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One thing that the commish said this past week that I'm excited about is he really wants to make FA Day a bigger deal. More excitement (similar to th NHL). Hopefully he can get TSN to get behind that... We need more offseason stuff to keep the passive fans engaged. For me personally, I'm not that big of a hockey fan, so the offseason is long. Ice fishing and curling are all I have to get me through, and in Alberta that's ******* depressing.....

WHAT IS HAPPENING???!!!?

I'll have hope if Thomas & Kolo aren't brought back & we sign some quality CFL OL & DL free agents. Two year deals would have been acceptable. .

ARE YOU KIDDING ME

I look forward to irrationally getting excited about anyone we sign in FA and all our draft picks.

For me, I expect to be looking forward to individual development. Seeing some young guys take the next steps and maybe move up to an all star level.

I’m sorry was there a game on Sunday?

Yup no other alternative, 2026 here we come! Lessss go. (Narrator voice: JT, Korn have just been re-signed, MOS announces backward hat guy back as OC for 2026 to apply his first year learnings). 2027 here we come!

I think what he meant was "high up-side" players... and there certainly were some that didn't (or took forever to) get a fair look... For example Shay, Smith, Cam Allen, Woodbey, Munier-Bailey, Jawarski, Jenkins,... I know those last two were added late but showed enough that one should've been rostered for the playoff game... flip the ratio to reinforce the OL... instead of vets having their spots carved in stone (to steal a saying someone else used here)... there should be a competition and let the best players play... and if the team isn't good enough... start bringing in reinforcements, until the team is good enough The riders started 4 Canadian receivers and 4 American OL last night... they adjusted their ratio to give them the best chance... they weren't sporting the best receiving group you can imagine... but Trevor Harris had time for a coffee break after every snap and had no problem distributing the ball... why not both??

You gotta believe. Otherwise you just become miserable.

I always have faith... I'm excited to hear the pressers later this week. Nobody will get thrown under the bus but we'll be able to read between the lines...

You thought the kelly and reinbold etc teams were going to get good? I kind of envy that. Free agency/coaching staff announcements will be the huge factor in me being able to find any optimism.

Well there's always hope... I never lost hope in the darkest times with this team, why lose it now?

You’re right, looking at reporting, it seems the initial report is always 1 year extension, then more details come out later. Odd. A 3 year deal in the cfl, is probably the most job security you can find in football. The coaching cap basically makes you untouchable for 2 years and even then likely only able to be replaced with an in house temp for the final year. Why would they fire him? Mos defended him at year end, and the mafia just got a long term lock up. mos/mafia don’t want change, and now likely won’t make significant changes. Do you, or any one else had any hope that this will actually happen?

If they get their fire back and stop resting on their laurels it will be ok.

They're all friends. Bringing them all back just proves that. Nothing will change. I'd love to be optimistic but I find these two signings give me nothing but pessimism.

Hey c'mon. We're soooo negative here. Rejoice!! The Canadian Mafia are back running things. The Besties are back for 3 freaking years.

I agree and that's why he has to be taken to task by Miller IF we see the same thing unfolding in 26'...O'Sh has always struck me as a guy who could have narrow vision and not accept input from anyone else, seeing that as a weakness....He has to learn to be more pliable when it comes to roster management or we could end up with the same failed result as this season.....AND further to that we could see empty seats at the Princess and that doesn't bode well for anybody....We want to see a winner ...We know the 2 guys who have been given 3 year deals have the ability...they've proven that ...We just have to get back to the things that made us a winner ...Hopefully the faith given to Walters and O'Shea results in just that....a return to the winner circle

Have those words been used in the same sentence before?

yup it is not an either or it’s both.

His family immigrated to Brooks, AB. There's huge meat packing plant there. If anything, I believe he'd sign with the Stamps just 2 hours away. The guy we lost this past off season. Liam Dobson who started all season & played both guard & center.

Nobody is talking about starting reps. He could have easily been a depth guy who rotated in occasionally and gained valuable reps without being in the starting line-up. He was rostered but didn't see the field on teams afaik - all he did was teams. They can acknowledge that he won't be back without throwing him under the bus though. All they have to say is this year wasn't good enough and there will be changes to the coaching staff - people can read between the lines from there.

Why? Coach is gonna play slugs like tho.as regardless. We need to end the country club surrounding this team and value talent as much as intangibles.

Well they let wolitarsky walk for clercius.... thats part and parcel of succession planning. You are super obsessed with numbers, yet a guy like Bailey as an example had success here but didn't have it elsewhere. Situations matter. But you are again missing the entire point, the point here is oshea makes bad decisions with the roster, included in that is dressing guys who have shown they are not totally useless and then giving them 0 reps while 3 other players at the same position can barely move yet play the whole game. So how can we trust that oshea is making the best choices possible? We can't.