All Activity

It'll be interesting to see how the turnout goes for the riders. 500 bucks for the year seems like solid value for season ticket holders. But that market is not as spend crazy as it was when they broke their streak. The stadium location for them is awful. (aside from the fact its in Saskatchewan) Having a tailgate spot with a park and ride might not be bad, except for the driver. Makes me glad for where the stadium is now. It was a risky move but once they figured out traffic a bit its been a massive W.

The NFL pr pays about 220,000 for less than 2 years of service and 300k for 2 years of service, for the whole year. Plus, a full camp is 10-20k plus any signing bonuses. So you're looking about 230-320k for a full year of camp + Tc. Add on the exchange rate of 35%+, and the taxation level is about half of what you pay up here. Roughly that means you'd have to make about 425k at minimum to compete with a QB who goes through camp and sits on the pr the whole year. At that point, of course, you won't get those guys to give up on that chance and come up here. But that is the ballpark level of competition for rookie QBs. To improve our QB pool, I think you'd need to have rookies able to earn around 200k USD. 175k probably still makes an impact, 150k maybe. Last year, the 2nd tier vet backup QBs (Evans, Shiltz, Strev, etc.) made in the low 100k range. After taxes in American bucks, they are probably lucky if they bring home 60-70k. And you know the raw rookies are making even less than that. Triple that, and push that pay level down to the rookies. Then you'll see guys making the decision to stay in football and come up here who wouldn't otherwise, and see the guys who would come up here do so sooner.

These are your Winnipeg Jets. When you tell your fans that our team is built through good drafting & trades but not free agency. Then, go out & have shitty drafts & make poor trades all the while saying top free agents won't sign here except fourth line players & D Men. I'd sure like to see what another GM could do replacing Chevy after 15 years & building a different culture. It's time for him to go but it will never happen until he says so. Chevy #jobforlife.

The 2 stalls are for a car or truck pulling a bbq/smoker.

It's over. But for some reason my mind always thinks that there's a chance. And I still get mad when they lose and I'm happy when they win. Is it football season yet,?

My understanding is that they intend the tailgaters to use the 2nd stall for their chairs, BBQ etc. So, in actuality there will be room for one vehicle. Its not like in Winnipeg where there are areas for lots of fans to set up on the grass in front of their vehicles.

Dayum, can't even have a still anymore.

The penalty against Vilardi totally goes against the double-tap rule of Zombieland. As bad as this game was I’m sure Arniel saw enough good in it to to keep it intact for our next game. Sharks win, Kraken lose 😭 https://i.imgur.com/4pXBbjo.mp4

Pack it in, they don't have it offensively, defensively, goaltending. Just not a good squad this year

The Jets must be the most passive checking team in the league. No aggression and way too much space given all over the ice.

Salomonnson gonna make pionk or Demelo expendable. Thats how we get the 2 center. Pionk. Salo Samberg looking really strong together. Don’t hate Bryson as depth either and seems genuinely excited to be here. Pionk Josh Salo Samberg Demelo fleury Bryson. That’s not the worst. They should give Rosen ice time with Connor and Scheifele.

What an amazing goal by Connor. KFC baby!

KC is pretty good.

Eight shots through almost two periods of play. Wtf. Two goals on six shots against.

luckily I have the perfect goal song for Rosen

Legalized tailgating. And a governmebnt cash grab. How to take the fun away from a football game.

That's interesting anyhow... I mean $500 for the season including two parking passes for every game... That's not exorbitant, I don't think.

Nice call by the refs to open the game. Unbelievably bad. And of course…. They immediately score.

