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Vince Lombardi couldn't win with Ottawa's roster.

They've played plenty of really good games in front of packed houses. The reality is that with covid and TV every team is having trouble at the gate this year.

Yes and no. He would be eligible for the Grey Cup with full SMS relief. The bye week counts as a game. My bad though for some reason I had it stuck in my head that we only played 9 games so far.

True. However, you lose nothing by 6 gaming a player even if you are reasonably sure you will have him sooner. If there is an off chance he won't return you hedge your bets and place him on there. In this case he is not technically on the 6 game IR he is on the season ending IR. He is still eligible for playoffs even if not taken off prior. There technically is no salary for playoffs but you do lose the SMS relief if he plays in the playoffs.

Where did you hear this? Right now all I've heard is various degrees of speculation. This could be a tweak of his injury earlier this season or a season ender or anything imbetween really. None of us have a clue as to the severity and the Bombers definitely aren't going to tell us.

If your question is whether Brady can be good enough to keep our RB a NAT position I think he has already answered that. He has two 100 yard games already in limited action, our offence seems to be just fine with him in there. He struggled a bit against TO in the back to back but they are a pretty solid front 7. He's a rookie and will only get better.

Luckily our receiving from the backfield is not as important to our success as in past years. We can shut Andrew down for the regular season, put in Brady who will go for 70-100 yards rushing a game and not miss a beat. We are not running the Lapo short game anymore. Had this development occurred in late 2019 it would have been far more devastating to us than it is now. I think Oliveira has been very impressive so far in his first season. Like all rookies he will become more consistent and just needs more reps. The guy can run. I would like to see him get more involved in the short passing game in the flats and then we will not miss a beat post-Harris. I certainly would give BO at least another season of FT duty before even thinking about that. He's shown he is capable imo. Also, Harris is not just the best NAT RB he has been the best RB period. There is no reason to believe we will find an IMP of that quality very easily either. I will add that Buck seems to be a lot less reliant on monster performances from his RBs game in and game out.

No surprise really. I think if he had to play he could but we have the luxury of shutting him down for the season. I would be shocked if he wasn't back for the playoffs.

Nah....snowmobiles have awesome suspension nowadays and groomed trails really save your back. I had an 08 Seadoo and it was a backbreaker...but I am upgrading this year and buying my buddy's FishPro. I drove it last year and it has built in suspension on the seat. Night and day. I have a pontoon on my home lake but it's nice to have an easy load, trailer. tow unit for when I want to go to other lakes. Not sure about travelling in avalanche country though....that would likely make me nervous too.

I trust the coaches to use our talent to the max.

Don't get me wrong....Rose is a top 3 DB in the CFL. He will upgrade us too, but we were fine without him is what I'm getting at. For us he is a luxury signing, for our rivals he would have been a HUGE instantly make their team a lot better and close some of the talent gap kind of signing.

Rose was not a necessary signing for us because he significantly upgrades us, he was a necessary signing for us because of the amount he would upgrade someone else if we didn't sign him. There is no way we could let Rose walk to a division rival at this point of the season. Imagine the upgrade he would represent to Calgary, Saskatchewan or BC's secondaries. I wouldn't want Zach facing him and now we don't have to worry about that. I guess a lot depends on how fast he can pick up their offence really.

I think Eli is our most likely candidate to get a legit NFL chance. He has the huge advantage of actually being on the NFL radar before. Desjarlais, Stove, Alford all have UDA pedigree and would need to go the workout to futures route. The NFL is not coming for them they have to have good agents working them hard for opportunities. Eli likely has some eyes looking at him already though. Whether he has done enough for a team to bring him in remains to be seen though. Name recognition is huge in the NFL though, and NFL scouts have actually heard of Eli.

I'll vote Walters for Canada's next PM even if he doesn't get Oakman....heck I'll vote for anyone over our current slate of choices. If Walters can build Canada like he did the Bombers we'd be in far better hands than we are now.

Yea..I heard he still has access to the Bombers training facilities and medical staff. Can't participate in meetings or practices and is not under contract but not out of the Bombers plans yet. Reports were he was having a great camp until his set back.

I think that Bryant comes back for another year at least, he is still playing at a high level. Jeffcoat is in line for a big raise, hopefully, we can afford him. No chance Biggie retires imo. He is still balling and loves the game. Imo, there is no chance Harris retires unless we really lowball him. He wants to pass Roberts for the Bombers record and he won't get it done this year. We've outbid teams for Jefferson before, no reason we can't do it again. That being said, Jefferson stayed with us in 2019 even though the Argos offered him more money.

Supposedly 100% according to MOS in late August.

I think that Harris will come back but it will require a big shave in money. Biggie will be back, and I think we have a great shot at Willie J again. Players of concern for me are Nichols, Alford, Jeffcoat and Lawler. Players we may move on from are Adams and Neufeld. I think another GC run and a chance at a dynasty would cement our chances of bringing back who we want from both our team and any FAs we would target.

He wasn't under contract so it's not tampering. BC had the option to sign him.

Loyalty and class were never his strong suit. Glad that Rider fans got their come uppance with him after bragging relentlessly about how he chose them over the Bombers. Now they can see Labatte cares about Labatte and that is all he cares about.

That O'Shea loyalty has paid off in spades. The proof is in the pudding. We all questioned it....and we were all wrong.

Salary cap can't change until the CBA expires. Didn't even change this year. Teams were asked to commit to the SMS floor is all.

Labatte bailed on them for sure, and I'm not sure he would have been any better had he showed up. I think old Brendan saw the writing on the wall. Apparently he was in awful shape just prior to opting out. Some Rider fans were reporting that he looked to be about 400 lbs.

I agree. You can DEFINITELY lessen your odds dramatically of your picks ending up as busts. You'll still get some busts. that's the nature of any draft, but by scouting thoroughly, knowing what you are looking for, and doing a good assessment of character your draft record can be improved dramatically. Take the Riders for instance, under Jones they took futures consistently and drafted guys like Shepley who let it be known their priority was the NFL. While compiling rights to a bunch of skilled players it does nothing to put players on the field. Drafting guys who will never show up in a CFL camp, or will look to leave first chance they get ala Judge, Demski, Shepley is not a recipe for success even if they are the most skilled guys when your draft number comes up.

I'm not sure why Edmonton did that either, a little more understandable though as they are kind of in rebuild mode so getting your NATs a little playing time instead of airlifting people in is a little more excusable....still strange though. I know that the covid protocols make airlifting a lot more problematic but in Saskatchewan's case if they get an OL they are a contender, and without one they are dead, seems really weird that O'Day doesn't seem to want to address this? Not only that but they have been awful from day one...it's not a recent development.