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Better have a huge catch radius for Fajardo.

The pace is allowing me to watch a Jays game at the same time. Need to pick it up.

Shocked that Calgary didn't trade down to 8 or 9 to make that pick of the 11th ranked prospect.

Glad Chris Jones is so nuts about NCAA guys. We'll take the stud from U of A.

Shocking the best OL at the combine who is the best OL on film who played every single play for years for a great CIS program is a top pick in the CFL Draft. If people can't see that one coming a mile away maybe they need to start taking notes.

Priority on guys who are available and more likely ready to play day 1 early.

The 3down analysis is so poor when they try to peg value of CFL draftees. That guy could have been around for their next pick at 11!!! **** right off. If that's the guy on your board you take him especially in a piss poor draft like this.

This guy is as good as anyone you'd get in the mid rounds or lower of the Canadian draft. Hopefully we can get him into camp and developed.

Also how can the top 3 teams be in the same division? One of the East teams is nearly guaranteed a spot in the GC game so the top East team should at least be 3rd if not 2nd. And how the hell are the Redblacks ahead of anyone?

Still in a good spot to grab a LB/S type who can make our team immediately. These “six year university” guys should automatically get the nickname Van Wilder.

The first Aussie to learn how to placekick will be rich.

It's not really that hard to extrapolate, especially for someone like Hufnagel who called plays in the league and played QB for >20 years.

I think we’ll go LB/DB for at least one of our first two picks and I don’t see Schakel getting by us. We’ll have a need in that spot and the OL crop isn’t great.

What have you seen more…a punt recovered by an onside player or a punt muffed by a returner and then recovered by the kicking team? There’s way less incentive to take the risk on catching those punts particularly in the wind. Now we’ll see if teams adjust to leave a couple onside guys with the punter to create a bit of a different risk for the return team.

Here’s a rule change that would actually create “offense” (I think they need a clear idea of what they are after, just making it easier to score points by field position isn’t all that exciting). Anyway, the rule change: lower the number of offensive players who have to be on the LOS to 5. Essentially all eligible receivers then have forward motion, increase downfield passing, and you remove a bunch of boring penalties for illegal formations.

If it's a 45 yard punt in the air, sure. If it's a 35 yard punt in the air there's no reason to risk catching it in the air now. See it all the time in amateur football. Most punts aren't returnable for starters unless the punter screws up.

The hash marks will have the unintended consequence of killing the vertical passing game. Play callers will always opt for the path of least resistance and now you'll be watching a lot of 20-30 yard horizontal passes out into space. Guess exciting for the YAC? It's an alright rule in amateur football where most of the kickers only have range to 35ish yards. In pro football with the kicking game it will make the coin toss the most important aspect of many games in the fall, even more than it has been of late. The all 15 yard No Yards also gives no incentive to the return team to catch the ball which won't help the return game as hoped. Hopefully more cover teams leave guys onside.

Because he’s great for a Global but which American would you have sat for him last year?

Clements is in the top 5 for me. Collaros is tricky without the longevity but just winning. Similar to Clements in putting a very good team over the top to great. Jones took a team that had no hope and made it a contender, arguably saved the franchise, ridiculous numbers for a 3 year period where he just got demolished behind a patchwork OL. Jacobs and Ploen are a given. Dunigan a little too mercurial, belongs to the league or maybe Edmonton more than anyone. Glenn doesn't rate on the great scale for me aside from longevity, one borderline great season here but nothing spectacular in terms of his own performance or winning. If I boiled it down to the best season of each player as a Bomber and had to rank them in order of who I'd pick in a draft: Jacobs (insane passing stats for his era, like Flutie-esque) Ploen Collaros Clements Jones Brock would be 6th, just a little less efficient than Khari. Dunigan would be 7th but never played a full season for us without significant injury (the one he played most he tore his achilles in the second last game).

Give your head a shake and open your eyes. The whole league is on one year contracts even QB's. It's always build for this year. Who cares about Taman? It's 2022. Taman is a guy who made sure to make the third mistake so the first two mistakes made sense. The structure of the organization is built to succeed because we have a hall-of-fame coach, personnel department and front office. We have a winning team with several key players who have built a culture of winning. To pay those guys who always show up and decide that one guy was a concern in terms of being in shape and maybe missing some games is overthinking. We aren't talking in maybes. Who's been our best player through 5 playoff games that led to 2 rings? As long as that guy wants to play this season he's on my team. People are talking like Harris sat out the playoffs or something. He's the only back who touched the ball in the playoffs and he dominated.

Are you kidding? I'm fine with moving on from players. Harris is this team. Do you think we even get to either Grey Cup without him? It's a big risk to move on. Has Augustine even hit 50 carries in a season? I'm not one to overstate the value of one football player to a team but man this is Harris' team. Why the hell would Harris have been benched when he's averaging 16 carries 90 yards a game and superb pass protection? I get it that RB's sometimes fall off a cliff but the guy literally dragged this team into a Grey Cup two months ago. We're not talking about Charles Roberts or Milt Stegall we're talking about a guy who just built the culture, did the work and got the result...TWICE. I trust O'Shea to make the call but I have strong concerns that they overthought this one and potentially will regret that later. This team is not built to win in 2023 or 2024 or 2025. To me there's no reason to favour a 25 year old player over a 35 year old one when the 35 year old clearly just outperformed the other guy. Who's our next QB, who's our next big defensive star? All our guys are old. You can't build for 2 years down the line anyway but especially not with the current contract rules.

It's way beyond Milt tbh and we don't have the rehash that but we just won two Grey Cups and which player led that culture? It's always one year. It's not the NHL. How many years is Collaros signed for? Jeffcoat? Jefferson? Bighill? You think that Johnny Augustine at age 30 is gonna carry us when all those guys are gone or retired? Get real. Brady could tear his ACL or break his tib-fib again and be a total non-factor. It's football. You build a team for now. All our big players are signed for one year and pushing 30 or older. We win now, we're not worried about Brady Oliviera in his prime.

Yeah he won the job. That's not really how this is playing out. We looked pretty fragile in a game like the West Final and the guys who snapped the team out of it were Harris and Jeffcoat. Until someone steps up into that role on offense we're a worse team, and I'm not really sure it had to be that way. Lawler and others I get, this one is way different.

You can watch the games or look at the stats. Our downfield passing game was up when Harris was playing and down each week he wasn't. The OL was the same, the QB was the same. The guys installing and calling the plays didn't trust the other backs to block, especially Oliviera. Sure he was essentially a rookie, but in football that's fluff and even fluffier in a one-year contract era. You build a team to win now.

Harris and Augustine ended up in opposite places of my expectations heading into this offseason. Augustine has shown he can play but nothing beyond a game here and there, Oliviera has shown bursts but is pretty average so far and really nothing in the pass game as a threat or blocker. We have no idea how these guys will show in games that Harris dominated regardless of his health. We know Harris will show up. If you're building a team to win in 2022 you take Harris over either or even both of those guys, and really in the CFL you're building a team for one year. I feel of any decision this one will bite us in the ass the most when the games matter. This is a mistake IMO.