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Griggs didn't show enough to deserve to be protected. I'd protect Anderson and McAdoo ahead of him, Anderson is the most valuable of the 3, finding import pure pass rushers is easier than finding running backs now.

I'd be shocked if Etienne is available in round 3. We literally have no one to protect.

They have Curran. Sherritt has a wonky thumb that limited him or had him out of the lineup most of last season and a huge contract. Would be a risk from Walters perspective, but Neufeld missed nearly an entire season from a broken leg that hasn't healed and was reinjured when he tried to return. I don't believe Ottawa will select him for that reason, and I think they will be starting two import tackles anyways.

Here's my mock protected lists. They assume that what everyone around the league is saying is true, that Ottawa won't select free agents. I didn't bother going to round 3 because quite frankly the players that will be left are not that good. Some of Ottawa's picks in the first two rounds will be marginal players if they truly avoid free agents. BC QB-Lulay B Jordan Arcenaux E.Taylor Olafioye Parks Elimimian Banks C Taylor Brown Bighill BEST AVAILABLE ROUND 1: Logan, Archibald, McKenzie, Marsh, Phillips, K Smith, C Wilson NI: Harris Fabien Norman Gore Haidara Westerman BEST AVAILABLE ROUND 2: Ianuzzi, Baboulas, Lumbala, Larose, J Reid, Cronk Edmonton QB- Reilly Stamps Bowman C Thompson White Curran Grymes Samuels Willis Howard Sewell Best Available Round 1: Sherritt, Henry, Hill, Miles NI: Chambers Shaw Capicciotti Alexander Coehoorn O’Donnell Best Available Round 2: McCarty, O’ Neill, Hinse, Krausnick, Oramasionwu, Gesse, Ngoyi Calgary QB- Mitchell Butler McDaniel Price Raymond B Smith Fuller Hughes Bowen Bryant West Best Available Round 1: Tate, Glenn, Harrison, Lewis, Stafford, Taylor, Hefney NI: Cornish Maver Fraser Turner MacDougall Paredes Jones *Wilson (assuming QB is selected) *Peach Best Available: Gott, Federkeil, D’Aguilar, Mace, McCartney, Phillips, Walter Saskatchewan QB-Durant Peters Brackenridge Brown Fulton Rey Williams Chick George Taylor Anderson *Sheets Round 1 Best Available: Sunseri, P Miller, T Jackson, Ferri, Garrett NI: Labatte Heenan Picard Best Shologan Getzlaf Round 2 Best Available: Foley, Watman, Clark, Bagg Winnipeg QB-Hall Sears Washington Woods Wild J Jones Anderson Miles Denmark Turner January Best Available Round 1: McAdoo, Jovon Johnson, Markett, Dunn, Kelly, Parker, Edwards, Peach, Griggs NI: *H Muamba Watson Greaves Pencer Swiston Thomas Best Available Round 2: Poblah, Volny, Neufeld *broken shin Hamilton QB- LeFevour McCollough Breaux Gable Norwood Simmons Figueroa Ellingson Grant Boudreaux Banks Best Available Round 1: O Jones, Murray, Lamar, Bowman, Walker NI: Hazime Stephen Plesius Dyakowski Wojt Fantuz Best Available Round 2: Bulcke, Giguere, Husband, Rockhill, Reinders, Filer, Hage, Williams, Gascon-Nadon, Bartel, Atkinson Toronto QB- Ray Owens Ball Carter Lawrence Horton King Chiles Mitchell Kackert Robinson Best Available Round 1: Harris, Collaros*, Norwood, Steele, Tripp, Barnes, Washington NI: Gabriel Durie Laing Van Zeyl Holmes Eppele Best Available Round 2: Keeping, Watt, Lee, Yurichuk, Pottinger Montreal QB- Smith Sutton Cox Tisdale Green Carter Brown London Richardson Carrier Lavarias Best Available Round 1: Whitaker, Gainey, Bowman, Hopkins, Berry, Bowling NI: Edem Lumbala Matte Bomben Lavoie Klassen Best Available Round 2: Deslauriers, Verdone, Baillargeon, Messam, Adebayo

Archibald is an import.

What was wrong with Dunn? For a rookie he seemed to play pretty well. Stewart is a guy that I wouldn't write off yet either, I'd say he gets a chance to rebound cause he is that guy with good size that everyone around here seems to be screaming to find. Mainor I wouldn't call a starter either, he's a depth guy and has been for pretty much his whole career here.Stewart really disappointed me last year, I wouldn't be upset if we bring back Stewart, but I certainly wouldn't be upset if we let him walk eitherI couldn't care less if mainor is brought back or not. The guy gets more production as a part timer than he does full time. I'd rather find some new ends Secondary really needs to start turning over. The only guys I'd keep are Washington and Sears, maybe Jovon at a discount to play safety/dime. Washington and Sears can really play anywhere, but I'd put them out at weak half and weak corner, bring in some young guys to play the wide-side of the field.

Cauchy's football IQ is either in the basement, or he's just that physically slow/not physically inclined. Whatever it is, he's pure garbage, good at tackling a guy who's stumbling after a 50 yard play. The only good thing he did for us this season was when they just got sick of watching him trying to get in position to make a play on a pass that they started blitzing him on every passing down.

At least the Gee-Gees and Carleton will have a nice stadium.

