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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...

we knew what we had in Adams and Woods as mentioned they played all of last year, so if they aren't good enough then why didn't we do anything about it? I think we only brought in 1 additional dt at training camp. We haven't added anyone to our practice roster t

Look at top 3 teams...winning record teams Rotate 7 to 9 guys up front...90 % American...all can play...dominate Look at Superbowl and how why Philly dominated Our 2 cup wins...T.O schooling us...all in common...legit front loaded import dlines...Not a coincidence Look our 3 losses...and our season to date...osh still can't figure it out

Mcinnis

He doesn't get it...don't waste your breath Probably?? U just confirmed you are bordering on clueless

If Adams and woods were some superstar DL sure but they aren’t. Ppl need to accept and admit that, they aren’t great. Are they better than Jake? Probably but we all know Jake would still be getting more reps so really, they don’t want to use the DL like some of you want the DL to be used, they don’t want 8 or 9 DL dressed like most of us do. So I don’t even see the point in even talking about it honestly. Yeah they start 9 Canadians, I know. We all know. That isn’t gonna change just cuz it’s repeated 50 times online. Adams got less reps than Jake. That’s what they think about him. It don’t matter what you think, you are just a fan, our opinions are irrelevant.

You realize adams was already on with Thomas...and we dressed both together last yr to eh? Woodbey superseded Ayers...so there's one swap...Vpool as well off could count for another..we dont need 3 cdn DT even with no adams and Woods...or Jones J.Jones could of replace a questionable Kyrie...or even T.Jones...and we'd be better either way Talk bout someone who can't see forest thru trees on how you could re-jig the roster You like like yip yap and critique and off hand others on here repeatedly...yet fail to see the stupidity in some the things you suggest...some with no bearing or fact based support whatsoever We don't know if we have weakest..but yeah far from the best...but they better than our cdn ones...who are without a doubt worst in league save for Lawson...and easily can be argued worst in league in some time...any reps with none of the 2 on the field makes us instantly better...

we are starting 9 canadians. we could go down plus use the naturalized rule. We also have ayers who doesn’t play D and isn’t a DL, and we have 3 back up imp dbs. wouldn’t be hard to rebalance the line to stick in a couple more imps even into the starting line up.

Ok... so do it. Ayers comes off for one easy. Upgrade DL performance. Does it impede special teams? Maybe but enough to sacrifice the play of the defence which is on the field much much more... doubt it. Put Jones in for either Jones or Wilson I don't really care, neither one are difference makers at this point. Want to ride ourselves of Jake? Well we drafted some linebackers this year, let them play and bam we got the other American linebacker off and have a much stronger DL.