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100%. Gonna be a good coach or even SC guy when he retires any way.

You say this here, but then are dictating that the league and teams dont know how to coach tackling or prevent concussions as well as you. You went from saying Americans who don’t come north to play in the cfl aren’t good enough, to Americans never lose spots to Canadians, to our roster use is infallible. I’m not surprised you’re confused having moved them soo much in little over one page of discussion lmao

What’s your point? You’re the one moving the goal posts to cover up a bad take.

Have you paid attention to the past two years? We specifically got an extra pick then year for doing that that. And yes, Americans compete with Canadians for back up spots. We’ve literally di’d guys not to use them at all. You can bury your head in the sand if you like, but doesn’t change the fact we haven’t gotten the most out of the roster. We’ve refused to use the naturalized American as well.

This would be fantastic. Personally I think one more ni or global as well would be good.

Yes, they are. Teams, like us, have been starting more nis then required. That doesn’t include back ups. Americans and Canadians compete against each other for back up spots as di/american. It does, but it’s a fine balance. The quality on the field it self would and has improved with being reduced and augmented. But the enjoyment of the league is greater with Canadians and with Canada producing better and better talent. The fact we can’t keep most of the top 10 ish best players (or where ever the elite cut off is each year) and the fact barely Canadian guys shoot to the top of the draft even as fringe players in the ncaa tells you all you need to know about the talent level. I love that we have Canadians in the game, I wouldn’t want the game with out it. But it would be better in terms of on field quality. I think what said earlier by dt was they have to miss one week. You can revoke the 6 Game but I don’t think you can before missing at least one game.

Figured it would be injury list guys. I think biggie is just on rest he sounded like he was good to go on BFS with bauming the other day. Parker I hope is well soon. Noah just can’t stay healthy damn. I can’t imagine neufeld retiring wouldn’t be announced in a better way. He’s been here like 10 years.

For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong. Often the most talented guys are the hardest to bring up and push through the visa process. No different than college programs have to work hard on the high talent guys who struggle with academics. As it is we will probably never see a guy who cashed NIL cheques in the ncaa up here. We often have guys on the NL for over a year, that’s not just waiting out nfl chances that’s convincing guys to come up.

I think a lot of people, especially fans, under estimate just how hard it is to get American players who’ve never heard of the cfl to come up here. Especially from the south. Front office types scouts especially work americans more than they sleep. coaches, state side agents, and nfl/ncaa scouts are 90% of the pipe line. Guys like Mac win these types over and they help sell kids who are on the out side of the nfl trajectory.

Yeah. safety over aesthetics is understandable. I worry that better helmets and guardian helmets are not the answer to the problem. Plenty of offensive players already use their helmet like a weapon. Is a defensive player going to be called if that thing is the first point of contact? How hard would it be to tackle a qb with one on legally?

Don’t need to have that much of a wr skill here as a kr to back up. But yeah, making the roster as an imp rb here is about as easy as becoming qb1 as a rookie here in week 1 with no injuries.

And got exactly the positions we needed to fill as well. I'd love to see samson break out as well and become platoon partners with Lawson in side.

Mos made a great comment in the presser yesterday. He said that they all really value both CMI and Clercius going into their last ncaa season knowing they weren't going to get the reps that they wanted, but sticking it out with their teams any way and finding new roles to support their teams. Its some thing you dont see in the transfer portal era. Guys hit it and quit it soo fast now. I mean we have lots of guys who transferred multiple times on the roster. It takes a special mind set for guys like that, especially soo talented and athletic to choose loyalty to their program even if their program doesn't choose it to them. Really makes me think both those guys are gonna overachieve here.

That is 100% true. Though he struggled blocking guys who crossed his face or played nose last year. Did hodge get a single pick in his mock draft right, out side of us drafting the 3 fbs of course. He was the ultimate FIFO guy, First in first out, LOL. Smith is an ideal fit. Kr, RB, but also played multiple WR spots, ran Jet motion, the whole package. He could back up multiple positions and be a super sub. He's a lot like grant in that he is compact (though a good bit heavier,) strong, tough, and an aggressive north south runner. He's got a full kit of cuts, with the full spectrum of speed no gears lacking. He does a great job of using his small stature to his advantage as well hitting through the smallest holes for big gains. I feel like out side of grant we have made strange strange choices at KR, but smith sure should be a front runner. Probably the fastest guy on the field in camp too. Gotta love that every one is wearing the guardian helmet, but in the first clip two guys run facemask first into each other.

Yep, I also think that the ability to roll out MCI, and clercius amongst other good blockers will help allow us to transition away from carrying the extra OL. Fox is another head scratcher from last year. One of my biggest roster worries right now is that we are again going to try to have Thomas play the most reps of any DT. Lawson and Fox should be penciled in as DT starters right now.

Either way we've dodged a bullet. I feel like guys who are healthy cuts in the first wave of camp never come back, especially imps.

They wish they were the TC legend that was duane slays! lol. Imagine the jersey potential though. Oh, the all time best name team from TC would be soo entertaining.

Agree and Kevens is replacing bolo. With all 3 we just have a bit more NI depth and better roster balance.

And usually guys who end on our PR and come back the next TC get more time. I'm just saying in general, more time to evaluate might be good. Rookie camp isn't really a strong evaluation tool. Though like I also said, these guys might just be failing at a basic level that they'd be cut any way.

Yep. One of the most amazing facets of our WR core, only one guy on the entire roster at WR is 30 years old. Demski is the oldest and still has plenty of time left. Best WR core and a young prime group too. It's really going to be interesting to see who wins the last spot and why.

Little surprised about Waggoner. Brown was a kr and rb. We are thin at rb, but might just be the reality that no imp rb is gonna make it if they aren’t a full time kr. Alston was starting day one of tc which shows all you need to know about how important that is. Im guessing most of these guys failed fifo/adaptability to the league checks. I wonder if the league would be better off having the first cut after a week of practices.

Looks like cuts include beeksma, Ronnie brown, ravi Alston, waggoner, Siegel and texada.

Augustine did improve a lot on teams over last year as well. I cant see an out right cut of him. He might end up being a scratch some or end up on the pr.

Especially with Kelly out, they have a huge leg up in the east division. Hamilton is still stuck with the corpse of blm, and ott is likely still a year away from being a year away.