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Old, washed up, injury prone, over paid. To hell with him.

We did, but we retained a ton of good players too... and we have a top front office that has shown an ability to bring in players. The fact players from our team are so in demand is a testament to what the Bombers have done. Other teams go "if you can't beat em poach their players." I bet we see some good pick ups on value deals in a few days when the initial frenzy dies down. And he really did bring the cup home after the drought. He's a made man in winnipeg regardless of how it ended.

They saw him every day 2 months ago... and he couldn't practice like all season. Yes he contributed but he was also a part timer all year. I think at 35 at the position he plays it is fair to wonder about his fitness level for a coming season.

Is granny spry?

The point people are making is that they'd rather be replacing Lawler than say Stanley Bryant or Hardrick, or Bighill, or Jefferson or Jeffcoat.... Before last season people were skeptical Kenny Lawler was even a #1 receiver. He showed flashes but had never been at that level prior. I have faith in our offense to get it done with the group they're putting together. Lawler is a damned good one, but at that kind of money I bet we can get close enough production out of a guy like Ellingson to make it sting less. We do have the QB who won the MOP last year and the best OL in the league still. We have seen it time and time again in the CFL where teams try and make a good offense by blowing it all on receivers, but if you don't have a QB and the OL to give him time it doesn't work. Meanwhile no one in 2019 thought highly of the Bomber receivers and they won the grey cup. Same deal last year. It was sure Lawler is having a good year but half the people wanted bailey cut early and no one else was popping off the page. Won the cup anyway. It's because this team is built to be strong in the key places and have depth to withstand injuries and losses.

Don't like losing Darby or Jones, but if there's one place this regime has proven they can find guys at it's defensive back so I won't worry there yet. Mcguire could wind up being the biggest loss of them all if they don't pull a rabbit out of their hat there... Maybe they're putting a bunch of money aside for Streveler? I dunno.

If I may paraphrase... "we're going to let everyone else go full ***** spending and get some cheap deals when the dust settles and no one else has any cap left"

Riders fielding a defense of entirely linebackers this year?

I don't want to lose Harris but at the same time he's not a long term solution so at some point you gotta replace him. Better to do it before you lose the guys who might be able to do it.

Nah, if teams want to spend their cap space stupidly let them. It ******* sucks to lose Lawler, but for that money I ain't even mad! You don't tie yourself into that sort of spending at a position as relatively replaceable as receiver. I'd rather two guys in the 150 range than 1 guy eating up 300k. Walters has it right. Lock up the trenches and the qb and the rest is easier to piece together.

Continuity vs. Bunch of new guys still learning each other's names.... advantage winnipeg.

Ultimately I think this comes down to age and the fact that Harris spent as much time being injured as he did playing.

Seriously, maybe streveler should come back as a receiver. Could be a bigger payday.

Not to mention the reigning league and grey cup MOP star quarterback.

Chris Jones and a his band of me first assholes or Mike Oshea and a chance to play for the back to back Champs with a super tight locker room...

Oh yeah that was a huge deal at the time.

Jesus cfl gms are a stupid bunch aren't they?

Because they are heavily invested in the right wing propaganda both sides of the border. Ucp, cpc are all heavily tied to Republicans.

**** the riders, that's why.

They didn't cheap out getting Nevis here initially. But I agree, I think they feel they have the depth

If they don't placate the crazy base the base will mobilize to push you out so damned if you do, damned if you don't. Problem is the crazy base thinks they are the ones in the majority as opposed to being the vocal minority.

I just don't see why people anywhere think poilievre is a good choice for leader of the party.... Soundbites to rile up the base aren't leadership... screaming "Trudeau BAD!" "Liberals BAD!" isn't leadership... guy has never ever held a job that wasn't politician. He bring absolutely nothing to the table as far as I can see. Trudeau might be a dope but jesus christ compared to this fool..... Conservatives need someone who can keep the base in line like Harper did if they ever want to have a hope in hell of winning. The majority of voters in Canada won't support a party where it looks like the inmates are running the asylum. O'Tool put forth a pretty good effort to appear progressive in a lot of ways and still didn't manage to win.

is powell much of a pass catcher? Can't see a guy who isn't adept at catching passes really fitting the Lapo system. I actually think Powell is a solid running back, just old as **** at this point.

Lapo was **** for receivers i agree.