2024/2025 Blue Bombers Off-Season Thread

[Mike]

I’d rather pay McManis 270 than pay Ford 220

[Brandon]

Can we assume that we are moving on from Alexander?  

[Wanna-B-Fanboy]

8 hours ago, Fatty Liver said:

Easy to go through the All-CFL team and say, "I want him, him and him", harder to make room in the budget to do so.

Grey Cup hosting year... What Budget? What's a cap?

Edited Thursday at 03:11 AM by Wanna-B-Fanboy

[rebusrankin]

7 minutes ago, Wanna-B-Fanboy said:

Grey Cup hosting year... What Budget? What's a cap?

Spend, spend, spend. Its not my $.

[SectionKBlackout]

2 hours ago, Goalie said:

Running back

Johnny Augustine (N)

Fullback

Bailey Feltmate (N)

Receiver

Kenny Lawler (A)
Dalton Schoen (A)
Lucky Whitehead (A)

Offensive linemen

Stanley Bryant (A) signed 
Liam Dobson (N)
Eric Lofton (A)
Patrick Neufeld (N) signed  

Defensive linemen

Miles Fox (A)
TyJuan Garbutt (A)
Celestin Haba (A)
Willie Jefferson (A) signed. 
Jake Thomas (N)
 

Linebacker

Adam Bighill (A)
Brian Cole (A)
Shayne Gauthier (N) signed 
Tony Jones (A) signed 
Kyrie Wilson (A) signed 

Defensive back

Brandon Alexander (A)
Tyrell Ford (N)
Noah Hallett (N) 
Evan Holm (A) signed 
Jamal Parker (A) signed 
Nick Taylor (A)

Specialists

LS Mike Benson (N) signed LS draft pick Leroux. 
K Sergio Castillo (A) signed 

 

minus Schoen and lawler, i really don’t think there’s much else there. Ford and Dobson yes but nfl and $$$$$$. Think we see some legit change through free agency and prospects. 

Nick Taylor is signed no?

[Goalie]

29 minutes ago, SectionKBlackout said:

Nick Taylor is signed no?

I’m not sure with him. 

[HardCoreBlue]

1 hour ago, Wanna-B-Fanboy said:

Grey Cup hosting year... What Budget? What's a cap?

The drunken sailor approach. I dig it.

[WinnipegGordo]

4 hours ago, SectionKBlackout said:

Nick Taylor is signed no?

Hodge didn't have him on his list but he is a pending free agent according to the list the Bombers provided. CFL.ca shows Taylor as a pending FA.

[SpeedFlex27]

9 hours ago, Brandon said:

Can we assume that we are moving on from Alexander?  

With Osh, never assume anything. 

7 hours ago, HardCoreBlue said:

The drunken sailor approach. I dig it.

I wish they'd have drunkely started spending by going after Oromilade. he would have solved mor than a few problems on our DL.

[bluto]

16 hours ago, M.O.A.B. said:

I say Brickman. 

Don't put that out there! Dog-gone-it. He seems to be a bit under the radar for what passes for CFL press/commentariat types.

I have Brink as very high priority because I see him as a one-off in our league. Nobody does what he does. Ceresna may be the best at what he does, but can we find another 3-tech? Yes. Can we find a purer Nose than Brink? I genuinely don't think such a player existed in the league last season.

Edited Thursday at 01:00 PM by bluto
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[Mark H.]

11 hours ago, Brandon said:

Can we assume that we are moving on from Alexander?  

He's a starter, they're all starters.

[pw13]

1 hour ago, bluto said:

Don't put that out there! Dog-gone-it. He seems to be a bit under the radar for what passes for CFL press/commentariat types.

I have Brink as very high priority because I see him as a one-off in our league. Nobody does what he does. Ceresna may be the best at what he does, but can we find another 3-tech? Yes. Can we find a purer Nose than Brink? I genuinely don't think such a player existed in the league last season.

He is indeed one of a kind, albeit a bit injury-prone. I imagine Argos know they can bring back only one of those two (Brinkman and Ceresna). Both are gonna get paid, just like Hendrix did last year.

  

[Bubba Zanetti]

17 hours ago, rebusrankin said:

77.563% of people know that.

 

 

Edited Thursday at 02:24 PM by Bubba Zanetti

[bustamente]

 

[Bubba Zanetti]

3 minutes ago, bustamente said:

 

........as a coach........i hope......

[SectionKBlackout]

You've got to be kidding me

7 minutes ago, bustamente said:

 

 

[Mike]

That one makes me really mad 

[Noeller]

Ya... Listen... I defend our management to the death.... But I can't defend this. It's inexcusable. Even if you say that Lawson is going to take the bulk of the reps or whatever....what's the point of even bringing him to camp at this point? It's a waste of roster spot and if there was even a penny of guaranteed money, then it's a waste. 

 

[bearpants]

18 minutes ago, bustamente said:

 

Doesn't make me mad (as Mike said)... but just really makes shakes my head.... I do not understand for the life of me what they see in him at this point in his career.... the team was ready to move from him when he was like 28... then he had a few good rotational seasons in him... and he's been just a waste of space for the past 2-3 seasons... I don't get it.... can't convince me a rotation of Lawson and Samson wouldn't be a significant improvement?

[Mike]

Just now, Noeller said:

Ya... Listen... I defend our management to the death.... But I can't defend this. It's inexcusable. Even if you say that Lawson is going to take the bulk of the reps or whatever....what's the point of even bringing him to camp at this point? It's a waste of roster spot and if there was even a penny of guaranteed money, then it's a waste. 

 

Honestly, you can really sell me on the move IF a few things change. The problem is, I don’t believe even a single one of these would ever be true, nevermind all of them.

IF he’s a gameday backup to Lawson only, IF he takes maybe 20% of the reps he did last year, IF we adjust our ratio for a fresh week in case of a Lawson injury and IF this comes at the cost of reps for Schmekel, then I’m fine with this move.

Problem is, none of that will be the case.

[Brandon]

23 minutes ago, bustamente said:

 

Honestly as I was scrolling down and saw the top of this post I immediately thought  "F*** Offffffffff"  and thought that this was a troll job.  

 

 

[Goalie]

They must be trolling. 

[bustamente]

Looks like they are rounding up the old gang for another kick at the cat and frankly if it leads to another Grey Cup appearance then I'm fine with it but they better win this time

[Goalie]

Dude is washed up and dry cleaned tho. I mean what is the point. Easily replaceable and not even good. I don’t get this one. I can justify the Wilson and Gauthier one but this is just mind boggling. 

Edited Thursday at 03:05 PM by Goalie

[bustamente]

Sorry that I pissed on everyone's Corn Flakes this morning