Jesse

I actually kind of hate the the coaching award is de facto "most improved" award. If you want to award the best coach, a lot of time it's the guy with the best record.

Nope. Only three teams in the off season right now. We'll all get there eventually but lets not expedite the process. The real question, do we see a coaching change in Toronto? They've been beat to the punch by the two other teams already.

This makes a lot of sense, but also calls into question why the media are voting in the first place.

No one in the media can judge line play, they just go by team stats.

Reminded me of Barron Simpson.

Predictions (What I think will happen, not what I want to happen): Player: Banks Defensive: Jefferson Lineman: Van Zeyl Canadian: Judge ST: Williams Rookie: Holley Coach: Dickenson

Using 5000 yards as an indicator for a pass-first offence, can we do it with Nichols and Streveler? Obviously, we don't want 5000 yards and 20 INTs on a 5-13 team. But given our current personnel, is a down field attack going to be effective?

Matty could easily pass for 4000 (If healthy and conditions are good, etc, etc, etc). I just think that "4000 yards" and a "downfield attack with multiple 1000 yard receivers" are two separate things.

4000 is a bit of an arbitrary number which doesn't really describe a down field attack, imo. I would love a QB who is going to get an all star nod. I don't particularly like the offence we've been seeing these past few years. I do understand the limitations of some of our players at this moment in time.

Pretty much expected. Only guy that stayed healthy all season.

The argument being that we don't have a QB for that.

Agreed. I was positive that Andrew wouldn't get the all star vote. Curious if he can take the league all star as well, now.

You're right that Harris can't prove his innocence. Even if the sample cam back positive, he could be doping AND taking a contaminated substance. He can't prove a negative. I also think there's a strong possibility that if Andrew is innocent (and the pill he took was contaminated), it doesn't mean that every pill in the bottle he bought was contaminated. He could be "innocent" and still have his test sample come back from the lab as clean (uncontaminated). He's in a no win scenario.

Are you suggesting athletes don't take/need supplements? Because 100% of athletes do....

I'm sure Bauming et al are rooting for Harris to have a moster play offs and win the Grey Cup - they wont admit it because they're supposed to be impartial, but I think they're still rooting for the person and teams. Didn't Jeff Hamilton do a podcast with Harris? I'm pretty sure they're friends. They certainly don't have anything against the player or the team and won't feel stupid if Harris continues to be great. I'm sure they expect him to do as he always has.

That wasn't my interpretation of what Noeller said. He seemed to imply not hiring (a potentially better candidate) because we have to show loyalty to someone who's been here. If you're hiring who you have instead of the best candidate, I'm calling nepotism. None of it matters right now, there isn't an opening to talk about, and I don't think Walters will have the same opinion as Noeller, but personally, I'm not really considering the feelings of my assistant coaches during hiring practices - all I'm saying.

Lol. Nepotism at its finest.

They're positive when things are going well and negative when they're not. its silly - and not objective - to say we have a good thing going right now.

Yeah. It's tough when the kids probably don't understand the reasons they're not allowed to play. They sure understand that their parents are having none of it though.

Parents are definitely having second thoughts about registering their kids. We'll see the ripple effect as time goes by. Lots of Americans though. And the NI rules are on their way out the door.

The only people who use shot gun are those who don't know how to coach QBs.

Burnham is going to thrive with Reilly at QB.

I don't want to jump into this debate - because it's a ridiculous one - but what would they gain by disparaging our league and saying the talent level is crap? No matter what they think, that's what they're going to say.

Great play by Diggs to avoid contact, gets the call anyway.

Lawerence with the pick. I'd be so disgusted if I was a Rider fan right now.