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Forgot about him. Guess he's reached the point where it seems like the shortest route to the NFL is thru the CFL.

And I give MTS a big thumbs up for using music from Manitoba musicians in their latest commercial.

I expect the Bombers to win in Calgary. I ain't walking out of that stadium after a Bomber loss a second time.

I had to read this 3 times to figure it out. That's okay, I had to huff paint thinner 3 times to write it.

At camp in 2013 I woulda ranked him 2nd behind only Buck... Buck, Yantz, Hall, Goltz, Chase something (I forget the guy's name) ... then again, there wasn't much to be excited about that year... Chase Clement. Yeah there wasn't too much memorable about him.... I'm sure he's a nice guy though Your mom seems to think so. Sorry, that was supposed to read "His mom seems to think so." Not sure which of these buttons will allow me to go back up and make the appropriate changes. "Num Lock"? Is that it? I've only had this computer for 6 months. I'll keep looking. Might have to call tech support. I'd hate to leave something so needlessly inflammatory up there for no reason.

For sure. At this point and time, trading Greaves...unless we get a starting OL in return...would be like throwing out the baby with the bathwater. Walters has done some excellent work in securing the future of our OL. However, we do have the present to worry about as well. It would be irresponsible to throw Chungh to the wolves before demonstrating he is ready for them. Perhaps through the course of their evaluations of Chungh, they feel he has already demonstrated that. Can't see how he could have. He may have all the physical tools necessary but until you actually put him on the field against CFL calibre defensive fronts it is just a guess as to how well he will do. Not saying he can't do it. It would be fantastic if he was ready but it would be a mistake to assume that he is. The smart play is to keep Greaves until Chungh proves that he is capable. Maybe that's the first week of camp, maybe that's until next year....who knows. Trading him now would be a big gamble though. That being said, I hope Chungh clearly beats out Greaves in camp and makes him expendable or forces him to convert to RG. Making those guesses is part of Walters' job description. Except he'd call them evaluations and projections rather than guesses I suppose. Maybe they've already had Bryant Turner pop by and do some one-on-one drills with Chungh and feel he's a near-lock to start in week 1. There will always be risk any time you cut/trade a player. There's risk in releasing Morley. There was risk in not bringing Obby Khan back. A starter can get injured 5 minutes after we part ways with his backup. There are no guarantees and there's always risk. If Walters and OShea and Gyovea and McManus and Wiley have all looked at Chungh and think he's ready, who am I to argue? They're the ones who lose their jobs when they evaluate incorrectly. They are more aware of the risk involved than any one of us. I also think a trade is unlikely, but if another GM has a deal that makes us stronger at a different position AND Walters is comfortable going into the season with Chungh-Picard-Neufeld in the interior, backed up by Goossen and Everett, he should do it. It's pretty clear the Bombers are not taking the cheap route this season. They don't seem to be trying to clear cap space. They are making moves to win the cup this November. And if a byproduct of that is that a player who is making ballpark $140k this year but they expect will never see a snap is moved to another team to make us better somewhere else on the field, I'm okay with that. Maybe the guy coming back has an even bigger salary. Greaves seems to be a great guy. He's been solid if unspectacular for us, playing on an Oline that can't claim having many solid players in recent years. I'm not going to speak ill of him in any way. The nature of the beast is that employment as a player in football is usually very temporary. If there's something out there that knocks Walters' socks off, I'd expect him to pull the trigger. I also doubt there is a team out there who will give us proper value for him, just teams looking to trying and land a bargain.

Kelly was misunderstood by the people who didn't realize he was terrible.

Or he could care less, but not very much. Voodoo never did say how much. Could just be a fraction. Keep in mind 8,000,000,000/3 is also a fraction. And that's a lot. Which is also a parcel of land to build a house on. Yet it isn't delivered by Canada Post. Who are not a 4 x 4 piece of lumber vertically impaled into the ground. English is the worst.

But if James Green comes available, y'know, tradition is tradition...

An aging olineman, a mediocre lb, one legit ni talent and three draft picks? I'm sure nearly every year every team does the same.please give us an exampleRemember when the Riders signed Picard and Labatte when both in their prime?Are you suggesting that no team has signed 3 ni in a season before? Also for the draft picks remember how great Poblah turned out to be? I wouldn't be bragging about the guys we added just yet. No, it would seem he's suggesting Walters had a pretty good offseason. And if you take the 6 players listed and compare them with the 6 players they will replace on the roster, this team has had some serious upgrading done to it. Now if your counter to that is the Riders once also had a pretty good offseason, uh, yeah, okay...

Kevin Glenn is able to confirm - the Bombers twitter account was hacked.

Derek Jones in there at cb too. If Jones and Morgan look legit Bucknor and his salary may be moved out Yeah, if he applied himself in the offseason he might be ready to make a little noise for that job.

Just a deadline. They have to be on the list by a certain date - for those who aren't obviously eligible, they have to submit supporting paperwork and have it confirmed by that date. Like the 75 answers above mine said...

Newman, Hurl and Waggoner competing for LB spots, Morgan and Bucknor competing at corner, Morgan, West, Sherman, Newman competing for backup safety spots.

