No one can say that the Ottawa Renegades are going to suffer the same problems of the Calgary Stampeders. Head coach Joe Paopao made seven cuts from the Rens roster on Thursday. And one of the names was certainly quite familiar, Tyler Paopao the fourth QB in camp and son of coach Joe, was let go as the Renegades work their roster down to the 40 man limit. Despite leading the Rens to their only touchdown of Wednesday night’s exhibition game in Montreal, Tyler apparently wasn’t ready to make the jump to professional football just yet.
There will be no Feterik factor in the Rens camp; the Feterik situation was the uncomfortable situation in Calgary which distracted the team last year, when the owner’s son Kevin kept a spot on the roster despite indications that he wasn’t quite ready for the CFL. The mess that became the Stamps last year, eventually cost their coach Jim Barker his job. Determined to improve the situation in Calgary, the Stamps brought Matt Dunnigan into the General Managers position. Dunnigan who will also serve as Head coach has thus far not been told that the owner's son is coming to town.
Other notable releases in the Rens camp were Aaron Lockett who had a troubling final game with the Alouettes and kicker Ian Hewitt who was battling Sandro Sciortino for the job of kicker. Sciortino a rookie in camp will be feeling the heat as the Rens hope to improve their stats and final position in this year’s campaign.
All teams must be down to their 40 man roster by Saturday, so there are two more sleepless nights to go for a few of the Renegade players.
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