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2024/2025 CFL (non-Bomber) Off-Season Thread
wbbfan replied to WinnipegGordo's topic in Blue Bomber Discussion
That’d be sick. Just imagine 3dn breaking the news. “The Hamilton Tiger-Cats are attempting to acquire Jake Thomas from the bombers, they’ve offered 4 first round picks. Mos has handcuffed himself to Jake and the bud grant statue in protest.” Hubert was struggling with the speed of the game after a month or so. But he still showed great ability to get off blocks and play the run. Tremendous motor and strength. Love the versatility and football iq. I hope he gets a good shot at development in Hamilton. -
2024/2025 CFL (non-Bomber) Off-Season Thread
wbbfan replied to WinnipegGordo's topic in Blue Bomber Discussion
If we keep ayers that takes some of the sting out of Cole but I would’ve loved to have both. Oh man that’d tear the roof off this place lmao. Just see mos looking at him from the side line with a tear rolling down his cheek. -
2024/2025 CFL (non-Bomber) Off-Season Thread
wbbfan replied to WinnipegGordo's topic in Blue Bomber Discussion
If he clicks with zach, watch out. If not, this might be the final and short note on his wiki. I am hopeful they will click though. 🤣 some one do a wellness check on Ted please. -
2024/2025 Blue Bombers Off-Season Thread
wbbfan replied to TBURGESS's topic in Blue Bomber Discussion
If Cup at home had any sway with the mafia, we would have re-tooled last year going into TC. I honestly don't think they view this year as any different than any of he previous. They should treat it differently. The door is shut and the window is sliding down fast, but they aren't going to. -
2024/2025 CFL (non-Bomber) Off-Season Thread
wbbfan replied to WinnipegGordo's topic in Blue Bomber Discussion
I agree most of those guys should be replaceable. One thing is for damn sure, it's nice to actually have some speed in the wr core. If they were TCF, they wouldn't have been signed during this period. Cole is a top Sts guy worthy of a DI in that role alone. Hubert is an excellent end AR Canadian who can contribute on a bunch of teams units and rotate actively on the defense, both inside and out. Especially on running downs. Garbutt is a fringe starter in the CFL who picked it up really well late. TCF don't start in the previous GC. Fox has played in the league on 2 teams in 3 years. He struggled with injuries, but that isn't TCF. That is an incredibly talented guy who hasn't been able to translate yet. Training Camp Fodder, as in cannon fodder, is just a body for your actual players to hit. When a guy has significant upside, that isn't TCF. Thats a developmental guy. Everyone on that list has the upside to start in the CFL. At worst, they are low risk high reward guys. -
2024/2025 Blue Bombers Off-Season Thread
wbbfan replied to TBURGESS's topic in Blue Bomber Discussion
I get that trepidation. And it's not that I'm expecting all or maybe even most of the pick ups to click. I think that Hogan is going to take us back to the jet motion, and I suspect he was the pusher of the 2 back sets we used very sparingly. If we stretch the field side line to side line with jet/2nd back, we don't need the insane top tier wr core again. We need 1 no1 guy that works with zach, and some guys who can get to a spot and catch the ball. I think we have a few guys who can come in and have a chance to be that for zach. Really, that is more important than their talent or what not. We've seen zach lean heavily on all kinds of guys for short periods of time to great success. It's more important that they are of one mind. That's how dalton rocketed up soo fast. He was smart enough to find out what zach likes in each situations and do it. Return to PA, sweep motion, flag and come back concepts will help zach and the offence a lot. I don't think any WR available to us before or during FA is a guy who removes questions with his presence. They mostly bring different question marks. Hoe will he find a way to miss games? Will he disappear? Will he work ok with zach, can he work around schoen and demski etc. That is one that people don't talk about much any more, the wr's you play next to can have a gigantic impact on your own play. We've seen guys like TE and Bruce flourish under milt, and way more guys wilt. We've seen dalton flourish with every one and any one around him. And we've seen kenny flounder and flourish in the same situation. I think Danny, and Walters know what kind of targets Zach will work well with right away. When you look at some of our recent-ish break out guys, we have had a