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If he tries to play he might end up being the top QB in Equatorial Guinea.

Bombers have created a spring Bantam 12 on 12 league this year. Would be nice if we moved community football to the spring like every other province so we can actually run high school and up with proper resourcing in the fall. In Winnipeg region we legitimately only have 6 officiating crews for minor football right through CJFL. They also are the stick/sideline crews for U Sports.

I'm not so sure of Vaccaro's immediate availability. He's a pretty well-known prospect in the States and he had a solid pro day. His measurables are all good for an interior guy, hands and arms big enough to move to C, plus he's off the charts with intangibles and his film is pretty solid especially anyone running heavy zone/RPO as their base. So like Philly, Baltimore, Chicago, Green Bay, Niners, Indy. NFL teams will sit on UDFA for a few years to develop them.

The sound doesn't really escape the current stadium. You basically can't even hear the sound from inside the stadium from the intersection of Bison Drive and Chancellor Matheson. You hear a low muffled sound and the Bomber games are cranked to about 15 on in-stadium sound. Like when one of the hosts or PA announcer is talking it's very loud.

The players playing pro are the best. So someone who is good in NCAA is making a transition up to play pro. So everyone gets excited about a guy who had success at NCAA school(s) but like I said....the talent is relative. They are competing with the best which isn't what they competed against in NCAA. Even if you want to look at a P5 roster you're looking at a fraction of those players making it at all in pro football.

Talent is relative. Where do you think the talent at every position is coming from?

Where can I pick up my refund for the time I wasted reading this?

I think you can count on the Bombers not running a smurf at boundary corner this year. They've got Allen plus 5 other guys 6'1 plus, two with CFL experience, coming into camp at DB. No more watching a 5'9 guy with no ability to play the ball eat **** on 50-50 balls vs 6'3-6'4 receivers.

Also big struggle with US scouting. Let Hardrick walk and replace him with a C player. Let Lawler walk and replace him with Wheatfall. Too many of our replacements haven’t been good players let alone impactful ones.

It's hard to even know if money is a factor for Elgersma. Really if he signs here he'll be standing on the sideline, getting a few reps in practice (teams are prepping to win games, not develop rookies in practice) maybe running short yardage although they've brought in guys that seem to be better prospects for that. If his goal is to make the NFL more than anything else he needs to go somewhere he will get reps....which is NFL preseason or UFL. But he's really wasting time now because the path from CFL to NFL is to play up here for 2-3 years, take the reins and dominate, then go NFL. The longer he waits by the time he gets up here he's basically cooked for NFL opportunities. And if he signs after training camp up here there's really no point in terms of his development. That's when he's going to get the most reps and get settled.

They tried pretty hard to make that work later in 24 and earlier last season when the injuries started to hit. Can't win enough routes to bring value. The home game against Calgary was basically the end of that experiment. Hard to put guys inside that aren't a threat. He's been ok on the outside when he gets forgotten where he doesn't really have to win with leverage. Clercius might get a shot to be more of a vertical threat with Condell because IMO we don't really have anyone but Wilson who is in the current group. Kinda pissed we didn't grab Daniel Wiebe in the late rounds last season instead of drafting a DL who clearly wasn't invested in being a pro player. Will be great depth for Sask especially at Y/R slot spots, throw him out at Z if you need. Too bad Rohan Jones likely won't ever play up here. He's an actual tight end/H back type who is also a big threat from any receiver spot or the backfield.

Hard disagree on rookies. Every pro league on this continent in every sport has a rookie salary scale. You don't really know how a player will perform transitioning to pro and it just becomes a race to the bottom if you're negotiating individual contracts with each rookie.

The only real issue with the rookie deals is the inflexibility with incentives. This league has no money so they need to have some controls. Sask and Edmonton really broke everything when they were trying to be at the top of the heap. There’s 4 franchises who have never been able to break even on football operations in your lifetime. And another 2 who have only been able to tread water at best. So I’m not sure where people think money will be coming from to fund teams spending more on operations. It’s not going to come from player salaries.

Hamilton and Ottawa just collecting a lot of junk, not a lot of impact players. As per usual.

It's pretty sparse. Ulm, DeMontagnac will probably come north right away. If they look reasonably decent at pro day's/combines they'll probably be gone in the top 10 picks. There's a solid guy on Laurier who will be at the combine. The rest of the combine guys aren't huge prospects but might make themselves into one. There's also a random guy from Texas with Canadian parents who has never played in college.