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Walters has plenty to do in the next 3 weeks ... how can we help him with our impeccable advice (the best in the world you know) ... how should he order his to do list? 1. Inquire about Franklin 2. See who is in the mood to make a Pre-Christmas trade 3. Forget all else until O'Shea is signed 4. Defer extending MOS until good alternatives have been explored 5. Work on the salary cap to see which players we can negotiate/extend/bonus before year end ... 6. Get 3 QBs signed before they have a chance to think about free agency 7. Release players and coaches not in our plans for next year .... busy up the other GMs 8. Study film, analyze budgets, defer all decisions to the new year 9. Go on strike till your own contract has been extended 10. Go on an extended holiday to make everyone wonder what is about to happen Lets lend him our wisdom

Its already been ststed over and over that it is incentive based .... but the big bonus next spring is what killed retaining him .... you are awfully condescending

Why would MOS leave a team on the verge of success for one that needs a complete rebuild? It takes more than money to make that decision...

" What do you mean getting stingy with qb money again? " The last time we were lavish with QB money was on Matt Dunnigan .... but paying Willy 450 (if true) was foolish .... we need to retain Nichols, sensibly but emphatically ... and if a great deal comes up go for it with all we got ... Franklin is a promising unknown quantity .... you can't mortgage the farm for him ... I wonder how Bennett would have looked with the same game time Franklin got .... maybe we will find out in Regina

So its going to depend on how aggressive Montreal amd maybe Toronto are in going after outside QB talent .... we already know what Jones is going to do

3 years of a coaches salary isn't going to affect the salary cap .... carrying on with a failed coach will kill attendance and possibly threaten the franchise's survival ... but I agree with you in that a two year extension is more than enough and probably quite satisfactory .... three years is for winning a Grey Cup, not for finally gettinng your team ouit of the basement .... we have a little momentum here ... lets not kill it by firing the coach ... the only thing that would be worse is getting too stingy with QB money again

On the 61 yard FG try Medlock used a tee when he normally doesn't (a lack of confidence?) and he got under the ball because of it, and it fell noticeably short ... whose fault is that?

Not if you put that extra player on the one game IR .... no cost to that at all and I believe its unlimited in day to day practice .... management was not high on Bennett or they blundered

I like the idea of forbidding slo-mo except for whether a player stepped out of bounds ... otherwise 90 seconds is more thah enough ... bravo

That would be the worst possible world for Blue Bomber fans ... you think some of the reffs are biased now, let them be unbridled with no reviews ... and you will never see a memo from CFL HQ's to the reffs telling them to be more fair to Winnipeg! No self defense to protect us from the reffs bad moods about having to work in Winnipeg ... are you nuts?

getting home at 1:30 is a parking problem ... its hysteria to think that overturning blown reff calls will add two to two and a half of time to a cfl game ... the proposition is you can only be wrong twice before losing all challenges and that "slight" calls away from the play be done away ... get real

Maybe rename them a suburb city like Mississauga or something

I am totally bummed out losing Bennett ... thought he was part of our future and about ready to step up some this year .... I guess management didn't think enough of to even put him on the IR or 46

I don't get all this belief that Franklin is our forthcoming messiah ... he is showing some nice potential as a backup but once he becomes a starter he will become subject to scrutiny & film study and other stuff .... and once his tendencies are known he may not be as fantastic as the 2nd coming of Mike Reilly ... we have a proven QB in Nichols who is only going to mature and get better ... we have not yet seen the top of his game. And besides Edmonton has a certain high value on him for this year although they are not beyond grabbing an arm and a leg from a team willing to offer that much ... if we are going after him lets pay that high price when he is a free agent ... lets test out Nichols this year and see if we might have the real deal. Let Nichols do it this coming season .... he might surprise us.

