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The returning vet I am most excited to watch this season is Denmark. Guy has always had some good hands to him and I think he really was helped with the change at OC last year. Expecting to see a bounce back year for him.

because receivers helped him out more. Seriously what more can Hall do if he hits a receiver and the guy drops it? Or he hits a guy on 2nd down and the guy should be able to stroll for a first down but he's got his head up his ass and runs into the sideline short? You are not looking big picture only at whether the ball was moved or not.

And the emergence of that Calgary mayor as super-hero. Nenshi, I believe. When is he poised to run for premier, Al? are you kidding? Nenshi was super popular from the word go. There's lots of talk that he doesn't really have any ambitions provincially or federally, he likes municipal politics and feels party labels are too limiting.

So would we look at Drew Willy differently if Denmark hadn't made that dandy catch with the ball between the defender and himself? Cause Willy had a lot of the same problems Hall had (missed some guys on throws that should have been better) the difference came in mostly in that the receivers helped Willy out more than they did Hall. It wasn't a red letter performance by Hall, but it certainly wasn't as bad as some people are trying to make it seem.

I don't know how good he is but man he's huge out there. Just dwarfed the dbs for the most part. Seems like there's some good potential there.

actually being at the game live just gives a so much better perspective on the game, why oh why is Calgary so far from Winnipeg?

I still say he won't get bought out, I think there will be a team willing to take that contract in trade if the Kings are willing to make a deal.

Hall was better than some of you are thinking. The offense bogged down but I don't think it was all on him. Only qb that left me with the impression that he doesn't have a clue what he's doing out there was Brohm.

And the Jaymar Johnson go-out-of-bounds-2-yards-before-the-first-down debacle. I his defense, he was off-balance and tried to tip-toe as far down the line as possible but he lost his balance too early.... assuming we're thinking of the same play... he was off balance cause he had his head up his ass and didn't know where he was on the field. He suddenly realized he was close to the side line and tripped himself up trying not to run straight out of bounds. Just terrible awareness of the field.

As far as the qbs go I thought Willy looks pretty comfortable, just had a few issues putting the ball in exactly the right spot, but it's the first preseason game, I'll just chalk that up to rust and maybe not having that instant chemistry with the receivers. I expect that will improve a lot which is a good sign. Marve played well, yeah it was all the scrapings of each roster he was out there with but the guy showed some moxy and made plays, all you can ask of a guy. Hall I think is getting a bit of a bad rap. He had a few accuracy issues similar to Willy at times but there were also some plays where he threw a ball and the receiver didn't even know it was being thrown too. The only guy that to me looked absolutely useless at qb was Brohm. Man he didn't do anything out there. There was a lot to be encouraged about in that game I thought, still don't like the D but the special teams and offense look like they might be worthwhile this year so baby steps.

I dunno, just looking at the way the defense was lining up it seems to me that it puts a hell of a lot of pressure on the linebackers. I don't like it.

All I know is the offense was really bogged down until he came in during the 4th quarter and all of a sudden they were moving the ball. Showed a lot more accuracy then Brohm did.

I think Star Treks biggest enemy right now is the canon and the fans who scream bloody murder when it's not adhered to. I think they had a great opportunity to take an existing franchise and modernize it for a new generation because let's face it all of the star trek series are incredibly dated. Hell even going back to watch the first seasons of TNG is a painful experience. In my mind they had the chance to re-invent the franchise for today and dropped the ball trying to plug as many fan service moments or "hey remember that scene in Wrath of Kahn?" moments that it took away from the movie. The way I envisioned them handling it there was still plenty of opportunity for those little fan service moments but you were free to change the entire universe around which in my mind is what the franchise needed very badly.

well not turning 30 and having Bomber football might be better in my estimation.... but why nitpick? Get good and drunk and enjoy the ball.

I absolutely loved the idea of just doing away with all the established canon, I think it was so convoluted by the time that all the series had run their course it really limited what they could do with the franchise going forward. Re-booting it all to me was a great idea for that franchise, but then they decided to re-make wrath of khan except it wasn't really wrath of Khan because they'd never encountered Kahn before and it didn't have the same impact.

I did enjoy the first star trek movie they did even with all it's flaws, and when I watched the 2nd one in theatres I did enjoy it but mostly from a standpoint of all the callbacks they did... but then I watched it again afterwards and the writing just made me cringe. So nonsensical. Those two clowns who wrote it are terrible writers yet somehow keep getting to write every big budget movie out there.

Judging all fantasy based on Tolkien is a horrible idea. Tolkien wrote boring as hell stories with flat one dimensional characters. Seriously I have tried 3 times to read the lord of the rings and the hobbit but I can't get through them because the guy just wrote terribly boring ****. Game of Thrones represents the direction the genre has taken in recent times though. Yeah there's still the classic fantasy elements but they are a far cry from the stereotypical juvenile stuff of yesteryear.

try being a reader of the books that series is based on. Waiting a week for new episodes is nothing compared to waiting 6 years for a new book to come out. but you are quite right, we are living in an on demand world these days. People want what they want on their own terms and don't want to follow someone elses schedule.

I think that was the point. They were not so happy with how X3 turned out so they figured they could just wipe away all the garbage they turned out. It's not a bad idea. I didn't mind the latest movie, I might have expected it to be better but as far as a summer popcorn flick goes it was OK. I think in future movies they have to stick with the new folks. I am just a big fan of MIchael Fassbenders Magneto. Captain America 2: Electric Boogaloo might have actually been my favourite comic book movie I thought it was that good, and it's not even a character I think is all that fantastic, but damned if they didn't do that movie really well IMO. I have no idea if it'll be good or not but I am looking forward to Guardians of the Galaxy just because based on the trailers it seems to know that it's a ridiculous premise and just intends to have fun with the movie which I think is something that doesn't happen enough in movies today.

I don't care if it's preseason I'm just so happy to finally have a chance to get to IGF and see some football. Long offseason so let's get this season going.

competing against a fading Montreal team, an expansion Ottawa team and the Argos? Yeah I suspect they'll wind up looking like they're a better team than they are again.

Then call me 'Gomez'..... I prefer to stick with idiots or *******.

well as long as they win it would be fine... they lose though the negativety would make Paul Friesen blush.

you guys are idiots. Kane has already hit the 30 goal plateau, he's shown what kind of player he is.

I appreciate the pun, but I just have to say that he's old as ****, for real.