Everything posted by bigg jay
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Blue Bombers -- 2025/26 Offseason -- Discussion Thread
So you're saying as long as he's lined up against Kolankowski, he should be fine?
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Blue Bombers -- 2025/26 Offseason -- Discussion Thread
https://www.bgmsportstrax.com/2025/12/03/winnipeg-blue-bombers-sign-defensive-lineman-arnold-young/
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Restaurant/food thread
They are decent sized but still not for me at that price point. Interesting that the Winnipeg franchises have a Bombers connection. Owners are Kristina Bighill and Paulina Coombs (Anthony's wife).
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25/26 CFL (Non Bombers) Off Season Thread
They've gone over the cap the last 2 seasons (and by more than any other team) so why stop now? They pay guys like Rourke & Betts a good chunk of their salary as marketing money and yet they still go over the cap - Doman does not seem to have an issue with that but it hasn't really paid off for them yet.
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Blue Bombers -- 2025/26 Offseason -- Discussion Thread
https://3downnation.com/2025/12/02/cfl-award-winner-trey-vaval-to-work-out-for-new-orleans-saints-cleveland-browns-sources/
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Blue Bombers - 2025 Regular Season - Discussion Thread
It's not just this year though - he disappeared for the last third of the season in 2024 before having himself a hell of a GC. Is a team going to spend big money based on one great game 2 seasons ago? There are only 2 ways I can see him get that kind of money at this point of his career - a bonus heavy contract or one loaded with marketing money.
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Blue Bombers - 2025 Regular Season - Discussion Thread
They were apparently working diligently last year too but nothing got announced until February. MOS had even claimed that they were ahead of the game last year as they had already been preparing for life after Buck when he got interviewed by other teams to be their HC. That being said, there are rumors that suggest a coach turned down our offer to be the OC and they had to go back to the drawing board and that's how we ended up with Hogan. We also interviewed Makysmic but he took the Elks job instead so we could have missed out on 2 of our top choices which would understandably delay things a bit. Hopefully they don't run into those issue again - could be a red flag if we keep missing out on our preferred choices.
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25/26 CFL (Non Bombers) Off Season Thread
How much juice did he have in 2018 when we tried to walk away from him? The fact that it's now 2025 and we're still talking about him and he's still playing that kind of a role, is a huge fail for this team.
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25/26 CFL (Non Bombers) Off Season Thread
I heard the Bombers had a contest to redo the jerseys and JT won by adding racing stripes to the helmets. MOS was quite impressed.
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25/26 CFL (Non Bombers) Off Season Thread
Shai Ross went viral (twice) on Instagram, not Tik Tok. He's on both platforms but has a much bigger following on IG (2.5 million vs 140k).
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25/26 CFL (Non Bombers) Off Season Thread
That'd be an improvement since there's usually seven of them.
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Blue Bombers - 2025 Regular Season - Discussion Thread
Oh the whole thing got me thinking of Ride fans! 😂
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Blue Bombers - 2025 Regular Season - Discussion Thread
Hogan sleeps in a race car bed, do you?
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Blue Bombers - 2025 Regular Season - Discussion Thread
His old position isn't vacant though - Andre Bolduc was hired as his replacement so what do you say to him? Sorry, you're out of a job because Hogan sucked at his?
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25/26 CFL (Non Bombers) Off Season Thread
https://3downnation.com/2025/11/26/3downnations-top-50-pending-2026-cfl-free-agents/ Anyone got KW's email? Need to send him this so he can start a shopping list. 😂
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25/26 CFL (Non Bombers) Off Season Thread
Yeah I rag on them as much as anybody but they do a better job of covering the CFL than the "real" media. They are great for news but their opinion pieces are not usually worth reading.
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The Airline Thread
You can find deals though - like I said, you can fly to/from Calgary and Winnipeg for very cheap at certain times. If you are looking to go at peak times, you pay peak prices. Google Flights is a good way to look for affordable flights and you can set alerts to notify you when prices change. Halifax is beautiful but like most cities, the homeless situation makes it unappealing to explore, at least it was a couple years ago when I was there. Only other place east of Ontario, I've been was Montreal - also beautiful but was way more expensive than Halifax.
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The Airline Thread
Have yet to see a good explanation. Jamaica getting hit by the hurricane has definitely increased prices but it's still been much higher than normal even prior to that. We book well in advance and have price match guarantees so we're always watching prices. There were some deals to be had a couple months ago but very few these days unless you are happy with going to Cuba.
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Blue Bombers - 2025 Regular Season - Discussion Thread
Source? I have not seen it anywhere that he was given a 2 year deal.
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Blue Bombers -- 2025/26 Offseason -- Discussion Thread
Perkins was added to our neg list in August but he's been bouncing around other teams lists since at least 2020 so might be just lucky timing on our part but I won't complain. Looks like he has a great skill set for the CFL and he's still only 28.
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The 2025 Grim Reaper Thread
https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews/2025/11/25/cp-newsalert-legendary-curler-broadcaster-colleen-jones-dies-at-65
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25/26 CFL (Non Bombers) Off Season Thread
Apparently Dinwiddie wanted Murphy gone & the Argo's said no so he left. I can't imagine sticking with a known piece of s**t like that to the detriment of your franchise - luckily for MLSE, nobody in Toronto will notice. Family comes first as Mike O'Shea spurns Argonauts | Toronto Sun
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The Airline Thread
People who like to go south in the winter care. Besides - it's a sale price, to one specific location, not all sun destinations. We've got a trip booked in March and our flight prices are way higher than normal ($1400 to Cancun) - on the same dates I can fly round trip to Calgary for $213 so yeah it can be way cheaper to fly domestically.
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Blue Bombers -- 2025/26 Offseason -- Discussion Thread
Except he didn't start for another few seasons. He went to BC in FA where he backed up Danny Barrett and then Kent Austin. Austin got traded after the 1993 season and McManus finally got the reigns in 94.
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Blue Bombers -- 2025/26 Offseason -- Discussion Thread
30 years of coaching, OC in the NFL (Arizona), OC in Toronto and Montreal (also co-head coach there). Plus he's made Arbuckle look halfway decent. Would not be worse but time would tell if would be great.