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Well I see scrooge has arrived on the scene. Love you. Go Blue!

Belated Merry Christmas to all So far, I like where this offseason has gone... Oliveria and Demski were great re-signings... Condell (while not my favourite choice) is a clear upgrade at OC... Jake moving to coaching is interesting... it'll certainly be addition by subtraction on the field... and he's a well-respected and smart guy, so who knows, maybe he'll make a better coach than player... I'd still like to see one big upgrade on the DL and the OL... the lines were our biggest downfall last year and I don't see any improvement there yet... though, obviously, it's too early for full assessments... It would be nice to get Elgersma here too, once his NFL opportunities dry up

Pruned some posts. Lets get the discussion back to football. Thanks.

the value of a canadian who can run with and cover wrs, not to mention has good size/strength and is capable of playing a gap. The rarity of those skills combined with the passport makes easily worth waiting for. The canadian talent pool in general is shakey. It’s a no risk high reward move to keep him around.

Basically what you're saying is that Arniel will tank the team just to get fired by Chevy & kill his NHL career. Meanwhile, Chevy wears a suit where nothing sticks to him as he's Chipman's Boy.

As far as rookie salary cap goes, why should I, as a fan, get excited about a 29 year old rookie in the CFL who was the UFL Player Of The Year? How many of these guys pick up the Canadian game & become stars at that age? Flutie was in his late 20's when he signed with the Lions in 1990. . Don Jonas was 30 when he signed with the Argos before he was traded to the Bombers & the leading passer in 1971 & 72. He became the Schenley's MOP in the CFL in 1971. Tom Wilkinson won the Schenley Award in 1975 as the CFL's MOP. Played in 8 Grey Cups & won 5 with Edmonton. Going back even further there was NFL Championship QB Tobin Rote who won the last NFL Championship Detroit in 1957 & signed as a free agent with the Argos in 1960. He threw for over 4000 yards which was unheard of back then. They're might have been a few more but the long & short of it is, older qbs really don't have a lot of success picking up the CFL game. Younger guys do. Look at the former UFL qb in Calgary who had a great couple of seasons in the USFL & UFL they signed. The guy came up to Calgary at age 29 for the last month of the 2024 season but never played for the Stamps. Then he was the backup qb behind Adams last season at 30 & played when Adams was injured. He never lit the CFL on fire in the only game he started. He even threw an interception late in the game to cost the Stamps a victory. Now, he's coming back at age 31 with a lot of question marls around whether he's the legit backup behind Adams. It's a crapshoot. These older qbs may have "experience" but not the CFL kind so they're as lost as any 21 year old rookie fresh out of college.

@Booch, why Mackonzo, guy has not played in a game or been healthy in about 2.5 years? Doesn't seem worth bringing in constantly injured players.

Wilson? Never heard of him.

CFL ratio rules means we don’t always get the best player. I’m sure you already knew that.

yeah....I remember Kelly dumping on Bob ,,,and 'Mr., being handled internally' slinked out of town trying to hide his mugshot.............. AND Bob...is still holding his head high

Some of the young guys on the DL. Castillo as well. Outside of Wilson & Demski I'd like them to recycle the rest of those guys out & rebuild the receiving corps. Offensive Line at Center needs help deaperately. Then the league never grows. There's little or no excitement anymore for any new players coming in. They're just retreads who hung around the NFL or UFL. Same old, same old.

Taking off the Blue tinted glasses ... I still have heard absolutely nothing but praise for Bob over the years and the word "legendary" usually attached to his name. I've never heard anyone (with exception of Mike Kelly) have a cross word or any sort of negativity attached to Bob.

Absolutely.....you don't tangle with a legend like Bob....Willson is coming across like a punk who needs his arse kicked

Yeah I get not wanting teams to pay rookies a crazy amount before they've done anything....but i think a system where each team can allocate up to$200k for a rookie would be a good start.

The good news is in another 4 days, I made it thru 2025.

Exactly right HCB. The CFL is run by a bunch of Ambrosie Accolytes stuck in a hundred years ago. He has shrunk the size of the CFL, not in teams but as an event. back in the 70's & 80's, the CFL was still an event. Now, you go to most games outside of Winnipeg & Saskatchewan & the atmosphere is nuthin'. Calgary is a lost cause & so is Edmonton. Toronto is another lost cause. Before Ambrosie came along, it was routine for Grey Cups to hold 50,000 seats at every venue across the CFL. Now, they don't expand the stadiums for the Grey Cup. We;re back in the 1960's with stadiums of 24000 being used in Toronto, Ottawa & Hamilton. The motto seems to be to think small. Don't put in temporary seats but raise ticket prices significantly. We have the coaching & admin cap that should go. We have a rookie cap that needs to rise to at least $100,000 a year & keep growing. Just think small. That's Ambrosie's legacy. Johnson should be doing his damndest to change things from that moron's Reign of Error.

I think i’m with you on this. Isn’t it sort of the you need to spend money to make money kind of thing? Attract talent (players and media personalities) with investment dollars to help attract multiple revenue sources to help build and grow the game’s legitimacy to a wider and diverse markets. Making rule changes to help attract more fans is just one very small slice of the pie.

Griffin...Woods..Tui...Neuf...Big Stan....WJ if makes economic and playtime sense...Makonzo if healthy...as apparently he as at end of yr....Cadwallader....after that I hope we restock with new blood...That new receiver we just signed TJ Davis should be the Wheatfall replacement so dont see a dire need for him back....But if he is will be cheap and can always be cut...

Wilson is a Canadian version of Pat McAfee who TSN apparently wants to appeal to the ****** Bro demographic.

Why is Willson employed? Reading his other posts he's extremely childish and acts like a baby whenever anyone calls him out. Get rid of him ASAP.

Knuckles should stay retired ,period.

Got up this morning, grabbed my phone & what do I see on X? Luke Willson & Bob Irving going at it again. Those 2 DO NOT like each other. But it's funny seeing Bob trying to keep his cool while Willson seems to be losing his mind. Peace on Earth. Goodwill to All Men....

Any of our own potential free agents that you are hoping KW brings back? Castillo and Holm come to mind to me.

Think if he could sign a $200,000 a season for two year deal he'd be holding out? The CFL has to re-think this ridiculoulsly low rookie cap. It's okay for the special teamers with little or no talent from U Sports who make a name for themselves running downfield at full speed banging & crashing but have no hope of ever being starters. For legit, talented prospects, there should be leeway for any team to pay these rookie within the structure of the salary cap.

Never heard anything like that happening before 🤪😉. Let me guess what happens next. After burning through a few more NFL spring camps he joins the Bombers as a late TC addition (I hope) 👍🏻😁