Ricky Willaims VS Robert Edwards (1 Viewer)

[The Mechanic]

Well, Montreal has secured first place in the Eastern Conferance. The game yesterday has Ricky Williams (Toronto), and Robert Edwards (Montreal) as Starting RB's.

Ricky's longest run of the day was for 9 yards and Robert Edwards had a real nice 8yd TD run in the 4th quarter. Ricky had some speed today but qust couldn't bust through. Edwards was the workhorse for Montreal as they commited to the run and he did not dissapoint. First downs made when needed and carrying defenders on his back to gain yardage.

Toronto also had J. Avery running.

Good game, Whenever Montreal beats Toronto it's a GOOD GAME.

EDIT....Robert Edwards is the top RB for TD;s....think he's got 18 now....

 

[ramsfan]

That's good news, I saw that injury happen to Robert Edwards, and always felt bad for the guy after that. Hopefully, he gets back to the NFL...

Anyone know what a guy like that makes in the CFL? Heck, maybe he doesn't want to make it back.

 

[dozer]

Anyone know what a guy like that makes in the CFL? Heck, maybe he doesn't want to make it back.

Linky

Minimum salaries in the CFL this year are $30,000 for rookies and $32,000 for veterans. The minimum increases to $35,000 next year as a result of the CFL’s new Collective Bargaining Agreement. The average CFL salary is about $45,000 Canadian.

Starters, excluding quarterbacks, can command anywhere between $60,000 and $120,000, depending on their position. Quarterbacks are generally the highest-paid players, making between $150,000 and $300,000.

 

[Jeff Pasquino]

Anyone know what a guy like that makes in the CFL? Heck, maybe he doesn't want to make it back.

Linky

Minimum salaries in the CFL this year are $30,000 for rookies and $32,000 for veterans. The minimum increases to $35,000 next year as a result of the CFL’s new Collective Bargaining Agreement. The average CFL salary is about $45,000 Canadian.

Starters, excluding quarterbacks, can command anywhere between $60,000 and $120,000, depending on their position. Quarterbacks are generally the highest-paid players, making between $150,000 and $300,000.

To nitpick, is this Canadian $?

 

[gbill2004]

Charles Roberts is the best RB in the CFL (Ricky Williams doesn't even come close to Charlie Roberts in the CFL game), and the Bombers are going to the Grey Cup, even if Glenn is out and Banks has to start next week.

 

[dozer]

Anyone know what a guy like that makes in the CFL? Heck, maybe he doesn't want to make it back.

Linky

Minimum salaries in the CFL this year are $30,000 for rookies and $32,000 for veterans. The minimum increases to $35,000 next year as a result of the CFL’s new Collective Bargaining Agreement. The average CFL salary is about $45,000 Canadian.

Starters, excluding quarterbacks, can command anywhere between $60,000 and $120,000, depending on their position. Quarterbacks are generally the highest-paid players, making between $150,000 and $300,000.

To nitpick, is this Canadian $?

Maybe one of our Canadian friends can tell us the exchange rate. Found this in the same article.Before joining the CFL, Edmonton quarterback Ricky Ray was delivering Frito Lay potato chips for $43,000 U.S. a year - more than he’s made in Edmonton this year. That’s just plain sad.

 

[gbill2004]

Anyone know what a guy like that makes in the CFL? Heck, maybe he doesn't want to make it back.

Linky

Minimum salaries in the CFL this year are $30,000 for rookies and $32,000 for veterans. The minimum increases to $35,000 next year as a result of the CFL’s new Collective Bargaining Agreement. The average CFL salary is about $45,000 Canadian.

Starters, excluding quarterbacks, can command anywhere between $60,000 and $120,000, depending on their position. Quarterbacks are generally the highest-paid players, making between $150,000 and $300,000.

To nitpick, is this Canadian $?

Maybe one of our Canadian friends can tell us the exchange rate. Found this in the same article.Before joining the CFL, Edmonton quarterback Ricky Ray was delivering Frito Lay potato chips for $43,000 U.S. a year - more than he’s made in Edmonton this year. That’s just plain sad.

Its around 85% right now.

 

[Jeff Pasquino]

Anyone know what a guy like that makes in the CFL? Heck, maybe he doesn't want to make it back.

Linky

Minimum salaries in the CFL this year are $30,000 for rookies and $32,000 for veterans. The minimum increases to $35,000 next year as a result of the CFL’s new Collective Bargaining Agreement. The average CFL salary is about $45,000 Canadian.

