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I wish I had the inside scoop on this like you guys so I could join a good old pre-trial lynchin of a rapist.

After Strev, he is the guy I would most want. They have Harris, Fine, and Patterson all on new contracts. Sounds like that is their plan.

Prukop is a 3rd stringer and I don't believe for 5 seconds that we have any illusions of him being more than that. I can think of 5-6 QBs that will be available as a backup that are FAR better than FIne, and that's just off the top of my head. It's not Rider hate it's just fact. I would take Dolegala long before I would ever take Fine. The guy can't make every throw. For anyone to think the Bombers coveted Fine is just crazy. In order of preference here is who I would look at before Fine: Streveler, Shiltz, Cornelius, Barriere, Arbuckle, and Dolegala They are NOT going with the same 3 QBs. Doesn't sound like Dolegala will be back. Baffling, as he was much better than Fine imo.

I am glad you are not our GM...lol. Fine is hot garbage. He makes Max Hall look like Dieter Brock in comparison to his arm strength. Guy throws a 5 yard pass with a rainbow arc.

340k and 400k. Those are the numbers. Every QB has playtime bonuses built into their contract and no one subtracts those when we talk about how much the contract is. No different for Dru. He negotiated a 300k+ contract.

If he's successful he MIGHT stay in Ottawa. None of us knows whether he would come back or not.

Get ready for a knee slapper. Over on RF their chief spin doctor and shameless O'Day apologist Rider Stronson is suggesting he has inside information that if the Riders had not expedited the signing of Mason FIne that the Bombers were going to attempt to sign him as our back up. LMAO. He's not even good enough fill the water bottles for our QBs. Except for the Ottawa being in the Grey Cup part I have maintained that this may exactly be our path for the past couple months. Let Brown develop and take his lumps as a young starter in Ottawa, then we swoop in.

Sssshhhh! I was called crazy for suggesting something like that could be a possibility.

Yep that's not hate that's just the reality of a fan base that values winning more than stockpiling star players. We aren't the damn Maple Leafs...I'd rather win.

Would definitely make DE more urgent for sure.

I think a lot of GMs/coaches around the league treat RB as more of an after thought in their football philosophies. Look at BC, they couldn't care less who they got at RB.

I suspect a couple more DEs will be added to that mix as well. We are at the point now where we gotta be developing a starting DE for 2025 I would think.

So many variables. If Ford comes back, and adds another NAT starter to defence does that make BO less of a priority? Maybe.

At this point and time there are so many options available to KW as far as SMS goes. Could we sign BO, Schoen, Streveler....absolutely no problem we could. They all want to be here. Should we? That's the real question and really the only person in position to answer that is KW because none of us know who he would ship out and who he would replace those he ships out with. Without carnal knowledge of what any of these guys want for salary and who we gotta carve out to make room, and what kind of blue chipper prospects and back room convos KW is having we will all just have to wait until this crazy carousel called the offseason becomes clearer. Right now, BO, Schoen and Strev all remain strong possibilities to sign with us and if the price is right I am sure we want them all.

I hope he hasn't offered much more. Maybe a bit more, but anything more than 170k and his price exceeds his worth imo. I just hate when a player tries to pressure the team through the media. Never liked it. It's a bad look and really doesn't do much for them in the end.

I agree. Everything he stated so far can lead a person to that reasonable conclusion. Similar to how one can make the same conclusion, based on what the player has stated in the past, that Schoen would like to return as well. Just saying.

With the XFL and USFL merging and eliminating a lot of their teams, there should be a bunch of NT types on the market. Those leagues favored the big NTs and now a bunch have been freed up.

I'm not saying we dispose of Ricky, but we need that true NT. With the clusterfart that is the XFL/USFL merger cutting most of their teams out there should be a ton of talent now looking for work at every position.

Radically different? What constitutes radically different? Changing a NAT for a Naturalized NAT come playoff time is not some epic departure. I agree that not doing that was not the best idea in the playoffs, but it's tough to suggest that doing so in the regular season hurt our chances at a Grey Cup. We finished first in the West. That was our regular season goal. We attained it.

I would hope that we will see a few blue chip DT prospects in camp this year. It was definitely a short coming last year. Walker played well but not great. We need great.

I would like both and see no reason we couldn't have had both. The playoffs do not determine the 2nd rounder, it is based on regular season. What part of our regular season let you down? The 1st place finish? What we did with our roster in the post season is completely independent of this. We had secured the extra 2nd rounder before the playoffs started.

The bonus draft pick is great but I agree that it is not something that should not affect our roster selection. If we can get it and still win great.

It pains me to think of losing BO, but at the end of the day hard decisions will have to be made. I want our QB of the future, and the most dangerous receiver in the league here. It just makes us a better team. I really can't see how we can fit them all. If we can that would be some kind of Walters magic.

Normally I would think that BC having interest in him would be a no-brainer, would be the best offseason move they could make imo, but Maksymic really seems to be allergic to the run game. Chasing dollars can back fire spectacularly for sure. I don't hate those numbers per se, but it would irk me if we lost out on Schoen or Strev to keep BO at a high salary.

Why would that matter? If we lose Brown, Brady, and Schoen it isn't because they didn't want to be here it's because we could not provide either the money or the opportunity for them to stay.