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Biggie's salary is not that high compared to a lot of other positions. Sure. Who you replacing him with? Change for the sake of change is just stupid. Put out a candidate that would provide the upgrade you want and we can discuss. You don't dump an all star MLB just because you think it's time to do so without a surefire replacement.

His peers voted him CFLPA allstar last year. The guy is still balling. Could he use some platooning....probably couldn't hurt but he's still got game or at least a majority of the guys he plays against think so and I am willing to take their word for it over fans who may or may not have a full understanding of what he bring to the table. Ideally I'd love to see the Bombers bring in his eventual replacement this offseason and gradually work him into a platoon with Bighill to keep him fresh.

I kinda have my doubts as well, but I think he would have great stats but get hurt, or find ways to lose games.

Fair enough. I like Cole rotationally with Wilson, unless Biggie is not back, and I definitely want to see more of a rotation at DE as well....whether that is Haba or not remains to be seen. I suspect we will have some DE's in camp to challenge his spot on the roster. To me the only guys we might be ruthless about this offseason are Miller, Alexander, and Fatboi. They are deadweight now. Guys we should be recruiting hard for potential replacements should they have lost a step or to get some seasoning for 2025 are Biggie, Jeffcoat, Stan, and Hardrick. We need to get some good young guys coming in to replace them in the not too distant future, Everyone else is pretty much good to go, or have good replacements ready, for the next year or two. Some will say what about Collaros? Yep, but not because I believe age is even remotely a factor. I just believe that you should ALWAYS be looking for your next franchise QB. If Collaros was 25 right now I want the Bombers turning over every stone to find someone better. Bighill doesn't need to be replaced. However, we should be making his eventual replacement a priority scouting duty. I don't think we were really arguing about Wilson but I agree, that finding a Biggie replacement is a bigger need. WIlson still has some good balling left.

If any of that happened I might reconsider my stance on him. However, coulda woulda shoulda doesn't make an average QB any better. There is a loooong list of average QBs that if they had gotten a better shake team wise might have been considered better QBs through association. At one time many years ago, he was a good CFL QB. That ship sailed a few years ago.

Agree that Lawson is ahead of Thomas and am quite certain that will be the case this year again. Eli needs a spot, for sure. Not sure that Cole has outperformed Wilson in any way though? Other than WIlson being a veteran what is your gripe with his play? Need to get younger...sure...but guys have to step up and take these roles away from the vets and we have no evidence that they have done so and are being held back from a starting position. A loose argument could be made that some young guys like Cole and Haba should get more rotational time, but they in way, shape, or form outperformed the starter they are behind other than they look like they might be able to in the future with more development. I'll take WIlson and Jeffcoat over Cole and Haba until something is pretty clearly evident that it needs change. I don't mind the Bombers giving draft picks a really good look for development. However, Briggs, Jackson, and IF Eli beats out Kolo (which he should) then yea these three would be a fail if they are not replaced.

I agree. You don't find a replacement by playing a revolving door of sub par players hoping you catch lightning in a bottle. About the only curious move I saw of a player getting held back a bit last year was Haba, and that was because he needed to work on his run stopping. I'm not a marine lover by any stretch of the imagination and MOS may have overvalued him as well, but if someone was jumping off the page and too good to hold out of the lineup they would have been in there. I think Thomas is a poor example because Lawson looks ready for prime time, but we've heard the name Bighill thrown around as needing replacement....he was just selected a CFLPA allstar...someone wants his job they need to take it and not be handed it because of a date on the calendar. Lawson played more snaps this season than Thomas did.

It hasn't reared it's head until it's reared it's head. We won't know that until we see the game 1 roster.

I'm not that sure that Harris has ever been all that highly rated. I think 95% of people feel he is an average CFL QB.

I bet 95% of players want to come back until they are told behind closed doors that its not gonna happen. There is no YIKES moment yet. If the Bombers sign him then we can say YIKES.

Great. Thanks for chiming in with the identical post for the 850th time this year. No one is arguing your point and you won't change anyone's mind who disagrees. It's been a year of this. It feels pretty redundant. Give it a rest at least for the offseason. If the same issues crop up next year OK....fair enough...fire away.

He has mental health issues that are just too big a red flag for teams.

Cole improved a lot as the season went on.

I don't think anyone here sold Ford short. What I, and others, were stating is that he still needs development. I have no doubt that if developed more he has all the ability to be a very good CFL QB. Just isn't there yet and despite what some people here think playing a QB that isn't ready is NOT the way to develop them. It's how you break them

I see absolutely no reason we can't keep both Schoen and Brady providing other GMs don't get ridiculous and blow up the CFL pay scale to get one of them like Jones did a couple years ago with Lawler.

Pretty sure his signing bonus is what put us over.

We thought we had the game and just basically quit playing but yea Ford is not ready. Has a ton of potential but isn't seeing the field well yet.

You just got to convince him that it's what his dead ancestors want.

I highly, very highly, doubt that. We love Brady but business is business and we are SMS restrained. We will offer him 15-20k below his best offer (if that offer makes a lick of sense) and get him. He wants us more than we want him. He is a Winnipeg NAT but we will not blow up the SMS or lose Schoen to keep him. He, at the end of the day, is easy to replace.

I think in the end we say goodbye to a few vets, get discounts from Schoen and Brady to stay and go to our 5th cup in a row.

The players signed pre-January 1 likely had big portions of their salaries paid from this year's SMS.

Ford needs more development. Get MBT and set up a Ford package of plays. Use him like we did with Strev.

It is not 50k savings on Nats unless they are making 120k. What Nats making 120k should we cut and replace with raw rookies. I agree with replacing the marine but he is making league minimum. There is no savings there. What yearly bonus cap? No such thing. The SMS is the same year round.

100k salary lost is a 28k savings if we dress a rookie. We would need to cut most of our vets to get both Schoen and Brown. Yea..it's not happening without 3-4 of our highest paid players getting replaced by rookies or 6-8 of our mid tier vets. That's just the math unless we had 150-200k cap room saved from this year going against next year's cap.

Nope..and I doubt they will until they are certain Ford is committed