i aint shocked, this is typical argoland drama, i remember people on the friends of the argos website hyping this guy up and kissing his butt, and now the dude just retires, well at least we dont have to listen to those people overhyping another washed up used nfl reject. Send the branagan kid to the practice roster, and keep bell, lemon and dorsey.
In other words he wasn't going to make the team. Potentially good news for Brannigan.
Cleo Lemon will end up being the starter though. After that, 3 guys for 2 spots.
Reminds me of some hotshot QB that came to Hamilton one year. . . can’t remember the guy’s name, but lots of Cats fans were singing his praises too, until he up and quit at the start of training camp. . . name was something Chase Clement I think. . .
Dorsey won’t be a third stringer. Lemon and Dorsey will battle for starter role. Losers is cut. Bell is the backup and I hope Brannagan is the third stringer. Maybe Hamdan realized he wasn’t going to win the starter role and bailed out now.
…orrrrrrr …he thought it was going to be ‘cake-walk’ up here, and got cold-feet…( and i know that’s hard to do in T.O.s’ weather as of late???) :roll: :roll: Why did he bother even showing-up… :roll:
I think he saw the writing on the wall. Getting cut from a CFL rookie camp would not look good on his resume, so he beat them to the punch. The Argos were unlikely to carry 5 QB's to the main camp, so one had to go.
For political reasons Brannagan has a ticket to the main camp and the Argos brain-trust would look pretty stupid if they let Dalton Bell go so early...after trading for him this Spring. So that leaves the 3 ex-NFL'ers. Lemon and Dorsey have started games in the NFL, while Hamdan had completed two NFL passes...in 2003.
Perhaps Hamdan sensed he could be the odd man out and didn't feel like beating his brains out competing for a job, at a rookie camp...in the rain...and with a 5-figure base salary as the reward.
While I can see why Hamdan preemptively cut himself loose for reasons other than suiting up in a trailer, the Argos really do need to at least invest in a proper practice facility if they’re staying with Rogers Centre for game days.
I mean the Argos draft war room was shown nationally on TSN from their UTM trailer…Could they not have at least rented a boardroom space from an area hotel? The Argos can’t hope to expand their corporate sponsorship if their brand is seen to be run out of trailers.
If Brannigan isn’t top 3 in the depth chart then he’ll likely come down with one of those mysterious toe injuries that QBs get that puts them on the 9 game IR for the entire season.