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Further to what Rich said, Miller is very customer-focused, and he is instilling that culture throughout the Bomber office.  I received 3 calls directly from the Bomber office this season as a season-ticket holder.  Two of the calls were initiated by the Bombers, one from Miller directly, asking about the quality of my game-day experiences and asking for feedback.  The third was because I had complained to a staff member about not being able to see the game feed while in line for concessions (the screen facing our line was showing the twitter feed).  The staff member had noted my seat number and I got a call back the next week. 
In almost 20 years as a season ticket holder, I have had exactly 0 calls prior to this past season from any of the previous regimes.

No, simply that the pick was apparently out of the blue when you consider who was available.
Who here remembers being in MBB chat leading up to the Richards pick? When CGY took Lavoie we were all celebrating that we were going to get one of either Waud or Durant. Imagine our luck! I don't recall a lot of applause following the Richards pick. In fact, it was quite a WTF moment for many of us.

FB named Miller is a special teams assassin... hmmm wonder who pushed for that signing....

this pic seems to generating some buzz so I thought it'd be fun to caption

Jones: "Did you just shart yourself John?"
Murphy: "I'll never tell......"

Every team had at least one opportunity to select him and didn't select him.  Some chose twice not to select him.  Montreal chose three times not to select him.  Calgary, who took him with the last pick in the 2nd round, passed on the option to select him once.  The Riders took Nic Demski.  Ottawa took Jake Harty.  Bombers took Richards.  Calgary took Durant.  That are the facts when it comes to the 2015 draft and receivers.
So at least three teams had a receiver preference that did not have Durant at the top, two that didn't have him second either and one that didn't have him in their top three.  This can be called a fact.
Who would Calgary have picked if any or all of Demski, Harty and Richards had still been on the board at the end of the second round?  There's no way to know without having access to their pre-draft rankings of receivers.  Every team could have a different one, or a completely identical one.  There's no way to know.  Calgary might have been very disappointed to not get the hometown Harty.  All of this is conjecture.
The only thing we can call a fact when it comes to Calgary's selection of Durant is that they had him ranked higher than the 6 or so other receivers that were taken in the draft after him.
When Ottawa took Harty, did the Bombers say "CRAP!" and move on to taking their next highest guy (Richards), or did they high-five each other because Richards was still on the board?  There's no way to know without being in the room.  That would be conjecture.
Is Durant a "headcase"?  Probably not.  What does that mean?  Does he store rings of garlic sausage in his shoes?  Maybe.  I haven't met him.
Were non-football factors the reason he was taken at the end of the second?  That is the reason that was widely reported.  When something is widely reported it usually means one of three things: 1) it is true, or 2) there is so little information available that every is repeating that thing they heard because they have nothing else to offer on the subject, or 3) break out the tin-foil hats because there's a conspiracy going on.

Durant was an outstanding teammate at SFU. He gave the coaches no problems at all. Always worked hard in practice & games. He was a beast in the weight room. He was a beast on the field as well capable of dominating games all by himself. He's a quiet guy. Very shy. Doesn't say a lot. Let's just say the only team that got it right about Durant were the Stampeders. The Bombers picked Richardson before him so Walters blew it. As Ace_Wells said, Durant's no headcase. How do I know? My son was his qb at SFU for 3 seasons & always had great things to say about Durant. I'll take his word over some random fans here trying to say things that aren't true to justify the Bombers not selecting him.

but wouldn't it be really weird if they didn't know they were father and son...

First things first, love the analysis Derek Taylor is doing.  Not sure how he gets his numbers, if he has a single source, if he's going over the tape from every game played last year or teams are providing him with this, but no matter.  It's great.
Second, using those numbers at face value (which oddly enough weren't always whole numbers when the math was done, maybe some borderline passes were counted as half interceptable?) and calculating through, this would be the 2016 percentage of interceptable balls per total passes thrown:
Cato - 7.7%
Masoli - 5.4%
Burris - 4.9%
Ray - 4.5%
Jennings - 4.3%
Willy - 4.2%
Glenn - 4.1%
Nichols - 3.6%
Durant - 3.4%
Collaros - 3.2%
Mitchell - 2.5%
Reilly - 2.2%
Harris - 2.1%
Apologies for the lack of fancy colours and formatting.
So Cato is both the luckiest and the worst.

Signed as a receiver in Sask

I am, because my wife & kids thought I'm watching porn. 

Chris Jones is.
 
 
 
Sorry, I thought that said moron.

Nothing would make me happier than if Vince Young started week 2 of the 2017 CFL season for them.

This place is going to be insufferable for a few weeks while everyone competes for adoration and glory.
 
*** LIKE IF YOU HATE THE RIDERS ***
 

This sums up my fourth year of university.

Would it be appropriate to say that we're interested in Jackson, but not in earnest?

@MiltStegallTSN
I've been a free agent since 2009 and @sskroughriders just offered me a contract! Told me they're trying to sign all remaining #FreeAgents
 
That made me chuckle....wouldn't surprise me....

Whatever happened to the Riders losing cap space for getting busted housing 2.6million refugees and keeping them all on their "roster"? Did I miss something?

I wonder if our club is allowed to recruit new guys who can fill in?   

