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Bass-Simmons-Hurl were on the field earlier... either way, Shell is not the answer. I'd take Unamba right now. With Randle. They ran the odd 30 front with 3 linebackers. None of those guys can cover a receiver. The front 7 is basically the front 6, and that's universal in the Canadian game. Unamba can't cover anything and takes stupid penalties. The only game he played significant snaps for the Riders he took 3 IC penalties. He's terrible. Not sure why people get fixated on terrible players.

Is there a team "starting" just 7 Canadians? It's a roster management ploy so they aren't stuck playing guys who don't belong on the field on O or D if there's an injury. Barely affects how they deploy the imports. The bigger problem here is the lack of impact players among the imports we're playing.

My hope is that they are reviewing Walters performance and immediately fire him after the season is over, hell do it in the last couple weeks of the season if we're eliminated from the playoffs. Our import depth is pathetic, the amount of money we're spending on useless players is worse. I'm embarrassed that the team representing my city has Pat Neufeld on the field, let alone playing right tackle. Greaves and Picard too. We can't even find import OL, forget the NI's. If you're a CFL GM and you can't find imports, you're in way over your head. We played a receiver who looked like he doesn't understand coverages at all for several games, Jhomo. This isn't a learning league, especially for imports. Get some guys who can play. Same problem with non-imports, we can't keep passing up football players for guys who we hope will turn into football players. We can't draft guys in the first half of the draft to simply chase kicks. I'd like to see all of Walters, Goveia and McManus fired ASAP. I'm not sure there is anyone to really replace them with in-season, so it will probably have to happen at the end of the season.

Montreal and Edmonton both did and won! No they didn't. Nichols had one practice with the Bombers, Cato and Franklin have been with their teams since training camp. Crompton didn't though... What? Crompton was with the Als for six weeks before he played.

Montreal and Edmonton both did and won! No they didn't. Nichols had one practice with the Bombers, Cato and Franklin have been with their teams since training camp.

Nichols is the starter now. There's no way anyone would toss a guy out there with one get-to-know you practice at Quarterback. Hopefully we see improvement from the quarterback position, because outside of QB, Greaves/Picard/Neufeld and Hajrullahu as a punter, this is a pretty good team.

It's not a video game. You can't just put a QB in with no practice time and he plays to his ability.

It's kind of funny when people rip the special teams because the one thing that would improve them the quickest is also likely to result in the same people whining, playing an American punter, or a punter of any nationality who actually knows how to punt and isn't just playing in a competition of who can kick the ball the furthest.

In his first scrum in Winnipeg he referred to himself in the third person three times in the same sentence. A real winner.

Keep in mind that a centre who can't block nor snap consistently anymore is getting $200,000 all in.

Chris Cuthbert says big names will be interested in Riders coaching job, then rattles off Higgins, Benevides, Kelly Bates, Glen Suitor and Lapolice. Cuthbert is losing it. He forgot Tim Burke.

I think Tate has Jason Maas syndrome. I don't think he'd be very good, nor last as a starter now. He's been worse each time he's played significantly.

Picard has negative value. His Madden rating would be like 65, and he's paid about 3x more than he's worth. I don't think the Lions are that desperate for a NI centre and if they were we'd have to take back their version of him, a crappy overpaid veteran who is paid for the rest of the season. Aren't the lions using an american center? Cuz rumors are they were going to go hard after Jones if he was let go. You could probably make a deal with the Lions around Picard but i don't think you get a 1st back. There's a big difference between Picard and Jones for many reasons, age and ability the most obvious.

Picard has negative value. His Madden rating would be like 65, and he's paid about 3x more than he's worth. I don't think the Lions are that desperate for a NI centre and if they were we'd have to take back their version of him, a crappy overpaid veteran who is paid for the rest of the season.

That "CFLCapGeek" really needs to qualify the numbers they have up. Is "cap space" an estimate of what teams have left to spend cumulatively? The SMS is tabulated by the league at the end of the season, teams don't have to be "under the cap" for each game like the NHL. It also defaults unknown salaries to the league minimum, so the numbers are going to be wacky regardless. To be honest there are way too many bonuses in CFL contracts to put together a database like the NHL cap geek.

Keep in mind Picard's making close to $200,000. *puke* I'd go to about $275,000, and that's pretty much the absolute ceiling I'd have at this SMS number for a non-QB. That's 5% of the total SMS over a whole season, about $110,000 over the last 7 games.

It wouldn't be hard to free up the money to pay Muamba, and with the way the CFL SMS works it doesn't have to be done immediately. I bet he waits a couple weeks on the NFL and likely only signs for the rest of this CFL season. The Bombers might be out of the race just based on that.

"Friends" is a relative term. If two people know each other, that doesn't automatically make them friends. And if it does, you'd be hard-pressed to find many working relationships in the CFL that didn't start that way, with someone hiring someone else that they are familiar with. O'Shea was a senior at Guelph when Walters came in as a rookie, and they were on opposite sides of the ball (Walters was an RB at the time). They played a grand total of one season together in Hamilton. Exactly what I was going to say. If you're going to call Walters and O'Shea "friends" or "buddies," then everyone who's playing or coaching in the CFL right now are friends and shouldn't work together. It's a pretty huge leap.

Veltung is injured. Willie is more of a YAC guy.Gordon is the confused one.

The point is that those guys hardly played as they were "developing." When they got the chance to play, they showed that they had a base of ability to build from, even if they did struggle. Marve did the opposite.

Excited to see some competent receivers and Collins return.

Wiecek is a dummy. If Turner is off the roster an import defensive linemen will be added to it. Just cause the one rep he watched Thomas was in doesn't mean he's starting.

There aren't even enough starters to go around. Nichols is about as good as it gets for backups.

Messam has had 20 carries in a game once in his career. Most of the time he's in the 7-12 range. He's never been a feature back.

Willy is making the same this year as he did last year. His new contract doesn't come into effect until next season. Usually extensions in the CFL come into effect immediately as the remaining contract is ripped up and renegotiated. Willy would be an exception if he's playing out his last contract.