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I like McKellar. I think he still has a lot of upside. Otherwise that's just a pile of guys. Some way over the hill, and we probably already have more than enough of that on OL, some who have never been good CFL players. Personally I would have planned on going 3 Americans on the OL both for ease of competition for spots, running the OL a bit cheaper and allowing depth. I'd feel a lot better about 3 Americans then 4-5 Canadians filling out the other 3 spots. We'll have to see what's to come but we've kind of ****** ourselves for Canadian receiver/RB depth.

Is there a betting site where I can lay down a bet on Tyrell Ford being cut by Feb 1 next year? Bombers effectively hid him at field corner. Made some nice plays on the ball, one of the best athletes out there for sure. Still a lot of struggles with stopping and locking to read what's happening. He's a major vulnerability if he's playing any position other than field corner IMO.

Trump's trade policies will end up being good for CFL players if they are sustained. Tariffs and any potential reduced trade deficits will drop the US dollar. Issue for Canada will be the price of oil and where that lands to determine what our dollar is worth. They'll be fighting the US on income tax increases. Might see even more guys staying in Canada.

Haba should be gonzo. Garbutt is at least a stable contain guy, maybe work him into being a guy who can play 3 technique a bit too on passing downs. Vaughters can pass rush off edge and inside too.

I could see him here. They seem to be collecting that type of receiver. Hollins is a real technician but he's small and not the kind of guy to get too dirty. They brought in about 20 guys they hoped would be a Hollins here last year. Wilson was good and the rest looked surprised somebody would think about paying them to play football.

You're panicking a bit here haha. There's not many guys they've wanted at a reasonable number who haven't re-signed since about 2017. Only real big loss was Desjarlais. Janarion was a bit of a tougher one coming off a pretty terrible season and a couple years in a row with significant injury. I can understand why they moved on. I can't understand what the **** they did in the 2024 off-season/training camp/season to try to replace him. Generally haven't had a big problem with choices they've made to not pay guys. Personnel side aside from DB's has been brutal going on 3 years. And unfortunately I think we lost the most competent guy we had over there in Goveia. But nice that they've added onto McManus because I think he's basically useless. Why the **** did they re-sign Kyrie Wilson?

Vaughters is almost the exact guy we need off the edge. Would be nice if he was 4-5 years younger.

There's no timeline forcing him to return. If he spends 4 weeks on a NFL practice roster he's netted more money than he'd make on his CFL deal. If he has any hope of latching on anywhere I could see a scenario, like with Ford, where he hangs out all year hoping for the call. In the old option year deal the CFL had with the NFL, before the CFL opted out of it, players had 10 days to sign another NFL deal before they had to return to their CFL club during the CFL season. All this to say that if I'm a CFL GM I'm not counting on having a guy in Wilson's situation back this year.

Not a fan of this move. A lot like the Janarion Grant issue last off-season. If you're all in to win in 2025 you can pay a guy like Wolitarsky that salary no problem. One of the biggest issues with the offense IMO without Wolitarsky and Schoen was that it lacked big and reliable targets. Collaros had to be damn near perfect to put the ball right on guys because we had a bunch of 6' under guys running around with Lawler or a guy like Wheatfall who had no clue what do to unless he was running right down the rail in man coverage. The reliability piece, the understanding what the defense is giving and where to be. How to get 2 yards after the catch instead of trying to race 3 guys to the sideline and losing 2 yards in the process, how to keep the sticks moving. Another piece to this is that it basically locks in that we have to start 3 Canadian OL. And at the moment we have two Canadian OL who have even been average CFL starters. If you're all in to win this year, you've kneecapped yourself.

And the biggest selling point to get A LOT of guys up here initially is that they can get some film and go back. Those are guys who get cut in their first camp here and guys who play up here for 15 years. The league has played around with rookie contracts, NFL window or not. Always comes back to this reality for the American players and an increasing number of Canadian players too. Guys will chase spots in NFL camps or play in spring leagues over the CFL if the window isn't there. And yet in a given off-season the league loses like 1 out of 100 players. It's not a problem at all.

Maybe he'd rather have Ed Hervey at a podium telling everyone why he sucks and isn't worth his game cheque. There's no real way to handle these situations and I'm not sure why a professional would expect or want a team to close a door on them. Maybe the Bombers have a couple free agent targets on D and if they don't sign them they'd circle back on Bighill. They have no obligation to publicize their off-season strategy to make Bighill feel comfy.

