Mike

He wasn’t the OL coach in Toronto. He was the running backs coach and quality control.

Speaking of linebackers, we signed Jeremiah Gemmel today. Fun fact: the move Denver made to fit him on their training camp roster? The release of Barrington Wade.

No but I feel like doing it with a few vets like Hardrick and Sceviour who are winners … could be worse decisions to make. I still don’t see it though, they’re missing that A+ part to pull it all together. Lots of B and B- but who’s the franchise player?

It’s very common … Jovan Olafioye, SirVincent Rogers, Dejon Allen, Derek Dennis … that’s off the top of my head thinking of the major huge impact guys Jonathan Broxton (who we signed originally) was another one for BC. Kent Perkins was also BC’s MOOL nominee in his rookie year as a tackle.

Why would people be even remotely bothered by this? Scheme fit, we have no clue if he will perform better then he did in Sask. Hardrick stunk there too.

Would people feel better if we signed Ouelette, Tim White, Dolegala and Adekele?

Also worth mentioning: the Bombers haven’t brought in nobody. We’ve signed what could potentially be our next starting QB (and a huge weapon, especially for the weather our current QB struggles so much in) and brought back a potential starting Canadian on defense. just because they’re names we’ve seen on the back of our jerseys before doesn’t mean they’re not big additions. Those are great additions.

Because a contract is a mutual agreement and Bailey likely won’t get a huge raise but he’s going to get a raise somewhere. He took an $80,000 pay cut last year. He deserves to go out and make his money somewhere. We can’t force him to sign here.

I knew when I heard that stat about Willie never having a sack without JJ in the lineup, it couldn’t be right

Whoever hacked ISO’s account, please give it back to him right now before the admins have to get involved.

Genuinely feel like Dobson should’ve taken his job last year.

Hate to see BOLO go but I legit have no idea what Hamilton is doing

We won’t get the top available linemen this year but at 8, we may find ourselves in a position to get the top unavailable (for now) lineman. I think the guys like Hergel, Nkanu and maybe even Manu (he reminds me of Dontae Bull from last year, the NFL isn’t going to touch him IMO) may go in the first 5-6 picks. Hergel would be the dream for us but I just think the vibe on him right now is that he walks the line right between “too good for the CFL” and “good enough for the NFL” so I think he ends up in camp. The guy I’d like to see with the Bombers is Gabe Wallace. That’s my February opinion, anyways.

Don’t forget, we have three picks in the top 20 of the draft and unlike last year, it’s a pretty good year for OL. Couple other things working for us: we’ll have the flexibility to go three Americans on the OL if we absolutely need to AND a number of the free agents on the OL call Manitoba their home so maybe they won’t be too far away if there’s an absolute emergency. Sean Jamieson would be a guy I absolutely wouldn’t mind seeing us bring in … can’t imagine he’d cost much and if the medical comes back clean, he might be a good option. Tough couple years due to injury but timing could be right to catch him as he’s finally fully healed up and if you’re not asking anymore than spot duty out of him then I don’t think he’d be a bad option.

It’s what I was begging for and it didn’t come at the cost of Schoen, Brady or some of the other names I feared it might so I am happy.

Sounds like RT, WR, DT, DE and CB are all going to be camp battles as of right now RT I am especially not worried about, Neufeld has turned into a real stabilizer on that side of the line and I have a good amount of trust in our scouting to find a tackle who fits our scheme. They’ve shown to be very competent at it, we’ve supplied a decent amount of OL to the rest of the league AND they pro scouted Hardrick when he was still a pylon in Regina. Not a ton of concern there.

I have such a hard time posting the actual tweet things but here’s the text, sorry: Walters says guys they’ve moved on from CB Winston Rose, WR Rasheed Bailey and LG Geoff Gray. Expects that Ford & Tyrique McGhee will be in the mix at corner this season. #Bombers from @DTonOB

Walters says Rose, Bailey and Gray will not be back

I was thinking more along the lines of a rotation where Kramdi would take the majority of the blitzing / line of scrimmage stuff and Ford could see the coverage calls from the SAM spot I think Kramdi is a pretty good disruptor at the line and in the second level. He whiffed a few, but he made good reads to get to the right spot to stop the run more often than I saw him not … I like both guys at that spot for very different reasons. Also not opposed to Ford at the field side corner but we’re already pencilling in 8 Canadians so how many more do we really need

Thought you’d like that 🤣

Ed Tait just posted that Kyle Walters has confirmed Tyrell Ford is back this year

That’s a point I had not considered

Jesus christ, how many more of your posts are you going to edit ten times to add to your rant? Maybe try thinking before you type so I don’t have to refresh my screen over and over waiting for you to get all your thoughts out. We all take shots at each other, we all debate with varying levels of intensity from time to time, we all bash the trolls (like Wheeler, who has been banned) but there’s literally no need to take a shot at Bluto, who is a respected member of this community even though he has a condition that forces him to cheer for the wrong football team. Don’t like it? Oh well. my god you edited it again I can’t even keep up anymore can you just PM me when you’re done crying so I can reply to it all at once

They got that Deonta McMahon who I think will take a lot of the early down work. Didn’t look great as a feature back trying to grind it out but definitely flashed as a guy who can run outside the tackles

Kadeem Carey to the Argos Silas Stewart to Ottawa