Colin Unger
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bombers apparently expressed interest in him. Potential defensive end replacement at a discount.
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13 hours ago, Goalie said:
Hopefully training camp will be less country club this year, I went once and seemed like nobody was doing much. Vets pretty much doing the Paul Friesen and doing their own stuff. That’s what it appeared for 10 minutes I was there. I think Osh and crew gonna be forced to start some rookies tho so. Hopefully the scouts and Kyle do a good job.
but I thought our depth wasn’t great. I feel your depth is shown on special teams and we struggled on coverage and lots last year on specials so change inevitable there. Shouldn’t be hard to improve in some areas next year on teams especially. Nowhere to go but up there. Thought our D was elite at times. Our O was for sure. Special teams outside of Sergio? not so much.
They did make a coaching change on special teams. Hopefully there will be an impact from that. The lack of depth last year stems largely from probably the weakest recruitment class we've had under this regime. I'm hopeful things will be back to normal in that regard this year with half as many jobs available in the USFL/XFL.
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I imagine we’ll get back into the habit of drafting an offensive lineman early who can at the very least provide instant depth and then draft another developmental guy later on in the draft who will go back to school. We’ve discovered quite a few starting calibre lineman outside of the first round. Wouldn’t be surprised if we drafted an offensive lineman, wr, and linebacker with our three picks in the first two rounds. It’s crazy to think that we could have 10 Canadian starters if Ford ends up starting at corner.
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21 hours ago, Fatty Liver said:
Which game was that?
I was able to find verification of it. It wasn’t reflected in the bombers depth charts. Scroll down to the segment called hog shuffle.
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29 minutes ago, Fatty Liver said:
That's the most baffling aspect, kept Kola who plays at the edge of his abilities and lost Gray who has unlimited physical abilities plus versatility.
Without seeing salary demands it’s hard to comment. Also perhaps Gray after being here this long was told he would have to compete for a starting job here and decided to move on based on that alone. All other things being equal Gray might have made more sense then kola.
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10 hours ago, bigg jay said:
If you're counting Rhymes, who was released, you should also be counting Baron and Mauger. That's 5 starters gone from last year.
I would count him. He was released because they had cheaper alternatives. Most of whom are not as good as a healthy Rhymes.
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45 minutes ago, Wheeler said:
Hilarious that you mock the Riders for signing Micah Johnson and then on the next page you opine for the signing of Almondo Sewell. Keep the comedy coming...
Wilson isn't the same player after his injury in 2022, but Bighill is a fraction of his old self. Here hoping you trot him out again this season. Not even sure who your 3rd LB is.
And regarding your Dline, the only player of relevence left on the Bombers Dline is Jefferson. Seriously who else is there?
As far as the Riders, it looks like they are going with either/both Christian Albright or Brian Cox Jr on the other side of Malik Carney. Both looked very capable last year on a very poorly coached football. team.
Lawson/Thomas/Bennett and Haba who looked decent as a pass rusher. My point though is the Defense hasn’t really lost a lot of key talent from last season and last year they ranked 1st against the run and 1st against the pass. Montreal’s d was the only one that really gave them a run for their money statistically. They need to improve their pass rush this offseason. They’ll probably sign a free agent or two. But the real talent that this team keeps acquiring is through its American scouting. You have to be able to rely on that or else you end up overpaying for high priced free agents.
Everyone keeps talking about how bad Bighill looked last season. You guys should have told opposing offensive coordinators because they sure didn’t take advantage of it in any meaningful enough way. Whether it’s elite coaching or elite talent it doesn’t matter to me how they keep getting it done. And I fully expect that to continue.
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4 minutes ago, Mike said:
Oh god Colin, just leave the arguing to the adults
When it comes to me you just make these weak little one liners without any substance. Like the time you came after me for suggesting there "might" be a role for the global kickers the teams drafted last year.
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7 minutes ago, Super Duper Negatron said:
Sure, but replacing them with who?
Name the positions where we have improved over last season (so far):
- QB(?)
- End of list?
Typically the improvements come from the recruiting department. A lot of the top players on this team are guys we've recruited and often they had instant impact. When you're a top team you will never improve on paper before factoring in your American recruits and your Canadian draft class. The game is all about minimize the drain in free agency and then recruiting as well as you can. I don't see a large set of needs especially in a year where so much new American talent was made available with half of the USFL/XFL folding.
