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Interesting article in today's Free Press about Kenny Lawler. Basically the Bombers didn't handle contract negotiations well according to him. Troubling stuff if true.

Bucky Drinkwalter...played back in the leather helmet days hahaha

One of our 6 being a limebacker with zro experience there...and only getting on on short yardage to basically account for offense's spreading opit the oline our vet ends would be fine with actual consistent rotation with Person, and with 2 other guys on the dline that cause problems and are active and possess yech skill ...and younger Thomas has none of that now...and is so easy to defend...straight forward push...no hand skills so teams just wash him left...wash him right...spin him aroind or just engage him one on one and let him push forward, and they run plays past him...cant get off...no backside pursuit Dline works in tandem and a weak link...let alone 2 really hampers the others and what you wanna do I had mentioned several times here that Lawler would have stayed...at a reasonable cost, and wanted to...but all wasnt as it seemed here as this perfect regime....people called me out...said I was full of it But there ya go.....I have convo/contact with many aspects of team and players that media don't and know a lot more than what they feed fans It's not the love fest many like to believe andd there is a lot of frustration on many levels but you wont hear it in media

Adams hit a wall a bit but if allowed to work through it woulda been fine I bet...Woods was real good all yr when he got to play Adams thus yr as well....our most consistent interior guy and was rostered during our better defensive performances as well....made plays...allowed some space for the ends

Go Bombers!

Exactly my point. Expecting old players to play that much is just a bad idea.

At a time like this I'm reminded of the many times the team won a close game and you or someone else pointed out flaws and people would chastise you/them for not just being happy with the win and how "good teams find ways to win close games"...when...in point of fact...good teams are constantly analyzing, adjusting, critiquing and improving so there aren't so many close games.

Thanks for the article, Johnny Abony.

There's a definite pattern here as Lawler isn't the first player at free agency to feel that way.

It’s a pretty long article but it basically says he felt disrespected by Bomber management. “For the star receiver, it boiled down to one main thing: disrespect. “Y’all signed Dillon Mitchell before me. Who wouldn’t (feel disrespected)?” Lawler shared with the Free Press on Thursday in a one-on-one chat inside Hamilton Stadium.” … Now a member of the Hamilton Tiger-Cats, Lawler said he didn’t receive a contract offer from the Bombers until a day before free agency opened at the start of February. His agent only had two brief conversations with Winnipeg, where the club was more focused on gauging the market value for a receiver of his calibre. For Lawler, there was a more personal issue that needed to be addressed. The two-time division all-star from Pomona, Calif. — who moved his family up to Winnipeg — had been doing some work on the side helping the city’s grassroots football scene before running into a roadblock. “It’s not that (the Bombers) didn’t want me to do it — they wanted me to do it under them. They closed my work permit,” Lawler explained. “I have my own business where I go and run camps and I was starting to do that and was getting momentum and when I had to get my work permit closed it was like, ‘hmm, why is this happening?’ You know what I want to do, I live here in Winnipeg, the full year, and if I am going to be taking a pay cut, which I was doing when I was in Winnipeg the whole time, I’m going to need something else to be able to supplement that. It’s not that I need it, it’s that I want to be able to start it so when I’m done with football I can still live where I’m at and transition right into something else and someone wasn’t seeing that.” When asked who, specifically, wasn’t on board, Lawler responded with: “I think that’s a question you might have to ask them. And it probably wouldn’t be to anyone that you could probably get an (interview from).”

What? I did no such thing. Don't be ridiculous.

Can someone summarize the story in today's Free Press as to why Ken Lawler left the Bombers? There's a paywall so I can't read the story.

No...just no. MOS believes his way( focus on special teams) 9 Cdn because of the flexibility if one gets hurt...that's what he believes..is it right with the talent level we have with CDN players? I will leave that up to a professional coach who has brought us 2 cups and to how many Grey cup games? I don't always say he is right but i believe he has the right for at least one season to show us he ain't wrong, despite what informed posters on here say...i want the Blue to win as much as anyone but to suggest MOS can't coach or assess talent...would you guys say Dickenson couldn't coach the last 2 years before this one?

This wouldn't matter so much if they had more support and rotation.

Lawler

It’s called gaslighting.

Who was the last player in the CFL to suit up & play two games on a torn ACL after he was dignosed?

So what? Did I say something to upset your sensibilities?.

Def kick the can on this cat but whats the contract you would offer him? No way hes getting 16m/yr from me with his injury record. Plus 16 is like MCD money. Im a 100k a point person but willing to go a mil or 2 over.

If I’m the jets I inquire about him. See what he wants. Maybe he would take less to be on a contender. Minnesota isn’t. We actually are. Cuz in the alternate universe where I played in the NHL for 15 years, I’m not sure if I have 50 million dollars but no cup if I’m happy signing for 15 million per when my dream is to lift the cup. With 50 million in my bank I might consider taking way less to sign with a contender than to make 130 million over 8 but be eliminated in rd 1 every year.

He turned down 16 million a year. I mean I’d trade him also. I wonder if he’s a guy that might be interested more in a contender with similar weather tho. Cuz yeah. No way he gets 16 million per tho. Only explanation is he doesn’t think Minnesota can win. With the political environment in the USA I wonder if more Russians or maybe non North American players might prefer to play in Canada. And he was just traded to Florida lol. (You know it’s coming) perhaps fake news tho as I do not see this mentioned really anywhere online. Not on tsn or sportsnet sites.

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And most of our guys are way on the wrong side of 30 too.

we are rolling 6 dl with 3 canadians. every other team is rolling 8+ with 6 or more imps, except for one team with a very good canadian pass rusher. We are the only team under rostering dl, and filling half the spots with fringe roster guys. truth. a couple people on here are soo lost in cognitive dissonance from their unwavering faith in the mafia doing no wrong and the fact we have been at best a fringe play off team for two years, outside of the insanely flukey stretch streak last year.

And last years defense was much much better than this years...