2024/2025 Blue Bombers Off-Season Thread

[SpeedFlex27]

Just now, JuranBoldenRules said:

The Canadian OL who were up for grabs...yes.

Again, every free agent hasn't any idea where they're going until they get an offer they accept. You're putting the cart before the horse.

[JuranBoldenRules]

1 minute ago, SpeedFlex27 said:

Again, every free agent hasn't any idea where they're going until they get an offer they accept. You're putting the cart before the horse.

I don't know what your point is.

Basically every starting quality Canadian OL in this league is retained unless they are trying to play in a certain market.  There was not a single impactful Canadian OL available in free agency this year.

[Booch]

21 minutes ago, JuranBoldenRules said:

I don't know what your point is.

Basically every starting quality Canadian OL in this league is retained unless they are trying to play in a certain market.  There was not a single impactful Canadian OL available in free agency this year.

There were several tho who were better than kolo...

[17to85]

8 minutes ago, Booch said:

There were several tho who were better than kolo...

Low bar

[Goalie]

150k for McKewan probably means Sask was his only offer. 
 

160 for Campbell to me seems like a serious overpay. 
 

last game the riders played they got smoked by the bombers in the western final. Perhaps a little less praising the riders. To me praising the riders makes you a rider prider and that’s the worst insult on the planet. 
 

that’s great that 3dwn and others are jacking off the off season champs, that means they gonna suck cuz whoever 3dwn verbally jerks off never wins. Call it the tsn maple leaf effect. The riders are the leafs of the CFL, media loves them but they don’t win. Riders have 3 cups on their history and 10000 ppl per game dressing as green seats. I don’t get the love affair there. They aren’t good. They don’t win and in their history don’t win. Like the leafs last winning a cup in the original 6 era, don’t get the hype but please hype away cuz hype always means they gonna suck and the riders will suck again. 

Edited 21 hours ago by Goalie

[Colin Unger]

Did something happen with McEwen.  Calgary didn't even offer him close to 150k?  He was a perennial all-star until recently and is only 31. 

[Mike]

30 minutes ago, Colin Unger said:

Did something happen with McEwen.  Calgary didn't even offer him close to 150k?  He was a perennial all-star until recently and is only 31. 

He’s not exactly playing at an elite level anymore 

[Booch]

4 hours ago, 17to85 said:

Low bar

Still better...which makes us better

[wbbfan]

4 hours ago, Booch said:

There were several tho who were better than kolo...

Im pretty sure kolo is a top 25 centre in the league. Might not be top 20 though. 

[Mark H.]

13 minutes ago, wbbfan said:

Im pretty sure kolo is a top 25 centre in the league. Might not be top 20 though. 

It's about bloody time the guy gets some credit.

[Pete]

2 hours ago, Colin Unger said:

Did something happen with McEwen.  Calgary didn't even offer him close to 150k?  He was a perennial all-star until recently and is only 31. 

Dickenson is making a lot of strange choices especially regarding his vets, it feels like he really wants to change up the core of a dressingroom thats had its issues.

Rose, Vaughters, Awe, and now McEwen. Add that to how hard it is for them to attract agents given their nonplayoff chances, and the reputation the team now has for poor facilities, treatment, and poor attendance and its not pretty. 

[SpeedFlex27]

12 hours ago, JuranBoldenRules said:

I don't know what your point is.

Basically every starting quality Canadian OL in this league is retained unless they are trying to play in a certain market.  There was not a single impactful Canadian OL available in free agency this year.

Again, I don't know your point, either. Players go where the money is. All positions. Players do leave teams they like to play for & would stay but another team offered more. So they left. 

[Mike]

6 hours ago, SpeedFlex27 said:

Again, I don't know your point, either. Players go where the money is. All positions. Players do leave teams they like to play for & would stay but another team offered more. So they left. 

His point is that free agency, in most cases, isn’t an open market. Most of these “free agents” already had pre-determined destinations and in the case of Canadian OL, most teams won’t let theirs go unless they are being told they’re hitting the market for a purpose.

[Goalie]

2 hours ago, Mike said:

His point is that free agency, in most cases, isn’t an open market. Most of these “free agents” already had pre-determined destinations and in the case of Canadian OL, most teams won’t let theirs go unless they are being told they’re hitting the market for a purpose.

Most appear to “go home “ if they make it to market. And in that case, I guess Winnipeg and Manitoba needs to produce more OL. Not lots of homegrown Manitoba hogs in the league. There’s a couple but not many really. Zach Williams in Calgary is one but he signed an extension there. He’d have replaced Dobson nicely but didn’t make it to free agency. 

Edited 1 hour ago by Goalie

[M.O.A.B.]

17 hours ago, Booch said:

Still better...which makes us better

For starting Kolo, how much of it is O'Shea and how much of it is Costelo (he's the OL cioach after all) ? 

[M.O.A.B.]

OL Dakoda Shepley is a free-agent isn't he? Or did he retire already? 

 

Edited 9 minutes ago by M.O.A.B.

[Booch]

15 minutes ago, M.O.A.B. said:

For starting Kolo, how much of it is O'Shea and how much of it is Costelo (he's the OL cioach after all) ? 

Hc decides roster...and who plays and who coaches get as clay to mould