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48 minutes ago, Wheeler said:
Yet all you guys do is talk about them. Bombers to their credit have had a great few years at the top, watching them crumble to Fajardo and the Alouettes in the Grey Cup spoke volumes in my opinion.
Stanley is a couple years short of 40 and he actually started looking human last year. Your Dline is a punchline right now. LB's are nothing to write honme about. 3 receivers making over $700K is utterly ridiculous and the holes that will create on the rest of the roster already shows, especially on defence. You can't deny that the Bombers defence right now is a skeleton of what it used to be. Is Bighill even coming back, because word is Ouellette is inquiring.
Do you care to expand on the skeleton of what it used to be comment?
The way i see it our secondary is "essentially" unchanged. Winnipeg didn't seriously go after Houston because besides costing us the Grey Cup he isn't anything special. He lead the team in interceptions because he was the most targeted defensive back on the team. As it stands right now we have a differences makers re-signed in the secondary and will need to find one corner and a couple backups. We've never really had trouble finding DB's. There's a reason why the top corner's in this league are making chicken scratch compared to other positions but the two halfbacks (Nichols and Holm) we have coming back are special players in this league.
Linebacking core is unchanged. Healthy Wilson could make an impact.
Defensive line is the only area really deserving comment. It looks like Jeffcoat's time was up in the CFL. Its easy to argue that the entire league viewed his performance last year as essentially replacement level based on the lack of offers. That leaves us with losing Ricky Walker.... This is what makes the bombers D a skeleton? Ricky Walker? I mean he was decent for us but by no means was he at the level we had been accustomed to in years past. With the alternative leagues down south cutting half of the jobs this offseason and reducing salaries on the rest of them I think Winnipeg can easily find a DT and a Corner.
Keeeeeeeep dreaming!
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39 minutes ago, ddanger said:
Possibly as a result of his blown-out knee from a few years ago. Kid looked good in limited action last year.
There is already an article on 3rddownnation about this. Its 100% financial. He threatened to retired if he didn't get a raise. The team was willing to negotiate with him but they never ended up agreeing to terms so her retired. I'm not convinced this isn't a negotiating ploy. Have to wait and see if one side caves. Im going to assume that the bombers won't cake in this situation. He would still need to come to camp and earn a starting job vs competition. And the competition is going to be playing more likely for league minimum. There's a lot of tackles with at least one year of pro experience who just came available when the XFL/USFL merged.
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Don’t want to be that guy but do we have a kicker?
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I wouldn’t see a reason for Richmond to get much above the minimum. I would think he won’t be gautenteed the job but he will have a leg up. There will be competition I would think.
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That’s a lot of money for a guy who I thought was washed up after watching the Grey Cup.
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Can’t imagine Ottawa is going after Schoen after re-signing Hardy. Already have Hardy, Ryhmes, Acklin, and Addison under contract.
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Id spent up on Ouellete over Kadeem Carey personally. I like Ouellete's style. He would make us even more physical than we were with Brady and Carey has a significant injury history. After Brady and Ouellete that's when id be looking for bargains like Carey.
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4 hours ago, Geebrr said:
Some of you need to realize that they are not giving Brady a blank cheque no matter what the SMS situation is.
Exactly. You can't give him the best money that's out there. Not when so many other have taken discounts to help the team. He's going to have to accept at the very least slightly less then whats being offered.
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3 minutes ago, Sard said:
Tre Ford being a Canadian doesn't provide any benefit as the QB position is a non-counter when it comes to the ratio.
That wasn’t my understanding of it. I thought the rules were changed a few years back to provide a roster benefit to utilizing a Canadian qb.
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4 hours ago, Mike said:
I swear you have the wildest takes, Colin. What are you going on about? Our backup QB who hasn’t proven he can be a starter carries more value than either the best RB or WR in the league?
I don’t view him as a backup qb. I think he will be a significant part of the offence. If Brady leaves I think we will sign a pretty good replacement. I’m looking at our last two Grey Cup losses and thinking that an added element like Streveler could have made the difference in either of those games. Games where we had access to Brady and Schoen. If we lose them we are still going to be good at receiver and running back.
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The issue for Streveler was that Dru Brown was graduating to being a starter MBT came back to the cfl. Tre Ford is available in a trade to teams as well and he offers a cheaper price point and Canadian status. Bombers probably the only team with full confidence they know how to use Streveler. Things would be different if Paul Lapolice was still head coach in Ottawa.
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That name better comes with a revenue boost. Definitely less classy than IG Field or Canad Inns Stadium.
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