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And this is what a lot of us have been talking about, re: improper use of ratio. Haba and Fox.... Get those boys on the field, whatever it takes.... EVEN IF... GOD FORBID... WE HAVE TO TAKE OFF THE NAVY SEAL WHO WAS A WALK ON EVERYWHERE HES EVER BEEN.... (hot take, hot take...)

At the risk of assuming I'm NOT one of the egregious voices.... Those takes are spot on for the insane elder statesmen of this 'board....

Forgot about Fox... He's absolutely a guy I want to see starting regularly this year. Hope he comes into camp fired up.

I don't think it's that they don't recognize it, it's just that players like Stove and Nevis don't grow on trees and the USFL/XFL were making it harder to recruit. I'm hopeful this year sees more US recruits coming north.

Walker was a poor man's Sayles I think. Nevis was a poor man's Stove. But the two pairings should not be mentioned in the same breath.

LOL!! The Bombers have not had a true DT since Stove. Sayles and Walker are "adequate"....

Congrats to Woogie, gettin hitched!

Dom Wooganowski.... was never going to play anywhere else. I know that it can sound like bullshit, but the last time he signed he said that he's not going to play anywhere else in the CFL. That he'd retire if the Bombers didn't want him anymore. He just wants to live in MB, play music, and a bit of football on the side. Glad he's going to (likely) finish things up with the '25 GC...

I don't wanna lose Gray (he's the Manitoban that nobody talks about) but IMO, he's the 6th man right now. I'd start Dobson over him at G, and obviously Eli at C and let Koala go anywhere else. But Gray's versatility is still useful.

Walters is the most proactive GM in the league. He's trying. What we're already seeing early in the offseason is that the XFL/USFL merger is leaving less options for players and more are seeing CFL as a viable one. The CFL has had a hard time bringing up neg list recruits in recent years because of the plethora of jobs available south of the border. I have a feeling this year is gonna be a better recruiting year in recent memory.

at any rate, I'm more than happy to let the guy move on and be average elsewhere as we upgrade to Eli...

We're saying the same thing.... he was very average.

alright, so based on the lowest of possible expectations.....the fact that he was mediocre is killing it compared to what we'd initially thought. I can understand that.

Kolankowski "killed it" here?

it's a hamstring... those can be tricky. Best to let him get fully healed rather than rush him back and lose him for a more important part of the year.

from 3DN back in Sept: The six-foot-one, 200-pound target went unselected in the 2023 NFL Draft but signed with the Jacksonville Jaguars soon thereafter. He made three catches for 17 yards during the preseason and caught a two-point conversion from former CFL quarterback Nathan Rourke. Martin made 25 catches for 405 yards and two touchdowns over three collegiate seasons at the University of Nebraska (2020-22). He reportedly ran a 4.53-second forty-yard dash at his pro day along with a 41-inch vertical jump and an eleven-foot, two-inch broad jump. The 24-year-old had previous stints at Michigan and Iowa before transferring to the Cornhuskers. He caught 11 passes for 125 yards and one touchdown with the Wolverines in 2018 before making five catches for 28 yards and one touchdown with the Hawkeyes in 2019.

that's a good point... if the Als were smart, they SHOULD sign anyone other than Faj, who is 9 different kinds of useless....

fwiw, I said Ottawa all along for Brown...... JBR was beating the drum for Calgary being a likely option, with an outside chance of Edmonton. Lots of people had different takes on it, but all along Ottawa seemed like the most likely.

Schoen and Lawler are the two best receivers in the league.... with Mack gone. You can't argue this point in good faith.

I'm sure Calgary and Sask were very interested... likely most of the East teams.

Booch - everyone knows YOU know something. But there are other people, who don't know their ass from a hole in the ground and try to make definitive statements about what players think or want.... that make absolutely no sense.

You have a lot of inside information....