I mean it's basically two weeks until the tampering period. Would players rather be strung along with love and then hit the market? Maybe depending on what happens in the tampering period the Bombers would make an offer for Bighill. I honestly don't know what's running through Bighill's head and why he thinks he'll get paid enough for it to be worth his while to keep playing.

Yeah I don't have a lot of time for the 7 OL stuff. They roll that 1st and 10 or 2nd and short-medium mostly. But you'll see backs and receivers filling in if they go max protect on a passing down. Most of the time we had OL in there and they struggle in pass pro off the edge anyways. It only helps the run if the defense shorts themselves on the play side. OC needs to impress on Collaros that he has to manage blitzes better and hit hot routes. But you also need to design plays that give that option. Bombers with Buck Pierce would run some quick hitter stuff but a lot of plays you're looking and the only outlet is Oliviera who also might be in there trying to give Collaros space to attempt a vertical throw. The other thing we might see is more of a commitment to the zone run game and maybe a little less trust on having a guy just make a play. Hit the target and go or make one cut at the target. Let's get 5 yards every play.

If you need time to go downfield you need to outnumber the rush. Football 101 You can pretty much count on 5 guys coming most passing downs so that's why you usually see 6 guys blocking. Regardless of how many guys are blocking the QB's pre snap are reading 2-3 guys in a route. So if you have 6 guys out wide all you're doing is widening out the field which works for quick game stuff. Doesn't really matter if you're more vertical based.

Again though, this is where the NFL is insane in how it evaluates guys. There's 30 receivers in the CFL today that would be more useful to them in 2025 or 2026 even. But they totally pass on the higher floor guys and waste time on guys that have done almost nothing on a football field for years because they looked really good when they were 17. Ajou will probably blow out his knee or something and they'll end up paying him six figures USD to do nothing for 2 years. One day some NFL GM will realize there's actual useful players sitting right here that they can plug into roles almost immediately.

That's unfortunately an understatement. It's a good thing he's staying connected with football for now.

They haven't played with more Canadians than required. They used more Canadians on O and D, yes.

I don't mind it if it's a back to back. But bullshit if not. We have a bunch of back to backs they could have tighter weeks between. Also crazy how much we play BC and Calgary in the first 8 games.

Lawler has played 62% of games the past 3 CFL seasons. Schoen has played 68%.

If he could he would've been their starter. His NCAA career shows that he's a specialist. Shiltz and Dolegala are basically the same as decent QB's but have opposite flaws. Shiltz can't do anything vertical. Dolegala struggles with accuracy in mid-range. If Collaros is the starter, Dolegala is a way easier guy to slot in as a backup IMO because we are built on vertical passing game.

On a vet laden roster that WIL LB spot should be a rookie salary. Especially when the incumbent is in steep decline and cannot stay healthy. Not going to win in 2025 with 2021's roster.

Difference was definitely personnel. We were used to having guys like Jeffcoat and Sayles who are explosive. Hall rarely rushed more than 4 and almost never more than 5. Not like we were running some zone blitz scheme. We've had the same issue for 2 years now. Saw a little bit of that from Adams and Woods, but nothing from the edge guys. Need to do a lot of work recruiting there on both sides of the border and with the Global players.

That's exactly how it is. If he comes back to CFL he comes back to Bombers until end of his current CFL contract. If you watch any NCAA bowl game there's 2-3 guys per game better than a guy like Wilson. He'd do pretty good to make it through OTA's and into August. The NFL is completely saturated at receiver and he doesn't really have a way to make the game roster unless he's one of the top 3 receivers on a team.

Insane to me that a guy like Wilson gets a shot based on his CFL resume which was pretty meh (if I was going to Madden rank him as a CFL player he’d be about 80 with some unrealized potential) but a guy like Schoen can’t get a legit shot. Even Lawler although there might be some emotional regulation analysis attached to him. I get age…although if you get 1-2 good years out of a UDFA guy you’ve done pretty good. Schoen is also the ideal kind of tweener slot receiver/tight end guy. Wilson doesn’t really have size or speed going for him at pro level. Can win in man, started to understand his job better with more time with Collaros as a rookie.

Interesting fact about Edmonton last year... They had the #1 offense by points per game, yards per game and rushing yards per game and yards per carry with MBT starting. They dropped to 8th in points, yards and yards per carry when Ford started. I'm quite happy they've gone "all-in" on Ford. Good luck to them on their quest to finish higher than 4th in the division with him.