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Our home jerseys are gonna be their 3rds this year. What are we gonna call them now? Winnipeg practice cats. Tiger bombs? Steeltown baby bombers? Oskee mini peg? Black and old gold?

Nah. He become solid-serviceable. Still back end of the roster guy at best.

Very much so. And at this point we have a near un paralleled amount of parity in QBs both starting and back ups league wide. Basically every team has a starting QB they've chosen and a very solid qb2 with a good resume who can reasonably play if/when forced into action. The problem as I see it, is only bad teams move on to young qbs. League-wide teams wait till the wheels fall off their franchise to make QB changes to give developing guys a chance. But then those guys get run over constantly playing on bad teams. A few years ago I never would've thought we'd still see soo many old starters leading teams still, or with primary back up roles. I bet the average age league wide of starting QBs out of camp will be 33+. Bc, moved on to rourke not to develop but because they thought he would instantly be better than Vaj. And he wasn't. Montreal moved on to davis this off season, and I commend them for that. Though they have done little else this off season and it makes that move look like a cost cutting move.

Yep. It does seem like they are starting to get a better-surrounding cast, but they are in dire need of fresh blood at QB. To be fair, we are and so is 3/4 of the league. The team that wins the QB arms race with youth is going to be the next force in this league for years to come.

I agree, he certainly was good not great. I think he's still in the matt nichols tier that way. He's a better version who won, but not significantly. I think he was broken before age by beatings he took in places like edmonton as well. Yeah, old age QBs are seldom a good idea. Wrong side of 35 with a QB is a bad gamble. It might work out, it might not. It might be the only or best option a team has. But I think it is always a bad gamble to take.

Yep. He is the MOP when it comes to padding. Up top with mbt, and last years BLM.

To be fair, MBT was among the league leaders in passing till he was yoinked as well. In 22 he creamed zach in yards, and dane evans was 4th a head of rourke. I think the argument would be that last year isn't a reflection of what zach is or can do. I fully expect zach to outperform his play from last year. But I'm not sure he will physically hold up. I think he will either be a strong MOP candidate, or will be injured and replaced mid season ish.

I do agree, this is supposed to be a deep cfl draft, though I don't think it's super deep at OL. But if we can get another back up and maybe another lotto ticket that'd be pretty good. We should be looking to add one way or another still though. Dt, lawson is the answer if he stays healthy and we bench jake for him. Lawson and woods as starting DTs is tremendous. We need Pass rushing depth though. Another 3 tech, and maybe 2 guys who can rush off the edge.

Eh improved at C gotten worse at T. And that's before mcewen has to gel with their current guys.

They did, but before fa right. And tbh one was a good price that off set the other who was expensive. It’s not about top pay, it’s about getting those top guys. We paid top dollar to guys to prevent free agency any way. We’ve seen plenty of strong value at dl in fa the last few years.

Yeah. I get that we don't want to chase every players highest potential raise. But we've really shied away as soon as any top level player his free agency. At some point you gotta win more of those battles, and you need to drive up other teams FA prices as well. You have to be a destination for star players. If you aren't a destination you'll never be more than a launch pad.

He was here iirc. He was late to arrive from an NFL camp, but he was on our AR for a good chunk of 22, like 2/3rds of the games. He played a lot of teams and rotated some on D. He started the last game or two and played really well. Yeah it does feel like a wasted pick. It is kind of tough for us to have a Canadian for basically 1.5 seasons out of the draft. I like dobson, but I wouldn't have given him the star payment for a level he hasn't reached yet either. Especially with wallace waiting. But the OL pipeline is a whole lot dried than it has been at any point before.

I think with the cfl you always have guys like that. Wouldn’t be singleton. But stiggers, Alford, Isiah adams, Sydney brown, maybe good-jones, or maybe some one whose rights are owned by another team is cut and we trade for them. Like Doug brown back in the day.

Yeah I get that. I think we are a couple more solid vets and a break through player or two away from genius off season or couple injuries/crash n burns away from completely bungled. I like the idea of how we are doing this year. I think we should’ve done It sooner, and need more volume still to make it work. I think the draft will be where we can really start to dial in how good this off season was. If we draft again like last year it’s gonna help a lot.

