Fatty Liver

I don't expect much will be left in the cookie jar once Free Agency opens, just the broken bits and a bunch of crumbs.

Kind of surprised that Jacques Chapdelaine is being left out in this year's version of musical chairs as I thought he did a decent job in Sask. last year considering what he had to work with. Wpg. and Ottawa were probably his best hopes for an OC position but in Wpg. at least he wasn't let go until after LaPo was already hired. Does he end up being the default replacement on Coach's Playbook or has Tom Higgins already wrapped up the gig? Higgins=charisma.

Looks like the marketing team is back from Christmas break and revving up the machine for the coming season. I for one am anxious to see how Addison Richards will be wearing his hair in 2016.

Agreed, by fishing in the deepest waters hoping to hook high priced free agents Walters is failing to build the club up in the way that he said he would only two years ago. Instead of successfully recruiting imports and developing their own prospects through the draft they are relying heavily on out bidding other teams for already proven players and paying the highest price possible in the process. After largely failing to find their own future prospects, leaks like this reek of desperation imo.

A real bargain considering the attitude he brings with him. Mr. Price is Right Verified account ‏@MauricePrice17 2 all the upcoming CFL free agents GET UR MONEY !!!! It's 2016, the days of playing FOOTBALL 4 less than 6 figures are overrrr ! #FUPayMe

Price for a 6th rounder? Why didn't we make that trade? Price has been the epitome of an under-performer since signing his big contract with Cgy. I suppose he still has the potential to break out but so far he has not delivered, thus his 3rd team in 3 years.

Curious, why have you come to the conclusion that Waggoner won't amount to much?

Sounds pretty attractive but I honestly don't know if Waggoner showed enough in 2015 to conclude that he will be a starter anytime soon....maybe, maybe not. Why they didn't give him a chance to start at Safety the last game of the season still baffles me. One thing for certain is that Walter's paid a high price to acquire Waggoner and I don't expect him to do a mea-culpa anytime soon by trading him away or moving on from him. This would be an open admission that he may have over-judged Waggoner's potential and paid too much in the process.

Thunder and lightening materializes and both backs gain over 1,000 yds.

Only if he can play O-line.

Pause....this has nothing to do with signing Nichols, just coincidental timing.

Okay. 1. Collaros. 2. Eggs, sausage and Collaros 3. Eggs, sausage, Collaros bake beans and Collaros. 4. Collaros, eggs, sausage, baked beans, Collaros and Collaros.... I don't like spam.

No they actually can't. Now, if you're referring to the potential talent of the top 4 names I think you're being far too hasty in dismissing them after a few appearances. If cut I expect every one of the 4 would be scooped up by another team. Crompton and LeFevour if healthy, could still find a spot as backups.

Ya didn't say that in your original post. Start again.

This is for the past season, right? I know there is a lot of Hank hate out there but you can't OBJECTIVELY look at this past season and rank Drew Willy or a lot of these other QB's ahead of him in performance. Just look at the frickin' numbers, he put on some masterful passing clinics down the stretch and other than Collaros when healthy, Henry had the greatest impact on his team. Maybe that's why he was nominated and won MOP???

Montreal is currently carrying 8 QB's on their roster. I would think at least 4 will be cut loose or traded before the end of TC. The top 4 on this list are relatively unproven but full of potential, and all 4 will likely have a safe landing with other CFL teams if cut. I think they'll probably keep Glenn, one vet and two of these guys for future development, good place to go shopping imo. Too bad the Bombers already burned the bridge with Tajh Boyd. Boone, Anthony Boyd, Tajh Bridge, Brandon Cato, Rakeem Crompton, Jonathan Glenn, Kevin LeFevour, Dan Marsh, Tanner

You can heat steak, and I will heat cake. Heveryone ave a nice day.

Great, sensible decision made on both sides.

Mr. Bilukidi's chances of being immortalized in the CFL Hall of Fame for all of eternity are slipping away with each passing day. His loss, he decided to fritter away his life chasing butterflies.

