Apr
Doug Brown talks salary cap
Courtesy Winnipeg Free Press: We all witnessed first-hand the effects of an enforceable salary cap in the CFL in 2007. The two publicly owned teams that had experience contending with budgets for years found themselves competing against one another for the league’s championship for the first time ever in Toronto (even though the Riders were [...]
Apr
Rookies’ big cash doesn’t add up
Courtesy Winnipeg Free Press: When it comes to the drafting of collegiate players into the realm of professional football, the NFL could learn a thing or two from the CFL about the appraisal and economic valuation of its prospective athletes. While we are still 12 days away from the 2008 NFL Draft, you can probably [...]
Apr
Doug Brown talks about Pacman Jones
Courtesy Winnipeg Free Press: The Adam “Pacman” Jones story is one that every professional football player has been forced to contend with at one point or another during his career: the quandary of how to react to someone joining your football team who has had multiple transgressions with the law and who at the same [...]
Mar
Doug Brown talks prospects
Courtesy Winnipeg Free Press: For as long as there have been two professional football leagues in North America, coaches, players and fans have argued over what makes the American NCAA football recruit, for the most part, a superior entity to his Canadian collegiate counterpart. Now that the CFL evaluation camp wrapped up on Sunday in [...]
Mar
Doug Brown talks to the Free Press about Jospeh trade
Courtesy Winnipeg Free Press: If you knew nothing of the vast differences between the CFL and NFL, let this week’s controversy around the trade of the CFL’s reigning MVP to Toronto teach you one big thing. Win a championship in America and you can do no wrong as a general manager for three to five [...]
