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Way too much money for the running back position. Especially considering most teams are spending about a third of that for their starting runningback and back up.

In order to make a trade you have to find a willing trade partner. How many teams in the CFL are ready to pay a player $600k? The fatal mistake Bombers brass made was in October 2022 when they agreed to give Zach Collaros a 3-year deal at $600k per season through to the end of 2025. They are saddled with that now just as they were at the end of last season when they had to have considered trying to keep Dru Brown but quickly concluded it would be impossible since no other team wanted Zach's contract. Hamstrung themselves.

I’m sure this is what you meant but it’s closer to 340k for Brady/Johnny

Agree with all of that. Of those two, bolo is the one I wish we couldve kept. He's got the upside, demski is old and has had a lot of injury issues plus I don't see woli playing into old age or a wheel chair. I wonder if we still would've jumped into FA and brought in a big time player on D, I kind of doubt it. But that would've been the move imo. Idk, Yoshi is over the hill cant stay healthy and to pay him drastically more than big stan isn't in line with how we do things. Thats a good point. That was an ugly stretch of games too. At Zachs age though, I don't think changing will happen. If we moved on from Zach in the of season, we could've traded him for a significant value as well. I don't think 600k is crippling, I think what cripples us is how many fringe guys we pay premium money to. Like how much we spent between augustine and BO last year. Also, ach has taken a reduction in salary to the 600k. I'm guessing he is in the 550k range now at least, which is pretty standard. Right around 10% of the salary cap. Biggie is making 165, WJ 200k, lawson 140k, jake for sure north of 100k, kramdi making 140k, neuf north of 100k for sure, probably 240 between bo and augustine this year, 3 of the top 4 wrs combining for around 740k. We have a LOT of over paid guys, even sergios hard money is a good chunk more than any other K/P in the league coming close to 150k.

ohh thats interesting I might have to try that! QFT LOL

Thanks, will add that to my shopping list for my Saturday drive home from Fargo airport.

Found it at Hamilton Food Store in Westwood. They import a lot of stuff from the States. It wasn't cheap. I want to say $20+ for a 12 pack but my wife bought it for me for father's day so she was coy about the price.

I don't think you'd see BOLO or Bailey back because they were chasing expanded roles that they wouldn't get here. Bailey would at best be 3rd receiver here. BOLO is stuck behind Demski and Wolitarsky. You would have seen money shift to the D for sure. If anything I think they would have kept Hardrick.

Did you get it here? I did pick up a can of the diet at Grant Park. I'll have to torment my wife with that info. We recently went to the states looking for it, but we went on a Monday and it came out on the Wednesday.

The worst trend in sports merch is the move away from fitted hats to adjustable ones. Hate the adjustable ones.

*Michael

For some reason Collaros last year in Hamilton popped into my head while driving. 0-8 until finally replaced. Kent Austin kind of similarly stubborn. June Jones switches up the offense to a Run and Shoot look around Masoli and they take off. You'd think at some point he'd realize that he has to be willing to adjust to what the needs of the offense are.

This is 100% true and super bizarre when you put it that way.

Paper bag

The winning formula to me was draft OL and bring in top level FAs every year. We stopped doing the former for whatever reason and Collaros contract, and maybe a couple others doesn’t allow us to do the latter. Imagine Browns deal instead of Zach’s. This past off season, just for a hypothetical, we’d probably see BOLO and/or Bailey back, either Grant, or could have snagged Jovon Leake, and probably a Pete Robinson or a Malik Carney to replace Jeffcoat. You can’t do anything paying 600k to one player in the CFL. Christ, we just saw Mike Reilly’s career get ruined over the same situation just a couple of years ago.

They would’ve put Prukop in last year but not Streveler in this year

I collect the New Era fitted hats and yeah if you just bend them, you’ll mess them up. I steam them and then curve them around a water bottle (I use a big Nalgene) and it works perfectly everytime … if you have a clothes steamer, that does it or myself I just boil a pot of water and put the brim over it for 30-45 seconds

Osh hasn't evolved until he "had" and was told to do a few things, or he was gonna be outta here....and that was what?...2018ish??? He figured he had created a winning formula and that was all he had to do...2018...2019...thats a looooong time ago...we were just fortunate to squeeze a few extra seasons out of that due to elite top line talent in it's prime, or just coming out of it's prime....which was able to mask the holes in our seconf teir talent....all the while letting possible successors walk out the door clinging to basically what was/is the past....and even that success was glossing over a lot of troubling things. To the point of where we are now....and personally watching him on sidelines...in pressers....how practices have been the exact same.....listening to some of what he says...like really listening....I don't think he has a clue now/yet.....let alone an answer

Rose was hurt......and can be cut as he was still on a PR contract....had he made game day roster this week and signed a deal...then that would have been sent to the IR

I think the coach / team have evolved, but not for the better. If only he had continued to do things the way he used to, then we'd still have the hard hitting team that wore people out.

kind of goes hand in hand when a team has same coach...for 10 yrs, and said coach doesn't evolve or change things up ...even just a bit.....gets old...and it just doesn't sustain....especially when you stick with basically 90% of the same roster, many aging, and don't allow young blood to step in and carve out a role, or bring new enthusiasm...I've seen it 1000 times before

Apparently sticking with the NFL for a few years and even making it onto the highlights a few time somehow equates to diminishing in talent? Maybe people question if he's a "CFL" qb... you know how people always prefer the CFL having a mobile QB rather then a slow as molasses drop back passer that the NFL favours... oh wait.... I think some people are just looking for reasons to complain. Strev is fine, I would hope they would play him here as a normal QB and not the gadget crap that LaPo had him doing in his last year with us. In his first season he dropped back and ran a normal O and was clearly able to make passes and escape the rush for the big runs. The gadget option plays should only be utilized a few times, it's predictable and dumb.

Final drive: 1st and goal on the 7 with a chance to win. This is a classic Chris Streveler situation. Some misdirection and then you run run run. Why didn't they do that? Totally mystifying. I hope the media asks Buck/MOS about that this week. Can't let them get away with play-calling such a pansy-a** finish.

No I am expecting him to be part of the passing game when collaros is stinking up the joint. Last time he was here they used some packages where he got to run a real offense. Feels like he's just got the prukop package right now which is stupid. Streveler can play qb. He's shown that in the past. He is a weapon, use him rather than treating him like a running back.

At least two games this week past have been competitive and worth watching. Am happy for that despite my disgust with The Big Blue.