Fatty Liver

You can heat steak, and I will heat cake. Heveryone ave a nice day.

Great, sensible decision made on both sides.

Mr. Bilukidi's chances of being immortalized in the CFL Hall of Fame for all of eternity are slipping away with each passing day. His loss, he decided to fritter away his life chasing butterflies.

Good article from Doug Brown in today's FreeP regarding Free Agency. Free agency not a magic elixir for Blue It sounds as though, once again, the Winnipeg Football Club has made a New Year’s resolution to be highly motivated in free agency, and will wade into the fountain of players next month with its purse strings wide open. The question that remains, though, is whether it actually should or not? As confirmed by Free Press reporter Paul Wiecek Saturday, the football club is, "promising to be aggressive in the free-agent market next month," and why not? Even though there is still ample time for players to re-sign with their respective ball clubs, there are more than 100 prospective free agents currently out there, and some very talented ones at that. When your football team is coming off a five win season, the status quo isn’t a viable option, so a willingness to change is a good thing, right? Imagine a Bakari Grant, a Chris Williams, or an Andy Fantuz in the receiving corps of this football team. How much more dynamic would this group be with a proven home run hitter to stretch the football field? What about an Andrew Harris or a Jerome Messam in the backfield to bolster what has been a marginal rushing attack the last couple of seasons? How much would QB Drew Willy benefit — from both health and performance perspectives — if he was running a balanced offensive attack that included one of these proven all-star backs who each happens to be Canadian too? Speaking of Drew Willy, how much better would he and the team be if he was competing with a Trevor Harris or a Travis Lulay in training camp? Imagine a scenario where the season wouldn’t be lost if the starting quarterback went down for a spell — for a third season in a row. On the other side of the ball, what would the 2016 version of this defence look like if Ted Laurent teamed up with Bryant Turner Jr. in the middle of the front four, or if John Bowman came off the opposite edge of Jamaal Westerman for one final year? How much better would the linebacking corps be if Keon Raymond or J.C. Sheritt were added to upgrade it? These are just a few of the tantalizing morsels currently out there that would be instant upgrades to this football team that would send us all into another optimistic frenzy, drooling at the prospects of what could be in the coming season. But that is the exact point of this opinion piece. Last off season we were all incredulous and goggly eyed about the likes of Dominic Picard and Stanley Bryant joining the likes of Nick Moore on offense, and guys like Sam Hurl and Jamaal Westerman teaming up with a strong core of defensive players. As it turned out, if you count Moore, Picard, Hurl, Bryant, and Westerman as five of the biggest free agents this leadership group has signed of late, after the results we saw last year, they most likely over paid for at least three, if not four of them. The only one that definitely lived up to his price tag — thus far — was the only one who had never even played in the CFL before. CFL free agency seems to me to be much like the old golf adage that says you, "drive for show, putt for dough," and we just broke out our Big Bertha Alpha 816 Double Black Diamond driver (an actual golf club). Making waves in free agency and overpaying for talent is the equivalent of only working your biceps at the gym. It looks good, it grabs headlines, and makes your football team pop in a tight v-neck, but it isn’t sustainable. Most of the teams that are perennial winners in this league seem to do a lot better developing their own free agents, and then paying them once, or if, they establish themselves at all. There seems to be a disproportionate relationship between the cost of, and the production of, most Tier 1 CFL free agents. Which is probably why you don’t have to look too hard to find veteran spokesmen in the CFL who will tell you that you only augment or tweak through free agency, you don’t build from it. There are good players out there to be sure, but they are usually there because they want more money than they are worth. Let’s just hope that this year’s free agency "aggressiveness," isn’t designed to overcompensate for a deficiency in developing cheaper, and undiscovered talent from within.

Not election related but just stumbled across Obama on Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee with Seinfeld. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cOLF9k6FAw Better than most episodes of this show.

Makes me feel warm and fuzzy knowing MPIC is protecting us from the forces of evil.

Yer right, Picard can't play any other position so as a backup O-lineman he has little value.

Ok, so I read the heading on here and it says site back up, so I think that's a good idea to have a site back up, but wonder how do you do that? Have some sort of re-direct? Then after clearing the mud, I see it reads - the site IS back up and realized I need to read more than meets the eye. I did check the Twitter feed and found nothing to verify either way. I even checked the newspapers, in the classified sections, for secret updated messages, but I didn't find anything other than a clandestine meeting for Mini-mite, at the "usual place" tomorrow night at 11pm. Interesting. So, the site IS back up and we can go on giving our stout advice for anybody who doesn't care to listen, and somehow, I feel better. Now that you've exposed us, sadly you must die. Luckily you have a choice of 101 methods of execution.

Worst case scenario if the Bombers can't sign adequate replacements for the O-line they can always invite Picard back at a much lower pay rate. That is unless another team signs him up at a lower rate first. I don't think we've seen the last of Picard, the fact that he didn't choose retirement says that he still wants to play.

I wasn't counting but you used the word "prick" 5 times in 2 sentences. I think that deserves some kind of site award seeing as you weren't talking about Mike Kelly.

Could well be. Also depends on his marital status, easier to do if he's free to roam far from the ties that bind.

I think at this point it comes down to his after football career and whether he has taken the time to prepare and plan for it or not. If he doesn't have an alternative plan he may continue to play football by default. The low CDN dollar is a poor incentive to play in the CFL unless he wants to put down roots in the community and as he has virtually no ties to Wpg. he would be starting from scratch.

If he's going to stick he has to beat out one of Wild, Bass or Tony Burnett, so chances slim.

I suppose Dressler as well and maybe one or two of the RB's receivers like Chris Williams....not one of them earned their big pay cheques last year. It would be interesting to know what Manny A. recently signed for.

That's a crazy amount to pay for an import receiver, this is going to cause salary repercussions. Are there any other receivers in the league earning $200,000+?

Fact is if you're already reading this board, you're not going to get anything extra from reading a newspaper article.

Rumour has it Khari is the next OC in BC.

Jamie Nye @jamienye #Riders also release K Paul McCallum and DB Tristan Jackson ... leaving 49 players on the roster (just 2 int DBs Hollins and Unamba) Unamba survives the purge!

Never heard of the guy, another off the board pick by Wally.

I don't understand your logic. Do you not agree that the Arctic ice is melting at an unprecedented rate? Because Gore's hard timeline was incorrect, does that mean that this event is not actually occurring?

Time frame is wrong but the concept of an ice free Arctic is not. http://www.worldwatch.org/node/5664

O'Shea probably asked them directly if they wanted to have media exposure and their answer was likely "no thanks Mike, you can do it".

I would put more stock in Veltung, he looked good in the opportunities he was given.

Dude, is that a watermelon? That would hurt Broken face, surprised it wasn't her head that went "splat".

If i recall correctly, i believe it was on good terms. Something about his vision i believe at the time, He's still not that great, you gotta throw him the ball a ton and he will drop a ton of balls still but he will make catches too. He's still pretty inconsistent actually as a receiver. I'm not sure I'd go after him. I can't see Bowman leaving the Esks. They expect him to drop a few passes every game yet they keep throwing the ball to him. He's not going to find that level of forgiveness in too many other places.