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A coach needs to be a good communicator, know how to get the best from his players, and get 100% buy in. What you did on the field is irrelevant. There are very few guys who come in that require extensive coaching in technique. If you got a guy on your team that lacking in technique it's because he's a beast, so you let him be a beast. Guys lacking in tech are shown the door fast unless they are a Stove type of player.

The overwhelming majority of position coaches in our league are ex-players who retired and had zero coaching experience beforehand. Your complaint is unfounded. Jake's not our DC for cripes sakes. You can count the winning HCs of 4 out of the last 5 Grey Cups among them Osh, Mace, and Dinwiddie all retired and went straight into coaching.

I disagree. I hate what we have asked him to do under Younger but he's probably the best suited DE in the league if we are going to continue that.

If they were going to fire Matty for imbibing they never would have hired him in the first place. Guy has liked his beers for many, many years.

I like Kramdi at S because I think it plays to his one big strength, his closing speed. S is a role way more suited to his skill set and I think he could give QB fits if he can read the play well enough. His acceleration in a straight path is as good as it gets. Don't know if he can catch tho...lol. He is not bad allocation of cash. He is an all star DB. Someone else in the secondary might be bad allocation of cash but not Holm. He plays the toughest position in the secondary and is the best in the league at it.

Yea...sorry Booch going to pile on...that post didn't even get a chance to not age well.

Kramdi is not nearly as bad as you make him out to be, but if someone is clearly better I like him at S. I know you don't care for him there, but I think he could be really good there with a little more time.

Yea...he is actually a pretty good punter.

Would be nice to have one guy do all 3, but unless we have a sure thing there we can't roll the dice.

I suppose it depends on where we are at with NAT receiver but yea...we could do it fairly easily without a ton of impact.

I agree. I would suggest that Vibert would be the guy if we go internal in a worst case scenario. Wouldn't surprise me if we went IMP before Tui or Vibert. American Left Tackles are crazy hard to find. Stan will be back. Kyrie? Probably not. Neuf and Willie almost definitely unless they ask for the moon.

It's done quite often. We did it with Bighill even. I can't remember offhand anyone else but I know this is pretty standard here and across the CFL. If you know a guy isn't in your future plans you cut him loose ASAP. Willie is 50/50 on whether he signs early or not. Couple times he did, couple times he signed just prior to FA. We are in no position to release Neufeld right now.

Their was a lot of dispute about whether that 400k was actually an SMS increase or went to player benefits. No answer has been given as of yet on which it was. There has been no official announcement of an actual increased SMS other than the 80k or so outlined in the last CBA. Walters went through this is depth last year with the media. If that will indeed be an SMS increase this year, great, but the league has not officially announced anything of the sort. The ratio does indeed make NATs more valuable and that is not the argument at all. I like Schmek...he plays hard and knows his role. They released him as a courtesy. Let him try secure employment elsewhere before the big fish swim in FA.

I agree on Castillo. Kicking is huge in the CFL and Castillo performs up to his contract. Those are the type of contracts we need to keep.

Say what you want about Barker, but the guy is a stud recruiter. I wish we would have hired him.

I agree on Vancouver, and it has been that way there for a LONG time. Much longer than Winnipeg that's for sure. We have no political will to deal with our downtown or tent cities. Not sure they could do anything even if they actually tried.

Judging by some of the recent contracts I'm not sure we have the same information as the GMs around the league. Kramdi at 180 and Katsatonis at 200k are mind boggling number that make zero sense unless the SMS is getting a huge bump.

Katsatonis at 200k per has me pretty convinced that there is a big increase to the SMS that's going to be announced. A safety making 200k...even a NAT...is ludicrous otherwise. I feel better about our signings now as this seems to be fairly obvious now.

If that means losing....so be it. If we are talking RBs let's talk rushing. I could care less that BO had a ton of touches as a receiver. That was a big part of our problem last year was that we overused our RB out of the backfield as a safety valve because we couldn't get it to our receivers. Mills was a far more consistent threat on the ground last year.

Nope, leave the ratio alone. My concern is with individual contracts we are signing, not the composition of rosters league wide. If we are signing Ford to Kramdi's contract I have no issues. If we are signing an elite NAT OL for 250k, I got no issues. It's about the amount we are signing guys compared to the average at their position groups. I don't like our GM resetting the market. The history of the SMS has shown that GMs who do that tend to be pretty unsuccessful. It is something we have never done until the past 2-3 years and our rate of decline is tied to it. All I can hope for is that these mind boggling contracts we have seen, not just here but around the league, are because of a big increase to the SMS or we had a heck of a surplus of SMS left from 2025. As I have stated before, if that is the case I reserve the right to walk this back. However, based on what we know RIGHT NOW, KW appears to be overpaying. I love he has committed most of his dollars to NATs, I will give him credit for that.

I agree. I lived in downtown Calgary for about a year in the early 90's and even then one did not dare walk the 4 blocks to Electric Avenue because of the gangs. I can't imagine it has gotten any better.

I can only assume that either GMs have lost their marbles this offseason, or there is a BIG SMS increase yet to be announced. It's the only thing that makes sense at this point.

Last year we did not play up to our record. Don't have a clue? It's pretty simple math actually. When you grossly overpay at several positions it's poor SMS allocation. That should be obvious to anyone who knows how to add and subtract. As fans who want a winning club, watching a GM overpay is most definitely our concern. Kramdi is a good player but he's not great. Last year he made 140k..this year 180k and by any metric he had an off year last year. How does he get a 40k bump? It makes zero sense.

My contracts would make more sense. You got his email? 125k less per year than BO and he was MUCH better than BO last year

I could get every player under contract easily by overpaying as well. There...perspective. Noeller, he is overpaying our guys to return. It is something of great concern.