Fatty Liver

I'd be surprised if it looked like that, Strev. played more like a RB than a QB in 2019 and barely made it through the season. If he wants to establish himself as a future starting QB in the league, he'll have to show his game has grown.

Hopefully this happens and Buck establishes a pattern of making use of a Strev. package often very early in the season, and everyone is good with it. Not always an easy decision pulling Zach off the field when things are going well, it can kill both momentum and drives and it can be looked upon as a questionable decision made in critical moments of tight games. They shied away from inserting creative packages much last season as Prukop and Brown were rarely given opportunities other than real short yardage or well defined garbage time. Pretty sure Prukop was given less greenlights to throw the ball and less bootleg options last season compared to the one prior, maybe due to the criticism he received for the costly mishaps made in the Argo GC loss.

Wanna feel old? John Candy died 30 years ago on March 4th, he'd be 74 if he was alive today.

I'm not sure what you're trying to infer but it wasn't the Bombers decision to drop Brown, he clearly chose to leave the team for better opportunity and money elsewhere and advised the team of his intentions at the end of last season. If Strev. hadn't agreed to play for almost QB minimum they wouldn't have been able to sign either of them. Strev. is likely to do the same as Brown at the end of this season, if presented a decent opportunity he will leave to pursue it. I don't think he'll stick around long enough to become the Bombers future QB.

The CFL Combine is on this weekend in Waterloo, here is a link to the posted results page. https://www.cfl.ca/combine/2024-invitational-combine/ Top 5 https://www.cfl.ca/2024/03/08/invitational-combine-leaderboard-top-5-from-every-drill/

Led to a fair number of fumbles as well, as a few time he tried to reverse direction and ran right into a defender who stripped him of the ball.

Brown has not been hit yet, that's about to change shortly. We'll see how his game evolves in time after a couple of rounds on the 6 game recuperating from serious injuries like Zach has. One thing to note, Brown and Collaros are right around 6'-0", difference is Zach weighs 218 lbs. and Brown is a slender 191 lbs., the difference is muscle mass which has served him well the past 4 years.

I think year #2 is going to show last years draft class was not all that bad, eager to see what Max Charbonneau, Bret MacDougall, Jeremy Murphy and Jake Kelly bring to TC. I'll predict that 2 of those 4 eventually become impact players.

Not mentioned in this discussion is that the Natl. American rule did not fulfill it's intended purpose of extending the careers of fan favourite veteran American players who were no longer able to secure starting roles, but were still marketable personnel for their team within their communities. A player like Darvin Adams comes to mind. What happened within one week of the season starting is a few teams of low character figured out how to subvert the rule intent and twist it to their advantage. Both Calgary and BC demonstrated this in week #1, having established starters such Kadeem Carey and Dominique Rhymes listed as backups to no-name players who they replaced after the first snap and played the rest of the game, thus subverting the ratio as the 23 play count applies only to the designated starter. Same thing was done on defence as teams were permitted to have a designated nationalized American on offence and defence. Game #1 the Stamps used their defensive designation on veteran defensive back Branden Dozier, who started behind rookie Michael Griffin, the Lions subbed vet. Woody Baron in for Global no-name Tibo Debaillie after one snap. The blame falls on the league for failing to close an obvious loophole on a rule that may have had good intentions and been worthwhile. As the rule change failed to achieve what is was designed to do, it should be altered to more accurately serve it's purpose, or immediately be eliminated.

I don't think Gray is coming back at a bargain price for any team, he's pursuing his engineering career in Wpg. and doesn't need to sell himself short to play football.

Yep, don't see any reason for the Bombers to pick him up, but hope some other team gives him a shot as 3rd string, showed more natural talent than most rookies and would still be cheap.

No mention of the incident on CFL.ca at all, I suspect the CFL Board of Governors will determine how the Argos handle their response so it does not detract the CFL brand as a whole. A quick payout for what she's asking would probably be the expedient move to make it go away.

Too funny. Looking forward to a double Dickenson firing at the end of the season. Former Riders head coach Craig Dickenson hired by brother Dave as consultant with Stampeders https://3downnation.com/2024/02/23/former-riders-head-coach-craig-dickenson-hired-by-brother-dave-as-consultant-with-stampeders/

Agree, the job of a parent is to protect and guide their children, you can't control the behaviour of other people, some of which have diverse personal experiences and criminal histories, which infers exceeding boundaries is not an obstacle they respect. Hoping for the best doesn't repair damage once done.

Do you not recognize a football locker room as an extremely rarefied environment that is seldom duplicated within the rest of society? I would also advise my daughter not to become a prison guard for her own mental and physical well being. You can wish for a rainbow and unicorn world all you like but that's not yet the current reality, and looking around at the world today, I'm not sure it's even on the distant horizon.

I was referring to what I would advise my daughter if she was in that situation, other women can do whatever they like. I do not personally see it as a safe work environment filled with really good people with wonderful intentions. Sue me.

Not at all, but you're naive if you think a testosterone filled locker room is a certified "work safe environment". Maybe part of her job was to shoot players up with pain killers so they can perform their duties for our amusement.

That may be the ideal, but it's not the reality.

If she was my daughter I'd advise taking a job working intimately with 100 football players with no other women in sight was not a good idea, something was bound to happen, and it did. For cripes sake, her contract only paid $25,000, she could have made more in any other situation.

In the full length interview I posted earlier, Jeffcoat revealed the Stamps, Lions and Riders were all interested in him, Sask. made him an offer which the other two plus Walters were not able to match, but within a day or two the Riders also signed Malik Carney and withdrew their offer. Instead of accepting an offer well below his self-worth, his agent convinced him to retire.

Bighill's comments regarding Jeffcoat from the Wpg. Sun. "A guy like Jackson is not replaceable," Bighill said in a one-on-one interview Wednesday. "In my mind, the best all-around defensive end I've played with in the CFL. In terms of first down, second down, his impact on the game has been the best I've seen. You look at his numbers in the playoffs and it's a whole other level. He'll be missed. He's a guy who's not replaceable but hopefully a guy people in the building will be able to learn from." Bighill, who is on the executive of the CFL Players Association, can't help but be gutted for the players who played such big roles in getting the team to four straight Grey Cups but were not offered contracts this year. Jeffcoat lamented that there was almost no communication with team management in the lead-up to free agency and Bighill did not like the way things were handled either. "It sucks," he said. "It's part of the business that everyone understands, but it's the terrible part. For some of those guys, if the club was able to figure out who they were going to be able to offer contracts to and who they weren't and could have come out and provided that information immediately, as opposed to waiting toward the days of free agency starting, it just would have been better for guys ... to have more of a heads up. "It's just a better way to approach things. More communication is often better than none to little or waiting till the end. But it's part of the business. The most unfortunate part." https://winnipegsun.com/sports/football/cfl/winnipeg-bluebombers/bighill-thrilled-bombers-were-able-to-sign-big-names-devastated-for-players-let-go

Could be, but Chad Kelly is 6 years younger than Zach, it depends if and when Rourke ever returns.

True, he's not contractually obligated to return to the Lions, maybe he lands in Wpg. after Zach retires.

Never say never, he might be gone for 3 or 4 more years like Strev. but he's still young enough to come back and have a CFL career if he has the desire to. If he ever catches on in the NFL as a #2 QB your assumption is probably right.

Lord have mercy, a Bomber player would never be so crass. 😉