Good article from Doug Brown in today's FreeP regarding Free Agency. Free agency not a magic elixir for Blue It sounds as though, once again, the Winnipeg Football Club has made a New Year’s resolution to be highly motivated in free agency, and will wade into the fountain of players next month with its purse strings wide open. The question that remains, though, is whether it actually should or not? As confirmed by Free Press reporter Paul Wiecek Saturday, the football club is, "promising to be aggressive in the free-agent market next month," and why not? Even though there is still ample time for players to re-sign with their respective ball clubs, there are more than 100 prospective free agents currently out there, and some very talented ones at that. When your football team is coming off a five win season, the status quo isn’t a viable option, so a willingness to change is a good thing, right? Imagine a Bakari Grant, a Chris Williams, or an Andy Fantuz in the receiving corps of this football team. How much more dynamic would this group be with a proven home run hitter to stretch the football field? What about an Andrew Harris or a Jerome Messam in the backfield to bolster what has been a marginal rushing attack the last couple of seasons? How much would QB Drew Willy benefit — from both health and performance perspectives — if he was running a balanced offensive attack that included one of these proven all-star backs who each happens to be Canadian too? Speaking of Drew Willy, how much better would he and the team be if he was competing with a Trevor Harris or a Travis Lulay in training camp? Imagine a scenario where the season wouldn’t be lost if the starting quarterback went down for a spell — for a third season in a row. On the other side of the ball, what would the 2016 version of this defence look like if Ted Laurent teamed up with Bryant Turner Jr. in the middle of the front four, or if John Bowman came off the opposite edge of Jamaal Westerman for one final year? How much better would the linebacking corps be if Keon Raymond or J.C. Sheritt were added to upgrade it? These are just a few of the tantalizing morsels currently out there that would be instant upgrades to this football team that would send us all into another optimistic frenzy, drooling at the prospects of what could be in the coming season. But that is the exact point of this opinion piece. Last off season we were all incredulous and goggly eyed about the likes of Dominic Picard and Stanley Bryant joining the likes of Nick Moore on offense, and guys like Sam Hurl and Jamaal Westerman teaming up with a strong core of defensive players. As it turned out, if you count Moore, Picard, Hurl, Bryant, and Westerman as five of the biggest free agents this leadership group has signed of late, after the results we saw last year, they most likely over paid for at least three, if not four of them. The only one that definitely lived up to his price tag — thus far — was the only one who had never even played in the CFL before. CFL free agency seems to me to be much like the old golf adage that says you, "drive for show, putt for dough," and we just broke out our Big Bertha Alpha 816 Double Black Diamond driver (an actual golf club). Making waves in free agency and overpaying for talent is the equivalent of only working your biceps at the gym. It looks good, it grabs headlines, and makes your football team pop in a tight v-neck, but it isn’t sustainable. Most of the teams that are perennial winners in this league seem to do a lot better developing their own free agents, and then paying them once, or if, they establish themselves at all. There seems to be a disproportionate relationship between the cost of, and the production of, most Tier 1 CFL free agents. Which is probably why you don’t have to look too hard to find veteran spokesmen in the CFL who will tell you that you only augment or tweak through free agency, you don’t build from it. There are good players out there to be sure, but they are usually there because they want more money than they are worth. Let’s just hope that this year’s free agency "aggressiveness," isn’t designed to overcompensate for a deficiency in developing cheaper, and undiscovered talent from within.

Not election related but just stumbled across Obama on Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee with Seinfeld. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cOLF9k6FAw Better than most episodes of this show.

Makes me feel warm and fuzzy knowing MPIC is protecting us from the forces of evil.

Yer right, Picard can't play any other position so as a backup O-lineman he has little value.

Ok, so I read the heading on here and it says site back up, so I think that's a good idea to have a site back up, but wonder how do you do that? Have some sort of re-direct? Then after clearing the mud, I see it reads - the site IS back up and realized I need to read more than meets the eye. I did check the Twitter feed and found nothing to verify either way. I even checked the newspapers, in the classified sections, for secret updated messages, but I didn't find anything other than a clandestine meeting for Mini-mite, at the "usual place" tomorrow night at 11pm. Interesting. So, the site IS back up and we can go on giving our stout advice for anybody who doesn't care to listen, and somehow, I feel better. Now that you've exposed us, sadly you must die. Luckily you have a choice of 101 methods of execution.

Worst case scenario if the Bombers can't sign adequate replacements for the O-line they can always invite Picard back at a much lower pay rate. That is unless another team signs him up at a lower rate first. I don't think we've seen the last of Picard, the fact that he didn't choose retirement says that he still wants to play.