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Blue Bombers -- 2025/26 Offseason -- Discussion Thread
yes, complete with rocket booster
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Blue Bombers -- 2025/26 Offseason -- Discussion Thread
That is correct. But that also means we need to fill the dime db spot without another DI. Woodbey and the griffin dime spot is gonna be tight on the roster. Hooper has a very good to chance to be a Hubert type fit.
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Blue Bombers -- 2025/26 Offseason -- Discussion Thread
best players are always that way. His coordination, balance, agility, and body control are fantastic for a guy soo big and who has mainly been a blocker. Strong natural hands as well, without bad catching habits. I think Zach is gonna love this kid as a pressure release target. If he drops 10-15 lbs, gets a tad faster, and learns to waggle some, he is going to be a deadly multi-use guy. I can see a whole lot of mike sellers in him.
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Blue Bombers -- 2025/26 Offseason -- Discussion Thread
That would be great. I'd love to see vaval take a step forward as a db this year and be able to be the bench dime. We need all the help with DI flexibility we can get. Imagine if we used the naturalized american designation on WJ? Start Nuer on paper and wj can balance half the games reps as a canadian. Oh yeah, the D should be exceptional this year. Anticapting no rookies starting or being a primary rotational guy unless they beat guys who've been here. Tons of play makers all over the field, depth, versatility both positionally and ratio wise. JY is gonna have some real tough decisions to make. This is the type of camp cuts that is both haunting and mouth watering for coaches.
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Blue Bombers -- 2025/26 Offseason -- Discussion Thread
Im sure they do. Will we DI a 2nd rb? Only if Vaval is hurt lol. I hold out no hope for a well-used offensive DI until it actually happens. I think we should look to have 4ish for camp. Especially with potentially 4 legs in this camp. Bailey + Nuer is going to be a huge boost to our DL if we rotate modestly well. Definitely thinnest at DT. Lber is crazy deep. I bet OL and Lber are some of the first cuts in full camp. Love the versatility and size options we have in the secondary and line-backing core. Just gotta keep the chaff out of the way of the wheat. I bet they are waiting for the rookie camps. Both ours and the NFL's. I think we will see a pretty good-sized turnover in young guys between rookie camp and the first week and a couple of days of our full camp. Not just the usual wr/dbs either.
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Blue Bombers -- 2025/26 Offseason -- Discussion Thread
So post-draft, our remaining needs break down as follows; Wr. We have 23 dbs and 16 wrs. For sure, need a couple more imp WRs for camp. DE. 18 ol vs 13 DL. Specifically, 2-ish Nts and another pass rusher or two. A backup LS and another KR or two are really needed for camp and insurance for Vaval. If we are going into the TE market, we need to work someone like Schmekel into that backup some, and bring in at least 1 more guy for camp reps. Otherwise, the depth is in a really good spot going into camp.
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Blue Bombers -- 2025/26 Offseason -- Discussion Thread
no but he is kongbo esq in a sense. But where kongbo was a polished balanced/run stop edge, nuer is a polished pass rusher. The TE era for the bombers about to begin. We’ve been using that look for a long time. Gray, Eli, mci, etc. In the past we’ve run the ball down the throat of teams with 6 ol and run some max pro out of 6 ol packs. All of that can be homogenized into 11 form with a real te, who can catch. I wonder how dante feels about cutting weight. If he’s gonna be nfl bound eventually, they won’t want him coming in at 250/260. Interesting global picks. Rotational glue guy dt and a pretty solid punter prospect. In the end we checked all the boxes, though i’m not high on the wr prospect, when you factor in Dante as a te that gets better. It’s not how any one would think to go about it, but it could work out real well. Big gamble of a draft. I wonder how the roster would break down though. 5 starting ol, 1 back up, te, peterson, and mci. That’s a lot of big bodies. Plus Schmekel. Is there room for a te, 2 back up rbs, a dt who blocks well, and a back up ol?
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Blue Bombers -- 2025/26 Offseason -- Discussion Thread
either didn’t value the guys available, which with the rare combination of size and established high level teams play/blocking that was available seems odd, or just valued the guys we have highly. Good for clercius bad for corcoran. Not a big deal really. pretty good draft. filled our biggest need with the best player in the draft at that position, de. Got a top tier ol futures. plus some intriguing fit potential. considering ott took the next big hback available, either they thought he’d be gone, or just wanted to secure the guy. Don’t hate it, this is the draft to do that in. We will know by how heavy he comes into camp. It could go either way really. Maybe when he’s 100% they really like how he runs and thinks he can play a bunch of positions and roles for us. Maybe they want to go te sets instead of having a guy like clercius block half his snaps. But if you’re in it for the blocker, he wouldn’t need to add much weight and canadian tackle prospects are not common. I’m all for the cfl evolving to use 11 formation. If you like this kids hands, and blocking, it’s easy to see the value in him even if he starts out as a package and heavy set guy. I hope to see some 5’10 210 lbs sam trying to block and cover this 6’6 275lbs kid.
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Blue Bombers -- 2025/26 Offseason -- Discussion Thread
This draft really exposed the fact that it shouldn’t be a tv event. It shouldn’t be a couple hours either. Do it with out presentation, in a fast format like they used to, then have a 45 minute post draft prime time tv event on tsn. Then they can cover all the picks, the off season moves team needs etc. Hopefully in the global draft we get another dl and a k/p for camp.
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Blue Bombers -- 2025/26 Offseason -- Discussion Thread
and we take another teams lber, this one injured and a flyer. Last run on project wrs starts right after. doesn’t look good for wr.
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Blue Bombers -- 2025/26 Offseason -- Discussion Thread
love the ethan stuart pick! sam, s, cover wil, half, he can do soo much in cover and has the tools to actually be a full time cover guy plus the size to play the box and excel on soo many units. beaut of a get
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Blue Bombers -- 2025/26 Offseason -- Discussion Thread
token athletic under sized teams guy lber. Kind of wild to take him over jesulayomi, ulm, and to a lesser extent udoh. missing both waves of wrs is a bit rough but still some guys worth developing at wr
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Blue Bombers -- 2025/26 Offseason -- Discussion Thread
early for a futures pick in cline, but with his lack of speed i don’t think he’s gonna stick as long in the nfl. canadian starting at rt in the ncaa is a big deal. His floor as a guard is very high if he doesn’t end up visible at t. Looking for a wr next pick or two i hope early for a futures pick in cline, but with his lack of speed i don’t think he’s gonna stick as long in the nfl. canadian starting at rt in the ncaa is a big deal. His floor as a guard is very high if he doesn’t end up visible at t. Looking for a wr next pick or two i hope
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Blue Bombers -- 2025/26 Offseason -- Discussion Thread
this is no surprise given the mock drafts we saw. cfl draft is impossible to predict, but even at that the mocks have been terrible I like a bunch of these picks teams are getting good useful talent
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Blue Bombers -- 2025/26 Offseason -- Discussion Thread
either price was too high or we didn’t prioritize ol, will see in the next few picks how we look at ol/wr