Starters, excluding quarterbacks, can command anywhere between $60,000 and $120,000, depending on their position. Quarterbacks are generally the highest-paid players, making between $150,000 and $300,000.

To nitpick, is this Canadian $?

Maybe one of our Canadian friends can tell us the exchange rate. Found this in the same article.Before joining the CFL, Edmonton quarterback Ricky Ray was delivering Frito Lay potato chips for $43,000 U.S. a year - more than he’s made in Edmonton this year. That’s just plain sad.

The rate's easy to find, about 10%. LINKI hadn't followed how strong the Canadian $ had become. It used to be about 65 cents US for a Canadian $.

 

[gbill2004]

Ricky Ray makes $400,000 a season, so I'm not sure where you heard he makes less than $43,000 a year.

 

[norton17]

Anyone know what a guy like that makes in the CFL? Heck, maybe he doesn't want to make it back.

Linky

Minimum salaries in the CFL this year are $30,000 for rookies and $32,000 for veterans. The minimum increases to $35,000 next year as a result of the CFL’s new Collective Bargaining Agreement. The average CFL salary is about $45,000 Canadian.

Starters, excluding quarterbacks, can command anywhere between $60,000 and $120,000, depending on their position. Quarterbacks are generally the highest-paid players, making between $150,000 and $300,000.

To nitpick, is this Canadian $?

Maybe one of our Canadian friends can tell us the exchange rate. Found this in the same article.Before joining the CFL, Edmonton quarterback Ricky Ray was delivering Frito Lay potato chips for $43,000 U.S. a year - more than he’s made in Edmonton this year. That’s just plain sad.

There is no way that Ricky Ray made less than $43,000 US this year. QB's are the highest paid players and he has one of the higher QB contracts if I remember correctly

 

[gbill2004]

Anyone know what a guy like that makes in the CFL? Heck, maybe he doesn't want to make it back.

Linky

Minimum salaries in the CFL this year are $30,000 for rookies and $32,000 for veterans. The minimum increases to $35,000 next year as a result of the CFL’s new Collective Bargaining Agreement. The average CFL salary is about $45,000 Canadian.

Starters, excluding quarterbacks, can command anywhere between $60,000 and $120,000, depending on their position. Quarterbacks are generally the highest-paid players, making between $150,000 and $300,000.

To nitpick, is this Canadian $?

Maybe one of our Canadian friends can tell us the exchange rate. Found this in the same article.Before joining the CFL, Edmonton quarterback Ricky Ray was delivering Frito Lay potato chips for $43,000 U.S. a year - more than he’s made in Edmonton this year. That’s just plain sad.

There is no way that Ricky Ray made less than $43,000 US this year. QB's are the highest paid players and he has one of the higher QB contracts if I remember correctly

See my post above yours. Ray made $400,000 this season.

 

[Oils_well]

That article he saw about Ray was just old...he was delivering Lays chips for $43 K

The eskimos talked him into coming to Edmonton to try out, he was pegged as a 3rd stringer, he won the #2 job in camp, then the starter got injured so he was starting for a pittance. The renegotiated his deal the next season giving him a $200K raise.

 

[[scooter]]

Toronto also had J. Avery running.

So much for that rap career.....

 

[Ozymandias]

Anyone know what a guy like that makes in the CFL? Heck, maybe he doesn't want to make it back.

Linky

Minimum salaries in the CFL this year are $30,000 for rookies and $32,000 for veterans. The minimum increases to $35,000 next year as a result of the CFL’s new Collective Bargaining Agreement. The average CFL salary is about $45,000 Canadian.

Starters, excluding quarterbacks, can command anywhere between $60,000 and $120,000, depending on their position. Quarterbacks are generally the highest-paid players, making between $150,000 and $300,000.

To nitpick, is this Canadian $?

Maybe one of our Canadian friends can tell us the exchange rate. Found this in the same article.Before joining the CFL, Edmonton quarterback Ricky Ray was delivering Frito Lay potato chips for $43,000 U.S. a year - more than he’s made in Edmonton this year. That’s just plain sad.

Yeah, that damn Pepsico-Frito Lay exploiting US workers. He should have been making at least $50k, because he had to work the whole year for that.

 

[cr8f]

Anyone know what a guy like that makes in the CFL? Heck, maybe he doesn't want to make it back.

Linky

Maybe one of our Canadian friends can tell us the exchange rate. Found this in the same article.

Before joining the CFL, Edmonton quarterback Ricky Ray was delivering Frito Lay potato chips for $43,000 U.S. a year - more than he’s made in Edmonton this year. That’s just plain sad.