The consensus out of Edmonton is the Esks have a balanced schedule, with five games over the summer months and four in the fall (Edmonton Sun)
One of the most thought of OL - Derek Dennis, appears likely to hit the open market as he and the Stamps reportedly remain far apart in talks (Gary Lawless, TSN).
– Abdul Kanneh, one of the league’s top shutdown halfbacks, is expected to garner plenty of interest if he isn’t signed before free agency (CFL.ca).
-DB Abdul Kanneh among 19 unsigned Redblacks as CFL free agency looms
Als quarterback coach Anthony Calvillo says he’s really looking forward to working with Darian Durant (Murray McCormick, Regina Leader Post).
CFL News    - #BCLions have signed CB Buddy Jackson to a 1-year deal. Played with #Riders for a spell last season. #CFL via @FarhanLaljiTSN
In case you missed it last night: @TToliver80 re-signed with the #Ticats. #CFL #CFLFA #HamOnt
CFL News
.@JDunk12 assures me there was never an actual date issued in his report. So somewhere, someone associated Senior Bowl Day w/ this. #CFL
Wide receiver Natey Adjei and linebacker Blair Smith both signed with the Eskimos through the 2018 CFL season. - Edmonton Journal
#Bombers add two International @CFL rookies; 6'3" 210lb receiver Xavier Rush, and 6'0 205lb defensive back Josh Celerin.
 
It's the way of the new CFL - A number of #Eskimos players were asked to take pay cuts, in order to free up salary cap space. #CFLFA #CFL 
@Wpg_BlueBombers Weston Dressler drew DPI/Illegal contact every 11 targets last season ?    -     CFL avg. 1 every 32.     #Details #Bombers
The Canadian Football League continues to expand its coverage of Free Agency with its first ever live update show. Beginning at 11:30am ET on Tuesday, February 14th, Free Agency Live will stream on both CFL.ca and the League’s official Facebook page every hour on the half hour (11:30am, 12:30pm, 1:30pm, etc.)  Host Brodie Lawson and former all-star defensive back and CFL.ca contributor Davis Sanchez will lead the charge with up-to-the minute analysis, updates and extensive breakdowns of the annual sweepstakes.
From montrealgazette.com: Alouettes trade linebacker Nic Shortill to Tiger-Cats for Frédéric Plesius
2017 Free Agency Positional Breakdown - A good read, once again, by Ed Tait
https://twitter.com/cfl_headlines/status/830785985013280769
This year over 220 players are scheduled to become free agents on Feb. 14.
MEANWHILE in Saskatchewan....
Rider fans are doing their damnedest to debunk Dunk. Everything from slipshod reporting to erroneous dates to, once again, trying to discredit a fine organization such as the Riders. 'Somebody is leading Dunk down the garden path with bad info.' And so far, no confirmed sightings of Johnny Football in Regina.
MEANWHILE in Toronto....
Rumour is, because the Argos have no GM, players in Free Agency will be given a special twitter account and a text message number to apply for a roster spot...? - Jest the Facts.
 
 

The Bombers are comfortable going forward with Davis as their number 2; that doesn't mean he won't have to compete for the job.  He has been on the roster for two seasons and has taken thousands of snaps in practise that can be used for evaluation, as well as some pre-season and one regular season game.
Every time a player is given increased responsibility there is an element of risk.  Was it reckless and irresponsible for the Bombers to make Goossen the starting center last year?  Most of his limited playing experience had been at guard.  Was it reckless and irresponsible for the Bombers to make Loffler their starting safety after Harris got injured?  After all, he had no pro experience and was a Canadian rookie.  Third rounder no less.  We all know anything after the first round are garbage rounds.
I wonder how long Bo Levi would have to be the third string before moving him up to second string would not be considered a reckless and irresponsible move by the Stamps?
In summary, one Paul Friesen was enough for Winnipeg.  Time to see if we can trade Weicek to Hamilton straight-up for Drew Edwards.

So, he is taking up two spots, on that neg. list?

Riders fans rejoiced when they heard Pinball Clemons was coming to save the day......joy turned quickly to sorrow as they found out Jones neg listed him as the next RB/SB/KR, and not as the new GM/Club Pres......

I have a suspicion that money was only part of reason both sides put a pin in it for now.  Rather the Bombers didn't want to make any claims they might not keep regarding Glenn's spot on the depth chart.  Everyone is assuming Glenn would be the back up but there have been signs for a while that this team is looking for Davis to take a step forward.  Even last year Glenn sat in the #3 spot long after the "learning the playbook" justification had any merit left.  Davis was the first QB that got signed this offseason.  I'm not going to read anything more into that than the obvious - there is no doubt that the Bombers want Davis here.
So maybe the conversation went like this: The Bombers told Glenn they want him but he might be 3rd on the depth chart and he might have to take a very incentive laden contract as a result; Glenn said cool beans Kyle but I'm 745 years old and this could be my last contract and I don't wanna go out like that, you get me homeslice?; Walters says yo Kevs, there is only love in my heart for you, no disrespect at all, just always wanna be keepin it 100 with you, ya dig?; and Kevin digs so they hug it out and promise to keep digits at the ready both knowing that the next time they see each other it will be from opposite sides* of the field.
 
 
*Unless Glenn signs with an eastern team of course, cause those stadiums were drawn up on the back of an IHOP place mat.