Jesse

Anyone know when the tampering week is?

We at least know the Redblacks hope and expect he’s going to be the starter. That’s why they traded for him and are paying him a starting salary.

He’s going to be a starter so you have to pay him as a starter. He will not be among the highest paid, I’m not sure you have a guy who’s going to get 340 in the same list as Zach and Kelly (you actually forgot Kelly) who are making 600k. He’s pretty much making the bare minimum amount.

coincidentally coincides with the end of Zach’s current contract.

I 100% support players getting all they can - you notice no one is saying anything negative about Dalton. But trying to do any negotiating in the media never works out well for the player. He made a bit of a mistake there, I think.

That's a weird comparable for me because I think I'd rather have Brady on the team, but it brings up the salary differentials that RBs can't stand. Because he produced so much more than Demski did the season, yet has to be told that's too much money for him. I get it, but to an RB, it must not make much sense. BTW, I'm sure Walters has already offered much more than your take it or leave it offer.

I love the eye rolling emoji. Definitely not going to stop using it. 😂

I don’t think it’s any more or less classy. We’re just more used to the other ones.

Any business is going to sound dumb as a stadium name. I wish we could just call it Stegall Field or something.

Almost as silly as telling people what they should care about.

This is disgusting. Schoen and Brady better both be signed for this.

I'm sure he could do it if he wanted, but I imagine it's pretty set in stone that he's signing with Ottawa.

I agree with this, and that's why I think it's more likely that he's the one we sign. Schoen would probably have to accept far less to stay here than he would get on the open market. I'm hopeful, but I just can't see how the math would work.

There's very obvious reasons why not both. Walters could obviously give them both any deal they want, it would just come at the expense at other parts of the roster. At a certain point, it would do more harm than good.

Hey man, if you look up, everyone is taking shots at each other, laughing about, and then taking a shot at themselves too. I'll argue with you about football all day long, but don't take any of the other stuff personally. And I did happen to be 16 back then and am still in my 30's. So there.

It would be easier to agree with you if our team got bounced in the first round, but we've been to 4 straight Grey Cups. It would be easier to agree with you if our offence had been great in either of the two loses. But each game can equally be blamed on the offence not grinding the game out on the last drive and giving the ball back to the opposing team in the first place. But continually being in 1st place in most defensive categories, while making the Grey Cup four straight years and holding teams in those Grey Cups to an average of 22 points, doesn't exactly scream defensive liability. I 100% agree with you that we can always and should always be trying to improve. I just think you're making it out to be this easy thing to do and for some reason the Bombers are choosing not to, which is insane. We live in a salary cap world and right now, with our roster make-up, DT hasn't been a position we can spend up on. We fill it by recruiting and we've been doing a pretty good job at it.

I have. Along with others, you just kinda keep repeating the same thing. You just seem to think we should be able to fill every roster spot with all stars and it's simply not possible. DT is a position that, for a number of years now, we need a guy playing on a minimum contract. Each guy we've played there has out played that contract and moved on via FA. Walters is continually scouting the position, will likely replace Walker with Fox and scout the guy who's going to replace Fox in 1 to 2 years. If that guy happens to be a huge guy who makes the all star team and appeases all of you, great. But he'll likely be gone via FA the next year anyway. Same thing with you Booch. People do challenge what you say, (not necessarily the content, but that grand blanket statements that everything is exactly the way you say it is, all the time, with no room for variation) but then you just tell everyone they don't know what they're talking about and start firing off insults. People don't like the insults? Then you take your ball and go home.

This is a job. He’ll go where he can make the most amount of money. We have certain incentives here that can bridge the gap a little, but that only stretches so far.

I feel like it’s way more likely we keep Brady.

I think the approach is we need someone playing near the minimum contract value at that position. So while we’ll continue to scout the position, finding that impact player is difficult. In the meantime, we continue to have a top defence.

Although they're starting to, so the clock is ticking.

Exactly. There's no situation where Gray is our 6th guy. He was our starter last season over Dobson. Either he is back in that role or we let him walk and Dobson takes over.

I’m honestly getting tired of seeing Stove’s name over and over. He’s done nothing but be injured since he’s left while we’ve been the top rated defence every year. we’ve done nothing. Jesus. How can you even make that claim?

I’m sorry, but what about the coaches and operations cap makes you think that the CFL wants to increase spending?