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Zero reason we needed to give up Grant. Makes no sense. Guaranteed Hall of Famer.

Lawler with his third TD. Unbelievable. BLM to Lawler is the most dangerous duo in the league right now.

The only spot Parker has looked really good at is SAM. If he's 15 yards downfield he's treading water and struggling with reads. Corner he'd probably have to think less too and maybe could play a bit faster. I'd like to get a look at Allen. Someone a little more rangy who can also cover man all over the field which is necessary in the match coverages. Also, call Russ Dandy back. We need some oomph at corner. Both corners have eaten **** so far this season. Get some guys who will play the ball.

The cfl free agent process and tampering is pretty open these days. And walters post free agent pressers are too. A lot of guys went after in the past are well known to the extent some of the offers were known That is a play making position, but you can also do a lot of that at defensive hb and S. He was basically a one year starter with seasoning. I have no doubt he could play at that level and higher if he was still here. for 230k as a db, man idk how you make that work or justify it. You gotta be a monster shut down man cover guy, be a monster coming up and playing the run, and have that dynamic play making. You have to change how offences play. Nichols is in the very top tier of dbs and does a chunk of that. But he isn’t close to that pay day. As long as guys like Nichols, beverette, Pickett, Webb etc aren’t getting close to 200k, no one is worth what ford got. I’d take dequoy over ford straight up and he’s significantly cheaper. I’m all for taking flyers on guys with upside. Having that be the exclusive attempt to improve the team through free agency is extremely risky and it failed spectacularly.

It's galling when we see how Walters let Janarion Grant & Kenny Lawler leave. Two veterans who are still impact players in this league. We refuse to pay & yet we have no problem paying Thomas big bucks to do nothing as he's a 200 year veteran

I had to create a topic just to reiterate how much I hate this embarrassing AI slop TSN is using in their promos.

Come on, MOS would pull him after the 5th int. 🤣

Would love to see them work in a 2nd qb more. Seems a waste to park a guy like streveler on the bench until a minute left in an ass whooping game

How quickly we forget about the edm game. Collaros' pass to Wheatfall down the sideline was the best pass from any qb this year. Zach, when given time can absolutely still throw it. He's not what he once was, but this idea he's a broken down version of himself after one bad game is hyperbolic.

I didn't see much that changed from his approach this off-season. He even stated that he's not changing just because we're hosting GC this year. Yeah he let Lawler walk (not the first time) and yeah guys like Dobson (not the first OL to leave) & Ford (also not the first DB to leave) took off but that's the same approach he's always taken - it's not new to this past off-season yet history shows he spends to or past the cap. We won't know about this year until the spring.

Janarion doing his thing again.

Is Dinwiddie OK? He looks awful.

I’ll say it: Bo throws better ball than Zach at this stage of their respective careers. Also .. Lawler is a better receiver than anyone on our current roster.

O’Shea sucked, Zach sucked, Jake sucked, Willie sucked, Vaughters sucked, Parker sucked, Bridges sucked, Bonds sucked go us

Yeah I’m pretty sure they would and that they are still pushing to get him back. I hope the league is better than that. Big early test for the new commish.

https://3downnation.com/2025/07/05/suspended-dl-shawn-lemon-can-officially-apply-for-cfl-reinstatement/ boy they better not let this loser back in the league

Yeah I'd take Deqouy in a heartbeat...he would feast in our system on defence...Osh prob would rotate him with Hallett tho...or back seat him lol

The worst thing about BLM's performance is it could tweak Zach's competitive nature, he might damn the torpedoes and attempt to bomb Berlin. Headline: "Collaros throws 7 TD's and 7 interceptions, Bombers lose by 23."

Guaranteed

Things in expect to see here during the season "We should trade for Trevor harris" "Tre Ford should have signed here and we could have kept his bro" "Fajardo would look good in blue and gold" "Time to replace our entire starting Oline" "If we had Bo Levi, they'd have gone 5-0 in the GCs" Lol keep being you MMB.

Here comes my broken record thought, this constant reluctance to employ an actual 2qb system (not just short yardage). I understand the difficulties and the challenges, some big brained football x and o football people here have posted on it but it still not enough for me for the team to work out some schemes in practice fitted for their existing talent and deploy it in a game, change things up try it out for an offensive set. You won’t know what will happen until you try. Being risk averse has its own draw backs as the same as taking chances has its draw backs. Find that sweet spot between the two.

Exactly, oh no we didnt match 230k for a field side DB who had 1 solid year.....what a cheapskate!!

