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Why are we making excuses for Max Hall? This is what I don't really understand. It's pretty apparent the guy isn't good enough to be a starter and if he's not good enough to be a starter, then why keep him around? because of his experience? from last season? when he went 1-8 as a starter? The guy isn't a spring chicken. The way I sum up Max Hall is what you see is what you get, he's not going to get better because he's been the same Max Hall his entire career, same Max Hall in Arizona is the same Max Hall in Winnipeg. Weak arm and makes really questionable decisions with the ball, he did this last year too, he did it with the cardinals, Ok qb's will make mistakes but when you are defined as being a "smart qb", How can you be when you keep making the dumb throws. Enough excuses for Hall, he isn't good enough. Bottom Line : he was the best of a bunch of legitimate crap that we had last year, This year, a rookie looks better and a guy who sat on the IR all last season looks about the same.

I'm not a big fan of answers like this, cuz fact is... Winnipeg has lots of people who move here from elsewhere too. Every city has people who move there from other places. Ottawa is no different than Winnipeg in that regards. We all have constant streams of immigrants coming to our cities to live and work. Fact is, Ottawa just isn't that big of a sports town, sens don't sell out EVER, like never, in reality their arena should be the size of ours cuz thats what the consistently draw in Kanata.

Ottawa looks good, small but good, good for Ottawa. What works for them don't necessarily work for us and vice versa. No way Hamilton is down on time, last time i checked their progress, the field wasn't even started to being laid at all, like no prep work, that in itself will take a good month or month and a half to complete. Perhaps Hamilton should look at playing in the Maritimes, Never understood why they didn't last year, it would have been a good test for that market, see if they can support a team.

Here's a crazy statistic that I don't believe happened last year at ALL,not once, in any game. It happened in Calgary. Our Offence had no 2 and outs. I agree with the poster who said i think we will be like Edmonton last year, however our oline seems to be better than what Edmonton had last year. I also feel it will be similar to 2010 where we lost a few games by under 7 points, for example what happened in calgary, we tie it up, big return by calgary, march down field a bit, kick the winning fg. I see a few games turning out like that. We will be better than last year, I'm leaning towards 6-12 but 7-11 is a possibility also.

I don't think Gary makes things personal with anyone, sometimes though he is a just a little bit over the top though and does tend to enjoy raking guys over the coals so to speak. Honestly, Kane and Buff have deserved their fair share of criticism, Buff did get a DUI boating, that's not cool. Kane does seem to get in to trouble off the ice, Buff came to camp out of shape, close to 300 pounds, That deserves to be written about. What type of commitment does a player show when he shows up to camp so over weight. Gary, takes a lot of crap from people, myself included but at times, he is right. These guys are pro athletes and sometimes, instead of coddling them, you need to make them be held accountable. Bar fights? Parking tickets not paid for, DUI's, out of shape players.. I have no issue with gary holding those players accountable.

Philly would have to add to make it work, perhaps a guy like matt read or even just their draft pick. Jets wont trade Kane unless they get what they want in return.. Schenn,Read and a 1st is probably what it would take.

Messam hasn't been the same since having his NFL shot, Since he doesn't play special teams, i understand the reasoning to not bring him in. Last time messam was actually really good was a few years ago now, perhaps some are thinking that the messam from 2 3 years ago is the same one today but.. fact is, he's not. What does it say when a guy who a few years ago was compared to harris and cornish and is now cut on the 1st day of cuts by his current/former team. Tells me he isn't good enough. 80,000 for a guy who doesn't play special teams and wouldn't see the field on offence. So basically 80,000 to sit on the bench and be a Canadian. Sure the Canadian depth thing is an issue, but signing messam won't fix it at all. Just want to add, signing messam would be the equivalent of signing any one of us off this site, we wouldn't play, we would just sit there and be Canadian and never play. Seems kind of silly to sign a guy who would only play in the extreme case that both our running backs get injured. Sign this guy, sign that guy... but never wonder what that guy was cut? this was the first cut down date, i don't think we should be picking any of these guys up.. I get the feeling if CK played for another team and he was released, you'd have people wanting to bring him in too.

I wouldn't count out garvin as being a DI kick returner/rb/wr/db type. Every time the guy has had a KO or Punt return, he's had pretty decent gains.

