Colin Unger

I guess Dobsen isn't dressed due to his lack of ability to play several position on the offensive line.

It somewhat depends on how many snaps he is typically on the field for and how often we bring in a defensive back for him. If he is typically on the field for 60% of snaps its not that much of a drop off to move that to 49% percent and use a combination of Canadian DB's and linebackers. I wonder if remaining free-agents who quality as Nationalized Imports. Here's a complete list. Don Unamba Drake Nevis John White Kenny Stafford Bear Woods Ciante Evans Josh Johnson Jamar Wall Alex Bazzie Devier Posey Chris Rainey Another potential impact could be to American kickers. Long term you are wasting an opportunity to have a Nationalized Import on offensive or defense by using a DI at kicker. That position could move more towards national/global as time wears on.

I made a list of possible nationalized import on the bombers roster. My vote is to give Bighill the honor of being our nationalized import starter. 37 Alexander, Brandon DB A 6'0 180 28 UCF 4 Bighill, Adam LB A 5'10 219 33 Central Washington 66 Bryant, Stanley OL A 6'5 313 36 East Carolina 2 Ellingson, Greg WR A 6'3 211 33 Florida International 51 Hardrick, Jermarcus OL A 6'5 319 31 Nebraska 94 Jeffcoat, Jackson DE A 6'3 243 31 Texas 5 Jefferson, Willie DL A 6'7 242 31 Stephen F. Austin 9 Taylor, Nick DB A 5'9 181 34 Florida International 19 Wilson, Kyrie LB A 6'1 221 29 Fresno State

The bombers are likely situated well to utilize their wealth of Canadian defensive backs as essentially a starter. Depending i guess on how much Dime we play. You could start a Canadian linebacker and Kyrie Wilson can be a nationalized import who plays the majority of the time when we actually have a linebacker on the field. And the rest of the time we bring in one of our many Canadian defensive backs in passing situations.

Regarding the 3 additional nationalized import playing a maximum of 49% of snaps. Lets assume a scenario where we have Jake Thomas and Kongbo is back with us from the NFL and due to some circumstances Jackson Jeffcoat is not available. We start Thomas at DT and Kongbo at DE. Does this mean that a DI who is a nationalized american can play 49% of Kongbo's snaps at defensive end and also 49% of Thomas' snaps at DT? Ok so if that's not how it works the other way around is even more suspectable to manipulation. If a given DI nationalized import can play a maximum of 49% of the staps period in place of a national it opens up a different scernio. The Bombers could have two nationalized americans who backup up at defensive tackle. Each could play in place of Jake Thomas for 49% of the snaps which would add up to a total of 98% or essentially an additional american starter. Id like to see some clarity on how exactly this works. Probably the league doesn't even know how it works yet!! Too busy negotiating to worry about the practicality.

Believe me. This wasn't about the fans this was about the league and players fighting over scraps.

Would love to see Steveler back here but thats unlikely due to cap issues. Maybe if he waits a while and we get an big injury or something it could happen. BC and Edmonton seem more likely if he plans to come up here now.

I take Chevy's comments regarding Scheif as a message to other GM's that he's not selling him on the cheap.

The whole lockout situation is good for Prukop. He's going to get a bunch of first team reps this week.

Sounds like Liam Dobsen was passed over in Chicago Bears mini-camp. The bears signed 6 undrafted free agents from their rookie mini-camp including one offensive lineman but not Dobsen. Assuming nothing has changed he should currently be in Saints mini camp. I would imagine that within 3 days or so we should know if he's been offered a contract.

Is there a video interview somewhere online of Kyle Walters recapping their draft? Im a bit out of the loop since i moved to Nicaragua.

The importance of a second elite corner has increased with the changes to the hashmarks. Hopefully both of these National corners can become ratio breakers but the barrier of entry with the rule change I think got a little bit higher. Hopefully Dobsen comes to the bombers in time for training camp but if we do need to wait for NFL cuts we have the ratio flexibility to start an American guard until alexander is healthy.

After the long draught this team literally can't win too many in a row. I've got the same vigor for championships I did before we won the first one.

Besides all of that. My issue with losing Lawler is he's a freak on the field. He's not replaceable. Having said that. We have more than enough talent to compete for another cup without him.

JWJ is the same guy who thought he was a serious candidate for be at 2000/2000 guy.

There's also Josh Johnson's salary I believe. What we don't know right not unless im mistaken is which of the players who re-signed took pay cut from what they were making before to help the team.

Yeah he's certainly not specifically holding funds for Strevy. But he always seems to have an emergency fund (must watch Dave Ramsey). He will say he's done doesn't have more to spend and then he changes his tune when a significant player becomes available.

I doubt that Winnipeg would scrape something together to make it work if he were available. Walters is currently shopping only for bargains and asking players to play here below value so he's not going to give a public indication that he's reserving capitol for a player who may very well be going to an NFL camp.

That doesn't seem to be in line with the reporting I've heard. I don't think it was about money. He rubbed O'Shea the wrong way last season and O'Shea wanted the team to move on. Had more to due with the shape he came to camp in and perhaps his reaction to being told he wasn't gonna play during portions of the season.

So the benefit to this is that so long as Alexander is not ready we could start an additional Canadian on the offensive line. Imagine we draft one and Dobsen comes to camp we will have an embarrassment of riches again. And if Desjarlais becomes available it ends up being a problem. Im hoping we get clarity on Dobsen early so we can draft accordingly. Would love to see a Philpot in a bombers jersey again.

Alexander will be back but he's not going to be ready for the season due to an injury.

The bombers have been in this situation before. Needing to use the draft to produce starting offensive lineman. And in other times needed the draft to produce a backup offensive lineman. I think they did alright when they selected Dejarlais and Chung. With the amount of skilled talent available high up in the draft i think that there will be a quality offensive lineman available when our pick comes up. Don't get me wrong. I hope Eli is signed. But given that nobody around the league seems to have offered on him Im willing to bet he's still not planning to vaccinate. I'd love to get political here but im not going to.

Liam Dobson may be an option but I was thinking that if he's bound for the NFL Winnipeg would use their first round pick to draft a lineman.

Outside of Lawyer i feel like we handpicked the guys we were going to have to lose based on positions where we already had cheaper replacements. And in the case of Lawler we spent the money which might have gone to him on Ellingson. Pencil Houston in at corner, pencil Sayles in at DT, pencil (use a marker) Oliveria and Augustine in at runningback, pencil Gray in at guard, pencil McKnight in at receiver. Darby was just a replacement for Matson who got injured and he's healthy now. Sounds like Alexander will be back. I would expect we will make some additional moves once the dust settles but we could go to camp with this team, recruits, and the new draft class. Any word on how much NFL interest there is in Dobson?

If i was playing season long fantasy Id be targeting Bailey and Demski for year over year growth.