Doubt it. They didn't know until Wednesday that Ehlers wasn't coming back. Boeser signed on Tuesday.

They choose Schoen over Lawler, it was risky and so far has not paid off.

Nope. Walters has exceeded the cap 2 of the last three seasons so he spends just as much, if not more, than most teams. How and where he chooses to spend, seems to be the bigger issue.

I don’t know if he’s cheap like Ballard was, but you’re not wrong about this offseason and the previous one as well. Scouting (or who we chose to keep after TC) and free agency have been abysmal.

....lol....this year ok....its not Bo hasn't looked like dog **** for the majority of the last few years.

Nah. We aren’t even desperate enough to dress the ends we do have. I bet he goes back to mtl if he is reinstated.

Yeah Boeser seemed to indicate he reached deal before FA started so how could he get offers if the NHL said no early calling

This is the tao of O'Shea. FWIW: The Lemonator may be available soon.

That's how Osh rolls tho since forever...and why we always have this depth issue or lack of faith putting guys in..cause they get no reps all yr A horribly bad trait Chris Randle was another..and yeah we used to target guys...there were some that said no too...was it cause they didnt wanna see their reps reduced here? Who knows...but maybe Walters needs to change his ways and evolve too..and spend a little...and also shelve his idea of only so many dollars alloted to this group...that group....and target impact guys and then sort it out...its not hard Also...they have to take some of Osh's say away as it's apparent that he heavily influences some of the carrying of dead weight...and if he doesn't like it...kick stones and move on

Our free agency was garbage...and for whatever reason we didnt seem to wanna spend any money We grabbed reclamation projects for most part...and reupped guys we didnt need to...well not before FA started anyway if we still felt the need

Hopefully Schoen is ok but looking at the PR, KW needs to start bringing in WR

I think speed meant he's been playing for 200 yrs. Lol

I didnt say he was a top teir qb....though I think the state of qbing in this league would have him in the top tier. But he's not what he was, even when he first got here. But pretending like Bo is better (which is what prompted my post), is ridiculous.

Maybe. Field side corner should be making the plays he made imo. He had one or two outstanding plays, and got burnt on multiple double moves. He's athletic enough to make up for his mistakes. But as of right now, he's had one arguably better than solid season. For 230k you need to be out performing every defensive player on the field. There's no way for anyone to say whether or not they went after top end talent. Unless someone has phone records available.

Vaughters has been OK to be honest... he'd look a lot better with some better performances at other positions on the line.

Strevs is actually throwing a nicer ball now as well IMO.

He didn' get away. He wanted to come back and the team told him to take a hike.

Some not so fun stats to this point of the year. The bombers have 3 tfl on the year. Bridges, jones, and kyrie each with 1. Our entire dl, has 1 sack. Our team total is 5. Moncrief alone has 4 tfl. Deontai Williams has 3. Chatfield has 5 sacks on his own. 10 players across the league have as many combined sacks and tfl as our team has tfl. 11 players would instantly lead us in tfl or sacks if acquired. I think every one involved gets 100% of the blame. No splitting it. For what we pay wj and vaughters they should be winning a couple battles a game and atleast generating a couple pressure on their own. Mos for dressing so few dl leaving us with few options, Jy for not doing better with what we have (especially Adams and Lawson). Walters for allowing this foolishness to continue. Handicapping our self with our roster doesn’t make us better, or more morale or more Canadian. It just makes us worse and arrogant about being bad. Garbutt, Habba, and fox have out performed our vets with their new teams.

It sucks because Lawler is a very boom or bust receiver and Schoen is/was just a consistent reliable guy that you want, but the way Collaros plays he's not going to go for the easy yards to Schoen and wants to throw the risky deep jump balls that Lawler was a much better fit for.

Even still.... they wouldn't move on from Zach until they are mathematically out of the playoffs. As I said before... the ONLY time they will make a big decision is if forced by a serious injury.

Grant, the one that got away

I noted the lack of vertical shots as well, but I think it had a lot to do with the fact that collaros wasn't ever comfortable in the pocket.

Jimmy John opening soon on Ellice as per reddit.

Thanks for the sports update Mike, let's head over to Heather on what's up for the weather this weekend. 🙂

I doubt it is scheme as well. All i know is that we have seen way too many mental errors to be blaming scheme. No DC schemes broken coverages. That's 100% on the personnel and their preparation.

Too many smiling faces after getting ass handed to you for my liking

In a related story the Flames have just signed Morris Lukowich.