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I'll sleep much better tonight knowing that. Lol.

Who pissed in your cornflakes.

They were priced out of the league's highest paid non-QB player. Everyone thought that was an overpay at the time. This just happened to be the 1 year that Lawler didn't get hurt or suspended.

Is that supposed to make feel better? Who cares?

But O'Shea would be going home and his repuation might revive the Argo fortunes. Moreover, leaving here would absolve him of the job of cleaning up the mess he has created.

the past three years, the team has gotten worse each year (old news) and he has repeatedly hung onto fading players when they could no longer compete and sat out potentially better ones. This year was no surprise- it was predicted in this forum and was the culmination of what was begun three years ago.

Not only that but we refused to spend to the ceiling blaming the CFLPA for it.

Especially after last years free agency.......Mitchell.....bust......Logan.....did he return one punt,,,Then think about the money these guys soaked up AND we let Lawler walk???.....

Does it make sense to have Kolankowski & Thomas on the roster? Even paying them each a single dollar is an overpayment as they have no business being on the roster. Yet if Osh & his Boys come back then they'll start no matter how useless they are on the field. I don't recall seeing a lot of guys coming from Randolph's side. I think he held his own pretty well. I saw a lot coming through on Kola's & Neufeld side as well as Wallace at times. He at least has an excuse: his experience. Kola jiust plain sucks & is terrible while Neufeld is 36 years old & his skills are eroding.

There is absolutely no reason in the world we couldn't sign both Lawler and Schoen. We had just done it the year before.

I do not think it is silly. I believe it was one of the reasons they felt Lawler was expendable. Here is a quote from him about it .."But for that receiver room, I just wasn’t prepared to be able to do that for that amount of money.” And link to the article https://3downnation.com/2025/02/13/blue-bombers-gm-kyle-walters-winnipeg-priced-out-on-free-agent-losses-lawler-dobson-ford/

Some depth scoring was nice. Definitely not a masterpiece, but a decent outing and a road win. Anyone see Connor getting a Canuck’s stick jammed up into his visor? Somehow the refs didn’t think that was high sticking.

Randolph was addition by subtraction. He was better than Lofton but he still wasn't particularly good. To be honest, I don't think there's a single "untouchable" or cornerstone guy left on our offensive line. I'd say Big Stan (for his leadership more than anything) but I his days as a premier tackle are behind him.

It definitely comes down to roster construction and paying year-over-year to keep the team together. Hopefully some hard decisions are made this off season and there is a bit of a soft reboot. There are definitely some players who are being paid above market value compared to the results they give on the field and there is a correction. Collaros shouldn't be the 3rd highest paid QB in the league. Willie J over 200k doesn't make a lot of sense. Demski being the 4th highest paid receiver in the league at 33 probably doesn't make a tonne of sense.

Time for Walters to be shown the front door.

I'm not going on & on about Hardrick. If you read what I said, you'll see I agreed with letting him go. What I don't like is Walters re-signing Schoen (& I posted so at the time) but I was very unhappy letting Lawler go. Then Walters not signing an adequate replacement. BTW, did you notice on Saturday Liam Dobson was the starting Center for Hamilton & didn't look out of place. What do we have??? Well, we have an Osh Boy in Kolankowski wasting a roster spot & money there. Walters couldn't keep Dobson? Yeah, right. What ****.

ATM. I'm not seeing how we can compete otherwise. Unless we go big in FA at NAT OL, we don't have the horses in house to be a good OL without 3 IMPs. I would target a good NAT OL if I were Walters replacement. I'm with you on that. If he takes a shave fine, but not at 200k. Those days are behind him. I would not bring back every OL, but you are right a couple newcomers could make all the difference.

Call me crazy but I would not bring Jefferson back. I don't think he's worth 200k.

Randolph, yes. Thanks for pointing that out.

How is his record for the past 3 years damning? This year definitely. However, the two years before that he has West division champs and Grey Cup reps on his resume. If you think that's damning you are huffing paint fumes. The only people who would call that failure are living on cloud 9. Did we win the cup...nope. However, winning your division and becoming your division's cup rep isn't something that any reasonable person would call failure. What was clear in the past 3-5 years is that Walters allowed a huge talent drain to happen. That is undeniable. If anyone should be on the hot seat it is him. MOS as well to a lesser extent, but I will be extremely disappointed if Walters is our GM going forward. If he is then he needs to wake up and start doing his job. I can live with MOS coming back with a new GM that actually holds him to account. MOS is a great coach who needs to get out of his own way on a few things. If Walters had done his job maybe we aren't even discussing MOS's rosters etc. At the end of the day, the buck stops with Walters on both talent, and on the performance of the HC. I am really unclear why so many people are hyper focused on MOS (not that he doesn't deserve criticism as well) but barely a word about just how poor Walters has been over the past 3 years especially.

Nope, my name's not Booch. It was discussed on Winnipeg Sports Talk by Andrew Paterson a couple weeks ago or so. He qualified it as something that he never heard directly from anyone in the organization but was making it's rounds amongst the media. Apparently he showed up to camp out of shape, and then wasn't happy about his playing time and let everyone know about it. Don't have a date or a time, but it's on one of their podcasts if you care to dig deeper.

Just a note, lofton hasn’t figured in this last year. Randolph was the rt starter. Between rando and vanterpool I’m pretty happy with our imp ol talent. Gotta dig up new guys every year, and I think we need to be starting 3 imps minimum

Yeah I agree. It’s like we chose to blanket let guys go who hit free agency. And then I really don’t get why we haven’t committed to replacing any of the premium fa losses.

Not a long list of must sign guys in my opinion: Running back Brady Oliveira (N) Receiver Nic Demski (N) OL Stanley Bryant (A) - maybe if he's feeling good and doesn't want tons of $ Tui Eli (N) - not for starter money Defensive line Cameron Lawson (N) - not huge money because he can't seem to stay that healthy Defensive back Michael Griffin II (A) Evan Holm (A) Deatrick Nichols (A) Specialist Sergio Castillo (A) - unless we can get a Cdn or global to stop using a DI spot

This is silly. It wasn't an either/or choice. Schoen signed for like half of what Lawler got.