SpeedFlex27

I hate this AI ****.

I think the possibility is there for Zach to have a rennaissance season with Tommy Condell. We all thought Trevor Harris was finished but he was elite last season. The question is at age 40/41 can he keep doing it? Zach is 37. Turning 38 this season, can he do the same? Yes, it'll be interesting.

Maier is the highest paid BACKUP QB. I think that tells you what other coaches think of the guy as a starter. Even he's talking about taking his CFL career one year at a time. Is he even 30 yet? He knows that a couple of bad showings & he's done. Get his money while he can.

This is how I see it, TBurgess. I don't know if you agree or not. I don't want to argue with you. You're a veteran observer of the CFL like me. I do respect your opinioon even if we don't always agree. The problem with the CFL is that coaches now want to waste a roster spot on short yardage slugs at qb like Tommy Stevens, Jake Dolegala, Jarrett Doege, Quincy Vaughan or Chris Streveler. Guys that are called qbs but couldn't run a regular offense if their life depended upon it. So, young qbs that may have a chance if they were developed will get cut because the CFL runs short yardage offenses with these guys scoring touchdowns. All it means that 9 spots that could be used for development are taken up by those guys. If the NFL can run short yardage with qbs like Brock Purdy, Sam Darnold, Matt Stafford, Dak Prescott, Josh Allen, Patrick Mahomes, Bo Nix, Justin Herbert, Aaron Rodgers, Justin Fields, Trevor Lawence etc all starters making millions why is the CFL trying to be cute running short yardage qbs? Because winning games keeps the head coaches employed which usurps qb development. Maybe a great short term thing but disastrous for the CFL long term. I believe that we need to keep the starters in. Let them run short yardage. Get rid of these gadget qbs & use the QB2 & QB3 positions to actually develop young guys to play. The talent pool at qb in the CFL has dried up. Something has to change.

It doesn't matter. Money is imconsequential in this discussion. Who is/was out there as free agents that was better than Zach we could have signed? There was no one so your argument makes no sense. It's baseless. You may not like hearing that but facts are facts. They paid Zach because no one else could take his place. Or do it better. That's the reality of the situation. There aren't any backups in the CFL ready to step up & be stars which is a real concern for the longevity of the league.

Who would you have given the money to had Collaros left? What free agent qb out there was better? You keep saying it was a mistake. That we overpaid to sign him & don't tell us anything else. Without names, it's a baseless argument.

There were qbs available like Powell. Whether he can win as an eventual starter is debatable. The problem with the Bombers is that they're stuck waiting on Egersma to come up here at the expense of everything else. Walters won't sign anyone until he knows if the Canadian kid is coming here. The logic to which I don't understand because no CFL contract is guaranteed. In other words, they could have signed Powell had they wanted to because if they chose to they could release him later if Elgersma has a change of heart. If not Powell, then a couple of the depth qbs they have now on the roster like Artoepus & Wilson. We shouldn't be keeping a backup qb seat open for a rookie. I have a feeling that Elgersma doesn't want to play here anyway & we'll eventually have to trade his rights to a team in Southern Ontario.

What kind of twisted logic is that? You make no sense. With your argument, every player is overpaid. And there's no market for any player to ask for money. You realize that Rourke will be making $700,000 in 2027 & $800,000 in 2029? Is he worth it? Has he got the Lions to the Grey Cup? What's he won??

Sure. Scouting guarantees us the next HOF qb. Lol. If only it was that easy. Try again.

Where are these upgrades going to come from? No one answers because they have none yet the bitching never stops. We just have a bunch of spoiled whiners here complaining about his salary whether Collaros takes a paycut or not. Like they're paying him themselves.

And probably not win. Maier was dreadful as a starter in Calgary. He hasn't shown he'd do any better as a starter. Powell hasn't played much. No one knows what he can do. Powell has sat for 4 seasons. You want to gamble the future on those 2 to save some money? I don't.

