Leaderboard

On what the bombers do for amateur football, this story just came out today 3DownNationWinnipeg Blue Bombers report $1.2 million investment into...The Winnipeg Blue Bombers have released their community impact report for 2025, featuring an investment of just over $1.2 million into amateur football. The

Collaros looked cooked 10 years ago because of his injuries - the fact he's healthy & still playing at all is remarkable.

This coming season my man ZC is going to stay healthy, light it up, lead us to Grey Cup victory and retire on top. At the very least it feels good writing this. Off season hope.

Collaros may be old and bad, but he makes up for it by being expensive.

It's true, but there are other factors that make it less likely for us. Like, none of them were turning 38 years old when they had the comeback. Doing that in your early 30s is very different than doing it at 40. None of them had the massive list of serious injury concerns Zach has faced his whole career. Zach already had one miraculous career resurgence, and it wasn't one big injury that held Zach out or back last year. He's been held back by a big old stack of medical issues for the last 2 years. We will be giving Zach basically the best case scenario this year. More OL talent than you could shake a stick at. Seriously, our send best OL unit this year is better than the best of the last 2.5 years or so. Rbs and depth, WRs with top-end talent, and an OC that is basically hand-picked for him. I hate that we are tied to Zach; I hate even more that we have no contingency plan. I hate most that we had no real way of doing any better at QB this offseason. But it is what it is. Have to hope for betting QBing room next year at this point.

If the reclamation project in Trevor H. could do it, so can Collaros. Even BLM looked cooked 3 years ago.

ZC with a new OC....good oline again and some legit targets is gonna do one of 2 things...Either have a late in career renaissance like Calvillo had and actually be a legit #1 and possibly another 2..3 really good yrs in him if the situation allows for it....Or he is gonna confirm the last 2 yrs of this spiral into crapsville is real and he is done. And we should do whatever we have to in the season if this is the case to address it and not wait for the off-season and really be hooped...if it means trading assets...Picks...or a legitimate performer so be it, but get it accomplished If he shows a rebirth and his physical skills look like they are not degraded from previous season, then he could be a resigning on a 1 yr deal for 2027 at a reasonable price as we are hopefully grooming the 2028 guy....Not at the 600k price tag he has been getting...not even 500k...but more in the scope of what BLM has taken and if he doesnt like that deal....See ya later

We're deservedly ranked last, that's all I care about.

he was always gonna make the team. Will be interesting to see how much playing time he gets.

For whatever reason there was a long held belief that 9v9 youth tackle football, wasn't "football" in a lot of minds that controlled amateur ball in the province. And programs suffered under that. Even that change has brought youth football back growing in the province. Along with programs like the Selects, or Recruit ready, Club ball has added a spring league too for U16 and up....there are more and more programs in MB that are just about developing players at every level. Not only skill but just a love for the game. Add in the Bombers 1st class commitment to the youth in tackle and flag and football is seeing a legitimate renaissance here.

We've had plenty of MB's play for the team during MOS era. Part of the problem was that MB amateur football didn't really have the programs other provinces did to help develop that young talent. We do now. In the next decade there will be more and more MB's playing pro football.

Not moving on from collaros while we had brown was an error by this team.

He made the team! :D

Yep. The random chuckitius he comes down with is pretty bad. Doesn't seem to matter how many DBs are in the area; if he has it in his mind to chuck on that snap, it's going deep. OFC we want to win the cup every year. But the realistic hope for me is that we have a pre-Zach 2019 type team building again. Where the D/teams went out expecting to have to win the game every week. And won many, many games. Rebuild the team into one where every unit feels like the QB of the team with the need to propel us to a win. That way if we find a qb worth growing with, or get another older guy we have the supporting pieces to dominate again.

I am hoping Zach rebounds and we win the cup in 2026 because

Bombers have created a spring Bantam 12 on 12 league this year. Would be nice if we moved community football to the spring like every other province so we can actually run high school and up with proper resourcing in the fall. In Winnipeg region we legitimately only have 6 officiating crews for minor football right through CJFL. They also are the stick/sideline crews for U Sports.

Then, instead of Collaros getting pulped because of a crappy OC and O-line, we would have had Brown getting pulped, but at a cheaper price. Not sure that would have accomplished much.

Tre Ford is young enough to take a flyer on... is he a free agent or did he retire?

