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Yes that's his name.  He  truly is very good at that part of the game.

9 months? I hate to be "that guy" but I feel the need to add some facts to this discussion. 9 months sounds like an extreme exaggeration or something that occurred in the middle of the COVID panic and the department was shutdown. I live in Thunder Bay, transplanted prairie boy from the home of the Bombers Work gets in the way of everything fun!

One hospital in Thunder Bay, a regional hospital... which means it supports most of the communities to the north of Thunder Bay and to the East. It's a busy place... The imaging department runs 24/7 so things like x-rays, CAT scans, Ultrasounds and MRI's happen around the clock. I have shoulder and neck pain. Very old micro tears in both rotator cuffs, and the on-set of arthritis combined with a few compressed vertebrae in my neck. The surgeon and I speculate that twelve years of being on the defensive side of the line of scrimmage 40 years ago eventually catches up. I normally take 1200 mgs of Advil daily and get a couple cortisone injections roughly every 6 months to manage the stiffness and pain in my shoulders.

Long and the short of it, my orthopedic surgeon ordered an MRI to take a deeper look to ensure the old damage wasn't becoming new damage. Took less than a week, 6 days actually from talking about scheduling an MRI to having it done. That 6 days also includes the follow-up appointment to discuss the options and jab two more injections into my shoulder blades. Love those deep injections! Good thing you can't see the needle coming. 

I'm 65, not a star athlete or anybody important... Going forward it's still going to be bi-annual Cortisone, Advil as required... and more  lifestyle adjustments, i.e. cutting back on the front crawl in the pool, less or lighter overhead and pulling type weight routines in the gym and I might have to trade-in my GF for a lighter model or make additional adjustments in other lifting and aerobic activities, but it was done in 6 days, not 9 months.

Some MRI's or CAT scans can take months or more in Manitoba, Xrays not so bad, many places are walk in.  Once you have imaging, getting treatment is sometimes a bugger.  Again, depending on the procedure and how many are ahead of you, and whether your facility has been hit by staffing issues.

We definitely need more capacity for ortho in Manitoba.

Yes, that is for your average Joe citizen, for professional athletes there is no waiting line.

Anyone can get service if they want to pay.  I knew someone whose kid was injured, and needed surgery and rehab.  In Manitoba it would have been 6 months, and she would have missed an opportunity for a scholarship.  So he took here to Grand Forks, got scans and surgery in days, and she was ready for the school year.  Cost $5k, but you know how much a scholarship saves...

DE don't go through you, they go around you.  Nose tackles, DT, do more straight on, unless they are in a stunt.  But yeah, its rare an olineman gets "put on rollerskates", but when we watch them get beat it is usually because they didn't stay in front as the D went past...

You're creating narratives again.

I forgot about that.  Is that really high up on the requirement chart for OL, though?  I'll have to pay more attention on next rewatch.  I would think balance is the #1 top, overall requirement for OL.  Nothing more embarrassing and useless than a hoggie getting knocked on his butt and the pass rusher pasting the QB.

DE don't go through you, they go around you.  Nose tackles, DT, do more straight on, unless they are in a stunt.  But yeah, its rare an olineman gets "put on rollerskates", but when we watch them get beat it is usually because they didn't stay in front as the D went past...

Interesting point they kept bringing up in the telecast, that playing against a team with nothing to play for is that teams like the Ducks have no structure you can plan against, no tendencies that they are trying to refine for the playoffs.   I get the point, but if you are chasing the other team, you are not playing your game. 

Struggling to beat teams that are the worst in the league isn't great.  But as long as they win more than they lose, I guess it could be worse.

Top 5 Performers - Combine Recap...

https://www.cfl.ca/2023/03/23/combine-leaderboard-top-5-in-vertical-leap/?tf_u[mailId]=dc8485a13b&tf_u[team]=CFL

I remember a bit of a hub-bub 5-10 years ago about professional athletes in Wpg. getting the attention they need very quickly, I believe the answer given at the time was both pro teams make use of both private and public solutions and have a lot of very good connections.

It was 2017. There was a report that Bombers and Jets players, along with some politicians where jumping the cue and getting MRI's. Since then the Jets and the Bombers pay a private clinic for an MRI. Little to no problem getting an x-ray in Winnipeg.

Would have been nice if the CFL/TSN televised some of the combined. Maybe coverage of the top 5 players at each position.

This is a great move by the club.  Lions really did it right with all the extra media stuff and inside-the-locker-room videos and more of the mundane "here's my life", "here's us in the locker room", "here's us in the cafeteria" stuff that the millennials lap up.  Hey, I kind of liked it too, but the oldsters (well, older than me) might find it annoying.  But you need it to attract the youtube generation.

All the CFL clubs need to hire an expert and pump out the same type of content.

Man oh man is MOS going to hate it.... Poor MOS!

(So which one our dudes is the team's Lucky Whitehead?)

Both the Ti-Cats and the RedBlacks seem to be pumping out the random video material as well, Simoni even has his own show were he interviews fellow players.

I've always wondered about that.  Sports dudes in Canada, like hockey, jays, CFL, when they get hurt they seem to get in right fast for scans and xrays and MRIs and CTs.  Waaaay faster than you or I would get in.  Even their surgeries seem to get done lickety split.  (Even this KSB example is waaay faster than the current queue would allow for.)

Anyone know how this works?  Maybe the IMPs with US health insurance can jump the queue in Canada because they are paying?  Maybe we have a special class for sports stars.  It doesn't make the socialist health care system look good if they have superstar celebrities waiting 9 months for an MRI, even if that is the reality for the plebs, and optics is everything.

And before you say "no special classes!", ask yourself how fast the prime minister would get in for an MRI or surgery...

I remember a bit of a hub-bub 5-10 years ago about professional athletes in Wpg. getting the attention they need very quickly, I believe the answer given at the time was both pro teams make use of both private and public solutions and have a lot of very good connections.