bigg jay

100% he did. He recently acknowledged that his current off-season routine is too much and he's going to tone it down going forward.

I'm sure there are players, even now, that still think back to some of his quotes and haven no idea what he meant. 😂

Ritchie did say something to that effect (not sure the exact wording) but ironic part is that it was his holding onto vets too long that cost him wins and ultimately his job. Rookies have to get playing time at some point. I'd rather it be now, early in the season, then later on in the season (or in the play-offs). I do expect Adams to target Bonds/Bridges early & often - we'll see if they're up to the task. They did have some communication issues when Bridges got thrown into the Ottawa game after Nichols went down so hopefully they worked on that with a full week of practice together.

Yeah their roster is not as good as it was the last couple years - partially due to injury like us. Their receiving core isn't what it was, the DL took a hit and their OL is beat up (and not great to begin with). I feel more hopeful about this game after looking at their depth chart.

It's not just perceiving talent either, GM's up here also have to try to gauge potential NFL interest. No other league has to draft the "best of the rest" first after watching the top talent get poached so a CFL mock is really pretty useless except for starting conversation.

Lions depth chart for tomorrow:

2 strikes against you in lock of the week seems like a fair punishment.

Yep, added back to the roster on June 30th, just in time for the week 4 game. Had him listed at guard even though he had been practicing at center in earlier in camp (Dobson was listed as Kola's back-up).

Did he even win it then? Eli started last year on the IR and didn't play until the end of June so again Kola was in there due to injury.

Kola wasn't an incumbent last year though and people felt Eli should be in there. Eli is also more of a vet on this team than Kola is.

Would still prefer to see some changes on the OL but apart from that I agree.

I don't care where they line him up as long as it doesn't affect his punting! 😂

So you're pretty much on par with Craig Dickenson?

Then you either haven't been here long enough or aren't paying attention. They might be anonymous to you but not to many others here.

https://www.tsn.ca/washington-capitals-acquire-pierre-luc-dubois-from-los-angeles-kings-for-darcy-kuemper-1.2136949?_gl=1*15gi1f4*_gcl_au*NjA2NzkyMTI5LjE3MTUxMTIyODc.

Carey

Yes - Tony Jones but he hasn't played yet. They also added Bailey Feltmate (Hamilton cut) the same day as Jones. Feltmate was in the line-up against Ottawa.

Interesting concept but I have zero faith in the CFL or Genius Sports to pull this off properly. https://3downnation.com/2024/06/18/cfl-touts-new-augmented-live-streams-on-tsn-powered-by-genius-sports/

It would give us some much needed depth too. Between Fox, Haba, Garbutt & Lawson, we are running very low on starting caliber DL.

Let Adams launch one during a game! I'd feel sorry for anyone who tries to run the kicker while he was back there.

Not sure? The Argos added him to their suspended list when he left and then released him in 2022. He hasn't signed with anyone else (at least in the CFL) since.

The draft pick might not have panned out but Speller has not played a game since. He went to camp with the Argos but left early due to personal reasons and never came back.

Technically we traded Jade Etienne to the Riders for Willy but it may as well have been a FA signing since Etienne never played a game for them (they would have been better off asking for a few rolls of tape). Willy was set to be an FA but never made it to that point as he signed an extension with us immediately after the trade.