SpeedFlex27

Yeah, Straughan hasn't played a down & suddenly he's this guy who'll be great??? Little premature for that.

The Darian Durant that isn't the guy who left the Riders is still better than the 2 players we had hit the field last season behind Nichols so I'm good with it.

He's not expected to carry the team so this is a good scenario for Durant & the Bombers.

Backups only get so many oppportunities & have to shine or at least show signs of progress when they do see the field. Davis never showed that. Probably time to move on.

Yeah, that's why he was sought out as a private qb coach. Why Tim Tebow worked with him for a couple of off seasons as well as other high draft prospects at qb. Cutler is a total headcase. A selfish Me First player who was never going to be successful no matter who he played for. He was successful with Calvillo & Ray, so what? How many coaches before & after Trestman in Montreal & Toronto were failures with those 2 qbs? Sometimes you just talk ****.

Paul Maurice talked about it in his presser yesterday that the NHL is mandated to match teams up off the bye. Both teams have had byes at the same time to even it up.

C'mon man. that is so decidedly one sided & hateful that it ain't funny. You & 17to85 are trying to convince us that Allen was one step above being basically competent. He won 4 Grey Cups. Not every team had great talent surrounding him like the Lions who finished second during the regular season in the West Division in 2000. Glenn could never elevate the players around him but Allen could. Glenn can't win the last game of the season. I've seen him turn coward & turtle more times than any other qb I've seen play. Where Matt Dunigan would spit in the collective face of any defense he faced when he was getting beat up, Glenn just shuts off. I never saw Allen do that. He played & he won. Glennis always the great alternative but never the undisputed starter. Allen was.

He could be a 40 goal scorer in the future.

Mike Smith played his ass off for the Flames. It should have been 4 or 5-1 for the Jets. Hellebuyck came up big in the OT & shootout. Nice win. Now on to Vancouver for the Canuckleheads.

Your argument is very weak. matter of fact it's shot full of holes.Damon Allen was not just an average qb on par with Kevin Glenn. He was head & shoulders above Glenn. Even Glenn would agree with that assessment.

I think Trestman would have found a way to make it work without Calvillo. He's one of the best qb coaches around so maybe he could have developed one of those guys like Crompton for example, to be a competent CFL qb. They had nothing coaching wise after he left.

It unravelled in Montreal after Trestman left.

No kidding. David Clarke who used his position as Sherriff to bully, antagonize & intimidate others??? Wow.

Former Stampeder quarterback Jerry Keeling who led the Stamps to their Grey Cup victory in 1971 has died at the age of 78. http://www.cbc.ca/sports/football/cfl/jerry-keeling-obit-calgary-stampeders-1.4497040

What I don't understand is how the politicians have made the budget process so sadly political. This is about funding govt departments & not about forwarding political wish lists. Trump, the Dems, GOP, the Senate, Congress & both parties all share the blame for this. They're all idiots.

Maybe, shoulda, coulda. Then there's your last sentence.

What season could Glenn have been an MOP? When the chips were done Allen won. With Glenn when the chips were down he picked them up. He has never won the last game he played no matter what team he played for. He's never been an MOP calibre qb. Especially compared to Damon Allen.

Allen took a lot of flack when he played & some fans seem to remember his laid back attitude on the field in a negative way. I think some believe that he didn't care but that was just the way he was. He was a competitor but he wasn't vocal about it. The guy is a deserved HOF'er. Glenn will get in due to longevity but he isn't anywhere as good as Allen was when he played.

Allen won Grey Cups in Edmonton, BC & Toronto.

I also seem to remember that Rick Foley's brother was the same way on Rider fans. That he was permanently banned for similar behaviour.

The sister of former Stamps safety Eric Fraser used to post on the Stamps fan forum. However, only when someone criticized her brother. Then she'd go crazy with rage. She'd fight, argue & insult anyone who thought Eric played badly. Which was most times as he really wasn't that good. Couldn't cover the field as he wasn't fast enough & couldn't recognize the play in time. One day Fraser gave up a TD late & the Stamps lost the game. Afterwards there was all kinds of criticism about how he played & she went nuts on everyone with anger & insults. Finally, I posted calling her an idiot, that she's embarrassing her brother as well as the Stampeder organization & not making it better for him with the fans by acting like a petulant child on the forum & if she didn't like criticism of her brother to get lost & stay away. Anyway, that seemed to work as she didn't post as much after that. Then he was drafted by Ottawa & she disappeared. So, I'll take credit for that. LOL.

You can laugh all you want but the fact of the matter is if Nichols goes down we are finished.

I've seen 7.

Incredible as it is I think it speaks to his professionalism as a player.

I didn't say it was useless as coaches need to appraise talent while forming a team but you can't base future performance on it either as there are so many variables.