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All he has to do is have a great oline to work, a semi decent receiving core, feed the ball to BO to establish the run and have ZC spread the ball around short, mid and long range with some creativity to keep the D off balance. Easy peasy.

Sucks the knee injury ate up half his season. Really set him back. They’re right he needs reps. The fact they are sounding packed in and playing for next year with him is not great for him. He needs to really be dynamite getting into camp next year and manage to get some shine in practice this year.

That’s a surprise to me. Most prominently Condell ran a lot of what june jones brought in previously in hamilton, but each year trimmed it back and found less success. His 13-15 stretch with zach in hamilton has to be the main reason for this move. Those were zachs good years in hamilton before the down fall. Still not great years for him, but very good. His semi recent offences have been allergic to the run game. BUT, he did run the riders in 06 with kenton keith tearing things up before going to the nfl. He had kerry joseph that year and was the pass game coach in ott the previous two years with him. So moderate offensive success with hank burris, kerry joseph, and zach. Also with backs like gable, keith and had solid success with guys like armstead, stanback and others. He struggled a lot over many years in two stints with masoli, mbt, franklin and a host of others. A good chunk of his years up here as a CO has been under hcs who are offensive guys. Trestman, kent austin, Danny barrett, joe paopao as well as running june jones offense. I don’t love this move. Hes basically hamiltons version of lapo. He was solid with dru brown but not great with out him. And really fell back on brown just going out and beating defences. Never saw great game planning, play call or adjustments. Didn’t see him deal with adversity well either.

MBT looked completely shot last season, it's unfortunate because he could have been a decent interim starting QB. Dustin Crum Matt Shiltz Taylor Powell Jake Maier None that I'd want to commit long term with... but maybe good enough as a stop gap. At this point it's a hope and a prayer that Zach can return to form. I hope whoever our back up is... gets reps this season.

A LaPo disciple. Dink & dunk everywhere. Not as many gadget plays as LaPo. Although he did gave Dru Brown throw the ball more than he usually did. Brady better tell him to feed him the ball. He doesn't run the ball much. That means JJ may not be back. What qb out there right now that's available can we get to rid us of the albatross?

I'll take signing a guy with at least some proven success over a complete unknown like Hogan. It can only get better then what we had last year. If we can get a proven receiver who doesn't necessarily have to be the #1 guy in free agency but someone who has at least been consistent and healthy that would be a good start. Unfortunately the albatross of a contract with Zach really will make or break the team. He's a huge liability and has had 2 terrible seasons in a row. I don't know how Condell can fix a guy with a shot arm who throws into triple coverage at the worst times.

The good news for all of us is that even the so called experts on this board are wrong about stuff all the time!

Wow, didn’t realize he’d been around so long. He was the Bombers special teams coach under Reinbold in 1997.

I used to think TC was good but posters on here recently have made the case that he is, indeed, ****. That's unfortunate.... While this does feel like an obvious upgrade from Hogan, it also feels like the CFL Recycling Program in high gear...

His run with Ottawa was underwhelming but they are a perennial tire fire so not sure how much that falls on him In 2025, Ottawa finished sixth in net offence, eighth in offensive points, and ninth in yards per play but was 2nd in offensive time of possession. Long way to say his offense had plenty of opportunity but produced very little. He does have history with Zach so maybe he can bring some old ZC out.

Even in Ottawa the offense put up some big yards. Will be interesting to see what he can do with Collaros.

Most recently he was Hamiltons OC from 2019-23. They had good teams those years we just beat them in the GC. Currently Ottawas OC. They had a pretty bad year but was it players or coaching. Could do worse than Tommy. Willing to give him a year 😊

Heard his name for a long time, disnt follow him much, whats the break down of his offenses?

https://3downnation.com/2025/12/18/winnipeg-blue-bombers-expected-to-hire-tommy-condell-as-offensive-coordinator/

If Jake comes back it means O'Shea talks a good game but the reality of it is he hasn't changed. Things will be as they always have been.

Yeah...use 2025 for 2026 and be able to be a bigger spender in FA when you have some money for your higher priced Canadians and players paid with 2025 spare sheckles

There is money left over for the cap season that has to be used up by December 31st that can be used towards next season. I'm thinking that what Walters is doing since he never spent to the cap this past season. We just don't know what the cap situation is from last season (2025).

Well Walters is back on my Christmas card list.

Pretty close to North America as well. I can only imagine the travel if there was a team in Halifax. The Lions located ina city close to 3 million people have all kinds of travel itineraries to chose from. Halifax barely 400,000 doesn't. Terrible time zone to boot halfway to England from Western Canada. Go clean out the stalls for the Reindeer, especially Rudolph.

Yeah, both teams seem to believe their GMs have jobs for life.

me thinks seeing as it is likely more of our more pricey guys to re-up...bulk of being Canadians from the last yrs roster that a lot of it could be 2025 monies left over to off-set the 2026 Cap...which is smart moves by Walyer's and I think there will be a few vet's we feel essential re-upped early Jan once we have a more known amount to work with after they get the bigger priced one's done

This is one of the best starts to an offseason we have had, every signing has been a smart one, we as mentioned above have essentially signed 4 starting CDN's......my crystal ball says Nuefeld is next

Cap wise, I agree that this is the best position we’ve gone into the off season in in a long time. And you have the ability to fix your cap year to year. If you have the will to do it. We have a few awful deals, but the cap growth and off season turn over makes it workable. Wj, is one of the worst contracts in the league. Dl is one of our biggest positions of need. Idk if we will actually spend at dl though. Zachs lack of consistency and quality concerns me more than his pay. Yes 600k is a yikes. But it’s not like we have a comparable guy available for 400-500k. The only way up for us at qb, is going young. And that is a very risky and lengthy process. These guys we will see what they got. I have to imagine with the timing and cap space left that we have them front loaded deals that won’t hit the cap hard next year. Especially with the importance brady put on guaranteed money. With the current market demski probably goes from too expensive but very effective to a good deal. Even with a raise. We’ve had opportunities and money to spend. We just haven’t done much to invest in league free agent. That’s the big moment I think we are all waiting for. To really see if we’ve changed. Moving on from some one old is inevitable one way or another.