Former Bombers in NFL (and spring leagues) news

[Piggy 1]

13 hours ago, SpeedFlex27 said:

Or what??? I've been hired as the new private qb coach for Russell Wilson. I leave for Denver on Monday. We're hopeful. 

Now THAT was an LOL,Lord knows Wilson needs all the "coaching" he can get.

[SpeedFlex27]

4 hours ago, Piggy 1 said:

Now THAT was an LOL,Lord knows Wilson needs all the "coaching" he can get.

https://giphy.com/clips/jakemartella-nFgyShtNHzoATPBiU8

Edited January 9, 2023 by SpeedFlex27

[Noeller]

 

[Goalie]

Tyrrell Ford has signed with Green Bay 

[Noeller]

5 minutes ago, Goalie said:

Tyrrell Ford has signed with Green Bay 

Yesterday morning - but thanks! 

[Tracker]

41 minutes ago, Noeller said:

Yesterday morning - but thanks! 

This is just an agreement for a tryout anyways.  And probably a bit of money up front.

[GCn20]

1 hour ago, Goalie said:

Tyrrell Ford has signed with Green Bay 

See you in August Tyrrell...hope I'm wrong but I doubt it. 

[wbbfan]

On 2023-01-11 at 1:44 PM, GCn20 said:

See you in August Tyrrell...hope I'm wrong but I doubt it. 

I suspect he will be back in time for camp. Likely a finish out the year kine of deal. It’s a great opportunity for him to go down south and get practice reps and coaching vs nfl wrs. 

[Bigblue204]

Just posting to try to bury the thread that shall not be named

[SpeedFlex27]

Where the hell is Lirim Hajrullahu these days? He has totally disappeared into oblivion. And he's wasted 3 seasons bouncing around NFL teams looking for the big paycheque & glory in the NFL. Which doesn't seem to be coming his way. It's his life & his career but he's not getting any younger. He should consider coming back to the CFL that wants him. 

[MOBomberFan]

2 hours ago, SpeedFlex27 said:

Where the hell is Lirim Hajrullahu these days?

https://3downnation.com/2023/02/12/canadian-kicker-lirim-hajrullahu-not-ready-to-return-to-cfl-willing-to-try-usfl-or-xfl-in-pursuit-of-nfl-goal/

Hr would sooner join the USFL or XFL than play again in the CFL, he's not ready to give up the dream down South yet

[SpeedFlex27]

10 hours ago, MOBomberFan said:

https://3downnation.com/2023/02/12/canadian-kicker-lirim-hajrullahu-not-ready-to-return-to-cfl-willing-to-try-usfl-or-xfl-in-pursuit-of-nfl-goal/

Hr would sooner join the USFL or XFL than play again in the CFL, he's not ready to give up the dream down South yet

He just doesn't get the hint. If he was this great NFL kicker in waiting then he'd have been signed long ago. Meanwhile some young strong legged & accurate kickers are coming out of the NCAA every year who are 10 years younger than him. His career & he can do what he wants to, I guess. 

Edited March 5, 2023 by SpeedFlex27

[Tracker]

1 hour ago, SpeedFlex27 said:

He just doesn't get the hint. If he was this great NFL kicker in waiting then he'd have been signed long ago. Meanwhile some young strong legged & accurate kickers are coming out of the NCAA every year who are 10 years younger than him. His career & he can do what he wants to, I guess. 

Considering the differences in salaries, I can understand him hoping his NFL dream will come true.  We all live in hope.

[TrueBlue4ever]

14 hours ago, Tracker said:

Considering the differences in salaries, I can understand him hoping his NFL dream will come true.  We all live in hope.

This. It’s not hard to see his logic. Highest paid CFL kicker made $150,000 and average is around $100,000, lowest paid NFL kicker made $660,000 and average is $2.5 million. And Lirim says kicking in the CFL closes the door on a mid-season call-up to the NFL, given the season overlap and rules about NFL and CFL contract windows. Which is why he will see what the XFL or USFL has to offer so he could jump straight into the NFL season. His 4 game stint in 2021 in the NFL probably paid him more than a full CFL season would. It may be a pipe dream, but the money logic is sound if he even gets just a mid-season sniff. 

