Mike

The rule only applies to players under contract.

Good for Dressler. I'm glad he resigned with the Riders.

They were very involved but when you're not the hometown team and you're not the highest bidder, all you can do is hope for the best.

Wild didn't get POTW because McCoil scored twice on D. That wins you the award every week. So shouldn't McCoil be the Offensive Player of the Week? TDs are not a defensive stat. What? Of course they are.

Wild didn't get POTW because McCoil scored twice on D. That wins you the award every week.

based on more than a hunch? Put it this way: if they don't get Dressler (which I don't think they're going to) it won't be because they didn't try VERY hard.

I'm honestly thinking Winnipeg is a lot more involved in this than we're being led to believe.

It's all about how creative teams can get with things to provide value beyond the dollar value. That's how Winnipeg got Nick Moore.

Winnipeg does pretty well in that regard too though. Hell, even Charlie Roberts is back working in Winnipeg.

I wonder if anyone out there has a Chiyoke Onyenegecha jersey.

I would rather have SJ Green than Chris "I'm injured again" Matthews. Don't know what Matthews did to upset you, but I'd recommend you give him a break. Going on about how "injury prone" he is would sound awfully foolish if you knew the entire situation.

Bombers = Z-

Bell had a pretty modest cap hit, his deal was mostly incentive driven, based on games started at QB. I assume you are being sarcastic here. While there is a salary cap, my guess is that the Bombers have an internal overall budget handed down by the board, and aren't necessarily spending to the new cap this year. So if Wade wants to spend more on the football side, the board could tell him that's fine, but he can't exceed the overall budget. Would just be shuffling money around from the admin budget to the football operations. I'm just speculating, but that's how it would be done in practice. I would definitely agree there's an overall budget internally, but 150k against a salary cap we're well under shouldn't require any restructuring of anything. Just because the cap is $5 million this year doesn't mean the Bombers can/will spend to the cap. Like I said, the BOD likely gives Wade an overall budget and Wade spends however he wants in terms of how much he allocates to football ops and how much he allocates to the administrative side of the organization. With all the firings recently on the admin side, and the increase in coaching staff, I think its clear Wade is shifting financial resources in the overall budget from admin to football ops. Let me pitch it to you this way. Dressler was cut on Monday. Do you really think the decision to remove a position such as vice president from the company structure was a decision they made in less than 24 hours?

34 teams, 84 game schedule then I assume?

Bell had a pretty modest cap hit, his deal was mostly incentive driven, based on games started at QB. I assume you are being sarcastic here. While there is a salary cap, my guess is that the Bombers have an internal overall budget handed down by the board, and aren't necessarily spending to the new cap this year. So if Wade wants to spend more on the football side, the board could tell him that's fine, but he can't exceed the overall budget. Would just be shuffling money around from the admin budget to the football operations. I'm just speculating, but that's how it would be done in practice. I would definitely agree there's an overall budget internally, but 150k against a salary cap we're well under shouldn't require any restructuring of anything.

Bell had a pretty modest cap hit, his deal was mostly incentive driven, based on games started at QB.

Jim Bell is a great guy but I'm not going to pretend that I don't think Wade Miller is improving things in the organization. I don't know if I like this decision but if we're truly being honest with ourselves, it takes more than just being a nice guy to earn your keep.

Nothing is going on with them, those guys just aren't very good.

Please don't make jokes about dying on mountains. You can call me whatever you want but my mother's great uncle Herbert died on a mountain and it has been a source of grief for my entire family throughout many generations.

Wow.

How would Saskatchewan be able to pay for him after signing so many guys. The Blue should have the most play money in the league with Ottawa a close 2nd. Selective memory.

I feel like Greg Peach is a bit too much of an O'Shea guy at this point. He's not irreplaceable.

Right, less focus on him in Ottawa where they're desperate for a face of the franchise who isn't turfing throws into the dirt. Or he could come here and just fit right in instead of being expected to be a savior.

Sort of, but he REALLY did not like the coaching staff we had last year for obvious reasons.

The biggest thing is obviously the huge ability to not take RTP or face masking calls. To get 15 sacks and only take one RTP call is unbelievable.