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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

Yep, and that is on top of his 100k roster bonus on Jan. 15

Me neither. I would just eat the 100k and thank him for his services. The only thing I can think of is that the Esks want to make sure that Ford doesn't bolt during the NFL window which seems like a very remote of a chance to me.

I think that is almost a foregone conclusion.

Ryan also thought he would be the RIder's best choice for HC about a month of so ago, so I would take his assessment of HCes with a giant grain of salt. Dude is just trying to stay relevant by making outlandish comments every couple of months I think. Sad really.

Kyle Walters is a busy guy this past week. Great job.