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Hey @Booch, I found your new homescreen pic.

Ba calls it a career. https://3downnation.com/2025/03/09/veteran-bombers-db-brandon-alexander-announces-retirement-from-cfl/ 8 years strong with 1 professional team. To the Blue Bombers that gave me a chance to play ball again I’m grateful and hopefully every day of my 8 years, I showed how grateful I was/am for that opportunity. My teammates/fans over that period of time made it easy to go to put it on the line everyday. I can’t thank the fans enough that accepted me into your home of Winnipeg, Manitoba. You’ve seen me start my career as a 23-year-old young adult. Always stood behind me and watched me grow into the football player y’all loved to cheer for. Winnipeg only shines because you all put the lights in and on the stadium. I will miss the love I’ve felt over the years. #1 fanbase in the CFL without a doubt. And to my teammates, ya’ll already know what it is. Too many memories were given to me that I will carry for the rest of my life. Can’t replace that. “Love y’all boys.” 37 out”

The Bombers bankroll the U16 and U18 provincial teams along with camps run all winter and spring in preparation, and not just for the more elite group who end up making those teams. Also U12 and U14 academy programs on top of that. In addition to bankrolling WHSFL league operations, supporting RMFL and supplying all minor football programs, some more than others based on need. They've been running a flag program for a long time. Both at indoor soccer facility and a summer program. I'd bet amateur football in MB would shrink by half if the Bombers pulled back. It costs way less to run a high school program now than when I played because of their support, like by 1/3.

This Thomas obsession is really getting old.

You heard @Pete, time to change the topic from Thomas sucks to Kolo sucks.

Alexander was such a key piece for this team's rise. Even when he was clearly past his prime last season it's so hard to say bad things about the guy.

Alexander to safety was one of the moves that led to the Cup win. Dude had some great years for us.

That extra pick should be just disappear. Calgary shouldn't be rewarded for being incompetent.

I see the bombers advertising a rural flag football league starting spring of this year for kids 10-14. This is brilliant, I hope they end up rolling it out to high schools as well. Younger ages would be great too.

Hoping that's 95 days until Thomas is kicked off the starting lineup!

If i recall Elliott didn't like the lapo calls and did his own thing at times

The path is obvious, we sign Alford and have the highest paid but most dominant CFL secondary.

And so it continues ,,around 90 days til training camp you.say , so between Booch and Speedflex that should be about 300 Thomas posts.

Little bit different in almost every single way Rourke is a weird prospect … below average arm strength for a NFL QB, does a really bad job of adjusting if he’s not just left completely untouched in the pocket. Doesn’t strike me as a player who really has any shot of being a NFL starting QB but he’s still 6’5” and was really efficient in college so coaches will give him a chance over and over. Depending on who you ask he’s anywhere from QB5 to QB12 in the NFL draft. Problem with this for the CFL draft is that he’s already 24 and you have to expect he’s going to get opportunities to compete for at least 3-4 years in the NFL unless he’s so dogshit you don’t even want him as a CFL player. Gonna almost certainly be way more invested in him than in a Hergel so I’m not sure why you’d run the risk early on. If someone wants to, great … let them. Hope it’s not the Bombers though.

I’d take Rourke, but not in the second. Are we really acting like he’s not about to be a 3rd-4th round pick at worst in the NFL draft? Why would you invest a second rounder in the CFL draft in that, free pick or not? Those are the kinds of moves Calgary made and now look at them. No thanks.

With Schenn coming in after being acquired at the trade deadline, Logan Stanley is set to serve as a healthy scratch for the first time this season. yay. Schenn Fleury it is.

Couldn't love it more....

Not relevant to this thread, just wanted to say I miss Craig Dickenson as coach of the Riders. He was awful. It was spectacular. That is all.

All that overpaying only to have Campbell sabotage it all wrecking the room and dividing his team with the Rourke nonesense...if only he would have said Rourke is number 2 while he gets readjusted and is there if Vaj can't play or really shats the bed

We signed safety Rashaan Gaulden who is like 47 years old and was a third round NFL draft pick in 2003

I can’t imagine we give him 200k or any thing. But he’d be sick to get back.

Love adding bolduc. Tons of varied experience in the cfl, strong connection to Logan as well. I also love the diversifying of our offensive coaching staff from guys who orbited around lapo to all kinds of experience outside our norm. (Including Jackson in that as well) Billy Jean is an interesting one. Very well regarded football mind. Feel like he’s a strong Xs and Os guy who is a bit more raw in coaching pro players and positions in general. I’m sure he’s gonna be like James Stanley for the O. He’s gonna be an assistant to the offensive coaches, where as Jackson will be a more experience guy who can support hogan in his transition to full time play caller. We’ve done a great job of bringing in quality, experienced guys front office to coaching staff. Especially when giving younger guys a chance to move up, by surrounding them with highly experienced guys who can help them develop. If those guys can gel with the mafia we should see a lot of fresh looks and adjustments. Half our front office is new, with the 3 pp directors/ scouts, while Costello is the only guy on offence who is holding over at his position. A real interesting take out of that “B.C. is currently slated to pick third overall in this year’s draft but is expected to forfeit that selection due to salary cap violations.” if thats the case im alll for it. They flaunted the cap as bad as any one ever has.