Potato chip delivery is $43,000 a year?

 

[[scooter]]

Potato chip delivery is $43,000 a year?

It's more than I make.

 

[Faust]

Charles Roberts is the best RB in the CFL (Ricky Williams doesn't even come close to Charlie Roberts in the CFL game), and the Bombers are going to the Grey Cup, even if Glenn is out and Banks has to start next week.

Joffrey Reynolds is just as good as Roberts, perhaps even a little better

 

[gbill2004]

Charles Roberts is the best RB in the CFL (Ricky Williams doesn't even come close to Charlie Roberts in the CFL game), and the Bombers are going to the Grey Cup, even if Glenn is out and Banks has to start next week.

Joffrey Reynolds is just as good as Roberts, perhaps even a little better

Not even close. Reynolds is an up the middle runner behind a great OL. Roberts consistently turns 5 yard losses into huge gains.

 

[Thin Spirit]

Reynolds and Roberts are neck in neck I think, regardless both are light-years ahead of Williams.

The Argos were actually BETTER without Williams in the lineup this year 5-2, as opposed to 5-6 when he was in the lineup. Not ONE memorable play for the entire season (good article in the Toronto Sun about this today.)

Regardless, I'll be there next Sunday watching them lay a beat down on the Bombers.

 

[Faust]

Charles Roberts is the best RB in the CFL (Ricky Williams doesn't even come close to Charlie Roberts in the CFL game), and the Bombers are going to the Grey Cup, even if Glenn is out and Banks has to start next week.

Joffrey Reynolds is just as good as Roberts, perhaps even a little better

Not even close. Reynolds is an up the middle runner behind a great OL. Roberts consistently turns 5 yard losses into huge gains.

You haven't watched very much tape on Reynolds this year have you? Reynolds game is very complete, he isn't just "an up the middle runner". Reynolds has produced almost as much yards from scrimmage as Roberts on far fewer touches. Roberts and Reynolds are the two premier RBs in the CFL (Edwards would be in the next tier) , so to suggest that it isn't even close is laughable.

 

[ChampBailey24]

That's good news, I saw that injury happen to Robert Edwards, and always felt bad for the guy after that. Hopefully, he gets back to the NFL...Anyone know what a guy like that makes in the CFL? Heck, maybe he doesn't want to make it back.

Edwards is 32. Pretty sure he's in Montreal to stay.

 

[Bri]

That's good news, I saw that injury happen to Robert Edwards, and always felt bad for the guy after that. Hopefully, he gets back to the NFL...Anyone know what a guy like that makes in the CFL? Heck, maybe he doesn't want to make it back.

Edwards is 32. Pretty sure he's in Montreal to stay.

You're probably right.One of the worst things about the injuries in the NFL is that I can't root for this guy on Sunday. I've seen my share of bad or ineffective backs this year. I gotta figure(with the stats he's putting up) Edwards is better than them. It's really a shame. He'd have a rudy sorta quality too him in that I'd bet alot of NFL fans would rally behind him and root for him. "My team" essentially got slaughterred in that trade giving up Curtis for him. Doesn't bother me one bit. I have asked other Pats fans and they brush it off too. Can't ever recall that type of trade reaction from a fans perspective of the NFL. Took alot for Edwards to even be able to play again. GB him, his effort, and determination

 

[[scooter]]

That's good news, I saw that injury happen to Robert Edwards, and always felt bad for the guy after that. Hopefully, he gets back to the NFL...

Anyone know what a guy like that makes in the CFL? Heck, maybe he doesn't want to make it back.

Edwards is 32. Pretty sure he's in Montreal to stay.

You're probably right.One of the worst things about the injuries in the NFL is that I can't root for this guy on Sunday. I've seen my share of bad or ineffective backs this year. I gotta figure(with the stats he's putting up) Edwards is better than them. It's really a shame. He'd have a rudy sorta quality too him in that I'd bet alot of NFL fans would rally behind him and root for him.

"My team" essentially got slaughterred in that trade giving up Curtis for him. Doesn't bother me one bit. I have asked other Pats fans and they brush it off too. Can't ever recall that type of trade reaction from a fans perspective of the NFL.

Took alot for Edwards to even be able to play again. GB him, his effort, and determination

Keep in mind that Edwards did make a comeback -- with Miami in 2002. He had a decent year but just wasn't as quick as his competition by 2003. The fact that he's playing at all is the miracle here.