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20 minutes ago, bluto said:
That seems a lot to give up for 2 extra off season months of a guy that they can't keep anyway... But I wouldn't be mad about it.
It’s a compromise. They don’t have to trade him to you, you pay that price to avoid the risk that someone else picks him up.
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It's too bad Bombers can't get Dane. Either way, I predict he goes to the Argos for a fourth and a neg list player.
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Not sure why we're hating on Blake, he's not terrible. Certainly an upgrade for them, even if he's old as hell. Godber sucks, not quite sure I get the idea they're going for there.
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Since you guys asked and I'm bored ... I went through and looked at the statistics for every game. The amount of times O'Shea opted to punt instead of attempting a 45-49 yard field goal equals a grand total of zero
These are the only ones times we punted from 45 yards in or closer all year.
Week 1 - punted from OTT 45
Week 2 - punted from OTT 43
Week 3 - punted from HAM 45
WF - punted from BC 44 up 8 points with 2:02 left in the 4Q (that is to say, it would've been idiotic to kick a FG here)
GC - punted from TOR 43 in the 1Q down 3-0
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I hope in 15 years, Bailey is still with the club somehow as our very own Pinball type guy. Hearing those quotes .. wow
1 hour ago, TrueBlue4ever said:Not sure I totally buy Farhan’s “belief”. Bailey was expendable here once we got Lawler signed and Schoen did not get an NFL bite. Bailey committed to free agency knowing he was not a priority here, and we heard crickets for a week, which suggests that the other teams saw what Walters saw, that Bailey is a supplemental piece and not a number one receiver (and his career stats back up that assertion, IMO). I don’t buy that he left heaps of money and a higher profile role as a prime target receiver on another team to come back here as the 4th option in the progressions. My “belief” is that he did not get any great offers, and teams were not prepared to pay close to his $130,000 salary from last year for a 35-40 yards a game average third option American receiver. So he chose the best option which was to come back where he was comfortable and knew the system, and earn what he could and hope for bonus playoff cash. But a great depth signing if we got him for less than 6 figures.
There’s absolutely no way he took a pay cut. Also, be quiet
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Just now, Jpan85 said:
Love it I bought a 88 jersey last season so I am beyond excited
You and me both bro
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1 minute ago, Fatty Liver said:
Good business practice is spending money where you need to, not where you want to. With Schoen coming back signing Lawler was a luxury attained at the cost of losing Bailey. As of now, they have Rickie Walker and the return of Hansen they can bank on, everything else you mentioned is speculative.
Good business practice is spending money where it makes you better, not spending money on mediocre return at a position of need.
There wasn’t a single DT available worth signing, you can’t force it into reality. We’ll have to go a different route this year with that spot because the free agent route was not available.
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42 minutes ago, Stickem said:
Sure would be nice to have him NOW....BUT you're probably right and the right move would be to wait.......Giving up Dobson and a first rounder is awful expensive....or another player of his caliber doesn't work for me
The right move this year isn’t to wait at all, not when they’ve essentially pushed all their chips in the middle. I think they’re going to be forced to wait either way since Hamilton isn’t going to give up a guy like Bennett but if they COULD get him, you have to give it a shot this year.
That being said, he also fits next year. I can’t see a situation where we aren’t replacing at least half of our starting DL next year and the cash we save by seeing Willie and/or Jeffcoat depart is easily spent on keeping Schoen and signing a guy like Bennett.
lots of tough decisions ahead for our front office, 2024 is going to be a wild year
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1 hour ago, rebusrankin said:
Step one: have Brady call his former und teammate Bennett. Have him tell Hamilton he will not reup with them in 2024.
Step two: KW offers Hamilton our first for Bennett.
Bennett is bomber.
I can’t see Hamilton, in a Grey Cup hosting year, taking futures from one of their biggest obstacles in order to improve them in the now unless you absolutely blew them away with an offer.
I can see Hamilton saying no to our next two first rounders, to be honest. Only kind of trade I can maybe see working is something along the lines of Dobson for Bennett, which is probably a trade I’d make but you have to think long and hard about it now that we don’t really have any upcoming OL in the pipeline and Desjarlais isn’t coming back.
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33 minutes ago, JohnnyAbonny said:
There seems to be lots of promising OL and DL in this draft.
I don’t follow NCAA/USports enough to know if anyone appears to have a higher ceiling than Bennett. Anyone else have an idea?I’d be shocked if Hamilton traded us Bennett.
