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As someone who posts on both, my unbiased opinion is that TEP is busier than here.

I had a PM from Brian yesterday where he confirmed offseason up dates are definitely going ahead.

The majority of the league is on one year contracts. You don't think that every decent player that Toronto has isn't looking to jump ship after the season they just had? Also, Toronto is a crap show for facilities for the players. Tons of complaints this year that the players didn't even know where they would be practicing from week to week because they rent their practice facilities from wherever there is some available. BMO is a 3rd rate stadium and the soccer team gets first dibs on time use there. I think that MOS leaving has to be considered a longshot.

That brings us back to the conversation where he has looked Walters in the eye and said he wants to be back.

Trestman still has one year at over 600k left on his contract after this year. I am sure they use their one exemption for him but that leaves them no exemption left for Chamblin and Popp's salary. That's a ton of SMS used up. They aren't getting into a bidding war with anyone.

Yes the coach SMS makes it even more unlikely that Toronto could outbid us. Trestman and Popp are still on the books for next year and Chamblin would be 2 more years. Unless you think that the Argos could pay 3 HCs less than we could pay one.

Gotta love the small towns. Everyone knows everyone and you have no choice but to get along so relationships matter.

O'Shea doesn't strike me as a guy who would backtrack on a verbal agreement unless Walters lowballed him.

Write it down and sign it. Makes it legally binding and beyond your wife's control.

I love KC. Used to road trip their every spring for early golf.

Dude, 4000 ppl is just about as big as Regina. Ok....I exaggerate...but in Canada 4000 people is a big town. My summer cottage is near a town/city of 13000 but the closest real city is 500 miles away with no towns for a 400 mile stretch.

So happy to see it up so quickly

They could easily sign both. Arbuckle and Collaros both at 350 is cheaper than a lot of QB combos in the league and would be fair market value for both guys. If you think that either guy is worth more you are overestimating their worth.

Maybe...but that might be all that is available to us. I think TO trades for the rights to Arbuckle and signs Collaros as a 1b. I think Ottawa trades for the rights to Masoli. It leaves us on the outside looking in imo. I can't see this being held off until FA. GMs are not going to want to let this go to FA. Last year their hand was forced by the league to do so because of the CBA.

You are forgetting his concussion history and ignoring the fact he wants to go East

It started with one journalist, who admitted it was pure speculation, wondering out loud if the connection between Pinball and MOS might tempt either guy. Then Hodge jumps on it as if it were a done deal and things evolve from there. It really has zero credible sources at all

Ok...that's Manitoba alright.

I wonder if they will have pickle/kobassa/cheese/rye bread platter there. Wouldn't be too Manitoba without it.

Should have been an ejection. The football gods who had been in the Riders corner all season walked their support back after that hit. Karma is a beyotch.

You've seen it. We just beat them two years in a row in the playoffs in their own house. The regular season is just white noise in comparison. It's why our 2017 season wasn't as good as we thought it was, and why our 2018 and 2019 were better seasons than we first thought. Anyone can ride a thirty something old veteran group into the playoffs, few can win with them. If you are building a team for regular season success and not playoff success then you are building your team incorrectly. Especially when that veteran group is your core and it has aged out. BTW, I have correctly predicted every year since 2015 that we were a better team than the Riders, and every year we were.

They definitely viewed this as a rebuilding year. Not sure why.

Those are just the pending FA's on the wrong side of 30. Anyone think Labatte, for example, has another year in the tank? I wouldn't bet on it. I know they are saying it was a rebuild year in Regina this year, but was it really? With the exception of a new QB this is a very veteran laden team that was the culmination of Chris Jones rebuild really. This offseason is O'Daisy's first and by the looks of his aging roster will be the first year of the rebuild. The bulk of their receiving corps is ancient, the only good OL they have are ancient, their DL is ancient, they have a lot of decisions to make because their trenches are old and without depth.

Lots of guys coming off rookie contracts too, and CoFaj's new contract ate up some SMS. I am still gobsmacked that Powell is getting paid 200k a season. He may get his walking papers due to SMS as well.

TEP has been around since 2006 and has an established membership that for the most part really like discussing football with each other. A forum is not about bells and whistles, it's about membership and activity. That is why people are loyal to it. We've got 12 years of posting history together, just as OB became MBB and the main membership from the OB days stayed together.

I hope not.