I can feel things heating up Elgersma is almost in Winnipeg. It's just a matter of time now. May as well purchase some cheap blend for the celebration.

https://3downnation.com/2026/03/22/all-nine-2026-cfl-quarterback-rooms-ranked/ 1) Hamilton Tiger-Cats Starter: Bo Levi Mitchell Depth: Tre Ford, Jake Dolegala 2) Toronto Argonauts Starter: Chad Kelly Depth: Nick Arbuckle, Jarret Doege, Max Duggan, Tucker Horn 3) Montreal Alouettes Starter: Davis Alexander Depth: Dustin Crum, E.J. Perry, Dresser Winn, Anthony Brown Jr. 4) B.C. Lions Starter: Nathan Rourke Depth: Chase Brice, Gevani McCoy, Tommy Rittenhouse 5) Edmonton Elks Starter: Cody Fajardo Depth: Taylor Powell, Cole Snyder, Zach Zebrowski 6) Saskatchewan Roughriders Starter: Trevor Harris Depth: Jack Coan, Tommy Stevens, Brayden Schager, Jordan McCloud 7) Ottawa Redblacks Starter: Dru Brown Depth: Jake Maier, Matt Morrissey, Hajj-Malik Williams 8) Calgary Stampeders Starter: Vernon Adams Jr. Depth: P.J. Walker, Josh Love, Quincy Vaughn 9) Winnipeg Blue Bombers Starter: Zach Collaros Depth: Terry Wilson, Bryce Perkins, Payton Thorne

The issue is whether Dru can stay healthy for enough games to be a legitimate option l.

How did we win with Nyquist not in the shootout? What the heck!

🕛 1200 📺 TSN3 Last Ten: 5-3-2 @ 4-3-3 Season Series: WPG leads 1-0 Stats: 28-29-11 @ 34-18-16 Streaks: L1 @ OT1 Jets projected lineup Kyle Connor -- Mark Scheifele -- Alex Iafallo Cole Perfetti -- Adam Lowry -- Gabriel Vilardi Gustav Nyquist -- Jonathan Toews -- Isak Rosen Cole Koepke -- Morgan Barron -- Brad Lambert Josh Morrissey -- Dylan DeMelo Dylan Samberg -- Elias Salomonsson Haydn Fleury -- Jacob Bryson Connor Hellebuyck Eric Comrie Scratched: Ville Heinola Injured: Nino Niederreiter (knee), Neal Pionk (undisclosed), Colin Miller (knee), Vladislav Namestnikov (lower body) Penguins projected lineup Rickard Rakell -- Sidney Crosby -- Bryan Rust Egor Chinakhov -- Tommy Novak -- Evgeni Malkin Anthony Mantha -- Ben Kindel -- Justin Brazeau Elmer Soderblom -- Connor Dewar -- Noel Acciari Parker Wotherspoon -- Erik Karlsson Samuel Girard -- Kris Letang Ryan Shea -- Connor Clifton Arturs Silovs Stuart Skinner Scratched: Ryan Graves, Ville Koivunen, Jack St. Ivany, Ilya Solovyov Injured: Caleb Jones (lower body), Kevin Hayes (upper body), Filip Hallander (blood clot), Blake Lizotte (upper body) Status report Six skaters participated in an optional practice for the Jets on Friday. ... Girard could return from missing five games with an upper-body injury; he worked on a defense pair with Letang during practice Friday.

Arniel should be fired

Laviska Shenault would be a good CFL reciever...wonder what his interest would be...seemed to have flamed out in NFL for whatever reason

That pretty much describes every QB1 - QB2 situation.

She was on a couple seasons ago too and wore some bison earrings to represent Manitoba. This is season 50 so they made it a big all-star season of returning players - gives you an idea of how well she did if she was asked to be a part of it. She's had a few players from her first season and this season up to Winnipeg - lots of Instagram pictures of them at Jets games.

Powell in my opinion over the last several yrs looks to be the most promising and has all the tools, and seemed to possess the best technique....just needed play time.....prb get some now in Edm i was wanting us to try and grab him a yr ago already

yeah, Powell didn't look like the second coming of Jeff Garcia or anything ... but in 2023 he went from QB3 to starting half of the games in Hamilton. He went 4-5 on an 8-10 team and had 10 TDs and 9 picks and massively beat expectations for a QB3 who becomes the emergency starter. I agree with SpeedFlex that he was the best young FA QB in the CFL this offseason and he could've maybe possible been a successor to Zach for us. But now he is in Edmonton and I hope for the sake of the league that we haven't seen his ceiling yet.

Very little residential will be very close to the stadium. You have the rapid transit station to the North/North West & campus land to the North East providing a buffer. Those areas are bordered by Sifton road which is meant to be the main retail area of the new development with coffee shops, pubs, banks etc. Here's a better look at what's planned - it's nothing like Ottawa. They are also very actively promoting the proximity to the stadium (and other facilities) as a major selling point so people buying there should be well aware of those considerations.

The backup plan was chris streveler. I don't think Elgersema factored in at all. Trouble is strevelers knee is ****** and we got nothing

What about Powell screams 7-8 year starter? He had a fairly unremarkable rookie season. Did well in the one game in 2024 before leaving the field in an ambulance due to a concussion and has thrown 12 passes since.

I was at the game tonight. I'm no expert but I thought the jets played well throughout. Not sure what to make of this team, although right now it seems like a one line team. I think they deserved 2 points tonight. Another thought I've been having over the last 6 or so games, is although hellybuck can't be blamed for the losing games ( some real tough saves ) it would be nice if he made a few of those. It would be a difference maker at a time we could really use those. Id really like playoff hockey. It's fun to watch

Throwing into triple coverage while having protection is not the fault of the o-line or the OC. The QB play was extremely subpar for a top paid player.