bundle of guys zach trusted right away. Maybe that's why we were married to johnson for soo darn long. Either way, I think one of the rookies we bring into camp will be comparable to Wilson. IF dalton isn't ok, and IF Wilson doesn't come back, which is the worst case scenario, we have a bundle of bodies for zach to find a new guy. And that's what we need IMO. If we brought in a guy like geno, and he and zach didn't mesh, we'd be hooped. I wish we had gotten lawler back. That would've been the best case with some of the guys we got as well. But chasing lawler for stupid money is just stupid. I would've loved if we did get a guy like geno, and the bundle of guys we got, but at that point you likely just bring lawler back. If you ain't cheatin, you ain't tryin. If the forum had busts of all time great meme players, he would be on the rushmore. Along with incompleterson. -
2024/2025 Blue Bombers Off-Season Thread
wbbfan replied to TBURGESS's topic in Blue Bomber Discussion
For sure. I would want to see that boat level raise more. Say, you get 900k-1m for the 3 active qbs. Then PR qbs get a minimum of the AR rookie minimum. So that the QBs in say the XFL UFL w/e are looking at say 50-70k down south max. Or likely 150-200k here. We need that QB talent these days. Make it more desirable for the best QBs in those leagues to be 3rd stringers here. -
2024/2025 Blue Bombers Off-Season Thread
wbbfan replied to TBURGESS's topic in Blue Bomber Discussion
But you build into your budget a value for the players as well. Just because you have more money to spend doesn't mean you suddenly become wasteful with it. No way have we offered lawler the kind of money he played on previously. I could see possibly going to other guys, but the mafia is lawful good. If they feel some thing is out of line they aren't going to do it. Be it legal or not. -
2024/2025 Blue Bombers Off-Season Thread
wbbfan replied to TBURGESS's topic in Blue Bomber Discussion
Not if you have a fixed price for all 3 AR qbs. Or 4 if you want to tack on the PR. You might be able to keep the crazy rourke type deals down. -
2024/2025 Blue Bombers Off-Season Thread
wbbfan replied to TBURGESS's topic in Blue Bomber Discussion
I wonder if having the qbs on a separate cap in general would be advantageous. -
2024/2025 Blue Bombers Off-Season Thread
wbbfan replied to TBURGESS's topic in Blue Bomber Discussion
To be honest, I don't know how you even pay kenny 50k+ year more than dalton. 2 out of 3 years in the league dalton has been the best wr in the league. He was injured most of last year. Arguably, Kenny was the best wr in the league once in the shortened season. That's out of 5 years. Kenny is 31 a month into the season. Dalton is 28. Dalton has missed time with 1 major injury. Lawler has missed time because he didn't get his passport done in time, DUI, and various injuries. Dalton averages almost double the YAC each year and more than double the tds. They have the same number of 100 yard games in their career as well. Dalton eclipsed 100 catches in both his healthy seasons. Lawler hasn't done it once. -
2024/2025 Blue Bombers Off-Season Thread
wbbfan replied to TBURGESS's topic in Blue Bomber Discussion
I bet we moved on when kenny decided to go to FA. We knew we weren't gonna out bid crazy, and he wasn't gonna take a discount. -
2024/2025 Blue Bombers Off-Season Thread
wbbfan replied to TBURGESS's topic in Blue Bomber Discussion
100k min salary in the cfl would improve competition for the bottom 1/3 of the roster out of camp a lot I bet. -
2024/2025 CFL (non-Bomber) Off-Season Thread
wbbfan replied to WinnipegGordo's topic in Blue Bomber Discussion
Imo their scoops break down like this Starter, Woli, Dobson, lawler, DI/Teams/rotational-fringe starter Cole, Garbutt, Fox End roster Canadian but useful player Hubert I don't see any TCF. Maybe fox, and garbutt don't make the AR, but they are excellent bodies to have on their team. I'd love to still have a bunch of those guys. -
2024/2025 Blue Bombers Off-Season Thread
wbbfan replied to TBURGESS's topic in Blue Bomber Discussion
https://syndication.bleacherreport.com/amp/10055063-latavious-brini-nfl-draft-2023-scouting-report-for-arkansas-s.amp.html sounds like a good candidate for a wil -
2024/2025 CFL (non-Bomber) Off-Season Thread
wbbfan replied to WinnipegGordo's topic in Blue Bomber Discussion
The issuing magistrate wrote the accused had a history of domestic violence against the victim but she had previously been afraid to come forward makes me feel sick. This pos was taking about fearing for his kid at their home in the us because of local violence and in the end he was the violence in the home. Lawson is the nose and Thomas is the 3 tech. Not the other way around. Lawson is the mainstay, and Jake rotates in at 3tech. Then you put woods on the nose. -
