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Ever since the Mike Sellers era ended, we've never utlized our full back much, probably because we haven't found the necessary player (s). Any worth on the Bombers part to shore up that position more in efforts to utlize more? Or are the cupboards empty when it comes to that position? We tried out a fullback at the Florida mini camp, his name eludes me right now but he was a LSU alumni with NFL experience. Just doesn't seem to be much use for them anymore.

I'm not a big Nick Moore fan and stuff like this is why. He is one of those guys that I'll cheer for on the field but I don't have much use for off of it. It's like he's been diagnosed with Jovon Johnson Syndrome.

It's like the players don't seem to understand that the reason the CFL isn't bending on certain issues is because they hold value. Lower your monetary demands (which ARE ridiculous) and I'm sure the CFL will agree to some of the other requests (on field neurologist, # of practices, etc)

5.2m cap, raising to 5.7m over course of 5 yr term. Minimum salary of 55k raising to 62.5k over course of 5 yr term. 5k veteran bonus, 2.5k rookie bonus for showing up. Give them their independent neurologist, 5 padded practices every four weeks. Beers all around. Call it a day. There. I just did Molstad's job. Pay me.

Kirk Penton just pointed out .. at least they've moved on from revenue sharing. That IS a big step.

Bunch of idiots.

I bet the young players will be happy to vote for strike now knowing the veterans angled for a payday for themselves. The CFL should counter with something that speaks to the younger players/rookies etc and drive a wedge. Keep in mind for the purpose of this discussion, I'm pretty sure "veterans" means anyone who is not a first year player.

... and you thought Hackney was a large QB?

Thanks to all that posted reports yesterday. Practice goes at 2 PM today, looking forward to hearing from those in attendance.

Cleo Lemon and Cody Pickett immediately come to mind.

This is based on one practice. How many times we see a guy look solid in practice only to stink in game time. They have a lot more time looking at Brohm and if they didn't like him they wouldn't of traded for him. Marve only makes third string if he plays fantastic in the pre season games and Brohm shits the bed. No way Hall loses backup to Marve unless he gets hurt. The team isn't going to go with zero experience at back up. I'm willing to put money on that. Marve is the project guy who will only see the field in the reg season if we get injuries or we are killing a team or being hammered. Food for thought - you're challenging people who are making predictions based off one practice and in response, you're making predictions based off nothing. Both opinions are valid.

Disagree with this. Maybe it was only one practice but this guy has all the tools. I'm in love. Brohm was easily the weakest of the QBs and while I like what Hall brings to the table, he is what he is. Marve has zip on his throws and one particular example I have is on one play, he showed great mobility on a roll out to his right while being chased by a lineman and while on the run fired a bullet to Donovan Kemp. Perfect throw and a good example of what he can do. It's early, but I think he easily gets the project 3rd QB job on this squad. Also ran into Gary Etcheverry in the parking lot and he smiled at me. This turned my impression of him around immediately. He will be the greatest coordinator this team has ever seen. Lol I hope this is a joke? Also Willy is a lock at #1, Hall pretty much a lock at #2..... The team traded for Brohm , McManus I assume likes the guy since he knows the most about him.... the dude has started in the NFL.... was fairly touted in his college career..... Marve would have to be perfect in pre season while Brohm completely shits the bed for him to take his spot. Just because a guy can zip the ball in practice doesn't really mean anything yet. I am pleased though that they brought in a guy who can throw the ball instead of bringing in guys with Dinwiddie floater arms... They traded a conditional draft pick for him, hardly an investment that marries them to him.

My report is brief because I didn't stay very long. Good: Urrutia, Bell, Grigsby, Marve, Willy, Matt Pierce, Tate Bad: Kemp, Barnes, Brohm Didn't stay long enough to get in depth with it but truly, Kemp and Barnes had the worst showings while I was there. Coaches got on both of them for not hustling after a drop (two for Barnes)

Where are you seeing an all import OL? At most we'll have 2 import OLs as starters. All the import OL does not mean an all import OL

Keep in mind a depth chart at this point is also probably just a rep plan. That's why you see things like Thomas and Lucas split even though they're obviously in competition with eachother.

Anderson needs to be on the field as much as possible and they better not try and tell me he doesn't fit Etcheverry's idea of a DT because he's historically exactly what Etch has looked for. That being said, I'm sure he will be. A day one depth chart means nothing lol

Will be on the field tonight wearing 61. Darren Cameron announced the signing a few minutes ago.