🕖 1900 📺 TSN3 Last Ten: 4-6-0 @ 5-3-2 Season Series: VGK leads 1-0 Stats: 32-25-14 @ 29-29-12 Streaks: W1 @ W1 Golden Knights projected lineup Ivan Barbashev -- Jack Eichel -- Mark Stone Reilly Smith -- Mitch Marner -- Pavel Dorofeyev Brett Howden -- Tomas Hertl -- Keegan Kolesar Cole Smith -- Nic Dowd -- Colton Sissons Brayden McNabb -- Shea Theodore Noah Hanifin -- Kaedan Korczak Jeremy Lauzon -- Rasmus Andersson Adin Hill Akira Schmid Scratched: Ben Hutton, Brandon Saad, Braeden Bowman Injured: Carter Hart (lower body), William Karlsson (lower body), Jonas Rondbjerg (lower body) Jets projected lineup Kyle Connor -- Mark Scheifele -- Alex Iafallo Cole Perfetti -- Adam Lowry -- Gabriel Vilardi Isak Rosen -- Morgan Barron -- Brad Lambert Cole Koepke -- Jonathan Toews -- Gustav Nyquist Josh Morrissey -- Neal Pionk Dylan Samberg -- Elias Salomonsson Haydn Fleury -- Dylan DeMelo Connor Hellebuyck Eric Comrie Scratched: Ville Heinola, Jacob Bryson Injured: Nino Niederreiter (knee), Colin Miller (knee), Vladislav Namestnikov (lower body) Status report The Golden Knights are expected dress the same lineup they used in a 3-2 win at the Dallas Stars on Sunday. … Hellebuyck will start after Comrie made 27 saves in a 3-2 shootout win at the New York Rangers on Sunday; the Jets will have no other lineup changes.

So you're defending Hogan who was not qualified, failed miserably and was arrogant to boot?

We have no one to transition to atm, but yea, if he has not improved we need to do what it takes.

not to mention he was working with an OC with less than zero clue's as to what to do....and a self admitted HC who couldnt step in and offer some kind of help/system tweek as he also has no clue...ZC gets a somewhat a pass for last year...but if by game 6...he is being the ZC of the past 2 yrs....we need to do whatever we can to do an in-season transition

In Zac's defence he WAS asked to do a lot with zero OL or receiver support. So yes, it does matter what team you played for and if you are suggesting that he had better players around him last year than Dru Brown did you are the one making up things to match your story.

What a silly thing to say. Of course it matters what team players play on. You seem to want to blame ABC (Anyone But Collaros) for his last 2 years and then make up things to match your story. No offensive lineman threw balls to the wrong team.

11 games left in the season. Five points out of a playoff spot. Going to have to win all 11... I just wish this team would tank now. Giving that extra point to Nashville really hurt them.

Team Canada should have picked Scheifele over him IMHO.

Yeah he at the upper range where he can have a bit of a resurgence, and like you said he may already have had it on 19'-22'....and even then a lot of his success in the later part of that was more the talent around him...that talent eroded last 2 yrs and well....we saw what we got My concern is his slower processing ability it seems now....and is making for poor decisions, as well as he is at times looking like he in self preservation made....and plays scared at times due to it We are yeah tied to him for this yr....My fear is he has a season that seems like he is still 2019-2021 ZC and we go and re-up him for dumb money again but that success was just smoke and mirror type success and we further stunt any transition, or miss out on a QB who could be the starter here for yrs...and we all know Osh will push for that as that's how he rolls....as he has claimed right up to the end of last yr that ZC is elite and best in league, so why would he change that stance...At least Walter's forced his hand with Thomas and Kolo and took that right outta the equation....not sure tho about him taking the ZC issue out of the equation tho I want us to win the cup next yr....but that could also be the worst thig to happen here for the QB position

You think that Collaros would have lasted better in Ottawa than Brown did or that Brown would have been injured as often running our offence behind our O-line? That's why arguments based on conjecture are so stupid. There is no way to prove them either way. Just flapping your 'internet' lips again.

This is from last year but I imagine its more of the same for this year https://3downnation.com/2025/04/04/winnipeg-blue-bombers-contributed-930000-to-amateur-football-in-2024/ I generally see those types of articles "Bombers donated $X worth of helmets". They also run the try football camps all the time... usually 4-5 sessions that are free of cost and draw around 100 kids. I sign my kids up for so many Bomber activities I don't even have to spend any money at Save-On-Foods anymore, they just keep giving them gift cards that I use.

Back in my youth, working next to a pawn store. 75% of the good inventory is taken in from known thieves. Lots of "fall off the truck" specials.

rest of that list is trash but i can’t argue with out spot

I'd take Dru over Collaros at that price, and it wouldn't be a hard decision.

Hopefully we sign Smoke Monday.