LOL Each tailgating permit will cost $500 and includes two parking spaces in order to accommodate a full setup. In February, the Roughriders allowed season-ticket holders to enter a lottery for tailgating spaces. Successful applicants are expected to be contacted in April. 3DownNationSaskatchewan Roughriders tailgating law passes final vote...A bill that would allow tailgating at Saskatchewan Roughriders games next season has passed its final vote in the provincial legislature and has been given Roya

Combination of things, I believe. Until the spring leagues & smaller NFL rosters & practice squads thereshould have been more qbs developed by CFL teams. they had the market on qbs if they were cut as they had nowhere else to go. So, more effort should have been made like it was in Edmonton & Calgary to find & develop talented young qbs. Too many CFL teams, the Bombers included felt they didn't have to spend the resources necessary as they could just dip into free agency & sign Kent Austin, matt Dunigan or Tom burgess as our next sarting qb. They felt that they didn't need to have one or two young guys ready to go. In today's CFL, there's less talent available. The best qbs that could become available are already signed by the NFL. If they aren't already on regular rosters they're on the practice squad. Others are playing in the UFL like our boy Taylor Elgersma. So, I'll admit that it's much harder in 2026 to develop legit qb talent in the CFL than say in 1996. When you look back coming up to three seasons ago, developing & letting Dru Brown go was a huge mistake. There's been no one since he left for the Bombers who even came close to him talent wise. I'm not Brown's biggest fan. I think he's too passive as a leader & perhaps isn't as tough as he needs to be. I think other qbs like Chris Streveler may have played thru some of his injuries that he's had. Still, it would have been nice for him to start here.

The players playing pro are the best. So someone who is good in NCAA is making a transition up to play pro. So everyone gets excited about a guy who had success at NCAA school(s) but like I said....the talent is relative. They are competing with the best which isn't what they competed against in NCAA. Even if you want to look at a P5 roster you're looking at a fraction of those players making it at all in pro football.

Yeah, I know they’re limited in what they can do for call ups, but I was hoping to see some shuffling at least. Give Barron some 2C reps, give Rosen a chance to play with some speed on his line instead of slow and old. All the things we’ve mentioned in our posts before…. Just mix it up a bit and see if you can find something interesting.

He hopefully retires. Honestly sounded like jets were a bit disappointed with JT from chevy PC. Read between the lines stuff. 10 years ago JT is what people expected. What we got was a dude who might struggle in the beer leagues.

Talent isn't the primary limiting factor. It's everything that comes after talent that brings success; that's what is lacking. Wilson has plenty of talent. Chase did. Grainger had crazy talent. We get raw talent QBs these days. It takes a lot to polish them if they don't wash out. And a whole lot of them do wash out. This isn't a bombers thing either; this is a league and football-wide issue. Half the starting QBs in the league are closer to pension than to college. More than half, frankly, suck at being a starting QB. The NFL is struggling for QBs, and they've opened wide the maw to vacuum up and hold as many guys as possible. The PR expansions and increases in pay mean we don't get a polished guy with talent anymore. The NIL money makes that problem even worse. Plus, the NFL has diversified in offensive systems along with the college game. No more do we see guys completely ignored because of the offence they ran. Why come up here and, at best, get to play behind a shaky OL (League and sport-wide OLs are struggling as well) and risk a poor quality of life for less money than you make as QB2 at a good program? You always have live and breathe football guys, but the modern generations of football players have far more diverse interests. It's no longer a prerequisite to love football more than a good quality of life. Also, the modern transfer window has hurt a lot of kids' development. Instead of toughing it out and earning a spot after 2 years, they transfer or drop down to juco to try and get a better starting job. The transfer window is fair for the kids, but it isn't an aid in developing QBs. It helps many positions, but not QB imo. Look at Elgersma, a relative unknown to most us scouts until he went pro (compared to us prospects that the scouts have watched since middle school), and he's still getting enough interest to linger on the periphery of the NFL. If he were a Texas/Florida/SoCal, etc. kid who had performed well in junior and high school, we'd never see him. We saw a few years ago Edmonton, Toronto, and Montreal dipped their toes into massive QB pools for camp. Talking 10-ish QBs or more. It failed miserably. What kids with talent need to develop is time and a lot of effort. They also need to have great intangibles, like Dru Browns mental toughness, in order to survive and embrace the grind to step up to qbing at the pro level. It's easily the hardest job in sports. A lot can, and has been said (by myself and others) about the negatives of our scouting and roster management/development strategy. If we see a red flag in the work ethic, ability to uptake the game, passion, or mental toughness of a QB, he is gone.

And, with all respect to JT, he is not a third line centre, maybe 4th.