What’s the deal with all the back & forth between these two teams over the past few years?
Vernon Adams: Starts CFL career in MTL in 2016, has to ride the bench in SSK in 2017 before being allowed to be a real starter back in MTL.
Brandon Bridge: Starts with MTL in 2015, plays a few years in SSK before coming back to MTL this season for potentially the last stop of his career.
Darian Durant: Whole career in SSK, comes to MTL in 2017 for his final season (not counting the WPG bonus incident).
Kevin Glenn: Tail end of his career includes SSK/15, MTL/15-16, SSK/17.
Bonus round: Drew Willy starts his career in SSK (2012-13), comes to MTL to watch it die (2018 ).
I know this is the CFL and players move around a lot, but this seems to go beyond mere chance. Do the two teams have some kind of QB development deal in place?
Last question: How is it that 3DownNation did not come up with this lame story idea as another excuse to include SSK in a headline for clickbait purposes?
I would say it has to do with both teams struggling at that position for at 5+ years and attempting to search for the next Durant or Calvillo. Glenn just serves as a temporary QB while they tried to sort it out
Joe Barnes played in Regina in 1981 under Joe Faragalli. The other pivot was John Hufnagel. The team finished the season at 9-7 and were outraged when both Ottawa and Montreal qualified for the playoffs ahead of them, despite having losing records.
Saskatchewan fans remember the tandem as “J.J. Barnagle”.
Ha ha I used to underestimate when he came to town to play Ottawa: like, he wasn’t Joe Barnes, he wasn’t Tom Clements. But he whupped the Red Riders with regularity, dang it.
Glenn is a gimme - you could take almost any two teams in the league and make a claim about him playing for both.
What’s weird about SSK-MTL is the number of “return trips.” Quite common for a QB to go from Team A to Team B in the CFL. I would say it’s rare to make a return trip (A-B-A). And there have been three return trips for SSK-MTL in recent years (Glenn, Adams, Bridge).
Not too many other return trips. Collaros (TOR-HAM-SSK-TOR) and Reilly (BC-EDM-BC) come to mind but those were 6-7 year voyages.