For sure, he was a favorite security blanket for Zach. But it seemed like Clercius was picking that up pretty quickly last year. very excited to see what he does with a season under his belt. He really surprised considering how raw was.

I mean he is a huge impact, not a good one for us but huge none the less. The usual cfl.ca quality lol. I think they got to 3 and couldn’t figure it out so they went with the old guy. I think Cjob types would go Brady Demski kramdi. Personally I’d go with 3 key Canadians to watch this year: Gabe Wallace, who has a big chance to fill a spot we badly need filled. With likely only imp competition. Then cam Lawson. We need that nose, we need a guy to take most of Jake’s reps. He was tremendous here before his injury. Finally big Kev. Demski isn’t getting any younger, woli is gone he’s penciled in as a starter. But he flashed a lot more than just blocking next year. I loved woli but I don’t think we will miss a beat. He could be the next big wr break we land.

My 2 cents......OL/DL heavy in the draft...If a guy looks to be a standout on specials we could use some depth but IMO our OL/DL needs replenishment

Coakes and Stokman are local guys that we'd be insane to pass on if we get the chance to pick them, both OL. Coakes is 1st round quality considering availability, C/G type, played lots of centre at UBC. Dorazio was OL coach there his early years so has had some of the best coaching you'll get at U Sports/NCAA level to be CFL-ready. Stokman 2nd-4th round range IMO. Crazy athletic and strong, started as a tackle for Bisons and moved inside as he filled out. Either one of these guys could be 6th man as a rookie and step in to play, especially Coakes. If I'm Walters I probably take Coakes first if he's on the board and Stokman with our 2nd pick if he's still on the board. No use waiting around. There's enough DB's and receivers in this draft that there will be good ones probably through round 4-5. The younger Rourke is a legit NFLer and also busted up. He has the arc of a guy who sits in the NFL for awhile, has a few more camp/pre-season injuries, sits on IR's, retires at 29-30 with bum knees. I wouldn't pick him until like the 6th round, maybe.

Enough about Jake Thomas already. When are we upping our offer to Kenny Lawler?!

Winnipeg has a better arts scene too with MTC, Prairie Theatre, The WSO etc.

Winter isn't the same as it was 20 years ago anywhere, on average much milder.

Lawson yeah, as long as he’s 100% he should get the most reps. I just hope Thomas doesn’t eat up woods snaps.

Edmonton is Winnipeg with money, plain and simple. I do vastly prefer Winnipeg because I prefer The Shield to The Rockies, but Edmonton is without a doubt my favourite of the two major Alberta cities.

This is gold...spelling comedy gold.

We cancelled our two weeks in Sedona that was planned for January as soon as T-Rump was elected. A wonderful place but....

Very Heartfelt goodbye from Alexander and I hope he's successful in his future endeavours....Solid DB and we're most likely going to miss him....He could really bring it especially in the middle days of his career with the bluengold...So long Brandon

Rantanen gives Roslovic a Rolex to give up 96 when he was acquired by the Canes, 6 weeks later, Roslovic has his number back and a new watch.

Meddling rarely is succesfull...For all the good Doman is doing...ythat was a major gaff

WELCOME BACK BRANDON TANEV

In my opinion Stanley is worse than all of those players. Bring Coghlan back up; he’s lighting up the AHL. Stanley got toasted on the 1st goal and he was on for the 2nd. Thats -2 in a 2-0 game. He’s not good enough. He’s a mistake waiting to happen.

Love that guy... Wish he could have gone out on top. He gave everything for us. Huge thank you for everything he did to end that GC drought and give us these golden years.

One of the biggest coaching blunders in recent memory.

I’m more concerned with his lack of playing any football in like 4 years

Bombers' 1st pick will probably be 6th. Edmonton forfeited their 3rd overall pick by selecting Zach Mathis on the Supplemental Draft.

Currently pick 7th as Edmonton used their first round pick in the supplemental draft. We'll move to 6th if BC does lose their pick too.

Is there a report somewhere showing BC is going to lose their first? I know they really flaunted it but don't recall a published report. So we pick 8, 17 and 20? Not bad.

I was looking at the 2010 draft and the Trashers could have had Nelson in that draft, as they picked 9th and Nelson went in the first round, 30th pick. Who did the Thrashers draft instead? Burmistrov. Man did Chevy get handed a total turd of a team with zero prospects when he took over.

I’ll die on that hill. Elliot could have been something with a half decent team around him.