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    Goodbye, Mister Alexander

    We released him today. I assume that we want to bring Lindsey or one of the LBs off the PR and Alexander balked at going back there.

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    Here a cut, there a cut, everywhere a cut cut. How many guys will end up wearing double blue in a game this year?

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    Quote Originally Posted by 1argoholic View Post
    Here a cut, there a cut, everywhere a cut cut. How many guys will end up wearing double blue in a game this year?
    If they win ... who cares.

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    I have to say I'm not overly impressed with the recruiting on defence this season. A number of guys who made the team out of camp have subsequently been found wanting. I still have faith in Jones as a player personnel guy and a DC, but events to date are disappointing in both areas.

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    Quote Originally Posted by paulwoods13 View Post
    I have to say I'm not overly impressed with the recruiting on defence this season. A number of guys who made the team out of camp have subsequently been found wanting. I still have faith in Jones as a player personnel guy and a DC, but events to date are disappointing in both areas.
    I was thinking the same thing at the last home game. Signed a lot of guys (Marah, Horsley, Leak, Alexander) and more, some as free agents or from the evaluation camps that immediately either didn't look good enough or well suited to the Canadian game and were early cuts.
    Quite often it looks like quantity over quality in the recruiting process.
    A lot of us (myself included) took some shots at Winnipeg before the season started but a couple of the D linemen they have recruited in the last couple of years would look good in the Double Blue lineup!!

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    I think in the Milanovich + Barker era we have had the most transactions in the whole league. I don't have any proof but it seems guys come cand go so often. It also seems we activate guys on and off of the PR all the time too. Tonye-Tonye gets signed to the PR but plays the first the week on specials.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Argo57 View Post
    A lot of us (myself included) took some shots at Winnipeg before the season started but a couple of the D linemen they have recruited in the last couple of years would look good in the Double Blue lineup!!
    Winnipeg's D-line puts up great stats, but that can be so overrated at times. The way Calgary, with a QB making his first pro start, beat them over and over with the screen pass last night also says something about that d-line.

    Quote Originally Posted by ArgoGabe22
    Tonye-Tonye gets signed to the PR but plays the first the week on specials.
    Maybe another team tried to sign him and the Argos had to activate or lose him?
    Last edited by AngeloV; 07-27-2013 at 05:02 PM.
    It's us vs the rest of the country

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    As I've said before, I'm a big fan of giving the PR guys shots as frequently as possible. And - heartless robot that I am - I'm glad that our staff has little reluctance to make changes when they see an opportunity to improve the team. Players are much closer to commodities than family.

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    Quote Originally Posted by AngeloV View Post
    Winnipeg's D-line puts up great stats, but that can be so overrated at times. The way Calgary, with a QB making his first pro start, beat them over and over with the screen pass last night also says something about that d-line.



    Maybe another team tried to sign him and the Argos had to activate or lose him?
    Or perhaps it says more about their linebackers.

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    Mister Alexander didn't get to the QB and neither did Niko Brown so they keep looking. Maybe this Lindsey guy will be the one. It has been a while since the Argos have had a real dominating RE. Jonathan Brown wasn't bad, but I would like to see another Ed Harrington type.

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