It’s true. But their short fall isn’t due to diminishing by way of adding less talent then they lose each year. Toronto is the model every one wants. Calgary before them. But we are not willing to dump vets at their peak. We want to dump em when they’ve got nothing left or get paid.

We never have chased free agents hard. I do agree with not over paying lawler, ford, and Dobson. We’ve lost a lot of top tier guys in the past few years. we have to replace those guys some way. We haven’t been replacing top tier talent with top tier talent. It doesn’t have to be our guys, or other teams free agents. Can be trades, developing guys, signing nfl cast offs who excel etc. we hit with ford last year and lost him just as fast. So as much as that’s a credit, it’s a fault too. We can’t just be developmental for other teams. Walters n co need to do better with the alternative routes if they aren’t gonna thump free agency. Toronto has been doing it by developing, trading, nfl and obscure finds. Bc has spent in free agency and made trades while doing well off the in league off casts.

Just my 2c, but I think we became reliant on the team approach from the front office. Having soo many guys tied up in discussions with other teams on positions kinda exposed this weakness. And to be fair, previously I think it was our strength. This is why we've produced soo many front-office guys league-wide. But at the end of the day we need better from the top half. Very much so. Even Schmekel showed incredible motor, effort, and ability to maintain that play through all his snaps. He lacks the raw physical attributes to dominate, But he has the big ones that make him a guy worth keeping around. I still think he should be moving to OL, and filling the role gowanlock was signed to play. but you can make a career as a Canadian in the CFL with a blood n guts, lunch pail attitude and work ethic. Especially if you have decent football IQ. Also like Hubert showed. If bennett had an once of what those guys have he wouldn't have been a 10 game in 4 years under achiever with Florida Atlantic.

That’s a good question. I think we will add one or two more league FAs who will be depth / fringe starters. Likely at db and ol. Then I think we will spend more on rookies coming up, dangle some extra cash to get guys up early, and probably pay the pr guys full dollar. While maintaining room for nfl cut cfl players like Wilson. If we manage to get 2 more fringe starters/starters, and maybe another depth Canadian that’ll be fairly good off season work, leaving us room to be first with a bullet on any nfl cuts we want. If we miss on nfl cuts again, fail to see some one step up into an all star, or another rash of injuries to our top talent, this off season will sink our gc ups in hurry. Yeah I’d take Hubert, Kongbo, etc. I even prefer gowanlock who has some situational uses. I don’t see Bennett every becoming much of any thing.

That is more for vaughters than I expected. Other wise pretty fair deals. You're right, I thought he was on their pr in 24 but doesn't look like he was.

Still a solid teams guy for them. Good move. Hey was with Montreal in 24 after we cut him, then he was under contract in 25. I believe he was cut and or injured in camp with them last year and sat out after that. Think he's turning 29 this year. As much as any one I think he's TCF.

Yuuuuuppp. +/- tds for/against they were +3. The bombers despite massive offensive problems and injuries were +8. Edmonton was +2.

Yep plus great athleticism, high 4.3 40 with tremendous acceleration. Great football iq, good reliable wrap and tackle guy with great ball skills. Great competitive dog mentality too. Projects as a defensive half, and could likely play any spot in the back end. Definitely a blue chip prospect.

That’s 2/5 on the yikes scale. Demski is a 4/5. Those two are a 5/5 for Edmonton. Holm Kramdi and Demski will do fine here. Edmonton can’t really be sure what to get for all that cash. Yeah his elite quickness should yield a lot of on ball plays other than knock downs which were down last year for him. Idk though on one hand he’s 26 he should be able to to take a step forward. On the other he has already started 2.5 seasons worth of games. I honestly don’t expect him to improve or diminish any time soon. If he does take a step forward I’ll be pleasantly surprised. If any thing he got worse last year. Tremendous mental toughness from him though. Never lets adversity break him.

That’s a big ole yikes. im glad it isn’t us.

Power rankings them self are trash basically year round. That said this is a particularly horridly written article worthy of the vitriol even though it is an off season power ranking which yes is silly.