Bombers are definitely all-in for a hometown appearance in the Grey Cup. Every chance they've had to upgrade their roster they have moved aggressively. Hope it pays off.

If it does, they'll change back 51 weeks from now when we go into the 2016 draft without our 3rd round pick. "Why don't we have a pick in the third round? Waggoner? That was a waste of a pick*." *may not be a waste of a pick

If fans aren't allowed access, what does it matter? There is effectively no difference between the two. While I might normally be inclined to agree with the "wait and see, let's give them the benefit of the doubt" approach, I've seen far too many examples in recent years of this team making bone-headed decisions only to reverse policy in the face of an outcry. The fans reaction seems to be the only thing that gets this organization to take fans into account. It's really the strangest thing. There shouldn't be a single non-football ops decision that doesn't get placed under the microscope of "how will this affect fans?" at some point in the process. From a non-football ops perspective, it is or should be the point of everything they do. How do they continually make missteps on the single most important aspect of that side of the business? Honestly, that question should show up on a poster in every single office and meeting room in Bomber headquarters, and if I was working there, it would. If I had made travel plans based on coming to a few days of TC (and I've done it before) I'd be pretty cheesed. I think this just shows that the Bombers aren't very connected with their fanbase. BC can get away with holding training camp in Kamloops because no one in Vancouver cares. Winnipeg is different. People care. The fans are passionate. The Bombers seem to just not get that. Even the media doesn't get it. What would you like them to do? Spend a bunch of money for a couple dozen fans? That's usually the amount of people who aren't Bomber employees or people who are supposedly covering the team for local media at the TC practices I've been to other than the opening full practice which they've made into an event in recent years. Let's apply some logic and rational thinking here. Personally, I thought they should have dropped the field turf into University Stadium and used that for local football as there is a huge shortage of adequate facilities. That would have worked out perfectly for Bomber training camp when they can't be in IGF. The primary purpose of that area remains track and field events. I'm guessing having a javelin puncture the field turf and break against the underlying concrete was considered unwise. From a solely football perspective, putting turf in there would be a banner idea. So would getting rid of the rubberized ankle-death sections in the endzones, but it's not to be. Outside of opening day, when the crowd is in the thousands rather than the hundreds, roping off an area near the field for fans should not be expensive or inconvenient. There are bathrooms nearby at the indoor soccer complex, Frank Kennedy and Max Bell (I'm guessing people will not be allowed in the stadium concourse during that time). As for the opening day of camp, I'll admit that's a tough one. Hire a few extra staff to try and marshall the crowd so there aren't any player/fan collisions and otherwise consider the day a unique, one-time interactive experience would be what I'd try for. Would it work? I couldn't say without looking at the field.

For sure. At this point and time, trading Greaves...unless we get a starting OL in return...would be like throwing out the baby with the bathwater. Walters has done some excellent work in securing the future of our OL. However, we do have the present to worry about as well. It would be irresponsible to throw Chungh to the wolves before demonstrating he is ready for them. Perhaps through the course of their evaluations of Chungh, they feel he has already demonstrated that.

For an incumbent starter to lose their job, there usually has to be a pretty noticeable difference between the two players. If it's fractional, Cotton will get the benefit of the doubt. And if it's more than that, more often than not they just cut the incumbent outright when the player is an import. If that happens in Cotton's case, his slender rookie contract will be what keeps him on the roster - it will not be a misuse of cap space to keep him as a backup.

That automatically makes it a non-issue, doesn't it? That question came up a few years ago, and I recall the answer to be that your classification does not change once you have entered the league - if you come in as an import, you are always an import. Now maybe they've changed that policy since then, or maybe I'm remembering incorrectly, but if there's a chance a guy can become a NI by going thru the process, it's in all parties best interests to wait it out - the player can command a higher salary with NI status.

Everyone knew he was heading to the Redskins mini-camp. Thing is Waud is pretty low risk to stick long-term in the NFL unless they are going to wait for him to add 50 lbs to play nose. He's not athletic enough to play anywhere else. At 11 Waud would have been a good pick regardless of if he got signed by the Redskins this weekend. With 3 picks in the top 15 a mild risk wouldn't have been a bad move. Picking Waud at 11 would not have been a significant risk. We obviously deemed receiver a higher priority and with Demski and Harty off the board, did not want to chance missing out on Richards by waiting till 15 to take him. If Waud lasted till 15, maybe he's a not Bomber now instead of a not Argo. It's the way of the draft - if you want to get everyone you'd better have all the picks.

While I think keeping the fans out is never a good idea, I also probably won't go to any even if it's opened up. Of course if I allocate all the time I spend here into going over there, it doesn't sound like as much of a time glutton.

That says something. The supplemental draft is tomorrow? That's not nearly enough time to build up disproportionate amounts of hype. Roll this thing back a week. And camp. And the season. It's going to be worth it.

Why wouldn't they just have it in the old pan am stadium? There should still be grass there.

Best to not air all the dirty laundry in public - nothing good ever comes of that. Just PM all of us individually instead.