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Hi Texas !.......Hamilton, Canada here.

We have a player on the Hamilton Tiger Cats of the Canadian Football League by the name of Tim Cheatwood who led the CFL in QB sacks last year. Apparantly he just had a tryout with the Texans. Any thoughts on Tim and his chances of not coming back to Canada?

The following link is from our discussion board about this matter.

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thanks

PS. The news of this workout that Tim had came from an article in the Cleveland Plains Dealer click here
 
TigerCat Fan said:
Hi Texas !.......Hamilton, Canada here.

We have a player on the Hamilton Tiger Cats of the Canadian Football League by the name of Tim Cheatwood who led the CFL in QB sacks last year. Apparantly he just had a tryout with the Texans. Any thoughts on Tim and his chances of not coming back to Canada?

The following link is from our discussion board about this matter.

click here

thanks

PS. The news of this workout that Tim had came from an article in the Cleveland Plains Dealer click here
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Welcome to Texas... I would love to take this player from you... smile. We are currently developing our pass rush, but it sound this guy might be interesting to look at. :hmmm:
 
This is one of those things where we won't know he exists until he plays for us, and hopefully does well--I suppose. I mean this in the nicest possible way, but none of us, that I'm aware of, follow the CFL. I didn't know that team existed, but I did, of course, know about the CFL. Someone will respond eventually, I'm sure, but most of us are surprised they're looking at anyone right now with 3 games left in the season (seems like a strange time) and we don't know what to say.

He sounds like a great pass rusher. Sorry.

Oh, and we really need someone else to be our leading pass rusher, besides our CB, lol.
 
Well, the good news is that now you do know about the Hamilton Tiger Cats......lol...we are the second oldest professional sports franchise in the world believe it or not. Here's Tim's bio from our website and while you're in the site, go to the homepage and have a look around.......you may have to scrape the ice off the screen though because it's -23 degrees (celsius) right now in Hamilton. Brrrrrrrrrrrrr!!

We even have video clips of the players in their bios. Nice eh?

click here for Cheatwood bio

I'd hate to lose Tim!!

Congrats on your win yesterday by the way!
 
Size wise, he sounds like outside blizting linbacker.

Question regarding Cheatwood:
1) at 258 Lbs can he take on the big 325 Lbs OTs?
2) How fast is the guy to drop back in coverage and cover TEs and RBs out of the back field.

The speed of the NFL game is entirely different than the College ranks and CFL. Sorry but this is why this is the NFL. Only the biggest, baddest and fastest can survive.
 
and Ohio State football standout Tim Cheatwood, now with Hamilton in the Canadian Football League, recently worked out for the Houston Texans and could sign with them. Cheatwood led the CFL in sacks (14) this past season and was also a league All-Star.
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Does this seem odd to anyone else? We have Wong and Babin on the outside right now alternating Peek in as of late...why would we be looking at this type of player right now? Only thing I could think of is backup OLB :um: .
 
Any possibility they could be looking at this guy to take Foreman's position next year with Wong on the outside? Personally, I'd really like to see Wong in the middle with Peek starting outside.
 
Wong doesn't want to play inside although I would like to see him inside but I don't see Peek starting just yet. I do like your idea of him replacing Foreman, though. Either that or we could sign Hartwell from the Ravens he will be a FA after this season.
 
To be honest with you, Tim had a problem lining up off-side constantly last year but keep in mind that our defence has to be 1 yard off the line of scrimmage up here in the CFL unlike the NFL where you guys are nose to nose.

I like Tim myself because of his guts and "meanness" on the field. He had a penalty for spitting on an opposing player this year as well as kicking an officials flag after it was thrown........some up here say it's a lack of discipline but I beg to differ!.........this is the sign of a guy who's 100% into winning and gets frustrated at anything less......save the finesse for the offence......I want my defence to be animals!....wolves preferably!

We in Hamilton have a tradition of mean, tough defences (historically) so if we lose Tim to you guys I'll be sad to see him go......but at the same time I'll be happy that someone else appreciates his tenacity. Man, is he fast off the end!

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If you guys have to line up one yard off of the ball and he had 14 sacks last year...WOW. I don't think anyone on our team has had 14 sacks in a season yet, and we line up nose to nose, he must be hell on wheels!
 
texan279 said:
If you guys have to line up one yard off of the ball and he had 14 sacks last year...WOW. I don't think anyone on our team has had 14 sacks in a season yet, and we line up nose to nose, he must be hell on wheels!
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We had a weekly Tiger Cat TV show up here last season and Tim was a guest on one of the tapings......I think I recall the host asking him what his favourite meal was.......his answer was simple......QUARTERBACKS!