I’d also be shocked if we didn’t heavily consider the idea of trying to trade for him or someone like him. They’ve made it pretty clear that this year is *the* year for us, our first round draft pick probably isn’t going to contribute at the level a third year Canadian can. Sure, you can try and sign him next offseason but we want to win now.
I’d offer up our first rounder without hesitation. I think it’d take more
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Just now, Geebrr said:
Cole has never really jumped off the page to me.
Same.
I wonder how many neg-list guys are getting scooped up by the XFL/USFL. I know we’ve been hit hard by it. Donald Payne, Terrell Bonds, John Daka are all names we’ve released on that neg-list reveal that are now in the XFL.
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1 minute ago, Geebrr said:
I can see the argument for McManis. But, like you mentioned, he isn’t an MLB. We do lack depth at LB I’d agree, but to say injuries (Bighill and Wilson’s) weren’t a valid reason is unfair. Wilson is a really good linebacker and him and Bighill probably do play interchangeably- Wilson is covering the deep third like Bighill does, and I don’t see any of the other guys you mentioned doing that either.
I get the concern, he did miss some plays, one was arguably the most important one of the year (the Kelly scramble). People wanted to dump him after 2019 too and he won the DMOP the next year.
You can call me an apologist, but he gets guys in the spots they are supposed to be better than anyone, and when he is healthy and not worrying about a SAM struggling in coverage and a WIL who isn’t elite getting to the sidelines, I think he will be better.
No argument about the validity of injuries, I’m just saying they’re both starting to develop a history of missing too many games and/or being too beat up at the end of the year, so if we don’t have a well thought out plan B going into this season, it’s really our own fault.
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1 hour ago, blue_gold_84 said:
Who's responsible for contract particulars, then?
The general consensus you’ll hear is that the hold up is the majority of lower level players don’t want their salaries published.
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59 minutes ago, Geebrr said:
Still waiting to hear which MLB is actually better than Bighill in this league.
Most teams have their 2 non-SAM linebackers playing essentially interchangeably these days, so I’ll just use that criteria and say I’d rather have McManus, either Williams (Avery or Jordan), Thurman or Judge over Bighill at this point in time. Feels to me like we’re stuck in the same time warp that makes Hamilton fans think Simoni Lawrence is still good.
What I’d really like to see is if we can scout a young one to come in and replace either Kyrie or Bighill. If we have to use the same excuses of “they’re just covering up for injuries” this year when we’re going to trot out the same guys who we’ve been having that problem with for two years, we’re really doing it to ourselves at this point.
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1 minute ago, blue_gold_84 said:
Operating a professional sports league with financial transparency and accountability...?
CFL HQ:
Has nothing to do with the league though
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8 minutes ago, GCn20 said:
Not me. I will probably get raked over the coals for this but I think Jeffcoat is a guy we should have moved on from. He just is in the tub way too much.
I would hope it is more than that because last year Jeffcoat was 180k, and he most certainly should not have gotten a raise.
I don’t mind bringing Jeffcoat back, but we obviously need a third (and probably fourth) DE that can rotate in.
The only known guy left that interests me is Shane Ray but obviously he’s pretty injury prone himself and for some reason, I get the sense he’s XFL or USFL bound anyways- GCn20 and rebusrankin
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22 minutes ago, camper_2 said:
Hear you wbbfan, but think some of that money is being left aside for this years draft class.
doesn't really work that way though, you're still trying to create competition for camp. If you sign a guy and he's beat out by a drafted player, off he goes. It's not like these bottom half of the roster types are leveraging bonuses.
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Serious question: who takes Jeffcoat over Orimolade this year?
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I’d love to have Bailey, I just don’t know where you play him if you’re putting Demski, Schoen and Lawler in the slot (which they should be)
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16 minutes ago, Bigblue204 said:
Who is coming off major surgery? And Jeffcoat is injury prone sure...but other than that...?
Referring to last year when we made the mistake of prioritizing Maston over Darby and then pairing him with Kyrie to surround Bighill.
Love me some Kyrie … really really underrated and fantastic player … but the guy is a bandaid. He’s played like 33% of our games in the past two years.
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Don't Look Back - 2022/2023 Bombers Off Season
in Blue Bomber Discussion
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Word is Bombers signed a punter, Devin Anctil
college teammates with Dalton Schoen … should be announced soon
EDIT: just looked at the CFL transactions page to see if it was official yet and it is, plus they also seem to have signed former NFL 7th round pick DB Jordan Brown