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Day 1 of Bombers practice: RB Brady Oliveira is here, not dressed. Same for LS Mike Benson. S Josh Hagerty was running in warmups...an improvement on his injury situation. Watching for the ratio change that the Bombers will make with Oliveira's injury. Could be receiver, maybe more likely it's at left guard. They'll certainly bring RB Quinton Cooley on. So an American will have to come off. from derek taylor Update from Bomberland: Zach Collaros back at QB1, Matthew Peterson in Brady Oliveira's spot. Gabe Wallace getting work at right guard Also: Quinton Cooley getting some work at RB, too. from ed tait

He sucks

We will have pokey back by labor day...that's a pretty good corp with him Schoen..Wheatfall..Demski and Clercius

I still wouldn’t give Lawler the money Hamilton did. While he’s performed well, and sterns/mitchell/white haven’t worked out, wheatfall/schoen/demski is a very good core. If any thing, I’d a still tried to spend that money on ol/dl. Lawlers character faults aren’t toxic or horrible. But they are a lot for price, and not going away. We are already spending too much on the wr core. And we need youth. Also, schoen vs lawler, I take schoen every day of the week. Even dollar for dollar.

Or Sterns. Having Sterns out there instead of Corcoran/Cobb isn’t going to make a lick of difference if we aren’t dominating up front. Dominating, not just trying to survive. Vanterpool is a significant difference maker.

Yeah Lawler can go out and play a dominant game like few others... but I feel like he has been too iffy the last few years to be worth the huge price tag.

Lawler now 3-11 record in games he's played for other CFL teams. His career record with Nichols, Collaros and Brown....34-8. 6-17 with any other QB's including Streveler.

I'd kick myself in the plums if I could rather than listen to country

Oh man, let’s hope so 🥺

Yup...don't develop in practice. Those 2 would be a deadly combo..

That might be why white was cut. Zach back means artopoius goes to the PR. I like wallace and I want to see him develop. But man sucks to take vanterpool out. Id rather flip kyrie/wil or throw cobb in for sterns. You're right that they might still change their fortunes. But to date, they haven't done what was expected. Considering the money we gave the 3 guys, as vets who have succeeded in this league, being at best replacement level with rookie wrs is deeply underperforming. Id really like to see mitchell step up, and I like sterns effort also his play in the sweep. But neither guy is starter level at this point. They are just thrust into that position because none of them have stepped up.

Peterson is a dual citizen, born in the US, grew up in Brooks, moved back to the Iowa as a teen for a couple of years, came back to AB for highschool and Univ.

He thought Peterson was an American till he was told after the game he played at UofA lol

300 million plays on his most popular song on Spotify. He's a huge act. And Winnipeg loves their live country shows.

Could be. I don’t think he got robbed at that spot, and idk if any one else is knocking on his door. But guys some times make strange calls about being on a pr. I don’t think Kase had the potential to be a kr in the cfl. He’s too hesitant with contact and wants to go side ways or backwards to much. That twitchy style could be valuable as a catch n run guy, but he’s soo far behind at wr I don’t see him making it as a wr either. If white wanted to stay or not I’d dump Kase and bring in some other bodies. Plus Logan is on 1 game. When he’s healthy I think we are deep at kr. Our pr though is pretty good for once. I’d look at a k/p for insurance/development, and I think you can always look at ol/pass rushers. Or decent Canadians.

Wonder if White just wasn't happy being on the PR. It can happen with vets.

Dodged a bullet! lol. The trews were so good. I wish we'd go with some good canadian guitar drive rock, even if it isn't a huge draw. But that's personal preference. I still think some RnB, hiphop or rap would be the best draw.

Concur. Ahhh mean, given Thursday's performance, the prudent approach would be 'wait and see.'

Bachman and Cummings are reuniting for another resurrection tour, so I wouldn’t be surprised to see them being carted out. Like the periodical cicada, B and C rise from the earth every 13 years….each return, more unwelcome than the last.

please someone scoop him ...please! lol Maybe Castillo is gonna do both jobs....Bailey on for Punter guy and Cobb on for BO? Swap out Sterns for Cooley?...makes sense to me...

I like the idea of Shay and Smith getting more reps at linebacker. Really hoping one emerges as a starting option next year.

