Fatty Liver

That should kill any interest LaPo may have had in the job.

Butler is listed on the CFL F.A. list and so is Durant. https://www.cfl.ca/fa19/#TORFA

I think he chooses retirement rather than trying to catch on with another team, it was a similar situation last year if I recall correctly. He's already involved in a career as a Certified Financial Planner in Pittsburgh. http://hbkswealth.com/staff/ian-wild/

Wowzers.

Same goes for Ernest Jackson, SJ Green or any other receiver that peaked 3 years ago.

I think he was referring to Simonise, hints are "very fast" and "give him the playing time".

Hopefully after last season's Bowman and Durant debacles, Walters reevaluates his pursuit of older F.A.'s and concentrates on retaining his own players first. At this point I'd much rather see them bring in new talent at places of need rather than rely on paying hefty salaries for established league veterans. Such is the case that the economics of re-signing Bighill, Chungh, Goosen, Bryant, etc. must be balanced out with a flow of new cheaper talent. Time to make the scouts earn their pay-cheques and not rely on F.A. to fix all inadequacies.

Bombers aren't standing in his way but his wife is currently standing between Paul and his cell phone with a bat in hand.

That is literally the worst movie trailer I've ever seen in my life, effective though, I know one movie I'm not watching.

He's got to feel good about his chance of winning a G.C. this year, especially if the Stamps lose BLM. If he wants the Riders H.C. job it will be there waiting for him next year.

Would they not be able to shed some of the lower rank coaches?

I don't follow, how does the new coaching cap come into play? Jones leaving frees up a lot of money to hire replacement coaches.

Hoping for a trifecta today, Bighill signing, Jones leaving and BLM signing an NFL contract.

The man has no shame, he slinks out of town leaving the team without a QB, screwing Paul Jones and sending his buddy McAdoo to the unemployment line for evermore.

Yah maybe but who's left on the market for H.C.? Maybe they'll come after LaPo hard and make him an offer he can't refuse and the Bombers can't come close to matching.

Oh what a wonderful day this has become! 😊

Jones is leaving! Cleveland bound, rumour has it he has been signed in a D. capacity. CFL News‏ @CFL_News2m2 minutes agoBREAKING:Sources say #Riders Head Coach Chris Jones has interviewed today with the Cleveland Browns & they are hiring him in a defensive capacity. Details to come. Jones had an NFL out clause in his #CFL contract.

Some extremely talented border jumpers as well.

I think the main goal is to expand media rights, attendance at games has stagnated.

https://www.sportsbusinessdaily.com/.../CFL-ESPN.aspx Startup football properties, like Charlie Ebersols AAF and Vince McMahons XFL, have been getting plenty of ink these days as they prepare to launch spring leagues over the next year. In the midst of those well publicized launches, the 60-year-old Canadian Football League also has been making moves to grow and modernize. The league, known for only having three downs and much wider fields than the NFL, will announce a multiyear renewal of its media rights deal in the U.S. with ESPN this week. Im always mindful of whats going on in the world around me, CFL Commissioner Randy Ambrosie said of the spring football upstarts. But its more important to us that we execute our plan. Financial terms for the multiyear deal were not disclosed though Ambrosie said the new deal represented an improvement in economics for us reflective of last seasons ratings. ESPN2 coverage of CFL games averaged 163,000 viewers last season, a 19 percent increase from the previous year. The new deal calls for at least 20 games per season on one of ESPNs linear television networks, usually ESPN or ESPN2. That includes at least one division final and the Grey Cup championship game. It will place at least 65 CFL games on the direct-to-consumer service, ESPN+. The CFL says every game will be available. I feel like we have the right partnership with ESPN, Ambrosie said. We have big, bold, new plans to expand our league and grow our business. This is part of what Ambrosie has referred to as CFL 2.0, which means expanding globally. This week, the CFL is holding its first scouting combine in Mexico City. It is looking into partnering with American football leagues in other countries and scouting players outside of the U.S. and Canada. The multiyear deal with ESPN gives the CFL a consistent outlet in the United States. ESPN has carried CFL games since 2014. Prior to that, the league bounced around from NFL Network to NBC Sports Network. Ambrosie led the negotiations for the CFL. Linear programming executive Gregg Morriss and direct-to-consumer programming executive John Lasker led negotiations for ESPN. The CFL season runs from June through November

Streveler "might" be the QB of the future but the future for Walters and O'shea is very immediate, they can't worry about who is QBing the team 3 or 4 years from now as they may no longer be in charge. They want to win the G.C. now and like politicians their definition of the future is whittled down to the short-term, limited to this coming year and the next. Will they risk their future by choosing Streveler's potential over Nichols competence? I don't think so. If you watch a good quantity of Streveler's college game film it occurs that the play style he exhibited this past season with the Bombers is largely the same he relied on in College, aprox. 50% of plays are broken and he's ad-libbing big time. Sandlot football doesn't work consistently against a pro level D. and no O.C. in his right mind is going to accept a QB not following his playbook to that extent, especially if the team ends up losing more games than they win. I believe this is the reason the NFL ignored his accomplishments, Streveler has all the raw skills necessary to be a very good CFL QB but at this point he is an unpolished stone and needs to structure his game, tame the beast and settle down. Much like Reilly, in his early years he relied heavily on his ability to ad-lib and scramble, unfortunately the Esks. results were below .500 during this time period. Once he settled down and focused his abilities on a fixed game-plan with options he became a much more successful QB. Hopefully Streveler can do the same but like many rookie QB's with great broken play ability that came and went before him, it's not always a given that they will be able to adapt to the limits of the game.

I thought I read Reilly had a number of NFL workouts scheduled???

Well hopefully the following will be enough to dissuade him, who in the hell would want to spend their post-playing career in Regina? "The Riders would try and sway Reilly to end his career in Saskatchewan, pushing the benefits of being the face of the franchise – especially post-playing career when Reilly could earn income in various ways long after the days of stepping on the football field are over. Combined with the benefits of playing in a state of the art facility for a rabid fan base."

Aristotle, Aristotle was a bugger for the bottle, And Hobbes was fond of his dram. And Rene Descartes was a drunken fart. 'I drink, therefore I am.'