Everything posted by Valderan_CA
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Training camp report June 11
Richardson? Louie. Volny also injured. Bad case of fumbleitis (although that hit was pretty brutal)
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Main Camp Day 8
It says Goossen plays center and Pencer doesn't. Just by sheer expectations of the position, Pencer would take longer to develop than Goossen. That being said, I'm still leaning towards the bust label on Pencer if he can't make strides this year. Yeh I'd say if Pencer doesn't show that he could be a starting tackle/starting Guard this year it is probably time to move on from him. That being said... we have kept Krowasculsdrskf around for longer with even less demonstration of potential.
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DE Ronnell Lewis
Holy **** does he ever look like a special teams demon
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Main Camp Day 2 (Reports and Discussion)
How bad was Smith's ham injury that they straight up cut him?
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Depth Chart
Except that when Suber tackles a guy it's in the open field, how good a tackler would he be if he had to shed blocks from very large angry men to make those tackles? You could easily argue that open field tackling is harder... but I'm not going to.... I'll take more stock in the depth chart once the roster is announced... You can't really compare the two Shedding blocks to make a gap tackle vs. Open field tackle Sure open field tackling probably takes more technical skill... shedding blocks requires size and strength (when you are trying to shed a 300lb Olineman) Suber is a great open field tackler... I wouldn't ask him to bull rush an OL I'm not trying to start an argument here, just food for thought.... if you compare apples-to-apples when it comes to tackling would it be easier for Suber bullrush a 5'10 190lb O-linemen or Anderson to tackle a 6'2 260lb runner in the open field? Probably the former... I personally think sure open field tacklers are far more rare in the CFL I'd say both would do a poor job and probably miss more often than not (Suber wouldn't close the gap / Anderson would miss the open field tackle) Thats why Anderson is the guy we get to close the gap and Suber is the guy we have making open field tackles... But yeh sure... sometimes suber could get enough of his body in the way to be able to trip up an RB in the gap... he probably wouldn't last many games in that role though
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Depth Chart
Except that when Suber tackles a guy it's in the open field, how good a tackler would he be if he had to shed blocks from very large angry men to make those tackles? You could easily argue that open field tackling is harder... but I'm not going to.... I'll take more stock in the depth chart once the roster is announced... You can't really compare the two Shedding blocks to make a gap tackle vs. Open field tackle Sure open field tackling probably takes more technical skill... shedding blocks requires size and strength (when you are trying to shed a 300lb Olineman) Suber is a great open field tackler... I wouldn't ask him to bull rush an OL
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Rookie Camp Day 2 (Reports and Discussion)
goddamn.... Ed Tait good sports journalist
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Depth Chart
There are guys in this camp who are likely to be just as good as Matthews Maybe but if Matthews becomes available I still want the Bombers to do their best to resign him. The Bombers should learn from the past... I don't want Matthews to be the next Geroy Simon. Bombers found him goes to the NFL then back to the CFL and made a HOF career for different team. In fairness we did make a healthy offer to Geroy when he came back to the CFL but BC offered more... so it was simple economics for him not lack of effort by us... Wasn't just BC offered more - At the time he was coming back we had a dream team receiving corps. ABIII, Stegall, and someone else
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Rookie Camp Day 2 (Reports and Discussion)
LOL - please tell me that you didn't just equate Dieter Brock with Michael Bishop. There's having an arm and a brain, and just an arm. I hope Marve has both like Dieter did (unless he was at the zoo), but we will see. To be fair to Michael Bishop, in his later years I really don't think it was a lack of brain - he seemed to understand what / where he needed to put the ball. He just didn't have a hint of accuracy
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Madani: CFLPA Recommends Strike Vote To Members
No deal means current CBA remains in effect does it not. Unless the CFLPA calls for a strike vote prior to camps opening (which means shits gone REALLY BAD) camps will open with vets coming in
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Rookie Camp Day 1 (Reports and Discussion)
I totally agree on this
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Johnny Sears at Safety
Essentially their plan is to replace Brandon Stewart and Jovon Johnson's positions with NIP's then right?