He's passing through on a tour that just happens to bring him in just before GC so this is probably more fortuitous timing than anything. He could also have said f**k playing outdoors in Winnipeg in November. 😂

with the Canadian LB's in Shay...Smith....Gauthier...Novack and versatility of Griffin I'd prefer we roster the best outta Ayers/J.Jones/Wilson/T.Jones and ise that extra DI on either Woods or Person

Agree, especially if we aren't using him on D. Vaval is basically on to play teams, we use a DI on sergio, and another on ayers. 3 DIs on guys who only play teams is nuts, and we can't afford that with the injuries we have.

Oh, I like Ayers, its just to me out of the 4 DIs he is the logical one to take off as he is the biggest luxury.

I love ayers, but I agree that would be better for the team. Id rather take vaval off and have cobb return then mess with the OL. And I really like vaval too.

I don't like the oline change since they played so well for game 1. Seriously take Ayers off for Cooley. It seems better to lose a guy who basically plays teams than to mess with the oline. Bailey could take Brady's spot to give you a back up de.

a little pre-mature to say Sterns and Mitchell haven't worked out... it's only been one game... I don't know what Mitchell's deal is but maybe when he finally does get into a game, he looks great and never loses his spot

Streveler is the only QB in the league to have beaten a team with a winning record.

Brad Paisley is awesome (his guitar playing alone is worth the admission...) and I'd almost guarantee that whoever they get for the half time show won't be anywhere near his level of "draw". It's honestly a huge get for the Friday night kickoff party... Can't wait to be there!

Maybe White asked out?

Yeah find ot odd letting White go too...With Viva Vaval...Logan...Cobb...Mitchell all with ability to return...Why is Kase still even here...couldn't crack last yr roster...didnt show much as a receiver or returner and we Have enough small receivers....Whiye at least offered the bigger nbodies guy....good in run game...and is a proven guy....Kase...none of that....waste of a PR spot...Like who would he even bump off?....nobody I can see or would want hard to say....he doesn't come across as the kinda pouting type...and he likely wasn't making bottom barrel PR minimum...good chance he was making a decent wage

If we go that route I hope we swap out Sterns for Cooley...Use him as the hybrid slot and roll with Peterson until they show that they can stop him....and or use them in tandem....Add Bailey for BO for dline assistance. We need a legit run threat if Peterson gets hurt too and MCI isnt that yet....he has his role and does it well.

If adding Cooley to replace Brady, then need to take an American off. Would then add another Cdn or global too

Booch wants a starting Canadian guard for his Canada Day present.

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I think the bombers made the decision that maybe lawlers production health and other off field indiscretions weren’t worth 300k. Cuz they could have matched. They got 300k or more on the 1 game IR in Mitchell and Jones. I don’t think the bombers ever got that 300k value out of lawler. That’s crazy for a guy that hit 1000 yards once maybe here. Yup once in his career actually.

No. Lawler signed in Hamilton before we knew the SMS went up. That happened on 02/12. Every team might have tried harder to retain some players they lost in free agency if they knew more money was available.

We were out coached...plain and simple on several levels

I see the East is back to being dogshit again. Thanks for the help. How in the fancy f**k did we lose the Grey Cup to Nick fing Arbuckle. Unbelievable. The guy is a steaming pile. Makes me sick to think about.

I remember Def Leppard in 1988 being blown away by the huge picture of the Queen in the old arena. They kept the lasers on her all show and then saluted her by dedicating the song Photograph to her lol...aw good times... good times...

He is, but they also likely hold their own with Wallace at LG, either way they trounce the Lions. Not a bad time to experiment and get them used to a bit of job sharing early in the season, Vanterpool moves to the 1 game IR and has a rest unless Neufeld is still questionable, nothing needs to be set in stone this early on.

If Neufeld is injured and struggling to play, there is zero reason not to send him to the IR so he can properly recover. His spot will still be there when he's healthy.

Sounds like Wallace is in for Nuefeld because Tait said right guard. It would be insane to take away a starting American on the offensive line to save one of many linebacker backups.

The humor is the same which is great. Hank giving the guy 4 stars is classic Hank. The animation looks really stiff and cheap.

Schilz looked absolutely awful yesterday. That panel isn't very good. No idea what TSN sees in Muamba.

The 2023 Grey Cup game says hi. So does Dalton Schoen, Brandon Alexander & Adam Bighill.

Yuuupp. Never thought he was more than this. The fact we lost to him in the gc is infuriating.

some pretty interesting bits out of this. Just in the first minute or so kola talks about the camp difference from last year.