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Forde has dual citizenship from birth so under the new CBA he qualifies as a national. Forde is the hybrid example. Like a Prius?

Spit. Maybe Mulumba will still fall back into our laps, but whatever it takes to pry Gaydosh out of Hamilton, it would probably be worth it.

What of his brother Wang?

Finally, the Pall over the Bombers has been removed.

My guess is yes, he's won a lot of contests. lol ....and scared a lot of children. Not to mention a fair number of livestock.

Cold weather will do that.

He apparently did put on more weight coming into the 2013 season. Probably by taking Viagra before getting onto the scale.

Its a great signing if you know for sure that Durant is not going to be effective any more and also that Sunseri and whomever else are going to suck. Let the Rider fans gloat. If they are looking to Glenn to lead them to the promised land, they are going to be wandering in the wilderness for a while yet.

Hurl's speed may make him better suited to be an outside linebacker, and if Muamba returns, we're all set for years.

You're assuming the Riders could have kept Hurl. You can't force a player to re-sign and you can't assume the Riders "let him walk" either. It's certainly a possibility that Hurl told the Riders to sod off so he could try to follow Richie Hall here. It would be safe to assume that Hall's input to O'Shea would have been sought before signing Hurl, so Hurl may well have underutilized talents as a linebacker.

I hope that we don't put all of our eggs in one basket with Hurl at MLB. I see that as a critical position, andas much as I would love to see a Canuck MLB of the O'Shea grade emerge here, I would rather have a dominating import than a mediocre non-import.

Or, if that doesn't come to pass, "Willy Cut"

Low boredom threshold.

Well... obviously nothing applies in all cases. You can buy a cat and train it for 10 years but it will never fly like a bird. You've never heard of a catbird?

If he's not NFL bound and the Bombers haven't been courting him, there's something we don't know.

All well and good, but there is no substitute for CFL experience in the MLB position where the MLB usually calls the defensive set.

Damn, if this is true. We need a stud middle linebacker and one with CFL experience would be a real bonus. Now we have to pin our hopes on Hurl.

Watching that last game of the season again, Willy was just taking too long to make his reads. He was given the ball on the 5 yard line with 30 seconds left in the first half, dropped back in the pocket and just stood there, until a Stampeder jumped on him and he fumbled. In the third quarter Marve was given the same opportunity with the ball on the 5 and he dropped back and fired a bullet in to Denmark for the TD. Willy has to get rid of the ball faster. Right on. At the end of the season, apart from the physical beating he had taken, Willy looked like a deer in the headlights and that concerns me. I hope he can shake all that off before the start of training camp. We're going to see how he is very early in the season, and i think our next best hope is Marve, wonky knee and all.

I hope that Curran is aware of the tremendous history of great linebackers here in Winnipeg and the esteem they were and are held in. Tradition has to count for something, doesn't it?

I don't think that Edmonton is going to be a whole lot better than last year. We might as well concede first place to the Stamps, but after that, there are so many question marks about the other western teams that it is almost a craps shoot. BC has quarterback issues, Sask looks to be on the downslide, Edmonton has a lot of weak areas, and then there are the Bombers who are rebuilding once again. Third place for the Bombers is a definite possibility as long as Willy returns to form.

And if he qualified for pre-med, he is no dummy.

Grigsby in the open... No one can touch him. He... could.... go.... all... the... way. Oh, he's brought down by a slight gust of wind. Outta nowhere. If you mean all the way sideline to sideline, I would agree. But sudden gusts would still be a problem. I don't think he will be in the league this year.

I think Cotton is going to be a good one, but I am looking to Goossen and Graig Newman to be impact players this year. I keep getting this nagging feeling that Willy is not going to live up to expectations this year, and I hope that our backups are as good as we think.

Well, we could, out of respect, name a month after Glenn when he retires.

But O'Shea thought Etchevery was a good hire, so we will have to wait and see. We do have a good core group in the defensive backfield, though and some good and promising Canadian talent, so we are already on first base.