sweep the leg

That, of course, makes the assumption that he'll be the 3rd stringer in BC for the rest of the season. The logical conclusion to be drawn from this trade is that he'll be the #2 qb once he's up to speed with the playbook.

The secondary was okay because Durant was under so much pressure. I can't honestly think of a single play Suber made today that warranted any praise. What I don't like about him is how he seems to arrive late and then pile-on head-first just to make his hair extensions flop around. He might think it looks cool but I think it looks ridiculous. He had a diving pass knockdown in the 3rd quarter against Dressler.

I liked Pierce, but he had to go. To get this much value for him is fantastic.

I feel like we've been through this before. I didn't want Elliott tossed away without allowing him to compete in camp. However, based on what I saw of him I didn't think he had much more upside. Ignore the 9 game issue. I was only trying to say I think Goltz will be ahead of where Elliott was at the 9 game mark, but I apparently didn't word it very well. Our team averaged approx. 18 points/game with Elliott. He had two games that were way better than what Goltz has shown, two that were way worse, & the rest have been more or less the same. Given the obvious advantage Goltz has in his overall physical attributes, I consider him to be a better prospect.

so 9 starts is enough to judge whether a guy can be a CFL qb? Get real. What's the correct number? That wasn't necessarily what I meant anyway. It was the comparison between Goltz & Elliott that I was referencing.

Elliott has 6 more CFL starts than Goltz does. If Goltz is given 6 more games and hasn't progressed further than what Elliott showed us he should be gone too. To this point I think he's shown enough that he should keep getting the starts.

I'm guessing he decided the CFL isn't for him and left.

Haha, penis...

Not surprising. He's been around for awhile and has been given a few chances to show what he can do. Other than one fantastic catch against the Argos last season he's been pretty ordinary.

Reilly needs to start doing something at the start of games. He's pumping up his stats with all these 4th quarter td's when the game's out of hand. I think he's good, and going to get better, but I think his stats make him look better than he's been so far.

I looked back at 2012. Elliott won 2 games for us. 2 games. One over Hamilton and one over Montreal. Buck won 2 games (Hamilton/Toronto), Goltz won the last home game against Montreal and Brink won that fluky game over Edmonton. I honestly think the legend of Elliott as this "game winner" for us has been largely over-blown. And in terms of excitement, that excitement he provided in the LDC and the away game against Calgary last year had me bent over a toilet puking, and it wasn't because of how drunk I was (though that helped). I don't care what anyone says, a shitty defensive stand in the final 30 seconds vs. BC and an awful coaching decision vs. Saskatchewan cost Joey Elliott two wins. He did enough to win those football games. Did he win? No, but he had the lead with less than a minute to go in both of those games and even that is a lot more than anyone on our roster can say currently. 340 yards of offense & 20 points allowed. Our defense was the reason we were still in the BC game at the end. Elliott shouldn't get the "almost" win for having a below average game with more int's that td's and below 50% passing.

You're going to have to explain. I don't see how this makes any sense.

Not great, but very good. He had one great season & 3 good ones. My favourite thing about him was I always had full confidence that we could come back in any game. That's something I haven't felt since he left.

Peach is signed. Freddie Harris was cut to make room for him.

Kinda funny how Morley is healthy for 4 years straight then suddenly gets injured when he's not even playing. As for the LB's, I'm sure Wild will play. But at training camp, I thought Sheffield looked like our best new LB prospect, I think he may still factor in at some point. Swiston got yanked in favour of Morley last week. Apparently he had two brutal whiffs on pass blocks and was taken out of the game.

Per Wiecek: Pierce is out this week Hall will practice but Goltz will probably start Morley is out 1 month with a knee injury Per me: Why are we after Peach? per Penton: Kohlert out for several weeks with a hammy Douglas will start at RT

He derailed his own thread in only 12 posts.

Doesn't surprise me that Burke would like Anderson, he seems to be a fan of all of our terrible offensive players. I thought Anderson looked really good last year, but that sure didn't carry over to this season.

Really did you bother to check, Sandro's five kick offs are 65, 60, 61, 60, and 56. An average of 60.4 compared to Palardy's 54.4. And I don't think any of them have gone out of bounds.

Who cares what some random fan thinks? Penton retweeted this for some unknown reason. Couldn't find a football guy saying anything bad I guess, so he's digging up fan quotes. What does slow for CFL standards mean anyway? I could outrun some of the best receivers this league has ever seen.

We don't know that they didn't .... maybe he just chose the Eskies over us. He is from Edmonton originally, isn't he? Exactly. Given this move, and the signing of DeAngelis, it's probably a safe bet to assume we did try.

He wasn't a complete flame out in the NFL, & he's not really that big of a name. This isn't an Akili Smith or Charles Rogers situation.

I think Pierce really turned the corner in this game.

but at least Elliott and Brink had shown that they could win with this team. Hell Elliott showed a lot of good things in this offense compared to everyone else who has done the job the last few seasons. Burke didn't make the right choice and that's on him. Part of being a good coach is making those correct calls evaluating players. It was a big failing of Jim Daley and apparently Burke falls in the same category. I agree he made the wrong choice, I just wanted to point out I don't think any of them are all that good. I've said many times I'm not a big believer in Elliott, but we should have made somebody beat him out first. I really wanted to see a qb competition between two of Porter, McPherson, Brink, Elliott, or Reilly. I'm with you that he's not wrapping himself in glory as a HC, but IMO you're doing too much to absolve Mack of his responsibility for this mess. It's on him more than just a bad choice in coaches.