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Only reports I have seen on Legghio was couple of Bob Irving tweets.

I thought the picture was a visual representation of how much he pays in taxes each year.

DeMelo is the more attractive player if skill and position is the only factor (according to the stat heads), but with more than a few high priced players available (Price, Quick and Bishop in net, Subban and Giordano on defence, and Voracek, Tarasenko, Duchene and Johansson at forward, and some big ticket FA’s like Landeskog, the Kraken will need some good low contracts to round out the line-up, so Appleton as a middle 6 forward at $900,000 may be more appealing than DeMelo as a top 4 at best, maybe top 6 defenceman at $3,000,000.

Riders say it’s 12. But I have a feeling they counted wrong.

TBurg now has the competition he wanted for Legghio if he sucks.

This is fake news. No way they get to go to heaven. Now, the other place, that’s a different story.

So who amongst our DBs are returning from 2019? Alexander who played safety and corner (half?), Kylie Wilson (Atomic has him at DB on his depth chart although he is listed as a LB), Nick Hallett (who was mostly special teams last season), Nick Taylor, and Grey Cup stud Mike Jones (who is not on the roster on the Blue Bombers website but is in Atomic’s and the CFL site). Did I miss anyone? And who are the other vets we have picked up?

I guess Montreal’s GM figures the surprise Cup run has bought him some goodwill with the fans, because they are playing some dangerous games with the expansion draft. First they announce a “career threatening injury” for Shea Weber (who funnily enough looked healthy throughout the playoffs) and leave him unprotected, which many experts figure is a phoney statement to protect Chariot, Edmundson, and Petry on defence and scare Seattle away from risking the Weber pick. The league actually said they are watching closely to see if any monkey business occurs. Now they hear that Seattle will take Jake Allen so they expose Carey Price figuring the high salary will scare off Seattle once again. My hope is that they grab Price and call Montreal’s bluff. The fans would lose it, and at worst Seattle has a rock solid goalie in the Mark Andra Fleury vein, or they go back to Montreal and negotiate a trade with them so return the Habs saviour this past decade to them. All this to say those who complain that Chevy made no moves forget how Vegas burned so many teams last time. Take your lumps, lose one player and move on. Appleton or DeMelo are not the difference between winning a Stanley Cup and missing the playoffs.

Got my second vaccination certified and have my digital passport! Bring on life again, and see you at the stadium August 5th!!!!!

Don’t know if I saw it here or elsewhere on Twitter, but a very accurate comment on the state of the GOP is “they have a big problem with people going door-to-door to promote vaccines, but have no problem going door-to-door to demand to know how you voted in the last election” in an effort to find voter fraud.

We kind of have one with “US Politics”, no?

I have a different problem. Live in Manitoba, long time season ticket holder, doubly vaccinated, but one shot (the 2nd) happened in Ontario and Manitoba Health does not have my updated vaccination record, despite me sending them all the info. So for now I can’t get the passport, and I confirmed with the Bomber office that nothing else will suffice, even though I have other documentation that shows I am fully vaccinated. So I may be barred from going to the stadium because Manitoba Health has screwed up their records despite me giving them all the correct info. Hope to get it all corrected before August 5.

It’s in the COVID guideline page on the Blue Bomber website. https://www.bluebombers.com/2021-stadium-protocols

True. And he would counter by saying “if I get better defensively I will still give up 20-25 against if I score 20. If I play my way I may give up 40 against but might hit 60. And the more I score the more the other team chases the game, improving our offensive chances on our end.” Selfish, but if he can back it up, itain’t bragging.

Would suck to be a doubly vaccinated season ticket holder from Kenora.

I echo that. Was not aware of the incident until I saw the post, and I have a nephew out in Kelowna so there were a few nervous moments until I heard more details. Glad you are OK physically KBF, and I hope you are recovering from the shock. In our thoughts. Take care.

All that said, Laine isn’t wrong……..hear me out. He has an offensive gift maybe one or two other guys in the NHL have (Ovi and Stamkos). There’s a phrase “you don’t drive a Lamborghini like it’s a Jeep” but in today’s lockdown NHL that individual creativity doesn’t fly, teams want cookie cutter players that have good advanced metrics and play “the system”. So the team would prefer a 20 goal Laine who plays sound defence vs. the 50-60 goal Laine who cherry picks. Guess which is of more value to Laine? Andrew Copp wants a big raise and won’t point to his defensive strengths to get it, he’ll point to his offensive surge this year, like every player does. And fans prefer to see a 60 goal scorer over a 1970’s Selke candidate who kills penalties. So I get his frustration, and don’t we all secretly love a guy who candidly speaks his mind rather than diving into cliche world in every interview, even if we publicly tsk tsk the bad form of it and call him selfish?

Why say anything when it matters if you can take advantage of the power position the idiot in Chief gave you, and then only once you get turfed do you speak up so you can make money off a juicy book deal?

Geez, when the mob starts turning on the golden child Ed Tait, it’s getting ugly around here.

American Patriot? I think this tag line is more appropriate:

I can accept TBurg’s premise that not having an experienced back-up could be a problem if Collaros goes down (an issue that every CFL team save for Hamilton and Toronto would face if a similar fate infolded) and that Collaros’ history of injuries makes that scenario a non-zero possibility. BUT every veteran has had to have been a rookie at some point. And TBurg has gone to great lengths to remind of how poor the Bombers have been at grooming QBs, so I am not sure which path of dissent he wants to go down here. McGuire has not shown anything, good or bad, to pass judgement yet on him. Jennings has, and aside from his one breakout year in BC, reviews have not been great. McGuire’s grooming has been as low risk as possible so far. He was a third stringer who spent a year learning the offence and running practice but not thrust into live action save for convert holds. Now he is the back-up in a league that now only allows two QB spots. Now sure what TBurg would expect in terms of his development otherwise. If you want a QB in camp who knows the systems, he is as good as anyone. And that in game experience has to be developed at some point, maybe this is the year he takes that next step. Of what little I saw in pre-season last year, I saw no reason to abandon our hopes on him as a player for us in the future at this time.

Never question Bob Irving!

Bob Irving will be happy. Naylor, Lalji, and the Argo owners maybe not so much. Saw one tweet wondering if the passing of the single game betting bill allowed the CFL to walk away from this, knowing they had a new revenue stream coming in? Maybe that was Ambrosie’s plan all along - float a trial balloon to gauge the current level of support for the traditional CFL and put some heat on the Feds to pass the bill. Maybe Ambrosie goes down as the commish who saved the CFL. Genius!