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You can have him. Total douchebag move he made on HAM. If they didn't know he was leaning heavily towards finishing up with the Bisons and trying the NFL, they were the only ones.

That money is getting spent on players whether Laurent signs with the Ti-Cats or not. It's not like the Ticats are spending more than the other teams in the league on players.

What do you think of them using Tate at DE JBR? you hate it as much as I do? Don't really have an opinion on it. We'll have to see. Etcheverry isn't constructing a defense to play the run.

I feel like they are basically ready to cut Swiston, although he might stick around just because we have so few NI OL.

Bulcke would get Hamilton a pretty good haul in trade, but hard to say if Bulcke would accept a trade, he has a pretty lucrative education to fall back on. They also have Gascon-Nadon as depth at DE, and a few draft picks who aren't yet on the roster (Gaydosh, Gill).

Is it 2 UDFA's from this draft year, or 2 UDFA's regardless of draft year. That could be a loophole for Hajrullahu.

Why not just let teams dress 46 guys if they want and scrap the reserve list altogether? Only added cost would be travel for road games, but if that's an issue, a team can travel with less than 46.

Toronto cut Jerious Norwood too. Wonder if he's done in the CFL, he was pretty good last season.

I don't think they'd be working full-time for the teams. Probably pay them to be on-call during games, probably a few thousand per game, 81 games x $2500, $200,000 per season for the entire league, something in that range.

wild can also long snap and did it quite a bit last season. True, I think we want a specialist though. Wild would be good in a pinch.

That depth chart is directly from the Bombers? Interesting that they are looking at Swiston as a tackle and Pencer as a guard. Also interesting that we have 3 interior guys who are imports. Import centre looks like a strong possibility, but how the OL comes together is all going to depend on how confident they are in Neufeld at tackle. Looks like we're rolling with one conventional LB and a whole lot of DB's most of the time. Scary that we only have one long-snapper, and he's in his first pro camp, I suppose we could do some maneuvering to get someone else if he struggles.

Haven't seen them in person yet, but damn I don't think they need to take up more concourse space, it's tight as is.

They clearly brought in guys to compete at DB anyways, not sure if they have a specific spot in mind. Washington and Randle should be locks, outside of them I could see anything happening. Basically, the corner jobs are spoken for with Randle and a NI at field corner. Washington should be playing the weak half, strong half has been Suber's spot, import at safety, and potentially a DI in the secondary. Then there's Banks. It'll be interesting to watch it play out.

Madani is a drama queen. He really is. Everyday he has about a dozen posts where all he does is RT somebody involved in the process & add "Boom" or something else stupid to the end of it for dramatic effect. He's dying to break something. I'm waiting for him to go full CNN and break something big from a source that isn't true.

Madani is a drama queen. IRL too. Talked to him a few times when he worked for the Bombers, and that's^ good way to describe him, a little far up his own you know what too. I think he's a good fit for what he's doing now, and Darren Cameron is a great fit in the PR job for the Bombers.

CJOB cheaped out more than anything else with Hal Anderson, shifting two people already on the station into that slot is further proof. The morning show is likely the highest rated show on their station, they are only really competing with CBC on the AM dial in the morning. Both incarnations of 1290's morning show have been awkward and cringe inducing. Arguments that seem to get personal, sometimes kind of felt that Jay Richardson was on the verge of crying, sometimes when he went too strong on an opinion/argument and was called out on it he'd go into a tantrum. The show is better now, but still awkward as all hell. If you're going to have guys bicker about sports, it's better if the audience feels that they actually like and respect each other on a basic level, not that they are personally attacking each other and would literally drop the gloves if it didn't mean the end of their career. Sports talk radio is not a good fit for broadcasters with fragile egos, I think moving Leibl into another role or off the station altogether would make it even better. They haven't found a crew with chemistry yet. TSN dropped the Goldeyes, or more accurately, the Goldeyes dropped TSN because they wouldn't guarantee that all of their games would be aired live on 1290. The Goldeyes are gambling that they have a strong base of listeners who will make the move to 100.7 FM.

It matters because when you put a congregating place at a natural bottleneck, you get a, well, bottleneck. More parking on campus wouldn't make any sense, because you can't get people in and out in a timely fashion, building a barrier to casual fans. They need to make attending games enjoyable to sell tickets, not aggravating. The old stadium was easy. I never approached it from the west, and Route 90 is a disaster at rush hours regardless. From the northeast and southeast it took 30 minutes to be parked or home each way. Never parked in the stadium lot though.

Likely contract directly with school bus companies to run the park and ride. Transit was basically a middle man last year. There were a lot of Winnipeg Transit buses used too. They didn't just charter private buses for the Bombers. They'll never be able to provide the volume of service they did in 2013 without Transit being involved. It will be more like the first pre-season game before they brought in far more buses. I know we discussed this before but the golf course needs to be made into a parking lot. There needs to be more parking available on site. Is it tough to get in & out of IGF? Probably no worse than getting out of Canad Inns onto St James Street or Ellice Avenue. Of course, I've heard that the U of M has some kind of grandiose development plan for the golf course that may never get off the ground. Better hope there's not another fiasco with traffic. It's way worse than the old stadium. Not even comparable. Every vehicle on campus has to enter or exit through 2 intersections. Can only be worse with fewer people able to use Transit.

Likely contract directly with school bus companies to run the park and ride. Transit was basically a middle man last year. There were a lot of Winnipeg Transit buses used too. They didn't just charter private buses for the Bombers. They'll never be able to provide the volume of service they did in 2013 without Transit being involved. It will be more like the first pre-season game before they brought in far more buses.

I hope it was Woods. If he's 100% from that foot injury that's great news.

DB could see a surprise cut too, we have a hell of a lot of rookie DB's. 9 rookie imports, plus guys like Markett, Dunn and a whole bunch of new NI's too. Kent and Hefney cut the last two years in training camp...

I think Thomas and Lucas will both play some, Newman and Bucknor are basically competing for a spot on D, most likely playing passing downs, taking out Thomas/Lucas, potentially swapping out an import DB or LB for another pass rusher. Sherman has an outside shot in that competition too, he wasn't bad playing D a bit last year. If we get any kind of LB play from a NI this year that would be a bonus (other than Newman maybe playing some OLB on passing downs).

That's too expensive for a school bus ride IMO. Plus there isn't really a school bus company in Winnipeg that could handle the demand if it keeps up from last year, they'd basically have to contract every private bus in the city, and there aren't a lot of them because every school division has their own giant fleet. If that's something that ends up happening, they are going to have major problems selling tickets long-term. Tack $80 onto the cost of your season ticket essentially if you're planning to use the bus. They'd probably be better off just raising ticket prices to pay for it in terms of optics.

Wouldn't be much of a practice. They'd have no equipment, they'd have to head to Canadian Tire to buy a ball.

9/10. Got number one wrong. Thought they took out cut blocks outside of the box and away from the line of scrimmage for the coming season. There's pretty much one seemingly minor detail in every question you have to pick out, and if you do it is very straightforward.