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I'm not sure why Wild wasn't Defensive Player of the Week...Fraser and Vega were also rotating in with the first team D as was Louie Richardson...because Sask's run game is so dominant at this point, it may be that they're toying with the idea of having our 4 DI's consist of
one LB, (Kuale/Wild)
one DB (looks like Unamba over Sears at this point)
one returner, (looks like Stoudermire who also got reps with 1st team D)
one DLineman, (instead of dressing Cotton)
Cotton wasn't getting 1st team reps at this practise...I didn't see him in any of the packages on O either.
Wild didn't get POTW because McCoil scored twice on D. That wins you the award every week.
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I'm honestly thinking Winnipeg is a lot more involved in this than we're being led to believe.
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.
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If SJ Green is apparently available maybe we should make a play for him? Although I doubt we'd be willing to give up much with Chris Matthews likely to return soon.
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.
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Timing of Bell being fired is interesting. Trying to free up some money to sign Dressler?
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?
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34 teams, 84 game schedule then I assume?
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Timing of Bell being fired is interesting. Trying to free up some money to sign Dressler?
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.
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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.
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Nothing is going on with them, those guys just aren't very good.
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That's right Mike, wow. People can call me a lot of things but don't mention kicking a dog or animal abuse & joke about it. That'll be a mountain I'll choose to die on. Please don't include me in any comments about my dog being kicked, etc. Easy request to do.
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.
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Wow.
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Dressler is the better receiver, but do you want to put all your eggs in one basket? If the Bombers were to sign Dressler they probably wouldn't have any cap room left to sign any other nfl cuts if they became available?
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.
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Hall is a mercenary. He'll go for coin. If he gets more than $5k more in Ott he's there plus a signing bonus. He doesn't care about playoff money cuz there won't be any in Ottawa and Wpg is gonna be in a struggle. Less focus on him by media and fans in Ottawa - in Wpg he'd be expected to make big plays plus every time he went offside there'd be a revolution.
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.
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Is there any scuttlebutt that we are in on Hall? Did he leave Winnipeg on good terms?
I saw one local reporter tweeted about how intriguing it would be for the Bombers to sign Dressler this week, but havent seen any mention of Hall.
Sort of, but he REALLY did not like the coaching staff we had last year for obvious reasons.
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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.
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Can anybody find individual penalty stats? It seemed like he went offside a lot. I'd be interested to see how he compared to other dl in the league.
From going over post-game stats from last season at CFL Media, when Hall was with the Bombers he went offside 10 times however 6 of those penalties occurred in two games (3 against Calgary, 3 against Hamilton).
I'm pretty certain what you're looking at doesn't account for the penalties that were not accepted.
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I don't know how he compared to the rest of the pass rushers in the league, but here's the breakdown of his time with the Bombers last season
15 sacks for a total loss of 120 yards.
4 tackles behind the line of scrimmage for a loss of 11 yards.
3 forced fumbles.
7 penalties for a total of 36 yards. Only 1 rough play penalty all year for a 6 yard infraction, 6 offsides penalties.
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I just don't see what constantly going on about it proves exactly. How many of these "refs suck" threads do we need.
We all know there are issues, they aren't perfect but... you know what, if you don't like the job they are doing, why don't you go and apply to be a ref.
It's really that simple. What games have you been watching? what blatant calls have they missed? a few PI's? a Few holds?
It's football, it's sport really. It's going to happen, best thing to do is understand it's not going to be perfect because if you are expecting it to be perfect, it never will be in any sport which has that human element to it. It is what it is.
You know this is a website for discussion right?
4 imports on OL this week?
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What? Of course they are.