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Tristan Black is no better at WIL LB than Labbe. He's primarily a special teamer. Black would be competing with Rene Stephan to make our roster. I hardly see adding him as a solution to the WIL LB spot.

Wonder why the PA doesn't make a stink about the 9 game IR being used for extra practice roster spots. Sure the guys get paid full salary, but who knows if they were exposed to waivers they might actually get a chance to play. Hamilton has at least 3 guys on their 9 game who are "injured," we have Pencer. Maybe they can come up with some kind of protected list where guys have to clear waivers to be put on it.

You want Tristan Black starting at WIL LB?

I'm not sure how it isn't the question. You can't criticize someone for not adding veteran free agents without being able to back that argument up. CFL free agency is populated by guys that are there for a reason. Being a free agent is not a good thing, because it means the team you were on did not want you. It's not hockey or baseball. Generally changing teams in football is a really bad thing for a career, particularly for CFL imports. There is the odd guy who hits free agency who was stuck behind other guys on his team, but those guys are not usually the ones that people clamouring for "veteran hole fillers" are interested in.

He's making all the throws. BC's 3rd string receivers don't look too sharp in terms of hands and adjusting routes to coverage.

I think they want to keep all 4. Clement or Hall will be on the 4 man. Clement might even be #3 if they think he's the best short-yardage QB (Goltz sucks at sneaking). Doubt either Clement or Hall would take a PR spot.

I'd bring Brink back first.

QB (3)- Pierce, Goltz, Hall RB (5)- Simpson, Ford*, VOLNY, PONTBRIAND, FITZGERALD REC(6)- WR- Matthews SB- WATSON SB- POBLAH SB- Anderson WR- Denmark, ETIENNE OL (6)- LT- January LG- GREAVES C- SORENSON RG- MORLEY, SWISTON RT- Boatman DL (7) DE- Mainor, Anderson* DT- Turner, LUCAS DT- Gilmore, THOMAS DE- Hall LB (5) SAM- McGee MLB- MUAMBA, LABBE, STEPHAN WIL- Parker DB (7)- CB- Johnson HB- Washington S- MUAMBA, WEST HB- Suber CB- Stewart, Markett* ST (3)- K- PALARDY P- RENAUD LS- CVETKOVIC 4 man reserve- PENCER Clement KOWALCZUK Frazier PR- WOODSON CARTER DUNN PAVLOPOULOS SHERMAN Harris Marshall W. Brown D. Pierce 1 game injured- Edwards Sears Garrett KOHLERT Miles Douglas

Some of them probably had a "We landed on the moon!" moment.

Wow, there must be like 5000 people there!

That Bishop Grandin-Pembina-University Crescent intersection is a big problem. If they can divert a good number of buses to a different route, that would help.

There are a few, particularly at DL and DB. Harris and Anderson look like they can play. Marshall and Markett. The two returners are duds IMO. Jake Thomas looks ready to take the next step and go from a 1/3 of the snaps type guy to a 2/3 of the snaps type DT.

Meh, not a surprise given the rush. They were still pouring and cutting (egress for field level) concrete during rookie camp. The shabby, ugly last minute work they had to do to get occupancy should be more of a concern.

There a couple issues when the starters aren't given time in the pre-season. Their timing is going to be off. The first regular season game will basically be their pre-season game. The other issue is that we can't make adjustments. We won't be trying even the blandest vanilla of the new Crowton plan with the guys who will be executing it in game 1, so we don't know which ideas are working, which need to be scrapped or adjusted. All this stuff will happen when the games count.

Funniest part of this whole thing is that the pools of water weren't from the rain, but from pressure washing the seats.

Especially when we're giving them to Paul Lapolice and Tim Burke, not Wally Buono or John Hufnagel. Is Burke going to say no to a 2 year deal?

His chances of being our starting QB in 2014 just increased.

That's a really low bar IMO, although that has become the disappointing norm for the franchise. The lack of consistent effort week to week is a huge red flag, whether the team is good or bad. He's not just getting a shot, he got a 3 year deal. Guess we'll wait and see.

Hard to know what happened behind the scenes. Always felt odd to me that Burke was handed the job without looking around and holding some interviews first. 52-0, 44-3, losing 29-10 at home to Jarious Jackson all would have been enough to give me pause.

Montreal 10-8 Toronto 10-8 Hamilton 7-11 Winnipeg 5-13 BC 12-6 Calgary 11-7 Edmonton 9-9 Saskatchewan 8-10 As impossible as it seems, our QBing will be worse this season, and our defence will be too. Semis- Calgary over Edmonton Saskatchewan over Toronto Finals- Calgary over BC Montreal over Saskatchewan Grey Cup- Calgary over Montreal Most Outstanding Player- SJ Green Most Outstanding Canadian- Andrew Harris Most Outstanding Defensive Player- Juwan Simpson Most Outstanding Special Teams Player- Noel Devine Most Outstanding Rookie- Cord Parks Most Outstanding Offensive Lineman- Tsoumpas

Gives insight into who is likely to be cut. Garrett but no Ford.

The very first thing I learned about football when I started playing as a small child is that if you play in fear of being hurt or injured, you will suck and probably get injured. Not a fan of Burke coaching scared. We have guys playing different positions, a different offence. I don't think it would be a bad idea to give the starters a half so they can truly hit the ground running on the 27th. All the practice reps in the world will not simulate game speed.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nu0R96OZy6w

Let's get his career numbers up to a season of Coehoorn's before we plan the parade.

Kowalczuk must have made a monumental leap forward. Wish I could have seen, but from where I'm at I could tell if the snap was good or bad and that's about it.