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Manu isn't going anywhere. The Lions are happy with his progress, even if he's still a project for them. Packers are announcing their cuts tomorrow apparently so we'll find out soon enough but I don't expect Elgersma to be released.

Do you think he's going to completely pass on any opportunity he might get in the NFL for the 2025 season for $30,000 Canadian? PR salary in NFL is $13,000 US per week. The competition is NFL and spring leagues that allow guys to leave immediately for NFL.

Nope. Nope. Nope. Take his Jersey, put it up in the dressing room and let him help coach the Dline if he wants to. 🙂

You do it to entice him to come back sooner rather than later, good will offering going forward locking him in for longer etc etc.

You honestly think he has any NFL hope? I don't. He has zero teams value and is a 2x NFL early cut. IF he wants to keep playing it's the CFL or nothing this year. He can retire from football, but that is his only option for making money from now until April. I would be shocked if he isn't back here honoring his rookie contract while negotiating for an extension.

No doubt about it. Totally had to add receivers, just sad it got this far. Where does everyone get the idea we need to offer him a contract? He is already under contract should he choose to come back. He may ask for a new contract in order to come back but his only option is Winnipeg in the CFL. Not really a great bargaining position if he wants to play.

Every team would then start a Jake Thomas. Not just us. So just Wilson confirmed currently. Any other bombers related or maybe cfl free agent related cuts? Manu? Elgersma? Any non bombers cfl free agents cuts we could use?

They do but they keep signing him. So at this point Jake will retire when he retires and that’s when he won’t be a bomber. He’s going out on his terms. I think we should all just accept that. Personally I would let him go because he’s the guy I look at and go not good enough, want to show ppl you serious about winning. That’s the easy move to make. Release Jake cuz literally everyone would understand. MBB and bomber fans world wide would all be like we get it. Best of luck Jake. Nobody would be like that’s Bullshit they let him go. Unite the fanbase and release Jake Thomas. Playing him and starting him and giving him as many reps as they do is just embarrassing and appears like actively trying to lose.

No doubt. I think we would have had to cut our NAT starter numbers in half and probably trim overall roster numbers to keep our game from scrubs being played.

Ayers had the second most tackles last week and he plays special teams only really. Dude ain’t coming off. He is our special teams.

I don't have the overall roster numbers per game this year, but Calgary, Montreal, Saskatchewan, and Toronto have all carried a bunch of bodies and rotated heavily on the DL. Calgary has 8 ol on the ar right now, 6 of which are imps. The Argos have 7, with 5 imps. The riders have 9, with 6 imps and 1 global. The Als have 7, with 3 imps plus Johnson on the IR. Those 4 teams are the top 4 teams at rushing the passer in the league. They combined have 98 sacks, the remaining 5 combine for 75. Calgary and SSK are likely the 2 best Ds in the league right now. For my money, Montreal is in the top half of defences as well, pretty easily. ott, is running 9 dl with 3imps and 1 global. Edmonton is running 10dl, with 5 imps. Bc is running 10 with 5 imps. And Hamilton is running 7 with 5 imps. We've got 7, with 4 imps. Though we ran more than half of the year so far with 6 and 3-4. So the TLDR is, average league-wide is 8.22 DL on the ar, 4.66 imps. Each team starts 1, and Di/back-ups just under 2. If you have Canadians who can pass rush, or fringe starters as back-ups rotating heavily, you can get away with less. If you don't, teams are running a lot of DL to rotate currently. But we are not doing really either. We don't put out a lot of DL bodies, and we don't have quality ni pass rushers.

Ya honestly I'd worry that we'd overpay because we're desperate for receivers. And we don't know if he can duplicate last year's success...

I don't think it would require 2 DI spots... because they way the roster is already laid out Ayers is on the DL anyway, this would be swapping he and Woods.

I really liked Echols last preseason. Don't think Moore can do much, kind of always limited in terms of ability to win routes even at his peak.. Screen, or down the rail. Two ACL injuries. Think we really need to build up offense around opening up horizontal space and then going over the top with Wheatfall based on who we have. Not a ton of vertical threat, Mitchell looks a little heavy to me otherwise he'd be a guy that would be a vertical threat. Get Logan involved in combo with Oliviera both running and in pass game. It's going to be a slog.

I like Pokey but I wouldn’t go crazy overpaying for 1 year of production. I’d offer him a fair contract with an nfl out but if you ain’t making the NY jets then I’m not sure you getting another shot. I mean I work at a job that makes nepotism hires. I don’t mind but all the new office people are sons or daughters of bosses. In the nfl would a guy who was drafted and cut maybe get a shot over a guy who was undrafted and out the cfl. ?? I’m not sure there but I’d imagine NY was his chance.

He's got 17 weeks to get PR or active in NFL. He's got basically 7 game cheques that he can make up here. And if he chooses the latter he's taking a punt on the NFL until 2026. The Bombers would really have to sign him to a huge extension IMO to get him to come north. And I'm also not sure he's that good in our league.

Do many teams use two di spots on the dl?

but sitting and waiting...maybe traveling here and there to get a workout....doesn't pay you anything either....

I don't disagree but the incentives to come north this season are not that great. If he does he basically ends any hope he does have of getting a NFL shot for a bit of Canadian money.

need to find a way to get more Safteys who can't cover anyone, and 1-dimensional lbers on the roster. No other back-ups. And maybe we can start a lber at wr to sneak them on... Ayers get a new number!

Very likely, but the talent level overall would've dipped and made the game much harder to watch, especially for casual fans. Like the late 90s when the gap between imps and nis was gigantic. We would've been hit hard league-wide at OL. I think most teams would've had to start 3-4 imports. We had a lot of good ni ol in that time who likely would've been the prime targets.

No, I can’t either, but I wouldn’t have thought he’d get a look in the first place, so who knows….

I'm thinking the CFL would have had to reduce NAT starting roster spots. 32 extra spots for NAT players in the NFL would be a disaster for us. We would have likely lost 8-10 more of our best NATs a year.

100%, that would've crushed us.

That's how everyone would do it except osh...