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How many import rookies started our first game last season? Dunn is the only one I can think of. Who were the guys people were excited about coming out of camp last year? I'm not trying to prove any point about our scouting, I just honestly can't remember. I can't imagine there was much excitement about what we saw in either preseason game.

Katz announced he won't run for mayor again.

So then process of elimination, practice roster would be ... Browning, Dumas, Bolton, Everett, a couple import OL, Fraser, Kemp ... or something like that? It's tough to say when there are still too many guys here. What do we do with all of the import db's?

He has too, unless they make a trade. The next guy up was a DL last season...

Darrin Bauming ‏@DarrinBauming 45s #Bombers rep clarifies that none of the 11 released today will be asked to join the practice roster.

Agreed. Weird they brought him in like that.

Very much agreed. We have less need for rookie starters b/c we actually signed some vets in the offseason.

Morley Scott from Edmonton figures he'll end up on our pr.

How many have to go, after the pr & ir are factored in?

It's weird how the severity of concussions can vary so much when the impact of the blow to the head can be similar. I've been knocked out three times, twice under ten years old, & have five total concussions, yet I don't have any lingering symptoms.

Presumably he'll be better now with more than just a few days to prepare.

Sounds like Willie Desjardins will be the Pens new coach. From what I've read & heard about him he seems like a good choice. More than likely he'll have Tocchet as one of his asst coaches.

But for how long if they don't make the playoffs? That team is still in the honeymoon phase. It will always be sold out. There is an 8000 person waiting list for season tickets. The MTS Centre is sold out into eternity. Did they not require people to commit for 5 years when the Jets came back? Once that 5 years is up and if the team still hasn't taken strides come talk to me. 96% of the first wave of commitments that came due signed up for another term. Half of those people re-upped for six more years instead of the mandatory three. I think the team will be fine.

Yeah, I really like Farmery as well. It was at the Festival, but I've had it several times before so I didn't consider it a "discovery" for me.

I get why Laurent wouldn't have fit here, but why doesn't Hickman? If our D is all about speed & aggression, wouldn't a top notch pass rusher fit right in?

So if a guy we cut goes elsewhere, & plays much better than the guy we kept instead, it should be considered a bad thing for us? Thanks for clearing that up.

Hope you're right. Brazell put up good numbers when he was Kelly's age & had a similar amount of CFL experience.

Cal 13-5 BC 11-7 Sask 9-9 Wpg 7-11 Edm 6-12 Tor 12-6 Ham 10-8 Mont 8-10 Ott 5-13

He started game 1 poorly, but looked good in the later part of the game. It was nice to see he could carry it over into the next game.

This Bolton fellow is a kick returner? The Edmonton reporters on twitter are puzzled why Dell was cut by the Esks.

There is no way Ian Wild wouldn't be on the game day roster, guy is too good, especially in comparison to our other linebackers. agree. on our eyes he is but Etch has a different set of eyes. All I've heard about him from MOS is praise. I don't think there was ever a worry he wouldn't be on the roster. MOS was talking about how great he is at long snapping b/c he can force the other team to block him, whereas a lot of other long snapper's don't warrant that b/c it takes them longer to get down the field. This frees up another guy from a double team.

Wasn't sure where to put this, but I heard MOS say on H & L yesterday that he thinks Maher will be signed by the Redblacks. I'm happy for him, if true. I felt bad for him missing his kid's birth to play, then getting cut a few days later.

Yeah, agreed. If Messam can still play then it frees up an International somewhere else. So, why not bring him in??? I don't get the "We're going with an International at running back" philosophy. So what if Messam doesn't play STs. If he can start as a running back letsomeone else do it. We let Jade Etienne waste a roster spot for 2 years picking his bum on the sidelines doing nothing. He can't start, which is why the entire argument has been about his value as a backup and the need to play st's in that spot.

A weak link on the OL is a significantly bigger problem than one on the dl.

Brand new. He was one of our only tailback prospects without any CFL experience whatsoever. I'm pretty sure he was in Ticats camp last season. edit: He never made it to main camp. He was cut after their mini-camp. I do remember hearing that he was a McManus find, and was again recommended to Walters by him. http://scratchingpost.thespec.com/2013/04/the-mini-camp-fallout.html