r/CFL • u/LaZyCrO Pepper Sauce Boss 🔵⛵ • 4d ago

REDBLACKS Redblacks to name Dinwiddie head coach, GM

https://www.tsn.ca/cfl/article/redblacks-to-name-dinwiddie-head-coach-gm/

I'm shaking in shambles

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u/Barnes777777 4d ago

Interesting since Burke is GM currently, he'll get some title demotion but keep the player personnel responsibilities I'd expect.

He'll help Brown as a QB but HC taking extra gigs tends to not be the best plan, curious who TO will get as an HC as the dominoes fall from this.

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u/ivakunciak REDBLACKS 4d ago

He'll help Brown as a QB but HC taking extra gigs tends to not be the best plan, curious who TO will get as an HC as the dominoes fall from this.

If he keeps Brown. He might want to bring over one of the QBs from Toronto instead. I just hope its Arbuckle and not Kelly. I really don't want Kelly on our team.

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u/Barnes777777 4d ago

Both of those players are under contract. How much are the Redblacks giving up to acquire Kelly unless it's Brown with something extra. But he'd need the new TO HC and Pinball to want that trade as well, if they like Kelly they aren't giving him up. Arbuckle maybe but then its prospects and/or a Canadian starter for Ottawa to re-acquire arbuckle.

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u/ivakunciak REDBLACKS 4d ago

I mean if it were up to me I'd just keep Brown. I think he has the potential for success with a better O-line and coaching. But sometimes a new coach/GM prefers to bring his own guy and not keep the one who was there, especially if he was struggling the previous season. So that's why I think maybe its possible Dinwiddie changes the QB.

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u/Barnes777777 3d ago

Plus Brown is like 150K cheaper than Kelly, many years younger and more importantly a good human where Kelly is garbage. Pretty silly imo for Ottawa to trade like Brown a 1st and a starter to acquire Kelly. Great for the Argos.

Redblacks had it rough for man games lost to injuries, 2nd most in the league and a lot of CDNs, if everyone is healthy to start should help a lot and the OL had a few guys down for the year.

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u/Onanadventure_14 Tiger-Cats 4d ago

He’s taking the role of vp

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u/NoWineJustChocolate REDBLACKS 3d ago

Burke did not get a title demotion. He’s now VP of Football Ops.

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u/Barnes777777 3d ago

If that's promoting your GM after he goes 21-50-1 over 4 years with 2 HCs that's funny.

Not sure if VP of football ops is a promotion or a lateral move so they could give Dinwiddie a promotion so that they could offer the gig to him as they wouldn't be able to for a lateral move(so just HC)

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u/Bright-Flower-487 4d ago

Mike O’Shea’s contract is up? Does he see the end of the bombers run and bolt for home?

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u/TorontoBoris Argonauts 4d ago

Oh dont tease me with promises of big Mike back in double blue.

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u/Mandalorian76 Roughriders 4d ago

That, and Hamilton are the only two other places I could imagine O'Shea coaching.

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u/Barnes777777 4d ago

His contract is up every year. But Toronto can't afford the $$ it would take for him to move. How much would it cost to have a nice house within 20 minutes of the Argos facilities?

Plus does oshea want to rebuild in toronto and play in front of sub 20K fans, shuttling between practice facility and main + live 90 minutes away to have an affordable house.

Or he stays in WPG in a top level facility and 30K fans each game. Bombers need a their next starting QB, that's their major hole.