I heard last night that Eric Tillman was looking at stealing Drew Tate from the Stamps when he became a FA after the season ended.. and Hugnagel got word of it and immediately signed Tate to an extension!..
Well if he "heard" it from a credible source it might have some meaning. . . but if he heard it from a guy sitting two seats over in some bar, then maybe not.
well obviously something like this doesn't exactly come out like it's national news, but sometimes things leak out!
like maybe someone was mentioning to Tate about Tillman making inquiries and Tate might have off handedly mentioned it to someone on the Cgy team and Huf got word and said "hell no, I'm not letting Tate go to the Esks!?"
Even if he heard it from someone at TSN, my response would still be meh. Nothing against Tate, I'm sure he'll be a good QB one day, but I don't care if Huf signed him to an extention. I like the guys we have right now. There are other areas the Esks need to deal with... like getting a D-Line, cause playing without one hasn't exactly worked out for us so far.
I'm guessing Madjack, and everyone else, realizes this, he is asking where you heard it from.
Also I am guessing that even if this is true, Hufnagel had every intention of signing Tate before Tillman had a chance to talk to him. Remember if Tillman talked to him before he is a FA then it is tampering.
yup but Tillman doesn't necessarily have to talk to him to have stuff get out. things have strange ways of getting out there.
Hufnagel may have originally wanted to wait until the season was over and not rushed it.. but this could likely have caused him to sign Tate much earlier just to make sure it didn't accidentally happen.
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when you have people tell you something that they have heard from a radio or wherever, lots of times it's difficult to get a credible source.
this is how I have heard stuff.
it was not something that was printed or online. I got told that the word was that Tillman wanted Tate and Hufnagel got word of it somehow, and decided to make sure Tate was a Stampeder for 3 more years.
No, it's just that when you start a rumour, you should always give a source so we know whether it's a credible rumour or not. It's one thing to report a rumour that you heard a reputable CFL insider say on a radio programme, it's something else entirely to report a rumour you heard from a friend who heard some speculation by some other fan on some call-in show.