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Great gig if you can get it.

I was watching a show. Dude was a former nfl player talking to rookies about money. Said 10 million isn’t really 10’million. In the end Uncle Sam gets a lot of it, in the nfl you also pay taxes in the places you play away games in. Turns out 10 become 2 or 3 pretty quickly. It’s all about money. 5 months 80k? Sign me up.

The nice thing right now is there is a solid pool of Canadian players so the draft doesn't kill you if you take a risk. The other piece is that you have to draft guys who really want to play. Especially if they are getting nice NIL deals and then some NFL time. Like a Mesidor even if he gets bounced out of the NFL in 3 years probably isn't going to come up here to play for $80,000 CDN unless he's a complete football nut and doesn't have anything better to do.

But factual. Winnipeg is pretty much on all the no move and no trade clauses. We aren’t exclusive to that as most Canadian teams plus buffalo still is also but It’s reality. Buffalo just made the playoffs after a 15 year rebuild. No Canadian team has won since the ORiginial jets were around.

NFL draft goes tonight. When is the cfl draft and is tsn showing it again ??

Chevy's mantra anytime the critical light is shone on him.

I have no issue taking anyone not drafted. UDFA's rarely get more than a cup of coffee in the NFL. The odd one sticks on a PR for a year, but most of the time they are brought in as training camp fodder.

https://www.tmz.com/2026/04/22/darrell-sheets-storage-wars-dead/?adid=social-tw Shot himself in the head yikes!

This is always the most important thing... It's such a short window between the NFL draft and ours, making an already difficult task practically Herculean for the CFL GMs... As always, I just hope we take the best "CFL Now" OL available when our pick comes...

It will be interesting to see who gets drafted in the NFL and who gets FA deals.

That guy is a talent that demands a call and consideration from every team in the league. He'd instantly elevate any DL considerably.

Hard to say. Possibly. We should know that pre-draft. 50/50

It is the crux of the problem isn't it. Chevy knows what he needs to do, but can't do it because the guys he would sign won't sign here. We need some young talent in the worst way but haven't had the draft capital to get them. More than anything else, we need a 2C imo, and the only way we are getting one that moves the needle is draft and development. For that reason I hope that we draft Lawrence. No offense to Yager, but his up side is below average 2C, above average 3C....and that won't get us anywhere.

Our draft in on April 28th and still no word on the 2025 SMS spend. IMO that suggests nobody is over or if so only by a nominal amount. Why they can't just report this info in a business like fashion is bush league.

So why don't they sign the free agents who are on the rise and in their prime? Why do you think they sign the washed up guys / over the hill?

with a non-football injury designation. I feel like they may bring him back once he's healthy...?

And Helle was and is right. Toews was a failure. Nyquist was so bad we couldn’t trade him for a bag of pucks. Schenn and Stanley were slow, pionk struggled. Pearson was bad. Team D fell apart. Did Helle have his best year? No he did not. But the least of our problems is Helle. Helle said he likes Winnipeg. He doesn’t understand why nobody else does. Dude basically said the perception is bullshit and Winnipeg is great, he doesn’t understand why ppl don’t like it, he doesn’t get why ppl refuse to come here. Evil isn’t he. When him mark Kyle gabe all signed long term you can bet your ass they were told the team would try and win. Signing a washed up Toews and other washed up guys is not trying to win. We all knew it. The players do also.

Vikings release Hutchings. Waive him. Same thing really no?

as mentioned the 8th guy can be a nationalized American and we have multiple options as to who to use there I also agree I'd be shocked if Wallace/Eli/Neuf are not the 3 starter on the oline...and it serves us much better roster wise if we do that. On defense then we only have to have 1 Canadian on the field on any given play and we have so many nice moveable pieces on defense who are imports we could really have a crazy good defense...and thats without seeing who we have brought in who are new. And I know a lot here think Kramdi is all that and then some but he is probably looking at our roster the 4th best option we could put at SAM....I dont care how smart they say he is...and that he knows all the positions....doesn't make him default good/the best...Stick him at safety and let him focus his smarts in one spot and be the best safety he could be...even that being said he isn't even the best option for there as well. He's a nice piece you can rotate in and around the defence and in situational spots and is a bonus to have on the roster....but he is not the best secondary player in our roster...not even close Unless some rookie draft pick or second yr guy really blows the competition away in camp Our starting 7 true Nationals should be Demski...Bo...Neild..Eli..Neuf..Wallace and Lawson on defence as our declared starting Canadians....and pick one of whoever you want as the 8th nationalized one Starting any more than that and giving lionshare of reps...just cause is pointless and doesn't make us better...Use your 7 best and sub accordingly....and start your best 17 imports, and again sub accordingly....You can if you have quality starter type Canadian back-ups sub in then for an import on some sets/schemes and or to spell off Lawson...Thats where kramdi is key/essential and hopefully where Smith..Shay..Bailey get work too And not to pile on him...but look at his stats as a starter....his take aways...tackles...ff's...etc....Is that production worthy of his pay and his reps?....With all the reps he gets and the spot he plays...where the SAM is , or should be involved in a heck of a lot of plays during a game...his stats pale in comparison to pretty much every other SAM in the league...but he is paid the most...make that make sense to me

Im not sure why people think Wallace wont be on the OL. Am I mistaken that he played every game he could have last year?