2023/2024 CFL (Non Bombers) Off Season News

[17to85]

1 hour ago, Booch said:

 

man....If thats the projected starters....how could one be super excited for that?...Emilus I would take in a heartbeat....Maaaaaybe KSB but as more a depth/rotation guy not as a defacto legit #1

Further cements my thoughts until they show otherwise they be battling the Elks for 4th

But they clearly have top teir Canadian depth!!!11!!

[Mike]

That’s ugly. Emilus is a beast but the rest are … meh

[SpeedFlex27]

On 2024-05-25 at 1:19 PM, wbbfan said:

Nah, once I saw them throwing him and Crum out with all of 2 starters I couldn’t watch. They are gonna ruin both those guys. 

Ottawa is not well coached. Bob Dyce isn't a HC but there he is. 

[WinnipegGordo]

1 hour ago, bigg jay said:

https://3downnation.com/2024/05/27/get-rich-or-die-lion-rap-icon-50-cent-to-perform-at-b-c-lions-home-opener/

So? Winnipeg has Fred Penner again.

[Tracker]

1 hour ago, Booch said:

 

man....If that's the projected starters....how could one be super excited for that?...Emilus I would take in a heartbeat....Maaaaaybe KSB but as more a depth/rotation guy not as a de facto legit #1

Further cements my thoughts until they show otherwise they be battling the Elks for 4th

Blake, Godber and Ferland are past their "best before" dates. After Labour Day, they will have slowed down considerably, not to being more mention injury-liable.

[SpeedFlex27]

6 minutes ago, WinnipegGordo said:

So? Winnipeg has Fred Penner again.

The problem that BC has doing this celebrity stuff opening game is what do you do for the second game....third....fourth???

[Rich]

38 minutes ago, SpeedFlex27 said:

The problem that BC has doing this celebrity stuff opening game is what do you do for the second game....third....fourth???

Its about getting more people in seats to come see the music act, and hoping a percentage of them will enjoy the football and game enough to come back for more.

You complain about the CFL and TSN not doing enough to attract new fans and grow the game.  Here is BC trying something to grow their fan base and bring in people who wouldn't normally come to a football game, but that apparently is also problematic.  🤷

[WinnipegGordo]

2 minutes ago, SpeedFlex27 said:

The problem that BC has doing this celebrity stuff opening game is what do you do for the second game....third....fourth???

Absolutely, and fans have come to expect a concert every home opener now. 

Imagine the backlash if the team decides to stop having them or scale back on the talent they bring in?

[Wanna-B-Fanboy]

11 minutes ago, WinnipegGordo said:

Absolutely, and fans have come to expect a concert every home opener now. 

Imagine the backlash if the team decides to stop having them or scale back on the talent they bring in?

I for one would love to have that problem at PAF... PAT? PAIGF? OFFS... I don't even recall....

[Super Duper Negatron]

41 minutes ago, WinnipegGordo said:

So? Winnipeg has Fred Penner again.

50 cent goes well with their dime store quarterback.

[blue85gold]

28 minutes ago, WinnipegGordo said:

Absolutely, and fans have come to expect a concert every home opener now. 

Imagine the backlash if the team decides to stop having them or scale back on the talent they bring in?

This is just inventing problems. You get people in seats for game 1 and then maybe they come back because they enjoyed themselves.

[Booch]

53 minutes ago, Tracker said:

Blake, Godber and Ferland are past their "best before" dates. After Labour Day, they will have slowed down considerably, not to being more mention injury-liable.

I dont think Godner and Ferland even had a best date really

[HardCoreBlue]

55 minutes ago, SpeedFlex27 said:

Ottawa is not well coached. Bob Dyce isn't a HC but there he is. 

BD is such a hard guy to cheer against, HC talent or not. 

In an ideal world RedBlacks take the East which realistically ain't going to happen.

 

[Mike]

56 minutes ago, Tracker said:

Blake, Godber and Ferland are past their "best before" dates. After Labour Day, they will have slowed down considerably, not to being more mention injury-liable.

Lol what? Godber is 29 and Ferland is 27. 

[Booch]

11 minutes ago, Mike said:

Lol what? Godber is 29 and Ferland is 27. 

I think he was being polite is saying...they sucked lol

Back to that front line Canadian depth tho....how is O'day still the G.M????

Unless paying a soon to be 34 yr old Import Olineman the most in the land...on serious decline, and been struggling with injuries the better part of last 2 yrs is the way to sustain employment...I can see another decent out of the gate start there...and the same mid season swoon into the toilet

[GCn20]

3 hours ago, Booch said:

 

man....If thats the projected starters....how could one be super excited for that?...Emilus I would take in a heartbeat....Maaaaaybe KSB but as more a depth/rotation guy not as a defacto legit #1

Further cements my thoughts until they show otherwise they be battling the Elks for 4th

6 of those 9 don't start on any other CFL team and 2 of those 3 that qualify as starters are lower end starters.

