Jesse

I might have to crack that open soon..

No one’s there to get injured.

Safety?

They can only bring 50 to away games, iirc.

I don't think you're going to see any movement with the assailant out of country.

Hmmm.....Dru Brown, eh?

I may not have typed it, but I think it.

Guarenteed Bob is sitting at home commenting the game as he watches anyway, just hook a Mic on him.

Unfortunately, no. When it's not televised, there's no feed to stream.

Are these USport athletes?

omg, thank you. Just signed up. Well, at the very least, it keeps him out of our city and likely out of professional sports. I wonder how Walters and co. feel about bringing this into the city.

I miss the Canada Day opening weekend. That was my favourite.

So, each team is in charge of their own votes. It's not cumulative of all players.

I think I like the deal. Still need more details about how the snap sharing is going to work,

And maybe that's something you can negotiate if another team enters the league, because it's creating more overall jobs so you need less per team. But that is still pie in the sky, imo.

100% because it just adds a layer of complication. Keeping track of the snap counts, is it game by game or cumulative or chunks of the season?

Like that they're talking - don't love the snap counts being back in play - was really hoping for a solution that didn't include that component.

Listen, I believe in the ratio and don't really want to see it changed. We can agree to disagree on that. There have been a few versions of the CBA so far, I don't think we can really debate specific clauses because I don't think we really know for sure what was voted on and why or why not it was voted down. The only one I remember seeing that 7+1 was one was the snap percentages - which is really 5.5 nationals, not 7. But again, I don't think it makes sense to debate it too much, it's all hearsay. Mike made the point that there's a faction of players who don't come here because it's not worth the attempt to come here and compete for one spot - I honestly don't believe that changes too much even if we completely abandon the ratio. We have 20 DBs here to compete for 1 or 2 spots - that doesn't change because of the ratio. We have a bunch of receivers here to compete for 1 or 2 spots. Do we have a ton more guys making the trip for 2 or 3 spots? The trip to Canada to play in a different league will always turn a large group of Americans away. The same way hockey players will move on rather than go to the KHL. We may see a few back end of roster spots improve because of more options - but I can't see a way it vastly improves the game, and it costs us an identity that - while you disagree with - IS important to many fans.

McKnight was our first man off the bench last season. As example of the American talent that we recruit that is supposedly "way better". Woli is an example of a Canadian who stand to lose his starting spot.

You know Booch, you've been taking all off-season how our team is as good or better than last season - hyping up Grey and Dobson, previously on the Eli train and saying we could bring him back, promising that we have cap room if Deslaurias sneaks loose. But now suddenly Canadian depth hurts the team and is going to get our QB killed if we have an injury to a Canadian. You can't have it both ways, the Canadians can play or they can't. The best players go to the US, The next tier that comes to Canada comes here and starts and has success if they have the ability. The guys we are talking about this affecting is on the back half of the roster and Woli vs. McKnight wouldn't move anyone's needle.

Derek Taylor describing how all non-US based sports work (Thread):

It was a bit of a knob comment, but in response to a knob comment as well. Obviously there is a talent gap - the US has 10x as many people and treat football religiously. However, the talent gap is not n = 1. We've tried for how many years to improve our receiving group. Three American spots, but it's been a revolving door and a bunch of vet retreads that never worked out. Why hasn't the infinite talent of the US shown itself yet? The fact is many guys aren't going to play in Canada. Some move on to other opportunities, some can't survive financially on the salary. Some have had legal trouble, etc, etc, etc. At a certain point, we're bringing in athletes that need to develop. The talent gap from Canadians and the players who actually come to Canada is not as big as it's made out to be, there's just more of them. Who is at the bottom of our Canadian starters? Thomas? Woli? The winner of Gray/Dobson? These are the guys that don't belong on the field in your opinion?

It's amazing how much easier recruiting gets when you get rid of a couple Canadians. I wonder why we don't bring these guys in now....

Well, this is not sounding good.

Absolutely, we've just heard a few conflicting things so it's hard to know if this is a single issue or if there' a few things stalling the deal. I do not think the ratio should be reduced, but I also like the idea of rewarding/benefits for a "naturalized" American. I'm having trouble reconciling it, so I can see why it's so hard to negotiate.