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Sorry Jake. Luv u bae.

Potentially last hours of feeling ridiculously optimistic about the season. I’m so ready to keep believing, though.
GO BLUE!

Some of those games were like a football to the groin.

Time for my wild prediction of the year before the season starts:
Jake Maier plays well enough but not great in Ottawa, in game 4-6 Dinwiddie gives Dru Brown the start and he gets concussed and sidelined in his first start. Maier returns to action the next game and begins playing better while Brown languishes on the bench. In week 13 Zac Collaros suffers a season ending injury, and Elgersma gets the tap to start. After a couple games TE suffers a broken foot leading to a Winnipeg QBing crisis. A trade for Dru Brown is worked out with Ottawa bringing him back to the Bombers. Brown catches fire, while at the same time Winnipeg shuffles the deck on defence to tighten it up. Bombers who are 3rd in the West go on the road and begin a heater culminating in bringing home a Grey Cup. Taylor Elgersma, plays a pivotal role on a broken foot throughout the playoffs as the Bombers change of pace QB. At the Grey Cup parade both Taylor Elgersma and Chris Streveler show up shirtless and wearing fur coats and smoking cigars. Life is right in Bomberland again.
(I would like to note that I am not wishing injury on any QB in this post and would hate to see this exact scenario roll out with the exception of the Grey Cup part)

Yes. The trend very much has the vibe of trying to showcase the league for other people at the expense of existing fans.

In a vacuum, I don't think I would mind this. I'd be able to appreciate the increased revenue and I might talk myself into the DAZN subscription (I used to have it to watch NFL but cancelled it to save money). I feel the same way about the play-off changes. I see a direct way that those changes benefit the league through increases revenue.
But taken all together - and sandwiched around the changes to the field which have no ties to revenue at all - it's hard to swallow. It just feels like I'm being pushed out step by step. Me and my buddies are all guys in our 30's with young families who all have season tickets. But with each announcement, we all feel less and less excited about the future. I don't know how much more we're open to.

I had a leftover day of vacation to use up so I rolled through the stadium today and concentrated on the offense
Bryan Randall appears to have a leg up on the QB2 job, Darryl Hackney looked awful in skelly and throws an ugly ball
Onterrio Smith looks like a total pro out there in the backfield, Ramonce Taylor looked good in limited action but seemed to disappear halfway through practice
Justin Surrency catches everything thrown his way and seems to be a lock to make the team, he even made Roc Carmichael look silly on every rep they matched up for. Antonio Brown can run by everyone on the field but on one rep across the middle, Dwayne Slay lined him up and made him pay for it
Tyson Pencer is a mountain of a man out there and will be a sure-fire ratio breaker at tackle if he keeps this up
We’re going to the Grey Cup

Stewart is absolutely going to ruin the CFL. Tweaks to the schedule and dates are fine. Good idea to try and get more warm weather dates in. Making the regular season far less important will hurt over the long term. It may not be an issue right now, but eventually casual fans learn that they don't need to pay attention until closer to the end of the season. You can already see it with both the NHL and NBA seasons being so long.

So we'll have a season of basically meaningless games... teams treading water leading us into an unnecessary convoluted playoff formula .....All of this to go along with moving the goal posts and whatever else this genius Johnson comes up with...Change for changes sake never goes well

What's the point of playing 18 games to basically just give playoff rankings?
Not sure it solves the problem of teams basically being locked into their seeds by games 15-16.

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You know you (we all) prob could make this happen. That’s a suggestion they likely wouldn’t laugh at. Give me Woli. Give me local bands. Give me dogs and frisbees.

This guy has been in the job less than a year and already deserves the title of worst commish. I really don't trust him at all to make the league better. In fact I worry he will kill it eventually. 

Even after witnessing Zach hit the goalposts last week, I still think moving them is going to be the biggest mistake. And most likely irreversible.

Kudos to whoever painted the lipstick onto that pig

I’m sadly at a point of believing the CFL is on a descent to irrelevance steeper than any time in the history of the league.  And I have no faith in really any of the leadership including Wade Miller to get the nose of the plane back up.
There’s 2 of 9 markets that are stable and able to pay their bills from operations.  The core fan base is in decline and there’s really no broad strategy to change that other than bastardizing the sport and moving it more and more to being a spring league.  All things that kill the brand rather than build it.

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And almost impossible to go back after all the modifications are done. If it's a disaster we are stuck with it 

They also said they can hear Streveler screaming expletives all the way from the radio booth 

yeah, i’m disappointed he never fulfilled his potential and i’m sure he is too. hate to see that happen to any one. but especially a guy who bleed blue n gold and was key to our 19 win 
He reminds me of buck. I woke t be surprised to see chris go into coaching 

DT and DB on OB says it's the reconstructed knee 😪

It's sad for the guy. I agree hes not a great qb, but you have to love his work ethic and heart. Suddenly we're in the same qb situation as last fall. Hopefully Wilson will learn from his mistakes quickly. 

They also said they can hear Streveler screaming expletives all the way from the radio booth