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Not if you bring them in cheap / on an incentive-laden deal. In the cfl no one is a contractual liability with none guaranteed deals for most of the year and most of the players. If we brought in one low risk high reward vet like toliver, or chris williams or sinkfield thatd be perfect. Though I dont really expect it at this point.

Handsofstoneman. Iirc wasn't Cloman a PR pickup from someone? We had some real stinkers at WR for a good while.

Id take a gamble on him if it was a cheap contract. Low risk high reward vets are great to have in camp.

I think gray is taking a job this year. Desjarlais and eli are great picks. The OL is gonna be a WAR in tc. I cant wait to watch it.

I could see foketi inside, with nuefeld and couture getting pretty rough actually. But I really dont think thatll be the case.

haha soo true. It was an era prone to guys getting yanked fast. If you really wanna develop and evaluate a young QB, you gotta give him a bunch of starts in a row. Its very very seldom an instant click. Ricky ray didn't finish games for a long time (splitting with maas) AC was a fringe player for years, Khari took some bumps and time to fully be ready etc. Even damon allen was an average at best passer for a long time. I never like it when QBs get tossed too quick. As long as its someone worth committing to.

Yeah and IMP db seems to be a plentiful position to recruit from currently, plus one the franchise seems to excel at.

I hasn't been the best or arguably so since bonds departure. It was good, but not great. Ols arent always the sum of their parts. They can be far more, or far less. It has the potential to be very good after the kinks are worked out and we re-establish a core of guys. Until then it has the potential to be bad. Wont know how its shaping up till camp.

No doubt. Frank broyles award for top asst coach in the ncaa, had a great gig at USC for a while now hes back with the vols. His coaching career is waaay better then his pro career ever was.

Also the OL. A lot of roll over there. We have the talent in place to fill the gaps but how they mesh and work together plus how long that takes is a question. S is a bit of a question, as is WIL.

Both would be good pick ups as well. Id really like it to be one of the LBers. Any of those guys next to bighill would flourish like crazy.

Fantastic move. 29, doesnt have high mileage but has come up big when given the chance. Gives us a different look with his size and strength. Id assume that with the time lapse since FA opened and lack of buzz before that he didnt sign a crazy expensive deal. Love love love this fit. I agree. I would love to see singleton here. Thurman or Eguavon would be good too. Imagine if we got duke too though? 🤤

Yup. Taman negotiated the dispersal draft expertly. Got soo many pieces.

Geez, that's insane. Training, and learning to play football without equipment on is like trying to learn how to swim on dry land. I feel like less equipment and a heavy focus on proper head protection/hawk tackling would go a long way.(though some teams practice that without pads on)

The best returner pick up weve made in a long long time. The guy got a real raw deal in the NFL. The local police put out a warrant for his arrest over allegedly stealing 25$ worth of groceries. He was cut instantly. The next day it turned out it wasnt him, charges dropped and he wasnt even in the area. He has a ton of potential as an Xfactor type player doing some of the demski package stuff too.

On a play here n there he did show flashes. But overall, he was putrid. I've never seen a QB throw the ball away soo many times on second down without checking down. Truth. Ol wasnt fantastic either. Long hard days as a bomber fan back then.

The average athleticism has improved by leaps and bounds. I feel that the outliers, the real freaks are pretty close though. A big difference too is the preparation that football players put into combines now. Guys were field fast back in the day and not on the track because they didnt run track. (say jerry rice 4.7 40) I feel too that a lot more of the well-rounded athletes lack the football polish that guys had back in the day. More time on the track and in the weight room and less in pads on the field.

Ac was the class of the league at qb for years. He was a product of a better system then maas no doubt. That 2000s form AC was head and shoulders better then the careers of the other 2000s qbs imo. Ray was a great qb, one of the best in the 2ks era. Id take peak ray over every qb we had in that timeline. Ray was great, not AC great but great. I think AC, moon and flutie are all head and shoulders better then the next tier. Id a been happy to get soli or manny. Not on huge deals though. Theyd be great bargain bin guys. But to hang the success of your season on soo many old guys coming off injuries and bad years with a new HC to boot... "With the first overall pick in the 2020 cfl draft, the crieders select..."

The guy was here for 2 (1?) training camps and around 25 games but upon his departure admitted he never got his head around the 3 down concept. As for shape, Id say when he first got here he was in good shape. (some monster runs in practice) In 05 when he started he got run down by some awful slow interior DL. His touch and accuracy were not good. But outside of glenn and khari we did not have anything to write home about in qb talent for a very very long time. I dont think any of the guys we went through in those days were worth a can of beans.

Valid question, yet impossible to answer right now. It is a cushy gig. Though you tend to get blitzed like mad and can deal with deflated a deflated team. And depth QB's tend to have strong chemistry with depth WRs from running second-team reps and drills all the time. I suspect its a bit of both, plop will out think himself and get away from Harris for long stretches on end. The Demski plays tend to come in bunches as well. Nichols came back from injury though and wolitarski was seemingly in his blind spot. Then a fist full of weeks later he starts going to him and its the same production if not better then what we saw with streveler. Our offense is also seemingly designed to open up one or two guys and if that doesn't work check down to the rest. Defenses shifting how they play us opens and closes doors. How they played streveler isnt how they played Nichols. How they played Nichols when he came back wasn't the same as when he started to find a groove again. Nichols and plop compound each others success and failures. Both have a tendency to get extremely passive, both can really work a fast-paced offense and drive the ball downfield. The longer a QB and OC are together the more they have to fill their gaps. Because more and more other teams know what they do, when they do it and what they are bad at. The offense doesnt have any notable new weapons, and the OL is seeing the biggest roll over in their mutual era. A lot of pressure will be on plop and nichols to do more with less. If they succeed then they deserve more of the credit then theyve have gotten before. If they dont, the duo probably gets split up.

I dont think their D is going to be better then last year with the talent on paper anyway. Combine that with collaros and the OL they have, and its gonna be a tough season in green town.

90% of all offseason threads are in that classification IMO.

Maybe the best negative nickname in Bombers history.

Helps the OL as much as any back since mike sellers. He busts tackles, pushes the pile, blocks almost like an extra OL. Lets em pound DL a lot with far more rune plays. Plops role could not fit him better. They are a match made in heaven. Id love to see him get more touches.

Or atleast is here every summer 😛