The NFL cap is one of the most complicated and convoluted, even more than the NBA. It is based on a 4 year period, current one is 13-16, then 17-20 under this current CBA. Teams can be over in one season as long as they make it up by the end of the window. You can be under one year and over the same amount the next, no penalty, you can carryover cap space. Floor works the same way. Nobody would ever implement a truly hard cap in North American pro sports because the penalty would potentially taint a fanbase. Every league has basically the same penalties dealing with losing draft picks, fines. The toughest penalty probably is the NHL where they would go back and tear up the roster in order of player being acquired to make the team compliant.

i'd agree with that... ...if the CFL had a salary cap. however, it does not. Exactly. I hate that they can spend more than us & it helps them win, but there's nothing wrong with going over the luxury tax threshold if you can afford it. I'd prefer the CFL to have a hard cap than the current system. The only league with a hard cap is the NCAA. Unless the penalty is forfeiting games, it's not a "hard cap" IMO.

Burris will probably get us 4th out of 5 in the West and in no better position in 2015 and beyond. Also will convince me to not renew my tickets. The only way Burris works as a Bomber is as a backup insurance policy.

Poison pills could also work. Do in the NFL and hold up to legal challenges. Give a guy a $10,000 bonus for every game he plays in Ottawa.

Personally, I feel that Stubler has been done for awhile, back to his last couple years in Toronto (07-08). I'm not a huge fan of the avoid the deep ball but give up most of the rest of the field (including the run) approach, that's how we ended up killing Stubler's defence on route to the 07 Grey Cup game. CFL offences have evolved (call it the Trestman Revolution), and the deep ball is the lowest percentage throw, the shorter the pass the higher the completion rate. Offences are all about high percentage plays. Top OC's will run the ball when they are getting 8-9 YPC. Defences need to challenge QB's and hold gaps. The best approach for a defence is more of a hybrid and showing a million different looks so the offence can't safely decide where the ball is going before the snap. Nobody is having success because of this style of defence in recent CFL history, basically since Stubler and Marshall were the top DC's in the mid-00's. The only way this defence works is if you have an offence that is going to stay on the field for long stretches. You could see it's downfall when BC lost Lulay. It isn't going to create turnovers or 2 and outs. Toss in Stubler's rumoured health concerns and I'm not that enthused about this rumoured hire, unless Stubler is going to be a consultant or something.

Nobody? Other than Pasztor's agent and Pencer's tattoo artist.

Shocking

Noel isn't from North Bay. Kirkland Lake.

Who did Friesen want? The available people with head coaching experience are terrible and as much as Trestman wanted to leave Chicago for Winnipeg, they are in the middle of a season.

Hopefully those teachers don't need to have connections to New Hampshire like Lapo's crew.

Wow. As a passer he's pretty crude in the CFL, hard to believe any NFL teams are interested.

Barron Miles is a guy I'd love on the staff. Not sure if it would have to be at DC this season, but he's a guy who will be a DC and head coach candidate in the next few years. He also has experience in BC's personnel department. A guy like Mike Gibson is interesting. Could be a fit with a younger OC like Khari, as Gibson has OC experience and has worked with Khari before. Gibson as a OL coach would be a good fit in that scenario.

I like a strong head coach who wants to manage and lead a team, empower his assistants and players and only micromanage when absolutely necessary. I think O'Shea fits that mold. Obviously he is inexperienced, but I'd rather an inexperienced guy who can lead that a guy like Bellefeuille with head coaching experience.

That's not exactly what he said...I caught it on the way home and he said, and stay with me here guys because I know this sounds loony, but O'Shea essentially be the actual HC but bypass on the HC gig and just 'accept' a DC position here, thus allowing Cortez to be promoted from Sask OC to our HC as more of a figurehead title. O'Shea would be the HC but actually hold the DC title, and Cortez would be the OC but have the HC title. Ya... Then we can remix "Blurred Lines" as our theme song. "3 and 1, should we go, who makes the call, no one knows"

Every team is running targeted camps where they make contact with agents and invite players or agents suggest players to them. Some teams allow guys they haven't invited to show up too, but nobody is running purely free-for-all free agent camps. I think you'd have a tough time naming more than a couple players who just wandered into a free agent camp completely unknown and unsolicited and ended up making a CFL team recently.

Completely disregarding the specifics of this case, and just speaking generally. Small town Southeast Manitoba is a terrible market for a start-up, non-chain, step above greasy-spoon type place to make a go of it. Not a big market to draw from to start, and close enough to Winnipeg, Steinbach and WInkler that you're competing with businesses there for the locals. I worked for a couple years in a nearby town and a lot of my co-workers lived in Morris, Emerson, Arnaud, Altona, Rosenfeld, Lowe Farm etc. When they decided to go out for dinner or have a night out, they mostly went to Winnipeg. Another factor is that people from the country aren't phased by a 45 minute drive like people in the city are. Most places you want to go is a long drive! You don't see a lot of places in those larger towns like Morris and Altona outside of long-standing breakfast and lunch spots or chains like Subway, McD's and Chicken Chef. The only restaurant I'd want to operate in any of those towns is a Tim Horton's.

Cortez as a head coach is a playcaller who gets to make the big decisions, basically an OC with expanded duties. I'm not a fan of that setup. It takes a very special coach to pull that off, and while Cortez is one of the best OC's in this league over the last couple decades, I don't believe he can run a team successfully that way. I want a head coach who will manage a football team, not spend 90% of his energy on one-third of the team.