Please don't sign him!.......We need him back! :bowdown:
 
ledzeppelin269 said:
Wiegert is likely to be put on IR (if not already), maybe that will free up a spot for him.
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Seems to me like he'd have to gain about 40 lbs. to play at tackle.
 
texan279 said:
Does this seem odd to anyone else? We have Wong and Babin on the outside right now alternating Peek in as of late...why would we be looking at this type of player right now?
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If you look at how Pittsburgh drafts you will see that they pursue a tweener in just about every single draft.
 
TigerCat Fan said:
Well, I guess I'm now a Houston Texan fan!

You just signed Tim Cheatwood!......Good for you, bad for us up here in Hamilton...sighhhhhh

Good Luck from all us Tiger Cat fans Tim!....We're gonna miss you!

click here for article on the Tiger Cat Website
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Thanks for the heads up! :)

And welcome to the Texans family. Hope you can make it down here one day to catch a game. You will definitely be invited to many tailgating activities...so many that you probably won't be able to make most of them.
 
Double Barrel wrote:

"And welcome to the Texans family. Hope you can make it down here one day to catch a game. You will definitely be invited to many tailgating activities...so many that you probably won't be able to make most of them."

Gee, thanks!...I'd love to go to Texas one day !.........Your BBQ's are legendary! I'm sure you're gonna love Tim Cheatwood!......He chases Quarterbacks like he's "posessed"


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Cheatwood is a very good CFL DE, which quite a different position than the NFL DE. In the CFL DEs have to constantly contain and chase rollout, scrambling QBs (like Garcia and Flutie), and they have to cut off very quick and fast RBs, like John Avery, Charles Roberts (from Sacramento State and still the leading rusher in Div. 1 history, I believe), and Troy Davis (who had back to back 2,000 yard seasons at Iowa State and was a two time Heisman finalist). And they have to do all this on a field that is 11.5 yards wider than an NFL field. In a game of inches, 11.5 yards is a whole lot of inches. In the CFL game, as I’m sure you can imagine, speed and quickness are much more important (relative to the NFL style game) than size and power. So a guy like Cheatwood would translate to being and NFL LB I’m sure. He played that position in college so it won’t be completely foreign to him. All this said, there have been a number of CFL DEs who’ve been able to bulk up to play DE in the NFL, Willie Whitehead and Ron Warner come to mind, but I don’t think Cheatwood will be able to bulk up enough to play DE in a 3-4 scheme.
 
The usual course of events with CFL players going to the NFL is that they take a year to adjust and learn the systems and the league. You don’t see too many who start in their first year. They can be effective ST players in year one, and then challenge for a starting spot in year two, or make a significant contribution, like Derick Armstrong did. Another ex-CFL DE who has started a number of games at DE in the NFL is Paul Spicer. As far as LBs go, ex-Texan Charlie Clemmons played in the CFL for 2 or 3 years, but he was a LB in the CFL too.
 
sounds like he could be a good pickup for us.

As for him playing OLB.. if he is better than Peek or Wong.. then obviously he will start :).. Doesnt matter if we sign 50 OLBs.. we take the best ones and send the others packing.

He sounds like a speed rusher.. which means he is probably gonna line up at OLB, not ILB. Lining him up at ILB would be a waste of his speed around the corners.

I like his attitude.. we need a guy on our team who is gonna be belligerent and fired up. We dont have that now and it is hurting us.


btw nice uniforms tigercats :)
 
Like someone else posted, maybe Foreman just lost his job if we put Cheatwood and Babin at OLB and Wong and Sharper at ILB. If this Cheatwood plays as well as he did for us as he did in the CFL and having Babin with a season under his belt and if the D line can get some push and add that to our secondary.... :heh:
 
I think Babin and Peek will be starting at OLB next season. Cheatwood just adds depth to our linebacking corps. You can never have too many good LBs when you use the 3-4.
 
Earlier in the season I was against Peek starting, but if the coaches think he should be one of the 2 starters then that's fine but the thing that worries me about Peek is his temper/emotion. I mean it's alright to be fired up and ready to play, but in his limited playing time this season, he had to be restrained twice from going after opposing players, I just think if he starts for an entire season, he could cost us a few 15 yarders. I hope I am wrong though.
 
if he fires up our defense.. ill take a few 15 yarders over the course of the season. Our defense just has no spark sometimes.
 
if he fires up our defense.. ill take a few 15 yarders over the course of the season. Our defense just has no spark sometimes.
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What would a 15 yard penalty do to a defense's momentum though, if they had momentum going anyways.
 
Texans | Cheatwood Signed - from www.KFFL.com
Thu, 6 Jan 2005 14:59:06 -0800

USAToday.com reports the Houston Texans signed DE Tim Cheatwood. Terms of the deal were undisclosed.
 
TigerCat Fan said:
Hi Texas !.......Hamilton, Canada here.