There are no starting qbs on the horizon anywhere. The backup qb situation sucks.

I used to have a 1966 Canadian Silver Dollar. I had it since I was a kid. My son has begun collecting coins so I gave it to him. I think it.s worth $6 or &7. 1966 was the last year the Canadian mint used actual siver to make that coin. There is another 1966 silver dollar circulating that is rare. If you have it, it's worth hundreds of dollars because it's so rare. i used to know how to check but I've since forgotten. I do know that the coin I had was not that rare coin.

You think you had it rough? This was my first career job working with my hands. My boss was tough. He was a slave driver. I'm so old I had a Jesus Starter jacket.

Who could we have replaced him with? I'd like to know.

Every Cardinal fan out there.

Fifty thousand ain't much if they want to sign amy more free agents. Where would the Bombers spend this windfall? On signing another player or for injuries come the season? I guess every bit helps.

PG13? What show are you watching? It's rated TV +14. For network tv, that's a mix of violence & language toned down. If it was on Netflix,it probably would have a TV+18 rating.

Yes.

Okay, thanks for going into it with a bit more detail. Not fitting in could mean a lot of negative connotations. I'll say this after watching our DL the past 3 seasons & the way it has been stocked & coached, it was a fricking disaster. I'd take an aging Mauldin as even if he was slipping in his performance, he'd have been better than what we had.

Canada & Edmonton have put in a joint bid for the World Cup of Hockey in 2028. Calgary's new arena will be ready at that time. Bettman was in town yesterday to see the progress that's been made in construction. He won't say who has the winning bid but you have to think with a brand spanking new 18,000 seat arena here along with the Rogers Centre in Edmonton that they'd have to be the favourites.

So tell me, why wouldn't Mauldin have fit in anywhere else? Was he a cancer in the dressing room? Was he uncoachable? Was he a selfish? A "Me First" player? From everything I have ever heard he was great team player. Had he wanted to leave Ottawa even 3 years ago, there would have been 8 other teams that would have tried to sign him.

When Mauldin was in his prime? You kidding? He would have been the #1 free agent out there iin 2021-23. Of course, he'd have been paid.

Mauldin just wasted his time playing in Ottawa. Never won a Grey Cup. Did he even win a single playoff game during his time in Ottawa? Yet there he was. The best DL in the CFL playing on the worst team in the CFL his entire career. He never took advantage of the leverage he had. He could have signed for more money & a real shot at a championship somewhere else. I can understand all star players from the past who were stuck on bad teams their entire careers because free agency never existed at the time. Guys like Long Gone Jim Thomas, Greg Pipes, Ken Nielsen, Dave Raimey, John Lagrone, George Dixon, Ken Sugarman, Jim Young, D i c k Shatto & Don Luzzi. They had no choice. Teams wouldn't trade or lose them to free agency. They were in effect, trapped. Stuck on teams they couldn't leave. They could "play out their option" after their contract expired for a 20% reduction in pay based on the expied contract & then could sign elsewhere the following season. So, in effect a 3 year deal actually was a 4 year deal with the reserve clause. If they did all that & still left their team then they were labelled as troublemakers. CFL General Managers weren't quick to sign them. It was a "you scratch my back & I'll scratch yours" type of situation in the 1960's & 70's. GMs knew if they had a problem with a player, they could count on their fellow GMs not to sign them as the next time it could be another one of them with a problem player. So collusion did happen & teams worked together to keep salaries down. For most players it wasn't worth the hassle so they didn't do that. They just signed a new deal & stayed put. In today's CFL, players have total freedom. They can sign 1 year deals & then leave. Mauldin chose not to. Strange decision. He would have made more money & might have been a Grey Cup Champion somewhere else.

Most of these young, unknown & never have played qbs on a CFL roster are just that. Waste of time & money. Come & go like head colds. If they can't do short yardage they never see the field. And change from year to year.