2024/2025 CFL (non-Bomber) Off-Season Thread

[Mark H.]

2 hours ago, wbbfan said:

After every thing that transpired with him and riders/fan base, it's pretty wild. 

I don't read Riderfans. 

[Booch]

Blink gave 100 percent efffort on every snap and his fast twitch muscle was insane....like mentioned could stop/cut/change direction on a dime and be top speed in 3 strides...wasn't overly fast, but his acceleration allowed him to create distance immediately

Also for a small fry who avoided the gym like the plague he was insanely strong and didnt matter...bigger guy...small agile guy he could juke em....run em over....or jusy power thru a mass of bodies....never went down on first contact

definately a generational talent and if he came along in the mid to late 2000's...with training and expertise available now...and took advantage of it....man what could have been

[HardCoreBlue]

22 minutes ago, Mark H. said:

I don't read Riderfans. 

In the case of Rider fans it's not that don't read Riderfan forums its that they can't read no matter how hard they try. 🙂

[wbbfan]

27 minutes ago, Mark H. said:

I don't read Riderfans. 

Me either. They were all over social media as well though, and even in the games with giant needles made out of cardboard n junk. All the vitriol over the brawl where the rider players jumped Harris when he scored a td. 

[GCn20]

1 minute ago, wbbfan said:

Me either. They were all over social media as well though, and even in the games with giant needles made out of cardboard n junk. All the vitriol over the brawl where the rider players jumped Harris when he scored a td. 

Funny that those same guys who fought Harris are long gone out of the league, and Harris is now their coach. The O'Day/Dickie years were a gong show.

[wbbfan]

8 minutes ago, GCn20 said:

Funny that those same guys who fought Harris are long gone out of the league, and Harris is now their coach. The O'Day/Dickie years were a gong show.

Every thing Jones forward is varying degrees of dumpster fire. Dickie was red hot peak trash though. Atleast jones lead them to some wins. 

[HardCoreBlue]

43 minutes ago, Booch said:

Blink gave 100 percent efffort on every snap and his fast twitch muscle was insane....like mentioned could stop/cut/change direction on a dime and be top speed in 3 strides...wasn't overly fast, but his acceleration allowed him to create distance immediately

Also for a small fry who avoided the gym like the plague he was insanely strong and didnt matter...bigger guy...small agile guy he could juke em....run em over....or jusy power thru a mass of bodies....never went down on first contact

definately a generational talent and if he came along in the mid to late 2000's...with training and expertise available now...and took advantage of it....man what could have been

Like it or not it seemed he really led his life with no F’s to give.

[rebusrankin]

6 minutes ago, HardCoreBlue said:

Like it or not it seemed he really led his life with no F’s to give.

No Ragrets, am I right?

[Tracker]

Blink reminded me a lot of Mack Herron, but without the personal conduct issues. Herron could have been another perennial all-star but........

[17to85]

For all his quirks Charles Roberts and his lack of professionalism at times (particularly around a certain Grey Cup game with a rookie qb getting his first start) I have a real hard time seeing him in anything but a positive light. Dude was electric as a player and did a lot of heavy lifting for this teams offense for a lot of years and took a beating doing it. He gave it all for this team.

[HardCoreBlue]

10 minutes ago, 17to85 said:

For all his quirks Charles Roberts and his lack of professionalism at times (particularly around a certain Grey Cup game with a rookie qb getting his first start) I have a real hard time seeing him in anything but a positive light. Dude was electric as a player and did a lot of heavy lifting for this teams offense for a lot of years and took a beating doing it. He gave it all for this team.

He gave us years of high quality affordable entertainment.

[Rich]

To relive som Chuck Bob memories

 

[wbbfan]

4 hours ago, HardCoreBlue said:

Like it or not it seemed he really led his life with no F’s to give.

I'm not even mad tbh. He was at least soo transparent and straight forward that it's hard to hate him. He lived every moment like it was his last. Played hard, partied hard, slept... honestly I wouldn't be surprised if he slept in the locker room with some of the turn arounds I saw from him partying to playing.  I loved football as much as any thing in my life till my kid was born. When I turned to coaching low level I was trekking across the continent to every back water imaginable to participate in clinics from positional to coaching. Awful trips on shoe string budgets staying in places soo greasy it make the trailer park boys blush. The wish to play more was as strong after as it was when I got to play, but still I hated the weight room, and the strength and conditioning stuff. Some people just aren't wired for that. I'd rather work stupid hard than lift weights or run. 

Maybe thats part of why I love blink soo much. He's my spirit animal. 

[17to85]

4 hours ago, rebusrankin said:

No Ragrets, am I right?

Not even a single letter

[Tracker]

Low center of gravity, and amazing body control and leg strength. He wasn't super-fast, but was super-quick with the reflexes of a ferret on meth.

