Update: TJ Stancil released

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will be announced as becoming a Lion this Sunday. When healthy, this Shivers find, is a stud out there at LB.

Congrats on a great signing
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Who is TJ Stancil? Where is he from, did he play for a CFL team before? Whats his credentials?
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He was a Rider LB who was cut in May. Haven't seen links or proof yet though. :roar:
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Joshua wrote:will be announced as becoming a Lion this Sunday. When healthy, this Shivers find, is a stud out there at LB.

Congrats on a great signing
If he's so great, why isn't he still in Regina?
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Well, after a bit of digging :wink: I found a link from an article posted last Sunday:

http://www.canada.com/theprovince/news/ ... 2ab2e3ddfd
Nonetheless, Buono confirmed he and personnel director Roy Shivers have discussed possible employment prospects for ex-Saskatchewan Roughriders linebacker T.J. Stancil in the event the Lions eventually are stretched thin at Johnson's position.


This hardly sounds like a concrete, finalized deal to me. Do we really need a cast-off LB? If we are going to pick someone up, it should be some more O-Line depth. And what is it about people not posting links to trade/acquisition stories? I had to work HARD to find that link! :lol: Must be a Wheatie thing.
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CatsEyes wrote:Well, after a bit of digging :wink: I found a link from an article posted last Sunday:

http://www.canada.com/theprovince/news/ ... 2ab2e3ddfd
Nonetheless, Buono confirmed he and personnel director Roy Shivers have discussed possible employment prospects for ex-Saskatchewan Roughriders linebacker T.J. Stancil in the event the Lions eventually are stretched thin at Johnson's position.


This hardly sounds like a concrete, finalized deal to me. Do we really need a cast-off LB? If we are going to pick someone up, it should be some more O-Line depth. And what is it about people not posting links to trade/acquisition stories? I had to work HARD to find that link! :lol: Must be a Wheatie thing.
This was discussed last week on a particular Rider board and I had a PM from one poster who said they have some inside knowledge that this is a done deal. The reason for the cast off is for the same reason there has been talk of us cutting Jamall Johnson. TJ Stancil has been very injury prone.

Maybe if we have both of them on the roster at least one will be healthy each week. ;)
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The Riders hoard LBs like the Lions hoard DBs and running backs. Stancil always impressed me with his quickness and hitting ability when he played. He played only six games last year but he had an amazing 36 tackles. The official reason he was released in May was because of his injury history.

The Lions have been too thin at that position for two seasons and have yet to find a proven replacement for Carl Kidd. Stancil is worth a look.
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B.C.FAN wrote:The Riders hoard LBs like the Lions hoard DBs and running backs. Stancil always impressed me with his quickness and hitting ability when he played. He played only six games last year but he had an amazing 36 tackles. The official reason he was released in May was because of his injury history.

The Lions have been too thin at that position for two seasons and have yet to find a proven replacement for Carl Kidd. Stancil is worth a look.
Sorry, B.C. FAN, but Riders do not "hoard"; they work very hard at losing more man-games to injury than any other club. And they do it superbly. 8)
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just talked to a very knowlegable riders fan (yes its true!) he knows there roster inside and out. He says stancil has potential to be a great lionbacker even winning player of the week last year(i believe he said last year). but always ended up injured! Many injuries the last couple years is why he was cut
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Solar Max wrote:
B.C.FAN wrote:The Riders hoard LBs like the Lions hoard DBs and running backs. Stancil always impressed me with his quickness and hitting ability when he played. He played only six games last year but he had an amazing 36 tackles. The official reason he was released in May was because of his injury history.

The Lions have been too thin at that position for two seasons and have yet to find a proven replacement for Carl Kidd. Stancil is worth a look.
Sorry, B.C. FAN, but Riders do not "hoard"; they work very hard at losing more man-games to injury than any other club. And they do it superbly. 8)
It is funny when you look who they had on injured reserve and how they came in and out of the lineup they put themselves over the cap by hiding players on the injured reserve list.
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If he can tackle, I don't care where he came from.
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Perhaps it's Buono's not so subtle way of getting his message through to his players.
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West Coast Blue Fan wrote:If he can tackle, I don't care where he came from.
:whs:

Sad that it has come to this already ....
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Joshua

only cut due to injuries - Roy convinced Wally to have a look and Wally then contacted Eric to see what the deal was. Injuries - which is too bad because IIRC he was player of the week more than once during his career in Regina.

The guy can play and many Rider fans were sad to him released
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What about my boy Goodwell? Does this mean that Wally will straight-up cut him? That can't be justified. Please - NO!
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