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by Toppy Vann
Mon Jan 29, 2024 3:23 pm
Forum: CFL Football
Topic: Yikes! Lions 2024 potential free agents
Replies: 515
Views: 3729149

Re: Yikes! Lions 2024 potential free agents

With this legal tampering window starting Feb 4th, I wonder how much back channels are feeling out players in the CFL as I type this. Everyone in the CFL knows someone on other teams whether it's a coach or player or other. If the Lions were thinking they were going to lose Betts to Montreal, what c...
by Toppy Vann
Mon Jan 29, 2024 3:06 pm
Forum: CFL Football
Topic: Alex Bazzie - Some guys aren't so bright.
Replies: 3
Views: 17426

Re: Alex Bazzie - Some guys aren't so bright.

Bazzie should have retired from football and moved to California where retail theft under $900USD is legal....Some States aren't so bright either. Sad to see that this occurred as he had a job coaching so this makes this even stranger. Not all athletes are great citizens but I thought this guy was ...
by Toppy Vann
Fri Jan 26, 2024 10:07 pm
Forum: CFL Football
Topic: Yikes! Lions 2024 potential free agents
Replies: 515
Views: 3729149

Re: Yikes! Lions 2024 potential free agents

Shawn Lemon got signed quickly with Montreal. Yeah, he's getting older but he and Darnell Sankey seem to be credited significantly by their GM and coaches not just for their play but their standard and leadership. I think it was one of the TSN side line reporters who quoted Noel Thorpe about how pla...
by Toppy Vann
Wed Jan 24, 2024 3:53 pm
Forum: CFL Football
Topic: Yikes! Lions 2024 potential free agents
Replies: 515
Views: 3729149

Re: Yikes! Lions 2024 potential free agents

I was surprised that Mason Fine got signed and not Dolegala and I too wonder if BC might be interested in the latter. I'm still think Fine might be a development project worth investing in. I still think there's gotta to be a few more QBs coming on the market more than just via Free Agency as 6 QBs ...
by Toppy Vann
Tue Jan 23, 2024 11:46 am
Forum: Lionbackers Pub
Topic: 2024 U.S. Presidential Election Thread
Replies: 17
Views: 2395

Re: 2024 U.S. Presidential Election Thread

Donald Trump is losing it but we can't laugh yet as his ideas are very likely to be in Canada with the CONservatives https://twitter.com/BigBlueWaveUSA/status/1749519924559798755 President Trump made a bit of a historical blunder during his Fourth of July “Salute to America” speech Thursday when he ...
by Toppy Vann
Tue Jan 23, 2024 11:43 am
Forum: CFL Football
Topic: Yikes! Lions 2024 potential free agents
Replies: 515
Views: 3729149

Re: Yikes! Lions 2024 potential free agents

Stephen Dunbar was due a $65,000 bonus which is insane even for the Elks. Now released his signed in the UFL. Someone would have to explain this one to me as he was 3rd highest paid and had an injury issue that year. Does the UFL play well or is he planning a return after that season is done or some...
by Toppy Vann
Tue Jan 23, 2024 11:25 am
Forum: CFL Football
Topic: Should CFL teams retire numbers of stars?
Replies: 24
Views: 167028

Re: Should CFL teams retire numbers of stars?

A correction in my claim there are 100 numbers to choose from for football. There's actually 101 as you can have 0 and 00 plus 1-99. Read that after I posted the number. My bottom line are the Irvin statements where he gets to hear his name on TV everytime the guy wearing his number makes a catch or...
by Toppy Vann
Fri Jan 19, 2024 1:16 pm
Forum: CFL Football
Topic: Yikes! Lions 2024 potential free agents
Replies: 515
Views: 3729149

Re: Yikes! Lions 2024 potential free agents

I'm sticking with I don't see Streveler back in the CFL and that includes the Bombers who have Collaros and Dakota Prukop still. I took that story that included advice to Rourke as CS actually not uncomfortable with the vagabond life he's had in the NFL and if. they ask him, he's coming. Some player...
by Toppy Vann
Fri Jan 19, 2024 9:27 am
Forum: CFL Football
Topic: Should CFL teams retire numbers of stars?
Replies: 24
Views: 167028

Should CFL teams retire numbers of stars?

My own belief is that retiring numbers is not the best way to recognize and maintain the legacy of the player who used that number. I believe though that most fans embrace retiring numbers but for fun what do others think or not think of this issue. Here's the list of CFL retired numbers on Wikipedi...
by Toppy Vann
Fri Jan 19, 2024 8:46 am
Forum: CFL Football
Topic: Yikes! Lions 2024 potential free agents
Replies: 515
Views: 3729149

Re: Yikes! Lions 2024 potential free agents

Not sure if this should be another FA thread for the CFL vs. just the Lions FAs. I wonder if Streveler is too pricey for the CFL as Hambone and others note, he's not likely to win a starting job easily or quickly. CFL on TSN Milt Stegall @MiltStegallTSN Is @dschoen5 #DaltonSchoen on his way to the @...
by Toppy Vann
Thu Jan 18, 2024 2:11 pm
Forum: CFL Football
Topic: Yikes! Lions 2024 potential free agents
Replies: 515
Views: 3729149

Re: Yikes! Lions 2024 potential free agents

Where are the Lions at QB as the mix last year never had a great feel to it and with Dane Evans gone, there needs to be something in the event of injury. Possibly an eye at the FA QBs upcoming or a castaway from Ottawa like Pigrome maybe haha. That QB roster in the nation's capital is crowded. The B...
by Toppy Vann
Mon Jan 15, 2024 11:25 pm
Forum: CFL Football
Topic: CFL Coaching & GM Changes for 2024
Replies: 74
Views: 439500

Re: CFL Coaching & GM Changes for 2024

Notice the combos of OFF and DEF in titles.
I've thought about this myself at times.
...Josh Bell as pass game coordinator and DB coach ...
former Edmonton linebacker J.C Sherritt as linebackers coach and run game coordinator,
by Toppy Vann
Mon Jan 15, 2024 11:19 pm
Forum: CFL Football
Topic: Yikes! Lions 2024 potential free agents
Replies: 515
Views: 3729149

Re: Yikes! Lions 2024 potential free agents

The Elks make strange moves at times.

Maybe Ceresna was making it clear he was going FA and wanted out.

A trade gives them good quality here.
by Toppy Vann
Sat Jan 13, 2024 12:06 pm
Forum: CFL Football
Topic: Coach Phil - Don't Knock the CFL....featuring Vernon Adams
Replies: 2
Views: 486

Re: Coach Phil - Don't Knock the CFL....featuring Vernon Adams

This is JT O'Sullivan who spent 1 year in the CFL (2012 )after a long wandering career in the NFL and Europe discussing the NFL and CFL differences for QBs. Currently runs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-F75WcQ34v4 He played one game for Sask behind Durant and Drew Willy and went 9 for 83 yds. It w...
by Toppy Vann
Sat Jan 13, 2024 9:04 am
Forum: CFL Football
Topic: Coach Phil - Don't Knock the CFL....featuring Vernon Adams
Replies: 2
Views: 486

Coach Phil - Don't Knock the CFL....featuring Vernon Adams

To all the closed minded NFL Lifers, trolls, haters and Monday morning QB’s….

Don’t knock the
@CFL
till you actually watch a game.




The Video link here: