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The SMS didn't go up last year according to Walters. No announcement for this coming year yet either. The CFLPA ultimately decides how this new money is spent, whether it is salary or not is unknown. Last year the extra 462k went directly to improved benefits etc. None to increased salary to players No there really is not. Supply and demand dictate salary not number of touches. Business 101

Would be nice but improbable given some of the contract numbers we have already. Unless we shed some salary elsewhere of course. BO was a gross overpay, ZC was already one, and if Kramdi gets what he got last year we are going to be in tough to not only sign talent but to retain what we already have. Unless, the SMS is up of course.

Lol Kramdi is a player that you and most of the forum disagree on I think. I would rather see him at S though.

Yea...it's about time they start giving us this information. Hard to play armchair GM without it ...lol. I am just looking at the amount of 6 game stints we had with high price guys and Walters did bupkus to spend any of it during the season.

As it should be, maybe even to a far greater extent. We spent well below the SMS last year by my math so spending it now is the least he could do. Heard via the grape vine that Thomas is likely to retire. Take it with a grain of salt, but a friend of mine connected to the Bomber's training staff seems pretty convinced he's hanging them up. Hope for the best on that one.

Glad to see that the NATs are being secured.

Hanging onto aging vets kills our game day roster, bad contracts kill our overall roster. SMS mismanagement will kill a team faster than anything. Gauthier, Hallett, did zero damage to our roster. Do they need to be replaced? Yea probably but they were STs toiling at near league mins. The only time they impacted us negatively was when we were forced to start them. Jefferson at 200k is another huge overpay. Good teams can't overpay like this. We have a million dollars standing in two spots behind centre, that is not good SMS management.

I did not know Tyson Philpot was a RB. You are comparing apples to oranges. Might as well have said that Rourke makes 800k so BO's contract is a bargain.

Brady signing is a terrible albatross boat anchor of a contract. I hate the $ and length. Putrid. On the bright side I am happy to have Brady here and that this almost definitely means Hogan is out. If the contract is one third marketing money, or the SmS jumps by 30%, I can live with it, so I reserve the right to walk this back if that is the case. My issue is solely $ and a tiny bit length of contract (if there is guaranteed year 3 $) As it stands right now tho I don't believe this is a good contract. Love the player, hate the terms.

I doubt it.

He would probably be a better OC than Hogan.

That's why he was recruiting you. lol

Jeff Stoughton did call but you never answered.

Not sure what the NFL per diem and payscale is for PR but I do know that restricting our NAT rookies to 80k a year for their first 3 years is just about the stupidest thing ever. Guys signing futures contracts might as well not sign anything. There is no bonus, no commitment from the NFL team, and very little chance of making the squad.

What if those were the best players? Whose fault then? I'll take about 10 of those seasons any day of the week. We've done a hell of a lot more right than wrong in the last decade. Just gotta get back to that.

I think Hogan went into the Bomber file cabinet and accidentally photo copied Marcel Bellfeuille's playbook by mistake and didn't realize it until game 14 when it was too late to change.

Guys on 3 years are taking advantage of the guaranteed salary in year 3 provision of contracts that came into effect a couple years ago. It's why we couldn't cut ZC this year if we wanted to. He has 250k or something around there guaranteed. A two year contract is just as likely as a one year now if the player is established and paid market value. The one year deals will still be the norm for rookies and upcoming players. Nothing has really changed except the 3 year deals. Wilson on a 3 year deal likely has guaranteed money in year 3. If we cut him in camp this year we have to pay him whatever was guaranteed in year 3.

I am of the same opinion regarding QB. One of Perkins/Elgersma for QB3 and if we have both in camp then let them battle on the pecking order. If we only have one of them then we go after some CFL experience at QB2. I am fairly confident that will not be the case. Perkins is almost certainly destined for QB3 imo. I am highly doubtful we bring back Wilson so QB2 is TBD.

I was thoroughly disappointed in Walters performance last year as well and have been echoing the same criticisms. Even before the season began it was a no brainer that losing 3 all stars and replacing them with no one was going to hurt. It became even worse when the quasi talent brought in to replace couldn't even crack the roster or even make it out of camp in a couple cases. What happened to our receiving corps in the course of an offseason was just criminal negligence by a GM.

Mike Kelly says "call me and we can chat".

Possible. Without seeing the play book it's hard to say but yea could be. All QBs get happy feet when they have been under siege. It's the name of the game for a defence,

That's not true. They ranged from showing well to ineffective. Look, no coach keeps crappy rookies out of camp over a clearly better player. You never know what you got exactly until they are under the Friday Night lights but you will never convince me that the newbies we kept were kept for any other reason than they looked the best in camp to not just OSH but the concensus of all our coaching staff, scouts and management. Cut down day all of these people weigh in on that, However, I am in agreement that many roster moves were baffling sometimes. I don't post this to exonerate MOS, he needs to be much better, I post my criticism of KW because some ppl are trying to give him a free pass after doing a horrible job because they want the focus to stay solely on MOS. KW and MOS, and their entire dynamic, is a problem and one that KW ultimately is the only guy that can resolve it. HE MUST DO HIS JOB BETTER. That means making MOS doing his job better as well. People are forgetting who the bottom line is on a **** season like last year. The GM has to wear it. If it was coaching then the coach should have been fired. It's that simple. You can spread the blame around certainly for last year but no one can try and paint KW as a victim of circumstance. That's BS. It absolutely is both men and furthermore the dynamic that has developed between them. At the end of the day though, only one man has the power to change that dynamic. You can't nlame an employee for being able to run over the boss.

That was NOT a report, that was SPECULATION. There is absolutely no source that anyone can point to that suggests KW is some powerless dupe stuck in the middle. Let's be clear on that. There is nothing to substantiate any of that and therefore it is not fact, it is purely speculation. Miller is a smart businessman, that we know, Walters can be a very good GM, that we know, MOS can also be a very good coach that we know. What none of us know is why there seems to be a disconnect and who is to blame. It is just as likely that KW was burnt out and underachieving, or just decided to say F it MOS can do what he wants. That's not power struggle that;s lazy and there is a big difference in culpability.

The DE's you are referring to as having great games were brought in just a week or so before they played the final game of the season. They weren't there all year. So no, leaving them off the roster was not an issue....they weren't under contract. Agreed. However, all these shining stars that we heard about all year long ended up being duds when they eventually were played with the exception of Woodbey. It kind of tells you that they weren't on the roster for a reason.

Bo and Harris looked equally as washed two years ago. That gives me hope. Like any other QB on the planet ZC will go as far as his supporting cast allows. Bo and Harris's "resurgence" is entirely because their respective teams surrounded them with talent and protection.