Edited March 6, 2023 by TrueBlue4ever

[WinnipegGordo]

Career Earnings: $191,867

Career APY: $191,867

Total Guarantees: $0

Largest Cash Payment: $110,000 (2021)

Largest Cap Number: $110,000 (2021)

 

Contract History

Team	Year	Total	Amount Earned
Rams	2020	$2,285,000	$0
Panthers	2020	$142,800	$0
Panthers	2021	$660,000	$0
Cowboys	2021	$1,485,000	$0
Cowboys	2021	$165,600	$0
Cowboys	2021	$165,600	$0
Washington	2021	$165,600	$0
Panthers	2021	$1,485,000	$110,000
Cowboys	2022	$1,765,000	$0

Earnings By Team

Team	Yrs	Salary	Paid on Cap
Rams	0	$0	$0
Panthers	1	$118,400	$110,000
Cowboys	0	$55,067	$0
Commanders	0	$18,400	$0

Season History

Year	Team	Cap Number	Cash Paid
Total		$110,000	$110,000
2021	Panthers	$110,000	$110,000

 

Dead Money History

Team	Year	Cap Charge
Total		$81,867
Panthers	2020	$8,400
Cowboys	2021	$9,200
Cowboys	2021	$45,867
Commanders	2021	$18,400

[SpeedFlex27]

3 hours ago, Tracker said:

Considering the differences in salaries, I can understand him hoping his NFL dream will come true.  We all live in hope.

You also are a realist. How much salary can a player lose until it's not worth it anymore. 

[GCn20]

10 hours ago, SpeedFlex27 said:

You also are a realist. How much salary can a player lose until it's not worth it anymore. 

I agree. However, the XFL or USFL will take the sting out of that somewhat. Kickers are a relatively small community, and is maybe the one position where the same old names circulate year after year as teams don't tend to spend much scouting and developing them. If his availability is there, he is one of a handful of names that will get the call. If he is in the CFL that door closes. Even if he gets a PT gig through an injury he will be earning. Teams are calling him to go straight onto the game day roster. Be different if he were earning CFL QB money, but the pay gap between the Spring Leagues and the CFL for kickers is not that huge.

[Tracker]

14 hours ago, SpeedFlex27 said:

You also are a realist. How much salary can a player lose until it's not worth it anymore. 

Sometimes its about ego more than money. Then things get nutty.

[JCon]

Sometimes it's not about money. 

[Tracker]

14 hours ago, SpeedFlex27 said:

You also are a realist. How much salary can a player lose until it's not worth it anymore. 

Do not underestimate the power of hope. In one experiment, rats were put into containers of water with no chance of escape. In about two hours, they began to stop swimming and started to drown. They were fished out, allowed to rest overnight and then placed back into the same containers of water. They continued to swim for two days. The difference? The rats now believed that they had hope that they would be saved. Similar events have been recorded for humans.

[SpeedFlex27]

4 hours ago, Tracker said:

Do not underestimate the power of hope. In one experiment, rats were put into containers of water with no chance of escape. In about two hours, they began to stop swimming and started to drown. They were fished out, allowed to rest overnight and then placed back into the same containers of water. They continued to swim for two days. The difference? The rats now believed that they had hope that they would be saved. Similar events have been recorded for humans.

We're talking kickers. Not sailors from a shipwreck. Every personnel guy in the NFL knows who Lirim is & what he can do. If he was what they were looking for, he'd have been signed long ago & still kicking in the NFL. There's obviously something they don't like or trust in his ability to kick a football thru the uprights. 

[Tracker]

53 minutes ago, SpeedFlex27 said:

We're talking kickers. Not sailors from a shipwreck. Every personnel guy in the NFL knows who Lirim is & what he can do. If he was what they were looking for, he'd have been signed long ago & still kicking in the NFL. There's obviously something they don't like or trust in his ability to kick a football thru the uprights. 

We're talking about human beings who often cling to dreams which are really fantasies in the face of all evidence to the contrary. We are driven by emotion, not reality.

[SpeedFlex27]

6 minutes ago, Tracker said:

We're talking about human beings who often cling to dreams which are really fantasies in the face of all evidence to the contrary. We are driven by emotion, not reality.

Well, it's probably time for Lirim's agent to say the NFL dream is over. He can sign in the CFL & make some decent money.The longer he stays away, I think the more money he loses. The CFL is already trying to cheap out on kickers by recruiting world kickers. So is Randy Ambrosie's CFL 2.0.

[SpeedFlex27]

12 minutes ago, SpeedFlex27 said:

Well, it's probably time for Lirim's agent to say the NFL dream is over. He can sign in the CFL & make some decent money.The longer he stays away, I think the more money he loses. The CFL is already trying to cheap out on kickers by recruiting world kickers. So is Randy Ambrosie's CFL 2.0.

My dream was to play in a Brier. By the time I was 25, I realized my dream was over. Curses to those skips who didn't give me a chance to compete at the provincial level. I tried, I really tried. I'd spend sleepless nights wondering why others got a chance & I didn't. Why didn't they realize I was a human being like them with dreams, emotions & feelings? I was a helluva C Group curler at the Fort Rouge CC with a solid.... SOLID... 55% shooting average. I needed someone to say. "Hey you curl like a piece of crap, Give it up already. The only way you go to the Brier is if you buy a ticket".

[Mark H.]

Yeah well, I never went beyond being a goalie at recess ball hockey games. But I had a hockey stick in my bedroom - used pretend I was Jean Beliveau - winning all the faceoffs.