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Keon Hatcher, Dominique Rhymes and Lucky Whitehead will not be there for Vernon Adams to throw to. Will Justin McInnis, Ayden Eberhardt and hopeful Travis Fulgham, a Philadelphia Eagles castoff, be enough to at least equal or upgrade the receiving core? Will these players even get enough balls thrown their way as the BC defence undergoes massive rebuilding. We will see if the scouting and drafting is enough to keep the Lions in the hunt. I am very much looking forward to playing them.

schoen

This is the problem that we find when players leave for an extra 10 or $15,000. If they're not fantastic that year of their switch, their overall value goes down so much with missed games and teams trying to re-sign them on the cheap after they have been cut. They also lose the team chemistry that might've made them above average players. Player agents are so often self-serving and urge their clients to make these kinds of switches. Just stop and think about what fate has been for veteran players that have left the bombers for other teams.

what I would like to see is to bring in high quality local bands and forget about trying to get celebrities… further, I would get them on the field bandstand for an hour before the game, PLUS, the halftime show. That might attract a lot of the under 40 crowd and even a bunch of teenagers. Community-based teams are strengthened by the community, if we let them.

Yeah, I am very concerned about the bombers brain trust choice of the lineup on Friday night. Not only did they rob the fans but they also rob the team stars for an opportunity to tune up at game speed. Now Thursday night is in jeopardy because the coaches think they can make instant pudding with a whole bunch of linemen and other players who are just not used to playing with each other, even a little bit. Changes take time to adapt but the brain trust is denying that.

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"It’s easy to understand why so many people are bullish on the club given that its veteran core from last season remains mostly intact" I am taking just a glimmer of hope that we have not done anything stupid or disastrous in the preseason and are very close to having THE right people. Yes I'm putting it in the Negatron phraseology. Stated in its opposite, I think we done good. We are down to very few "aging – out" problems and they are easy to identify. As for all our newbies it just feels like this is the most changes we have made in half a decade. The only identifiable huge problem we have is our kicking game. I don't think we can "handle it internally"! We gotta go find some one, (or two, or three.) I expect Montréal will be more ready to go on Thursday night then we will be. At least we will have well rested enthusiasm! And we have a score to settle…

Not even you could get that wrong!

I like the alouette attitude here, compared to what the bombers did on Friday night: TSN: " I don’t like to say the (pre-season) scores don’t matter, because when the scoreboard is on the objective is to win. But it’s also to get better every week. I feel today made us better as a football team,” Alouettes coach Jason Maas said. “We’ll correct the things we need to, but the things we pride ourselves on is try not to take too many penalties and not turn over the ball, kind of bit us a bit tonight"

the stamps 2 victories were meaningless ... I still think they fight with the Riders for the basement toronto has enough talent to still win without a QB: special teams + decent D

so about 80% ???

Our season-ticket holders and other fans would actually like to see some battles going on and a certain amount of competitiveness. They're the ones who pay the money. I don't buy that you just throw out all the vets and let the rookies stand there in their underwear. To evaluate a player you need some degree of game -like conditions and we had none. We might as well have watched them do drills; that would have been more fun. We should've at least tried to put out enough skilled players to give us a distant open of winning. Anything less is fan abuse. It's totally selfish with disdain for the paying customer. It's also a team spirit killer. If were going to do this kind of thing in a preseason game, we would be better off to kill the entire preseason and do something else instead. I can think of lots of ideas. We have a president and the general manager that are capable of thinking and enjoyment. What we did Friday night prevented any notion of personality evaluation. You can evaluate nothing when you are shooting fish in a barrel. There is no sense of harmony or team. You cannot see the subtleties of what real talent can do in a noncompetitive situation. Don't you think?

How many of this years draft picks made the club?

3 people since 2018?

Were those not off-season pickups? I am talking about players brought in during the season. Does that make sense?

So now we have the season-opening roster. If history is any predictor of the future, then this roster is going to look remarkably similar to our playoff roster this fall. MOS sticks to his starting lineup all year. Changes only get made when there is an injury, and when they say "next"; there is a preset pecking order to fill that spot. This is the Marine gospel. Unless there is a massive injury problem at a certain position, Walters doesn't make trades during the season. He's a good GM but he just hasn't made trades to simply upgrade an average player. We also have not been picking up other teams cuts, traditionally. There is likely two or three players who have been cut from other teams, that could immediately help us on special teams as in punter & returner. There is likely a couple of dandy receivers that we could look at as well. I don't know this has anything to do with loyalty; is just the way we do things around here. In this, it seems to me, we are uniquely alone. The other amazing thing is that we just do not pick up veteran cuts from other teams. I don't know but often we won't pony up the dough they want. Or maybe we just don't want them breaking into our culture. This board often points out certain available players from other teams, but that just leaves us standing around our tongues hanging out - - no action, not even sniffing. Sigh! And if our scouting staff does come up with an excellent import talent, he is guaranteed to be on the PR for the rest of the year in preparation for 2025… Nothing sooner. So what we see right now is what we get for the season. Our opening roster is our closing roster except that some of the PR comes on to replace the injured. That's just what we do. So don't worry; Be Happy!

what about fan loyalty? the blue have the best fans in the league ... friday nite was complete dis respect for the entertainment value of the loyalists in the stands, treating "the game" as another practice ... there is contempt for managements picky self service what is the non loyalist cost of zero competitive entertainment for the season ticket holders and their wallets?

the rest of the league makes the same consideration, do they not?

https://www.cfl.ca/2024/06/01/cutdown-tracker-teams-make-their-final-roster-moves-2/ only BC & Winnipeg have not published their cut downs

you need to add Adams at LB

I am talking about the insane personnel strategy we employed on offence tonight... What kind of brain trust/collaboration came up with this? I have never seen this kind of player and fan abandonment in an exhibition game… Not ever. Do we need to bring in psychiatrists for group coaching therapy? In the name of the evaluation, tonight's offence was offensive, a complete waste of time for half of our team… It was actually counterproductive

My apologies for GDT ... I just woke up late last night with a night mare re our offense ... it turns out that the O was worse than my night mare I do not comment much but some times i just have to say something ... passion you know

"I think Kolo is banged up a bit too" I hope we can see what we actually have for o line personnel while kolo rehabs

is this coaching collobaration the best our brain trust can do ... or is it the actions of a mad man? Fuddle Duddle!

we do have brains… Some of the stuff would really help,, other stuff should be avoided like the plague, For example, the NFL protect the quarterback rules would really help us up here with our franchise quarterbacks our kicking game is unique and those kind of NFL rules would just add up to stupidity for us