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Something. Anything. For crissakes. These pandemic financial decisions should have ebbn gone 3 years ago. Sure, let's pay some random Canadian Guard $300000 a year who no one ever heard of. Yet, we can't offer Elgersma the money to make him want to sign here. The stupidity at the league level continues. Well done, Johnson & the Board of Dinosaurs.

An Ambrosie clone at HO told him no. So he listened.

Now this is creative. This and similar things approaches are needed for this league. The commish and his team should be leading the charge on CREATIVITY. (Sorry I had to shout that last word for the people way in the back).

There's a rookie scale & then there's the CFL. It's ridiculously small. No incentive to sign. You also don't knpow how players will play when they're 5 year vets, either.

Hard disagree on rookies. Every pro league on this continent in every sport has a rookie salary scale. You don't really know how a player will perform transitioning to pro and it just becomes a race to the bottom if you're negotiating individual contracts with each rookie.

Stay outta my kitchen!!!

Teams should be free to spend the cap whatever way they want. It's their cap. Just like Rourke will be making $800000 in 2028. How long till he hits a million? Bc can do what they want. We should be able to pay as we want. Rookie or veterans.

I always overcomplicate solutions like this, but here is what I would do. If a draft pick get an NFL camp invite or NFL combine invite, they are automatically qualified for "Super rookie" status. The salary range for them then goes up to say 90-120k. 2 years of CFL rights, with the NFL window still after year 1. Any player who makes an NFL PR or AR is treated like any veteran FA, but with exclusive rights held by the drafting team.

The only real issue with the rookie deals is the inflexibility with incentives. This league has no money so they need to have some controls. Sask and Edmonton really broke everything when they were trying to be at the top of the heap. There’s 4 franchises who have never been able to break even on football operations in your lifetime. And another 2 who have only been able to tread water at best. So I’m not sure where people think money will be coming from to fund teams spending more on operations. It’s not going to come from player salaries.

It was a very curious decision to put that in place given we were just starting to see a vast talent drain after the NFL's PR expansion.