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Not even being the highest paid RB on the team is the disrespect that Harris is really upset about. The Bombers had to sign the other RB's first. If they don't get that done, then they need Harris back and the offer goes up, which works in Harris' favour. Saying you were willing to sign a contract that you didn't sign doesn't mean anything. If he was really willing to sign it, he would have.

If that's true, then folks are focusing on the wrong things. When a star leaves a team for another team, stuff will be said that wouldn't have been said in the past. Info will be 'leaked' that shows the star in a bad light. Folks will 'remember' things that show the star in a different light. Fans who are upset try to pull the star off the pedestal and find 'reasons' that moving on is OK. For Harris it was get less than 130K and retire in blue or 165K and play for Toronto. We all know his decision and good luck to him.

It's about the money, not the workout or anything else for that matter. Has Augustine's contract gone public? Harris was offered less than Augustine, which was the right thing for the Bombers to do... Give Harris the chance to end his career at home in blue. Harris chose money, which was the right thing for him to do. Bomber fans act like Rider fans when a great player leaves, which is what both teams fans always do.

Castillo is rumoured to be going to EDM. I'd hardly call him a fringe guy. Eli is the 6 OL, but likely won't be back due to Covidiot-ness. Not a starter yet, but a key backup piece. Alexander isn't signed yet and even if/when he is, he won't be a starter for the first third of the season. McQuire looks to be moving on, meaning our backup QB spot is actually worse than it was last year and it was bad then. Grant's not signed yet. Maybe he's back. Maybe not. It is what it is. When you're the top team in the league, other teams will want your players. You're destined to be worse the next season UNLESS you can sign good replacements. We'll see if that happens before TC.

As it stands right now: Out: Adams - OTT Alford - NFL Antigha - EDM Darby - OTT Harris - TOR Jones - MTL Kongbo - NFL Lawler - EDM Richardson - BC That's a ton of talent and more losses to come. In: Ellingson

Andrew Harris is dead to me until he signs his 1 day contract to retire as a Bomber.

Now that Lawler's going to Edmonton, BC has some money to sign other FA's. Any decent OL left?

Alexander's going to be gone for 6 games. Why would anyone sign him now instead of later?

I love it around here in the off season. Our guys sign for less than they were reportedly offered and it's what a great guy, he loves it here. Other teams sign a player for less than they were reportedly offered and it's Ha Ha Ha, they were never offered that and they are overpaid at what they're getting.

Hawaii and it's not even close.

I'd take Brady O over Harris at this point in their careers. Harris was the highest paid RB in the league for good reason, but we don't need to pay his salary level with our O line to get similar performance numbers. Harris can make more on a team like Ottawa or BC who need starting grade NI talent badly than we should pay him. If that's his decision, then more power to him.

I DDG'd (DuckDuckGo'd) for 5 Minutes and couldn't come up with where I found the 20K number. I thought it was in Twitter or 3downnation, but no luck, so I am apologising for using 20K. Now, on to this post... You're assuming BC doesn't make the playoffs which may or may not be a good assumption. Your're assuming the Winnipeg comes in first ($3400), wins the division playoff ($3600), and the Grey Cup ($16,000), which comes to $23,000 (Numbers from: https://cfldb.ca/faq/compensation/ and from the 2019 CBA). Any or all of those assumptions may or may not be good assumptions. Is the extra $7000 is coming from your assumption of how much the playoff money is going up? $250K with a chance at playoff money is more than 200K with an almost guarantee of making the playoffs which is $3400. Oh Yah! I almost forgot. I didn't say that players were going to see who was going to pay them $21K more.

Actually I'm saying Woli and Couture took $20K less and that Bighill is the outlier.

Two guys, Wolo and Couture. Bighill is a special case. The Bombers got him an off season job. (Maybe we could do that with Lawler too.) Your imagination is different than mine. I can't see anyone leaving $50K on the table, nor do I think they should. Football careers are too short to turn down that kind of dough. I wouldn't pay Lawler $230K, but I suspect that's what it will take.

Looks like $20K is the number for players to stay with us instead of going to a bad team. Would you pay Lawler $230K?

Lawler is obviously worth more than you think he is on the open market. He's worth more than even I thought he was too. Lawler was the only 1000 yard receiver last year. He's worth more than Whitehead. Yawn. Like we skirt contracts by getting players off season jobs.

Cost of living is way over stated around here. Most players are only 'in town' during the season, not living in the city full time. Players aren't buying a house or condo, which is the biggest difference between a big city and a small one. Lions don't train in Vancouver, they are way out in Whalley, which helps with rent as does sharing with other players. Lions boosters also help with accommodations. Food and gas are a bit more expensive.

I told you Lawler @ $165K was wrong. $250K seems like an overpay tho. I hope we don't match the offer.

Lawler's worth at least $190K-$200K on the FA market considering what Lucky got.

At this point you gotta assume that players who aren't signed are waiting to see what other teams offer first.

I've got my 3 shots. Gotta assume that this will become a yearly booster like the Flu shot (Got that one too).

True, but the story says if Reilly comes back it will be at a restructured deal. There's also a rumour that Reilly is retiring.

Great to have Collaros back. $550K and the highest paid player in the league makes perfect sense considering that he was the best QB in 2021. Great to have Biggie back. $160K (plus incentives) sounds too good to be true. I was expecting the $200K range.

Fact: Here's the post that started it all: As you can plainly see, I said middle of the road which, as I've explained before doesn't mean mediocre no matter how many times you pretend it does. (Fact: You're the one moving the goalposts) We were above average for the first third of the season and we were below average at least for the last third of the season. Averaged together, we were middle of the road. (Fact: A reason for being below average doesn't change the fact that we were below average at that time.) Fact: Our defense was great, but not good enough to create many wins in the last third of the season until Collaros took over at QB. The defense didn't change, the QB did. You're confusing facts and opinions again. Any team that loses 4 out of 5 games, especially down the stretch when they don't have first place locked up, isn't 'well above mediocre' and doesn't even make it to middle of the road territory. FTR: It's rare to be able to pinpoint one trade, one player one thing that turned a season around. 2019 was one of those situations. The Collaros trade, brought in the one player we needed to turn the season around. The team visibly flipped a switch when Collaros scrambled and threw the TD pass in the last game of the season. After that, they were unbeatable. Before that they were a middle of the road team hanging on to 3rd place and hoping that Streveler would get healed enough to win a playoff game. Yet another argument that didn't need to happen, but that's the off season for you.

I don't want any unvaxed players on the team, so it's no to Masoli unless he gets vaxxed. I don't see MBT as a MOS kind of player. That leaves Harris or Streveler. Harris is the better passer by far. He cracks under pressure, but our OL should make sure that doesn't happen very often. Harris may not be fully vaxxed and that could take him out of contention. We should be able to get Streveler for a lot less money and we don't need the offense to produce big numbers to win with our defense being as good as it is. It would be fun to see him in Bucks offense to lay the boogeyman PLAP OC argument to rest once and for all.