We have a player on the Hamilton Tiger Cats of the Canadian Football League by the name of Tim Cheatwood who led the CFL in QB sacks last year. Apparantly he just had a tryout with the Texans.
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Nice scoop from two weeks ago. Thanks.
 
TigerCat Fan said:
Hi Texas !.......Hamilton, Canada here.

We have a player on the Hamilton Tiger Cats of the Canadian Football League by the name of Tim Cheatwood who led the CFL in QB sacks last year. Apparantly he just had a tryout with the Texans. Any thoughts on Tim and his chances of not coming back to Canada?

The following link is from our discussion board about this matter.

click here

thanks

PS. The news of this workout that Tim had came from an article in the Cleveland Plains Dealer click here
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Seriously, I am not sure of how many of these type of the Texans looked ___ post we get in a year or so and virtuely none of them actually mean anything. Thanks for the heads up and links ahead of time and we hope that he works out for us as much as for you guys.
 
Hey, with all due respect "Arlington Texan", if you guys have no need for a Defensive End, please call the braintrust of the Houston Texans and send Tim straight back to the Hamilton Tiger Cats....we miss him already!!
 
ArlingtonTexan said:
Seriously, I am not sure of how many of these type of the Texans looked ___ post we get in a year or so and virtuely none of them actually mean anything. Thanks for the heads up and links ahead of time and we hope that he works out for us as much as for you guys.
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Well, the ones I’ve discussed here are Garrick Jones and Derick Armstrong, both of whom made your team, and one of whom caught 400 yards in passes this year for you. IMO, Cheatwood is a very good athlete and a very good player. My team tried very hard to trade for him in the off season last year, and for good reason. How well he fits with your team is another matter. If he was to be essentially a rush end type of OLB then I could see him fitting in right away. He wouldn’t need that much time to adjust to that role. But you’ve drafted Babin and Peek in the last couple of years and you already have Wong, so where does Cheatwood fit in? I’m sure he wouldn’t have signed if he didn’t get at least a high 5 or low 6 figure signing bonus, so I’m sure he wasn’t signed as camp fodder. I’m just not sure what the Texans’ plans are for him. :hmmm:

And another player comparison would be R-Kal Truluck of the Packers, who also played in the CFL for a few years.
 
Grizzled said:
Well, the ones I’ve discussed here are Garrick Jones and Derick Armstrong, both of whom made your team, and one of whom caught 400 yards in passes this year for you. IMO, Cheatwood is a very good athlete and a very good player. My team tried very hard to trade for him in the off season last year, and for good reason. How well he fits with your team is another matter. If he was to be essentially a rush end type of OLB then I could see him fitting in right away. He wouldn’t need that much time to adjust to that role. But you’ve drafted Babin and Peek in the last couple of years and you already have Wong, so where does Cheatwood fit in? I’m sure he wouldn’t have signed if he didn’t get at least a high 5 or low 6 figure signing bonus, so I’m sure he wasn’t signed as camp fodder. I’m just not sure what the Texans’ plans are for him. :hmmm:

And another player comparison would be R-Kal Truluck of the Packers, who also played in the CFL for a few years.
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While we want a ton of bodies at that position none of them have been overly productive. Babin is too open field tackle with some moves but not polished yet. Wong is not explosive enough, but can play any LBing position. Peek is exciting and makes things happen, but those things are often as bad as they are good. Anderson has primiarily played special teams. DD Achl (sp) was on the practice squad. Cheatwood has a ton of competition, but noone here as performed well enough to have a starting position guaranteed.

From reading Cheatwood sounds more similair to Peek than anyone else that we have. Is high energy and at times bordering on too emotional on target?
 
Grizzled said:
Well, the ones I’ve discussed here are Garrick Jones and Derick Armstrong, both of whom made your team, and one of whom caught 400 yards in passes this year for you. IMO, Cheatwood is a very good athlete and a very good player. My team tried very hard to trade for him in the off season last year, and for good reason. How well he fits with your team is another matter. If he was to be essentially a rush end type of OLB then I could see him fitting in right away. He wouldn’t need that much time to adjust to that role. But you’ve drafted Babin and Peek in the last couple of years and you already have Wong, so where does Cheatwood fit in? I’m sure he wouldn’t have signed if he didn’t get at least a high 5 or low 6 figure signing bonus, so I’m sure he wasn’t signed as camp fodder. I’m just not sure what the Texans’ plans are for him. :hmmm:

And another player comparison would be R-Kal Truluck of the Packers, who also played in the CFL for a few years.
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There are always better players and playmakers.. Babin and Peek have shown both imo they are playmakers, but I havent seen that in Wong. I dont know what the plans are, but I like the options I am seeing.
 
