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The simple fact of the matter is that unless you are the cream of the crop as a football player there is always going to be someone younger and cheaper and just as good as you looking to take your job, and they're going to get it by being cheaper than you are. It's a numbers game, there are a metric assload of players coming out of the NCAA every year all looking for professional work and just not that many professional positions available.

What if they do go with Santos L. Halper as the middle linebacker? With Wild at Wil... would that make people happy? Is Knox stilla round? I seem to remember people thinking he might be suited to the middle linebacker role. Or is this a case of the only acceptable solution for the position is an outside solution since it left such a bad taste in people's mouths last year?

Silly players not understanding that a team held option for a second year isn't a one year contract, it's a two year contract unless the team decides that they don't want you again. Swear to god these guys must have useless agents who don't explain things, or they're dumber than a bag of rocks and don't care to understand what they're signing up for.

Liberals acting like Liberals, well I for one am shocked, no one could have predicted this!

I expected better than that from you. Fat and sassy methinks.

https://www.cfl.ca/players/taylor-loffler/162308/

God I hope he comes back and has an absolutely awful season... talk about over hyped. Yeah he was very good for the Argos, but let's pump the brakes a bit. Jesus that cup win really went to your head eh?

but a lot of times when a RB switch is made midseason it works great because of fresh legs. The key to really being the best is proving it over the course of multiple seasons. Tons of backs come in and look good when they're on fresh legs, can they sustain it? That's the mark of what makes a guy the best.

You can't be embarrassed if you are always an embarrassment.

It was actually Kerry Joseph he beneficiary of Glenns arm break wasn't it? I have a hard time giving backups credit for cups. Durant won later, and hell maybe he would have had a second if his team knew how to count in 09 right? I think Durant is absolutely capable of winning a cup. Guy is actually a pretty solid winner as a player outside of last year, but come on, Montreal was a dumpster fire, no one was winning with that bunch.

Meh he complains about everything the bombers do so no surprises.

Ms. Lippy's car... is green...

wait why would people assume he's talking about Winnipeg and Durant and not you know... the Riders who he was recently with who went and spent a crapload on qbs recently...

you mean the year after his only CFL MOP season and after he'd compiled the bulk of his career stats? Hardly a nonbiased poll. Allen has his reputation because of his longevity nothing more.

Durant AINEC. I don't care if he had trouble in Montreal last year, that team was a mess. Darian Durant is a good qb who knows what it takes to win the CFL. Past his prime? sure but as a backup you can certainly do a hell of a lot worse.

Dual threat is a useless argument because when talking about overall effectiveness of a qb it doesn't matter if he did what he did by running and passing or just by passing. He was an average qb regardless of whether he got to that level by being able to run and pass or not. I am not ignoring his MOP either, but it is a pretty arbitrary award when you consider how the voting for it is done. Glenn had some seasons where he was among the top players too. Damon Allen gets over rated because his career numbers are huge, but his years played were huge too. He was an average qb. There were always a bunch of qbs in the league that were very clearly superior to him. They didn't stick around as long but if you went and did a ranking of all the qbs at a given time Damon Allen was never going to be in the top group, which is what made him average.

you mean when Calvillo retired?

No he wasn't, I am looking at the entirety of their game and Damon Allen was an average quarterback. People just got so used to talking about him as this all time great because of the huge career numbers he put up due to playing forever and a day, but it's the same reason Glenn has all those numbers, played a long long time. Maybe we shouldn't even Judge Glenn so harshly for his lack of cups anyway, the Stamps still choke in the big game with or without Glenn there, 07 I firmly believe he would have beaten the Riders that day if not for a broken arm... I just think that Damon Allen is over rated and Kevin Glenn under rated.

1 MOP and Glenn could have easily been MOP once as well. Like I said playoffs are another matter but the legend of Damon Allen is far greater than the qb he actually was. Guy was always in the same situation as Glenn, he was good enough when you have nothing else but teams were always looking for better. I already said there's a big difference in their playoff performances but regular season? Damon Allen was an average qb.

The only time I'd consider Damon Allen better than Kevin Glenn is in the playoffs. If he is in the hall then Glenn can get consideration too, though the lack of Grey Cups does hurt his chances, but he's been a fixture in the league for nearly 2 decades, that kind of longevity can be recognized.

There's no way that's real right?

but I've heard of them! They must be good!

haha I was just about to post that someone clearly hadn't had a look at the Montreal qb situation.

Kevin Glenn and Damon Allen are actually pretty similar guys in my mind as far as regular season qbs go, the real difference is that Allen didn't have the problems in the playoffs that Glenn does. Now obviously they're very different qbs stylistically but I also felt they were sort of average qbs who lasted a long time.