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Rourke has 2 days with a receiving corps he is completely unfamiliar with. I hope he does play this week, he will be an interception machine because Nathan Rourke or not, no one get the timing and gets in tune with new receivers that fast. Rourke is probably in the 750k range if I were a betting man. I agree with your money figures for this year. Just depends on how much cap room they had though. Just because they theoretically can run around the same cost as the Bombers at QB this year doesn't mean they left the cap space to do it. If they did good on them they can move VA in the offseason. If they didn't they got to start trading assets to get under the SMS.

There is zero chance they can afford both unless Rourke came for peanuts this year and will make it up on the backend. Either way the Leos are going to be paying a butt load at QB thru the next 3 years. I am sure they can keep VA thru this season but beyond it's gotta be impossible without severely hamstringing the roster.

Yea...I tend to agree. He was heated but not necessarily violent. If he's just animated and calling a clown a clown I see no harm on his part. If he was trying to initiate a fight, or threatening the man then Fatty Liver may have a point. As stated above words can definitely be used as legal grounds to defend oneself and challenging a person to a fight or threatening them can open you up to getting popped in the mouth and is not something a coach should be doing.

DEFINITELY in the eyes of the court words stated can be used as a defense for applied force. My wife was a use of force instructor with Manitoba Justice. I have sat through enough of her presentations (she would practice her presentations on me) on the use of force continuum to know that words can definitely constitute a credible threat that allows an officer, or citizen, to react with force. A credible threat, or even the perception that the threat was credible, can justify a use of force.

Words alone can definitely justify the use of physical violence. Just not in this particular case.

Maybe, but I thought CFL teams could now move guys to the 6 retroactively? I could be wrong on that.

Tbh I thought it. There are two types of losing and one is much more easy to fix. There is losing by not executing well, and there is losing by not having enough talent. The first was the Bombers first third of the season. Losses are losses and they hurt but this team has the talent to turn it around in a big way if they get out of their own way. I felt that way 3 weeks ago and I feel that way now. Hopefully they have turned that corner, and I think they have. The first 6 games were a pretty good team consistently shooting itself in the foot.

It was an inevitability. UDFA QBs rarely get any sort of real opportunity,

It pretty much amounts to the same thing though. Whether you are trucked or whiff on a block the outcome is poor. I'm not here to pump Kolo's tires, I see him as a weakness as well, but after watching Tui's reps the last few games I think we are stuck with him. Tui was an absolute disaster and last game, in particular, was just pitiful....and that was on limited reps. Could be he resets at C and is just fine, but I think people expecting it need to watch some tape. I can get the argument of how does he get better with no playing time, but I can also understand any coach not wanting to get their QB killed while an OL is learning game speed too. I'm not suggesting that MOS is making the right decision playing Kolo over Tui, just saying it's not as cut and dry as it seems.

If guys like Shepley can mainly PR for several years so can Manu. A lot can change in a couple years, you may have noticed the guy he was ahead of on the DC is no longer with us either. I'm not a Kolo lover and was all aboard the Eli train too, but he has been god awful when given reps this year. Last week he was just whiffing on every block attempt. Never is what we think it's going to be. Also, of the 13 guys currently 6 gamed only 6 of them represent any possible SMS savings as 7 of them are on rookie contracts. Not sure about how much savings, if any, Neufeld/K.Wilson/Lawson represent because their up front money is unknown but I would wager all 3 combined would constitute minimal savings at best. I would not think that Wilson or Lawson are pulling down big money, and I would wager that Neufeld took down a healthy portion of his contract up front. Even if Collaros were to go down the SMS savings would not be as grand as one would think.

Gotta agree. I have not liked what I have seen from Eli so far.....and I hate this "his guy" crap. We, as fans, tend to vastly overrate backups....it's just the nature of the beast. HCs put out the players they think give us the best chance to win. We have no all-stars being denied their shot because the HC is oblivious to their talent.

Probably filled up his gas tank and said WTF I'm going home.

I hope you didn't mean that as harshly as it came across.

I would speculate that if NFL politics are against him and he gets no real shot he is still at least 2 NFL seasons on the PR.

In the case of Lawler he received 150k of 285k upfront. That leaves 135k in salary. Assuming that he comes back after his 6 game stint the savings amount to 45k minus 6 game min CFL salary of 23.3. We have saved a total of 22k against the cap with Lawler out. In the case of Schoen he received 105k upfront, leaving 130 remaining. However, he has 35k in team service in his contract that doesn't count against the cap. Therefore, his cap hit remaining is 95k. Total savings of Schoen being out will be around 20k after replacing him with a rookie salary. So roughly 40-50k in cap room freed up by these 2 guys being out. You are absolutely right....this is not some huge salary bonanza freed up. I would barely call it a silver lining. We did free up a bunch of cap space out of the sheer number of guys out on the 6 game that are above league minimum but it is not some huge massive honey pot that will give us all kinds of extra space next year. It maybe turns into one high end player retained/signed that we otherwise couldn't. Therefore I agree with your take on this and it is why teams often hold out a player an extra week to get the full savings. There seems to be a tipping point most of the time (with the exception of QB or a position group ravaged by injury necessitating it) that if a guy misses more than 3 games they are going to miss the full 6.

I would think so. Unless he really stinks it up most OL get some PR time.

I expect a 225k receiver, NAT or not, to be able to step into a 1 receiver spot without struggle. Maybe I am being harsh on Demski but his salary commands the ability to do so. It is elite receiver money. Lawler seems to be brittle, and Schoen just takes a pounding at an unsustainable rate. Do I worry about their long term health? Lawler's yep....Schoen nope. I would think the Bombers have to turn the page on one of them this offseason though. The emergence of Wilson kind of makes that an easy decision IF Wilson isn't NFL bound.

Demski seems to have lost a step. There I said it. The Winnipeg player firing squad should arrive soon.

Both Riders retirees are OL as well. Might be some dissension amongst the hogs over there. When Harrison was a player in Calgary he wasn't exactly a popular guy amongst his OL team mates apparently.

I agree. I think we have shaken off whatever was ailing us earlier this season. Our D is reminiscent of 2019. Kenny Lawler will help that a lot.

Yeesh what? You guys play like that in the LDC and BB and you will get blown out both games. Over the past 3 games for each team the Bombers look better than the Riders. Much better.

Cool...if I decide to give them another try I will try one. Just was not at all impressed with the one I ordered. Shouldn't paint them all as bad I guess. Should have went with the Montreal smoked meat....one can never go wrong with Pastrami. That honey ham is sweet to the point of gross though, I will never order another sandwich there with it on. I did enjoy the portion size of meat though, and the bun was pretty good.

Nope...Rich has it right. The political threads brought out revolting behavior. Far, far worse than anything said in the football discussions.

Biggie's usage was exactly right. He wasn't tasked to do anything with speed but his football sense was utilized instead being the spy. He was filling every escape gap that Adams had throughout the night and it gave him fits. Adams, like Collaros earlier this year, is in his own head. Sitting him a game or two would be the best thing. It's what we kind of did with ZC and his "thorax" injury. Regroup, and reset mentally.

I tried it on Monday. Same sub you had, (wish I would have read this earlier) with the honey ham. Way too sweet, ruined my sandwich. My first and probably last time I go there. I wasn't impressed at all. It wasn't awful, but it was nothing special either. Not worth the extra miles, extra $, and wait time to me.