Colin Unger

I actually think we would have beat Calgary with the current lineup with Allen at safety.

Maybe woodbey to Sam, Griffen to halfback, Holm to corner. This is actually a pretty big game this week…. A win and they have a stranglehold on at bar minimum a crossover a loss and the sky is falling. I still think they can cobble something together and get Scheon and Ontaria Wilson back later in the season.

Gonna assume we are all back to hoping Zach is back next week and Vernon is not?

I would like to have seen Allen at safety. Now we back to starting 9 Canadians again.

Maybe Mitchell, Vaval, and Cooley share the return duties. As long as no linebackers were impacted by the moves. 🤣

Not too mention Bryan and Jefferson. Could be a lot of changes in the offseason. But I doubt that they will move on from Zach.

I thought Person looked pretty good he made the mistake of getting his hand in the mask but basically had 2 sacks in limited time. Vaval looked like an instant upgrade over Bridges. Who returns kicks next week assuming Vaval remains at corner? Mario Alford is available. Would like to see is go after Dakota Shepley who is almost certain to get cut by Dallas.

That’s a heck of an analysis. Sure they let him walk to save money on cap…. That’s one way to put it. The guy is way over paid. Overplayed by a country mile. I’m not a fan of Jake Thomas at this point but linking the two together lacks logic. Ford is getting paid way way more than Thomas. The two negotiations aren’t linked in any way. It’s your view that Winnipeg is 400k under the cap? I’d love to see your source on that.

In terms of Walter’s approach. I think he gets a sense pretty early on if a player is going to listen to offers in the tampering window. And in those cases they want to wait and see what the guy is being offered before going above what they think is fair value for a player. The idea that Winnipeg would have been able to retain Ford had they communicated in a different way sounds like cope from Ford. He took the money and the chance to play with his brother. But nobody going to say they did it for the money. Given how difficult it is to keep a good team good for long term in a salary cap era I think they’ve done alright. We’d be in a better position if they’d been better at recruited Defensive ends over the years. They seem to cap out at serviceable when it comes to defensive end recruits.

If Ontaria Wilson gets cut who do you guys think moves to slot to upgrade sterns? Wheatfall or Wilson? I’m thinking Wilson because he’s a bit more physical that Wheatfall and if Wheatfall continues to have success there at wideout why mess with the chemistry.

I’m not making a statement on whether these were all wise moves or not. I’m just following up with my statements that Walter’s has stated that he had a plan to let some older vets go each year rather than all at once. I don’t think there’s much of an argument to be made that this hasn’t been happening it just has happened slower than much of us would like. It’s true likely that if Bighill didn’t have constant injury problems he wouldn’t have been replaced. But that’s just how it often goes. So far you can’t really question the wolitarsky move as he hasn’t yet been healthy enough to suit up for Hamilton. Oh and Johnny Augustine is another aging player we replaced. Basically Hamilton paid for Johnny and we got a good young running back from them as a throw in on the trade for the global pick. Johnny sure did look good two weeks ago though. It’s nice to see these “Team Ted” players doing well in Hamilton.

Hardrick, jeffcoat, wolitarsky, Darvin Adams, Harris come to mind as players we allowed to move on or didn’t offer on in previous seasons. I imagine not all of Bryant, Nuefeld and Thomas will be back next season.

But these moves safe for Ford are in line with Walter’s plans to let a few move on per season rather than needing to replace them all at once. There’s only a few left at this point

Jefferson is basically useless at this point outside of the of the knockdowns. I expect the gap between career knockdowns and sacks to keep growing until he retires. Hes gonna to retire as the only player with 100 knockdowns and 75 sacks.

Bighill plus bye week made Calgary look like a well prepared team. Winnipeg was also just really not in the right headspace. Lots of opportunity to win that game. Interceptions. Missed open receivers and when we did put the ball on the money we had sun in our eyes…. glad we have a bye week and justification to make some changes. I’m willing to give Sterns some credit too he’s finally playing to his potential. Sask sterns minus the drops and fumbles is a decent little receiver. Hope that continues. Thought our kick cover teams were pretty good. Let’s not act like Schoen got paid in the same ballpark as Lawler. Hoping we get Wilson back soon.