Colin Unger

The point is being missed here. The point Im making is we have a long history of either giving up on kickers or losing them through other means.. Kicker's we didn't value highly at the time and then those kickers went on to have significant success with other teams. Leggs showed more than enough for a first year place kicker to warrant being the guy next season.

Never said he was. He didn't impress with the bombers. At least not enough to give him a chance. The point im making is that we gave up on all these kickers only to have them excel on other teams. Let's not make the same mistake again.

Sure bring in some competition for leggs. But let him keep the job if he looks any sharper then last season. We let go Canadian kicker Lirim Hajrullahu Paradis, Castillo, Maher. Not every kicker is an instant success and his numbers aren't bad for this stage of things.

The MLS publishes salaries and they have plenty of players making less than 70k. I think its time for the CFL to reconsider. The CFL could have a lot more chatter if fans could discuss the exact salary implications of each move a team makes and analyze deeply how one team spends its money compared to another.

This was never about my ego. You lambasted me for stating what was quite obvious. The league was not going to just let Montreal fold. But perhaps I was moreso lambasted for daring to disagree with you.

how about... "Im glad i was wrong" It would be nice if a developmental QB had the athleticism to fill this role.

There's been a lot of talk about players who are getting older and will likely regress. I agree with most of that however statistically i think Jefferson and Jeffcoat will actually have better seasons this year because I think Winnipeg will blow more teams out this year and they will face more obvious passing situations. I thought it would be interesting to take a look at who are good candidates to elevate their play. Younger players who are coming into camp with more experience and confidence. Geoff Gray - He's got a full year as a starter under his belt now. I think he gained confidence during the season and even showed some feistiness more than a few times down the stretch. Kolankowski - Started a bunch of games last season comes into camp with confidence and a legit shot at starting. Agadosi - If only he can stay healthy Oliveria - He's probably my top choice on this list. It took him a good chunk of the season to learn how to relax and be himself and was one of the better runningbacks in the CFL down the stretch. He comes into camp this year knowing he knows what he needs to do and I think he's gonna have a great season. Schoen - Might not put up the numbers he did last year in a slightly reduced role but he's going to be better coming into camp after mastering the waggle last season. Marc Llegghio - Please let me be right about this! Pleny of room for upside O'Leary-Orange - I think he has a chance to be an upgrade over Wolitarsky as he is more athletically gifted. Needs to stay healthy. Demario Houston - was playing elite corner until he got hurt. Honorable Mentions Dru Brown, Liam Dobsen, Ricky Walker, Drew Richmond, Eli, Les Maruo, Malik Clements Wildcards The newcomers. The pool of talent is thinned out with both the USFL and XFL gobbling up import talent. I hope we are still able to find the same level of talent this offseason as we have in the past.

Anything can happen in one game. The bombers didn't play their best game and they lost in the Grey Cup by one point. The Argos have a long way to go to be at the bombers level. I don't think they have what it takes to put of the same number of wins as Winnipeg this season even playing in the east. When you're a top caliber team year after year it ends up being a challenge to sign a whole lot of free agents. Despite that the bombers arguably landed the biggest fish in the market. The key to getting better is recruiting and developing talent. This team is already quite good on paper. If we discover the same level of rookie talent we typically do this offseason this team is scary good. I think we made the right choice in terms of who to let go. We have depth coming up at center and Couture never played that many games last season. Jeffcoat im not the biggest fan of because he's the most undisciplined player on the team and is injury prone. Would love for us to fine a rookie who can push him.

Winnipeg has the best Canadian, American and Global talent.

Let's make it official! That would be nice. At that point would the bombers need to sign a single free agent?

@SpeedFlex27.... And you were saying what to me?

After 6 championships. It's a different situation because it's really just one season of feeling underpaid rather than a 7 year deal taking away the prime earning years of Scottie Pippen. Who knows what Schoen is thinking? Maybe he prefers to play out his option and then hit free agency for top dollar.

I don't want to cheap out there either. But I feel that we should be able to recruit and replace from within. We are doing pretty good elsewhere in finding import talent that is new to the CFL. You don't want to rely on free agency.

Could be a situation that once they know more about how much cap space has been created by injuries ect they can give him a bonus on this year's cap with an extension. I would think that there will be some more significant change for the 2024 season to fit Lawler's extra 40k or so and potentially another 100k for Schoen. Potentially one of the tackles retiring and replacing with league minimum would resolve most of this.

Unless the plan is to take advantage of this opportunity to build the best possible team for this season to win the Grey Cup. He can be our Scottie Pippin.

Bombers should hire me to play on the defensive line. Pretty sure id get hurt on the first play of the game.

Based on our depth across the board I think we basically pick the best player available through the draft. With perhaps a slight bias towards a receiver and defensive line. I really need to wrap my head around the exact nuances of the new nationalized import rules. The idea is that a nationalized import can sub in for an injured canadian starter. Does that mean that Bighill has no value as a nationalized import since he's already starting? Does it only have value when a designated import is a nationalized import? Or can you essentially bring in any DI to replace Thomas if he gets injured so long as you have one or more nationalized imports on the starting defense?

https://www.cfl.ca/draft-tracker/ Does anyone know why we have the 6th pick in the 2nd round?

On the subject of our offensive line. I could see O'Shea making Eli wait his turn even if he is the best center in camp. I think it could tick off some players who got jabbed against their desire for the team if Eli could take a year off and then come right back and get a starting job on day one.

Riders might be one of those teams that have to resort to 3 americans on the offensive line. Winnipeg has so much respect right now. Riders probably just signed him thinking that if Winnipeg kept him around he must be decent.

Not sure why the Riders would sign Couture considering Dan Clark is still an option

Just imagine a receiving core featuring demski, Schoen, and Lawler with Collaros at qb.

Harris just wanted to go somewhere where his cheques would cash. I just don't get it. Weineke is an american receiver who has never had 1000 yards in a season and had less than 600 yards receiving last season. This is nuts. At these prices Lawler should be targeting half a million a season. The only thing i can really think of is that Harris could have commanded more but he left some money on the table with a guarentee they would also land Weineke and Lewis.

Wait. They gave Weinke more than the bombers gave Demski?

It will be interesting to see if Montreal actually uses its cap space or go way under the cap to save money. Maybe they are tanking for Kurtis Rourke.