wow ... guess that prooves my point on him .... good luck in the badlands

I don't think I would go after Franklin; Nichols is the better deal ... he is more mature, gaining confidence and coming into his own. It was only injuries that slowed him down in Edmonton and his full talent is starting to show ... he will get much better in each of the two upcoming years ... so why even think about giving up a high first rounder for him? To see if Franklin can finally make it as a starter? he might .... he might not but there surely will be growing pains as he learns his trade. I don't have the least interest in a worn out injury plagued QB like Darian Durant .... ditto for Ricky Ray ... but I would not mind seeing Burris here as much as some of you despise leaders with big egos ... he has proven to be perhaps the best QB in the league these last two years ... he might even get us that long awaited cup ... can you spell platoon? But if he is not available I am just fine with Kevin Glenn ... the best backup in the league for many years .... and if ever necessary he can play well enough to be called upon to give us a shot at the cup ... Dominic Davis is not our QB of the future or even worth additional time to be groomed for number two ... his time is up ... Bennett has a better arm, probably better feet, youth and is well worth grooming to be a number two .... ... as for the other retreads around the league, I would only show interest if Glenn wasn't available .... they all have potential but its like slogging it out in the new product department - - long shots So lets see what our number 1 and number 5 draft picks can do for us in two years when we might be going for back to back Grey Cups

I would not only play the Vanier Cup in the same city, I would bundle the two games up: it would give the excitement hungry fans something to do Saturday afternoon before partying Saturday night ... it would also push some interest into college football and the draft .... but most of all it would make for more of a football extravaganza: Friday night awards and stuff, Saturday amateur championship, Sunday the great climax ... what could we possibly do for an encore?

I have to laugh when I hear some of you say I would pay him thus and such and not a nickel more ... I don't think most of you have the slightest clue about negotiations ... just fan ego flapping its lips in the wind

The pragmatics for me ... I could easily leave an hour before the game and be in the stands with refreshments in plenty of time before kick-off ... in slow traffic I was home by 11:30 in time to watch the pvr-ed highlites on TV ... some times it was by 11pm Now on park and ride I have to leave two hours before the game at least and squeeze in supper before that ... after the game I am rarely home before midnight and 1am is more common ... add that together and its as much time as a whole shift at work and I am eating at 1am which affects my sleep and the next day ... I want that extra 2-3 hours back .... cut it back to an hour each way and I will find watching the game on TV much less appealing than the in person delight

I think you would have to prove your 20-30 minutes ... but even if that were true I don't mind the time because I love football, every second of it ... besides there is a certain satisfaction in seeing an official judged wrong ... and they will be judged right a maximum of 4 times per game under the scenario I am suggesting ... more importantly, the more overturned calls there is (to the point of embarassment) the more likely it is the CFL will finally decide to improve its officiating

I was expecting a boring Stampede over the Lumberjacks but was delighted with one of the most exciting games in Grey Cup history ... I wanted both teams to win but somehow felt satisfied with the Ottawa victory ... it could not have been scripted better ... and Burris proved himself to be the best QB in Canada ... I hope he doesn't retire ... Ottawa has a nice problem to solve for next year .... and I love Desjardins and Campbell showing the league what good management can do in short order and proving that the term "rebuilding" is just an excuse for incompetence

I heard Walters say he would listen to offers for our two first round picks. Such offers might provide useful information for later, but all I would do is listen. The future of our ball club depends on picking wisely, not on gaining what another club might be willing to cast away. I am not sure what this years top prospects are like but I would spend first overall on the best player available ... and our fifth on another Canadian o-lineman .... the rest of our draft picks will depend on Walters contacts/network ... its not easy to find a Loffler every year

We are close to having all the ingredients we need to win the Grey Cup next year. The one thing we do need is a bruising run stoppppping middle line backer. Beyond that we have just about enough to do it all i.e. along with a little bit of luck and good fortune ... and luck comes from confidence ... We need tweaks on the D-Line and receiver ... other than that we just need greater maturity and with it a tiny touch of swagger I would not trade either of our first round draft picks (our near term future development) for a player that would improve the club immediately, even for a player like Edmonton's QB Franklin I would not worry much about the free agent market in February ... just concentrate on keeping what we have ... with the money we do have for free agency concentrate it, spend it on Canadians with promise, not on potential Canadian has-beens The two missing ingredients are a MLB and growing maturity ... that will get us there

Thats not even close to true .... specious thinking ... maybe five or ten minutes in certain games ... about the same in most ... but we won't know unless and until we test it out .... perhaps in preseason games

Why would you ever want to not correct bad calls .... and as long as you are not making frivoulous protests you will be able to do so