SpeedFlex27

Yeah, great to see as helmets are the biggest expense when it comes to buying football equipment for teams. I never hear of anything even close to that from the Stamps when it comes to the football community in Calgary. AFAIK, the team doesn't even exist anymore in Calgary. The media here treats the Stamps the same way the owner treats Calgarians. They ignore them the same way he ignores them. The local newspapers don't even cover away games anymore. Coverage is almost non existent. The owner is such a cheap bastard. Most fans wish he'd sell the team. He's an absentee billionaire owner who lives in Switzerland so he doesn't have to pay personal income taxes in Alberta & Canada after making his personal fortune here in the oil & gas industry. He's either refusing to sell or wants so much $$$ that no one will buy the team.

The way Brown was, he'd have never played an yway. He had large gaps between being performing on the field & IR. I just got the impression Brown may have been able to come back come back but didn't seem to want to. I question his toughness & leadership as he certainly doesn't seem to be another Matt Dunigan or Jeff Garcia. So, if T Burg wants to pay a guy who's injured more than he plays then how are we saving money? We'd have been paying Brown to sit & do nothing on the 6 game Injury List multiple times. I think Dinwiddie felt the same & went out & got a qb he feels he can work with in Maier to push Brown. Look what Dinwiddie did with Arbuckle in Toronto last year. Two years ago, it looked like his career was over. If he does the same thing with Maier then Brown is gone. Ottwa is (probably) spending more money on their two qbs than we spend on the 3 or 4 we have now as both in Ottawa are veterans. Other than Zach, our qb room have backups with limited experience or none at all.

For my own info, what have the Bombers done for youth tackle football in Manitoba? It would be interesting to know. Here in Calgary, you sure don't hear much from the Stamps when it comes to tackle football in the community at any level.

You'd take this guy if the price is right in your mind.

Thank you so much. Tragic, hard to comprehend sometimes.

Brown should take a pay cut of some kind. He's won nothing & in my opinion showed a true lack of leadership with his play on the field when he did start but was always hurt. Dinwiddie is giving him another chance (his last?) by not signing Crum who was the defacto #1 last season & was actually developing into a decent qb capable of starting. Why he signed to play backup to a young Davis Alexander in Montreal is surprising. Jake Maier could push Dru Brown out the door if he doesn't rebound for 2026.

Nope. We may never see him in a Bomber uniform. The longer this goes on, the more I think Walters eventually trades his rights to an Eastern CFL team in Ontario where he's from & went to university down there.

Hopefully we sign Smoke Monday.

Wow, that is exciting. I remember when Dakota Prukop played in the UFL as well with the New Jersey Generals.

Glad I've never watched that show. My wife loves it & The Bachelor. She even has a little group that discusses every episode.

Yep, we should have been more proactive...

It was obvious to me at least that Strev wasn't the guy & we needed to move on. The knee injury has forced the Bombers hand but Powell was there. We weren't aggressive enough. Well, every qb that backs up someone is unproven & is a roll of the dice. I never said he was guaranteed. But of all the FA qbs available he was the best.

That development can be done on the north side of PAS if you look at the renderings. The residential part looks very close to the stadium. As far as no one caring about noise because they're making money, sure. That's why we see just as many videos of people on social media complaining or in conflict with others in rich residential neighbourhoods as we see in the Hood. It's too bad that we're in a holding pattern with Taylor Elegersma that we've completly let the backup qb position become something of a wilderness similar to what happened to our DL. Powell would have been the perfect backup to Collaros. Experienced & still young enough to give us 7 or 8 years as a starter. However, we let him get away for some rookie with delusions of grandeur & a fantasy money tree in his living room.

Hope you're right because as soon as that first contract was over after being drafted it seemed that Bomber players just bailed & signed with other teams from or close to their own backyards where they grew up. Which is a problem because the majority of players come from Ontario. Or never came back here after NFL tryouts. Sure, we've had guys sign with the Bombers from Winnipeg/Manitoba. I didn't say that no one ever did.

This team will lose in 5 to the Avs. Probably in a sweep.

We'll get blown out, c'mon. And instead of getting a decent draft pick who might help us right awy, we'll pick a kid (probably an American) who we might see by 2030.

It seems everyone from Ontario, BC Quebec & Saskatchewan all want to play at home. Maybe we don't see that as much with Manitobans because the provincial population is 1.4 million. We kinda have that here in Alberta. Everyone south or Red Deer want to play for the Stamps. North of Red Deer it's Edmonton. But we have 5 million people here so there are more players to draw from.

The young woman I told you guys about at Xmas time who are family friends of ours succumbed to pancreatic cancer three days ago in Nanaimo, BC. She was 36 years old. She was a wife with a 2 year old son who now will grow up never knowing his mother. When Tyler played for the Rifles, they were his billet family for 2 years. Very, very sad.

But what is happening that wasn't before is that these large stadiums are either part of or are being surrounded by residential areas. Which wasn't common before.There shoukld be a buffer zone around stadiums so that a high density residential development like this in Ottawa doesn't occur literally just feet away from TD Place Stadium. Would you be happy if this kind of development surrounded PAS?

Hmmm, it's no joke. People like to ***** & complain. Especially on social media. If 20,000 people move close to thje stadium then if it's not noise it'll be traffic. Or some other ****. Someone will be offended. Politicians will panic.

You just know the new neighbours will complain. It's inevitable. There's always one. Or in a big residential area, a hundred.

Well, you have a canadian who may shake loose from the NFL with 3 or 4 years experiences vs a guy who may want to do what Manu did & go to the NFL. If Manu becomes available what a prize catch he'd be. In his late 20's with 8-10 years left to play. I'd keep Manu.

It's 5 on 5 probably using American rules.

Why wouldn't Rourke show well? His receivers will all be from the CFL, I'd think. Or American collegiate or U Sports.

We have needs on the OL & DL. Why would we draft 2 defensive backs??