchy Muamba started a bunch of games too for us and BC. So what? No correlation with ability to be a good player today.

I agree that all members should get an equal vote generally, but rookies aren't members yet cause they haven't paid any dues, they haven't been paid at all yet (aside from per diem, accommodation), even training camp stipends only kick in after a player has a year in the league. It's kind of insane IMO that they are allowed to vote before they've made a team. Their votes are going to be disproportionate too with full training camp rosters. A bunch of guys who will get cut in the next 3 weeks are going to vote and never even become CFLPA members, versus the rookies being a relatively small portion of CFLPA members after rosters are set.