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Clearly the entire Rider season is structured around "any news is good news", and subsequently a desire to be in the headlines at all times.

Thank you. If I go to Walmart later, I'm sure I'll feel dead inside.

And just to remove any suspense, Hurl will be listed as the starter on Saturday. For those who have a negative emotional response to this, you now have extra time to prepare for those emotions. For those who recognize this is largely an on-paper maneuver to allow maximum player substitution flexibility, keep on keepin' on.

The Bombers have to get Givens into the lineup. Without Adams, Flanders, and the question mark that hovers over Dressler at all times, our receiving corps does not have what it takes to win games. That might be survivable short term but the playoffs are less than a month away. For us to have any chance to win some of those games, we need to hope that our depth is what we think we have and then give them as much game action as we can. Lankford is simply a non-lethal receiver. We can afford to have non-lethal NI's at receiver, but we can't waste spots on non-lethal imports. Givens gets 3 games of live action to learn the CFL before the playoffs are here. Hopefully he can learn how to be CFL lethal.

Underwhelming, but he hasn't sucked. He's had some good moments. It feels like he hasn't figured out the CFL yet, where the spaces are and the timing of it all. His decisions don't always make sense. He hasn't played many games yet, so I still allow for the possibility that he can find his groove. Right now, it seems like he has a job by default. He has to earn it outright, and his chance won't last forever.

I'd wait on those two game-time scratches before popping any corks but Lankford has exclusively played wideout from what I remember, so if Givens is practising at slot then he's very likely playing unless Washington doesn't nail down the WR spot, and they decide to move him into the slot (I thought he's played both) and keep Lankford outside and Just to make it an extra-spicy meatball, from what I recall, Givens did kick returns in the NFL.

They would endorse it if the player was guaranteed his full salary, so that's probably what's happening here. So on the bright side for Bomber fans, these teams haven't freed up any cap space by doing this**. **Edit: If the CFL behaved in a logical manner, which is a coin-toss at all times.

Waiting for Floyd's thoughts on why climate change isn't real...

Might want to understand slavery before commenting? Any player can walk away from the Bombers at any time. We don't own them. Thorpe asked to be released. As in, he quit. How and why people still bring this up...? Not a thing to do with Mulamba. Not even remotely. Stop ham-fisted shoving this stupid agenda into every thread. Go revive the long-dead Thorpe thread if you really want to keep talking about Thorpe. If a playerleaves without us granting his release, he is placed on the suspended list and is not allowed to sign with another CFL team. That is the only difference. We still don't own him. He quit. He quit. He quit. He quit. This really seems lost on certain people. He's allowed to quit. He's allowed to have good reasons to quit. He's allowed to have bad reasons to quit. He's allowed to have no reason at all, and still quit. But the quitting part, that's not in dispute. So, just to be clear, he quit. After the devastating loss of Brian Bennett in the offseason, there is only so much people can take. Walters is on thin ice.

or He was along the sidelines and tried to stay inbounds to make the catch, which was not possible, what with the ball being 3 yards out of bounds. Which also made it impossible to intercept.

It's the CFL. We can't have nice things. As soon as that's a rule, Jones and Maas will have defensive players designated to "lose" their helmets on each play.

The Bombers won. Why did they win? How did they win? 90 - 95% of the credit goes to defence and special teams. They do not deserve less credit than that. They might deserve more. This place could stand to be a little less internetty at times...

I am genuinely curious how his style of offence would have translated to a CFL field.

Running 10 yards backwards into the endzone off balance was impressive. He did something in the second game to lose his job. I'm not sure what it was. Missed a key block, ran some wrong routes, I don't know. That was the end of his first audition. Now he might be getting his second chance. Or be one of the 2 scratches.

I COVERED THIS ALREADY!!! GARWSH!!!

What does incidental contact even mean in this case? They use that term when what they are trying to say is unintentional, and lack of intent is not relevant when it comes to roughing the passer. If you believe there is intent, you can take it to the next level and eject the player from the game. Lack of intent does not negate the call. What they might be trying to say, and in typical CFL style doing it poorly, is that the contact is insignificant. I'd be fine with that. It's subjective, but so is pass interference and several other calls the refs have to make every game. A few years ago they'd call roughing the passer if a DL's hand brushed the QB's helmet on the way by, or if he touched his foot (cause that's below the knee). It was pathetic. Another example of the CFL overreacting to an incident and pushing the pendulum waaaay too far in the other direction without any thought to the possible and obvious flaws. Y'know, that thing they do regularly. Those penalties were stupid and awful, and I don't want them called. If the ref was trying to express to OShea that he didn't feel the contact was worth calling, as in insignificant, that would make sense. It would just mean he got the call wrong and isn't a very good ref, which is run-of-the-mill CFL stuff.

I'm sorry. I'll stop now. It might be hard to pretend there are no ratio rules in the CFL, but others seem to manage just fine. It really must be a me problem. I'll work on it.

YEAH AIR! WHY? I assume you're arguing with the air, since literally no one has claimed he's "such a good player". Also, he did see the field last year. He was a regular part of the defensive NI rotation with 3 or 4 other guys.

Well Elimimian isn't Canadian, so that doesn't help anything. Now people would just be bitching about how Derek Jones keeps getting beat on the corner. Singleton isn't on our team. He's obviously better than Hurl, but so what? As in, why aren't people spending countless hours complaining about Feoli-Gudino not being as good as Sinopoli? That would be an identical situation, but it never happens. What kind of impact would Sinopoli have on our team? The same. We'd be better. If we replaced all our non-all-star players with the CFL all-star team, we'd be better. I completely agree that we don't have all the best players in the league on our team.

Which, if I understand the rules correctly, matters literally on only the first defensive play of the game.

Serviceable skills and a Canadian passport. That said, I don't get the vitriol hurled his way. We have to play minimum 7 NI's. If he doesn't start, someone not as good has to play. People don't want to wrap their heads around that, just complain. Taking out Hurl and putting in Mr. USA LB just shifts the problem to a different spot on the field. Replacing Hurl isn't an answer due to it being incomplete.

For those who want to hold out hope of a return for the playoffs, it would explain the attempt at secrecy regarding his injury.

Might be an indicator that some surgery happened during those two weeks.

Pruphwreeding iz 4 loosers.

It can be a struggle at times. So the Bombers originally had 5 imports in to compete for the starting middle linebacker job. None of them stood out as exceptional. In the meantime, Cory "Poop" Johnson had a fantastic camp and did look exceptional. So OShea, being so incredibly stubborn, changed the plan and put Johnson in as a starter rather than Thomas as he was clearly superior in talent, and in the meantime at middle LB, no one stood out as being any great shakes better than Hurl, so they stubbornly switched the ratio from DL to LB.