Big fan of this, I was hoping they'd move either Sears or Washington to safety.

For anyone attending camp tonight, please feel free to share your reports with us! Camp is from 7 PM - 9 PM tonight. Remember, everyone who provides a report will gain an entry into our draw for a gift card at the conclusion of training camp.

I really liked the Nzegwu signing. I've liked Kenny Tate and Mo Leggett all along and Bruce Johnson seems like he could be in the mix too. There are a lot of defensive guys I'm curious to see though. One guy that gets a lot of play here is CJ Tarver ... potential kick returner, but let's keep in mind he's already 30 years old. The kick returner I have my eye on is Michael Ray Garvin.

Morning Big Blue One Year Anniversary! On the same day that rookie camp opens for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers, MorningBigBlue.com is pleased to celebrate the one year anniversary of our website launch. We launched on May 28, 2013 in an attempt to meet the demands of our community just in time for the opening of the 2013 season and a year later, we are pleased to say that we have exceeded all expectations we had for this project. The community that you all helped us build has done some awesome things over the past year. We just recently hit 50,000 posts and over 300 registered users. We’ve become one of the most active CFL fan forums out there and now, we’re happy to announce that we are in a position to start giving back. For the 2014 season, we had previously mentioned that we will be continuing on with the contests we held last year. Both the CFL Pick’em Pool and the Lock of the Week contest will return for 2014, but this year we are offering a $50 Bomber Store gift card to the winner of each contest (arrangements for another team's gift certificate for our out of town members can be made). We are also going to be starting a new Weekly Fantasy contest (to replace the yearly fantasy league) which will allow more of our members to participate. There will be a $50 gift card handed out to the winner of this year-long contest as well. More detail on this to come. We are also going to be offering MorningBigBlue.com shirts to the winners of our yearly contests, as well as randomly throughout the season for various other contests we will be holding. Here is a sneak peak at these T-Shirts. To celebrate our one year anniversary, we will also be doing a random draw for a $25 Bomber Store gift card via our Twitter account. Follow @MorningBigBlue and re-tweet our contest when it comes out to receive an entry into the draw, which will conclude on June 6th. In order to encourage our members to participate and contribute to the content that we value so much from all of you, we are also going to award a $25 gift card in a random draw for all of our members who submit training camp reports. Each daily report will gain you one entry to the draw which will be held at the conclusion of training camp. We also have something else to announce that this entire community should be very proud of. When we created this site, we never did it as a means to earn any income or profit off of the stream of money that we received. We had always maintained that once all the bills were paid off, we wanted to make sure all of the money went to something meaningful. Through the ad revenue we generated from all of our web traffic over the past year, we ended up with enough money that we were able to donate a pair of Bomber season tickets to the Boys & Girls Club of Winnipeg on behalf of everyone here at MorningBigBlue.com. It isn’t something we ever expected, and you should all give yourselves a pat on the back for contributing to this site and making this possible. If you ever wonder why we push our website to grow or why we’ve believed in trying to carve out a Twitter following over the past year, it is because for every pair of eyes on our website, it increases the opportunities for things like this. We do it because we are huge fans of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers and to be able to provide an opportunity for the less fortunate to experience what we enjoy so much is an awesome feeling for us. Thank you to everyone for an awesome first year. - The MorningBigBlue.com Staff **As an aside - Sometimes I worry that by making all the announcements, I'm stealing Rich's thunder because he is truly the man behind getting Morning Big Blue going. Rich has put in a ton of time, effort and I know he paid out of pocket for the initial startup so I just want to say thanks for making all of this possible. Our staff is one cohesive team and we all contribute in our own way, but Rich has gone above and beyond with a number of late nights, early mornings and much more to ensure that this site had a smooth first year.**

I would buy it, except the person who runs the Twitter account has been in trouble before for similar stuff.

It's a retweet not an offical tweet! Give the team more credit than that! Retweeting something like that implies you are reiterating / supporting the comment. They deleted it already, just like I assumed they would.

Hmm. Not clear enough I guess.

Pretty sure it's part of his contract, included as an off the books source of income to outbid other teams in free agency. Are they paying him for the chips or with chips?