I, Steph, will be taking a step back from the pod socials until such a time that we start it back up. find my football opinions @shuds16.bsky.social

Calgary, putting the rain in tRaining camp

Since actual camp starts today. Reminder the high for Stampeders expectations this year is Adams being healthy at Labour Day.

Stamps cuts: DL Jett Bush*, DB Anthony Cook*, Londyn Craft*, qb Joey Gatewood*, ol Khadere Kounta*, dl Cedrick Lattimore*, WR Maxim Malenfant, Tykee Ogle-Kellogg*, Marcus Washington* Injured Veteran List: Defensive lineman Charles Wiley*

Expect the Stamps to be close to the last to get their cuts in, if the past is any indication

Amazing for him!! Happier now Stamps didn't draft him. If only because they have greater immediate needs.

Alford signed! 3downnation.com/2025/05/06/c...

Masin and Alford not among those signed. www.cfl.ca/2025/05/05/s...

In case you were wondering, Stamps have Rookie Camp times listed.

Camp starts this week!

VA is really easy to love as a starting QB. Feat on IG, the day after the draft he's in MTL working out with the top draft pick.

Feel like I should recap/fix the Stamps picks in a single thread. 1. Damien Alford WR Utah 8. Christopher Fortin OL UConn 17. Quincy Vaughn, TE/FB North Dakota 20. Anton Haie, DB Laval 32. Nicky-Alexander Farinaccio, LB Montreal 38. Vyshonne Januasas, WR Guelph

Stamps final pick 65, Ashton Miller-Melancon, DB from Queens

Pick 61 Max von Muehendorfer, OL Western

so much for needing Cdn DL 🤷‍♀️

Pick 56 Matthew Stokman OL, Manitoba

Guess I'll be hanging here for a while 3downnation.com/2025/04/29/a...

Pick 47 Ludovick Choquette, RB, Long Island

Pick 38 Stamps pick Janusas Vyshonne, WR Guelph

Pick 32 Nicky Farinaccio, LB Montreal who according to Ryan who saw it on 3down, missed the whole 2024 season due to hamstring injury.

CFL draft is a bit of a shitshow. Even trying to follow in Twitter, like I just need number, team, player name position and school. The tracker being broken is a joke.

Rourke is off the board (Sask) way too high if you ask me, but the upside is definitely there however slight

Pick 20: Anton Hair DB Montreal, odd they got 2 Cdn DBs in FA

Pick 17 Quincy Vaughn TE, I dunno, sure

guess they can't pick Elgermsa at 20. boo 👎

Pick 8: Christopher Fortin, O-line from UConn, backup as guard and center. They need Cdn O-line, esp C

Here we go: Stamps pick Damien Alford, WR Utah

Dear TSN, Rysen John is not a key departure

Ok, so Cdn draft starts at 4pm local, I might catch first overall before pickup, but likely won't be commenting until after babies go to bed.

And the Global Draft is over, 8 punters from Australia, 1 from NZ, 2 kickers from Ireland. 11 p/k in a 9 team league

With their 2nd pick, Stamps choose Mark Vassett, another Aussie punter from Colorado

Bombers traded up to 2nd over all, swapping with Hamilton to 8th, also swapping 39 from 36 in the Cdn draft later this evening

and the Stamps pick Fraser Masin, punter from ole Miss

a little over an hr until the global draft, I'll try to keep it updated as it happens (for the Stamps) with a final Aussie punter # at the end

wake me when the global draft starts

Draft tomorrow, I expect Stamps to take a punter first in the global and I'm leaning towards a C for the cdn draft later in the day. Like to see wr at 8, dl next and if he's still available Elgermsa at 20. Mini camps are especially rough on QBs, as there's so little time to learn a playbook.

As the NFL draft winds down, time to pay attention CFL fans. We'll soon see who is given UDFA contracts and even more importantly signing $$. I would really like to see the Stamps avoid those guys this year in the drafy. Just feels like they need immediate players.

Colton Hunchak has announced his official retirement from playing, and that he is joining the Stamps coaching staff in a currently unnamed capacity

this pushes it over the top for me. “Belichick is really into his 50-years-younger GF” could only go so far. Happened before and will happen again. but “Younger GF writes memo about optics of laundering nepo coaching hires” makes this the funniest college football story of all time for me

Interesting to see Walker's ceiling, made up of playing time bonuses & incentives

Stamps have Begelton in the top 10, and 3 others in the to 20: Henry, Philpot and Rhymes

Bret Michaels performing half time at the Stampede bowl. Who? I had to look him up. Yay? nay? Seems an odd choice to me, maybe someone can explain it.

He could never back down on a promise. Take Genius for example. Stats were always coming right around the corner, within the next month. Instead of saying we don't know when they'll be fully functional (I don't think they are even yet) but to lie and promise is exhausting to anyone listening

Opinion: Randy Ambrosie’s CFL legacy defined by bad optics, not bad results 3downnation.com/2025/04/06/o... #CFL #BCLions #Elks #Stampeders #Riders #Bombers #Ticats #Argos #RNation #AlsMTL

maybe controversial take: I don't think expansion should be very high on the priority list for a new commish. It's better to strengthen existing teams' fanbases.

guess he really was the front runner...

If his idea of a superstar is someone who transcends the sport, he's right. But that's not in the talent, that's in a lack of marketing and effort to highlight the talent from both team level and league wide. 3downnation.com/2025/03/23/e...

Charges against Demerio Houston were dismissed.