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CK was made expendable due to his sucking and the fact that both morley and goossen are better Tate? did he do anything? this years duane slay. maher? not surprised, his passport worked against him. Tarver? saw that one coming last week. Brooks? not sure he got a fair shot, although he must have shown to not be good enough on film, never noticed him on special teams and thats where he was going to have to make the roster. Gotta look at it this way, if a NI (non import) (im not calling them Nationals and Internationals, sounds so soccer ish) is let go right now and our depth is concerning, what does that say about the talent level of that non import? If a guy isn't good enough, then he isn't good enough. Get rid of him, NI or IMP. 6 NI for 3 NI ol positions right now isn't that bad. It's a backup for every starter essentially.

we don't need cameron, he sucks. we have maher and hajrallahu who are both better.

4 but wouldn't shock me if its 5. between 3.5 and 4 million.

The way hall exited the game was telling i think. You don't normally want to take a guy out after an interception in pre-season, especially if it's goning be his last reps of the pre-season. The last impression of Max Hall is throwing a bad pass for an interception. That's not good. I feel Hall was just the best of a bad group of QB's last season, Brohm scored a TD. Hall threw a pick. Both didn't look so good last week But hall has had 1/2 season or more with MB as his OC, Brohm has not. Hall hasn't got better. Still the same old Max Hall. I think it's likely Hall is cut, I'm just not sure if it's going to be now (tomorrow) or closer to the start of the season.

I wonder if expanding chancelor matheson by one lane each direction would help?

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/thinking-ahead-230455641.html A little confused here, is this the winning bid? If so, I actually don't mind it. the ability to launch boats is a nice thing Redeveloping Pembina near the U of M would probably be a better place for things like bars, etc. U of M has a decent bar/restaraunt thing.

I never would have guessed you smoke pot... Delete - honestly, you aren't even worth a response. All i will say is... Kane isn't the only one who needs to grow up.

yeah, the stats are surprising actually. kick returns cotton had 2 for 39, longest was 20 woods had 2 for 44. longest was 23 garvin had just 1 for 24 punt returns woods had 3 for 18, 10 was the longest cotton 2 for 36, 34 was longest tarver 1 for 8 garvin 1 for 18 again... garvin, cotton, woods

it don't matter how many cars on the streets, that's irrelevant.. all it takes is one idiot and this is what happens. Busy streets or not and pembina is very very busy at certain times... They're putting dedicated year round bike lanes in Calgary. They wanted to put one on 1 St SE going south out of the downtown to MacLeod Trail. Anyone who knows Calgary knows that was a stupidly insane plan because of the traffic volume coming out of the downtown during evening rush hour. City council voted to not allow it for that portion of the road. But there will be dedicated bike lanes downtown. How that'll work in the winter remains to be seen. yeah. Here on ness avenue, i noticed they added dedicated bike lanes... i was wondering about the winter aspect myself... the bike lanes are so tiny to begin with and very close to traffic as is... to me, it screams accident waiting to happen.

He does. But he's a pretty young guy so don't kid yourself that young people do stupid things at times, cuz we all do. however, most of us aren't pro athletes and most of us aren't in the limelight constantly.. if this was you me or the next guy on here.. big woop right, probably not even get paper mention but since it's kane, yup.. there you go. I do agree he needs to grow up.

Hall is amazing, as long as it's not windy or cold or the D-line is not too tall or fast and they keep their hands down. Knock knock, Halls there? i'll play along... halls there who?

o'shea in his press conference today was asked straight up about the backup qb he said they haven't decided yet, the reporter asked him if its safe to assume that all 3 guys behind willy could be the backup for game 1. o'shea said it's safe to assume that. Hall needs to step up, so does brohm.. marve has a spot for sure. (not as backup but as 3rd) Comes down to hall or brohm for backup in my opinion and so far, i'd say it's pretty even. Nobody has stepped up yet.

did you have to download the new one or does the old one just update automatically?

Except that what is the point to the board of governors voting if the players end up rejecting the CBA? I'm we'll hear something tonight. good point. Never thought of that. Yeah alright, i'd suspect tonight after 6 your time, 7 ours. maybe closer to 7 yours, 8 ours.

That's an awful trade and won't happen.. kane for neal doesn't have any legs to stand on at all... for one, we really don't have a need for neal, he's a rw, kane's a lw... buff for neal? sure but kane? i don't think so. Pens would have to add significant pieces to make that one happen. Neal can play both sides. why would chevy who wants guys who are high on character want a guy like neal, who in your post, you said, he is not well liked by basically everyone but malkin. Neal makes no sense for this team moving forward. The jets plan is to build around the young guys, not bring in a guy like neal who has inflated numbers because he plays with malkin.