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Or even take a look a FA's if Biggie is going to miss significant time. Kyrie at MLB has served us well in the past though. He wasn't awful, he just wasn't MOP calibre anymore. Biggie still excels in aspects of his game, but he is no longer an every situation dominant MLB anymore.

I completely and 100% agree. IF Bighill has an injury that will keep him out any length of time there is still time to get on the horn and bring in a dozen IMPs that would do better than Gauthier. It is a massive downgrade, let's not pretend it isn't. Bighill wasn't at the top of his game last year, and probably never will be again, but suggesting that Bighill/Gauthier is a wash is a gross exaggeration.

I can't remember who said it, Brendan Taman maybe but for sure an ex-CFL GM, that the hardest part of recruiting talent for the CFL wasn't finding good players it was convincing them to come to Canada after you find them.

I get it....but gross.

I think economic/government service area is a big factor as well. A city like Brandon will service another 50-60k in nearby population, same with Thompson as the hub of the North. Whereas cities like Steinbach do not service much surrounding population because of proximity to Winnipeg. I know that was hugely important to food franchises when i was looking at opening up a franchised restaurant in Thompson some years back.

Certainly that's a strong possibility too.

Certainly not Pete Rose...lmao. I don't think so, but maybe he had coaching aspirations and unless he beats it he can kiss that goodbye too. Might be a hail mary on his part. Just thinking out loud about why a guy would retire then come back and appeal a suspension that really means nothing to a retired guy.

I'm thinking he doesn't want to go out as a cheater and I think the only way the CFLPA will appeal your case is if you are an active player.

Manitoba legislation allows an incorporated urban municipality with a population over 7500 to incorporate as a city if it so chooses.

Or ignore the people who feel like they need to drag their own personal ideologies and political nonsense into every thread because they are butthurt that those threads were taken away from them. Totally agree. I would support the mods just simply deleting them so we don't open up these kind of derailing tangents in the football threads.

I mean, this is a football forum. Let's stick to that and not start tripping over each other's political ideologies while doing so. Nothing good ever comes out of that.

I would bet big money on it. TEP in 07, and OB a couple years before that for me.

Dear Lord this thread is getting dragged down the rabbit hole of politics. Please people do better. JBR my post above has nothing to do with you, I don't know why your text box appeared on it and it won't let me delete it. I think i tried quoting you on something yesterday and can't post anything on this thread without your text box appearing from my abandoned post yesterday. My apologies.

Exactly right. Barker was a principle player in the recruitment of Kelly. Put his reputation as an evaluator of talent on the line by bringing in a known headcase. There really is an extreme bias from Barker anytime he talks about the Argos, a team he had a lot to do with building, and a management team that he worked with extremely closely.

Not to mention he was part of the Argos organization until last year, is very close to this personally, and is a Pinball bootlicker because of that.

I agree. Kramdi gets crapped on, and I'm not sure why. I thought he was pretty decent once he settled in. I agree with that as well. However, Kramdi did take the job from an underperforming Darby, so they were willing to make that change. I would hope if Cole looks better than Kramdi they would do the same. I think Kramdi could be a very useful rep taker in our secondary when needed. I don't even mind him competing at S really, better back up plan than Hallett imo.

In a perfect world you don't, but there may be times when a guy needs to tape a finger or something, or gasses out and needs to miss a snap.

We don't have the talent or the depth to go with an all NAT interior. There is zero chance of that happening. Maybe the occasional snap here or there to get some guys breathers but right now all we have is rotational NATs. Fatboi can't start he doesn't have the wind, Lawson maybe, but right now those are about the only guys we got capable of taking more than a few reps a game without being a liability.

Yep. I would say for sure Pinball had to have some difficult conversations with his bosses the last couple days.

Having 4 picks in the 2nd round was helpful for sure.

I wonder if that happened when he got trucked by Bailey?

Let's hope all the draftees this year exceed expectations and/or end up here.

If I were a wagering man I would suggest that after all the media uproar about Kelly being there, some tall forehead at MLSE phoned Pinball and asked him WTF were you thinking.

It's hard to label any draft pick a mistake really. At the end of the day you are rolling the dice that they will realize their upside. Some do...some don't. Last year was a very weak draft so teams had to stretch that concept even further. As you have noted, we didn't bypass any blue chippers by all accounts.

I think systemic rot within the Argo organization has been out of full display for several years now despite protests to the contrary by Bluto. Something in his physical must have had them running for the hills I would think. Or maybe he just said I don't want to be in the CFL anymore?