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Rookie Camp
Correct. Rookie camp should proceed as scheduled, regardless of CBA negotiations. Typically the QBs still show up for rookie camp though, don't they? (this thread will quickly devolve into a CBA talks thread) My expectation is that they still will, at least for the first day until Flory finds out and figures he can use this as leverage. I'm not getting the impression that his mind works far ahead enough to have thought of this already. I guess we only get our rookie QB's in camp then... we have a couple don't we
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Kris Robertson Signs
I was excited to see him play last season... very disappointed by the pre-season injury
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Free Agency - 2014...
Montreal has to beat out Ottawa and at least tie with the 4th place team in the west to get the last playoff spot. They get 2 extra games against eastern teams instead of western teams. They have a very good defense. All of that gives them a pretty big advantage over Edmonton and Winnipeg IMHO. I don't know if I'd agree with that. I certainly don't know if I'd agree that it would be a big enough difference that a roster player to-be would look at it and say "hey, this team is markedly better than this one" They were the 3rd worst D in the league last year, they need to change their ratio and they lost their middle linebacker. It could definitely go either way. Their D is relying on a lot of relatively old players in key spots too. Wasn't their D just blitz on every single down last year?
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[MERGED] Bombers sign RB Kevin Smith
That's like saying he's been more dog crap then cat crap. Both brands are pretty terrible when it comes to quality. Every person I know who's owned a Volkswagen has hated it. Problem isn't quality on the VW's... it's the ******** things you need to do to actually do maintenance on them. First time I've ever needed a 12 volt battery charger to change my brakes (I didn't have the program to interact with the computer)
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Quinn Smith Tests Positive for Steroids
Steroids affect his ability to train - He won't need to come off his off-season steroid use to be able to avoid mandatory testing in the CFL... just pay more ******* attention to his cycle so that he doesn't test positive when the season starts. Steroid use is particularily effective at helping you train in the off-season... Yes the use had an effect on his combine numbers, largely in that he was able to train more effectively (less downtime = more reps) up to the combine. The thing about steroids is that they aren't some magic pill that suddenly makes you a monster athlete... all that they do is let you train harder by making your recovery time faster/more effective.
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2014 CFL Draft blog
So... Quinn Smith on Steroids... basically fucks everyones mock draft right
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Bombers sign former NFL WR Donavon Kemp
I don't know... sloppy routes get punished by good DB's... the CFL has a lot of DB's who can cover well
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Bombers negotiate Transit game day discount
I don't think I ever got into anything but a school bus on the way to the game from the Taylor Park and Ride
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Bombers negotiate Transit game day discount
More parking lots is the opposite of good development practice
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Walters at 1pm
Straight up I don't think Walters has any interest in risking not being able to take someone who could potentially start at center in this draft. That means we don't trade down if Lavertu is taken 1st since we could trade into 5th and have whomever we traded with take Goosen anyways (or someone behind them)
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Final Scouting Bureau Rankings
That's a pretty bad deal for us - I'd be ok if it included a 3rd rounder as well (so basically Cauchy for a 3rd rounder and swapping first round picks)
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Mini camp updates
Ok, sounds good. Let's go Willy then...but what if Willy's not the best? Continue to evaluate your other talent in practices throughout the season but as long as Willy is performing well on game day for at least the first half of the season I don't expect anyone to displace him from being the starter. If someone is doing extremely well as a back-up they may get to show their stuff in garbage time at the end of some games. If Willy shits the bed hard I still expect him to be our starter until at least the second half of the season, unless it's 110 yards per game bad (which is not expected to be the case)
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Chad Johnson to workout for Als
Watched his interview from the mini-camp Doesn't sound like he thinks he's hot **** cocky about coming up here