Cheatwood is a high energy guy and has real drive to get to the QB, and these are scrambling CFL style QBs I’m talking about. He took some stupid penalties this year and was involved in an incident or two, but IMO this was uncharacteristic behaviour for him. I don’t remember him being involved in anything like that in the past. As I said, my team, the Roughriders, went hard after him in the off season, and we only go after character guys. Both our coach and GM (trivia on them below) are strong Christians and place a high value on character and a good team atmosphere. Derick Armstrong is a good example of the kind of players they sign. They wouldn’t have gone after Cheatwood at all if they thought he was a bad actor or reckless. That said, he did get involved in a couple of surprisingly uncharacteristic incidents this year.

Trivia on Danny Barrett (coach of the Saskatchewan Roughriders) and Roy Shivers (GM of the Riders): Both of them are African American, which makes them the first African American coach and GM combo in pro-football, and Roy Shivers was, I believe, the first black GM in pro-football. (And darn good one he is too. He found Derick Armstrong when nobody even in Texas seems to have even heard of the school he went to, let alone heard of him, but you know him now, and we found out about him a couple of years before you did thanks to Roy.)

Here’s a good feature on Roy Shivers. He’s got quite a story.
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http://www.cbc.ca/sask/features/shivers/
This may be of particular interest to African American posters, (who I assume must be here on this Houston Texas board), but I think it will be interesting to everyone. It was certainly shocking to me even though I’ve heard of these things before. But when you can place a face into these events, and when that face is the face of the football genius who has turned your football team around and tuned them into a top contender for the first time in almost 30 years, it’s pretty shocking. Maybe this is all tired old news to you guys down there, though. I really don’t know. I’m just a pasty white guy from the middle of the Canadian prairie. ;) But here it is if you’re interested, and feel free to skip it if you’re heard if all before 100 times.
 
i would also like to see peek take over wongs spot. Peek is just a play maker and brings emotion on the field and shows a desire to play and win. If a few 15 yards is what it takes for peek to play than so be it ! I like the sound of this Tim dude by the way !
 
Hello all. Another Tiger-Cat fan here.

As sorry as I am to see us lose Mr. Cheatwood, I am happy he has found a home in the NFL.

Not to take anything away from Cheatwood, but one of the reasons he had so many sacks is because of the other D-End we have named Joe Montford. Mr. Montford had 13 sacks last year. O-Lines had to dbl team one of them which left the other one to do what they do best. It was a great combination, one that will sorely be missed.

Cheatwood is one passonate player. If you guys decide he doesn't fit your team, we will welcome him back with open arms.
 
I too would also like to see Peek take over Wongs spot, it just a natural progression for a drafted LB in his 3rd year to compete for the stating spot. But I have reservations about him being injury prone. He's been given the reigns twice now and both times hes been injured enough to miss games. Wong is at minimum a solid player for us at the ROLB spot. Not people realize this but Wong tied 7th in the league for linebacker sacks. That is a very solid performance, he's a smart player and very durable.

I'm thinking that Cheatwood would battle for a spot behind Wong or possibly replace Polk, who is up for FA. 258 pounds is definitely a RILB or ROLB.
 
Hello Texas from London Ontario. You have a good one in Tim Cheatwood. Finding a spot on your roster will be tough. He brings a high spirited performance and aggressive play. We are dissapointed to lose him. Our loss is your gain.
 
I dont care who starts, Cheatwood, Babin, Peek Wong, someone else, as long as they can generate more of a pass rush, i dont care what name provides it, just as long as someone gets close or to double digit sack numbers this season, if i have to cheer for cheatwood and not Wong, i can deal with that.
 
Maybe we are going to run a 2-5 defense in certain situations. Babin, Peek and Cheatwood all played DE. It would be even more difficult for a QB to pick up the blitz with 5 LB's to read than 4. With all the OLB's already on the Roster you have to wonder what another one is going to do.

BTW. I hope Cheatwood thaws out by spring practice. ;) We could use him when playing in GB on the "frozen tundra".
 
TigerCat Fan said:
To be honest with you, Tim had a problem lining up off-side constantly last year but keep in mind that our defence has to be 1 yard off the line of scrimmage up here in the CFL unlike the NFL where you guys are nose to nose.

I like Tim myself because of his guts and "meanness" on the field. He had a penalty for spitting on an opposing player this year as well as kicking an officials flag after it was thrown........some up here say it's a lack of discipline but I beg to differ!.........this is the sign of a guy who's 100% into winning and gets frustrated at anything less......save the finesse for the offence......I want my defence to be animals!....wolves preferably!

We in Hamilton have a tradition of mean, tough defences (historically) so if we lose Tim to you guys I'll be sad to see him go......but at the same time I'll be happy that someone else appreciates his tenacity. Man, is he fast off the end!

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I came on here two years ago and said that a guy named Derrick Armstrong would surprise many. Now you guys all know about him. Tim Cheatwood is a player. I don't think we will see him starting right away, but I think he'll make the team.
 
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