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Dave Dickenson is ready to get back on the sidelines with the Calgary Stampeders in 2021. (Larry MacDougal/CFL.ca)
That time coaching the game allowed Dickenson to spend some added time with his family and gave him the chance to try out some more creative playcalling while having some fun with the game.
But he’s also ready to get back to work with his staff and the players on the Stampeders following a year-long layoff due to the COVID-19 pandemic. But Dickenson and the Calgary organization as a whole got some good news a week ago when the 2021 Canadian Football Hall-of-Fame class featured Nik Lewis, Will Johnson, and Doug Mitchell.
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Sometimes you go into a project and everything you had planned goes wrong. For the Toronto Argonauts, the results of the 2021 CFL Global Draft went exactly as they had hoped.
After a lottery was held, the Boatmen were assigned the third pick in the draft, which would be held in a ‘snake’ format, meaning the team selecting last in a round would have the first pick in the next round and the teams would continue to draft in inverse order.
The Argos had narrowed their wish list for the third pick down to four players early in the week; hopeful at least one of two players they had identified as the best pair in the draft would fall to the third spot.
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However, with the CFL and CFLPA preparing to sit down to talk about return to play in 2021, be prepared to see CFL teams increase the size of practice rosters, which goes a long way to explain spending to the bottom of the cap. I was reminded of the predicament the Denver Broncos found themselves in this past season when all four quarterbacks were held out of a game due to Covid 19 exposure and the Broncos had to start a wide receiver who had played QB in college.
An expanded practice roster makes sense to deal with situations like the Broncos experienced or to deal with injuries where bringing a player up from the States might be tough when they have to be in quarantine for two weeks before going onto the roster. Having a pool of players up here would help reduce costs in bringing players in.