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I guess the current regime put much weight on the veteran experience and doesn't want to rush rookies to starting position. I'm looking at the current roster and it looks like we could expect only 2-3 rookie starters for game 1... the rest are CFL vets.

based on the injury list from yesterday... plus the guys who reportedly back yesterday but might need time to recover fully I'm expecting these guys to go on IR... 1-game: Cotton, Ford, Jones, Kemp, Markett, Suber, Eisho, Stevenson... Swiston, Alexander, Briggs, West and Sears 6-game: Lucas, Newman that left... Howard, Bolton, Dumas, Fraser and Browning. maybe they gonna release more (deadline is tonight) in able to put them to the PR.

Agreed, aside from Paris Cotton is there any other real good import we brought in? The fact we couldn't find anyone better than a guy like Kuale bothers me. I'd say Leggett and Bruce Johnson. But that's not a good haul, considering they went through what? 50 imports? As someone mention before... these guys need to fit a system especially on the defensive side of the field. Maybe it's hard to find players for Etch's system ?

Is it because they haven't found someone to supplant Kelly ?

No surprise cut.

Urrutia have a strong start but got unnoticed as of late

Who among our our draftees has eligibility left?

That's how I read it. Marve wont take a PR so the staff have no choice but to promote him at 3rd string. Both Hall and Brohm probably wont take a PR too so the decision comes down to who stays between Brohm and Hall. And judging by their pre-season performance, it's not a hard decision to make.

Btw, he's a lefty.

Quite a resume http://www.ulmwarhawks.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=19000&ATCLID=3657647

Good riddance Max Hall.

I tend to agree but I'm going to ask anyways, What the hell type of scheme are we running when we have no interest in Laurent or Hickman? Don't you normally want the best players who are available and you make it work? If we aren't signing guys based on schemes we are setting ourself up for failure. Ratio breaking tackle in Laurent, pass cuz he doesn't fit the scheme? Hickman, i'm not sure what you'd get with him, he's been gone a while but to pass on him just because of scheme? Seems ridiculous. How many guys are we going to not be interested in due to scheme? Much as we would have liked to have Laurent here and will undoubtedly never hear the end of it from some guys, Laurent was a free agent and not terribly likely to come here regardless of scheme. In my opinion, Winnipeg would have been last on his list of teams to play for. As for the DL, they will be expected to attack from multiple angles, overload sides, drop into coverage on occasion and disguise blitzes. As I understand our defense that is. To do any of this they will have to be fast and dynamic. I don't know how well Peach is suited to this. Vega and Turner would seem ideal. Thomas is Canadian, but if he can also be relatively fast with this feet, that's a big step. If we were living in 2011 and looking for someone to replace Doug Brown in a 4-3 Greg Marshall defence, Laurent would be the best choice I could think of. Sticking him in this defence would likely be a disaster. He would not be able to do anything required of him. In that sense, IF Bilukidi becomes available comes August, should the Bombers pursue him? Does he fits Etch scheme?

Hickman is a hell of player, but I think management is pretty happy with Vega and Peach on the ends. It's not being happy about what we have. It's about adding a player that will be impactful to us. What do you think of a DL with Vega, Turner, Anderson, Hickman with Peach as the DI. The only challenge that I could see how we fit it on the ratio.

Here's my guess. WEST W L CGY 11 7 SSK 10 8 BC 9 9 EDM 8 10 WPG 7 11 EAST W L HAM 11 7 TOR 10 8 OTT 8 10 MTL 7 11

As someone twitted, Hickman has connection with the Riders too - Corey Chamblin

I believe it's the "last chance" practice day today. So guys that are on the bubble only has only today left to impress the coaches or else the dreaded pink slip is coming.

Kirk Penton ‏@PentonKirk 5m Donovan Alexander is back practising today #Bombers

Walters should pickup some N's on the last cutdown date. A decent OL and DL can make our ratio-management a little bit better.

Ford wasn't here yet. It was Garrett, Simpson and Dorzon. I stand corrected. Garrett is projected as the starter that year, his backup Simpson was injured earlier. With Garrett's injury, Dorzon started the game 1, with Woodson as his only backup since Volny is still recovering from his own injury. Ford was signed after a few days.

Kinda remind me of Garrett injury after finishing ahead of Ford at the end of TC 2012. Ford benefited from that injury. Btw, what is Garrett up to this days...

lets trade for that Antolin guy from BC

He started game 1 poorly, but looked good in the later part of the game. It was nice to see he could carry it over into the next game. Progress and improvement over the course of camp is a good sign. If a guy is okay but never improves beyond that no matter how many reps he gets, he will probably never be better than okay. Are you talking about Max Hall here?

JWJ any early impression on the 2 new INTL players... Bolton and Dell ?

I could be wrong but by my count the Bombers is standing at 66 right now (excluding 6 non-counters, 6-gamers guys Lucas and Newman) ... I think another 1 got to go unless someone is going to 6-game IR

There is no way Ian Wild wouldn't be on the game day roster, guy is too good, especially in comparison to our other linebackers. agree. on our eyes he is but Etch has a different set of eyes.