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In a defense designed to generate turnovers Fogg year after year is among the best at generating turnovers. Fogg would be a great replacement for Loffler. To me Alexander, Fogg, Gaitor, Sayles are a pretty good core of a secondary. The way those four play you can slot them in anywhere. Randle is declining but if he takes a paycut I'd keep him around.

Corney is the name you pick out of that list? LMFAO. Alexander, Fogg, Jeffcoat, Medlock and Nevis are absolutely huge ones. I’ve made peace that Bighill and Chungs are extremely likely to be headed home.

The good ones cost the same. Someone like Stanley Bryant wouldn’t cost any more at his peak if he’s Canadian, he’d just have a longer career because he’s Canadian and harder to replace. The mediocre Canadian guys who can stick on rosters are the guys who are overpaid.

That's the hill Ambrosie is going to die on if the players don't sign the CBA fast. Teams will start working around his decree, the BOG will lose confidence in him and he'll quietly be pushed out like Orridge. Heard from a friend that does legal work locally for a player agent that lots of jokes being made at Ambrosie's expense during Grey Cup week and level of respect for him dropping rapidly. Comparisons of Ambrosie to Trump in terms of ignorance and another joke about the irony of him being the guy having to deny the link between football and CTE.

Dickenson made sure to get that cowboy hat on quick so everyone knew for sure he's a ****** from Calgary.

No TD's in the 2nd half.

Harris trying for 6 INT's this week.

Ellingson and Sinopoli both with big drops in this game, Ellingson with a couple.

Hard to believe BLM could play in the NFL tbh. When he stays in the pocket he doesn't move off his first read. He's lucky all his receivers are 6'5. He's a decent scrambler, you almost want to get him out of the pocket to keep him from just chucking the ball. Easy TD on that last 2nd down if he works through is progressions but he's dead set on that outside shoulder corner route which is a tough catch for the receiver.

Disagree. Bombers weren't down 2 possessions until the very end.

If they go to all teams in a league, no divisions, we'll be talking about streaks of how long an Eastern team hasn't made the Grey Cup or hosted a playoff game. That'll be good for the league.

Just getting the guys prepped for playing on Mexican turf.

And he's not a guy who is going to age well with his previous knee and hip issues. He clearly has lost at least a step in coverage from 2016 to now. That's not going to get better. He had loads of games this season where he didn't make a single positive play and barely even registered on the stat sheet. His play picked up in the last third of the season, but he's not generating turnovers (FF and INT) like he did as a rookie. We have a lot of opportunity to add Canadians (4th and 5th overall picks) and we have a few on our roster who will be developing and working into roles I'd assume (Gray, Petermann, Simonise). I'm not worried about losing Loffler, but of course I would have benched him in July and gone all import on D.

Ambrosie is going to do himself in rapidly. The league is in a lot of trouble with basic issues and he’s trying to play games in Mexico.

There’s a bunch. Corney would have to actually be able to play football for us to know how good he is.

There’s a whole offseason to play out and a strong likelihood many of the players you mentioned won’t be Bombers next season. My thought is that I would retain Loffler into low six figures, Max $130,000. Even that’s kind of high for the entirety of what he provided the past two seasons, in more than half our games he was a non-factor and not in a good way. The alternatives are going all import on D or using one or more of our early picks (we have a pick in each round and BC’s first rounder) to add some guys who could be role players on D, likely in the secondary or DL rotation. We could also add guys who can be role players on O, go to starting 3 NI receivers or 4 NI OL. Starting 4 NI playmakers on O leaves us thin, especially if Harris had a long term injury. There are players in the draft and free agency that could provide better value to our overall roster than Loffler does if his ask creeps above something reasonable. We also have good NI depth without him on our current roster.

I think we'll have better options than Augustine in the draft and free agency. He's extremely one-dimensional.

They don't need Demski. There's Petermann, Simonise, other free agents and all their draft picks with an extra first rounder. I think Demski only comes back if he takes a pay cut.

Maybe it's more than a coincidence that those teams have (or have had) great QB's. Who did Toronto find at receiver? Montreal? Sask? BC? Really it's Calgary, Edmonton and Hamilton who you're talking about.

Lapolice ran the offense when he was the head coach so it's obviously relevant.

Masoli is by far the most overrated QB.

What does this even mean? Sask was fine when he came here. They played in the Grey Cup that year. When Mack fired him in 2012 they replaced him with Tim Burke. That has nothing to do with Lapolice. Maybe he would have squeezed another win or two out of Alex Brink and Justin Goltz in 2013, but that team was awful and it was constructed by Mack, developed by Lapolice and his coaching staff. Joe Mack being a moron and Tim Burke being useless makes Paul Lapolice a great coach? Lapolice continues to build inconsistent offenses. Inconsistent first down production, inconsistent 2nd down conversions, struggles for long stretches to produce first downs, struggles to score touchdowns, huge reliance on one of the greatest defenses at turning the ball over in CFL history. Scoring 5-6 TD's in a few games but not being able to score more than 1 in others is no good when it comes to winning games. Better be scoring 3-4 or the equivalent in field goals every week.

As long as Hervey doesn't screw up again. I don't think Bighill really wanted to play anywhere other than BC, just that Hervey was too dumb to find a way to fit him in. Who knows though, they have a lot of linebackers and seem to want to make Herdman into a player.

Realistically if Nichols is going to be a productive QB moving forward with limited mobility he needs to work on speeding up his reads, relying more on pre-snap and speeding up his release, preparing to beat a blitz/solid pass rush. Lapo did not help this problem either. We run the slowest developing plays.

Can Nichols pass? I don’t know. It’s insane to me to start every season knowing that our quarterback is a limiting factor on the potential of our team, knowing that in the big game he can’t get it done if he has to, that we need 200 yards rushing and a crazy game by our defense to win anything. That’s where this team is. We’re basically hoping the team can carry the mediocre QB and that he doesn’t try to do too much and lose the game for us. I don’t want to pay 450k for that level of quarterbacking. Nichols had one 300 yard passing game in a passing league this season. I’ll give him credit for stepping up in the Calgary game in Winnipeg but other than that he was playing not to lose and we were hoping Harris would do enough and our D could get our offense started in position to score.