Edited May 27 by GCn20

[GCn20]

39 minutes ago, Booch said:

I think he was being polite is saying...they sucked lol

Back to that front line Canadian depth tho....how is O'day still the G.M????

Unless paying a soon to be 34 yr old Import Olineman the most in the land...on serious decline, and been struggling with injuries the better part of last 2 yrs is the way to sustain employment...I can see another decent out of the gate start there...and the same mid season swoon into the toilet

Lots of ppl thinking the Riders improved and for the life of me I just can't see how.

[wbbfan]

56 minutes ago, HardCoreBlue said:

BD is such a hard guy to cheer against, HC talent or not. 

In an ideal world RedBlacks take the East which realistically ain't going to happen.

 

I’d like us to run it back against the als in the gc. 
 Agree though bobby dyce is great people and yeah I don’t think he’s gonna succeed as a hc sadly. 

Just now, GCn20 said:

Lots of ppl thinking the Riders improved and for the life of me I just can't see how.

If any thing, I think edm is closing the gap on them in the west. 

[GCn20]

1 minute ago, wbbfan said:

I’d like us to run it back against the als in the gc. 
 Agree though bobby dyce is great people and yeah I don’t think he’s gonna succeed as a hc sadly. 

If any thing, I think edm is closing the gap on them in the west. 

Edmonton has a qb now.

[Booch]

8 minutes ago, GCn20 said:

6 of those 9 don't start on any other CFL team and 2 of those 3 that qualify as starters are lower end starters.

yeah thats about as weak a top 7 Canadians in the league....if you wre to compare league wide....I dont see a weaker group

[wbbfan]

Just now, GCn20 said:

Edmonton has a qb now.

Yup. He’s a wing nut, but he’s way better than hasbeen Harris. Jones is even crazier, but he had been the architect of some good Ds. It’s not hard to see them passing the riders. 
I also like the stamps having shlitz to back up mayormccheese too. 

[Booch]

Just now, wbbfan said:

Yup. He’s a wing nut, but he’s way better than hasbeen Harris. Jones is even crazier, but he had been the architect of some good Ds. It’s not hard to see them passing the riders. 
I also like the stamps having shlitz to back up mayormccheese too. 

the Elks starting guys on the weekend took it to the Rider's...if not for al the Elkesque giving away the ball...they would have won handily

Agree....Shiltz will do well there, and an actual 1a/1b combo of him and McButterpants might surprise...I can see the Stamps battling for 2nd/3rd with B.C....whom I think really regresse this yr.

For all the league wide ballyhoo about Mace and what Riders did...I have a hard time seeing better than 3rd for them, and thats if everyrhing goes right...Harris isn't the guy...who is "next up"...and Oulltte and Hardrick isnt what will put them over....Carney and Thurman are basically interchangeable as to what they had last year...and Mace...is he the real deal?....or Claybrooks 2.0 who also got trumpeted as the next best thing

If any team in the West really improved the most,  I think it's the Elks..

[greenrider55]

6 minutes ago, Booch said:

the Elks starting guys on the weekend took it to the Rider's...if not for al the Elkesque giving away the ball...they would have won handily

Agree....Shiltz will do well there, and an actual 1a/1b combo of him and McButterpants might surprise...I can see the Stamps battling for 2nd/3rd with B.C....whom I think really regresse this yr.

For all the league wide ballyhoo about Mace and what Riders did...I have a hard time seeing better than 3rd for them, and thats if everyrhing goes right...Harris isn't the guy...who is "next up"...and Oulltte and Hardrick isnt what will put them over....Carney and Thurman are basically interchangeable as to what they had last year...and Mace...is he the real deal?....or Claybrooks 2.0 who also got trumpeted as the next best thing

If any team in the West really improved the most,  I think it's the Elks..

I don’t think I’ve seen any Rider fans tout Harris as the guy… he is who he is. 
 

Around here, the Riders could acquire the entire Blue Bombers roster and there would be a narrative that they haven’t improved and will still finish last

[Booch]

3 minutes ago, greenrider55 said:

I don’t think I’ve seen any Rider fans tout Harris as the guy… he is who he is. 
 

Around here, the Riders could acquire the entire Blue Bombers roster and there would be a narrative that they haven’t improved and will still finish last

its not thaaaaat bad....lol

I havnt perused the Rider forum since last year...so not sure who is being touted...so...who is?....curious

[17to85]

27 minutes ago, GCn20 said:

Lots of ppl thinking the Riders improved and for the life of me I just can't see how.

Well be hard for mace to be worse than Dickenson so there is that