2024/2025 Blue Bombers Off-Season Thread
wbbfan replied to TBURGESS's topic in Blue Bomber Discussion
If we saw another year with massive injuries and unfilled potential, yeah. It can always get worse. Sure the potential is there to be extremely good. But we've got a bunch of guys who are coming off under achieving / injuries. -
2024/2025 Blue Bombers Off-Season Thread
wbbfan replied to TBURGESS's topic in Blue Bomber Discussion
yeah, If any thing sterns has an actual good chance to fulfill some of his upside. That is an excellent point, and I bet you're right about Mitchell. I could see wheatfall getting reps there in camp too. -
2024/2025 Blue Bombers Off-Season Thread
wbbfan replied to TBURGESS's topic in Blue Bomber Discussion
Tbh, I think the main thing they have over sterns is some level of name recognition. I think all 3 are basically the same level. -
2024/2025 Blue Bombers Off-Season Thread
wbbfan replied to TBURGESS's topic in Blue Bomber Discussion
Sterns is like Kelvin mcknight. But the type of athlete you need to be at his size. Great agility, good quickness, stronger than you'd expect. I think he might really excel in the slot with the right usage. He doesn't have the straight acceleration of an elite athlete from a stand still, so if he gets really good with the waggle he could be deadly. Floor is a rich mans Mcknight, ceiling is a decent version of weston dressler. (though it takes a lot of none measurables to be what dressler was in this league.) I really like this move actually, should be really cheap, will really push the rookies and the last starting import. I think going more veteran guys capable of starting than you have jobs is what we need with the approach we are taking to free agency. I like it too, he isn't Snead, but he is for sure in that mold. Snead for me has that 1 step acceleration and change of direction ability. -
2024/2025 Blue Bombers Off-Season Thread
wbbfan replied to TBURGESS's topic in Blue Bomber Discussion
off season mode for the forum. Both threats interchange roles at random times lol. Strevy is a good question. If it isn't him I think we will bring in another vet qb, as long as they are willing to play for a reasonable contract. Generally, we bring 5 qbs for rookie camp / start of TC. You require a lot of passes to all those wrs, and don't want to burn out the 1/2. So I expect 1 rookie, and strev/league vet. -
2024/2025 CFL (non-Bomber) Off-Season Thread
wbbfan replied to WinnipegGordo's topic in Blue Bomber Discussion
It has, we cycled through guys expecting a never-ending stretch of dominant imp DTs. Until after sayles we just brought in far fewer guys of a lower tier. We reinvented what wasn't broken. Samson should certainly get a good shot at it. But we should've brought Hubert back too. The only hope is that the upper-level mafia pushes quality over favoritism and that the exodus of other guys puts us in a position where things change. -
2024/2025 CFL (non-Bomber) Off-Season Thread
wbbfan replied to WinnipegGordo's topic in Blue Bomber Discussion
I hope youre right. If jake is the 6/7th DL and rotating in for under 10 ish snaps a game including short yardage, I think our DL will be pretty good this year. Much better than last. -
2024/2025 Blue Bombers Off-Season Thread
wbbfan replied to TBURGESS's topic in Blue Bomber Discussion
For sure. I mean, it couldn't have gotten worse lol. But it did improve whole sale mid to late. Zach, the ol, the wrs. The ol got healthy ish and meshed together, we got rid of most of the wr dead weight, and zach finally rounded back into qb1 form. -
2024/2025 CFL (non-Bomber) Off-Season Thread
wbbfan replied to WinnipegGordo's topic in Blue Bomber Discussion
Line play won us 2 grey cups. Fans look at the QB, and understandably so. But both lines are as critical as the QB is. The main way of winning games in every league from college to the pros is protecting the QB, and limiting the other qbs time to throw. The ends were as big an issue as jake last year, mainly the end opposite willy. But willy coasted for long stretches and shuts down vs double teams. Plus he was a huge liability in the run game. Thats true. I don't expect jake to take the majority of snaps any more. But I wouldn't; be surprised if he does either. We ran out the 2 NI DL look on 30 and 40 fronts wayy too much last year. Part of me is worried we will start jake and rotate lawson with woods.