[Booch]

1 hour ago, wbbfan said:

I'm not even mad tbh. He was at least soo transparent and straight forward that it's hard to hate him. He lived every moment like it was his last. Played hard, partied hard, slept... honestly I wouldn't be surprised if he slept in the locker room with some of the turn arounds I saw from him partying to playing.  I loved football as much as any thing in my life till my kid was born. When I turned to coaching low level I was trekking across the continent to every back water imaginable to participate in clinics from positional to coaching. Awful trips on shoe string budgets staying in places soo greasy it make the trailer park boys blush. The wish to play more was as strong after as it was when I got to play, but still I hated the weight room, and the strength and conditioning stuff. Some people just aren't wired for that. I'd rather work stupid hard than lift weights or run. 

Maybe thats part of why I love blink soo much. He's my spirit animal. 

mmmm.....greasy lol

I hear ya tho...

[wbbfan]

3 hours ago, Tracker said:

Low center of gravity, and amazing body control and leg strength. He wasn't super-fast, but was super-quick with the reflexes of a ferret on meth.

Lmao accurate. 
 

Height in a rb is the most over rated attribute in football. Shorter the better imo. I cringe watching 6’+ RBs run through the trenches. 
 

3 hours ago, Booch said:

mmmm.....greasy lol

I hear ya tho...

gre hee heeasy. lol. I quit competing in kickboxing because I’d rather get punched in the face than run too. 
 

The dedication of guys who love playing football soo much that they do the required SnC work year after year is incredible. Most sports you don’t need that. Football demands it. Unless you’re blink lol. I played and worked with guys who were crazy talented but wouldn’t even do the ice bath to safe their life. That’s why to me it’s the best sport and the best athletes. You can’t be slow, you can’t be weak, you can’t be lazy, and you can’t be soft. Many sports you can be most or all of those.  

[Goalie]

9 hours ago, Mark H. said:

I don't read Riderfans. 

Neither do I. And honestly I thought your quote was Riderfans.com slogan. 
 

I don’t read. - rider fans. 

[Fatty Liver]

4 hours ago, wbbfan said:

I'm not even mad tbh. He was at least soo transparent and straight forward that it's hard to hate him. He lived every moment like it was his last. Played hard, partied hard, slept... honestly I wouldn't be surprised if he slept in the locker room with some of the turn arounds I saw from him partying to playing.  I loved football as much as any thing in my life till my kid was born. When I turned to coaching low level I was trekking across the continent to every back water imaginable to participate in clinics from positional to coaching. Awful trips on shoe string budgets staying in places soo greasy it make the trailer park boys blush. The wish to play more was as strong after as it was when I got to play, but still I hated the weight room, and the strength and conditioning stuff. Some people just aren't wired for that. I'd rather work stupid hard than lift weights or run. 

Maybe thats part of why I love blink soo much. He's my spirit animal. 

Andrew Harris basically said the same in his recent interview, gave up strength and conditioning later in his career and focused more on yoga, movement and flexibility, same thing with George St. Pierre, gymnastics and water workouts replaced weight lifting.  

[wbbfan]

1 hour ago, Fatty Liver said:

Andrew Harris basically said the same in his recent interview, gave up strength and conditioning later in his career and focused more on yoga, movement and flexibility, same thing with George St. Pierre, gymnastics and water workouts replaced weight lifting.  

I did see Harris talking about yoga and movement stuff late in his time here. 
 
Gsp worked with ido portal, who is the greatest movement coach in history. And his head trainer, firas zahabi, is among the very best at running camps and managing fighters training needs. (Up there with winklejohn) 

 every camp and fight cycle, firas basically tore down gsps game plan and style to rebuild and evolve it. At times completely changing it. He micro managed gsps to training regiment to an extraordinary degree. Every one saw movement coaches become popular from ido/firas and then condits crazy guy. But what a lot of people didn’t see is gsp doing some thing different every training day. In camp or out of it. 
 A lot of people have tried to replicate what tristar and Jackson-winklejohn do/did. Almost none have been successful. 

 Plus, gsp didn’t need a heavy active SnC routine (which if it brings any/enough value to fighting has been widely debated for decades) he basically never stopped training camp during his run. He was training 4 plus days a week multiple times per day in multiple disciplines year round. And his athletic potential was already maximized.  The guy had no off button. 

Probably a half baked plan by Harris to try to shed the responsibility, time and work of football SnC. Which again, is awful for most people who aren’t gymbred. 
 

I’ve also seen people who get too deep into yoga, who end up doing more harm than good. (It’s more a mental failure forcing things rather than a yoga issue). In order to cheat flexibility they end up messing up joints and soft tissues rather than gaining musculoskeletal flexibility. 
 I could see Harris having messed him self up stretching too hard/forcing it rather than stretching smarter. 

2 hours ago, Goalie said:

Neither do I. And honestly I thought your quote was Riderfans.com slogan. 
 

I don’t read. - rider fans. 

Billboard material, or maybe banner material on this site lol